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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

grampa's car out of the ditch
40 years ago is playing a part
in modern aviation.
United States Air Force tao
ticians, seeking the jet planes
greatest utility, have been
stumped by its high fuel con-
sumption and resultant short
range.
So, at the Materiel Command
headquarters at Wright Field,
Ohio, the Air Force is expert
menting with jet-tows. BY tow
ing high speed jet fighters to a
rendezvous with bombers near
the combat area the planners
believe enough fuel will be
saved to permit the fighters
to protect the "heavies" through
their bombing runs and then
escort them back to the base.
Fighter Planes to Be lowed
Another problem, that of Gid
ers forced to fly on instruments
when being towed in zero-zero
weather, may succumb to a new
twist in the tow principle.
AMC is using a short, rigid
metal bar in glider-tow expert
ments in place of the old-time
slack rope. Thus the plane in
tow actually becomes a part of
the towing plane, with the tow
plane flying both craft.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

Telling Me!
By WILLIAM l
Central Press Writer
Crime" To Retire?
Britain's oldest burglar, a
gaffer of SO, has announced his

worth it in the long run if the
project results in half the de-
velopment of our section that
is indicated.
1t will mean oil refineries
and related industries for our
section of the state, the unques-
toned development of our port
here in Paseagoula, and the de-
velopment of our oil industry.
Many of us have believed for
years that we have oil, right
here in our county. There seems
to be real foundation for that
belief now and also for the be-
lief that the wells are capped
because cheap transportation is
not available.
We don't believe that this is
any time for any of US to ques-
ton the wisdom of such a move
nor the ways and means. Let
the army engineers worry about
that. The expenditure of mon
ey in the project alone, besides
the added revenue later, would
be enough to give our county's
tagging economy a shot in the
arm.
1t will be months before we
know the results of the hear
ings scheduled this week in
Waynesboro and Pascagoula.
But it seems that this time the
question of public interest will
not halt the project.
Certainly we would be show
ing very little foresight if we
failed to give all support to an
undertaking that can mean SO
much to our county and section.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
Markings" for Thanksgiving
Dinner Are Plentiful This Year

dispose of the remnants of a big
bird.
Turkey is being marketed in
halves, quarters, cut-up pieces
and steaks. Turkey packers also
are offering full-drawn, frozen
"ready-to-cook" turkeys.
To meet the need for a handy
weight bird, the Department of
Agriculture in 1884 started de-
velopment of a small turkey
with an abundance of meat. BY
1941 the Beltsville small white
turkey, named after the depart
ment's research center at Belts
vile, Md, was developed. 1t
met specifications, and dis
tribution of surplus turkey eggs
was made to state agricultural
colleges.
The bronze, White Holland
and Black varieties, the wild
turkey and the White Austrian
turkey, imported from Scotland,
were first used in developing
the small bird. In 1943 Broad
Breasted Bronze blood was in
troduced.
Breeding work is being con-
tinued with the latter in the
hope of further improving the
type. The dressed weight of
the Beltsville young toms at
market age GA to 26 weeks) is
1O1a to Is pounds, average 10
pounds. Weight of young hens
is 6R to 8 pounds, average 3
pounds.
Although there is a growing
demand for the streamlined tur-
key and turkey parts. many
folk still prefer to tackle a gil
gantic golden-brown bird like
those which highlighted the
Thanksgiving gorges of yester-
year.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
County Well Represented

would be restored to cultivation through
flood control afforded by construction of the
proposed waterway.
All told of what the waterway would do
for the development and economy of the peo-
pie of southeast Mississippi.
It would bring an undreamed of expan-
sion of industrial development and as a con-
sequence a new standard of living that the
people of Mississippi richly merit.
We understand that opposition to the pro-
posed project is developing from railroad in
terests in the area. How true this is we don't
know, but if true the attitude is unbelieve-
ably shortsighted.
The history of waterways of this nature
is that through expanded industrial develop
ment railroads gain a hundred times over
tonnage lost to cheaper water transporta-
ton, and we believe that railroad manage
ment is too intelligent to oppose a movement
from which they stand to gain a major share
of the benefit.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

q Mississippi, by act of the recent special
session of the state legislature, now has a
= new law enforcement body. the Mississippi
bureau of investigation, ostensibly created
to deal with violence surrounding the pro-
longed strike of drivers for the Southern Bus
Lines.
: This new Secret force of investigators
is vested with the right of search and seizure
without warrant in Grimes of violence, and
is financed with a 100000 appropriation of
(which no accounting to the public or legisla-
ture has to be made.
It seems to us that the creation OF a state
. police group with such a wide latitude OF
power is dangerous and a menace to the civil
rights of all Mississippians. Under it any
. Mississippian suspected by a member OF the
secret" police of being connected with a
/. crime of violence can, without explanation,
and with only the suspicious or evidence OF
, the new i~nvestigative group, be hauled from
. his home and lodged in Jail. This is certainly
. at odds with the fundamental principles of
the Bill of Rights.
! It also seems to us that the state has, or
+. should have, sufficient powers in existing
F. law enforcement agencies to deal with the
I. Southern Bus strike. Most of the acts of
: violence have beer reported in Hattiesburg
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

The soft russets and yellows,
and the bright reds of changing
foliage painted the shoulders of
the hills and made bright
patches of blended colors in the
gullies of the rolling country
side between Mobile and Way
nesboro along Highway As as
we drove to the latter COM
munity one morning early this
week. The sky was overcast
and leaden but somehow the
sunless day seemed only to add
emphasis to the fall colors. The
road was excellent, stretching
away broad and smooth, with
virtually no traffic, and the
countryside for mile after mile
showed no sign of habitation.
We wondered why a fine
highway was SO little used, and
then wondered why heavily
used rural highways in our own
state are generally so bad. Roads
are built to serve the people of a
state, but leave one of our own
states major highways and take
to the rural roads serving farm
ing communities and other
types of rural settlements and
chances are you will battle clay
and ruts for most of your jour
ney.
Jackson county is fortunate in
its rural system of surfaced
roads. Much still remains to
be done but we'll hazard a guess
that our own county's rural
roads are far ahead of those
of the majority of the counties
in the state. Good rural roads
serve a definite economic pur-
pose and it is discouraging to
see our state with such a fine
system of major highways doing
SO little for the rural roads.
y .
Good rural roads, good hos
pital and medical care avail
able to rural areas, and inn
proved rural educational facili-
ties are the three things Mis-
sissippi most needs, and without
them we will never achieve a
permanent Improvement in the
overall economy of our state,
or the standard of living of the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
BY ALEXANDER r. GEORGE
AP Newsfeatures Writer

Washington-Almost all of
the traditional markings" for
Thanksgiving dinner = from
turkey to pumpkin pie-are in
good supply for American fam
lilies this year.
Plenty of cranberries, pump
kins, apples and nuts, along
with large stocks of turkeys;
ducks and chickens, are indi-
Gated by food supply reports of
the u. S. Department of Agri-
culture. Huge stocks of wine
still are on hand from the rec
ord crush of grapes in 1916.
This years sweet potato crop
is somewhat smaller than usual.
White potato production is down
considerably from last years
huge output, but there are no
signs of a potato shortage.
There are large stocks OF
canned cranberries, and prices
are expected to be somewha:
lower than last year. About
100, 200, 900 pounds of pumpkin
were canned last year, and
the carryover is substantial. The
crop of the four principal tree
nuts-almonds, walnuts, filberts
and pecans-is II percent larg-
err than the 1936-1945 average.
In some markets you can get
your turkey in a wide variety
of sizes and parts. There has
been a big increase in the de-
mand for the small turkey
which fits more easily into mod
ern ovens. 1t also does away
with those three-day turkey
munching endurance contests to
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

great mass of our citizens, both
white and negro. Good rural
roads give our farmers access to
urban markets, eases the burden
of making a living from the soil
and are generally reflected in
both the spiritual and material
uplift of an area.
Each session of the state leg
islature and during every polit-
ical campaign there is a great
hue and cry concerning these
rural roads, and improvement
of them. But the bad roads
stay with us, year after year
and with each succeeding gen.
Grafton of politicians. With the
state piling up a huge surplus
each year it seems that it would
be a simple matter to attack the
problem of rural roads, as well
as rural disqualification and edu-
cation, on a planned basis, rath-
err than on the hit-and-miss,
acknowledgements basis that
has been customary in the past.
The sad state of the rural
roads in adjoining counties was
no better exemplified than dur
ing the September hurricane,
which made the coast road i'm
passable for a time. We took
various routes to New Orleans
during that time and found that
virtually no black top or i'm
proved rural alternate routes
existed. These rural roads were
in such bad condition that the
state highway department de-
toured through traffic to Hat
tiesburg and from there over
another major state and federal
highway to New Orleans, MAX
ing the distance between the
coast and New Orleans double
the normal mileage.
Mississippi is to have anoth-
er session of the legislature in
about six more weeks. The SEES
sion faces much work and many
grave problems, but no action
could be more farreaching than
an intelligently planned, long
range attack on rural roads, ru-
raj disqualification and medical
facilities and rural education.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
POPULATION o

-Baghdad-AP%amil Abdul
Wahab Pasha, minister of So
cial affairs, revealed that the
total population of Iraq, accord
ing to the recent census. is A.
794 9 while the total popula-
ton of the Baghdad district is
807 SIG.
The census apparently falls
behind general expectations but
still shows an increase of a mill
lion and a half above previous
official estimates.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
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X - I y - II 5ssr-
B, NoLLE T. ROBERTS

well as a mean for deliver
ing timber to the mills.
Almost every man who is a
native of Wade or Vancleave
and nearing middle age has
worked at one time or another
in the swamp or in one phase or
another of the logging business.
It was practically the only
source Of cash income twenty
years ago.
And many men still very
much alive have ridden a raft
at low water down the Leaf
river and on to the Gulf, a jour
ney requiring several days.
And if the river is opened
to barge traffic, we bet a lot
of men would like to be passen-
gers on a trip over the same
waters they had travelled in
their youth.
There have been skeptics
among some of the old timers
as to whether the river actually
could be opened to traffic, and
kept that way, considering the
annual highwaters and shift
ing of snags and sandbars.
We can only say that modern
day machinery and equipment
is a wonderful thing and that
if the federal government de-
cides to open her up. she'll be
opened up. And she'll stay that
way.
1t might take a dredge full
time to do it, but that would
only provide additional work
for our people and would be
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
u. S. May Cut Russian visas
To Match Number Granted Us
Special to Central Press

Spee1al 10 central Press
Washington - Congressional
action may result from RusSia's
refusal to permit members of
the House and Senate inside
her borders.
There is strong sentiment on
Capitol Hill to limit Russian
entrance visas to this country
to the number granted Ameri-
cans who want to visit Rus
STA. According to the State De-
partment, on Feb. l there were
286 Americans in Russia, COM
pared to $500 entrance visas
granted Russians this year.
Among influential congress
men favoring visa-for-visa ae-
ton are Senator Styles Bridges
CID, New Hampshire, chairman
of the Senate appropriations
committee; Rep. Charles A. Ea-
ton tR), New Jersey, chairman
of the House foreign affairs
committee, and Rep. Earl c.
Kitchener (R), Michigan, chair
man of the House judiciary
committee.
Michener's group has iuris-
diction over visa legislation and
he has expressed the hope that
his committee will take early
action when Congress convenes
to make this a two-way street."
Kitchener added:
ct is unthinkable that our
country should continue pres
ent immigration privileges to
Russia as long as Russia main
tains the impenetrable iron cur
tain If our official rep
resentatives are not permitted
to visit Russia, the same rule
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

Hearings are underway this
week on the proposed pat
Harrison Waterway. a project
to open the Pascagoula River
system to barge traffic from
Meridian to the Port of Pasca-
goula.
The importance of such a de-
velopment, should it be approx
ed, defies the imagination for
it would directly affect the
well-being of every citizen in
the tWenty-one counties of
southeast Mississippi and the
state and the South as a whole,
in a general way.
And it would restore the
mighty Pascagoula river to its
place in the sun, held for gener-
atoms before the invention of
the motor car and the laying
of paved roads.
Not too many years ago, the
Paseagoula and its tributaries
were the life blood of the people
in the northern section of the
county. Joe Ware and John
. Roberts, both still hale and
hearty. one operated CONNER
. cial crafts between Pascagoula
and Vancleave, carrying passen-
. gers, the mail and supplies from
) the coast to points in West
Jackson county.
> Probably the northern Sec
. tons of Jackson county were
! settled originally because of
. the proximity to the river. The
. swamp provided game and a re-
: serve for hogs and cattle as
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
Bv JAMES J. STREBIG

Washington-Civil Aeronau-
tics Administration. Civil Aero
nautics Board.
Do they confuse you? Suffer
no inferiority pains. Even men,
bers of the Presidents Air Pol
icy Commission have had to
have the difference explained
to them.
And the agencies themselves
have prepared statements defin-
ing their positions, to meet fire.
quent inquiries.
The confusion began in 1910,
when President Roosevelt split
up the Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority," which had been estab!
lished by the 1888 Civil Aero
nautics Act.
He left the five-man board
CAB as an independent agency
and consolidated the previous
ly independent agency and con-
solidated the previously indie
pendent Air Safety Board with
it. He put the bulk of the old
authority's operations into the
Commerce Department as the
Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton (CAA).
In general, this separated the
judicial and administrative
functions in federal aviation.
That left the setup which
stands today as follows:
The CAB is civil aviation's
law-making body, it's economic
godmother and its court of JUS
tice.
The CAA administers the reg
ulations prescribed by the CAB
and operates flying facilities
anyways, airport control tow
ers, communications, expert
mental stations and weather re-
porting services.
The CAB has about 500 en-
ployes. The CAA has $4,000
serving in every state, territory
and in many foreign countries.
To be more specific, CAB
writes the safety rules, investi-
gates the accidents and fixes
the responsibility. 1t determ-
ines who gets new airline
routes, what changes shall be
made in those routes, how much
airmail pay each airline should
get. The board is responsible
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
Initiation Sidelight

Many employers are concern
ed about a labor problem en-
tirely outside the realm of
the Taft Hartley law-the up
swing in 'in-plant gambling"
that is taking place in countless
industrial establishments.
This problem, and what to do
about it, has become acute. 1t
has attracted the attention of
the National Foremen's Insti-
tute which points out that man
agement has a vital stake in
curing gambling.
The institute says many hea-
w losers explain their cut in
take-home pay by circulating
stories in the community that
the company has cut overtime,
introduced a wage slash or
changed its incentive system.
Employers are advised not to
become too moralistic and con-
denim off-premise gambling"
but to hit hard at in-plant
games. The institute says gam
bling on company property
should be made punishable by
discharge after a second Of
tense. Plant guards should be
instructed not to permit book
les" or numbers takers in or
near the plant.
The Ford Motor company e
Gently fired 10 employees for
too much gambling.
r.. d. T..4-e
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

retirement. Second story work
is just too tough on a chap who
no longer can climb stairs.
The ex-porch climbers mon
ECKER is Jimmy and one must
say he tried to live up to his
name.
Jymes, it seems, has also come
to the conclusion night work is
unhealthful for a nonagena-
rian.
Now that he has hung up his
old skeleton key for good the
aged swiper of spoons and con-
noisseur of other peoples can
dlesticks probably will write
his memoirs. A good title might
be: "Over the Sill to Success"
or Drain Pipes | Have Known"
Jimmy became a burglar as
a mere youth and he has been a
faithful wearer of soft-soled
shoes ever since.
= >
Today, complains the hoary-
headed housebreaker, his job
has lost its charm. Besides,
those new-fangled burglar
alarms are too ALFRED unsport-
ing.
It should be added that Jim
my was persuaded to retire by
the cops who, as they put the
finger on him, pointed out he
has As years of sentences hang
ing over him. II he tries a
comeback he'll have to wait I'M
til the year 1892.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
THIS WEEK
in Other Years

oln IlLtAto
WEEK, Mississippi State Col
lege offered a shipbuiiding
course through the P~ascagoula
schools . The Pascagoula
School District renewed efforts
to issue $65,000 in bonds for
school construction purposes
Jackson County Local
Board No. / prepared to send
their second group of ~selectees
to Camp Shelby for induction
into the army.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser called for
the use Of the states four mil
lion dollar surplus in the aid of
schools.
FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, William A. Dolan, sus-
pected phantom Barber, was
sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary for assault with in
tent to kill on a young Pasca-
goula couple The S. S.
Pass Christian was launched
at ingalls, Details of the
organization of a Victory Corps
were completed in the Moss
Point school.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser called at
tention to increased business
activity in Mississippi, led by
the Pascagoula-Mos Point area
which was up fifty-five percent.
FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, E. A. Williamson, Pas
cagoula business man, was rob-
bed and murdered while law
enforcement authorities contin-
ued efforts to apprehend the
attack-slayer of 13-year-old
Opal Ricks, killed only four
weeks before Pascagou-
la was chosen for the initial S.
S, Senate survey on the effect
of the war on the health of
citizens in boom" communi-
ties Eeven hundred and
forty-five new housing units
were scheduled for construc-
ton in Pascagoula.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser attacked
Congress for killing a federal
aid bill for educational pur-
poses.
THREE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Shepherd of Pascagoula were
notified that their son, Navy
Ensign Joseph Woodward Shep-
bert, had been killed in action
80. The Moss Point Tigers
accepted an invitation to appear
in the Biloxi shrimp Bowl
The county renewed
efforts to meet their "E" bond
quota on the third ~anniversar
ry of Pearl Harbor.
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Delivery of mail in
Moss Point to all sections OF
the city that met federal re-
quirements began . A
Navy rocket show was staged
in Pascagoula in connection
with the Victory Loan Drive
The u. S. O. was closed
in Pascagoula and the furnish
ings sold.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser listed as
sets of this section in an edi.
torial entitled "Pascagoula
Progress and Industry.
A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
the Memorial Stadium bond is.
sue election was successful
A contract was awarded
for drainage culverts in East.
lawn the Community
Chest Drive, tagging behind the
goal, was extended.
Editorially, the Chronicle.
Star and Advertiser listed "Ju
venile Delinquency" as "Paren
tal Delinquency and called
attention to the Free Zoo
Racket as a front for gambling
devices.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

Norway is 1000 miles long and
Almost half its length lies with
in the Artic Circle. :.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21
Inside Washington
Too much Gambling in Plants
Foremen's Group Points Out

should be applied to Russians
visiting our country"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-21

Tow Rope Tactics
The tow rope which pulled
The Valley settler., 1947-04-10

aoth to j26th of Aprtl, but let's not con fine this to tho town of Palmer. -- Ind you don't need to wait for the 2oth to roll around. It may bo moro convenient for you to do tho work now.