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1955 - Governor White orders gambling in Pearlington closed for second time - or he will do it himself!!!
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TEN YEARS AGO
July 13, 1995 - Bay St. Louis City Council members toyed with the idea of banning dogs from the beachfront as well as horses, people with contagious diseases, and simply clad sun lovers. The discussion came in a workshop session of council that featured mountains of papers, including various existing ordinances and a proposed new version of the municipal code. Early in the meeting Councilman Charles Scianna declared the meeting was a ‘waste of time,’ say-
ing the papers were disorganized and almost impossible to comprehend in that state. Two other members of council present however, were up for the task, listening to advise from board attorney John A. Scafide, Mayor Eddie Favre, and Municipal Clerk Kay Johnson.
-	Cellular phones and budget provided fodder for another showdown between Waveland Mayor John Mason and Alderman Jay Fleuriet during a Board of Aldermen workshop Wednesday. With television cameras capturing
the moment, the two volatile city officials spent the better part of the morning in a verbal sparring match before retreating into executive session.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
July 7, 1955 - Several streets were closed in, Bay St. Louis Friday when 3.3 inches of rain fell in less than three hours. According to Mayor Vic Franckiewicz, Jr., flooded areas closed included all or
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at the gathering at City Hall were Joe Marochino, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Scafide, Commissioners J. Cyril Glover and Warren Traub, H.G. Hubbard, president of the Hancock County Board of Supervisors, Garfield
to Hancock County Sheriff John Egloff, ordered all gambling in Hancock County be closed down. The chief Executive of the State took this action after he had received a petition signed by some 600 Hancock residents asking that he close gam-
of your citizens about such places as the Pines.” Last week Governor White stated that if a petition was signed by 300 reputable citizens of Hancock County asking that gambling be closed he would do so. Monday the petition with