The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 2

Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville, Thursday, October 14, 1976 Scott Says Outlay Bill 'Vast Improvement Over Last One' By Lucien Salvant Town Talk CapitolBureau BATON ROUGE The -capital outlay bill passed by the legislature Wednesday was a "vast improvement over the last one," said Rep. Jock Scott of Alexandria, who voted against both. Scott said the bill was better than the one killed on the final day of the regular session because the legislature "asserted its authority to set priorities in state spending." Scott, who proposed his own capital budget bill at the start of the special session, said only two of his amendments "stuck" to the bill throughout the legislative process, but reduced it by $19.3 million. At the bell the capital budget weighed in at $542 million, $17 million more than the old bill. But the present measure has some "good points" even though it is bigger, said Scott.

"It established stricter priorities in spending, and cash portion was balanced. d. This one also was without a combination of outlays and bonds, and did not run a deficit, like the first one." Scott said a "significant difference" was that the Regional Transit Authority had not been included. "We said 'no', to the bus business. a very firm 'no'." But, he said, the legislature is still "delegating too much authority to the State Bond Commission to set priorities on issuing bonds.

"We're still passing the buck." He also criticized some projects, such as the Angola road, which were not justified. "The road was not part of the federal court order and it isn't needed and no one has given a reason why it should be." The road at the state prison will cost $17.2 million. One of Scott's amendments cut $18.7 million from a $40 million outlay for the LSU medical center and clinic in New Orleans. The services and instruction for interns "duplicated services and instruction at Tulane," said Scott. He said that in another item, only $10 million of a $45 million outlay for Charity Hospital in New Orleans "had been justified." And another $18 million of that was for construction of an addi- Area Deaths Ovey Trahan, 82, Winnfield Leader Special to The Town Talk WINNFIELD Ovey Trahan, 82, of Winnfield died today at 12:01 a.m.

in Winnfield General Hospital. He was a native of Maurice. He was a charter member of the board of directors of First Federal Savings and Loan of Winnfield. Trahan was elected president of First Federal in 1939, elevated to chairman of the board in 1962 and named director emeritus in 1975. He was influential in establishing a public library here in 1937 and served as a member of the library board and as chairman of that board for many years and was elected president of the Louisiana Library Board Association.

During World War due to his knowledge of the French language, he assisted with the Armistice cease fire negotiations. For three days and nights Sgt. Trahan translated cease fire messages over a telephone from French (used by the German officers) into English and back into French. He was operations sergeant first class with the 185th Aero Squadron, the only American night pursuit squadron in France. As part of the First Pursuit Group at Rembercourt, the 185th took part in the Argonne-Meuse offensive.

He joined the Tremont and Gulf Railroad as a stenographer and clerk in Winnfield in 1916 and returned after the war. He was traffic manager 1 until he was made executive vice president and general manager in 1947. He retired from the railroad con in the First Presbyterian Church of Winnfield in 1923, became an Elder and a trustee in 1927. He served as Sunday school superintendent and church treasurer for many years. Services will be held Friday at 11 a.m.

in the chapel of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield with Rev. W. R. Gage officiating. Burial will be in the Winnfield City Cemetery.

Carol Whitaker Special to The Town Talk LEESVILLE Services for Carol Ann Whitaker, 16, of Ft. Polk, who died in a Sunday night automobile accident on U.S. Hwy. 171 at New Llano, were to be held at 3 p.m. today in Hixson Funeral Home chapel here: Burial was to be in Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery.

Miss Whitaker was a junior at Leesville High School. Samuel C. Wallace Samuel Chase Wallace, 60, of Pollock died here early Wednesday in the home of his son. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Vera P.

Wallace of Pollock; two sons, Thomas Wallace of Rolla, and Harold Wallace of Alexandria; his mother, Mrs. Bessie Wallace of Wisner; one brother, William T. Wallace of Gainesville, one sister, Mrs. Mae Lewis of Canyon, and six grandchildren. Services were to be held at 2 p.m.

today in the chapel of Hixson Bros. with Rev. S.B. Spinks officiating. Burial was to be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Clarence Foster when it consolidated with Il- Hospital. A native of Woodlinois Central in 1960. worth, he was a retired preTrahan was ordained a de- dator control agent for the Metro Briefs Educational Foundation Receives Donation BATON ROUGE The Louisiana Foundation for Private Colleges has received a donation from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, according to Joe Didier, foundation executive director. Didier said the gift is the company's fourth. The foundation helps support four of Louisiana's independent liberal arts colleges by soliciting funds from business firms throughout the United States.

Nursing Workshop NEW ORLEANS The Greater New Orleans Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses will conduct a workshop here Nov. 5 on infection control. The workshop will be held in the auditorium of Touro Infirmary School of Nursing. Persons wishing to register should contact GNOCAACN at Box 10657, Jefferson, or call 737-0328 for a registration form. Registration closes Oct.

30. Dance Friday Three Catholic churches are co-sponsoring a dance Friday beginning at 10 p.m. at the V.F.W. Post 8852 at 2419 Third St. Music will be provided by a pop band, "The First Production." The dance is sponsored by St.

Juliana, Holy Family and St. James Catholic churches of Alexandria. Firm Gives Oral Agreement To Locate Plant in Winnfield Special to The Town Talk WINNFIELD Vassarette, a division of has given a verbal commitment to start a pilot garment plant here, according to Sammy Brian, president of the Winn Chamber of Commerce. He said the chamber has begun negotiations for an auditorium at the fairgrounds, which Vassarette has indicated it wants to use for its factory. The auditorium is leased to the Winn Parish School Board.

Brian said Vassarette conducted a labor survey earlier this month in Winnfield and reported 472 prospective workers. Clarence Lee Foster, 71, of Pollock died at 12:10 a.m. today in St. Frances Cabrini Opinion Opinion tional hospital. "When you add both of those to a $30 million education building under construction at the hospital, you will have three hospitals on the same site in New Orleans, all providing essentially the same services." Another Scott amendment erosed $600,000 for a central laundry at a child-care center in Hammond run by the Health Education Authority of Louisiana.

Several other amendments had short life spans, as the bill moved from committee to floor, from House to Senate. Scott's persistent amending of the budget, which he believed contained "wasteful and porkbarrel projects," often upset older legislators. The House Appropriations committee, which first heard the bill, refused to offer many of the Scott amendments to the cash portion of the bill then cut short the Celebrating 50 years of fashion "My new make me look and feel like I've got nothing on underneath" Underalls are something new. Pantyhose with their own smooth little panties knit right in! So the panty lines are invisible under your clothes. And Underalls have an absorbent cotton crotch for panty protection.

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The move would have gutted some $2.2 million for a nursing education building at LSU-Alexandria, in the district of Scott's deskmate, the taciturn Wilbur Dyer of Che- SWELLAN'S Downtown Alexandria Mall Call 445-4561 neyville. But it failed, 27-62. Scott said he had "suffered some personally from all this in my realtions with some of the other legislators. But there was never anything personal involved in what I did." "I tried to rationally analyze the capital outaly bill and understand the process. Then, I made my recommendations on what I thought was wasteful or unjustified, and should be cut." Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Hixson Pineville, with Rev. Cecil E. Brewer officiating. Burial will be in Big Creek Cemetery, Pollock.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. Mrs. Gremillion Special to The Town Talk BUNKIE Mrs. Hattie Margaret Gremillion, 81, of Bunkie died at 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday in Bunkie General Hospital. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. today at Hixson Bros. in Bunkie. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Friday in the Church of the Little Flower in Evergreen with Rev. Vernon Bordelon officiating. Entombment will be in the church mausoleum. Owen Shaw, 71 Special to The Town Talk WINNFIELD Owen H. Shaw, 71, of Winnfield died Tuesday afternoon in his residence.

He was a native of Winn Parish and a member of the Couley Methodist Church. He was a retired employe of the Louisiana Department of Highways. Services were to be held at 3 p.m. today in the Couley Methodist Church with Revs. Eskel Tatum and Rev.

Charles Haley officiating. Burial will be in the Double Church Cemetery under the direction of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield. Funerals LOUISE P. BALL Services for Mrs. Louise Prosser Ball were held at 10 a.m.

Wednesday in the chapel of Rabenhorst Funeral Home, Baton Rouge. Graveside services were held at 2 p.m. in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Pineville, with Rev. Phillip Blansett officiating.

Burial was under direction of Hixson Bros. Pallbearers were Charles Bentley, Richard Powers, George Foote, Brenner Sadler, John R. Hunter III, Ralph H. Sims and Charles B. Riffle.

HERMAN H. PEART Services for Herman H. Peart were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Hixson Bros. with Rev.

Rodney Kennedy officiating. Burial was in Alexandria Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers were John Ferguson, R.J. Ferguson, Walter Deshautel, Kenneth Peart, Johnny Peart and Darrell Workman. World's number one homeowners insurer.

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