From the Files ... January 1975

From files of The Eunice News:
January 1975

The Agriculture Department announced a 1975 rice acreage allotment of 1.8 million acres, about 15 percent below last year’s allowance.

Afternoon shift officers of the Eunice Police Department are Donald Smith, Raymond Malveaux, Darwin Fontenot, Tommy Morris, Freddie Anderson, Ivan Carrier, Gary Duplechin and Lt. Jimmy Pierrotti.

Eunice native Horace Thibodeaux has joined Morgan City Bank & Trust as an assistant vice president. He was previously business manager and chief accountant for the Acadia Parish School Board.

Trent Angers, 26, managing editor of Acadiana Profile, has been promoted to editor and general manager. He owns Acadiana News Agency in Lafayette.

Eunice’s Murphy Richard, a 12-year veteran of the St. Landry Parish Police Jury, was named assistant parish manager.

New members of the National Honor Society have been announced at St. Edmund High. They are Gayle Keller, Celeste Dossman, Jason Huckaby, Francine Manuel, Stephen Stagg, Matt Johnson, Andrew Bollich and Mark Miller.

Four from Eunice are on the Dean’s List at LSU for the Fall semester. Earning 3.5 or better Grade Point Average were Mervin Ardoin, Cynthia Aucoin, Kayla Aucoin and Donald Troha.

The city has signed a contract for nearly $2 million in improvements to Moosa Memorial Hospital. S.J. Lemoine of Bunkie is the contractor. Construction was approved in a 1973 bond and tax vote.

The freshman basketball roster at St. Edmund’s consists of Larry Amy, Jay Caswell, Jamie McGee, Greg Fontenot, Andrew Derouen, Rene Hebert, Tommy Hillman and Jed Joubert.

The City Council proposed, at the suggestion of engineer Red Aucoin, construction of 14-inch weirs in Richard Gulley to retard vegetation growth in the drain.