15 Jun 1977
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1977
Page
1
Rain and thundershowers likely today with highs in the low 80s. Mostly cloudy tonight with a 40 percent rain chance and southeast winds. Rain chances: 60 percent today 40 percent tonight 50 percent Thursday.
Classified ad offers a 1974 Terry Bass boat with a 65 hp Johnson motor and full equipment for 1495 dollars. Dial 322-5161. The Want Ad Number highlights a low 10 day rate with cancellation privileges. News Star World Want Ads Work Every Day.
In Madrid voters turn out in record numbers to elect a 350 seat Chamber of Deputies and 207 senators after four decades under Franco. Adolfo Suarez leads a centrist coalition amid bombings and administrative glitches as 5,000 candidates from 157 parties vie for power.
Gov. Edwin Edwards said he may lead a Louisiana trade mission to Cuba and will consult state officials on feasibility. He noted Cuba was a major rice customer before the embargo and discussed the investigation into a South Korean influence scheme involving Tongsun Park.
Allied announces Monroe K-Mart Foods will shut June 25 after underperforming sales and ongoing scrutiny from a $19,000 shortweighing conviction. Store employees total 32. A 10 percent off sale will run before closure.
Belgrade hosts a 35 nation preparatory Helsinki conference where Yugoslavia warns of sinister forces undermining detente and croatian terrorists attack the U.N. mission in New York. Milos Minic cites threats as the session opens and nations debate fall agenda and human rights scrutiny.
Washington reports two high level meetings on arms control within the general September frame. One session with Cyrus Vance and Andrei Gromyko will occur in New York during the U N General Assembly. A second venue remains undisclosed.
A Federal Regional Council report shows federal employment in the Twin Cities remains lower today than in 1947 after World War II. The measure drops from 14.4 workers per thousand thirty years ago to 12.9 now.
A playful line suggests a special taxpayer watch that would not tick but would wring its hands, offering a light jab at fiscal oversight and public concerns.
The House passed a Public Works Bill including the Tensas Basin project. President Carter had sought to cut several projects but allowed most to remain, with channelization of the Tensas River removed. Project funding totals about 10 million with key allocations for a railroad bridge, Lake Chicot pumping station, levee enlargements, and the large Tensas Cocoderie pumping station.
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