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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1972
Page
2
Baton Rouge Louisiana. Senate Commerce Committee votes 5 to 1 to report unfavorably a no fault auto insurance bill. Critics cite drafting errors and loopholes while supporters push for reform and lower premium burdens.
A group of 25 Monroe citizens gather in Baton Rouge to affiliate Louisiana with the National Federation of the Blind. NFB based in Des Moines advocates training and opportunity as key to blindness. The convention at Capitol House Hotel links Louisiana with about 10,000 others in 45 states. Lions Club of West Monroe and Community Action Center funded transport.
Gov Edwin Edwards will review the 256th Infantry Brigade in Ft Polk Louisiana with addresses by Edwards and Adjutant General O J Daigle. Brigade is led by Col Paul C Short of Lafayette. About 250 species of turtles remain in the world.
Wayne Williamson announced his withdrawal from candidacy for the Monroe city school board citing out-of-town business obligations and date changes. He will remain active in the PTA and other educational groups. The Monroe Municipal Democratic Executive Committee confirmed the withdrawal with Webb Nix and H. Austin Miller named as committee chairman.
Funeral services for Perry Glen Gunter 12 of West Monroe will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Highland Baptist Church with Rev. John Reynaud officiating. Burial follows at Hasley Cemetery under Kilpatrick's Funeral Home West Monroe. He died Thursday at Glenwood Hospital after a long illness. Survivors include two sisters Gari Gunter and Ginger Canter, paternal grandmother Mrs. Calvin Anderson of Shreveport and maternal grandmother Mrs. Homer Allbritton of Olla.
State youths will compete at 1 p m Saturday in the second annual Junior Polled Hereford Show at Rapides Parish Coliseum in Alexandria Louisiana. Sponsored by the Louisiana Junior Polled Hereford Association the event offers 81200 in prize money along with sopies and ribbons.
The Louisiana House passed 87 to 10 a comprehensive consumer protection law limiting loan and credit interest and curbing door to door sales harassment. The measure, led by Rep. Joseph Casey, aligns with Senate approval and gathers four associations behind it while endorsing by Atty. Gen. Guste.
The House approved a 28.6 billion dollar budget breaking bill for Labor and HEW agencies by 277 to 60, sending it to the Senate. It adds 1.27 billion above Nixon requests with 912 million for NIH and 347.7 million for health programs while a floor add 364 million targets schools. The measure includes a small business exemption from OSHA salaries enforcement, prompting criticism from Rep Flood.
Monroe city planner George W. Parsons announced the Monroe-Ouachita Regional Planning Commission will meet at 7 30 p m Monday in the plans room at the Monroe Government Center. The agenda includes a final plot review for Stubbs Youngs Bayou Lots 19 and 20 a continued zoning map hearing for Hendon Blaylock and an 8 p m public hearing on a zoning map amendment for St Anns Investment Corp to extend a transition business district to parts of D A Breard Sr Addition. The hearing area lies at Riverside Drive and Hudson Lane north of Bres Avenue and currently sits in a general business district.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accuses ITT International Telephone and Telegraph Corp and two senior officers plus two other firms of securities law violations tied to a Justice Department antitrust settlement. The agency plans to file a complaint seeking to bar further violations. It alleges ITT failed to disclose in a prospect the sale of about 26 000 shares by a wholly owned Hartford Fire Insurance subsidiary.
The 1,000-pound bombs dropped by U S planes in North Vietnam use complex fuses that can be activated by metal, sound or pressure from a passing ship in harbor areas.
In times of sorrow our shop offers sprays and wreaths priced from five to twenty five dollars. Sprays average seven fifty and ten dollars with mounted pieces at twelve fifteen and twenty five. Family pieces can be ordered to fit needs.
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