Columns

I remember well the day in 1971 that Richard Zuschlag appeared before the Lafayette Parish Police Jury and said that he and two partners wanted to start an ambulance service.
The parish needed one badly. Funeral homes had used their hearses as ambulances for years, but new federal regulations made it prohibitively expensive for them to keep doing it. They were quitting the business and nobody knew how to replace them,

Enough was enough when a Baton Rouge hotel charged a state legislator thirty cents for his breakfast in June 1942.
He stormed back to the capitol and filed a bill to keep hotels and restaurants from raising prices during football weekends, Mardi Gras, and when the legislature was in session.

It took more than three hours for 8,000 soldiers and a thousand-plus trucks to move through Opelousas on Saturday, May 11, 1940, and they were moving as quickly as they could.
It was quite a show and people turned out to watch. According to the Opelousas Clarion-News, the hundreds of onlookers who lined Union Street to cheer for the convoy included “veterans, young Sub-Debs thrilled by the soldiers in khaki, housewives and businessmen.”