European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mobile seems like everything by Drummond ashes Neww York times Ike has never been quite the same in Mobile since Admiral Farragut damned the torpid pics and forced his Yankee gunboat into the Long Bay that stretches he from the City to the the City has of from what some locals still refer to As the but the regal splendor of the antebellum when Cotton was King and Mobile was one of Dixie Queen has not Mobile Seldom comes to mind when conversation turns to the so called new but a lot of things that Are happening in Mobile could change in the past five years or while Atlanta and birding Ham and Charlotte have been capturing the attention of developers and headline Mobile has made though economic the old port City is on the move struggling to gain a place in the new Southern All of a sudden were getting More More in More bringing in Oil making Money you name says mayor Lambert seems like everything is not the past is still As important As the present or the future to Many who Are among the souths More uncompromising tradition the City remains an exceptionally conservative Bas run mainly by democrats who vote for Republican and Bankers who boast that if they Are not flamboyantly they at least were not Embar like their High rolling Atlanta by the recent some racial sore Points remain from the sometimes violent civil rights struggles of the Blacks Are still not satisfied with their share of economic and political Only Charleston and Richmond retain More structured social people from Mobile continue to take Pride in the fact that other alabamians consider them some what there is also a kind of perverse glee there that no modern Mobilian has Ever been elected to state wide says Caldwell mobiles leading Histo itis undeniable fact that we Are somewhat Dif Ferent by by by by by we Are 270odd years not some Inse Frontier ours is the proud his tory of Europe we Are a sem tropical tip of literally Sepa rated from the rest of the state by a thick Belt of we Are a in touch with the we Are there is new blood coming no Small thing in population in the metropolitan area increased per to in the first half of the Well above the National some Southern cities and states recorded higher but Many others fell Well Industrial which averaged about million annually through the 1960s and Early has been almost million annually through the a number of chemical plants have been added to the cites older mix of paper lumber Deal ers and seafood important new Oil and Gas Fields have been discovered just North of the City in the past several As a Alabama now leads the nation in new land that once could be leased for an acre cannot be bad now for less than an the Mobile port among the 10 busiest in the coun is being modernized at a Cost of some with considerable emphasis on containerization a Creole cottage with traditional overhanging front porch undergoing restoration in k keza13 tourists Are discovering Mobile area sights such As shrimp boats in port at Bayou la port tonnage has been rising steadily and is expected to double to More than 70 million tons annually within the next decade if space can be found for new piers and if work can be completed on the  a the a billion fed eral project designed to link the Rivers of the deep South with the Rivers of the Middle was recently Given a nod of approval by president a major restoration of mobiles historically important Many dating to the opulent antebellum is under More than Hundred Bouses and stores already have been particular attention has been Given the belter Federal style Brick some with intricate lace Iron and the Best of the Creole to Bliku Frame houses with overhanging front porches to catch the Gulf tourists have discovered drawn by the cites its recently restored buildings and a Bayside Park in which the battleship Alabama and the submarine drum Are visitors Are arriving in increasing per cent More in 1976 than in the future has never looked brighter for contends William president of the first National mobiles second but there Are some weak who make up a third of the have taken the City to court in an Effort to win More political August 1977 unemployment among Young Blacks exceeds 25 per Blacks also Are not yet represented proportionately in City government Mobile schools have been but some pre dominantly Black schools remain and Many Whites have fled to private Mobile Blacks charge the police with but racial relations generally Are much smoother than in years when Black demonstrators and the police frequently were at last Blac White relations were notably strained when a while policeman was tried for allegedly putting a Hangman noose around the neck of a Black who was being questioned about a robbery the officer was acquitted tie City also needs to expand its port and Industrial areas even More if it is to compete with other Southern in its Mobile is particularly most Mobilian Register As an old Ala Bama but a Roc hard conservative Republican can usually win their votes with especially in a presidential alabamians elsewhere also tend to be but their conservatism often is mixed with there is none of that in aristocratic old a classic example of mobiles conservatism occurred a few years Back when a Federal judge ruled that the City could not prohibit local Heaters from showing a film about mayor Mims ordered the flags on City Hall flown at the stars and stripes Page 13