Louisiana Traffic Bills Progress Amid Turf War
Louisiana lawmakers advance three traffic safety proposals while delaying a vote on a bill to ban ticket fixing. Sen. Theodore Hickey led a floor vote to keep a statewide traffic violations listing and license revocation for second drunk driving conviction, with wide committee debates on driver education funding and auto title fee increases. Governor McKeithen backed higher title fees to fund more state troopers and safety plates, as lawmakers wrestled with budgeting safeguards and statewide impact.
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News-Star Legislative Bureau
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Louisiana
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Senate
Theodore Hickey
New Orleans
Department of Public Safety
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Rapides Parish
Judiciary Committee
George Blue
Jefferson Parish
William Dodd
Polk
Judiciary
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Budget Bureau
Division of Administration
State General Fund
Lantz Womack
Franklin
J. Bennett Johnston
Shreveport
Jimmie Davis
McKeithen
Hickey
Charles Barham
Ruston
Sen
B. B
Rayburn
Bogalusa
Jack Fruge
Ville Platte
Austin Fontenot
Opelousas
Charles Deichmann
J. D. Deblieux
Jules Mollere
Mellairie
Funeral services today for George Vital Laine Father of White Jazz
New Orleans reports funeral services are set for George Vital Laine known as The Father of White Jazz. Laine aged 92 died Wednesday and led early jazz bands in New Orleans during the Jack Laine Era. His proteges included Larry Shields Eddy Edwards Happy Schilling Emile Christian Henry Ragas George Fisher and Tony Sbarbaro.
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UPI
George Vital
Papa Jack
Laine
Jack Laine
Larry Shields
Eddy Edwards
Happy Schilling
Emile Christian
Henry Ragas
George Fisher
Tony Sbarbaro
Reds Ignore U.S. Moon Pictures
MOSCOW AP Soviet papers largely shunned the moon pictures from United States Surveyor. Moskovskaya Pravda carried the lone image, while Pravda gave only a brief Page 5 report and no pictures.
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Moscow
Byussia
Surveyor
Moskovskaya Pravda
Communist Party
Pravda
Violence Cripples Hope for Settlement at Vancouver Plywood
In Oakdale Louisiana evolving strike tension escalated as demonstrators scattered nails to block two buses of non striking workers arriving at Vancouver Plywood. After a three hour meeting with Local 3101 Carpenters and Joiners Union officials the company agreed to reinstate 75 strikers immediately and most others within 90 days, while Vancouver pledges to rehiring only nonviolent participants.
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Oakdale
Vancouver
Carpenters and Joiners
Ion
Evangeline Parish
LaSalle Board Accepts 2 Bids In Bid Round
LaSalle Parish School Board accepts bids for two bus bodies and a freezer cooler unit from nearby Ville Platte workers who quit over safety concerns. Kant Bus Sales bids 4522.29 for a 54 and 48 passenger bus. Hoyt Manufacturing bids 3391.31 for the freezer. Superintendent Welch reports about 12000 in annual federal funds for the vo cational agricultural program discontinued. A seven year net loss of 13000 for the parish processing plant was noted but no action taken. Richard L. Muller will oversee business office operations in Monroe Calhoun and Sterlington exchanges.
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Kant
Hoyt Manufacturing Company of
Lafayette
Roy Welch
Jena High School
New Telephone Manager Named In Monroe Office
A New Orleans native Thursday was named manager of the Monroe Office of Southern Bell. The appointment marks a leadership shift as the utility expands local services and customer care in the region.
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