The American Progress from Hammond, Louisiana • 18

i Friday' March'4' 1938 0 THE Puge Eighteen Postman Continues Louisiana Route Despite High Postman Hoinisch's motorboat heads back home after a five Parish and two Texas counties with mail for the isolated sportsmen and oil Jield workers This tree used to be in Mr Heinisch' front yard Rising lake lakeside home and made him conductor of the only closeup of the waters recently crept almost to the foundations of his underwater by covering his r- boxes Inset' skipper Seagoing patrons Row Out To Meet Him as He qv Uses Motorboat Recent high water on Caddo 'lake in Northwest Louisiana praying a minor annoyance to ojfiQr lakeside dwellers brought 'notable distinction tp Fritz Heinisch seago- postman Heinisch became tem-1 Borartly conductor of the only underwater rural free de- Ijvcry route when the rising Jake surf ace covered nearly half boxes on his 35-mile tour of i the winding Caddo His patrons ami friends rowed out to meet gm in skiffs while the fish be inspected those novel addictions to their expanded king -dram-foe mail boxes of North famous lakeshore RJF During the same week Mr Heinisch narrowly missed being the first postman to be "lost at In line of duty when a 45 mile wind roared across the lake tossing his little motor -1 £unch just as hurricanes at sea tossed the liners on which he was once a stoker Misses Whole Day The gale forced him to put back: before his round was com plated and to miss an entire day for the second time in the four years he has been the aquatic mailman of the novel Caddo route A Tbe first day was missed about three years ago when a common marine disaster threat enecL -Mr- branch of the postal service While bowl--ing along its shores in Louisl fltt Struck a piece of submerged wreckage and an iron pipe ran I through the bottom of his craft The lake began pouring in but Mr Heinisch the mall and the I boat were saved by a floating crane owned by one of the oil I companies which have lent the lake another novelty by sprlnk ling its surface with nearly 300 derricks'' I WZ Ranting Fishing In rescuing the postman Mr I Heinisch pointed out the com pasy may have felt that it was only carrying out a sort of re I sponslbility which it assumed i some years ago when along other drillers and with sportsmen built lodges on I the lakeshore it became re- sponsible for establishment of the route There are few towns of any size on the banks of the Caddo JOHN SON Gretna La A 'V-V'h Manufacturers of General Insecticides end Sanitary Supplies SN PRATS Sheet Metal Works Air Conditioning-Heating General Sheet Metal Work 2806 Toulouse Alves 01Q4 New Orleans Bogalusa Frozen Sugarcane ixhibif in Orleans To Depict Art Gains By All Countries World in New Orleans" public exhibit of foe artistic achievements of various nations will have its second annual showing March 15-20 at the 5resbytere of foe Louisiana State duseum according to Gerhardt Cramer chairman of the exhibi-ion committee Mr Gerhardt explained that he sponsors of World in few were an organization of persons in creating and maintaining friendship between Orleanians of different national backgrounds which also seeks to educate foe ocal public to foe worth of foe various cultures represented in he city by exhibits motion pictures lecturer and other: The exhibit which 'will this year comprise art from Norway taly France Peru Mexico Germany Belguim Guatemala and he Philippines will be open to foe public during foe regular museum hours No Object Imported a single object to be said Mr Kramer ieing imported for foe purpose Every piece belongs in foe city and is a typical example of foe world in New Orleans' And the organization behind foe exhibition is nonpropagandist nonpolitical nonsectarian-and Mr Kramer is associate in architecture in the Department Middle American Research an Tulane University Others on foe committee are Mrs Harold A Bres Mrs Edward Massa Mrs Leon Mauberret -Victor Mauberret Claude Mauberret Mauberret's Printing House Commercial Printers Posters a Specialty 632-34 Poydras Street RAymond 5480 New Orleans ingsport- extends -along the winding lake shore through Pariah in Louisiana and Marlon and Harrison Counties in exes a distance of about fifty-three miles or a seventy mile round trip There -are about hirty boxes some of' which accommodate as many as patrons The boxes were built on small piers so that the postman could come along aide and deliver the mail without eaving his boat Mr Heinisch can cover his route iniabout five hours leaving promptly at 8 in the morning when the mail cranes to dooringsport by bus end return ng at about 1pm This routine he has followed for four years six days a week The story of the storm and other similar incidents are related by Mr Heinisch with an apparent -pride that Caddo lake could afford such hazards for in he -lake the former German sol-iier and seaman has found an nland comer of the sea where he is captain of a boat and can in spare hours practice his trade of boat building Mr Heinisch was born in Germany in 1869 and during the early 1890 served an enlistment the army of Wilhelm In 1896 he left Germany to spend eight years- on the sea and leave his boat at Galveston Texas to become an American citizen For some years he worked at Galveston Houston and Beaumont becoming an expert brick mason It was while on a hunting trip Out of Beaumont that he crippled his left arm with an accident blast from a shotgun at close range first I thought I had to sell de pencil" he said sure make me grayheaded But a man can do meet anything if he Through years of careful treatment he gained the use of his arm and hand sufficiently to hold a job on an oil barge at Mooringsport where he moved in 1914 and to become one of the lake most popular boat builders In 1934 he bid in the null route He and Mrs Heinisch the former Mrs Cook a native of Mooringsport live in a neat little home at the very edge of the lake below the small bluff on which the rest of the town sits The high water engulfed the small wharf which served as a base for the route and as one of Mr stepchildren had to row out to meet him In a skiff while he anchored his boat to what had once Been a tree in his front yard Frank A Von der Haar ROD Poultry and Fish JEFFERSON MARKET New Orleans La Phene UP 6883 hour trip touching Caddo lake dwellers fishermen Antebellum i Mansion Destroyed by Blaze The home of foe late Senator DOnelSon Caffrey one' of4 foe few remaining antebellum matf-sions'in Franklin St Marys' Parish was destroyed this week by fire Sparks from a canefield Maze were the cause -it was reported Consumed along With foe: historic' two story structure 1851 by William- ieifleigh first sheriff of fob garish were all its valuable con-tnts of furniture' and TeHcs' Gl Lugano ind William Weld-horn I The president of foe In New' committee is Mrs Arthur Shaw ALEXANDRIA GRAVEL CO INC 1 1 Producers of Sand and Grayel Alexandria La T) 816 Johnston ist Plant' Woodworth La LETELILER PHILLIPS PAPERCOMPANY Incorporated 'Pspar Sappllaa 1 A-- i Hlfh Grads Wiping Cloths NEW ORLEANS LA A Nv D' A PRINTING CO High Grade X) R' Pv R7 Ir -T I NG 524 Natches Street New Orleans -La Phone RA 3751 BEEN Contractros STUCCOING DEEN PHONE 3144 'BATON ROUGE LA and until a few years ago it was noted only for its scenic beauty the fishing it afforded and the hunting along its shores in Louisiana and Texas' Construction of summer camps and development of the oil field so increased the population of the lakeside that in 1927 the sportsmen fishermen and oil field workers petitioned for establishments of an route Length of Route Roads even trails were few and scattered and as a result third and best-known water 7 was put into operation the first postman being Tom Willy of Shreveport The second was Frank Allbright of Mooringsport and the third Mrs' Allbright during whose term the route gained a large part of its fame she being reputedly the only woman in the world operating an route by motorboat The route beginning at Moor- JNO WORNffi SON Incorporated Headquarters for Builders Hardware Distributors of Yale Locks and Hardware 1019' Bienville St RA 1674 NEW ORLEANS LA Stationery LA 418 Columbia St WOOD PRODUCTS to Repair Orleans Markets Raised Thousands The amount to be expended in the city-WPA program for modernization of foe six units of foe New Orleans public market system and constructing a seventh unit was more than doubled this week when President Roosevelt approved a supplemental allotment for the work The new figures bring the otal to $152072 as compared the former appropriation of $63000 foe largest sum to be spent on foe city markets in many years The federal gov eminent will contribute half foe total and the city half A hew market will be erected at 731 North Broad street to be kxiown as foe Maestri market of stucco construction modernistic design and simple lines with a main entrance on Orleans street The old market on the site is being demolished Sltei to Be Repaired Markets to be repaired are the Keller market 1802 Magnolia street Memory market 3125 Tulane avenue Rocheblave market 203 North Rocheblave street Lebreton market 1403 North Dorgenois street St Roch market St Claude and St Roch streets and the Lautenschalae-ger market 1930 Burgundy street The library service operated at the Delgado museum through the WP A will be continued under a $980 allotment also announced Presidential allotmen was also made public for $6166 for improvements to recreational areas in Madisonville St Tammany Parish They will include construction of a swimming pool bath house and improvement of a community building industry' Production' of 'milk indicated an increase of 8 per cent on February over foe corresponding date last year which represented foe highest for tha1 date' since 1934 There are no indications' of a rise in the number of cows on' the farms but the quantity Of milk per cow has increased DIM SLIDELL LA Lumbar Sawdust Forestry Products KIVETT REEL Inc i Sand and Gravel Producers Contractors Kivett Phone 3211 Reel Sun La BATON ROUGE LA and his office known as the general accounting office Wage-Hour Bill Legislation for the fixing of minimum wages and maximum hours' in' industry' which the president called the special session of congress last November to consider and which was temporarily shelved through the parlimentary procedure of 'recommitting to the bouse labor where it was to be either modified to: a more acceptable degree or die a naqral death recehtliy been engag-g foe attention bf the commit-ee There seem to be a determination pn the part ol tije administration salvage this bill and get a law of some kind dealing with the subject on foe statute book but latest unofficial reports bn the arguments cropping up between foe mem-iers of foe committee indicate a difference of opinion oh just what the bill should contain With this divided sentiment and state of confusion existing it appears as though the bill-will be scuttled right in "committee this time Farm Bill In a statement made the other day by the secretary of agriculture Henry A' Wallace the benefits of- foe new farm program as contained in foe Agricultural Act of 1938 were summed up as follows: all' foe new adjustment act strengthens and continues the AAA soil conservation program and keeps the form program participation open to farmers in every' part of foe United States In foe second place foe new act' makes possible agooc beginning' toward setting! Up a workable ever normal granary for foe benefit of both foe farm ers and consumers The ever normal granary feature of foe act wifi give consumers greater protection than-they have ever had before Finally foe act -gives added protection to farm in come with provisions especially adapted- to assist producers five basic commodities: cotton wheat com tobacco and rice Dairy Statistics new act is built upon foe experience which led tor the original Agricultural AdjustmeA Act plus all the' experience tha has been-gained since then in administering national form An increase has been recorded in foe products 'the dairyini $5000 $6000 Costs Costs Only $500 Only $600 DISCOUNT PLAN Repayable la lO monthly laatalliaenta LARGER AMOUNTS UP TO -SS08 REPAYABLE IN MONTHS No Rsaalns Interest ''UNITY PUN FINANCE COMPANY 825 Psrdido RA2585 ByBobMouton On February 24 the AAA authorized processors to' make certain deductions in payments to growers for frozen sugarcane of excessive acidity in Louisiana The amendment provides'for deductions from payment for frozen sugarcane grounded after December 12 1937 at a rate not in' excess of 3775 per cent for each 25 of acidity above 225 as set forth in section ten of the Louisiana sugarcane purchase contract These differentials the AAA stated are in accordance" with the estab-ished custom of the industry for treatment of such cane In connection with the computation of fair prices to be paid to growers for the 1937 crop of Louisiana sugarcane under the determination of October 19 1937 it was announced that the simple average of the weekly quotations of ninety-six degree raw sugar duty -paid basis on the Louisiana Sugar and Rice Exchange Inc for the weeks from October 18 1937 to March 1 1938 will be used Senate Filibuster On February 21 the senate bill came to a successful end when a vote of fifty-eight to twenty-two was recorded to lay the bill aside and proceed to the consideration of other legislation This spells the finish of efforts by a certain bide of senators to have legislation of this character enacted during the seventy-fifth -congress and signals victory for the Southern sloe headed by our dynamic junior senator Allen Ellender which was determined to submerge this bill in a speech-making marathon Reorganisation Bill Another piece of controversial legislation is now about to engage the attention of congress This is the bill to reorganize the executive branch of the United States government The president has requested its passage at this session of congress but it looks like another battle similar to the supreme court bill and the antilynch bill fights looms in the offing The measure proposes among other' things- to give the president the power to reorganize and coordinate! government agencies' replace the United States Civil Service Commission which is now headed by board of three commissioners with a one-man controlled Civil Service Administration replace the comptroller general who now has the- authority to preaudit federal expenditures and veto those he may think are illegal With an auditor general who would have postaudit duties only create a department of pub lie of welfare and a national resources planning board Indi cafions are that there is strong sentiment against many of the features of the bill chiefly among which is the one dealing with the comptroller general MOOREMACK GULF LINES Printing Co9 Inc Publishers of the Bogalusa News for Your Office t': BEDELL STRUCTURAL STEEL WORKS Bedell Service Saves Worry FABRICATORS AND ERECTORS Smoke Stacks Fife Escapes Anchors 3620-3632 Boudin Street Phone GAIvez 3031 New Orleans La Jos Giesemann Robt Bedell Wood and Steel Furniture No Job Too Small or Too Large Phone 576 BOGALUSA GULF STATES CREOSOTING CO ALBERT Plastering PLASTERING INCORPORATED PRESSURE TREATED Plain and Ohiamental VVork Patching a Specialty EVANS ElECIRICAL SUPPLY INC WHOLESALE ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES LIGHTING FIXTURES APPLIANCES Pine Timbers Cross Ties Telephone and Telegraph Cross Arms and Conduit the finest Fellow Timber In the South i Equipment for economical and precise pre-framing of all kinds including sdslng and boring of cross ties New Orleans Office: Fellow Piling Poles from Belt Expmi freight and paiaenfer sarrlca weekly between New Or-ieene Boetoa and Philadelphia also dependable weekly freight service between New Orleans Baltimore Henetoa Carpna Cbrletl and Brownsville Texas New OrUiu lienlelaan MOORE AND MeCORMACK INC Agents ALBERT Box 1661 PHONE 5616 Speak for The mselvas" Manufacturers of High Grade Paper Boxes and Folding Cartons Designers Originators Artiste 1101 Tchoupitoulao St RA 5179 991 United Fruit Bldg 528 THIRD ST 1 -4 v-tlrw-o a-oevy'.