Watson Re-elected Louisiana Democratic Chair In Postpone Vote
Watson of Natchitoches retained his post as chair of the State Democratic Committee after loyalists failed to oust him. The group postponed selecting a new national committeeman and committeewoman until after the February 1 general election, amid a conservative-liberal coalition and regional voting patterns.
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Edgar Coltharp
News-Star Capital Bureau
Baton Rouge
Watson
Natchitoches
State Democratic Committee
David Treen
Democratic Party
Edwards
Treen
Sen
W. W. Eaton
North Louisiana
Metropoltan
New Orleans
Louisiana
Franklin Roosevelt
Captan
Jack Wylie
Lake Providence
Fred Huenefeld Jy
Monroe
Thomas W Tanner
Slidell
J. D. DeBlieux
Leon Irwin
Wylie
Tanner
Huenefeld
DeBlieux
Irwin
Mary Lou Winters
Columbia
John Meheithen
Ellen Brown
Gretna
Marshal Brown
Blanche Long
Earl Lone
Brown
Miami
Nixon and Brandt End Fla Summit with No Big Shocks
The Nixon Brandt talks closed with mutual goodwill and pledges to stay aligned. The key exception was Nixon naming David Kennedy as NATO ambassador at large, signaling stronger U S European ties. no major East West disagreements were reported.
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Nixon
Willy Brandt
Treasury
David M. Kennedy
U.S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Florida White House
Kennedy
Brussels
NATO
Robert Ellsworth
William P. Rogers
Washington
Soviet Union
Middle East
Europe
Tech weighs memorial name for Joe Aillet athletic complex
Louisiana Tech University President Dr. F. Jay Taylor said he will ask the State Board of Education to name the new athletic complex or stadium after Joe Aillet, longtime Tech athletic director and football coach who died at 67 after a lengthy illness.
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News - Star
Ruston
F. Jay Taylor
Louisiana Tech University
State Board of Education
Tech
Joe Aillet
Aillet
Taylor
Lake Charles
McNeese
Midnight Mass at St Matthew's to Include Women Readers
St Matthew Catholic Church plans its annual midnight mass on New Year’s Eve with readings by women for the first time. Father B A Seal lan says the service starts at 11 30 p m and the mass at midnight with the theme Pray out the old pray in the new. attending are Father Louis Voorhies Monsignor John C Marsh Father Warren Larroque and Father Scallan. The St Matthew’s choir will provide music.
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St. Matthew Catholic Church
B. A. Seallan
Gertrude
St. Francis Hospital
Louis Voorhies
John C. Marsh
Warren Larroque
Scallan
St Matthew's Choir
Lyons Promises American Party Change in Louisiana
American Party gubernatorial hopeful Hall Lyons outlines plans on education tax repeal and state reform in Monroe. He brands the Democratic and Republican parties as closely aligned, pushes voucher education, HEW critique, and restoring gubernatorial power to the people. Lyons vows to purge both major parties and oppose the personal income tax to spur jobs and business.
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Louisiana
Hall Lyons
Lafayette
Monroe
Lyons
Washington, D. C
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Nation
American Party
G. I
Indiana
U. S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Florida
Telephone Firm Seeks Interim Rate Increase in Louisiana
South Central Bell asked the Louisiana Public Service Commission for a 36 million dollar annual rate increase and sought approval to raise rates by about 17.4 million dollars effective Feb 1. The company says this interim boost preserves earnings at 9.5 percent while the full rate case proceeds, noting a court ruling setting 7.925 percent as the required return is insufficient to attract needed capital.
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New Orleans
South Central Bell Telephone Co
Louisiana Public Service Commission
PSC
State District Court
Baton Rouge
South Central Bell
Six Indicted On Counterfeiting Charge In Texas
Six people were indicted by a federal grand jury in Dallas on counterfeiting charges. The indictment covers conspiracy to pass counterfeit twenty dollar bills and transport and possession of counterfeit money. Thomas W. Bullock and Thomas C. Waggoner Jr. were among those charged and previously arrested in Oak Grove last June after a local business owner reported fake notes. Bond amounts were set at 30000 for Bullock and 80000 for Hayles, with additional charges pending in other districts.
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Dallas
Tex
Thomas W. Bullock
Thomas C. Waggoner Jr
Houston
Oak Grove
Secret Service
Frank Farnsworth
Farnsworth
Federal District Court
Shreveport
Bullock
Texas
Kenneth Kermit Hayles
Nixon and Sato to Meet in California Aid Ties
President Nixon plans a January 6 7 meeting with Prime Minister Eisaku Sato at the Western White House in San Clemente California to discuss China policy the yen dollar realignment Okinawa reunification Indochina and Asian security and aid. Trade talks have begun in Honolulu and Williamsburg Virginia.
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Nixon
East
West
Fisaku Sato
Japan
White House
San Clemente
Calif
Pekine
Indochina
Indian Subcontinent
Asia
Honolulu
Williamsburg
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Offshore Frozen Food Company
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