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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1971
Page
5
The forecast shows mostly warm conditions with a chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers mainly in the northeast region. Highs between 90 and 95 degrees, nights near 70s, with variable winds and some partly cloudy intervals through Thursday.
Ventura reports two million gallons in park lakes and streams with an automated sprinkler system delivering the rainfall equivalent of 52 inches yearly. Monroe officials meet with H M James and Sidney S Gill, while curbing work continues at Forsythe Point on the Ouachita River with boat ramps and picnic facilities.
Washington AP reports the federal government may help private firms cover environmental costs of oil shale development. Interior Secretary Morton backs a self sustaining program but a proposal would allow royalty reductions for companies facing extraordinary environmental costs.
A Colorado study notes extraordinary costs under Interior definitions as river stage subsidies. Morton urges leasing six federal land tracts in Colorado Wyoming and Utah to private firms for shale oil extraction with mixed mining methods. Pilot plants would start at 50 000 barrels per day and expand to 100 000 or more.
Louisiana Power and Light Co bought land near Myrtle Grove in Plaquemines Parish for 4.2 million dollars. Louis J. Roussel, liquidator of Louisiana Citrus Lands Corp, arranged the sale from Rosalie and Myrtle Grove plantations. Officials denied nuclear plans while noting study of gas fuel and heavy bunker oil options.
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