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These Will Assume 1st Elective Posts
GEORGE HAGUE
Moss Point Plans,
For New Bridge
On Rhodes Bayou
The mayor and aldermen of
Moss Pgint at a meeting Wednes
evening voted to widen Main
street 10 feet ih front of the John
Hill proptiiy adjacent to Rapes
Drug store.
Widening the street will afford
parking space and relieve traffic
congestion it is believed.
Plans for a new bridge over
. Rhodes Bayou on Osntsler
street wore presented and the
board voted to advertise for
creosoted pilings and lumber to
begin construction in the near
future.
Mayor Alton Thomson reported
on a recent trip to Washington
to seek federal aid for a proposed
extension to the sewage system.
It was voted U> engage an engi
neer to compile the necessary in
formation and data to complete
the file for federal approval.
A. W. Head, local engineer, will
compile the information and esti
mated cost.
Mrs. M. W. Yerger,
Club Leader, Dies
At JC Hospital
Mrs Hyacinth Wood Yerger. 80.
died at Jackson County Hospital
Saturday after an illness of sev
eral weeks.
She was a native of Rosedale
but had lived in Gulfport before
coming to Pascagoula about six
years ago to make her home with
her daughter, Mrs. Amos A. Tims.
She was a member of St. Pet
er’a-by-the-Sen Episcopal church
of Gulfport; • the Beauvoir chap
ter of UDC and Gulfport chapter
of DAR. A past state president of
the 'American Legion auxiliary
she was a member of the Joe
Graham post of the Legion aux
iliary.
Mrs. Yerger had been libra
rian in Gulfport end was n
member of the Harrison County
Library Association.
rW... The widow of the late Rucks
Vjjt | Yerger she is survived by one
daughter, six grandchildren and
lb great grandchildren.
m Mfci Prayer services were held at
i Fails chapel Monday with the
Rev. Cyril Vlamynck, rector of
t ■ Ft. John’s Episcopal church offi
ciating. Interment was at Metairie
Cemetery. New Orlean
[ . Pall bearers were J. Ouv Krebs
and John R Watts, Pascagoula,
Chester Lyons. Moss Point. Ro
nj land Lovelace, .1 M. Bridges and
J. C. Gay, all of Ocean Springs.
. ? RESIGNS
Mrs. Lois Delmas Neno. g id
uate nurse, who recently joined
the staff of the countv health ci -
t partment resigned this week to
move to Georgetown, S. C , where
her husband has been transfer
red by the International Paper
Company, Dr. G. W. Hicks, direc
tor, announced today.
Steel production in the first
four months of 1951 in the United
States was 34.5 million tons, a
X new' record.
OLIN DAVIS
DONALD CUMBEST
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LEO BYRD
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County’s Officials
Sworn In Monday
Carnival Ball
To Be Held Latter
Part Of February
The annual Carnival Ball and
the crowning of their Majesties, j
ttte'KIn* and Queen of Joy, by
the Young Men’s Rusiness club
has been set for February 22,
Frank G. Spann, Jr., general
chairman, announced today.
A central theme and motifs for
decorations are already being
planned the committee for ar
rangements said.
The traditional ball will be
held the Friday evening before
Mardi Gras day(in the lllh Street
Auditorium.
Deadline Is Sei
On PMA Program
For January 15
The final date for reporting
performances under the 1951 Ag
ricultural Conservation program
is Jan. 15, 1952, W. A. Rogers,
chairman of Jackson County Pro
duction and Marketing Adminis
tration. announced today.
Rogers further staled that rec
ords of the Jackson County" office
show that there are many farm
ers who have secured approvals
of assistance for carrying out soil
conservation practices who have
not reported 'performances on
these practices.
He urges that all farmers
who have carried out an ap
proved soil conservation prac
tice under the 1951 program
report such practice not later
than Jan. 15, otherwise the as
sistance cannot be granted.
A successful conservation pro
gram has been functioning in the
county. Rogers reported. The fed
eial government has helped to
pa\ the cost of carrying out soil
Icons rving practices on 281 farms
J in the county the past year. Farm
I ers of the county have received
j $19,480 assistance under the 1951
I Agricultural Conservatibn pro
gram in rc-ceding pastures, plant
ing winter cover crops and ap
plying superphosphate, potash,
basic slag and liming materials.
I Moore Appointed
| To City Judge Post
For Pascagoula
I Joe A Moore, former city nt
j tornoy, has been appointed city
nidi e by mayor Wilbur Dees at
I Pascagoula.
I Moore will succeed Donald
! Cumbest, who resigned as of Jan.
1 to assume duties of county pros
ecutor, to which position he was
elected in August.
The number of milk cows on
US farms has changed little in
the last three years.
School Seniors
Special Guests
New and re-elected county
and beat officers will official
ly take over their duties for
the. next four years at sweajr
ing-in ceremonies Monday at
the Pascagoula courthouse.
Circuit Judgo L. C. Corbnn will
administer the oath of office in
public ceremonies at 10 am in Ihe
courtroom. Senior class members
from all county schools have been
invited to attend as special guests
of the board of supervisors.
It will be the firit such cere
mony held in the county's new
million-dollar courthouse.
Leo Byrd, who will succeed J.
Guy Krebs as sheriff, said Thurs
day that his chief deputy will be
E. E. Blakeney, former Pasca
goula chief of police who left that
post to become a member of the
state highway patrol.
Two new members of the board
of supervisors will be sworn in.
along with three members re
elected. New members are George
Hague, Beat Three, and Olin H.
(Buddy) Davis, Beat Five.
Members re-elected for four
year terms are Roy O. Dumbest.
Beat One; E. A Khayat, Beat
Two and A. P. Moran, Beat Four.
Three Were Unopposed
Three officials unopposed in
the recent primary who will take
oath for another four years are
Vert is Ramsay, circuit clerk; N.
C Everett, chancery clerk, and
Norman T. Lyons, tax assessor.
Donald W. Dumbest will take
over as county attorney and M
M. (Mac) Morgan, who was elect
ed to the term made vacant bv
the death of A. F. Megehee, will
head the superintendent of edu
cation’s office.
James Ira Grimsley will be
sworn in as coroner, and J. Guy
Krebs, outgoing sheriff, will be
county legislative representative.
Hermes Gautier. Pascagoula,
will take over as 41st District
state senator. Hnd Floyd Foun
tain. St. Martin, as floater rep
resentative for Jackson and
Harrison counties.
Justices of the peace and con
stables for the county's five boaV
will also be sworn in at the cere
monies. They are:
Beat One: H. P. Parker, JP. M.
L. Hamilton, constable: Beat Two:
B. B Hobdy. JP. Dari Wilson,
constable; Beat Three: Kate Den
nv. JP. Dharlie Emanuel, con
stable; Beat Four. H P Benuee/
JP, Draymond Rulloek, constable:
Reat Five, J M. Alexander, JP
Burton E Roberts, constable.
EASY THERE. PODNER
Vancouver, B. C. (AP) Bruc<
Howard was dressed as a cowboy
complete with toy guns. for a
fancy dress gathering when he
spotted two men preparing to
drive his car away. When he
drew his six-shooters the men
fled and Bruce went on to the
party.
Rotations Earn
Cash Reviewing
Magazine Articles
Lienor looking affidavits mark
ed the places of Pascagoula Rn
tarians at the club luncheon Wed
nesday.
The documents stated that the
holder could qualify as a $75,000
n year man provided he could
speak extemporaneously 50 sec
onds about an article appearing
in the Rotarian, club magazine.
Each Rotarian who qualified
received 50 cents and had his af
fidavit stamped by H. P. Heidel
berg posing as a notary public.
Making talks were A. V. Smith,
Earl Hammett. Hal Lee. Frank
Ellis, Donald Simmons, Dr. Char
les McKay, Capt. H. H Colle,
Joiner Haltom. Floyd Daniel, Lar
ry Lindhart and a visitor, M. W.
Levinson, Ciowderspoit, Pa.
Last Rites Held
For Mrs. Clayton
Mrs. Mary I. Clayton, 71, died
last Saturday at her residence on
Pollack Road after a lengthy ill
ness.
She was a native and lifelong
resident of Pascagoula.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at Fairview Baptist
church with the Rev. J. S. Jen
kins officiating assisted by the
Rev. C. S, Simmons. Interment
was in Machpelah cemetery.
Pall bearers were Freddie
O'Brien, Andrew Moates, E.
Goodman, R. M. Whitfield, Earl
Cunningham and J. Snyder.
Survivors are her husband.
Charles Clayton; a daughter. Mi's.
£ H. Spicer; a son, Richard Clay
ton: two brothers, Emp. Pasca
goula and Dallas Trehern. Irving
ton. Ala.; 16 grandchildren and
four great grandchildren.
lames M. Colmer
To Practice Law
In Pascagoula
James M. Colmer will open law
offices in Pascagoula, he said to
day.
Colmer is a graduate of the
University of Mississippi law
school and saw active service as
a lieutenant in the Navy in both
the Atlantic and Pacific during
World War II. He is son of Mr.
,.nd Mrs. W M. Colmer.
His offices will be located in
the Palace Pharmacy building.
Mt. Dora, Fla., is one of the
most recent communities to install
electric garbage disposers on a
town-wide scale. Ninety per cent
of the houses are connected to
septic tanks and the new dispos
ers grind waste into small par
ticles for quick assimilation in
| the tanks.
J. I. GRIMSLEY
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Joint Rites Will
Mark Installing
Of Masonic Heads
There will be a joint Installa
tion of officers of Pascagoula
chapter No. 151, Order of Eastern
Star and Pascagoula Lodge No j
419, F&AM Monday at 7 p. m. at
the Recreation Center, C. D. El
lerman, retiring worshipful mas
ter. announced today.
W. E. Litton, Gulfport, district
deputy grand lecturer, will be the
installing officer. Outer visiting
dijjna'.arjus will hi Lawrence
Corbin, Gulfport, junior grand
warden, and Joe Lee Smith, For
est, grand master of the state of
Mississippi.
Incoming officers are Miss Ellen
Daggett, worthy matron and C. E.
Trest, worthy patron of the East
ern Star, and G. E. Cowart, wor
shipful master of the Masons.
Wise Undergoes
Serious Operation
D. C. Wise, employe of the Pas
cagoula sanitation department,
underwent an operation to cor
rect a ruptured disc in his back
in Mobile Friday.
Wise was injured when he slip
ped while at work.
The city will pay the medical
expenses.
Evans Byrd
First Victim
New Year's
Fontainebleau Man
Is First To Succumb
On County Highways
Evans Byrd, 28, was killed
and his brother, Mantell, 30,
was hospitalized when a half
ton pick-up truck in which
they were riding overturned
on the Pointe Aux Chenes
road south of Highway 90 near
Gautier about 4 a. m. New
Years. They both resided in
Fontainebleau.
County Highway Patrolman
C. A. Davis, investigating the
accident, was unable to deter
mine at the time who was
driving the truck, but it is re
ported to have left the highway
on a curve, ripped down a
bannister and overturned.
Evans Byrd was thrown out of
a door as the truck overturned
and crushed him. He died in
stantly. Mantell Byrd was taken
to Jackson County Hospital where
he was treated for lacerations and
was discharged Wednesday.
Service Station Operator
Byrd, son of the late Ernest E.
Byrd and Mrs. Emily A. Parker
Byrd, was a lifelong resident of
Jackson County. He was a mem
ber of the Bellefontainc church.
Until three weeks ago he had
been operating a service station
at Fontainebleau.
He is survived by his mother;
four brothers, Woodrow, Wiggins,
Mantell and Lavelle, Fontaine
bleau and Lynn, New Orleans;
four sisters, Mrs. John Bond,
Wiggins, Mrs. Ulysses Seymour,
Ocean Springs, Mrs. W. C. Var
nado, Bogalusa, and Miss Olgie
Byrd, Fontainebleau; 22 nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday from the residence in
Fontainebleau and from the
Daisy Vestry church with the
Rev. R. L. Vaughan officiating.
The Tasmanian tiger, actually
a marsupial wolf, is one of the
rarest of living animals.
MISS MISSISSIPPI — JESSIE
Wynn Morgan of Newton — a
Miss Ameiica contestant in the
annual Atlantic City Pageant,
makes one of the first contribu
tions to the 1952 March of
Dimes. The March of Dimes
period has been doubled to in
clude all January because of
the record polio toll of the last
four years.
March Of Dimes
Local Quota Set
As Drive Opens
For the first time Jackson coun
ty has been asked to accept a
quota in the March of Dimes
campaign, R. H. Burney, county
chairman, said today.
The state suffered the worst
epidemic of polio it ha3 fiad last
year. Burney said, with 751 cases
in Mississippi alone. This was
more than the total number of
cases in the preceeding two years
tficials said. There were four
cases in Jackson county and about
JO in Harrison.
Jackson County has bean ask
ed to accept a $10,000 quota.
Mr. Burney said, with the fund
j raising campaign set for Jan
uary 2 through the 31st.
The county headquarters has
mailed out 6100 March of Dimes
folders and a generous response
is hoped for the chairman said.
Success of the campaign is con
tingent upon the cards being mail
ed back with an enclosure.
About 600 iron lung banks will
be distributed throughout the
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January Thru June In Jackson County:
Highlights Of First Six Months Of 1951
As the year 1951 fades into the
pages of history Jai kson county
prepares to post to those pages
its accomplishment', its trials and
tribulations, its jo\ and sorrows.
I Following is a chronological re
! view of these happenings and
events of general interest to
countians.
January
Alton Thomson w sworn in
as Moss Point s new mayor, suc
ceeding Bob Cirlot Sworn in as
aldermen were S. A Mclnnis, C.
B. Wilkerson. John A. Cirlot, E.
Gregory Wood n l Frank G.
Spann. Four am i desperados,
two of them women, were cap
tured in Moss Point and Pasca
goula after bi -puntuated
chases.
Pascagoulans m • ;,ting with
Reynolds Metals c >n locating
an aluminum plan in the area
were told it would p: viably go to
Texas because of r- - favorable
gas rates. Richard Spi iger Smith.
59. native and In' g resident
of Escatawpa, d d at Veterans
Hospital at Biloxi.
A record 63 count vs left for
pre-induction ph' d exams.
Sidione Eugene K b 72. life
long resident of Pa s igoula and
member of one of t • ■. county’s
oldest families, di* d at the coun
ty hospital.
Ben Scholtes wa mod pres
ident of the chambrr of com
merce. *The Missi-s ppj Coast
Council, meeting at Gulf Hills,
adopted a resolution asking a
state investigation >.f industrial
gas rates. Funeral services were
held for Paul Turner Vaughan,
67, superintendent of the L&N
creosote works at Gautier. The
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Watts.
Beach blvd , was damaged an es
timated $20,000 in an eatly morn
ing fire.
The SS Schuvler Otis Bland
was launched at Ingalls, first ma
jor launching in 18 months. Hen
ry “Cap'’ Fletcher, 82, native and
life-long county resident, died at
Biloxi Hospital.
Cpl. Alfred E. Duvernay. 21,
Ocean Springs, was reported
killed in action in Korea. Figures
were released showing more than
a half-million pine seedlings were
planted in the county during 19S0.
Bernard Van Court was elected
president of Ocean Springs school
board. Death claimed Mrs. Isa
bel Mclnnis, 70. former Moss
Point resident, and Mrs. Cora Ed
wina Moody, 64. Moss Point.
Two persons were injured and
two cars wrecked in reported ac
cidents on Highway 90 during the
month.
February
Charles E. Morie, 15, Kreole,
was chosen "Tops in Our Town”
in a Chronicle-Advertiser spon
sored contest and won a free trip
to New York where he appeared
on a national radio hookup. Fu
neral services were conducted for
Rudolph Hans, longe-time Pasca
goula resident.
Jackson county experienced its
coldest weather in many years
when 12-degree freeze hit crops
and water pipes. Ingalls was
awarded a $40-million contract by
the US Maritime board for con
struction of five high speed cargo
vessels. The seafood commission
signed a contract for dredging
reef shell, and adopted an order
authorizing reciprocal fishing
agreements with other Gulf
States. Work was started on the
new state 4H camp at Magnolia i
Park. W. H. Nelson, Jr., was re
appointed to the MP school board
and R. J. Van Horn, Vancleave.
was named to the hospital board.
Kllie Edward Smith, 60, died at
Moss Point.
The 4th annual Golden Gloves
was completed with entries from
four states and the Chronicle
Advertiser sponsored team head
ed for the Southern regionals at
Nashville.
Open house was held on the
Gulf Star, newly completed tuna
clipper, which was scheduled to
operate out of here following com
pletion of the tuna cannery at
MP. John Henry Durden, long
time Pascagoula resident, died at
93 leaving 106 direct descendants.
Frank E. McDonald was named to
head the annual Red Cross drive.
County PMA allotments were
doubled for 1951. Funeral serv
ices were held for Mrs. Ada Ursa
line Clark, who had lived in Pas
cagoula for 72 of her 79 years.
Ranee Calhoun Faegard, 70. life
long county resident, died at
Wade.
The US Army Engineer boat
yard at Pascagoula was offered
for sale by the federal general
services administration. H. J.
Winkelseth was named head of
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To Refute Charge
Says Chief Jones
At Hearing Today
Charges accusing police
chief R. E. Jones of irregular
ities in the performance of his
duties were entered on the
minutes of the city of Pasca
goula Thursday.
The charges were made by
Virgil Cuevas, assistant chief,
who was fired as of Jan. 1.
A hearing and investigation of
the Cuevas accusations will be
gin at 9 a. m. today in city court.
Presiding will be H. C. Ezell,
works commissioner.
Jones was quoted as saying
the Cuevas charges could be
refuted.
Cuevas’ statement, dated Dec.
31, was addressed to the board of
mayor and councilmen. The com
plete text follows:
“I have served as a police offi
cer and assistant Chief of Police
of the Pascagoula Police Force,
having served as a police officer
for some 22 months. Recently the
Chief of Police, Jones requested
my resignation, which 1 declined
to give. I was then notified by
Chief Jones on this date, that I
was discharged.
“I believe that the Board and
the public are entitled to know
something about the operation of
the Pascagoula Police Depart
ment under Chief Jones. The in
cident that led up to my dis
charge arose when I asked to get
off on December 17th and Chief
Jones agreed and stated that he
womM work in my place.
“The Sunday before I was sop
posed to have the day off, Chief
Jones asked me if I had got any
one to work in my place, and de
nied ever having agreed to work
in my place.
"He advised me at that time
that Mr. Ezell and DeJean
would not hire anyone to work
in my place. I pointed out to
Chief Jones that Chief Jones
and Mayor Dees had taken Po
liceman Stewart off a day to
go bird hunting with them re
cently, and that they had hired
D. Y. Smith to take his place.
“Chief Jones actually had turn
ed in D. Y. Smith’s time for the
City to pay him, but when he
found out that I was checking on
it, he withdrew D. Y.’s Pay state
ment from the City Office.
“In other words, I am being dis
charged because I protested on
not being allowed a day off,
which had been promised to me
by Chief Jones, when Chief
Jones would allow a policeman a
day Off to go bird hunting with
him and the Mayor.
“As Assistant Chief of Police I
have had opportunity to observe
the manner in which the Pasca
goula Police Department has been
operating, and there are certain
grave irregularities that ought to
be called to the attention of the
Board and of the public.
“(1) There is no record being
kept in the City Hall of guns tak
en from offenders, which guns
are confiscated and not returned
to the original owners. These guns
are being disposed of by the Chief
of Police in such manner as he
sees fit, and it is my understand
ing that these guns are not being
destroyed, but are being given to
favored persons.
“(2) There is no accurate record
kept of the long distance tele
phone money that is turned in at
the police headquarters by per
sons calling long distance from
the police station. Although the
City pays the entire bill I have
reason to believe that there is no
verification made as to what long
distance calls are made by pri
vate citizens and paid for, and
that for several months that this
money has not been turned in to
the City Treasury.
"(3) I have been advised that
there is a special Police "Kitty."
in which funds are deposited
for the benefit of the Police De
partment, but there is no record
kept to show where the money
comes from, how it is disbursed,
or for what purposes it is dis
bursed. this being a matter
controlled entirely by the Chief
of Police.
“I do know that recently be
fore the parking meters were
placed officially in operation that
the day before the meters offi
cially started that Calvin Bolding
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