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==Bossier City police chief==
==Bossier City police chief==
After the war, Cathey in 1949 joined the Bossier City Police Department and was soon named its first lieutenant. He served as assistant chief and then the police chief from 1953 to 1957 under Mayor [[Burgess McCranie]]. He was appointed as police chief again, serving from 1961 to 1970 under Mayor George Leon Nattin, Sr. Nattin had been the police chief from 1958 to 1961.
After the war, Cathey in 1949 joined the Bossier City Police Department and was soon named its first lieutenant. He served as assistant chief and then the police chief from 1953 to 1957 under Mayor [[Burgess McCranie]]. He was appointed as police chief again, serving from 1961 to 1970 under Mayor [[George Nattin]], who had been the police chief from 1958 to 1961.
In 1953, Chief Cathey reported the arrest of two members of the 10th Street Gang of [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]]. Bossier City patrolman Jimmy Walker pursued a car which ran a stop light on East Texas Street. In the vehicle were Joe O'Toole, Dwain Fisher, and a hitchhiker, Reuben L. Bass, then twenty, of [[Georgia]]. O'Toole, eighteen years of age, was under a five-year suspended sentence in [[California]] for violation of two laws. He was also sought in Fort Worth for stealing an automobile. Fisher, seventeen, had spent time at a reform school in Gatesville, Texas, west of [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]. Bossier City authorities released Bass after questioning.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/9587.asp|title=1953 Capture of Notorious Gang Members|publisher=''Bossier City Planters' Press'' (defunct)|date=June 4, 1953|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref>
In 1953, Chief Cathey reported the arrest of two members of the 10th Street Gang of [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]]. Bossier City patrolman Jimmy Walker pursued a car which ran a stop light on East Texas Street. In the vehicle were Joe O'Toole, Dwain Fisher, and a hitchhiker, Reuben L. Bass, then twenty, of [[Georgia]]. O'Toole, eighteen years of age, was under a five-year suspended sentence in [[California]] for violation of two laws. He was also sought in Fort Worth for stealing an automobile. Fisher, seventeen, had spent time at a reform school in Gatesville, Texas, west of [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]. Bossier City authorities released Bass after questioning.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/9587.asp|title=1953 Capture of Notorious Gang Members|publisher=''Bossier City Planters' Press'' (defunct)|date=June 4, 1953|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref>