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CO?cT CHRONICLE
June 27, 1979
[ opens office at IN STL
Mauffray s . . . .
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ALDEN MAUFFRAY, owner and operator of Mauffray?s Hardware, inspects some of the hardware items he has in the store.
eds as well as to set the in-service lining needs of the rious agencies at STL,? Dr. Joe Hol-way, dean of USM-ulf Coast, said.
?NSTL has grown to contingent of some
000	people and as the opulation has in-reased, so have the igher educational eeds, and, as has een our philosophy on ie Coast, we intend to leet these needs,? lolloway added.
Holloway has named /lrs. Myron Webb of .ong Beach to co->rdinate activies of the lew office. Mrs. Webb s currently on the :onference and workshop staff at Gulf Park n Long Beach and will coordinate USM-NSTL as an added responsibility.
In her role as coordinator, Mrs. Webb will be working directly with the various agencies located at NSTL to provide trailor made courses, pro--grams, conferences, workshops and in-
to know I you usiness!
new member of our
Johnston
of Bay St. Louis and i with her husband nth old son, Darreck
service training to meet their needs.
Classes for academic credit will also be offered on a demand basis and will increase or decrease-depending on the need. It will be possible for non-NSTL personnef to take classes at this facility rather than drive to Long Beach.
?Persons with academic needs, credit or non-credit, should make these needs known to us so that future planning will be as complete as possible,? Mrs. Webb said.
According to Webb a fall schedule will be released this summer. In the developmental stage are class offer-
ings in the following programs:	computer
science, geology, real estate, business education, accounting, education and industrial psychology.
The USM-NSTL facility is located in building T2423 and the phone number is 688-3053. Mrs. Webb may also be reached at Gulf Park in Long Beach at 864-2155.
?We are delighted to have an office in Hancock County to make our services as available to that area of the Coast as we have been able to do at Gulf Park, Keesler and in Jackson County,? Holloway said.
his chili four times already. Several other typical events occurred while this reporter was there. Someone was sent in from another place to have a copy of an old key made. Young men came in hunting an old type of crabbing item no longer carried in stock anywhere and were given oral instructions on how to fashion the item simply out of scrap lumber and were sold the necessary yet simple items to complete the construction. Someone else came in, inquired about an item of stock and was instructed to ?go down the stairs, take a left, now take 14 long steps and you will be standing right beside it.?
With its old fashioned charm, its fascinating stock, and its complete recovery after The Hurricane, it is
no wonder that the story of this hardware store has been written up in such publications as the North American Aviation Magazine and has appeared in many American newspapers and in those of at least five foreign countries. A priest in Ireland once sent Alden Mauffray copies of some of these stories from overseas.
But the story of the business would be incompete without at least a little description of the man who runs it.
Married to the former Flora Martin of Mobile, Alden Mauffray is like his business - charming, fascinating, with an almost old fashioned politeness. He has led a most interesting life by his owr account.
A Boy Scout before any official forming o' that group reached the county, Alden became a member of the firs
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ARTIE KREMENTZ, JR. displays the 13 pound, one ounce drum he caught June 16, while fishing with his father near the Bay St. Louis railroad bridge.
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