From the Files ... February 1931

From files of The Eunice News:
February 1931

Bernard Scates, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Scates, has been elected president of the Union University (Jackson, Tenn.) student body. He is a four-year ministerial student and has been called to preach by First Baptist Church, Camden, Tenn.

Eunice schools and the Parent-Teachers Association have come up with a plan for feeding poor children in the classrooms. Students enrolled in high school work programs bring a sandwich each each day to be put in the lunch baskets of destitute children, who had been going without lunch until Prof. A.A. Sibley appealed to Mrs. C.W. Finley, PTA president. About 75 young children are being fed by the program.

St. Landry Bank & Trust has purchased Southern Savings Bank, which suspended business here on Dec. 31. M.M. Milburn, former cashier of the closed institution, will be manager of the Eunice office. Its opening gives Eunice its first bank in the 45 days since Southern closed. Four institutions have closed in the last 10 years.

The new bank released funds of 11 of the city’s civic organizations, subject to a 15 percent discount, the difference being transferred to checking accounts for the groups, which include both public and parochial schools and Protestant and Catholic churches.

Atlantic and Pacific Corp. has closed a lease with J.C. Keller, manager of the Liberty Theater, to occupy a space in the theater building. The A&P will handle groceries, meats, fruits and vegetables.

Several thousand persons viewed the sound motion picture shown by Ford Motor Co. detailing its manufacturing process.

Paving of the sides of Second Street, in the business district, is almost completed. The $12,500 project is being done by Gulf Coast Construction. All of Second and four other streets were recently paved 18 feet in width by the Highway Commission.

Fire of an undetermined origin destroyed the Iota Rice Mill, owned by J.A. Sabatier of Crowley. The loss is estimated at $200,000.