1 Baton Rouge, La. THE SOUTHWEST STAR VOL. 1 9 SULPHUR, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1955 10c PER COPY Father T. Brandley Hackberry priest The Rev. Theodore Brandley, M.
S. of Sulphur has, been appointed rector of Peter's Catholic church in Hackberry as the first resident priest there. Since coming to Sulphur in 1950. Father Brandley has been serving the missions, especially the Hackberry church. A native of Massachusetts, he was ordained in Albany, N.
Y. in 1932. He spent many years in Brazil, six of which were in Rio De Janerio. The official appointment of Father Brandley as new pastor was announced by the Most Rev. Jules B.
Jeanmard, Bishop of Lafayette on Feb. 20. The Hackberry pastorate will also serve the Holly Beach and Johnson Bayou communities. Masses will be held every Sunday at 10 a. m.
at Holly Beach. Time for the Johnson Bayou masses will be announced later. Father Brandley will reside in temporary quarters at the Catho- Sulphur Marine reservists to go to Calif. in June About ten Sulphur Marine Corps reservists who are members of the Lake Charles, reserve company will fly to Coronado, in June to participate in amphibious training, according to Staff Sergeant J. F.
Langley of Sulphur. Langley said the unit will leave here on June 5 and return on June 19. The reservists will learn how to fire various Marine, weapons and will make an actual amphibious landing from a naval attack transport. Sergeant Langley stated that the two weeks in California will not be all work and no play. He said "There will be plenty of opportunities for men to enjoy the varied recreation offered by such interesting places as Los Angeles, Long Beach, Hollywood, San Diego and the beautiful coastal resorts of Old Marine Corps Reservists traveling to California with the reserve unit will receive full pay and allowances during the two weeks of training duty in addition.
to transportation to and from the west coast at government expense. Young men interested in becoming Citizen Marines should drop by the U. S. Naval Reserve training center in Lake Charles on Sunday afternoon, March 6, and find out for themselves all of the benefits offered by their Home Town Marine Corps Reserve. Staff Sergeant 'Langley may be contacted by calling JA 7-9571 or at 1303 Catherine St.
in Sulphur. Committee sets date for style show Further plans for the spring style show to be held by the Sulphur Garden club were made at the home of Mrs. I. W. Russek Friday morning.
The date for the show has been set for March 22 at 7:30 p. m. at the Sulphur high school cafeteria. Attending the meeting were Mrs. Bill Lawton, Mrs.
Leon Currie, Mrs. J. W. Swafford, Mrs. George Isaac, Mrs.
Isaac Comeaux, Jr. and Mrs. Woody Thompson. The next meeting of the committee will be at the home of Mrs. B.
J. Daigle at 10 a. m. Thursday. Elliott Hardaway, Assoc.Dir.
LSU Library, University Xta, ver-typi category IKE trade 11 new ne hatchet. 'V 7-9256 es' CO eve; ull- 147 Parish Rd. to start soon City officials act Advertising deal asked stopped Sulphur city officials. Monday requested an out-of-town advertising promoter, who has been soliciting advertising in Sulphur for more than a week, to cease his operations, here. Both Mayor Adias Saunier and City Marshal A.
Lopez announced that after investigating the pro- Local officers taking FBI course Three local police officers are attending the 16-week LSU InService Police Training class now being taught every Monday evening at McNeese state college. They are Chief Frank Taylor and Policemen Milton Abshire and Dewey Menard. Sponsored by the Louisiana Peace Officers Association, Louisiana Sheriff's Association, Municipal Police Officers Association, and the Louisiana Chiefs of Police Association. in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the training program is offered to state peace officers through the Louisiana State University Extension program. T.
J. Stephens of Natchitoches, prominent state peace officer for many years, is course director. He serves in this capacity as a faculty member of LSU. motion scheme, that they did not wan their departments to be associated with it. They stated that the promoter was taking a large, percentage of the advertising money out of town, leaving only a small portion -for the agency from which they got their backing.
MARSHAL LOPEZ said that the man had approached him the idea of getting the marshal's backing for a traffic safety booklet. In for giving the salesman a letter of introduction to Ward 4 businessmen land to backing the booklet, the man said a portion of the funds raised would gO to Marshal Lopez's junior police program. Mr. Lopez said, however, after investigating the matter further, he decided that it was not the best interest of the community to continue his support of the booklet, and that he had had his letters of introduction returned on Feb. 25.
The city marshal stated that because many of the ads already have been sold in Westlake and Sulphur the booklet will be published as planned, with just the ads already sold. No further ads will be sold for this booklet, he stated. MAYOR SAUNIER who as commissioner of public safety is head of the fire lepartment, said a contract for a fire prevention (See ADVERTISING, Page 5) Back into harnessTed Lyons leaves for spring training By LORENA CASWELL Vinton bid adieu Wednesday to one of its great citizens Hall of Famer Ted Lyons, as he left for Hollywood, Florida where he will engage in spring training with the Chicago White Sox ball club. Yes- -going back with the White Sox with the position of scout and coach for pitchers seems "like going home" according to Ted's own words. With the Chicago team from 1923 to 1946 as pitcher and then as manager through 1948, Ted later served as coach at Detroit and for the Brooklyn Dodgers last year.
He was out of baseball for the first time since 1923 when he was voted into the Hall of Fame. AS D. J. MOREAU, Lions Club president, said at a testimonial dinner in Vinton honoring Lyons recently, "Ted is the only Vinton resident to have achieved national fame." On his way to a sport writers dinner in Philadelphia, Ted was not at home in Vinton when Associated Press called to notify him that he had been named to the FIRST PLACE WINNERS IN THE beef and dairy divisions of the West Calcasieu junior livestock show held here last week are pictured below. At the left are the first place beef animals and their owners.
Left to right: Clinton Ray Lyons, Brahman bull; Kinney Guidry, Brahman heifer; Barney Joe Bertrand, Hereford bull and heifer; Judy Dugas, Angus bull; and Dudley Little, Angus heifer. On the right are the winning dairy heifers: Otis Vincent, Class Jersey; Ralph Goodrich, Class Guernsey; Kenney Guidry, Class Guernsey; Arvil LeDoux, Class I Guernsey; Dennis Chaisson, Class Guernsey; Wilson Thistrup, Class Guernsey; and John Dailey, Class Guernsey. (Photo by Dee's Camera Shop) Harry Turpin Harry Turpin to speak at grid banquet Harry "Rags" Turpin, head football coach and athletic director of Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, will be the principal speaker at Sulphur high school's football award banquet Wednesday evening at the school cafeteria. Turpin is president of the Gulf States Conference this year. This past season his team won seven games and lost two.
The Demons lost to Southeastern and Tech, while winning over Central Oklahoma, Lamar Tech, McNeese, Louisiana College, Southeastern Oklahoma, Northeast State and Southwestern. Coach Turpin is in his 29th year of coaching at Northwestern, starting as a freshman football coach in 1926. He took over varsity duties in 1934 and is a former Northwestern and Tulane University great. He has devoted more than half his life to the coaching profession and can count almost half of the high school coaches in Louisiana today as former students. He was appointed director of athletics in 1952.
Last year he was named "Coach of the Year" in the Gulf States Conference. TWENTY -SIX Sulphur football lettermen will receive sweaters at the banquet. Also awards will be given outstanding players. A dance for members of the varsity squad and their dates will follow the banquet. 0) News Briefs FISHERMAN, TRAPPER FINED William McKee of Lake Charles was fined $12.50 in Sulphur city court last week by Judge Woody Thompson for angling without a license.
Laverne Guillory, Lake Charles, was fined $30 for taking muskrat illegally. The arrests ware made by game Ranger L. C. Andrus. TRAILER PARKS LISTED Three trailer parks in the Sulphur-Westlake area have been listed as approved in the new edition of "Mobile Home Trailer Park Guide." They are Pelican, Trailer Park, Sulphur; and Nabour's Trailer Park and Robinson Court, WANT CORRECT TIME? Sulphur, Maplewood, Westlake and Lake Charles residents may now get the correct time by dialing HE 3-6311, When they do they do a mechanical device, recently installed by the Gulf National Bank in Lake Charles, the correct time to the minute.
The bank contracted for the service with the Southern Bell Telephone Co. The Hollywood Civic Club meeting held last week at the community club was conducted by president, Joe Wright, who reported a total of 1240 azalea and camellia plants ordered and distributed to area residents through the cooperation of the Civie Club, Lions Club and Maplewood Garden Club. Milton Duhon and Fred Leshe reported a meeting with, police jury members, who promised assistance in street and Maple Fork bridge repairs. They expect a base for the paving of Parish Road, between Maplewood and to be laid by April 1. A contract wil be let for the blacktopping.
A report has been received from engineer, Fred Smith, concerning the Hollywood area sewerage project. A map of the area showing location of mains and laterals for the sewerage system was presented. A cost of $160,000 would, according makes the report, be required to necessary adjustments for tying onto the Maplewood sewerage system. For $90,000 a new plant probably near Madison and Parish Road could be built for the entire Hollywood, Magnolia Forest, Magnolia Park and Indian Hills area. Preliminary plans are pretty well worked out, Mr.
Wright said, and if all goes as planned a contract will be let, residents will be asked to make monthly payments and the project possibly could be ready for use by the first of next year. Mr. Wright is chairman of this committee and is assisted by Jess Wood and Fred Leshe. By Mrs. W.
G. Strong DR. J. B. COLLIGAN, "mystery man" at the fifth annual Roundup Festival at Hackberry high school recently here crowns the junior king and queen, Jimmy Parker and Gwen Sanner.
Dr. Colligan crowns Hackberry royalty Dr. J. B. Colligan served as Mystery Man and crowned the Royalty at the First Annual Round-up Festival at the Hackberry high school recently.
Senior and queen were Bill Little. Johnson, king, ninth grade candidates. Junior king and queen were Jimmy Lyn Parker -and Gwen Sanner, first grade candidates. Other candidates were second grade, Tracy, Armand, Albert Leo Hantz: third grade, Judy and Johnny Little: fourth grade, Ludwika Waldron, Cecil Sanner: fifth grade, Madeline Reeves; Michael Kyle; sixth grade, Florence Kyle, James Toups; seventh grade, Shirley LaBove, Robert Landry; eighth grade, Bonnie Richardson, Ernie Little; tenth grade, Delores Stutes, John Colligan; eleventh grade, Barbara Chy Court Results Darbonne, Clifford Little; twelfth grade, Patty Vincent and Tom Walther. Elizabeth Bertrand, senior queen of 1954 and Margaret Toups presented the Truman Potts served as master of ceremonies.
Theme for the evening was "Way Down and stage setting for the court was a southern garden. Pine trees formed a background for a trellis covered with. pink with roses. honey Tall suckle white entwin- coled, and a white picket fence completed the scene. The festival is sponsored by the school annual staff.
The senior band under the direction of Miss Gwen Driscoll provided the music for the program. By Mrs. John W. McNeill 'Shootings' highlight police investigations Two "shootings" put the Sulphur police on the ball this past week and caused all sorts of undue commotion. Erie Ancelet came dashing into the police station Friday with the breathless report that Warren Trumps had just shot Ray Sonier dead in Guidry's Bar.
City and state police and an ambulance dashed to the scene only to find the "victim" drinking a beer with his "murderer." They laughingly reported they had been playing a pratical joke on Ancelet. Trumps had aimed an unloaded pistol at Sonier; someone had thrown a toy torpedo on the floor: and Sonier had slumped down as if dead. City Judge Woody Thompson apparently didn't appreciate the humor, as he gave each of the practical jokers a 30-day suspended sentence, and warned that the next time anybody pulled a practical joke that "endangered the lives" of citizens, they'd get 30 days in jail. "I'VE JUST SHOT A MAN: COME GET ME" "I've just shot a man, come and get me," the astonished Sulphur policeman heard on the phone last week. The police hustled right over and picked up Peter.
Porter, who was later fined $25 and given three days for disturbing the peace and being too drunk to know what he was SECOND DWI OFFENDER A Sulphur man convicted for the second time of driving while intoxicated was fined $250.50 and given a 15-day jail sentence by Judge Thompson. He is Ellis J. Whittaker of 620 W. Carlton. A Beaumont man, John Foster Legnon, was fined $300.50 for DWI and arrest.
Fined each for DWI resisting, convictions were Jack Bently Sander, Lake Charles; Clyde Latimer, 1525 W. Kent Drive, Sulphur; Darriel Tanner, Cleveland, Texas (who was also fined an extra $50 for not having a driver's license:) and Clifton Paul. Broussard, Port Arthur. SPEEDERS FINED Thirteen speeders were fined by Judge Thompson. Paying $35.50 fines were: John Edward Zenon, Breaux Bridge: Willie Moss," Orange: Lawrence Ray Warren, Kountze, Texas: Emile Shaffer, Baton Rouge: Felton Tenzo, Port Arthur; Raymond Yockam, Lake Charles: Willie Hamton, Montgomery, Robert Allen Jordan, Lake (See SHOOTINGS, Page 5) 3 Father Theodore Brandley lie hall in Hackberry until such time as a rector is built.
By Mrs. John W. McNeil Mrs. M. Baggett dies in Sulphur Mrs.
Margaret Granger Baggett, 75, resident of 216 West Logan Sulphur, died at 9:15 a. m. Monday at her home after a two weeks illness. Born in Lake Charles August 29. 1879, Mrs.
Baggtt had lived in Sulphur for the past nine years. She was a member of the Henning Memorial Methodist church. The body was at the Hixson funeral parlors in Lake Charles until time for the funeral services which were held at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The Rev.
James C. Whitaker, pastor of the Henning Memorial Methodist church, assisted by the Rev. Carl Lueg, pastor of the Lake Charles First Methodist church officiated. Burial was in the Sallier cemetery at Lake Charles. She is survived by her husband, John William Baggett, Sulphur; three daughters, Mrs.
Cecil Bergstedt, Sulphur, Mrs. Herbert DeSynec and Mrs. her Baggett. both of Lake Charles: three grandchildren, Margaret DeSynec, Lake Charles, Tom and John Bergstedt of Sulphur. Sulphur school children to be fingerprinted All school children in Sulphur will be fingerprinted some time in March, it has been announced by Civil Defense officials.
"This measure is being taken as a posible supplement to the identification bracelet practice which has not been started here because of cost" said a Civil Defense official, "Fingerprinting is a positive means of identification whether the person or victim has been severely burned even with thermal radiation or is just plain hystrical and can't tell who mama T. Press Hewitt, Sulphur native, dies in Houston Funeral services were held at 4 p. m. Monday in Houston, Tex. for T.
Press Hewitt, 67, native of Sulphur, who died at 1:01 p. m. Saturday in the Herman hospital in Houston after an illness of one week. Mr. Hewitt had been in the oil business for 40 years.
A native of Sulphur, he had at lived in Houston about 35 years: His address was 2205. Kingston Drive. He was a member of the First Methodist church, Houston club and Independent Oil Association. His son, T. P.
Hewitt, Jr. is a partner in the L. B. Butler and Company, Houston insurance dealers. Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Bowe Hewitt and one son, T. P. Hewitt, both of Houston, Texas. one brother, Lyman Hewitt of Sulphur and two grandchildren, Thomas David and Elizabeth. Hewitt, both of Houston, and several: nieces and nephews many of whom reside in Sulphur.
Funeral services were conducted at the chapel of George H. Lewis and Sons funeral home in Houston with the Rev. Kenneth Pope officiating. Burial was in Forest Park cemetery in Houston. -0.
TED LYONS back to work Hall of Fame the highest honor that can come to one in the field of sports. Imagine his surprise to learn the good news when he picked up a newspaper the next morning in a Little Rock, Arkansas hotel lobby where he had stopped enroute to Philadelphia. The young boy who played sandlot baseball in his neighborhood at the age of 13 had come a long' way to achieving national fame, but it was well waiting for. In his talk before some 300 friends at the Vinton banquet, Ted remembered his boyhood friends who influenced him in his great career. Jessie Sweeney, Carl Simmons, Joe Adams, Raymond Brown, Grady Roper, Clayton Nelson, Clegg Canter, Solly (See LYONS, Page 5) Rhonda Aleshire to sing opera lead Thursday Miss Rhonda Aleshire of Sulphur will sing the lead in the 'opera, "Brigedoon" on Thursday night, March 3 at McNeese State college auditorium.
Margaret Malone will sing the lead on the following night. This presentation of the light opera is under the direction of the music department of the college with the Lake Charles Lions ae 4.
