Teacher Pay Debate Spurs Gibbs McKeithen Sharply
In Baton Rouge Rep Law rence Gibbs of Monroe attacked Gov John J McKeithen during the 32 hour House debate on the teacher pay raise bill. Gibbs defended the governor for keeping campaign pledges including a toll free New Orleans bridge and proposed natural gas rebates. He urged full implementation of the salary schedule from the United School Committee and the accompanying pay raises.
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News-Star Legislative Bureau
Baton Rouge
Lawrence Gibbs
Monroe
John J. McKeithen
House
Gibbs
Jamar Adcock
New Orleans Bridge
Gulf South Research Center
United School Committee
Two Marines Captured By Viet Cong
Two U.S. Marine Corps enlisted men from a Danang based helicopter unit were reported missing and may have been captured by Viet Cong guerrillas. They went on a beach picnic Sunday renting motorcycles to take pictures then swam off a Danang area beach. The disappearance raises American military missing tally to fourteen since December 1961. Identification of the two was withheld.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Marine Corps
Danang
Louisiana House approves fifth junior college plan
The Louisiana House approved 85 to 10 and sent to the Senate a bill to create a fifth junior college in the state. The measure, pushed by Rep Sidney Sylvester, would authorize LSU to establish a two year commuter college in Ville Platte. The House also backed separate Negro and white colleges in the Shreveport Bossier area and colleges in Catahoula Concordia and Eunice Evangeline areas, with no funding attached.
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Eunice
Evangeline Parish
Louisiana Legislators Push Bills in Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge the House passed three Monroe area bills notably setting a city judge salary and directing civil fees to the general fund after 1967. A separate measure would authorize highway upgrades on state routes, and a park site purchase for Lake D Arbonne was approved. The Senate moved to close the doe season for two years amid opposition from wildlife officials.
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Baton Rouge
Monroe Area
Monroe City
Lawrence Gibbs
George Wood
James Smith
Farmerville
State Parks and Recreation Commission
Lake D’‘Arbonne
Senate
Louisiana
Vail M. Delany
Lake Providence
Rep
Lantz Womack
Winns
Mental Health Sleuths Put Families Under Microscope
National Institute of Mental Health researchers compare normal families with those having delinquent or schizophrenic children. The study outlines distinct parent child interaction patterns and emotional tones in each group, highlighting autonomy versus control and the use of guilt to enforce conformity.
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National Institute of Mental Health
NIMH
James R. Stabenau
American Psychiatric Association
Local Flood Wall Project Okayed
Washington special report says the Bureau of the Budget approved a Monroe flood wall gap fill along the Ouachita River. A Corps of Engineers report recommended construction. Senators Ellender and Long and Rep Passman plan legislation to include the project in the next omnibus rivers and harbors bill, likely not enacted until 1965.
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Washington
Bureau of the Budget
Monroe
Ouachita River
Congress
Bureau
Corps of Engineers
Allen J. Ellender
Russell B. Long
Otto E. Passman
Two Night Summer Classes Set at Northeast Louisiana State College
Northeast Louisiana State College will offer two summer session night classes in the division of business administration. Intermediate accounting 53a meets Mondays and Wednesdays 6 30 to 9 15 p.m. with Dr. Jackson A. White. A personnel management seminar 207n meets Mondays and Thursdays at the same time, taught by Van C. McGraw. Registration for these two classes is Thursday, June 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the registrar's office. First class June 15.
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Northeast Louisiana State College
Clint O. Hanna
Division of Business Administration
Jackson A. White
van C. McGraw
Louisiana State University
Hanna
Parish Fire Protection Plan Studied by City Leaders
Harrisonburg leaders present a parish wide fire protection proposal to fund firefighting equipment for Sicily Island Harrisonburg and Jonesville. The plan would allow a parish tax election to finance the purchase and cover about 90 percent of the parish. The police jury is studying the proposal.
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Harrisonburg
Cater G. Aplin
Board of Aldermen
Catahoula Parish
Sicily Island
Jonesville
Aplin
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International Bridge
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U.S
Mexico
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Grouchy
W. J. Richardson
Grayson
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J. C. Gilbert
Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission
Allen Haley
Oak Grove
Robert F. Kennon
Earl K. Long
Organized Labor
Boro
Delany
Benny Christian
Richland
Marvin Culpepper
Jackson
5. S. DeWitt
Tensas
West Carroll
James McCor
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United Press International
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UPI
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Employer’s Life Vns. Co of America
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