School Tax Wins Broad Monroe Parish Referendum
Voters in Monroe Parish approved a school tax amid a low turnout of about 12 percent of eligible property owners. The tax funds include classes for special needs students and in home teaching for physically unable pupils, with revenues last year totaling $290784.37. The measure carried in multiple wards and precincts, while several precincts voted against or narrowly supported it. School officials welcomed the result and pledged prudent use of funds to protect local control of schools.
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Monroe
Woo
Ward LV
Fairbanks
West Monroe Fairgrounds
Ouachita Parish
Thas Parish
Cne
Connally Leads Texas Rivals In Governor Race
Texas governor primary results show Connally and Yarborough leading a six man field in a June payoff primary. The race split between conservative and liberal wings as Cox and Whittenburg press their bids while Walk er trails, signaling party machinery stakes for 1968 elections.
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Connally
Texas
Jack Cox
Breckenridge
Roy Whittenburg
Amarillo
Borger
Cox
Daniel
Yarborough
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Organized Labor
State Medical Meet Set Here with Noted Speakers
The state medical meet opens Monday with Dr. William Ross Tyler of Henry Ford Hospital Detroit discussing Transmissible to Man. Tuesday features Dr. James H. Ferguson of Jackson Memorial Miami on The Management of Third Trimester Bleeding and Dr. F Tremaine Billings Jr. of Vanderbilt on The Responsibility of the Electrocardiographer. Wednesday includes Dr. J Lynwood Herrington Jr. on Vagotomy and Antiectomy for duodenal ulcer and Dr. John P. McGovern of Houston leading a pediatric allergy panel. A 50-Year Doctors Club award honors several New Orleans physicians, with other speakers from Missouri and Louisiana.
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William Ross Tyler
Detroit
Henry Ford Hospital
James H. Ferguson
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Miami, Fla
F. Tremaine Billings Jr
Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine
Nashvile
Nashville
J. Lynwood Herrington Jr
John P. McGovern
Houston
Tex
Doctors Club
Peters
Muir Bradburn
William Plummer Bradburn
Lucien A. Fortier
Adolph Jacobs
William A. Reed
New Orleans
Oscar W. Bethea
Neosho
Jefferson A Crawford
Lake Charles
John F. Dicks
Waveland
Rhett Go Kornmiker
Ponchatoula
Charles R. Gowen
Shreveport
Wiliam FE. Reid
Metairie
James C. Roberts
New Roads
Edwin V. Whitaker
Baton Rouge
Bayou DeSiard Country Club
Reds Revolt Squelched in Caracas Venezuela
Andres Perez said government troops crushed a Communist uprising in Caracas early Saturday linked to the Carupano revolt. Loyalists bombed rebel bases at a high school and other houses as planes dropped leaflets. a Pan Am flight was delayed and Caracas airport partially blocked.
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Andres Perez
Caracas
Betancourt
Pan American World Airways
Puerto Rico
Miami
Venezuela
Alliance Accepts Plan On Sharing Atomic Secrets
NATO ministers approve sharing guidance on tactical nuclear weapons and plan to place Polaris submarines under NATO in time of war. US commanders and legal limits noted. McNamara urges stronger NATO conventional forces as West reviews troop strength and readiness.
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Atlantic
Adm
R. L. Dennison
U.S. Atlantic
NATO Atlantic
Mediterranean
NATO
Kennedy
Berlin
Accord
Russia
U.S
Robert S. McNamara
West
Khrushchev
Ramblin Ouachita High News and Lost Purse Report
Mrs W T Miller of Homer reported losing a tan purse and checkbook with $35 and credit cards en route to Baton Rouge from the Ramblin Ouachita area. George M Snellings III of Monroe joined 62 LSU Phi Kappa Phi initiates at a campus banquet for high scholastic achievement and leadership.
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Wo T Miller
Route One
Homer
Jes’ Ramblin
Baton Rouge
Uomer National Bank
George M Snellings III
Monroe
Lousiana State University
Phi Kappa Phi
Briton Proves Man Can Fly With Legs
A British man named Wimpenny rode a bicycle with extended wings attached to the handlebars and a propeller behind him. He reached 200 mph on a concrete runway, flew at about eight feet altitude and ten mph cruising speed, then landed tired but triumphant, likened to Icarus and Da Vinci.
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Wimpenns
Wimpenny
Puffin
Icarus
da Viner
French officers to probe deep off Japan coast
Cmdr Georges Houot and Lt Pierre Willem of the French navy plan to descend in a bathyscaphe to depths from 26 000 to 33 000 feet off Japan's north coast this month, aiming for oceanic exploration milestones.
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Tokyo
Georges Houot
Pierre Willem
Japan
Homeowners Package Protection Offers Monthly Budget Plan
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Area Coin Club
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Marshall Formbs
Johnson
Atty
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Billie Sol Estes
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Jose Arcacuar
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Ramblin
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Guillary
Northeast State College
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Tiny
C. White
Iverstein
Plan Ocean Probe
Hatten
G Norris Insurance
Wood ST
Mary's Flower Shop
No. 2Nd St. Monroe
Twin City
Doug Tillman
Don Gonnaway
People’s Homestead
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Treasury Agent
Richard Arlen
West Monroe
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