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8—	The Daily Herald
Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss. Wednesday, October 1, 1969
; BY JIMMIE BELL Daily Herald Staff Writer
You think you had it tough?
R. A. Coleman, a resident of Shorecrest, told the Harrison County board of supervisors Monday that his residence, on the waterfront in Beat 5, was a central dumping point for Hurricane Camille.
For evidence, he told the board debris packed up under his house with the swelling tides included 100 dead trees from elsewhere that “put in” at his. place, not to mention 20 ne lost; an “ice. cold beer” sign found its way to his lawn and lodged itself in the debris; his cat has been busy dragging in rats washed near his front steps, carefully depositing them on the front porch; the trapped water on his grounds has produced “the best mosquito bred-ding center you ever saw;’’ and to top it off in floated a bottle with a note in it that read, “If you get this return it to the Gulf Coast Research Lab, it is a test bottle.”
Mr. Coleman got his po*nt
1	across: “I’ve checked with the .health department, the Corps of Engineers—and I don’t get anywhere. I want help in getting; this cleaned up. I appeal to the! county.”	:
Supervisor Lap Quave, Beat 1,1 said, “A lot of others are in the I same shape. The county does I not have the money, the equip-1 ment or the personnel. And the p Corps of Engineers can’t go inf; unless health hazards exist and 5
federal government will declare ’ it a health menace.”
Indicating he had not even.; been able to get it declared a1; health menace, Mr. Coleman made one final plea for help. The board responded with one last hope: “If you—or anybody —can convince the Corps of En-gineers that your property is a 'health hazard, your problem will be solved. But as yet, all Corps of Engineers heavy-duty iWork is being limited to the municipalities facing the beach.”