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Schliegelmeyer: Ameri can war hero
irritated with life at his army
stateside, the Ponchatoula man
forward one day when the
g officer asked for
"The next thing I knew I was
a train to California, and then I was
out of port. They wouldn't tell us
about the mission until we were
to sea. rll always remember one of
fellows who heard our orders and
ed overboard, killed by the
the army had in mind was an
suicidal incursion I00 miles
Japanese lines named
Galahad. Schliegelmeyer's
army outfit was to earn its places
history books as Merrilrs
named after Brig. Gen.
Merrill. The 3.000 original
members of the Maurauders
reduced to only I I at the march's
The unit suffered I00 percent
wonder. Their mission was to
their way through the Indian
over the top of the Himalayas,
to the strategic airfield at Miyitkyina.
miles behind enemy lines,
with water cooled machine
and mules. They were supposed
Capture Japanese territory along the
hold it for 72 hours and turn it
to the friendly Chinese - one long
drawn-out jungle guerilla fight. They
were supposed to seize the airport at the
end of the march.
Incredibly, they succeeded.
"We depended on the airplanes for
air drops, and the planes didn't come all
the time. We had to eat medicated
mule feed at one point but at last
supplies came. We had to go over the
hump, 14,000 feet. We could look
down and see the airplanes flying below
us," he recalls, mentioning the names of
comrades who fell to sniper's bullets.
combat, jungle disease.
Those few who made the entire
journey, including Schliegelmeyer,
were transferred from the captured
airport to an Indian hospital. All but the
local soldier were sent home from there.
He was sent back into action.
As Schliegelmeyer made his way
from Myitkyina to Mandalay, and from
treatment there from combat post to
combat post-in the South Pacific on a
59 day return that ended forever his
love for water, his luggage had already
arrived from India•
Unfortunately. when the bags arrived
here in Ponchatoula with no soldier and
no explanation the logical conclusion
was that Schliegelmeyer had been killed
fighting for his country. His father sold
off 20 acres of land he had been saving
for his returninq son.
The Flag F.oM.00o00o.F
one for specnm occasions and
the club proposes to keep
American Flag flying night and
year round, over the City of
founding roster of club member-
stood at 21 Monday evening. A
membership of 100, with
paying $25 annual dues,
uld provide enough funds to
and care for the flags without
e need of staging fundraisers, club
Under Ronnie Perrin told the group
would be held no more
ently than once every three
he said. Perrin added that I00
ild insure that there would
tough Minutemen to rapidly lower
in case of a weather emergency.
wishing to join The Minutemen
need only call these members'
numbers to join: 386-9810, 386-
849. Ponchatoula, La. 70454.
"Get in the original membership and
be a charter member of The Minutemen.
And don't forget that women can be
Minutemen too," urged Betsy Ross and
Minuteman Mrs.. Evelyn Hebert.
"We might have to go door-to-door,
but we'll get I00 Ponchatoulans,"
promised member Phil Alexander.
Perrin announced the support of the
Ponchatoula Jaycees, who have offered
to let the new club use Jaycee Hall, as
well as office space.
Tuck Morse, a Kiwanian, who is a
member of the new club, announced
that Ponchatoula Kiwanis Club has
committed $I,000 to file new organization.
Members took application blanks with
them, vowing to come back to next
month's meeting with a full roster of
founding members, with 79 left to add.
The next meeting has been set for 7
p.m. the first Monday of next month,
386-3016, orwrite to: P.O. Box November 4.
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But he did return, and he came back
to the farm with a new visitor. He
married Willie Lee Brown. in 1945 and
the couple had eight children: Jimmy
John, Paul Herman (deceased),
Charles Rodney. William Gary, Katherine
Rose, John Jr,, Susan Maries, and Mary
Ann.
He bought his first tractor in 1955,
three days after building a dairy barn: "I
poured the floor by hand, one square at
a time. We had no cement truck then.'"
And he had only three cows when he
began his dairy business.
"I built the first big barn by going out
and marking the trees and cutting them
down to get the wood and timbers I
needed• I built all the barns here. the
last one of them I0 years ago." he says
with a sweep of his giant arm, taking in
acres of barns, pastures and livestock.
He had mentioned quite casually
during the tour of the farm that he had
desiqned and built from raw metal most
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1970's following the elder Schliegelmeyer's
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The other Schliegeimeyer children
live in l,ouses on the family property,
each with a particular skill or private
business of his own that ties in with the
traditional farming operation.
Asked if farming will survive here
another generation, Schliegelmeyer
was optimistic. "I don't see that it's that
bad for the farmers. What's bad is
credit. I tell my family - if you don't have
the money to buy it, don't buy it. My
son-in-law Merlin Hill is farming on
Weinberger Road and he's prospering.
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THE PONCHATOULA TIMES, OCTOBER 10, 1985, PAGE THIRTEEN
• Jail & Bail ONE
One local newspaper editor was
arrested, spread-eagled, searched, read
his Miranda warning, handcuffed and
hustled off to jail as soon a's he showed
up for coffee at Paul's Cafe, which was
just as well, because owner Paul Pevey
had been picked up minutes earlier and
incarcerated.
Jail was quickly christened the
Hammond Bamboo Hilton, a jungle-
style jail of barrfboo erected on
Hammond's main street outside the
offices of radio station WFPR, which
was working with the Lions to publicize
the fundraiser. The station also donated
the use of offices and phones to take the
pledge calls.
Those jailed had to envegle friends,
relatives or co-workers to come up with
$100 in cash or pledges to win their
release. Some bosses lanquished in
lock-up for hours while taunting
workers dribbled in contributions
penny-by-penny.
At one point or another the jail held a
fire chief, an assistant police chief.
several bank presidents and executive
officers, hospital administrators, and the
mayor of Hammond, who was arrested
while filling out city paychecks and
simply brought her work with her to the
sidewalk lockup, urging city workers via
radio to make bait if they ever wanted to
be paid.
All morning officers fanned out in one
of the wildest dragnets in memory, as
pledge phones rang incessantly with
requests for more arrests from anyone
who could raise the money. Husbands
had their wives picked up, patients their
dentists, nurses their doctors, reporters
their editors. Finally three hours before
the end of the daylong drive new arrest
requests had to be turned down, so
great was the backlog.
At day's end everyone was bailed-
out, even Ponchatoula City Attorney
Bob Troyer and Councilman-at-large
Julian Dufreche, and Arthritis
Foundation fundraisers were left
stunned by the generosity of all who
had participated.
Lion McKnight said a full list is being
compiled of all those who helped
Ponchatoula Lions Club members to
raise so much money in a single day. It
will be published as soon as it is
received.
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