Legislators Set To Grill State Unit Heads Today
Baton Rouge Louisiana state officials faced the Senate Finance Committee as it neared final action on a 1.2 billion dollar state administration budget. McKeithen defended the two commissions and labor management chief counsel salary amid questions on economy and pay.
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Baton Rouge
Senate Finance Committee
State Administration
Rayburn
Bogalusa
John J. McKeithen
McKeithen
Labor Management Commission
Bill Allows Juries to Run Services in Parishes
Louisiana House approved a bill by Rep Lonnie Aulds to let police juries operate ambulance and garbage services outside cities with 96 votes in favor and 0 against. An amendment exempts 59 parishes. A second bill by Rep Don Williamson granting school employees other than teachers a minimum 10 days sick leave and accruing up to 25 days at retirement or death received 94 votes for. Both measures move to the Senate.
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News Star Capital Bureau
Baton Rouge
Lonnie Aulds
Shreveport
House
Don Williamson
Senate
Pageant Ticket Sales Open Ahead of Miss Louisiana
Roy Post, chairman of the Miss Louisiana Pageant, said ticket sales at the Monroe Civic Center Theatre are ahead of last year’s pace. Individual night tickets go on sale after 6 p.m. at the box office. prices are 5, 4, and 3 dollars for different nights with the final pageant on Saturday.
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Roy Post
Monroe Civic Center Theatre
Post
Civic Center
Louisiana
Henry-Horton-Hester Fifth Annual Reunion Planned
The Henry Henry-Horton-Hester reunion for descendants of the three early settlers near Union Parish will be held this Sunday at the Northeast Louisiana Shrine Club on Cheniere Lake near West Monroe. President Q A Henry said the event marks the 1844 settlement by families near Old Walnut Lane between Farmerville and Monroe.
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Henry-Horton-Hester
Northeast Louisiana Shrine Club
Cheniere Lake
West Monroe
Q. A. Henry
Union Parish
Old Walnut Lane
Farmerville
Monroe
East Carroll Drops Commodity Food Program
East Carroll Parish police jurors at a special meeting voted to discontinue the commodity food program citing limited funds and labor shortages after about 20 months of operation. The decision includes a September revisit if the Food Stamp plan has not launched in Fast Carroll by then. Parish officials noted seasonal workers reducing participation and the program disrupting road department workloads by about 10 days monthly.
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Fast Carroll
Walter Bishop
Plan To Abolish Death Penalty Before Solons
Louisiana legislature weighs a six year suspension of the death penalty led by Rep. Ernest Morin of New Orleans with cosponsor Rep. Edward Booker. If approved, 37 death row inmates face commutation to life without parole as the Supreme Court ruling on jury exclusions fuels the debate.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Ernest Morin
New Orleans
Edward Booker
Booker
House
Morial
Jackson Street Closure To Remove Dangerous Oak Trees
Monroe police chief James C. Kelly Jr. announced the 400 block of Jackson Street is closed today to remove two large oak trees that have become rotten and are dangerous. Traffic will be routed west on Calypso Street to South Grand.
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Jackson Street
Monroe
James C. Kelly Jr
Kelly
Calypso Street
Grand
Port Commission Bill Approved in Senate Vote
In Baton Rouge the Senate passed a Port Commission bill affecting Ouachita and a school bus seating measure. Monroe West Monroe and the parish will each have two representatives, Sterlington one. Co author Sen Jamar Adcock of Monroe. The bill advances to the House after 352 approval. Brown also sponsored a companion bill on bus capacity, to take effect in 1969.
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Baton Rouge
Ouachita Port Commission
Monroe
West Monroe
Sterlington
Jamar Adcock
Brown
Port Commission
Sen
William D Brown
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