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Biloxi will rise again!
These positive, constructive and reassuring words are not only being voiced by local citizens of one of the oldest settlements in these United States, but are arriving in letters and telegrams from around the; world and sister states.
“We have read in the press ' the ruins caused by a wild lady named Camille”, correspondence from a Michigan resort in Kalamazoo says. “We come in contact with many guests who know your beautiful resort community .... they like ourselves are saddened deeply.
j “We ole Yankees respect and [love your Biloxi. Our Kalama-jzoo Red Cross is shipping cloth-! Ing and food to y’all. So have faith. For we know in our j hearts, Biloxi will rise again and become greater than ever.”
Attached to the lengthy lefc-, ter is a one-hundred dollar Confederate bill and scrawled across it are those beautiful sentiments:	Biloxi	will rise
again.
Another message to Biloxi Chamber of Commerce from Paris, France, optimistically reads: “We all hope that the newspapers have exaggerated the amount of destruction. It hurts us to think that your friendly city, built along the Gulf, has suffered so.”
The wide-spread news coverage of what is being called the worst single disaster to touch the continental United States in; recent history has meritedt offers of all sizes and descriptions.
Indicative of this is correspondence offering a good home to a female between the ages of 25-50 by a retired Naval officer’s family of three.
The Englewood Cliffs, N.J., residents insist they are in a position to help someone obtain employment besides offering that someone a home.
“We are originally from Monroe, La., and naturally feel compassionate toward someone in that area who could use as-
By EMILY GERMANIS Daily Herald Staff Writer
sistance. If such a person is known and needs transportation here, we will arrange for her transportation.”
From our own state, the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, an organization of 2,500 members, wires: “As the essential job of cleaning up and restoration of necessary utilities and public facilities goes forward, the leadership in your community and the rest of the seriously damaged area faces this question: what about the future?
"The Jackson business community urges you to move ahead with courage and optimism.”
Biloxi chamber facilities, a total loss from Camille, is temporarily housed in Biloxi City Hall. A portion of its archives and records, badly water soaked, has been temporarily stored with the former general manager, Anthony V. Ragusin.
General manager and executive secretary of the city’s chamber operations,' Walter F. Fountain, is among those who looks brightly to the future of America’s Rivera, the area he has served since Mr. Tony’s retirement. The veteran of 22 years with the chamber operations took over the executive managing duties April 1967.
Fountain has advised that membership of the Mississippi Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives their 1970 convention will take place in Biloxi. He is further confident that a location can be announced by the mid-winter board in February.
. With the hopes and dreams of a generation with step forward goals, Biloxi will rise again!______________	-