Moore Seeks Faster Start on Monroe Overpass Project
James V. Moore, Monroe, state highway board chair, says he will push ahead with the U S 185 U S 80 overpass despite delays on the U S 165 widening. He backs a three phase plan from DeSoto Street to Sterlington Highway with right‑of‑way moves targeted by early 1972.
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Travis
Monroe
Fifth District
Moore
U. S. 165
U. S. 80
DeSiard Street
State Department of Highways
Sterlington
Lamkin
DeSoto Street
Bayou DeSiard
Lamkin Highway
Sterlington Highway
Thames celebrate 60th anniversary in Oak Grove
Twin Cities note Mr and Mrs Kiley Thames of Oak Grove marked sixty years of marriage this Sunday while visiting children in Texas. A planned celebration awaits their return with grandchildren in Monroe and two relatives named in local notes. Mrs Shady Wall earned a Louisiana youth group plaque labeling her first grand lady of the state organization. Rep and Mrs Wall joined a weekend meeting of the group.
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Kiley Thames
Oak Grove
Texas
Mrs. Thames
Richard Larry Fox
Douglas Wheelington
Monroe
Shady Wall
Young Democrats of Louisiana
New Orleans
State Organizations For Youth
Rep
Mrs. Wall
Deadline Nears On Voter Signup in Ouachita Parish
Ouachita Parish Voter Registrar Everett Zeagler urged residents to register by October 6 to vote in the November 6 Democratic primary. State law requires 30 days prior registration, and about 39,000 to 40,000 parish residents had registered at the time.
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Ouachita Parish
Everett Zeagler
Zeagler
Farmers In Parish Have Better Year In Ouachita Parish
Ouachita Parish farmers had a better year than many, with gross receipts totaling 10.63 million, up 26.7 percent from three years prior. Higher output, not higher prices, drove gains as inflation squeezed costs and middlemen captured most of the rise.
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News - Star News Service
New York
Ouachita Parish
Standard Rate and Data Service
Ouachita Parrish
United States
West South Central States
Department of Agriculture
Ginger Stalls 600 Miles Off Florida Coast
Hurricane Ginger remains stall in the Atlantic about 600 miles east of Melbourne Florida with 90 mph winds and 12 foot swells. The National Hurricane Center notes it is a long lived hurricane at No 2 age with potential drift while researchers test cloud seeding to weaken its walls.
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Miami
UPL
Ginger
Atlantic
Melbourne
Fla
Florida
Bahamas
National Hurricane Center
Inva
Ray Kraft
Kraft
Cecil Gentry
Solon Blasts Postal Bond Sale Plans
UPI reports Rep. Morris Udall accuses a White House aide and a Postal Service official of misconduct in a plan for a 250 million bond issue. He notes cronyism risks and ties to investment firms, while denying criminal violations. The bond sale would be the USPS first since its 1970 independence.
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Washington
UPI
House Post Office Committee
White House
The
U.S. Postal Service
Morris K. Udall
D. Ariz
Subcommittee On Postal Service
Nixon
Udall
Postal Service
Treasury Department
Peter Flanigan
James Hargrove
John N. Mitchell
New York
Mudge, Rose, Guthrie
Alexander
U S Judge Rules Michigan Schools Are Segregated
A federal judge ruled Detroit and Michigan guilty of de jure school segregation. The decision supports NAACP for faster integration, citing gerrymandered busing and housing patterns linking segregation to Detroit schools and broader northern city patterns.
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Detroit
State of Michigan
U.S
Stephen S. Roth
NAACP
Wayne
Oakland
Macomb
Roth
Citizens’ Committee For Better Education
CCBE
Monroe Area Weather Forecast Predicts Warm, Partly Cloudy Days
Weather outlook for Monroe and nearby areas calls for similar conditions through Tuesday with partly cloudy skies and a chance of mainly afternoon and evening showers. Highs around 90 degrees, lows near 72, southeasterly winds 5 to 15 mph. FAA at Monroe Municipal Airport logged Sunday high of 90 and a 68 morning low.
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Monroe
Federal Aviation Agency
Monroe Municipal
IMF Favors U S Import Surtax Lift
IMF managing director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer urged the United States to quickly remove its 10 percent import surcharge and called for currency realignment among major industrialized nations. He warned action on exchange rates is needed to break the international monetary deadlock and noted plans by non communist powers to resolve the crisis by year end. West Germany’s Karl Schiller pressed longer term reforms and warned of possible retaliation if U S policy remains rigid.
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Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
International Monetary Fund
United States
Schweitzer
U.S
Karl Schiller
West Germany
Schiller
the Treasury
John B. Connally
Nixon Emperors Historic Alaska Meeting With Hirohito
President Nixon met Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage for over an hour on American soil marking a historic postwar alliance moment. The ceremony featured stiff at attention reviews by Marines as Northern Lights lit the Alaskan night after a long jet flight from Copenhagen.
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Anchorage
Alaska
U.S
Europe
Nixon
Japan
Hirohito
U. S
Copenhagen
Walter J. Hickel
Iirohito
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Tokyo
Washington D.C
Pacific
Weekend Louisiana accidents claim four lives
Four people died in Louisiana weekend crashes and drownings. J Curington, 20, Westwego, died after his car hit a bridge abutment between Boutte and the Huey P Long Bridge. Corliss Showers, 17, Westwego, was seriously injured. Saturday fatalities included R N Walker, 60, New Orleans, who drowned when a skiff overturned on Lake Pontchartrain. J D Albanease who drowned after a car went into the lake on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. and Ronald Platt, 19, a worker who fell 400 feet from a tower at the Southern Natural Gas plant near Tosca.
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Louisiana
J. C. Curington
Westwego
Boutte
Huey P. Long
Corliss Showers
R. N. Walker
New Orleans
Lake Pontchartrain
J. D. Albanease
Ronald Platt
J Workman
Southern Natural Gas Co
Tosca
Smithsonian Opens Own Post Office On 125th Birthday
The Smithsonian Institution marks its 125th year by opening a functioning post office inside the Museum of History and Technology. The recreated 1860s site, moved from Hampshire County West Virginia, features original counters and Civil War era shutters with period stock including shoes spices and medicines. President Nixon and former Chief Justice Earl Warren attended the ceremony.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Headsville
W.va
Smithsonian
Museum of History and Technology
National Museum of History and Technology
Smithsonian Station
Smithsonnian
Congress
Nixon
Earl Warren
Warren
Warren Burger
Hugo Black Lord Cromer
James Smithson
Hampshire County
August Trade Deficit Slightly Narrowed From July
U S imports rose 4.7 percent to 3.94 billion while exports increased 5.2 percent to 3.68 billion in August as the trade deficit widened for the fifth straight month. West Coast dock strikes dampened both exports and imports, with shifts to East Coast and Gulf routes noted.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Figares
Harold C. Passer
West Coast
East Coast
Gulf
Commerce Department
Canada
Gremillion Refuses Resignation Plans Appeal
Louisiana Attorney General Jack Gremillion says he will not resign after his federal perjury conviction and plans to appeal. He defends the American justice system as he seeks a fifth term while opponents call for his removal.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Jack Gremillion
Gremillion
Jamos Simon
Lafayette
George Oubre
Norco
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IMF
Wasitington
Inside the News-Star
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Lowman
Associated Press
WANT
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