Scrap Looms Over LSU Board Bill
Baton Rouge AP reports a legislative clash over expanding the LSU board and shortening terms. The Senate backed a rewritten bill 26 to 10, with changes including an 18 member board, nine year terms, and one member from each of eight districts, while preserving the governor’s ex officio role and limiting consecutive service. The measure heads to voters next November after House concurrence.
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LSU Board
Jimmie Davis
Senate
House
Cleveland
Senate Judiciary Committee
Horace Wilkinson III
Port Allen
Wilkinson
LSU
Sen
The
LSU Alumni Federation
Louisiana
Miss Northeast Entrant to Sing Granada at Louisiana Pageant
Kirby Jane Mooney, 19, Northeast State College sophomore and Miss Northeast, will perform a trumpet solo of Granada with the Northeast Jazz Ensemble at the Miss Louisiana Scholarship Pageant in Lake Providence. She will wear a bullfighter costume matching the Spanish theme. The Lake Providence event is a Miss America preliminary leading to September in Atlantic City.
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Kirby Jane Mooney
Northeast State College
Northeast Jazz Ensemble
Miss Mooney
Lake Providence
Atlantic City
N. J
Granada
Deaths Mrs Tennie Erwin of Lake Providence
Mrs Tennie Kemp Erwin died after a long illness in a Lake Providence hospital. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Douglas Cheatham officiating. Interment in Lake Providence Cemetery. She was hostess at the American Legion home and a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the First Baptist Church. Survived by husband M. P. Erwin, a daughter Mrs Wesley Chapman, two sons James T Harrington and Billy E Harrington, her father Holly Kemp, three sisters and a brother, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers listed.
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Tennie Erwin
Lake Providence
Tennie Kemp Erwin
First Baptist Church
Douglas Cheatham
Lake Provience
Young
Tallulah
Gay
Erwin
Arkadelphia
Ark
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
M. P. Erwin
Wesley Chapman
Groton
School report shows majority of Manhattan elementary students
New York schools report to the Board of Education finds that about three of four students in Manhattan public elementary schools are Negro or Puerto Rican. The data highlights significant racial composition in the city’s early grades and implications for education planning.
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School Report
New York
UPI
Manhattan
Board of Education
AsthmaNefrin Breath of Life for Asthma Sufferers
AsthmaNefrin claims rapid relief from asthma attacks using a nebulizer that delivers medicine directly to the lungs within seconds. The ad touts no prescription needed, full relief guaranteed or money refunded, and offers a free informational booklet by mail from New York.
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Nefrin
P. O. Bow
G. BP
New York
Withholding Tax Measure Advances In Louisiana Senate
In Baton Rouge the bill to withhold state income tax from payrolls cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee 4-2 and heads to final passage. The House earlier backed the measure 52-43. Revenue collector Robert Roland said about 30 percent of workers do not pay income tax and predicted a 3 to 4 million dollar revenue rise in year one. George Gibson of Pan American Petroleum opposed the plan as a new employer burden.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Louis J. Michot Jr
Lafayette
House
Robert Roland
Louisiana
Roland
George Gibson
Pan American Petroleum
Rites Slated For Mrs Harmon 83
Mrs. Mary Ellen Harmon 83 died Tuesday at her daughter’s Sterlington residence. Funeral service 10 a.m. Wednesday at Vantraese Memorial Methodist Church El Dorado Ark with Rev T T House officiating. Interment New London Cemetery Strong Ark. Survivors include daughter Mrs W T Poole and two sisters among others. Remains sent to El Dorado by Mulhearn Funeral Home Monroe.
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Mary Ellen Harmon
W. T. Poole
Sterlington
Vantraese Memorial Methodist Church
el Dorado
Ark
Rev. T. T. House
Hall - Young Funeral Home
New London Cemetery
Strong
Arkansas
A. G. Munford
J. D. Wells
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Monroe
New Baseball Park Planned Inc Monroe
West Monroe leaders of Little Boys Baseball propose a new southern city park for the rec program. Hollie Pankey says funds will be raised via a Thursday double header at North Seventh Street diamond and through mail donations to Little Boys Baseball Inc. of West Monroe, with checks to Hollie Pankey or Dick Smith at local addresses.
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Little Boys
West Monroe
Hollie Pankey
League
North Seventh Street
Pankey
Little Boys Baseball, Inc
North Tenth Street
Dick Smith
Hilton Street
Highway Speed and Sign Bills Passed in Senate
Louisiana Senate approves three measures from Northeast Louisiana lawmakers. A Womack bill to raise school bus speed limit from 35 to 45 mph, with a push to 55 mph, returns to the House for concurrence. Steen bill directs $20,000 per parish yearly for gravel roads. Gibbs bill orders signs on major highways to ban passing school buses during loading and unloading of children.
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Senate
Lantz Womack
Winnsboro
Womack
House
W. C. Steen
Columbia
Department of Highways
Lawrence Gibbs
Highway Department
Charity Bingo Parties Bill Is Defeated
In Baton Rouge the Senate Judiciary II Committee killed a bill allowing charities to hold bingo parties. The measure has failed in each of the last four sessions and was reported unfavorably by a 4-2 vote.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Senate Judiciary
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