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By FAT WILSON
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There is something about Spring that makes an appre-ciator and a believer of rr.e. Perhaps it's the awakening ox the flowers, the return oi the birds or the faith that brings the tiny grear. bud to the dead brown tre*. '‘r.atever, It’s my favorite season.
Ii you havar.’t felt inspired lately, talo a walk down Gin road or along the bayou.
If ycu haven’t felt patriotic lately, pass the Pearlington pest office and watch the flag dance against the cobalt sky.
Or if there’s a “Peg'’ in your heart, Just sit and watch her marvel at every living thins.
If we were giving ribbons to Pearllngton's busiest people, C.A. and Nancy Russ would win, hands downi Practically every evening finds them ai a meeting
or social activity. They recently entertained the new members of the County . Flanr.ing Commission with a cat fish fry. Attending were Hoy Baxter, James Rester, Emmett Niolet, Bob Burroughs ar.a David Johnson.
Ronald Cuevas is the latest appointment to the Commis?ion. Ronald is a native son, descendant of the Cuevas of Cat Island fame. He is a 1951 graduate of Bay High and a 1S63 Distinguished Military graduate of Loyola University. He served two years with the U.S. Army seeing service in Kor;-a, At present, he is associated with the Zeros Corp. as marketing team representative.
The C.B. Murphy school is sporting new playground equipment and new books have been added to the library. Flans are underway ferineorgsr.izationof boy and gzri scout trocps at the school.
We offer deepest sympathy I to the Rufus Dawsey family, |
Ai the Pearlington session of the Chamber of Commerce last week, Lucien Kidd, civil defense director, offered timely tips, on interesting rr.cvie and survival literature, Dan Egan, our Peariiagtoeb^Iv/ark, AtU-ii for less football and mors Uel? from Cocsress ir. Hancock’s civil defense program. He commended Kidd on a job well done. Woodrow Cole reported on the highway beautification program. Funds are available for a park in our area and we urge support so that this much needed development will not "come a cropper!”
We made a Sunday afternoon visit to the Mulatto bayou project and the road, when completed should be a Jcy, The wocds on either side are a profusion of indigenous beauties, magnolia, holly, --upon, palmetto, stately oal. and wild flowers of every variety. Isn't it a pity that Mississippi didn’t take advantage of the generosity of International Paper Co. when it offered Laurel V\oed Plantation in 1250? This home occupied by J.B. Saucier and J, F. K. Claiborne, was built in 1300 and was in fine shape until vandals destroyed it a few years ago. Even more despicable is ihe desecration of the Indian mounds bequeathed to. us by the predecessors who left behind their simple artifacts; their dead and their trust, which we have violated.'
People in Paariington ara talking about politics, Vietnam, .the many stray degs,- Marina East, which is fabulous ar^S the busy, frtts* deputies, t Mulatto Bayou is clearing ar.d the fish are biting: Save you read “Casey” by Romcna Stewart?