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Biloxi Has Bright-Spot
Biloxi’s famed beach now has ’ a welcome and bright spot, j thanks to members of the Staff!
I Communications Officer school i at Keesler Air Force Base. j The location is at Glennan |
: Park on Central Beach. ' ,
■	The once beautifully land- ! ; scaped area overlooking the!
■	city’s small craft harbor is be-; ginning to look like it once did. i Rubble is gone, the water soak-: ed ground mowed and raked,
; the lighted fountain cleaned
and a bent fence post stands . upright.
Besides providing a more pleasant to look at sight, al rarity in the city these days, 1 the project was pursued hopefully as an incentive for other groups to join forces.
Some 15 officers under the charge of Maj. Russell H. Mann, and suggestion of Maj. | Joe Kooney, made the idea singlehandedly a reality.	j
“We have obtained an Ameri-| can Flag from City Hall,” Major Mann advised and "have! placed it in the park.”	!
Pecan Logs In Abundance To Area Buyers
| D. C. Fleming, Harrison County Agent, announced buyers in South. Mississippi interested in the purchase of pecan j logs should contact their local; county agent for a listing of . their availability.	;
j “This is a different year for; ' pecan growers along the Gulf Coast,” he said, “instead of harvesting pecan nuts, they are. harvesting and selling pecan' logs.”
■	Many of the fallen pecan trees are now from 70 to 80 years old; their huge trunks spread to four feet in diameter and up to 40 feet at the first limbs. “This is because when Hurricane Camile passed over this area, many of the pecan trees were blown over and are too large to re-establish,” he said.	,
The Daily Herald
Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss. Monday, September 22, 1969
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1300 Trees Toppled at Base
One of the losses to Hurricane Camille at Keesler AFB that will take years to replace are the 1.300 trees that were toppled by the winds.
According to civil engineering: officials, 895 trees were downed; ,in the housing area, and 405 on: Hhe main base. More than 95 j ;per cent were large pines, arid!
the average age of the lost trees was 46 years.