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for Betsy woes
Farmers HomeAdministt tion has been given authority^ to take applications for Hner-gency Rural Housing loans to people in the rural coastal counties who suffered housing damage from Hurricane Betsy, according to Max H. Stone, County FHA supevisor.
Loans will be similar to the present Rural Housing program except they will bear an interest rate of 3 per cent.
To be eligible for these emergency loans applicants will have to live in a rural community and not be able to get adequate credit from any other source. Loans will be made for repairing houses or rebuilding.
' Applications will be re-i ceived at the local county office ! 3" die Agricultural Center, Necaise Avenue, Bay St. Louis,
| and Harrison County Office at Room 114, Downtown Building, 1410 24th Ave., Gulfport.
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GETTING THE WORD OUT - Jack Pritchard, left, and Jim Kirschner, two newco s from Los Angeles, Calif., who are here with NASA project, manned ham radio equipmi it Bay civil defense headquarters during hurricane.
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(Cont. from Page 1-B.) relit ? c.vices in the area, including Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi and Pass Christian would close next Tuesday, 15 days after the hurricane.
He advised everyone seeking aid to apply before that time as the professional case workers will be returning to headquarters. However, the volunteer workers will continue to maintain telephones that have been set up, he said.
Denny noted that although ^ about $100,000 of Red Cross funds would be spent, the ARC | is asking the United Fund for j only $210 more than first sought I in the 1965 drive.
! Other professional ARC ' workers here are Mrs. Henry Fay of Montgomery, Ala., in charge of the Hancock - Harrison County area ar*l Max Meyrich of Knoxville, Term. Miss Elaine B. Ray, cast aid Red Cross worker at Keerler Air Force Base, arrived Friday.
Local volunteer workers included Mesdames W alter Rausch, PJi Porter, jr., Norman Renshaw, Robert Hamil-*t>n, Wallace Mattice, John Mc-nald, Joseph fiiglert, Char-
E.	Lirette, Lucien Gex, n Gex, jr., Sam Blan-Bertha R. Grant, V. A. , Octave Delph, Jane nd, Bertha R. Grant,
lori?! Jaycees
Bay St. Louis civil defense officials are to receive a certificate of merit commending their efforts during hurricane Betsy, as the result of acton taken by Bay J aycees.
In a resolution passed Thursday, wherein the president, Mac Haas, was dir?~sd to prepare an appropriate r it . tion, Jaycees decided to hold presentation ceremonies at their next meeting on Oct. 7.
Gas service restored in Waveland
I'fearly every gas meter on the Waveland beach front and in every street the water reached was out of commission for a while after hurricane Betsy, but all are now back in operation, reports Mayor Garfield Ladner.
Gas escaped when connecting pipes broke and floating debris smashed meters. Each is attached to two three-quarter inch pipes, inlet and outlet, and crews worked overtime over the weekend restoring service. No estimate of the amount of gas lost was
Misses Liz Greenlee and Cathy Simmons.
timber sale slatec
Monies realized from the sale of timber products grown on 16th section school lands are split 85 percent into tie county school’s general fund tad 15 percent into the forestry escrow fund, according to Arthur E. Verdel, area forester.
Verdel, who operates local forestry programs for the Mississippi Forestry Commission, also stated Monday that a sale of co; aty 16th section timber is scheduled for early spring.
Management of these lands is undertaken by the commission in accordance with an agreement with the board of supervisors.
Speaking of the southeast section of the state as a whole, Verdel said income school lands has been far below that from privately owned lands. As lands are given proper useandmana-gement the income from same increases, said Verdel.
The forester also pointed out that over $110 thousand worth of timber products were sold off 16th section lands this past year in fee southeast district. A breakdown of sales revealed over two and a half million board feet of saw tim-
available but it was described by Ladner as being considerable.
ber, almost two thousan of pulpwood and 850 distilate wood were ii
Other managemen! performed on district li tion lands included rec sance of 78 sections t 45,565 acres, rele£ desirable species on 70: construction of 98 miles lanes and the planting acres.
Glass undertak basic training
Seaman Recruit L Glass, jr., USN, son of > Mrs. Lancelot Glass Carroll Ave., is undergo weeks of basic training Diego, Calif.
He will receive a s< aptitude examinations termine which of the Na specialty fields he wil and engage in physical training, drill, naval c and courtesies, water si first aid hygiene, sea: and general naval orii during the period.
HURRICANE RELIEF
Clothing and other it< quired by storm vici available from the established relief center lowship Hall at the rea First Baptist Church c Street, Bay St. Louis.
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Winds of about 100 miles per hour and heavy rair ^ were experienced at the sitR Thursday night and Friday ncorning.
Hurricane watch and preliminary precaution-ry measures were initiatedWf-dnasday as the storm approac h The MTF emergency plan was put into effect Thursday morning when Betsy began taking a more northerly direction. Tjje site was officially closed at J.: 30 p. m. Thursday and all employes except personnel involved in emergency operations were dismissed. The base was back in normal operation Monday.
About 350 residents from low-lying areas surrounding the site—primarily from Pearling-~ ton “and a few from Bay St. Louis—spent Thursday night at MTFs three-story office and administration building. Basically as long as they could one family was put in each office.
-V few NASA families who had to evacuate their homes were among the number.
Evacuees began arriving at the site about dark seeking refuge from the storm. They left die next morning. Hght fishing boats took refuge in the boat harbor just off the East Pearl River until the storm passed.
Henry Auter, deputy manager of MTF and chief of its projects control office, took over as director of emergency operations. He was assisted byWil-liam Winterstein of NASA, emergency coordinator, and William Roy, plant services director for General Electric.
J ames Travirca of Bay St. Louis GE sub-contractor, also played a big part in the effort.
Kennedy to join Mid East forces
Seaman Oscar D. Kennedy, USN, brother of Mrs. Faye Bufkin of 406 Carrie Court, is serving aboard the destroyer USS Douglas H. Gox, currently operating with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean.
Operating out of Norfolk, Va., Fox will join the Middle East Naval Forces for an additional two months of operations on termination of his present duties.
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bcDDING IN SUN - Propped up to drain and permit air to circulate are mattresses from Belle Isles home of John B. Jackson in Pearlington. Area went several feet under water during hurricane and residents spent several weary days spading silt and sludge out cf homes.
DRY OUT - Furnishings and household goods belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson
F.	Bechtel of Oahu Drive-in Pearlington dry out after big flood caused by hurricane.
CLOTHING RELIEF - Some 100 families receive new or good used clothing, bedding, food or furniture from American Red Cross supply center operated by Mrs. M.A. Phillips, jr., of local ARC staff, at Our Lady of Gulf parish hall last weekend. Mrs. C.R. Beyer directed activity, assisted by women of various church and civic groups. Sorting items contributed by coast and upstate residents are, from left, Mrs. Warren Carver, Mrs. J.P. Chiniche ana unidentified volunteer.