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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
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ALTERATIONS TO ST. MAR
TIN SCHOOL, ST. MARTIN
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DIS
TRICT, ST. MARTIN COMMU-
NIFTY. JACKSON COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI.
Sealed proposals. in duplicate,
will be received, subject to the
conditions contained herein, by
the Board of Trustees of the ST.
Martin Consolidated School Dis
trict at the office of the Prinei-
pal of the St. Martin School I'M
til 800 PM, C.W.T., on July 8,
1945, and at which time and
place the proposals will be pub
licly opened and read aloud. Pro-
posals may be submitted to the
County Superintendent of Edu-
cation. Jackson County Court
House. PaSeagoula. Miss, until
500 PM. on July ;. l945. Any
bid received after closing time
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that
sealed proposals will be received
by the Jackson County School
Board up to Saturday, June 80,
l945 at 10 AM, for the transpor-
sation of the children living on
the following described routes:
/. Beginning at Daisy Vestry
School and transporting all High
School Pupils to the Broome
School - distance ) miles - APP
proximately IS children.
2. Beginning at c. c. Baria's
and transporting all children en-
titled to transportation to the
Hurley School-distance 2 miles
approximately IS children.
3. Beginning at Otto Eekhoff's,
thence to Ollie Wees place,
thence to within IL miles OF
Williams place, thence back to
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

tied her mothers sister, and
niece, Mrs. Laura Bell and Miss
Annie Laurie Ware, in Pasca-
gouia.
Sgt. Milton Walker Of Van
cleave was the dinner guest Sun
day in the home of his fiancee,
Miss Margaret Ware. He and
Miss Ware viii be married at Mt.
Pleasant Methodist church Sat
urday evening at 8 o'clock, the
Rev. G.. II. Mcbride officiating.
The reception following the cer-
emony will be given at the home
Of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. r. Ware. The bridal cou-
pie will depart later in the eve
ming Tor Tampa, Fla, where Sgt.
Walker will be stationed as an
instructor in the us. Army Air
Corps.
Announcement of the recent
marriage Of Mrs. Lucille Steele
and Frank d. Cooper of Sum
ner, Miss, has been received by
Mr.. Cooper's sister, Mrs. Ruble
Roberts.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

ders, etc, are thrown overheard
by the ton each day. One cannot
help think Of the enormous vast
age of this food when watching
a traWler fisherman pick a few
shrimp out of his rich catch and
shovel the rest overheard. II
seems illogical and poor business
during these times when the
newspapers carry daily stories
about the growing food shortage.
Business Opportunity
As a matter of fact there is
probably a business opportunity
for a few bright fellows in Pas
cagoula right now. If a man got
a truck and some ice and bought
up this trash fish for a few cents
a pound when the trawlers came
in and then drove to residential
sections where people with low
incomes live, he could sell it for
ten cents a pound and do both
these people and himself a favor.
This week the writer picked
up a few of the "funny-looking''
fish out of a trawler's catch and
took them home TO fry them as
an experiment. Among the spe-
cies of fish were SILVER cells
angel fish, pogies, a butterfly
fish, spearing, and squid. AS
could be expected, none of it
was as good as filet of speckled
trout, but all of it made good
food, as will almost anything Out
of the sea that is dipped in corn
meal, salted, and fried in deep
grease for eight or ten minutes.
The little mes were a little
bony and the butterfly was a lit
tie tough. But the former were
not far off from pan-fried perch,
and the butterfly fish had a fine
flavor. Like stingarees, it could
doubtless be, cooked with a red
fish courtbouillon sauce and
probably not mary people could
tell the difference.
These funny fish Incidental
ly represent only about one quar-
ter or a third of the trash" fish.
The rest are mostly croakers and
white trout that are custoraaaily
eaten.
OF course, there are few un-
tried businesses under the sun,
and probably any old-time
shrimper could name twenty rea-
sons why it is better to shovel
he trash fish overheard than try
to market them. After all. they
are primarily fishermen, not ped
oilers. But certainly there is
some better use for this marine
life-so rich in the minerals and
proteins needed by both man
and his cultivated crops-th.n
throwing it overheard by the
tons.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the
Trustees of Bayou Casotte School
will receive proposals up to FRI
day, June %, l945 at 10 AN. for
The construction and furnishing
Of materials for two indoor tot
lets and for the installation of a
gas heating system in the school
in accordance with plans and
specifications now on file.
Bayou Casotte School Trustees
p. A. Whatley. Chairman.
1t 90. els, 6-22, 500
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Arena

There vas a prayer meeting al
Roberts chapel Wednesday eve
ming. also at the Pine Grove
Church OF God, with Mrs. Frank
Smith as leader.
Robert Davidson. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Asa Davidson, return
ed home from the armed forces
last week.
Leonard Stricken, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Stricken, return
ed to his home Tuesday. He came
from somewhere in Italy where
he was stationed with the Army.
Johnnie Stricken, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Stricken, returned
home Thursday. He is in the Ar
my and has been stationed at
Camp Fannin, Texas. He will
report to California at the end
of his furlough.
Mrs. Clinton Williams return
ed to her home Friday with her
baby girl, Elizabeth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Reeves
visited in the home of her BROTH
er and sister-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Stricken, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Stricken,
Albertina, Mary Ann, Bob and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

the highway and to Escatawpa
School: transporting all children
entitled to transportation-dis-
lance IA miles, approximately As
children.
4, Beginning at G%reenhead
School and transporting all coll
ored children entitled to trans
p~ortation to the Bluff Greek
School, thence bus will proceed
to Anderson Reds place and
back to Bluff Creek School-dis-
lance approximately IA miles
approximately 35 children.
s.. Board will also receive bids
for driver only" on the Wade
Bus operating from George
County Line to the Wade School
Certified or cashiers check il
the sum of ten dollars $4,000.
must accompany each bid. The
right is reserved to reject any
and all bids.
jackson County School Board
A. F. Megehee, Chairman.
T. (. Johnson, Secretary.
At 6-8. els. 6-22. 6-2!
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

how it tasted. And therefore
they ate at least three-fourths of
the fish that are thrown over
board today as trash.
Probably there are very few
people living on the Mississippi
coast who have ever tasted an
eel. Yet three or four varieties
of cells come up in the trawl nets.
In eastern restaurants and espe-
eially in the Swedish Smofgas-
bord restaurants eel is sold as d
deiicacy. And fishermen in New
York will 60 down to the rocks
and docks along the Hudson river
and Long Island Sound to fish
for eeis with the same zest that
we go out for speckle trout and
red fish.
Campaign Against Prejudice
During this war, when the
country was faced with a food
shortage and the need for good
and tasty meat substitutes was
urgent, the federal food adj
ministfators began a campaign
to combat the universal preju-
dice of fishermen against certain
| species of fish. Since the great
est volume Of the nations fish
ing was done in the cold waters
of the eastern seaboard, the
| campaign was centered in that
area. The fishing boats which
| operate off the Grand Banks of
Newfoundland and other such
waters are much larger than our
trawlers. They too had favorite
standbys like cod, halibut, had
die and a few others, although
they dragged up millions of
pounds of other edible cold water
fish every year. Many of these
too mad unfortunate or humorous
names, watch discredited them
in the eyes OF dealers and con-
sumers. What the government
did was to put its dieticians to
work studying these fish, COM
pairing their nutritive values
with that of other fish, and con-
eocting attractive recipes for
cooking them. But what was
more important they gave these
species new names, like SEA
chicken" and sea perch and
the like. Since the fishermen
could now find ready sales for
them IN the hungry wartime mar
ket, they iced them and brought
them in instead of throwing them
away as formerly, AS a result,
the campaign added some thirty
million pounds of food to the ma
tons annual diet. Many oil
these fish we're canned under
their fancy names and sold at
good prices to prejudiced sports
men who once used to eusS when
ever they got one on their hooks.
Almost no one on the Gulf
Coast will eat a salt water cat
because there is a prejudice
against doing so. Yet any spe-
cies of salt water cat is prime
eating if one takes off the skin,
which gets rather bitter on the
belly. Even this is not neces-
sary with smaller catfish. And
taking off the skin is not as
hard as it sounds. All one has
to do is drive a nail through the
head TO a board, cut the skin
around the gills, grab hold with
the pliers. and pull.
Croakers and mullets are good
fish, better than white trout
which are more commonly eaten.
They are almost as good as the
bonv little perch that everyone
eats out of the fresh water ponds.
Yet these little croakers, floun-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
ROOM SERVICE

R%amsgate, England = A bunk.
and blankets in a two or three
bunk cubiele, with hot and cold
water, for Sc cents. will be avail
able to adult visitors in RAMS
gates latest venture in hotels,
to be opened in an unused rail
way tunnel.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Is There A Commercial Use For 'Trash"
Fish? Sale Could Mean Coast Profits

Almost every day during these
summer months a ton or more Of
resh live fish practically beg
ging for the cornmeal dish and
the frying pan is thrown over
board in the Pascagoula river.
Why? Because they are known
as trash fish in the seafood
fade, and no fisherman or
Wholesale dealer or retailer
wants to fool with them
Shrimp is what the trawlers
are after, and almost anything
else they pick up they consider
a nuisance. The wholesalers and
the ice companies are used to
handling shrimp; their retail
outlets in Pascagoula and Mobile
and New Orleans and New York
call for shrimp. And shrimp Is
what they want. The whole trade
IS laboring under a weighty pre-
judice against almost everything
else that stays underwater.
For this reason one can see
The Pascagoula fishermen each
lay shoveling over hundreds Of
pounds of fish. Usually they
pick over their haul for the big
white trout or founders that
have come up with the net. But
many a big fish is thrown over
because it has an odd shape or
an unfortunate name. Among
the smaller fish they do not
want to fool with are hundreds
of pounds of edible fish like
croakers, little founders, chan
mel mullet, cells, skates, crabs,
stingarees, and even small bon
tia and pompano, which are
served as delicacies in the res
taurants Of the world.
"A1I Trash"
To the fishermen all OF this is
trash.
Most people of course have
eaten croakers and mullets; but
to most of them the very sug-
gestion that a stingaree or an
eel might be edible is revolving.
But actually this attitude is born
of prejudice and not knowledge
or common sense. What we call
trash is often considered a deli
e6cy by other peoples, and very
often has even been considered
fine eating by our own people OF
an earlier day. Most of US who
have gone floundering have
speared stingarees by the scores
and flung them up on the beach
with a feeling of revulsion. But
ore can find recipes for skate
and stingaree and butterfly
fish" Call close relatives) in fine
old French cook books. What
We do not ike about them is
their looks. But the old French
cooks, both thrifty and diserim-
mating people. looked at it from
a more practical side. They did
not care how a fish looked, but
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

Americas hosial fleet con-
sisted of only tw ships, the Re-
lief and the Sole, at the time
of the japanese tack on Pearl
Harbor.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
ONE MORE WI. KILL SIR"

Bangor, Wales the future Sir
Charles Michael Robert Vivian
DUR Assheton NTH, 81 year
old Welsh landoher, wants to
be known merelyas Sir Michael
Duff" With sialler incomes
and smaller hotes we ought to
have smaller mines. too" he
said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

Save livers when having fried
or boiled CHECKED and add them
to scrambled eggs or omelet.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
"~DANDELIoN RUBBER"

acknowledgements cultiva-
ton in Britain of dandelions
grown from Russian seeds has
yielded rubber nearly as good
as plantation rubber" the Inn
perial institute reports.
The greyhound is notable for
its swiftness.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

Johnnie Strickler will lead
PRAYER meeting Wednesday night
at the Pint Grove Church of God.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

The missionary society OF the
Pine GROVE Church Of God visit
ed in the home OF Mrs. Clinton
Williams last Tuesday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

Mrs. A. Strickler, Carl ana
Mrs. Strickler's nephew, Bob
Ladnier, went to Chronicle, Ala,
Tuesday OF last week, where they
visited Mrs. Strickler's brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dee Miley and Mrs. Eddy Lad
nier.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

Wanda, visited Mr.. and Mrs. w.
C. Lang of Wilmer, Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
BIG NEGR0S
 IS INVADED,
 PHILIPPINES NJ
AirfieId Seized, Tank Col umns Then Spear
 Miles inland

MANILA, March 31.-Negros, the last big Philippine Island in Japan csc hands was invaded Thursday by veteran F'ortieth U. s. Infantry Di- vision Tanks, who seized an airfield and speared columns eleven and fourteen miles inland Bacolod, the capital city of Negros, with a popu- lation of 50,000, was quickly menaced.
 The landing on the west coast of the central Philippines island, which has an area of more than 3 1000 square miles, was disclosed to- day by Gen. Douglas Macarthur, who said Nipponese defenses throughout the heart of the archi- pelago are rapidly collapsing"
 Brushing aside enemy resistance on the beachhead near Bago, one doughboy column raced fourteen miles northeast, overran the Baco- Tod airstrip and neared the outskirts of the capital city.
 A second Yank column struck south eleven miles to seize Ponte Vedra, pushed inland along Babo River and secured Santa Ancieta, where they contacted guerrilla for ceS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
Clam Canning
 Under Way al
 Hoonah PIanf

Clam canning at Hoonah aboard the Western Fisheries floater there is proceeding normally, according to General Superintendent Jim Parks who is visiting Juneau.
 Parks, of the H. M. Parks and Company family which is now oper- ating under the Western Fisheries corporate title. said the cannery be- gan operations this spring about midi February and will can to the May 15 closing date.
 Approximately thirty people are employed in the plant, which is a one line semi-hand packing ar rangement, and about twice as many persons are digging clans for the cannery.
 The cannery puts up both clans and crabs, and last season put up approximately 5000 cases, the bulk of it in clans. Grab canning opera tions are scheduled to begin again in August, Parks said.
 Parks is guest at the Baranof Hotel and expetcs to return to Hoonah tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
ALLIES IN
 BIG SWEEP
 FOR BERLIN
Armored Forces Punch 10 Within 175 Miles of
 Reich Capita!

PARIS, March 31.--United States armored troops punched within ITS miles of Berlin at two points today, with the vanguard of an avalanche of 5000 Allied tanks surging swiftly through Germany. closing a poten- tial trap on up to 10000 Nazis in the wrecked Ruhr.
 A security silence masked the ex- tent of gains made by the five Allied armies, though a front line dispatch disclosed the Sixth Armored Division of the U. s. Third Army had bat tered within ten miles of industrial Kassel. 165 miles from the Reich capital. The fall of Kassel today is considered likely.
 The Sixth Armored Division sped AS miles since yesterday. while 30 miles to the southeast the U. s. Fourth Armored 'breakthrough" Di- vision drove to a point four miles southeast of Herzfels.
 Tanks Dash NOrthward
 Also spearing within 175 miles of Berlin. the U s. First Army tanks dashed northward through Pader- born bearing functions with Am- erican Ninth Army tanks, which ran Friday night. a moonlight obstacle race over wrecked bridges and past roadblocks. The First and Ninth armies are rapidly closing a gap. apparently less than fifty miles wide, to bottle up from 30.000 to 40.- 900 Germans fighting in the ruined cities and mining areas of the Ruhr.
 On the Ninth Army's flank, the British Second Army paced three. armored divisions, sweeping deeper across the North German plain. 50 miles beyond the Rhine.
 A German radio report said the British Second Army had crossed the Dortmund-E Ems Canal. the l75- mile waterway connecting Dortmund and the industrial Ruhr with the River Ems.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
U55R SEEKS POLES FOR
 CONFERENCE
Expects Early Reply 10 De- mand that Warsaw Goy-
 ernment Be There

LONDON, March 31 - Moscow has demanded that the Warsaw Polish Provisional Government be represented at the San Francisco World Security Conference.
 Highly authoritative L o n q o n sources said Russia has been in- formed that Britain could not &C., cede to such request These sources declared without equivoca- tion that Poland could obtain rep resentation only by complying with the Crimea Conference agreement that the Polish Provisional Govern ment be expanded to include a wider representation.
 The prospect of such action be- fore the April 25 conference open ing appeared slim. The Russian de- mand was broadcast over the Moscow radio and said the failure of the United States and Britain to recognize the Warsaw group was no excuse for withholding an invitation. An "early reply" is ex- pected to the request.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
SINK
 CARRIER IN
 NEW ACTION
Enemy Vessels Are Dealt Death Blows in Wat
 CTS of Pacific

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31 United States submarines have sunk eleven more enemy vessels in- cluding a large aircraft carrier, two destroyers and two escort vessels in Pacific waters, the Navy has announced.
 Non-combatant vessels included in the latest toll are three medium cargo vessels, large tanker, me- dium cargo transport and a small cargo vessel, raising the announced total of sinkings of 1,083 vessels of the Japanese flag sunk by Ameri- can submarines to date.
 Tn this total are included 122 combat craft, and 961 non-combat- ant vessels.
 These reports brought to four the number of aircraft carriers definitely sunk by submarines, as we'll as two others reported prob ably sunk.
 The destroyer toll of sinkings was raised to 52 such craft.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
AGREEMENT SEEMS NEAR
 COAL CASE
Operators Willing 10 Ex- tend Present Wage
 . Scale to May 1

WASHINGTON. March 31.-Bi- luminous coal operators told the War Labor Board they would agree to extending the present wage con- tract which expires tonight, until May 1, and make any wage adjust ments retroactive to that date.
 Charles O'Neill, speaking at the producers hearing called by the VILE to avert a possible shutdown Monday, declared, many companies twill be forced to close down after May l if the liability for wage in- creases on a retroactive basis is car- ried beyond that date"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
RYUkYUS BOMBING
 KEEPS UP
Fleet, Carrier Planes Cons finue Heavy Bombdrd-
 menf for Eighth Day

GUAM, March 3I.--neavy war ships of the U. s. Pacific Fleet and carrier planes continued their heavy bombardment of the Ryukyus Fri day, carrying the assault into the Aeighth straight day.
 k A Japanese counter-assault on Admiral Raymond Spruance's nigh ty fleet lying off the Ryukyus, with in 400 miles of Japan itself, was re- pulsed by ships guns and carrier planes. Seventeen enemy air craft were downed and four torpe- do boats destroyed, Admiral Chester w Nimitz announced in today's communique.
 There is still no confirmation of the Japanese Imperial communique reporting American landings on Aka lima and Tokashiko, tiny islands in Kerama Rhetto, few miles off the southwestern tip of Okinawa.
 Neither was there any further word of activities of British naval units operating with the American fleet off the Ryukyus. Admiral Nssnitz was also silent as to whether attacking Nipponese damaged any frf Admiral Spruance's ships, or any of Vice, Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carriers, which have been within striking distance of the Japanese homeland for two weeks, and which have raided southern Honshu and other enemy islands to the south daily for the past twelve days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
CONFERENCE SCHEDULED,
 WING OFFICE

War Manpower Commission off cials are gathering here for con ference scheduled for next week on Alaska manpower problems for the coming session.
 Fay w. Hunter, Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, from San Francisco, is due tomor- row or Monday and office man. agers and supervisors from Alaskan and Seattle offices expect to be in attendance.
 Among those to be here will be Earl Cooper, Area Director for Westward Alaska, headquartered at William Maitland, An chorage office manager; Charles Hood and Roy Hines, Aleutian representatives; TiSgt Joseph T. Flanke, under the Army's Director of Civilian Personnel for the AL askan Department; Roy Stewart, placement specialist to join the Juneau office: Virginia Carter, Seattle representative for Alaska ; Emory Vincent, Manager of the Ketchikan office; Nan Holt, Ko- diak office manager; F. M. Tyvoll, Cordova office head; Milton Ward, Fairbanks office manager. Jack Carvel, Juneau office Manager; Arthur Hedges, Alaska Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Assistant Director E. E. Lin- coin.
 It is expected the conference will last for five days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
RED ARMY M0VING0N
 TO VIENNA
Advances Reported Made Toward Italian Front
 Battle for Berlin

LONDON, March 31 - Russian troops moving into Austria fifty two miles south of Vienna, rammed into reinforced German lines, while farther to the northeast they stepped up their assault toward Bratislavia Gap, which has already carried them within A miles of the Austrian capital.
 Another Soviet offensive menaced Vienna, from the northeast, rolling toward the Moravian Gap.
 The German High Command de- clared this push in the corner of German Upper Silesia had broken into Ratibor and Katscher, only a few miles from the Czechoslovak border.
 On the southern and eastern front, other Soviet battle groups smashed within 134 miles of the Italian frontier, while the fall of Danzig has freed perhaps 50 Rus sian divisions for the coming battle of Berlin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-31
PAN AMERICAN BRINGS
 TWELVE FROM SEATTLE

A Pan American Airways plane brought the following passengers to Juneau from Seattle late yesterday afternoon: Kenneth Jordon, Norma Jordon, Ernest Jordon. Larry Jor- don, Ralph Walker, Joan Walker. Wayne Graham. Emalyne LaRoche. John Gellatly, Maxine Gellatly, Lil- lian Lien, Mallys Koroch.
 Passengers from Whitehorse to Juneau were Mrs. Dorothy Irving. Thomas Dooley, Joseph Webb, Har- old Starr. Miss Audrey Berrea, Helen Williams, Irene Stanley, Beulah Woitek, It. Burke Riley, Cornelia Baas.