Jennings Daily News (Newspaper) - December 9, 1970, Jennings, Louisiana City council votes to hike collection fees Tree of Life displayed here A MEXICAN Christmas known as the Tree of has been reproduced for display in the window of the Jefferson Davis Parish Library in It is surrounded by pinatas which are an important part of a Mexican Christmas It is one of four trees on showing various ways trees are incorporated into Christmas Other library branches at Lake Arthur and as well as the bookmobile have been decorated in keeping with the holiday Photo by Walther By Carl son Cars do strange things to I gave up my old one the other day and got a lump in my Never would I have thought a conglomerate piece of metal would make me But it This one was part of an auto trilogy that my personal involvement with three meaningful I want to tell you about First there was this 1954 green and white my first It was two years old when I bought it and it was my pride and I even posed for a picture one of these silly things with keys in dangling with one hand on the door of the drivers side and all four windows rolled I also wrecked it on two For those of you who never have driven a car on ice or snow and had it go out of control youve never Its got to be the most sickening feeling of helplessness there You turn the wheel and nothing This car was a meaningful part of the trilogy because it turned out the motor was shot long before it fell into my One day I blasted three pistons right out of their or whatever theyre I envisioned the world ending before my eyes the noise was so Then came my second automobile a 1957 new coupe green and By the time Id sold there were miles registered on the no mufflers existed on the it was beginning to rust out quite but I loved that I did most of my dating in it had traveled throughout the Mid west on two extended occasions in church work using it and had courted the beautiful girl who turned out to be my wife using that sweet little vehicle Theres something traumatic about giving up a car on which youve put miles or it When I traded this particular one shortly we were married in the fall of it was sold to one of my wifes old boy One day I chanced to see the car at a downtown service station in Mon so I stopped to take a loving look at what once was The speedometer had been turned back some my plastic seat covers had been removed to reveal an almost new look to the and the new owner was very proud of It was about that time I began to realize that whenever I traded the old one looked better and better as the time drew nearer to As I would drive the old heap one more it would just as if it were asking why in the world it should be swapped and not just overhauled or rebuilt to last a few more And every time I see a car Ive traded being driven by someone Im filled with For I realize that it could have been driven just a little bit further had I bothered to fix it But this last time Im afraid things had hit rock My tires were about all there was on that car which could be called valuable in any sense of the They were these newfangled jobs and hadnt gone miles No one believes but when I bought the car I just I managed 36 miles on the original It was no no power just a big nice smooth body by Fisher and a lot of My girls grew up in that I lost a hub cap one time on the Isle of Hope in and rather than buy a new one I took the other three off and drove around with the lugs After a couple of months of I decided I was getting too old to be sporty so I sunk a few bucks into a used cap from a The cigarette lighter never worked the dome light kept burning out the window on the drivers side wouldnt roll properly and toward the the oil light stuck and Id drive with a red buttoned glare in my It used a quart of oil to five gallons of or something close to it but it was my all paid and you could laugh all you wanted I loved that even if it too had miles on the The day I traded if off to be exact r I had to take a picture of it for the family It wap a good friend who had served my family and me well and I couldnt just let it go into strange hands without at least a final Now its gone a wholesaler from Texas got it and no doubt will be fixed up to last long enough for someone else to buy My only hope is that they realize it was a hunk of metal someone once Cars do strange things to The Jennings City Council Tuesday added to the sewer and trash collection fees in an effort to shore up sagging revenues still threatening the city following the failure of a sales and use tax in an election The council had said it would hike the fees unless the tax in an effort to maintain the fiveyear old water plant and make trash collection expenditures match more closely the Action was taken at the councils regular monthly meeting and raised the monthly sewer fee from to and the monthly trash pickup levy from to Water rates remained the same at per The new rates were scheduled to go into effect with the fee the council voted to shut down the citys recreation including the elimination of a recreation director and Mayor Clovis Bailey said the council would continue to pay the electricity and insurance but grounds upkeep at the ball parks and general main tenance work would have to be on a voluntary basis by groups using the Bailey said the citys swimming pools would not be affected by the but effective 1 recreation Director Johnny Adams and other members of his staff would have their employment Finance Commissioner Horace Arceneaux explained that in the five years the disposal plant had been in there had been no funds made available for maintenance and He said it cost last year to maintain and operate the plant and the money came out of the waterworks thereby keeping the department from showing a profit at the end of the fiscal Its just now beginning to wear Arceneaux and expenses are going to really begin to mount up Streets and parks Commissioner Ray Constant said garbage collection costs had been rising steadily but that collection fees had failed to keep Last year it cost the city to collect garbage and trash where collections of revenue totaled only about City Clerk Saday Manuel said collection costs had been increasing about a year for the past three Constant that upping the rates still included the regular pickup schedules now in In other the council voted to allow Murphy Richard to build a trailer park next to his home on South Lake Arthur Richard told the council the property on which he planned to develop the park had a for 32 trailer but that he intended to begin with The council accepted the resignation of Burt McBurney from the Jennings Housing in a letter to the said personal reasons regarding his business forced the decision to resign from the The council also voted the annual donation of to the local National Guard armory for maintenance of grounds and building the annual fee to the Municipal Employees Retirement System of renewed the check protector bond of and approved an additional for the rat control program to pull up the slack between the budgeted and the spent on the annual Car in which local girl dies LINDA of was killed Tuesday afternoon when her car collided broadside with a vehicle driven by Calvin also of at the in of 167 and 93 at Grand Miss Manuel was the daughter of and Daly The accident occured about 3 Parish said she died instantly in the impact of the two Opelousas Daily World photo December 1970 Number 246 Christmas parade features 57 entries Officials of the Christinas scheduled to be held here today announced that 57 units would be included in the including a color official antique cars and bands and drill Parade Chairman Gerald Vallow said the official which will be positioned behind the leading color would include officers of the Jennings Associated Merchants the mayor and councilmen of police Sheriff Louis deLaunay of Jeff Davis Bernard Marcantel and city Judge John state Norman and state Ace parish school Jake Neely and board President Ben Phillips and officers of the Jennings Association of Included in the parade also will be the McNeese ROTC Ware Rifle Drill Team and ROTC homecoming queens from surrounding area bands from Lake Arthur and Near Queens will include the Louisiana Swine Festival Joann the Festival Glenda and Sami Lee Little Notre Dame High Schools marching corps from Crowley also will be in the parade lineup along with the Basile PomPom Darlings and the fire truck bearing Santa Linda Manuel killed in Tuesday wreck Belgium trip told Rotarians EDDIE of Tuesday told the Jennings Rotary Club of an exchange visit he took to Belgium in connection with Rotary In With Richard Is local Rotary President Steve Richard was part of a team which visited Belgium as part of the Last year a group of Belgium businessmen visited In Jennings and Southwest Richard is a district planner with the Law Enforcement Dally News photo Linda of was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon when the car she was driving smashed broadside into another vehicle on 167 at Grand Miss Manuel was pronounced dead at the scene by Landry Parish who said she died in the 3 impact of the two State Trooper Donald Larcade of Troop said Miss Manuel was driving north of 167 when a car driven by Calvin also of ran a stop sign and was struck broadside by the victims Mire was driving west on according to She was the daughter of and Daly Manuel of Jennings and Mire is the son of and Clifford also of Mire was being treated at Opelousas General Funeral services will be held Thursday at from Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church in Jennings with Ivan Arceneaux Ortego funeral held Tuesday Funeral services for of were held Tuesday from Augustine Catholic Church in Basile with the Jude Speyer Following the 2 burial took place in the church cemetery under the direction of Ardoin Funeral Home of Ortego died early Monday at his home following a lengthy Survivors include one Chester Ortego of Tepetate three Childs and Griffin LeJeune of Basile and Wilbur Lehnberg of San Antonio four Noah Fournerat and Miss Edith Ortego of Lake Seaman of Beaumont and John Young of Port Arthur six grandchildren and two A Rosary will be recited tonight at and burial well be held held in Calvary Cemetery under the direction of Segura Funeral Survivors include her two George a student at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in and Richard Manuel of Jennings two Gene Alcock of Jennings and Dianne Manuel of Acadia to allow fern pants suits The Acadia Parish School Board Monday voted to allow female teachers and employes to wear pants suits in the public schools of Acadia John superintendent of schools in said many places already had accepted pants suits as a mode of dress and he felt Acadia Parish should do the same The school board in Jeff Davis Parish last week delayed final action on a similar and decided to wait for its policy committee to determine the details of the Cafeteria workers were the only ones left out of the Acadia Parish general due td state regulations which require a certain form of it was decided female cafeteria employes could wear a pants suit if it was white and an apron was worn with A pants suit was described as a garment in which the top and pants were of the same fabric with the tunic top length being about or longer and the pants either straight or slightly flared at the The pants suit was considered dress wear by the Acadia Parish as opposed to sport A long blouse with or stretch was not considered to be a pants
