Women rights amendment stalls on Senate floor in Louisiana
The Louisiana Senate briefly revived debate on the proposed women equal rights amendment as it returns to the calendar awaiting committee action on a separate state vote proposal. Sen. Harold Montgomery warned of a filibuster. debate featured arguments for and against ratification and potential government overreach by state law.
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Jesse M. Knowles
Lake Charles
Joseph Tiemann
Metairie
James E. Fontenot
Abbeville
Peach Pageant Opens With 46 Entrants For June Show
Ruston sees 46 contestants entered for the 22nd Queen Dixie Gem and Princess Peach pageants set for June 24 during the Louisiana Peach Festival. Committee chairs report 21 in Queen Dixie Gem and 25 in Princess Peach, listing sponsors from Ruston and nearby towns. Also noted are changes to the jury with new members including the first Black members and the first Republican member in modern history.
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Shreveport
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Beverly Burnside
Louisiana Tech
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Karen Canterbury
Ruston Junior Guild
Jane Carter
Optimist Club
Cindy Ellett
Alpha Chi Omera Sorority
Catherine Fraser
Liz Fowler
Ruston Weight Watchers of
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Ruston Cosmos Club
Jan Wallace
Dubach
Garden Smidy Club
Sheila Weaks
Houma
Luckey’s Jewelers
Homer
Jackie Woodard
Don Love Construction Co
Land
Mansfield
Wilson
Pack
Lincoln Parish Jurors Approve Assessor Pay Increase
Lincoln Parish jurors approved a $300 per month raise for the tax assessor and tied increases for the sheriff and clerk of court. The decision came with little notice and applied across the board to assessors, clerks, and sheriffs.
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Jurors Installed For New Terms In Lincoln Parish
RUSTON The Lincoln Parish Police Jury installed seven new members and five others began new four year terms. John Ed Barnes was reelected president and Virgil Frazier was chosen vice president to succeed R. M. Enloc. Enloc did not seek reelection after 20 years. Reagan Sutton was reappointed secretary treasurer.
Senate OKs trailer brake changes in farm bill
The Senate Transportation Committee endorsed amendments to the Public Safety Department bill on trailer brake rules. The compromise would exempt trailers under 3,000 pounds and seasonal farm trailers up to 10,000 pounds from brakes, with no brake need for vehicles under 30 mph. The measure aligns with Farm Bureau stance and faces Senate floor debate.
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Public Safety Department
Farm Bureau
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Alexandria
Concordia Sheriff to be Sentenced in Federal Court
U.S. District Judge Nauman Scott will sentence Concordia Parish Sheriff Noah W. Cross on June 19 in Monroe after his May 6 conviction on two federal perjury counts. Cross faces up to five years in prison and fines up to $4,000 per count for testifying before a 1971 Alexandria grand jury probing an interstate prostitution and gambling operation centered at Morville Bar south of Vidalia. The case ties to a broader inquiry into a prostitution and gambling setup in the parish during 1965-66.
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Alexandria
Monroe
Board Changes On Referendum
Grant Parish School Board delayed July 12 referendum on high school consolidation. The board will meet tonight to draft a detailed plan, submit it to federal court for approval, and seek a bond issue if approved. The plan centers a centralized high school in the parish center.
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Colfax
Grant Parish
Senate okays farm bureau backed trailer brake carveout
The article notes lawmakers and farm groups pushing a compromise restricting brake rules on unbraked trailers. It describes amendments by Rep. Richard Thompson and Senate Agriculture Committee activity, with opposition from the Public Safety Department and remarks by Sen. James H. Brown and industry representatives about brake costs and enforcement.
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Farm Bureau
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Ferriday
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al Polk
Robinon Tank Lines
Lloyd Nicholson
Iberia Supply
Nicholson Es
Lawmaker Attacks Tax Repeal Vote Critics
Rep Art Sour of Shreveport denounces supporters as hypocrites after passage of a bill to repeal the state property tax. He cites 87 yes votes and says severance tax should have led. North Louisiana lawmakers ONeal Drew Wilson also opposed repeal joining Sour.
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Art Sour
Shreveport
Sour
Edwin Edwards
Louisiana
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B. F. O'Neal
Harmon Drew
Minden
James Wilson
Vivian
Heath Named Dean at Louisiana College
A Charlestown native Edward Heath has been named dean for students at Louisiana College in Pineville. President Dr. G Tarl Guinn announced the appointment noting Heath’s background as teacher and youth director and the new dean’s recent doctor of education from George Peabody College. Heath succeeds Charles Thompson who resigned last month after joining staff in late 1970.
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Edward LL
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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest
N.C
Charles Thompson
Thompson
Raccoon Joins Pigs on Illinois Farm
Lima Illinois AP reports farmer Marvin Wilson found a baby raccoon nursing with a litter of eight spotted pigs, forming an unlikely new piggy associate on his farm.
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Marvin Wilson
Monroe Student Cited For High School Activity
Monroe student Lou Lemert of All Saints Episcopal School in Vicksburg Mississippi earned high honors at graduation receiving Music Piano Advanced Mathematics and Latin Awards. She served as co editor of the annual dormitory proctor and school newspaper editor and sang in the Saints Sixteen choir. Lemert earned a superior Bach Festival rating at Hinds Junior College and performed a piano recital with Tanya Barbee. She joins Beta Club and plans Dublin horse show participation and to attend Sophia Newman College majoring in mathematics or music.
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One Girl Killed One Injured In Traffic Mishap
Two sisters Catherine Gabeth Kramer six and Kelly Kramer five were walking along Louisiana 34 near 546 when Otis C Hester sixty eight of Jonesboro struck them witnesses said the girls moved into the southbound lane The younger was taken to Glenwood Hospital West Monroe in satisfactory condition Parents are Mr and Mrs James A Kramer of Lafayette
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Lafayette
State Supreme Court upholds bar owner Cleary conviction
The Louisiana State Supreme Court affirmed Peter J. Cleary a Jefferson Parish bar owner convicted of placing cheap whiskey in expensive name bottles. Cleary faced a 60 day jail sentence and the ruling sustains the fine and confinement imposed by lower courts.
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Jefferson Parish
Baton Rouge votes to extend ant eradication program
A resolution authorized the state entomologist and the agriculture commissioner to continue Louisiana s fire ant eradication efforts. The measure passed Monday by a legislative vote, directing ongoing funding and oversight to the program.
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Northwest Group Ponders LSU S Four Year Move
The Shreveport-Bossier delegation met at noon to resolve issues surrounding legislation to grant LSU Shreveport four year status. Rep. Alphone Jackson said the measure is in trouble as supporters pull back due to tax package disputes with Gov. Edwards.
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Shreveport
Alphone Jackson
Edwin Edwards
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Hhouse
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Lincoln Officials Jail Ruston Man In Fatal Shooting
Ruston man Walter Howard Brown is jailed in Lincoln Parish after a fatal shooting that killed Taft Cockerham, a Ruston taxi driver. Brown, confined to a wheelchair from a six year old gunshot, was booked with murder after an early Sunday argument turned deadly at Lincoln General Hospital.
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