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Buccaneers welcome Waller
-Photo by Carole Lange
Lady Succaneer Lenoir Kelly and Captain Craig Breland welcome Governor Waller
Judge Grant presides
Committee of Pass Christian commemorated, to the exact date and time, an event that occurred in 1811 when Dr. William Flood hoisted the flag at the “Pass of Christian” and claimed the territory for the United States of America.
According to a commission spokesman, Gov. William C.C. Claiborne, of the Territory' of Orleans was instructed by President James Madison to annex the West Florida Territory along the Gulf of Mexico.
An expedition commanded by Dr. Flood set out from New Orleans Jan. 5 on the “Alligator” to accomplish the mission four days later.
At Friday’s re-enactment, Dr. Flood (Benjamin Carrubba) arrived at the Pass Christian harbor on schedule with his companion priest (Bubby Hartsen), pursued all the while by a garishly costumed band of pirates, the “Sons of Lafitte.”
Following Dr. Flood’s order that the flag be raised, to rounds of applause from the onlookers gathered in front of City Hall, four commissions were given to justices of the peace for “Biloxi and Pascagoula parishes.” The recipients, descendants of those commissioned in 1811, included Sam Favre, Bay St. Louis; Jacque Ladner, Gulfport; George Farragut, Pascagoula; and Philip Saucier, Pass Christian.
During remarks by guests speakers Louisiana Lt. Gov. James E. Fitz-morris and Mississippi Gov. Bill Waller, the town of Pass Christian and especially the Bicentennial Committee received much praise concerning the organization of the event.
Gov. Waller termed the occasion “the most unique Bicentennial ceremony” he’s seen and told the crowd they could “see the past of their city in its glory and mirror its future by their current way of life.”
Following re-enactment ceremonies, a tour of selected homes and places of
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Coast Guard Color Guard escorts Dr .Flood
-Photo by Carole Lange
Fine murder case reopened during January court term
By DAN BARBER The state of Mississippi will reopen its murder case against Jimmy Ray Fine Monday when the January term of Hancock County Circuit Court convenes under Judge Leslie B. Grant.
An earlier attempt by the state to get a murder conviction against Fine, accused of the shooting death of his wife Sharon Dec. 14,1974, ended in a mistria. Oct. 24 after Fine was placed under a physician’s care for dehydration. The trial was in its second day when presiding Judge Ruble Griffin abruptly ended the proceedings before Fine was called to ihe stand by defense attorney
Boyce Holleman of Gulfport.
Fine allegedly shot his wife at their home on Rue de la Salle after a family argument.
During the opening day of the trial, Hancock County District Attorney Albert Necaise presented nine witnesses including three of Fine’s children, before the State rested its case. The mistrial occurred on the day Holleman was to present the defendant’s case.
Also on the January criminal docket is the continuation of charges against Sharel and Donald Jenkins, accused of the burglary of a dwelling in two in-
dictments. The accused are represented by attorney Cornelius Ladner.
The criminal calendar also includes several cases against drug offenders, some of which date back to 1974. It is not yet known how many of these old cases will be cleared from the docket this term.
On the civil docket, the court is scheduled to hear a suit brought by Mrs. Edith F. Rada against the Woodsmen of the World Life Insurance Company claiming $1,000 in policy benefits resulting from the death of her husband James J. Rada Jr.
The plaintiff in the civil suit, Mrs. Rada, was earlier a defendant in a criminal suit brought by the state for the murder of her husband July 23,1974 but was acquitted by a jury of the murder charge.
The suit by Mrs. Rada seeks the $1,000 as the result of a double indemnity rider on a policy held by her husband.
In another civil suit, the city of Waveland is a defendant along with Howard L. Byrd Construction, Wilcon Inc., Ray Gray Construction, and the Travelers Insurance Company in a suit brought by Protection Service, Inc. of
Harrisburg, Pa. for $10,182 claimed owing it for building materials and construction work upon the sewage system of the city of Waveland. Waveland is represented by city attorney Lucien Gex Jr. in the suit.
Two suits naming defunct Jackson Landing Shipyard are scheduled to be heard. The suits were brought by the Merchants Bank & Trust Co. for $2,047.76 and by Ocean Oil International Engineering Corporation for $5,749.
The replevin suit by Merchants seeks to recover possession of a 1974 Chevrolet pickup truck following default of loan payments while Ocean
Oil	claims it is due compensation from Jackson Landing for architectural design on barges and other vessels.
Jackson Landing earlier filed bankruptcy proceedings in Federal Bankruptcy Court.
And finally, the city of Bay St. Louis has been named in another suit which asks that the court overturn three city orders forcing the Bay Auto Glass business to cease operation because of reputed zoning ordinance violations.
Louis F. Jaquillard, Jr. and his wife, owners of the business located at their home at 523 Citizen Street, are plaintiffs in the suit.