Louisiana: The State We're In; 486

Production funding for Louisiana, the state we're in, is made possible in part by a grant from Kaiser Aluminum and some research company incorporated. His people called him Papa Perez, but there were stronger names from others. He ruled Louisiana's Plachemons Parish like an independent nation, but now the legacy of that political empire is threatened by a feud between his sons, Leander Perez, Jr., and Shallan Perez. Join us this week as Louisiana, the state we're in, looks at the legacy of Papa Perez. Good evening, I'm Beth George.

I'm Ron Blum. Welcome to this edition of Louisiana, the state we're in. This week we have two political stories that involve the drama of Southern aristocracy. For most of this program, we'll report on the political domination of a South Louisiana parish as we examine the legacy of Papa Perez, some called the ruler of an independent country in the Southern United States. But first a story of a different kind of Southern drama. In the 1930s New Orleans, playwright Lillian Helman wrote about a Southern family scheming to become rich. The play was called Little Foxes, and this week the production came home to New Orleans, the opening night dedicated to make money not for an aristocratic Southern family, but for the campaign coffers of Republican Governor Dave Tring.

Elizabeth Taylor is not only a superstar, next to the president, she's the Republican party's number one celebrity. By virtue of her marriage to U.S. and her John Warner, Taylor has become a star of not only stage and screen, but of political fundraisers. When the limousines pulled up to this gala opening performance of Little Foxes in New Orleans, the man sharing her top billing was Louisiana's Republican Governor Dave Tring. At one time that you weren't that fond of the spotlight, this seems to be all too a spotlight. How are you taking this celebrity building? Well I enjoy what's about to happen, and I enjoy the fact that we've got a lot of people here, and I'm looking forward to outstanding performance. One that's been heralded on Broadway, and I'm delighted to be here with my wife for a lovely name. It's got to be a blaming. The evening was a super fun razor, the tickets ranging from $50 to a whopping $1,000 a seat.

For the $700 who paid top dollar, there was an added bonus of breakfast with the stars. The well-heeled audience was composed of big contributors, state officials, legislators, and a few ardent theater goers. When the curtain went down on this classic drama of a greedy Southern aristocratic family, few theater goers cared that Miss Taylor's Southern accent was less than authentic. As for Governor Tring, even though he shared the spotlight only briefly, he still went home a happy man with close to a million dollars for his campaign war chess. Well Ron and like former Governor Edwards who used his summer fundraiser to announce his candidacy for the 1983 Governor's race, Governor Tring said his fundraiser did not mean he was running for re-election, however one can expect that the People for Day train committee will find something to spend all that money on. What's going on in Plachemons Parish? It's just a question that a lot of people in lo... It's going to be voluntary, I don't think that you're going to see the federal government

requiring that restaurants, for instance, have a breakdown of the nutrients in all of the foods that would be offered in the restaurant. The key is on voluntary. As to the type of information that people need at the restaurant, I have kind of information which is really hard to see on your plate and since you haven't cooked the food, you have no idea what went into it. For example, in an issue like, maybe 60 million, 55 million individuals who either have overt hypertension or at risk, that's an awful lot of the public. Surely they would be helped by some sodium information on the menu. Sorry, that's it people, it's all unfortunate. We have for questions in this period, if you get further questions, you're welcome to write to the panelists and that brings us to the close of our program for today. I'd like to thank our audience for participation today, a special thanks also to our panel members

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Before we begin the discussion of the health topic chosen for tonight's show, I would of the program. We'll be retaining a not-el support planseified with no code in part B to handle that kind of a problem. It will not be code. It is not part of a curriculum per site. We're handling with a not-el support planseified with no code number. Part B. Yes, I might say that we'll probably be back to you on that personal communication. Now let's go to Ms. Major from the state of Kentucky and a question on the follow-up report. Hello.

Here on here. Okay. At least can you respond to that question? You only report the number of students that are deceased in the footnote. You don't have to put any code or anything in no instructional code. Only the number that have deceased. Okay. Thank you for your call. Now there are one or two that we might want to clean up here from from preceding questions. We had a call from a Jerry White in New Jersey who wanted to know how one can report completion

of two instructional programs for one student without duplicating enrollment. I'm sure that's not an uncommon situation, but can you respond to that to some degree? Well, first of all, one can. Well, I think that's the opening answer. You only reporting out of one and only one program. You would choose the filter on that mechanism to choose it would be the one with the largest number of contact out. If you have a large number of these, it could cause some problems in your accounting. In general, most states I've not had a situation where an individual completes two programs simultaneously. Okay. Thank you very much, Bob. Now here's one from a Liz Barnett in the state of Mississippi. Now, I think at least this may be directed toward our exercise or follow-up exercise.

The question was, and this is not on the line with us at this point. The question was, in the employer follow-up, you eliminate students who fail to report the employer's name. Is that a generally true statement? Are there any exceptions to that statement? No, it's. So that? So that student number eight was correctly classified on the answer sheet as mailed out. I'm not familiar with the, that familiar with the simulation exercise. Deal with that.

I believe that the student number eight was correctly classified on the package that was sent to you. And it is a general truth that we eliminate students who failed to report the employer's name because that's really the only source that we have to follow-up form to. Now we're out of time and out of questions, and we again thank you very much for your participation. And this, and this, that's teleconference. This brings our first session on beds to a close. We want to thank you for your participation in this teleconference. For those of you who still have questions, we'll be here to answer them for one hour after we go off the air. In the future, you can contact us in area code 301 at 436 63 4-8. Once again, our numbers in area code 301, and it is 436 63 4-8. We'll be sitting here state director of vocational education.

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