This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B1AF1A9FD6A5B789DCEC63D5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------B1AF1A9FD6A5B789DCEC63D5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="bwalsw51.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bwalsw51.txt" Biographies: G. M. "Miley" Walsworth, 1951, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: April 12, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise (Know Your Neighbor Column) Deputy G. M. Walsworth Has 23 Years' Service An experienced law enforcement officer in Winn Parish is G. M. "Miley" Walsworth, who has 23 years' service in the Winn Parish Sheriff's Department. The 58 year old lawman has served as chief deputy under three sheriff's since beginning in 1928. Deputy Walsworth began his career in the sheriff's office about six months before W. T. Heflin went out of office. He served during the 16 year period when Bryant Sholars was sheriff and has proved himself an asset to the present force under Sheriff C. M. "Preacher" Robinson for the past two years. He had no formal training for law enforcement work before beginning, but has gained from practical experience and from instructions given at several law enforcement clinics conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI clinics give instructions in how to handle criminals, how to shoot a gun, how to handle a gun safely, and other phases of law enforcement work, including transporting convicts to the state penitentiary. His duties as chief deputy keep Mr. Walsworth busy during working hours, which last many times well past the ordinary citizen's working hours. Besides field work, patrolling, making arrests, answering calls, etc., Deputy Walsworth serves summonses in criminal and civil lawsuits, serves in court, and other work. Mr. Walsworth considers himself lucky that he has never been injured at the hands of criminals during his long period of service. He stated in an interview that he has had a gun pointed at him several times but always managed to get off without being shot. Once during the war, it fell his lot to arrest an Oklahoma soldier who had deserted the Army. Deputy Walsworth went to ward five, where the soldier was hiding, to make the arrest. When found, the soldier had a .22 caliber rifle, which he leveled at the lawman. "He threw the gun on me," said Mr. Walsworth, "but I got it off in a hurry." He brought his man in and delivered him to Army authorities at Camp Livingston, and sat in on his court martial, which sentenced the soldier to 20 years at hard labor in a Federal penitentiary. Before beginning his career in the sheriff's office, Mr. Walsworth worked as a commissary clerk for Tremont Lumber Company in Old Joyce. He is married to the former Laura Sholars, and they have four children, three of whom are living. None of the three sons followed in law enforcement work. G.M., Jr., is in the insurance business in Fort Worth, Texas. Douglas, the next son, was killed during World War Two on New Guinea. The other sons, Lamar, is party chief for a Conroe, Texas oil exploration company. The only daughter, the former Ella Jean Walsworth, is married to Roger Smith, and they live in Houston, Texas. The Walsworths own their home on West Court Street in Winnfield. --------------B1AF1A9FD6A5B789DCEC63D5--