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1 2 DAILY WORLD Oplousat, Dk. 1 1 973 BEND TO PRESSURE Defegafes Go Along With $3 Pafe licemen, but the article was amended to replace the seniority concept with the merit pal civil service early Friday but rejected it at the urging of organized labor. Gordon Flory of Baton Rouge, a delegate and lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, led the move to reject the article because it had been amended to take away the seniority system. Currently, seniority plays the biggest part in promotions in the ranks of firemen and po It's Tomorrow Night at BEALLS 6 to 8 p.m. It I i 3 I v.A QtyJj ft, A '3 03 HOME OWNERS PROPERTY OWNERS 5 Mill Tax ation also admitted that the $3 license place is not constitutional material.

"It's the people's constitution and if they think it ought to be in there it should be," said Rep; John Alario of Jefferson Parish. Delegates said they had been pressured to have the price of the license plates con-stitutionalized. "It's a strange situation where a man admits he doesn't know anything about his homestead exemption, but he sure knows how much that auto plate cost," said Anthony Giarusco of Morgan City. "We have to have It in," he said. The convention turned to the general taxation article after failing to adopt an article which outlined a civil service system for all municipal firemen and policemen, excluding the city of New Orleans.

On Thursday night, the convention adopted an article on civil service for state employes after more than a week's debate. The delegates swiftly moved through the article on munici BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)-Bending to strong public pressure, Constitutional Convention delegates wrote the $3 license plate into the new document even though it really didn't belong there. Delegates went along with the plate by a 88-16 vote Friday, after failing to come to grips with a civil service system for municipal employes. "I admit it is not constitutional material," said Walter Champagne of Port Barre.

"But I suggest to you that most of you are politicians and I also submit this constitution will be submitted to the people who want that $3 plate." Former Gov. Sam Jones, the state's first reform governor of the century, pushed through the $3 plate as a campaign pledge in 1940. But Dr. Gerald Weiss of Lake Charles, Jones' hometown, pleaded with delegates to delete the section altogether. "It's the most ridiculous thing you could put in a constitution," said Weiss.

"Are you trying to write a good constitution or run for office?" The committee which drew up the article on general tax Will Be Added To Your Present Tax IF School Board Tax Goes Through. GO VOTE NO Tuesday, Dec. 18th Paid by Earl Laf leur Completing Studies in Practical Nursing Venable, Mrs. Enola Lewis, Mrs! Marie Palmer, Miss Ellen Stagg, Mrs. Mary Mizzi, Mrs.

JoAnn Cheatham, Miss Arelene Brasseaux, Mrs. Versie Fontenot and Miss Marie Morein; 3rd row Mrs. Nelia Ardoin, Mrs. Linda Lash, Mrs. Veronica Billeaudeau, Miss Donna Trantor, Miss Juanrta Bolt, Mrs.

Rita Fontenot, Mrs. Gladys Stutes, Miss Betty Moscovis and Mrs. Anne McDowell; and 4th row Mrs. Sharon Fontenot, Mrs. Becky Briggs, Miss Jacquelyn Fox, Mrs.

Yuline Knight and Mrs. Joyce Naquin. (Photo by Bourdier Photography) MEMBERS OF CLASS 42 of the T.H. Harris Vocational Technical School of Practical Nursing completed their studies Friday. They will participate in commencement exercises for the school scheduled for early 1974.

Members of the class will take the state board licensing examinations on Jan. 22, 1974 in New Orleans. Among the graduating class are, front row, left to right, Miss Millie Ortego, Mrs. Sandra Fontenot, Miss Donelle Duhon, Miss Bonnie Simmons, Miss Shelia Dupuis, Miss Pan Guidry, Mrs. Jennifer Smith.

Mrs. Glenda Eppley and Mrs. Paula Bienvenu; 2nd row Mrs. Ruth Domingue, Miss Rita SAYS LONG. If your husband wakes up like a bear ImmX a Nixon's Friends Not Let Off Tax Charges too favorably." The Louisiana Democrat refused to specify what sort of treatment was accorded what persons, but promised a full report by mid-January.

He also said that the investigation of President Nixon's tax affairs will be broadened into a more general investigation. "Among other things, we are going to look at this so-called 'enemies list," said Long. "We are going to find out if there is some justification for criticizing the White House for sending an enemies list over to the IRS," he added. Long said preliminary reports from the Internal Revenue Service indicated the IRS operated fairly, whether or not it received such a list. "They didn't persecute anybody because he was in bad shape politically with the administration," said Long.

He also noted that Nixon had donated his vice-presidential papers the same year that the law permitting such a deduction was repealed, an action he said was aimed at former President Lyndon Johnson. "In due course, I think these people will sell the papers to somebody, just anybody," Long said. "Whoever they sell them to will pay for them in cash. Then they can take the money they earned from that and pay taxes on it. "It really wouldn't have worked out much differently, assuming that the appraisal is correct," said Long.

"It wouldn't have worked out much differently for President Nixon," he added. "But he might have paid a few dollars more that way." NEW ORLEANS (AP)-President Nixon's friends don't appear to have been let off tax charges by the Internal Revenue Service, says Sen. Russell B. Long, the committee's chairman. "Some of these people have been indicted," said Long in a statement released here Friday.

"Some of them are still in tax trouble. There are some we still want audited and some we want audited again," he added. "We think that some were treated Local Lad BiPM I i YOUR 'osturepedic can turn him CHRISTMAS STORE Beautiful Gifts for Every lady and Man on your Christmas List! into a lamb (BEAUTIFUL GIFT WRAP free of charge) FOR HIM: Iff lllflls Expelled by Supt. Dupro Public School Supt. John Dupre said Friday that he has expelled indefinitely a 13-year-old youth accused of hitting a North Elementary instructor in the head with a pipe threader.

The youth, who was suspended once before, has already been sent to the Lafayette Detention Home, according to police. Juvenile officer Charles Leger said Friday that the boy had admitted to striking physical education instructor Charles Budd Jr. in the back of the head Thursday shortly after the 3 p.m. bell. Budd, who was not knocked unconscious, reportedly received 10 stitches and suffered a mild concussion.

The youth is said to have told police that he attacked Budd in revenge for disciplinary action Budd had taken against him Thursday morning. Police said the youth waited for Budd after school, walked up behind him and struck him on the head with a pipe threader that he had taken from a plumbing repair site at the school. Leger said a hearing into the matter is to be scheduled later. Sexual Roafons Gefs PoJcemen In Trouble MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)- An investigation into sexual misconduct in the police department has ended with 24 officers disciplined for involvement with a blonde teen-ager.

Police Director Jay W. Hubbard, in a final report on the investigation issued Friday, said another 15 officers were disciplined for "failure to exercise the judgment and control expected of supervisory rank." The probe was ordered after Charlotte Tyler, 19, of Paris, told authorities she had sexual relations with a number of policemen on the force. "The evidence supports a finding that 24 officers actually had relationships with the woman," Hubbard said. "Of those, two can be confirmed as having occurred on duty and in a police vehicle." Punishment ganged from reprimands to 45-day suspensions without pay. The officers were not named.

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