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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
Eddie Pond Is
District Three
Board Candidate

Eddie Pond this week an
nounced that he will be a candi-
date for election to the Board of
Supervisors, representing District
Three, in the Democratic primary
election to be held August 5th.
In his formal announcement
MIR. Pond cites the background Of
his business record rs qualifying
him to ably handle the affairs of
the office.
His formal announcement fol.
lows:
TO THE QUALIFIED DEMO
CRATIC VOTERS OF DISTRICT
THREE.
After a careful and thorough
study of the needs of and posi-
ilities that lie at our doorsteps
| take this means of announcing
for membership on the Jackson
County Board of Supervisors, re-
presenting District three, in the
Democratic Primary election to
be held August 9th.
1t is my desire to serve my Dis
trist and County, and to bend
every effort toward the future de-
velopment and progress of Jack
son County as a whole, that | en-
ter this election, and ask your
support.
The responsibilities pertaining
to this important office, l have
thoroughly considered, and fee
that with the experience l have
had in Construction Business, to-
gether with my two years ser
vice with the United States Navy
in a supervisory capacity of Ship
Construction, and my five years
of faithful service with the In
gals Shipbuilding Corporation
| believe myself qualified to fill
this important office.
/ established as my legal resi-
denee this City of Pascagoula
shortly after my arrival in l94l
after having lived in Washing
ton, D.. c. for about six years
Continued On Page 8. Sec. u
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
Red Cross Annual
Meeting Will Be
Held Tuesday,

The annual meeting of the
Jackson County Chapter of the
American Red Cross will be held
on Tuesday, May 81, at ZOO o.
clock in the auditorium of the
Junior High School in Pasca-
goula.
The public is urged to attend
the meeting as officers for the
coming year and three members
of the .%executive committee will
be elected at that time.
Tuesday nights meeting will
not last over one hour, il was
stated, and will not conflict with
other meetings in the county
scheduled for that night.
Red Cross officials pointed out
that the need for the services of
their organization have not ceas-
ed with the war, but has actu-
ally increased in some cases. The
home service caseload for SER
vicemen and dependents, veter-
ans and dependents, and civilians
is higher each month than it
was during the war, it was said.
The Red Cross does not eS-
pect to reach its peak in service
for at least eight years.
Officials asked that persons
make every effort to attend and
stated that colored people were
also invited to attend.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
Beoutifico Is
Theme OfC ofc
Civic Contest

Plans and classifications for
a civic Identification contest TO
be held June | to December Is
under the auspices of the Cham
Der of Commerce were ANNOUNCE
ed this week.
"The purpose of the contest"
the announcement states, rs to
encourage Improvement and
identification of home grounds
and business premises of this
community through the suitable
planting of trees, shrubs, flowers
and vegetables. In addition, the
contest is designed to stimulate
the development of lawns, the
cleaning and improvement of
home grounds, streets, alleys, and
sidewalks, to the end that a
healthier and more attractive en-
vironment may be provided for
our growing children and hap
pier surroundings for all our CT
ITEMS"
The districts of the contest are
ID Moss Point, (2) Pascagoula,
and go, that area outside the
corporate limits of the other dis
tricts from the Alabama state
line through Fontainebleau. The
classes in which prizes will be
awarded are, (A) residents VINO
employ full-time gardeners, CD
those who employ part time help
with their yard and garden, (C)
those who employ no assisting
outside family, Cd business hous-
es, churches, schools, and insti-
tutions, (E) Negro homes and
business places.
Further details may be had
from the Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. G. w Smith was appoint
ed general chairman of the beau
LITIGATION program. District chair
men are Mrs. r. C. Eley, Moss
Point; Mrs. w. C. Ravens, coun-
81; Mrs. c. II. Gray, Pascagoula.
Co-chairmen are Mrs. T. T. JUS
tice, Mrs. j. N. Lockard, and
Mrs. julius Virgins.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

To live like a million ton some
thing less) could be the summary
of the county Home Demonstra-
ton clubs exhibition at Lincoln
Hall on Thursday, May %.
The hall. for the day was turn
ed into a miniature county fair
with exhibits for a Flower and
Vegetable Show and Dress Revue,
all the results of the industry of
the women of the county Home
Demonstration clubs.
With the current high price of
foods it was encouraging to see
the displays of fresh vegetables,
There were exhibits of beans,
cabbage. kale, radishes. lettuce.
tomatoes, potatoes, onions and
many other, perfect enough to
rival a seed catalog in color. Ger
tainly there should be no food
shortage in Jackson County con
sidering what can be produced on
its soil.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
lnnel Project Clears First
h Congress OK Of Survey
u. S. Engineer
To Study Leaf
And Chicosowhuy

An announcement that the
House Public Works Committee
has authorized a study of the
Leaf and Chicasawhay rivers
with a view to dredging a chan
mel and raising Pascagoula to the
status of a major gulf port was
made this week in a communica-
ton from Rep. w. M. Colmer in
Washington.
The committees authorization
of the study marked successful
clearance of the first great hur-
die faced by groups in the Pas
cagoula and Hattiesburg areas
who have been working to bring
to actuality the dream of a great
commercial and shipping deve-
lopment in the Pascagoula river
watershed.
A number of local sponsors of
the plan, highly pleased over the
committees action fully a year
earlier than had been anticipat-
ed, said this week that eventual
completion of the channel pro-
ject would create an economic
basis for general growth and
prosperity of the east Mississippi
region surprising all other de-
velopments which have taken
place thus far under the states
industrialization program.
World Port
The Leaf and C~hicasaWhay
channel would permit the trans
portation and reshipment of oil,
timber, manufactured and agri-
cultural products through the
Pascagoula port area, and would
tie this region into the nation
al Intra-C Coastal Waterways sys.
tenn and give it direct access to.
the shipping of the world.
The cities OF Hattiesburg, Lau-
rel, Meridian ana others in this
region would be brought into an
~integrated economic system with
Pascagoula-Mos Point, all bene-
fitting mutually by the manufac
turing, oil producing or refining
activities of the others.
The two chief economic and
geographic factors which the
whole plan rests on, the local
enthusiasts said, are the massive
growth which is taking place in
Mississippi's oil industry, and
Pascagoula's unexcelled factors
as a Gulf port.
Pascagoula is only nine miles
from deep water, where other
ports in the gulf range from 80
to 80 miles from deep water. The
short Pascagoula channel also
lies in the direct line of the &C
ton of the currents which help
rather than impeed the mainte-
nance of the channel.
Chief hackers of the port and
river project have been a group
of civic leaders from Pascagoula,
Moss Point and Hattiesburg.
Their emphasis had been origi.
nally placed CHIEFLY only on a
Leaf River channel. Congress
Colmer stated in his letter that
he had also included the Chick
asawhay river to Meridian in his
request for the survey since that
river extended almost to the
Wayne and Jasper County oil
wells"
An argument in behalf of the
project was presented TO Con
g%ressional leaders several weeks
ago by Edward A. Khayat and
Hermes F. Gautier during a trip
to Washington to attend a ma
tional meeting of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
The delegates spoke to a group
under the sponsorship of Rep.
Continued On Page 8, Sec. ID
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
POST OFFICE HOLIDAY

Nav 30. Memorial Day, being
a federal holiday. the post office
will be closed throughout the day.
There will be no window service
or carrier delivery, except in the
business section, Postmaster Ar
thur v Smith said. Outgoing
mails vii, be dispatched from
the main office on regular sched-
ules, and post office boxholders
will receive their mail as usual,
it was said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
No Strike
Called Says
Brownlow
O-Duy Notice
Part OF General
Wage Stolemote

A detailed explanation of the
present status for wage negotia-
tons in the shipbuilding indus
try, stressing the fact that no
strike has yet been called for
June /, was given here Saturday
at a large public gathering by
James A. Brownlow, a national
AFL metal trades official.
Mr.. Brownlow, who is secre-
tary-treasurer Of the metal trad
es department and one Of the
country's most prominent labor
leaders in the shipbuilding in
dustry, spoke at a gathering at
Beach Park attended by many
shipyard workers and other eiti-
zens. He was introduced by May
or John r. Watts.
The speaker said that he wish
ed to correct an impression
which has developed in some cir
cles that shipyard workers here
and throughout the nation have
voted to go on strike June l un-
less wages were raised.
MIR. Browlow said that this was
not the case, and added that the
notification to strike ON June |
which has been given by AFL
shipbuilding unions throughout
the country was made to comply
with government requirement of
a 30-day notice in case negotia-
tions should break down COM
pletely and the unions decided
to strike as q last resort.
Hopes For Settlement
The AFL official said that he
was hopeful some satisfactory
solution would be found for the
present situation which has
thrown the Shipbuilding Stabili-
zation Committee into a stale
mate, and that no strike would
be called.
If such a solution were not
reached, he said. il would still
be necessary for all crafts re
presented in the local metal trad
es councils to vote on the &C.
tual question of whether or not
to strike. Crafts which voted a
strike would then have to receive
authorization of the strike from
the respective international pres
idents OF the unions, and a ma
jority vote of the various crafts
would be required before a strike
were called.
If such a procedure became
necessary from the AFL's point
of view, he said, some time
would still be required to carry
out these steps. He said he want
ed to make clear that no strike
had been called for June l.,
Mr.. Brownlow said that the
stalemate in natioslal negotia-
ton which made the 30-day no
LITIGATION necessary arose from
complicated causes.
The Shipbuilding Sterilization
Committee was established dur
ing the war, made of represen-
tations from management, labor,
and government, and given pow
er to fix wage rates in the whole
industry.
No Raises
Shipyard wages have not been
revised since l945. he said, al
though in that time government
statistics show that the cost OF
living has risen sharply. and
wage increases have been grant
Continued On Page 8, Sec. u
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

When in 1890, Germany ex-
changed Zanzibar, an island off
Afriea's east coast, for Helgoland
which later became a vital Ger
man fertilization in the North
Sea, the deal was widely criti-
cized in Germany.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
Mrs. Chas. Greer
Dies In West Va.

Funeral service for Mrs.
Charles Greer, &C, was held at
the Grassy Greek Methodist
church on Wednesday, February
IL. Rev. w. c. Eastridge. pastor.
and Matthew Reynolds officiated
and interment followed in the
family cemetery.
Mrs. Greer died on Monday,
February 10, in Bluefield w. Va,
where she had been living for
sometime, after a lingering i'll
ness.
She is survived by her husband
and three daughters, Mrs. Helen
Brown and Mrs. Wilma King, both
of Arlington, Va, Mrs. John
Heger, of Bluefield. w. Va, two
sisters, Mrs. M. F. Spencer, of
Grassy Creek, Mrs. Robert Live
say, of Bel Air, Md, one broth
er, Walter Osborne and seven
grandchildren.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
T. L. Dolinger
Rites Held Sat.

Funeral service for Frank L.
Dolinger, II, who died at his home
at Sturgills last Thursday was
held Saturday at the home. Con-
Quoting the service were Revs.
Carl Sturgill, Carl Eastridge and
Cicero Ashley. Burial was in the
family cemetery.
Mr.. Dolinger, who was we'll
known Ashe county man, served
as deacon in the Zion Hill Bap-
fist church for a number of years.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mary Graham Doing
err and the following children:
Mrs. Alice Graham and Cecil Dol
niger, of Sturgills; Mrs. Maggie
Weaver, of Whitetop; Mrs. Mamie
Ashley, of Bluefield, w. Va; Mrs.
Hazel West, of West Jefferson;
Banner Dolinger, of Pennsyl-
vania; IA grandchildren; four
great-grandchildren, and one
brother, Lee Dolinger.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
Brief National And World News During The Past Week

The President, visably pleased
over his mothers progress toward
recovery, said he left her in good
spirits and in no pain.
The injury has been quite a
shock to her, Mr.. Truman said,
but he added that she is no cry
baby.
He arranged before he left to
get frequent telephone reports on
her progress.
The mother, Mrs. Martha E.
Truman, 81. suffered a fractured
hip Thursday night, her third
such injury.
The President flew to Grand
view early Saturday to see her
His Sacred Cow" plane took off
on the return flight at 3:12 p. m
(e.s.tD Sunday, making the run
in three hours and 48 minutes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
RECORD NUMBER DIES
IN AIRPLANE CRASHES

Nearly four score lives were
lost in weekend air tragedies
throughout the world--a series of
accidents which brought to more
than 400 the number of interna-
tional plane travellers killed in
the last seven months and mark
ed by the greatest single disaster
in the history of commercial nav
igation.
The accidents Saturday and
Sunday extended from the Tyr
rhenian Sea. off Italy, to the
United States. and to South
America where 81 persons died
in the crash Of a plane against a
Colombian cliff = the greatest
number of persons ever killed
aboard a single commercial ship.
Three persons died, including
Col Earle L. Johnson. national
commander of the Civil Air Pa
troll. in the U. S. crash and II
others persisted as a Savoia-Mar-
chetti transport owned by the
Italian Air Ministry crashed on a
flight from Rome to Cairo.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
SENATORS TOLD SHIP
GOODS TO RUSSIA

Washington = State Depart
ment officials, it was learned,
nave informed Senators the Unit
ed States must ship Russia some
$25,OO0,OOO worth of goods order
ed originally under lend-lease or
violate agreements made in
good faith"
At the same time Chester Lane,
lend-lease administrator under
the State Department, vigorously
denied that officials used "subter-
fuge" to get around a deadline
of last Dec. 81 fixed by Congress
on such lend-lease shipments.
The State Departments view
was made public by Chairman
Bridges GRIND of the Senate
Appropriations Committee. It had
heard Comptroller General Lind
say c. Warren testify that the
shipments to Russia, as we'll as
China. Brazil, France, Belgium,
The Netherlands and Australia,
were prohibited by Congress.
During the squabble, Senators
learned from Lane that Russia
had ignored four consecutive re-
quests for final settlement of
some $11,26O,OOO.OOO worth of
wartime lend-lease aid. All other
nations who received aid have ne
gotiated settlements.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
Aged Ashe Woman
Succumbs At Fig

Funeral service for Mrs. Mary
V. GRAPHICAL was held Sunday
afternoon at two o'clock at the
Big Laurel church with Revs. j.
R. Short, Herbert Parsons and
Rufus GRAPHICAL, officiating. In
terment was in the family Gem
etery.
Mrs. GRAPHICAL, 95-year old resi-
dent of Fig, was the daughter of
the late Matilda FaW and Alfred
GRAPHICAL and was married to
Elihu GRAPHICAL.
She is survived by the follow
ing children: Mrs. Callie Roland,
Mrs. Nora Calhoun. w. w. Gray
beal, J. H. GRAPHICAL, Mrs. Frank
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
Budget Fight Is Highligght
OF u. S. Congress This Week

the debt payment.
81 never have believed taxes
could be cut as much as 20 per
cent" the Californian said. Il do
not propose to foreclose tax re-
lief, but we must establish a sink
ing fund policy for debt retire
ment.
1--WE now have this staggering
debt of around $26O,000,O00,0O0
that threatens the solvency of the
Government. It is incumbent on
the Congress to start reducing this
debt. Three billion dollars a year
is certainly minimum"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
Mrs. J. k. Taylor
Succunbs In S. C..

Funeral service for Mrs. J. K.
Taylor, of Furches, who died in
Charleston, S. G. on Wednesday
after brief illness, was held at
the Cranberry church in Allegh-
any county at II o'clock noon
Friday.
She is survived by her husband,
six sons, F. U. Taylor, DR.. C. F.
Taylor, w. R. Taylor, all of Char
lesion, S. c.; E. L. Taylor, of Mt.
Airy; D. L. Taylor, Kingstree, S.
c.; c. B. Taylor, of Florida; and
three daughters, Mrs. Walter F.
Britt, of Roanoke, Va; Mrs. ]. ].
Douglas, of Charleston, S. c., and
Mrs. Woodrow White, of States
vile.
Mrs. Taylor was sister of DR..
l.. L. Long, of West jefferson.
Miller, T. J. GRAPHICAL, Mrs. Roy
Thomas, Mrs. j. w. GRAPHICAL,
Mrs. Arthur James.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
|!(|H|EFI; |: EE{$

Do you feel tired out? Do you sleep well2
Hal that old time pep vanished? Your
blood may lack new iron. Medical studies
point out that up to So Of women ex-
amined-and many. many men have
blood deficiency. Thanks to PEPTOTABS,
you. too. may enjoy new life and pep.
PEPTOTABS stimulates startling new
vitality. pep, vim and vigor. PEPTOTABS
must prove satisfactory or money will be
refunded. Ask your druggist toT
PEPTOTABS.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
HOOVER TO MAKE
STUDY IN BERLIN

Berlin-Herbert Hoover and
his party of experts studying food
conditions in Germany, Austria
and Italy arrived at Tempelhof
Airdrome by plane from Rome.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
RETURNS FROM MO.

Washington = President Tru-
man landed at National Airport
at Z p. m. (e.s.tD Sunday night,
returning from the bedside Of his
injured mother in Grandview,
Mo.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20
John l.. Weaver
Dies In Hospital

Last rites for John L. Weaver,
81, Of Clifton, were held last
Thursday at North Fork church
with Elders Dewey Rotten and Ed
Davis officiating. Irterment was
in the Miller cemetery.
The son of the late Mary A.
Miller and Isaac Weaver, he was
a well known farmer in the Cliff
ton section. He succumbed in the
Ashe hospital last Wednesday
night.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Ida Weaver, and four children,
Carrie Miller, Orien Weaver,
Frank Weaver and Mavis Greer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20

Hoover was met by General
Lucius Clay, Deputy American
Military Governor. Data collect
ed on Hoover's three-nation sur
vey was to be co-ordinated here.
The former President of the
United States, investigating food
needs in Europe for President
Truman, was in Vienna before
going to Rome.
In Rome, Hoover saw Pope
Plus XII, Premier Alcide de Gas
peri, Foreign Minister Carlo
Sforza and Provisional President
Enrico De Nichola.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20

Sweden has been granted an
emergency ALLEGATION Of 10000
long tons Of oil cakes or meal.
Eleven Wilkes county farmers
have signed contracts to grow
Turkish tobacco.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-02-20

Westinghouse huge question
mark was raised ahead of the
C. o. P. 20 per cent tax slashing
program yesterday as Senator
Knowland (R.-Calif.) announced
he will offer a resolution requir-
ing a $3,OOO,OOO,OOO payment on
the debt before any taxes are
cut.
simultaneously, how ever,
Chairman Knutson (R.-Minn.) of
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee went on the radio to voice
confidence the tax-framing group
will approve this week his House
bill No. for a 20 per cent cut
across the board"
Indications appeared that the
Senate on Wednesday will vote
to limit to $4,5OO,OOO,OOO the slash
in President Truman's $780,
100000 budget for the year start
ing July l, overturning the S.
OOO,O00,O0O cut voted Friday by
the 102-member House-Senate
Budgetary Committee.
Knowland told reporters he
will offer an amendment to the
budget ceiling resolution calling
for a payment "of at least $3,OO0,-
10 a -
savings.
With the $1.5O0,O0OO0O revenue
anticipated from continuation Of
high wartime excise levies, which
Mr.. Truman did not count on in
his estimates, Knowland said
there should be somewhere be-
tween S2.O00,0OO,0O0 and $3,OO0,-
100000, for tax. reduction" after
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-05-15
SHRUNKEN, BUT SAFE

A man walking on the moors was
caught in torrential downpour. He
looked around for some sort of
cover and spotted a hollow tree ly-
ing on its side. To gain protection
from the tempest, he crept inside
through a narrow opening.
He lay there for two hours before
he realized he had become virtually
prisoner in the tree. The rain had
caused it to swell, and the opening
through which he had entered was
now too small for him to squeeze
his way out. But even worse was
soon to follow: The tree began to
press in on him and he knew it
would be only matter of hours be-
fore he was crushed to death.
Such was the horror of his predic-
ament that, like drowning man,
his past life flashed before him in a
panorama. He saw what a mean,
selfish life he had led and he began
to feel so small that he realized he
could now creep out through the
opening. This he did-went home
and led an exemplary life ever
after!
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-05-15
Sharp Answer

Doctor" said the wild-eyed pa
tent, as he rose from the steps Of
his farm homestead and rushed to
meet the doctors car. '.I'm in a
deuce of a pickle. Don't know where
to turn for relief"
What's the trouble?" asked the
doctor.
''The ghosts of my departed rela-
tives come and perch on the tops of
the fence all round the orchard"
replied the patient. Every night
it's the same old round-they just
sit there, waiting, waiting, waiting.
What can do to get rid of them?"
Sharpen the tops of the posts"
the doctor prescribed as he drove
off.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-05-15
No Wonder

A customer waiting for a small
job to be done on his car watched a
mechanic change the oil in another
car without spilling a drop, check
the radiator, clean the windshield,
wipe away all the greasy finger
marks, place clean cloth over the
upholstery, wash his hands thor
oughly and drive. the car slowly out
to the. street curb.
.'Now, there's a real mechanic"
the customer observed to the fore
man.
''Oh," explained the foreman,
that's his own car"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-05-15
The Last Straw

Endeavoring to rest after an ex-
ceedingly hard day, poor father
was being bedeviled by an endless
stream of unanswerable questions
from little Willie.
''Whata you do down at the Of
fice?" the youngster finally asked.
Nothing" shouted father.
It looked like the kid had been
put off for while, but not for long.
For after thoughtful pause, Willie
inquired: Pop, how do you know
when you're through"