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2, Abbeville Meridional, Friday, March 11, 1988 in louisiana Saddle thefts big problem in Louisiana SHREVEPORT (UPI) -Law enforcement officials said they are trying to rein in a widespread problem of saddle thefts in Louisiana. Saddle thefts are a problem all over the state. More than 100 saddles, valued in excess of $40,000, are missing in Caddo and DeSoto parishes alone. Six people have been arrested in the two parishes in the past few months. Suit by David Duke dismissed NEW ORLEANS (UPI) A federal judge has dismissed a $1 million lawsuit filed by Democratic presidential candidate and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke against the Democratic Party.

Duke sued the party and others for not allowing him to participate in a Nov. 2 debate at Tulane University, claiming his free speech rights were violated. Tanker fire closes bridge, forces evacuation DESTREHAN (UPI) An 18-wheel tanker truck loaded with 7,500 gallons of aviation fuel overturned at the foot of the Hale Boggs Bridge and burned for nearly eight hours Thursday, chasing about 500 residents from their homes and closing two schools. Suspected drug dealers picked up MONROE (UPI) Law officers Thursday began a roundup of suspected drug dealers, following indictments returned by a Ouachita Parish grand jury that heard testimony about drug trafficking. Arrest warrants were issued for 52 people.

Officers began making arrests shortly before dawn, and 39 people were in custody by midafternoon. world 'n' national Three die when plane crashes in residential area WARREN, Mich. (UPI) -A small plane crashed into a suburban Detroit neighborhood and burst into flames about two minutes after takeoff early Thursday, killing the pilot and a couple sleeping i in a house hit by the burning wreckage. Neighbors broke down the front door to rescue the couple's three daughters from the upstairs bedroom. Motorist beaten in freeway dispute LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Two men apparently angry their car had been cut off in rush-hour traffic attacked another motorist, beating him and leaving him lying in the bumper- to-bumper traffic after they tried to run him over.

Hart, Simon, Kemp ineligible for federal funds WASHINGTON (UPI) Democrats Gary Hart and Paul Simon have been declared ineligible for additional public campaign funding, the Federal Election Commission said Thursday. Rep. Jack Kemp, who ended his 1988 presidential bid Thursday, also was ruled ineligible. Contras propose direct talks for late March MIAMI(UPI) Leaders of the Nicaraguan rebels said Thursday they are willing to meet directly with the Sandinistas beginning March 16 on an "open agenda," but insisted that internal opposition members be allowed to attend. The Contras said additional details of the meetings need to be worked out.

Haitian colonel charged with drug smuggling MIAMI(UPI) -A federal indictment unsealed Thursday charged Col. Jean Claude Paul, one of Haiti's most powerful military leaders, and two others with smuggling cocaine bound for the United States, but Paul insisted he "never had anything to do with drugs." Reagan set to cut off money to Panama WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan, backed by an impatient Congress and Panama's defiant ambassador, moved Thursday to cut off more money to the strategically vital nation in a campaign to oust military leader Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. weather watch Weather Forecast Lake Charles, Lafayette and Cameron- Partly cloudy and warmer Friday. Highs in the upper 70s.

Winds southerly near 15 mph. Coastal Marine Forecast Gulf coastal waters from Apalachicola to Port Arthur, out 50 miles- A ridge of high pressure centered over the southwest Gulf will continue moving slowly eastward allowing southerly flow to return to the coastal waters Friday. Gulfport to Intracoastal City- Southerly winds 10 to 15 knots Friday. Seas 3 to 5 feet. Choppy in protected waters.

Intracoastal City to Port Arthur- Southerly winds 15 to 20 knots Friday. Seas 5 to 7 feet. Rough in protected waters. Outlook for Friday night and Saturday- Southerly flow will continue through the coastal waters with a front moving into the western coastal waters Saturday. Coastal Tide Data NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Louisiana coastal tide data for Friday, March 11, 1988: stock report Tide Time Stage Southwest Pass, Vermilion Bay High 1:01 pm 1.5 Low 2:57 am Calcasieu Pass, Lighthouse Wharf Low 2:14 am High 11:23 am 0.9 Shell Island, Atchafalaya Bay Low 2:51 am High 227 pm 0.6 River Stages Flood River Stage 3-11 3-12 Mississippi Baton Rouge 35 23.0 New Orleans 17 7.9 Vidalia 48 888:8 31.2 Donaldsonville 27 16.0 Reserve 22 11.2 Atchafalaya Simmesport 47 20.6 20.8 Melville 41 16.4 16.6 Krotz Springs 37 14.4 14.6 Butte La Rose 28 11.2 11.3 Grand Lake FWS 8.3 8.2 Bayou Sorrel FWS 6.0 6.1 Morgan City 3.4 3.3 Dow Jones Averages industrial 180.51 off 3.32 Transport 133.43 off 2.72 NEW YORK (UPI) Dow Jones closing stock Utility 70.28 off 0.78 averages.

Finance 125.25 off 2.06 30 Indus 2026.03 off 48.24 20 Trans 841.19 off 17.05 Equivalent a loss of 56 cents in the average price of a N.Y.S.E. common share. 15 Utils 176.51 off 1.60 65 Stocks 756.89 off 15.70 Volume 197,260,000 shares. American Stock Exchange UP1 Market Indexes NEW YORK (UP)- American Stock Exchange NYSE Composite 148.92 off 2.56 ASE Market Value 296.00 3.58 market value index Thursday: close 296.00, off 3.58. -Jones Industrial 2026.03 off 48.24 High 300.56, low 295.82, There was a loss of 15 cents the average Spot Crude and Product Quotes share price.

Volume 18,080,000 shares, compared with NEW YORK (UP)) International spot crude oil 15,190,000 Wednesday. and product prices as provided by Telerate What the AMEX Market Did Systems, Inc. New Highs Thursday Wednesday New Lows Key crude prices Advances per bbl fob) Declines 381 UAE's Dubai light 12.80-12.90 12.65-12.75 Unchanged 243 N. Sea Brent 14.70-14.75 14.20-14.25 Total Issues 849 W. Tex.

intermed 16.00-16.10 15.50-15.55 Light La. Sweet 16.00-16.10 15.50-15.55 New York Indexes U.S. Gull Coast spot product NEW YORK (UP)- New York Stock Exchange (cents per gal) 44.25-44.50 42.75-43.00 Indexes- close. Reg leaded gasoline No. 2 Heating oil 46.25-46.75 45.25-45.50 Composite 148.92 off 2.56 Minimum wage bill in committee WASHINGTON (UPI) A House committee agreed to a proposal Thursday to raise the minimum wage to $5.05 an hour by 1992 but delayed final passage of overall legislation until next week.

The House Education and Labor Committee voted 18-14 to add an additional annual increase to a -wage bill that would push the base wage from the current $3.35 an hour to $3.85 an hour next year, $4.25 an hour in 1990 and $4.65 an hour in 1991. But a large number of proposed amendments forced the committee to adjourn without voting on the bill as a whole. It will reconvene next Wednesday to continue work on the legislation. If enacted into law, the legislation would mark the first increase in the minimum wage in more than seven years, the longest period without an increase since minimum wage was created in 1938. Supporters of the bill said over the seven years inflation has eaten up 79 cents of the $3.35 an hour a minimum wage worker currently earns and forced many workers and their families well below the poverty level.

"For the first time in our history, a generation of Americans are rapidly becoming worse off than their parents and grandparents," said Committee Chairman Augustus Hawkins, who noted Congress has raised its own salary more than 40 percent since 1981. Opponents, backed by major business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said an increase in the minimum wage would cost 300,000 to 800,000 jobs as employers lay off workers rather than pay them more. Republicans on the committee attempted to mock the bill by offering an amendment to raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour. Rep.

Richard Armey, R-Texas, the amendment's sponsor, said Congress should give the working poor "the chance to continue to be the working poor and not make them the non-working poor." Armey later withdrew the amendment before the committee could vote on it. In other action on the bill, the committee rejected, 20-13, an amendment Thursday to keep the minimum wage at $3.35 an hour for workers in the federal College Work Study, Head Start, Summer Youth Program and Older Americans Act employment programs. Democratic architects call Super Tuesday successful Felde asks for stay, veterans to protest ANGOLA (UPI) Attorneys for death row inmate Wayne Felde asked the Louisiana Supreme Court Thursday to block his scheduled execution next week for the murder of a Shreveport policeman. The 38-year-old Vietnam War veteran is scheduled to die early Tuesday in the state's electric chair. He is condemned to die for the October 1978 murder of Shreveport police Officer Glen Tompkins.

Felde used a handgun concealed in his pants to shoot Tompkins as he drove him to jail. The execution is set to occur just hours after Buddy Roemer is sworn in as Louisiana's governor. Roemer said he has reviewed the case and will not intervene. The Democratic architects of Super Tuesday, who sought to produce a southern moderate front- Nancy Goodwin of Lafayette, a member of the Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons, said a group of Vietnam veterans plan a demonstration Friday on the State Capitol steps to protest the execution. "Their concern is there is no doubt that Wayne Felde is a victim of post- -traumatic stress syndrome," Goodwin said Thursday.

"There has been no psychological treatment. Instead, he is being executed." Felde admitted killing Tompkins, 31, but said post-combat stress led to his outburst. He said he suffered from the effects of his horrible experiences in Vietnam and exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange, and was not responsible for his actions. Police question hitchhikers in two-state murder spree HOPE, Ark. (UPI) Police Thursday questioned two men arrested while hitchhiking in Oklahoma in connection with a twostate killing spree that left four people stabbed, shot or beaten to death, officials said.

Authorities were questioning the men about three slayings in Texas and one in Arkansas during a 14-hour period Monday, but no charges had been filed, said Hempstead County Sheriff Don Worthey. He said the suspects were being held for "investigative because they fit the descriptions witnesses gave of men seen the homes of two victims multi-state killing spree that with the hatchet slaying woman who was caring for 1-year-old son in the north DEATHS Charlie B. Jones SAN ANTONIO, Funeral services were held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in San Antonio for Charlie B. Jones, 74, who died Wednesday, March 9, in a San Antonio nursing home.

Survivors include: one son, Charlie B. Jones Jr. of San Antonio; two brothers, George Jones of Lubbock, and Larry Jones of Abbeville; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; eight nieces and five nephews. Mr. Jones was born in Marshall, Tex.

He was a dedicated youth worker in Madisonville, a retired Madisonville Fire Marshall, and a Coast Guard Veteran of World War II. Charlie Jones was preceded in Guess Who is 65! runner, appear satisfied with the outcome even though a liberal northerner and a civil rights leader finished at the top of the pack. The top two delegate getters among Democrats in 20 mostly southern and border states were Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson, a native of South Carolina who is headquartered in Chicago. Sen.

Albert Gore D- bypassed earlier contests in Iowa and New Hampshire to concentrate on the South. On Super Tuesday, Gore finished well ahead of Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, the Democratic winner in Iowa, and Super Tuesday backers pointed to Gore's strong showing as proof of success. "We got a moderate candidate in Senator Gore, who got a substantial amount of the vote," Georgia House Speaker Tom Murphy said in an interview Wednesday. "I think you've got three people they're all in the hunt and I'm plumb satisfied with that." Observed Florida House Speaker Jon Mills: "The final verdict on this will be in November 1988.

People learned a shocking fact, that the South is not all that different from the rest of the country." Mills, a Gore supporter, also said, "Overall, I think the big winner is Al Gore, who did what he said he would." Democratic legislators endorse Sen. Campbell BOSSIER CITY (UPI) State Sen. Foster Campbell has been endorsed by six members of Louisiana's legislative delegation in his bid for the 4th Congressional District seat. While the Democrats were endorsing Campbell, D-Elm Grove, Republican Jim McCrery said he believes he can get the backing of Buddy Roemer, his former boss. Campbell and McCrery meet in an April 16 runoff to fill Roemer's unexpired term in Congress.

Campbell was endorsed Wednesday by Sens. J. Bennett Johnston and John Breaux and Reps. Jerry Huckaby, Jimmy Hayes, Billy Tauzin and Lindy Boggs. In a statement announcing their endorsements, they said Campbell is "clearly the more qualified candidate." McCrery led a 10-candidate field in Tuesday's election, finishing with 31 percent of the vote.

Camp- Health from P-1 began "Remember, this is not a new tax, of a but a renewal so we can continue to her serve at the level parish residents Texas now enjoy," noted Brignac. "We town of Gainesville, near the Oklahoma border. The child was unharmed. Capt. Richard Slader of the Muskogee, Police Department said officers arrested the men Wednesday night after the pair was spotted hitchhiking along U.S.* Highway 69 on the town's northwest side.

"We picked them up because they fit the description on the APB (all points bulletin)," said Slader. "They didn't put up any resistance and agreed voluntarily to go back to Arkansas." death by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie H. Jones of Marshall, Tex.

Mrs. I.M. Goldberg Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 11, in St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church for Mrs.

I.M. Goldberg, the former Lenora Schlessinger, 75, who died Thursday in her residence. Burial will follow in St. Mary Cemetery. Survivors include: two daughters, Mrs.

R.L. (Joelle) Rupert of Abbeville and Mrs. Thomas (Shirley) Fournet of Lafayette; six grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Vincent Funeral Home in Abbeville is in charge of arrangements. were concerned that with the IRS income tax deadline being April 15, people wouldn't even want to think about taxes of any kind the next day.

Plus our issue is the only parishwide issue on the ballot," said Brignac. "But we're confident the people will come out and support us as they have in the past, because the continued high level and standards we employ to ensure the health and well-being of many parish residents is at issue here." bell was second with 19 percent. McCrery said he talked with Roemer on Wednesday. He said Roemer made no commitment, but he was hopeful he could get Roemer's public support. Roemer's personal choice to succeed him, Democrat Stan Tiner, finished third.

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