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The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
.GrimsleY warns
deadline is near
for Tag purchase

Only half Of the estimated
number of vehicle owners In
Jackson County have purchas-
ed new license tags with dead
line only five days away.
Sheriff James Ira Grimsley
said today, actually the own
ers have only four days, in
cluding today, to beat the
deadline which is Tuesday"
A penalty wiz be charged
after Tuesday,ythe sheriff said.
Penalties are 259o on the
road and bridge privilege
tax. l09o on ad valorem tax
for the first 10 days after
the deadline.
Thereafter, an overall pen
atty of $50 will be charged.
An estimated 1900 passen-
ger tags plus 1900 tags for all
other types of vehicles had
been issued earlier this week.
There are approximately
10000 vehicles being operated
in Jackson County. Owners
must pay taxes on these We
hicles in this county," Grims-
ley said.
Taxes must be paid and the
tag obtained at the sheriff's S
office in the Courthouse, he
2dded.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Pledges for UF
reach S2l,OOO;
drive continues

United Fund pledges through
Wednesday totaled $21,138.
The amount is approximate
lv one-fifth of the goal for
Jackson County, according to
chairmen James T. Thompson
and Walter L. Smith.
However" they a d d e d,
"most of the large industrial
firms have not reported their
in-plant drives. They are just
getting underway" the chair
men explained.
Firms showing upwards OF
900 partici ip a ton by en-
ployees last week are Southern
Bell, Brumfield's, Bacot and
Frazier and Merchants & Ma
inc Bank.
Many of the firms and IN
dividuals have more than
doubled their 1860 contrlbu-
ton, Thompson said.
Next report is scheduled
Monday at a meeting at the
Pascagoula Chamber OF Com
merce office.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
2 Mobile youths
in County Jail

Two Mobile teenagers are in
County Jail charged with the
Wednesday burglary of J&V
Service Center near Hurley.
Owner J. F. Thomas told
sheriff's officers he watched
the pair pry open a window
into his store at 1890 am.
Thomas waited, watched the
two boys make their escape
with $40 in change, cigarettes
and clothing, and then called
Lucedale police with a descrip-
ton of their getaway car, ac-
cording to Jackson County
deputy M. D. Johnson.
The boys were arrested in
George County by members of
the sheriff's department.
Johnson said the boys were
driving a car stolen earlier in
Mobile.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27

BY 5000 B. c., in the early
Bronze Age, Byblos, Lebanon,
had grown into an internation-
ally famous city-state and a
trade hub of the eastern
Mediterranean.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Ceremony is set
to open Hiwoy 30
for 4-Iune traffic

Dedication of a 1872 mile
section of Highway 80 from
Gautier to Ocean Springs was
scheduled Thursday at 4:30
pm.
official opening of the new
lanes will give the Coast a
total of 43 miles for four-lane
traffic, longest in the state.
Slated to participate in the
ceremonies Thursday were
southern district highway
commissioner John Smith.
Ocean Springs. Pascagoula
and jackson County officials.
A band from Ocean Springs
was to add a musical note to
the affair.
Construction on the two ad-
ditional lanes of asphalt was
begun in 1859 and was con-
tracted by j. A. Hadley Con-
struction Company of Hum
boldt. Tenn. Grading an d
drainage was contracted by
Dennis Brothers Company OF
Jackson.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Meet set Nov. 7
for organization
Of kiwunis Club

Organizational meeting OF
Moss Point Kiwanis Club is
scheduled Nov Z at Mrs. Bills
Restaurant.
Initial meeting of prospec-
tive Moss Point members was
a Tuesday breakfast, with
members attending from the
sponsoring Pascagoula club.
Serving as chairman of the
Tuesday session was Frank
Waring. ME railroad official.
Signed to join the club are:
w. w. Suthoff, M. G. Pras-
senos, Jack Breland, Roy
Blades, H. H. Nelson, R. w.
Mcintosh, Earl Turnage e,
George Armstrong and j. D.
Blades.
Pascagoulans attending were
H. r. Evans, R. B. McIlwain,
John Howkins, Nathan Walton,
Bruce Sharp, Joe E.. Brown
and Waring.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Returns are due
on quarterly tax

CountianS were reminded
today that quarterly tax re-
turns by employers of house
hold workers are due Tuesday.
Alfred A. Raymond of the
Pascagoula internal revenue
service office said forms and
circulars describing the proce-
dure are available at the local
office on Market Street.
The returns are due from
employers of such workers as
maids, cooks and other house
hold employees.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
The Chronicle
keyed-up today
for advertiser

For the second time in a
little more than one year
you can pick up a part Of the
Chronicle with a magnet.
No foolin' = a metal key
is attached to Page One,
Section Three.
The deal is an advertising
promotion by Woods of Moss
Point, and is a repeat per-
formance. Just a little over
a year ago, the same promo
ton was undertaken, the
same type of metal keys
were attached to a Chronicle
page.
Chronicle employees stuck
the keys on with tape. one
by one. until they reached
the finger-weary number Of
$500. This is the number of
Chronicles dispensed through
paper boys and counter
sales.
A postal law prohibits use
of the mail or the number of
keyed-up Chronicles would
have been $500.
All of which proves two
things:
Your Chronicle, key to
good reading, will go "all
out" to please readers and
advertisers, and
An advertiser who finds
something the public wants,
will 6Io ~ again -
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Point sole days
in progress now

Bonus Value Days are in
progress in Moss Point and
will continue through Satur-
day.
The city-wide promotion is
sponsored by merchant-mem-
bers of the Chamber OF Com
merce.
Participating with advertise
ments in the Chronicle are:
Brumfield's, Die k on's,
Woods, Carp's, Hamilton's,
Hill Furniture Store, Ben
Franklin Store, Parks Furni-
ture Company, Lennep Hard
ware and the Bargain Spot,
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Goff heads
ASC group
S man committee
elected Wednesday

Luther B. Golf of Wade
is new chairman of the
county ASC committee.
Others elected at a county
convention in Pascagoula We'd
nesday are:
Johnson Ware of Vancleave,
vice chairman; Forrest J. john
son of Fort Bayou, member; G..
w. Carraway, Jr. of Hurley,
first alternate, and Jim c.
Presley of Escatawpa, second
alternate.
Golf. who has served on
the committee for three
years. replaces Edward D.
Ogborn as chairman. Ogborn
was on the committee for
six years.
Ware served as a member
in 1861. Johnson returns to the
county committee after having
served from 1856 to 1860. He
is a former chairman.
The committeeman, w t h
assistance from community
committeeman, are charged
with administration of farm
programs assigned to ASCS by
the US department of agricul-
ture.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
CycIisf is struck
by driver in Pos;
gets cuts, bruises

Alfred MacBride, 1875 Harris,
Pascagoula, was treated for
cuts and bruises at Singing
River H o pital Wednesday
night following an accident at
the intersection of Jackson
Avenue and Market Street.
MacBride, ID, riding a BIZ
cycle on Jackson was struck
by an auto driven by Niles F.
Calhoun, %, 933 Jackson Ave
nue., Pascagoula.
Calhoun turned off Jackson
onto Market and struck the
bicycle.
No charges have been filed.
police said.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
County sets land swap
Profit of $500, 900
in store for schools
on sole of section

The county has selected
land to be substituted for
school property on which
part of the Standard Oil
refinery will be built.
A 30-daY option was taken
Wednesday night on SAG
acres owned by Robert M.
Havens on the west bank Of
Bluff Creek three miles
southeast of Vancleave.
The Pascagoula school dis
trict stands to gain $573,000
through the sale of the old and
purchase of the new.
1t was reported that Stand
ard of Kentucky, which will
build $125-million refinery at
Bayou Casotte, has agreed to
pay $1,000 an acre for the
schools 10th Section at Ca
sotte.
Purchase price of the Hav-
ems property was reported to
be SGT, 900. The land had been
on the market at that price for
some time, officials said.
County supervisors are at
tempting to speed through
paper work necessary before
the state Agricultural & In
dustrial Board can give a
final okeY TO the land swap.
Approval of the 10th Section
sale and purchase of the Hav-
ems property is now needed
from the Pascagoula school
board the county school
board and the county educa-
ton superintendent.
An official said these bodies
would meet today 70 study the
proposed transactio.n.
Application then swill be for
warded to the A&y Board. A
meeting of the board to con-
slider the application has been
scheduled for IL am. Monday
at Jackson.
This meeting had been SET
originally for Tuesday.
If approvals are granted ac-
cording to the present sched-
ule, ground-breaking ceremon-
les for the refinery will be held
early next month.
Funds representing the
profit earned by the school
district through the trans
action probably will be in
vested.
The law allows investment
of such funds in federal and
state securities.
Handling the Havens prop
erty was the Pascagoula firm
of Smith & Millette, which de-
scribed the Bluff Creek prop
erty as rolling timberland.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Youth deaths
being probed
Five. all Negroes,
all under 7 years.
die during October

Authorities I hurs d ay
morning were probing the
death of a seven-year-old
Moss Point child.
Dead is Charlotte Ducks
worth, daughter of the Roy
Ducksworth of Jackson Park,
Moss Point. She died Wednes-
day in Singing River Hospital.
The Wednesday death was
the fifth child's death In the
Paspoint area in October.
All five were Negroes.
Services for the Ducksworth
child were incomplete. She
was a student at Magnolia
Elementary School. She was
born at Mize and had lived
with her parents in Moss Point
for four years.
Pascagoula police chief Z. E.
Blakeney said investigation is
continuing in the Tuesday
death of Brenda Brownlee,
three-month-old daughter of
Bernice Brownlee of 610 Tuck
er Avenue, PaScagoula.
Services for the Brownlee
infant were held at Gulf Fu-
neral Home Wednesday with
interment in Scranton Gene
terry.
Coroner J. Leslie Nelson
said, after an inquest, ''the
Brownlee child apparently
died of neglect and malnutri-
tion."
A coroner's jury was COM
posed of Aubrey Webb. John
Braddock. =. Z. Davis. W..
L. Harrell. II. c. Travillion.
J. w. Johnson and bailiff NJ.
d. johnson.
Brenda was first cousin of
Alma Pearl BroWnlee, one
month-old daughter of the
Montgomery Brownies of Car
yer Village, who died Oct. 20
Of pneumonia.
Deborah Laster, two-year-
old daughter of Mary Laster,
died Oct. 21 and Nercille E.
Dawson, three-month-old dau-
ghter Of the John Dawsons,
STA School Street, drowned
Oct. in a wash tub in the
parents home.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Activity at fair
will end today

County Fair activities will
end today with school young
sters taking advantage of time
off to view displays and live
stock and take in carnival.
Junior deputies of sheriff
James Ira Grimsley will be
given free rides Saturday at
the carnival from | to 2 pm.
Badges must be worn by
the junior lawmen, Grimsley
said.
Livestock and Arts Building
entries will remain in place
until the fair closes tonight,
officials said.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Cox reoPpointed
to housing board

P. w. Cox has been reap
pointed a member Of the Pas
cagoula housing authority by
mayor Ben L. Briggs.
Cox's term expired Oct. 9
but the new appointment was
not made until Thursday.
Cox, senior vice president
of the Merchants & Marine
Bank, is chairman of the au-
thority.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
Foul indeed
is fowl deed

Chicken pickin' pea
cock pilferin' rooster
Robin thieves. 1 h a is
what they are.
THAT'S what they did
Sunday too - stole four
peacocks. two hens and
two roo5ters at Long
fellow House.
The peacocks are valu-
ed at S125 a pair. A re-
ward is offered. said LII
manager Tom Green.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
3 Pas youths
held in Fulton

Three Pascagoula youths are
in custody of Fulton police af-
ter being arrested Tuesday in
a car stolen from a Pascagoula
High School parking lot.
Pascagoula Det. J. B. Gibson
said the youths were reported
missing from school and were
discovered in Fulton.
The car belongs to Jim ES-
tabrook of 545 Beach Boule-
ward, Pascagoula.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-27
0ne-buck fines
begin Tuesday

Pascagoula police chief E.
E. BlakeneY issued second
notice saying. Tuesday is
the last two-bit day for vio-
lators of parking meters"
After Tuesday. the chief
reminded. the fine will be
81. The increased fine was
adopted by the city commits
sion at a meeting last week.
Arizona tribune., 1961-10-13
UNION CHARGED WITH .
UNFAIR RACE HIRING

WASHINGTON = The Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People charged
today the brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen conspired with
two railroads to discriminate
against Negro workers.
The accusation was in a COM
plaint filed with the Presidents
Committee on Equal Employ
ment Opportunity. In other COM
plants. NAACP charged racial
discrimination was practiced by
the Western Electric Co.. Nash
Vile, Tenn; Avco Manufacturing
Corp. ,Nashville;Liggett & Myers
Tobacco Co., Durham. N. c..
Douglas Aircraft Corp, Char
lotte, NC, and the Northern
Carolina State Security Commis-
sion, Durham. The commission
operates state employment off
ices.
Herbert Hill, NAACP labor
secretary, submitted some 80af-
fidavits by Negro workers who
said they had been denied en-
ployment, promotion or referral.
Negro workers in St. Peters
burg, Fla, and Memphis, Tenn,
charged conspiracy between the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men and the Atlantic Coast Line
and the St. Louis San Francisco
railroads to deny promotion op-
portunities to Negroes and de-
press their wages. They said
Negro brakemen we're classified
as porters.
The affidavits charged the
union accepts only white employ
es as members.
Arizona tribune., 1961-10-13

Rev. A. Grant Kendrick. pastor
of First Institutional Baptist
Church, ll4l E. Jefferson. will be
honored with a gigantic seventh
anniversary celebr alton on Sum-
day. Oct. ~ at 8 pm.
He has held this pastorate since
October, 1855. Under his dynam-
ic leadership, the church's
$685. note was paid; abus was
purchased: aHammond organ was
installed and a stainless steel
kitchen was donated by Valley
National Bank.
The building fund totals 500. 600
now, and plans are being made to
complete the edifice.
Rev. James M. Fleck of West
wood Community Baptist Church
and Rev. N. E. Nicholson Of An
tioch Baptist Church will conduct
the anniversary service on
Oct. 22. The public is invited to
attend.
Arizona tribune., 1961-10-13
PREDICTS CHICAGO
NEGRO POPULATION
TO REACH 35 PER CENT

CHICAGO : A Chicago with
a Negro population of 30-35 per
cent was predicted by Edwin c..
Berry, executive director of the
Chicago Urban League. Speaking
to a luncheon of the Research
Clearing House, and the Research
and Statistics Committees of the
Association Of Commerce and In
dustry.
This young population will be
better trained and will make more
demands for changes in this the
most residentially segregated
large city in the Nation.
They will be better trained
and thus better able to meet
the demands of society and in
dustry," Berry continued. "At
present, lS percent of the Negro
population is unemployed. Is per
cent are receiving some type of
public aid"
Arizona tribune., 1961-10-13
NEALEY TRADED
TO PITTSBURGH TEAM

SAN FRANCISCO The San
Francisco Saints of the American
Basketball League Wednesday
released Arizona States AL
Nealey and traded Jim Palmer
to Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh then sent St. Johns
Tony Jackson to the Washington
Tapers. In return, San Fran
cisco will obtain Washington's
No. draft choice next year.
Nealey established a number
of Arizona State scoring records
and was considered a fine re-
bounder in spite of lack of real
height in a game which demands
it. His shooting and rebounding
ability apparently were not
enough for the Saints in view of
his lack of size.
Arizona tribune., 1961-10-13

Oct. 20-Regular meeting all
daughters are requested to wear
white uniforms. The Tucson
daughters have cancelled their
visit.
Oct. 2l--Banquet for Pacific
States president, Kermit eagle.
The public is invited.
Oct. 81 - Halloween Dance -
prizes for best costumes andlots
of refreshments.
Junior Temple meetings are
scheduled on Nov. Is and 27 ar
7:30 pm. The monthly fashion
show will be held on Nov. IL.
seesea
d. Lillian eagle Is i'll at home.
d. Minnie Lou Cuyton's moth
er. Mrs. Laura Jones is recuper-
ating at Memorial Hospital. She
needs blood donors.
d. Ruler Alberta Perkins
found a beautiful jewelry set at
the Purple Cross Nurses Trea-
sure Hunt last Sunday.
Happy Birthday to Dts. Mozell
Childress, Susie Oby and Nettie
Warner.
Have you noticed someone
missing at the Elks Club7 George
Brown, bartender for the past l6
years took off his apron for the
last time in the club on Sept. 80.
Everyone will miss him. He Is
now employed at local distribu-
ting firm.
Charlesetta McClammy
Reporter
Arizona tribune., 1961-10-13
MORE SOUTHERN
SCHOOLS INTEGRATE

NASHVILLE, Tenn Thirty
one additional school districts
in Southern and border states
desegregated their classrooms
this fall. Southern School News
said.
This Is the largest number of
districts to desegregate during
any fall since 1857, the publi-
cation reported.
Twenty-one Of the districts
mixed their classes voluntarily
and the other l0acted under court
order.
i The integration of these dis
tricts brought to S24 the num-
Der of districts where whites
and Negroes attend school to-
gether, compared to 781 at this
time last year.
Southern School News, a
monthly publication of the South
ern Education Reporting Service.
keeps up with school integration
developments in II Southern and
border states.
It reported this Is the second
consecutive year the South's pub
lie schools opened without vio-
lence, even though the quiet was
broken in November when whites
in New Orleans marched to pro-
test the admission of four Ne
groes to TWO white schools.
Three major southern cities,
Atlanta, dallas, and Memphis
sent Negroes to class with the
whites this year for the first
time.
Dallas, formerly the largest
desegregated system in the ma
tion, admitted le Negroes to clas-
ses with whites. Atlanta became
the first integrated district in
Georgia when 1t opened the llth
and 18th grade at formerly all
white schools to Negroes. Mem
phis last week approved the
transfer of l3 Negro first grad
ers to four previously all-white
schools.
Arizona tribune., 1961-10-13
WORKERS LOSE
16 DAYS A YEAR

The average American lost
sixteen days from work or other
usual activity through illness or
injury in the year ended June 80,
1860, according to the Associated
Press.
Six of those days we're spent
in bed, the United States Public
Health Service reports.
Geographically, the lowest
number of lost days were re-
ported in the north central Uni
ted States, the most in the South.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-03

artificial birth control is the
accepted thing.
The refugee situation: The
homeless Cubans come to
Florida at the rate of 1000 a
week. How do you feel about
the refugees? How does the
country accept them2 What is
your responsibility in this
area? Cuban refugees will be
arriving in the Columbus Do
cese, she said, and it might
be your apostolate to help one
of them adjust.
Reform is needed in other
areas. We must follow the
tried and true blue print
observe, judge and act.
We must become the inform
ed, articulate, and militant
laymen who will change the
face of the earth. If we don't
do it, who will?
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-03
YOUTH NOTES
Must Not Only See
But Act, CYC Told
YOUTH NOTES
by John E. Jones
Times Staff Wrifer)

The shocking advance
ment of secuIarized think
ing among Catholics and
society, in general, points
up the need for the young
adult to develop a strong So
cial consciousness in line with
the Church's teachings and
to be ready to fight social in
justices existing in the world
today.
The young adult must know
how to counterfeit the forces of
evil.
The silent voice of the.
young adult does not indi-
cate he feels no compassion
for his fellow man.
This FEAR" said Miss Hell
en- Mcdaniel, director of case
work for the Catholic Welfare
Bureau, "of not knowing how
to 60 about promoting change
is the main reason for his sill
ence."
Miss Mcdaniel spoke at the
DCCY convention on the
"CYC and the Development
of Social Consciousness"
I'VE MUST FIRST be aware
of the people around us, Cath
olicS and non Catholics," she
said. Secondly, we must be
conscious of the responsibility
we have to take our place and
to make our unique contribu-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-03

tlons as Catholics to society"
Social consciousness must
be IN the mind, heart and &C
she said.
TN THE MIND, she said,
we must have an alertness to
the opportunities in ones life
to bring Christ into the market
place and be on the lookout
for social conditions which
cause one to lose his faith or
never to achieve it,"
I'm THE HEART-we must
be unselfiSh and willing to
sacrifice to seek that which is
good.
I'm AcTIoN-we must think
with the Church and must be
sure to choose the right way
to bring about social changes.
The young adult, the Cath
Ole, must penetrate social in
Stitutions with the aim of re-
storing all things to Christ.
Economics, education, fam
lily life, race relations, poll
ties, refugees, housing and
welfare are just a few areas
in need of reform.
TAKE FAMILY LIFE, for
instance. There are those who
will tell you that family life
is disappearing from the
American scene. The family
is no longer a unit, the chill.
dren dictate to the parents;'
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-03
SCORES
JUNIOR DIVISION

st. Ladislas az, st. Mary 81
st. Leo 38, st. John the Evange-
list IL
Corpus Christi %, Sacred Heart Is
st. Dominic 81, st. Catharine 80
Christ the King SO, Holy Rosary Is
Holy Spirit rs, st. Thomas 10
Our Lady of Victory 8, st. An
drew 2
st. Michael 20, st. Agatha Is
Immaculate Conception SO, Our
Lady of Peace 81
st. Aloysius %, st. Christopher Is
st. Agnes rs, Holy Family IL
st. Mary Magdalene IS, st. Gabri-
ell 2
st. Augustine 20. st. Peter 20
st. Matthias Is, Holy Name 10
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-03
Two Diocesan
Women Named
Springs Officers

Two women from the Do
cese of Columbus were re-
Gently elected to freshman
class offices at the College of
st. Mary of the Springs.
Miss Jane Litzinger, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J.
Litzinger, Somerset, will serve
as president and Miss Sue
Caldwell, daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. Byron E. Caldwell,
706 Pleasant Ridge, will be
secretary-treasurer. Miss JAN
ice Mclaughlin of Pittsburgh
was elected vice-president.
Freshman class elections
are deferred at st. Mary's SO
that students may become
better acquainted with their
fellow students.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-03
DEAR DORIS -.
Why Should Juniors
Take College Boards?

discussion to a minimum. And
in this case actions will real
ly speak louder than words.
When you are at the next
dance and see him don't get
embarrassed and disappear
behind a group of girls. When
he sees you he's sure to ask
you for a dance.
Doris Revere Peters an.
sWerS your letters through
her column, not by mail.
Please do not ask for a per-
sonal reply. Young readers are
invited TO write to her in care
of The Catholic Times, Box
636, Columbus, Ohio.