Yesterday's News

Area residents to hear Graham

Two large Greyhound buses have been chartered to carry passengers from Jennings to the once-delayed Billy Graham Greater Houston Crusade on Nov. 26, Dr. J.W. Lee, pastor of the First Baptist Church, said today.

Dr. Lee said the Jennings Ministerial Association is promoting attendance of Jennings and area residents to the crusade. He said a block of 150 reserved tickets has been requested so a large number of persons from this area can attend.

The crusade will be held in the world famous Astrodome.

Germany buys 1,000 tons of Jennings junk

JEFF DAVIS PARISH NEWS

Oct. 1, 1936

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 be taken to the port of Lake Charles thence shipped to Hamburg.

Germany is offering a price of $12.50 a ton for the junk iron. Heretofore, Mr. Golden has shipped all scrap to Japan but Germany is now outbidding Tokyo for the war material.

Robberies cause store owner to change name

JENNINGS DAILY NEWS

July 7, 1996

One local businesswoman has a hard time believing that "lightning" doesn't strike twice in the same place. For her, it has struck eight times.

Well, maybe it wasn't lightning, but Mona's Cajun Shack on East Railroad Avenue in Jennings has been robbed that many times in less than two years. And how is owner Mona Benoit handling the situation? Well, she changed the name of her business, of course.

City's First General Store

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L.L. Morse and Sons was the first general store to be located in Jennings. It was located on Main Street where the Tupper Museum stands today. 

SEBE JOHNSON GETS LIFE IN PENITENTIARY

JENNINGS DAILY TIMES-RECORD

April 24, 1916

Sebe Johnson was this morning sentenced to serve a life sentence in the state penitentiary. He pled guilty without capital punishment on the charge of murdering Almane Dean, a little girl, near Phillips Bluff last September.

Farm boy, once rejected as illiterate, comes home a war hero

JEFF DAVIS PARISH NEWS

July 18, 1946

T-5 Alvin J. Romero has come home from the wars with hero laurels almost as befitting as those of Sgt. Alvin York, for whom he was given his first name. The military careers of the two heroes run remarkably along the same line.

Jennings pilot decorated at White House

THE JENNINGS DAILY NEWS

Aug. 3, 1956

Decorations for "skilled and daring seldom matched in time of peace" were awarded at a White House ceremony today to 30 Army and Air Force pilots who recovered bodies and wreckage after the June 30 Grand Canyon airliner disaster.

The collision of a United Airlines plane and a Trans World Airlines Constellation took 128 lives, the worst commercial airliner disaster in U.S. history.

Area folks observe heavenly ‘fireworks’

THE JENNINGS DAILY NEWS

Nov. 17, 1966

A "fireworks display" of falling meteors — shooting stars — was viewed by numerous persons in the area early this morning.

First sightings were reported about 3:30 a.m.. They continued until dawn.

Astronomers had predicted that the phenomenon would occur in statements earlier this week. They said that such displays are viewable in this region about once a year.

Ellender says ‘real’ policy change in mixing doubtful

U.S. Sen. Allen J. Ellender today informed the Jeff Davis Parish Police jury he doubted "any real policy changes" would come from the legislative branch of the federal government regarding integration of schools.

In a letter to jury president J.E. Fontenot of Welsh, Ellender said he was "very much concerned over the effect" of the recent Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling demanding total and immediate desegregation of Louisiana schools.

JUNEAU JOINS HALL OF FAME

What do you do after you've won six state championships, five of those in a row, finished as the state runner-up three times, won 73 games in a row, and finished with a winning percentage of 85 percent?

You get inducted into the Louisiana High School Athletic Association/Louisiana High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame.