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A IHUntuAi, juiil u, laoj MEUFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON VDDDooes oe Thrift AAmi (Pironecft Moy Love m I nMnmnanul XI- nlutcrwl that VllS OTQU Editor' Bolts- Bulldosert and construction erewi art busy in (iva-mil eeniere area in south Mississippi on a project thai will balp Amer ican astronauts reach tha moon. Tha site whtn com pitted in I96S. will be used tor ground test firings oi the mighty Saturn-V . rocket. An area 20 miles around the project has begun to stir o the tSOO million operation and - with hundreds of new jobs and a sharp population increase anticipated - bract for a boom. Inevitably, there are growing pains. The proj ect, its impact and its prob lems are reported in the fol lowing dispatch. H. L. 8TEVENBON United Press International Gainesville, Miss.-OJrD-Thls village died to make way for a boom. Its one general store, two churches and a handful of homes and fishing camps on the banks of the Pearl river that divides Mississippi and Louisiana have vanished. Two graveyards are about to be moved - tombstone by tombstone, grave by grave. A railroad - which the thriving Gainesville of the 1880's needed but could not obtain - creeped into the area recently. It was 80 years too late to save a little hamlet near which Andrew Jackson camped in 1814 on his way to the Battle of New Orleans. Gainesville was once a trading hub of south Missis sippi. Virgin Honey Island forest and swamps along the Is mourned by those who had river were hiding places for such rogues as Pierre Rameau whose small band of pirates raided gulf coast shipping. In a surge of patriotism, loan ed a number of his boats to Jackson's army. Old Boom Town Down the river a few miles lies Logtown, another boom town of the past. Its sawmills turned out millions of feet of lumber and sent it away on river barges to build thou sands of homes. Logtown, Miss., now sleepy fishing mecca, will die within a year. Its tiny post office, few stores and two schools will disappear. These two villages - one dead and the other dying -are making way for part of the gigantic American project to put men on the moon in 1968. Rising in the flat scrub pine land in south Mississippi - 33 miles northeast of New Orleans - is a $300 million facility that the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (NASA) will use to static test, or ground fire, the mighty Saturn V rocket that this country is banking on to win the race with the Russians to the moon. After testing here, the 330-foot tall rockets will be moved to Cape Canaveral, Fla., for the actual blastoff into space. Two Villsges Die The death of two villages, and several hundred homes in a surrounding "buffer" zone Z i yy A' ""-"HIV SATURN STATION - This is an artist's conception of a physical lay-out of a Saturn testing station of the future, proposed for Gainesville, Miss. (UPi) to pack their belongings and relocate. But an area 20 miles around the 141,000 acre site is be ginning to stir. A boom pe riod is coming. Three cities nearest the Mississippi test facility, as NASA calls it, are bracing for it. They are Picayune, 10 miles to the north; Bay St. Louis, about the same dis tance to the cast, and Slidell, La., to the west. Slidell al ready has landed the com puter installation to process data from static firings of the huge rockets which will be assembled at the Michould plant in New Orleans, then moved by barge up the Pearl river to the test site. Heavy construction began this month on the facility, soon after the railroad spur reached Gainesville. Li Yftti Naed Save on . j at Prices You Can wiord .1 UAH ' Dow..on Bart! C"ner DOWNTOWN SIXTH AND CENTRAL Open Monday & Friday Nights FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE An estimated 3,000 con struction workers will be on hand by the end of 1963. Thus comes the first wave in the boom with its usual problems in housing and schools. By the time the first rockets lashed to huge stands anchored deep in the sandy coastal soil are fired in 1965 the construction crews will be gone. An estimated 1,700 fulltime employees will man the facility. Rough Estimates What does this mean to the merchant considering enlarg ing his store or a city con templating new schools? Some rough estimates: pop ulation increase - 9,630, new students - 2,423, additional automobiles - 2,400, new re tail stores - 51, and increased income - $18. B million an nually Enough for a good- sized town if it could all be planked down in one spot. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. York, MEZZANINE SPECIALS WHITE TERRY CLOTH Terrific value at this price. Limit ed quantity. Reg. 67c yard. 53 t Yd. JUST ARRIVED KITCHEN PRINTS ' Lots of patterns to choose from. Reg. 47c yard. formerly of Denver, Colo., op erate two motels in Picayune. They've renamed them Saturn Inn and Apollo Inn. They are jammed most nights now. Once they lured a few tourists too tired to drive all the way to New Orleans. A bay St. Louis motel ad vertises, "This is the center of the space world." Prices Up New sub divisions are sprouting in Picayune, Sliddel and Bay St. Louis. Land that sold for $100 an acre a few years ago is bringing $1,000 now. One property owner col lected $50,000 for a 200-foot wide strip of right of way for the railroad spur to Gainesville. New schools are being built In Slidell. Shopping centers are rising. Trailer parks are springing up. Marion Salloum, the energetic young operator of a shot store in Picayune, re cently built a new store, with foundations strong enough to Medical Facility at VA Domiciliary Is Discussed accommodate expansion "We'll be ready," he says. "We want to have an order ly growth, to insure for the future, both for those to come and those who have worked to build the city during the P88-' ... . These were ine www Picavune's youthful mayor I r.ranville Williams. He is one of many optimists in the city of 10,000. His city has a 20 year growth plan already drawn, covering schools. streets and other city services. Williams makes one point about the city school system, segregated like all others in Mississippi. The council does not intend to accept federal impacted area aid that would be available because of the influx of students. Plan Bond Issues . Instead, the city would re sort to bond issues and try to avoid any federal inter vention in its schools, such as occurred in Biloxi, Miss., hub of a vast military facility, or Huntsville, Ala., home of the government's George C. Marshall space flight center. The pains that accompany the birth of a boom are some times acute. For nearly 800 families w.lhin the test site ' area, it means moving. An estimated 100 families already have lett the main area around Gaines ville. Others, in the "buffer" zone - where the roar of the Saturns might be dangerous or objectionable - must leave by mid-1964. Some of these families, de cended from the early settlers of the 1800's are resigned to move. Others are angry. Asa McQueen, the leathery operator of a grocery that must close, heads a property owners committee that has militantly battled the govern ment, and the U. S. Corps of Engineers, over land apprais als. Some are too high, Mc Queen says, some are too low. Protest Appraisals The values are based on 1961 prices, McQueen says. "We are at the mercy of the U.S. Corps of Engineers," he said in an interview. "There is no rhyme or reason for their appraisal policy." He pledged that his group intends to keep the gov ernment's "feet to the fire" until satisfactory settlements are made. One of those who must move is Roy Baxter, who has a large marina at Logtown with space for dozens of fish ing and pleasure craft. He had begun operation only a few days when he heard a televi sion newscast report that the area had been selected for the rocket test facility and sev eral hundred people would have to move. Included in the area are 13 churches, 18 to 20 small stores, Logtown's two schools and Baxter's marina. He will relocate a few miles further down Pearl river. Mrs. Roy Baxter Sr., nis mother, is among the resign ed. She knew Logtown in its lumber boom days. "It's not so bad for tho;e of us who are older. We've lived our lives," she says. "But, it is the younger people who have been hurt. They have to start all over again. It seems a high price to pay." mi 43 2-SPEED 20" FAN WITH POWERFUL MOTOR Yd. Big value! Big 20" blades for exhausting but hot sir or bring ing - In cool outdsor ilr (manually reversible). 16 MEN'S SHORT SLIIVI SPORT SHIRTS Lots of colors and patterns to choose from. Values to $4.9S. SEOO for tj xse trc 2 FOAM FILLED TRAVELING PILLOW 7 Easy to wash. A big value at this price. 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The campaign to get medi cal and surgical tacilities in stalled at the White City Dom iciliary to care tor emergency Illnesses which arise among southern Oregon veterans was carried to Washington, D. C, again recently by Pat Gra ham, adjutant and service of ficer, and past state comman der of the Disabled American Veterans. Returning to Medford, Gra ham reported that he had con ferences with Sen. Wayne L. Morse and Maurine Neuber gcr and Congressman Robert B. Duncan. He found them sympathetic and cognizant of the veterans situation here. Considerable work in this area has already been done by Senator Morse and Con gressman Robert B. Duncan. Graham said. There is a Com mittee on Veterans Affairs in the House, but the Allied Vet erans Council, for which Gra ham Is secretary, has been working for the establishment of a similar committee in the Senate. Would Support Legislation Senator Neubergcr said she would Joint Senator Morse In supporting legislation for es tablishment of such a com mittee, Graham reported. Senator Morse, Graham ex plained, has supported every resolution which has been presented for establishment of the committee and has In troduced two such measures himself. While with the Ore gon delegation, Graham also met and conferred with Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who introduced the most re cent resolution for establish nu'iit of the committee. While In Washington, D. C. the Grahams also visited their son. Daniel, who was promot ed to the rank of lieutenant colonel during their stay. He has been reassigned to Army headquarters in the Pentagon, where he will complete his first three-year assignment July 9. Graham accompanied his son to Annapolis where Colonel Graham participated in a debate at the Naval Academy on appropriations for the military branches. 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