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Flashback: Turtle soup
■	While Biloxi bragged about its early 1900s diamondback terrapin farms, which shipped live turtles to skilled Eastern chefs, Bay St. Louis quietly produced thousands of cans of ready-to-eat green sea turtle soup.
In 1917 H.J. Thurston moved his turtle soup business from Miami to Bay St Louis because shipping charges to Florida were sating a chunk of his profit and driving up the price of the soup.
Thurston claimed that it cost him $16 to bring and process a turtle in Miami but only $2.50 to do the same in the Bay.
The turtles, which averaged between 300 pounds to 600 pounds, were captured in Central America "and Mexico, brought here live and turned into turtle soup or Creole-style turtle beef. A byproduct was medicinal turtle oil.
‘The Thurston Canning Co. operated the soup plant near the Peerless Shrimp & Oyster Plant on the peninsula that now houses the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club,' says David N. McDonald of Bay SL Louis, who submitted the advertisement that is today’s Flashback.
0	‘They were shipped on flat railroad cars lying on their backs and strapped down. The turtles were then kept in a pen just south of the present yacht club until processed.
‘Norvin Penrose, a well-known Coast fisherman, described going with other boys to the turtle pen to look. He also told me about watching the workmen use specially shaped axes to chop out the slabs jpf meat which were then locally sold to retail customers or moved into the cooking area for canned scup.’
Luckily for the world’s decimated turtle population, turtle soup went out of vogue.
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The ‘others’ want recognition
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
■	BOSTON — Teja Arboleda says Uncle Sam has him boxed out.
While Arboleda accepts his unique looks, he can’t accept the government’s refusal to recognize him for what he is: a multiracial American.
“Look at my face. Just look at my face!” pleaded Arboleda, whose fea-' tures show traces of his African, Danish, German, American Indian and Filipino- Chinese ancestry.
’ "Can you honestly say, without disgrace, that I am of pure race?”
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Very well. The court says stof This minute!
Alas, it is not so easy. The cc has been hobnobbing with new? ; permen (and women) for the past years. With a few notable fcxceptiof we of the press are arithmetl numbskulls. We probably were txf that way.	S
Ms. Wood buttresses her c< plaint with a clipping from the 0 ka-Aubum News of last October, story had to do with the Lee Co Youth Development Center, wl houses far more boys than girls, fact, “the ratio of girls to boys probably four to one.”
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Larry Meyer of Seattle sut inittei question to the court two years aj He asked, “What is an order of magi tude?” Manifesting its craven coi ardice in these matters, the court h
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Then there are those who want to eliminate the classifications entirely. Still others oppose any changes.
Corporations trying to comply with affirmative action guidelines fear changes could force them to ask employees prying or even illegal background questions.
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