Ragan Madden Leads Fight For Segregation Measures
Lincoln parish district attorney Ragan D. Madden and Leander Perez backed a 13 bill package of administration segregation measures in Baton Rouge. The measures criminalize refusing service and trespass after entry denial, bar blocking streets, and broaden penalties for false reports and resisting arrest, with aims to curb sit ins and civil rights protests in Louisiana.
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Ragan D. Madden
Lincoln Parish
Senate
Judiciary B
Baton Rouge
New Orléans
Leander Perez
St. Bernard and
Plaquemines Parish
Southern University
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Louisiana
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Louisiana crime proposal expands aggravated battery scope
Lawmakers consider redefining aggravated battery to include assaulting an owner or operator for denying entry or service. A provision makes having two or more illegitimate children a crime with both parents sharing guilt. The bill also raises public welfare residency to five years.
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Isiana
Tech Student Appears on TV House Party
Danielle Rubin a student at Louisiana Tech Institute guested on Art Linkletter's CBS show House Party in Hollywood. She spoke during a segment Message For Someone at Home addressing her boyfriend with a plea Please don't take anyone else to the Junior Prom.
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Tech
Danielle Rubin
Louisiana Tech Institute
Art Linkletter
CBS- Tv
Hollywood
Danielle
VFW Commends Sponsors Of Open Letter Ad
The Parnell Burt Post 3615 Veterans of Foreign Wars passes a resolution commending sponsors of a paid Leader advertisement addressed to state leaders Rep Otto Passman and Senators Russell Long and Allen Ellender. It lauds their patriotism and service to the community and nation.
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Parnell-Burt Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Otto Passman
Russell Long
Sen
Allen Ellender
Thomas C. Lewis
Howard C. Davie
Napper Opposes Pay-Hike Bill in House Vote
Lincoln Parish Representative L. D. Napper voted against a bill to raise legislators pay from 15 000 to 29 000 over four years, which passed 51 to 42 and heads to the Senate. Other local detractors from the area included I. J. Allen and T. T. Fields.
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Lincoln Parish
L. D. Napper
House of Representatives
Senate
I. J. Allen
Jonesboro
Rep
T. T. Fields
Farmerville
Civil Rights Trial Draws Joseph Ryan
U S Assistant Attorney General Joseph F. Ryan Jr. may join personally in the FRY inspection of voting registration records in Ouachita East Feliciana and East Carroll parishes. Ryan left for the South to take part in new civil rights litigation. He planned to reach Biloxi Mississippi to argue in federal court against delayed action on a Biloxi beach access suit and then to Shreveport to contest a state injunction aimed at blocking FBI inspections in the three parishes.
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U.S
Joseph F. Ryan Jr
Ouachita
East Feliciana
East Carroll Parishes
Ryan
South
Biloxi
Migs
Federal District Court
Department
Gulf Coast
Shreveport
FBI
Long Bill for Sewerage Loans Approved by Senate Panel
SPECIAL TO THE LEADER The Senate Banking and Currency Committee favorably reported the Long Bill to extend community facilities administration by adding 100 million dollars to the revolving fund supporting the agency. The vote signals continuation of the program and its financing mechanism.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Forgotten Man Committee Must Junk Key Bill
Senate sponsor Senator Howard Jones of Ferriday says he will withdraw the bill to set up a full-time parole board. Executive secretary C Fred Donaldson notes Governor Jimmie Davis refused to back the board. Four companion bills pass Judiciary A on favorable terms. Senator Long aims early Senate approval for sanitary facilities and related reforms.
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Baton Rouge
UPD
Senate
Howard Jones
Ferriday
Fred Donaldson
New Orleans
Jimmie Davis
Davis
Donaldson
Judiciary "A
Mrs Saunders Named Summer Third Grade Supervisor
Mrs Saunders has been employed as third grade supervising teacher at Fae Phillips Elementary School Louisiana Tech for the summer session. She replaces Miss Maxine Pepper on leave for graduate study and brings a master’s degree and 25 years of teaching experience including two years in supervising.
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W. L. Saunders Gi Custon
Fae Phillips
Louisiana Tech
Saunders
Maxine Pepper
Dent
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