The New Orleans Council of Parent - Teacher Associations passed a resolution Wednesday reaffirming its stand against "indecent advertising in the, French Quarter, around moviei houses in the city, and in the newspapers."
The council also passed resolutions: Advocating that all children be placed for adoption through a licensed agency.
Asking the city to make Freret street a 20-mile-an-hour zone from Napoleon to Broad, way.
To write to CBS and station WWL-TV asking them to discontinue the TV series called "Rendezvous."
The council also elected a nominating committee to select a slate of candidates for its election in March and heard a
panel discussion on mental
health at it« session at 1528
Jackson. :
COMMITTEE NAMED
In answer to a plea from Superintendent James F. Redmond of the Orleans public : schools, Mrs. Thomas E. Spain, Council president, appointed a committee to work with the Citizens Committee for Decent1 'Literature of Greater.New Orleans, j 1 Dr. Redmond said he feels | fc that indecent literature is a big Bf actor in juvenile delinquency. eIt's something that parents and e |teachers can do something
about, he added. h Named to the committee were ^Mrs. R. C. Lancaster, Mrs. William Stein, and Mrs. L. C.
Schiffman.
e The council's resolution about r adoption of babies will be '• brought on the floor for approval at District No. 1 conference here n on March 9. If it goes through J: it will be brought to the state P-* TA convention in Shreveport in April, Mrs. Spain said. If it is a approved there, then P-TA wil] ;* support a proposed bill to thai _ effect in the next Legislature.
PARENTS URGE ACTION
Mrs. Spain said the Freret street resolution was passed because the parents feel that under the present 30-mile speed limit it is dangerous for the children to cross.
Parents are "in arms" against the TV series "Rendezvous," she said, because they feel it! encourages juvenile crime.
Elected to the nominating committee were Mrs. Leland J. LeNormand, Mrs. R. J. Zimmer, Mrs. Mose Brener, Mrs. I. J. Messina, and Mrs. W. C. Arrow-smith.
Speakers in the mental health! panel were Dr. Evis J. Coda, local psychiatrist, and Dr. Clifford W. . Braskenridge, physiology instructor in the Louisiana State university school of medi-, cine, Mrs. Zimmer,. and Mrs. William C. Salassi. Dr. Loyd W. Rowland, executive director of the Louisiana Mental Health Association, was the moderator.
