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Such cooperation is a recent blessing for the researchers who have in the past had to actually avoid such sites because of farmers working the land. "Only within the last 10 years has archaeology been recognized as an important part of Louisiana culture," says a Louisiana archeological Kathleen Hyrd...
...other outstanding legal problems, in particular those of Susie Phipps, though it was her well-publicized legal fight over her racial label that had prompted the legislative change. Phipps, 49, whose great-great-great-great-grandmother was an 18th century black slave, is "colored" according to the state of Louisiana. Phipps, who is married to a wealthy white crawfish merchant, only found that out in 1977, when she applied for a passport and learned that her birth certificate called her colored. She claims she has always considered herself white...
...state court judge in May upheld Louisiana's contention that Phipps is black, persuaded by the state's claims that, as a child, Phipps attended a black school and sat in the church section reserved for blacks. Her lawyer, Brian Begue, expects the state appeals court to rule in the fall. "This case is a testing ground," he says, "for deciding what makes you black-and whether you need to know...
Although confined to a wheelchair, with failing eyesight and hearing, J. Fred Boyd has no notion of quitting as chairman of Vermilion Bay Land, a Louisiana oil-and-gas company he helped start 39 years ago. He gets monthly reports on company affairs, and attended all three of the company's board meetings last year. Last week in Detroit, he attended his 50th consecutive annual meeting, where he was elected to his 13th term as chairman. The only thing unusual about all this is that he is 99 years...
...first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales of $6.2 million. It has only four employees and obviously no mandatory retirement age. Vermilion has a pension plan, but Boyd is not included...