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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1968
Page
4
The Black Panthers are described as the 1st Division's quick reaction force and regarded as the toughest single combat unit in the Vietnamese army, according to an AP Wirephoto report.
Economists boost cautious optimism as Commerce Dept shows poverty fell from 18 percent in 1959 to 12.4 percent in 1966. In 1966 over six million families were poor, with 34.9 percent of Black families and 9.9 percent of white families affected.
Bond set at 5000 dollars each for Philip Sebeer 25 Tu lane University student from New Orleans Jacque Abrams 26 seaman from New Orleans and Michael John Paton 23 of New Orleans. They remained in Lafayette city jail after Tuesday raid by narcotics officers on a home in Lafayette.
The Kiroli Elementary School PTA awarded dictionaries to top sixth graders Nancy Cooper and Martin Carson at awards day. The event also recognized top ten percent students, athletic award winners Wanda Honey Ronny Blazier Buddy Hebert Randy Counts Mark Summerville and others.
Jonesville special item reports that Catahoula Parish cotton growers refused to approve transfer of 1969 upland cotton allotments out of the parish. J Rison, chair of the parish ASC committee, explains transfers may move within the parish or arrive from other parishes by sale or lease but cannot exit the state.
An inmate at Angola state prison was stabbed to death at an outcamp. Two of three escapees, Howard Roberts and Donald Ragsdale, were recaptured near an old church in Simmesport after a warning shot. The manhunt for Thomas Pickens continued as he allegedly stole two trucks in Pointe Coupee Parish Tuesday night.
Monroe District Nurses Association holds its monthly meeting on Wednesday at the College Union Building room 205 206 starting 4 p.m. Guest speaker James Hall North east Louisiana State College will discuss parliamentary procedure. A 3 p.m. board meeting precedes the session.
Perez announces plans to amend a bill to seize the state rooster emblem for vice president Hubert Humphrey, charging Gov. McKeithen engineered the move. He says a deal with McKeithen was struck, while Sen. Adcock rejects any amendment and vows to oppose it. Perez claims Loyalists concede to gain rewards.
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