The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 10

10-A Tuesday, December 31, Monroe News-Star urn befit dtleottd by Democrat demoted by RtpaMicoa Humphrey Wolloce IDAHO Al ASK A 1968 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION by binerd The Senate Race- um mmm The Senate In Boik stats beld by Democrats Both stats bald by Republicans Divided lr KmfMlaH Franklin Expects Sales Tax Mummers Set To Boost Its 1969 Prosperity for69th Parade By OTIS HASSEL! WINNSBORO The Town of Winnsboro is. planning many 1969 improvements, including inducement for new industry with revenue from the one per cent sales tax which was approved by the voters on September IO. Colection of the new tax became effective December I. Revenue from the tax has been estimated at between $75,000 and $80,000 a year and will be used for improving salaries of policemen, firemen and other municipal employees, and for increasing the number of employees; for improved garbage collection and waste disposal; providing for policea nd fire department facilities, and for other needed community facilities and services. INDUSTRY, RECREATION In addition to this, the sales tax revenue will be used to retire $280,000 in bonds which were sold on December IO.

Money from the bond sale is scheduled to be used to purchase a 251 acre a short distance north of Winnsboro, and for recreational facilities including construction of a new swimming pool. In a parish wide election this past year, Franklin Parish voters turned down a one per cent sales tax which would have; been used to increase the pay of teachers and other school employees. The first state supported kindergarten class in Franklin Parish was established at Ogden High School this year. Much cerdit for this advancement in education for the parish is due Ogden Principal Ray Bryan and the wholehearted support of the Ogden community The Franklin Parish Police Jury on March 15, 1968, awarded the contract for construction of the three story, 56 bed Franklin Parish Hospital to Don A. Baxter and Son, Inc.

of Sicily Island, on a base bid of $1,608,379. Tentative completion date is October or November, 1969. The new hospital was made possible by a $1.2 million bond issue and $763,844 in Hill Burton funds. Baker Mathys Associates and John T. Womble A.

I. A. of Winnsboro are architects for the project and James S. Nugent of Winnsboro is sub contractor for mechanical and electrical work. On June 1968 the ll member Franklin Parish Police Jury was sworn in for a four year term.

They were Thurman Rials, Louie Ezell, C. E. Clark, Garland Peters, John Henry Baker, Elton Bryan, George Allen Price, Ora Boutwell, J. Pershing Robinson, L. R.

Hatton Sr. Veldon Rodgers. This police jury, among other things, has embarked on a very effective road improvement program for the parish. Members have purchased two tractors and bush hogs for use in clearing out road right of ways and also have a crew in operation to cut away overhanging limbs on narrow roads. Jurors are getting state gravel to gravel roads as fast as they can get them widened, drained and built up to approved specifications.

Two roads on which this work has been partially completed are the Jim Albert Road in Ward 3 and the Lawson Road in Ward 4. By LEE UNDER PHILADELPHIA (AP) Ifs a fancy parade with a strut all its own. Known the world over as the Mummers, it prances down widest and longest street New Day for the 69th time to the strains of Dem Golden Weather permitting million people will pack the sidewalks Wednesday along the 2.5-mile route. wouldn't be a new year without says Fred Calando, the 50-year-old president of the Philadelphia New Shooters and Mummers Association whose members will be cavorting for the 33rd straight year. prepare for this parade all year sewing, stitching, raising costume money.

a life you escape. Once in the blood you get rid of Many people consider the parade the oldest folk festival, tracing its origins back to the fun-and-mask pagentry of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It has New' World roots in thej shenanigans of colonizing Swedes in the Philadelphia of the mid-1600s. Then pre-Revolutionary War British powdered and painted their faces, like modern mummery, and made gay door-to-door promenades. Immigrant Irish and Italians joined in the late 1800s, ranging ithrough neighborhoods south of historic Independence Hall, I shooting off guns and firecrack- the nickname.

In 1901 the city officially got into the act, setting down the parade route on Broad Street and putting up the first prize money. In 1964, blackface marchers were banned from the parade by court order. An injunction was issued after the court ruled a public disorder was imminent. Legal action was brought by the NAACP which claimed the painted black faces of comics were an insult to Negroes. Of the nearly 16,000 caped and sequined participants in the merry takes eight hours to pass one won to be any women.

taboo. a tradition more than anything says Calandra. tried to sneak in, but they usually get costumes are a ka- jleidoscope of satins, silks and plumes, and this year cost over 1 $500,000 for the first time. must be completely says Calandra. a mummer gets caught wearing even one of last feathers In the parade are 22 string hands, with a maximum of 64 I players each; five comic clubs and four fancy divisions.

The city puts up $76,500 in prizes, mort than double that of a decade ago but still hardly enough to pay for the basic clothes and plumes. The string band winner collects $2,470 but Calandra says it costs 12 times that much to costume the group. For 22nd place a band will get $550. these high costs that made weather a factor, more than ever, and prompted never complained threaten to come in out of the cold. If temperatures are below 25 degrees the parade will be postponed to from Saturday to Saturday until warmer weather prevail.

Last year the mercury plunged to 15 degrees on New Day in Philadelphia. The horns of Mummer band members froze, and the fingers of banjo players were bleeding after the long march. This is the only bending in the tradition in a parade that has been delayed or postponed only four times in its history. Comer COLLEGE PHARMACY MEHL-CO Appliance Service FIXIT SHOP OF MONROE You bring we fix it FAST SERVICE 411 N. Third, Monroe Phone 387-1926 Democratic Majority In Senate Is Chopped Down By CARL P.

LELBSDORF Associated Press Writer Hampshire, Jacob K. Javits of New York, Milo R. Young of North Dakota, Wallace F. Ben mon defeated Sen. A.

S. Mike' Monroney of Oklahoma, Robert Packwood edged past Sen. WASHINGTON (AP) Re-1 Wayne L. Morse of Oregon and I nett of Utah and George D. Ai- publicans gained a net total of Rep.

Charles McC. Mathias de- ken of Vermont. five Senate seats in the 1968 teated Sen. Daniel B. Brewster New' senators, elected to fill election, leaving Democrats of Maryland.

seats previously held by their with a 58-42 majority that is GOP candidates also captured parties, included Democrats their smallest in IO years previously Democratic seats in Mike Grad of Alaska and During the second Eisenhow- Florida, Ohio and Arizona Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, er administration, Democrats In Florida, Rep. Edward Gut- and Republicans Robert Dole of held a bare two-scat majority, I ney defeated former Gov. Le- Kansas and Marlow Cook of before a 15-seat pickup in 1958 roy Collins for the seat of re- Kentucky. gave them 64 senators Repub- tiring Democrat George A. Democrats hold both Senate licans have not controlled the Senate since the first two of the Eisenhower administration, 1953-55, when they held a ligan.

who had 48-46 edge. Frank Lausche But this COP gains put Democratic primary. In Ari Republicans in position to make zona, former Sen. Barry Goldan all-out drive to win Senate water won the seat of retiring control in 1970, when 26 Demo- Sen. Carl Hayden by defeating crats and just seven Republi- Roy Elson, longtime are up for re-election.

assistant. Republicans won seven seats The following Democratic sen- from the Democrats this year, ators were re-elected: W. but Democrats gained two Fulbright of Arkansas, Abra- which had been held by Re publicans. These were in Smathers. In Ohio, Republican seats in 19 states.

Republicans Atty. Gen. William Saxbe de- have both in ll and 20 others feated former Rep. John J. Gil- are divided.

unseated Sen. in last Two Postoffices Will Be Closed News Year's Day Twin City post offices will Democratic Gov. Harold Hughes defeated David M. Stanley for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Bourke B.

Hickenlooper, and in California, where Democrat Alan B. Cranston defeated Max Rafferty, who had unseat- ham A. Ribieoff of be closed Wednesday for New Herman E. Talmadge of Geor- Day, according to Post Iowa, where gia, Daniel K. Inouyo of Ha- masters W.

W. Hathorn and wail, Frank Church of Idaho, Homer B. Roark. Birch E. Bayh of Indiana, Rus-; There will be no window serv- sell B.

Ixjng of Louisiana, Alan ice at either of the main of Bible of Nevada, Sam J. Ervin fices or at outlying stations. Jr. of North Carolina, Ernest Also, no city delivery wdl he Rollings of South Carolina, made except for special deliv- Gcorge S. McGovern of South cry letters and special delivery rd Sen.

Thomas JI. Kuchel in a Dakota, Warren Magnuson of parcels, hotly-fought GGP primary. Washington and Gaylord Nelson Holiday Republicans unseated four Democratic senators. Rep. Richard S.

Schweiker defeated Sen. schedules will br used for collections from corner! re-elect-1 mailboxes. All services will re of Wisconsin. Republican senators cd were Peter IL Dominick of turn to normal on Thursday. Joseph S.

Clark of Pennsylva Colorado, Everett M. Dirksen of former Gov. Henry Bell Illinois, Norris Cotton of New Much Spent Here To Improve Homes Nurse Massacre Lone Survivor To Wed On Sunday SAN LUIS, Phillipines (AP) Corazon Amurao, lone survivor of the 1966 Chicago massa YORK (Special) OOO share of it? ere of eight student nurses, may Homeowners in Ouachita Par- a breakdown, based upon the return 10 the United States after ish spend a tidy sum each year overall indicates that she marries her childhood on the maintenance and im about 62 percent of it went for sweetheart provement of their homes. 'additions, alterations and re-1 Iler fiance, Alberto Atienza, In the past year alone, their placements. 22.

today he will take the expenditures for alterations, ad The other 38 percent was for bar examinatlon 10 Manila late ditions, repairs and upkeep maintenance and repairs, Al- sear and then mas go to came to approximately most half of this total was for States for post gradu OOO, it is estimated. painting and decorating. The ate study He said his wife The mount is based upon a rest was spent for plumbing, might aPPly for a job in a U.S. sampling survey of dwellings roofing, heating, air condition- hospital, preferably in Washing- in all sections of the United ing and miscellaneous purposes, ton. C.

States. Because of the difficulty ba van Wide ans The finding is that the aver- these days in obtaining plumb decisions, Atienza age expenditure for residential ers, electricians, painters and Au these are plans. upkeep and improvement in other workmen for jobs around The couple will marry Sunday Ouachita general area the house, more and more home- a Roman Catholic came to $187 per housing unit owners are becoming their own church, 80 miles south of Ma Not included in this figure were mechanics. They are saving olla, Ta not sure, I don't the normal, everyday household themselves a pretty penny at know, said the 25-year-old and housekeeping expenses. the same time.

bride to-be when asked if she That was the average outlay Nationally, it is estimated, the nervous or how- she felt In individual cases, it varied price of homes has gone up wllh her wedding widely from that amount, both about $1,090 per unit, on aver- is beginning to forget, up and down. The explanation age, in the past year. Atienza referring to Miss is that most homeowners will Taking into account also, Amurao's ordeal two years ego undertake major improvements the value added by improve- a dormitory near the South one year and then do nothing of orients, Ouachita Parish homes Chicago Community Hospital an expensive nature for several are worth about $39,322,000 years thereafter. more than they were in 1967, on Details on how much is spent that basis, for such purposes and how much it adds to the value of a home come from the depart ment of Commerce and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. COTTON CULTURE On July 14, 1966, she hid under a bed while Richard Speck choked and stabbed to death her eight roommates, all student nurses She later identified him in court and he was convicted and sentenced to death After the trial, Miss Amurao SHAFTER, Calif.

(UPI) Test plantings by University of California scientists have shown returned home, worked as a They show that the in reduced watering of cot- nurse at Far Eastern is direction tor the nation ton both before and after the University, then was elected a I. whole, amounted to 111 7 Tm money without lowering yield. Council for a four-year term billion in the past year. jn addition, a smaller, more. She said she would pursue both How did Ouachita Parish, open plant is produced making (her professional and political homeowners spend their picking and pest control easier, careers after marriage.

this WE EXTEND BEST WISHES for the New Year LOUISIANA HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER Fifth Congressional District A. A. Braddock District Engineer Highway District 5 J. C. Stephenson District Engineer Highway District 58 Ouachita Richland Union Madison Lincoln Jackson Morehouse East Carroll West Carroll Franklin Tensas Catahoula Caldwell Concordia LaSalle Highway Construction vt itll Administration of Governor John McKeithen.