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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

the first and foremost responsibilities of in
orporated government units. Both the city
and the county right this minute nave au-
thority, and not only the authority but the
responsibility, to halt and to institute legal
prosecution if necessary to prevent such
practices as are exhibited in this series of
photographs. However, it is the character
isticS of governments and elective officials
that they react to public sentiment; they en-
force those laws which the public wants en-
forced, and they go easy on the ones which
no one seems interested in. Perhaps it should
not be that way In Utopia, but in practical
life it is that way. Those dump heaps will
stay there and others will spring up unless
a sufficient number of citizens actively in
terest themselves in the actual ways and
means of halting these practices.
We have made many trips through the city
and its e%nvirons in the past few weeks study
ing the situation and trying to figure out a
workable method to combat it.
First of all, we believe that the city and
the county mus get together to institute the
continuous fill system of dumping trash
an inexpensive but efficient way to handle
this problem. This is the system that army
engineers used successfully in the big army
camps. To put it IN operation here. the city
and county should finance the digging of a
long trench in some out-of-the-way area.
and require all dumping to be made at this
spot; as one end of the trench is filled near
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

give my invention to promoters
who will not sign a contract what
/ consider right.
And looking at Mr.. Martz, lis
tening to the quiet bitterness in
his talk, the inner but unshak-
able egotism of the creative per-
sonality, one sees that he would
quietly grow old and die in the
utter obscurity of a Mississippi
textile and financial circles; and
far from unknown among the
plant biologists and the invent
ors who are interested in the in
credible but elusive possibilities
of the fiber producing plant
known as "ramie."
He showed me correspondence
with Department of Agriculture
scientists going back over a num-
Der of years which testify to the
great respect these authorities
have for his knowledge of ramie,
both as a plant and as a textile
fiber. He also has other papers,
tentative contracts, ETC., with
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

plan to show where the sewage lines must
be extended, and that the city. should under
take to do so. If funds are insufficient for
the work, then the community will have the
choice of authorizing the money or accept.
ing the fact of sewage in open bitches. If that
is what a majority of our people want, then
editorials and civic club speeches will be
wasted effort. But we do not believe a ma
jority of our people really want this.
The storm ditch through the Eastlawn
project is clogged and filthy. 1t falls to the
FPHA to fall in line with the city and the
county and undertake it's responsibility to
nave the necessary work done to clean this
ditch. There also seems to be a number of
sewage connections pouring indescribable
filth into the ditch, which is. clearly not its
purpose. A number of merchants have made
garbage and trash heaps on its banks. Any
hard rain washes this added trash into the
canal.
Drive along any road in the outskirts of
the city, and along some not even in the out
skirts, and you can see growing garbage
heaps. The most fragrant violation of civic
dignity is the trash dump along the fine lit
tie road by Bayou Chicot. The fellow who
did that ought to be required by the county
to pick his trash out of our front yard. That
is precisely where he has thrown tin our
front yard.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15
The Trash In Our Yard

We do not think that there are many local
residents who doubt the seriousness of the
problem which illegal and fragrant dumping
of trash has created in Pascagoula and its
environs. Almost every citizen in his daily
travels to work and home is forced to see
at least one and perhaps as many as a half
dozen loathsome trash heaps, sewage filled
bitches. or tin-ean and garbage piles along
once pleasant roadsides.
Many of us indeed have gotten too used
10 these sights because we see them every
day. But if anyone wants to see now they
might look TO the visitor passing through the
town. we print in this issue of the paper a
series of photographs showing just a few of
the eye-sores.
Our main trouble is that we have got
ten too used to this filth. Look at that
photograph for a while and then reflect
that this is what we live with. day after
day. and that the responsibility for these
conditions falls to some degree on every
citizen here who permits these things to
go on.
The question arises, what can We do about
it? The main thing we can do about it, is to
quit dumping trash and permitting others
TO dump il. But in organized community life.
even to quit something requires a series of
governing rules and regulations.
As a matter Of fact, many of the necessary
regulations already exist OH the city and
county books. The sanitary code IS one of
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ingalls, Production

We were interested to see an international
News Service dispatch from Atlanta this week
which revealed that Southern shipyards hold
a third of the nations postwar shipbuilding
contracts on a tonnage basis. From the figures
given by the article, it is revealed that the
ingalls, shipyard in Pascagoula holds a little
less than one-fifth of the national total on a
tonnage basis. This includes, counting all 1916
contracts, ten cargo and passenger-cargo
ships with a tonnage of 113,700 for private
American interests and IA cargo ships
amassing los, 900 tons for the Brazilian gov
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

eastern financial interests which
outline complete plans for full
scale production Of the machin-
cry. Reading them, one sees that
a number of big interests have
been convinced the process would
work, These contracts testify
that beyond a doubt some invent
ors have been willing to lay it on
the line, in bundles, to produce
the machine. But Martz is con-
temptuous and mildly bitter about
this pile of papers. In each one
he will point to an innocent-seem-
ing line or two, tricked up in
back-road, and take thet secret
with him to the grave before re-
leasing it on another mans terms.
His little wife is of the same
mind, perhaps moreso. She is a
quick moving, wiry little woman,
with dark, intense eyes, speaking
with a Polish accent like her hus-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

band. She has shared the strug-
gle, the poverty; the invention is
almost as much her creation as it
is his. own. They r rigid and
suspicious, a little resentful with
the world. People who have Civ
en- years in patient and sacrificial
pursuit of an idea become this
way. All about thems in every
newspaper they read of cheap
and flimsy things that win sue
cess and backing; they see takers
gaining acceptance as experts;
money and prestige gathered in
think of their empty, patient
years. working with the faithful
ness Of real craftsmen, with pow
erty and obscurity for reward.
The experience leaves a residue of
bitternss.
Editors note-The second part
of this article will appear in this
| column next week.
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rnmen
The story reveals, on the other hand, that
shipyard employment in the South Atlantic
and Gulf areas, taken as a whole, has fallen
sharply since the war. The South Atlantic
areas decrease between August and Novem-
Der l945 was from 97,200 to $500. The Gulf
decrease in the same period was from 1885,
300 to $4,000. During this period the ingalls,
yard has held to a fairly constant employ
ment level,
This is a production achievement for which
the company and its workers can be proud;
their achievement reflects obvious benefits
on all of us here who do business in the
community.
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forcement of same, II won't do any good to
pass it and then forget It. as has happened
in years past or to pass it. and then permit
a thousand exceptions to be made in its
enforcements. The new ordinance will
come up. for passage March S, We think
that the photographs in this issue of flag
rant sanitary and zopipg abuses make a
more effective argument for the new reg
~ulations than words can make.
Last week we made comment on the fact
that raw sewage seemed to be moving
through an open street ditch in a number
of places, and cited specifically the old Mobile
Highway off Market street. That condition is
not primarily the fault of the residents on
that street. The city has not extended its
the top, dirt is thrown over it, and from time
to time the trench is extended or a new one
dug as the old one is filled up. This operation
is an economy, and not only that, but a
necessity. Property values are being ruined
forever throughout the city by the present
practices.
The city also has pressing need for pas
sage of the revised coming ordinance now
before the council. and firm and fair en-
sewerage system to that area.
The city has grown in many directions,
and the sewer system has not kept pace. We
believe the city engineer should draw up a
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

counted hours of solitude and
thought in a remote Mississip-
pi cottage. The diagrams and
technical description of il in
Martz's government patents run
through many detailed pages.
II holds the key TO an origin
al process which may have the
power to revolutionize the tex
tile industry of the world,
Mr.. Martz guards it well. He
is anything but the well-known
type of crank Inventor. He
does not belong to that tribe
of pathetic, sometimes amusing
screwballs who haunt newspaper
offices with their diagrams of
space-dHps and gold-reduction
machines to run on seawater.
Over the years T have written a
number of kidding feature" sto-
ries about these fellows, who
camp at regular intervals on the
~doorsteps of newspaper buildings
and l think as a journalist I
know the type. But Mr.. Martz
is not one of them. He has work
ed for years with the single
minded intensity of the real in
ventor. On the whole he has
summed publicity. and despises
the average run of newspaper sto-
ries which offer exaggerated fic-
tionalized descriptions of process
SEES which to him r cold, SIM
pie mathematics.
Nevertheless, he has the highly
developed suspicious that are part
of the Inventors emotional make
up. And suspicious founded on
good reasons, very likely. He
tells of a number of outright at
tempts to steal his textile inven-
ton, and an earlier wood-pro-
cess invention; he tells of a me-
chanic who once got close enough
to get what he thought was a good
look, and then tried to duplicate
the machine And for
these reasons, Mr.. Martz will let
no one see the machinery COM
pletely assembled and operating
not until the day he has signed
a contract. with a financial back
err which gives him as great a
share in the proceeds of mass
production as he thinks he de-
serves. Then, and only then.
he win set up his machine and
release its secret principle to the
firm which will produce it. His
insistence on this point has caus-
ed the breakdown of a number
of financing deals in the past
years. Mr.. Martz may be un-
known to the general public of
this copntry-excepting his neigh
bors-but he is not unknown in
lawyers language. which means
almost nothing at first reading.
do you know what this para
graph really means?" he asked
me, at means that if l sign the
contract and give them my in
vention, then in two or three
years they have my invention, and
Martz has nothing. More than
twenty years of work. or poverty,
of investing every cent to devel-
CD the plant, the seed, the ma,
chine-and then they want a con-
tract. which guarantees them ev-
erything. and takes the inven-
ton from my control. Oh, 7
get some money. They get a lot,
and l get a little. But they get
control of my invention. l will
not sign a contract like that. It
is not money-greed-I live here
without money. | do not want to
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The Valley settler., 1946-03-28
N Q T I c E s

All persons who plan on setting . eggs in incubatOrs are requ ted to let the Matanuska Electric Associa : t on know. All those who wish to have any we'll drilling done should be sure to get their applications in to the ARRC office soon.
 The warehouse enpl oyees heve been busy unl oading; seed and fertilizer for the past week. It now appears that Saturday should see the last unl oading of the cars. With the end of the unloading of the cars, the ten percent disc ount will elso cease. TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE DISCOUNT, BUY YOUR SEED AND FERTrL- HER NOW. ..
The Valley settler., 1946-03-28
HIGH SCHOOLS PRES ENT
 PLAYS

Three we'll presented one-act plays blessed a large audience in the
 Community Hall Saturday., March 23. One drama, "The Valtantn Wss given by the Anchorage High School stud ents, and two comedi es, "Vtctor" and "Little Oscar", were pres ent ed by the Palmer High School students. |. Between acts Little Mark Sendvik sang solo and Mrs. Stella kucht CT and Miss Jean Emery played piano duet. After the plays, the Anchorage Hi eh School players were enterta ined by the Pelmer students.
The Valley settler., 1946-03-28
MEMS. MEET ING

Monday evening the Mens Meeting was held in the Lutheran Chur oh. r Guest speaker, MT. Walter Mau, gave;a very informst i've talk on the aims and purposes of rurel electriftca ion. Mir. Grtbble showed pictures on Scount training. Refreshm were served.
  MT. Howard Estelle, former Agri. Ext on Agent, was visitor in, . the Valley this week. Mir. Estelle < Is now with the Alaska Seed Company end Is located in Anchorage.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
BY Ben McAIwee

That Washington man and Wom-
an plnsplllers collectively were no
balls OF fire in the 10th annual Ma
tlonal Duckpin Bowling Congress
tournament held at Providence, RI.
was evident today with the release
OF the long prize list by Executive
Secretary Arville H. Ebersole.
Out of a total of 483 prizes in the
mems championship division, Dis
trlct pinmen won only 40. while the
women gained but 81 of 1874 awards.
Despite the meager showing of the
more than $50 contestants from this
area, however there were several
notable achievements marked up by
Capital rollers.
AS No. l woman duckpinner of the
country, Lorraine GULL made a cred
liable showing. The Hi-Skor team
captain shared the Womens all
events title with Jean Hoyt of Nor
walk. Conn, and placed second in
singles with 404, being nosed out by
one pin on the final night of the
tournament by Kitty Scheuchik, a
httle-knoWn Baltimore roller.
Bob Miciotto, King Pin team ace
and newly crowned District League
champion, carried off top honors
among the Washington men by land
ing third place in all-events with
1929, that included three sets of over
400. He was the only bowler in the
tournament to achieve this feat.
Hokie Smith of Hi-Skor was fifth
in all-events with 1,225 and ninth in
singles with 440. Joe Freschi, a
member of Colonial Village team,
which finished seventh with 1897
was seventh in all-events with 1.219
and, with Bert Lynn, tied for second
place in doubles with 815.
Capital rollers did better In events
held in conjunction with the ma
tional championships. as Jessie
Sacrey won the women's John Den
mis- four-game affair with 499 and
Ralph Bates of Columbia finished
second in the mems section with a
five-game score of 688 GULL and
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Hogan, GoodoII Victor, in FettIe
For First Time for u. S. Open
by the kssocioted Pres.

NEW YORK, June 5.-By rights
this should be piece about
Ben Hogan. After all, COLTS light
weight with the heavyweight wal
lop did win the Goodall Round
Robin-win it with a record point
score Of 81, 20 more than any pre-
vious winner could compile.
But there is little that is new
that can be written about Hogan.
So, for the sake of variety, this
could be piece about 80.
Byron Nelson. Up to the last
round at the Winged Foot G. C.
yesterday, he looked about ready
to nose out Hogan on a medal-play
basis, If not in the Goodall match
play scoring. But then little Ben
fired his best round of the tourna-
ment, a 3-under- par SO, in his final
match to whip Nelson up and tie
him for the medal at SOP, two under
par for the 1875 holes.
Or jug McSpaden. He broke all
competitive records for Winged
Foot's west course in the fourth
round with a IS, seven under par.
Or Dutch Harrison. The lanky
Arkansan was the only one of ID
rivals who managed to beat Hogan
over the 18-hole match play route,
by 2 up.
Or the Winged Foot course. This
was where Bobby Jones beat AL
EsplnoSa for the United States Open
title in 1929. Soggy with rain and
stretched to its full 6,939 yards. the
course held all but of the IS all
stars to scores of par or higher.
Still Hogan and Nelson proved it
could be whipped, each with three
rounds better than par, two even.
and two over.
What this boils down to then, after
all, is another piece about Ben
Hogan, who was feted by his Hershey
(PaD club members last night: tops
the winners for the year at
S22.O6s.5O, and is looking to next
weeks United States Open at Cleve-
land secure in the knowledge that
for the first time in his career he is
hitting the ball properly as he comes
up to the biggest test of them all,
Evening star., 1946-06-05
1a|bert Is Big Barrier
In Parker S Net Path
BY the Assooioted Press

KANSAS CITY, June Billy
Talbert of Wilmington, Del, stood
Yesterday as the greatest threat to
the Nations top ranking player,
Frankie Parker, in the Heart OF
America tennis tournament.
Talbert. seeded next to Parker,
spanked Kansas City's Frank Nose
ley. 6-1. 60, in a second round
match last night while Parker
clipped Gayle Kellogg of San Diego,
GA. 6-3. in the first round.
Mrs. R. G. Jones, Frances No. /
player in 1914, trounced Pauline
Bradley, Topeka. Kas, 6-1, 60, in
one of the feature women's matches
yesterday.
Parker takes the court today
against Charles Hubbard, Long
Beach, Calf. Mrs. Mary Arnold
Prentiss, Los Angeles; also is sched-
uled to take the court In the 7-day
tournament.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Horse Shows in June
Include Uppervi||e,
Midd|eburg Events
By lorry Lawrence

throughout the month of June
capital area horse show fans will
md entertainment in a series of ex-
cellent weekly attractions, and ex-
hlbitors as we'll as their performers
Will be kept on the jump moving
from one arena to another.
Arlington Welfare Leagues horse
show, rained out and postponed
from last Sunday, will be held at
the Fairfax (Va) show grounds next
Sunday, with an entry of the top
equlnes of this sector.
Another postponed event, the
Washington Bride Trails Gymk-
hama also will be held next Sunday
at 1890 am. at Equitation Field,
Rock Greek Park.
On Friday and Saturday, June Ia
Is, the Upperville colt and horse
show, Oldest and one of the most
famous equine events in America.
will be held at Grafton Farm, near
Upperville. Va, where it has been
conducted since it's inception in
1853.
The following day, the Arlington
Lions Club will hold it's third annual
show at Ballston Stadium, in Ar
lington, with a card of IA events.
For the morning of that day the
Washington Bride Trails Associa-
ton has scheduled a junior horse
show to be held at Equitation Field,
Rock Creek Park.
Saturday, June %, brings a re-
newal of the Middleburg tVaD horse
show, one of the top exhibitions of
the Old Dominion. with a prize list
offering the largest cash awards of
any show so far this season.
Sunday, June %, it's the Potomac
Hunt, which will entertain the
horsey crowd at the Hunts kennels,
near Potomac, Md
On Saturday. June %, comes the
Warrenton pony show, the most
celebrated junior equine event held
annually in the United States.
Sunday, June 30, Annandale Fire
Department will hold a show at
Annandale. Va
Evening star., 1946-06-05
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. .s All
9lA
C!rosbyIs Surprise
Opponent Of Hope
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

SPOKANE, Wash, June A.
Singer Bing Crosby today agreed to
become surprise" opponent to
Comedian Bob Hope in an exhibi-
tion golf match here Thursday.
President Joe Albi of the Spokane
Athletic Round Table announced.
Crosby. en- route to Jasper Nation-
al Park in Canada on a motion pic
ture assignment, said he didn't
think Hope has any idea I'll be
playing, or even that I'm in Spo-
kane"
Hope, who will present a comedy
show here Thursday night, will be
teamed with Neal Christian, Spo-
kane professional, against Crosby
and Marvin (Bud Ward, national
amateur champion.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Moureen Orcutt Is Victor
N. j., Jun

RIDGEWOOD, N. j., June 5 (Pj.
Orcutt, seven time win
ner of the tourney is in the second
round of the 43d Women's Metro
politan Golf Association champion
ships at the Ridgewood Country
Club. She defeated Mrs. Archie
McClave, S and 8.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Cubs, 3; Giants, Z

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Mccullough. Hack, Lowrey Winning pitch
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