eNgageMeNt May - Minter engaged to marry PAGE 5 MINDEN RESS ERALD P -H www.press-herald.com June 19, 2015 | 50 Cents FRIDAY INSIDE today CaMP MiNDeN CleaN uP Contract signed for M6 disposal MICHELLE BATES The initial contract was work, National Guard offi- “The signing of this con- with all of our partners to [email protected] for roughly $19 million and cials say. tract is a significant step ensure we see the safe and is expected to be increased Explosive Service Inter- forward in the destruction complete destruction of to $34-$35 million to national, a Baton Rouge- of the M6 and CBI (clean the M6 and CBI.” The Louisiana National account for the additional based company chosen to burning igniter) at Camp Ron Curry, EPA regional Guard announced Thurs- requirements set forth by oversee the cleanup, was Minden,” Maj. Gen. Glenn administrator calls the day the contract to rid the Environmental Protec- issued a Notice to Com- H. Curtis, adjutant general contract signing an Camp Minden of millions tion Agency. The amount is mence Work for the con- of the National Guard, “important achievement.” of pounds of M6 propellant based on receipt of addi- tract from the Office of said. “LMD thanks all of “LMD’s signing of the has been signed and is tional funding that comes State Procurement, Col. the agencies and individu- contract for the alternative John David ready to move forward from the U.S. Treasury’s Pete Schneider, als who worked tirelessly technology for the disposal with the construction of Judgment Fund on behalf spokesman for the Nation- on the selection process. Crow passes the contained burn unit. at 79 of the U.S. Army for the al Guard said. We will continue to work SeeM6, Page 2 SPORTS PG.6 PoliCe Jury Police juror files suit against Featured Items of jury the Week MICHELLE BATES [email protected] Tomatoes (Green & Red) District 8 Police Juror Purple Hull Peas Charles Odom has filed suit against the Webster Cabbage Parish Police Jury after tak- ing a fall at the tax asses- Squash sor’s office. Odom says he could not Bell Peppers comment on the suit, but did say it has Mahaffey's Organic Meats nothing to do with the Jams and Jellies police jury. “I was on Plants private busi- ness in there Crafts when it hap- pened,” he The Farmer’s Market is open from alliance, endorsed Dodd’s idea and said. “I’ve 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., Saturday at The Father’s Day is Sunday and it is a time helped it spread by celebra ting the ODOM been told Farm located at 419 East Union. first Father’s Day in 1910.” when sons and daughters honor Mother’s Day was established in not comment on it.” 1916 by proclamation from Presi- According to the suit, he WEATHER their dads on this special day. dent Woodrow Wilson. He was at the tax assessor’s approved of the idea of celebrating office on Sept. 27, 2014, TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK It was a daughter who lost her ‘Mother of Father’s Day,’ was 16 Father’s Day but never signed a and was injured during a mother in the late 1800s who y ears old when her mother died in proclamation for the holiday, fall at the threshold pushed to recognize fathers and all 1898, leaving her father William according to usa.gov. between two adjacent they do for their children. This Jackson Smart to raise Sonora and Dodd suggested her father’s rooms. woman from Spokane Washington her five younger brothers on a birthday, June 5, be established as “The flooring of one – considered the birthplace of remote farm in eastern Washing- the day to honor all fathers; how- room is six to ten inches Father’s Day – heard a Mother’s ton,” according to a news release ever, the pastors wanted more lower than the adjacent Day sermon at her church. Sonora from the Spokane Regional Con- time to prepare, so June 19, 1910 room,” the suit reads. “The Smart Dodd was inspired to pro- vention and Visitor Bureau. “(In was designated as the first Father’s flooring appears basically pose that fathers receive equal 1909), Sonora took the idea to the Day. the same color in both recognition. Spokane YMCA. The Spokane rooms.” “Dodd, often referred to as the YMCA, along with the ministerial SeeFATHERS, Page 2 It goes on to read safety 93 74 measures available to the HIGH LOW SeeJURY, Page 2 Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Court WatCh CONNECT WITH US @mindenph Homer man accused of armed robbery on trial MICHELLE BATES man Street Cropper said Shelton and ing a gray sweater, white t- they forced her to open in Homer, another male entered a shirt, black pants, white the register and they took [email protected] was on trial convenience store on the shoes and no globes and an undetermined amount this week corner of East Un ion and holding what she believed of cash and ran out of the An accused armed rob- accused of Fort Streets armed with a to be a .45 caliber hand- store. Vol. 46 No. 251 ber is on trial this week armed rob- .45 caliber handgun. gun.” Once police captured and court officials say the bery. “The clerk indicated The clerk allegedly told Shelton, a .45 caliber trial was expected to wrap At the SHELTON that one was wearing police the one wearing the handgun was found on up Thursday. time of his black clothes with some- gray sweater to give him one of the men. Laderrius Shelton, 21, arrest, Min- thing on his face,” Cropper the money or he would The other male is listed of the 900 block of Cole- den Police Chief Steve said. “The other was wear- shoo t her. Cropper says as Brian Gilbert. 2 Friday, June 19, 2015 – Minden Press-Herald SECONDwww.press-herald.com FRONT Troubles erupt in LSU Shreveport hospital privatization BATON ROUGE — LSU Friday's board meeting in a Northwest Louisiana took leaders and the manager of contract dispute, accusing control of LSU's Shreve- the university system's a competitor in the region port and Monroe hospitals Shreveport hospital are of trying to poach its doc- in October 2013, as part of again at odds, and the tors and paying patients. Jindal's push to privatize threat of a possible breach The contracts, accord- most of the university-run of contract lawsuit ing to University Health, public hospital system. emerged Thursday in the would have LSU doctors The foundation had never privatization deal. working at Willis-Knighton run a patient care facility A last-minute add-on to Health System clinics to when it got the no-bid con- Friday's LSU Board of provide specialty care. tract. Supervisors agenda shows David Ettinger, an After the management a possible discussion antitrust lawyer hired by transfer, tensions spilled about "prospective litiga- University Health, said if into public view. tion" against the Biomed- LSU doctors shift much of Financial documents ical Research Foundation their specialty care to took nearly a year to com- of Northwest Louisiana for Willis-Knighton, that will plete. LSU sent a collection violating its contract to run drive insured patients letter demanding millions LSU's Shreveport and away from the state-owned in payments during the Monroe hospitals. facility and will boost state dispute. The foundation The research founda- costs for uninsured care. accused LSU of mismanag- tion, which operates the "It will be very harmful ing its clinics. University two hospitals as University to patients. It will be very Health's CEO abruptly Health System, said it harmful to the taxpayers of resigned in March. doesn't know anything Louisiana," Ettinger said. An outside consulting about the agenda item, Willis-Knighton didn't firm hired by LSU officials releasing a statement say- return a call for comment, has said the privatization ing its leaders "have not and an LSU spokeswoman deal for the Shreveport been notified by LSU or refused to resp ond to the hospital has created such any other party of any University Health com- management and financial University Health in Shreveport. Courtesy Photo alleged breach of contract, plaints about the con- tensions that it threatens or that any discussion of tracts. the health of the universi- management. between the LSU doctors Knighton previously raised our (contract) would LSU officials and Uni- ty's nearby medical school. Willis-Knighton reached and Willis-Knighton risks antitrust concerns itself occur." versity Health's managers Lawmakers have raised out to Jindal and others giving the health system so two years ago, when it LSU officials didn't have repeatedly clashed concerns about the finan- about possibly assuming much of the patient care decided against entering a respond to questions since Gov. Bobby Jindal cial viability of the hospi- management of LSU's market in Shreveport that privatization deal with the about the matter. privatized the hospital tal's business model and Shreveport hospital earlier it could violate federal Jindal administration to University Health Sys- nearly two years ago. have described poor work- this year. antitrust laws designed to take over the LSU Shreve- tem officials said they The Biomedical ing relationships between But Ettinger said even promote competition. port hospital. already planned to be at Research Foundation of LSU and University Health the contracts proposed He noted Willis- “Besides that, at that time national attention. In 1924, be recognized as Father’s dent Richard Nixon signed Today, Father’s Day is the pendulum of disre- President Calvin Coolidge Day and requested that a proclamation proclaim- FATHERS spect for fathers had recognized Father’s Day flags be flown that day on ing Father’s Day be celeb rated in over 50 coun- Continued from page 1 swung too far, I thought…I and urged states to do like- all government buildings.