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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1976
Page
15
W D Mounger vice chairman and actor James Stewart listen as uncommitted delegates hear a Republican candidate in Jackson Mississippi on Thursday afternoon. AP Wirephoto credits.
Renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin dismisses the Rolling Stones concert as a spectacle not music, likening it to amplified noise and criticizing Mick Jagger’s performance. He contrasts it with genuine musical artistry and comments on the London return disappointment.
In Baton Rouge Thursday the Legislature advanced and stalled several measures. The Senate panel recessed the right-to-work bill without a vote. Leaders discussed shielding Charity Hospital doctors from malpractice suits. A House panel funded sheriff operations. another panel rejected budget submission rules. Bills targeted union immunity during picketing. A high court pay rise for sheriffs was rejected by 81-14. Nine new district judgeships await conference. An insurance bill was adopted.
Charles C. Kornmann 77 of 3909 Spurgeon Dr Monroe died today at St Francis Hospital after a lengthy illness Funeral services will be at 4 p m Saturday in Mulhearn Funeral Home Monroe with Rev T Earl Ogg officiating Burial will be in Hasley Cemetery He was a World War I veteran and retired butcher former Kornmann Market operator He was a member and senior deacon at College Place Baptist Church Survived by widow Louise Kelly Kornmann of Monroe sister Beatrice Kornmann of West Monroe and several nieces and nephews Pallbearers are Mike Foster Edward Blackmon Paul Blackmon Larry Blackmon Robert Kelly Johnny Kelly Doug Kelly and Carney Kelly Honorary pallbearers are deacons of College Place Baptist Church
The Epsilon Sigma Alpha Million Dollar Bike Ride to raise funds for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis Louisiana is set for 2 p.m. Sunday with a rain date of July 11. The 20 mile course runs through Monroe and West Monroe starting at Forsythe Park bandstand. Mrs Gordon Hair of New Orleans will attend as Louisiana Bike Ride chair. Registration starts at 1 p.m. sponsors sheets must be filled before arrival and parents signatures are required for riders under 18.
The commission bill lowers the parish sheriff tax share from eight to seven percent of collectible taxes. Caddo would gain to 1.3 million dollars in 1976 from 1,047,646 in 1975, with Concordia Lincoln Winn also rising to specified shares and funds. Franklin Parish loss of an initially proposed increase noted. several other parishes including Acadia Allen Ascension Avoyelles Calcasieu East Feliciana Evangeline Jefferson Davis Lafayette Livingston St Charles St Helena Washington gain.
The Louisiana House unanimously passed a bill by Rep. Jim Dimos to establish Serenity House in Monroe for education, rehabilitation, and treatment of alcoholics. The program would be run by the Division of Hospitals with an initial estimated cost of $95,000 for the first year pending appropriation.
In Fourth District Court Judge William Norris III sentenced Jerry Newton and Dwight Jones, both Monroe residents, to five years at hard labor with credit for time served for simple robbery. Also in the same session, Leonard Washington received four and a half years for simple burglary.
J. T. Powell, 26, of Monroe and Mitchell L. Hendrix, 22, of West Monroe faced two counts of attempted simple burglary in Fourth District Court. Powell received two years at hard labor with time served. Hendrix drew four and a half years at hard labor plus five years supervised probation and one year in jail must be served.
Floods and landslides from heavy rains in western Japan leave 16 dead 17 missing and 10 injured. Police report damage estimated at 56.5 million dollars with more rain forecast.
The Northeast Louisiana chapter of the Accountants Association of Louisiana will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Agricultural Building on Cypress St. De Magee, chapter president, will discuss problems of setting up new sets of books and closing them at year end. A question and answer period follows. Contact Magee at 715 Trenton, West Monroe.
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