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Ecumenical
tea hosted
by First Methodist
The Ecumenical Tea held each year
will be Thursday November 7 I0:00
a.m. at the First United Methodist
Church, Ponchatoula. Everyone
invited.
Hyatt speaks at
Westside Baptist
Dr. Leon Hyatt, Jr. will be the featured
speaker at the building dedication
service of the Westside Baptist Church
Dr. Francis Wiggins (dark dress, ceremonies Thursday at her clinic in
center) is joined by friends and city Hammond.
dignitaries during ribbon culling (Times Photo by Terry Ann McMahon) on Sunday, November 3, from 3-4:30
p.m. Dr. Hyatt serves the Louisiana llll I
m i i i i Baptist Convention as D,ector of the
Cooperative Missions Department,
i
The Lake Charles native served as a • City pirates
rifleman during World War II. Dr. Hyatt
participated in the Battle of the Bulge; FROM PAGE ONE
II COFFEE & [ II earned,0000
Medal and received the Purple Heart. The ordinance will take
Hyatt holds degrees from both 3ecember I. efor
II DOUGHNUT II Louisiana CollegeandtheNewOrleans )btain electric ser,
Baptist Theological Seminary, earning ust first go I Cit
,, the Doctorate of Theology degree in sewer, water and
November 3, in addition to "Thisordin
dedication of the building, makes the ride," he said.
second anniversary of the Westside He so saic
Baptist Church, located on the 1-55 pahoa Parish
St. Joseph Spook
I EVERYTHING HOMEMADE I
Red beans & rice • Spaghetti • Hamburgers •
Po-bo-ys " Fish boxes"
II I
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Sun: 4:30 ..... I p m Judy Covington Bill Norman
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Springfield Christian Assembly
Pastor Brother Jerry Lambert
Sunday 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Tues. Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Thur. Bible Study 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
197 S, 4th St.
Rev. Anderson
Bible Study 9:45
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Wadesboro Baptist Church
Wadesboro, La.
R, . ,James Wall
Bible Study 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
First United Methodist
East Pine St,
All Saints Episcopal Church
W Hickory & N. 7th Street
Rev Paul Gray
Holy Communion 9 a.m. Sunday
Oldest Church in Ponchatoula
Westside Baptist Church
Located on West Frontage Road
Between La. 22 and West Hoffman Road
Pastor Dr. Win. T. Pruitt Ill
Sunday School - 10 a.m.
Worship Service- 11 a.m.
Bible Study - Wed. 7 p.m.
Jesus Holiness Church
Yokum Road
Rev. Glen C. Henson
Sunday Service 10 a.m.
Night Service 7:30
Wed. 7:30- Sat. 7:30 '
effect
both December I. Before an individual can
Louisiana College and the New Orleans obtain electrical services from LP&L he
Baptist Theological Seminary, earning must first go to City Hall and pay his
garbage deposit,
putting him on the city billing books.
"This ordinance will eliminate the free
He also said, "Hammond and Tangi-
have already adopted
west service road between Hoffman similar ordinances.
Road and Louisiana 22. Other personali- Dufreche is expected to reveal at the
next City Council meeting that the city
loss of up to $30,000 annually in
garbage fees can be traced to those
illegally receiving city services without
paying for them.
The councilman has been conducting
an audit to find the missing money.
In an interview Monday Dufreche
declined to reveal his plan for dealing
with those enjoying illegal utilities.
• Elood
FROM PAGE ONE
By ] uesday at noon Ponchatouia still
showed little sign of trouble. Some
awnings, like the one outside Sea
Breeze appliance repair on South Sixth,
had been twisted and blown down. An
ancient oak in front of the Bernice
Edwards home a block away brought
down electrical lines and kept a city
sawing crew busy clearing the road.
Former councilman Roy McKenzie,
wearing his Civil Defense headgear,
reported that his post at the Community
Center was capable of housing up to
300 refugees of the rising water. There
were only 15 in the shelter Tuesday
morning, but McKenzie said he
expected evacuees from Manchac to fill
up the Community Center. Other city
facilities had been outfitted to handle
m
ties scheduled to assist in the service are
Rev. Jimmy Wall, moderator of the
Chappapeela. Baptist Association, Mr.
Charles Walker of Petal, Mississippi,
and The Wayfarers of Pumkin Center.
Dr. W.T. Pruitt Ill, pastor, and the
congregation of the Westside Baptist
Church extend to the public an invitation
to be present for the dedication service,
mini-concert, and reception. The
church nursery will be open.
St. Joseph Catholic Church
330 W. Pine
Fr. Dan Davies
Vigil Mass Sat. 6 p.m.
Sun. Mass 7, 9, & 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Daily Masses 7 a.m.
Mon.-Fri. 9:15 a.m.
Vigil Mass Sat. Bedico Chapel
Wesley Chapel
United Methodist Church
Easterbrook Rd. Ponchatoula
Bible Study 10 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.rn.
Tasker Memorial
AMEoZion Church.
Rev. Albert Young
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
THE PONCHATOULA TIMES, OCTOBER 31, 1985, SEC. B., PAGE SIX
LIONS PRIDE
John Cortez Sr.
By BRYAN T. McMAHON
"The Oldest Man in Manchac"
remembers the days he spent commer-
cial fishing from dawn to dusk to earn
35 cents, and he brags that his family
survived.
John "Q-B-On" Cortez Sr. grew up
on the bayou near Raceland and his first
visit here was in 1909 when he was six
years old. "My father and I had to go all
the way around, through Baton Rouge,
to get to Ponchatoula. That was before
the first highway through Manchac was
built. All they had then was the railroad
bridge. There was nothing but thick
cypress forest between Ponchatoula
and the Pass," he recalls.
It was to the Pass Cortez moved with
his young bride and family in the early
1940's. "Our place was back off the
road and you couldn't see Manchac for
all the cypress," he recalls.
There he and his wife of 59 years
(Mrs. Cortez died in 1984) raised their
children: John Martin Jr., Edwin
Luther, Clara Belle Breda. June Marie
Faulkner, Mark Davis and Dores Mac
(deceased).
There he saw the small fishing village
grow and prosper with the times, and
then he saw it cut in half by successive
road projects spanning the Pass.
He recalls the early days when the
largely-Catholic families worshipped at
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (which
has recently been moved to the Pugh
property in Ponchatoula), when
Manchac had a fine train depot, and
when local fish Buyer and shipper
Dennis Rottman bought fish for five
cents a pound.
"We had lamps, no electricity. Our
fuel was wood. We ate muskrat and we
sold it as 'muskrabbit' to the folks in New
Orleans. I was the top muskrat catcher.
One time I caught I0,000 muskrats in
three months with my dad and sold
them for I I cents apiece in the 1940's.
Frank Drury, Bobby Burns, Johnny
Robertson are some of his early fishing
friends, later to be joined by Teddy and
Dago Kraft, who learned how to fish the
Pass from Cortez.
Cortez is honored this week for this
and many other contributions to life in
our community with the Lions Pride
award, presented weekly to senior
citizens by the Ponchatoula Lions Club.
"Middendorf's was a small restaurant
and barroom with a post office in the
early days. They only called the post
office Akers because there is another
M0nchac and the mail was getting
crossed. This community has always
been called Manchac. No one calls it
Akers." said Cortez with the lilt of
French in hi vniro
Honoree
He remembers when Manchac was
booming, with houses on both sides of
the highway and three churches to
serve the community: Catholic, Baptist
and Mennonite. That was before the
first highway gave way to what is now
called Old 51, before the interstate
finished the process of displacing what
families remained on Manchac's west
side of town.
Cortez got his nickname when he
stopped fishing for the Rottmans and
went into business for himself dealing in
Manchac fish. "Buddy Rottman told me
I wouldn't get enough fish to make a
couvillion (a fish stew that sounds like
Q-B-On) and the name stuck," recalled
Cortez.
He opened his first fish market at
Sykes Grocery in 1965. The only child
to follow him in the fishing business,
Mark and his bride Wanda, opened Q-
B-On's Fish Market and Tavern in its
current location in 1973.
The fishermen who went from a one
horse boat which shared the waves with
lake schooners polling their way up the
Tickfaw to landings at Springfield and
Wadesboro, to retirement at a fish
market in clear view of a modern
interstate, holds certain beliefs to be
true:
"They will always be fishing in
Manchac There won't be any more
great cypress forests and pollution is the
reason. I believe Ponchatoula wil! one
day take in Manchac and the Pass. If I
have any advice to give to the young,
based on my own life, it is to have a
good time And at the end of 18 years if
you need to know anything more, come
back. I'II be here."
Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Sunday Bible Study 9:45a.m.
First United Pentecostal Church:
Located off Hwy. 51 North on
Fisher Lane, Ponchatoula LA.
Rev, Berry A. Chandler, Pastor
SERVICES: Sunday at 10 a.m. and
6:30 p.m.; Wednesday at 7 p.m.
"Come Grow With Us!"
St. Paul Lutheran Church
707 W. Dakota
(across from SLU baseball field)
Hammond, La.
Pastor Sieve Henze
Sunday School 8:45 (Ages N-Adult)
Family Worship 10 a.m.
345-6008
United Methodist
Lee's Landing Methodist Church
Morning Worship 9:30 a.r 9.
Sunday Bible Study 10:30 am.
Manchac Baptist Church
Rev. James C. Nettles
Sunday Service
9:45 a.m. & 11 a.m.
Bible Study 6 p.m.
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Halloween Night exactly as it was
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