Lake Charles American-Press from Lake Charles, Louisiana • Page 2

2 SUNDAY. JAN. 8. KK5. LnU COLDER ON weather ij expected for the Gulf states tomorrow.

Rain and snow orn predicted for the Northwest and snow in the north central border region. The Northeast will hove snow and cold weather. It will be warmer in Plains and western Lakes states. Little change is expected in the West. W(reDhoto) Congressmen Start Worrying When Mail From Home Drops By ROGER D.

GREENE WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 WV-Just the mention of "Potomac fever," an affliction that causes a man to swell without growing, Is enough to set any one of the nation's lawmakers shuddering. Some are Smitten without knowing it. All avoid it like the plague. The symptoms are tricky, but here's an example of how it acts: To the nation's lawmakers, one of the headaches in a pleasantly harrowing business is the millions of letters and have to all over the country.

Many of the letters ask favors, such a hard-to-get hotel reservations during Washington's springtime Cherry Blossom Festival. Others want jobs, or perhaps an appointment to the Military or Naval Academy. Some even seek marital advice. Yet on all Capitol Hill there's not a legislator to be found who won't say, w(th a mellow-voiced ring of sincerity: "I live to hear from my constituents." The reason, at least in part, Is the dread of Pptotnac fever. Once a congressman or senator starts ignoring the home folks or otherwise losing touch with the grass roots, the word soon gets around that the bug of big-headedness has claimed another victim.

In politics, that's usually fataJ. What happens when you write your congressman? To find out I interviewed a typical congressman from a heavily populated district, Rep. Barratt O'Hara (D-IU). "If letters from home are a headache," said O'Hara, "then you'd have to say I like' headaches. "It's the letters that keep-us on our toe's in Congress.

They show us how the people feel on controversial issues. Often they decide how we vote." O'Hara, now.serving his third term in Congress and representing a constituency of more than 350,000 persons in six Chicago wards', said he used to get more than 1.000 letters a week in earlier sessions of Congress. During the past season he got about 100 a The 73-year-old O'Hara. said he got 15,000 letters in during the 81st Congress. That was Simply Sensational! Our gay pedal pusher set with, smart striped trim for all your spring and summer outings, or to just sit in the sun.

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Sometimes it takes hours to track down the required information on a single question. He recalled the case or a woman who wrote that she had hardening of the arteries and her doctor had prescribed a little whisky, but she was allergic to whisky. What should she do? "We thought gin might do the trick," O'Hara chuckled. "We finally got the information she wanted after phoning half the government agencies in town." He said that with his mail-answering chores added to his other duties, he often.works from 8 a.m. to later and usually spends several hours at his office on Sundays, Asked if.

he thinks congressmen are overworked, he said: "I don't think anybody can work too hard, but I'll say can't do the job in a 40-hour week You just can't be a lazy congress man any more." He said he always tries to answer each letter to a point. When a major controversy is raging and he gets hundreds of letters about it, he writes the first three or four replies himself. That sets the tone for his staff of three secretaries to answer the rest. As for letters from pressure groups, he said he can spot them "a mile off." "When I get a flock of letters with the same ideas and often the same wording from four or five states, I know the heat is on," he said. "I know its the handiwork of a skilled, organized pressure group.

"For example, I receive very heavy mail on the issue of socialized medicine. Some of my constituents sent me stereotyped letters which had obviously been given to them by their famUy doctor." House Postmaster H. H. Morris said congressional mail has fallen off since World War II, but a recent spot check showed House members alone receive 172 mail bags of about 700 letters per bag in a single average total 120,400 letters. That would mean 43.M6.000 a year! LEGISLATIVE PRODUCTION PHOENIX, ArU.

State Rep. Enos Schaffer gave his fellow legislators a birth announcement they could understand when be became the father of a son: "Announcing a candidate for the Legislature in the year 1980 is the minimum age), Richard Enos Schaffer. Produced through the cooperation of Garnett J. Schaffer, chairwoman, Planning and Development Committee; Enos P. Schaffer, chairman, Ways and Means Committee, and Dr.

Brainard and Or. Scott, Cochairmen, Labor Committee." J. H. Hoffpauir Services Sunday Funeral services for John Hardy Hoffpauir, 67, West Lake who died Saturday morning at St. Patrick's hospital, will be p.m.

Sunday at the Lake Charles First Nazarene church, the Rev. Paul Pitts officiating. Mr. Hoffpauir had lived in West Lake the past SO years, though he was born in Acadia parish November 16, 1888. He had been ill for several years.

Before his illness he worked at the West Fork Ferry and previously worked for Lake Charles Concrete Pipe Products for 15 years. Survivors include his son, John Mobile, seven brothers, Louis, Clinton and Daniel Hoffpauir, all of- Lake Charles, Rev. 0. B. Hoffpauir, Ash Flat, C.

E. Hoffpauir, Crowley, Adam W. Hoffpauir, West Lake and Rev. A.H. Hoffpauir, Many, and one sister Mrs.

E. L. Faulk, Lake Charles. Pallbearers are W. W.

Hoffpauir; Clinton Hoffpauir, Stanley P. Hoffpauir, Daniel V. Hoffpauir, Radford Hoffpauir and Harley E. Hoffpauir. Swedish Truce Team Member Kilkd in Korea MUNSAN.

Korea, Sunday, Jan. 8 W) A high-ranking Swedish member of the truce commission died Saturday after he "apparently slipped and fell beneath the wheels of a U.S. Army truck" in the demilitarized zone, the Allies announced. Col. Nore Eriksson was pronounced dead about an hour after the accident near Panmunjom, said a statement from U.N.

Military Armistice Commission headquarters. Col. Eriksson was commander the Panmunjom camp of the Swedish detachment of the four- nation Neutral Nations Supervis- pry Commission, charged with inspecting military movements in both North and South Xorea Churches Meet To Plan Merger HOUSTON. Jan. 7 tfl-Lay leaders of the Evangelical and He- formed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches in six states are to meet here Jan.

14-15 study plans for merger of the two denominations. The groups are to unite permanently in 1957 as the United Church of Christ. Attending the leadership conference will be lay leaders from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska. Shreveport Tot Drowns in Pond SHREVEPORT, Jan. 7 Thomas Erik Luginbyhl.

4, drowned today when he fell into a fish pond at a local landscape firm. He was the son of Capt. and Mrs. Thomas T. Luginbyhl of nearby Barksdale Air Force Base.

Police said the wandered away from his parents unnoticed white they were shopping for plants at the nursery. The body later was pulled from the pond. Baton Rouge Little Theatre Presents Play at McNeese By FRITZI KXAUSE "Happy Birthday," AniU airy three-act version of what happens to a mousy librarian on her flrtt visit to a bar, was brought to theatre fans here last night by the Baton Rouge Little Theatre under the auspices of Lake Charles Little Theatre. For the record, the form- ance represented the local Little Theatre's tenth annual guest show. But it was the palms of an enthusiastic audience at McNeese auditorium which truly made the visiting players an integral part of LCLT tradition of bringing guest thespians to the boards here once each season.

The players from Louisiana's capital city unfolded the story of Addle Bemis on a set built by local workers from specifications and sent here by the Baton Rouge group. The scene for this episode in Miss Addie's life is the Mecca, a neighborhood cocktail lounge JANUARY STEADY WROUGHT IRON BUNK BEDS SALE PRICE sOnoo COMPLETE 2 INNERSPRING MATTRESSES 2 LINK SPRINGS GUARD RAIL AND LADDER 89 13 'Pay 5.00 Down FORMERLY PRICED AT $23.00 SOUTHERN 718 RYAN FURNITURE ING. PH. HE 6-3351 Continental Subsidiary Changes Title CAIRO. Egypt, Jan.

Oil Company, a subsidiary of Continental Oil Company operating in Egypt, has changed its name to Sahara Petroleum Company, it was Saturday Millard K. Neptune, general manager. "The change in name," said Neptune, "was advisable because of the difficulty Arabic-speaking nationals have in pronouncing the word Egyptians call their country 'Misr' instead of 'Sahara' is a familiar Arabic word meaning Sahara Petroleum Company Is exploring for oil In a acre concession, granted by Egypt in 1S54 to Ohio Oil Company, Richfield Oil Corporation and Cities Service Company. It spudded its first wildcat last summer at a site 28 miles southwest of Alexandria and is now drilling at approximately 10,000 feet, with ho commercial oil shows recorded to date. marked by an ersatz (but bravely indisputable) Oreiatal atmosphere.

And "through these portals pass the nicest people la Newark." A sign over the door says 10. One of them if the daughter of the neighborhood drunk, prim and proper Addie who finds it accessary to go into the bar. And with the cooperation of all "the nicest people in Newark" one drink in honor of the occasion leads to Addie's first drunk. A Helen Hayes vehicle on Broadway several seasons ago, the play has 21 members in the cast. Addie's role was played By Beverlye Brown.

Other cast members included Betty Rae Boudreaux, Dot Bourgeois, Lorraine Burton, Elsie Glindmeyer, Margaret Kramer, Gladys Newman, Jo Ann Ragusa, Nancy Sams, Wilds Bacot, BUI Black, George Gallagher, Jack Harrington, Harvey Hyland, BUI Jessup, Winston Mc- Coard, Joe Story, Emery Hollier, Gwen and Charles Bruton and Ed Ccxe. reins lay in of Lee Edwards, the Baton Rouge group's professional director. Patty Berg was stage manager atid Rodney Llnd, set designer. The delegation of visitors more than 40 people counting backstage crew workers and others also included Myra Landry, Mr. Burton, Mrs.

Hyland, Mary Gaines Read, Naomi Shirley. Dottye Varnado, Bernlce Wright, Gene Norman, Roger Peak, Dolores Hollier, Betty Nicholson, Ed Nicholshon, Gladys Hawes, Truman Hawes, June Roberts, Mrs. Coxe and Ed Coxe, Jr. LCHS to Present Operetta Next Saturday Night Lake Charles high school will present "Tulip Time," an operetta set in Holland, next Saturday night at 7:30 in the school auditorium. The operetta will staged jointly by vocal music and speech departments.

Leslie Spinks is music director and Mrs. Sylvia Scales Is speech director. Dance director is Lix Kahn. In the play a botany professor takes a group of students to Holland but sooa more is budding than the tulips. Romance and music take over.

In the cast are Patti Claus, Barbara Breedlove, Brenda Harrington, Virginia Khoury, Sandra Dronet, John Kellar, Charles Ray and Edward Schap. Liz Kahn is featured in a solo dance. "OUR BUSINESS IS INSURANCE ONLY" "OLD LINE CAPITAL STOCK COMPANY "INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS" WOOSLET BLDG. 111 WEST PtJJO In Asia life expectancy at birth is comparatively brief only about 30 years, says Population Reference Bureau. NOW IS THE TIME FOR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS MOM LOM Correct Stimulate Circulation to Relax you have these problems don't let them get you don't need to go on a do-or-die diet to lose weight, nor do you have to walk around with a stack of books OB your head lo'lmprove your posture.

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His wife is Rena Materne Goos and they are the parent of six children. Walter Goos was a member of the Calcasieu Police Jury for nine years, four years of which he was President. Walter Goos is now Commissioner of Streets and Parks for the City of Lake Charles. The many years of administrative Walter Goos has had in Parish and City Government equips him to enter the office of Sheriff of the Paiish of Calcasieu well informed as to the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Sheriff. Walter Coos u-ill cooperate with City and State Police Departments and will conduct the office in such i manner that the State Police will have no cause to come into the Parish of Calcasieu to perform duties that are primarily those of the Sheriff.

As Sheriff, Walter Goos will employ honest and efficient deputies to serve you and will equip them modern equipment to enable them to give you and your family the protection you should have Walter Goos is in this race until the last vote is counted. He believes the great number of people and their friends, who havs supported him in the past, want him for their next Sheriff. Walter Goos bears malice toward no one. He has no enemies to punish. Walter Goos' desire is to give the people of the Parish of Calcasieu a good clean government.

Walter Goos will be a full-time Sheriff. He will not be interested in or involved in any matter which nugnt prevent him from performing the duties of this office in an impartial manner, He will be solely guided by a sense of public duty rtto? and this understanding er3onnel his entire office C0urteous and Promt at- (WALTER GOOS POLITICAL AD).