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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1966
Page
18
Public split of Met chief beneficiary Tony Bliss from actress Jo Ann Sayers sparks rumors of Bliss dating a Met ballerina as season plans unfold. Rich world notes include Javits daughter interning, Bernie Relin in Paris, and Dylan heckled in Paris with political overtones.
Governor John McKeithen signed two bills boosting teacher retirement benefits by about one third and creating a modified prior approval insurance rating plan. The measures, backed by the administration, aim to ease resentment over the unimplemented 1964 pay scale and address a difficult issue in the 60 day session.
The Greater Monroe Optimist Club marks 20 years with a noon meeting at the Penn Hotel on Friday. Sam Hanna, past president and editor of the Concordia Sentinel, will be guest speaker, with charter members and past presidents invited by President John Lacy. Charter members were urged to contact Sheldon Ray at 3032321 for invitations and reservations. membership records are sought before Friday's meeting.
Baton Rouge AP The Legislature adopted a bill requiring public schools and learning institutions to display the Louisiana flag. Senate approval was 38 to none with objections from two senators about funding. One senator declined to add a Dixie flag requirement.
LONDON AP A prominent British politician businessman Maj William Oliver Smedley 54 is charged with murder after Reg Calvert 37 operator of Radio City was slain at his fort off Shivering Sands in the Thames estuary. Police linked a boarding raid to the case but say no direct link is certain. Calvert had run the pop station from an abandoned antiaircraft fort and had recently sold it to Smedley who headed Project Atlanta.
Baton Rouge House committee approved Bill No 24 from the Sam Jones study group on good government and sent it to the House calendar. The measure aims to further reduce the governor s appointive powers by removing his authority in certain appointments.
The House Judiciary A Committee holds a bill reducing the governor’s power to fill vacancies on local boards and police juries while expanding control over sheriff, clerk of courts and city judge vacancies. Rep Risley Triche seeks delay for amendments as a Senate-origin 26-bill package advances. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill in 1944.
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