Angers began his journalism career upon graduation from LSU with his hometown ''Abbeville Progress.'' After wartime service, he became in 1945 the advertising manager of the ''Weekly Iberian'' and ''New Iberia Enterprise.'' With his father and brother, Allen, Angers co-owned Angers Real Estate Agency in New Iberia from 1946 to 1950, when he became the publisher of the ''Franklin Banner-Tribune'' in Franklin in St. Mary Parish. During his fifteen years at ''The Banner-Tribune,'' the newspaper converted from a weekly to a daily publication and won 150 state and national press association awards.<ref name=dlb/> | Angers began his journalism career upon graduation from LSU with his hometown ''Abbeville Progress.'' After wartime service, he became in 1945 the advertising manager of the ''Weekly Iberian'' and ''New Iberia Enterprise.'' With his father and brother, Allen, Angers co-owned Angers Real Estate Agency in New Iberia from 1946 to 1950, when he became the publisher of the ''Franklin Banner-Tribune'' in Franklin in St. Mary Parish. During his fifteen years at ''The Banner-Tribune,'' the newspaper converted from a weekly to a daily publication and won 150 state and national press association awards.<ref name=dlb/> |