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I Ozark Town Aids Hurricane Victims
A small donation goes a long!Mountain region town organized way toward helping people who an assistance drive, comman-have lost their homes or other jdeered a two-ton truck, loaded
■	possessions to know others are 'thinking about them and willing to help.
The small towns, like Branson, Mo., have turned out in what can be considered a big way to help' the Mississippi Coast after Hurricane Camille.
Three ladies of this Ozark
Delta Neighbors Remember 1927 Storm Deed Of Coastians
One good deed 'deserves another,, or so our Delta .neighbors believe.
Two of the noteworthy contributors in Leland have both expressed a sense of gratitude to the Coast citizens who helped them “so much” during the 1927 flood.
One of them, Don Baker, who gave $2,000 said he felt that “we owe the Gulf Coast a tremendous debt” and recalled the large number of personal boats and persons who stayed weeks at their own expense helping out the flood victims.
Rev. J. A. Randle, a 74-year-old retired Negro pastor living on Social Security, was Leland’s first contributor. He gave $10.
“Being a Christian, I couldn’t afford to do any less.” He said in 1927, gifts came from every direction to help the people in his community and he recalled the boats sent from the Coast.
In 1927, the boats, including shrimp trawlers, were brought in to Choctaw on railroad cars, where they could be floated and put to use taking people off the tops of houses.
Over $11,000 in donations were sent in to the city clerk’s office at Leland city hall for Camille assistance.
it and drove it to the Coast shortly after the storm.
Mrs. Jerry Pettit, Mrs1. Ben Parnell and Mrs. W. C. Mag-ness brought the truck 'load of supplies here and distributed them to about 35 families in need.
Later, Mrs. Pettit-said, “People who were left completely without anything were out working every day to help their neighbors who were more fortunate.”
Similarly, Mrs. Zola Hirsch, owner of a flower shop in Branson, remembered the help and : friendly assistance given her years ago by Vincent Dauro, owner of Dauro’s Florist in Gulfport, and called him. When asked, Dauro suggested the names of two men who had lost their homes.
Mrs. Hirsch then sent Dauro two checks for $25 each to be given to Cliff Fox of Long Beach, an employe of Dauro’s, and George Alexander of west Gulfport, an electrician.
She asked for letters of appreciation. not for herself, but; for another family in her town who had ..given help to others during World War II.