Louisiana Seeks 22 Million Civil Service Pay Raise
Baton Rouge AP A $22 million raise for Louisiana's 49 000 Civil Service workers was presented to the State Civil Service Commission as a practical plan within federal 5.5 percent guidelines. The plan offers an 8.9 percent raise for the lowest paid, 2.2 percent for the highest, and $40 monthly middle brackets with total yearly cost split 15.1 million from state funds and the rest from fees licenses and federal grants. The commission aims to decide by Thursday and heard hundreds of state employees supportively noting a half loaf is better than none.
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Louisiana
State Civil Service Commission
Harold Forbes
Department of Civil Service
Edwin Edwards
Forbes
Harry Johnson
Shreveport
Commission
Department
Tornadoes Strike Midwestern States Cause Property Damage
Tornado-spawning storms tore through the nation’s midsection with twisters sighted in Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri destroying mobile homes and lifting roofs at a Kansas high school gym. Power outages reported with few injuries. Heavy snow and blizzard warnings followed in Colorado Montana South Dakota Wyoming and adjacent areas while coastal regions stayed milder and generally clear.
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Missouri
Plainville
Kan
Ness City
Hays
Garden City
Goodland
Liberal
Great Bend
Kansas
Highland
St. Louis
Colorado
Montana
South Dakota
Wyoming
Minnesota
Nebraska
la Junta
Rocky Ford
Arizona
Utah
New Mexico
Body of missing Texas man found near Rayville
Texas man missing for a week was found floating in Big Creek about eight miles from Rayville. Richland Parish Sheriff's officials said a truck driver spotted the body near Interstate 20 and a Louisiana Gas Co. employee alerted the sheriff's department.
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News - Star. News. Service
Chit Chat Page Notes From Monroe Children Home
A long hand note on a bulletin board in Gayer Cottage at Louisiana Baptist Children's Home in Monroe lists simple rules for neatness and cleanup. It also includes late birthday wishes to Mrs George Verlon Robertson of Monroe, dated with a birthday observed Tuesday.
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Gayer
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Monroe
Hulon
Wesner
George
Verlon
GAO reports soaring costs and delays for C5A planes
The GAO says the C5A cargo plane costs have risen to 62 million each, with a program cost now at 4.9 billion and 81 planes procured after cuts, while setbacks include two destroyed aircraft and ongoing operational deficiencies. The Pentagon disputes selected quotes and notes improvements.
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Washington
UPI
General Accounting Office
GAO
William Proxmire
Dwis
Proxmire
Pentagon
Air Force
Meat price freeze study guides council and industry
A staff study on a meat and livestock price freeze was presented to the Council of Economic Advisers and Roy Ash of the OMB. The industry advisory committee chaired by Donald Perkins of Jewell Companies Inc. in Chicago originated the material on how such a freeze would operate.
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Council of Economic Advisers
Roy. Ash
Office of Management and Budget
Donald Perkins
Jewell Companies Inc
Chicago
Senate Vote Tests Federal Highway Money For Transit
Washington AP reported a key Senate vote on using federal highway funds for urban mass transit. The Baker Muskie amendment would allow 800 million for subways or buses, a move the White House supports.
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Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Edmund Muskie
Maine
House
White House
Baker-Muskie
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Harrison Williams
D-N.j
American Roadbuilders Association
The
Asphalt Institute
Nixon Lawyer Declines Testimony On Gray Nomination
President Nixon's counsel John W. Dean III will not testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about L. Patrick Gray III's FBI director nomination. Dean will answer detailed relevant questions in writing. The committee invited him to testify by a 16 to 0 vote.
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Washington
John W. Dean III
Senate Judiciary Committee
L. Patrick Gray III
FBI
Dean
Gray
James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Nixon
White House
Senate
Ronald L. Ziegler
Peter Flanigan
Judiciary Committee
Richard Kleindienst
Twin Cities May See Cloudy Skies And Scattered Showers
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies in the Twin Cities with a 30 percent chance of showers today and again tonight. Temperatures expected to hold steady with highs and lows near current readings.
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Twin Cities
U S Resumes Pulling Units From Vietnam
In Saigon the United States briefly resumes troop withdrawals to align with the release of 108 American POWs by North Vietnam. At Clark Air Base Adm Noel Gaylor notes the withdrawal rate now matches the last POW release.
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United States
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
U.S
Joint Military Commission
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Philippines
Adm
Noel Gaylor
Pacific
Vietnam
Freed U.S. POWs Reach Clark Base
One hundred eight U.S. prisoners of war arrived at Clark Air Base Philippines after Hanoi release flights. Among them Air Force Col. John P. Flynn praised their conduct as first class soldiers. Navy Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III and civilian Bobby Joe Keesee also noted, while 147 POWs remain in Indochina and more are to be freed by March 28.
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Jay C. Hess
Bountiful
Utah
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Hanoi
Clark
U.S
Indochina
Laos
Vietnam
Flynn
Navy
Cmdr
John S. McCain III
John S. McCain
Pacific
McCain
Adm
Noel Gaylor
Bobby Joe Keesee
Cuba
Keesee
Bangkok
State Department
Washington
Secret meeting held by State Mineral Board
In Baton Rouge Louisiana the Louisiana Mineral Board held a secret session that lasted over two hours with reporters barred. The executive committee met at 10 am and the regular session followed but was disrupted. The agenda included a proposal to approve a lease provision to divert more natural gas for in state use rather than sending it to northern customers.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Mineral Board
Deer quips about doe joke in lighthearted caption
A humorous caption presents two deer trading wordplay about a doe as a playful woodland moment. The pun evokes a gentle rural tone with no other facts or names.
Shultz Concludes Talks in Moscow and Trade Tensions
Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz wrapped three days of discussions with Soviet leaders in Moscow. He outlined four aims including Soviet decision making on trade and reviewing most favored nation status tied to the Soviet education tax on emigrants. Shultz said Congress objects to the tax and could block bilateral trade benefits. Brezhnev gave no personal message for Nixon and no end to the policy was announced.
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Treasury
George P. Shultz
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Communist Party
Brezhnev
Shultz
Shull
Presiad
Nixon
Congress
Soviet Union
Washington
Nixon urges Congress to restore death penalty and new drug penalties
In a State of the Union message Nixon calls for automatic death sentences for certain treason and murder offenses and harsh penalties for heroin traffickers. He says the death penalty can deter crime and outlines a court procedure to weigh aggravating and mitigating factors. He also seeks mandatory terms from four ounces of heroin distribution and higher sentences for repeat offenders, noting the four-ounce amount represents large-scale trafficking.
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Nixon
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