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PERHAPS the best indication of
what has happened in recent fears in the Deep South town of Bay St. Louis, Miss., is the fact that Joualas Williams is chief of police. Williams is black. A member of the orce since 1965, he was appointed tcting chief last fall by Mayor War-en Carver when Chief Billy Carbo-lette resigned He was sworn in as ull chief a month later.
THE South has changed a lot in the past 10 years, and no one mows this better than Douglas Wiliams. If someone had told him back n 1965 he would be chief of police n 11 years, he would have laughed, n fact, when John Scafide, then nayor of Bay St. Louis, asked him to oin the force Williams almost turned lim down; he had a good steady job is a pulpwood contractor for a lum->er company and hated to give it up
0	become a policeman, with a wife ind six daughters to support. He igreed to sign on as patrolman only vhen they agreed to give him the light shift so that he could work the )ther job in the daytime. (He still has joth jobs.)
Williams would make a good po-iceman in just about any town. He is >f medium height but of strong build md looks capable of stopping a bar-oom brawl by just walking in the ioor. He is self-assured, friendly, :alm — and apparently something of
1	fatalist: “I have always thought hat if a man’s time has come, it ioesn’t matter where he is or what ie is doing...”
Bay St. Louts
Last year, Douglas Williams was named Bay St. Louis chief.
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Home at left is typical of the venerable residences that look out over Bay St. Louis waterfront.