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and shopping renters are already underway there, ideal for housing testing site employe Iready a booming industrial town—with a paper mill, cht- -cal factory, agricultural implement manufacturing plant, plant factory and other installations—Picayune can supply many trained technicians for the site, he said. There are welders, tool and dye makers and other skilled laborers aplenty, he said.
timber products and recreation. The area also has a history of moons’ whisky making.
One quest*. is whether or not several old cemeteries ip the area will be affected, such as the lovely burial ground at Gainesville. A government attorney said that these details have not been announced yet, but that he doubted tlie cemeteries would be moved.
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EXISTING MISSISSIPPI HIGHW AYS ALSO make Picayune more accessible to the site than other nearby population centers, he said. And there is a new school, hospital, a S250,000 library under way . . .
"This is the greatest single thing to ever hit this area,” said he exultantly. “We're on the verge of a population explosion.
Tour the buffer area and the site area, however, and the comments you hear are less enthusiastic.
Start at Logtown on the Pearl, the river which will bear
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TO A MAX, THE HAXCOCK FOLK expressed surprise at the suddenness of the government announcement. They didn't know this plan was in the works before.
Jean Carbonette, operator of Carbonette’s grocery in Santa Rosa, said:
“Come to thing of it, there was a government man in here a couple of months ago, asking all kinds of questions about my property. He didn't miss a thing.
“But I just thought he was another revenue man looking for a still,” she laughed.
ANGRY WOMEN OF GAINESVILLE DISCUSS GOVERNMENT “GRAB” IN GROCERY STORE
OLDT1MERS DISCUSSING THE SITUATION in a grocery in Santa Rosa are, from left, BEN W. CRAFT of Picayune, J. E. CARBONETTE and DEPUTY SHERIFF CHARLES W. KELLER of
Santa Rosa. JEAN CARBONETTE, operator of the store, likes the idea of moving and wants to attend business college in New Orleans.