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Smith will head Buccaneer
Greg Smith, present superintendent of Yocona State Park in North Mississippi has been named to head up the Buccaneer State Park in Waveland.
Smith will assume his new duties on June 10, according to Mississippi State Park Commissioner Jerry Williams.
Williams, in making the appointment known said, “Smith has been with the j park commission for four-and-a-half , years and has built up a very good j record. We feel he deserves this . promotion to Buccaneer State Park."
The new park superintendent succeeds Stan Weidman of Waveland who was dischrged by the commission ^ earlier in the year for, according to i Williams, “...failure to operate as a team player.”	^	a
Weidman appealed to both the board
of supervisors and the City of Waveland to intercede with the park commission on his behalf, asking that the dismissal order be nullified.
Williams later met with the super-(Continued on Page 9)


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