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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Icelandic Mems
Chorus To Give
Concert Oct. 20

Members of the membership drive
committe of Entertainment. Inc,
were announced this week by
Chairman E. A. Khayat and were
called into a special meeting
which will take the form of a
luncheon at the Pascagoula
Country Club Monday when
plans will be outlined.
The drive will be in full swing
next week. Mr.. Khayat said.
Members of the committee are
Mesdames ]. T. Thompson. Roy
Wingfield. r. K. HOLSTER, Eliza
beth Latady and Sydney Swan
and Thomas Leatherbury. Leo
RoSenblum, Roy Owens. f. A.
Elliott. W. D. Pelan, w. r. Guest,
Jr., Earl Hammett and Thomas
r. Wells, president of Entertain
ment. Inc.
Present bookings and negetia-
tions for planned bookings prom
Use the most outstanding season of
feature presentations in the his
tory of the organization. Enter
tainment, Inc. booking chairman,
A. P. May, this week revealed
that the opening number for the
season will be the famous mems
chorus. the Ieelandie Singers, be-
ing brought to this country by
the National Concert and Artists
Corporation for the first time for
the l946-47 season. They will
sing in Pascagoula at the High
School auditorium October 20 at
2:30 p. n.
Sigurdur T%hordarson conducts
the choir, which comprises sc
men and features two male solo
lists. The musical repertory runs
the gamut from the works of
Beethoven and Schubert to the
traditional songs of the Seandi-
navian countries.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Shrimp Fleet Blessed AT a n
Springs In Ancient Ceremonies

A score of fishing boats of all
sizes, a part of the Gulf Coasts
giant shrimp fleet, were blessed
in the small craft harbor at Ocean
Springs Sunday afternoon in ae-
cordance with an ancient Cath
Ollie custom.
Several hundred persons from
throughout the county lined the
banks of the harbor as the Rev.
Francis Deigman said a special
mass over the anchored fleet and
then toured the harbof to sprin-
kle especially blessed holy water
over the individual crafts.
The crowd WIS welcomed by
Mayor Albert S. Westbrook of
Ocean Springs who introduced
Hermes F. Gautier and A. p. Mo
ran, county supervisors for Dis
trict 3 and 4, and A. j. Catchot,
harboe master, an alderman-cleet
of Gear Springs.
The Rev. Deignan explained to
the assembled group that the Gus
tom of blessing fishing fleets at
the beginning of the season
dated back 20 the twelfth or
thirteenth century and that the
fishermen asked for a good catch
and to be treated fairly by those
with whom they dealt and for
safety and Divine protection as
they sailed the seas.
Mr.. Moran was lauded by May
or Westbrook and Mr.. Gautier
for his part in the establishment
of the small craft harbor as a
member OF the Jackson County
Board of Supervisors.
The blessing of The fleet was
sponsored by Ocean Springs fish
ermen who entertained at a
shrimp toil following the pro-
gram.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Yellow n-Black
New Auto Tags
Arrive In County

More than 10000 Mississippi
1947 automobile tags, yellow nu-
merals on a black background,
have been received by the office
of the sheriff of Jackson county
and will go on sale on October |
through October 81.
Persons who do not purchase
their current licenses before the
October 81 deadline will be sub
iect to rs percent penalty.
In urging the public to &C
their licenses carly. employees
of the sheliff's office reminded
that three steps are necessary:
~ The payment of personal
taxes, a receipt for which must
be presented before new tags may
be acquired.
(2l The filling out of an 1p.
plication prior to appearing at
the shcriff's office. Blank forms
are now available and can be
procured at the sheriff's office.
CD Presenting the completed
form and personal tax receipt and
payment for the new tag.
Prices for the new tags range
from $4.16 for some 1928 models
(and older) to $500 for some
1916 models, depending on the
horse power, in the passenger au-
tomobile field. The price for tags
for trucks and other CONNER.
cial vehicles varies.
The sale of tags begins on
Tuesday morning, October l. at
300 o'clock and ends on Thurs
day, October 81, at 600 o'clock.
There will be plenty of personnel
available throughout the month
but the sheriff's office warned
that lines may extend for blocks
the last minute rush and
that some may be left out and
made TO pay damages.
WEDDING ,8::2lme
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
HOUSING CONVENTION

The National Association of Ru-
raj Housing will hold its first an
nual convention at the Hotel
Buena Vista in Biloxi September
% and 27. association officials
announced. Governor Thomas L.
Bailey will make the welcome adj
dress and Mayor Chester A. Della
cruz will give greetings from BIZ
ioxi and the Gulf Coast. George
B. Hamilton. president of the as
soeiation will give the response
and there will be speakers from
the Federal Public Housing Au-
thority. and the I. S. Department
Of Agriculture. The convection
will close with a banquet Friday
night at which Jimmy Arlington,
editor-mayor-humorist of Collins,
viii be the speaker.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
VIEW To Play
Army VS. Navy
Donkey Baseball

A donkey baseball game, COM
plete with spills. thrills, and side
splitting comedy, will be staged
in Pasaagoula on Friday night.
September q, when the army vet
Grams oi the VIEW tangles with
their navy conn AIDES.
Especially trained donkevs be-
longing to LEVEL Knight of Bo-
galoosd will be used and the
usual rules, observed. The play
ers can only dismount to field a
ball anG then must remount to
make the peg. The same goes
for batting and the rest of the
game,
Game time is at 800 o'clock
and the admission is thirty cents
for children and sixty cents for
adults. including tax.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Grading Begins
For Widening
Highway 80

Grading of the shoulders of U.
S. Highway 80 between Moss
Point and Pascagoula was begun
this week by the Mississippi High
way Department in preparation
for the widening and reeappins
program of this section of the
Old Spanish Trail which will be-
gin Immediately.
Mayor John R. Watts of Pas
cagoula announced that city off
Gals here had contracted with
the highway group to pave from
eurb-to-curb from Cedar street
On the west to the Old Fair
Grounds on the east.
Mayor E. Gregory Wood report
ed yesterday that Moss Point
city officials had not met to con-
slider Il similar deal in the city
limits but there were indications
that an arrangement would be
made on the same basis.
Under the Pascagou'a arrange
ment, the city will pay for the
surfacing of all over 20 feet in
the specified area. Otherwise, the
highway department will widen
the highway by two feet--one
foot on each shoulder-and recap
the existing highway which has
been declared too narrow, dan
eerous and overloaded.
With work on the Escatawpa
dump well underway and the
highway widening and recapping
between the two cities beginning,
the restoration Of the bridges he
tween Pascagoula and Gautier
IS the only remaining step in
the three-point program demand
ed by civic groups here as inn
mediate steps to prevent a Sc
les of serious accidents.
Highway officials have indiea-
ted that work will begin on the
bridges about Tire first IF the
year when it is believed the nee
essarv piling vii be available.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Commission
Tax Rolls
Supervisors Told
To Up Assessments
Quurter-M Million

The Mississippi Tax Commits
sion has rejected the Jackson
County tax rolls, as approved by
the board of supervisors, and
has demanded that the, assess
ment be raised as much as one
hundred percent on two counts
for a total of nearly a quarter
million dollars.
The refusal, arrived at during
statewide equalization, involves
four of II divisions of the per-
sonal tax rolls and is obviously
aimed at the county's major in
dustries.
A hearing will be held next
Thursday morning, September rs.
at 1000 o'clock by the board of
supervisors when a representa-
tive of the state tax commission
is expected to appear and argue
the commissions stand on the
case with representatives of the
industries involved and board
members.
In refusing the rolls and re-
turning them, the commission de-
manded that the lumber and 9TH
err manufactured forrest products"
division, and the raw material
and supplies for manufacturing
purposes be raised 100 percent.
The first had been set at $780,
400 and the latter at $12l,563 by
the board which said they had
on inventories presented
by the companies involved.
The commission also demand
ed that the machinery. tools.
implements and equipment h-
vision be boosted six percent
from $3.50. 664 and that the IMAM
ufactured products group be
boosted ten percent from $48,173
1t is the third time in a quar-
ter-century that the commission
has refused the local rolls and
marks the most stringent de-
mands made during that period
on the board of supervisors.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Insurance Agency
And Community
Discussed AT Rotory

The insurance agency and its
place n the community was dis
cussed before the Moss Point
Rotary Club yesterday by Em-
nett Thomas who was for IL
years associated with the Missis-
sippi rating bureau.
Nh. Thomas related how the
insurance rate in Moss Point was
high in 1926 as the resul. OF
poor fire protection and how it
was reduced by the extension of
water mains and improved
equipment resulting from leader
ship BY local Insurance men.
Insurance is the financial pro-
lection for all of a city's insti-
tuition. the speaker pointed nut,
and without it it would be inn
possible to function along uor-
nal lines TODAY.
The speaker wa introduced
by L. *. Mcintosh who was in
charge of the program. Edward
A. Khsyat presided.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Foreign Brides To
Be Honored BY Red
Cross At Dinner

A dinner in honor of the for
eign wal brides of this county
and their husbands is being plan
ned by the Jackson County chap
ter of the American Red Cross,
Miss Nellie Tallman, executive
secretary. announced. Other
guests will be members of the
Board of Directors. the executive
committees and the chapter staff.
The date of the dinner will be
announced later, Miss Tallman
said. after a complete list of
brides has been compiled. Anyone
knowing of any foreign bride
other than those listed with their
husbands as follows is asked to
conpct the Red Cross office,
phone 208. Immediately: Mr.. and
Mrs. Allmend, Kreole: Mr.. and
Mrs. William Crawford, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwood McNeely, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul II. Smith. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. L. Thomas and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dezier White, Pascagoula;
Mr.. and Mrs. D. V. DeAngelo and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Graham Barber,
Moss Point. MI. and Mrs. Charles
H. Hardin. Vanclsave: Mr.. and
Mrs Clay Parlin and Nj. and
Mrs Ernest Tul of Ocean Springs.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Community Chest
Important Meeting
Set For Wednesday,

There will be a meeting of the
Community Chest members at
the Pascagoula Country Club
next Wednesday afternoon inn
mediatcly following the Rotary
Club meeting, it was announced
this week.
Important business including
election of five directors to serve
for three years will be transact
ed and all interested persons are
requested to- attend Twenty-one
members must be present to con
stitute a quorum.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Dairy Ratings
Given BY County
Health Officers

Two pasteurization plants in
Jackson County-Rehage Dairy
of Ocean Springs and Delmas
Pasteurization Plant of Pasca-
g%oula-are officially authorized
o sell Grade A p~asteurized mix
Or milk products, DR.. Andrew
Hedmcg, director of the Jack
son County Health Department
announced Thursday at the close
of an official 30-day inspection
period
Three dairies closed voluntar-
lily during the inspection period
and two were prohibited entire
~ from selling any products af-
ter they failed to meet the re-
quirements of the Standard Milk
Ordinance. Four diaries are per-
mitted to sell their milk as raw
Grade A milk and six diaries
may sell their milk only to a
qualified pesteurization plant.
This grading by the county
health department is in accord
ance with a state law, which was
incorporated into the city laws
of Pascagoula through passage of
an ordinance recently, making the
sale of milk or milk products by
any dairy not meeting standards
as set up by the United States
Health Department subject to
prosecution under the law.
Permitted to sell top grade raw
milk are Circle 7 (Townsend's)
Dairy B & M (Battiste and Me-
Leod) Dairy, RAYS Dairy and
Elders Dairy, Pascagoula-Nfoss
Point area. Allowed only to sell
milk TO a pasteurization plant
r Myrick's Dairy, Humphreys
Dairy, Ocean Springs area; Del
mas Brothers Dairy, Bullock's
Dairy, Wilson's Dairy and SMELLS
Dairy, Pascagoula-Moss Point
area. Prohibited from selling
are Lewis Dairy, Ocean Springs,
and George Martins Dairy, Pas
cagoula, Route 1. Closing volun-
tarily and stopping all sale of
milk and milk products until e
application for a license, Stau-
ter's Dairy formerly Toupes
Dairv) Moss Point, Frank Con
ways Dairy. wade and Whites
Dairy, Paseagoula.
Re-Inspections Scheduled
The original inspection was
made a month ago after which
dairies were informed as to what
improvements We're necessary in
order to meet the scale Of stan
dards. At the end of the given
period a second inspection was
made and those not having made
necessary corrections were graded
accordingly, DR.. Hedmeg explain
ed. This listing does not imply
a permanent type of license, DR..
Hedmeg pointed out. Inspections
will be made of all plants at
least once a month, or more fire.
quently if necessary.
Regular laboratory service
will be available in the Gulf
Coast area on or about October
l." DR.. Hedmeg said, "at which
time meteorological samples will
also be run on these producers
and at any time the plant or the
products do not meet the require
ments of the Standard Milk Or
dinance, the producers will be
degraded and, following a reas-
enable period for correction. the
license will be rescinded if the
producers do not comply with the
existing regulations
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Set ~Semi-FinuI
Round In Club
Golf Tourney

Semi-finals in the Pascagoula
Country Clubs championship golf
tournament were under way this
week i'll both the championship
and second flights following
eliminations in last weeks play,
Doe Graham, club pro, announc-
ed this week.
In last weeks play in the
championship flight Walter Gull
ley, Jr., defeated TENNESSEE
Leming three and two: Herman
Perry defeated Roy Williamson
two and one; Sawyer defeated
George Gettys three and two and
Merley Jones defeated P. G.. Der
by three and two.
Matched in this weeks cham
pionship flight semi-final round
were Gulley VS. Perry and Sawyer
VS. Jones, with the winners of
the two matches to meet on Sun
day. September goth, in a 36-hole
match for the club championship.
In the second flight play last
week DIR. W. J. Weatherford de
feated c. c. McGee; Robertson
defeated Collins two up, and
Saul Peterzell defeated Easton
King three and two.
In this weeks play in the
above flight Dr. Weatherford will
play the winner of the scheduled
match; and Peter
zell viii play Robertson.
Finals in this flight. an 18-hole
match. will be played the same
day as the championship match.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
YMBC Passes
Anii-Polluiion
Resolution

A resolution deplorlng the POI
luton in the Pascagoula and Leaf
rivers and their tributaries was
unanimously adopted by the
Young Mems Business Club Of
Moss Point at a meeting held
Mondev night.
The adoption of the resolution
followed talks by aroused mem
bers and copies were ordered to
be drawn by l.. K, Mcintosh, w.
III. Nelson, Jr., and Rames Khayat
and mailed to Governor Bailey,
Attorney General Greek l.. Rice,
the State Game and Fish Com
mission, and the Chronicle Star
Advertiser which has waged an
editorial campaign against this
situation for the past two years.
The president was also author
lied to send a delegation to a
meeting ii the Metropolitan Club
in Hattiesburg Wednesday. Sep
TENDER rs. to join with them in d
formal protest.
The school safety committee,
composed of Earl Ammonette, I.
w. Swavze. Saul Peterzell and
Charles Hightower was instruct
ed to call a meeting of the mayor,
superintendent of city schools,
president of the Parent Teacher
Association. police and Scout Of
ficials to discuss plans for set
ting up a program to better pro-
tect the school children from traf-
fic hazards nov existing.
The club heard a report on
the progress being made on the
agricultural program discussed
last week at a joint meeting of
representatives of several civic
organizations of Pascagoula and
Moss Point.
The resolution follows:
Whereas, for a number of
years d large quantity of fish have
been killed in Pascagoula and
Leaf Rivers and their tributa-
ries and.
Whereas, ii appears that said
fish have been destroyed by an
affluent dumped in the river by
the Masonite Corporation. and
Whereas, it appears that the
situation is growing worse year
by year rather than being inn
proved and,
Whereas. it appears that some
immediate and drastic measure is
necessary:
Nov. therefore, be 1t resolved
that the Young Mems Business
Club OF Moss Point. Mississippi,
Inc. condemns the action of
the Mesonite Corporation in con
tinuing TO discharge the affluent
from their mill into the streams
of Mississippi and,
"Bt 1t further resolved that
they recommend to the Governor
of Mississippi, Attorney Gener-
al of Mississippi and the Missis-
sippi State Fish and Game Com
mission that immediate action be
taken to prevent the Masonite
Corporation from ever dumping
any affluent into the streams of
Mississippi which are injurious to
fish lie.
BE 1t further resolves that a
copy Of this Resolution be for
warded to the Governor. Attor-
ney General and the Mississippi
State Fish and Game Commits
sion"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

The semi-liquid surface of the
earth's interior. beneath the crust.
has a temperature of 2400 de-
grees F.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Production Head
Names Committees
For Pospoint Play

Tom Dawson. production man.
ager for the Paspoint Little The
alter play Brighten the Corner
his week announced the appoint
ment IF the following committees:
Don Olien, stage manager. Joe
Gentle. Light and sound. MIS-.
William Kelg and Ms. Geo ge
Steele. properties, Mrs. Sherine
Gil and Mrs. Louise Cox, make
up. ard Tom Sudduth. business
manager.
TIE play IS scheduled fos are-
sentation On October 3 and 2.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

In a machine age. violins are
still handmade.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

The Library Of Congress in
Washington, D. C., was estab-
lished in 1900.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

SHOWN EXAMINING THE RIBBONS THEY WILL PIN on
winners at the First Annual Gulf Coast Horse Show in Pasca-
aouIa. are H. to ~ Miss ToYe Brumfield. Miss Mary Guest. Miss
Duverqne Watts and Miss zelda Zuber. All are from Pasca-
qouia with the exception of Miss Watts. who is from Moss Point.
The horse show. which is sponsored bv the Pascaqoula Junior
Chamber of Commerce. will be staged at the Recreation Center
Ball Park on October SIS and will draw exhibitors and spectators
from several states along the Gulf Coast.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

William Il vas England's only
bachelor king.
Balkan IS derived ron a Turk
ish word meaning mountain.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Memorial Post InstaI|s
New Officers Tomorrow

The Silver Spring Memorial Post
No. 1862, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
will install new officers at pm.
tomorrow at the Silver Spring Ar
mory. There are nearly 300 members
in this new post.
The ceremonies will be conducted
by officials of the Maryland depart
ment, headed by Department Comdr.
Frank J. Weipert
New officers are:
Commander, Edward L. Foster;
senior vice commander, John E. Rus
sell; junior vice commander, John
E. Weisman; adjutant, Lorraine j.
Milliken; quartermaster, Richard H.
Hewitt: chaplain, Calvin w. Schaef-
fer; surgeon, William Bowman, jr.;
advocate, Ralph G. Shure; trustees,
L. T. Faulconer, Richard Price and
Evans Bargmann: service officer,
Charles B. Buscher; legislative off,
Ger, William B. Wheeler; sergeant
major, Harvey R. Cromer; quarter
master er-sergeant, Daniel J. Lee:
guard, Robert R. Stanley; officer-of- :
the-day, Donald L. Kelley.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Garner Opens Defense
In Harrisonburq Trial
BY the Associated Press

HARRISONBURG, Va, April 20.
Presentation of the defense case
for Ralph H. Garner, charged with
the murder of Frank Smith, World
War II veteran, at his home here
February 20, 1945, opened today
after Judge H. w. Bertram denied
a motion to strike out the prose-
cution evidence. The trial began
Monday.
Witnesses in Rockingham County
Circuit Court testified they could
not definitely identify a person in
an automobile repeatedly seen en-
tering and later leaving the Smith
driveway the night Mr.. Smith died.
Mrs. Everett Rhodes, a neighbor
of tne Smiths, has testified for the
State that she saw a person she
identified as Garner drive to and
leave the Smith home on the night
of the Staying.
The State has sought to prove
that Garner was at the Smith home
the night Mr.. Smith died. Mrs.
Smith. widow of the slain man,
was convicted and sentenced to 20
years after being found guilty of
first degree murder. Her appeal
is pending before the State Supreme
Court.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Maryland AirIines Offers
Taxi Service 10 Ocean CITY
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, April 2O.-Maryland
Airlines announced today IT'S vaca-
ton service would be expanded to
include plane taxicab service from
Baltimore to Ocean City.
Anthony G. Rytina, local repre-
sentative, said passengers will be
met at Rehoboth Beach with
taxicab to take them the remain
ing 26 miles to Ocean City at a rate
comparable to bus fares.
He said that altogether the trip
would take less than two hours
The airline's present schedule for
two flights daily from Washington
and Baltimore to Rehoboth Beach
will be increased gradually after
the vacation season opens, Mr.. Ry-
tina added
Maryland Airlines has four Cess
ma planes which carry four pas
sengers each and three Noorduyn
Norseman transports which carry
six to seven passengers.