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County Petroleum Needs
Hancock County Supervisors awarded bids on petroleum pro-durts for county equipment during the coming year to low bidder, Cue Oil Co. of Bay St. Louis, at a short meeting Monday morning while bids submitted on a truck for Beat 4 were held for further study.
Beat 1 Supervisor Charles Russ presided in the absence of Board President R. G. Hubbard jr. of Beat 5 who was attending the state seafood commission hearing in Jackson.
Cue Oil Co. with bids of 25 cents per gallon, regular gaso ? line; 27.5 cents per gallon, premium; and 15 cents diesel fuel
.Jo. 2, with tax included was lower than bids from Standard Oil Co. of Jackson which submitted 15.30 cents per gallon, regular; 17.80 cents premium; and 15.10 cents, diesel with a 10.5 cent tax added to each.
Bidding on the truck were Bay Motors Co., Inc., of Bay St. Louis, $3,699.15 for a 19f0 Ford-600 model, and Pearson Motor Co., Inc., of Picayune, $3,495 for a similiar model. Beat 4 Supervisor James Necaise asked for time tocheckspeclfications more closely.
In other matters the supervisors approved a jurors list submitted earlier by Hubbard to Clerk Claiborne Ladner for the spring term of Circuit Court. Board Attorney Sam Favre noted he had received no reply yet from the attorney general to determine if the new supervisors can name their own jury lists.
He advised Supervisors L M. Frierson, Beat 2; Charles Lavinghouse, Beat 3; and Necaise, Beat 4; to wait until the


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