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Some people say the Andrew community just south of Indian Bayou in Vermilion Parish was named for Andrew Gamble, one of two brothers who settled in the area in the late 1800s. Others claims it was named for a young boy who just happened to be sitting in a card game when the name was chosen. It might have been named for both of them, using different names at different times.

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When planter, politician and entrepreneur Henri Gueydan began to manufacture his Rice-O-La breakfast cereal in 1923, he also launched an advertising campaign that could have been the inspiration for the flamboyant Hadacol promotions decades later.
The campaign might have been anticipated. The son of town builder Jean Pierre Gueydan unveiled his plans to produce the cereal amid much hoopla in a well-publicized meeting in Crowley.