The Gueydan News from Gueydan, Louisiana • 1

:3 (3). 77 T7 TPS LJ mi IE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE TOWN OF GUEYDAN AND THE GUEYDAN DRAINAGE BOARD VOLUME NO. 51 GUEYDAN, VERMILION PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY MAY 8, 1948 Mo. 11) VETERAN NAMED TO FILL REGISTRAR POST VACATED BY FRED SCHLESSINGER VERMILION MAN WHO BECAME ONE OF CROWLEY'S LEADING CITIZENS, DIES GUEYDAN YOUTH WHO DIED AT ST. LO REBURIED AT IMPRESSIVE RITES Kaplan Delegates To Pelican Girls State Convention Named Crowlev.

La. Alone LeBlanc. 66. pro REBURIED AT RITES AT COW ISLAND FRIDAY minent Crowley merchant and member of the Acadia parish police jory. died suddenly at 11:20 a.

m. Monday while transacting business in the First Na S. LI. ALUMNI TO BE ORGANIZED IN THIS PARISH tional bank. Death was attributed to a Kaplan Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary approved the four girls selected by the faculty and class as delegates to Pelican State at a regular meeting held on April 21 in the Home Economics department of Kapaln high school.

Chosen as delegates were: Gay Maraist, Nellie Mae Meaux, Dorethea Frederick and Dorothy Compete. Alternates were named as follows: Beverly Kaplan, Lorace Hargrave, Leona Hebert and Rita Schexnider, Mrs. A. A. heart attack.

Wittnesses said that Mr. LeBlanc en tered' the bank to make a deposit. After completing his business at the teller's -window he went to the lock box depart ment and later to the men's room! where he was found in a state of collapse by J. E. Guidroz, cashier of the bank.

Medical aid was summoned but LeJeune, Unit Chairman for Girls' State, presented these names to the Auxiliary Unit and explained the man ner of their selection. Mrs. LeJeune also stated that the Auxiliary Unit has pledged itself to sponsor one girl and that she would obtain sponsors for the Funeral services were held at St. Pesets Catholic church at Gueydan at fjo o'clock Friday afternoon for Pfc. gjs jiarceaux, 26, son of Mrs.

Dupre jrjjteaux of Gueydan, who was killed a action in the battle of St. Lo, Jan-ory 1, 1945. Xhe body arrived in Crowley on the 2 33 train Thursday afternoon where 5 was met at the railroad station by jsmbers of the LeMaire-Stackhouse past No. 235 of the American Legion of Gueydan who accompanied the body to Gueydan, where it remained at the tome of his mother until the hour of me funeral Friday afternoon. The American Legion members from Guey-iaa joined in paying military honors to the young hero at the funeral series.

Surviving are his mother; three brothers, Wilson, Adam and Girard, all of Gueydan; three sisters, Mrs. Alphe La-fergne of Lake Arthur, Mrs. 'Julian Hargrove of Morse and Miss Jane Mar-ceaux of Gueydan. HEALTH ROUNDUP IT KAPLAN WILL START MAY 12 other three delegates as is customary each year. Mrs.

W. E. Douglas, Unit presdient, FRED T. SCHLESSINGER announced the Third District Confer ence to be held on Sunday, June 6, in Franklin, and urged that all Auxi liary members plan to attend. An an Mr.

LeBlanc was pronounced dead by the doctor on his arrival. In failing health for a year and half, he had been much improved recently and had completed a succesiul campaign for re-election to the office of of police juror for the sixth ward, a position he had held uninterruptedly since 1928. Only last week he attended the Shreveport convention of the Louisiana Police Jury Association. He was the second oldest member of the police jury in point of service. Born January 4, 1882, in the first ward of Vermilion parish, near Abbeville, the son of the late J.

Alcee LeBlanc and Ursule Broussard LeBlanc, he spent the early part of his life in Vermilion parish and later moved to Morse, where he spent 18 years working as bookkeeper for the Jules S. Mauboules mercantile establishment. nouncement was made concerning the State Convention to be held July 16 18 in New Orleans. Kaplan Unit voted unanimously to send a check sufficient to purchase OLAN J. SUIRE three bedlamps for bedridden patients Plans for organizing in Vermilion parish an active unit of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute Alumni Association were made in Kaplan Monday night when graduates of the college assembled to hear Howard Roy of Lafayette, president of the organization, outline the needs of the institution.

Eddie Douglas, member of the Kaplan high school faculty, who presided at the meeting announced that another meeting will be called to elect officers for the Vermilion almni unit. The speakers in addition to Mr. Roy were State Representative-Elect Lloyd P. Broussard of Abbeville and Johnny Morriss, member of the S. L.

I. coaching staff. The speakers told of the gTowth of Southwestern and listed some of the improvements needed at the college. Representative-Elect Broussard pledged his aid in providing improvements for the college and stated that the Long administration had pledged itself to an extensive educational program. Among the graduates attending the meeting was J.

Motty who attended Southwestern in 1905 when there were but 300 students. Professor Francis Achee, Dan Peck, Miss Connie DeNue, Miss Betty Roberts, Harry St. Pierre, Lloyd Dagen-hardt. and Eddie Blanchard of Southwestern presented vocal and musical numbers. DECLINES SENATE POST in the Veterans Hospital.

May 29 was designated as Poppy Day for Kaplan. Mrs. P. E. Eleazar, Poppy Chairman, reported her plans for mak ing the sale a success.

Mrs. Yolande T. Toups, Child Wel fare Chairman, reported that the Aux iliary Unit will cooperate by helping the Parent-Teachers' Association with the Summer Round-Up of Children. Mrs. Lazard Landry, as a of the Auxiliary, was named to present the Americanism medals "to the outstanding eighth grade boy and The body of Pfc.

Olan J. Suire, 20. of Mr. and Mrs. Ophelia Suire of Crowley, former residents of Abbeville, who was killed in action in France on January 5, 1944 arrived in New Iberia at 1:24 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and was taken to the First National Funeral Home in Abbeville.

The funeral was held at 10:00 o'clock Friday morning from the First National Funreal Home in Abbeville with religious rites in the St. Ann Catholic church at Cow Island. Burial was at Cow Island. Pfc. Suire is survived by his parents who resided in Abbeville until about three years ago when they moved to Crowley.

His mother is the former Ne-dia Bourque. Also surviving are four broters, Drozin, Marcel, Clemile and Roy of Crowley; two sisters, Mrs. Kir-by Broussard of Pecan Island and Mrs. A. Andrus of Crowley.

"c- Funeral arrangements were In charge of L. J. Moss of the First National Funeral Home in Abbeville. 10 Vr AD Fl PAV girl at their graduation at 2:00 pum May 27. A contribution to the Cancer Drive was voted by the Auxiliary.

Mrs. Fer nand Sonnier, who was in charge of the program, gave a very enlightening By Elmira Montgomery flat Wednesday at 9:30 a. all parents whose family names are from i ton are urged to take their children Intending to enter the Kaplan school next fall to the Kaplan Health Clinic Icr the annual round-up. The round-up is teing conducted by the Kaplan P. T.

A. under the-leader-tip of Mrs." Preston Gaspard, chair -Ban, and Mrs. Rene Simon, president. Ex ohter members assist them every Wednesday. The purpose of the round-up Is to tare children enter the first grade lEbmpered by some physical condition that can be discovered and remed-M-such as poor sight that glasses ould correct.

Every child who attends the roundel is given a free examination by the jlic Health Nurse, Miss 1 Norma WW. Each parent receives a card ing anything for which the parent ttould consult the family doctor or dentist. Pur VPITS tViO eumwm. He came to Crowley in 1918 and purchased a part interest in the Thomson-Reiber Implement company, in which he remained active until the time of his death. He was a fourth degree Knight of Columbus and a member of the Woodmen of the World.

He held at various times a number of public offices and civic positions, including member of the Acadia parish Democratic executive committee. -1 Surviving are his wife, the former Alice Mauboules; three sons, Harvey, Leo and Paul LeBlanc of Crowley; four daughters, Mrs. William McGregor of Houston, Texas, Mrs. Price C. Barbour of Conroe, Texas, Mrs.

Joe Rodgers of Lafayette, and Mrs. Donald Johnson of Crowley; two brothers, Andrew D. LeBlanc of Morse, and Honore C. LeBlanc of Abbeville; three sisters, Mrs. Felix Leleux of Delcambre, Mrs.

Gil-Bert LeBlanc and Mrs. Lidier Bernard of Abbeville. 'u The funeral rites were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at St. Michael's Catholic church in Crowley. The funeral services were conducted by the Rt.

Rev. Msgr. George Mollo, and burial was made in the Woodlawn talk on Pan-Americanism. WALLACE VINCENT, JR. Wallace Vincent, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Wallace Vincent of Kaplan who was wounded in World War II in the EuroDean Theater of Operations, was named Registrar of Voters for Vermi Delicious strawberry sundaes and sundaes and cookies were served by the hostesses: Mrs. Lionel Abshire, Mrs. W. E.

Douglas and Mrs. L. J. Reaux, Jr. Members present included Mrs.

Lionel Abshire, Mrs. W. E. Douglas, Mrs. P.

E. Eleazar, Mrs. Chester Landry, Mrs. K. P.

Landry, Mrs. Lazard Landry, Mrs. Ray Landry, Mrs. A. A.

LeJeune, Mrs. I J. Reaux, Mrs. Alton Romero, Mrs. Charles Saporito, Mrs.

Fernand Sonnier, Miss Mitzi Sonnier Prof. G. J. Ledet, Vermilion parish visiting teacher and assistant superintendent of schools, stated today that he was advising Governor-Elect Earl K. Long and Lieutenant-Governor-Elect William J.

Dodd that he would not accept the Senate Clerkship post to which the governor-elect appointed him last week. Mr. LeDet stated that r.e was very grateful to the Lieutenant-Governor-Elect for their expression of confidence in him and that he would continue working on school legislation and teacher welfare law on a volunteer basis. lion parish by members of the police jury to succeed Fred T. Schlessinger who served as registrar since December 37, 1940, but who resigned effective May 31, 1948.

KAPLAN VET IS MADE REGISTRAR BY POLICE JURY IJ-ILiirULl liUi DROWNS IN CANAL IN THIS PARISH and Mrs. Yolande T. Toups. I rducted in Kaplan, assuring uuer ana happier first graders. IAL RITES FOR TWO KAPLAN Funeral services were conducted in the Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Kaplan Saturday afternoon at 3:30 SOLD IERS VERY IMPRESSIVE EVENT cemetery.

Geesey-Fergerson funeral home was in charge of the funeral arrangements. Serving as pallbearers were two sons, Paul and Leo LeBlanc, and four sons-in-law, Price C. Barbour, Donald Johnson, Joe Rodgers and William McGregor. Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus served as honor guard. Large crowds of friends and relatives, from throughout Southwest Louisiana attended the services.

o'clock for Leo Hebert, 13, son oi jvits. Theard Hebert and the late Mr. Otto Hebert, who drowned Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock while swimming in an irri Vetpran'is St" "iBiuiizaiions ana citizens Sd'SKS funding area anernoon at the final rites conducted at the Holy Fred T. Schlessinger who has been serving as registrar of voters for Vermilion parish since December 27, 1940, submitted his resignation Tuesday morning to the members of the police jury, effective May 31. The police jurors who accepted the resignation, unanimously apponted Wallace Vincent, of Kaplan, a disabled World War veteran, to succeed Mr.

Schlessinger. Mr. Vincent was the only applicant for the position. President Edvar LeBlanc and members of the police jury declared that they were accepting the resignation of Mr. Schlessinger with regrets.

They commended Schlessingr's work in handling the records from 1940 until this year when the registration rose jri7' ainouc in Kaplan for two Mn soldiers: Pfc. Emile C. Freder-n of Mr. and Mrs. Severan Fre-ttaTT KaPlan, who was killed in ac.

on June 30, 1944. and Sgt. Luther J. Hebert, 19, son -ar. and Mrs.

Avnel Hebert of Kap-. who was killed in action on Guam July 28, 1944. The body of Pfc. Frederick arrived New Channel Lights Sought byC. of C.

Responding to requests made by residents of Pecan Island, oil field workers, shrimpers and towing contractors, the Abbeville Chamber of Commerce has contracted the U. S. Coast Guard in connection with proposed changes in the present channel lights, it was announced by Manager Doyle Morgan. The present lights marking the channel from Pecan Island in White Lake and the light approaching Schooner Bayou were declared very unsatisfactory. Flares from oil wells and other stationary light have brought about a need for a change from the present lights to blinker type lights, Morgan stated.

The Chamber of Commerce also requested that a light be placed at the Firrnin Bayou approach which presently has no marker, Morgan stated. KAPLAN JAYCEES TOLD OF NEEDS FOR COURTHOUSE gation canal 2 miles east of Kaplan. Young Hebert was out swimming with two other boys. When he failed to come up from a dive in 7 or 8 feet of water, the other two boys ran for The body was found at the same spot where ft went under water within a few minutes but artificial respiration failed to revive the body. Hebert is survivied by his mother and stepfather, Mr.

and Mrs. Theard Hebert; three sisters, Mrs. Preston St. AmenU Mrs. Robert Lee and Miss Mary May Hebert, all of Kaplan; three brothers, Laodice.

WiUis and Harry Lee, all of Kaplan, his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Oleus Vincent, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Laodice Hebert. The body was brought to the Meaux Funeral Home of Kaplan and funeral arrangements were in charge of D. L.

Meaux of Kaplan. Burial was in the, Hebert Cemetery west of Kaplan. conducted Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock in'the Catholic Church. Burial was in the Cossinade Cemetery. Sgt.

Hebert is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Avnel Hebert; a brother, Andy of Kaplan; six sisters, Mrs. Conrad LeMaire, Mrs. Wallace Simon, both of Kaplan, Mrs.

Luen Hollyfield of Sils-by, Texas, Mrs. Cullen George of Houston, Texas and Mrs. Euall Clostio of Sulphur, La. The American Legion, under the direction of Roy Vincent, Commander of the LeJeune-Boudreaux Post, American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, under the direction of Wilbur Hebert, Commander of the Guidry-He-bert Post V. F.

joined in providing military escorts and officiated at the military funerals for the two soldiers. All business places in the town of Kaplan closed during the afternoon Friday in order that the citizens of the area, could join in paying respects to the two local war heroes. Funeral arrangements were in charge of D. L. Meaux of the Meaux Funeral Home of Kaplan.

tasen to the Meaux Funeral Home ReliSious rites were con- from 9,000 to 18,740 voters. Schlessinger stated that his failing tirtV afternon at o-kftmS81 WaS thC Kaplan Catho- Parish Bonds Bring Best Interest Rate Offered in State Declared to be the lowest bid offered in Louisiana this year for the purchase of bonds, the members of the Vermiion Parish Police Jury Tuesday morning accepted the proposal of Newman Brown and Company of New Orleans for the $90,000 of bonds voted for the construction of a library building in Abbeville at the average rate of 1.61 per cent plus a premium of $113.50. Perry Brown and Jack Scranton who represented the firm of Newman Brown and Company at the meeting of the police jurors, submitted the bid of IV percent interest from June 1, 1949, to June 1, 1951, and 1 percent interest from June 1, 1951, to June 1. 1955, plus the premium of $113.50. Other bidders include John Dane, Scharff and Jones, White, Hattier and Sanford, Barrow Leary and A.

M. Smith, Wood and Equitable Securities New J. Ctt Mr oLunneu Dy ms and iIrs- Severan Frederick; eyesight caused him to submit his resignation. Mrs. W.

L. Ford who served as Schlessinger's assistant also submitted her resignation to accept another position. PELOUSAS CARPENTER FALLS INTO DRIER BIN, SERIOUSLY INJURED Orleans" CaiIme (wJ of Sst- Hebert arrived in Sdih UrSday afternoon at A SCREW-DRIVER LOST IN GUEYDAN FOUND IN A TIKE AT KAPLAN io me Meaux Funera- In Kaplan. Funeral rites were Murnhv LeDoux. 30-year-old Opel- ousas carpenter sustained severe in juries early Thursday when ne ieu feet into a rice drier bin above which he was workine.

He was removed from Well, this is good! An air-ride" tire owned by Mr. Arthur Hair was recently punctured. It was brought to a local garage to be repaired. On Mr. Hair's return to his home in the country, he had another flat in the self-same tire.

wnHintr it neressarv to to Kap thp hin throueh the hoDDer at the bot- torn by fellow workers, who summoned medical aid. Orleans, and the First National tsanit of Abbeville. r. A. CamDbell.

bond attorney em nmton Meaux of Kaplan said a SURVEY ORDERED BOUNDARY OF VERMILION LINE SbStabUsh a definite bond- tVenniUon and Iberia memlrs of the police iurv lan for something else, he took the vex Meaux ambulance had taken the in- liirerf man to ODelousas. His injuries atious-air-ride tire for reparation once more. There a discovery was made. A were said to include a fratcured pelvis. screw-driver from the first garage handling the repair of said tire was found inside.

tc thP sized screw-driver the own- LeDoux is one oi carpenters ai work on construction of the Gueydan cooperative rice drier. The accident occurred at about 9:15. MOTHER'S DAY SERVICE TO BE HELD IN KAPLAN ployed by the police jury to complete legal details in connection with the issuance and the sale of the bonds, declared that the bid of 1.61 percent interest for the Vermilion bond issue was one of the lowest bid received for the purchase of bonds in Louisiana this year. NEXT OF KIN OF WAR DEAD TO RECEIVE GOLD SAR BUTTON tf A 4 ers had found mast useful, it had been milion and Iberia was submitted to them for their decision. President Edvar LeBlanc named Police Jurors Francois Detraz, Henry Gautreaux and H.

P. Guzardo to accompany Chairman Fernand J. Mon-tagne and other members of the planning board to Baton Rouge to confer with state officials in connection with the proposed Road to the Sea project. The secretary-treasurer was authorized to have an abstract made on the property across from the Magdalene Square which was given by the City of Abbeville for the construction of the new $90,000 library building. Quicker farm transportation of both passengers and products is the largest single item in the record of time saving for farmers revealed in a study of the progress of farm mechanization published recently by the TJ.

S. Department of Agriculture. The tractor is ordinarly thought of as the typical symbol of mechanization, but the transportation units the farm automobile and the motor truck save the farmers even more time. ProvSiLT adPted an for the conducting of At their regular meeting held at the Kaplan High School Monday evening the Kaplan Junior Chamber of Commerce heard Frank W. Summers of Abbeville discuss the need for a new court house for Vermilion parish.

Mr. Summers stated that the facilities in the present court house in Abbeville were no longer adequate to serve the purposes for which they were intended, that the offices located there are all overcrowded to the extent of restricting the efficiency of the personnel working there. "There is no safe place in the present court house where public documents can be stored, and in case of fire there is no telling the amount of damage that would be done to those said Mr. Summers. The move for the building1 of a new court house for Vermilion parish wa.

started by the Abbeville Junior Cham ber of Commerce who. are trying to en list the cooperation of all the civi organizations in the parish and thereb; create a favorable parish-wide interes. in the proposition. looked for "high and but to no on ThP nwners were Klad to get their lon-lost, much-used screw-driver back and, needless to say Mr. iiair member i on Monday, SecrS1 10 'clock a- m.

SIT? J- LaBauve airvA. ordinance calline for was happy to secure a new tireas a replacement. The Nation's memorial to World War ProrS 7 accordance with law II dead the Gold Star Lapel Button wiU be ready for distribution after June 1, 1948, to the next of kin of men and women of all the Armed Services By Elmira Montgomery Next Sunday a Mother's Day service will be held in the Kaplan Methodist Church, the Minister, Rev. jMartin, announced last week. A bouquet of flowers will be presented to the oldest mother and the youngest mother present.

One of the congregation agreed to get the flowers if the minister would decide who the oldest mother is. by the 80th Congress, which set up an appropirate designation of widows, parents, and certain other members of the families of those who died in the service of their country between December 7, 1941, and July 25, 1947, the period established by the legislation. who died for their country at home and lo maKe tfte Eur MStfoT" dered Ule survey as the exact loca-ei)oundaryime between Ver- ttip authoritv for this recognition came in Public Law No. 306, enacted.