Ruston Daily Leader (Newspaper) - March 11, 2003, Ruston, Louisiana Home Front Baldwin to at Lunch and Hustons Hometown Newspaper Since 1894 The Huston V Daily Leader 13 r i nn LLii ry j n 1 iw i A f J eliminated v In state See page LOCAL BRIEFS Jury to consider cooperative endeavor The Lincoln Parish Police Jury Public Works Committee will meet at 6 today followed by a public hearing at the Solid Waste and Recycling Committee meeting at to discuss the 2002 Recycling Program and to plan the 2003 Recycling The full Police Jury meets at 7 and faces a full agenda including a Legisla tive discussion presented by state Jones and state Richard Gallot a hospital investment funds report plans for renovating the new Lincoln Parish Library at 910 Trenton and consideration of a cooperative endeavor agreement with Louisiana Tech University regarding the current library property and several other items of Staff Report Police to question drivers about missing LSU student BATON ROUGE AP Police planned to question drivers today on a main thoroughfare near the neighbor hood of a missing LSU looking for scraps of information that could help locate Carrie Lynn was last seen a week While police stress the search is simply a missing person many Baton Rouge residents worry Yoders disap could be linked to the south Louisiana serial a doc toral student in plant biology from was reported missing Wednesday morning by her He told police he last heard from her two days before she went to a neighborhood grocery Yoders family sent out a press release pleading with the public to call the police with any no matter how unimportant you might feel it may The task force hunting the serial killer joined the investigation immediately after Yoder was reported but authorities emphasized they were helping out of Yoders home near LSU is only a few miles from the homes where two women were mur dered by the serial The serial killers four known victims were linked by DMA according to INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS Britain may compromise on Iraq UNITED NATIONS AP Facing almost certain the United States and Britain delayed a vote to give Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to disarm and signaled they might com promise to try to win support from Security Council members who oppose a rush to The Bush administration had talked of a vote as early as but with France and Russia threatening to veto the current draft and without the minimum nine yes it held up action in the FBI arrest to aid intelligence HONG KONG AP authori ties believe computers seized during the arrest of alleged 3 man in Pakistan will give them better intelligence on terror funding a top FBI official said Im antici pating that well see a lot of good information and that will have a tremendous said Dennis chief of the terrorist financing operations Price 500 Copyright Ruston Tech looks to upgrade housing By Tre Bischof News Editor Campus housing will go from an eye sore to a major recruiting tool if plans from Louisiana Tech University admin becomes With a plan to phase out highrise residence Tech officials are work ing to construct dormitories designed to enhance student life and connect two parts of Its a very exciting Tech President Dan Reneau It certainly meets the time and the demands of the Tech officials re approval from the Uni versity of Louisiana System to go ahead with a plan to build residence hall facilities north of the Kansas City Southern railroad tracks and connect the athletic venue with the academic part of cam The area will be known as University Tech is utilizing a new law that allows state agencies to create a agency that raise funds for projects de signed to increase the value of state prop Techs Innovative Student Fa is comprised of seven board members who will oversee the upgrade of property recently acquired by the uni versity near Love Field and Ala bama This allows such as improv Reneau ing campus to get off the ground quicker than officials The capital outlay process has become so Tech Vice President for Student Affairs Jim King referring to the 10year process of revitalizing Hale Hall recently completed by the The sole purpose for the nonprofit group is for the advancement of the uni The which will be built be hind the baseball the Tech tennis courts and intramural center along Western will house over 400 A connector for the campus will be placed along Western Street over the KCS KCS has already provided written approval for the univer sity to build a These new residence halls will be built as buildings and town houses to meet the demands of students in higher education today and should be available by the fall of It was enthusiastically King We still have a good bit of work to Its going to be great for stu dent It will also be great for base Included in the housing complex are designs townhouses with spiral staircases to a loft with two bedrooms and a bath lease includes all phone and cable TV kitchens park meal plan See page 3 Leader photo by GEORGE GRAHAM Head Start plays host to fair chats with Ruston Firefighter Steve Rodrigues prior to touring the inside of an emergency response unit at the Lincoln Head Start Health Fair held Monday at the Ruston Civic members attend education convention By Bobbie Clark Staff Writer Lincoln Parish School Board mem bers attended the Louisiana School Board Association convention held Thursday through Saturday at the Mon roe Civic With a theme of No School Board Member Left the convention focused on preparing school board mem bers for changes in education policy and funding with the coming of a new gover an press release member James Kessler said the convention was well rounded and well It was meet with other board members across the state to see how they deal with issues concerning their par Kessler He said the main issue at hand was the national education reform policy No Child Left The good news is that Louisiana is 4 in the nation in trying to make improvements in Kessler But the bad news is that we are still near the bottom in total who has 13 years of experi ence on the legislative end of said Louisiana is trying to push the fed eral government to allow them to con with the sweeping improvements made within the past few See page 3 Renderings by Architects This rendering shows the projected layout of part of University Park once construction is State fire marshal visits downtown By Mary Margaret van Diest Staff Writer Louisiana State Fire Marshal Bella and several members of his staff visited Ruston recently to offer advice about fire codes and safety procedures in buildings suited for historic preserva The first stop for the Baton Rouge en tourage was the office of Ruston Civic Cen ter Manager and Ruston Main Street Commission Director Judy We are really honored that the group felt it was worthwhile to come to Ruston Burt to meet with us and to see what we are trying to accomplish in saving some of our picturesque old We have some property owners who are already in the process of restoration and we have some who are just In the thinking but in either case we want to get the best advice available about how to approach fire codes and regula Bella said he was very impressed with what has been accomplished in down town This city has done a fantastic job and has some wonderful plans for the future with regard to downtown restoration and Bella It takes re markable foresight to save these impor tant parts of our See page 3 Leader photo by MARY MARGARET van DIEST Prior to his tour of downtown Ruston historic Louisiana State Fire Marshal Bella views a map with Dean Norton was one of several downtown property owners to meet with Bella during his daylong Ruston WEATHER Tonight Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of Lows In Wednesday Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of Highs In the lower INDEX s Community Pages 1 4 Editorial Page 4 Entertainment Page 9 les Page 7 Page 8 Weather Page 2 QUOTE If youre not feeling good about What youre wearing doesnt mean a Leontyne 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