Gas curtailment ordered to protect essential users across region
Federal Power Commission limits Monroe power plant and LP and L to three million cubic feet daily, down from about ten million. Utilities anticipate higher electricity costs as gas for turbines shifts to oil. Monroe faces possible tax-funded gaps if funds fall short. Local officials warn of financial strain and potential rate hikes as shortages press PM regional utilities.
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United Gas Pipe Line Company
Monroe Utilities Commission
Louisiana Power & Light Co
Monroe
Federal Power Commission
Commission
Utility Commission
Louisiana
Mississippi
Louisiana Power & Light Company
FPC
Ford, Bacon & Davis
Alaska
Edwin Edwards
Lp&l
Ralph Troy
General Fund
United Gas Pipe Line Co
Associated Press
New Orleans Public Service Co., Inc
New Orleans Power Company
Sion
United
R. A. Haslanger
Houston
Tex
Haslanger
Lp&j
O. K. LeBlanc
New Orleans
Troy
Flexible U.S. wage price rules rely on enforcement discretion
U.S. officials say Nixon era voluntary wage and price guidelines will be flexibly enforced with tighter scrutiny on large firms. The Cost of Living Council will decide when to use standby authority to roll back hikes, while audits may verify claimed costs and inflationary impact guiding potential legal action.
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Washington
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Council
Motorists urged to slow for school buses in loading zones
Ouachita Parish School Board member J. T. Lee cites several reports of drivers passing stopped buses loading or unloading children. He warns this law violation endangers children and urges careful driving, noting these are our children.
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Ouachita Parish
J. T. Lee
Lee
Louisiana constitutional convention limits delegates to one article-writing committee
Baton Rouge AP The 132 member Louisiana constitutional convention barred an amendment to allow delegates to work on two substantive committees and kept to a single article-writing assignment. The body created eight substantive committees as it parsed 35 of 88 proposed rules and eyed further debate through at least two more days.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
John Avant
U S Report Warns Little Cigars Are Health Risk Similar to Smoking
Government findings in the 1973 smoking report warn that little cigars may pose health risks like cigarettes. It notes pregnant women who smoke face higher chances of low birth weight and fetal or infant mortality, with new evidence of causal links among continuing smokers.
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Congress
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
U.S
Merlin K. DuVal
DuVal
Earthoe
United States
Board Fires Nine Unclassified Inspectors in Louisiana
The Louisiana State Highway Board voted to dismiss nine unclassified inspectors hired by former chairman Lewis Johnson on an emergency basis after Civil Service disapproved their hiring. Their status was later changed to provisional. In Saigon, Gen Haig met Thieu to discuss a revised peace draft as cease fire nears. Thieu provided some responses while Haig, Bunker, and officials considered the international force and POW release terms.
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Paton Rouge
State Highway Board
Lewis Johnson
Johnson
W. T. Taylor Jr
Civil Service
Saigon
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Nguyen van Thieu
Sidnt Nixon
Haig
Thieu
National Security Council
Independence Palace
South Vietnam
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Nixon
Cambodia
Laos
Washington
Soviet Union
China
United States
Thiesu
Tas
FDA Proposes Broad Food Labeling Rules for Nutrition
The FDA unveils a dozen regulations requiring calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates and key vitamins or minerals on labels or ads for foods with nutritional claims. Rules cover cholesterol and fat labeling, ingredients disclosure, and standards for dietary foods, with phased enforcement and potential reclassifications of fortified products. Industry reaction mixes relief with concern over mandatory nutritional listing.
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FDA
Charles C. Edwards
White House
Edward
Peter B. Hutt
George Wo Koch
Grocery Maufacturers of America
Koch
Ball Park
Lara Car Ur Tease Late Fetal Afterbirth Mortality
A terse report notes a late fetal mortality linked to a car incident involving Lara, with minimal details on timing or location. The item reads as a brief local notice referencing a fatal outcome tied to a vehicle event.
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Lara
Mother Of State Court Justice Dies In Bastrop
Mrs. H. A. Barham 89 of Bastrop died Tuesday after a brief illness at Morehouse General Hospital. Funeral service set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Golden Funeral Home with burial in Christ Church Cemetery. She was mother of State Supreme Court Justice Mack Barham. Survivors include three daughters, three other sons, a sister, 14 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Pallbearers named.
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Bastrop
H. A. Barham
Supreme Court
Mack Barham
New Orleans
Golden Funeral Home
L. Ho McCullough
Christ Church Cemetery
Chance Of Rain Looms In Area Through Weekend
Increasing cloudiness with a slight chance of rain is the forecast for Northeast Louisiana today and tonight with rain more likely Thursday. Highs near 70, lows in the lower 50s. Monroe FAA recorded Tuesday high 67 and morning low 43 with no rain reported. Extended outlook calls for mostly cloudy skies and a chance of showers Friday through Sunday.
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Louisiana
FAA
Monroe Municipal
Monroe
Bill collectors call at the worst time at home
A humorous aside notes bill collectors tend to ring when people are at home, highlighting the irony of constant debt collection interruptions.
Board Plans Abolishing Nine Inspector Jobs
Taylor told officials hiring was federal and expressed surprise it wasn’t true. Johnson resigned as highway board chair earlier this month amid accusations of using office to aid private business. Forbes advised evaluating need for the inspector class before creating exams, leading Taylor to push abolition and termination of all nine positions.
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Civil Service Commission
Johnson
Highway Board
Igbway Department
Edwards
Civil Service
Harold ‘Forbes
Forbes
Nixon to Lift Fuel Oil Import Quotas for Four Months
Rep Silvio Conte announces President Nixon will lift restrictions on home heating oil imports from overseas to ease a widening fuel short age. Conte, a key advocate, cites White House officials saying barriers will be dropped for four months as Gen George A Lincoln of the Office of Emergency Preparedness plans a news conference on the quotas.
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Washington
Nixon
Silvio O. Conte
Rmass
Conte
White House
Georgea. Lincoln
Office
Bastrop Man Killed By Truck
A 25 year old Bastrop man Richard J Teel was killed on U S 165 when struck by a van type truck driven by Winfred Hogue 28 of Bryant Ark The officer said Teel walked on the shoulder into the path of the eastbound truck Hogue veered to avoid Teel but could not stop Teel died en route to Morehouse General Hospital Funeral services set for 2 p m Friday at Hanna Funeral Home Atlanta Tex with burial Beach Grove Cemetery The body to be at First National Funeral Home until 12 noon Thursday
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Bastrop
U. S. 165
Here
Teel
Winfred Hogue
Bryant, Ark
Hogue
Safeway
Morehouse General Hospital
Hanna Funeral Home
Atlanta
Tex
Beach Grove
First National Funeral Home
Supreme Court Allows Racial Prejudice Questions in Trials
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that defendants may ask jurors whether they are racially prejudiced, but not about other forms of prejudice. The decision reversed Gene Ham's marijuana conviction, saying the trial judge must probe jurors about racial bias. Justice Rehnquist stated the 14th Amendment requires such questioning.
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Washington
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Gene Ham
Ilam
William H. Rehnquist
High Court
Rehnquist
New York
Jack Greenberg
Naacp Local Defense and Educational Fund
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Inside The News-Star Highlights byline and sections
A listing of the News-Star sections and features appears with page references for Abby Jawman Broadway Radio TV Classified Sports BA Comics Theater Crossword Van Dellen Editorial Women Horoscope Weather and Jumble across pages. The note describes section placement and page numbers for readers.
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Jawman
Radio-Tv
van Dellen
River Stages Station Flood Readings Report
Readable fragment notes stage changes at Monroe and Camden with values around 40 and 37.4. Mentions cost of living and saving money tips via Want Ad section and supermarket value offers.
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Camden
Werk
Wantina
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