Daily World from Opelousas, Louisiana • Page 24

24 A 1 1 WORLD Opclousas, Sept. 6, 1970 TWIG DY TV16 By GLADYS DEVILLIER Spreading Out tho Loot whn a tp sticnwts in thp rnhhprv nf a Lockport gun shop, were injured in the accident as were four people in another car. -(APWirephotoi WESTWEGO Police Chief Sidney Guillot kneels to check guns that were recovered after a wild high-speed chase through two parishes ended in a crash in the New Orleans suburb Friday night. Four Negro youths, FOIKI CAPTURED Under Firo miles west of Hue. The position was knocked out with the help of helicopter gunships.

The South Vietnamese suffered several dead and wounded (AP Wirephoto) SOUTH VIETNAMESE troopers, under fire from North Vietnamese positions, take cover behind a tree trunk during an operation to eliminate an enemy mortar which was harrassing Fire Base O'Reilly, 20 Says Guns Stolen To Protect Black' NEW ORLEANS (UPIi "The guns belong to us. We stole them to protect the black community." Lionel Ward, 19, made the statement to newsmen iriaay OKI WIN: ASHY QUITS iMa Investigators Handed 4 Victories in Influence Probe after he and three other young The suspects were identified Negroes were captured by police who said the four had as Ward Larry Peterson, 18; Wayne Morris, 19, and John Baptiste, 21. All were from New Orleans. "We robbed the store to get By RAFAEL BERMUDEZ BATON ROUGE (UPI) The Louisiana Mafia investigating committee won a four-pronged moral victory Friday in its guns," Ward said after the cap ture. "There was no money in probe into organized crimes in fluence in state politics.

the heels of two other major victories for the investigating committee. A U. S. District Court in NTw Orleans ordered Life magazine writer David Chandler and Carlos Marcello to testify before the committee. Both men had been subpoenaed by the committee but had gone to the federal courts in District Judge Lewis Doher- robbed a Lockport gun shop of 40 guns and a case of ammunition.

The capture culminated a high speed chase along 50 miles of U. S. Highway 90 through two parishes. The chase ended when the suspects' car veered to avoid a police roadblock in Westwego and plowed into another car. The four suspects were injured slightly.

An occupant of the other car, Mrs. Olivia Cavalier of Morgan City, was critically hurt, and three members of her family suffered lesser injuries. Jefferson Parish authorities were holding the four suspects Friday night and expected to turn them over to Lafourche Parish deputies by Saturday. They were booked in Jefferson an attempt to block their ap- All About tho Posoy Family I have just read with interest Mugwump of Aug. 25 in which John Thistlethwaite wrote of the finding of a bottle from Posey's Apothocary and of the inability to locate any information on a Posey durggist in Opelousas.

My interest was especially aroused because I happen to be a bottle collector myself, and because last year one 'of my columns featured material on T. L. Posey, Opelousas druggist. The material was furnished to me by THELMA Pierrel of Washington who had gotten a copy of an article printed in "Southwest Louisiana -Historical and Genealogical," by Perrin and which was published in New Orleans in 1891. For those who may be interested in Mr.

Posey's history, I quote below the entire article on this personage. Prominent Family "Mr. Posey is a successful druggist of Opelousas (in 1891 1. He is a native of the place and was born in 1855. Some of the members of the Posey family have figured prominently in political affairs of the United States.

Of the great-grandfather of our subject, the International Cyclopedia says: 'Thomas Posey was born in Virginia, 1750, and settled in West Virginia, 1769. He became quartermaster of Lord Dun-more's army, and was engaged in a battle with the Indians at Point Pleasant in 1774. The next year he assisted in the defeat of Dunsmore at Gwynn's island. He afterward joined Morgan's riflemen, and fought with a force of British light infantry in New Jersey. Entering the army under Gates he was at the battle of Bemis' Heights, and Stillwater in 1777; and the same year conducted an expedition against the Indians.

In 1779, he commanded a battalion under Wayne, was prominent at the assault (sic) of Stony Point, and served 'Mad Anthony' until the evacuation of Savannah. He was at the surrender of Cornwallis, and was appointed brigadier general in 1793 on the staff of Gen. Washington. Moving into Kentucky he became senator, Lieutenant Governor and Major General of Militia He was United States Senator from Louisiana in 1812-13, and Governor of the Indian Territory from 1813 to 1816, when he became Commissioner of Indian Affrais'. His commission as brigadier general was kept in the family until taken by the Federals during the Civil War.

Bora in Kentucky "The paternal grandfather of T. L. Posey was born in Kentucky but came to Louisiana early in life, where he married and resided until the time of his death. But little of his history has been preserved. As gleaned from his autobiography, John Posey, our subject's father was born Aug.

4, 1819, in Opelousas. He was the youngest child of Lloyd and Eleanor (Collins) Posey, to whom were born four children. His mother was a native of Louisiana and died in 1824. His father died in 1821. Being thus left an orphan at an early age he was reared by his maternal aunt, Mrs.

Constance Littell. He speaks of her in the most affectionate terms, and says that a mother could have given him no more attention than she. He received a good education. From 1834 to 1838 he was at the St. Louis University.

The year 1839 he spent in Kentucky visiting his numerous relatives. Afterward he entered the mercantile business, but lost by the credit system. He then became deputy clerk of St. Landry, in which capacity he served until 1846. After a short interval, which he spent in Kentucky, he determined to study medicine, and this he did, for about a year, in the office of his uncle Alexander Posey.

He married in March 1848 and the following July purchased a stock of drugs and opened a drug business in Opelousas. In this he continued until the time of his death in 1886. "The subject of our sketch, T. L. Posey, succeeded his father in business and is now a popular druggist of Opelousas.

He was educated at the Jesuit school at Grand Coteau, La. and at Spring Hill College, near Mobile, Ala. "He is united in marriage with Miss Marie Ferrer of New Orleans. To them have been born six children, viz: John Mary Theophilus (died in infancy), Julia Ferrer, Thomas and Charles. Mr.

Posey and family are Catholics." Descendants? As can be seen from the above, the Posey family was welt known in at least two states, Kentucky and Louisiana, the greatgrandfather and grandfather having been prominent in the early affairs of the country. Why they are not better remembered in St. Landry parish is hard to figure out, unless they did not leave descendants. Perhaps someone can enlighten us on whether they did or did not. The next Twig will continue the tombstone inscriptions from the Old Grand Prairie cemetery as sent in by Rita Soileau of Ville Platte.

Also forthcoming, a partial list of burials in another cemetery in Evangeline Parish, as researched for Twig by Mrs. Earnest Fontenot, the former Amelia Lucretia West, born August 8, 1908 in Pine Prairie. Mrs. Fontenot recently made a trip to Ville Platte to visit relatives and was kind enough to copy some inscriptions. She and her husband live here in Slidell, as do their daughter, Emma Jane, who married Clarence A.

Toney; and their son, Earnest Joseph, Jr. who married Carl Eleander Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Toney, just about a month and a half ago experienced a tragedy in the complete loss of their home in Pearl River, La.

by fire. They were not at home and the fire was not discovered until it had razed the house. Nothing was saved. Jane told me a couple of days ago that one of the things she had to be thankful for was the fact that all of her genealogical books and records were at my home at the time of the fire. Which is something for all of us who have such records to consider seriously.

When I think of the years of research contained in my voluminous genealogical collection, I shudder to think of what I would do if they were destroyed! Living in a mobile home, my prime worry has always been, of course, bad weather. I know one thing, if I ever have to leave home again because of a hurricane, as we did for Camille, my records are coming with me. Personal property insurance, of course, covers our belongings, but how in the world do you insure something with such a high intangible value? You can't. I guess the only way any of us could make sure that such records are not destroyed is to have a duplicate set, at least of the records since books can always be replaced, and deposit them in some institutional library. Can anyone think of pearances.

Dismissed AARON H. STOVITZ, above, chief prosecutor in the Tate murder trial in Los Angeles, was taken off the case Friday. District Attorney Evella Younger, said this would allow him to return to administrative duties, but it was known that Younger has been concerned about some of Stovitz' out-of-court statements. (AP Wirephoto) volved. He said neither he nor his companions were members of any black militant organization.

"We are our own group," he said. The holdup victim was Emile Toups, who said that during the robbery one of the bandits suggested taking Toup's 3-year-old son hostage. The gunmen decided against it, Toups said, when he told them they were in enough trouble without a kidnaping charge. The robbers left Toups tied and gagged. Neighbors found him and called police.

State troopers picked up the getaway car at Hahnville and the chase began. Wires Replace Damaged Nervesj Agerton refused and the committee took the matter to district court. Doherty ruled against Agerton in the case and said the legislative committee had the power to subpoena state documents. Ashy testified to the committee that he had frequently placed off-track bets through bookies and through the racing commission offices at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, but denied Life magazine allegations that he was a bookie. The Lafayette racing commission member also admitted to the committee that he had placed more than 100 long distance calls to Vincent Marcello.

In an Aug. 31 letter to McKeithen, Ashy said he was resigning in order hot to "embarrass" the governor or the racing commission. McKeithen accepted the resignation Friday. Adams, a McKeithen appointee to the ABC board in 1964, told the Mafia committee he received his appointment as a political favor. However, he said he had never used his position on the ABC board which licenses bars and ty ordered state Revenue Collector Lee Agerton to comply with the committee's subpoena for the tax records of eight state lawmakers who allegedly were delinquent in filing their state income taxes.

-State Racing Commission member Tom Ashy, whom the committee questioned at length regarding his off-track betting activities and his friendship with Carlos Marcello's brother, resigned his post. Gov. John McKeithen asked the Louisiana Ethics Commission to investigate a possible conflict of interest in James Adams of Monroe, serving on the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and being part owner of a pinball machine company. Adams had testified before a committee hearing last month. McKeithen ordered his chief aide, W.

W. McDougall, to investigate the conduct of Wilson Choppin, director of the field audit division of the state Rev Parish with possession of a tolen car and numerous traffic infractions. Jefferson authorities said they would be charged in USSR Claims MOSCOW (UPI)-Soviet neurosurgeons said today they successfully used thin wires to replace damaged nerves in humans, restoring lost voices and correcting fallen face muscles. Lafourche with armed robbery. tvnhe Student InStctldizlm LAFAYETTE Mary The newspaper Sovietskaya ENROLLMENT CLIMBS Private School Gains Baham, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry R. Baham of Eunice. nussia vauviei nussuaj ue- scribed the nerve research in is presently working at the an article that credited Prof. B.

7 Oimatr with latralminfr thn Enskilda Bank in Stockholm 20 Students Per Day technique. '4 It said surgeons in Moscow M- If. a i enue Department, with regard to "audits of business in ounces to set his oinball ma iiv. 6 meuicai insuiuie nave performed 40 operations to restore damaged facial nerves VILLE PLATTE Figures released by the Evangeline which he purportedly had a personal economic interest." chines installed in liquor estab- Academy show that it has increased its enrollment by 250 students lshments. The Mafia committee had over last year.

Choppin, a 24-year employee Evangeline Academy, which of the Revenue Department, oy replacing mem wiin imn wires. It said the operations corrected unsightly asymmetry in the patient's faces. It also said surgeons had Sweden, through "a' program sponsored by the University of Southwestern Louisiana's Southwestern Association of Management (SAM. SAM is a professional student organization at USL made up of students with a wide variety of interests and talents. While in Sweden, Miss Baham plans to travel in other parts of Europe before returning to USL.

where she a senior majoring in management. Jan Evaeus of Stockholm is the Swedish exchange student brought to America this summer through the efforts of SAM. is totally white, had 2,259 students last term compared to subpoenaed the tax files of eight lawmakers Agerton said were delinquent in filing 1969 state income tax returns. However, testified to the committee that he was secretary treasurer of schools of the parish have doubled their enrollment. After the first week of school last year there were 1,470 whites, as compared to the 2,970 whites enrolled at the end of the first week of school this session.

2,507 students presently enrolled. a restaurant business which had a long history of state tax de succeeded in restoring lost -voices to patients whose larynx Evangeline Academy is nerves had been damaged bv I neither a federal or state Police Activities disease. Thp rennrt saiH enms uinrlr I linquency. However, Choppin told the committee he had not used his Revenue Department position to gain any special tax supported school. It has financed itself through individual contributions and student tutition.

breaks for the eating establish had ben done on replacing damaged optic nerves and spinal nerves. It did not say whether any such operations had succeeded. ment. Center of Controversy At Ville Platte High School, which was the center of controversy in last year's integration plan 99 more whites are enrolled after the first week of school than there were last Rev. Melvin Plauche, school The dismissals, orders and Negro Woman Faces Neglect Charges Gwendolyn Williams, 25-year- president stated the school is calls for investigations came on still registering students at a 2 Louisiana GIs Dead in Vietnam rate of 20 a day.

The private school is going into its second old Negro woman of 626 year in the Fall. The high school was integrated this year under WAHINGTON (UPI) Two more Louisiana servicemen have Blanchard has been charged with the criminal neglect of her two minor children, according to the office of Chief Earl Guidroz. died in Vietnam. the HEW plan. There were 116 whites enrolled at the end of the first week this session as compared to 17 last year for the The Pentagon identified them Friday as Spec 4 trie r.

mis tretta, son of Mr. and Mrs. first week. According to police, the woman was charged Saturday after a complaint was filed bv Frank C. Mistretta, Metairie, year of operation.

The parish's parochial school. Sacred Heart, which has been ordered to integrate this year by Bishop Maurice Schexnayder of the Lafayette Diocese, has increased its enrollment by 118 students. Of the 964 students, there is one Negro child in attendance. Supt. Nat Manuel announced Friday morning that the public Whether you think narrow or wide about her husband, Johnny Williams.

The Negro enrollment has increased only a small number and Spec. 5 Cecil Jackson son of Mrs. Reese E. Roach, over last year. Last year 2,971 Marksville.

Mistretta was killed in com' Lonnie Lavergne, 48, of Opelousas, was charged with drunk and disturbing the peace at 8:25 a.m. Saturday, following a disturbance at the Kataka Negroes attended Evangeline Parish public schools. This year bat. Jackson died of non-hostile 2,997 have enrolled. causes.

lounge on Landry St. He later released on $100 bond. wedding else? James S. LanHan white male, 20, of P.O. Box 1184, was charged with DWI and leaving of a hand grenade simulator.

ifflgs, The explosion damaged the me scene ot an accident main door, knocked out another door, shattered three windows Police Station Torn by Blast; Two Injured and left large burn marks Lawrence R. Quent, Negro, of Opelousas, was charged with attempted aggravated assault and simple escape, according to reports. No other details of the case were available Saturday throughout the offices. De Witt is located in Clinton County, about 20 miles north of Davenport. nignt.

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Clinton County Attorney L.D. Family Reunion Is Hold ArtCarved" 'EDDING RINGS Carstensen said the explosion occurred in the entry hall of the Police Department. Two officers in the building at the time. A -SAN TROPEZ SET B-SAN TROPEZ-SAN M0RIT2 SET SAN MORITZ SET Contact: Harry Koeder and Ben Burken CHARLES ARDOIN in MT hM iM Inm $10 er $ist. were knocked to the floor by the force of the blast and both 457-3262 Eunice At received ear damage and had THE CHILDREN of Seraphine and Vel-ma Boudreaux Metrejean gathered recently at South City Park with their families for an all day get together.

The children are from left. Paul Henry Metrejean. Mrs. Jerrv Lavergne Madeline i. Mrs.

Ross Guillory Bobbie i. Mrs. Curley Marks (Gladys). Mrs. Darius Richard Martha t.

Mrs. Sam Devillier Marie t. Mrs. Cleveland Stelly (Mablet. Mrs.

Ga briel Lavergne Agnes i. and Wally S. Metrejean. Approximately 60 descendants of the couple attended the reunion from Groves. Port Oraiu-e, Bridge City and Houston.

and Lafayette. Leonville. Port Barre. Prairie Ronde. Laplace, Baton Rouge, Morgan-za.

Plaquemine. Addis. Maringouin and Opelousas. The reunion was climaxed with a dancing party at night. temporary blurred vision.

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