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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1968
Page
6
Forecast shows low temperatures persisting into Friday morning with isolated precipitation. Shifts in regional rain include northern Florida showers, Gulf coast area showers, and thunderstorms in parts of the upper Mississippi Valley. Cooler air settles over New England.
Delta area shows generally good drying today and Friday with fair to poor tonight. Dewpoints around 63 to 68 Fahrenheit and low to 10 percent sunshine. Measurable precipitation 10 percent in afternoons. rain likely in some places up to a quarter inch. Winds becoming southeast at 16 mph Friday. Louisiana warm and humid with scattered afternoon storms. Arkansas partly cloudy to warm with isolated showers through Friday. Mississippi fair to partly cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers. highs in the 80s to 90s and lows in the 60s.
The stock market posted a sharp afternoon gain with mixed early action. The Associated Press average rose 2.0 to 337.9 as industrial shares jumped about 4.4 and the Dow gained 3.43 to 919.85, while some high priced issues advanced several points. Investors shrugged off Kennedy's death and moved into equities.
Louisiana Highway Board Vice Chairman James W. Moore of Monroe promised 100 percent payment of contractor-approved estimates after a board meeting. He said concerns about partial payments are incorrect and payments will be made in full as approved, with rapid processing to meet contractor cash needs. The report also mentions stock movements in Control Data Xerox Polaroid IBM American Smelting ACF Brunswick and Bunker-Ramo amid market activity.
Attorney Alphonse Tureaud, for the NAACP, asks U S District Court to replace Tangipahoa Parish School Board's freedom of choice with geographic attendance zones. He seeks a race based student assignment survey, a 1968 69 unitary nonracial system plan, and interim teacher racial proportion targets by 1970 71.
Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller will appoint a replacement for the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who died after a gunman’s bullet struck him in Los Angeles. An aide said Rockefeller has given no thought to a successor. Election law says a new senator could not be elected until November 1970 for January 1971 take office.
Jury selection began in Fourth District Court for the trial of Walter Ronald McClain 26 of Bailey Street West Monroe charged with two counts of armed robbery. He allegedly robbed the Seven Eleven on Warren Drive West Monroe April 17 and the Western Union Office on Monroe April 23. Judge Lea S Thompson presiding.
James Ro Red Parrish, a former assistant professor of journalism at Northeast Louisiana State College, is appointed associate professor at Northwestern State College. He has taught since 1957 at Stephen F. Austin Kilgore and Southeastern colleges and directed publications at Southeastern Louisiana College for the past two years.
Advertising fencing around cooling towers at seven local schools triggered a lengthy Monroe School Board discussion this week. Members weighed safety, cost, and maintenance concerns as they considered contractor plans and district impact.
Cook Leavell and Co. files a federal suit in New Orleans seeking 5.1 million dollars from the Orleans Dock Board and the Louisiana Department of Highways for contract delays. The firm says inadequate plans and late changes forced costly workarounds and harmed other projects on the Exhibition Hall expressway site.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will hold four one hour open house sessions at 2300 Lee Ave Monroe starting next Monday. Each session 5 6 7 and 8 p.m. features a film Man s Search for Happiness and poster exhibits Signs of the True Church. Refreshments to be served and public invited.
Armour edged up about 3 percent as Occidental Petroleum and Ashland Oil gained more than 2 percent. Hooker Chemical, Squibb Beech-Nut, Fairchild Hiller and Parke, Davis rose a point or more. Trading halted for two minutes at 11 a.m. on the New York Stock Exchange and other markets.
Plush fiberfill padding described as light and soft in white and black. Available sizes include 32 to 36 with A cup and 32 to 38 with B cup. Price listed as 7 1.79.
Senate Republican Leader Everett M Dirksen said the GOP platform committee will hold a preliminary Capitol meeting June 19. The group will gather in Dirksens office with seven or eight subject experts drawn from party task forces to guide platform development.
In Baton Rouge Senator John Schwegmann of New Orleans pitched three bills to curb milk price fixes, but the Senate Agriculture Committee rejected them. He paraded a goat to illustrate rising milk costs, while critics warned the bills would hurt Louisiana dairy and related industries.
An advertisement touts a keratolytic treatment for athlete's foot claiming rapid drying and quick relief. It emphasizes sloughing off infected skin to expose deeper infection to the product's action and urges purchase at drug counters with a stated money back offer.
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