The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-16
Schools Top
Victory Loan
Drive Quota
Rocket Show As
Spur For Drive
Slated On Friday

the Victory Loan Drive ended
its third week in Jackson County
with the schools over their quotas
Ingalls, Shipyard touching the 85
per cent mark and other sections
determined to close the campaign
before the final day. December 81.
As a bond buying spur, the u.
S. Nays Rocket Attack and Ex-
hibit which recently attacted rec
ord breaking crowds at Panama
City and Pensacola, Fla. will be
brought to Pascagoula. Friday,
November %, James Lane. city
chairman, announced. The rocket
firing show will be a eolorful and
exciting feature of the drive.
Though only the Pascagoula
schools had figures available on
bond sales these were enough to
show that the county schools
have sailed far over the assigned
quota. A goal of AS 5000 was CIV
en- the schools and Pascagoula
public schools and Our Lady of
Victories school reported a total
of $50, 1851. so. Moss Point and
Ocean Springs schools planned
rallies for today, Friday, and rural
school were scheduled to send
in report sto A. F. Megehee, coun-
ty superintendent of schools, to-
day
Schools Top Quota
Reports BY schools were Lake,
IS, 059. 20; each s3,070.gs. South
sl0.l00;c Central s6.0lo.25; Junior
High SIS. gT4 20: and Senior High, {
r-epresentine nearly triple the
quota set for them, sal ,643. DIV
more than tripled the $4,000 quo
ia by reporting S $500. The schools
closed the drive Wednesday.
MIR. Lane reported SOS, 900 OF
the city's $500 900. Drive off
Gals at the ingalls, Shipyard de-
clared IS per cent of the $3.50 600
goal reached. Roosevelt Memorial
$500 bonds we're moving slowly,
workers said, contrary to general
expectations.
T. l.. DeLashmet tailed S24,-
756. 25 for the city. Mrs. DeLash-
net, chairman of the women's di-
vision said Kreole has reported
$4,711.50, and Moss Point women
S9i8.T5, with reports from other
divisions not available. Most of
the people contacted in the house
to house canvass are connected
with some industry or the schools
through which purchases are
made, Mrs. DeLashmet pointed
out.
Unusual Rocket Show
Ocean Spring has accounted for
$4,000 of the $500 quota,
George Young declared. A fea-
ture of the school bond rally to-
day will be an entertainment by
Keesler Field. he said.
The rocket show to be held on
the beach next Friday is expected
to give decided impetus to the
drive, Mr.. Lane said.
Composed of three officers and
IL sailors and marines, all espe-
cially selected by the Navy for
their vast rocket and combat ex-
perienee, the unit represents over
80 years of combined experience
cleaned from all over the world.
The show features the firing of
over lbs barrage rockets from
combat wholesalers and wea-
pom enthusiastically as "on the
combat line. Single, rapid and
salvo automatic firing will be
demonstrated and the climax of
the show will be the hurting of
rapid fire sequence of a blazing
salvo of rocket from jeeps moving
at full speed.
The officer in charge is 1t. tjgl
Bill Halverson of Portland, Ore,
recently returned from duty as
staff rocket officer for a group
of II LSMR's. Explanations Will
be given by 1t. Ggl Don Kali
strom who will narrate during the
firing. He is a survivor of the
USS Franklin, having served
aboard that carrier as rocket off
Ger and was aboard it when It vas
bombed and burned off Japan
last march.