Northeast State Bond Sale Slated By Board Today
Baton Rouge reports the State Education Board will sell 5.65 million dollars in revenue bonds for Northeast Louisiana State and McNeese State College dormitories and dining halls. The plan includes 3 million for Northeast to build a dining hall and dorms, with 2.65 million for McNeese to add a dormitory and dining hall. The full board meets Saturday with agenda items on graduate programs for Nicholls State and Louisiana Tech, while Nicholls in Thibodaux presently lacks a graduate program.
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Senate group approves housing and urban development cabinet
A Senate subcommittee approved Johnson's plan to create a cabinet department of housing and urban development. The House had already endorsed the proposal which would elevate the Housing and Home Finance Agency to cabinet status.
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Joint MS Engineering Program With LSU
The college seeks to establish a master of science program in engineering and would run the project jointly with Louisiana State University, outlining collaborative academic and administrative arrangements for degree completion.
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Scouts at World's Fair serve in two major roles
Thirty six outstanding Scouts Explorers and three adult leaders from Ouachita Valley, Attakapas and Yocona Councils travel to New York to staff The Wonderful World of Scouting pavilion and assist at the World's Fair. They live at Fort Totten for a week and render Good Turns at multiple pavilions aided by U.S. Army support.
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Bills signed give police in smaller cities civil service gains
Rep. Gibbs and Rep. Wood of Ouachita Parish announced Gov. John J. McKeithen signed their fiscal session bills. Wood’s measure places municipal police in Civil Service for populations 7,000 to 13,000, while Gibbs co sponsored a tax assessor pay hike of 10 percent. Gibbs also backed a welfare bill allowing destruction of audited welfare checks to free space for the department.
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House OKs $16.5 Million Juvenile Delinquency Plan
The House approved authority to spend 16.5 million dollars on federal juvenile delinquency control projects over the next two years, with 6.5 million for the upcoming year starting next Thursday and 10 million authorized in the final year through 1967. the bill moves to the Senate.
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Odom and Hall sworn as school superintendents
Van D Odom and Milton C Hall were sworn in as superintendents of Monroe city and Ouachita Parish school systems. Odom, 56, from Monroe, and Hall, 53, from West Monroe, shared lifelong parallels from birthplaces to careers, with degrees from Northwestern State and LSU. Both men spoke of a long shared journey and plans to continue collaborating.
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Williams Family Holds Reunion at Cheniere Park
Members of the Williams family gathered for their annual reunion Sunday at Cheniere Park with attendees from Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi and Tennessee including O C Williams Morris Watson William Ridgen James Beard and many relatives from Jackson Monroe Farmerville and West Monroe.
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Sherry
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Farmerville
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Merle Watson
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Robbers Make Off With 255 Crowns From Finns In Kiruna
Two Finnish workers were robbed of 255 crowns in Kiruna Sweden by two bandits. The attackers forcefully held pistols, forced the men to play cards, then returned 65 crowns the victims had won before leaving them tied in a shed.
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