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FORESTER PARKER INSTRUCTS CHILDREN
Forester Marion Parker is forest fires. This is only one to school children of the many services the Missis-Episcopal Day School sippi Forestry Commission county t hand tools to suppress personnel renders to the citkens.
Wt MARION PARKER AREA FORESTER
» rapid and efficient develop Hancock forestry rets one of the primary rtronger and more stable security for the people county. £Tot oniy is this m the present but for the as well.
Tk dt a thorough job of re-feMUUod, the Mississippi Fores* •9 Own mission realizes that the of the county must first —<»f nmd the real importance mr forest; from the youngest ■fmmm to the oldest.
7W youth have a very imperfect stake with regards to the —1 wtrftil development of Han-Mk't timber resources. It is only MtBmf and proper that they be pan even- opportunity to make tec stake more secure.
9mrs and girls in Hancock CfcMtty have benefited greatly taa our timber resources, not «■!? in the past generations, but, alM. in our present time. Let us ■W'tniTr our forests for what *9 are. an asset that may be partially, in dollars and which in turn helps us •k a financial way to develop our 0*mtest asset on earth, and one te which Hancock County is truly our boys and girls. Keep trees of Hancock growing.
Choctaw Tribe Really First Settlers Here
Long before the advent of the exporers, the city of Bay St Louis was an Indian village eal.ed Chicapoula (or Chou.cou. p«xj-!ou) meaning “bad grass”). Here the primitive folk of the CSoetow Muskhogean family lived m a veritable happy hunting jround, for the Gulf Coast was *ot only beautiful and of pleasant climate but its waters abounded im fish and its forests in venison, fczffalo, and other game providing fientiful food.
During later years after the white settlers came, the best-known Indian leader was Chief Tocala, "Some of whose descend-
ants no doubt, live here today. The Indians, as recalled by some of the older townspeople of re. cent years, lived in a section called Devil’s Swamp near the
edge of town. The men hunted, fished and tanned skins, and the whole tribe were constantly on guard against the depredations of occasional wolves. The women cultivated crops of corn, beans, rice—chiefly rice. The children were taught to weave baskets and the boys to make blow guns. Shy among strangers, the Indians were playful and gay among their own, enjoying every epportunity for a festival and for dancing to tomLtoms and singing. Often wedding feasts and dances lasted for days.
Remnants of the Choctaw tribe, usually peaceful in this area, remained as late as the nineties and a few Indian families are still in the county today. During the late 1800’s the Indians supported themselves chiefly by weaving and selling baskets of great beauty. At that time they lived chiefly at Dillville and along the shores of Bayou La Croix, about eight miles from Bay St. Louis. Finally, however, the majority of the tribe became wards of the the United States Government and were granted land in Oklahoma, where a number struck
FORESTER AND DISPATCHER INSPECT COUNTY FIRE DANGER STATIONS
What are the chances of fire today? Area Forester, Marion Parker left, and dispatcher, Wilfred Westbrook, right, inspect the fire danger station at Rocky Hill Tower. At this station several factors are checked each day which collectively determine the
danger of forest fixes of that day. Factors include wind, velocity, moisture and content o£ ground litter, number of days since last rain fall and condition of lesser vegetation. Danger readings are taken three times a day.
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There	are two	known	Indian	of Pine Hills near the	Hancock-
mounds in the County, one	in the	Harrison County Line.
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These beautiful gardens and lovely home overlooking the south bank of picturesque Jourdan River, are just 60 miles east of New Orleans and near Bay St. Louis, Miss.
The artistic plantings of Camellia, azalea, spirea, and other flowering shrubs, add a distinctive character to the fascinating charm of the existing exquisite natural beauty of this Dream Spot of the Jourdan.
— DO NOT MISS THESE GARDENS —
On Highway 90, three miles west of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, turn north and follow directional signs.
PREVENT. FOREST FIRES!