Looking Back: June 6, 1957

By: HEATHER
BOGARD
Lifestyles Editor

This week, we take a look back at June 6, 1957.
•The Ville Platte City Park pool was opened and blessed by Msgr. Bourgeois. Mayor Leroy Veillon raised the American flag donated by Woodmen of the World member Harris Dupre.
•Approval was granted to form a wildlife reserve at Lake Cocodrie.
•Father Charles Soileau was set to be ordained on June 8, and say his first mass at his home parish of Sacred Heart. He was a graduate of Sacred Heart High School.
•Over 40 girls entered the Miss Ville Platte and Tournoi pageants. The contestants were escorted by local businessmen. The winners received entry into the Cotton Festival queen’s pageant.
•Patricia Parent was crowned as the 1957 Evangeline Parish Farm Bureau Queen and was then entered into the state Farm Bureau Queen’s Contest in Alexandria set for the following month.
•Dr. Barney J. Fuselier graduated from the LSU School of Medicine and began his internship at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans.
•Juanita Rozas of Chataignier was one of 31 members of the Touro Infirmary School of Nursing and received her nurse’s cap upon graduation.
•Delores Ardoin represented the Bayou Chicot 4-H Club and Evangeline Parish at the Jr. Wildlife and Forestry Camp.
•Main Motor Company featured an ad for a Vormado air conditioner unit for vehicles at a starting price of $299.95.
•Sale items at G. Ardoin’s included one quart bottles of Clorox for 18 cents, family size box of Cheerios for 25 cents, one dozen lemons for 25 cents, one pint bottles of Jack Millers or Pig Stand barbecue sauce for 49 cents, 25 pound bag of Pelican Economy Rice for $2.10, and homemade pure pork sausage for 55 cents per pound.
•Dardeau’s Fashion Center featured a sale on ladies and girls shoes for $1, ladies and girls jeans for $1.49, girls dresses for $2 and ladies dresses for 25-50 percent off.
•Movies showing in town included “Slander,” starring Van Johnson and Ann Blyth, playing at the Platte Theatre and “Giant,” starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, playing at the Jan Theatre.
•Popular television shows were Romper Room, The Edge of Night, Perry Como, Lawrence Welk, Alfred Hitchcock, Jackie Gleason and Hit Parade.
•Popular songs were “All Shook Up” by Elvis Presley, “Love Letters in the Sand” by Pat Boone, “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear” by Elvis Presley, “Tammy” by Debbie Reynolds and “Round and Round” by Perry Como.