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...prompt extension of the 10% income tax surcharge. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long promised the Nixon Administration last summer that he would do everything he could to get it through. But Long's fellow Democrats were determined to bargain the surtax for tax reform, and the Louisianian could keep his promise to the President only by making another to them: in return for their votes on the surtax, he agreed to complete action on the House-passed reform bill and get it to the Senate floor...
...these reasons the campaign of white lawyer, Benjamin E. Smith, for the State House of Representatives in last Saturday's Democartic primary was both important and extraordinary. Smith, a jolly, red-faced Louisianian of many generations, counts himself among those rare creatures--a Southern liberal, and is all the rarer for his decision to go into politics...
...Louisianian, White fought for the Confederacy, was taken prisoner and released on parole. Gravely ill, he collapsed at the side of the road while trying to make his way home. He might have died had a Union soldier not stopped and helped him by covering him with a Union overcoat. It was then, said Warren, that White "decided to devote his energies to a reconciliation between the North and the South...
Died. The Most Rev. Jules Benjamin Jeanmard, 77, first Louisianian to become a Roman Catholic bishop (1918). who took a solid pro-integration stand in November 1955 by excommunicating two women in his Lafayette. La. diocese for assaulting a woman teacher of an integrated catechism class, lifted the ban a week later when they apologized; after making a final request that his body lie in state for one day at a Lafayette Negro church; in Lake Charles...
...when 60-year-old Earl Long hasn't been at it. He has vilified the mildest of opponents, ruthlessly axed holdover appointees from other administrations, defied legislative rules and traditions by roaming the floors of both houses at will. Long's goals, as many a despondent Louisianian sees them: 1) a tax-and-spend policy to dwarf the fondest dreams of the late Brother Huey, even at the risk of bankrupting the state, and 2) a campaign to tighten Earl's grip on the governmental reins until no hand but his guides the state of Louisiana...