Ouachita Parish votes cut taxes as two passes lift funding
Official returns show four of six police jury tax proposals defeated in Ouachita Parish voters balked at a two-mill road tax and drained more than 0.5 mill, while the health unit and Green Oaks Detention Home levies cleared by narrow margins to fund operations for five years.
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Ouachita Parish
Green Oaks
Ward 5
John Carter
Humphries
Monroe
United Gas
Cheniere Lake
Tax measures fail in parish despite renewal votes
Final unofficial returns show five renewal proposals passing assessment but losing in popular vote, including a $325000 bond for Cheniere Lake recreation facilities. Voters rejected road and recreation taxes while health and detention home measures faced mixed results amid a tense, tax conscious mood.
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Cheniere Lake
Ward 10
T. W. Humphries
Humphries
Culbert Lee Rites Set at Covenant Church Thursday
Culbert Lee 68, of 701 N McGuire Ave Monroe died today at St Francis Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services 3 p m Thursday at Covenant Presbyterian Church with Revs Russell Burns and Wayne Gray officiating. Burial Memorial Park Cemetery Mulhearn Funeral Home Monroe. Lee a former Louisville Pharmacy druggist, deacon at Covenant, member of El Dorado Masonic Lodge El Karubah Shrine Northeast Louisiana Shrine Club. Survived by widow Ruth and three daughters plus siblings 10 grandchildren. Pallbearers listed. Memorials to Covenant Presbyterian Church or American Cancer Society.
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McGuire Ave
Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Russell Burns
Wayne Gray
Memorial Park Cemetery
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Lee
Louisville
el Dorado
W. B. Jackson
John J. Carso
Bert Root
Kirk L. Kirkland
Ww. C Alleman
H. Bale Hendricks
E. A. Porter Jr
J. M. Simmons
Covenant Presterian Church
American Cancer Society
British Concorde Maiden Flight Highlights Joint Supersonic venture
British Concorde 002, the British built counterpart to France 001, made its maiden flight from Filton airfield. Test pilot Brian Trubshaw lifted the craft after a 22 minute test, as the two nations push the supersonic airliner project into the 1970s amid prior delays.
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Bristol
England
Brian Trubshaw
Trubshaw
Filton
British Aircraft Corp
Severn River
Royal Air Force
Gloucestershire
Chairman Quits Equal Job Post
Washington AP Clif ford L. Alexander Jr. resigned today as chairman of the Employment Opportunities Commission and denounced the Nixon administration's attitude toward enforcing equal job opportunities. The 39 year old, who led the agency for two years, faced Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen's criticism citing harassment of firms and warned he could be fired for vigorous enforcement.
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Clifford L. Alexander Jr
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Employment Opportunities Commission
Nixon
Alexander
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
EEC
Dirksen
White House
YMCA Leader Howard Moreland To Attend Chattanooga Dedication
Howard Moreland director of the Twin Cities CHIT CHAT and former Chattanooga YMCA head will attend dedication ceremonies in Chattanooga Tennessee for the New Central YMCA Building valued at two percent million dollars. He led planning and secured the site during a nine year tenure.
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Young Men’s Christian Association
Chattanooga
Tenn
Central Ymca
Moreland
Chattanooga Ymca
Women drive on either side of the road as well as men
A humorous quip notes that women can drive just as well as men and may navigate roads on either side, reflecting lighthearted attitudes about driving skills and gender.
Prague Visit Set By Congressmen
U S Sen John Sparkman leads a quasia official delegation of seven senators and eight representatives to Prague at Czechoslovakia's Parliament invitation. The group will fly in a U S Air Force plane Friday morning returning the same day. They may also visit Hungary and Yugoslavia while in Vienna for the Interparliamentary Union meeting. The trip aims to avoid political motives amid Soviet Czechoslovak tensions.
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John Sparkman
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Alabama Democrat
Interparliamentary Union
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Claiborne Pell
D-R.i
Pell
Interparliamentary
Soviet Union
Sparkman
Hungary
Yugoslavia
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Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Everett Jordan
D-N.s
R-S.c
Harrison A. Williams
D-N.j
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Ross Adair
R-Ind
Emilio Q. Daddario
D-Conn
Edward J. Derwinski
R-I
John S. Monagan
Alexander Pirnie
Rn.y
W. R. Poage
Nixon Names His Consumer Affairs Aide
Virginia H. Knauer, 54, director of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Consumer Protection, is named by President Nixon as special assistant for consumer affairs with a $28,000 salary. She will head the President's Committee on Consumer Interests and serve as executive secretary of the Consumer Advisory Council.
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Virginia H. Knauer
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Consumer Protection
Nixon
Mrs. Knauer
Philadelphia
Betty Furness
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Knauer
Willie Mae Rogers
Good Housekeeping Institute
Consumer Protection Bureau
United States
Consumer Advisory Council
New Gains Posted In Stock Market Trading Session
The stock market rose broadly in early trading as optimism from a market rebound and peace hopes supported gains. The Dow stood at 927.30, up 4.13, with the AP average up 1.3 at noon and industrials leading the advance.
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New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Stock movers and losers on the NYSE mixed gains
The market showed broad gains with Ling-Temco-Vought up 1 percent as conglomerates led. Among high priced issues Control Data and Polaroid gained over 2 points, BM rose 3 percent while only three of the 20 most active stocks fell. Occidental Petroleum led activity, slipping to 4138 with AT&T and International Paper posting fractional declines.
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Ling-Temco- Vought
New York Stock Exchange
Occidental Petroleum
American Telephone & Telegraph and International Paper
Thundershowers Expected Today
Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with a 40 percent chance of measurable precipitation today through Thursday. Highs near 76 to 82 with lows 64 to 70. In Monroe, FAA at Monroe Municipal Airport reported a high of 83 and a low of 67 with 20 percent sunshine. Winds southerly 10 to 20 mph. drying conditions from fair to poor to Friday.
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Monroe
Louisiana Delta Agricultural Advisory
Registrar calls voting list system a horse and buggy operation
Ouachita Parish Voter Registrar Everett Zeagler blamed the state of the registration lists for voters turned away at polls. He cited name mismatches, misspellings, wrong addresses, and reliance on old tax rolls as core issues and urged voters to use affidavits if omitted. The office is open weekdays to correct records and assist registrants.
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Ouachita Parish
J. E. Doe
J. Elbert Doe
John Elbert Doe
Zengler
Floods sweeping Midwest claim lives and force evacuations
Rivers swollen by snowmelt swamp Minnesota Iowa and South Dakota with several drownings and hundreds moved from homes. In Minnesota Bernard Knudson 60 died on Heron Lake while poling ice. Thomas Bierang el 18 drowned on flood waters. Sioux City volunteers rush sandbags as Big Sioux river nears a record crest while towns evacuate and roads flood.
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Minnesota
South Dakota
Bernard
Knudson
Kinbrae
Heron Lake
Thomas Bierangel
New Ulm
Dawson
Lac Qui Parle
Windom
Jackson
Cherokee
Little Sioux
Akron
Weather Bureau
Renner
Dell Rapids
Wisconsin
Northwoods
Mississippi
Warren P. Knowles
la Crosse
Storm damages Thibodaux High gym roof collapse
Thibodaux High School closed after a heavy storm caused the gymnasium roof to cave in and a wall to fall. Janitor Lloyd Doiron and helpers escaped as water flooded the building. Principal T L Fakier blamed an excessive rainload on the flat roof and drainage limits. The $2.7 million school serves about 1,100 pupils.
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Thibodaux High School
Lloyd Doiron
T. L. Fakier
Illinois Central Freight and Passenger Service Halted by Strike
The Illinois Central Railroad halted most freight and passenger service across 14 states after a sudden strike by the United Transportation Union. Pickets appeared at stations while the company sought a temporary court order in Nashville. The union demands crews remain the same size as on other lines, citing 4,000 of 19,000 employees unionized.
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Illinois Central Railroad
United Transportation Union
U.S. District Court
Nashville
M.S. Stuckey
J.C
Stuckey
Illinois Central
Iinois Central
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Alabama
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Tennessee
Arkansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
Order of
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Washington
Brotherhood of Railroad
Indiana Accepts Daylight Time Shift Across State
Indiana local governments abandon time zone battles and align with the nation by moving clocks forward to Daylight Saving Time on April 27. The shift ends decades of mixed observing due to boundary changes and informal local decisions.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Interstate Commerce Commission
Indiana-Ohio
U.S. Transportation Department
Local Movements Temporarily Not Being Affected
Charles Russell of Illinois Central Railroad said freight moves in yards will continue but no decision on resuming trains after lines clear. United Transportation Union struck late last night surprising railroad and union talks over crew size after firemen were removed. The Monroe office reported a temporary shutdown with management and union picket lines on site.
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Charles Russell
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago
Monroe
United Transportation Union
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