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81 ■ The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News M Sunday, January 8, 1989
STENNIS
MISSISSIPPI
___COMES____
FIRST
Sen. John C. Stennis, right, his wife, “Miss Coy” Hines Stennis, and their granddaughter, Jane Gray Syme (top photo) officiate at the keel-laying ceremony of the nuclear-powered frigate, Mississippi (DLGN-40), at Newport News, Va., in 1975. In 1970, Mississippi’s two Democratic senators, John C. Stennis and James O. Eastland, left, (right photo) confer under a statue of John Hancock in Washington, D.C.
Friends and relatives gather .in downtown DeKalb (bottom photo) for a birthday celebration honoring Sen. Stennis in 1985.
Sen. Stennis continues a long tradition of promoting Mississippi