DJ Walter Squalls was dressed in a festive Hawaiian shirt on a balmy afternoon as he played tunes on the stage overlooking the cemented courtyard of Holy Family School.

Squalls believes that in is his 42 years as a DJ, he has played virtually every kind of music, except one.

&uot;I’ve done this for all kinds of people. I’ve even done this for governors of the state of Mississippi. I play everything from jazz to soul to country and western, but I won’t play explicit music of any kind. I don’t care if it’s a No. 1 hit. I don’t play that kind of music.&uot;

It was his second year to DJ

Holy Family’s largest fundraiser of the year and his moral stance over music blended perfectly with the air of fun and fellowship of the event.

Faye Barnes, who has chaired the event for 13 years, hoped the carnival would generate as much income as it had in previous years.

&uot;We have been doing this for about 30 years and we usually take in around $10,000,&uot; she said. &uot;This is our major fundraiser and I always hope that the people will support us and it goes over big.&uot;

Principal Rosa Demby was pleased that many of the women of Holy Family Church had volunteered their time to bake cakes and pies for the cakewalk, since there was a setback this year.

&uot;Julia Davis usually cooks all the cakes for the cake walk, but this year she had throat surgery and was unable to do it,&uot; she said.

In front of the school, Orange Street was filled with the savory aroma of chicken on the grill, courtesy of the men of Holy Family’s Knights of Peter Claver. The chicken could be purchased with red beans and rice, candied yams and corn bread.

Several game booths were in the courtyard and children took their turn tossing plastic rings over empty Coca-cola bottles to win prizes or seeing what was fastened to a clothes pin when they raised their pole from the &uot;fishing booth.&uot;

Monterro Bouldin, 10, thought that he had not done too badly at his first time at the carnival.

&uot;I have won prizes everywhere but the duck pond but now I am out of tickets,&uot; he said.

Not one to be dismayed by such small dilemma, he quickly added, &uot;I am going to go get some more.&uot; Most booths required four tickets and could be purchased from Galaungra Myles for 25 cents in the small yellow booth at the end of the courtyard.

The event open at 7 a.m. with a garage sale and closed 3 p.m. with an auction and ticket raffle for a 19 inch color television, a $500 U.S. savings bond, donated by Concordia Bank and Trust, and a round trip bus ticket to anywhere in the United States.

&uot;The auction didn’t do as well this year as usual, but we still did well. Our highest item was a one-of-a-kind doll that went for $95,&uot; Demby said. &uot;The raffles are what we made the most money on.&uot;

Auira Jones won the television set, Janie Griffith won the savings bond, and Shelly Sullivan won the bus trip.

As Sister Kathleen Walsh watched the festivities of the day, she hoped that people didn’t forget the Catholic origins of the holiday. &uot;What we are really celebrating is All Saints Day, which is Nov. 1. Halloween was really known as All Hallow’s Eve and Nov. 2 is All Soul’s Day, but everyone forgets that,&uot; she said.

Walsh, who left her native Limerick, Ireland in 1939 for the United States, said that she had been many places but is comfortable at Holy Family, where she teaches sewing.

&uot;I always feel at home here, I like the people of Natchez,&uot; she said.