Newspaper, Reflections of the Past, July 30, 1997, LaSalle Parish, LA. REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Copied by: Pat Ezell; PatEzell@worldnet.att.net Submitted by: Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371 From the Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal, Wed., July 30, 1997, Section B, Page 7 Thank You to the Times -Signal for allowing the following to be added to the Archives. From the Files… REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST 60 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK - Thursday, July 29, 1937 A total of 6,750 students are expected to register at the Louisiana State University for the 1937-38 session which will open September 13. A total of 6,457 were registered on the main campus last year and 7,384 for the three campuses, including the Medical Center in New Orleans and the northeast Center in Monroe. Mail from Olla now reaches Jena in less than 12 hours due to change routing which effected the past week by post office officials. Formerly, the mail from Olla took several days to reach Jena because the offices had not been adjusted to the recent change of the Railway Mail Service. Every man, woman and child in LaSalle paid an average of .58 in luxury taxes during the first six month operation of the tax during the same period. Welfare payments in LaSalle averaged $2.37 per person. It was revealed this week by J.E. Stewart, director of the parish welfare department, following receipt of reports from Mr. A.R. Johnson, state commissioner of public welfare. A preliminary report of work sheets filed by Louisiana farmers cooperating in the 1937 Agricultural Conservation Program indicates that the number of operators participating this year is practically the same as in 1936 when approximately 85 percent of the farmers signed up to take advantage of the protective measures offered by the program, according to J.W. Bateman, director of the Louisiana State University Agriculture Extension Division. At a recent meeting of the LaSalle Parish School Board, members accepted the bid of J.W. Smith and associates of Monroe as architect for the new Trout-Good Pine school which is to be constructed soon. It was moved, seconded and carried that Clyde Ganey be employed to drive the bus beginning at Jack Taylors to Trout-Good Pine school. It was moved and seconded that the following men be employed to continue their regular runs: C.W. Ray, Green Coleman, W.M. Edwards, Marion Taylor, Jim Thompson, Joe Terrall, Leonard Ganey, D.J. Francis, J.H. Price, J.W. Cupples, I.O. Tarver, W.E. Wright and A.C. Cruse, S.W. Hodges, Jr., Rosefield-Jena Route and Tom Eubanks, Rosefield - Aimoch Route. Motion carried. "Current Events…" by Judge W.H. Mills. Olla, Louisiana: The Placid Oil Co. of Tyler, Texas will begin drilling new wells on the King lease near Tullos and east of Olla within a few days. Other shallow wells will be drilled in the Tullos-Urania field soon. When the Sikes highway is completed, and this may be done by October 1st, Olla will be the center of a net of good roads. The Federal government has leased the North Louisiana Baptist Encampment grounds at the Castor Springs, near Olla, for another year. This camp will be used by the government for its needs, whatever that may be. The show given Mrs. Gertrude Richardson Friday evening at the Stallcup Café was a decided success. It was estimated that there were some $200.00 worth of presents given the newly weeded bride. Advertisement: In New Orleans Stop at the new Hotel Monteleone. Rates as low as $2.50 with bath; $2.50, detached bath. Conveniently located. Near theaters and stores. Ceiling fans in rooms. Free radios in rooms. Running ice water. Moderate restaurant prices. Lounges and mezzanine. Large, airy rooms. Parking space for 300 cars. 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK - Thursday, July 31, 1947: Plans for a municipal building which will house a fire state, municipal offices and a meeting hall will be presented to the town council at their next meeting, Mayor Clyde Russell said today. The recent water system extension and improvement program in Jena brought a number of new water subscribers. The purchase of a large fire truck some months ago created the need of housing facilities for this equipment, and the rapidly nearing completion of Jena's municipally-owned natural gas system have combined to rush the volume of Jena's bookkeeping and record-keeping out of the village class, creating the acute necessity of adequate housing facilities for the town's business. It is believed the proposition will be favorably accepted by the town council in which an election will be called to vote funds for the project. Scheduled to being construction on a new office building in Jena next week, the First National Insurance Co., has let a contract on a brick and concrete structure to be built on Oak Street on the corner lot just east of Posey's Economy Drug Store. A.J. Breithaupt and Leslie Drewett have contracted construction of the new home for First National. If bids which have already been presented to the post office department are accepted, Sunday mail service from Alexandria to Natchez, Miss., may be resumed soon, according to Postmaster P.C. Girlinghouse of Jena. Discontinued when bus drivers went on strike approximately two months ago, weekday mail has been handled by La. Midland Truck. R.W. Wagner, editor of The Jena Times has been appointed by Gov. J.H. Davis, to attend with other newspaper men, the Louisiana Highway Safety Conference at Baton Rouge, August 19-20. The group will be called on for information concerning highway safety measures and promotion. Gov. Davis will preside at the conference. American Legion John Russell Post No. 170 will meet at Court House August 7 to install officers to serve for the incoming year. 8th District Commander Henry Breazeale from Natchitoches will conduct the ceremony to install T.H. Bradley, commander; John Barrett, vice commander; Edd Smith, adjutant; J.H. Curington, chaplain; D. Floyd, Sgt. At arms; Jess Coleman and Hersell Floyd, color bearers; and J.D. Miller, finance officer. *Advertisement: SALE! Hobson's 5 cent & 10 cent Store. Sun suits and sun dresses, toddler seersucker's and sanforized ginghams, 49 cents; Ladies' wash dresses & uniforms, $1.00' Ladies' better dresses, Bambergs, Etc., $3.98: Men's sport shirts, white, tan, blue, fancy, regular priced u to $2.98, on sale at $1.98; All metal fly swatters, 9 cents; Pin up lamps, complete with bulb and shade, easy to pin up on any wall space, very special at $2.49; Heavy LL sheeting, 36-in width, 35 cents yard; Don't Miss This! Clothes pins, made in USA-spring type-non-rust- regular 17 cents dozen, during sale, only 1 cents A visit to our housewares department will pay you. We have just received a new shipment of enamelware, sifts, mixing bowls, milk buckets, milk strainers and other hard to get items. Yes, we have those long handled forks, for frying fish outside! Hot-Weather Poultry Practices: Hot weather always brings in poultry management, but good practices will solve most of them successfully. Feed your flocks free - that okra seed oil can be processed and to keep pullets growing rapidly. Have plenty of fresh water available to them at all times. Provide plenty of shade. Make use of good pastures, where possible, to keep feed costs down. Control fowl parasites. Sell hens that stop laying. *Advertisement: WOLF'S Grocery & Market, Olla, La., Phone 38. Free Delivery - We want to take this opportunity to thank the people for their patronage which has led to the success of our business during the short time we have been open. Schools will be opening soon and housewives will have less time for shopping. Take advantage of our order department and phone your order into us and we will deliver it to your door using our free delivery service. Wolf's foods are offered at oh-so-easy prices. Beef T-bone, 59 cents lb; smoked sausage, 33 cents lb.; Kimbel's pork and beans, 2 cans for 19 cents; French mustard, 6 oz., 8 cents; Prestage's Pure coffee, 3 lbs., 86 cents; fresh crowder peas, 10 cents pound; Cashmere Bouquet toilet soap, 2 for 25 cents; Camay, 10 cents; Clorox, 15 cents quart. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK - Thursday, July 27, 1972: Sonny Owens and Jim Box Owens stand beside a large Chevrolet-Oldsmobile sign just prior to being installed at Welch Motor Company. The new and modern signs replace the old Chevrolet sign which was a landmark in Jena, being the first neon sign installed in the town in the early '30's. At one time, Owens reports, it was one of five existing signs of its type in the United States. General Motors required the old sign to come down before the new sign went up. Mike White, president of the United Jaycees of LaSalle Parish and Mrs. Ethel Doyle, Mayor of Tullos, displays one of the many different "Pitch-In" signs that will be placed on litter barrels throughout the Olla, Tullos, Urania and Georgetown area. The United Jaycees of LaSalle Parish have set August as "Pitch-In" Month, a statewide project of the Louisiana Jaycees. A spokesman for Central Louisiana Telephone Company reports on their plans, in conjunction with South Central Bell Telephone Company, for a program of long distance service improvement. One step is a rearrangement of long distance lines in the towns of Olla, Tullos and Urania. Phone users from those areas will reach a long distance operator in Alexandria instead of Monroe when the proposed construction is completed in 1973. This will dramatically improve the quality of long distance service. Although the presidential race appears to be dominated the political scene at the present, LaSalle Parish voters will face hot Democratic first primary election on August 19th. Up for grabs is a total of nine elected offices that will concern voters in LaSalle Parish, including U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Public Service Commissioner, State Board of Education member, Court of Appeals Judge, District Judge, District Attorney, School Board members in Wars 2 and 4, and delegates to the state constitutional convention. LaSalle Parish's 1971 timber sales amounting to $2,384,835 generated an estimated $52,466,370 in economic activity, according to the Louisiana Forestry Association (LFA), LaSalle ranked eighth in the state on timber sales. *Advertisement: Big 8x10 living color portrait. A portrait special for everyone at 99 cents (plus 76 cents for handling). Compare at $25.00! Genuine natural color portraits, not the old style tinted or painted black & white photos. Selection of proofs, 4-6 poses to choose from. For all ages. Free to all senior citizens, free 8x10 living color portrait to all customers over 60 years of age. One per subject, one per family. Advertised special head and shoulders only. Smith's Fabrics. Monday, July 31 only. Local students of Mrs. Sharon Monk attended Fred Miller's twirling camp in Cedar Hill, Texas, near Dallas. Those at the camp were Penny Sue Franklin, Frank Martin, Nancy Burnham and Rhonda Terral, all of Jena; and Sue Gusset of Winnfield. *Advertisement: Championship Rodeo, July 28 and 29, Rapides Parish Coliseum, Alexandria. Featuring the Hager Twins, of television's Hee Haw program. Admission is $2.00 adults and $1.00 children.