From the Files ... January 1951

From files of The Eunice News
January 1951

A survey began this month to determine existing land use in the city. It is a preliminary step to establishing an ordinance. Brown and Butler of Baton Rouge is conducting the study.

Pfc. Francis A. Rizzuto sends the city greetings from Pusan, Korea where he is stationed with the US Army. His family lives at 240 Elm Ave.

Eldon Shuff, Billy Gillett and Red Sonnier received honorable mentions in the Times-Picayune Class A All-Star football team for 1950.

Lt. Gen. Troy Middleton, veteran of both World Wars, including the D-Day landing and the Battle of the Bulge, is the new president of LSU.

Frank Savoy, Sr. and Frank Savoy, Jr. are pleased with the turnout for formal dedication of their new hospital in Mamou. First patient was the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Perron. He had an appendectomy.

Eunice bank deposits topped $12 million at year’s end. The FDIC recently raised insurance guarantees on deposits to $10,000.

Vincent and Welch Inc., petroleum producers of Lake Charles and Eunice, are new owners of the Florence Hunting Club south of Gueydan, for many years a mecca for prominent sportsmen all over the nation. It includes a two-story lodge and 5,000 acres of marshland near the Intracoastal Canal and 2,000 acres under rice cultivation. Reported price is $200,000. Sellers were the Weber brothers, Albert Lowrie and Carl Tuttle, department store and lumber tycoons, all of Detroit, Mich.

Five area high schools are on the list of accredited facilities from the Southern Assn. of Colleges and Secondary Schools. They are Church Point, Crowley, Rayne, Ville Platte and Sunset.

The building site for the proposed St. Agnes Catholic Chapel has been donated by Mr. and Mrs. Maxime McGee. It is on property south of the McGee home on Maple Avenue. Approximate cost of the building, which will serve about 400 familes in that section of Eunice, is $16,000, according to Rt. Rev. A. Martel, pastor of St. Anthony’s.