New Orleans opera house plan advances amid floor fight
The Louisiana House approved a 57 to 41 vote to convert the old civil courts building at 400 Royal Street into an opera house. The project shifts as a state facility with about 3.5 million dollars in conversion costs and an amendment barring state funds from the work.
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Baton Rouge
Civil Courts
New Orleans
Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission
Royal St
French Quarter
W. K. Brown
Grant Parish
Fifth District
Vail M. Delany
Lake Providence
Allen Haley
Oak Grove
David Patten
Jonesville
W. J. Richardson
Columbia
Fred Schiele
Vidalia
Lantz Womack
Winnsboro
George Wood
Monroe
George Halstead
Ruston
Lawrence Gibbs
Benny Christian
Rayville
S. S. DeWitt
Newellton
Marvin Culpepper
Jonesboro
Maxwell
Urania
James McCormack
Bastrop
James Smith
Farmerville
Boy Starts Fire Destroys Lumber Firm in Iowa
Cedar Rapids AP fire chief says a 6 year old boy playing with matches accidentally started a $125000 blaze last Monday evening. The fire gutted a house a lumber yard and an electric shop. The boy admitted lighting a corner of old mattresses in a home garage. The chief said no discipline is planned due to the child’s age.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jess Hunter
Hunter
Monroe Court Action Docket Seeps Through DWI and Traffic
Judge W M Harper presiding in Monroe City Court processed four DWI counts with $425 fines and costs for Larry White Frank Davis and Willie Coleman. Alton Reeves forfeited bond. Numerous speeding failures and reckless driving forfeitures followed. Two simple battery and other minor traffic cases disposed with fines. a weapon-discharge case paid costs. The judge also handled 15 additional minor traffic matters.
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W. M. Harper
Monroe City
Larry J. White
Lee Ave
Monroe
Frank C. Davis
Sard St
Willie Coleman
Boston St
Lake Charles
Alton C. Reeves
Georgia St
Nolle
Harper
James Carter
S. 18Th St
Freddie Edwards
Renwick St
Lemmie Kennedy
Pippin St
Salvatore Petarro
Pershing Ave
William Riley
Start
Isaac Turner
Roy Dr
Levi Williams
Atkinson St
Alvin Williams
Alvin St
Bastrop
Thomas Caldwell
Bryant St
Michael Haddad
N. 6Th St
Henry Whitty
George Pawlaski
Curve Jr
Calvin Thompson
George Thomas
Grammont St
Thomas Boyd
McGuire
Willie Gipson
Hawk Sr
Elmer Jones Jr
Wood St
Bynum E. Davis Jr
Preacher Custis
Depot St
Seaway Records Fall Tonnage Amounts Rise
Joseph N. McCann, administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Corp., said the waterway marked its fifth anniversary by breaking tonnage records. May totals put it over five million tons for the first time, more than two million tons above last year’s pace.
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Detroit
UPI
Joseph N. McCann
The
St. Lawrence Seaway Corp
the Seaway
Final California tally reported
Final unofficial vote count from California primary shows Goldwater 1,107,307 and Rockefeller 1,043,272 in Presidential Republican race. Brown leads Democratic slate with 1,686,144 versus Yorty 864,053. Senate Republican figures: Murphy 1,075,887 Kaiser 669,777 Hall 255,904. Senate Democrat results: Salinger 1,159,700 Cranston 1,020,780 Mc Clain 171,917 Engle 156,064.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Johnson
Brown
Yorty
Senate
Murphy
Kaiser
Hall
Salinger
Cranston
McClain
Engle
Wilson backs annual summits after Moscow trip
Labor leader Harold Wilson returned from a four day visit to Moscow and urged Western powers to back annual summit meetings. He said breakthroughs come when decisions are made at the top in Khru shchev's room, while noting opposition from Sir Alec Douglas Home's government and the U.S. administration.
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London
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
Moscow
Sir Alec Douglas- Home
U.S
Washington
Wilson
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Bookmobile Schedule Announced for Ouachita Parish Public Library
The Ouachita Parish Public Library announces Friday bookmobile stops serving Cheniere and Okaloosa communities with a morning to early afternoon schedule. It departs the main library at 7 a.m. and returns by 2 p.m., visiting Penn's Grocery, Cheniere, Hamilton's Grocery, Webb Robert's Store, Earl Brown, Joseph Kelly, J.E. Phillips, Earl Gryder, Edgar Thompson, Mrs. Gretchen Lewis, W.M. Murray, Albert A. Rogers, S. R. Davis, and ends back at 1800 Stubbs Ave., Monroe. Stops are spaced through the morning and early afternoon on June 5 and 19, July 3, 17, 31, and August 14 and 28.
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Ouachita Parish
Cheniere
Okaloosa
Stubbs Ave
Earl Gryder
Edgar Thompson
Gretchen Lewis
W.M. Murray
Albert A. Rogers
S. R. Davis
MP claims secret cupboard holds erotic books in Commons
London report says Labor MP Leo Abse alleged a semi secret cupboard in the House of Commons where MPs can access erotic titles. He cited Kinsey on sexual behavior Lolita Tropic of Cancer and the Kamasutra as examples.
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London
UPI
Leo Abse
House of Commons
Kinsey
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North Monroe Lions Club
Northeast Louisiana State College Foundation
George T. Walker
Cy Epler
Marcus Mapp
Nlsc Foundation
Opera House
Jamar Adcock
Central Grammar School
Adcock
Tallulah
John J
E. H. Stewart
Archie Stewart
Senate Wildlife Committee
J. C. Gilbert
Sicily Island
Joe L. Herring
Fish and Game
Wild Life and Fisheries Commisson
Herring
Ouachita and
Morehouse Parishes
House
Delany
Department of Education
C. H. Downs
William J. Dodd
Sammy Downs
John J. McKeithen
Alexandria
Code OF Ethics
Edwin Edwards
Sclon
Crowley
Carlos Spaht
Edwards
Bailey Grant
Case Judiciary Committee
Taylor O'Hearn
Shreveport
Grant
Louisiana Sheriff's Association
Wellborn
Jack
Fore
Rep
Edgar Lancaster
Senate Banking Committee
Louisiana
J. Grayson Guthrie
Louisiana Bankers Association of
Tommy Hyer
City of
Victor Schiro
Ilverstein
DeSiard
Claiborne Parish
Beverly Hollan
Haynesville
Miss Hollan
A. H. Hollan
1St West St
Homer Junior Chamber of Commerce
Khrushchev
Penn's Grocery
Cheniere Station
E. S. Hamilton's Grocery
Stubbs Avenue
General Business
IBM
Louisiana Business College
Louisville Ave
Silverstein’s
Dacron
Bond
Bond's
America
AEE
N. 18Th St
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