From September 1945 files of The Eunice News
The Pearl Harbor assassins signed — on the dotted line — in Tokyo Bay on the battleship Missouri’s deck a formal and unconditional surrender to the United States, Great Britain, China and Russia.
The Live Oak Medical Park and Hebert Medical Group off U.S. 190 in Eunice is shown during construction. The facility opened Aug. 31. The 10,000-square-foot medical facility preserved live oak trees. (Photos by Myra Miller)
What you see resting upon two acres, graced with large oak trees, located between the Purple Peacock and Ardoin’s Marble Works on East Laurel Avenue, is opened to the public.
Jack Burson, alderman at-large
The city’s path to a master plan took some new turns Thursday with discussion by the Eunice Economic Development Committee and an announcement by Jackon Burson, alderman at-large.
Don Reber, chairman of the development committee, announced his resignation as chairman on Aug. 20.
William Wimberly, seated, at right, in white coveralls, helped to recover bodies in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Wimberly is now a general manger, funeral director and embalmer at Ardoin’s Funeral home in Eunice. (Submitted Photo)
The images were awful — people stranded on rooftops painted with the words ‘Help,’ dead in lawn chairs in front of the other Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and others floating in the floodwaters.
Improvements to the Eunice airport are on the city council’s agenda for its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Eunice Municipal Complex.
Four resolutions pertaining the airport are among the agenda items approved during an agenda-setting meeting Thursday.
