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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

Not long ago we saw some adj
vertising announcing the coming
of a movie called 'The Hoodlum
Saint" starring William Powell,
If our memory is not now in en-
ror. and very likely referring to
one of the provocative and little
known dramas of the New Tes-
lament and that is the life of
the Good Thief who is known
TO history as st. Dismas. and who
died on a cross beside Christ as
the Gospels tell us. We have
not seen the movie called THE
Hoodlum Saint" but we take
for granted that the story of st.
Dismas is the one referred to.
Whether or not his name was
really "Dismas'' in the days of
Christ, and in the Aramic Ian
gusge which Christ and the disci-
Piles spoke, is an unanswered
question to the theologians and
church historians who have de
voted their lives to the study Of
this period. Many say that since
the Good Thief has no name in
any of the Gospels. that the name
"Dismas' is simply a traditional
name which church writer's in
the dark ages attached to this
fieeting yet vivid personality of
the worlds most tremendous dra-
ma, and that is the story of
Christ as related in the Gospels.
The actual texts of the Bible
itself are unfortunately little
known and studied. speaking in
general. by a nation and by an
@ge which processes itself to be
Chris tian". The story of the
Good Thief, for example, was
not selected for a movie treat
ment because of its own inherent,
high drama and beauty, but large
ly because a Chicago newspaper
executive whose name now es-
capes us managed to give this
Biblical figure a lot of publicity
in the last ten years or so-and
also 10 give himself a lot Of pub
licity. This newspaperman had
once done a stretch in the peni-
Tertiary. and while there was
suddenly inspired by the story
Of st. Dismas", the repentant
thief. So the prisoner repented
himself. and somewhere along
the way z church was built in the
penitentiary in memory of this
forgotten figure in the story of
the Crucifixion. And when the
prisoner got out of jail and got
to be . big-shot in the Chicago
newspaper world. he spent a good
part Of his time drawing aften-
ton to the story of the figure
called st. Dismas". He wrote
a story about him every wear on
the traditional anniversary which
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
A4IaeWASHINCT0N
Virginia Congressman Smith
Now Seeks Senatorial Seat

Special to Central Press
Washington.--Political observ-
ers are saying that the primary
victory of Senator Harry F. Byrd
in Virginia has encouraged Rep.
Howard w. Smith of Alexandria
to seek the Senate seat now held
by Senator Thomas G.. Burch.
Burch has declared that he
wishes to retire from public Of
flee and relinquish the seat to
which he was appointed on the
death of the late Senator Carter
Glass. The Virginia incumbent
served in the House before. he
was elevated to the upper cham
Der.
The forthcoming Virginia De-
mocrat contest will be to pick a
candidate to run for the remand
err of Glass term, which ends
in 1949.
Smith. named recently to sue
coed himself as a member of the
lower Chamber. long had his eye
on a Senate seat. He is said to
believe that now the time is
ripe, particularly with Senator
Bureh ready to call it quits.
Senator Harry F. Byrd's victo-
ry was a ~clear-cut defeat of Go
PAC elements, who assailed his
conservative record in the cham
Der on domestic issues.
Smith has taken much the same
position on most domestic issues
that Eyrd has. He has been at
tackled by the same political foes.
The slim Virginian from Alex
andria repeatedly is seeing his
political star in the ascendancy
as a result of Byrd's victory and
is ready to take the leap into
larger waters.
The army expects to fly an
airplane at a speed of 1900 miles
per hour and at an altitude of
sc, 900 feet within the next year.
This supersonic, rocket-pro-
aircraft is the xS-1, which
nof is virtually ready to make
its first powered flight but will
now is virtually ready to make
of sound until some time in 1947.
The plane was designed and
built under the joint supervision
of the Army Air Forces Air Ma.
Command and the Bell Air
corporation of Buffalo,
N. Y.
When its powered flight tests
are completed at Muroc Lake,
Cal, the xS-1. will be turned
over to the National advisory
comr littee for aeronautics for a6-
ditional testing and research.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
Army Expects Rocket Plane
To Fly rs Miles a Minute

The NACA will shoulder the
responsibility of breaking through
the barrier of speed faster than
sound.
This is to be attempted in a Sc
ries OF trial flights, starting at
speeG levels around 600 miles per
hour and gradually increasing
until the 1900 mph goal is reach
ed.
Air Forces officials point out
that the XS-1 is not a military
aircraft but a flying laboratory
which will provide data to be
used in the design of planes of the
future
The XS-l already has been
flown by Bell Test Pilot Jack
Woolams, but not under its own
power Il has been carried into
the air by a B-29 Superfortress.
released and allowed to dive and
glide.
Woolams reported the airplarie
solid as a rock at $4,000 feet
and an airspeed of $50 miles per
hour.
The defeat of Rep. Roger c..
Slaughter Cd of Missouri in his
campaign for denomination may
clear the way for passage by the
next congress of two major pieces
of legislation previously blocked
in the potent House committee
on rules.
They are the bills for a per-
manent Fair Employment Prac-
tice commission and an increas-
ed minimum wage for the IA
tons workers.
Both died in the rules commit
tee, of which Slaughter was a
member, largely because of the
opposition of Slaughter and five
other Democratic members from
southern and border states.
See FEP Measure UP Again
Presumably, if the Democrats
retain control of the House, an
administration supporter will be
named to replace Slaughter,
which would assure sufficient
votes to bring the two bills be-
fore the House for a vote.
Both bills stand a good chance
of rules committee approval even
if the Republicans gain control,
for both parties are committed
to support the legislation.
Slaughter cast the deciding
vote which killed the FEPC bill
in the rules committee and thus
incurred the enmitv of President
Truman and other powerful
groups, He also voted consistent
ly against other administration
measures.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

went on an all-day picnic at Big
Herring Monday.
Hartman Nelson made a bust
ness trip to Biloxi Tuesday. Mr..
Nelson and his father went to
New Orleans recently on a pleas
ure trip,
Mrs. Clyde Mccormack and
children spent the weekend in
New Orleans with her sister.
Mrs. Travis Broadus.
Mr. ard Mrs. Webb spent the
weekend with her mother, Mrs.
Mary Pool.
Nj. and MRS. Julie Ladnier and
family of Pascagoula visited Mrs.
Mary Pool Sunday.
MI. Oscar Hill spent two weeks
at Bay St. Louis and returned
home TueSSay.
Mr. Charmlie Pool and family
from Fort Lake visited Mrs NIL
bred Hill Monday.
The BsntiSt revival that the
Rev. Rust is holding here is draw
ing guuc crowds and will contin-
ne through Friday night.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
NINETEENTH HOLE

Oakland, Md. -AP-B Burglars
entered the Oakland golf club
house, stripped it of six pairs of
curtains. bath towels, dishes,
chairs. sports jackets. three sets
OF golf clubs and a number of
balls.
BLt what surprised club mem
Der Edward Smouse. who dis
covered the theft. more than
anything else was a final touch:
The burglars had also taken
the kitenen SIM.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
By NoLLE T. ROBERTS

A letter from Henry Schultz,
who owns an eighty-acre modern
farm north of EScatawpa, is OF
great interest to US since MI.
Schultz is a farmer purely by
choice and his ideas are well
worth listening to. We have
known Henry Schultz for a num-
Der OF years, first when he work
ed in the office of the Missis-
sippi Export Railroad in Moss
Point and dreamed of the modern
farm he would own.
We more or less expected to
find Henry still at his desk when
we returned to Jackson County
from the service and were sur
priced to find that his dream
had come true and that he actu-
ally owned a fine farm with 35
acres in cultivation and the best
in modern machinery and equip
ment.
THE coop project for Jack
son County is worth while and of
vital interest to the farmers of
this county, Mr.. Schultz wrote
us this week. what affects the
farmers whether ii be success or
failure will greatly affect the
city people here and also in the
entire nation. | am 100 percent
for a coop dairy plant for this
county. We can produce all the
milk that is needed in this coun-
ty, but there is one vital ques-
ton that the farmer is confront
ed with here: it is MARKETS for
his products.
We know what Mr.. Schultz
means but we would like to cor
rect his last statement this much:
the question that the farmer is
confronted with is a system or
organization for marketing. The
market is here. Right in Pasca-
goula. the county seat, and Moss
Point. The market is here for
milk, eggs, potatoes, meat, and
a score of other products. The
market is being filled daily by
dairy farmers down the coast
and farmers in Alabama, Florida,
north Mississippi Kansas, Min
nesota, and a dozen other states.
"The sweet potato dehydration
plant would be of great value in
connection with the coop dairy
plant" Mr.. Sscultz goes on,
sweet potatoes will increase the
milk flow as much as 80 to 40
percent when mixed with dairy
feed. Milk production cost can
be cut 80 percent in this coun--
ty as we can have green i'm
proved pastures the year round
without combining the dairy herd
in the barn during the winter
months as it's been practiced in
the North. We do not need ex-
pensive buildings to house the
The last statement-that we
do not need expensive build
ings-was proven in our recent
story on Hancock County dali
rYmen where each farmer
spends an average of $500 on
his dairy barn. In the dairy
products producing areas of
Wisconsin and Minnesota. that
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

remember me when thou contest
into Thy kingdom.
And Jesus said unto him, Yer
lily | say unto thee, Today shalt
thou be with Me in paradise.
And it was about the sixth
hour, and there was a darkness
over all the earth until the ninth
hour +. -
That is all the Bible tells US
about the Good Thief. A few
brief words-and yet the human
tragedy of this incident will glow
in the mind of man for all time.
Two men dying in the sun on a
little hill in an obscure little Ro-
man outpost in North Africa. A
little crowd stands about them,
jeering. making poor mean sport
of their agonies. A soldier stands
on watch to see that the execu-
ton is carried out by the crowd.
Three crosses on a barren hill
Golgotha, the place of the skull,
Three men hanging there in mute
agony, the spark of life flicker
ing low. Suddenly a few brief
words pass between them. In a
little while all three are dead.
An incident the like of which
took place many times in the his
tory of the Roman empire, and
many times forgotten, unrecord-
ed, lost in the sweep of time,
But this incident remembered
always, for one was Christ, with
the Notwithstanding idea of self
lessness and love; and the other
shared His Immortality If only
for a moment by gasping the few
words of agony and faith. The
Repentant Thief. Today
shalt thou be with Me in para
disc"
We knew a nan once, a little
newspaperman who often launch
ed off onto flights of improvised
oratoiy which he never thought
of beforehand, and which he new
er remembered afterwards. His
reasoning was only for the mo-
ment, ana while il sometimes had
a startling and diSarming bril-
lance, 1t was meant only for the
moment. and he never remem-
bered il. 1t was the wisdom of
4 child: it had the perversity and
the curious twist of a child's wis
and the penetration.
And one night, long years ago,
when we were talking of the sto-
~ of st. Dismas and the Re-
pentant Thief, he announced to
us that great and moving as the
story was, he himself had an I'M
bounded admiration for the I'm
repeniant Thief. not for his bias
phemy but for his logged, ter
llote courage. he took ms medI-
cine, and he went to hell" he
HE had the same kind of
mad and evil courage which
makes the figure of Lucifer such
a dramatic figure in Millions Pa
thief, but he refuses to be moved
cles, Just as did the repentant
thiei, but he refused TO be moved
by them, and knuekle under. He
had MS own kind of integrity
He represents to me the irreduci-
BILE residue of evil in human ma
ture, in all human nature-no
matter how much good also ex-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
Escafawpa

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Davis and
three children, Fay, Avis and
Dan, of Panama City, Fla. spent
a two-week vacation here with
Mrs. Davis parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Gill. They also visit
ed many friends and relatives
while here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis and chill
dren and Mr.. and Mrs. John Gill
enjoyed a trip to Bellingrath
Gardens. They were escorted
through the gardens by Mr. Hen
ny Hough who has been associ-
ated with the Bellingrath Gar
dens for 20 years.
Visiting in the home Of Mr.. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Gordon and
Mrs. L. c. Gordon Sunday were
Mrs. Clinton Chestnut Of New
ton Miss, and Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Buffers and family of Mobile and
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Cornelius and
family Of Birn ingham.
Visitors in the home of Mrs.
Erie Golf on Monday of this week
were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bry-
ant and Mr.. and Mrs. Dempsey
Bryant and Emmett Bryant of St.
Elmo, Ala.
The Rev. and Mrs. ". c. Wind
ham and two children visited
friends and relatives in Escataw-
pa for a few days this week.
The Women's Department of
the Recognized Church of Lat
ter Day Saints and their children
enjoyed an all day picnic at Mag
nolia Park in Ocean Springs last
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Cunning
ham and children, Don and La
velle Cunningham, spent the
weekend in Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. Erie Golf and son, ]. w.
Hazard, visited her sister, Mrs.
d. L. Waites and family in Biloxi
Sunday.
The Escatawpa grammar school
will begin Friday. today.
James Greenough returned
home Sunday night after a bust
ness trip to New Orleans.
Mayzelle Taylor and brother,
Arvis, returned to Escatawpa af-
ter spending the summer with
relatives in Alderman, Miss.
MIR. and Mrs. Harold Golf and
children are visiting relatives in
Lucedale this week.
The Rev. and Mrs. d. M. Camp
bell left Monday morning for a
visit with relatives and friends
in South Carolina.
Mr.. H. r. Crop returned home
last week from a few weeks Wis
it with relatives in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Murphy Dufrene and son
of Des Alemands, La, are visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Roberts.
Felix Kittrell made a business
trip to Mobile last week.
Fred Hanson who is in the
army is spending a furlough at
home with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. Hanson and family.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
Orange Grove

The Rev. Bryant Broadus of
Escatavpa will hold services at
the Orange Grove Methodist
church Sunday at IL a. m. and at
1880 p. m.
Mr.. end Mrs. L. D. Nelson of
Moselle, Miss, are visiting in the
home of Mr.. Lee Hill this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Foster are
happy Ia announce the arrival of
an eight and a half pound boy,
John Edward, born August %.
Mrs. Foster and the baby went
from the Jackson County hos
pital 20 their new home in Pas
cagoula where they joined Mr..
Foster and the two other children
of the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Roberts
spent Saturday right and Sunday
with Mrs. Roberts parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Foster.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. II. Rogers and
Mrs. Casey L. Rogers of Fort Wal
ton, Fla, visited their pare ats,
Mi. and Mrs. Van Pool last week.
MIR. Clyde Mccormack and son,
CLYDE Raymon, were business
visitors to Biloxi Saturday.
Mrs. J. I. Mccormack and her
family and n orattn of raIatfvae
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
81 81 A !l!E|Al!Llz2IEs

600 with the insulated build
ings. heating problems. etc. Yet
the butter we consume in Jack
son County is produced under
those handicaps and is shipped
thousands of miles by expen-
sive refrigerated cars.
\ Mr.. Schultz presents another
idea, which we had touched on
previously, for a poultry plant.
II am also for having a poultry
processing plant, where. the
farmers could market their poul-
try and eggs. MI. Schultz
writes, I'VE should have pro-
cessing plants like those located
in GAINESVILLE, Georgia, in the
broiler producing section of that
state"
We were interested in that
statement since we read recently
the history of that broiler pro-
ducing section of Georgia. The
article appeared in the April is
sue of CORONET magazine and
read like a fairy tale. This cot
ton-farming backward section of
Georgia was a virtual Tobacco
Road" before the advent of poUl-
Try raising sever short years
ago. Now seven counties in the
area produce more than twenty
million chickens a year and the
section is one of the wealthiest
in the state. They have a million
dollar packing and processing
plant and everyone has money IN
his pocket, according to the ar
ticle.
We already have a fine and
flourishing poultry co-opera-
tive in West Jackson County in
the Poultry Producers Asso-
ciatior in Ocean Springs and
we have pointed out the need
for such an association OF CO.
operative for East Jackson
County. But we still eat eggs
produced in New York or some
such far off place-you won
der al the taste just when and
where they were produced
except for those fortunate
times when we can pick up a
dozen or so from friends out
in the country.
Now that we have industry in
our county, and a market for
farm produce as a direct result,
we think that we are missing
a good bet when we send our
buying dollars cut all over the
country for food that could be
produced in our county. The
poultry business is not an ex-
pertinent in our county, but an
established fact. When will we
get the leadership that is re-
quired for its fulfillment?
Mr.. Schultz concludes his let
ter by saying do all you can
for these projects as they are
in great need for this county,.
We assure Mr.. Schultz and the
rest Ut you that we people at
the newspaper will do all we can
for this worthwhile project and
will fully back the Young Mems
Business Club in Moss Point and
all other organizations who will
get behind the movement.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06
Arena

Mondell Williams, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Nose Williams, and
Miss Joyce Ward of Hurley, were
married Sunday night at the Pine
Grove Church of God by the Rev.
r. Underwood of Agricola.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ennis Rainwater,
MI. end Mrs. John Stricken, MI.
and Mrs. Frank Stricken, MI.
and Mrs. Leonard Stricken and
Helen Stricken attended the we'd
ding of Mondell Williams and
Miss Joyce Ward Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Urmey and
children of New Jersey visited in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Strickler for a week. Miss A..
Stricken and Carl took them to
Mobile Tuesday.
Mr.. Allie Underwood, brother
of Mrs Nose Williams, visited
in her home last week and while
here preached at the Pine Grove
Church of God.
Charles Stricken, son of Mrs.
Eliza Stricken, from Houston,
Tex, is visiting in his bother's
homo.
Mr.. Kranshop and son are Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Striek-
Ter. They are from Bellefon-
tame, @.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Stricken,
Mrs. Eliza Stricken, Albertina,
Bob and Wanda went to Alto
pass, N. c., to the Church of God
camp meeting. En- route they
went to Atlanta, Ca, and Stone
Mountain and on the return trip
they visited Chattanooga and
Lookout Mountain.
Mis-. Annie Mizell. Mrs. Dewey
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

During the period ls19-1ss2.
the Coast Guard. then a part of
the Treasury Department. en-
forced prohibition.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

The most costly insect pest in
the U. ). is the boil weevil
which causes an annual cotton
loss OF about $12O. 900, 900.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

ists-the element of evil that
would rather bate than love, de-
stroy than help, gloat in lonely
and steadfast evil than partake of
life with another human being
the evil that would rather go to
hell-the Backslider of all eter-
nifty. He is lost and damned,
forever. But he was no hypo-
crit. And to that extent he mer-
its a little admiration along with
the easy contempt that the
preachers have always heapea
upon him."
1t was a strange and cratic
speech. But we shall not forget
it.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

In 1916, Coast Guard aviation
was authorized by Congress.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

The bituminous coal industry
mined SIC, 900 900 tons of coal in
1945.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

MIS-. Annie Mizell. Mrs. Dewey
Tanner. Mrs. Percy Mcdonald
and Mrs. Gregory Evans of Will
mer and children visited Mr.. and
Mrs. H. c. Strickler Sunday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-06

Mrs. j. 7. Mccormack and her
family and a group of relatives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-01
OBITUARY
KACZYNSKI

KACZYNSKI Mrs. Eleanor (OpalachD Kaczynski of 51 1st Street, Hamden, widow of Stephen Kaczysnki, died yesterday in New Haven. A former resident of Wa terbury she was born in Poland and had lived here for over 20 years be- fore moving to Hamden. She was a former member of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church.
 Surviving are two sons, Bronis- law of Hamden, and WaclaW of Bridgeport; daughter, Mrs. W. Opalach of Detroit; brother, Stan ley Opalach of Detroit; seven grandchildren and four great-grand children.
 The funeral will be held Saturday at 8:30 A NJ, from the J. Markie- Wicz and Sons Funeral Home, Is Trumbull Street, New Haven to St Stanislaus Church, New Haven, for requiem high Mass at g. Friends may call al the funeral home to- day from to and tomorrow from to g P NJ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-01
Prices Register Big Decline Here
 Generous Supplies of
 Cuts Available in
 Markets

Meat prices were on a downward trend in Waterbury today, as SUD- plies increased to the point where dealers were able to choose their purchases at wholesale houses.
 Hamburger, which sold at 59 cents pound two weeks ago and 49 cents last week, hit the low of 39 cents today. Round and cube steak dropped from the 79 cents level Of last week to 69 cents a pound. Some cuts of roast beef were obtainable today at 39 cents a pound, while others cost from 43 to 69 cents.
 Along with beef, pork was very plentiful, and the price of roast pork dropped 10 or 12 cents a pound, to 49 and 47 cents today. Chops were selling at an average of 59 cents a pound.
 Butter, down to 68 and 69 cents a pound in the larger stores yesterday, increased slightly in price today. The average was about 72 or 73 cents. One large downtown store had two brands, one selling for B and the other for 33
 Sugar supplies appeared plentiful in the downtown area here, despite reports of a serious scarcity in some cities of the East. The OPA. has reported, however, that shipments of sugar were increasing and that the shortage will soon be over.