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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-29

of her life in Wilmington. was
graduated from New Hanover
High school, and attended Duke
University, Durham, where she
was a member CT the Alpha Epsi-
lon Phi sorority.
Mr.. Weinkle attended the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, and Columbia university,
New York City. At college he was
a member of the Tau Epsilon Phi
fraternity. He is now an executive
in the Carls' Super Market stores
in Mart.
Following a wedding trip, the
couple will make their home in
Miami Beach at the Ell Mirasal
apartments.
WEDDING GUESTS
Guests here from out-of-town in
Guided:
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Chaikin, MI.
ard Mrs. Ivan BoWser, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Gordon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam Blank, Miss Sara Schwartz,
Aaron Weinkle, ! Moses Weinkle,
Mike Adler, MI. and Mrs. Louis
Holman, Eugene Holman, Miss
Mickey Lou Holman, Carl Sus-
skind, Dr.. and Mrs. Barney
Weinkle, Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome
Weinkle, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
Weinkle, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Weinkle, Miss Ernice Weinkle,
Mrs. Sol Weinkle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlie Greenstein, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kronenfeld, Mr.. and Mrs. Al
Chisling, Rabbi anc Mrs. M. Sha-
piro, Jerry Frankel, and Charlie
Berman, all Of Miami Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wolfe Silver, JUL
an Silver, hurry Silver, Stanley
Silver, Miss Kay Silver, l. Silver,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Cc,0ley, David
Cooley, Reuben Cooley, Miss Rose
Blumberg, Mrs. Harry Cohen, Mr..
and Mrs. David S. Breaker, and
Mrs. Annie Center, all Of Savan-
nah.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Kingoff,
Stuart Peltz, Billy Richman, and
Miss Ida Abrams from Virginia.
Mrs. S. Levine, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Levine, Mrs. NJ. Bracker,
Dr.. and Mrs. l. Newton Weinkle,
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Levine, Wally
Robinson, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Kupansky, Mrs. ice Starobin, Bill
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Red Cross Drive

The l947 Red Cross drive opens March |
with a fund of $50, 900, 900 as its goal for the
coming years expenses. The national COM
mittee announces that it has pared its bud
get to basic costs and services, but it reminds
us that, though the shooting war is over,
never in time of peace has the American
Red Cross been called upon to render such
extensive services to the military forces at
home and abroad and TO veterans as are now
required"
To the sick or injured veteran in a gov
eminent hospital or to the new crop of draft
ees now serving overseas, the Red Cross
probably seems even more necessary now
than in the exciting days of the war. Then
every wounded man was a hero. and the
soldier an object of universal interest and
applause. But after a war, as is well known
to the writer's of old. all nations have a way
of letting their soldiers become the forgot
ten men," The War Department always faces
a more difficult morale problem with men
overseas after a war than it does while
bombs are falling. The Red Cross remains
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28

the company wants to abrogate
a franchise that has three wears
to III and pass a new one?" he
asked.
Mr.. Eaton replied that the COM
pany was planning "a five million
dollar expansion program" but
before undertaking it was at
tempting to renew its franchises
in the seven cities in this are
where it operates. In further dis.
cussion OF this point between Mr..
Gautier and the eompany's at
torneys, Mr.. Shearer said The eX-
pansion program would actually
cost eleven million dollars" He
said that similar new franchises
have been offered to Biloxi,
Gulfport, Hattiesburg and other
cities supplied by this company
and that no protest to their pass
age was anticipated.
MI. Gautier urged that the
company be committed, if grant
ed a new franchise, to pay a flat
sum rather than a percentage. He
stated also that the meter clause
could be inserted in a new fran
chise and yet meet equipment
shortage difficulties by insertion
of the phrase meters always to
be provided by the company
when available"
Mayor John R. Watts, who pre-
sided at the hearing, said he
wished the city to obtain the po-
teneial new source of revenue,
and he asked the company and
the citizens group to explore the
possibility of a compromise as
to the wording of the new fran
chise. - /
At the conclusion of the meet
ing the company's attorneys in
formed Mayor Watts that they
would probably submit a new
version of the franchise contain
ing changes in the clauses effect
ing repair and meters, but not
changing the rates or the provi-
sion for a two percent payment
to the city. The mayor indicated
no action would be taken by the
council pending this develop
ment,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
- NI!E !;IHl!E'||lE2iES
By NOLLE T. ROBERTS

and it will 60 hard with per-
sons who are caught.
A couple of other points
we're brought out at the meet
ing which are of general in
teTest here since they point
up the poor treatment this sec
ton Of the state receives at the
hands of the Jackson-dominat-
ed, gerrymandered state leg
islature and politic-ridden state
agencies.
Cd While about $1,000 was
paid into the State Game and
Fish Commission funds in Jack
son County in hunting and
fishing licenses alone last year,
it was charged that less than
half that amount was spent
in the county for game and
fish protection and propaga-
ton. This coupled with the fact
that we furnish hunting and
fishing grounds for half the
sportsmen. in Jones, Forest,
Lauderda6, and other upstate
counties.
(2) That the state collects
two cents an acre for fire PRO
lection on more than PIT 900
acres of land in Jackson Coun-
tv, and it was charged infor-
mally that we do not receive
fire protection commensurate
to the funds collected for that
purpose.
While at the meeting, we
discussed the possibility of a
county fire protection program
with Hermes Gautier, a veter-
an member of the board of su-
pervisors. Mr.. Gautier was in
accord with the general idea
but was doubtful as TO the me-
thods that could be legally en-
ployed.
We would suggest that the
county take any steps legally
possible-such as blowing fire
breaks along all country roads
but insist that the problem is
an educational one that should
be handled through the schools
and community meetings of
adults.
Here again, however,, we
probably will run into a brick
wall for the time being for we
see little chance of a confirm
ed woods burner showing up
at a Keep Mississippi Forests
Green meeting!
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Mrs. w. M. Comfy
Celebrates Eighty
Fourth Birthday

Sunday marked the eighty
fourth milestone Of life for Mrs
w. M. Canty and the day was
fittingly celebrated by her fam
lily, the members of which gath
cred around a dinner table at her
home on Krebs avenue and Fred
eric streets.
Among these was the only
other remaining member of the
Fernando Gautier family, Mrs.
Canty's brother, Adam Gautier.
who attended with his wife, and
Two of his daughters. Misses Vir-
ginia and Jane Gautier.
Among Mrs. Canty's immedi-
ate family present at dinner
were M. and Mrs. Frank Can
ty, Miss Mamie Canty and Her
bert CAVITY. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Canty, Jr., and daughter, Anne
marked the third and fourth gen.
erations.
During the afternoon, a large
number of friends called to offer
fluctuations.
Cake and coffee were served al
this time.
Mrs. Canty comes of one oi
the pioneer families of Jackson
county and her birthday at such
a ripe age was a very happy event
in a large circle of relatives and
friends.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
State Official
Guest Speaker Al
Rotary Meeting

Education is the key to the pre-
vention of World War III j.. M.
Tubbs, state superintendent of
education, told members of the
Pascagoula Rotary Club in an adj
dress Wednesday noon at the
clubs regular weekly luncheon
meeting at the Country Club.
Mr.. Tubbs was introduced by
Forrest Megehee, county super
intendent of education, and a
number of county principals were
guests of the club.
In his address Mr.. Tubbs trac-
ed the history of World War /,
and the control of the schools and
educational system of Germany
under Bismark and Kaiser Will
helm. World War Ii followed the
same pattern, hessaid, with Hit
Ter and the Nazis i'm control of
the teachers and the schools. of
the country. ~
Today is a period of confusion
in the world, he said, and it is the
teachers of the nation that will
largely i~ndoetfinate our children
WlGi tiiC ldCulo vi ilOCIIy dllOl
freedom that have made our
country great.
He paid tribute to the PaSca-
goula and Jackson county school
system, terming it as fine as any
in the state. The manner in which
it surmounted the wartime over
crowding, which still exists, is
a tribute to the personnel and SUI
pervision, he added.
w. Ed Virgins, president, pre-
sided at the meeting and Thorn
as S. Leatherbury introduced u
number of visiting Rotarians and
guests including c. A. Hamilton
of the Ocean Springs Club; j. D.
Zahm of Pennsylvania, Lewis
Bond, c. S. Beardslee, A.. M.
Swigert and Julian Rivers of the
Moss Point Club; Mrs. M. J. Hen
Messy of Maryland, guest of her
brother, Marvin Funkhouser.
S. S. Wall and A. E. Bradley,
guest of Mr.. Megehee; lie. Cor
don, guest of Homer Miller; N.
c. Everett and T. N. Taconi, guest
of E. A. Parker; J. Guy Krebs
and E. A. Khayat, guest of Verne
Barnes.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Womon's Auxiliary
Entertdins Church
Members Al Supper

The Womain's Auxiliary was
hostess to the congregation of the
First Presbyterian church of Pas
cagoula at a covered dish supper
at which welcome was extended
to the Reverend Arthur Schnei-
der, the new pastor and Mrs.
Schneider who have just arrived
from New Orleans.
The supper took place in the
church house adjacent to the
church, where spring flowers
were lavishly used in combination
with japonicas in decorating the
reception suite.
Following the supper those
present repaired to the church
where a program on Steward
ship" was directed by Arthur Al
en-.
Notable out-of-town guests
were members Of the Steward
ship Committee of the Meridian
Presbytery, Dr.. j. H.. Dorrah
and w. T. Wolebeh of Gulfport
and T. Fl. Shepard Of Long Beach.
Mr.. Allen is also a member OF
this committee.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Franchise

Continued on Page y
accepted by the company for q
flat rate monthly charge without
the use of meters, and for this
reason the company did not de
sire to be specifically obligated
to provide meters to consumers
in times of continuing equipment
shortages.
Let Voters Decide"
AS for the payment of the two
percent to the city treasury. Mr..
Eaton said that the company was
pursuing this policy in other cit
les and did not think it fair" to
provide such payment for one
city without providing it for AL.
He stated that the company
deemed the protest not well
taken, and asserted it believed
the protest group had no right -
obstruet the city council in pass
ing the new ordinance. He said
the ordinance would have to be
reviewed by a popular election
and that the protest group should
let the voters decide.
H. W. Gautier, local attorney,
protested this statement "as a pri-
vate citizen. The company. he
said, had no right to character
ize a legal protest as out of or
der but instead was required to
answer il.
4 would like 4 -ask now why
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28

AT an organization meeting
of Jackson County sportsmen
Monday night at the court
house, several points of gener-
al interest TO the citizens of
this county were brought out,
as well as ideas of special in
terest 10 the bird hunters, fox
chasers, and sports fishermen.
II seems that the sportsmen,
too, are genuinely upset about
woods burning since game is
killed or chased away by the
forest fires and the feed sup
ply OF birds in particular de-
stroyed.
We learned at the Monday
night meeting that the State
Game and Fish Commission
is cognizant of our careless and
vicious habits in this respect
and have told some sportsmen
bluntly that they have no in
tentions of putting trapped
quail along the coast to be purn-
ed alive or starved to death
in our burned over woods.
We are almost sure that writ
ing about the foolishness of
fire-setting is wasted effort,
since persons who can and do
read must know at this ad-
vanced time the futility and
stuidity Of such a practice.
Still, when we see roughly
ninety-nine per cent of the
county's residents against the
practice, we wonder why the
remaining one per cent of sell
fish and ignorant fire-setters
cannot be won over or forced
TO conform to the wishes of
the majority.
One good reason, as Mrs.
Honor G.. Jones of the Hurley
Tower points out, is the dif-
ficulty is catching the fire
bug ed-handed. Various Gun.
ming schemes have been de-
vised during the years for set
ting fires and allowing the
culprit to be miles away when
the blaze begins. We are ia
miliar with many of them but
won't repeat them here for we
don't want to give anyone ideas
along this line,
Still, the forest rangers and
fire crews are on the job and
have a close watch these days,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Brazil Employee
Charges American
Policy "Asinine"

Jack Stutz, employee of the
Brazilian government in eonnec-
ton with ship construction at the
ingalls, Shipbuilding Corporation.
charged yesterday before the
Moss Point Rotary Club that the
United States foreign policy as
related to the Latin American
countries is both assinine and
naive"
The speaker reviewed develop
ments in South America during
the last year and said that the
end of OPA in the United States
caused major repercussions south
Of the border by reducing the
purchasing power of those coun-
tric&
He declared that serious infla-
tionary tendencies had been au-
gumented in these countries and
that our exports had dropped. off
accordingly.
Mr.. Stutz was introduced by
Harold Monroe and Edward A.
khayat presided at the meeting.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28

the factory caught fire in the
paint room and burned up with
total loss.
Today the Poitevin Brothers
Boatyard does mostly repair
work on the local fleet of lug
gers, work boats and pleasure
craft. But the essential atmos-
phere Of their business has not
changed since they started out
forty years ago. Manufactur-
ing methods have changed in
a hundred other fields. The big
ingalls, yards have turned out
a total tonnage equal to liter
ally thousands of times all the
boat tonnage produced on Pas
cagoula river since the dawn of
time. But this only adds to
the authentic and somehow
nostalgia atmosphere which
still clings to a small river boat
ward. Engines may change
and grow more powerful with
the wears, but the hull work
the making of ribs and brac-
es, the dressing of edges and
the water-proofing of seams
IS essentially the same As il
was thousands of years ago.
When old Noah made his Ark
before the flood, he did the
kind IF work that goes on to-
day in the small boatvard like
the Poitevins. And old Ulyss-
es. the adventurous Greek who
got blown about the Mediter-
fanean for 90 years BY con
trary winds and tides in an eff
fort = return to Greece from
Troy. finally must have drawn
his battered ship into the same
sort of wooden ways, and begun
the same sort OF repairs that
one can see gong on today
in the Poitevin yards.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28

the one sure and reliable service that lets
these men know that they are not forgotten,
and that what they do is important.
In addition to this, the Red Cross carries
on its program of famine and disaster relief
in troublesareas all over the world, includ-
ing those areas in our own country, as we
here in Mississippi, who have suffered SO
many disastrous floods. have good reason
to remember.
So let US remember also that the Red Cross
is not out of business because the war is over.
And let us give generously to raise the bud
get.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Politics And The Bomb

The news stories last week gave us a
sickening feeling that this was happening in
Washington. We believe that David Lilenthal,
who was appointed by the president to
head the atomic commission, was perhaps
the outstanding man on the American scene
qualified for this job, and we believe that
this was an appointment of wisdom and judg-
ment sufficient to atone for the long list of
Truman's earlier appointment of personal
friends and fellow-M issourians to high places.
We believe furthermore hat Senator Ken
meth McKellar's attempt to block this APP
pointment for cheap personal reasons is one
of the most destructive and downright evil
actions that has ever been taken in American
life.
We are familiar with Tennessee politics,
having run a newspaper there in years gone
by. We know what is involved in the attack
of the senator on the Presidents nominee. 1t
is simply this: Lilienthal, as director of the
iva, was a public servant of the highest
caliber who ran the great public power sys-
tenn for the good of the country and refused
~ pay IAcdP POlltiSS Win NlNTACliois thNN
Kellar wanted to appoint incompetent polit-
ical hacks to important posts in IVA, Lilien-
thai refused to do so. The senator, being one
of the most vindictive men in modern history,
has sworn To get" Mr.. Lilienthal. He has
been trying to do SO for years, and now, at
the age of 70, when the future of the race has
little personal Importance in his own life, he
is trying to pay back an old political score
by blocking Lilienthal's appointment as
atomic chairman The fate of the world prob
ably does not rest on whether or not Lilien-
thai and only Lilienthal occupies the posi-
ton. There may be other men as good. But
the effort to disqualify him for cheap politi-
cal reasons on the level of county politics is
a spectacle to cast fear and sadness into the
heart of every mar who can think on a level
above Senator McKellar's.
Lilienthal is a public-power man. Atomic
energy was developed by the cooperation of
the scientific brains of many countries over
many decades, and the final organiZational
effort which produced the bomb involved the
expenditure of two billion dollars of govern
ment money and the top-priority of the ma
TONS facilities.
hloiiilc energy ID loo vast anu too udH-
gerous TO be entrusted now or ever TO private
corporations. Any man on the street knows
that. Lilienthal, having administered the
greatest public power project in the world,
the IVA, is of course of this philosophy. Me
Kellar and the Republicans who back him in
this fight probably want to get some political
hack in the job, under the fantastic notion
that atomic energy can be turned over to
private business under license or franchise
That would be like turning over Gabriels
trumpet of doom to a young Boy Scout.
We hope that the Power which has made
and preserved us a nation" will confound an
old and vindictive senator in his effort to
hazard the nations destiny to pay back an
old political score.
=
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Teachers Pay Not Teachers Problem.
Tubb Says; Predicts Large Boost

g Teacher pay is not a teacher
problem-two-thirds Of the la
TONS teachers have solved their
personal financial problems by
leaving the profession since 1889,
State Superintendent of Educa-
ton j. VI. Tubbs told the Pasca-
goula Kiwanis Club Tuesday.
Mr.. Tubbs predicted, however,
that the special session of the
legislature, which convenes on
Tuesday, will appropriate an adj
ditional five million dollars for
school purposes, allowing an in
crease of about $45 a month in
81 of the states counties and half
that amount in the remaining
number.
He explained that "equalizing''
or the poorer counties-Would
receive the bulk of the state aid.
The speaker was brought to
the KiWanis meeting through the
efforts of Ben Briggs, a long
time friend, and was introduced
by County Superintendent of
Education A. F. Megehee. A num-
Der of the county's school heads
e present at the meeting.
Quotes General
Mr.. Tub based his address on
the recent statement of General
Eisenhower that Education is
the kew TO the prevention of
World War III" He declared
that armament is a stop gap
measure only and that real peace
cannot be achieved until the
brotherhood of man. is estab-
lished through education,
The speaker declared further
that the American way of life
can only be perpetuated through
the educational systems and
warned substandard teachers are
now instructing in state schools
in large numbers.
He said that he spoke as a
father, as well as an educator,
when ne said that the school
children deserved the very best
trained teachers available.
J. T. Johnson. principal of the
P%ascagoula Junior High School;
E. L. Golf, principal of the Moss
Point Charlotte Hyatt Elemen-
tary School and president of the
Jackson County Teachers Asso-
citation; j. j. Melvin, principal Of
the Hurley School; and Leste.
Draughn of the Coulter School
were guests of the club.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28

We read by the papers where Rep. Harold
Knutsen and his Republican cohorts are de-
ermined to cut income taxes 20 percent in
all brackets. That mean a fellow making
$4,000 a year, with a family of five, will save
about enough from this 20 percent cut to buy
another school suit for junior. The fellow
who made $500. 900 a year out of the war will
be saved enough to buy a yacht. We say cut
taxes by raising the tax exemption $500 for
each citizen. That will distribute tax relief
in the proportion that it is needed.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28

The Poitevin brothers, Ell
wood and Eugene, who launch
ed their first boat in 1906, have
rounded their fortieth mile
stone and now in l947 are enter
ing their fifth decade in the
boat business. They are per-
haps the oldest local enterprise
which has been doing business
under the same name. II there
r other companies or partner
ships in the Pascagoula-Mos
Point area who have been do
ing business uninterruptedly
for forty years or longer we
should like to hear of them,
for from time to time during
the coming year we plan to
write columns about the ex-
~periences and memories of old
er Jackson county business men.
The Poitevin brothers we're
scarcely more than hoys when
they set up their first WAYS
along about 1905 and started
in BODYBUILDING for them
selves. They had put in an ap-
premiership in George Thomp-
sons boatyard, and their first
ways were set up adjoining his
yards on the river.
tfH =
This week we sat down in
the back room of their store and
talkei for a long time TO Mr..
Gene and Mr. Elweod about
the old days. 1t was like turn
ing time backward-like film
in a movie-camera, until the
scenes along the Pascagoula
river Of almost half-a-eentury
ago came back clearly into TO.
Gus. ElWood rummaged through
old papers in the safe and
brought out a fine collection of
old photographs, faded but still
clear, Of luggers, schooners and
barges that were made in To-
cal boatyards in years gone
by. The wears rolled away,
and one could hear the vanish
ed saws and hammers of long
ago, and see the old sailing
ships still on the river.
The first boat they launched
after forming the partnership
was a 22-foot launch, ehristen-
ed the MAY because it was
launched in MAY of 1906. She
was powered with what in
those days was considered a
fine engine-a one-cylinder, six
horsepower Miami. Today such
a boat would be powered with
a twenty or twenty-five horse
power engine ut the least.
One of the most vivid mem
cries Is the storm of Sept. 5.
1906. which almost wiped them
out in their first year as part
ners. Their ways were damag-
ed and their first boat all but
sunk. They point to an old pic
ture Of the George Thompson
ways and describe the damage
that was done TO it. One large
tug was blown from the
ways and another almost float
ed away by the high tide.
Il think the 1906 storm was
the worst blow that ever hit