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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12
Hard Work, Determination
 Make SucceSs--C0nCert Star

last year she considers the great i est conceht star today
 Worth The Sacrifice
 The opera star admitted. upon questioning, she had come up the hard way. Since her early teens, life was filled with gruelling work, years of study and considerable loneliness. No. She had never been l hungry and her parents had of fered every encouragement They moved from Pittsburgh to Los An geles so that she might study there. But I did miss a lot of things particularly those wonderful years of fun and companionship most girls. enjoy at Is, IT and 18." she said looking into the distance. But she smiled quickly. However, it was worth it" never stand before an audience of music lovers without thinking the struggle and the sacrifice was worth it."
 The advice she had to offer to young hopefuls bent on an operatic career, she said was the most diff ficult to take. Tt is work. work con- stantly and and study, study, study. A good voice is only the first reQui- site It is only the foundation. Study languages, study dramatics, study poise, and at all times enlarge your background
 Miss Merriman has mastered seven languigeS and studied dramatics for four years.
 Career is Slow Moving
 A career is a slow moving thing, which requires an abundance of pa- tience, persistence, and determina- ton, she continued. She said she was happy success had not come easily. since many who had eXper- fenced flash success rarely went on for more than four or five years, be- cause they were not equipped with the fundamentals. .+
 The mezzo soprano received tre- mendout applause from the Civic orchestra when she finished re- hearsing.
 Miss Merriman too was impressed with their ability. They play With great ensemble spirit" she said. T consider them excellent. And MT. DeCicco is sympathetic conduc- tor"
 She stood for a moment brea thing deeply of the soft summer air out side the pavilion and looking upon the deep green surrounding the pa- vilion
 Tt is really lovely here" she said. T hope I shall soon come back"
 Does it remind you of Pitts burgh," she was asked
 Heavens, no. That's why I like it. It looks so fresh and green" she declared, with sincere smile.
 Mrs. Cecil Avery and daughter, Margaret Elizabeth of Mechanics vile, Va, are vacationing with Mrs. Averys father Anthony Dzimidas of Chipman Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12
Weddings
ASSIF-HADDAD

Mir and Mr5 Michael Assif Beecher Avenue, announce the en- gagement and coming marriage of their daughter, Mary, to Edward Hadaad, son of MT. and Mrs. John Haddad, Beecher Avenue. Miss Assif is a graduate of the Water bury Hospital School of Nursing and is at present member of the staff MT. Haddad is 8. veteran of five years with the s. Army. four of which were spent in the South Pacific. The wedding will take place Sept. 2, at 8 A. NJ, at the Church of SS. Peter and Paul.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12
Bisn0U- Epstein Bridal ITOn1OrrO1l,

MT. and Mrs. Irving BIsnov of Bronson Street announce the com ing marriage of their daughter Ida to Julian Epstein, son of the late MT. and Mrs. Harvey Epstein of Bronx, N. Y The marriage will take place tomorrow night in New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12
 Births

MT, and Mrs. John Vaitkus of Washington Avenue announce the birth of their second child and first daughter, Susan Elvire at the Wa terbury Hospital on July 6. Mrs. Vaitkus is the former Miss Helen Zukauskas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12
Court Picnic Or Sunday

MT. and Mrs. Robert Curry, royal matron and royal patron of Ever green Court, No. ?, Order of Anna ranth will entertain at picnic on Sunday for court members at their home at 26 Elmhurst Avenue. Mem bers attending are asked to bring box lunches. Coffee will be furnish ed by the hostess. The picnic will begin at o'clock, rain or shine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12
Mrs. KHtka
 Party Hostess

Mrs. Irving L. Cooke of State Street was guests of honor at a sur- prise party Tuesday night Mrs. Will liam J. Klitka of Woodtick Road was hostess.
 Those attending were; Mrs. Henry Tooker, Miss Jacqueline Dum- schatt, Mrs. Rita Delaney, Mrs. Lucy Butler, Mrs. Elsie Tynell, Mrs. William A Dumschatt, Mrs. John J. Garrigus, Mrs. Herbert Hayes. Mrs. William MeKenna, Mrs. Elizabeth F'rohn. Mrs. Grant w. Outtrim, Mrs. Charles H. Tynell, Mrs. James Macintosh. Mrs. An- drew Puletti, Mrs. Kay Hurcombe, Mrs. Matthew D. Donnelly. Mrs. Kenneth s. Tooker, Mrs. Irving Cook and Mrs. William J. Klitka.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12

A meeting of the Lady McAlpine Lodge, Daughters of Scotia, will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at Mechah- lc's Hall. Mrs Mary McBroom will preside at the meeting and one can- didate will be initiated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12
John Dickson Photo.
By BETTY BLANCHARD

Success is worth the sacrificing the struggling. and the waiting, but once achieved 1t must never obliter- ate the view of the people at all levels or much is lost, Nan Merri- man, concert singer, said yester- day while waiting at Hamilton Park Pavilion to rehearse with Mar 10 DeCicco prior to her appearance there last night.
 Unquestionably sincere and smil- ing, the young and attractive con- cert star, who laid down her steno- graphic notebook for the long, hard climb to fame, enjoys most trans i continental tours, because, she said, T love to sing to all types of audiences"
 She has sung four times with the great ToScanini, and admitted it was great thrill. But it was also apparent the concert star had eX- perienced supreme satisfaction when more than 5000 people, in a small New Mexico town numbering 1000 came to hear her a few weeks ago.
 American is Music Hungry
 America is music hungry" she said. Tt is not true that the rank and file of Americans do not enjoy good music To most it is simply unobtainable.'
 Although Miss Merriman wore seven carat diamond engagement ring on her left hand, she averred she is going to continue her trans continental tour for years.
 Singing is my whole life With out it, my head might as well be cut off. I want to sing in every city and hamlet in every state in the union" The star who was de- termined at five to become a great singer, would like to appear in the music halls of Europe, of course, but first she wants to complete that tour of the good old U. s. A., because Americans want and need music"
 Although Miss Merriman has starred in concerts halls and radio for the past four years, she declared the years ahead still must be filled. with study and hard work. Tt realt ly takes a lifetime of preparation to be great artist. I feel am just beginning Maggie Teyte, 57-year- old British singer who made a re- turn tour of the United States
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12

Miss Anna J. Coughlan of Linden Street is spending vacation at the MontoWese, Indian Neck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12

Mrs William T Traurig and family are at Laurel Beach, Mill ford, for the season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-12

Mrs. Cecil Avery and daughter, Margaret Elizabeth of Mechanics vile, Va, are vacationing with Mrs. Avery's father Anthony DzimidaS of Chipman Street.
Evening star., 1946-10-31

and a helper were In the store
when i the man entered. After
threatening them with an object in
his coat pocket, he scooped the
money from the cash drawer and
ran, Mr.. Greenberg said.
Evening star., 1946-10-31
Thief Gets $500 Ring
| And Cash in Daring
Beauty Shop Holdup

Police were looking today for a
tholdup man who spent 80 minutes
robbing a beauty shop at 1764 Co
lumbia road NV. last night while
a policeman was making routine
check in the next building.
A total of SIT and ring valued
at $500 were stolen by the we'll
dressed man who held the owner
of the shop, Mrs. Mary E. Mac
Donald, 81, another employe and
two customers at gun point as he
completed his Job.
Mrs. Macdonald told police the
man came into the shop and asked
about prices for permanent wave
for his wife. He complained about
the price, but told her to make an
appointment At that moment a
policeman passed by and went into
the store adjoining, she said.
The bandit walked to the window,
pulled the blinds shut and produced
a small German pistol. He warned
Mrs. Macdonald, Mrs. Lillian Stew
art, the shop manager, and two
women customers under driers not
to move
Mrs. Macdonald said he then
forced her to take off three rings
but returned two of them after
examining them "Ill take the best
one" Mrs. Macdonald said he told
her.
After taking the SIT from the cash
register, he waited until the police
man had departed from the adjoin-
ing shop and Inen escaped, Mrs.
Macdonald said.
In another holdup about hour
earlier, about 500 was taken from
the New York Avenue Liquor Store.
300 New York avenue NV, by a
holdup man who also escaped.
Sam Greenberg, manager, said he
Evening star., 1946-10-31

vice versa. Lee Hessler was the
presiding officer and Brother D.
Luke was moderator. approximate
ly 200 persons attended the meeting.
Future subject include: How much
money should high school
boys have? Should they be allowed
to go out on school nights? How
much homework should they have?
Evening star., 1946-10-31
81. John S High Group Plans
Student Relations Program

Most Of the problems confronting
high school boys are expected to be
threshed out by a newly formed or
ganization, the Men Of st. Johns
Fathers and Guardians of the Stu
dents of st. Johns College High
School.
Meeting last night at the school,
1925 Vermont avenue NV, the
group discussed how high school
boys should treat their parents and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14

We drove from the road into the
grounds of the Pine Hills hotel,
the magnificent pink white Gle
plant of a building which was
built back on the fartherest shore
of Bay st. Louis just before the
last depression, and which failed
Immediately. A lot of young folks
were out there in automobiles
swimming and fishing along the
shore. Farther on we found a
creek running between white sand
banks, clear, cold water, and we
took a swim. The Jordan river
at the Kiln is a beautiful sight.
There is a landing for luggers
and schooners, and pulp wood and
corded firewood stacked high on
a bluff. The water sparkleS in
the bright summer sun, and the
rushes blow in the wind. 1t
makes a traveller feel sJrry for all
the people who have to live out
their lives in gIimy cities-and
even begrudge the days he him
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14
VoncIeove's School Bonds

The citizens of Vancleave are holding an
election June 29 to vote on a $4,000 bond
issue to build a new school, and this news
paper extends every good wish for the sue
cess of the project. The polls. will be open
from eight in the morning till six in the
evening. Local citizens of Vancleave who are
interested in getting the new building have
banded together to get out the vote and to
furnish transportation where needed. They
are pointing out that under Mississippi law,
failure to vote for a bono issue is interpreted
as a vote against it, and that this vital and
necessary program could be defeated by lack
of interest if many registered voters refrain
ed from voting. They are determined to put
it over, and we hope they do. The votes will
be cast at a polling booth at the school house.
In addition to the $43, 900 issue, a $50, ZOO
issue was voted about four years ago. In adj.
dition to this the state is expected to furnish
$4,000 toward the new building. This will
enable Vancleave to get a new school house
good enough to replace the old building
which was destroyed by fire several years
ago. That building was the center of COM
munity life, and the town suffered by Its
loss.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down-Agoin

The bridges on Highway 80 between Pas
cagoula and Gautier grow Increasingly
dangerous with the passing months. Last
summer we wrote some editorials on this
subject with the hope that the Highway
Department might be moved to cut through
the red-tape and face up to this serious prob
lem. Now a year has passed and nothing sat
isfactory has been done. Recently some dan
gerous Says d~eveloped-for about the tenth
time-in a couple of the fixed bridges and
now in recognition of the danger the High
way Department has put a Waterman with
q flag at each end of the most dangerous
stretch, and fianibeaus are liz at night to
cut down the speed of the traffic and mark
the narrow roadway. During the day there
is a small work crew "tinkering' with the
bridge again,-Making the same Intellectual
repairs that have been made to the span
many times in the past.
The past session Of the legislature ap-
propriatsd millions for road building and
repair. Every time a fellow turned around
during that session there was another tive
or ten millioa dollar road bill passed. We
were hoping that some Of that money would
find It's way down to Highway s0-one OF
the most vital roadwaYs In the state. and
the one In worst repair. Instead. 1t looks
as though all we can expect is another
consignment OF red tape.
Admittedly, an adequate road repairing
job is a big and expensive undertaking. No
one can expect the highway department to
finance d million dollar job every time a pud-
die appears on a highway. However, when
a major roadway falls into a dangerous con-
dition, and remains so for four or five years,
this type Of excuse runs out. This week we
telephoned Walter Spiva, chairman of the
highway department in Jackson, TO get the
point Of view of his office about this situa-
ton. Particularly we wanted to know If it
was in keeping with the Highway Depart
ment's theories of finance to be forced to
pay for full time watchmen and tinkering
crews on this roadway, and to do so year
after year. instead of going ahead with the
major repairs that ought to be made.
Have you fellows checked up to find out
how hard it is to get steel?" Mr.. Spiva asked.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14

through the woods. Occasionally
an old oak stands far out on
the beach, where the erosion of
the gulf has not yet toppled it.
Ii looks very much like parts of
the Mississippi coast-down at
Clcrmont Harbor, and Waveland
looked 20 years ago, before the
sea-wall was built. Doubtless
there are old residents of Pasca-
goula who a remember when
this town looked like that, too.
There is no %gainsaying that life
is easier in this day, that travel
ing on good roads is important,
and that life in a city is more
convenient than life in a remote
lamp-lit hamlet. Yet | think
that all who can remember those
tranquil lamp-lit days on the
Mississippi coast, when the beach
road was a sand path, and the
white sand stretched for miles
where the seaWall is now-I think
we all miss some simple quality
of those days which has now dis
appeared.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14

We told him that we had not. He suggested
that we call out to Ingalls, Shipyard and ask
them something about delivery dates for
steel-which we now have lone. Commenting
strictly on the steel situation-without ref
erence to the question of road repair-lngalls
officials said that the shortage of steel did
indeed continue. They said that the steel
mills are promising delivery July a year from
now on orders for heavy Orders now given,
AS for the financing of the repair job, Mr..
Spiva told US that the millions that were APP
propriated had to be split many ways. He
said there was now $24,0 600, 900 of state and
federal money available for the highways
over the next three years. Dividing this be-
tween three highway districts, each district
gets $8,000,0 900 for the next three years, or
about So, 500, 900 a year. He pointed out that
this sum had to serve the whole district for
a year, while this particular job would cost
a great deal, perhaps a couple of million. y
He indicated further that the question
of changing the route of Highway 80 to 90
behind the coast between Pascagoula and
Gautier was still an open matter. We had
thought II had been settled and that the
route was not to be changed. Mr.. Spiva said
however. he believed that Mr.. Mundell
Bush. highway commissions for this dis
trict. was still discussing the matter with
interested Jackson County citizens.
We say it is time to do one thing or an
other about this dangerous road. OF course,
it is an expensive job to repair it, if you
charge the repairs to one years appropria-
ions for the district. But this condition has
been gathering for five years, and nothing
has been done of any effectiveness. AS for the
change in the route of the highway, if there
are sound reasons for doing SO, let's bring
these things out in open discussions at our
civic clubs and come to some decision one
way or another.
Otherwise all these fine alibis are going
to block action on this road for another ten
years. This newspaper remembers clearly the
disaster near Vicksburg eight years ago when
Is automobiles plunged into Little Black
river. We see these bridges of ours getting
worse year by year, and we are tired OF
watching the spectacle of their being patched
together with bailing wire and red tape.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14
WE NEVER THINK OF THE

WE NEVER THINK OF THE
Coast" as d group of individual
towns and counties-each one a
separate political and social unit,
having nothing more nor less in
common than other neighboring
towns on the same highway, riv-
er, coastline, or railway. To us
it is simply The Coast" 1t is
all part of the same thing. II
begins down at Bayou Caddy,
past Clermont Harbor, and it
ends down here where the beach
roads turns in at Bayou Chicot.
Some towns are bigger than
others. and some parts of "the
beach" are more attractive than
others. But taken altogether ii
is much the same, just as a long
residential street like st. Charles
avenue in New Orleans is always
St. Charles venue no matter
what block one happens to be
travelling IN.
This feeling about the Missis-
sippi coastline is Tor typical of
the many emigrants who have
drifted over here from "The
City"-New Orleans-than it is
of old natives who have come
in from the more northward
towns and hamlets of the coastal
counties-towns like Vancleave.
Lyman, Virgins, kiln, Saueier,
and the many others. | used to
be surprised sometimes, to find
Pascagoula folks from back Van
cleave way who had little or no
interest in the other end of "the
coast" To some OF these folks
q town like Bay s.. Louis, and
Hancock county pol .ics, seemed
as remote and as far away
as the doings in the remote coun-
ties with the funny Indian names,
Oktibeha, Tishomingo, Yalobusha
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14
The Milk Ordinance

The recent adoption OF a milk ordinance
by the Pascagoula city government, at the
request of DIR. Hedmeg of the county health
department, is a step that has long been need
ed. Getting supplies for Pascagoula's swollen
population has been a problem throughout
the war years and continues to be so, with
our citizens in some instances helpless VIC
Tins in the consumption of below standard
milk.
The new ordinance adopts the regulation
of the u. S. Health Service as the standard
for diaries, milk suppliers and milk products
being sold in the city, and will enable the
county health department to regulate such
suppliers and crack dow on those selling
~unclean or below standard milk and milk
products. The marketing of such products,
or the handling of them under insanitary
conditions is inexcusable and criminal and a
menace particularly to our younger genera
ton and merits immediate and vigorous pro-
seeution.
The investigation now being conducted by
the health department into such standards
of milk being sold here is long overdue. Full
publicity should be given to the findings of
the investigation, both good and bad. and
should the department find it necessary to
resort to prosecution of v~iolators of the new
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14
Superintendent
Annual Conference
Begins MonduY

The annual conference of the
Mississippi County Superintend-
ents of Education will be held
Monday and Tuesday in the Mis-
sissippi Education Association
building in Jackson. IL was an
nounced this week.
A. Forrest Megehee, jackson
county. is president of the state
organization and will preside at
the conference which will study
Homestead Exemptions AS They
Apply to Shcools". A. S. Coody,
chief Of the homestead exemp-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-14
So i! FNE IA|IEI!!!I|k

even less.
Which is how Mr.. Plateau hap
pened to get into the pecan she'll
ing business that employs a dozen
persons from late October until
early June, processing nearly 300,-
900 pounds of pecans. The shelled
pecans are shipped all over the
country but the market in New
Orleans for candy manufacturers
is never glutted, Mr.. Plateau says.
OF the 300, 900 pounds, Mr..
Plateau sometimes produces as
much as $4,000 pounds on his
own orchard. He buys the rest at
the market price in the hull and
makes his profit for the Smelling
process which. provides meats for
the ever-hungfy candy market.
We wonder if the pecan candy
market hasn't automatically had
a tremendous expansion during
the war years when persons from
all over the country have lived
or travelled in this section in
great numbers. Among our out
of-state friends, we have heard
just about everything in our sec
ton criticized except the climate
and ~pralines.
Even the climate cannot match
California and Florida in the eyes
of all persons. leaving candy
and Mardi Gras-as the two COM
pletelv solid features. Therein
lies a lesson, we think.
We call on the Pascagoula-
Moss Point Chamber of Com
merce and the wide awake local
citizens with capital to investigate
the possibility of establishing
candy factories here with an eye
to the use of products close at
hand. The world supply of sugar
is sure to have eased consider
ably before a factory could be
planned, constructed, and put in
operation.
This newspaper has warned
that Mississippi is rapidly devel-
oping into a one-industry state
the garment industry-aud that
a one-industry economy has all
of the pitfalls and headaches of
a one-crop agricultural economy.
We have advocated and pleaded
for the development of industries
more adaptable to our area in
stea of promoting fly-by-nighs
concerns that are interested only
in cheap labor and special con-
cessions at the hands of the tax
payers.
In line with our recent column
on chicken raising and egg pro-
ductioll as a business, we want
to pass on something that Mr..
Plateau told us from his expert
ence with 500 laying hens. Ten
acres of pecan trees. 800 laying
hens. ana a policy of three gar
dens a year and growing what you
eat will net anyone more profit
here than any ordinary job in in
dustry. he told us. He said that
he had kept books on il for 4
number of years.
The only requirement is to
live like people in the country
should live. Mr.. Plateau said.
Stay home and look after your
| stuff.