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W.E. Butler and Kingfish
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want to give up the governor's office or even leave the state. Now he was
told that the lieutenant governor had set up a governor's office in the old
i Hotel (now the Capital House). When he heard that message he let out
'Cut that (SOB.) off the payroll. He's nothing now!' Mrs. Long
I jumped up from the table - 'Huey, don't let me ever hear you say that
again!'
said, 'Mamma, you know he is.' 'I know he is Huey, but you mustn't say
Butler was still living at the mansion, and during this most tumultuous time
history, Dr. Cyr raised a mob of 500 people to storm the Old Capital
Governor's Mansion. "But we had men on the roof with machine guns and
Pdidn't dare storm the mansion," recalls Butler. Butler and his teammates were
passes to get them past the state police guards after that.
had his rival thrown out of the Hiedelburg and successfully blocked him
up a governor's office anywhere else in Baton Rouge.
one evening the governor called me into the grand ballroom for
He had 22 chairs lined up in there representing two football teams facing one
He asked me about different plays and ran through them using the chairs•
him how to design plays on papers with O's and X's. After that he set up a
the grand ballroom.
had started out not knowing how the game began and in a few months he
plays. By the end of the year his plays were so good that I used a
of Huey Long's plays at Ponchatoula High Schoo} when I coached. And
he shared some plays with L.S.U/s coach. I recognized them when the
them to us," said Butler.
LSU-Army game came along but Huey couldn't go on account of (would-
governor) Cyr. He did arrange, by browbeating the railroad, so the fare was
enough to take the entire band and supporters to New York for $I00 apiece.
train fare, pullman, meals, a New York hotel and game tickets. When the
balked, Huey told them he planned on instituting a separate state railroad
and they came around. They provided 24 pullman cars, two diners.
by two steam locomotives. It was a 50 hour trip and we stopped along the
and worked out at two or three towns. But Huey missed one of his chief
leading the school band down Broadway.
of the season he fired Cohen, who he had rehired for four years the
r before. Army had beat us 20-0. Huey managed to get the West Point coach,
Jones, and brought him down with his whole organization. Jones was
Everyone was crazy about him• but in his second year (1933), Huey
he was going to go into the dressing room at the half during the last game
season. Biff Jones barred from the dressing room. Goodbye Biff Jones,
r was still the governor.
in Ponchatoula, Long was campaigning for the U.S. Senate and was
to finish his speech here and head for Hammond on a tight schedule.
recalled that he set off on Highway 51, which had been under repair for
a year, with the bridge over Ponchatoula Creek out of commission for eight
months• This effectively stopped the governor's caravan, which had to drive
long way around, making the Kingfish late for his Hammond speaking
:nt.
asked how long the bridge had been out and someone told him. The next
," recalls Butler, "Five hundred workers were sent here. Two weeks later the
was built."
Senate victory marked the near end of Butler's stay in the mansion,
which time he got to know the young Russell Long, who was about 12 at the
day we were asked by Mrs. Long to pack up and be out of the mansion in
but we weren't told why. I later found that Huey was at last bound for
Senate to claim his seat, after hurriedly naming the president of the
Senate the new lieutenant governor and in direct line for the governor's
He had to get him in office and in the mansion quickly, before Dr. Cyr
a move. After that the only time ] saw Huey Long was in New Orleans
he was always surrounded by bodyguards. I was in Baton Rouge when he was
but I didn't find out until I was back in Ponchatoula.
never touched a drop of sour milk in the 50 or more years since then," said
The state of Nebraska is 97 percent farmland.
Harness the sun wil:l'00 "
Hot water is one energy cost that
stays high year round, but a breadbox
solar water heater can help shrink those
energy bills. Breadbox solar water
heaters are simple devices that need
only sunlight and municipal water
pressure to operate.
A breadbox, also called a batch water
heater, usually consists of one or more
water-filled black tanks placed inside an
insulated box, The box is covered with
one or two layers of a glazing material J
such as glass or fiberglass
Sunlight passes through the fiberglass
glazing and the black tank. heating the
water inside. This warm water rises to
the top of the tank, where it is piped into
the home's conventional water heater.
As hot water is drawn from the water
heater, solar heated water from the
breadbox feeds into the tank
On a sunny day, the breadbox will
Winn Dixie
hits sales high
Winn Dixie sales were $7.774,480,000
for Fiscal Year 1985. up 6,5% from
$7,302,369,000 for the Fiscal Year
1984. Fiscal 1985 was the 51st.
consecutive year of sales increases,
Sales for the fourth quarter of 1985
amounted to $1,846,157,000 up 7.2%
from $1,722.728.000 for the fourth
quarter of 1984.
Net earnings for the fourth quarter of
Fiscal 1985 amounted to $30,073,000
or $0.73 per share, compared to
$31.926.000 or $0.78 for the fourth
quarter of 1984. This brings the
cumulative earnings for Fiscal 1985 to
$107,895,000 or $2.64 per share
compared to Fiscal 1984 net earnings of
$115.916,000 or $2.83 per share.
A. Dana Davis, President, stated:
"Although Fiscal 1985 saw slightly
reduced profits, we strongly believe that
the programs initiated, facilities
developed and actions taken by our
management team were necessary for
Winn-Dixie's sustained and profitable
growth."
Winn-Dixie paid monthly cash
dividends of 14 cents per share, totaling
$1.68 per share during 1985. Effective
July 1985, dividends were increased to
141/z cents per share, an increase of
3.6%, which is our 42nd consecutive
year of cash dividend increases.
During the year, the company
opened 98 new store locations, the
greatest number in the company's
history, closed 67 store locations and
enlarged or remodeled 70 store
locations. At the end of Fiscal 1985, the
company operated 1,262 store
locations compared to 1,231 the prior
year.
Winn-Dixie is the Sunbelt's largest
food retailer
THE PONCHATOULA TIMES, SEPTEMBER 5, 1985, PAGE ELEVEN
breadbo x heater"
provide 100% of the hot water needed.
Over.a one year period, the breadbox
can !Srovide up to 50% of a family' hot
water. And its cost of under $600 for
materials is quite reasonable,
This type of passive water heater
operates without the use of a pump,
controls or other electrical equipment,
As a result, it is less expensive to
purchase, install, operate and maintain
than more complex active systems.
Passive heaters usually produce less
hot water than active systems, but are
generally installed as preheaters for
conventional water heaters.
Fall
Clearance
Sale
15 ft. COleman Canoes Reg. 399.95 ........... $ 299
17 ft. Coleman Canoes Reg. 599.00 ........... $379
Coleman ScanoesR sg. S99. O0 ...................... $ 3 7 9
Coleman Crawdads Ro00. s49.900 .................. $375
Contour Pedal Boats Reg. $599 '. ............... $44995
AssemblyAvailble
6 gal. Tank ........................................................... $14"
Coleman Ski Vest ............................................... $14"
Ray Jefferson 514 depth finder.. ................... $99"'
55 Channel Radio .............................................. $174"
Hummingbird 4000. .......................................... $299 "s
S.S. Props ............................................................ $149"
Hydroslide ........................................................... $97 "s
Pro Hash Skis. .................................................. .$41"
Coleman Paddles 58 in,., .................................. $14"
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