Fifth District Sales Tax Revenue Chart Highlights Allocation
The chart explains a proposed Fifth District Sales Tax using 1965 66 data. It projects $5.1 million first year with 60 percent for teachers and non professional school staff salaries and 40 percent shared by school boards police juries and municipalities. Each parish receives totals in separate columns for the school board share and the police jury and municipality share and the district wide totals.
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City of Monroe
Ouachita
Milton C. Hall
Morehouse
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
West Monroe
Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Fifth District sales tax vote to decide education raises
Voters in Ouachita and 13 surrounding parishes will cast yes or no ballots on a one cent district wide sales tax to fund teacher pay raises and school operations. Officials predict broad turnout with 6 am to 8 pm polling and focus on district wide education funding and city parish employee raises.
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Ouachita
Caddo Parish
Shreveport
Bobby C. Wilson
West Monroe
Fifth District
Henry Taliaferro Jr
Jonesville
Ouachita Parish
Taliaferro
Catahoula Parish
Northeast Louisiana
Wilson
South Louisiana
Monroe
W. L. Howard
Recording Device Installed at Monroe Field Station
The Monroe Field Station of the Wage and Hour and Public Contract Divisions has installed a new recording device. Kenneth G. Swartz, field office supervisor, said the instrument will take messages during unmanned hours. The office is closed when investigators are out of the office.
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Monroe
U.S. Labor Department
Kenneth G. Swartz
Leniency Promised on Safety Law Penalties
Washington AP The Department of Transportation pledges a lenient reading of a rule that would cut 10 percent of federal highway funds from states not building and enforcing a comprehensive safety program by December 31 1968. Undersecretary Everett Hutchinson told a presidential advisory committee Thursday that penalties would apply only in extreme cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Transportation
Everett Hutchinson
Transportation
Louisiana Marine Dies in Vietnam Patrol
The Defense Department reports the combat death of Marine PFC Danny L. Paul of Morgan City Louisiana. The Evangeline Area Economic Development Council wins parish participation to attract industry across Lafayette Vermilion Acadia St. Mary St. Landry Evangeline St. Martin and Iberia Parishes. Only Republican juror Ronald Gossen opposed financing the program with local and federal funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Louisiana
Vietnam
Danny L. Paul
George A. Paul
Morgan City
Evangeline Area
Louisiana Guards Move to Summer Camp at Fort Chaffee
The 39th National Guard Infantry Division units depart New Orleans for annual summer camp in Fort Chaffee Arkansas. Thirteen convoys carry over 800 vehicles as the troop movement proceeds.
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New Orleans
Post Office Building Contract For Ponchatoula Announced
The Post Office Department reveals a $97,600 contract to build and lease a new facility in Ponchatoula to Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Pittman of Covington. The building will stand at the corner of North 5th Street and East Hickory Street.
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Washington
UPI
Post Office Department
M. L. Pittman
Covington
North 5Th
East Hickory Streets
Local Group Gets Federal Grant in West Monroe
The Ouachita Parish Multi Purpose Community Action Program receives $88,972 from the Office of Economic Opportunity for an eight month neighborhood center and health service project aiding about 60 000 low income residents in the West Monroe area.
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Ouachita Parish
West Monroe
Office of Economic Opportunity
Registrar Office To Open Monday In Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita Parish Voter Registration office will reopen Monday for citizens to register to vote. Registrar Mae Lucky said the office, located in the temporary courthouse on South Grand Street, will operate 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and until noon Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Mae Lucky
South Grand Street
Trucker Paul Eagen Dies in Iowa Crash
Paul R. Eagen, 30, of Banoco La., was killed when his truck collided with a pickup on U S 61 six miles south of Fort Madison Iowa. Police said the other driver attempted a left turn causing Eagen to veer into a ditch and overturn several times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Iowa
UPI
Paul R. Eagen
Anacoco
U. S. 61
Here
Eagen
Approves Program Lafayette Parish Police Jury
A brief UPI item notes the Lafayette Parish Police Jury approves a city program. The ruling reflects local government action in Lafayette Parish and sets the stage for subsequent funding or implementation steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
UPI
Lafayette Parish Police Jury
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