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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
The Grahams stopped in
Texas for a visit with their
son, M-Sgt. James Graham,
who returned to his Ft. Hood
headquarters from Washing
ton, where he was an umpire
in the Coulee Crest maneuver
near Yakima.
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Portland The Portland
office of the bureau of land
management, department of
the interior, has announced a
call for bids to perform litho
graphing services for repro
duction of approximately
2,280 maps in single and mul
tiple colors of various areas in
western Oregon.
The areas Involved are
known as the Douglas-South
Umpqua Master Unit and the
South Coast Master Unit.
Lithographing service must
be of the highest quality pos
sible under standard commer
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The work is set aside for
Small Business Concerns only.
Bids will be opened at 2
p.m., June 26 in the BLM's
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