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SOUVENIR CENTENNIAL EDBTION, HANCOCK COUNTY EAGLE
August, 195S>
KEEP TIMBER GROWING
Area Forester Marion Parker, Hancock County, marking trees for selective cutting. Tree marking is a necessary operation in
Constant Consideration and Care Is Necessary to Keep Timber Growing
By MARION PARKER.
AREA FORESTER
Today the timberlands of Hancock County are returning an ever increasing cash return to landowners. The demands for lumber and forest products is at a new peak. We cannot supply this demand unless we practice good forest management.
Timber needs 'consideration and care
What is forest management?
Forest management is: (1) Preventing and suppressing wild fires,
(2)	Planting pine seedlings, (3) Thinning crowded timber, (4) Selective harvesting, (5) Management for continuous yield. These steps make up forest management. Take any of them away and the management is incomplete.
The whole solution to timber management centers about the landowner’s desire to continue to have saleable pine timber on a perpetual basis. Under good management this can be accomplished, and the rate of return will be in-
any good timber management program. Trees to be marked are, crooked, diseased, forked, crowded, damaged aad poor species.
creased at the same tim*.
Area Forester Marion Parker of the Mississippi Forestry Commission is ready to serve you at any time. He will be very glad to lend assistance to landowners concerning the management of timber.
This is a free service and provided in the interest of better timber management.
DAIRYIG PAYS GOOD INCOME
Mississippi dairy farmers are receiving $50 million annually from the sale of their products. There are more than half a million milk cows in our state producing over one and a half billion pounds of milk a year. Despite the tremendous invest, ment in research and equipment required, the milk industry has made impressive technological advances in recent years. This is attributed to management learning to improve efficiency. The dairy associations have expanded in promotions, merchandising and public relations.
TENTH ANNIVERSARY COINCIDES WITH CITY CENTENNIAL
Celebrating its tenth anniver. sary this year, the Superior Supply Company feels it is growing with, and abetting in, the growth and development of Bay St. Louis and Hancock County .
The business which was founded and is a partnership between two . brothers, Roger and Carl Heitzmann, opened April 1, 1948, with one building and one track.
In addition to the Supply Bus. iness, a general Contracting bus. iness is operated by Roger Heitz-mann. To.day, ten short years after opening, this industrious pair of men have developed and enlarged their holdings, and now occupy a full city block of build, ings to house the business. They also provide employment for approximately sixty men of the community, with an original annual payroll of about $12,000.00 in 1948, increased to over $90,-000.00 in 1958.
During the ten years of opera, tions the firm has constructed and supplied building materials for some 180 buildings in the county, among which are The new Hancock Cosnty Home for the Aged, The Bay Motors Com. pany, and recent additions to the Valena C. Jones School. They have also constructed many of the new residences in the commu. nity, and most material for homes constructed in the many new subdivisions have been purchased from this business.
The Superior Supply Company feels that it is auspicious and a good omen that the Corporate Centennial of Bay St. Louis should coincide with the Tenth Anniversary of their Jhcorporation, and that the growth and development of their business will match strides with that of Bay St. Louis and Hancock County.
The Superior Supply Company is firmly established, fully stock, ed and ready to meet the building needs of all of Hancock County.
Sarah Bernhardt Subject Of Interesting Incident Of Past
In about 1888 an early morn, ing mail train coming over the L & N bay bridge and nearing the Bay St. Louis terminal lost one section of its wheels, which, as the story is related, dropped into the water.
The owner of the Crescent Hotel, Capt. J. V. Toulme, was asked to take in all passengers and feed them during the emergency. Frantic for lack of enough food and assistance in serving such an unexpected crowd, the wife of Capt. Toulme sent a messenger on foot to her friend, Mrs. Tallulah Bowers, wife ol Congessman
E.	J. Bowers, who brought aid at once. Both ladies, with other guests of the hotel, served tables and were delighted to find that one of their visitors was the great Sarah Bernhardt heself. “The divine Sarah,” however, was in a temperamental tizzy over the delay and her storming, although in French was easily understood!
Anotfcter famous passenger that morning was Maurice Thompson, Indiana author of “Alice of Old Vincennes,” who with his family was on the first lap of a journey to California. Unlike Sarah Bern, hardt he was so pleased with the
hotel’s hospitality and with Bay St. Louis that he cancelled his plans to go on to California and spent the rest of the winter here. Thereafter, for many years he and his family came to Bay St. Louis for the winter months, and it was during his time here that he wrote another novel, “The King of Honey Island”
ANOTHER GOOD BUSINESS OF BY-GONE DAYS
The Gulf Turpentine Co., that was once a part of Fenton Turpentine Co., was established by incorporation and was located on Highway 90, five miles west of Bay St. Louis. This company leased timber lands for the purpose of drawing the crude gum, which was converted into resin and turpentine for shipment to United States markets as well as foreign markets. The Gulf Turpentine Co. was a benefit to the surroundings, inasmuch as it offered employment and brought gasoline, oil,, etc., in the operation of trucks. Though the manufacture of lumber was by far the leading industry of the county prior to-world War 1, today it is comparatively small
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BOATS AND MOTORS
HIGHWAY 90
LYMAN BOATS
JOHNSON MOTORS
MARINE SUPPLIES
St. Joseph Academy
Established in 1855 this fine school has been educating children and young ladies from Kindergarten through High School for over a century in Bay St. Louis.
Spiritual and Moral Values are Implanted on young minds along with the Finest Academic Training.
The school has facilities for Boarding and Day Students.
Summer Camp where swimming, boating, horseback riding and other sports are taught under supervised instruction is another feature of this highly accredited school operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph.