Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 21

bprmg rilgrimage Set On Gulf Coast Classified SECTION Ot ClarlonCr Dgtt jackson daily ntvs Sunday, March 1964 SECTION for Saturday are the gardens! The tour mill begin at 10. of the Veterans Administration a. m. at the Oriental home of Hospital on Back Bay of Biloxi Mr. and Mrs.

John B. RawV- and the home of Mr. and Mrs. "1 ings. PRESENT PAGEANT At 2 00 p.

m. the garden George Quint, 11? Hopkins Blvd. Display of beautiful collection of cut glass. club will present "The Pag w- 1 1 The city of Ocean Springs eant of the Singing River" at will hostess the Spring Pil the of the Old Spanish grimage on Sunday, March 13, Fort. from 1:30 to 5:30 p.

m. The W. B. Seely home, origi Fort Maurepas, the first cap- nal home of the Confederate itol of the Louisiana Territory, Colonel George Huggins, is the next stop. During the War Between the States the paintings will be the first stop on the tour.

The site which was settled in 1609 by l'ierre LeMoyne, and furniture in the home were Sieur d'Ibmille and his mutilated by the Union sol diers. This is one of the oldest and largest homes in the area, built in the early 1800 by Wal- i i'i BILOXI A Hom of Treasure, i lighthouse and the second oldest American yacht 'club are but a few of the a historical and beautiful spots which will be shown during the 19th annual pilgrimage, sponsored by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Council of Garden Clubs. The tour, which Is frea of charge to members of the council, friends and visitors, will open in Biloxi on March 12 and continue through March 30 In Bay-Waveland. Saturday, March 12, visitors should meet at 1:00 p. m.

at Beauvoir, Beach Drive, on U. 6. Highway 90. The last home of the President of the Confederacy, Jeffarson Davis, Beauvoir is a state shrine. Members of the Beach Garden 1 a in ante-bellum dress, will conduct a tour of the mansion and informal gardens.

Tea will be served. After touring the Church of the Redeemer, family church Davis', the group will proceed to the Biloxi Garden Center, one of the oldest homes in the Mississippi Valley. The next stop on the Pilgrimage of Biloxi will be the Art Gallery, which is in the Carriage House of the Baldwin Wood Estate, located on the same grounds as the House of Treasure. Baldwin Wood was the world known designer of ter Gautier. Lake Garden Club of Pasca poiila is ooenine the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Wayne Lee. con temporary French Provincial with a Polynesian flair. The Escatawoa River home of Dr. and Mrs.

James brother, Sieur t'e Bienville, was the origin of explorations which resulted in the settlements of Natchez, Mobile, New Biloxi and New Orleans. Rebel Oaks, the garden of Mrs. Brice E. Dressel, is a vista of giant moss-covered oaks, camellias and azaleas. The Ralph Palfrey garden is carpeted with azaleas and camellias which were grown from cuttings.

Donald L. Connor's garden features a gigantic grape vine which has received wide notices from horticulturists. RUSKIN OAK After visiting the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Pattison, one of the oldest and largest homes in Ocean Springs, the Thompson can be viewed in Moss Point.

The century old residence is ante-bellum and built on a shady knoll with verandas overlooking the shrub bery and lawns. Bay Waveland will hostess the tour Wednesday, March i 30. Judge and Mrs. Dan M. ALL GONK Mr.

and Mrs. Gip Waggoner, who resided between Forkville and Branch, once had a home here. It was demolished Thursday night. Both are in critical condition in Baptist Hospital. Russell.

will open their English style home from 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. Coffee will he served. the pumps which keep New Or leans and many of the low European countries dry. FRANTIC CROSSING John Davis, head of the engraving department of the Clarion-Ledger and Daily News, made a frantic crossing of the creek on Cooper Road Thursday evening when he learned of the disaster in the Candlestick area.

His home is nearby and his wife and small son and daughter were at home. He got as far as the creek and found the bridge was out, but that didn't deter him. He got wet just after this photo was nwde, slipping down into the swirling, trash-filled water. When he arrived home, his family was safe, his house undamaged. The House ol Treasure con tains displays of silver, porce lains, crystal, rugs, furniture and the unique Aubusson Fairy Tala Tapestries signed and dated in 1806.

Also on this property is the once privately- owned 100 year old light group will view the Raskin Oak, named in honor of John Ruskin. Peter Anderson, owner-potter of Shearwater Pottery, will demonstrate his art at the Potter's wheel. His art is displayed amid a waterfront wonderland of azaleas, camellias and dogwood. Other spots to be visited ar St. John's Episcopal Church, designed by Louis Sullivan.

The First Presbyterian Church, built in 1876, and the home of Mr. and Mrs. Watson Wood. Ocean Springs Garden Club will serve as hostess for complete tour. LONG BEACH TOWN Long Beach will be the site of the tour Sunday, March 20, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.

m. The afternoon will be spent visiting homes and gardens which have received acclaim for their beauty and design. Tea will be served. On Wednesday, March 23, luncheon will be served at the house. On adjacent grounds can be seen the magnificent oak containing the ring which inspired the legend of the "Ring in the Oak." Members VISIT TO SHRINE At 10:30 the tour will i i the Shrine of Our Lady of the Woods at St.

Joseph's Academy. Built in 1859, the shrine was erected by Father Bureaux, missionary and first Catholic pastor in Bay St. Louis. Our Lady of the Gulf Church, which features a cathedral organ with pipes numbering 250 to 300. The first church of the Diocese will be open from 11:20 to 12:00 Noon.

Luncheon will be served at Haverty's Restaurant at noon. Reservations a must. Robert Geiger will open his home and Art studio from 1:00 to 2:00 p. m. Hostess will receive in Oriental and Antebellum dress.

The City Fathers of Bay St. Louis will welcome the pilgrimage visitors at 2:00 p. at the newly restored and redecorated City Hall. Building erected in 1905. )f of the Oak Park and Magnolia Garden Clubs will be hostess.

STOP AT LIGHTHOUSE The Biloxi Lighthouse, which jt- A. i .1 it vi i iti', I is said to be one of the 15 most photographed objects in the United States, is the next stop on the tour. Built in 1848, it is na of the few lighthouses to atand within a thriving city, For 62 years It was tended by Pass Christian Yacht Club The final stop on the tour BURIED IN A DITCH This car being pulled out of ditch near Forkville, wai almost buried in a ditch bank. Local resident said three people in iit were killed. The body of one of the men was hurled into the yard of a home on the opposite side of the highway.

PULLED FROM BARN These cattle belonging to Dwight Measells, of Forkville, were pulled from under a collapsed bam Friday, They were unable to get up. Many cattle were killed or had to be destroyed. will be the Bay Waveland two women, Maria and Miranda Younghans. Their home is now the office of the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce. Other highlights on the tour Yacht Club.

There will be a display of china, cut glass, swords, bisaue ornaments and old Spanish land grants. Tea will be served. from 11:30 to 1:30 p. m. Tha club is the second oldest in the United States, founded in 1849.

Reservations should be made for the luncheon. The first stop on the tour will be the Wild Flower garden, a permanent conservation project of the Pass Christian Garden Club. It was started in 1954. After visiting the Bayou Portage home of Dr. and Mrs.

Edward Gamard, the group Income Tax Deductions For Damage The' tornadoes which passed FHA Loans Available will proceed to Middlegate TORN A DO-JOBLESS GIVEN OPPORTUNITY OF FILING The Claims Office staff at 431 North State is ready to give special assistance aU this coming week to claimants for unemployment insurance whose jobs were wiped out by the tornado, according to an announcement by the Mississippi State Employment Service. Persons out of work because of tornado damage to their places of employment should file claims anytime during the week, Monday, March 7, through Friday, March 11, 1966, to receive full credit for their period of unemployment. Individuals living outside the Jackson Metropolitan Area may file claims on the following schedule: Forest and Brandon on Monday; Carthage on Tuesday; Hazlehurst on Wednesday; Canton on Thursday; and Mendenhall on Friday. Disaster Warning System To Aid Tornado Alley' Gardens, an authentic Japanese garden at 520 West Beach. Trinity Episcopal Church and Live Oak Cemetery will be the.

through Mississippi yesterday resulted in financial losses to a number of Mississippians. District Director, J. G. Martin, of the Internal Revenue Service reminds all of these people today that casualty losses resulting from tornadoes may be deductible for income tax purposes. Mr.

Martin suggests that per-aons who have suffered losses begin to establish casualty loss records as soon as possible to provide a reminder and evidence of deductible losses when filing the 1966 income tax returns. It is helpful if records include photographs of property before and after restoration and records are kept of the cost of clearing and removing of de-brij. Records should include also a list of personal property destroyed or damaged by the storms. As soon as practicable, where lubstantial real property losses ire involved, the services of WASHINGTON Mississippi, as one of the 15 states in the To Farmers State Director T. B.

Father-ree of the Farmers Home Administration announced today that three percent loans are available to farmers and rural residents in Hinds, Rankin, Scott and Leake Counties who had homes and farm buildings destroyed or damaged by tornadoes on March 3 and who are not adequately covered by insurance and cannot get needed long term credit from other conventional sources. These loans can be amortized over a period of 33 years. Fatherree also announced that these counties have been recommended for designation as an emergency area for agricultural credit. If this recommendation is approved, loans will be available for replacing livestock, farm machinery, removing debris, construction of fences, financing the 1966 crop, etc. To be eligible applicants must be unable to get credit from conventional sources.

Anyone needing such assistance should contact the county office of the Farmers Home Administration in his county. nation's "Tornado Alley," will be one of the initial benefici last stop for the day. The church was built in 1849 and amid moss-draped oaks. GULFPORT VISITS An escorted tour of Gulfport begins Thursday, March 24, at 11:00 a. m.

at the Chamber of Commerce Building. The first garden to be visited is that of Mrs. Robert Leeton. There are more than 250 rare camellias and tropical plants, including a Bird of Paradise. Mrs.

Owen Palmer, president of the State Federation of Garden Clubs, has opened her home and patio for the pilgrimage. The garden is filled with many spring blossoms and oak trees. Other homes to be seen in Gulfport are those of Mrs. V. A.

Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Gibbs. The Gulfport tour will end at the Handsboro Presbyterian Church, built in 1892. Tea will be served.

Sunday, March 27, the' pilgrimage will be in tha Pasca-goula-Moss Point area. aries of the new natural disaster warning system outlined Wednesday by the Commerce RELAY TOWER AND ITS REPLACEMENT Storm Bent 292-Footer At Left Is Temporary One now being sought will pay fori STORM CASUALTY only about half of phase 1. Budgetary considerations account for the limitation, Hollomon said, noting that this could fiscal 1967, beginning July Among other things, the money would be used to buy and install radar facilities. Also warning teletypewriter networks would be established in Mississippi and 14 other states situated between the Appalachians and the Rockies. This network would provide new channels of communication to 630 cities and towns.

Eventually every city and town in each of these states having a daily newspaper, radio or television station, will be linked with Nadwarn through the teletypewriter network. The government will pay for the circuits. Dr. J. Herbert Hollomon, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology, conceded that the appropration Temporary Tower Replaces Bent One extend the time required to es an experienced and reliable ap Department.

The program, known as Nad-warn, expects eventually to provide around the i weather intelligence to 2,900 communities in the United States, only 224 of which now have such service. During phase one of the three year undertaking, the government would concentrate on perfecting the system in Tornado Alley, constituting the central tier of states and the South. For this purpose, tha Administration is asking Congress to provide $7 million in tablish Nadwarn to four years Total cost of the system is praiser should be obtained to determine th a 1 of the property befora and after the casualty. estimated at $50 million, but the planners figure it will save property owners a minimum of $100 million annually from storm and flood damage and spare several hundred lives a year. If I A 292-foot radio relay tower belonging to the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was destroyed by one of the tornadoes which hit the Jackson area Thursday evening.

The tower, which was a major link in long distance tele- Shone routes through the state, as been completely replaced by a new temporary tower, it was announced this morning by Walker Coffey, district plant superintendent here. When it toppled Thursday, channels, crews and equipmenl were rushed in from parts ol Mississippi, Alabama and as far away as the Carolinas. Some of the needed equipment was flown in from Charlotte, N. C. by an Air Force C-133 Globe, master, expense for which wa paid for by the The tornado which hit the tower, located in Hinds County about 15 miles southwest of Jackson, left the bottom two sections intact.

Above the second section, the steel structure was a twisted mess, probably caused by the toppling of the tower from the top. over 3,000 long distance tele phone circuits were reported out of service. However, by the use of pre-arranged restoration plans, the company restored all services over rerouted facilities within three hours. In the meantime more permanent restoration plans were placed in operation, resulting in the completion Saturday of the new, although still temporary, tower. Plans are being made now for construction of the new permanent tower.

To construct the temporary tower now in operation and return communications to normal routes rather than rerouted Meridian Club Seals Officers MERIDIAN The Meridian Newcomers Club officers for the coming year were installed at the monthly luncheon meeting. Installed by Ulrs. Bob Holland, a former president, were Mrs, Frank Watts, president; Mrs. Robert Moore, vice president; Mrs. Michie Hill, secretary; Mrs.

Robert Fulton, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Raymond Glass, treasurer; and Mrs. Hurry Wade, historian. I 'ii OiwAliriTIf II I ma Ti ntlllnii in futftll nniT JOE CAR The car In which former Ail Board Director Joe Bullock was riding when tha storm hit was towed away Friday afternoon. A witness taid it looked like the car "flew a thousand feet In the air.

TWO ESCAPED Louie Dobbs, Scott county resident, jtands amid the ruins of the home occupied by hi grandmother. She and her ister wera Injured, but ttcaped death..