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ftOf Paw C. of C.Th« Pam Christian Chamber ofCommerce held the August meeting Thursday night and a number of committee reports were heard. These included ffm. V. Robinson on the Pass Christian War Memorial Park Association; a report on the Park Commission by G.A. Schmidt, member, and chairman of the finance committee; theseafood committee, by H. L. Swift,chairman, who reported on the findings with regard to the oyster industry here and the destruction from the opening of the BonnetCarre Spillway. •Congressman William M. Col-mer was commended in a letterfor the introduction of a House bill to authorize funds for the restocking and replanting of theoyster reefs. Dr. W. W. Lake, C. of C. president, complimented the manner on which the seafood committee worked to this end.Communications were read from J. F. Galloway, member of the Seafood Commission, from Mr. Colmer and other sources. A report on the fish and game committee was read from R. C. Hammett, chairman, revealing that an extensive amount of fish had been stocked in the nearby bayous under the committee’s 1945 program. Capt. John T. McDonald was directed a vote of thanks for his recent contribution to the matter of the oyster reefs here.A report on the servicemen’s letter, Pass in Review, was given by J. W. Terrell, chairmaa. The meeting voted to participate in the purchase of a $350 library as a memorial for the SS Pass Christian, Victory ship now under construction. The library will be for use on the vessel for members of the crew. The library will bemarked by bookplates and a plague from the City of Pass Christian.J. Wolters Terrell, president of the Pass Christian Rotary Club,and a member of the association, gave a detailed report on the Pass Christian Yacht Club’s post war plans, and asked for the coopera-* ’ .’VT* *.Vv*' I*— a*--A*.This Is Kure naval base, home %above was made during B-29 at Third Fleet apparently deliverF1lt;tion of the chamber to provide* recreational facilities for water asports. A temporary committee of J. W, Terrell and Dr. Lake was named to study the proposal. The association went on record* as endorsing the petition circulatedto call an election to vote on a bond issue for the City-County Hospital expansion.Poison ivy, poison oak, elder, and poison dogwood forms of poison sumach.poisonall areof:AHoneyville is in Utah; Honey-ford in North Dakota.ada
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Biloxi Daily Herald
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Fri, Aug 10, 1945
Page 7
Full Page
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