Legislative Highlights from Louisiana Senate and House Actions
Senate passes SB 58 SB 219 SB 259 SB 282 SB 296 SB 313 SB 314 SB 317 SB 328. House passes HB 637 right to work bill. Senate adjourns 1:30 p.m. House adjourns 9 a.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knowles
Masonic Home
Alexandria
E. Barham
Williamson
Confederate Memorial Medical Center
Jumonville
Prison Industry
Agri-business Fund
Corrections Department
Kiefer
Caddo Parish
Sheriff's Tax Commission
Senate
Bigby
House
Senate rejects dairy board abolition as price controls stay
The Louisiana Senate rejected changes to a bill aiming to abolish the Dairy Stabilization Board and its milk price fixing power. Two votes, 17 to 20, defeated a Knowles amendment to end the board and transfer duties to the agriculture commissioner. Senator Nicholson paused to study the bill as amended, while farmers pressed for ending price controls. The Agriculture Committee amendments kept the Dairy Stabilization Board authority to set minimum production costs, with the board currently setting minimum wholesale prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Dairy Stabilization Board
Senate
Elwyn Nicholson
Marrero
Jesse M. Knowles
Lake Charles
Commissioner of Agriculture
Agriculture Committee
W. E. Dykes
Montpelier
Knowles
Super Snoopers aid New Orleans arrests in crime offensive
Sgt. Freddie Hines and detectives Clarence Southern and Timothy O'Brien scan from a rooftop with binoculars and walkie talkies to fight crime. In two weeks they assisted in 11 arrests including an armed robbery suspect amid a new anti crime push in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freddie Hines
Clarence Southern
Timothy O’brien
New Orleans
Senate group approves bill to curb Monroe Utilities
The Senate Judiciary Committee backed a Gibbs bill allowing the Monroe City Council to take over management and finances of the Monroe Utilities Commission. Mayor-elect Howard urged action against fuel ad charges, while council control over budgets checks debts and rate hikes. The bill notes the commission is non electively staffed and not under the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utilities Commission
Howard
Edwards Barham
Oak Ridge
Harlan Prestridge
Monroe Finance
Gibbs
The
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Fritz Windhorst
New Orleans
Monroe Utilities Commission
Parish judge orders $70 month child support in first such ruling
Judge Edwin Hughes in the 28th Judicial District Court ordered Glenda Kirby to pay her husband $70 monthly in support of their three minor children. The ruling, the parish’s first since 1838, grants custody to the father with immediate child support and set visitation. The couple’s divorce and desertion allegations were heard with counsel from Monroe, and future trial on the merits is scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Edwin Hughes
Jena
Hebert
28Th Judicial District Court
A. L. Darden
Caldwell Parish
Glenda Mae Shipp Kirby
Monroe
Hughes
Tech to Offer Summer Diagnostics for Speech Hearing
Louisiana Tech will run a summer session at the Speech and Hearing Center in Robinson Hall offering diagnostic and therapeutic services for speech language and hearing disorders. Children join group and individual sessions from June 21 to August 5 at 9:30 a.m. weekday, while adults can schedule private therapy. contact 257 4704.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star
Ruston
Louisiana Tech
Robinson Hall
Tech
Guy Leake
Leake
Local option bills seek Saturday bar closing hours
Senate Judiciary C backed two measures from Sen. Fritz Windhorst to allow local control of bar hours. One bill would repeal state closing limits. the other would suspend the law until July 1 1977 to craft a permanent solution. Campbell and Gibbs opposed both. Windhorst cited inconsistent enforcement and an AG opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Senate
Judiciary C Committee
Fritz Windhorst
New Orleans
Foster Campbell
Bossier City
Lawrence Gibbs
Monroe
Windhurst
Windhorst
Getty Funeral Slated Thursday
Oil billionaire J Paul Getty died Sunday at his English estate at 83 as his will filed for probate reveals plans for a private Malibu ranch burial on a one acre cemetery set aside by executors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
UPS
J. Paul Getty
Getty
London
California
Malibu
North Louisiana senators split on milk bill amendment
The milk bill amendment to abolish the Dairy Stabilization Board failed 17 to 20 in the Baton Rouge vote. Supporters Foster Campbell Jr Jackson B. Davis Donald G. Kelly Ned Randolph backed abolition while Charles C. Barham Erle Edwards Barham Lawrence Gibbs Jesse Knowles Bryan A. Poston John Saunders Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee Donald Williamson James Brown Jr opposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World Capital Bureau
Baton Rouge
North Louisiana
Dairy Stabilization Board
Foster Campbell Jr
Bossier City
Jackson B. Davis
Shreveport
Donald G. Kelly
Natchitoches
Ned Randolph
Alexandria
Charles C. Barham
Ruston
Erle Edwards Barham
Oak Ridge
Lawrence Gibbs
Monroe
Jesse Knowles
Lake Charles
Bryan A. Poston
Hornbeck
John Saunders
Mamou
Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee
Donald Williamson
Vivian
James Brown Jr
Ferriday
Caldwell Parish Retired Teachers Luncheon Planned
The Caldwell Parish Retired Teachers announce a noon covered dish luncheon at the Community Center in Columbia Eastside on Monday. All retired teachers and spouses are invited to attend and bring a covered dish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Caldwell Parish
Columbia Eastside
Also Mentioned on This Page
News-Star Capital Bureau
Louisiana
Division of Health
Allan Pursnell
Newstar Capital Bureau
Sen
Louisiana Senate
Confederate Memorial Hospital
Utility Commission
News-Star News Service
Atty
William J. Guste
Consumer Energy
Mary’s Flower Shop
Wilton
Armetale
Forsythe Ave
Northgate
Mr. Maurice Cheramie
Holiday Place
Cheramies
MR. Cheramie
Mrs. Cheramie
Cheramie
Lp&l
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!