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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Library To Be
Opened In Negro
Recreation Center

The Pascagoula Library Com
mission at q meeting Tuesday APP
propriated $500 to open a library
IN the Negro Recreation Center.
The money Will be used to pur-
chase d set Of reference books and
about $50 other volumes as the
nucleus for the library which will
be equipped with shelving from
the Pascagoula Library which has
been replaced by new shelves
Audrey Cook will take a brief
curse of training under Mrs.
Tom Kell, librarian, and will be
in charge OF the negro library.
Present plans are to open the
library from 3 p. m. to 5 p. m.
turing the week and from ! p.
n. to 5 p. m. on Saturday The
date Of the opening depends on
when the reference and other
books ran be delivered. As use
of the library increases the hours
Will be heightened, commission
members said.
According to reports made by
Mrs. Kell, circulation of books
in the Pascagoula library reach
ed the highest figure in July since
the library was moved to. its pres
emit quarters following the burn
i've 81 It's original location last
December. During last month
1910 books were checked out ard
of this number 800 were junior
books
Since January /, when the Ii
brary opened in the Recreation
Building, 1000 new books have
been placed on the shelves, she
said. Books are added every
month. In July 1877 books were
placed ON the shelves and of this
number lat were bought, 10 were
gifts. Forty-seven volumes were
fiction, 80 were n%on.fiction and
SO were children's books.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Elk's Aluogacsap
To Be Three-Day
Fesiivity AT Beach

The three-day festivity. Aluo-
gacsap, annual charity picnic of
the local Elks Lodge, has been
scheduled for Labor Day week
end, August 81, September l and
2, E. A. Elliott, exalted ruler,
announced The picnic will be
held at the Municipal Beach Park
as is customary and all proceeds
will go to various charities of
the lodge.
Contests, games, swimming
and dancing r planned for each
day and a labor parade in which
representatives of the unions will
prticipate will be a highlight of
Monday, Labor Day. The parade
is tentatively planned for IL a.
m. and will start at the court
house and end at the Beach Park.
The paraders will disband and
join the picnickers, all of whom
will be welcomed in a brief
speech by Mayor John r. Watts,
a charter member of this Elk
lodge.
james F. Velcich is general
chairman in charge of the event
and members of his committee
are Guy Krebs, Ben Briggs and
A. Ziegenfelder.
A special event of the three
day celebration will be the Civ
ing away of a Maytag washing
machine, a Philco radio and a Z
foot Deluxe Firestone refriger-
ator for the benefit of the Elks'
Crippled Children's Fund. The
lucky numbers will be drawn ON
the evening of Labor Day. Every
effort is being made to dispose
of all tickets before the draw
ing, MI. Elliott said.
Final plans for the picnic will
be made at a special meeting
of the Elks Thursday night at
which time a motion picture,
Foundation of Elkdom," will be
shown and supper will be serv-
ed
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Escaiawpa
Road Work
Underway
Work On Fill
Begins Aheud
Of Schedule

Construction of the new fills on
State Highway So at the Escataw-
pa bridge approaches was under
way here Wednesday, several
days earlier than the opening date
promised a delegation of jack
son county citizens by the State
Highway Department last week.
Dirt began moving into the
southern approach to the bridge in
two mississippi Wagons, IL
yard dirt haulers that dwarf the
best efforts of ordinary trucks,
and a bulldozer, motor patrol
grader. and dragline were also
on the job at mid week, as well
as the regular maintenance crew
If the highway department for
this area.
Workmen said the asphalt plant
was expected to arrive by the
time the fill had been raised the
necessary number of inches to
bring the roadway above high
tide and that storage tanks would
be erected within the next few
days. The roadbed will be raised
as much as two-and-one-half TO
three feet in the lowest places
and protective asphalt walls
constructed.
Highway officials promised last
week to begin work on the water
logged stretch within two
weeks, but their crews were on
the job eight calendar days after
the commitment was made.
Work scheduled Immediately af-
ter the Escatawpa fill is complet-
ed is the widening and r~esurfac-
ing Of Highway 90 between Moss
Point and Pascagoula, which Of
ficials said would begin by Sep
TENDER Is.
The completion of the two jobs
will terminate two-thirds of q
three-point program called for
by citizens here, the repair of
bridges on the three-mile stretch
of Highway 90 between Pasca-
goula and Gautier only remaining
of the emergency demands made
here to alleviate a dangerous and
hazardous condition.
Protests Made
The meeting of the jackson
county delegation with the high
way commission in jackson on
August 10 followed a protest
meeting called the proceeding
night by the Moss Point Young
Mems Business club at which
leading citizens of Moss Point,
Pascagoula and Escatawpa bitter
ly condemned the condition of the
two highways.
At the protest meeting, the
speakers variously pointed out
that the two highways had been
neglected for years and that an
extremely dangerous situation, al
ready responsible for accidents,
has developed on Highway 90 in
the sunken bridges between Pas
cagoula and Gautier.
No commitment was made by
Continued On Page Eight
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Congressman Colmer
Returns Home Here
After Adjournment s..

Representative w M. Bi!D Col
mer, congressman from this dis
trict and Jackson county native,
has taken up residence with his
family at GAS Columbus drive,
Pascagoula. following the adj
journment of congress.
Congressman Colmer NAV have
to return to Washington period
ically in connection with import
ant committee duties but Mrs.
Colmer and her family will re-
main here until congress again
convenes.
Mr.. colmer predicted in Wash
ingtcn last week that a special
session would be called prior to
the scheduled opening in Janu-
airy and said here this week that
he based his statement on the be-
lief that some emergency will ar
Use between now and the new
year.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
VIEW And Legion
To Aid Vets Here
On Terminal Pay

The Elmer Joseph Grant Post
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and American Legion Post No. 100
here this week joined forces to
aid former enlisted men and WON.
IN of Jackson county in obtaining
the terminal leave pay recently
voted by congress.
Commander Karl Wiesenberg
of the WV and Commander
George M. Harrison of the Lee
gion in a joint statement made
Wednesday announced that forms
for obtaining the money will be
available at the VFW club rooms
on Monday, August 26, and in
vited former enlisted personnel
to make their claims there be-
ginning at 200 o'clock. The club
rooms are located on Frederic
street near Delmas avenue in Pas
cagoula.
Garrett Wilson, VFW quarter
master and American Legion SER
vice officer has been commissions
ed a notary public and will be
present to notarize claims without
charge, the announcement said.
Volunteers from the Red Cross
and the service groups will also
be on hand to aid in filing the
claims.
Veterans are urged to bring
their original discharge as this is
necessary in order to file the
claims, the statement said. The
forms for applying for the accum
ulated leave were made available
by the Mississippi State Depart
ment Of the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars after a delay seemed APP
parent in obtaining the forms
through regular government chan
nels.
Payment of accumulated leave
viii be made on the basis of &C
rrued furlough time on the basis !
of 30 days leave per year and
will be paid in bonds maturing
in five years. Application need
not be made Immediately but is
advised by some authorities who
feel that the next session of CON
gress viii make the bonds payable
Immediately in cash.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
R e gisfraiion Dates Announced
AS School Opening Date Nears

Thousands of children through
out the county viii begin dust
ing off their book satchels and
rounding up tablets and pencils
next week in preparation for the
opening of schools Although ac-
tual schedules will not be in eff
feet until the first week in Sep
TENDER, registration in some of
the systems will get underway
August 80 and 80
School officials in Pascagoula,
who have the problem of handl-
ing the third largest enrolment
IN the state, announced that all
students planning to attend school
in this system must register
Thursday or Friday, August 20
or 80. when the various schools
will be open from $3.50 a. m. to
noon and from | p. m. to 4 p. m.
Students must report to the
school they expect to attend and
all boys and girls entering these
schools for the first time, even
though they may be in the high
er grades, must have a health
certificate and, in addition those
beginning school must have a
birth certificate.
School authorities explained
that preliminary registration is
compulsory as without a def
mite idea as to how many stu
dents there will be for the year
schedules and sections cannot be
set up. 1t is expected that all
elementary schools, except the
Lake school, will operate on the
double shift as in the past few
years.
The schools will officially open
Friday, September 6. No regis
tration can be accepted on that
day. Although there r still va
eancies in some of the faculties,
officials hope to have these fill
ell by the opening date.
In Moss Point registration will
be held Thursday and Friday,
August 5 and 6 and all new stu
dents must have health cer'ifi-
Gates and all beginners are e
quired to have health and birth
certificates, Luther Tanner, u
pe%rintendent said.
Registration will be held in
county schools September G. A.
T Megehee, county superinten-
dent announced.
The Pascagoula Negro school
will open the first week in Sep
TENDER. The faculty will meet
Wednesday. September 4 at 9 u.
M. and during the afternoon there
will be teacher orientation aud
schedule making. Elementary
students will register September
5 from 8 a m. to 4 p. m. and
Friday students in the 7th through
the 18th will register during the
same hours. All students must
bring book receipts and health
certificates and students entering
for the first time must have :
birth certificate. Parents are in
vited to accompany their chill
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Seurch Continues
For Body Of
Drowned Negro

John Clark, l8-year-old Negro
youth of Monroeville, Ala. APP
psrently drowned Wednesday,
while swimming in Dog River in
eastern Jackson County.
His body had not been recover
ed late yesterday afternoon but
investigating officer County Pa
trolman c. F. Hudson reported
that a search continues for the
body.
Clark lived with Uncle" Selma
Clark, well-known colored resi-
dent of Kreole.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Typographical Union
Elects Officers At
Meeting In Biloxi

Roy Riviere of Ocean Springs,
employee of the Advertiser Pub
fishing Co, in Pascagoula, was
elected president of the Biloxi
Gulfport Typographical Union
at a meeting held in Biloxi. He
succeeds r. C. Lowery of Gulf
port in that office.
Other officers are Mr.. Lowery
vice president. and John H.
Crump of Pascagoula, secretary.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
conTRoLs FLY BREEDING

Flies breeding around live stock
can be controllcd by spraying lots
and Earns with powder 81 aeid
phosphate, which is easily ab
tanned, DR.. Andrew Hedmeg. d.
rector OF the county health de-
partment. said this week.
In addition 20 controlling the
breeding OF flies. Or. Hsdmeg
said, the spray also aids in elm
mating odors.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Shrimp Men
Holding Out
For Raises
Asking $50 to $45
Per Burrel; Few
Boots Operating

The majority of Pascagoula's
fifty-boat shrimping fleet remain
ed idle Thursday as members Of
the shrimping union continued te
hold out for a scale of increased
prices while Pascagoula packers
had either shutdown completely
or limited purchases as the stu
alton continued in deadlock.
OF the three big local pack
ers, Pelham Seafood company
had shut down shrimping opera
tons completely. The Horn Is
land Seafood company was buy
ing .limited amounts OF shrimp,
estimated by plant officials al
about ten percent OF normal op
erations. The ~Pascagouia Sea-
food company continued to buy
shrimp. paying the union scale
Of prices. Both Horn Island and
Pascagoula Seafood company Of
ficials said that they could not
sell their shrimp TO national mar
kets at present prices and make
a profit but were freezing the
shrimp to hold on to the chance
that later scarcity would create
moro favorable prices on the
national market.
Scale of Prices
Members Of the Gulf Coast
Shrimpers and Oystermen's union
continued to ask q scale of prices
of $50, $40 and $45 a barrel at the
wharf, the three classifications
being related to the grade of
shrimp. or the approximately
SO shrimp boats in the local har-
Dor, it was estimated by the pack
ers that only approximately 20 of
the neata were working and sonle
OF these on lnpitei scala4
The deadlock continued Thurs
day Ia Biloxi, where only the
Braun Canning company was buy.
ing shrimp at the new scale, while
most OF the other packers nat
suspended operations. 1t was re.
ported that four plants at Pass
Christian and two at Gulfpefl
were working.
Joe Pelham, Pascagoula opera.
tor, said that the prices Of $50
$40 and $45 asked by the shrimp.
ers compared with prices Of S13
SIT and sal paid by packers a
the wharf, under the OPA at thi'
time last year.
On the other hand, he said, 10.
cal packers could not get higl
enough prices in eastern ane
northern markets to justify tn,
loral increase.
He said that the big problem
was the necessity of competing
with Louisiana packers, and tina.
these were still paying shrimperi
about $40 and SOS a barrel, anr
therefore could quote better pri.
ces to the wholesale distributors
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Liquor Raids
Made This Week
BY Sheriff's Office

Five jackson County establish
ments were raided during the
past week and six persons were
charged with having intoxicat-
ing liquor in their possession with
three of that group also charg-
ed with assault and battery, Sher-
iff D. o. Newman reported Thurs
day.
Wilson Pierce who operates a
place of business on the Black
Top road between the airport and
Kreole was arrested in a raid
conducted by Deputies John r.
McNeal and A. o. Davis. The
officers lodged an illegal possess
sion of whiskey charge against
him and an affidavit charging
him with assault and battery on
Mary Eaves was sworn out by
the woman's mother, Mrs. Avis
Eaves. At a hearing before Judge
B. B. Hobby, Pierce was fined
$3.50 and costs on the liquor
charge and $40 and costs for as
sault and battery.
Officers Saturday night answer
ed a number of calls from resi-
dents of Ocean Springs who re-
ported a disturbance at Dale's
Place. Sheriff Newman, Depu-
ties McNeal and Davis and
County Highway Patrolman Fen
more Hudson arrived 80 minutes
later to find it had been stopped
and the officers c~onfiscated whis-
key which police said was dis
played on shelves in the estab-
lishment and arrested A Abra-
ham who officers said was in
charge. He was charged with hav-
ing Intoxicating liquor in his pos
session and was released under
$l25 bond and will be tried be-
fore Judge Beaugez of Ocean
Springs.
Marthaler's, near the Missis-
sippi-Alabama State Line on
Highway go, was raided by Sher-
If Newman, Deputy McNeal
and Patrolman Hudson Sunday
afternoon when approximately
two cases of whiskey were seiz-
ed and the manager, a man nam
ed Paulk, police said, was ar
rested and charged with having
intoxicating liquor. He was e
leased under $3.50 bond and a
hearing will be held before
Judge Denny early in September,
police said.
Cutting Scrape
Indian Village was raided Sun
day night when about three cases
of whiskey were seized by sher-
ifs officers and the proprietor
charged with having intoxicating
liquor, was released under $125
bond.
Luther Musselwhite and Ka-
Uterine Waddell were arrested
at Lakeside Inn in Orange Grove
by Sheriff Newman and Deputy
McNeal and were charged with
having intoxicating liquor and
were also charged with assault
and battery on Mrs. Mcdonald
of Orange Grove. They were
fined 500 and costs on the liquor
charge and the assault and Dat
terry charge was continued.
Officers were also called to the
Wallace Quinn Fisheries where
two Negroes yer involved in a
cutting scrape, police said, and
on arrival they arrested II Ne
groes playing in a poker game.
Each of these was charged with
gambling and subsequently fined
SIS a piece by Judge Kate Denny.
Austin Vilo was cut twice a.
cross the back in the alteration
which led to the calling of Of
ficers. No arrest has been made
in connection with the fight as
vet, police lid.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Coast Football
Officiuls To Meet
In Gulfport Sunday

An important meeting of the
Gulf Coast Officials Association
will be held Sunday afternoon
at 200 at the Gulfport High
school for all persons who desire
to officiate during the coming
football season.
An election of officers will be
held and the group adopted into
the newly formed Mississippi Of
fieials Assoeiatian
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Return Prisoner

Sheriff d. o. Newman and
Deputy Sheriff A. o. Davis drove
to Mariana, Fla, Wednesday to
bring back to Jackson County C.
B. Kindery, Jr., to face charges
of forgery here. Kindery is said
to have signed the name of Mon
roe Krebs to a $50 check which
he cashed.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
Shoe Shine Boxes
Purchased Here BY
Philunthro

Sturdy and attractive factory
built shoe shine boxes will be dis
tribpted free here to worthy
youngsters who have piled their
trade in the past with cumber-
some make-shift affairs. The
boxes are the gift of a Pascagoula
philaathropist who desires to re-
main anonymous.
The boxes will be distributed
Monday morning at the Pascagou-
Ia police station by Chief j. f.
Shirley. Youngsters are remind
I'd that they must bring their
present shoe shining equipment
with hem in order to be issued
a new box.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23

The last British king 10 take
part in a battle was George II,
who ruled from 1877 to 1850.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23
New Fire Protection
Roting May Be
Given Poscogoulo

By the addition of four more
firemen to its present force Pas
cagoula will be reduced from
Seventh to Sixth Glass rate, and
thereby effect a considerable saw
ings in local fire insurance rates,
Mayor John r. Watts said this
week.
The announcement followed an
inspection by r. II. Tucker, chief
engineer of the Mississippi Rating
Bureau. The inspection took into
consideration the new firehouse
which is to be constructed on S.
Market street and other improve
ments, Mayor Watts said.
The new rating will place Pas
cagoula in the same category with
Gulfport and other cities in the
state OF similar size.
Plans are underway to secure
the necessary finances for the ad-
ditional firemen, Mr.. Watts said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23

Tho name of Adds Ababa. cap
ital Of Ethiopia. literally means
new flower.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23

Pluto, the outermost planet of
the solar system. is about the size
of the earth's moon, and takes
20 years to complete a revolution
about the sun.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-23

LONE SURVIVOR OF THREE JACKSON COUNTY BOYS who
went into the service together October 4. 1914. Staff Sergeant
Command L. Capps is shown above after his discharge from the
u. S. Army. The son of MIR. and Mrs. w. B. Price of 406 Market
Street. he was inducfed into the service with AlvY L. Cunning
ham. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Arden Cunningham of Escaawpa. and
Henry Ford. son of Mrs. Fl. W.. Ford of East Moss Point. Cum
ningham and Ford were subsequently killed in action in Germ
any and capps was twice wounded. once by the blast which
proved fatal TO Cunningham.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-13
WHY A british LOAN

The loan to Britain for which Mr.. Truman asked congressional
approval recently is a vital part Of the postwar economic structure We
have begun to build. Orations against the loan will come cheap on
Capitol Hill for a while. But the baying of isolaionsts cannot conceal
the fact that, if We would build a new world which will have a better
chance of peace and prosperity than the old, we must back fine phrases
with effective national policies.
Congress has approved the Breton Woods agreement, the ex-
pandcd Import Export Bank and extension of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act. All re based on the sound premise that Americas
interest calls for broader multlateral trade among nations as free of
discrimination and hamperinG restrictions as possible.
Britain, as a direct result of the war, faces special difficulties in
conforming to this pattern. If it is, to u interest to establish the pat
tern, it is equally to our interest that Britain shall be enabled rapidly
to go along with is. That is the purpose of the loan.
With these funds, Britain "a relax exchange controls and trade
restrictions faster and farther than otherwise would be possible. With
them, she can help build a system of world trade instead of turning to
protected economic regonalism. With them, she can join us in spon-
soring reduction of all barriers to free and full international commerce.
Because this country is 40 island, because American jobs depend
in part upon the state of the world, the loan is an investment in our
own future prosperity. We cannot u out IN the loan without running
out on the whole trade structure we have undertaken to rear as a bull
Wark Of peace-The Chicago Sun.