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Al Kingston has seen plenty of changes in his town in the 48 years he’s been cutting folks hair in his shop in downtown Bay St. Louis.
Gulf Coast boom town unfazed by prosperity
■ City’s nostalgic charm belies a bustling economy, including a casino.
By Kevin Gray
Special to the Clarion-Ledger
At AI’s Barber and Sporting Shop, the emphasis is on haircuts.
“Always has been,” said Al Kingston, holding a 1946 black-and-white photo of himself with a little more hair and lot less gut. "\eah, times have changed. I was slimmer then. Taller, too. But I’m still cuttin’.”
Around the corner at Ruth’s Bakery, a vintage Rolls Royce its out front, off to the side of the frosted window lettering that reads “a friendly place to meet.” The Gulf, just a few yards off, sends in a breeze that mixes with the scent of pastry and barely moves the nearby Magnolia leaves.
And out on U.S. 90, just off the bridge that crosses St. Louis
Bay, and tucked behind a small grove of pines, is the Bookends bookstore. Its bare-wood porch and rocking chairs stand empty. Its resident cat sleeps in a corner.
This is Bay St. Louis on a weekday afternoon. A city that barely breathes inside its own tireless nostalgia, and yet one ol the fastest growing on the Gull Coast. Despite the recent addition of a casino, plans for new hotels, revitalization of its historic district and a general increase in traffic, the town maintains an almost antediluvian tempo.
Best known for more than a century as a cultural rest stop for New Orleans elite, the town boasts more than two dozen antique and craft stores, five miles of beaches and some of the state’s oldest and most architecturally celebrated homes. And despite the manicured gentility of its ancestral denizens, most residents — black and white — claim a unique history of unfet-See BAY ST. LOUIS, 2G
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■ Schools, jobs, community spirit are points of pride.
By Leslie A. Williams
Clarion-Ledger Business Writer
TUPELO — Kathy Coi sixyears in Dallas, the bigi fore she returned to her hoi of Tupelo, a small city tha proud of it.
“I think I needed to ex[ Dallas to appreciate Tupel Gofer, 33, a physician recn North Mississippi Medic ter. “I had seven years of that was plenty."
Since 1988, Cofer has t enjoyed living closer to her but she counts herself forti work for the area's largest! er and to 1 ive i n a growi ng, e ically viable city with a sense of community pride.
“So many people don’ about Tupelo. You have t tion Elvis,” said the city’s ( tion and Visitor’s Burea Sam Fleming, referring city’s fame as the birthplac Elvis Presley.
“There’s much more toi
Voted last week by the sippi Municipal Associa one of the state's most li vab munities, Tupelo offers home friendliness as well I
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U.S. Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., about a law he sponsored that would yank federal highway funds from states that do not adopt laws banning drivers’ licenses for drug offenders: "It’s worked out very, very well ”
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Lydia Conrad of The National Governors' Association: "It's not fair to have a mandate imposed that would withhold highway funds. States face 19 mandates on their highway funds if they don't meet a variety of requirements," ranging from control of junkyards to using recycled material in asphalt.
The July/August issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports that sometimes government secrecy can go awry. For example, the publication notes, the U.S. Defense Department officially adopted the Nuremberg Code for protecting human subjects of scientific experiments.
The guidelines were written in response to Nazi I ities during World War II. Only problem was, the' ment adopting the code was classified until 1975 meant researchers who would have been coven the code never saw it. (The publication notes thl famous code managed to get known in spite of however.) "Top Secret" only goes so far.
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