Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1922-05-05

Commission, with headquarters al
Vicksburg, has requested the Nat
chez committee to organize q branch
relief camp in Wilkinson county, near
Artonish, Miss, where some three OF
four hundred refugees are ma
rooned. -.
Mrs. Myrtle Roberts, representing
the Louisiana Flood Relief Commit
tee, has arrived in Concordia parish
and with H. B. Conner of Jidalia, a
member of the committee, is making
survey of the flood conditions in
territory adjacent to the creyasse.
Although the river gauge at Nat.
chez has been stationery at SO feet
for the past 48 hours, indications
point to a rising teidcncy as points
below are beginning to rise AGAIN.
Fairview shows slight rise; Bou-
gere u little furthe south. n rise of
1-10th, white black HAVE, ,vst DC
low, is climbing at the rate Of 2-10th
in "a hours.
Back water within the icvce in the
lower part of Concordia parish is
rising at the rate Of 4-10th every
"a hours.
Officials and citizens Of Concordia
parish who will meet the congress
sonal party inspecting Mississippi
flood conditions at the Weecama Gre
vase today are prepared to make an
urgent appeal for the government to
intervene and take over the problem
of relief for food sufferers, according
to H. B. Conner, member of the leg
islature from the parish and Of the
Louisiana Flood Relief Commission.
He stated that with a population
of 10000 fully half Of the people Of
Concordia are in need of relief meas
ures and to meet this situation only
$3.50 had been placed at his disposal.
Mr.. Conner declared that if the ru-
ling is enforced that no assistance
will be given unless refugees are in
cocentration camps, the parish will
lose over half its population entirely
as it is largely made up Of tenant
farmers.
GAS an example of the lack Of CO.
ordination, / can cite many instances
he continued. "One for example is
that there are thirteen families on
the Lamarque plantation. These fam
lilies have a large quantity of corn,
household goods and other posses
sions. They wish no further aid than
means of transportation to Missis-
sippi where they can establish them
selves on property owned there. These
people are anxious for boat to take
them out, but when l appealed to the
officer in charge Of the government
steamboats, operating in the Black
River section, l was told that the
boats could only 60 to an area as
signed. Before the crevasse many Of
the people Of this section carried
their cattle to Mississippi in the vicin-
ity Of Natchez and naturally they do
not wish to be carried to Harrison
burg or points that will take them q
greater distance from their posses
sions."
Mr.. Conner expressed the opinion
that if $4,000 was made available
four thousand people in the parish
could easily be taken care of for five
weeks, the estimated period Of inun-
dalton.
He referred to the splendid record
Of loyalty to the government by the
parish during the world war and
called attention to the fact that in
every Liberty Loan, Red Cross or ap-
peal for relief in behalf Of others the
parish had oversubscribed its quota.
Mr.. Conner cited the instance Of the
third Liberty Loan when the parish
oversubscribed by 500 per cent and
ran neck with Floyd County, Texas,
for the leadership Of the entire 18th
Federal Reserve District. -.