The Louisiana Association for Retarded Children Sunday an-lounced that it has adopted a res-rtution calling for approval of a $50,000 budget increase and a ?578,000 capital outlay for the State Colony and Training School.
The resolution asks Gov. Earl K. Long and the state Legislature to approve requests of the colony1 at Pineville, La., which would increase its annual appropriation from about $1,700,000 to $2,400,000, and an additional $578,-000 for capital purposes.
The association elected Mrs. Forrest Campbell, Alexandria, president of the conclusion of the ■ourth annual convention in the Hutchinson Memorial bldg.
Directors named to the board Sunday were:
John D. Ingalls, Mrs. W. E. Pa-del, Albert T. Diermayer, Rabbi Share and Mrs. J. F. Leonhard, all of New Orleans; Morley A. Hudson, Bernie Bouma and Mrs. Ernest Turner, all of Shreveport; I Mrs. Ike Hamilton, West Monroe; I J. R. Bateman, Bogalusa; Mrs. j Alice Hardison, Lafayette; Roy I Brannon, Leo Bloch and V. J. | Rabalais, all of Alexandria; Hu-i | bert Williams and Mrs. E. E. Walker, Baton Rouge; Miss Paddy Ann Doll, Lake Charles; and Robert Fallin, Ruston.
During the Sunday morning session, reports were heard from chapters in all sections of the state. Miss Doll, educational consultant for the association, spoke] Ion progress being made by these I units.
Dr. Irwin A. Berg, Baton Rouge,; head of the LSU psychology department, presided over a series I of addresses Saturday designed to jshow delegates how to put into :j practice the successes of some of the chapters.
PHOTO: NEW OFFICERS OF THE Louisiana Association for Retarded Children elected at a meeting Sunday are (from left) Eric Gebsen, Shreveport, vice-president; Mrs. Forrest Campbell, Alexandria, president; Joseph C. White, New Orleans, secretary, and Robert Lowe, Lafayette, treasurer.
