Word: houma
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...people who are staying here and those who just come for a short time. You meet and make friends. It's the best recreation in the world." It can also be a long-term investment. "I want to retire up here," says Larry Mattei, an oil engineer from Houma, La., who has bought a plot. "And if I don't keep it, I can always sell it, probably at a profit...
...valuable assets which are carried on our balance sheet at a very nominal figure." Among them: 48.3% of the stock of New Orleans' South Coast Corp., which owns 89 square miles of Louisiana sugar land including 4,000 acres of potential industrial sites along the new Houma Canal to the Gulf of Mexico...
...theory, 2,4-D is supposed to kill only broad-leaved plants, not grasses, but Department of Agriculture men at Houma, La. found that when the potent chemical was applied directly to the soil surface, it prevented the sprouting of nearly all Johnson grass seedlings...
...finally got around to celebrating Christmas, last Sunday. A tinseled tree glittered in the little white chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Children solemnly posed in a tableau of the Nativity. The young Rev. Clarence R. Haden Jr., rector of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Houma, preached a Yuletide sermon to some 100 people...
Twenty-one years ago the Episcopal rector at Houma heard about the shy folk of Bayou du Large, learned they were not Roman Catholics, had little education, no church. He started St. Andrew's Mission, taught the trappers' families how to read and write...