Deaths and funerals in Moss Point and Gulfport area
Aldace White Furman 75 of 73 B Kenrose Ave Moss Point died Saturday at home. Elmer W. Callihan 67 Coast resident retired Navy died at Keesler Medical Center Biloxi. The Rev. Jean Louis Villere 57 New Orleans priest died at VA Hospital Biloxi. John J. Jackson Jr. 38 Gulfport resident died Sunday at Memorial Hospital Gulfport. Miss Cecelia E. O Connor 79 Biloxi resident and former Oklahoma City teacher died Monday at Memorial Hospital Gulfport. Burial and funeral services planned with local churches and funeral homes coordinating.
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Aldace White Furman
Kenrose Ave
Moss Point
Lynhurst
N.J
Velma D. Yar
Elmer W. Callihan
CWO
U.S. Navy
Rt. 3
Box 109
Gulfport
Lyman
Usaf Medical Center
Keesler
Biloxi
Jean Louis Villere
New Orleans
Veterans Administration Hospital
Archdiocese of
John
J.J.) Jackson Jr
31St Ave
Memorial Hospital
Coast
Josephine Jefferson
John Felix Jackson
Phillip Jackson
Anthony Jackson
Betty Ruth Jackson
Jessie Carter
Gulf
Cecelia E. O'Connor
Meadow Drive
Miss O’connor
Oklahoma City
Air Force Electronics School
Scott Afb
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
Harrison County soil survey maps shown to leaders
A complete soil survey and maps of Harrison County's 375000 acres were presented to local community and government leaders at the West Side Community Center in Gulfport. Dr D E Pettry of Mississippi State University noted soils' impact while W I Smith of the Soil Conservation Service described 12000 acres of marshland peat soils and the Handsboro soil designation. The survey included water level mapping and a water sample near Finley suitable for car batteries. the report cost about 250000.
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Harrison County
West Side
Gulfport
D.E. Pettry
Mississippi Argicultural and Forestry Experiment Station
Mississippi State University
W.I. Smith
Soil Conservation Service
United States
Handsboro
Smith
Finley
Light Poles Installed Along U S 90 in Biloxi
Aluminum light poles are installed eastward from the Broadwater Beach Hotel to Harrison Avenue as part of Biloxi's lighting maintenance program. Mayor Jerry O'Keefe said Tuesday the work is by Compton's Electric of Biloxi using 19 of 50 poles purchased a year and a half ago to replace damaged poles.
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U.S. 90
Broadwater Beach Hotel
Harrison Avenue
Biloxi
Jerry O’keefe
Compton
Electric
Mississippi Farm Bureau backs USDA control of grain talks
The Mississippi Farm Bureau Convention calls for U S Department of Agriculture management of international grain negotiations, supports Farm Bureau litigation against longshoremen halting grain shipments, and urges selective buying and voluntary planting cutbacks as farm policy tools. It also endorses tax classification by use, a secondary state aid road system, livestock farmer appointments to the pollution commission, and strip mine land restoration. The group elected 10 directors led by Holley, Thomas, Humber, Pinkerton, Barkemeyer, Arthur, McNair, Jeffcoat, Hughey, and Herschenhan.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi Farm Bureau
Agriculture Department
State Department
American Farm Bureau
State Federation
Farm Bureau
Congress
Environmental Protection Agency
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
William H. Holley
Marietta
Wyatt Thomas
Michigan City
J.F. Humber
Clarksdale
Charles Pinkerton
Belzoni
Pete Barkemeyer
West Point
Jimmie D. Arthur
Carthage
Alden McNair
Learned
W.C. Jefcoat
Bay Springs
Brute Hughey
Smithdale
C.O. Herschenhan
Hattiesburg
Hearing Postponed in Gulfport Longshoremen Dispute
A Monday hearing involving two Gulfport longshoremen's unions was postponed until a date to be announced. An administrative law judge was set to hear National Labor Relations Board complaints against the International Longshoremen's Association and two stevedoring firms.
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Gulfport
National Labor Relations Board
International Longshoremen’s Association
Finch Continues Economy Talks In Washington
Mississippi Governor elect Cliff Finch opened a second day of discussions with federal officials in Washington. He forecast the talks would help attract higher paying jobs for Mississippians and boost the state economy.
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Washington
Mississippi
Cliff Finch
Bourgeois appointed regional director of Biloxi complex
Claude Bourgeois of Ocean Springs named Coastal Regional Director of Southland Management and manager of the Santa Maria del Mar apartments in Biloxi. He also previously managed Villa Maria in Ocean Springs and will oversee both complexes under Catholic Charities Housing Association to aid refinancing and reduce management costs. Bourgeois says occupancy aims for 100 percent by February 1 while operations remain unchanged. Two nuns at Santa Maria del Mar have returned to the Holy Cross Mother House in Austin. two others remain on site.
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Claude Bourgeois
Ocean Springs
Southland Management
Santa Maria del Mar
Biloxi
Bourgeois
Villa Maria
Catholic Charities Housing Association of
Ward Tarsi
Jackson
Catholic Charities
Tarsi
Tusday
Department of Housing and Urban Renewal
HUD
Catholic Charities Financial Straits Re
FCC official cites crime risks from citizens band radios
Hardy, FCC counsel, notes organized crime tax potential and a surge in citizens band radios nationwide. He says 200,000 licenses are approved monthly, 500,000 operators may be unlicensed, and 300 investigators cannot cover six million users, amid a 1940 law that may bar using intercepted radio information in prosecutions.
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Hardy
Gulfport
New Orleans
FCC
U.S
Prison rehabilitation seen as quiet revolution in overcrowded jails
Dr. Sherman Day of the National Institute of Corrections told the Biloxi meeting that prison populations nationwide are swelling while rehabilitation programs evolve beyond mere punishment. He cited 20,000 excess inmates in nine southern states and rising probation caseloads, with conditions in Mississippi and Florida prompting court orders and tent housing for inmates. Maserati founder Ernesto Maserati dies at 77 in Bologna.
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A-1
Sherman R. Day
National Institute of Corrections
South
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
Day
Probation and Parole Board
Tennessee
Georgia
North Carolina
Bay-Waveland school board wins $5,000 short term loan
The Bay St. Louis City Council granted a five thousand dollar short term note for Bay Junior High School band hall fire escape construction. The loan will be advertised to allow voter referendum petitions. If unopposed, the loan will be drawn under existing obligations. Council also approved a 10 percent city gas rate hike.
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Bay- Waveland
Bay St. Louis
Bay Junior High
Clarence Ladner
Lucien Kidd
Nick Kenny, 80, Sports Writer and Songwriter Dies
Nick Kenny, 80, Sarasota based sports columnist and songwriter behind Love Letters in the Sand and Goldmine in the Sky, died Monday. He penned popular tunes and covered sports for decades.
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Nick Kenny
Sarasota
Fra
FBI investigator D K Brown dies at 63 in Jacksonville
D K Brown, noted for developing methods to probe bank robberies for the FBI, has died in Jacksonville at age 63. Brown’s innovations aided federal investigations and influenced credit union and bank crime work. His death on Monday ends a distinguished career in criminology and federal policing.
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Jacksonville
Fla
D.K. Brown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gulfport selects Kennedy as architect for new center
Gulfport City Council designated James H. Kennedy as architect for the proposed community center and recreation building at 19th Street and 34th Avenue funded by Community Development money. Design costs will come from first year funds and construction from the second year.
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Huston Carter
Community Development Commission
Courthouse Road
Bond Paving Co
Gulfport
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Home Delivery
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