07 Mar 1966
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1966
Page
1
Robbers believed to be part of a professional ring robbed Howard Bros Jewelry Store at Twin City Shopping Center, stealing diamonds and watches valued around 50000. Entry via skylight and wall breach noted. safes not targeted. Howard posted a 1000 reward as police investigate.
Senator Fontenot of Opelousas probes support for a one cent increase in Louisiana’s seven cent gasoline levy as the 60 day session nears. Senator Mitchell of Montpelier proposes bills to split police juror and related elections from the governor’s race. Governor McKeithen cautions that the legislature likely will not pass the tax hike while noting pursuit of new revenues. Rep Causey of Tangipahoa recalls past attempts to fund teacher pay raises with a state tax increase.
Judy Bruce and Peggy Ogg, both Louisiana College students from Monroe, join the Booster Club for the Springs semester. The club promotes college activities and events and is planning the May Pageant with the theme Moonlight and Roses.
The Supreme Court upheld major sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Chief Justice Earl Warren led a majority that allowed Congress to curb literacy tests and appoint federal examiners to register voters, marking a legal victory for voting rights and signaling broader federal enforcement. Justice Black concurred in part and dissented in part. Justice Douglas, Clark, Brennan, and others joined Warren. Georgia and other states criticized the decision while leaders in Baton Rouge and Atlanta offered cautious responses. Warren stressed Congress’s careful study of racial discrimination and the need for sterner remedies.
The government sets new guidelines to enforce freedom of choice desegregation while requiring actual desegregation in facilities and staff. It orders closing inadequate segregated schools and mandates monthly progress reports from districts. Health facilities are also targeted with compliance steps and deadlines tied to federal aid.
President Johnson asked Congress to approve an average 2.8 percent direct salary increase for federal civilian employees starting Jan 1, plus fringe benefits. The package would cost about $485 million yearly and aim to bring pay in line with private industry for nearly a million workers, including most postal workers and Civil Service staff in lower grades. He also proposed employees contribute 7 percent toward retirement, up from 6.2 percent.
Mississippi Highway Patrol reduced tornado deaths from 61 to 52 after removing duplicate tallies. The storm struck a Jackson area shopping center and caused damage across Rankin Scott Leake and Neshoba counties. Red Cross says 250 families suffered substantial property loss with 89 homes demolished and 80 farm buildings destroyed.
Road plowing crews and rescue missions began bringing relief to day to blizzard battered parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota. The toll of deaths stood at 16. Ranchers counted a heavy loss of livestock in South Dakota as helicopters airplanes bulldozers and plows worked to free thousands stranded in the Dakotas worst storm in decades.
In Portland Oregon a basset hound named Pokey watches his owner Wendy Hinchcliffe at an all breed dog show as Wendy appears to drift to sleep. The scene captures a quiet moment amid show duties.
Reports from Ankara say fifteen people died as powerful earthquakes struck widely separated regions in east and northeast Turkey. The Central Meteorology Bureau says the quake centered near Erzurum, about 150 miles from the Soviet border.
A Sunday night blaze destroyed between 600 and 1000 acres of Deltic Farm and Timber Company pines in Ward s of Franklin Parish. Winds 15 to 20 mph and high humidity aided spread, boggy ground hindered plowing, three tractors remain bogged. Fire died around 10 pm but could rekindle. area between Baskin and Delhi near Mixon Church remains hot.
Three Smith College sophomores Francis Knapp Maplewood New Jersey Mary Palley Denver Colorado and Barbara Bass Shaker Heights Ohio returned to classes on crutches or in casts after a semester break. Knapp and Palley were injured while skiing while Bass broke her leg in a bunk bed fall CAP Wirephoto.
U S Marines and South Vietnamese paratroopers stormed the North Vietnamese 21st Regiment in a coastal valley 335 miles northeast of Saigon. They reported 533 enemy bodies with 95 captured weapons and enemy records. American jets suffered losses but pilots were rescued.
Three hundred British mothers led by Joyce White protest a sales tax on school dresses for girls with busts over 32 inches. They argue the tax unfairly targets developing daughters and seek action from MPs and government departments.
Williams resigns as assistant secretary of state for African affairs to run for the Senate from Michigan. The resignation takes effect March 25 as Johnson expresses regret at losing a capable aide.
A quirky item notes husbands wanting their wives to wear their dresses, then mentions a three year timeframe and a person named Joncer in a light domestic humor tone.
Fragmentary text notes a Beas on to daub L0969 call bed 9 with unclear meaning. No coherent event or identifiable persons or organizations are readable.
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