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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

for impounding purposes. Half wild and fleet
of foot, they run like deer, and pile through
fepces as If they were made of paper. I'm
pounding, with the subsequent payment of
pound fees, would soon make it Improbable
for the owner of these cattle to let them run
at large and fatten on the destruction of the
other fellows vegetable or flower garden,
Hitting a man like this in his p~ocketbook is
the only thing, though, that will prove a cure.
There is no appealing to his civic virtues, or
pointing out the rights of the other fellow.
These mean nothing as long as he can profit
by letting cattle roam, whether it be in city
streets, or in another mans pasture.
1t seems to us that, by Identification of the
cattle, or by some other means, ownership
could be established, the owner hailed into
court and fined to the limit. This would only
have to be done some two or three times we
believe before the condition would be eff
fectively cured.
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even make enough to export to
the United States by using saw
dust and all by-produets OF the
lumber-usipg industries
We have a lot to learn about
the conservation and wise use
of our resources.
There is something timeless
about a red-clay Mississippi road
through the pine woods. The
light is spotted and dappled on
the trunks Of trees, and slants
Down upon the carpet Of pine
needles. WI once saw an origin
al painting of the Irish writer and
painter, a.. +. Russell, which
caught this quality of forest light
with the secret and timeless beat
~ that it has in nature. II is a
picture of a group of children
playing in a woods, and looking
at it one could sense the rich
and fanciful quality of the Irish
people, with their tales of little
men and elves who are said to
people the woods. 1t would take
an Irishman TO paint a MISSISSIPPI
pi pine woods as it should be
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Thomson Returns
As Ass
President of Bunk

w. B. Herring, president of
Pascagoula- Moss Point Bank has
announced the return of Alton l..
Thomson to the Pascagoula- Moss
Point Bank in the office of as
sistant vice president.
Mr.. Thomson served % months
in the U. S. Army Air Force.
He took his basic training at
Sheppard ~ iellstrTex., moved
from there to Santa Maria, Calf.
and then to Geiger Field, Spok-
ane, Wash, where he served in
the Finance and Engineering Of
flee.
Mr.. Thomson has been connect
ed with the Pascagoula-Mo
Point Bank for the past Ia years.
For the present he has been as
signed to the Pascagoula office.
Mr.. Thomson is married to the
former Miss Ruth Myers of Moss
Point. They have one son, Alton
Lloyd, Jr.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

1t is a keen disappointment 10 witness the
full-scale treasury raid being staged by the
legislature, with the passive assistance of
Governor Bailey. What is going on in Jackson
now is a disgrace to Mississippi. Vast sums
are being appropriated for luxuries and
and political projects, while institutions like
the schools, the public health services, the
construction Of badly needed hospitals, for
the blind, the crippled, the deaf and the
aged. get scarcely a hearing.
Tn legislature and Governor RaileY's
administration entered this session with a
surplus Of S24.0o0,00O to spend. to save. to
use wisely or foolishlY or as they saw fit.
With the session scarcely a month old. they
have already voted Sl0.o00.00 of that sur
plus to match Federal funds for road
building. This week the house rolled out
the pork barrel" and voted S 5.o00.000
more for this purpose, with hardly a voice
raised in opposition. This. house bill has a
good chance of becoming law. The four
year medical school group already has its
sights set on most of the S9.000.000 that
will be left. and unless the forces of com
mon sense and public responsibility can
stop them. they will get their project
through the legislature. Then there will be
no money left for the things that MISSISSIPPI
pi needed most.
The short-sighted and ruthless manner in
which this surplus is being disposed of is in
arge measure Governor Bailey's response
oility. He has sat by and let the thing hap
pen and this despite the fact he has talked of
economies and in his opening message
gave no support tobthe schools, the regional
hospital program, and to other projects that
are badly needed by Mississippi. He has
failed to provide a truly sound. farsighted
and economic program for the use of the
s24000,000 surplus. There is certainly no
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Roaming Cows

II seems that the city government and
residents, Particularly Of the Eastlawn and
Market street sections, are faced with quite a
problem in the many cows that make nightly
raids, destroying vegetable and flower gar
dens, tearing down fences, forming a traffic
menace on city streets, and otherwise Great
ing general and particular havoc for a large
segment Of the city's population,
The problem is the catching ofk8hese cows
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

In a twenty-minute automobile ride
through the streets Of Pascagoula and its en-
virons, an observer can find appalling con-
ditions of filth and dirt which constitute a
real threat to the public health of the COM
munity and a disgrace to the town. We made
a survey Of these conditions this week, and
we propose to publish our findings regular
ly until something Is lone about it. We are
not talking now in the spirit of the Pharisee,
who say Thank God ! am not as other men
are All Of us here, every individual, bust
ness and institution. share the citizens guilt
for the disgraceful conditions that have been
allowed to accumulate in our midst. The man
who dumps trash on a roadside is as re-
sponsible as the public authorities who per-
NIT ii to be done. But it is the responsibility
Of the general citizen to protest against such
things, and that is the responsibility this
newspaper is undertaking.
On the old Mobile Highway. lust east of
Market street, there are blocks of open
bitches filled with foul. scummy water.
and apparently raw sewage is being dis
charged into these bitches. We also saw a
bloated dead dog lying in the ditch. All of
this Is not only against the law. but a flag
rant violation Of public health standards
and a standing threat Of typhoid and ma
laria. We call on the Jackson County Health
Department to discharge its duty by order
ing this situation corrected.
There are trailer shacks in a radius of a
few hundred yards of this area whose yards
are Uttered with filth andswhich violate pub
lie health regulations. We feel sorry fer the
children who live and play in this squalor
more than we do for the grown people who
allow them to do SO, or for the city authori-
ties who permit young human lives to de-
velop aroung garbage dumps and ~cess-pools.
If this sounds harsh to refined ears, it might
be a good lesson for such people to drive
through this area andAsee innocent young
sters wallowing in filth. Specific conditions
nave been pointed out to the county health
department within the past year. The de-
partment made a few warning and vague
threats, and promptly forgot about the mat
ter. Now there is a new director here, and
we urge him to survey the work that has
been cut out for him, and to undertake it.
In the Eastlswn area there are two of the
largest stores and a drugstore-and prob
ably other offenders whose filth is more
concealed from public view-who are
dumping rotten meats and vegetables and
trash on open platforms and in the streets
outside the stores. These garbage heaps
were covered with the big green bottle
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

economy in blowing" such a sum on road
financing and an expensive four-year-medi-
cal school which experts have told us will
not and cannot fill the states public health
needs which first of all require the building
of regional hospitals.
The first road bill was a $l0,0OO,O00 meas
ure to be matched eventually with federal
FUNDS for the construction of a 4,400-mile
farm-to-market road and a highway program.
Everyone knew the BODYBUILDING bloc, com
posed OF members who were interested in
seeing hat surplus money spent in a way
hat would give them patronage opportun-
tiles, were a strong group in the legislature,
Even so, their $40, 000, 900 slice of the surplus
seemed a big one. But there was some re-
compense in believing that this would salts
~ them and that the state could now spend
some of this money for the welfare of the
people who paid these millions into the
treasury, The public need is primarily for
buildings regional hospitals and other pub
lie services. Mississippi is at the bottom of
the list in almost all these departments of
public education and health, and any one
who has seen the institutions in which the
pubic welfare programs are conducted know
they are a disgrace.
The Sl0,OOO,O00 bill was passed BY both
houses and is already signed into law. This
mad scarcely been accomplished when the
road bloc in the house got another S. 900, 900
Dill through to be divided among the counties.
This is a political bill if ever there was one,
and If it passes the senate and is not vetoed
by Governor Bailey, it will remain a mark
on his record that he will nave to face for the
rest of his political career.
Any one who travels this state knows
that our road program has spurted far
ahead of the development of the rest of
our public institutions. Let's forget about
roads now and put up some badly needed
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

gardening and lighthouses exper-
iments OF the brothers that he
the order and became
Brother Orchid"
But getting back TO the
camelias. Mr.. Roberts told us
that his plants yer getting
too big for the yard now. and
that he wanted TO sell them
and start over. We hope he
finds Q buyer in New Orleans
or Jackson or Mobile who can
afford to pay what such plants
are worth. Unless you grow
your own. you have TO have
money 10 deal in camelias. "A
fine plant in the prime of life
may sell for two and three
hundred dollars-which is not
so much, considering the eight
or ten years of patient Gull
tivsfion that such a plant has
required. We have seen fine
csmelia blossoms on sale IN
big-citY florists shops for
prices ranging from a dollar
end 2 half TO three dollars. AT
those rates, there were about
a million dollars worth of flow
ers in the yard last Sunday,
and about another million that
had fallen to the ground.
We came away with a box full
of the most beautiful flowers
that it has ever been our privi-
lege to carry into our house.
Watching these blossoms hold
this flush of beauty for a day
or two and then fade slowly
away, it occurred to us that the
reason flowers have such a uni
versal appeal for people is pre-
cisely because they are fragile
things, splashes of miraculous
color and form to be enjoyed
for a brief moment before they
crumple back into the dust from
which they sprang, like the life
of man himself, and ali things
that live.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Pritcheti Replaces Pritcheii

BALTIMORE AP)-Fate and
the u. S. Army teamed up in a
rare manner to turn the overseas
replacement problem into purely
a family affair for the Pritchett
brothers Of Bishops Head, Md.
TfSgt. James w. Pritchett,
with 81 points and five cam
paigns to his credit, was sweat
ing it out on Shikoku in Japan.
FINALE, the replacement walk
ed in, fresh from the States. He
was Pfc, Philip L. Pritchett, a
younger brother with only 10
points. 1t was a surprise meet
ing, since neither knew the 9th
er's whereabouts.
The Gath Infantry Division an
nounced that the younger Prit-
chett has been assigned to his
brothers old company and his
old job.
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painted.

We drove back to Vancleave.
crossed the bridge, and turned
into the right road TO Mr.. Rob
erts' house. 1t would have been
hard to miss. The yard was fun
Of camelia plants in flower, green,
healthy plants in the prime OF
maturity, almost taking over the
ward. The. names and identities
OF these plants meant more to the
wife than they did to us. But
they were all beautiful. Each
species of camelia had its own
particular appeal of color or form,
and they made one think of the
real pleasure a flower grower
must have in developing a spc-
cial line all his own through
patient years of selective breed
ing.
Flowers have a universal APP
peal. Their beauty often touches
the hardest heart and the rough
est people, as well as the gentle
folks. One Of the finest rose
growers in his part of the coun-
try is Jack S~harkey, the former
heavyweight champion. Many
a true story has been written
about the case-hardened convicts
who become fine gardeners here
behind prison walls. One of the
funniest and most human movies
OF ten years ago was the story
OF Brother Orchid" the gang
ster who tried to muscle in on
the florist racket, and who was
shot and nursed through a long
convalescence in a monastery.
He became SO interested in the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
FINE CROWS OUT OF FIGHT

Leila Magee, negro, was fined
$500 and costs in Judge B. b.
Hobdy's court Monday morning
on charges of having intoxieat-
ing liquor in her possession fol-
lowing investigation by Deputy
Sheriff John r. McNeal Sunday
night of a fight at her residence
in Moss Point, According to Of
ficer McNeal, Wilson Pagan and
a companion were charged with
fighting and disturbing the peace
and fines set at $40 and costs,
each, in connection with the dis
tuubance.
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w. ]. HARDY BACK IN
CIVILIAN LIFE

According to information from
the Naval Air Technical Train
ing Center at Memphis w. j.
Hardy, boatswain's mate, second
class, son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. r.
Hardy, I'll 18th street, Pasca-
goula, has been returned to civil
ian life after 81 months of serv-
ice, "a of which were in the
Southwest Pacific.
He is entitled TO wear the Pa
cific and Atlantic ribbons and
the good conduct bar.
The original name of lie Havre
was lie Havre de Grace.
Yank, Army magazine, had a
paid circulation of nearly 81
.000,0 00.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

regional hospitals and schools. Ii is a ira
vestY to think of driving past eroded hills.
obsolete. backward schools. and small poor
towns. on magnificent roads and highways.
Spend that money on projects that will
educate and enliven and encourage our
people. Let the rest of Mississippi catch up
with the roads.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08

Last Sunday We drove over I'd.
Fountainbleau and turned right
on the black-top road which
passes through the flat coastal
level and pine woods toward the
Vancleave community. We we're
going to see Mr.. Q. C. Roberts
wonderful collection OF camellia
plants. We had heard that they
would be at the height of the
season about this time, and we
wanted to get a chance to see
what a hundred or so prime ca
mcllia plants of the most beauti-
full varieties look like when they
are all in bloom.
1t has been some time since
we have driven through the coun-
try back of the coast, except for
passing through it on the high
ways, which is different. We
drove through Vancleave, admir-
ing the simple old-fashioned look
of the little community, and took
the wrong road to the left, more
or less on purpose, because we
just wanted to drive around for
a while.
We were following a truck
loaded with lumber camp Ne
groes and we wanted to see
where il went. About seven
miles north Of VaneIeave it stop
ped at a rather slzeaple camp
in the pine woods and we got
out and looked around. Their
were about thirty or forty white
painted trailer-looking cabins for
the Negro families, and a porta-
ole sawmill. One of the men told
us that they yer cutting long
leaf yellow pine.
This stand of long-leaf pine
is one CT the few remaining in
The South. The trees seemed
smaller then virgin pine for
ests end perhaps il was second
growth timber. The grounds
around the sswmill were coveutl
ed with stacks of the beauiifuf
yellow lumber that long-leaf
pine produces. Over the past
fifty years, countless millions
of feet of this lumber have been
sent out of Mississippi. If we
had been wiser in u lumber
ing practices and more respon-
sihle in our forestry nfefheds.
the long-lesf forests might be
giving e perpetual yield even
Today, end might be the source
of . flourishing industry. rath-
or than the vast bleak vista
of cut-over hills. most OF
them carried on the county tax
books. 2 scene relieved only by
a few portable saw-mills such
as the enc behind Vancleave.
But the arguments against con
servation, against a sense q dat.9
and responsibility to the future
generations of Mississippims,
were probably the same in those
DAYS as they r in the present.
"Cut out and get out was the
slogan of the lumber industry
Get it while the %gettin's good
For hundreds of ears i'll heavil
populated European countries
they have kept their forests b
following a better slogan: "When
you cut a tree, plant a tree.
Beyond the little sawmill there
was a pile of yellow sawdusl
thirty to forty feet high, one Of
the biggest piles we have teen III
quite some time. The sawdust
pile is a symbol in Mississippi.
II represents the gravestone feI
many a little lumber town which
exists no more, Flames were
licking at the sides Of this saw
dust heap, and we wondered idl2
how many millions o. dollar
have gone up in sawdust smoke
in the South. Countries Ike
Finland and Scandinavia man
tain sizeable paper industries and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-08
Filthy Conditions In PascagouIa

flies that breed in corruption and are prime
sprcaders of disease. We ask the city au-
thorities and the county health depart
ment to demand that these filthy and IL
legal practices of refuse disposal cease.
In the Eastlawn area proper, the big open
canal which is parallel to Market street has
become fouled and stagnant. This ditch is
part of the storm-sewer drainage system of
the project, and it was definitely not con-
structed as an outlet for raw sewage. We
ask the Eastlawn authorities to look at this
ditch at the Polk avenue and Lincoln ave-
nue. crossings. There is evidence of indie
scribable filth in the stagnant water of the
pools. Certainly this is a health menace and
should be cleaned up.
The east end of the beach, by the little
bridge over Bayou Chico, was a scene of
coastal beauty and rustic freshness, that was
a delight to the eye even as late as last sum
mer. Now the hundred yards of road from
the beach to the bridge has been ruined and
turned into a slum-road by disgraceful dump
ing OF trash, plaster, ~tin-cans and fill. We
are not talking now about little packages
OF refuse tossed out of cars, but trash that
has been dumped wholesale by heavy
trucks. Whoever did this ought to get a ct-
tation for civic disgrace. All these trucks
had to do was drive a few hundred yards
farther into the woods, where a dump heap
was started years ago. But it was a little
easier to back up by the little bridge and let
go. And now one of the l~oveliest spots in
this area has been ruined.
~.
This is outside the city limits proper. We
call on the board of supervisors to stop
this practice and to prosecute past viola
tors. Certainly it is against the law to dump
on the side of a public road. There must
be fifty to hundred truckloads of this
trash dumped here. We think the violators
should be required to remove their filth
at their own expense. And quickly. This
situation is an infringement of the public
rights of everyone in Pascagoula who uses
this part Of the beach-and they are num-.
bered in the thousands.
AS we have said earlier, we feel our own
share OF the disgrace of being an intrinsic
part OF a community that continues to befoul
God-given scenic assets, and the unique civic
opportunities made possible by federal fl
nanelng during the war. Our talk of civic
virtue-which all of us indulge in OCCASION
aly-seems meaningless compared with this
ugly and disgraceful deterioration which
goes on and accumulates despite our public
speeches, our editorials, and our all-too-nre.
valent complacency.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01

r. E. Thornton, Phoenix business
man, was a visitor here Monday.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01
NEW MANAGER
AT WILDE'S STORE

j. P. Sanders is taking over the
management of Wilde's Stationery
Store, effective Nov. 1st. Mr. Wilde,
who owns the business, is planning
to devote his time to his other in
terests. Mr.. Sanders came to No
gales in 1888 and was in the mining
business. He has been employed at
the Mission Drug Store for several
months and will take over his new
position this morning.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01

Collector of Customs Craig Pot
finger and Assistant Collector Her
bert R. Chatham visited Naco Fri
day.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01
TOMATO MEN
RETURNING SOON

Jack Hoyt and Joe Mason, toma-
to men, are returning to Nogales in
about two weeks from San Diego
where they have been since last
spring. Also returning in about
two weeks is Gus Herrscher, toma-
to man, who is now in Santa Bar
bara.
Charles Brooks, we'll known resi-
dent of the Patagonia district, has
been confined in st. Joseph's Hos
pital for treatment for pneumonia.
Max Arnold and Cliff Amos re-
turned Tuesday night from trip to
the farming districts around Culia-
can, Verduro and Guasave.
Marshall Ashburn was in town
Saturday from his ranch in San
Rafael Valley.
| Charles j. Bracker returned Sat-
urday from a business trip to New
York.
Raymond Earhart of Patagonia
was in town Tuesday for a meeting
of the County Democratic Commit
tee.
Miss Ruth Jones has returned to
her home on West street following
minor operation performed at a
Nogales, Sonora, hospital last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Heady of the
San Rafael Valley were in NogaleE
Tuesday evening for the Democratic
meeting.
John Wayne, Walter Brennan,
and other movie stars from the
Elgin movie location were shopping
in Nogales Monday afternoon.
Frank Lamma and r. G. Blabon
were business visitors here WedneS
day from Patagonia.
Karl Peterson was here yesterday
from Ell Paso.
Grover Webb of Ell Paso, super
visor southwestern district of the
Customs Patrol, was in town yes
tnrdav
Nogales international., 1946-11-01
ELKS TO INITIATE
LARGE CLASS

A class of about 26 candidates
will be initiated into the ElkS Lodge
on November 26th.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01

Cliff Amos and Max Arnold left
Friday on a short business trip to
Hermosillo.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01

Charles Brooks, well known resi-
dent of the Patagonia district, ha.
been confined in st. Joseph's Hos
pital for treatment for pneumonia.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01
THREE CHARGED WITH
KILLING HEIFER

Chiquit Moson. Betty Evans, and
Emery Auldridge (coloreO, who
we're arrested on a charge of killing
heifer belonging to r. H. Becker
in the Camille district, were released
on 81 900 bond each. Their prelim-
mary hearing was set for yesterday
at Patagonia.
Nogales international., 1946-11-01
Want Ads

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FOR SALE: 6 hole Majestic
Range, coal or wood, excellent con-
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swinging type. Earl E. Strever, P.
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u. S. Customs.
LOST: Siamese Tomcat. Unusual
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call Mrs, j. B. Pendleton, 503-J3.
FOUND: Mexican leather purse
containing eye glasses and name
Carolina. Phone 259-J.
ROOM FOR RENT, $1,000 per
month. 345 Rodriguez Street.
LOST: Scotty dog, limps on one
foot. Big reward for return to
Frances Burlinson, phone S98-M.
WANTED: Cotton Pickers. $2.65
per 100 lbs. Truck leaves from
City Park 1880 am, daily.
FOR SALE: Majestic Chef gas
range. 1888 Morley Avenue.
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