The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-30
Big frolic
Planned For
Labor Day
County Looks To
Celebration After
Four Wor Years

EOuE w 0E AO0IS
Speechmaking, parading, pic
nicing and general festivity this
week end will feature Pasca-
goula's first big Labor Day cele-
bration under pcavetime cordi-
lions since America pat aride
fun-making more than four.
years ago to undertake the srfffii
business of making war;. IA
Local business establishments
will he closed throughout RMS
section of the county on Mon
day, most merchants planning to
stay. open during the normal
closing time on Wednesday af-
ternoon later in the week City,
county and federal offices. ex-
Guiding police ard other essen
tial services, will he closed DUR
ing the day. The county board
of supervisors, following usual
custom when a legal holiday
falls on a scheduled meeting
day, will meet but will adjourn
Immediately until Tuesday.
The two principal features Of
the weekend will be organized
labor's own big celebration, be-
ginning with a parade Monday
at 9 a. m. at the court house,
and the annual "Aluogacsap'
three-day picnic and bazaar
sponsored by the local Elks lodge
to raise funds for charitable pur-
poses.
Organized laboring groups in
the Metal Trades Council mid
Central Trades and Labor Coin
Gil have planned a bang-fp cels-
bration which will bring some
of the American Feder4tion ef
Labor's top men here a. speaits
ers.
Labor Celebration
Labor's plans for the celebrA-
ton, which were announced bF
C. A. Simmons, chairman Of the
program, will begin with a par
ade leaving the courthouse at
9 a. m. and proceeding to Mum
icipal Beach Park. The big at
traction of this event will Be the
Keesler Field Band and the Pas
cagoula High school band which
will march in the line and fur
nish a type Of paradihg music
that has rarely been Assembled
here.
On arrival at the beach park,
public speeches will be made
by George Gouge, Southern re-
preventative of the AL. and
one of organized labor's top Of
ficials in the South; Ed Rowan,
assistant to John p. Frey Of the
National Metal Trades Dsport-
ment; Charley Poe of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Machin-
lists, and other speakers.
Mr.. Simmons requested that
all crafts make necessary ar
rangemtnts to meet at the court
house at $3.50 a.. m. for partici-
patton IN the parade.
The Aluogacsap festival has
Elks will begin Saturday and
last through Monday, numbering
many features, and climaxed
with a program Monday at / p.
m. at the beach park at which
Mayor John R. Watts, a charter
member Of the Elks Lodge. will
make a speech to the public
communicating the significance
of the holiday.
The AlugAcsap festival has
been put on IN recent years by
the Elks lodge, but members ex-
pressed determination to out dis
Snce former celebrations this
year, now that war time restric-
tons have been lifted and most
of the county's service men have
returned home.
Varied Program
The three-day event will fea-
ture contests, games, cwimming
and dancing. Hot-dogs, hamburg
ers, canes, knives and many
other trinkets and useful objects
will be sold in the numerous
booths. The special event of the
festival will be the rafting Mon
day evening of hard-to-get equip
ment such as a Maytag washing
machine, a Philco radio and >
seven-foot Deluxe Firestone re-
~frigerator. The beneficiary Of
this rattle will be the Elks' Grip
pied Children's Fund.
General proceeds of Aluogse-
sap will go to a number of other
charitable purposes also, includ-
ing Christmas trees and baskets,
help FOR needy families, Red
Cross welfare donations, end
convaiescent service men.
Another featured event of the
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