Career Education Topic of Meeting
Educators legislators and the State Department of Education discussed a regional plan to expand career oriented training across grades K 12 and post secondary steps. Officials highlighted local needs in Ouachita Parish and outlined four categories from early awareness to advanced job skills in higher education.
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State Department of Education
Education Department
Joint Legislative Committee On Education
Northeast Louisiana University Union
Lawrence Gibbs Jr
Monroe
House Committee On Education
Gibbs
Ouachita Parish
Donald W. Williamson
Caddo Parish
Joint Committee On Education
Tendent
River Stage Changes At Stations Reported
River stages show a fall at Camden and a rise at Monroe with readings Camden 2 percent 28.2 while Monroe shows 40 fall to 37.5.1 and rising. The update notes shifting water levels across stations with possible flood implications.
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Monroe
Camden
Louisiana police jury to discuss unit system March 16
Louisiana police jury members from across the state, including Ouachita Parish, will attend a conference on the unit system of parish government March 16 in Baton Rouge at the Capitol House Hotel. Leroy Youngblood and Huey Lenard lead this initiative focusing on centralized purchasing, accounting, and equipment repair and control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Police Jury Association
Leroy Youngblood
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Ouachita Parish
Capitol House
The
State Association
Huey Lenard
Lindsay Declines Run For Third Term As Mayor
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay announces he will not seek re election to a third term while three of his administration officials surrender to police on corruption charges. Lindsay says eight years is long enough for one man and notes he could win but will not run.
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New York
UPT
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Norman Levy
Maurice H. Nadjari
Levy
Purchase
John R. Fratianni
Ben Israel
Brooklyn
City Hall
Senate inquiry flags rising stamp costs and postal delays
Senate Post Office Committee chairman Gale McGee warned that a 8 cent stamp could reach 20 cents by 1984 under current trends, 38 cents otherwise, citing productivity, staffing, and pay growth. He urged Postmaster General Klaussen to explain deteriorating service and cited a 40,000 drop in Postal Service jobs while overtime rises.
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Washington
Gale McGee
D-Wyo
Senate Post Office Committee
McGee
Elmer T. Klassen
Postal Service
Postal
Post Office Department
Congress
Alaska elects Republican Don Young to U.S. House seat
Don Young a 39 year old state senator and former riverboat skipper from Ft. Yukon defeated Emil Notti in Alaska's special congressional election to fill the late Nick Begich's seat. With 347 of 439 precincts reporting Young led 31 555 to 28 307. Notti was the first Alaska native candidate for national office.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Don Young
Ft. Yukon
House of Representatives
Young
Emil Notti
Notti
Nick Begich
Begich
U.S. House
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
GOP
Boggs
Juneau
Interior
Walter Hickel
Fairbanks
Two College Girls and Officer Die in Headon Crash
In New Orleans on Interstate 10 a head on collision killed two Mississippi college students and Police Patrolman Lyle Munsch. Marilyn Jernigan 19 Gulfport USM freshman Pamela Shields 20 Moss Point USM sophomore. James McCool 19 Hattiesburg USM sophomore hurt, Robert Beatty Jr. 21 Moss Point USM junior listed in serious condition.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Marilyn Jerngan
Gulfport
Miss
University of Southern Mississippi
Pamela Shields
Moss Point
USM
Lyle D. Munsch
Munsch
James McCool
Hattiesburg
McCool
Robert Beatty Jr
Freed POWs Heading For U S Homes
Eighty former prisoners of war leave Clark Air Base for home in the United States after a hero's sendoff. The 56 remaining POWs depart Thursday in three flights to Andrews, Kelly, Travis, and Scott bases. Doctors say all in generally good shape and will receive follow up care at military hospitals.
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Clark Air Basf
Philip Spines
United States
S. Set
Gail M. Kerns
Daniels
W. Va
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington, D.C
Kelly Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Scott
Clark Base
Cmdr
Edward H. Martin
Coronado
Carmen Lyons
Clark
Wagner High School
Ronald J. Webb
Hampton
Air Force
John C. Blevins
Air Force Co
James H. Kasler
Indianapolis
Ind
South Vietnam
Hanoi
No Rain Expected In Twin Cities Today
No rain is expected in the Twin Cities today with skies fair and temperatures near previous levels. Highs will be in the lower 70s and lows around the mid 50s with light to moderate winds, about 5 to 15 mph and roughly 60 percent sunshine.
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Twin Cities
FAA
Monroe Municipal
Louisiana
Chuckle Inveterate Bets On Break Even Day
The horseplayer says he hopes to break even today and laments the possibility of losing the money.
Jury Deliberates Dow n s Case in Louisiana Bribery Trial
A federal jury hears closing arguments in the conspiracy and bribery case against former Louisiana official C. H. Sammy Downs. Prosecutors allege Downs conspired with Thomas Evans and Shoup Voting Machine Corp. to defraud the state of 215000 in bribes while serving as legislative liaison for Gov. John McKeithen. Downs testifies he resigned from the governor's office in 1965 to pursue lobbying, claiming ethics rules prevented personal gain on the payroll.
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Baton Rouge
C. H
Sammy” Downs
U.S
Richard
Sammy Downs
Louisiana
Robert Kleinpeter
Downs
John McKeithen
Shoup Voting Machine Corp
Thomas Evans
Los Angeles
Shoup Company
State Capitol
McKeithen
Shoup
Evans
Postal Carriers Allowed to Wear Bermuda Shorts
The Postal Service allows bermuda shorts as part of the official uniform starting April 1 for about 250000 letter carriers and postal workers. Black knee length hose required. The change aims to improve working conditions and morale with a $125 annual clothing allowance.
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Washington
Postal Service
Meany presses tax hikes and opposes private school relief
AFL-CIO head George Meany urged Congress to raise $20 billion in taxes on corporations and the well to do, reject tax relief for private school parents, and push an excess profits tax. He criticized preferential treatment of capital gains and called to repeal $7.2 billion in Nixon era business tax cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Apt
George Meany
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Afl-Cio
Organized Labor
Nixon
Meany
State Budget Group Vows Action Over Higher College President Pay
Members of the Legislative Budget Committee criticized the 8 000 a year raises for college and university presidents, proposing line item controls. They discussed the LSU System budget request of 39 million more state money and a total next-year budget of 134.1 million including nonstate funds.
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Baton Rouge
Legislative Budget Committee
B. B. Rayburn
Bogalusa
Board of Education
Rayburn
Lantz Womack
Winnsboro
Womack
Louisiana State University System
LSU
State Division of Administration
Spokesman denies White House use of FBI files data
Washington spokesman Ronald L. Ziegler said no White House official used confidential FBI files to prepare any grand jury witness. The remark followed L. Patrick Gray II's testimony on his FBI director nomination and reports that Dwight Chapin was questioned about handling Watergate files.
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Washington
UPI
White House
FBI
Ronald L. Ziegler
L. Patrick Gray II
Dwight Chapin
Nixon
Donald H. Segretti
California
Grand Jury
Lowest US temperature logged at Evanston Wyoming
The National Weather Service recorded the nation's lowest temperature today at Evanston Wyoming reaching 2 degrees below zero. The previous day’s high reached 91 degrees in McAllen Texas as part of regional weather observations.
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New York
UPI
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Evanston
Wyo
National Weather Service
McAllen
Tex
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Lawrence Gibbs
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Winston W. Riddick
Northeast Louisiana University
John Fogleman
Louis J.) Michot
Edwin Edwards
Williamson
Joint Committee
Senate
Postal Operations Inquiry
Headon
Pat Austin
Capt
Martin J. Neuens
St. Paul, Minn
Clark Air Base
Philippines
U. S
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