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were working out as Williams had hoped they would. During an Interview in which movers ousted us from his office (it was moving day for the department), he told me that the community had accepted him in good faith. “They come to me with their problems just like they would to anybody else.”
Questioned about the new mayor, Larry Bennett, he said; “I think we are going to work together very well. He’s a fine fellow.”
OF course, it is not too surprising that Bay St. Louis has been able to take the appointment of a black chief of police in stride.
Although in many ways a typical Mississippi town, it is unique in important ways.
Pleasantly situated on a peninsula bounded on the north and east by the Bay of St. Louis and on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, the city is separated by the bay from the more commercial part of the Mississippi Coast. US 90, the major tourist thoroughfare, does not follow the
coastline through the city, so its few motels and souvenir shops are away from the beach and the main part of town.
“Downtown” is small, old and charming. The major landmarks are the traditional ones — the county courthouse, the First Baptist Church, the' Methodist Church, City Hall, and an interesting old frame building that houses the local newspaper, The Sea Coast Echo.
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