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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
County Pays Tribute To First War
Dead To Be Returned From Overseas

The first of. Jackson County's
World War II dead to be brought
home from overseas ended the
long journey here last week and
was laid to rest on Sunday in the
Johnson cemetery in Wade.
Hundreds of persons, including
a large number of his comrades
in-arms who appeared in uniform
as honorary pallbearers, gathered
to pay tribute to the memory of
Marine Sergeant James O. Golf
and to all the county's sons who
lost their lives in the service of
their country.
Uniformed veterans served as
pallbearers, guard of honor, and
firing squad and conducted a
memorial service for all war dead
prior to funeral services for Ser
geant Golf.
Commander Harold Seamen of
American Legion Post No. 100
conducted the memorial service
with the assistance of the Rev.
w. C. Wyatt, pastor of the Wade
Baptist church. Commander Hen
ry Lynd of the Clifton McKelly
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Construction Of
Beck Road" Along
Coost Is Urged

Pascagoula joined the rest of
the Gulf Coast cities and coun-
ties this week in urging the State
Legislature to make provisions
at its coming session to construct
a "back road paralleling the
Gulf Coast in order to avert flu
ture emergencies similar to that
created by the September hurri-
cane when traffic along the coast
was paralyzed for several weeks
because of destruction to coast
roads.
State officials and the State
Legislature were memorialized to
that effect in a resolution adopt
ed by the mayor and city coun-
ell at its regular meeting on Fri
day of last week.
It is the opinion of the mayor
and council, the resolution sets
forth, that there should be built
a state highway in the country.
around the bays and bayous of
the coast to be used as an emer-
gency bypass when and if the
roadway and bridges should again
be washed OUT
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Drive To Ruise
Boy Scout Funds
Opens November II

A drive to raise $500 for Pasca-
goula Bow Scouts will be launch
ed on November II, Thomas R.
Wells, chairman of the funds rails
ing committee, announced Thurs
day following a meeting of the
group.
In making the announcement il
was pointed out that Pascagoula
is the only community in the
Pine Burr area which has not yet
conducted "a fund raising cam
paign.
Plans call for completing the
campaign and raising the quota
in a whirlwind four-day drive.
A breakfast meeting will be
held at 7:30 a. m. at the Beach
Park Thursday, November 18th,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
State And County
Taxes For l947
Levied By Board

The 1947 levy of state and coun-
ty taxes was made public this
week by the Board of Supervis-
ors and shows an increase in levy
in is of the county's 81 taxing
districts and decreases in the
other six.
The only general county in
crease in levy was in the gener-
al county Court House bond and
interest tax which was increased
from one mill to five and one
half mills in all of the 81 dis
tricts. The county levy for gen.
eral purposes was reduced one
mill in all districts.
Highest district levy was in
side the Escatawpa consolidated
school district in District One and
amounted to go and one-half
mills. Lowest were two Beat
Four districts. added Ocean
Springs school district and inside
municipality of Ocean Springs,
both of which were IS mills.
The full levy in all districts is
carried on page five, section three
of this issue of the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Waterway Group
In Meeting AT
Hattiesburg

The meeting of district chair
men and sub-chairmen Of the Pat
Harrison waterways project at
Hattiesburg has been changed to
Friday, November 7, (today) at
the Forrest Hotel in Hattiesburg,
according to an announcement
made this week.
The meeting had originally been
scheduled for November 10th, but
was put forward three days in or
der to allow more time to COM
plete plans for the hearing on the
proposed project by the United
States Engineers on November
10 and 81.
The Hattiesburg meeting will
be at a luncheon at the hotel at
noon. Chief topic of the meeting
will be a discussion of plans and
testimony to be presented at the
hearing.
The first hearing before the
u. S. Engineers will be on We'd
nesday, November 10 at the court
house in Waynesboro, and the sec
ond session on Friday, November
81 at Lincoln Hall in Pascagoula.
Delegations from cities in the
area affected are expected at both
hearings, as well as state and
county officials. Field work and
technical phases of the economic
and traffic survey of the area, be-
ing compiled by the Bedell En-
cheering Co., of New Orleans for
presentation at the hearing, has
been completed and is in process
of being correlated into a final
report, V. J. Bedell said this week.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

Williams Post, Veterans of For
eign Wars, was assisted in cere-
monies at the grave by District
Commander Karl Wiesenburg of
Paseagoula.
Mayor F. w. Cirlot of Moss
Point, a former army sergeant,
also took part in the ceremony.
The flag-draped casket lay in
state at the Fails Funeral Home
in Moss Point from Tuesday until
Sunday and a large number of
friends and relatives of Sergeant
Golf and veterans and members
of their families called to pay
tribute.
A mile-long procession of auto
mobiles followed the casket to
the cemetery. Following the SER
vices. which included the firing
of three yolleys over the grave
and the playing of Taps, the
flag vas folded and handed to
Harvey L. Golf by Marine Staff
Sergeant Ernest L. DeFazio, es-
cort sent here with the body.
Mr. Golf and another brother,
William L. Golf of Eastside, were
Sergeant Goff's next of kin.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Plans Underway
For "Messioh"
Concert Here

Plans are under way for the
traditional Christmas-season per-
Torrance of Handel's Messiah
by local singers and rehearsals
have already begun for the event.
The rendition of this immortal
work is a community wide pro-
jeet, sponsored this year by the
choir of the First Baptist church
of Pascagoula. Members of the
Messiah Choir" are drawn from
the surrounding community and
Director c. r. Hare is extending
an invitation to all singers in the
surrounding rea to join the choir.
The performance is scheduled
for the week before Christmas,
it was stated, and it is imperative
that all who wish to do so, join
the rehearsals as soon as possible.
Rehearsals will be held in the
auditorium of the First Baptist
church on Monday and Thursday
evenings at 1880. In addition, the
regular rehearsals of the First
Baptist church choir on Wednes-
day evenings at 7:45 will be large
ly devoted to practice on this pro-
gram. All members of the Mes
star" Chorus who can attend these
rehearsals are urged to come.
There is still time for any sing
er who has sung this CRATIC OF
who is familiar with it to join the
chorus. Anyone who is inter
ested is asked to contact Mr..
Hare, director.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Two City Mileage
Proposals Carry
One Is Rejected

In an extremely light vote
Tuesday Pascagoula electors af-
proposal 20 levy one mill addition
al taxes for garbage collection
and disposal and one-half mill for
cemetery maintenance, and re-
jected the third proposal to levy
one-half mill for park mainte-
nance.
Heaviest vote was in the pro-
posal for one-half mill for ceme-
terry maintenance, which carried
with 514 voters for and 1923
against. The proposal for addi-
tional millage for garbage collec-
ton and disposal carried by a vote
of 491 for and BAL against, while
the park appropriation was de-
feated with 437 votes against and
1896 for.
Vote on individual proposals by
precincts was as follows:
parE M~afnfaAn~a1
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Daylight Robbery
Of Caniy Company
Friday Yields S692

A thief who apparently enter
ed the building shortly before
5 o'clock Friday afternoon rob-
bed the Canty Coffee Company,
208 Krebs avenue, of approx
mately 1892, Chief of Police J. E.
Shirley reported. OF that amount
$485 was in currency and 1907
in checks. Change in the same
cash box which held the bills
and checks was untouched.
The robbery occurred when
both Miss Mamie Canty and
Frank Canty were out of the Of
flee, police said, and evidently
the thief entered and left through
an unlocked side door as no marks
were found on the locked front
and rear entrances. The robbery
was still under investigation late
this week but no arrests had been
made, Chief Shirley said. Finger
prints were taken from the
money box and are being develop
ed and examined, he said.
Miss Canty had left the office
on an errand and about ABS Mr.
Canty locked the front and back
doors and went next door to the
home of his mother, police said.
A little later Miss Canty return
ed and also went next door. II
was while she was sitting in the
kitchen that she heard someone
run down the side steps of the
coffee company and she called
to see whether it was her broth
or. She received no reply, and
her mother said Mr.. Canty had
gone home. Miss Canty went to
investigate and found that some
one had forced the desk drawer
and taken the money, police said.
When police were summoned.
Chief Shirley said they found
the master drawer of the desk
had been forced with a screw
driver, releasing the side draw
ers. The money box was in one
of the side drawers.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Services Mark
Observance OF
Armistice Day

The war dead of this country
will be honored Tuesday, Novem-
Der IL, when special programs
and the suspension of business by
banks and some offices will mark
Armistice Day.
The three veterans organiZa-
tons in Observation-Disclosures
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars
and Disabled American Veterans
will hold a 15-minute program
in front of the Jackson County
court house at II a. m, in honor
of the dead of all wars. Brief talks
will be made by Harold Seaman,
commander of the American Lee
gion, DR.. John F. McDonogh, COM
mander of the d. A. V, and Karl
Wiesenburg, commander of the
V. F. w.
In Moss Point the Clifton Nc
Kelley Williams post of the V. F.
W., will conduct memorial SER
vices for all war dead at 1890. a.
m, in front of the city hall. A spe-
cial invitation has been issued
to Gold Star mothers, eX-service
men and ministers. The Rev. N.
U. Boone, pastor of the Moss
Point Methodist church and a
chaplain in the navy in World
War II, will be the principal
speaker.
Schools in Pascagoula and Moss
Point will mark the day with pro-
grams in assembly, school officials
of the two school systems said.
The day falls during American
Education Week and the recog-
milton programs Tuesday will be
part of the general observance
of this week.
The banks in Moss Point and
Pascagoula will be closed for the
day. All windows in the two post
offices will be closed but incom-
ing and outgoing mail will be
handled as usual being distrib-
uted by regular carrier service in
Moss Point and to the boxes and
through the business district in
Paseagoula. Parcel post delivery
will be as usual also.
Both city halls will be open dur
ing regular hours but the county
court house officials were unde-
cided late Thursday as to what
their procedure would be. The
fact that Armistice Day comes
during the first week of the fall
term of circuit court will influ-
ence court house offices.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Stennis Is
Winner In
Senate Race
Takes 5000 Vote
Majority Over
Colmer To Win

Judge John c. Stennis of De-
Kalb led in more than half of
the states counties and swept
populous East Central Mississippi
with big majorities to win the late
Senator Theodore Bilbo's seat in
the United States Senate in the
general election on Tuesday.
Returns from 1852 of the states
1716 precincts gave Stennis SO, 1909
votes to 44,792 for Representa-
tive William M. Colmer of Pas
cagoula, who piled up a heavy
majority on the coast and in
South Mississippi but still fell
short.
Mr.. Colmer has conceded the
victory to Mr.. Stennis who will
serve for the five remaining years
in the unexpired term.
Jackson County gave Mr.. Col
mer 2495 to 1925 for the COM
bined opposition. Forrest Jack
son, endorsed by organized Ia
Dor ran second in the county with
1910 votes and third in the state
with Al, 1928. MI. Colmer carried
all but four of the county's %
precincts with Escatawpa, Kreole,
Eastlawn and Jacobs falling in
the Jackson camp.
The winner ran a poor third
in the county with 389 votes, fol-
lowed by Paul B. Johnson, Jr.,
376; Congressman John Rankin,
1856; and Republican L. r. Col
linss Is. The last three ran in
that order in the state, also, with
johnson receiving 26, 1885, Rankin,
24,054, and Collins 544.
Big Majority
Judge Stennis ran up tremen-
dous majorities in Kemper Coun-
ty, his home, and in the adjoin-
ing counties of Lauderdale, New
ton, Neshoba, Winston, and Nox-
ubee. Incomplete returns from
Kemper showed Stennis leading
with 2l26 votes to 40 for Colmer,
his nearest opponent.
Mr.. Colmer took a heavy lead
in most counties in Southeast
Mississippi and swept the coast
but with less majority than Stem
mis- received in his area. Rankin
failed to score outside Of his own
district, where five counties went
for Stennis, and Jackson manag-
ed a lead in only nine counties,
according to the incomplete re-
turns.
A tabulation of the unofficial
county returns will be found else
where on this page.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Damage To Three
School Buses In
Week; Warning

Three student-loaded school
buses in widely separated sections
of Jackson County were involved
in collisions with other vehicles
this week and County Superin-
tendent of Education A. F. Mcgee
hee issued a warning that motor
lists violating laws pertaining to
school transportation vehicles will
be prosecuted in the future.
]. w. Wally of Wade, j. L. Too
tie of Vancleave, and Rufus Ma
Piles of Orange Grove were driv-
ers of the public buses slightly
damaged by vehicles driven by
persons not named until a further
investigation is completed.
Nc students were injured in
the mishaps.
Mr.. Megehee said that he was
alarmed by the accidents and
warned that motorists must stop
while school buses are loading
and unloading pupils, under pen
atty of the law. Warnings have
been issued to violators in the
past, but prosecutions will be
made in the future, he said.
The words SCHOOL BUS" are
plainly visible on the front and
rear of the big yellow vehicles, he
said, and motorists should bring
their automobiles under control
when they spot the buses. At Van
cleave, the bus was struck by a
dump truck while unloading a pu-
pill, he said.
County and state highway pa
trolmen have been requested to
keep a sharp lookout for such
violators, he said.
Approximately 1000 students
are transported to schools in the
county daily, Mr.. Megehee said,
and no serious accident has been
recorded involving collisions with
other vehicles.
He urged the cooperation of
the public in the drive for contin-
ued safety,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Docket Set Today
For Circuit Court
Term On MondoY

Circuit Judge l.. c. Corban
is scheduled to set the civil docket
here this morning at 900 o'clock
in preparation for the opening
of the November term of Cir
cult Court on Monday.
Cases of general interest sched-
uled for trial includes J. M.
Stone, Jr., charged with muir
der in the fatal shooting of Stay
Rogers and a 100000 damage
suit filed against the ingalls,
Shipbuilding Corporation and
others by Walter Lowery.
The civil docket is heavier
than usual, according to Circuit
Clerk w. c. Ravens, and a num-
Der of cases are scheduled to the
grand jury.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
~ n Interested In
Ss rine Reserve Unit
Meet Wednesday,

There will be a meeting at the
Jackson County court house on
Wednesday night, November IL,
at 1880 for all former Marines
and others interested in joining
the u. S. Marine Corps Reserve.
Former service men are re-
quested to bring their discharge
papers.
Service men may obtain their
former rank, in most cases, and
non-veterans are eligible if they
are between II and "a years of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Forestry Head
To Meet Board,
Others On Monday

State Forester Albert Leggett
has been requested by the Jack
son County Board of Supervis09s
to meet with them and all per-
sons interested in forestry at the
Court House on Monday. Novem-
Der 10. at 1000 o'clock.
Landowners and other persons
interested in the control of for
est fires and demonstration in any
Of its phases T invited TO at
tend.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Telephone
Decision
Is Delayed
Attorney For
Public Ask 60
Day Postponemen

The state Public Service Com
mission at Jackson Wednesday de-
layed for 80 days action on a re-
quest by the Southern Bell Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company
that it be allowed to increase
its rates.
The delay was decreed after
attorneys representing telephone
subscribers requested IL on the
ground that time should be al
lowed for study of the company's
statistics and evidence offered
in support of its request.
II also took under advisement
and held for consideration a mo-
tion by the company that as a
matter of extreme emergency"
II be allowed to institute the new
schedule of higher rates pending
a determination by the commits
sion of what rate it would final
ly establish. The proposal includ-
ed a provision whereby the COM
pany would post bond to cover
any refund that might be requir-
ed in the event that the rates
that would be finally determined
would be less than those in the
new schedule.
The commission gave no indi-
cation as to how long IL would
hold under consideration the
latter proposal.
Protests Pile UP
Meanwhile protests against the
proposed Increased rates continu-
ed 10 be fEisA frcrn rasraeouia.
The Pascagoula city mayor and
commissioners, the Paseagoula-
Moss Point Chamber of Com
merce and the Junior Chamber
of Commerce in kilograms to the
comission this week endorsed the
action OF the Young Mems Bust
ness Club of Moss Point in ask
ing that the request for higher
rates be denied until service is
improved.
The Pascagoula Kiwanis Club
in independent action also pro-
tested the rate raise in a tele-
gram to the commission.
The company last January APP
piled for permission to increase
rates to the extent that a $780,
900 increase in income would re-
suit from state revenues. The
commission permitted rate in
creases totalling a revenue hike
of $500. 900, effective in May of
this year.
Subsequently the company
asked for additional increases to
produce 81, 500, 900 more in reve-
nue.. II was on this petition that
the commission deferred action
Wednesday for 90 days.
The company contends that it
is operating at a lost in the state,
and added that increased wages
which followed a strike in May
are a factor in its requirements
for greater gross revenue.
Archie McDuffie, secretary for
the commission. said Wednesday
that many protests against the
proposed increase have been re-
ceived by the commission from
all parts of the state.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
RECORD WIRE USE

MISUNDERSTANDING amount of
telegraph traffic handled by the
reichpost in the British zone of
Germany IS now greater than be-
fore the war. the British control
Commission announces.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
PLAN CHARITY FUND

Bern, Switzerland-AP - The
Swiss federal councils request for
a S4,700,000 appropriation for in
ternational charity activities has
been submitted to the Swiss par
lament.
The council has tentatively
fixed June, 1948. as the termina-
ton of this activity. An autumn
campaign for the collection of
farm commodities for the benefit
of war-devastated peoples was
abandoned when a summer-long
drought reduced agricultural pro
duetion.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
CATS HAVE FLU

London-AP-An epidemic of
cat flu has hit Linden. Animal
hospitals are overcrowded.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Executive Council
OF Disabled Veterans
Will Meet Here

The State Executive Committee
of the Mississippi Disabled Amer
lean Veterans council will meet
in PaSeagoula on November 9
at the Old Spanish Fort, it was
announced this week.
II is the first time that the COM
mittee has met here and plans
call for a dinner on the night of
the meeting with business to be
discussed later in the evening.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

at which final plans for the drive
will be discussed. All interested
persons are urged to attend. Ar
engagements can be made by call
ing Mr.. Wells at his office, l180,
before Wednesday noon.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

AS one mil on the present city
assessment Yields approximately
$4,000, the city will have that
sum for expanded garbage collec-
ton and disposal expansion. and
approximately $500 annually
for cemetery maintenance.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

Zinnias, hardy Animals from
Mexico, were named after j. G..
linn, a botanist.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

STANDING AT THE HEAD OF THE FLAG DRAPED STEEL
casket of Marine Sergeant James o. Golf is Marine Staff Ser
geant Ernest L. DeFazio. escort. who came TO Jackson County
with the body of the first World War IL dead TO arrive from
overseas. The inserts show Sergeant Golf. in a picture taken
sometime before his death in the Pacific. and a portion of the
large crowd that gathered at the Johnson Cemetery in Wade
TO pay tribute to him and all the countYs war dead~-chronicie-
Star profos by Clifford STAGE.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
U. S. SENATOR

W. M. COLMER.
B.
PAUL B. JOHNSON. JR.
JOHN E. RANKIN
JOHN c STENNIS
L. r.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-28
Reverse Poll Tax
Is Recommended
WILBERFORCE, Ohio UPA'

WILBERFORCE, Ohio (LPA)
i A poll-tax in reverse might
be a good idea for the U. S.,
Rep. Ray Madden 3D., Ind.)
proposed here last week.
Madden, outspoken foe of the
.Taft-Hartley law, declared here
that eve could we'll pattern
after Australia in practicing
true democracy. In that great
country there is a poll tax but
it is poll tax in reverse. The
citizen who pays the tax is the
citizen who fails to discharge
his patriotic duty of voting"
The pending anti-poll tax le-
gislation, said Madden, twill
give to over 10000, 900 people
the right and the privilege to
vote without paying a poll tax.
1t will free from this handicap
approximately 1000 900 white
citizens and 100000 citizens of
the Negro race.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-28
This Is Where
Come In

WA S HING T ON (LPA)-
The Congre sional investiga-
ton into the steel industry's re-
fusal to expand its capacity was
given new ammunition last week
with disclosure of record profits
and continued shortages.
Steel mills, according to the
New York Journal of Commerce,
big business daily, are planning
new price increases. Practically
every auto manufacturer in the
country was plagued by steel
shortages. General Motors, an
nouncing a new income of $75,.
658,274 for the third quarter,
said that 1947 production "has
been far short of the volume re-
quired to meet the postwar de-
mands for General Motors prod.
ucts."
U. S. Steel Corp. dividends hit
a 16-year high and the firm
raised its common stock from 81
to S5. Net income for the third
quarter of 1947 was 28,735,082.
Net for the first nine months of
this year was S97, 7,306, ,461 COM
pared with S57,467, ,994 for the
same period last year. The Amer.
ican Rolling Mill Co. reported
that its net for the first nine
was S13,165,398 com.
pared with S12,488,664 for nine
months last year.