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Liie on tne boast
JHO"US BY EDITH 9IERH0RST SACK/HANCOCK BUREAU
The fate of this 1938 mural, “Life,on the Coast,” is in doubt because its home, the old Bay St. Louis post office, will close soon.
Bay post office closing leaves mural ‘hanging’
By EDITH BIERHORST BACK
rlANCOCK COUNTY BUREAU CHIEF
■	BAY ST. LOUIS — This city is preparing for the Jan. L3 opening of a $2 million post office on U.S. 90.
While the citizenry welcomes the imposing structure md cheers the preservation of the ancient oaks on its 1.9 acres, many are concerned about the fate of the listoric structure on Main Street that has served the :own since it was built by the Works Progress Admin-stration during the Depression.
On an interior wall is the 1938 mural, “Life on the 3oast, ” by the late Louis Raynaud, commissioned by :he WPA to paint murals in a number of post office juildings in the South.
The 1935 yellow brick post office has been declared ‘excess” by the U.S. Postal Service, which means that t will be turned over to the General Services Adminis-:ration to find a buyer when it closes on Jan. 13.
GSA is obligated to dispose of the building at a fair narket price, offering it first to a federal government
*	lease see MURAL, A -4