From The Eunice News files

From September 1963 files of The Eunice News
Business and civic leader Wilson J. Moosa is a candidate for the Louisiana House of Representatives. Also in the race are Newton Thibodeaux and Harry Garland.
The mayor and board of aldermen voted to support location of a home for retarded children in the city. Alderman Albert Picou made the motion to support the Catholic Diocese of Lafayette’s plan to build such a facility and seek to have it here.
Bids are to be received this month for a new Negro school in the Happy Hill area. It will be on a 10-acre site.
Mayor J.J. Stagg signed a contract with New Orleans architect Ashton Smith, formerly of Mamou, to design a new City Hall complex.
Work on a Eunice airport on the Adeline LeDoux property about two miles south of town should begin this month. Sen. Frank Diesi said the city will rent the property with an option to buy.
The city has approved the Jaycee idea of release a population of squirrels in the municipality. Several dozen will be set free, on their own against dogs, cats and two-legged foes.
Michael Frey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Frey, is the first recipient of a school athletic jacket for scholastic achievements at St. Edmund’s Catholic High School.
Mahlan Bedill of Monroe will operate a White Store franchise in the former King Dollar Store building next to St. Landry Bank on Second Street.
St. Anthony Catholic parish began religion courses for students attending public schools.
Eunice anglers Eddie Brown, Al Bihm and Emile Miller caught 110 red snappers from 12 ounces to four pounds. They fished out of Oil City.
Senior class officers at St. Ed’s are Hugh Fontenot, president; Mary Atteberry, vice-president; Kenneth Guillory, treasurer; Donna Ledoux, secretary; and Jimmie Watson, student council representative.