December 2022

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Take a Bow

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Directors, cast and crew of Chip Off the Old Block (CHIPS) High School theatre group celebrating together after the recent production of “Twenty Minute Romeo and Juliet” by Kristin Doherty. Pictured (in no particular order) are Thomas Frazier-Cole, Bailey Landry, Isabel Watkins, Brooklyn Atteberry, Allyson Treme, Braedon Trahan, Ava Broussard, Brooklyn Doucet, Shyla Swarna, River Trahan, Liam Landry, Hannah Minden, Morgan Litton, Elizabeth Bergeaux, Casey LaCoste, Elina Lejeune, Haylee Miller, Majid Oumarou, Jesse Ward, Lance LaFosse, Emily Davidson, Blair Bertrand and Ellie McMillin. The high school CHIPS group will be holding another production the the spring.

Two from parish join Navy as Avengers of Pearl Harbor

Two Jeff Davis Parish men, Fred Allen Ritter, 19, of Hathaway, and Clifton Doucet, 19, of Elton, were among the 12,326 American youths who were sworn into the Navy as 'Avengers of Pearl Harbor' Sunday.

Daily News column wins writing award

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The column, 'Whirlwind Impressions,' which has appeared weekly in The Daily News since 1962, won the first place in the annual Margaret McDonald Memorial Writing Contest of Louisiana Press Women.

Thursday Bridge Club

Mrs. W. H. Adams’ home was lovely with potted plants and bright flowers for the meeting of the Thursday Bridge Club on its named afternoon. The cheery open fire and softly shaded lights added charm to the setting.

Germany buys 1,000 tons of Jennings junk

That Germany is arming in a big way is evidenced from an order for 1,000 tons of scrap iron from G.I. Golden of this city, who has started making shipments this week to the Reich. About twenty freight cars will be needed to load the scrap which will b taken to the port of Lake Charles thence shipped to Hamburg.

Santa visit brings joy to a frosty Alaska Inupiaq village

NUIQSUT, Alaska (AP) — Though the weather outside was frightful, schoolchildren in the northern Alaska Inupiac community of Nuiqsut were so delighted for a visit by Santa that they braved wind chills of 25 degrees below zero just to see him land on a snow-covered airstrip.

K-pop star among 8 to join Japan tycoon Maezawa’s moon trip

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday that K-pop star T.O.P will be among eight people who will join him on a flight around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship in the coming years.

POLICE REPORT

( Editor’s Note: An arrest does not indicate whether a person is guilty of the crime with which they have been charged. A person is not considered guilty until they are convicted of a crime in a court of law.)

Manatee relative, 700 new species now facing extinction

(AP) — Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday.