The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 8

8-A Wednesday, July 7, 1971 The Siihkvi: pout Timks Encephalomyelitis Suspected Wchsler Jury Approves Mindeii Street Project Bossier City Improvement Bids Accepted S. Texas Horses Show Symptoms of Disease MINDEN In keeping with a ed high fever, disorientation and HARLINGEN, Tex. (AP) Bids for street and drainage materials and for new equipment to be used in a sanitary landfill operation were accepted Tuesday by the Bossier City circling, the spokesman said. Tho first symptoms of Venezue The disease can spread from lan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) in the United States have horses to human beings. Offi Council, cials said the best way to pre been observed in horses, a U.S.

vent persons from getting the Agriculture Department spokes disease is to prevent horses man said Tuesday. Louisiana Industries of Bossier City and Braswell Concrete Products of Shreveport submitted bids to the council on 12, 15, 18, and 24-inch reinforced concrete pipe and class two and three gravel. The bids were taken under advisement by the from getting it. Vaccination Program The spokesman said officials are awaiting the results of lab A massive vaccination program has been under way in oratory tests to determine if the disease has actually reached the south Texas for about 10 days council for study. very grateful to the police jury for approving the Minden project.

In other action Tuesday the jury: Accepted a bid of $11,975 from the Ilollingsworth Construction Co. for the extension of the Baker Road. Accepted a right-of-way dedication from the Internatoinal Paper Co. for the widening of the Cook Road. Sold two lots in Doyline to M.

A. Reeves Jr. for $1,768.20. Adopted an emergency resolution authorizing the purchase of 50,000 gallons of catlonic asphalt. Adopted an ordinance setting the polling places for each precinct in the parish.

Leased 10 acres of land at the penal farm to the Webster Wildlife and Sportsman Club for a public rifle and shootinr range. The lease will 'run for 10 years at $20 per year with an option to renew. The vaccine, an experimental type developed the the U.S. decision June 1 to advertise for bids for the extension of Church Street in Springhill, the Webster Parish Police Jury Tuesday gave its approval to curb and gutter work within the corporate limits of Minden. The jury voted unanimously to advertise for bids to curb and gutter from the Minden city Omits on the Methodist Camp Road to Clerk Street, excluding that portion of the road which is already curbed and guttered.

At its June meeting, the jury refused to seek a legal opinion from the state attorney general on the controversial Church Street extension project. The jury voted 5 to 3 to go ahead and advertise for bids on that project. That action was opposed by J. T. "Jim" Branch, A.

G. "Ike" Kirkikis and Roy A. Greene. Branch said then that he opposed the Springhill project because he did not think it was authorized unless the street ties in with the parish road system. The Methodist Camp Road, however a parish road which extends into the city limits of Other bids received and taken under advisement included proposals for a dragline, a tractor and a front end loader with sanitary landfili lug-type Army for persons, Is being administered by local veterinarians.

The spokesman said one of the United States. A state and federal task force of top animal and human health authorities was sent recently to the Lower Rio Grande Valley to attempt to halt the northward spread of the disease. Blood samples taken from two horses near Brownsville have been sent to the USDA animal fti fx wheels. two sick horses had been vac In other business bv the council R. R.

Robinson was reappointed to the Bossier Cit.v cinated against Vee June 28, but it was believed that the disease incubation period had started at disease laboratory in Denver the matches, places the timing units on the playing table. A similar semifinal match is under way in Moscow between two Russians, former world champion Tigran Petrosian and Victor Korchoi. Their first game resulted in a draw. (AP Wirephoto) Housing Authority. The council and the U.S.

Public Health Servv American Chess Ace Bobby Fischer (left) and Danish champion Bent Larsen (right) are about ready to begin a ten-game match to determine a challenger for the world championship now held by Boris Spassky of Russia. Paul Klein of Ecuador, chief arbitrator for Police Issue June Report that time, the second horse had not been vaccinated against Vee, but had been vaccinated against eastern and western en passed an ordinance requiring all new city streets to be of concrete not less than six inches ice Laboratory in Atlanta, Ga. The results will not be available until at least this weekend, the spokesman said. thick. cephalomyelitis, two other en Three rezoning requests were cephalitis strains.

Registration received from the Bossier City Thousands Killed I The task force has been con and Parish Metropolitan Plan The disease, spread by mos ning Commission and were set for public hearing at 10 a.m. Shreveport Crime Rate iTimes, Date quitoes killed thousands of Minden. July 20 at City Hall. bctatlNLU sidering a massive aerial spraying against mosquitoes in South Texas, but says the mosquito population is low in the area. A shipment of Malathion, a pesticide used for mosquito spraying has arrived in the Valley for use in the possible spraying operation.

Haynesville Mercantile o. requested the rezoning of about two acres on Douglas Drive Drops Below Last Year from residential-agriculture to light industry for the wholesale of tropical fish. Cody C. Beas- I cent resulted in arrests. This jcom pares with 4,921 with 1,127 cr about 23 per cent arrests last year.

The 1 national average is about Hi per I cent. ley, nowner of In-State Insurance Agency on East Texas requested his business location horses during the past two years as it spread northward from South America. The sick horses were reported Monday to local veterinarians who notified the task force officials at Harlingen. Four foreign disease diagnosticians were sent to examine the horses. The disease, considered a threat to the horse industry in tha United States, has been confirmed within 200 miles of the Texas-Mexico border near Tam-pico, but no case has been confirmed in this country.

The symptoms noted in the Brownsville area horses includ MONROE The registration schedule for the second summer term beginning Thursday at Northeast Louisiana University I has been announced. The term will continue from July 9 to Aug. 13, with classwork beginning at 8 a.m. Friday. Registration for the second summer term begins at 1 p.m.

I Thursday. Students will register a i to the following I report according to the alpha-schedule. Those who do not "If the jury decides to do projects like this one in Springhill, I would strongly suggest that work be limited to special highway tax monies collected in the municipality where the work is being done," said Webster Dist. Atty. John Benton at the June meeting.

The jurors agreed then that no parish equipment would be used on the Springhill project. They did not discuss Tuesday whether or not parish equipment would be used on the Minden project. The jury was scheduled to open bids on the Church Street extension at Tuesday's meeting, but none were receivd. Ward 2 Juror Morris McClary said specifications for the pro- be rezoned from multiple family residence to community and central business. Salvatore P.

Peters is requesting rezoning of an area in the Cloverdale Subdivision from a one-family residence to neighborhood business to permit the reconstruction of a service station that was demolished for widening Benton Roda. En Shreveport-Bossier Area Private School GALL: 948-3468 746-8384 Masons to Join In Annual Fete ject were not completed in time. I The jury approved a motion by McClary to readvertise for bids on the project now that the report according to the alphabetic schedule will register at the times set aside for registrants. Thursdav: 1 to 1:15 p.m.; B. 1:15 1:30 to 1:45 to 2 to F.

2:15 to 2:30 1-1, 2:20 to H. 2:45 to 3 to to 3:30 to 3:45 to T-V, 4 to W-Z, 4:30. Late registrants and registration for 6 p.m. night classes will be held between 4:30 and 6 p.m. Major crimes in Shreveport dropped slightly during June in comparison with the same month last year, but the number of arrests for crimes jumped sharply, according to the monthly report released yesterday by Commissioner of Public Safety George D'Artois.

During June there were 813 major crimes reported for which 498 arrests were made as compared to 846 major crimes and 140 arrests during June, 1970. For the first six months of the year, the report shows that 4,573 major crimes have been reported of which 1,425 or about 31 per Cousliatta 3Ian Dies hi Shooting Times Natchitoches' Bureau NATCHITOCHES A 29-year-old Coushatta man, Oscar Bell, was shot and killed about 8 p.m. Sunday near Powhattan, according to Natchitoches Parish Coroner Dr. Charles E. Cook.

Dr. Cook said Bell was killed instantly by a gunshot wound in the head. He said he couldn't positively identify the caliber of gun used in the shooting but said it was probably a small caliber pistol. Contract Let On Motorized Drilling Rig NEW ORLEANS (AP) A contract to build the first motorized offshore drilling rig in the United States was signed Tuesday by Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. and Avondale since establishment of, the Soviet Embassy here a year ago.

When completed next summer, the rig would go to work in the North Sea. "The self-propelled capability of this rig is a big step toward establishing independence from outside assistance, such as tugs, in moving from area to area and from well to well," said Alden J. Laborde, president of Odeco. The propulsion system is the unique feature of the rig. It is expected to generate speeds over six knots ahead and three knots astern.

Odeco is the largest drilling contractor in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract award amounted to $20 million. specifications are complete. Mayor Tom Colten said after the meeting that the city was There were 17 armed robberies, 190 burglaries, 438 larceny thefts and 69 auto thefts during the month as compared to five armed robberies, 199 burglaries, 486 larceny thefts and 50 car thefts during June, 1970. The total monetary loss from all crime during June was estimated at $95,901 as compared to $92,202 during June, 1970.

Police filed 794 criminal charges against 699 persons during the month, of which 606 were adults and 93 were juveniles and 380 were white and 319 were Negroes. During the month police filed 44 charges of violation of the narcotics laws in the city, of which 18 were for selling narcotics, 21 were for possession and five were for glue sniffing. During June there were 762 traffic accidents in which 233 persons were injured, 11 seriously, and three fatally as compared to 706 accidents, 196 injuries, 8 seriously and three fatally, in June, 1970. There were 643 moving arrests made during the month as compared to 2,132 during June WHEN IT'S Prince Hall Masons, Knights of Pythagoras, youth fraternities, and friends of the Prince Hall Family will take part in the sixth annual Camp Chicota homecoming celebration Sunday, July 18. Singing, guest speakers, recreation and games are just some of the activities on the agenda for the camp.

Bike Rider Hit by Auto A 16-year-old Bossier City youth was treated at Confederate Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon for shock following an accident at Centenary Boulevard and Stoner Avenue between his bicycle and a hit-and-run automobile. Joe Booth of 1249 Schex Drive told police he was crossing Stoner Avenue when an elderly woman ran a red light and knocked him down. He said the woman left the scene and he got up and rode his 'bicycle to the office of The Shreveport Times, 222 Lake where he suddenly collapsed from delayed shock. Hospital attendants said he suffered no apparent injuries in the accident and was released to his home. YM -TV BARBECUE TIME GET I of the previous year.

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