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CHRONOLOGY Commission of Education is established.
Delta State Teachers College is organized at Cleveland.
Sea Wall Bill is passed; extending along Gulf Coast, wall cost $5,000,000.
Mississippi Library Commission and Mississippi Forestry Commission are inaugurated.
An an is passed to prohibit teaching in State-supported schools that man evolved from a lower order.
First condensery, or factory for canning milk, in the South is opened at Starkville, Miss.
First gas producing field is opened at Amory.
April 21. The Mississippi River floods the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta more disastrously than in floods of 1897 and 1903.
U. S. Flood Control Act passed.
Theodore G. Bilbo becomes Governor.
July 1. First Mississippi Market Bulletin appears.
State Blind Commission and Malaria Control Commission are created.
Sexual sterilization of insane becomes legal, when such action is deemed advisable.
Population, 2,009,821.
Tobacco and theatre taxes are imposed.
Research Commission is created to study Mississippi local government.
Official Code of 1930, containing in two large volumes the laws of Mississippi, is adopted.
Jackson Gas Field is opened.
Governor Bilbo reorganizes faculties of all State institutions of higher learning, except Delta State Teachers College. In consequence, these colleges are removed from list of Association of Southern Colleges.
Game and Fish Commission is established.
Kidnapping is made a capital offense.
Sales Tax is passed.
Mississippi balances its budget.
Governor Conner reorganizes colleges and they are reinstated in Southern Association of Colleges.
November. Relief work organization is set up.
Twelve Civilian Conservation Corps camps are established in Mississippi.
Stare Health Officer made report: "Mississippi's death rate is practically the lowest in U. S.”
February 26. An act authorizes sale of light wines and beer. Reforestation and Conservation Act is passed.
Act exempting small homesteads from State tax is passed.
January 21. Hugh L. White inaugurated Governor.
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February 21. An act to raise number of trustees of colleges from nine to twelve is passed.
March 23. Old age Pension, Teachers’ Pensions, and Unemployment Compensation Acts are passed.
Industrial Act is passed, providing means to "balance agriculture with industry.”
Funds are provided for the Mississippi Advertising Commission. Act is passed to tax retail chain stores.
April 5. Tornado strikes Tupelo; 200 killed, 1,500 injured. 200 homes destroyed; property loss $4,000,000.
1937 Durant is first city to issue bonds under new industrial program. Industrial Act held valid by court at Winona.