The House voted 66 to 2 Friday to let Louisiana State university issue $6,000,000 in bonds for stadium and medical school expansions.
No action was taken by the House on a companion measure which would give LSU a $350,-000 additional slice of the state corporation franchise tax to retire the bond issue.
Out of the bonds, said Rep. Percy Roberts, East Baton Rouge parish, the university medical school is expected to get $2,500,000, and $1,500,000 will go to close the north end of the LSU stadium and add an estimated 30,000 seats. The stadium now seats 45,000.
The $2,000,000 balance of the bond issue would be used for construction of a library and auditorium on the campus. And, by amendment injected in the bill from the floor by Rep. Shady Wall, Ouachita parish, $300,000 must be spent for a new gymnasium at Northeast Junior college, Monroe.
Roberts, who authored the bill along with Reps. Charles F. Du-chein, also of East Baton Rouge, and W. J. Cleveland, Acadia, said the improvements at the medical school in New Orleans should permit a 10 to 15 per cent increase in the st
