Columns

The newspaper proclaimed that “all the wonders of science, except the atom bomb, have now been brought to Eunice” after Everett Vidrine installed a big antenna atop his West Laurel Street home in October 1950,
“Residents of this fair city have all the push-button gadgets that their big city neighbors can boast. They even have television,” the newspaper reported. “Yes, you read it right —TELEVISION.”

“Persistence can grind an iron beam down into a needle. Dripping water can pierce a stone.”
-- Chinese Proverb

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On”, has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.” -- Calvin Coolidge

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,