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But when a we'll was sunk and oil drained or
stripped" by forced pumping from the pool
and oil sands, a hole was created in the for
nation which permitted salt water to rush
upward into the oil level and thus ruin the
field. Pumping must be at a gradual pace to
prevent this.
But experts with credentials winch GER
tainly entitle them to a hearing state that
pumping is being permitted in Mississippi's
newly developed fields at a ruinous rate.
Gu ~neighboring states of Louisiana and
Texas went through this period and lost mil
lions or barrels and millions of dollars as a
result. They have learned their lesson and
we should learn ours from them.
Mississippi has weak oil and gas conserva-
ton laws, and even these are being improper
ly enforced. Oil men have pretty generally
had their way in recent state administrations
so far as regulations are concerned. The
whole weight of the administration of the
late Governor was thrown on the side of un-
restricted production of gas in federal hear
ings on this matter held last summer on the
gulf coast, and in general this was the atti-
tude adopted toward the production of OF.
We hope that the policy of the next full-term
governor, whether it be Governor Fielding
Wright, or some other, will follow a course
more wise concerning the future of Missis-
sippi.
No parable is more apt to this issue than
the story of the goose that laid the golden
egg. Owners of oil rights may reap rich
profits and the state may collect a heavy vol
ume of taxes by over-production and strip
ping of fields for the next few years. But
then we shall have ruined forever all those
millions of golden barrels of oil still in the
earth, drowned out and ruined with salt
water.
Perhaps the question will be raised: how
does that concern us in Jackson county? Why
not let the people in the Heidelberg, the Tins
ley, and the other fields tend to their own
business?
There are two ways it concerns us. One, out
of our general interest to see that no raw
of such strategic nature as oil are
anywhere in the United States. To
quote the New Orleans States, ANY major
natural resource in the United States is the
of all states, whether it be Minnesota
iron, Pennsylvania coal, or Texas sulphur"
And it concerns us in a very particular and
selfish way: the whole plan for the Leaf
Observation-Disclosures waterway, of para
mount importance to this section, turns on
the question of the oil fields this waterway
shall service and the industries that perma-
nent and reliable oil supply can bring to this
section. Spoil these oil fields, and the whole
potential of Pascagoula and Moss
are seriously affected. That's how it
us.
For this reason we believe that our repre-
in the state legislature will serve
interests best by joining the foremost
of those members who want to en-
force conservative and intelligent regulation
of oil production.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-30
VANCLEAVE

Old Settlers Reunion, Van
eleave School homecoming, and
political rally on Saturday,
July l9, at the Ezell Lodge.
All day affair and the pub
lie invited, particularly for
mer students in the Vancleave
School. State, district, county,
and beat candidates invited to
speak.
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lers and newspapermen who
were interested in the event,
and they boarded a special
train and set. off for nowhere
in particular" leaving the sher-
iff scratching his head.
Richberg was a little lumber
town, somewhere in Hancock
or Pearl River county, though
we forget now the exact loca-
ton. The sports and the two
contestants got off the train.
the ring was set up near the
mill, and the boys went at it,
battling bare-fisted for some
70 rounds in the broiling sun.
Sullivan was the winner.
When the battle was over the
sports got back on the train and
returned to New Orleans.
Sometime later Sullivan was
charged with breaking the law
and disturbing the peace of
Mississippi, and about two
years after the battle he paid
a $500 fine to clear his name.
Once as a young newspaper
man we got the idea of going
to Riehberg with a photograph
Ell and taking some pictures of
the place where the fight was
held and talking to some old
residents who might remem-
Der ii.
But to our amaZement, and
keen disappointment. we found
that the town no longer exist
ed.
II was one of those hundreds,
perhaps thousands. of lumber
towns that sprang up all over
Mississippi and the gulf states
while the long-leaf pine for
ests were being cut out. These
towns existed until "the cut"
vas completed, and then the
people moved on, and they be-
came ghost towns" Once
thriving stores and commits
saries, churches and schools and
barrooms brought life and
noise and action into these
green pine woods. And then,
one day. there was no longer
any woods, and the town stood
deserted. Most of the build
ings were carried away for their
materials, or sold as scrap.
All over the state today one
finds these weathered sawdust
piles in the brable thickets
and underbruSh of a scragglv
new forest-monuments to a
past existence of a people
and a town which are now as
dead and as lost in history as
the streets of Troy and Jericho.
Many of the old mill hands
who lived in them are still alive
in other towns, of course. The
writer's family lived for many
years in such a town. But the
majority of those communities
are literally gone and forgot
ten. Only a few near railroads
or good water transportation
our own communities of Moss
Point and Pascagoula, for in
stance-remained to grow and
thrive. Richberg is a remem-
bered name only because two
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mood and temperament, the in
nermost hopes and fears, of
our people during this period.
That is why some historians
have called it a lost period
in their studies. They approach
these years as though they were
dealing in ancient history, and
find them more difficult to
write about from the point of
view of politics and economics
than many earlier periods.
We were interested to read
this, because we have some
times had that feeling that so
much of our life today and so
many of our problems stem out
of the l870-l890 period.
However, to turn aside now
from serious considerations, for
which we do not have real
qualifications, one of the leg
ends of this periad which has
always held our interest was the
famous prize-fight of John L.
Sullivan and Jake L. Killrain
i'll the Mississippi lumber town
called Riehberg.
Fighting was against the law
in those days and though the
match was made, and tickets
sold in New Orleans. no one
knew where or when the fight
would be held. Finally one
morning the word was passed
to the various sports and gamb-
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GAUTIER

Box supper, beauty contest,
and political rally at the Gautier
school on Saturday night, June
Z, sponsored by the Woman's
Home Demonstration Club. Be-
gins at 500 and continues
through 1000 with the candi-
dates speaking beginning at an
hour to be announced next
week.
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ESCATAWPA

Al Escatawpa school on
Tuesday night, May 81, be-
ginning at $50 o'clock with
gumbo supper and general food
sale. Candidates speaking will
begin at ZOO o'clock. Sponsor
ed by the Recognized Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints for the benefit of build.
ing fund.
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BEACH PARK

On Saturday, June 81, be-
ginning at 200 o'clock at the
Municipal Park in Pascagoula,
sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus. Food sale, drinks,
games. State and local candid
date invited to speak in their
behalf.
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Folks that remember say that
Phil Williams was a strapping
big man, standing six feet and
three inches in his stocking feet
and big with it. He was said to
have been hot-headed as we'll
as left-handed, both of which
made quite a combination for a
man who lived in this county
in a day when fights among
grown men were as common as
scraps among school boys to-
day.
Phil was the grandfather of
John, Walter and Bun Will
liams and an ancestor of a lot
of Jackson county people. He
was a stock driver by profess
sion and a fighter by nature,
using that big left fist of his
to flaten many a friend, neigh
Dor and casual acquaintance as
well as a ~sprinkling of strang-
ers who had done him some
real or fancied wrong.
No one recollects that Phil
ever was whipped but he made
an error the day he hit Joe
Golf in the mouth. Joe took
Pills middle niger between his
teeth and set down on it like
a bulldog. Phil yanked and
jerked two of Joe's teeth out
but not before Joe had left him
marked for life. Phil carried a
crooked-ended finger with
him to his grave.
But you didn't have to be
big, left-handed, or hot-head-
ed to fight in those old days.
Geenl-T
One of the ~eounty's prize scrap
pers of all time was Fighting
Bill Golf, Bick Goff's father,
who lived on the west side of
the river.
Fighting Bill was a moderately
small man who was immoder-
ately proud of his hardness
with his fistS-and with some
justification. He would fight at
the drop of a hat. and be the
one to drop it, if necessary.
1t was his custom to step up to
a crowd of men, proclaim that
he could whip any so-and-so
on that hill, and take on all
corners. He kept in fighting
trim that way.
He is said to have whipped
seventeen men in Mobile at the
s~tockyards before they wore
him down enough to take him.
1t seems that wherever men
gathered, a fight ensued, but
the prize place was at cleo
tons. Only men voted, of
course, and they took a simple
approach toward the support of
their candidate: they whaled
the daylights out of just as
many of the opposition as pos
sible.
We hear tales of one county
election, still alive in the mem
DRY of some men, at which a
barrel of whiskey sat open in
the boiling sun with everyone
helping themselves from tin
cups hung on pegs around the
barrel. And they fought. From
polls opening to polls closing
with time out only for trips
to the barrel.
And it didn't die out so very
long ago. Your father will
admit that he has seen election
fights, although he may deny
that he took part in them.
Like so many old customs,
fighting among grown men
largely passed with the coming
of the T-Model Ford, paved
chain stores, radios and
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WADE

Food sale and political rally
at Wade School on Saturday.
tomorrow night, May 81, be-
ginning at 200 o'clock in the
afternoon and continuing until
1000. Candidates speaking and
general get-together for the
benefit of the Wade Baptist
Church.
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DAISY-VESTRY

Al school house, Saturday,
May oath from 3 to 10 .. m.
Food sale and refreshments.
All candidates are invited and
will be given an opportunity to
speak. Sponsored by Pine Grove
Methodist church.
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81 9fMI!E IAI!Ll!!1AE
By NOLLE T.

moving pictures. We who
have yet to reach middle age
have seen the passing of ar
era built aroung a horse-drawn
economy and may yet live to
see the Atomic Age reach ma
turity in wonders untold or
horrors unknown.
A number of folks have ask
ed u recently why we are so
interested in old things-old
stories, old houses, old customs.
1t is because a writer is inter
ested in all things that were,
that are, and that will be. And
he can only know what was,
since the future is unknown to
us all and the present too clut-
tered with our daily living to
be considered dispassionately.
The fact hat things are old
and still exist-that a story has
Withstood many feelings and
the passing down from genera
ton to generation; that a house
has weathered many a storm;
that a custom has been remem-
bered-proves their fundament-
al worth.
And by the same token, a
man who has lived his three
score and ten upon this earth
must have a tale worth tell
ing, a lesson worth learning,
a thought worth sharing.
One of Great Grandpa earns
favorite stories involved an
election fight in which a we'll
dressed stranger took an active
if unwilling part.
Grandpa said they were fight
ing all over the place, rolling
on the ground, standing toe-to-
toe, and generally settling the
election in a peaceful manner.
This stranger had never seen
anything like it before. His
straw cady cleaned in the
bright sun as he edged near
er, standing on tip toe to see
over the heads of the men ring
ed about the fighters.
Finally one man polished off
his opposition and decided the
stranger must want a part in
the fray. He moved up behind
the absorbed man, slapped the
straw cady winding, and
snatched him a flop by the
hair of the head. He sat in the
small of his back for a few
minutes. beating the strangers
face into the dirt while still
holding. two handsful of hair.
Then he turned him loose and
started looking for someone
else to fight.
Grandpa said that stranger
didn't hesitate. He said he got
up and ran with the speed and
reckless abandon that only a
MORALLY scared man. a
achieve. He said he was still
going strong when he went out
of sight over a hill several
hundred yards away.
= y
Grandpa was a small boy
then, and late that same af-
ternoon some of the men gave
him a dime to lead their horses
down to water at a nearby
branch. Darkness was rapidly
approaching and the horses
were drinking their fill when
Grandpa saw the stranger
again.
The stranger parted a cane
break near him and peeked out
cautiously.
Say, son." he asked, Did
you see anything of my straw
hat up yonder.?"
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Wasted Oil

The making" of every oil field in Missis-
sippi required about a hundred million years
of the earth's geologic time. The "unmaking"
of such an oil field can be accomplished in
a year. How are oil fields ruined? BY pump
ing too much oil in too short a time.
According to a number of sound and quail
fled men i'm the oil industry, Mississippi is
in the process of running some of its oil fields,
bringing a vast potential industry to a pre-
mature old age.
: Alec M. Crowell, a leading Texas oil au-
thority, stated recently in Jackson that Mis-
sissippi is producing 80 percent more than
should be produced If the maximum recov-
cry of oil and gas is to be achieved. It is es-
timated that the present excessive rate of
rapid production will cost the state the loss of
100000 barrels of oil in crude reserves
underground.
Oil is not a mineral natural to the earth
in the same way that s%ulfur, salt or iron
ore are native minerals. Neither is coal. The
substances of both oil and coal were once liv-
ing things op the surface of the earth. Coal
seams are made up of the giant ferns and
trees which grew in the swamps which then
covered the earth somewhere about a hun
dred million years ago. For thousands on
thousands of years the dead leaves, branches
and trees fell to the bottoms of the swamps.
AT last came a dry age in the earths history
and the swamps dried up. Great geological
upheavals took place, and the old swamp
bottoms were covered. Today some of them
go far below the surface of the earth. But
when miners follow a coal seam they are
actually digging up matter that once was an
old swamp-bottom in a giant fern-forest.
Oil fields were made in somewhat the same
slow process, but from different substances.
Scientist tell us that millions of years ago
the warm seas teemed with a little micro
scopic "animal".too small to be seen by the
naked eye, but each carrying a tiny droplet
of fat or oil within his body. This creature
was something like the little microscopic
particles or algae that make the green scum
that grows in stagnant pools. The seas con-
tanned billions upon billions of them, and
when each died it sank to the bottom and was
covered over by the silt and sand of the ocean.
In the course of time these oceans too dried
up and these oily sandy ocean bottoms be-
came covered by other geologic layers of the
earth. In certain areas, especially around
shafts of salt or other pure heavy substance.
domes and pockets were formed by bends in
the rock formation, and the oil gradually
floated and collected in these traps, which
were like tremendous inverted dishes over
tie oil sands.
The oil floated on the salt water that exists
in the crust of the earth. In the lower levels
of the oil pools it was still mixed with oil
sands. 1t was found out that by drilling a
well into one of these oil pools and permit
ting the oil to flow out gradually, the level
of salt water raised only gradually as the
oil was exhausted, constantly floating the
everything strata of oil on an equal level.
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L

At the Vancleave Methodist
Church from 400 to 1000
o'clock on Saturday, June 7,
food sale and political rally.
Sponsored by the Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service, pro-
ceeds to go toward painting the
Sunday School rooms in the
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ORANGE GROVE

On Saturday, July 20, at Or
ange Lake School beginning at
1000 o'clock. All day affair.
Plate lunches, home made pie
and cake, coffee and cold
drinks. Sponsored by the Or
ange Lake School Parent
Teacher Association.
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Political Rallies

church. Speaking to be held at
an hour TO be announced next
week and food sale and speak
ing on grounds behind the
church.
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June l4th, picnic from 3 to
10 p. m, sponsored by Masons
and Eastern Stars. All candidates
invited to attend.
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CHANCERY CLERK
FRED TAYLOR
N. c. EVERETT
CIRCUIT CLERK
VERTIS G. RAMSAY
SUPERINTENDENT OF
EDUCATION
A.. FOREST MEGEHEE
oAR OF
T ONE

"a. rOItEol
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
DISTRICT ONE
H. W. COCHRAN
ROY o. CUMBEST
billiard E. JONES
j. l.. Derry DAVIS
DISTRICT TWO
T. ". (TIM) BLADES
A. w. CAMBLEY
T. J. DICKSON
l.. c. (BILL) JOHNSON
EDWARD A. KHAYAT
LESTER E. MACK
j. H. ROBINSON
C. B. WILKINSON
DISTRICT THREE
H. Mac BOWMAN
JOHN J. (Jack) HOLSTER
JOE V. KREBS
WILLIAM H. (Pie) MOORE
EDDIE POND
E. ED VIRGINS
DISTRICT FIVE
GEORGE A. CRUTHIRDS
JUSTICE OF THE A
DISTRICT ONE
H. H. PARKER
S. H. SWENDSEN
DISTRICT TWO
B. B. HOBBY
DISTRICT THREE
EDWARD w. COKER
KATE DENNY
I. d. (TOMMIE) HARRISON
CONSTABLE
DISTRICT ONE
GEORGE E. CARTER
DISTRICT TWO
S. f. BILBO
M. c. STEVENSON
DISTRICT THREE
FOSTER BARROW
LEVERT J. pistol Pete)
BOSARGE
EUGENE Teddy D N
|. F. MACK) GOWAN
w. F. (BILL) STEPHENS
CHARLES N. FERRER
DISTRICT FIVE
PAUL G. (TOBY CARTER
DAVID L. WEST, SR.
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POLITICAL


GSL4xxSAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following individuals
have formally announced in
the columns of the Chronicle
Star ard Advertiser their can
didacy for sPolitical office in
this summers Democratic Pri-
mary.
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
Southern Districtl
MUNDELL BUSH
JOHN D. SMITH
STATE SENATOR
Jackson. George and Greene
Counties
G. L. BEAVERS
r. E. HORNE
J. r. BLACK
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Jackson County
HERMES F. GAUTIER
w. c. Lum) OLIVER
R. l.. VAUGHN
FLOATER REPRESENTATIVE
Jackson and Harrison Counties
F. w. ELMER
SHERIFF AND TAX
COLLECTOR
H. f. (ED) BRODNAX
R. A. HELM
JOHN D. HENLEY
j. GUY KREBS
JOHN X. McNEAL
NOLLE T. ROBERTS
ED j. SIURUA
x. l.. WALKER
LAURIN r. WARE
COUNTY ATTORNEY
H. A. KRUSE
l.. K. MCINTOSH
MERLE f. PALMER
CHANCERY CLERK
FRED TAYLOR
N. c. EVERETT
CIRCUIT CLERK
VERTIS G.. RAMSAY
TAX ASSESSOR
LAWRENCE GOFF
KNOX GRAHAM
w. G. JOHNSON.
A. ROSCOE FLETCHER
NORMAN T. LYONS
SUPERINTENDENT OF
EDUCATION
A. FOREST MEGEHEE
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FLoATER REPRESENTATIVE
Jackson and Harrison Counties
F. w. ELMER
COUNTY ATTORNEY

H. A. KRUSE
l.. K. MCINTOSH
MERLE F. PALMER
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-02-07
Wapdto.Youths
Will Listen To
Miss Robbins

WAPATO, Feb. Miss
Stella Robbins, Selah high
school teacher, will be the
guest speaker at the Youth
Fellowship meeting at 7:3O
p. m. Sunday, Feb. 9, in the
Wapato Methodist church.
Miss r o bins, who formerly
taught in the high school at Tule
Lake relocation center, will speak
on THE Rule of Men, a recently
published book by Leighton. The
volume deals with a study of the
effects of evacuation on the Jap
anese people from the west coast.
The study was conducted in the
Poston center in Arizona.
All Nisei are invited to hear
Miss Robbins and to participate
in an informal discussion which
will follow her talk.
Toshi Matsumura will be chair
man for the evening.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-02-07

Those two female referees who
toot the whistle for the girls bas-
lletball games sure receive a lot
CT ribbings from both fans and
players alike. It's really a tough
job to be whistle-tooters and one
can't blame them for feeling so
downright disguised about it. But
let this writer assure you readers
that they deserve much credit for
their effort although they do miss
few places where the whistle
should have been blown and VISA
versa. Then again, who is perfect?
Everyone makes a mistake d.
after all huh?
Although it's likely for a woman
to change her mind or think for a
second before everything finally
dawns on her, it does bother your
blood pressure. Usually it reaches
& boiling temperature.
All in all, they are doing a down.
right swell job and we sport fans
are very much proud of their eff
cient work and worthwhile abili-
ties in such a difficult employ
ment.
According to the weatherman
he SEE to keep your longies handy
IS we are still a good six weeks
of bad weather ahead of us. Well,
at least, as this writer can say.
you won't die of thirst here in Sc
attic. Not the way water is rum
ming around here free of charge.
Crefering to RAIN.
The Bukkyo board of directors
should be very proud of the Lotus
family, especially the Spartans and
the Lancers who Strengthened out
the bad condition of the gym
floors last week. Without further
saying, the two clubs went ahead
and performed nobly for the kali
kan by giving the floors a thor
ough hopping and finishing job
that really sparkled the once
dull-looking court. The entire
group should be congratulated"
and this writer extend his thanks
and orchids to them :.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-02-07

The Army is greatly In need OF
men who speak and write the
japanese language in order to
make our occupation policies in
Japan function accordingly, said
Sergeant Kramer.
A and B interpreters, Kramer
added, will retain the ranks they
held when they were discharged.
If the veteran is discharged as
pfc. or a corporal, he may re-
enlist as either buck sergeant or
ia, he said.
Latest Army policy is that the
re-enlisted men will undergo a
physical examination at Fort Law
ton and then sent directly to Pre-
sidio, Monterey. Calf, bypassing
the basic training at Fort Lewis,
he added.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-02-07
|. Nishimuro Sfurs
In Troy Victory

That cool number Iso Nishi-
mura, did it again; that is,
he led the Lotus Troys to an
other Class A triumph, their
second, last Wednesday night
in the Buddhist gym. The
Troys tripped the Cardinals,
1924.
Nishimura lobbed in II points,
and Hiro Nishimura, pre-war ace.
Z, for the Buddhist men. j. Uno
was the Cardinals top shot with
s digits.
The box score follows
TROYS (39D-I. Nishimura y,
II. Nishimura Z, Beppu 3, Mamiya
S, Sumioka. Kashino 2, Furuta 4,
Kimura 1, Tsuchikawa. Shibuya
2. Hamanaka, Shimizu 3.
CARDS (24-Takeuchi 3, Oku-
DO, ]. Militia 3, Iwasaki 5, j. Uno
8. j. Kanda, ]. Kuranishi /. T.
Kuranishi 2, T. Uno 2, G. Kanda