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The fight between Louisiana and the federal government had been going on for 16 years when Congress passed “historic” legislation in May 1953 to “restore to the state land that was taken away from it by decisions of the Supreme Court.”

Power: ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.

Force: strength or effort exerted upon an object; physical coercion.

Power emanates from within. It enables one to accomplish tasks through the positive exercise of the law of attraction. According to the law of attraction, you attract people and circumstances of the same nature as your actions and attitude.

Police were baffled after someone used a cutting torch to open the vault in a store in the LaHaye building in Ville Platte early in the morning of June 21, 1962. The culprits got away with $20,000 — which may still be the biggest robbery ever in Evangeline Parish.
The police might have stayed baffled if one of the robbers, disgruntled over his share of the loot, hadn’t decided to tell all.
John Wade Fontenot was the one who tipped off the police. He said the mastermind was an ex-con named Earl (Blackjack) Dupre, and that the third man was a guy named Joe Young.