The Shreveport Journal from Shreveport, Louisiana (2024)

March 21, 1968

Publication:

The Shreveport Journali

Location:

Shreveport, Louisiana

Issue Date:

Thursday, March 21, 1968

Page:

4

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FOUR A FOUR TIIE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL SHREVEPORMOSSIER CITY LA TIIURSDAY MARCH 21 1068 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY'S PICTURES v44 Lenten Guideposts-- Deaths The Last to Be Picked 4 1 k' I p'' izj i-L-: -1 'f- 0 kr ki tc '4'' 4 Li i tl kri AI a It i-' 4 ii i 4 Not- ame 1 U'D fit i5'6 '6 II i 1 l'q' ''Nk 11 't Er' i' ----bi hE41 g- 'pl r- Li idi id utr i b' bt-DSEir i Dt-ti 1 Vt bfikft i '45bili Diii 4 DSZ stFi titl 41- ii ii) n----7-r-- c4 1 tkii' t4 AN fi ii i :4 5- tr to 61 I A- '-1t1 riI amm Lig 'Fills los Road Budget Is Labeled Blank Check' BATON ROUGE La IV Cane a Louisiana Board of Highways member has labled the Highway Depart a nients $199016221 budget a 11 "blank cheek" because it lacks specific information WaYbe we ought to do away 'e with the Highway Board when budgets like this are presented to us" said McCain of Colfax at a board meeting Wednes 4 day 'e The budget is $69945000 out of balance Department offi- a cials say they will need that much more to finance road construction on a "pay as you go" basis and it was left to the legislature to provide the mo- ee go- oasis and it was len to tne legislature to provide the mo- ney Road :4 Is La Blanl BATON RC Cane of Highway labled the nient's $1991 "blank check specific infor 'Maybe we vith the Higl :4 budgets like to us" said at a board day The budget 9 of balance cials say th( much more construction go" basis ant legislature to ney Mrs Roy Johnson DeRIDDER Funeral sem lees for Mrs Roy Johnson 52 will be held at 2 pm today in the First Baptist Church Burial will be in the Beauregard Cemetery under the direction of Ilixson Funeral Home Mrs Johnson died Tuesday in an Orange Tex hospital Survivors are one son The Rev Roy Lee Johnson of Or ange Tex: her mother Mrs Sarah Johnson of Grant three brothers Roy Johnson of Grant Estabal Johnson and Audie Johnson both of De Ridden one sister Mrs Elsie Gibney of Port Arthur Tex and two grandehil dren IC til 11 al a gl i SI A Mrs Sylvia Cheshire CARTHAGE Tex Funeral services for Mrs Sylvia Cheshire 78 of Carthage were held at 10 am today at the Hawthorn Funeral Chapel with the Rev A Helms officiating Burial was In the Liberty Chapel Cemetery near Carthage Mrs Cheshire died in a local hospital Tuesday night Survivors are four sons Leonard Cheshire of Gladewater Levi Cheshire Allen Cheshire and A Cheshire Henry Mason DAINGERFIELD Tex Mason 76 died at his home Tuesday Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 pm in the Mt Zion Church with the Rev Toles Burial will be Woodmore Cemetery under the direction of the Nail-Haggard Funeral Home He was a veteran of World War Survivors are his widow two daughters Eddie Dean Peters and Florence Herndon all of Daingefield: one sister Mary Auspin of Winnsboro Tex: eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews all of Daingerfield senior year Then came more championship teams during my four years at Louisiana State Universtty and a professional career vith the St Louis Hawks tt rt covered it years TODAY I am retired from polessi 0a1 basketball and de vote my energies to the business world Yet my heart is very much In sports I am a part of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and speak at all kints 1 sporting events I try to get across these ideas to young people: Find a worthwhile goal in he and persist toward it Remember that what you think about yourself is what you tend to become Learn self-disci Mine Never quit on yourself Don't work for awards and the one record with which you should he most concerned is your record as a person a child of God Friday Fran Larsen Armonk NY housewife tells the story of a midnight revel' lotion and the amazing events that followed (From the book "The Drive Within Me" by Rob Pettit (c) 1966 by Prentice-Hall Inc Englewood Cliffs NJ) BEE HEADQUARTERS National Spelling Bee again this year will headquarter at the Mayflower hotel in Washington DC The winner of the ArkLa-Tex Spelling Bee will receive among other prizes an all expense paid trip to the National Bee in June school I shot baskets from 3:30 IC) 530 Then came dinner homework and by 7:30 pm I 'as out shooting baskets again by the light of the seven lamps placed on the windowsill facing the back yard EVERY TRASH and garbage can became a challenge to my basketshooting form Apple cores candy wrappers and scrap shoots of homework paper all became small basket balls From a boy who couldn't hold a basketball properly I developed quickly through this practice and became the lead ing scorer on our pickup church team This period could really be called the pivotal point in my athletic career because from then on my goal was clear if I were ever to excel' in anything it would be basketball I lacked natural strength and so began daily exercises Ey ery night I would do calf rises to build up my legs Then I would grab window shade weights and do curls to build up my arms WHEN 1 became a high shcool junior I could hardly wait for the basketball season to begin During the first fall practices Coach Day was still with the football team The assistant basketball coac meanwhile had installed me at center When Coach Day arrived for his first practice he asked "Who's that at center?" "Bob Pettit" "I can't believe it lie wasn't good enough to make the junior varsity last year" But Coach Day kept me at center Our team became state high school champions in my Ark-La-Tex Students Getting Ready for Bee HIGHWAY DIRECTOR ELECT A Rate liff Jr said about $60 million has been diverted in the last few years '6 to "off-system" work a tradi- tional area of pork barrelling in state government He told the board that for the first time he has requested the legislature to provide a fixed amount for off-system or par ish road work instead of dipping into general highways funds Highway Auditor Alonzo said he favors "cutting 4 off the off-system work unless the legislature provides the money to us" "WE HAVE been spending S60 million on off system work" Ratcliff said If the department were to reduce it sharply he said "we would catch hell" A $450000 study by Roy Jorgenson and Associates has concluded that poor planning caused by sporadic off-system work has cost the department some $12 million annually HIGHWAY ELECT A about $60 I diverted in to "offsyster tional area in state gove He told the first time he legislature amount for ish road 9 dipping into funds Ilighwa Alonzo said off the off-s3 the legislati 4 money to us "WE HAV $60 million work" Ratc department sharply he catch hell" A $450006 Jorgenson a concluded tt caused by work has co some $12 Thousands of Ark-La-Tex students under 16 are already wrestling with the spelling of such words as "eleemosynary" "pusillanimous" and "meerschaum" in preparation The German shepherd dog was bred in Germany as an outdoor guard Music Festival Gets Under Way At Northwestern Mrs Mary Ureste PINEVILLE Funeral servIces were held at 10 am today in the Lake Side Pentecostal Church for Mrs Mary Ureste Burial was in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Mrs Ureste 60 of Pineville died Tuesday in a local hospital Survivors are her husband: one son Robin Curtis Kirkland of Metarie four daughters Ms Mary Madge land Bennett and Mrs Eva Lee Kitchell both of Pineville Mrs Jean Weber of Metairie and Mrs Sybil Gerald dine Kemp of Mississippi four sisters Airs Minnie Scencer of Osaka Miss Mrs Pearl Bessie of Monroe Mrs Peggy Paces of Flora Miss Mrs Nettie Mae Paras of Los Vegas Nev 28 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren Mrs Nannie Wemple CHENEYVILLE Mrs Nannie Phillips Wemple 86 died Tuesday in a Cheneyville hospital Survivors are three sons Phillip Wemple of Chaneyville Wemple of Thibodeaux and David Wemple of Miami Fla two sisters Mrs Ada Swann of Jonesville and Mrs Myra Pringle of Laferia Tex four grandchildren Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Chaneyville at 10 am today Burial was in the Mansfield Cemetery under the direction of the Hixson Brothers Funeal Home olirgionolgoolleossessoN Mectiterriliteaft is 110ILIC In lo 3321 Youree Dr i Open 9:30 AM 11110111100InInnInn1111111111 Agents Grab Liquor At Arkansas Club By BOB PETTIT Former star of the St Louis Hawks At the age of 12 I was thin and frail and had the coordination of a broomstick I could not run fast nor was I strong Whenever they chose sides for any game I was always the last boy picked Ve had no Little League In Baton Rouge Louisiana There was no community recreation set-up for boys I never had instruction of any kind in sports until I entered high high i-777N 41 school As a fresh- 1 i man I went out for foot- all even 7 though I was only 5-foot-7 4 a weighed A 118 un I wasn 't any Bob(PItita good at all but somehow I made third-string tackle When I finally got Into a game the other team ran a play over me that went for a 65-yard touchdown My football career was over I WENT OUT for baseball and got to play second base one game Then some guy hit a ball to me and it went right through my legs That ended my baseball career In my sophom*ore year at high school I had begun to grow some so I decided to concentrate on basketball I gave it all I had but when Coach Kenner Day posted the list on the bulletin board my name wasn't on it The only way I can describe my feeling at 14 when I wasn't good enough to make the team is that it seemed the end of the world I was unwanted a failure AT FIRST I just moped around the house Then I started going down to my church St James Episcopal where I sang in the choir served as an altar boy and took the collection at Sunday services The pastor Mr Philip Werlein was friendly and very understanding He talked to me about the Person of Christ who would help me when I was discouraged and who was always there to pick me up if I stumbled and fell This kind of talk didn't seem too practical to a teenage boy consumed with a desire to play basketball but the words must have sunk into my subconscious because years later I used the very same words to try to help other boys overcome disappointment But Pastor Werlein did have one suggestion that appealed to me at the time "Why don't some of you boys form a church team?" he asked We found enough boys who hadn't made the high school basketball squad to form a three -t a church league Now for the first time I was a member of a team and somehow important I started practicing at home I bent a wire coat hanger into a hoop attached it over the garage door and shot tennis balls at it My father impressed by my determination bought me a regulation basketball and backboard Then began a routine of hour by hour practice which I followed for seven years After For Vivian P-TA To Teachers Special to The Journal Special to The Journal Viviat PIann Special I Special emories for the 1968 ArkIATex and National Spelling Bees The local bee is sponsored jointly by The Shreveport Journal and Centenary College The winning spellers from each entering school will compete for the top prize in a spell down in the Shreveport Civic Theater 500 River Parkway at 10 am on April 27 THE TOP AREA speller will win an all expense paid trip to Washington to the National Bee Other prizes for the winner include a 24 volume Encyclopedia Britannica an educational film each month for one year to the winner's school a Paper-Mate pen desk set and a gold certificate The 1968 National Spelling Bee will again headquarter at the Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue The nation's top spellers will stay and spell during Bee Week from June 3 through June 7 The first day's agenda includes registration the first of several sightseeing trips and a "Get Acquainted Party" for the spellers and their accompanying adults Other activities of the week include more sightseeing trips the National Spell Down and a banquet on the last night All children in the fifth through eighth grades and under 18 years of age are eligible to enter the local contest Every school champion will receive a Paper Mate pen inscribed "Shreveport Journal School Spelling Champion" Each school that enters will be furnished with a copy of the "Words of Champions" practice which includes the complete rules Additional books will be available at 15 cents each from the Public Relations Department at The Journal School champions are to be selected by April 1 with information on the winner to be sent immediately to The Journal Special to The Journal NATCHITOCHES Sixty four musical groups began competing today in the District Two Band Chorus and Orchestra Music Festival at Northwestern State College Dr Joseph Carlucci head of the Northwestern Music Department and festival chairman said 29 choral groups 33 bands and two orchestras have entered the event which continues through Saturday Participants will be given ratings of Superior Excellent Very Good and Fair according to national standards of the Music Educators National Conference Sponsored by the Louisiana Music Educators Assn the festival will include choral and instrumental ensembles from a 13-p a ish area surrounding Natchitoches Several entries have also been received from other districts this year Parishes comprising District Two are Bossier Caddo Catahoula Concordia DeSoto Grant LaSalle Natchitoches Rapides Red River Sabine Vernon and Winn Plaques will be presented to groups earning superior ratings in concert and sight reading Judges for the choral events will be Mrs Betty Addison Baton Rouge: Dallas Draper I ouisiana State University: McClung Winnsboro High School Dr George Parks Lamar Tech Instrumental event Judges are Bobby Goff New Boston Tex High School Jack England Pine Tree Indenendent School District Longview Tex: Blanton McDonald Nedpriand Tex and Norman Smith McNeese State LITTLE ROCK Ark (LTD Liquor agents confiscated 28 open bottles of liquor and told the manager of the top of the Rock Club to stop selling mixed drinks Wednesday night The club is in a building owned by Gov Winthrop Rockefeller The governor is also a member of the club The raid was led by Harrel Hughes recently appointed director of the Alcoholic Bever age Control (ABC) by Rockefeller The club was the Top of the Rock Club The ABC issued a statement Tuesday directing all private and country clubs to stop selling mixed drinks immediately The order was implementing an opinion on March 15 by Atty Gen Joe Purcell that the selling and serving mixed drinks is illegal anywhere in the state of Arkansas Hughes said the top of The Rock Club was raided because he had learned from a competent witness the club was selling mixed drinks after the ABC directive and that the club intended to defy the order The ABC directive said it would give clubs a reasonable amount of time to dispose of their liquor stacks provided the clubs stopped selling drinks as of Tuesday Hughes said the Little Rock raid was not meant in any way to discourage or prohibit the sale of beer at the Top of the Rock as provided for by their beer license 4 a 4 9 rcre IPyo Spec al 7 rthsto hi autito t4 0 go Ij 11:4111 I wil pot amilCalemoileinery ear ome ac: additionaltrifothetiolibirth-stone 2' I Eat 9 Mad whit 0 at tap vt :14 10K king ofcLife' 44 88 one Spec al with Otto rthston hi autitut4 0 go aBk4 -4111 I wil amilanemorleinery ear ome 4 ac: additionattigdhetiChirth-stone 2' I Eic 9 Mad whit at twomen 41M 4 LI JelloWillteLaEoftell 4 VIVIAN The P-TA of the Vivian Junior High School will honor its teachers of the 7 primary elementary and jun lor high divisions Tuesday at 7:30 pm with an Appreciation Banquet in the school eafete- ria according to Mrs 6 Ilaynes chairman of arrange- ments Dr Paul Ware of Shreveport neurologist and psychiatrist who is connected with the Louisiana Commission on Disabilities dren will address the group Letters have been sent to 4 parents of the children urging their attendance at this impor- tant gathering A Crowson principal of the school has announced that winning safety posters made by the school's children will be on display that night and awards given by the local P-TA The winners include Melanie Edwards and Sandra '4 Hartley from the 1st 2nd and 3rd grades Daniel Henson and Janiece Dault 4th 5th and 6th grades and Lottie Pierce 7th and ath grades Officers of the P-TA who are the Rev Stone Caraway presi dent Mrs Claude DeBeaux vice president Crowson second vice president and :4 Mrs Burr secretary: treasurer are assisting in the banquet arrangements Reggie Splits With Governor Over Kennedy CROWLEY (UPI) Munici- pal Judge Edmund Reggie of Crowley is splitting with politi- cal ally Gov John Mc- heithen just enough to support Sen Robert Kennedy for president Rogoie eonfirmed Wednesday Over Kennedy CROWLEY (UPI) Munici- pal Judge Edmund Reggie of Crowley is splitting with political ally Gov John McKeithen just enough to support Sen Robert Kennedy for president Reggie confirmed Wednesday 4 VIVIAN I Vivian Junic honor its primary etc lor high div 7:30 pm wi Banquet in ria accordh Haynes cha merits Dr Paul neurologist who is coil Louisiana CI Learning Di dren will a Letters hi parents of their attenda tant gatherir A Cro the school I winning saf by the schoc on display awards giv P-TA The Melanie Edi Hartley Iron 3rd grades Janiece Dad grades and and 8th graC Officers of the Rev Sto dent Mrs 9 vice preside second vici Mrs treasurer a banquet am Reggie With Over CROWLEI pal Judge I Crowley is cal ally Keithen just Sen Robert president Reggie col When launched in 1853 the Great Republic was the largest sailing ship in the world Downtown 431 Texas St 1137 Shreve City Center No Inductions Set in April In Harrison smiiimm Crash Near Pineville Kills Woman Vada Miller ANACOCO Funeral services for Vada Armedia Miller four will be held at 10:30 am Friday in the United Pentecostal Church of Anacoco Burial will be in the Mitchell Ccmetery under the direction of Hxson Funeral Home of Leesville The child died Wednesday in a Leesville clinic Survivors are her mother Mrs Vada Taylor Miller one sister Eva Jane Miller and a half brother Billy Joe Jones Jr all of Anacoco her grandparents Mr and Mrs Marion Taylor and Mrs Arie Miller all of Anacoco Mrs Nannie Mc Fatter SUGARTOWN Funeral services for Mrs Nannie Mc Fatter 76 will be held at 3:30 pm Friday in the Sugartown Baptist Church Burial will be in the Sugartown Cemetery under di rection of Hixson Funeral Home She died Wednesday in a DeRidder hospital Survivors are three sons Leland Mc Fatter of Sugartown Milton McFatter of Denver Colo and Don Mc Fatter of DeRidder one brother Paul Moore of Fort Worth Tex one sister Mrs Lottie Crowder of Sugartown eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren Douglas Douzart ALEXANDRIA Funeral services were held at 11 am today in the John Kramer Chapel for Douglas Douzart Burial was in the Kelone Cemetery Mr Douzart 55 died Tuesday in a local hospital He was a bus driver for the city of Alexandria Surviors are his widow two sons Clifton Douzart of Houston Tex and Bobby Dean Douzart of Alexandria two daughters Mrs Leo Guillot of Marksville and Mrs Ronald Carroway of Shreveport: three step-sons Jimmy Lamartiniere Gerald Lamartiniere and Ricky Lamartiniere all of Alex-andria two brothers Gladis Gaspard and Landry Gaspard both of Alexandria and 12 grandchildren William' Johnson CAMDEN Ark William Robert Johnson 83 died in a Camden hospital Tuesday Funeral servIces will be held at 2 pm today at the New Hope Church with burial in the New Hope Cemetery He is survived by his widow a sort George Johnson of Locust Bayou a brother Hugh Johnson of Bearden a sister Mrs Edna Guido of Camden and three grandchildren John Thompson TYLER Tex Services for John Thompson 75 a retired groceryman will be 2:30 pm today at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church Mr Thompson died Wednesday at his home after a sudden illness Burial will be in the Whitehouse Cemetery Survivors are his widow a daughter Mrs Lorene Tomlin of Tyler three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren Sc'EVIAL c'ULTICKASIE 7-PIECE EXTENSION DINETTE Deluxe Chrome or Bronze Set With 6 Choirs A 1- -e i -z 1 15 14 at sit '1 i -z ti i i tlf 1 1 41 that he is handling arrange- ments for Kennedy's Louisiana visit April 5-6 The former state welfare director is the first Louisiana office holder to publicly an- flounce his support of Kennedy "I would like very much to see him get the nomination" the young judge told United Press InternatIonal "He's a vital new fresh kind of leader- ship that America and the world needs" 4 4 that he is 1 ments for :41 visit April 5- The forrr director is 1 office holde flounce his "I would see him gel the young Press Inter vital new ship that world needs Special to The Journal ALEXANDRIA A 76-yearold Pineville woman was killed and her son seriously injured in a one-car traffic accident on the old Marksville highway about two miles east of Pineville late Wednesday afternoon State police said Mrs Al lie Roane of Pineville died moments after arrival at Baptist Hospital here Her son Spencer Roan Jr 47 was admitted to the hospital with multiple injuries but was reported in an improved condition this morning Officers said the car driven by Roan was traveling toward Pineville when it went off the highway on the right shoulder and into a ditch The car then angled back across the highway went off the left side into a ditch and struck a tree Mrs Roan's body was taken to Hixson Funeral Home in Alexandria where arr an ments are pending State police said Roan was charged with having no drivers license and other charges may be filed later Special to The Journal MARSHALL Tex Mrs Ruth Chatham clerk of the Harr lion County Draft board said Wednesday that the county would not send any youths for induction into the service in April thus skipping a draft call for the first time since mid-1964 She pointed out that the nearest to this came in February 1968 and in November 1967 when the board had only one draftee available for each month Mrs Chatham said the board here would not contribute to the state call due to an exhaust of eligible men" but that 25 will report for physical examinations The main source for drafting Harrison County registrants is still focused on the 1-A classification she said adding that it has been divided into six brackets The first three brackets have composed the majority of the men drafted thus far She said the first bracket includes the delinquents those men who try to lose themselves by not keeping in touch with the selective service board in hopes of being unnoticed But she said their names are turned over to the FM and they are immediately placed on the induction list The second bracket includes the regulars whom she said are drafted under ordinary circ*mstances since they have reached the age of 19 and the third bracket is the men who volunteer for service but there are very few of them" Although there has been a decrease in the number of men drafted over the past few months the minimum age for draftees is still 19 and I can see no change for this in the immediate future" Mrs Chatham said She said she expected Harrison County would receive a call for 20 men for May oe zy iI 1 i ti-ti 4' -'46- 1 1 6fi 6): w- 4 -i :5 1--'-'-r-''' -1It 1- 4 I I ''e'--: -i i 5 I' 1 5--5 1 -r: 1 4's 4 :1 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