17 Nov 1977
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1977
Page
1
Thursday's Digest notes a fair cooler day with highs in the lower 70s and overnight lows around mid 40s. Friday highs in the upper 60s and northwest to north winds 5 to 10 mph. Page 12A carries more weather details.
National and world news digest notes Kissinger praising Anwar Sadat's courage as a possible path to easing Middle East tensions. Other items include upcoming federal panel actions on heroin and marijuana in medical treatment, and political defense of Carter administration arms pact.
President Anwar Sadat will spend 36 hours in Jerusalem starting Saturday night and address the Israeli Parliament on Sunday. He seeks peace steps with Israel but faces opposition at home and a resigning foreign minister, Ismail Fahmy.
Merlin Pistorius district engineer warns only 29 percent of Flood Control Act 1944 drainage work is finished in Northeast Louisiana. He cites environmental reviews and the 404 permit as major delays, noting no new contracts for drainage channel improvements in over two years. He urges ORVA action to resolve entanglements and speed projects.
Commissioner William Arceneaux frames a state Master Plan for Higher Education as evolutionary not revolutionary. The plan may centralize programs at specific institutions while preserving existing offerings and aims to boost funding and tuition adjustments. Regents members Luffey and James joined the press briefing in Monroe as evaluation and potential removal of some masters of education programs proceed and a final plan may be adopted on December 15.
Stan Wyatt announces a proposed community theatre group to be named Trenton Players awaiting legal approval. Productions begin summer or autumn with emphasis on children's plays and melodramas, complementing the Little Theatre of Monroe.
Terry Pierce son of Mr and Mrs T A Pierce of 113 Riverbend Drive West Monroe has been hired as chief technologist of the CT scanner at St Josephs Mercy Medical Center He is a graduate of St Francis Hospital School of Radiologic Technology in Monroe Biologists from District II of the Department of Wildlife Fisheries stock Finch s Lake with 100000 bream to ensure good fishing as the pool fills after a prior drawdown for pipe repairs
United Press International notes that none of the men and women found guilty of witchcraft by Puritan courts in 17th century New England were burned. All convicted individuals were hanged.
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