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__________BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS., THURSDAY, NOVfijBER 2, 1961_
E LOGTOWN RALLY
THEIR HOMES
NASA Man
STENNIS EMPHASIZES NEED FOR SPACE RACE
Stennis Cites Race to Space
ABOUT NASA - Lt.
Col. Secrest Berry, chairman of the NASA site selection committee, left, and Kurt Berlin, general counsel for NASA, address rally.
Nursery Fund For Hospital Honors Smith
Do you want to helpthebabies to be born In Hancock County?
J How thanks giving are you on - Thanksgiving?
Hancock General Hospital ^ needs’ \ specialized • equipment .'co^'ng over $1,000 for Its nur-"s Dr. A. P. Smith brought *lnu, life more people in Hancock County than has anyone else, ..--so?-at the suggestion of Joseph ■j'.R.'Scharff a volunteer committee met^Ttoday to start the A. P. V Smith' Memorial Fund and hope
raise the necessary amount
§by Thanksgiving.
Wben the funds are raised ■ and the equipment purchased a .1 plaque will be placed on the ^observation window of the hos-.fpltal's nursery in memory of Dr.
> Smith. Drs. \1 J. Wolfe, Wesley , McFarland and A. W. Martlno-lich, jr., are the technical advisory committee, and the com-'mittee ',Mis now composed of ‘■’Scharff,' chairman, Thomas O. Logue, treasurer, Mrs. Roger •M. Mrs. T. T. Robin and Po Glass, jr.
All ' persons interested in 'serving on the committee are requested, to meet at the hospital £|tt: 3 p.m. Monday, and all con-;‘trlbutlons to the fund maybe sent ^to"^Dr. A.) P. Smith Memorial (KFundjfln:‘ care of the hospital.
Rian Parade (or
Veterans Day
Fred E. Fayard, American-• ism ■- chairman of Clement R. .Bontemps Post 139, American ^Legion, Is inviting all veteran's ^organizations and other groips to'*, participate In the Veteran's < Day-' Parade/' which will begin fat*10,:a.m..-at Bay High School
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Sen. John B. Stennis, addressing property owners in the lunar landing test site area at the Log-town rally yesterday, assured them the federal government' is trying to make the burden as light as possible under the clr-custtnces.
It is ready and willing to pay everyone affected the full dollar and cents value for their land, he declared, expressing home court action would be at a minimum. He cautioned also about land speculators “trying to make money on you."
Stennis then emphasized that the world situation is such that “the entire nation must arm to the teeth although there Is no shooting war" and cited the vital nature of the space race. America's superiority of a few years ago with the atom bomb was lost when the Russians got a vehicle iiito orbit first. General Medarls* predictions of things to come when the Commies launched Sputnik seemed like fantasy, Stennis observed, but developments have shown since that who controls outer space will control the free world.
As to whether Hancock County will become a target area in event of war, be said he could not guarantee but noted New Orleans with the Mississippi River and Its transportation facilities “are far more of a target now than you could possible be as a mlssle test center.”
To concern about operation of schools with a large population Influx, the senator cited the 1954 federal assistance law for
Squirrel Hunting Mishap Injures One
Warren Hale, Long Beach groceryman, formerly of Bay St. Louis, was taken to Hancock General Hospital early Wednesday after accidentally shooting himself In his right hip. Hale, Gerald V. Price, jr., and James Ruhr were hunting squirrels on the Scotty Eustlce farm near Leetown when the accident occurred. He pulled his 22 calibre automatic pistol from a holster, shot at a squirrel, as he replaced the gun in the holster his foot slipped on a log and the bullet entered his hip penetrating almost through the backof his upper thigh. He was released Thursday. The trio bagged 14 squirrels.
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Divorces granted by Chan-celler William Hewes during the
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schools. "There is always the thorn before the rose. . .you have got to make some sacrifices but you will be taking part in greatness.”
H. H. Shattuck, manager of Coast Electric Power Assn., was master of ceremonies and assisted in arranging the meeting after talking by phone with Senator Stennis early this week. He met Monday with officials of Bay St. Louis, Chamber of Commerce and residents of Logtown, Napoleon and the immediate area involved to prepare the list of questions submitted to the Agency representatives yesterday. -
Shattuck reported Coast Electric will lose 879 electrical connections in Hancock County alone as a result in the whole area. This represents over 10 per cent of the co-op’s membership with an annual revenue of $100,000.
Rev. J. Cude Rousseau, Methodist minister, led the group in prayers at the opening of the rally. Leo Seal, Hancock Bank president and Logtown native. Introduced the senator.
Visiting dignitaries were feted at a buffet luncheon earlier by Col. J. A. Wheeler, USA-ret., at his Pearl River estate.
Commence Title Check
The Army Corps of Engineers Monday launched its preliminary title ownership study toward acquisition by the federal government of some 114,800 acres in Hancock County for its giant Saturn and Nova static testing facility.
Three men from the real estate division went to work in the Courthouse compiling facts on the property and hope to wind up their work in about two weeks. They then will take the material back to the office to digest it and probably will return later to fill in some gaps.
The work is turning into much of a round-the-clock operation with the men taking their findings back to the motel to work on it at night. They burned the midnight oil until 11 a.m. Monday and were back on the job bright and early Tuesday.
One complicating factor is that in many instances four or five different deeds are needed to get one ownership and with (Cont. on Page 4.)
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Representatives of Uncle Sam's top brass 1; came to Logtown Wednesday afternoon to < of more than 1,000 persons why 114,800 acr must be cleared for the lunar landing test sii government plans to go about the job.
It was the first time various agency repi dertaken such an explanation on a giant prop gram and the National Aeronautics and Spac Army Corps of Engineers speakers Indicate* same procedure in the future.
Virtually every resident of the affectedrar leaders from Hancock and neighboring <coundi town School's athletic field in the boiling sunfehl by Sen. John Stennis, member of the Senate 's then a two-hour question and answer session wll Corps spokesmen.	—	- -
Technical speakers were Kurt Berlin, NASA' general counsel;;'
Lt. Col. Secrest Berry>of the'
NASA launch vehicle program.
Air Force, headquarters who drew a rather critical stare from the audience when he was introduced as site selection committee chairman; Frederick M. Flgert, chief of land acquisition for the Engineering Corps in Washington; Walter Mussell, chief of tbe t real estate division. Col. W. R. '
Ledbetter, deputy Army District Engineer, and Melvin Dovitch. real estate office, all from Mobile, and'James N. Hlckok, chief of land acquisition for the South Atlantic division > of tbe Engineers. 1
Mussell announced that the Engineers will open an office in Bay St. Louis Jan. 1 and commence appraisal of the property Immediately with an eye to starting negotiations for acquisition about Feb. IS. Including hardship cases In the fee area, he expects this land acquisition will be congrieted by June. 1.
Mussell emphasized there Is no need for any property owner to come to the office, that the Engineering Corps will send representatives' Into the field to see them.
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Form Area NASA Welcoming Group
The NASA Personnel Assistance Committee of Hancock County was organized Tuesday at a meeting of Mayor John A. Scafide and the city commissioners with a group of Bay St. Louis and Waveland citizens to welcome and offer aid to both temporary and .permanent new residents who will be employed at the Saturn booster test site In the county.
The committee will make available immediately lists of available housing ana assist In locating dwellings Jor construction personnel expected here In a few weeks. It will endeavor'ft provide liformation and other services to facilitate the location of 500 to 1,000 new families who probably will move here as well as helping residents who must be moved from the test site area and the surrounding easement zone.
Symbol of the committee will be the state flower, the magnolia, with the stamen replaced hv a
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mayor and Commissioners Cyril Glover and Warren Traub warned, “There- have been rumors of some individuals who are greedily licking their chops and rubbing their palms, anticipating huge profits from these people who will be coming Into our area to live, . .”
Increases in real estate and prices “would be a most Insincere and crude way of extending a warm welcome,” they noted, as well aB being unfair.. to those forced out of their homes.
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area, the 13,500 acres In which the actual testing equipment will -be built, for permission to survey j the property. It Is necessary to do this now to keep on the six- 1 month	re ady-to-st art-
work schedule, he explained.
Within the easement area even If negotiations are started next fall and property owners are paid ! for their easements or fee title, they will not have to move out for about two and a half years from now, Mussell added.
Colonel Berry said the moon -landing engine tests here will be under the direct supervision of a; scientific and engineering team from NASA headquarters In ,
Washington and the Dr. Werhner Von Braun team from Huntsville,
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The difference between mental Illness, which means sickness of the mind, and mental retardation which means impaired or incomplete mental development, was cited by Dr. A. K. Martlnollch, Jr., in an address to
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varying amounts of supervision during their lives. " \ -TV; • “Most children who are mentally retarded,” continued5 Dr. Martlnollch, “do not have obvious physical ’'defects.But, there are other’signs 'which' mayvmean
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