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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1971
Page
5
Northeast Louisiana and Mississippi forecast fair with mild afternoons and highs in the 70s. Cooler nights with lows mainly 40s, light to moderate winds, and scattered showers in the southeast.
House Speaker Carl Albert said the 1971 session focused on widening democracy and tackling the economy. He noted expanded voting participation 18 year olds and a more democratic House through less secrecy and broader seniority reform. He warned the economy remained in disarray with unemployment rising to about two million and outlined measures taken and those still to come.
Veteran leaders bid farewell as John I. Neel of Monroe leaves the Monroe Ouachita Regional Planning Commission after a decade of service. Jim Smith to succeed Neel as commission chairman. Fourteen of the 19 Ouachita Parish Police Jury pilots depart after the second primary and reapportionment court rulings.
Surprise visits, pleasant greeting for Mr and Mrs Donald R Thames at Westland Place West Monroe as President and Mrs Richard M Nixon send Christmas card this week.
On San Rafael Street in Havana shelves are empty under Cuba’s rationing system. The embargo blamed by Fidel Castro critics masks shortages caused by export needs to the Soviet bloc.
A reader asks Dr Gra ham how to answer a sixteen year old who says adults drink while teens smoke pot. The response condemns drunkenness on any substance, cites biblical instruction Be not drunk or high, and urges finding joy within moral laws. It notes alcohol accidents exceed Vietnam era deaths and labels pot use illegal, framing both as wrong.
The Louisiana Commission on Governmental Ethics must reassess the punishment of state police Captain Roland Coppola after the First Circuit found one charge unsupported by sufficient evidence. The court left intact findings that Coppola violated ethics rules by receiving tools and a truck loan interest, while noting his loan request to Carlos Marcello was unproven to be linked to regulated operations.
North Vietnam strengthens defenses around four passes on the Laos border. Soviet MIG interceptors and SAMs increasingly challenge U.S. air sorties as 6 planes are shot down and 7 crewmen vanish. Protective reaction strikes expand to fuel depots and truck parks under Nixon policy.
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