Jackson Jambalaya

I enjoy reading these old articles. Names, addresses and injuries are not listed in the reporting today. I wonder how many remember when the funeral homes also did the ambulance service? Love "attaches" at the hospital.

It seems odd seeing so many local stories on The Clarion Ledger-

The greatest generation raising their kids in a safe, clean environment before the parasitic culture was even a thought.

That Hinton dude sounds like one bad fella!
Love reading these old newspapers.

Looks like the city water was going out of service even in 1951. Is that a year that America was great and Jackson had no problems?

I see where Mississippi Power & Light is telling people to wrap their gas meters. Were they in the gas business also back then?

I remember that snow storm. In some places there were drifts 4' deep. The snow started coming down heavy when my brother and I were in class at Watkins Elementary. We were sent home from school about mid-day. It was about a mile walk but no big deal for an eleven year old and a six year old. Our parents were both at work and were unable to get home until about 10 PM. The only heat was a floor furnace which I could not get started. We did have a small wall heater in the bathroom which we were able to get started. We were able to keep warm. Our parents didn't like the snow but we enjoyed it. I don't believe that we had another snow storm until about 1963.

I'm guessing that mom & dad's snuggling to stay warm probably had something to do with my being born later that year.

Natalie and I were in the famous Class of '61 at Murrah High School. Why was it famous? Because Natalie and I were in it. Well, there was this red-headed guy named Jimmy Barksdale. He sat next to us in Homeroom our senior year, and had a certain charisma.

There is a reference to my Uncle Alec Rogers in the Linemen story. He was from Florence, MS, and got a basketball scholarship to the University of Iowa where he met my father's sister Margaret "Peg" Hise. They lived in Jackson on Pennsylvania Street, then later on Meadowridge. We moved to Jackson from Iowa in 1954 because my widowed mother needed a better job. There's some irony there, yes.

I was 7 yrs old, in l951, remember this well, we had 4 very tall Pine Trees in the back yard, (lived off McDowell on Barwood Drive)and all 4 had a large portion of the top, completely broken off,
as I recall, the trees survived.

Back then we had Mayors that worked 24/7 to find solutions regarding whatever unexpected problem that was thrown at them:

Leland Speed
Allen Thompson
Russell Davis
Dale Danks

Not so much after those guys.

11:02, yes, MS Power & Light was in the gas business - I believe the "Light" was gas light originally. Sometime around 1952 they spun off the gas business due to a belief that the federal government was going to break up the big holding companies. Middle South Utilities (today known as Entergy) owned Mississippi Power and Light, Arkansas Power and Light, Louisiana Power and Light and New Orleans Public Service. They spun off their gas businesses in Mississippi and Arkansas. In Mississippi the new company became Mississippi Valley Gas and remained that way until Atmos Energy purchased it in 2002.

@5:21 PM,

Thanks for the information. I never knew they were in the gas business at one time.

That Hinton guy was executed a little over two years after he committed the crime:
https://www.leagle.com/decision/1950817209miss6081756

Back when the criminal justice system worked.