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Building Material Center
647 deMontluzin Ave. Bay St. Louis
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- 'v ~l \\V-THE VOICE OF THE SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST"
Bay St. Louis - Waveland - Diamondhead - Pass Christian
VOL. 85, NO. 103 THE SEA COAST ECHO BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1976 SINGLE COPY 10*
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Vo-Tech Center offering adult evening classes
The Pearl River Junior College, Hancock County Vo-Tech Center will offer to adults both Vocational and Academic Courses in the evening during the 1977 Spring Semester.
Interested students may register for a class the week of Jan. 3 thru 6 between the hours of 8 A.M. and 7 P.M.
The following courses and organizational meetings will be as follows:
Vocational Courses will organize Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 6:30 P.M.
Courses offered are: Typing I, Office Machines, Shorthand I, Shorthand II, Bookkeeping I, Auto Mechanics (tune-up), Carpentry-Cabinetmaking,
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“Look what Santa left me,” says Lynda Ann Scardino, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Scardino of Timber Ridge, Pass Christian, shortly after “Old Saint Nick” had been and dropped a bag of goodies under the tree. Lynda had other packets to open and offered words of encouragement for us to “hurry im ”
$24,000 in red
Hospital administrator says
financial situation should improve next year
Hancock General Hospital trustees on Tuesday accepted a monthly financial statement showing the institution to be $24,000 in the red after hearing their administrator, Mrs. Mona Santiago, state that a reversal of this trend would be forthcoming early next year.
Santiago told trustees that anticipated Medicare, Medicaid, and Blufc Cross settlements in February or t
March -will put the hospital back into the black.
The administrator was also instructed to review state prices on an Eyetone Dextrostix machine requested by the hospital’s physicians to permit a more accurate blood sugar analysis to be taken than available through the current “finger-stick” testing method.
A second machine, known as an SMA-12, and costing between $14 to $25,000,
was also sought by Curtis Hedgewood, chief technologist for HGH.
This equipment, virtually a complete chemistry system to analyze blood, would permit the hospital to perform its own blood profiles and eliminate the need of utilizing “outside” laboratories for this work.
Savings, Hedgewood said, would be at a minimum level of $200 per month, with a subsequent reduction in patient costs.
Kiln-DeLisle Road under fire
By JAKE JACOB Tlie Kiln-DeLisle Road, the source of many user complaints since rebuilding commenced last year, came under fire frori Supervisors James Travirca and Satn Perniciaro this week, with both tei tiling the road to be in deplorable co dition.
'ravirca said he had been informed tb .state aid project would be complete ai: J hardtopped by December the first, a oate long gone.
He said that both he and Perniciaro had received literally hundreds of complaints concerning the road, T-^irca wanted it known that neither
could do much about the situation until the contractor had exceeded his work days.
“I would like there to be some way we could let people know that we are not responsible for that road,” Travirca said.
Larry Seal, county engineer, said the prime contractor, Alabama Waterproofing, had used up only 142 of their allocated 200 working days, due to adverse weather conditions.
Seal said the contractor is supposed to keep the road passable to residents and property owners - another item contested by the two supervisors.
the governing laws permit payment of one third of the fines in cases involving their procurement of evidence.
Kellar said the present furor over the county school board relocation within the Youth Court Building on Court Street should have been settled by that group moving into their allocated quarters on Dec. 15, in accordance with the original supervisor’s order.
He said the alleged extension until Jan. 15 was the result of a misunderstanding of informal discussions held between the two groups concerning the move.