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jacKscn, rise* Jackson County's only guaranteed advertising coverage (the (Chronicle *£tar THE MOSS POINT ADVERTISER 7 TIDE TABLE Mouth Pascagoula Rivet DATE HIGH LOW Dec. IS 3:12am. 11:47a.m. 8:36 p.m. Saturday 7:55 pm. 10:35 a.m. Sunday 7:57 p.m. 5:27 a.m. Monday 8:19 p.m. 5:52 a.m. Tuesday 8:49 p.m. 8:35 a m. 116TH YEAR Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations PASCAGOULA AND MOSS POINT, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1961 Member of Editorial Association Member of The Associated Press 10c a Copy NO. 7 'Broader roads’ open to Ingalls say executives ROY L. ASH Three men jailed after selling tires on mortgaged car Three Lucedale men are in County Jail for selling four tires from a mortgaged auto mobile. Deputy sheriff M. D. John son said the men are Billy and Thomas Gibson and John W. Pierce. Johnson said they were arrested in Lucedalp, after selling the tires to a High way 90 used car dealer east of Pascagoula. They bought the car in Moss Point and had not made a payment when they sold the tires, he said. They removed the tires and abandoned the auto one mile south of Luce dale, he added. He said the investigation will continue and charges will be filed after discussing the case with the district attorney. The three are booked at County Jail for disposing of mortgaged property. Will confiscate illegal fireworks warns Grimsley Law enforcement officers will confiscate illegal fire works sheriff James Ira Grims ley said today. “We are going to be govern ed by the bill passed in the legislature last year,” Grims ley said. “And this means that stores and roadside stands can sell only those fireworks labeled class C. Cherry bombs and those dynamite things they make will be confiscated by our officers,” he said. He said sale of fireworks is illegal except between the Hafps of Dec. 5 and Jan. 2. k : Litton president and Fred /. Mayo issue statements A spirit of optimism is reflected in statements made today by the presi dent of Ingalls and the president of the yard’s new parent Litton Industries, Inc. Joining of the two com panies opens "broader paths" for Ingalls, said the shipyard president Fred J. Mayo. Roy L. Ash, Beverly Hills, Calif., Litton president, out lined his company’s operations and expressed its pleasure at becoming a “citizen” of Mis sissippi. Both statements were ad dressed to the “citizens of Pas cagoula, Jackson County and. ' Mississippi.” Text of Ash’s message: “I want to take this opportu nity to tell you how pleased all of us at Litton are that our company has become an industrial citizen of Mississippi and, particularly, of Pasca goula. “As a new member of your community, we look forward to participation in the community activities and interests which has been supported by the management and employees of The Ingalls Shipbuilding Cor poration. “It is our hope that we can develop for all of the citizens of Pascagoula a broader un derstanding of Litton and its many operations, both here and abroad, its aim in your community, and its dedication to the nation’s defense and in dustrial posture. "We also hope for consid erably more than a routine economic relationship as a result of Ingalls combining its capabilities with those of Litton. “Briefly, I would like to de scribe some of Litton’s opera tions. “It is a technology-based company, made up of four op erating groups, with Ingalls to be one of our new divisions. Litton’s operating groups are: defense systems and equip ment, business machines, in dustrial equipment and serv ices, and electronic tubes and components. “Just before Ingalls joined us, Litton’s personnel totaled 26,300, including 4500 sci entists, engineers and techni cians. These men and women are employed in engineering and research laboratories and manufacturing plants at 30 lo cations throughout the United States and 21 locations in 10 foreign countries. "Our sales and service branches are locaied in 70 countries of the free world. (Continued on Pace 7) FRED J. MAYO Officers named to Eastern Star in Pas Tuesday New officers were elected Tuesday at a meeting of Pas cagoula Chapter 151, Order of the Eastern Star. Maude Savage is worthy ma tron succeeding Hazel Ashley. Worthy patron is David Wolfe. Wilma Cowart is associate ma tron and Aubrey Meaders is associate patron. Eunice Reviere is treasurer; Ruth Garris, secretary; Lois Ray, conductress; Nina Bart lett, associate conductress, and Alda Mae Elkins, organist. Appointive officers will be named at a later date. — Trustees in Pas ask bids Jan. 8 for school needs Trustees of Pascagoula Sep arate School District will open bids Jan. 8 on electrical repairs and purchase of a public ad dress system. Specifications are available in the office of the superinten dent of schools, according to N. L. Hatten, president of the board of trustees. ' ' wui it i ]i i» a SHOPPING DAYS ® TIU CHRISTMAS - n Schools close 'j for Christmas ; Christmas holidays be j gin today for Pascagoula | students. Elementary public school students. Elementary schools close at 1 p.m.. the high school at 2 p.m. Moss Point, Our Lady ; of Victories and Bluff Creek schools will close Wednesday. Other county schools will close at noon Tues j day. Classes in all schools *1 will be resumed Jan. 2. I W: Rites are Monday for Pas resident killed in Florida Services were held in Jasper County Monday for retired Navy Chief Leland Royal Ishee, 40, of 1005 E. Convent Avenue, Pascagoula. Ishee was killed in a car truck collision Sunday six miles from Pensacola, accord ing to his mother Mrs. K. C. Young. Driver of the gasoline truck, Chester G. Wale of New Or leans, also was killed in the crash that sprayed burning gasoline into a wooded area and knocked the Ishee car 106 feet. Mrs. Young said her son, who had been working in Na ples, Fla., was en route to Pas cagoula to spend Christmas. A retired aviation machin ist with the Navy, Ishee had recently completed a course in operation of heavy earth moving equipment. his mother said. He was retired from the Navy at Norfolk, Va. in November. 1959. The Rev. H. L. Fuell, pastor of Pascagoula Riverside Bap tist Church, officiated at the services at Louin Baptist Church. Interment was in the church cemetery there. Survivors, in addition to his mother and stepfather, include two daughters, Charlotte, 12, and Gale, 7, and their mother of Silver Springs, Md., his fa ther L. C. Ishee of Laurel, half brothers and half-sisters. A Pensacola funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Pori authority will buy truck Jackson County Port Author ity will open bids Jan. 4 on a new pickup truck and offer for sale at the same time a 1956 model vehicle. * Specifications are in an ad vertisement in this issue of the Chronicle. Sheriff to mail tax statements Sheriff James Ira Grimsley said today property tax bills will be mailed countians upon request. Grimsley said in order for countians to receive their tax statements in the mail they must write to request them in cluding a return address. Auto-struck boy in fair condition Goa! of $116,000 is topped in drive for United Fund The 1961 United Fund cam paign in Jackson County ex ceeded its $116,000 goal, UF president Earl R. Hammett re ported today. Hammett said that cash and pledges on hand are enough to top the goal by from 5% to 10%. "Adequate funds are thus assured," said Hammett, "for the dozen health and welfare agencies of the United Fund EARL R. HAMMETT for 1962." An audited report of the campaign will be released at the UF’s annual meeting in January, the president said. All donors to the fund drive wrill be eligible to vote for U. offieers at the meeting, Ham mett said. “More than 7000 individuals,’ Hammett continued, “contrib uted their hard-earned cash tc put over this drive. “It proves again that • I good people of our county have a sympathetic understandin of the needs which the 12 member health and welfare agencies are attempting to I meet." The successful drive was made possible, Hammett said i by the "splendid teamwork of some 200 volunteer work ers." General co-chairmen were Walter Smith, Pascagoula dioman, and James T. Thomp son, Moss Point physician. Division chairmen were Ben Fletcher, Wilbur Dees, E. A. Khayat, Mrs. W. B. Seely, George Hague and Doug Fon taine. Handling publicity were Hor ace Ward and Mrs. George Steele. John O. Grant, Jr., was auditor. Alvin demands police halt entry of liquor trucks A demand that police stop entry of wholesale liquor deal ers’ trucks into Pascagoula has been made by city commission er Alvin H. Charlton. Charlton made the demand in a letter addressed to chief of police E. E. Blakeney. “I have had so many com plaints from citizens and preachers that I just had to try to do something about it," Charlton explained after notifying the Chronicle of his demand. Blakeney said Thursday that he has taken Charlton’s re quest under advisement and will make a comment “short ly.” Text of Charlton’s letter: “I have been advised by the citizenry of Pascagoula, Mis sissippi that we have coming into and operating in the City of Pascagoula, two (2) whole sale liquor dealers, housed and headquartered in Harrison County, Mississippi and they are coming into and working in this city continuously and as you know this operation is a violation of the law. "I am requesting the Police Department of the City of Pascagoula to apprehend these trucks upon arrival and that they be delt with as prescribed by law. “For your information, the two wholesale liquor dealers with tw'o separate trucks made two or more entries per week in and work thru-out the city of Pascagoula. “I am expecting immediate action on this matter and am sure that I will get same.” The letter was signed “Your friend, Alvin H. Charlton, Commissioner of Public Works.” Increase shown in fish, shrimp landings in Pas Shrimp and fish landings at Pascagoula for the first week in December were reported to day by the Bureau of Commer cial Fisheries, New Orleans. Pascagoula shrimp landings totaled 10,400 pounds, up from the preceding week’s catch of 3300 pounds. Total landing of hard crabs at Pascagoula and Biloxi was 12,300 pounds, resulting in 2100 pounds of crab meat. A report for a 72-hour period ending last Friday revealed finfish landings totaled 18,400 pounds. Included was 16,000 pounds of red snapper, 1400 pounds of mullet and 1000 pounds of grouper. RICHARD MURRAY | -* Three are fined, 25 are warned for illegal fags Owners of three automobiles with out-of-state license plates have been fined $25 and have bought Jackson County tags. Twenty-five others have been warned to buy county plates, according to sheriff James Ira Grimsley. The 25 are new residents of Jackson County and have been given a few days to purchase local tags, the sheriff ex plained. He warned countians who go lo other counties to buy their tags. "These residents will be denied homestead ex emption if they are caught with out-of-county licenses for their automobiles," he said. “Officers of Jackson County and the three municipalities are going to continue to crack down on residents who buy li censes elsewhere. “As long as they use our highways, streets and roads, and send their children to our schools, they are going to have to pay their share of the taxes,” he said. Thieves break in 2 Pas businesses Two Tuesday breakins in Pascagoula netted thieves $2.40 and two gallons of root beer syrup. Det. Foster Barrow said en tries were made at Long’s Transfer on Communy and Market and an ice cream stand 1 on Market Street near Com muny. Thieves broke open the front door of the storage building and broke a window to gain entry to the ice cream stand, Barrow said. No arrests have been made, he added. Surgery successful says lad's mother at county hospital A Pascagoula youth was in fair condition at noon Thursday after being struck by an auto Wednesday. In Singing River Hospital is Richard Murray, eight-year-old son of the Edward J. Murrays o£ S28 Sunset Drive. He suffered abraisions and internal injuries when he was struck at Ingalls Avenue and 9th Street at 3:55 p.m. Driver of the aaulomobile was Curtis E. Thrash of 1203 Polk Avenue, according to one of the investigating of ficers. John C. Ledbetter, assistant police chief. Ledbetter said the child, a - third - grade student at Our Lady of Victories School, ran in front of the Thrash car from behind another passing ve hicle. Apparently, the officer said, the bumper of the Thrash auto struck the boy in the side. Richard underwent surgery late Wednesday designed to determine cause of internal bleeding, his mother told the Chronicle. She said Thursday morning the operation was successful. The accident occurred about a half-block from the youth's home. Mrs. Murray said Richard apparently was running across the street on his way home. Ledbetter said Thrash is in the Air Force. The assistant chief was aided in the investi gation by Ptns. L. W. Jones and A. V. Lindsey and Lt. S. H. Ezell. He said no charges have been filed. In another accident late Monday afternoon East Moss Pointer James Pitts, 28, was struck by a car driven by his wife on Delmas Avenue in Pas cagoula. Ledbetter said Pitts was hit by the auto when he stepped from between two cars into the path of the ve hicle. Ledbetter said Mrs. Pitts said she didn’t know she had struck her husband. Witnesses at first believed it was a hit-and-run accident, but Ledbetter said the wom an was later told she had hit her husband. She went to Sing ing River Hospital where he was treated. His injuries were not serious hospital authorities said. Pitts is a worker at Ingalls. County is asking bids on new truck Supervisors will open bids Jan. 9 on a 1962 model 2H-ton truck. Specifications are in an ad vertisement in this issue of the Chronicle and at the office of chancery clerk Wilbur G. Dees. P—wwwyppw——■ TOP-RANKING OFFICERS OF SINGING RRIVER CHAPTER 155 OF ROYAL ARCH Muons are pictured from left: Keith B. Howell, king; E. F. Hayles. high prmi. and Gaoroa L. Allan, *c*B»a. Thay wUl ba inRtaUad Jan. 4. Election wa* Dm;. 7. a (Chronicia photo) H SEVENTEEN PAST MASTERS OF MASONIC LODGE 419 ARE PICTUR ed at a special meeting in their honor Saturday. The men served as master of the lodge covering the period of 1928 to 1961. Past masters, and the year they served are. from left: Harley E. Seay. 1943; E. W. Runnels, 1960; Charles J. Landers. 1957; George E. Briggs, 1828; C. P. Humphreys. 1841; I Carol M. Colville, 1953; S. B. Mcllwain, 1930; Eli J. Smith. 1949; Chari* J. Bogdahn, 1931; C. D. Ellerman, 1951; Charles A. Saliba, 1955; Floyd F. Daniel, 1958; Roy C. Olson, 1954; Howard H. Rush, 1961; Peter Manko, Jr,, 1956; Robert L. Smith, Jr., 1959, and G. E. Cowart 1952. Not pictured are Boyce Flsackerly, 1960, and George D. Rigby, 1940. (Clifford Stag# photo) o