The Assumption Pioneer from Napoleonville, Louisiana • 1

8tf Oldest ExistW Weekfv COVERS ASSUMPTION LIKE THE NAPOLEONVILLE IN 1850, WHERE SUGAR CANE IS KING AND WHERE DWELL A HAPPY PEOPLE IN THE HISTORIC AND PICTURESQUE BAYOU LAFOURCHE COUNTRY. aHUWERS ESTABLISHED IN volume cxu AYSIDE ir ci the ParMi ci Assumption, Tow.11 oi Napoleon rMs ISSUE NO. 6 LA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1961 I iPr Ifrl Official Journal DUCK HUNTING DATES ANNOUNCED The Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission today fixed the dates for the 1964 hunting seasons on ducks, geese and coots. Action "i -w.

The possession limit for a tWO-day iouk piace ai tne regular mommy held this day at 6:30 P. M. The building plans for the Bayou- meeting of the commission in New Meeting called to order by Pres-side Golf Club did not include a Orleans. ident Ronny Sternfels. front porch facing the golf course, The duck season will open at rgu call: Messrs.

Al-however, with the membership in- sunrise Saturday, November 21 and leman, Wilbert Daigle, Daze, Fan-creasing way beyond the expecta- run for 40 consecutive days through gue Grisaffe, LaBarre, Sternfels tions of the club, a screened porch sunset December 30. The daily bag ancj' Cancienne. 12 feet by 60 feet will be added to limit on ducks is four, with a Absent- Daigle the building it was stated by the Possession limit of eight: Motion made, seconded and unan-Board of Directors of the newly The daily bag limit of ducks other imously adopted that the minutes formed club. than morgansers may not include of the previous meeting be approv- The building was expected to be more of the following species than: gjj. completed about Oct.

1, however, two wood ducks, two mallards, two Each member present was given with the addition of the porch it canvasbacks or two redheads or a copy of Finance Committee's may ue uiai me opening aaie wui be a few days later. When the schools opened Monday, it marked the end of the long summer vacation for the youngsters. Now that they are back in school. hunt may not mclude more than he and he knew several other mem-four mallards, two wood ducks, bers of the Police Jury had received two canvasbacks or two redheads a number of calls about the large or one of each. navroll listed in the minutes of last the mothers will have a vacation of south of U.

S. Hwy. 190, there We had three pay periods ending in their own. be a bonus bag of two scaup and a one month. It seems that some possession limit of four scaup in people thought we had given large The almost daily rain spell, it addltln to the basic limits on ducks, raises and he hopes that this state-seems, is broken and now the farm- J- Halr' Jr- director.

called ment win clarify the issue, ers are able to get into the fields attention to the fact that in any while reviewing the Finance Com-and do their long delayed fall plant- par of Louisiana the daily bag mittee's Report, Mr. LaBarre was ing. and Possession limit can contain called on to make his Road Report. scaup or be made up of scaup, but He stated that he, Mr. Fangue and In that portion of the state lying 111 commission elected ii a laie Siraignt late straignt photo by Crawford Miss Janet Landry, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Gilbert Landry of Napoleonville, who was chosen to represent our parish as "Miss Assumption" at the Lions Club Miss Assumption Beauty Pageant held last Saturday night, is shown here after being crowned. On the Queen's left is Miss Jackie Melancon, first maid, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Joe Melancon. On the Queen's right is Miss Rita Dupuis, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. J. Dupuis. Not shown in the picture was Miss Cynthia Folse, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Hidalgo, alternate. The Assumption Development foundation, a non-profit organ- aUowed south of U- S- Hwy- Rouge and met with the Assisstant ization for the promotion of upbuild- Director of the Highway Departing our parish was organized here. alH" hv l. TT ment 1716 pUrpoSe of 1116 allowed by the U.

S. Fish and Wild- was to nhtain snm tAnr.mni tw. juai wiicii icsuiib uie vuiumary uik- anization wiU I achieve, we do not kjiow uui mis newspaper commends the efforts of the officers and board of directors of the organization to at least work for the civic betterment of our parish. season to open on a Saturday so The extent of the assistance that that every one would have equal the highway department would be opportunity to begin the season. able to offer would be to send one The season for coots will run of their engineers down to make a concurrent with the duck hunting survey to give us an idea what it season.

The daily bag limit is 10 would cost coots, with a possession limit of 20. Mr. Kangue, Parish Manager, He also" called attention to a gave his report on the drainage change in shooting liours for open- project for Pierre Part. Mr. Fangue ing day.

Instead of opening at noon met with Mr. Patterson of the De-on the first day of the season as in partment of Public Works. Mr. Fan- The long Labor-Day week-end will soon be with us and as a puWie service we have listed on our front (age 6 safety rules to follow in driving during the peak traffic during vme holidays. In spite of all the warnings from V.ev sion, anu hat the accidents on the highways always end up in new fatality rec- 0rS Atin School Board.

RECORDS NEEDED TO ENTER N1CH0LLS Students planning to enter Ni-cbolls State College for the first time or to re-enter after an sense of at least a semester are urged to submit the necessary papers or forms to the registrar's office prior to registration. Day registration will be conducted Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 9, 10 and and evening division registration will be Monday, Sept. 14. All entering freshmen, trans Ter students and former Nicliolls students who were not in attendance during the spring semester must receive a of acceptance to the college prior to registration, it was announced by the registrar's office.

Applications and health forms may be obtained from the registrar's office. Students are reminded that it is their responsibility to have high school and college transcripts sent to the registrar's office as soon as possible. FINAL KITES HELD FOR MRS. RUDOLPH BREAUX Funeral services for Mrs. Rudolph Breaux, the former Nola Domingue, were held at St.

Elizabeth's church in Paincourtville on Saturday, Aug. 22. Mrs. Breaux succumbed Aug. 20.

She was 72 years old and a native of this parish. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Sabin Breaux and Mrs. Selma Pintado of Pierre Part, Louis Breaux of Labadievile, Mrs. Louise Simoneaux and Mrs.

Belia Cedotal of Brule St. Vincent, Mrs. Alma Dominngue of Napoleonville and Ulysse Breaux of Boutte. She also leaves 30 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Orleans and was graduated from Louisiana State University with a BS degree in chemical engineering in 1942.

He served with the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army in north and central Burma during World War n. Thibodaux has written papers for over a dozen technical publications. Technical papers of his include "Analytical and Experimental Studies of Spherical Solid Propellant Summary of Experience in Boosting Aerodynamic Research and "Observed Effects of Rocket Motor Operation on Base Pressures of Bodies in Flight." He is an associate fellow in the American Insitiute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) a director of the Hampton Roads, chapter of AIAA, and a member of the Solid Rocket Subcommittee of AIAA.

He is married to the former Mary Jo Goliwas of Dixon, and the couple has four children, Amy 10, Guy 8, Dean 6, and Chris 2. The family resides in League City, and Pmish THIBODAUX HEADS PROPULSION DIVISION Ed's Note: The following article is reproduced from the Space News Roundup, the official journal of the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, Texas. Mr. ThibodauT, a native of this parish was born at the old Williams Lumber Camp on the southeast end of Lake Verret, where his late father was employed as a bookkeeper. His mother is the former Leone Falterman a native of the Altakapas Canal and now residing in Napoleonville.

Mr Thibodaux's notable achievements in the space field makes us all in Assumption proud that he is a native born son. With an extensive background in the area of rocket and vehicle propulsion, Joseph Guy Thibodaux joined the Manned Spacecraft Center in January of this year as Chief of the Propulsion and Power Division. He holds five" patents on solid rockets and solid rocket manufacturing techniques. In addition to solid rocket research he has specialized in the fields of vehicle propulsion, liquid rockets, thermal protection, and high temperature materials. liiil Hi Joseph Guy Thibodaux In his present position he guides the division that is responsible for providing direct technical support to the MSC program offices in the area of spacecraft main and auxiliary propulsion, involving both chemical and nuclear sources.

He is presently supervising and directing several Apollo systems in the area of propulsion, power generation and pyrotechnics for the Apollo program and is directing advance and supporting technology in propulsion power. Thibodaux joined NASA in August of 1946 at Langley and while there headed up, at different times, the High Temperature Materials Branch the Materials Section, and the Model Propulsion Section. He was at Langley until he came to MSC in his present capacity. Born in Napoleonville, Thibodaux attended Fortier High in New ml I 1 tltiilli i NAPOLEONVILLE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE POLICE JURY Napoleonville, La. August 11, 1964 The regular meeting of the As- sumption Parish Police Jury was Report.

Mr. Daze stated that as Chairman nf thf Tinanr-P Commit to months' meeting. During that period Mr- ernieis had gone to Baton ieage as 10 wnat it wouia taxe to hard harn sumapp enmo nf nur i-n-irlc gue and Mr. Patterson will meet with Mr. Emile Alleman on Tuesday morning.

Mr. Fangue requested that Alleman have some of the who are Crested in this drainage project available to meet with him and Mr. Patterson. Mr. Daze gave his Commodity Report.

The month of July was the largest month for distribution of commodities. We had 906 families that wTere eligible comprised of 5,132 persons. We issued a total of 144,830 pounds on the retail market that would be valued at approx- imately $40 684. It cost the parish to distribute these commodities $271.80 navrnll and thf r-j salary of $200 making a total of $471.80. operating cost for seven months $3,109.45.

Mr. Fangue was asked to check when the needed commodities for the next distribution will be ready to be picked un in Baton Rouge so that the parish trucks would be available. This is the first time this year that the parish will have to pick up the supplies all others were delivered to Napoleonville. Mr. LaBarre stated at this time that the parish acquired a truck from Surplus Property that was approved by the New Orleans office of Civil Defense.

It is a IV2 ton stake body truck with 19,000 miles it cost the parish $156.00. At previous meeting the salary paid the coroner had been discussed. It was agreed at that time that neighboring Police Juries would be contacted to see how this office is handled in their parish. Of the three Juries contacted two are on a fee basis, one pays a salary but they do not pay any charges at all for the jail or for committments. We have been paying the salary plus the extra charges.

Mr. LaBarre stated that on his own he had made an analysis of how much work is involved-in about seven months we have had about nine accidental deaths less than two committments per week. The Coroner should be making six months' report to the Police Jury to give us an idea of just what they do. Mr. LaBarre stated that judging from the past few months the coroner would be called out two or three times a month and paying a salary for this does not seem justifiable he felt that they should be paid according to the number of visits they actually perform felt that it should be established on a fee basis.

Mr. LaBarre felt that the coroner would be able to obtain the cooperation from the other doctors in the parish if the coroner is needed in Pierre Part he felt sure that Dr. Peltier would cover the case and save him from going all the way out there then the doctor performing the service would submit his invoice for pay PARISH DEVELOPMENT GROUP ORGANIZED HERE A group of Parish citizens, this week, organized a non-profit corporation for the purpose of promoting, developing, financing and management and direction of enterprises leading to the upbuilding of the community. The corporation is named the Assumption Development Foundation, and is headed by officers and a board of directors. Chairman of the newly organized group is Floyd LaBarre; Joe U.

Melancon, vice-chairman; Ronny Sternfels; treasurer; and Risley C. Triche, secretary. The members of the Board of Directors are Emile R. Sternfels, Jerome Barbera, Judge J. Adolph Menuet, Harry Nadler, Richard T.

Hanson, and Harry H. Blanchard. The group plans to meet once each month and call special meetings whenever necessary. The Town of Napoleonville is designated as the domicile of tha new corporation. CCD ORGANIZES CLASSES FOR YEAR On Wednesday, August 26, the CCD of SL Anne's Parish held their meeting for the purpose of organizing their classes lor the 1964-65 year.

Mrs. Waldon LeBlanc, Jr. was reelected President of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine of St- Anne Parish. Other officers elected were Mrs. Charles Bergeron as Vice President, Mrs.

Patrick Bou-dreaux as Secretary and Mrs. Hekxise G. Triche as Treasurer. Chairmen of the various committees are as follows: Mrs. Sam Bergeron, Chairman of Teachers, Richard Hanson, Home Vi-sitors, Mrs.

James Martinez, Helpers. Mrs. Ruth Prejean, A-dult Education, Mrs. Ronny SternfeTs, Parent Education, Airs. Edward Giarelloni, Apostles of Good Will and Mrs.

Francis Car- rier. Jr. Publicity. School of Rel'gion will begin classes on Wednesday, September 16, at 8:30 A. M.

The "On Our Way Series" by Sister Maria de la Cruz is used for the Elementary courses. Director is Right Rev. Mon-s'gnor Paul Landsmann. Acting as Spiritual advisor during Mon-signor's absence is Rev. Father Harry Smith.

MRS. GERRARD M. REDDY TAKEN BY DEATH Mrs. Gerrard M. Reddy, a longtime resident of Napoleonville died at her daughter's home in Baton Rouge Friday August 21.

She was the former Mary Tindol and was 81 years old. Burial rites and interment were conducted in Baton Rouge. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Herbert Dorris and Mrs. Elgene Rushing of Baton Rouge, Mrs.

S. Floyd Dorris of Kansas City, and Mrs. Geralda Reddy of Napoleonville. She also leaves 9 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. REV.

ALBERT TERRY DIES SUDDENLY HERE Rev. Albert Terry of Napoleonville died at his home here unexpectedly Monday, August 24. He was a native of Napoleonville and was 56 years old. The deceased was pastor of St. Philip and New Mt.

Zion Baptist churches and was Worshipful Master of Mount Moriah Lodge No. 17. Funeral services were held at the Bright Morning Star Baptist church in Napoleonville Wednesday, Aug. 26 with Rev. S.

H. Dorsey officiating. Surviving are his wife, Leola and the following children: Alfred and Olivia Terry and Leonce Mickens, a stepchild. He aslo leaves three brothers, Lawrence, Clarence and Willard Terry and two sisters, Mrs. Geneva Rhyans and Mrs.

Luberta Washington. and LIVE itktuvk uilllfv and others continue to break the rules of safe driving. It is bad e- nough when a motorist doesn care if he breaks his own neck, but it is tragic when some innocent, safe dn- ver has to die as a result of some one else negligence. doves opens Saturday, Sept. 5.

The local dove hunters probably wont 1- even clean the grease off their guns, much less go afield. In the first place there are no con- During the Labor Day week-end and thereafter ment. Mr. Labarre put it in the form of a motion that we pay the coroner on a fee rather than a salary basis as stipulated by Sect. 331558 and which Estates $10.00 for each time he is called out.

Motion made by Mr. LaBarre, seconded by Mr. Fangue. Roll Call: Yeasr'Messrs. Alleman, Daigle, Daze, Fangue, Grisaffe, LaBarre and Sternfels.

Abstaining from voting Mr. Cancienne. The President stated that at a previous meeting it had been decided to do away with the jobs of light-keepers and boom keepers. Since that time he had received several complaints on two other jobs the bridgekeeper who has been receiving $50 per month and the Probation Officer who has been receiving $40.00 per month. At a recent meeting of the Finance Committee it was decided to also eliminate these two positions because it was felt that there is no need for a full time bridgekeeper or far a probation officer.

Mr. Emile Alleman was asked if and when the bridge has to be opened if he would be able to handle it he stated yes it was agreed that he would keep a record of the date, number on the boat, etc. and would be paid per diem whenever it was necessary to open the bridge. Motion by Mr. Daze, seconded by Mr.

Labarre. Yeas: Messrs. Alleman, Cancienne, Wilbert Daigle, Daze, Fangue, Grisaffe, LaBarre, Sternfels. At a previous meeting ordinance on issuing license to peddlers had been discussed. Mr.

LaBarre stated that he had checked wiih District Attorney Talbot who stated that he would check to see how this is handled in neighboring parishes and would advise the Jury at a late'-date. An ordinance will also be drawn up by the District Attorney pertaining to the maintenance of lots in Sub-Divisions whereby lots be maintained by the property owners. When drafted by the District Attorney will be accepted by entire police jury. On a visit with the State Highway Department the President learned that as of June 30, 1964 in the Royalty Road Fund, Act 101 and Act 28 Fund, that Assumption Parish has $104,900. The President stated that it is growing, that approximately $1600 a month in same.

The President stated that we could get started with a blacktopping program and that with these funds and the Royalty Road Fund a sum of $200,000 could be bonded and these funds along with matching funds in government accelerated works program would give us a sufficient amount to hard surface a number of the parish roads, thereby providing for the public more efficient and safe roads. The President had invited Rep. R. C. Triche and Attorney Emile Robert Sternfels to appear before the Police Jury, to discuss the program for bonding the Royalty Road Fund and applying for the Federal accelerated funds.

Mr. Triche stated that if the Police Jury wanted to get started on this program they offered their services as attorneys for Continued on page 2 tne past, shooting of ducks, coots and geese wm at The goose hunting season will extend from November 7 to sunset January 15. There is a daily limit of five geese- 311(3 the Possession limit is five geese. The daily bag and 55 Iimit on geese may not contain more an two white- fronted geese shooting of Canada geese in Louisiana and Arkansas is prohibited due to programs aimed at rebuilding Canada goose popula- tions states centration of doves in this vicinity now and in the second place, even 11 1 j. mere weie aoves, uieie wuuw ihji be any pleasure hunting in 90 de gree plus weather.

LTETD D3 Er an mechanical condition. lAn4k In Aironr 1A tvtlloa rtt 03 DTTD sure your vehicle is in good sure your v. 9m your interval Keep 11 one car ft'our side and rear-view mirrors are valuable safety tools. Use them! (indicate a turn 100 feet or more before making it. for a change of lane, too.

i rrhp nlaln. common, garden-variety of courtesy is one of the best (affic expediters there is..