The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 2

'Wednesday, Qrt, 24. 1973 TUB SlIKKVF.PORT TIMES 1 Arcadia Students Clearing Debris According to principal Richard Turner, the high schoolers have been working without pay and without request. "They Just came up Monday morning and asked what they could do to help. We nave a ball game Friday, and Farmerville offered to let us use their stadium, but the kids want it here, so they started cleaning up the stadium," Turner said. That was the place to start.

The fire was most costly to the athletic program, ByBillEbarb Times Ruston Bureau ARCADIA More than 80 Arcadia High School students have been busy since Monday morning clearing debris from the stadium stands at the high school in preparation for a football game Friday. The debris consists of the burned ruins of the Arcadia High School gymnasium-auditorium which burned to the ground Friday night. Ordinance Compliance Is Ordered Times Aleiandrla Bureau MARKSVILLE The town council here, citing a need for orderly growth, has ordered municipal officials to rigidly enforce the zoning ordinance adopted last December. The council said toning was important to promote the orderly growth of the community in issuing its order. Council members passed the ordinance put before it by the municipal planning commission.

"We either abide by the zoning ordinance or we don't," commented Mayor Ben LaBorde. "There is no In between." Persons convicted of violating the misdemeanor ordinance face a maximum $25 fine and 30 days in jail. program, Turner said that a gym facility across town will have to be used for practice. He said also that purchases are already being made to try to get the athletic programs back together, Club Suffers One school-related club of nonstudents, the Boosters Club, also suffered from the blaze. The boosters during the past year have built their membership to about 130 people, Turner said, and their participation has aided greatly in the purchase much needed equipment.

Now the boosters will have to start over again. However, the students are undaunted, Turner said. He said that the fire will possibly work as a stimulus to make the athletic teams work even harder, as they have been all week, getting ready for Friday night football. LaSalle Tax Vote Called for Nov. 10 VVM NVJ according to Turner, one time head coach at Arcadia.

"The gymnasium was completely destroyed with the dressing facilities for basketball and football. The only football equipment saved was what the boys were wearing at Coushatta that night and some junior equipment that was In the elementary building. All the basketball equipment was lost All the weight lifting apparatus, washers and dryers and such were burned up," he said. Trophies Lest A goodly portion of Arcadia High School history also went up in flames, according to Turner, as a trophy case housed in the gym contained all the school's athletic trophies since 1947. That included two state championship trophies from 1965 (football and basketball), 25-30 outstanding basketball trophies and numerous other consolation trophies, Turner said.

Just in equipment lost, Turner said that about worth of basketball and football equipment was destroyed. The flames also licked at the junior high section of the high school complex, but fire units from five North Louisiana cities managed to save that building. The high school itself was unharmed and classes there will continue soon. All classes were originally dismissed through Wednesday. As for the basketball night against Farmerville.

The gym burned to the ground Friday dumping the debris on the stadium. The elementary building of the school was condemned because of the fire. Flanked By Rubble from the Arcadia High School gymnasium, students from that school clear bricks, charred' wood and misshapen metal from the seats of the high school stadium in preparation for a football game Friday THE LARGEST MENS STORE Times Natchitoches Bureau JENA A special tax election, calling for an increase in operating funds for the LaSalle Parish School Board, is set for Saturday, Nov. 10. Houston Posts School Census HOUSTON (AP) A report released by the U.S.

Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW; Tuesday showed the Houston public school district now has 89,400 black pupils and 87,567 whites. The district's total enrollment is 266,981 with the other 39,914 pupils mostly Latin-Americans. Registered voters will go to the polls to vote for or against a 7-mill tax to raise funds for maintenance and improvements for the parish wide school system. At a recent meeting of the school board, Dr. H.

G. Denning, superintendent of schools, told the board that there had been no increase in school funds since 1966 and that the school board has been going in the hole for the past several years trying to maintain school property and equipment. Denning said the deficit last year amounted to $70,000. Figures presented to the board by Denning showed the total expenditures for the school systerm during the 1973-74 school term will run about $2.5 million. Dedication Set Sunday For Jeria Amphitheater Weinberg Brocato of Alexandria, the outdoor structure is reported to be the only one of its kind in rural Louisiana.

The stage, itself, is the first of a three part construction program. The second phrase consists of providing seats for 1500 persons and the final phrase would see wings added to the stage to provide rest rooms. Dr. Torgrimson is past president of the Louisiana Outdoor Drama Association (LODA). He is a member of the board of directors of the Natchitoches Parish Tourism Association; a member of the Northwest Louisiana Tourism Association and chairman of the National Certification Board for the Music Teachers National Association.

Under Torgrimson's direction, a play written by Paul Green, will open in June, 1974, for a 10-week season. The play is based on the life of St. Denis, the founding of Natchitoches and the establishing of trade with Mexico. Times Natchitoches Bureau JENA Dedication ceremonies are scheduled for Sunday at 2 p.m. for Jena's new amphitheater with Dr.

Paul Torgrimson, head of the speech department at Northwestern State University, scheduled to be guest speaker. Recently completed, the amphitheater is located in the Jena City Park and will be used for performances of the living iarts, festivals and other Designed by Barron, Youth in Houston Catahoula To Undergo Tests port iSSsS ISears 2-Speed Permanent Press Washer Regular $189.95 SAVE $11.95 the chambers of District Court Judge William M. Hatten, in whose court both Henley and David Owen Brooks will be tried. Brooks, 18, is charged'in the slayings of four of the 27 youths. Harris County Atty.

Carol Vance said Brooks1 will be tried first in the death of William Ray Lawrence, 15. lawyer, Tex Musick, said he has not decided whether Brooks will plead insanity. Brooks' trial has been set for March 4. Henley telephoned police last Aug. 8 and told them he had killed Dean Corll, 33, during a sex and paint-sniffing party at Corll's suburban Pasadena home.

Henley named Corll as the leader in a homosexual murder ring. Henley and Brooks, who apeared at police headquarters the next day," have said they procured young boys for Corll's sex parties. Henley led officers to a Houston boat shed where 17 bodies were recovered. He later led investigators to the graves of four other victims buried near Lake Sam Rayburn in San Augustine County. Brooks and Henley showed investigators where six more bodies were buried on a beach near High Island.

Pathologists have identified 20 of the 27 bodies. HOUSTON (AP) The attorney for a youth accused in the Houston mass uders said Tuesday his client will undergo psychiatric tests to determine his sanity. Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, has been indicted on murder charges in the death' of six of the 27 teen-age boys and youths whose bodies were found in Houston, two. other locations last August. Henley is scheduled to go on trial Jan.

14 in the slaying of Charles Cobbie, 17, one of the victims. Charles Melder, Henley's attorney, said two psychiatrists of his choosing will examine Henley. After psychiatric examinations are completed, Melder said, he will decide whether to plead Henley guilty by reason of insanity at the time oftheslaying. Melder said he would not raise at the trial the question of Henley's present condition although Texas law forbids conviction of a person adjudged to be insane. Melder previously has resisted efforts to have Henley undergo an examination by Harris County psychiatrist Dr.

Benjamin Sher and other experts on mental ailments. However, Melder said he now has no objections to such examinations. Melder's announcement came during a conference in Times News Service HARRISONBURG The feasibility study for the airport has been approved by the Catahoula Parish Police Jury. plan was presented to the jury by Tommy Keen representing Forte Tablaba, a Baton Rouge engineering firm hired as planner for the Parish Planning Commission. Keen told the jury the study would cost approximately $20,000.

The parish would put up 12 per cent of the cost, the Louisiana Department of Public Works, 12 per cent and the Federal Aviation Administration 75 per cent. He said the FAA would not approve extension of the Jonesville Municipal Airport even though it was highly rated on air traffic for an airport its size. The location for a parish airport will be tied in with the location of port facilities, he said. A study of port facilities is now being made by Kisatchie-Delta Economic Development District Council. The jury also adopted a resolution accepting the contract of Barron Heinburg Brocato, Alexandria architects, for plans and supervision of the construction of an addition to and renovation of the present courthouse.

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