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HANCOCK COUNTY
Times Picayune January 29, 1978 Sec ^ 7 $ P* 9
AMMO PLANT TO AID HANCOCK BY LARRY CIKO
BAY ST. LOUSS, MISS.(A government project costing nearly two and half times that of the Louisiana Superdome is the biggest news to hit Hancock County. Unele Same decided to build a massive rocket-testing facility here back in the I960 s.
398 million Army ammunition plant on the ground of the NSTL ground broken in Jan. 150 milion pigment plant near here by Du Pont in Harrison County (across Bay of St. Louis.)
The ammoplant expected to be ready for operation in mid-.1983 will employ 1,500 permanent workers with an annual payroll of 25 million.
Du Pont will employ 550 workers with year payroll of 9 Million.
Relocation of Navy's oceanographis offices to Hancock county expected to be com* pieted withing this year. Offices moved from Washinton, D. C. to NSTL.
Many cities have already felt the impact of the Navy move. ?
Saga Oil ef Jackson Miss has already drilled and Oil leases are numerous in Hancock County.
Within past 6 Months new restaurants Pizza Inn, Me Donalds, Popeyes Fried
Chicken have opened businesses in Day St. Louis corporate limits (Hwy 90).
Hancock County is on the verge of an Industrial Boom. ^ Gibbens H CCH S )
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