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New Porpoise Stadium featuring "SUZY . . . the educated porpoise" HOURLY FEEDING You’ll TIIKILL to the many exciting things to see at MAKIXE LIFE* Sea Lions. Giant Sea. Turtles, the Largest Sawfish ill captivity... 15 feet long, "Freddie” the 400 p o u nd Jewfish. Moray Eels. Sting Kays. IJat Rays and Tropical Fish. Redfish, Speckled Trout, Trigger Fish from the Gulf of Mexico. View this spectacular underwater drama from large porthole windows. There’s real adventure as professional divers descend into the World’s Largest Marincarium to feed these fascinating sea specimens. MARINE LIFE (Continued from Page 10) way out to the island on the Excursk Boat Sundown II. The doctor contacted Keesler Air Force Base and in a few minutes a helicopter had picked her up and delivered her to the hospital. Myles W. McKenzie, Jr. of Monroe, La., won the $100 U. S. War Bond awarded in the drawing among those outboarders who had registered for the Jubilee before June 3. Mr. and Mrs. Hirsty Ricker of St. Louis were selected as “Mr. and Mrs. Biloxi Outboard Jubilee” of 1961 at Monday night’s informal get acquainted dance The Southern States Mayors’ Sailboat Race was won on the Jubilee’s closing Saturday by Mayor Werner Knoop of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was presented with an engraved Revere Bowl by the 1961 Shrimp Queen, Wesley King, and Mayor Laz Quave of Biloxi presented the other competing Mayors with an appropriately inscribed bowls on which was superimposed the key to the city. The Grand Fishing Jubilee Prize for the men was a John Bell custom tailored suit won by Captain Maurice F. Ludwig of Dauphin Island, Alabama. The Grand Prize for top fishing honors among the ladies, also a John Bell custom tailored suit, was won by Mrs. C. A. Estleford, Jr. of Biloxi. Even those who failed to win any of the fishing prizes, drawings or awards, went home with a “bonus” feeling of enjoyment that has already inspired the sponsors to continue this first planned program for the Nation’s Outboarders as an annual event. -Ar Cat Island (Continued from Page 21) THE REDOUBTABLE BROWNINGS The adventures of Matt and Cora Browning, who for 35 years (from 1927 to 1961) lived on Cat Island as caretakers for the Boddies and loved every exciting day of them is a story in itself. Matt, formerly a railroad blacksmith, an inventive, ingenious fellow who could fix, repair or built practically anything. Cora, a tiny wisp of woman, who wasn’t afraid of anything Cat Island could provide — including wild boars, one specimen of which was 9 feet long with 6 inch tusks, or alligators, with which many of the Cat Island mysterious and murky ponds are still populated. Cora Browning’s favorite sport was fishing for flounder and scarcely a right night passed that did not find her all alone along the beach, sometimes gigging as many as three in one spot before removing them from the point. Her husband still chuckles at the night she caught so many she couldn’t carry the line on which they were strung. So she nonchalantly took off her overalls, which was her usual island tromping costume, tied the bottom of the legs shut, dumped her catch in the improvised sack and dragged it home almost “au natural.” But what was the difference — there wasn’t anybody on the (Continued on Page 26) Us LoC as \ rt's J\a/aSWAJLe- we WILL-RENT it/) V t / Complete RENTAL SERVSCE SERVING MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA ★ INDUSTRIAL UNIFORMS FOR ALL TYPES OF BUSINESSES ★ COMPLETE HOSPITAL SERVICE ★ COMPLETE HOTEL-MOTEL SERVICE ★ COMPLETE RESTAURANT SERVICE -fc COMPLETE REST ROOM SERVICE ★ DUST CONTROL We want to give our Customers what they need. Phone UN 3-7272 GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI Jomllte beac»ft:4: GUL-FPORT,M ISSk July—August 1961 Tell them you scrw it in DOWN SOUTH. Thanks! 25
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