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bingo games used to finance his Exotic
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Springfield's Mayor Dewey Ratcliff
said in a Morning Advocate interview
Thursday he expects his Board of
Alderman to pass a bingo ordinance
which would exclude Long's organiza-
tion at the board's January 8 meeting.
Since the Feline Association is not
expec'ted to fall within the confines of
the new law since it is not considered a
charitable organization, the mayor said,
Long earlier met opposition to his
bingo games in Hammond, then in
Ponchatoula. but he had continued to
hold the games in Springfield. one of
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Springfield's anticipated bingo or-
dinance follows a state law requiring
municipalities to set up rules tracking
state bingo laws governing the
operation of the games within their city
limits.
Long has won the praise and support
of many who applaud his stated goals of
helping nurture back to health discarded
and mistreated jungle cats on his unique
preserve outside of Springfield.
He has also had his troubles, Long is
currently awaiting sentencing by federal
Judge Frank J. Polozola for his
conviction on charges of harboring
stolen animals allegedly taken from a
circus, which carries a maximum
penalty of 15 years in prison and a
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• Lions' Pride
Milburn Fletcher
FROM PAGE ONE
is, afterall, Milbum Fletcher's specialty.
"When I was 17 at Ponchatoula High
School I wrote my graduation theme on
family history. My family has been static
here for three generations. Before that
they came from all over. 1 was interested
in why my great-grandfathers came
here. I had a motley background with
different aditions, from various directions.
It made me curious.
"1 was able to research the histories of
most of the families that live in this area.
One history 1 wrote was on the Wesley
Chapel where my great-grandfather, a
Methodist preacher from Rhode Island,
delivered a sermon after the Civil War.
"My current project," said the
historian, seated in the office he shares
with his wife next to their home, "is a
history of the local Masonic Temple.
Perhaps your readers could help me. 1
am looking for a photo of the Knights of
Pythias Lodge which used te be located
near the intersection of Southwest Rail-
road and West Oak."
Fellow Masons Raymond Sharer and
Bert Howes are working with Fletcher
as a committee on the history project.
Fletcher is also conducting a
continuing historical study of the Metho-
dist Church in Ponchatou]a, where he is
the official church historian.
He married his'wife, the former Hazel
Howes, at the Methodist parsonage in
Ponchatoula in 1943. "We got married
on a three day pass," his wife laughs
today. It was World War Two and love
and marriage often had to wait for
engagements such as the ones Fletcher
faced in New Guinea and in the Philli-
pines. With the 5th Air Force where he
saw Gen. George MacArthur and other
military luminaries.
The couple has four children: Robert
Milburn. Amanda Louise, Laurie, and
Jeff.
"I was surprised by the lack of change
World War II had on Ponchatoula.
Nothing new had been built because
there was a shortage of materials.
Ponchatoula still looked like it did under
the Depression. It had a hard time
growing," said Fletcher.
His wife. who was Ponchatoula City
Clerk during the war years agreed that
Ponchatoula suffered a lack of many
items during that time.
The farmer's son said that strawberry
production went clown locally after the
war because of the cost of modern
farming. "The first to hit was the high
labor costs. Then the costs of chemicals
and the changing of methods upped
costs more. You can't work now with
the kind of routine losses we used to
have. You have to ship 50 crates per
1,000 plants to make it now. It used to
be 10 crates per 1,000 plants," said the
historian.
Fletcher was asked why he hasn't yet
come forth with a comprehensive
history of Ponchatoula and he admitted
that one reason is that what he has
• researched would shock many, anger
and a few and debunk the accepted
longstanding history of the city.
For instance, Fletcher says that
existing records in the Clerk of Court's
office in Amite proves that William
Akers "was not the father of the town.
He did not own the land. A Mr. James
B. Clark, who worked for the Great
Northern Railroad, owned the land
where Ponchatoula was built."
Fletcher says that Akers was a
prominent early citizen who lived west
of the town. He was a trustee in the
Methodist Church, but even church
records show that land purchased in
downtown Ponchatoula was first owned
by the government, then sold to Clark,
who sold it to another man connected
with the new railroad then being built, a
Mr. Hoyt from New England, who
transferred ownership to the local
Methodist church.
"When you abstract the titles you find
that Mr. Akers owned land on the
western edge of town. The way l figure
it Mr. Clark, being a railroad man, knew
where the railroad was being built and
he got there first and bought up the
land. Ponchatoula got going when a
bunch of Yankees like Mr. Hoyt came
down to push the railroad through, a
prodigious effort.
"I have stayed away from (publishing)
Ponchatoula history because I didn't
want to upset anybody. But the history
is in the record books in Amite that will
bear what I say out," said the historian.
content with the scope of his research of
the city's earliest history, which he types
into a state-of-the-art word processing
computer.
"History has been very entertaining
for me. It can be fun. I would recom-
mend it for someone who is curious,"
said Fletcher. obviously a man pleased
to let his curiosity move him from one
research and writing project to the next,
leaving a well-lit trail for those future
.generations who will follow and would
otherwise look to the past and see only
darkness.
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