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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Fire-Proof Area
Extended By New
Law To Convent

The commission council has
passed a new ordinance defining
fire control regulations, extend
ing the area of compulsory fire
proof construction southwark
from the present line, and bring
ing the business section at Mar
ket and Lincoln under regula-
ti0ns.
The old ordinance required rev
buildings to be of fire-proof ma
terials in the area from the rail-
way to about one block south of
Delmas avenue. The new or
dinance extends this area about
another block, to the line of Con-
vent avenue. This applies 70
new construction.
The Lincoln and Market ave
nue. business area was brought
under regulations which now re-
qnire new buildings to be of semi
fire-resistant materials.
Mayor Watts said the ordi-
nance was passed at the sugges-
ton of the Mississippi Rating Blu
reau and the National Bureau of
Underwriters, for the purpose of
bringing about an eventual re-
duction of insurance rates in the
Pascagoula area. The ordinance
becomes effective on publication
in this issue.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Clemon Bounds
Elected Mayor
For Youth Day

Clemon Bounds will take over
the reins of city government as
mayor of Pascagoula Friday,
April 5, as a part of the cele-
bration of Youth Week here.
Students from the junior and
senior classes of the high school
were named in school-wide poll
to replace city and school Off
Gals for the day as a step to-
ward giving to the boys and girls
an in sight into the duties and
responsibilities which will be
theirs someday. The observance,
which will take place the first
week of April, is sponsored by
the Pascagoula Rotary club and
students elected to the various
offices will be guests of that
club at the regular luncheon
meeting Wednesday.
Others elected to various of
fees are: Carl Allen Hudson, COM
missioner of public works; Lee
Slime, commissioner of public fl
nance; Gordon Justice, chief of
police; Warren McClesky, fire
chief; Gene Swartwout, secre-
tary of the Chamber of Com
meree; Ma1garget Rutlage, Sec
rotary to the secretary of Cam
Der of Commerce; superinten-
dent of schools, Mary Cook Kell5
Barbara Pace, secretary to the
superintendent; Everett Stone,
principal Of the high school; AL
bin Krebs, assistant to the prin-
copal; Robert Taylor, director o.
vocational training; Dolores Byrd,
visiting teacher; Ellen Fauken-
berry, school nurse; Virginia
Goss, supervisor of the nursery
school; and Doris Ryals, super
visor of cafeterias.
Students will also be selected
to teach the classes in high school
for that day, v. c. Gill, school
principal, said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29

Community Recreation, Inc.
named I. N. Tucker, Chatta.
nooga coach, athlete, and sports
official, to head the Market
Street facilities in Pascagoula as
manager-promoter this week, and
announced an expanded program
designed to offer a healthful rec
reation to all ages but with en-
phasis on the teen-agers.
The program announced this
week by President Earl R. Ham
nett calls for:
ID A dance each week, on Fri
day Or Saturday nights-Friday
after the next two weeks-at
prices reasonable enough to at
tract the high school crowd.
(2) Roller skating in the
gymnasium Tuesday, Fridays,
and Saturdays, beginning at 400
o'clock on the weekdays and 1880
on Saturdays.
90 Softball and baseball
games on the grounds arranged
and supervised by the manager.
"a Tennis on the four AL
cement courts, which will be
lighted at night, and which will
be outfitted with metal nets and
backstops in the near future.
go Boxing with an eye to
Golden Glove competition next
season.
90 Wrestling with some of the
nations top performers, if pub
lie interest warrants it.
(7) Bowling continued with
more alleys available in the rush
hours to adults as youngsters
turn to other features of the pro-
gram.
Mr.. Tucker, known as ''T. ~.
T." in southern sport circles, was
an outstanding athlete in the
Chattanooga high schools and
Tennessee college circuit, and has
been coaching and officiating for
many years. He replaces the
original manager here, Sid Ul-
mer. who is going into business
in Port Arthur, Texas, after a
brief period here which saw the
inauguration of Pascagoula's rec
reation program.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Open Campaign
Headquarters For
Ross Collins

Bruce c. Aultman, campaign
manager for Ross A. Collins, can
didate for the United States Sen
ate, today announced the opening
of the Collins State Campaign
Headquarters at the Robert E
Lee Hotel, Jackson, Mississippi.
The offices are located in
suites B and C on the third floor
of the hotel. Friends and ac-
quaintances of Mr.. Collins are
cordially invited to visit the head
quarters at any time.
Mr.. Aultman also announced
the Identification of Mr.. Anse
Dees with the Collins Campaign
Staff. Dees is a native of Ne
shoba county. Mississippi and a
former resident of both Philadel-
phia and Jackson. He attended
the University of Mississippi and
Cumberland University, Lebanon,
Tennessee, graduating in law. He
came to Jackson, Mississippi and
until his entry into the service
was associated with the firm of
Lotterhos & Travis.
Few men have experienced a
more colorful war record. After
graduating as a cadet, Dees be-
came an instructor, training stu
dents in basic flying school. He
was transferred to combat flying
duty and the end of the war
found him having completed AZ
combat missions over Germany
as a Thunderbolt fighter pilot.
Dees is one of the lucky and
chosen few to wear the rate and
honored emblem, the Golden
Boot. Flying behind German
lines his plane was shot down by
enemy ground fire. He hid in a
hay stack. Bayonets of German
soldiers in a search party pene-
trated the hav stack on all sides
almost to the center where Dees
was buried. He avoided detection
and then managed successfully to
walk through the enemy lines and
back to the American sector. 1t
was fer this exploit that he was
decorated with the Golden Boot.
Recently released from active
duty in grade of Captain. he inn
mediately joined the campaign
force of Mr.. Collins.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Rabies Warning
Is Issued By
Health Officer

A warning that rabies is still
being carried BY stray dogs in
Pascagoula and Jackson county
was issued this week by Dr.. An
drew Hedmeg, director of the
Jackson county Meath depart
ment.
Five children. all of them five
years old or younger, have already
been treated THIS year for bites
by rabid dogs, he said. Last year
a total of 70 patients was treated.
The situation is still serious,
the doctor said, and warned peo-
Pile to avoid all strays and to
keep their children from contact
with them.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Red Cross Drive slO,O 900 From Goal
AT Campaign End; Time Is Extended

Jackson County Jagged 1000
behind her $4,000 quota in the
national Rcd Cross Fund Drive
for n hundred million dollars
this week, with only S12,835 con-
tributed through Wednesday and
the drive scheduled to formally
end on Sunday.
Officials announced, however,
that the drive would be extend
ed since the Ingalls, Shipbuilding
Corporation drive for $1,000 was
seriously hampered by the work
stoppage and only half of their
quota met. Leaders there x
pressed the belief that their
drive would still go over the top
but the chances of making the
quota seemed dim here, as they
aid throughout the nation.
The ingalls, contribution led the
county Wednesday, with $1,000
contributed by the workers there,
followed by Moss Point with 49,
500 donated. Pascagoula had
contributed $3,252.50 {, ocean
Springs 5000, and the rural areas
SIPS. Pascagoula Negroes had
contributed $156.92 and Moss
Point Negroes $176.56. Jackson
County's part of the Keesler
Field contribution amounted to
$200.72.
County Chosen
Jackson County was chosen
this week from all of Mississippi
for a visit from William j. Flynn,
National Education Advisor for
The American Junior Red Cross,
who is making a survey of
schools in the south. The Central
Elementary School in Pascagoula
ana the Bayou Casotte schools
we're visited by Mr.. Flynn dur
ing a Council Meeting.
Mr.. Flynn stated that Jackson
County was the first place he
had visited where the children
had complete charge of their
meetings and expressed approval
OF the plan.
Miss Lee Ballentine. General
Field Representative for South
efn Mississippi was in jackson
County Wednesday for a meeting
with the Fund Campaign Chair
man and Co-chairman. She re-
viewed the chapter files on fund
campaign publicity and stated
that the publicity here was the
best she had seen. She requested
a copy of the Chronicles Star and
Advertiser, the Eastlawn News,
and the Ingalls, News to be used
as samples of excellence for other
chapters during fund campaigns.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
.Seawall Bill To
Withhold Funds
Stopped In House

A bill to remove gasoline tax
fund disbursements from the
chancery clerks of the coast coun-
ties and transfer it to the state
treasurer was indefinitely post
poned Thursday in the state house
of representatives judiciary COM
mittee. This means that the meas
ure is killed for this session.
Rep. J. GUY Krehs and other
coast representatives opposed the
measure on the grounds that it
would make it difficult for the
counties to negotiate essential
transactions. The measure had
been offered by the recess inves-
tigating committee whose mem
bers said that the gasoline taxes
were being disbursed by the coun-
tv boards and chancery clerks in
some counties for purposes other
than seawalls, for which the tax
money is earmarked.
Rep. Krebs said that a bill reg
ulating the duties of county high
way patrolman had now passed
The senate, carrying an ameno-
ment which would permit coast
counties to hire two patrolmen on
the regular payroll and a third in
emergencies. The original bill
abolished the system of county
highway patrolmen.
The new bill specifics they
must operate with the permission
of the state supervisor of public
safety, that they may not wear
the same uniforms as do the state
officers, or paint their patrol cars
in the same way.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Health Office To
Operate Clinic
In Infirmary

The Eastlawn Infirmary, SEIZED.
uled for closure by the FPHA
on April /. will be transferred
to the Jackson County HEALTH
Department Monday to be operat.
ed as a public health clinic, Of
ficials of the FPHA and DIR. An.
drew Hedmeg. county health Of.
ficer, announced Thursday.
The operating of the infirmary
as a branch Of the Jackson Coun.
ty hospital for the disqualification
of all contagious cases is under
consideration. DR.. Hedmeg said,
but no definite decision can be
made until a meeting of hospital
directors, the Board of Supervis-
n and the health officer sched-
uled for Monday at noon at the
hospital.
The infirmarY was opened in
l943 and was originally open only
to residents of Eastlawn but dur
ing the past several months 9TH
er residents of the community
have been admitted. Mrs. Mil
bred Christian is head nurse and
the staff consists of one other
registered nurse and four nurses
aides. During the months of its
operation. thousands Of persons
have been admitted to the infirm-
arv, some for first aid treatment
and Others for disqualification.
There are u beds in the hos
pital. Only medical cases have
been cared for as there are no OPP
Grating facilities. The hospital
also has available necessary first
aid equipment.
According to Dr.. Hedmeg. even
if the beds are given over to
contagious cases certain parts of
the infirmary will be reserved for
a clinic.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Veterans Contact
Office Opened In
Rution Building

Jim King, Jackson County Vet
Grams Administration Contact
Representative, opened temporary
offices Monday in Pascagoula in
the War Price and Rationing
Board building.
Veterans and their families are
invited to bring their problems
of REIMBURSEMENT to him there
where information on insurance,
education, disqualification and
other rights of veterans will be
available.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Big Rain Floods
Housing Project
And County Area

A two-day rain Of cloudburst
proportions flooded many areas
OF the county Tuesday and Wed
nesday and made lakes Of many
of the streets in the housing pro-
ject area.
Gulf Coast areas experienced
Approximately eight inches of
rainfall during the two day pc
riod, one of the largest figures
for a similar period in recent
years.
Automobiles flooded out all
over the city, but the tsansporta-
ton problem was particularly Sc
rious in the housing project area.
Many areas became small lakes
from two to three feet in depth.
and even the outlines of some of
the streets were obliterated. The
drainage canal east Of Market
street was swollen to the banks
and the small culverts which
underpass the streets could not
carry off the flow. At Polk street
and Lincoln avenue the canal rose
above the level of the road and
swirled across in a swift sheet
of water.
The breakdown OF the storm
sewer system, which the city is
at present petitioning the Navy
to repair. caused an added
quantity of send and over
flow of water to seep into
and overflow water seeping into
the regular sewage culverts. II
has been pointed out by the city
and engineering witnesses that the
city's sewer pumps are being
overloaded and badly wor by
this condition even in periods OF
normal rainfall.
Though automobile traffic was
limited in the project area, buses
were able to get through, and
mail was delivered as usual, In
some OF the FPHA houses in low
lying secttuns writer Wns REPORT
ed TO have risen above floor
level.
The blacktop shortcut to Mo
bile was impossible late Wednes-
day. Highway 80 near the Ala
hama-M Mississippi state line was
also reported under water. Flood
ing conditions were also bad in
the Northwest portions of the
county, some Of which we're cut
off from the coast. Work buses
did not run Thursday, and mail
was not delivered Wednesday or
Thursday. School buses were
also unable to make regular trips.
Flooding conditions were also
bad in Moss Point, where estua-
ries of the Escatawpa river had
risen above fixed bridges and
approaches in some places.
Thursday bnwned clear and
bright, but clouded up later. The
forecast was for partly cloudy
weather, fresh north to northwest
winds, and higher temperatures.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Membership In
VFW Post Posses
Two Hundred Mark

Several hundred veterans and
their wives and girl friends came
to the Elmer Grant Post, WV,
Saturday night and consumed
$50 pounds of fish, quantities of
potato salad and drinks. More
than so joined the post or the
women's auxiliary, bringing the
membership in the Post to more
than 200.
The next regular meeting
which will see the installation OF
new officer, Will be held on Mon
day night, April /, at the club
house on Frederic Street.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
Mott" From Threatened Sea Captain
Dated 1888 Washes Ashore In Battle

A wax-sealed bottle washed
ashore-a stained note limiting al
mutiny and sudden death to a
defiant sea captain-these are the
ingredients for a thriller from the
pages of an adventure story aud
last week they were transported
to the beach at Pascagoula af-
ter an apparent trip of nearly sc
years.
Bearing the date March 13, 1898
"off the Isle Of Pago Page, the
note bears the signature of Yer
non Dietz, master of the bark
Perote en- route to the Far East,
who wrote that he was then lock-
ed in his cabin waiting fol
members of his mutinying crew
to break through the door.
Although examination has re-
vealed that the paper on which
the lines are penned in faded
ink is of an old style, inquiries
into port records at San Diego,
Los Angeles and the Commerce
Department at Washington fail
to show any reference to the
Perote. However, the list of sail
ing vessels of the Pacific coast
from 1850 to 1905 examined at
Washington includes only United
States ships and the possibility
exists that the Perote belonged
to some other country.
The bottle was discovered
lodged in bushes at the waters
edge by John Wesley Anglin,
10 year old, who is spending a
furlough from his Navy station
at Miami with his parents at
1909 18th street.
Il almost threw it back" he
said, then | decided TO take it
home to mama"
His mother, in turn turned the
note over to Chief of Police j..
E. Shirleva The bottle was brok-
en- in extracting the note, young
said. The top, however,
showed that it had been seal
ed with red sealing wax and
a design pressed into the soft
wax. The bottle resembled an or
binary quart whiskey bottle.
Across the single sheet is spot
ehed something red which OBJ
some of the words and
the edges are stained where the
ink has faded.
The note follows:
Il. Captain Vernon Dietz, mas
Ter of the bark Perote, one nun
bred and four days out of San
Diego bound for Japan and the
far East ports write this noie
in case l may never live to tell
hat my GREY have mutinied and
aiken over the vessel, led By my
first mate John j. fillegiblel.
There is nothing more | can do.
| have locked myself in my cab
N and il will be minutes be-
fore they break in
The note is signed by Captain
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
ROUTE REVERSAL SOUGHT

The aviation committee of the
Pascagoula-Moss Point Chamber
of Commerce will recommend to
the Capitol Airlines the reversal
of the schedule between Pasea-
goula and Jackson with planes
leaving for Jackson from the Pas
cagoula air field in the morning
and returning in the afternoon,
allowing four or five hours in the
capital city for the transaction
of business. following action
taken by the committee at a
meeting Tuesday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
County Grammar
School Track Meet
Sche April Is

There will be a Jackson Coun-
ty Grammar School track meet
held in Pascagoula on April Is,
with all schools in the county in
vited to participate, school of
ficials announced this week.
1t is planned as an annual af-
fair to stimulate interest in track
among the youngsters and to
train them for their high school
days.
Track was a popular sport in
Jackson Cuonty several years ago
but in recent years has degen-
Grated to dual meets between
Moss Point and Pascagoula. for
the most part, officials said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
JUST E WRITING

Bremerton, Wash.5(AP-Mrs
Lucille /. Kimsev of Bremerton
has taken those IF you don't
write you're wrong" posters ser
iouslV.
She has just completed a l04-
page letter to her Navy brother.
A 9,400-word effort, it took her
nine hours of writing over a five
day period.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
GIVING HIM THE AIR

Bremerton. ~Wash.-(APl-Five
passing motorists stopped their
ears to help when Tim McCon-
nells automobile caught fire near
here. Each jumped out with fire
extinguisher in hand and point
ed the nozzle at the flames. All
fire extinguishers were empty.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
WHAT WOULD you CALL IT2

chicago@(AP)-George Thorn
as. maitre de soda fountain, has
designed a monumental sundae,
He builds il of ice cream of six
different flavors. strawberries,
peaches, cherries, pineapple,
marshmallow. pecans, fudge and
bananas. The finished pyramid
measures IA inches from base to
peak, costs 81. and may be shared
b. several customers.
He calls II the Hubba Hubba.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
NEGRO FINED

Bonnie Means. negro. was fin
ed 500 and costs in Police Court
Monday afternoon, after city po-
lice caught him selling moon
shine" from a gallon jug on Marie
Street, Pascagoula.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29

When the composer Monteverdi
died at the age of "A, in l643, he
was Just trying out the cantata.
a new song form.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
BRIToNs PHONE FAR

Observation-Disclosures the war.
telephone subscribers in Britain
made 11l.553,000 long-distanee
calls a year. For the year ended
last March 81 the number vas
1S9, l44,000-up 20 percent.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29

Less than 1000, 600 motor We
hieles had been built when the
Federal Aid Road Act became
law on July IL, 1916.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-29
LOCAL I D TABLE

Mouth Of pagcsgoula RIVER
Arizona sun., 1946-11-29

Classic simplicity is coming back
in wardrobe lines which begin in
nightgoWns and housecoats and
end in evening gowns and wraps.
It's a godsend, too. What woman,
regardless of how short or tall,
cannot wear classic lines-if she
has the poise? But, we do admit,
that if' is big stopgap!
A woolen housecoat stopped a
fashion show in Philadelphia last
week. It was designed along the
classic "consort" lines and buttoned
likewise. Tailored, yes-but what a
product, even for the most CLAM
orOuS woman.
Classic nightgowns are also hit
ting the limelight. Of course, rayon
jersey is a natural to drape any
female figure (if the figure is
goodD We never give much of an
eye to pajarnas because we are Of
the old school-which believes a
woman's figure and femininity is
her birthright. PajamaS just don't
become a woman. Oh yes, they're
Arizona sun., 1946-11-29

our participation in the 1000 to
1 Campaign" Immediate plans for
a new troop on the East Side and
a new troop on the West Side are
being formulated with sponsoring
organizations.
B. C. Marsell, a Scoutmaster of
many years service with the
Roosevelt Council will soon be
Joining the ranks of the District
Commissioners.
Commissioner Lee has this to
offer for the good of Scouting. It
certainly is not for the best inter-
est of Scouting to ignore anything
that would tend to impede the
progress of Scouting, but 1 believe
that the interest of Scouting can
best be served by ScouterS setting
up for themselves worthwhile goals
and objectives and then spending
the major portion of their time and
efforts in an attempt to realize
these aims. Instead of being too
greatly concerned about the bug
under the chip, let's make the
chips fly in getting good job of
Scouting done. The 1000 to J.
Came is not going to be won by
too much coaching from the side
lines but by players actually in the
game. If you want to try out for
our team meet us at our next
monthly meeting at the home of
Troop z at the corner of Adams
and 12 Streets. The date is We'd
nesday, December 18, 1916 at 8
Pm. I'll be looking for you.
Arizona sun., 1946-11-29

made by calling the Urban League
Office, 3-0621 or Mrs. Anne Brown,
4-7023. Reservations close Thurs
day evening, December 5.
Mr.. L. C. Robinson, president
and manager of the Angelus Fu-
neral Home, Los Angeles, was in
Phoenix Tuesday, guest of Mr..
Marshal Shelton.
Mrs. Effie Mitchell, 1141 Watkins
Road, and her daughter, Mrs. Les
sic B. Wilson, are spending the
holidays with their daughter and
sister, Mrs. Easter Washington, in
Bakersfield, Calf.
Mr.. Royce Gibson, Los Angeles,
is visiting his uncle who is i'll, at
905 S. 7th Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wardell Moore, 732
w. Grant, and Mrs. Sherman Bal
lard, 800 S. 7th Ave., returned from
motor trip to Chickasha, Okla.
They report pleasant trip.
Mrs. Marshal Shelton is con-
valescing from an operation at
Tempe, Arizona.
Mrs. Emmett Burton of E. Ad-
ans and 18th ST., left for Chicago,
accompanied by her father. They
will visit friends and relatives.
Glass &C of Carver High School
entertained at a pre-Thanksgiving
party Wednesday night at the
school. The making of popcorn
balls was the highlight of the eve
ming. Games and dancing were en-
gagged in.
L. M. (Fatha) Beaman, who has
been leading a band at Macs Cock
tail Lounge for the last 2 months,
is on the sick list. Mr.. Beaman was
ordered to bed by his doctor last
week. He has been moved from
the Kemp's Rest Home to the
County Hospital.