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Established as a Weekly in 1839
Copyright The Times Publishing Company, Limited 1973
Shreveport, Louisiana, Saturday, January 12, 1974
Treatment Of Acoholics
$375,000 Needed
For Pines Project
By Margaret Martin
Times Medical Writer
The old Pines Sanatorium
might get a new lease on life
as an Alcoholic Rehabilitation
Center if some $375,000 for
renovation and operation is
approved by two governmen-tal
agencies, according to
State Sen. Donald Williamson
of Vivian.
Williamson was instrumen-tal
in getting Gov. Edwin W.
Edwards to meet with area
members of the Caddo-Bos-sier
Council on Alcoholism
about the matter.
Edwards told area
legislators and members of
the council that he will
recommend to the Louisiana
Board of Liquidation that
$75,000 be appropriated for
renovating and refurbishing
one of the buildings on the
grounds of the facility.
If funds are approved, work
should start immediately, and
there is a possibility the cen-ter
could open in July.
The governor also said that
he will ask the legislature for
$300,000 in the 1974-75 fiscal
budget of Confederate
Memorial Medical Center to
run the center.
The Caddo-Bossier Council
on Alcoholism has been
operating a rehabilitation cen-ter
in a cottage at The Pines
for several months. Some 10
patients are being served by
the council which is operating
the program on a lease from
the Division of Mental Health.
Confederate Director Dr.
Rod M. Yeager said he hoped
that in addition to the one
building — which is located
behind the main facility —
that two cottages and an ad-ditional
building will also be
used for the program.
The $75,000 will be used to
replace the roof, paint, repair
brick work and air condition
the main facility.
Yeager said that, if ap-proved,
the $300,000 will be a
budgetary item for Con-federate.
He said that it will
be administered with the help
of several agencies.
Also working with the coun-cil
to get the funds were State
Sen. C. K. Carter and State
Rep. Walter Bigby, V. C.
Shannon and Alphonse
Jackson Jr.
John Fleming is executive
director of the council, and
Ed Kernagham is president.
Among others attending the
Baton Rouge meeting with
the governor were W. T.
Hackett Jr., vice president of
the Shreveport Chamber of
Commerce, Joe Schierer, A.
Mills McCawley, special coun-sel
to the attorney general,
and Dr. Karr Shannon, head
of the Department of P-sychiatry
at Confederate.
Object Description
| Title | $375,000 Needed for Pines Project |
| Creator | Martin, Margaret |
| Subject |
Pines Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Shreveport, La.) Funding |
| Publisher | Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1974-01-12 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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