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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
A5
B, NOLLE T.

Our little girl is nearly a
year old now, a blue-eyed cur
ley-haired little tyke who is
just learning to stand alone
and make sounds which her
mother insists are words plain
ly spoken enough for any one.
To us. her bottle" mama"
and thank you" sound a great
deal alike although she un-
doubtedly knows the differ
ence and it serves as a means
of communication for her,
which is all any spoken lang
uage can do. A healthy yell
produces a bottle and some at
tention. more than her father
can accomplish with a few
thousand well chosen words.
Il takes eighty-nine cents and
a healthy yell to produce even
a pound of bacon these days,
any house wife can tell you.
But the little girl hasn't
learned that hard lesson and
she still thinks the baskets IN
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
CELEBRATE FIRST
ANNIVERSARY

On October 6, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roberts l.. Bodden celebrated
their first wedding anniversary at
a gathering at their apartment
at 502 Pine street, Pascagoula.
A large, TERED, wedding cake,
embossed in white and pink and
topped by miniature cupids held
a prominent place on the table
which was covered with a lace
cloth. Asters and carnations were
the flowers used as decorations.
Mrs. Bodden was assisted by her
sister, Mrs. c. w. Riley, Jr. Those
attending were Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
A. Delmas, Mrs. w. L. Bodden,
Mrs. W. T. Bodden and children,
Norma Sue, Tommy and Hugh,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Riley, Jr., and
sons, Johnny and Paul, Mr. and
Mrs. Max Bodden, Misses Olivia
Delmas and Edys McMullen, and
c. A. Carrier.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

Most of the residents of this
community "tentde" at the New
Prospect Camp Grounds last
week, many moving out on the
Saturday before and the remand
er going either Monday or Tues
day.
Several units of a family circle
ordinarily stay together during
the week, camping in large build
ings and the news this week
comes largely from the Camp
Grounds.
Guests during the week at the
tent of r. M. Roberts and j. C.
Harris were Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
McCleskey and family; Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Ravens and family; Mr..
and Mrs. Cooper Roberts and
sons; Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Van
devender and daughter; Mrs. AL
ton Mansfield and son; and Mr..
and Mrs. ]. Guy Krebs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Roberts had
as their guest for the entire Camp
Meeting Mrs. w. c. Prouse of
Pascagoula. Other visitors were
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cruthirds
and son, Pat, of Latimer, and Mr..
and Mrs. Claude Dudek and Gail
Patrick of Pascagoula.
Visitors in the Q. c., Fred and
Horace Roberts tent during the
week included: Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Kinsey and daughter, Mrs.
Jewel White and son, Clifton Ca
pers, Mrs. Corrine Roberts,
Miss Thelma Roberts, Sam Rob
erts, MI. and Mrs. Dean Roberts,
Miss Lois Roberts, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace Roberts and chill
dren, all of Gulfport; Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Roberts of Ocean
Springs; Stewart and Knox
Broome of jackson; Mr.. and Mrs.
Nolle T. Roberts and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer Roberts
and sons, and Lambert Roberts
of Pascagoula; Mrs. Otelia Powell
of Tampa, Fla; Mr.. and Mrs.
T. J. Johnson and Miss Maryon
Roberts of Broome; and Mrs. Ella
FURRY Of Daisy-Vestry, as well as
numerous other relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Norris and Mrs. l.. C..
Roberts are both on the sick list
and their friends wish for them
a speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Riley Holden had
as their guests during the Camp
Meeting, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
FURRY and daughter of Hatties-
burg; Mrs. Ernest Martin and Mrs.
Lillian Cochran and daughter of
Gautier; Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Rob
erts and Mr.. and Mrs. Pelham
Roberts of Mobile; and many 9TH
err relatives and friends from this
area.
Guests in the Paul A. Carter
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

grocery stores are something
to ride in and the greedy cash
register a giant toy operated
by a nice lady who smiles at
her when it is our time to chack
out.
She is actually a good baby
who usually sleeps from six
to six. That isn't a proud par
ent's version of It. for some of
our closest neighbors have
never heard her cry. She decid-
es some nights now, however,,
that she isn't ready to go 10
bed when the time comes but
would much prefer to stay up
a while and see what goes on
during the strange night time.
In these moods, she isn't con-
tent to stay in her play pen
but must sit in her high chair
near the table or be held. She
can't bear to be ignored. II she
isn't getting the proper atten-
ton, she catches your eye across
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

In the January oath issue of the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser, printed neraly nine
months ago, we carried a news story on the
front page under this heading: TELEPHONE
COMPANY ASKS RATE HIKE, ANNOUN-
CES IMPROVED LOCAL SERVICE"
The story related how the Southern Bell
Telephone Company had filed a petition
with the Mississippi Public Service Commits
sion for an increase in rates and quoted the
local manager for the Pascagoula-Moss Point
area regarding major projects scheduled to
provide services here.
The rate increase was subsequently al
lowed by the commission and resulted in a
substantial increase in the revenue of the
telephone company.
We quote two paragraphs from that story:
Manager T. S. Boswell said that three
positions are to be added to the P~ascagoula
switchboard during May and additional cable
IL scheduled for the northern section of Pas
cagoula and all of Moss Point during June
and July of this year.
He also revealed that additional equip
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

Postmaster Arthur Smith mo-
titled us by letter this week
that October 1918 is National
letter Writing Week. Probably
no one is as bad a correspon-
dent as the writer of this col
umn, as our wife and family
will testify, and on the other
hand, probably no one likes
better to receive a letter. That,
we suppose, is a common hui
man failing. However, to
please our good friend Post
master Smith, If for no other
reason, we have resolved to
take pen in hand and begin
ming Monday, write every mem
Der of our family that long
overdue letter. A friendly,
newsy letter from a member
of the family or a close friend
always leaves a warm tingling
feeling about the heart. II is
a small way to bring a moment
of happiness to our loved ones
and, in the words of Postmas-
ter Smith "letter writing is
the sweetest, gentlest and most
useful of the graphic arts
forget stilted phrases, don't
worry about grammar; just be
natural, joyful, Informative.
Write more letters and you will
get more letters"
Except for the savings of
wheat involved in the 60-day
shut down of the distilling in
dustry which will release esti-
mated 10. 9 ,999 bushels for ex-
port, the presidents appeal for
a voluntary food savings pro-
gram will have little or no eff
feet in making more cereal
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
News From Mt. Pleasant.
Most Residents OF This Community
Spend Week AT Camp Grounds Here

and w. z. Fletcher tent were.
Mrs. Lonnie Mcdonald, Miss
Choyce Groves, and Mrs. Emmitt
Nice llister and children of Pass
Christian; Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Morgan, MI. and Mrs. Elan
Scarborough, Mr.. and Mrs. La
verne Fletcher, and Mr.. and Mrs
Theron Fletcher, of Biloxi.
Guests at the Burton and Cand-
Ter Roberts tent were Miss Ger
trude Hamilton of Mobile; Mrs,
Mabel Stringfellow of Pascagoula,
Mrs. Ellis w. Hamilton of Hurley;
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Golf and
daughter of Moss Point; Mrs.
Anne Carter and Ray Roberts
of Kreole; Mr.. and Mrs. J. Frank
O'Neil of Pascagoula; Mr.. and
Mrs. George M. O'Neil of New
ton; and many other friends and
relatives.
Among those visiting in the
Cliff and Earl Davis tent this
week we're: Mrs. Victor Streed,
Mr.. and Mrs. Vertis Ramsay and
children, Mrs. Harrison White,
Mand Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Davis and
children, all of Pascagoula; Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Steelman and
! daughter and MI. and Mrs. Henry
Davis and son, of Ocean Springs;
Mr.. and Mrs. Phil Davis and Mrs.
Louis Gautier and son of Foun-
tainebleau; and many other rela-
tives and friends.
Guests in the Ruble and L. c.
Roberts tent included: Miss Car
RE Lula Roberts of Prescott, Ari-
IONA; Miss Kate Roberts and
sons, Miss Katherine Roberts,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. N. Roberts and
children, Mrs. Otto Petersen and
son, Mrs. Della Martin and Miss
Mary Elsie and Otto Petersen,
all of Gautier; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Clark and children of
Pascagoula; Mr.. and Mrs. T. j.
Dickson of Moss Point; Miss Sue
Daniels and Mrs. C. l.. Dees of
Vancleave; and Miss Dellene
Golf.
Among those visiting in the
Laurin and Roland Ware tent
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Walk
er of Jackson; Mr.. and Mrs. john
son Ware of Virgins; Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip Ware and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Ware, MI. and
Mrs. Paul Revere, Miss Annie l..
Ware, Mrs. R. A. Helm and daugh-
ter, and Mrs. Ehlers, all of Pas
cagoula; and Mrs. Pete Furry of
Virgins.
Nh. and Mrs. Ray Roberts en-
tertained on Saturday after SER
vice at their tent, in honor of their
son, Lloyd, who celebrated his
fifteenth birthday. A large num-
Der of friends enjoyed the party
and were served birthday cake
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

the room and cocks her head
on one side. It's her version of
'peek-a-boo" which was the
first trick she learned in the
dim past of two or three months
ago.
We were so proud of that
first accomplishment that we
had her perform for hours on
end so now she thinks it should
still be good for a little bit of
attention.
How strange the world must
be to the little ones when their
eyes first begin to focus and
their airs to pick up the sounds
of activity about them. What
thought go on in those fresh
minds in that lost period be-
fore conscious memory comes
TO record reactions for our fu-
ture consideration?
Not knowing, we can never
determine when the child ac-
tually begins to know right
from wrong and consequently
can never be sure just when
hat first spanking should be
administered. If you agree in
the spare the rod and spoil
the child theory.
A writer in a well-known
magazine this month avows in
a feature article that corporal
punishment or, in fact, punish
ment of any kind in rearing
children is an admission of
weakness and an error on the
part of the parents.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
Presbyterian
Auxiliary Has
Meeting Oct. 6

The monthly meeting OF the
Wdman's Auxiliary to the First
PRESBYTERIAN church of Pasca-
goula was held at the church
Monday at 3 p. M. with Mrs.
R. C. Wingfield, the president in
the chair.
The business period was pre-
coded by a Bible study conducted
by the Rev. Arthur Schneider
whose subject was taken from
the Book of Matthew.
Among the reports heard from
officers and chairmen was one on
work of the young people of the
church, which was given by Mrs.
Donald Simmons.
A discussion concerning the re-
Gently installed nursery for chill
dren during church services was
held and then the District Con-
vention of the Presbyterian
church was taken up. 1t was an
nounced that the convention
would be held at Biloxi October
16.
In 1886, the auxiliary adopted
an orphan at the Presbyterian
Children's home at Columbus
whom they have provided with
clothing and every needful thing
during the intervening eight
years. In this connection a fine
report was given by Mrs. Harry
Parsley who stated that the child,
who is now 10 years old, has been
amply provided for.
Mrs. Robert Gullev, chairman
of home missions discussed the
program that will be given at
the church on the fourth Monday
in October after which the meet
ing was adjourned.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
Just Checking Up

ment is scheduled to be installed in Moss
Point during October which will enable that
office to handle more calls at one time. An
order has been issued to add additional
trunks between Pascagoula and Moss Point.
Mr.. Boswell said. but added that a compile
tion date on this project cannot be given at
this time"
We have no fight with MIR. Boswell per-
sonally, nor with the telephone company, but
we like to follow through on stories. So we
volunteer to carry another story in our next
issue, October IL, revealing to our readers:
a. Whether the three positions were added
to the Pascagoula switchboard during May
or during any other of the past nine months
(2) Whether the additional cable was laid in
Northern Pascagoula and Moss Point during
June or July or up to the present time (3)
The new schedule for adding additional
equipment in Moss Point and the trunks be-
tween Moss Point and P~ascagoula, and (4)
When the people of this section can expect
some general relief from telephone service
fully as bad as it it was during the war years.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

Greek and Turkish govern
ments. However, be that as it
is, the fact still stands that
starving people make fertile
ground for the seeds of COM
munism, and the workmen of
Europe cannot bring their
countries and their economies
back to a self sustaining basis
when they cannot do a days
work because of slow starva-
ton.
The real key to the situation
in the United States is the short
corn crop, and the bumper
wheat crop. The short corn
crop left u. S. farmers 20 mil
lion tons short on feed grains,
and at present prices many u.
s. farmers can make money by
feeding wheat instead of corn
to livestock. The answer is to
prevent feeding of any except
low grade wheat to live stock.
Farmers would get less for their
wheat this way, but would still
net an unprecedented profit
from the large u. S. wheat
crop. If necessary this could be
followed by the freezing of
meat prices at no higher than
present levels and the ration
ing of meat and butter so as to
spread the short supply of
these two items among all peo-
pie of the country, rather than
squeezing the poorer people
out of the market with runa-
way prices based on scarcity,
thus diverting the short supply
into the hands of those able to
afford it.
This certainly would call for
drastic action by both the Ad-
ministration and Congress, but
with a world facing chaos and
the seeds of a third world war
already sprouting it is the on
~ answer. Such action should
be based on realm and human
ity, on an intelligent summing
up of facts, rather than politi-
cal motivation. The alterna-
tive might well be a third world
war which would plunge civili-
cation into an abyss from which
there is no return.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
w. E. Griffis Is
Given Promotion BY
Little Rock Company

7 Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.
Griffis will be interested to learn
of the formers promotion from
general auditor to treasurer OF the
Capital Transportation Company
at it's headquarters in Little Rock,
Ark.
Mr.. Griffis has been with the
transportation company since he
was a sophomore at the Little
Rock high school and has gone
steadily upward. During the war
among his duties was the handl-
ing of relations with the Selec-
tive Service, War Manpower
and the WMar Labor Board in adj
dition to his work as general au-
Commission, Salary Sterilization
ditor.
The new appointment as a full
time treasurer follows the estab-
lishment of the company's ac-
counting and purchasing offices
in Little Rock, this branch of the
business having formerly been
carried on in Pine Bluff.
Mrs. Griffis is the former An
nette Frellsen of Pascagoula, a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph
Frellsen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Griffis and their
son, Larry, have visited here of
ten as guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frellsen.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

grains and other foods avail
able for export TO Europe,
whose people face starvation
this winter. In many areas of
Europe the food shortage will
be greater than at any time
during the war. This is chief
ly due to a long-continued dry
spell which has cut crop yields
from one-quarter to one-half
of normal. The meatless Tues
day, and Thursdays on which
people will voluntarily refrain
from use of eggs and poultry
is sheer nonsense except as a
vehicle for Hollywood movie
stars to shed crocodile tears and
at the same time get a little
free publicity. If people don't
eat meat on Tuesday they are
going to substitute eggs and
poultry, and if they don't eat
eggs and poultry on Thursday
they are going to substitute
meat. Therefore, the meat not
consumed on Tuesday will be
eaten on Thursday. and by the
same token, the eggs and poul-
try not eaten on Thursday will
be consumed on Tuesday.
-
If conditions in Europe are
as serious as our government
leads us to believe then the
only answer is for the Admin
istration and Congress to act
with the speed and vigor that
the critical situation demands.
We have launched on a foreign
policy of containing commun-
ism. Frankly, we think serious
mistakes were made at the
very start of this program in
our backing of the Facist
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10

Children are born little an
gels, according to this writer,
and learn to be little demons
from grown-ups. just as they
learn to walk, talk, and chew
bubble gum through their asso-
citation with adults.
And by the way, corporal
punishment" as referred to in
the article, mean the using of
the hand, hair brush, razor
strap, or a hickory limb on the
backside of a wayward young
ster.
Now we aren't going to ar
que the point with this au-
thority because we don't be-
lieve in arguing with authori-
ties, But neither do we swal-
low every thing we read or
hear and accept it as the COS
pei truth.
We only submit the only
case with which we are thor
oughly familiar-that of u
own.
We happen to have the ques-
tionable distinction of having
been the worst of four boys and
one girl that blessed the home
of our parents. Three times
before we were two years old
we slapped the nose glasses
from our mothers face and
broke them.
Before we celebrated our
fourth birthday. We stood in our
yard and threw rocks at every
one who passed. Before we
were three years old. we la
boriously sawed the strap of
our small brothers swing into
with a dull case knife in order
to dump him out on the floor.
And we resent the implica-
ton that we learned to throw
rocks at strangers, slap peo-
Piles glasses off, or dump bah
les into the floor from our par
ents!
No, we won't argue with the
writer, But we'll paddle our
little ones baekside when she
needs il OIL Just as soon as we
can get up the nerve.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
THIS WEEK
in Other Years

Four years ago this week,
U. S. Army Engineers conduct
ed hearings to determine wheth-
err a 300-foot- wide 30-foot-deep
channel should be maintained
in the Pascagoula River from
the L & N Railroad bridge to
Horne Island Fourteen
damage suits were filed against
Masonite by fish camp opera
tors in the county charging
their businesses had been dam
aged or ruined by fish-killing
stream pollution A
contract was let for the i'm
proving of South Pascagoula
street.
No editorial was carried.
Three years ago this week,
Moss Point city officials adopt
ed an ll:00 p. m. curfew for
those under 10 years of age in
a drive on juvenile delinquen-
cy g.. the health depart
ment announced a rat control
program would be instituted in
the county Jackson
countq topped its $4,000 War
Fund quota.
No editorial was carried.
Two years ago this week,
DOT busting was planned for
the county, in an effort to kill
typhus-spreading fleas, after
several cases of the dread dis
ease were reported in the
county The county or
ganized to raise the states Sec
ond highes! War Loan Drive
quota Pascagoula's
school officials pleaded for more
teachers as enrollments in
creased, fifteen teachers failed
to appear.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser called for
far-sighted planning on Mar
ket street in an editorial til
tied while the City Sleeps"
Took issue with Govern
or Bailey's four-year medical
school and hospital at Jackson,
asking that smaller hospitals
be constructed throughout the
state as the first step in a we'll
rounded health program.
The State Game and Fish
Commission granted Masonite a
sixty-dav stay in the injunc-
ton preventing them from
dumping fish-killing substances
IN the Pascagoula River system
Members of the Jack
son County Board of Super
cisors levied a two-mill tax on
property outside of separate
school districts for school build
ing purposes.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser charged
that Masonic Clouds the Is
sue" in connection with a Sc
ries of full-page ads carried by
that corporation in connection
with the stream pollution
fight which attempted to show
that the company's payroll was
more important than "the kill
ing of a fish in dover ITALIA
halla Creek
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
ATTEND .KIWANIS
CONVENTION

Sunday marked the departure
of DR.. T. E. Stout, w. R. Guest,
Jr., and Thomas Haddow for
Shreveport, La, where they at
tended the Kiwanis convention
as delegates from the Pascagou-
la club.
They returned home Tuesday
night.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-10
A Brief Report On The Storm

All cities md cnnmM@@ served by the Company felt some effects of the dKTroSh rcne the worst
hSy@Ts vhhM struck South sixIpiS penbn Dh,a and his report briefly outlines the storm hghIhh
insofar as it affected electric STce
l. when Ms storm had passed electric service had been destroyed to over 40 of
all whna.s M by the Company Over $4,000 customers My located in
maa~ some 1000 square miles, extent were involved Thee Me to electric
cs was primarily from lying branches and falling trees which ad
nwm6d me breaks in line NmNhgm dMlm customers It was @u-
tmw in most of this area that each circuit had to be traced out and repaired
separately
All major power sources of the Company remained intact and the 10000 volt
circuits from HHebugb aM and Meridian from Hhebngh Gumat
hhm as did most the $4,000 volt lines aMmg from these circuits Plant
Eaton on thee enter of the transmission system operated normally
B. PrsOmb plans Neim immediately and aummHanyp placed operation as the
storm subsidized and within Nbs of the storms passing all @mmhs@ -
puxnaey SOC of our customers M. . rI Nd M %%Gs
after the storm individual service had been Md over $500 dna customers
whose premises were hbhhe dn ready for "re
since the first of the year were of m~kbbeb m in epmgr m of
service These include aphm patrol fines and twu mobile radio CON-
rna n the umnmM efforts of Mss and G m @.
crews Tde upmatbn MHbGmg Utilities we're thief actors which made r
"%n% service possible in mha dT time alters major disaster
Muhe marsb be done in many areas served shtH tc rmsh have ntau bnr erabIhedn dwo
continue @uton to cH our office nhnhs dHmbs Lmd by the storms should fall our lines Hmr
hghsh haven come akm or Toudg out ives suggest that you first check your fuses to determine whether
heeS houoe nyoT pem@s and thence all Of T office fora reh@k of he facilities
eae g@h1 for the many exu@MOs of appreciation from public officials md pre citizens wifi rA
specific heS speed with which service has been restored and hy our patience during the VARYING intervals that
service was out as result of thu hmmcme
We also publicly eps appreciation for the energy and persistence with which every empOved the
Company and those whoc camel Jour assistance have hbedm this task
Tkh has @ma hemadow tesla disruption of physical facilities unparalleled in III % ears ofcmnnv
peahoh Asw rebudw with you tTa dn greater hure We look mMdw with confidence to continued
mutual understandings all cmmnp rhens involved in the economic growth and dnannnt Of m ..
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