From The Eunice News files

From the July 1945 files of The Eunice News.
Mayor Chester J. Derbes and aldermen J.B. Andrews, Dr. Harry Jenkins, O.A. LaHaye, Standord Laughlin and I.E. Miller have taken their oathes of office, as has Police Chief Cilton Jeansonne.
Louis A. Richard of this city has been promoted to state manager of Woodmen of the World. He and his family will make their home in Alexandria. His offices will be in the Guaranty Bank building across from City Hall.
Louis F. Veillon of Eunice has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in bombing missions in the India-Burma theater. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Juste Veillon.
Word comes from Okinawa that Marine Cpl. Jake Moody has been moved from the front line after losing his left leg to a Japanese mortar round while fighting cave-to-cave on the island. He is a son of Mrs. L.J. Moody, Sr. and enlisted in September 1942.
Pearl Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor of this city, is now a first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps and writes home about the horrors she saw at the German camp at Dachau She is a 1938 graduate of Eunice High.
The Post Office Department has approved city mail delivery service at the Eunice branch, according to Postmaster Rene Tate, as soon as numbering is complete and receptacles installed.
Louis Armstrong, the King of the Trumpet, and his orchestra will play at the Cedar Lane Club in Opelousas. Admission is $1.75 per person in advance, $2.25 at the door. The orchestra will play 9:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m.
White schools in St. Landry Parish will open Sept. 11. Negro schools will open Sept. 25.
Hedges, shrubbery, and flowers overlapping sidewalks as well as all hedges and shrubbery plated on street corners and blinding intersections will be removed, Chief Jeansonne said.