City to address cable TV costs at Hammond meeting
Hammond officials plan to discuss Parish Cablevision rates and city involvement at Tuesday 6 p.m. council session. Mayor Charles McKaskle notes rising programming costs and a potential city role if a non exclusive franchise emerges. Parish Cablevision manager Danny Jobe cites a 400 percent cost rise, with Hammond's franchise fee contributing about $41,000 this year.
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City Hall
Charles McKaskle
Danny Jobe
Parish
McKaskle
Jobe
Hammond Cable Costs Versus Parish Cablevision in Louisiana
A statewide survey ranks Hammond as the priciest Louisiana market for limited basic cable during 1986 91 and notes Parish Cablevision offers more than 30 channels at a lower per channel cost. Hammond posted a 126 percent price rise in five years while Parish remained comparatively affordable amid rate discussions of a proposed $2 monthly hike.
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Parish Cablevision
Louisiana
Louisiana Consumer League
Ham
Ex-councilman convicted of growing pot in parish
Former Parish Councilman R D Watson was found guilty by a federal jury of manufacturing marijuana plants. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250 000 fine after authorities found 38 plants on his Tangipahoa property and testimony tied him to 180 more on adjacent land. US DEA figures place a plant’s value between 1500 and 2500 dollars per season. Watson did not seek re election after serving District 1 since 1988. Prosecutors Brian Jackson and Harry McSherry led the case before Judge Martin L C Feldman.
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R.D. Watson
U.S
Harry Rosenberg
Watson
Tangipahoa
Rosenberg
Drug Enforcement Agency
District 1
Worldwide religious holidays marked with devotion and travel
The Associated Press notes Christians observe Good Friday and Easter with passion plays and pilgrimages while Jews begin the eight days of Passover. Reports from New Mexico to Michigan and Alabama describe christians marching to holy sites, cross reenactments, Soviet Jewish refugees celebrating Passover, and a Passover hotline in Miami. Easter egg hunts at the Detroit Zoo and the theft of a chicken wire Easter Bunny in Jasper, Alabama add lighter notes.
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Egypt
New Mexico
Santuario de Chimayo
Chimayo
Santa Fe
Dianna Garcia
Saginaw
Mich
Alfredo Jiminez
Bay City
Charles Hickman Sr
Akron
Ohio
Hickman
Detroit Zoo
Jasper
Ala
Harvey
Debra Gann
Migrant students seek Easter miracles to end drugs and pollution
Loranger Elementary and Loranger Middle School pupils list Easter miracles including drug-free lives, no crime or drunk driving, and cleaner air and water. Diane Burns and Beverly Smith call for drug disappearance and reduced violence while Isaac Clingfost and Melinda Anthony urge pollution cleanup and litter reduction. Dawn Davis adds global pollution and drug relief.
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Tuffy Campbell
Diane Burns
Beverly Smith
Smith
Isaac Clingfost
Melinda Anthony
Anthony
Dawn Davis
Syria may defy air embargo with Tripoli flight
REPORTS from Tripoli say Syria prepared to fly a jetliner to Libya in violation of the U N sanctions on Libya. The move would mark the first tangible crack in the embargo seen Saturday as Western warnings and Arab world reactions mount.
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Libya
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Syria
United States
Britain
Iraq
Washington
Damascus
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Kelly White
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Ponchatoula
New Zion Baptist Church
Will Louviere
Oakland County
Soviet Union
Gloria Cohen
Birmingham
Alan Lazar Yaker
Moldova
Yaker
Miami
Ed Farber
James ‘‘Fluffy’’ Banks
U.S. 190
Guy
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