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Evening star., 1949-07-17
AUTOMOBILES WANTED

sIGDEBAKERs La 1247 TO, to 194si all
POLITAN MOTORS, N. Y. ave. and
Bladensburg rd.
CHEVROLET 1949; pvt. party. Call
WANTED. used cars. any year, any
diate cash; a;s no % waitiHg Contact AgTo
densburs I'd ne. Ii. s-ssoo
cheap for cash. GE. 3453. III
SOUTHERN DEALER in town this
week; l will pay highest cash price
caEvRShETs f RSdf!1 Ta.l WANTAD9T TA 4io will pay
hsaeSt 9sfR RRK pFlHeS MooR Rny year 4oG 05
MORE Sa ays eAsn aT roK IA roGk ti%e CAR. Els new
= sss u'ss g. Gs sass " woEFH S5aE MenoRs' '!s
USED cars 'GS sHfRI1NGToN nsfh eFse 'G MoToR SesR
CO.. Shirlington Business Center.
.OW 1000 - -
Bel Motofs 1sl3 Set The ohshas hishssf retail
price for your 1946 to 1949 car II
car is sold at your price our only
charge is S25, no. charge Of any
Available to you at any time Keep
in m,s or &C call ,,,B BELL ILod MOTORS, 500
cHRs M.s; ays;, WsNTWR WE; $500, r. ,o,d .. ~,
big aii-day sale every We S0'q TUESDAY. Ss Sst
Leave your car 8 to 10 am. Tues
day or 7 to Q Monday night We
have the buyers. We. take the
s51esn co1GMB1A fSH %oross 5ss !qR 9Re bs Plicfs s.
acre car-mart," Columbia pike and
Will ge Pay H AL ALL; CASH HH; s9oG' sor good.
Gsn1,rli clean latermodel nc. used car. MR..
for cars in good good cond., II ii to i'ts az
models, Call BOB DoNNELLY.
BG}cks iGi SSo%j WANTED will pay high
fair, AK; Hostts9 Hoi ESQ AprRArsA1s @1s on all
Eski; 8 fias IS sss assured ss ns =.
sFd Tdz.SSs IS BEFORE 1sSIGr sog f.- SELL; !.
HoIb SIh II Il Jnsr Ps Ex MrNTTG; s5Pe se, high
ssr: Pu 2s57; DU. s1ss; BRENT
fsia1d Moo5 NC Mo7oR as CO. o1en '!7 an Rh0ae se
FRANKLIN, air-cooled model. in any
condition. must be cheap. Box 30-X.
AUTOMOBILE WANTED. I want to
5000 Taylor 4O55.
CADILLAC I947 ''62' 4-dr.; immac.:
no dealer. TIE. 6942.
OLD CARS WANTED. Immed. cash.
Drive right out and get cash. 1000
Central ave: Sc. -23
FoRDs WANTED will pay high
KIRK MOTOR CO. 1000 Ga. ave.
TRY TRY TRfAaGhE-we RI sGII pay premium nn
prices for extra clean cars of popu-
lar make and model. Drive yours
to either location. TRIANGLE
MOTORS 301O r. I. ave. ne. or
1893 R I. ave, ne.
PONTIACS WANTED will pay
model KIRK MoToR CO. 1000
PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL wants '4i-4e
car. No dealer. RA. 6o67. -l7
THE NATIONS CAPITAL used-car
wholesalers One thousand cars
needed at once. Cars and titles must
be brought in for appraisal. We
suggest that YOU get at least 6
appraisalS before you bring your car
in. We don't claim to paw more
than any one else but we won't be
undersold in our policy. We are in
dire need of choice cars listed below:
coupes, 1889 to 1949 models.
Buick and Pontiac sedanettes. ~ to
40 models. Clean '36 to AZ models
are at a great demand at present.
After you've tried the rest, then try
the best. CENTRAL MOTOR SALES,
1926 Conn. ave. NV. WO. 1886 or
EN-. 1854. -
Evening star., 1949-07-17

n 4 YYr Is 20 y usual Time--Small
NAVY Glasses. Individual Advance
va y - ment SPECIAL METHODS in
SHORTHAND, Touch TYP
ING. TOP SALARIED POSITIONS. NEW
Glasses NOW. Reg. today. BOYD SCHOOL,
700 18th St. cor. C. Ma. 234O.
Evening star., 1949-07-17

OPEN WEEKDAYS TILL q;
SAT. TILL b; SUN, 10 TILL
Shop in comfort at Washington's S
largest indoor showroom. We try to
keep at least 100 cars on display
at all times Most cars have radios
and heaters. Ea silly financed and If
your car exceeds the down payment,
we pay you the cash difference.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
Sale OF Federal Housing

Indications are that the Public Housing Authority before
long will put the so units comprising the Gulfdale housing
project for Negroes, on the market for a block sale to a
syndicate or private investors.
The houses have been offered for sale to individuals
twice by the PHA with no takers, despite the fact that they
carried a Federal Housing Authority loan commitment
of 80 percent of the sale price.
The same reason that these units were not bought by in
dividuals applies to the Eastlawn Navy houses. Ninety
five of these houses were offered for sale by the PHA a
short time back to veterans and occupants with not a single
application for purchase being made.
Reason for the lack of interest is that the houses, in both
Gulfdale and Eastawn, are priced too high.
The federally owned Negro houses were priced at $3.50
to 1850, plus legal fees and other charges that added APP
proximately 500 to the price. The Eastlawn houses were
priced at $1,000 and $4,1OO, the majority of them at the
latter figure. The price of these, too, was increased in pro-
portion to legal fees involved.
We believe that these prices are in excess of the figure
that the government originally spent in construction of
the houses. The PHA says that they took the prices set
by the FILA after an appraisal by the latter agency. That
may be true, but local experience with private building has
found the Jackson office of the FILA consistently scaling
down valuation in Pascagoula and Moss Point in making
estimates for loans. 1t is hard to understand why, then,
their appraisals should run so high on these units which
barely meet the minimum FILA standards.
We might also point out the 18th street auditorium, child
service center and four acres of property is being sold to.
the city for $1,000 by the PHA. Original investment in
this facility ran, as we recall il, around $4,000 which makes
the sale price less than l0-cents on the dollar. The same
applies to the recent sale of Lincoln Hall.
The inevitable result of all this is that the PHA will re-
sort to block sales at greatly reduced prices and, unless the
Pascagoula Housing Authority can intervene, private in
vesters, instead of home owners, will reap the benefits.
In the case of Esstlawn a cooperative composed of oc-
cupants and interested citizens is being formed and, perhaps
if this housing is reduced to block sale, the cooperative can
buy them in and resell them to occupants and individuals
on a non-profit basis.
In any event, if the PHA is going to drastically reduce
the price of this housing in future block sales, we can't
understand why at least a portion of any such reduction
cannot be put into effect for individuals to give the average
Pascagoulian, who wants one of the houses as a home, a
break.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11

iety in the diet served chronic ward patients. It is GER
tainly too monotonous, UNMARRIED and coarse now to really
build the patients toward health and a fair chance for re-
covery.
6. Try another basic system of pay that would seek to
introduce the principle of tying together the advantage of
the chronic ward workers with the welfare of the patients
under their care. This could be done by offering a bonus
of SIS or even less for each attendant of those cases under
their care who improve enough to become rehabiltated in
the outside world. The payment of this extra money would
become due when such improved cases had been away
from the hospital without return for as much as a year.
Such a system of pay would help to establish a means of
keeping the workers here on the job to collect their bonuses.
1t would establish a pay system that would guarantee pro-
lection for the patients themselves more than any other
kind of system that could be used in a mental hospital.
7. A campaign should be started to abolish the tight
rooms" where patients are sometimes put.
8. More buildings should be built in the overcrowded
chronic service division to relieve the terrible overcrowd-
ing there.
We think these recommendations, coming as they do
from a Whitfield patient. should be closely studied by the
Board of Mental Institutions and the legislative inveStigat-
ing committee. Certainly they make sense, and offer work.
\ able means of improving conditions at Whitfield.
And we thank our friend. Fred CLANCY. for acting in the
interests of the patients at Whitfield without regard for
possible unfavorabls action against himself.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
Whitfield Recommendation

We reprint below a recent editorial from the Delta Demo-
GRAFT Times at Greenville. which we think contains excellent
recommendations concering the conditions at Whitfield
mental institution.
Fred Clancy, the son of Mrs. r. P. CLANCY and the late
Sheriff Clancy has been a patient at Whitfield for a num-
Der of years. During much of this time, we have kept up a
correspondence with him, and have on occasion talked with
him of his life at Whitfield. AS his Washington county
friends know, Fred has unusual analytical ability, and a
power of expression that would have made an unusual
newspaperman out of him.
Because of the present discussion of conditions at the
institution. we are outlining some of his observations and
constructive suggestions. with his and Mrs. ChaneYs per-
mission. and with the conviction that the Whitfield author
tiles will recognize the validity of his proposals and his
right to express them. .
Here they are as he has written them:
/. Change the admittance laws so it won't be as easy
to slip people in and forget them.
2. Guarantee all patients ON the chronic service Except
the 'congenital idiots') a stating and general examination
by all staff members at least once a year, to check up on
their condition and possible eligibility for parole and an
other chance outside.
8. See that medical inspection of all chronic service
wards is carried out at least four times a week. if not daily.
instead of the once-amonth or once every so days that has
often been the case heretofore. This frequency of inspec-
ton by the doctor in charge will discourage the abuse and
and mistreatment that lack of adequate inspection makes
possible and that SO often has occurred undecided upon
the chronic wards.
4. See that all confined patients are taken off the stone
floors and out of their eramped backwards for fresh air,
sunshine and exercise for at least two or three hours each
day that weather conditions will permit. This period ON
the outside for a "breather" will mean much even to most
of the patients who have no possibility for recovery. 1t
should be provide dior all confined patients here, even if a
wire enclosure has TO be built to serve as a sort of exercise
yard from which they cannot escape.
5. Try to improve the diet and guarantee a little var
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
French People
Take To ~
Boom Builds Up

PARIS -(AP)- France is TAX
ing to television. BY the end of
the year four different transmit
tiers will be operating in the
country.
1t hasn't reached the point
where television receivers are be-
ing installed to attract crowds in
sidewalk cafes or as an added at
traction to a Can Can" show.
But 10000 sets are registered in
Paris. Officials believe that there
are many more unregistered sets.
Radio sets in France are reg
lstered and each set owner has
to pay a tax of about two dollars
a year. Although it has been cus-
tomary with radio to let taxes
pay for programs and keep the
anyways free of commercials, Ra-
diofusion Television is consider
ing selling time to sponsors.
This revolutionary move on the
European Anyways is being held
up by Communists. A spokesman
said recently that if the airways
are opened to advertising, the
wealthy Communist Party of
France will be one of the first
customers. The matter if dis
elimination, he said, has been
delaying a decision.
AT present there is only one
television transmitter. That is on
the Eiffel Tower. BY the end of
this year there will be a second
transmitter operating in Paris.
one IN Lyon and one in Lille.
The television studios on the
Left Bank were started while the
Germans were here. The Nazi
chieftains in France were taken
with the idea and consequently
did everything they could to help
their captives along.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
APP Newsfeatures

GENEVA - There is a winter
sports slump in Switzerland this
season.
Winter sports outfitters, hotel
managers and sports writers COM
plain that the Swiss are losing
interest in skiing. At the same
time, currency difficulties are
keeping away many visitors who
went skiing in Switzerland be-
fore the war.
The Swiss have become accus-
toned to the decline in the num-
Der of visitors from abroad. But
the loss of interest among the 60O,-
900 ski-owners in Switzerland IS
a hard blow.
Skiing was introduced by Eng
lish tourists at the end of the
nineteenth century. Swiss his
tory records that a Colonel Ma
pier first glided through the snow
covered streets of Davos in the
winter of 1888 on a pair of skis
imported from Norway.
National Pasiime
Skiing since has become a ma
tional pastime in Switzerland,
and the national sport associations
estimate that at least one of ev-
cry seven Swiss owns a pair OF
skis.
But of three ski races organ
lied this winter by the Swiss Ski
Federation, one had to be called
off entirely due to lack of public
interest, and another could mus
ter only IA participants.
Famous Swiss winter sports re-
sorts report that the number OF
Swiss visitors is at a low ebb this
season. The extremely high cost
of hotel accommodations is held
partly to blame. Swiss skiers also
blame the loss of interest on the
high prices of modern skiing
equipment which, in recent years,
has multiplied in cost. A modern
pair of skis, complete with all
the latest gadgets, may cost the
equivalent of a working mans
wage for a month. Skiing, beyond
the beginner stage, is a difficult
sport requiring much practice
and, above all, good equipment.
Many Swiss no longer a afford
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
Hotel Managers, Outfitters Hit BY
Winter Sports Slump In Switzerland

the expensive equipment, lengthy
winter sports holidays, or even
weekend trips on expensive trains
from the cities to the skiing
grounds in the mountains.
Compulsory Training
Some Swiss sports writers even
believe that many expert skiers
have become discouraged, not
only through the expenses in
volved. but through an over-em-
phasis on skiing which accom-
panied the Olympic winter games
at st. Moritz last year. In antici-
patton of the games, the selec-
ton, training and chances of sue
cess of the Swiss skiers became
a focal point of national interest.
Nevertheless, French and Scan
dinavian skiers won most of the
honors at st. Moritz. The disap-
pointment of the Swiss may be
partly responsible for the deflat-
ed national interest in skiing.
Another reason may be found
in the fact that the Swiss Army,
where every ablebodied Swiss
citizen goes through a compul-
sorry training period every year,
is concentrating more and more
on the training of ski troops for
mountain warfare. Three weeks
of maneuvers in the high Alps
under grueling winter conditions
may dampen the enthusiasm of
the keenest amateur skiers.
Skiing reached the high point
of fashion in Switzerland between
wars, and many experts believe
the general interest will continue
to decline as the novelty of 1883
becomes more and more common
place. Not even the most fanat-
ical enthusiasts continue to re-
gard the Swiss as a nation on
skis.
The National Zeitung" OF
Basic, commenting on the ski sit
uation, declared that any new
sport is bound to decline to a
certain extent. when the count
less people, who only took it up
through a momentary interest, or
snobism, or just because it was
fashionable, lose interest and give
it up. That is what has happened
with skiing"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11

ing came in answer TO Kosciu-
sko city officials, who ruled
that the pinball machines are
gambling devices and ordered
them banned in that city. We
wonder what General Rice
would rule concerning the over
burdened market on slot ma
chimes in Harrison and Hancock
counties. We understand that
the state also collects taxes
from these devices, the same
tax that is collected from other
coin vending machines. We'd
also like TO get a ruling from
General Rice on the status of
the State Line gambling estab-
lishment, which has operated
for many years unmolested on
the Jackson county- Mobile
county state line. County Off
cials say they can't touch it
because Of the uncertainty as
to whether it is located in Mis-
sissippi or Alabama. Three
years ago the state legislature
made an appropriation of SIS, 900
to establish the line, and Gem
eral Rice was going to enter
into a friendly" suit with Ala
bama for that purpose. Exactly
nothing has been done for that
three-year period and the State
Line continues merrily (and lu-
eratively) on its way immune to
interference by the law.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
preparation.

preparation.
Nurses numbering 1921 served
a total of 1878 days in rs of the
years Red Cross disaster relief
operations.
The four most destructive dis
asters last year and the amounts
expended on them by the Red
Cross were the New England for
est fires, 1886, 701; the Alabama
Louisiana Mississippi hurricane,
81, 646, 081; the floods in the Pa
cific Northwest, $4,000, 900; and
the Florida hurricane, 81, 069. 289.
To avoid duplication of effort
in disaster emergencies, the Red
Cross cooperates closely with the
armed forces and other federal,
state and private agencies con-
cerned. The Army and the Coast
Guard frequently lend the Red
Cross supplies. personnel and
equipment in times of disaster.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
THIS WEEK
in Other Years

FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Violations of OPA gas
laws brought arrests of IL men
-. Paper, cans and fats asked
for scrap campaign Nylon
hose brought purchase price of
$1,000 war bond at War Bond
auction Funeral rites held
for Miss Marie Delmas No
Editorial carried.
FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, $50 German lows
were used in Jackson County
in wood cutting for paper mill
-. USS Hampton, attack trans
port, commissioned at ingalls,
=. Mrs. c. H. Roberts of Gau-
tier had five sons and two sons
in-law in armed service -.
Death of Berry Boaz, former
auditor of Dantzler Lumber
Company, occurred in Georgia
-. OPA announced two weeks
ration free shoe sale No
editorial carried.
THREE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK. Approximately $3.50
voters paid their poll taxes be-
fore February l deadline
Supervisors asked Governors
aid in state line dispute
State failed to kill Black Mar
ket tax in close vote Edi-
torial. Filthy conditions in Pas
cagoula.
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Local merchant, H. S.
Hinkle. died of heart ailment
=. M. ], Bullock named ath-
letic director at Moss Point high
school; Swayze resigned to go
to Ole Miss ... Pascagoula city
school was the host to choral
clinic Editorial: Save the
vanishing Coast, bewails desc
Grafton of natural beauty of
coast.
ONE YEAR AGO THIS
WEEK, Resolutions adopted at
jackson asked for calling of
Southwide Democratic meeting:
party bolt was threatened -.
w. Ed Virgins named head of
Chamber of Commerce
Rates increase was denied
Southern Bell Telephone COM
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11

will become the training spot
for ice hockey and not baseball
teams.
Now that there are phono-
graph records that play at three
different speeds on the market
a disc jockey will have to be
able to pace, trot and gallon.
A German second story ar
fist took all the pages out of a
religious book and used il as a
receptacle for his burglar tools.
When the cops got him he didn't
have a prayer.
A London. England. bird CEN
sus shows that metropolis has
more sparrows than starlinqs.
And-to paraphrsse an old saw.
ing-we1l BET a pigeon could
lick EN- bothi
To conserve leather the Brit
ish are now making shoes out
of fish skin. It must be a tough
Job-keeping all those scales
nicely polished.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
LOTTERY MAY AID REFUGEES

SlMLA, India = (AP) - The
government of East Punjab has
decided to hold a state lottery
with worldwide scope" for
raising a sum of $3.50, 600, 900 for
the rehabilitation. of 1000. 900
non-Muslim refugees.
A letter has been addressed
to the government of India ask
ing IT to organize the lottery or
permit the East Punjab govern
ment to organize it.
The question was also discuss
ed during the finance ministers
conference in Delhi.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-11
KNOW YOUR
RED CROSS

Disaster Service is the e
known and most dramatic of all
the Red Cross peacetime serv-
ices. Because it gives aid to those
in need in time of chaos and mis-
cry, it has a strong appeal to the
public mind.
The story of Disaster Services
is as old as the American Red
Cross itself. In 1881, the year
Clara Barton founded the organ
ization, it pitched in to aid vic
tins of the great Michigan forest
fires. Since 1920 it has assisted
in 1851 domestic disaster relief
operations. More than $125, O00,-
900 has been spent by the Red
Cross for domestic disaster relief
operations since that time.
During the last fiscal year the
Red Cross spent $l2,17l, 900 for
relief and rehabilitation on 1903
disaster operations in this coun-
try. These catastrophes - fires.
floods, hurricanes, wrecks, explo-
sions and many other destroyers
of life and property - claimed
592 dead and 1904 injured, and
destroyed or damaged 88,4OO
buildings. A total of 312,400 per-
sons received assistance. And of
the years expenditure, about 70
per cent was for the comparative
ly unsung program of rehabilita-
ton.
While emergency relief in the
form of mass shelter, feeding and
medical care is easily visualized
by the man in the street, the work
of the Red Cross in rehabilitat-
ing disaster victims is not so well
known. Yet long after the emer-
gency period has ended, this work
continues restoring the health,
the earning capacities and TIL G
homes of many victims in each
disaster.
A principal part of Disaster
Services is its medical and nurs-
ing program. And the prime OBJ
jective of the medical and nurs.
ing program is to beat disasters
to the punch by preparing indi-
vidual chapters to meet them. To
this end, the Red Cross carries a
constant program of planning and