Ruston Daily Leader (Newspaper) - October 11, 1978, Ruston, Louisiana The Ruston Daily CENTER 45436 75235 Volume 85Number 149 Hometown Newspaper of North Central Louisiana 71270 October 2 Pages 15c School Board Accepts Group Insurance Plan Preparing for Auction THIS WAS THE SCENE one year ago as the Sunrise Kiwanis Club prepared for its annual livestock auction at the North Louisiana The club will hold this years auction tomorrow at 7 at the Shown left to are Randy 1977 president of the Sunrise Kiwanis auctioneer Sunrise Kiwanis member Virgil County Agent Emmett Long and local bankers Ed Futrell and Ernest Sutton who serve as auditors for annual Crab and Shrimp Fishing Banned In Vermilion Parish by Officials By JAMIE SEGURA Staff Writer The Lincoln Parish School Board in a special session last night voted to ac cept the State Insurance Plan for its personnel and staff though a problem had arisen earlier concerning the loss of a special life insurance plan presently carried by the majority of the per Superintendent of Schools Fred Higginbotham told the board that a problem was first noticed last week when the insurance people were about to meet with the teachers to explain the new State Insurance The problem is that under the new plan the insuree is not allowed to carry a life insurance with a separate company while carrying the State Insurance A majority of the teachers and staff employed by the board at present are under the Washington National Hospitalization plan with life and a separate life insurance plan under Life The new with the State of Louisiana acting as the agent and does not allow such Its the regulation of the state that if the board has the other life insurance plans Life then the school board is not eligible to par in the state Higgin botham The board cannot par in a group life insurance policy and still participate in a state Board member Thomas trying to explain the State Insurance Its not experience rated as is Washington I feel we have to do what is best for the majority of our Some question was raised on the loss of the life insurance plans graduated life insurance benefits where the break down includes for non professional for for administration at a cost of 28 cents per thousand with the board paying half and the employee paying the other half under the Life The Washington National Hospitalization plan included an equal sharing of the cost for the employee and the On an individual plan the employee paid and the board paid the same Under the family plan the employee paid and the board paid This included a life The new State Insurance Plan break down shows the individual employee plan costing the employee and the board The employee plus one dependent costs the employee and the board The family plan costs the employee and the board Life the State Insurance Plan shows a life plan costing per thousand or for If the board paid half of the employees share of the hospitalization and all of the life the boards share would equal Additional life under the State Insurance Plan can be obtained for one and one half times the employees For example if the employee earns he would be eligible for life benefits at per thousand with no board This includes a maximum of Ruth Bradford told the I dont know if you realize it but this state plan is politically She added that every time the states ad ministration changes so does the in surance Marty Beasley asked if there was any way to bring the problem to the teachers on a referendum and questioned strongly the loss of the life insurance provisions with Completing all the board voted in favor of the State Insurance Plan with Bradford and Beasley casting the only opposing The second matter taken up at the special meeting concerned a salary adjustment for from the Sales This is due to the fact that the Washington National Insurance Plan is paid in arrears meaning it is paid When the new State Insurance Plan goes into effect the teachers will be paying two premiums in one Higginbotham said that the proposed adjustment would help the teachers and staff in offsetting the extra cost at this particular The adjustment includes a for professionals and for non BATON ROUGE UPI Shrimping and crabbing in a cholera waterway of Vermilion Parish has been banned by top health who said discovery of the bacteria there was the first solid lead toward findings its Health and Human Resources Secretary Tuesday said tests Control in Atlanta confirmed the presence of cholera bacteria in the Old Intracoastal The canal connects White Lake and Schooner which empties into Vermilion What we have here for the first time is a solid piece of evidence from which we can begin tracking the source of the Cherry Commercial seafood organizations said the report was another setback for the Louisiana industry that has suffered heavy losses in sales since 11 cases of the intestinal disease were reported in the The infections were traced to crabs taken in a 75mile coastal and led to a federal Food and Drug Administration ban on interstate shipment of shellfish from the This doesnt make the outlook any said Janice ad ministrative secretary for the Louisiana Fisheries Crabbing has been virtually stopped in the The seafood industry is hurt throughout and the hotel motel trade has been acting president of the Organized Commercial Fisheries of said the report dashed rising the problem would go away no cases had been who opposed the FDA em bargo as arbitrary and said his ban on private and commercial shrimping and crabbing would include a 100yard radius of White Lake beginning at the mouth of the Old Intracoastal A health department representative said the area banned by Cherry was not included in the areas the FDA had recommended Weeks of sampling have failed to produce a live crab infected with So far the bacteria has been found in one shrimp and in a boiled crab that state officials said could have been contaminated after it was Cherry said cholera bacteria found in the sewer system of a Vermilion Parish town 25 miles west of Abbeville where the first cholera case as reported in There has yet to be a case reported but this evidence suggests the existence of the infection in the Cherry He said all other recent en and sewer testing in an area of coastal Louisiana has been Roman Catholic Rebels Ask Traditionalist Pope VATICAN CITY UPI Roman Catholic rebels plastered the walls of Rome today with bright orange posters 3 a traditionalist x We must reflect on the brutal death of Pope John Paul said the posters put up by followers of rebel French Archbishop Marcel It doesnt seem as though God the choice of posters referring to Pauls sudden The traditionalists also objected to the ruie earring cardinals over the age of 80 from the It is an offense to human dignity and Full Employment Compromise Sought Three GSA Officials Enter Pleas of Guilty ACCENT Music Plastic Surgeon Has Night Job as Country Singer NEW ORLEANS UPI 8 by Randolph director of the Institute of Plastic dons white smock and surgical gloves to remove straighten noses and lift By he straps on a drops the and his name to become Doc Ran country Bif the east New Orleans plastic surgeon strums for more than his own He has released his first Call Me Country con nine original compositions and hasa dozen more ready a second LP j do not play I do not play but I do play he at the same time try to make it commercially le songs on the album are whining Nashville country with titles from The Tears Ive Cried ide to Psychosis Ive got a re Psychosis Thats stronger than nosis My psychiatrist says Im But I say Im in love he doctor said he wants his sound to Id the characteristics of several I like the resonance and masculinity you will of Merle the range Roy Orbison or Glen Campbell and I He the writing strength of Hank Howe Some of his are unreal the simple honesty the Continued on Page 3 BALTIMORE UPI of the 18 men indicted on fraud and kick back charges involving the scandal ridden General Services Administration have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the federal Tuesdays appearances by two for mer GSA managers and a Navy department official brought to eight the number of those who have pleaded guilty in charges involving the Last week five other men two executives of Hilles Associates of and three GSA store managers pleaded guilty to charges listed in the September indictment of the 18 The latest guilty pleas were made by former GSA managers Roger Wilt of District and Johnnie Sykes of and Eugene of an official with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Federal prosecutors recommended a maximum sixmonth prison sentence for a term for Sykes and 60 days in jail for Proctor in plea bargaining No sen dates were Colombians Arraignment Next Week UPI Federal court arraignments will be held 20 for three Colombians facing conspiracy and drug charges in the crash of a transports plane in north the carrying an estimated 14 tons of marijuana valued at crashed and burned near last The body of the also a was found in the The three suspects were arrested trying to hitchhike from the area soon after the None was seriously They are Hernando Francisco and Carlos Humberto A federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and unlawful possession of Prosecutors said Wilt and Sykes received gifts from Hilles after billing the government for folders never delivered by the They said Proctor signed receipts for hanging folders that were never delivered in return for The indictment named current and former managers of the self service stores and other federal em ployees who purchased supplies for their agencies at GSA The total amount stolen is estimated at more than million a GSA in The GSA has 70 supply stores nationwide with 1980 annual sales ex to reach Grand jury investigations also are under way in New Houston and WASHINGTON UPI Supporters and critics of the full employment searched today for a compromise that could be passed by the 95th Congress in its final The reached the Senate floor Tuesday Sur there was no bitter one senator after another rose to endorse efforts to reach a com These efforts were being made behind the scenes by an unusual ad hoc committee of including sponsors of the and some of its most severe The group met twice Tuesday and was to continue meeting scenes Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd said there appeared to be a reasonably good chance of GOP leader Howard BAKER SAID we are very close to a compromise that might be passed without the cataclysmic confrontation many At the center of the negotiations was the goal to reduce the national unemployment rate from its recent 6 percent to 4 percent by Republicans fear that would be ac at the cost of massive in They want to attach a parallel goal to cut inflation to zero by Harrison said zero inflation is the bone in the throat so far blocking Baker told the Senate both sides want full but the question is and how to control William proposed a 3 percent inflation There are many other issues in the Robert wants a goal of ipo percent parity for Proxmire wants to limit federal spending as a percentage of gross national Members of the Senate Budget Committee want assurance the would not elevate Congress Joint Economic Committee at the expense of the existing budget It took much pushing by black President Carter and others to get the to the Senate Unless agreement is the could die in a Steer to be Auctioned THIS donated by Davison will be among the livestock sold at auction at the North Louisiana Fair tomorrow at 7 at the Shown here with the from left to are Duane Dugdale and Cindy Dugale of who raised and cared for the steer Gary Acklin of Davison Transport and Walter Savage who donated the feed for the Money from the sale of the steer gp tp the 4H not admitted to t will again be said the Louis a staunch follower of Coache was detained for two hours by Vatican police Tuesday after he at tempted to say a traditional Latin mass on a makeshift picnic table in More than 20 of Coaches followers were hauled out of the square and held by Italian police before being We said mass in the square because Cardinal Jean Villot had given orders not to let us use the Cache noting there is nothing in church law that prevents Latin mass from being Catholic cardinals preparing to choose a successor to the late pope are hinting strongly they may opt for a proven administrator who can direct the church rather than a man with pastoral Archbishop Lefebvre and his thousands of followers favor rein of the Latin mass and a har dening of church policy toward Com munist He was suspended from all priestly functions by Pope Paul VI in The change in emphasis from the pastoral qualities so highly praised during John Pauls 34day papacy to a view of the pope as administrator of a worldwide religious organization began to evolve in the cardinals private talks last church sources The hints seemed to be underscored Continued on Page 3 Around the Corner TipOff Club will meet tomorrow at 7 in the Dubach High School All interested persons are invited to Mingle with the crowds at your North Louisiana State The fair is currently underway at the Ruston Fairgrounds and will last through Tickets are sold each evening at the gates for 50 cents Looking forward to seeing the Antique Car Show sponsored by the Ruston Antique Car Club 2122 at the Ruston Civic Los Angeles Dodgers won the first World Series game last night over defending world champions New York Yankees by a score of The second game of the best of seven series is tonight in Los You can still volunteer for the Blood Bank at the Ruston Civic Center from noon until 6 and Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what at
