Sunday will mark officially the second time in more than 40 years that the town of Elton has had a public library. The difference this time is that more than likely it is here to stay.
A general one-third cut in railroad passenger service on lines using coal has been ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The reduction is effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, Sunday, January 8th. The ICC said the action was made necessary by the dwindling supplies of coal due to the union-management crisis in the coal industry.
Jeff Cook, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Jennings, spoke to members of the Jeff Davis Republican Women about a food bank ministry that the church has had for the last five years. They have partnered with Second Harvest to distribute nutritious groceries such as dry, canned and fresh produce. Approximately $70 worth of food is given out to the neediest of the needy each month, regardless of race, religion or background. They have 700 clients who currently qualify.
Allen Lee Roberts, the man who fashioned a key from a broom handle and nonchalantly unlocked cell doors and walked to freedom from the Jeff Davis jail last July 28, has been apprehended in Pheonix, Arizona, and officers there will surrender him to Sheriff Azenor Buller as soon as the extradition papers are completed.
Not since Nov. 26, 1940, has the National Guard, Company C-3rd Battalion, 156th Inf., 256 Brigade, been activated for duty in a threat of war. Many area men were called to active duty prior to World War II. Now, 123 men of the lo
The Live Oak Hotel at Lake Arthur was built by the L.A. Town Lot and Land Co. before 1890, and stood on the corner of Arthur Avenue and Lake Street until it was dismantled in the mid-1930s.
Isaac John, an employee of the Louisiana State Rice Milling company was shot in the left index finger and the left foot by Earl Breaux, another employee of the plant Thursday morning following an altercation over a lunch basket. Breaux is in the parish jail where he is being held on a charge of shooting with intent to kill.
