Here are SEVERAL articles from the paper that day. Each are seperated with a line. Hope that everyone has fun reading them. Source: The Natchitoches Times March 11, 1965 Submitted By: Kay Thompson - Brown LIVESTOCK SHOW AT LSU INCLUDES PARISH WINNERS Natchitoches Parish won two reserve championships and two first places int he 1965 LSU Spring Livestock Show in Baton Rouge and Terry Lynn Loyd won for best fitted Jersey dairy heifer, according to reports received in Natchitoches the week. The show opened March 5 and will end March 14. Craig Foster won the reserve championship for Hampshire lambs and Margaret Foster won the reserve championship for crossbreed lamb, while Natchitoches Parish was given first place for group market lambs and for group breeding sheep. The parish also won fifth place for group market hogs. Others winning at the show were Pam Anderson, contender for reserve champion and second place medium weight market barrow; Edward Campbell, sixth place summer yearling, Guernsey heifer; Margaret Foster, second, Hampshire ewe; Craig Foster, third, Hampshire ewe and Dana Henry, fifth Hampshire ewe. Campbell's heifer was called back for competition as best fitted. ======== KIWANIANS TO HEAR TARVER Dr. Ray D Tarver, state representative, will be guest speaker at today's luncheon meeting of the Natchitoches Kiwanians Club at Broadmoor Restaurant, according to Bill Ackel, program chairman. Dr. Tarver, who is serving as vice - chairman of a legislative committee investigating bidding irregularities involving Student Union building at Northwestern State College, will discuss the progress of this committee. ======== ATTEND ASSEMBLY Drs. Joseph Thomas and Archie Breazeale attended the Graduate Medical Assembly held in New Orleans Monday through Thursday. Mmes. Breazeale and Thomas accompanied them. ======= $725 DONATED TO MOTHERS' MARCH Donations to the Mothers March on Polio are still being turned in but Mrs. Joe P Cunningham reports a total of $725.70 was banked as of Wednesday morning. The annual house - to house canvass took place Monday night and donations are expected to exceed $300. Mrs. Cunningham and W. C. Jones, Polio Drive treasurers, report they are pleasured with the public's contributions to the fund. They also wish to thank the area chairmen and volunteer workers who assisted with the canvass. An especial thanks is extended to the teenage workers. ======= AMBULATORY Miss Carmen Breazeale, hospitalized in New Orleans with a broken pelvis, was able to use a walker and move about Touro Infirmary Tuesday morning. She reports she hopes to return to Natchitoches this weekend. ======== THE WEATHER High Low March 3.............44 32 March 4.............52 27 March 5.............57 35 March 6.............64 36 March 7.............61 37 March 8.............67 28 March 9.............70 38 ========= Notes From CITY POLICE BLOTTER A person broke into a house on Allen Street and stole $30 Friday night, March 5; a boat drifted from Hwy 1 South to the Fish Hatchery; the rear glass in an automobile was broken on Second Street; a 1959 black Chevrolet without a license was stolen. Saturday, March 6, kids let the air out of an automobile tire and stole the license plate; NSC students and kids were reported fighting at 5th and St. Dennis; John S Strughan and Thomas R Cousins had a wreck; someone reported a lost billfold with $60 or $70 in it; Brahman calf reported missing; someone shot out 21 windows in KC Hall on 4th and some lights around it; someone stole hubcap from a 1963 Chevrolet on 2nd street. Monday morning March 8, a report was received about a missing 1856 Chevrolet; clothes were reported being stolen from house trailers, and a boy's jacket was found on Nettie Street. ============= MRS.. TYLER, 62 DIES MONDAY Mrs. Isabelle Tyler, 62, of Mora, died Monday, March 8, in an Alexandria hospital. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Antlerville Faith chapel with burial following in Pisgah Cemetery. Mrs. Tyler is survived by tow sons, Arthur Tyler of Mora and Manuel Tyler of Long Leaf; six daughters, Mrs. Lessie Neal, Mrs. Vivian Tyler, and Mrs. Bernice Colson, all of Mora, Mrs. Velma Tyler of Thibadaux, Mrs. Nell Webb of Fort Worth Texas, and Mrs. Nellie Shacklefored of Los Angeles, Calif; a brother, J.W. Smith of Mora; tow sisters, Mrs. Maggie Tyler of Mora and Mrs. Stella Thomas of Chicago, Ill; 30 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. ======= DEATH CLAIMS MRS.. FRIEDMAN Mrs. Sadye Stahl Friedman, 72 died at Natchitoches Parish Hospital Sunday, March 7, after a lengthy illness. She was the widow of the late Isadore Friedman. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Chapel of Blanchard's Funeral Home with Rabbi Martin Hichin of Alexandria, officiating. Interment was in the Jewish Cemetery under the direction of Blanchard's. Mrs. Friedman is survived by tow brothers, Dr. L.J. Stahl of Gonzales, Tex and Joe Stahl of Schulenbert, Tex; one sister, Mrs. Bettye Brisker of Toledo, Ohio; to local nephews, Senator Sylvan Friedman and Marcus Goldberg, both of Natchez; and a number other nieces and nephews. Pallbearers were Irion Nelken, R.W. Bretthauer, S.J. Powell, Cullen Scott, James a Gongre Sr., and Lester Gimbert. ===== RITES HEL FOR MRS.. W.L. SWITZER Funeral services for Mrs.. William L Switzer, 49 of Shreveport, were held Friday at 2 p.m. at Osborn Funeral Home Chapel in Shreveport, with the Rev. Malcolm Prouty, rector of Holy Cross Episcopal Church, officiating. Interment was in Forest Park Cemetery. Mrs.. Switzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Fleming of Campti, and a sister of Mrs. Taft Copellar, also of Campti, died in a Houston, Texas hospital Thursday, March 4, after a short illness. =========== DEBLIEUX NAMED CHAIRMAN FOR CANCER CRUSADE Robert DeBlieux has accepted the chairmanship of the American Cancer Society's 1965 April Crusade in Natchitoches. The announcement was made by Dr L.J. Plunkett, president of local unit, who said the chairman's "long interest in cancer control will add vigor to the Crusade against Cancer." "We can expect our most successful educational and fund - raising campaign ever,: the president said. Chairman DeBlieux said he was pleased that the Society was emphasizing the "Tell Your Neighbor." aspect of the campaign. "This means," he said, "that we will do our best through trained volunteers to reach every home with a leaflet giving the life-giving facts about cancer and let the Society's programs education, research, and to the cancer patient. We must know before we can act. Every doorbell must be rung before the Crusades can be considered a success."