Optometrists Report Progress in Louisiana Eye Program
At the Louisiana optometrists convention in Monroe officials touted the Eye Anomalies Detection Program as expanding to 44 parishes with plans to add five more next year. More than 165000 children received free eye tests last year. Ouachita Parish noted as a leading local site with 16 000 to 17 000 tested.
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Ouachita Parish
State Board of Health
Light Conservation Program
Louisiana State Association of Optometrists
Frances Hotel
Ouachita
Ben Friedman
Baton Rouge
State Health Board
Jody Bergeron
Monroe
Friedman
Paul Cook
New Orleans
Walter J. LaBorde
LaBorde
W. L. Howard
T. A. Bruke
Roy L. Swartz
Louisiana Department of Public Welfare
Garland Bonin
Warner Cruce Jr
Arkansas Optometric Association
Arkansas Safety Glass
H. J. Gardsbane
Shreveport
Burton Dupuy
Natchitoches
LSAC
Louisiana
Frances
John G. Sugg
American Optometric Association
Louisiana Highway Safety Commission
Irby Dupont
LSAO
Lions Club
United States
River Stage Readings Show Mixed Flood Changes Across Cities
Daily river stage data from multiple sites shows rises at Memphis Vicksburg Natchez Baton Rouge Simmesport and Pearl while places like Helena Red River and Atchafalaya report falls or stable levels. Observers note yesterday’s stage shifts and 24 hour comparisons across the region.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Memphis
S.T
Helena
Arkansas City
Ail Vicksburg
Natchez
Red Riving
Baton Rouge
Tchafalaya Simmesport
Melville
Atchafalaya
Morgan City
Ouachita Camden
Monroe
Black Jonesville
Arkansas Little Rock
RED Shreveport
Alexandria
Pearl Jackson
Pearl River
UC Los Angeles votes to stay in Vietnam war
On a near record turnout the UC Los Angeles campus of about 7,000 students approved remaining in Vietnam by 4,275 to 300. They also backed on campus recruiters for war related work by 17,447 to 1,773 and upheld costs of the campus job placement center to be borne by companies rather than students.
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Los Angeles
University of California At
United States
Vietnam
Dow Chemical Co
Dow
UCLA
Weather Summary for Monroe and Northeast Louisiana
Weather outlook for Monroe and northeast Louisiana shows mild days with scattered showers likely Saturday. Highs reach 64 to 70 today, lows 52 to 60 tonight, and highs 76 possible Saturday. Winds variable 5 to 20 mph, turning south tonight and north Saturday. Rain chances 20 percent tonight and 30 percent Saturday.
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Earees
Louisiana
Mitclana
Monroe
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Arkansas
Four Initiated In Honor Group Alpha Lambda Delta At Northeast Louisiana
Alpha Lambda Delta, the national honor society for women, has initiated four sophomore students at Northeast Louisiana State College. Inductees include Benita Joy Williams of Monroe, Barbara Ann Gewin and Sandra Sue Bowling of West Monroe, and Cynthia Bell of Lake Charles.
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Alpha Lambda Delta
Northeast Louisiana State College
Benita Joy Williams
Monroe
Barbara Ann Gewin
Sandra Sue Bowling
West Monroe
Cynthia Bell
Lake Charles
Twin Cities Chit Chat and Local Happenings
Twin Cities residents report a curious event on Oak and Catalpa Streets as bubbles rained down from the sky perhaps from a nearby laundry. Dick Brothers and family marked his daughter’s marriage with a church ceremony at Monroe’s First Baptist Church echoing his own wedding in 1966. Karl Suomi, Navy recruit, left Monroe after visit to begin Nuclear Power Training in South Dakota. Hugh Britt Sr. returns to Monroe after hospital stay in Texas and plans to resume golf at Highland Park.
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Dick Brothers
Brothers
Monroe
First Baptist Church
Twin Cities
Oak and
Catalpa
St. Francis Hospital
Karl Martti Suomi
U. S. Navy
South Dakota
Karl
M. I. Suomi
S. 8Th St
Neville High School
Mississippi College
Navy
Hugh A. Britt Sr
Gulpha Dr
West Monroe
Willford Hall Hospital
Lackland
Tex
Highland Park
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ESSA
AXE
Intermountain States
Pacific Northwest
Mississippi Valley
Missouri
Texas
Plains States
Intermountain
Optometrists
R&a Jewelers
IY Entrees
Dupont
O 'Slea
Sadkle Pveic
LCEY
Petticoat
Bonanza
Accent
Montgomery Ward
Twim City
Oliver Road
Gaain Saterag CO
Pew Orleans
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