Participating in a Louisiana Civil Defense Conference at the Roosevelt Hotel are, from left, Col. Frank Spiess, New Orleans, deputy state CD director; William C. Parker, Denton, Texas, Region 5 director, and Charles K. Shafer, chief of the plans division, radio logical monitoring division, Washington D. C. When Louisiana can make availagle $969.600 in state funds to match those allocated yesterday by the federal government it will have one of the finest emergency operating center systems in the nation, the regional Civil Defense director for five Southern states said here today.

Photo is dated 1963.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.