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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
SPRING SESSION
CIRCUIT COURT
is ADJOURNED
SENTENCES PRONOUNC E p
ON WEDNESDAY

Judge S. F. Davis adjourned
the spring term of Circuit Court
in Holmes county Wednesday at
ternoon at two O'Clock.
The morning was spent pronoun
cling sentences and arguing mo-
tions.
Convictions and sentences were
as follows:
L. G. Martin, white, convicted
of false pretense. One year in the
penitentiary; Jabbo Pinkston,
burglary, two years in the pen;
Ado Gibson, appealed from JP
court, one year for grand larceny;
Albert Hill, burglary and larceny
one year; Tom Tate, possession Of
liquor, 800 and costs.
Carrie Murphy, disturbing the
peace of a family, appealed from
JP court, $25. and costs James
Cobbins, petty larceny, appealed
from JP court, $25. and COSTS
Mathew Whitehead, convicted Of
grand larceny, three years; Dean
O'Neal, assault and battery, ten
and one-half months in jail and
$125. fine.
Lat Sanders, possession Of liqu-
Or, 800. and costs; Rubber Grant
Of liquor, appealed
from JP court, $35. fine and costs:
Herbert McGee, burglary, one
year; Nose Gideon, assault and
battery with intent, to kill, five
years; Theo Tucker, burglary and
arceny, one year.
Otis Donald, convicted of man
one year and $500. fine;
Ieve Brock, assault and battery,
me year in Jail and $3.50. fine.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
REV. FORD FILLED
DURANT PULPIT SUNDAY

The Rev. E. w. Ford, pastor OF
the Presbyterian Church at Good
man, filled the pulpit Of the Rev.
g. m. Smiley at Durant on Sun.
dav. Nav 9.
The Rev. Smiley Was at Lexing
ton where he assisted in ordain.
INC and installing the Rev. John
r Howard as pastor of the Lex
;neton Presbyterian Church. On
Sunday NIGHT the Rev. Howard
was installed as pastor of the
'Tchnla Presbyterian Church.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
DEMONSTRATION
HEAR FOOD SPECIALIST

!, Miss Mary E. Doney, food pre-
servation specialist, met with the
leaders of the Home Demonstra-
ton Club at the Lexington Gram
mar School lunch room on May s.
The subject Of the afternoon was
the Making of Jellies and Pre-
serves. Plums and fresh straw
berries were used in the demon
stration.
Among the club members pres
ent were:
Mrs. s. j. Browning, Vests
Mesdames Ratcliff, Brister. Mont
gornery, Harmony; Brady Davis,
and LYDIA Holly. Oak Groves
Buck Byrd and Jim Boatwright,
Providence; Floyd jackson, Pro-
violence; Will Peacock, Acona /;
Albert Barrentine, Lexington;
w. T. Holder, Lexington.
The visitors who also enjoyed
this demonstration of making
Jelly and preserving we're: Misses
Martha Hester, Juanita Swinney,
Aadie v. Bailey and Mrs. Nurrie
Reid.
Daisy Anderson, home agent
for the Colored group was also
present.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
P"RESbYTERy GROUP
NET DuRkNT
ON TUESDAY
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Twenty-three pastors Of churches
in the Central Mississippi Presby-
terry attended q meeting at 'Du-
rant Tuesday, May II, the first
Of . series Of conferences on
evangelism to be held monthly.
Dr.. ". j. Caldwell, Yaxoo City
chairman Of the committee on
evangelism, was in charge Of the
meeting, and one Of the principal
speeches was made by DR.. j. w.
Allen, returned missionary from
Africa.
The Rev. j. B. Hutton, Jack
son, preached a sermon on "The
Message Of the Evangelist" and
the rest of the time was taken
up with discussions on the need
Of the churches for evangelism
and the ways these needs could
be filled.
The next conference Of the
Presbytery will be held on July
s in Jackson at the First Presby-
terian Church.
A number of visitors and local
leaders in the local church were
present at the conference. Those
registering were: DR.. Caldwell,
Yazoo City; DIR. Hutton, R. E.
Hough, w. A. Hall, and r. G.
Lipsey, all of jackson; D. M.
Mounger, Forest; G. P. Colmery,
Edwards; v. s. Broyles, Canton.
f. w. Ford, Goodman; M. O.
Cockerham, Belzoni; Henry Rob-
inson, Moorehead; John R. How
ard, Lexington R. s. Lowe, Wi
mona; G. o. Groves, Kosciusko !;
E.. B. Wilkinson, Alderman; j.
c.. Watson, Louisville; G.. M.
Smiley, Durant; Warren Niles
Potts, Learned; j. w. Allen, Mu-
toto, Africa: G.. T. Gillespie,
jackson; Warren Potts, Koscius
ko; George L. Suggs. Jackson
J. G. Stewart, French Camp
Mrs. E. B. Wilkinson, Alderman.
Among those attending in the
Durant Church were r.. Lee Coop
err, c. 8. Hill. DR.. Sam Howard
and the Rev. e. s. Lewis.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
SYSTEM
TO Be INSTALLED
AT DURAN 7
LEXINGTON AND GOODMAN
GET CHANGE

Installation of the flash-ligh.
system in Durant will be accom-
plished as soon as possible, &C.
cording to A. M. Boroughs, Green
wood, district manager of the
Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and W. C.
Martin, manager Of the Durant
territory.
Mr.. Boroughs was in Durant
today and is visiting various
points of interest over this and
sereral counties.
The Gamma Club, federated
group in Durant, successfully
sponsored the move to bring
about the change from the hand.
crank to the new system. The
members of the club presented a
petition to telephone subscribers
and received the necessary num-
Der to effect the change. Fifty
cents additional will be charged
each business subscriber. No ad-
ditional charge will be made on
phones.
1t will probably take several
months for the change to be made
according to Mr.. Boroughs, due
to the fact that Lexington is
for the change before
Durant.
A dial system, such as used in
cities, will be installed in
which has heretofore
not enjoyed telephone facilities.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
.DuRlNT. STORES
TO CLOSE NOON
thursdays
~HALF-HOILDAY OBSERVED
DURING SUMNER

Durant business houses, banks
and offices will be closed each
Thursday at twelve o'clock noon
during the summer months OF
June, July and August, according
to an announcement made today.
This will be done in order to
give employees a halliday rest
during the hot summer months.
Those signing up to close are
Howard's, The Style Shop, d.. V,
Pound, Durant Dry Goods Co.,
Lyon and Company, B. F. Fried
man at the Variety Store, Wiley
H. Browne, John S. Racine, Her
rim Barber Shop.
Dicken & Son Cleaners, Boy
cite Beauty Shoppe, Brannon-
McCullar Co., Walter Durham
Mrs. t. L. West, w. H. Irby, R
E. Irby and Spotless Dry Clean
ers.
Angle Plumbing & Electrical
Shop, Alsbury's Bakery and
Grocery, D. M. Barranco, r. G.
Turner, Hotel Beauty Shop, Ho'
tel Barber Shop, j. P. Durham
Ray Brothers,, Mississippi Power
and Light Company, Dodd's Gro.
cry and Feed Store, City Hall
Office, The Peoples Bank Of Du,
rant and the Merchants & Farm
ers Bank.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
HESTER REELECTED TO
COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

J. L. Hester, Lexington, wa!
reelected to membership in the
County School Board of Holmes
county last Friday afternoon al
two o'clock at a meeting in the
office of Miss Dorothy McBee
county superintendent of educa-
ton.
Other members Of the Board
for 1898 are DR.. j. S. Rosa
mond, West, beat two; A. P.
Marlborough, Pickens, beat three
j. E. Cunningham, Thornton
beat four; G. L. KERN, Cruger,
beat five.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
NINETY STUDENTS
GRADUATE FROM
JR. COLLEGE
THREE STATES REPRESENT
ED IN GROUP

Ninety students from three
states and several counties il
Mississippi will receive their de
grees from Holmes Junior Col
lege at Goodman in this count,
on Tuesday May IS.
The graduation exercises will
be held at the school auditorium
at 10 80 o'clock in the morning
The principal address of the day
will be given by DR.. E. J. Gas
well, pastor of the First Baptist
Church at Greenwood.
The diplomas will be presented
to the graduating seniors by M.
c. Mcdaniel, president of the Col.
legc.
The complete commencement
program follows:
Friday, May Ia, Z p. M. May
Day Exercises in charge of Miss
Harriet McMorrough, Lexington,
physical education director of
the school.
8 p. M. Ensemble recital by
students in music under the d.
rection Of Miss Mabel Gewin.
Saturday, May Is, 8 P. M.
Jrnior-Senior receptions.
Sunday, May Is, 4 P. M. Band
Concert under the direction OF
w. G.. Shipworth, band director.
s p. M. Sermon by the Rev. T.
r. Gregory, pastor of the Metho-
dist Church at Kosciusko.
Monday May II, Z A. N. Fa-
culty-Senior breakfast at the Hol-
mes County State Park.
5 p. M. Class Day High School
Seniors.
$50 P. M. Open House and Ex-
hibit Home Ec. Bldg.
SPIN. Senior Class Play, "La-
DIV windemere's Fam" by Oscar
Wilde.
Tuesday May Is, 10 80 A. n.
Graduation.
Baccalaureate Address, DR.. e.
j. Caswell.
(Conotinusd On Page Two)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
COOKING SCHOOL
SPONSORED
BY CLUBS
MAY 19-20-21 DATE SET BY
GROUPS

The alert and progressive
Twentieth Century and Present
Day Clubs scored again in bring
ing to Durant the improved and
enlarged Home Management
School of 1887, under the able
direction Of Mrs. Effie McClana.
han, well known Home Econom-
list.
Glasses on three successive
days will school local matrons in
the art Of happy homemaking by
using the latest, most scientific
short cuts to outstanding culinary
skill. Selected and Tested re-
cipes' is a complimentary book
let given to every attendant and
the 1897 issue brings new tooth
some, economical and easily pre-
pared recipes that viii delight
the entire family.
Those who have been through
the entire course Of instructions
enthusiastically proclaim it the
best and most comprehensive
training Of its kind, 'becsuse
every dish is prepared before the
school from the raw to the finish
ed product. A new approach to an
old problem makes it interesting
to be instructed.
-Four intense months have
been spent by Mrs. McC lanahan
and her staff in research work
to accumulate new recipes and
other household data Tor these
(Conotinued on Page Two)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
MISS McBEE DELIVERS
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

Miss Dorothy McBee, county
superintendent of education, de-
livered the principal address at
the commencement exercises of
the grade school at Coxburg
Monday morning at ten o'clock.
A large crowd of interested
friends and patrons attended the
exercises and heard the splendid
address of Miss McBee. .
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13

Miss Dorothy McBee. county
Superintendent of education. and
Miss Earnestine Alhin of the
same office. attended tho Nav
Dav Festivities in nnrent last
Friday afternoon.
Miss Laurea Durham was home
for Mothers Dav.
William Beechman is in Chica
20 this week
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
C
!" c K
BY Hazel Brannon

Qfer n huAAuASN
professional women will attend
the Mississippi state convention
of that group to be held in Green
vile and Leland this weekend.
An interesting gathering it
promises to be with brilliant wo-
men taking part in an interest
ing program centered around the
theme of "the business women
as a citizen"
Anything aimed at improving
the type Of citizenship we have,
whether it be among women's
groups or among the men, is
worthwhile in the sense that the
problems Of today call for an en-
lightened and educated citizen
ship.
II women's clubs throughout
the country can really clarity is
sues pertaining to affairs Of gov
eminent and impress the respon.
sibilities Of the individual citi-
zen, then they will have justified
their existence.
Members Of the American Lee
gion throughout Mississippi are
making active drives to enlist
every ex-service man in their
membership. Great plans are be-
ing made for Mississippi to lead
the parade at the annual con-
vention in New York next fall
BY virtue Of having attained the
greatest increase in membership.
Plans are being made now for
the state to capitalize on the
great advertising possibilities Of
the occasion. -. but Mississippi
won't lead that procession unless
!. she continues to lead in member
ships.
80 II you are an ex-service
man contact your local post conn
mander. s. Make plans to help
Mississippi lead the American
Legion parade in New York Just
as she is leading industrial
! pioneering in the south.
We are living in . new day,
90 we hear. This is q new world,
4 new America. : place where
people 60 rather than sit. do rath-
er than be, get instead OF just
A country Of people who 60
places and get things done.....
All Of which is quite different
from a story told us recently by
q travelling man.
Entering our County by one
Of the many detours he lost the
road he wanted to travel on and
was having quite a time finding
himself. Coming across a small
chan he asked him what place
the east road lead to.
The boy replied he didn't
know.
+, The stranger then asked him
which way the west, north and
south roads lead to....and the
boy gave the same reply.
"You don't know very much,
do you, Son?'' he was then ask
cd.
"Mebbe, I don't, Mister" he
said, "but I amt lost
Here's hoping they get some
genuine Southerners in the film
version of "Gone With The
Wind.v We can think Of nothing
worse than some Of the recent
samples Of the southern drawl"
we're had to endure.
"Planned economy is 9 phrase
used often today. The idea. we
suppose, is for the government
to do the planning, using the tax
payers money. Now where does
the economy part come int
We see in the days news
where q ship was christened with
q seventy year old bottle OF
champagne.
Ut wasn't in Mississippi
There was at least one person
in fho prifsch nmniro that had
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
DURANT TEACHERS
TOR ENSUING
YEAR NAMED
BOARD HELD MEETING ON
TUESDAY

Teachers for the 1898 term
in Durant were elected Tuesday
afternoon at a meeting Of the
Board Of Trustees at the school
building.
They are as follows:
Miss Ora Lee Breland, LIST
grade; Miss Mamie Clark, End
grade Miss Endama Vickers, Bird
grade; Miss Jean Perkins, 4th
grade; Miss Kate Pinson, 9Th
grade; Miss Francis Allen, Junior
High School; Mrs. II. c. Hudson,
Junior High School; Miss Laura
A. Blanchard, ior Hi g b
School and Librarian.
M. Carter, High School Science
and Band; D.. G. Brumfield, High
School Math. and Coach; Miss
Maxine Melton, High School and
English Latin; Mervyn P. Smith,
High School Social Science; Miss
Annie l.. Griffin, High School
Commercial Dept; Miss Madge
Lipsey, Music; and Mrs. Jeffie
Dodds, Expression
Mr.. Smith is the only new
name appearing on the list, the
others having been reelected
from the present session.
The Board of Trustees consists
of billiard Odom, Marcus Love.
Mrs. Turnage Williams, w. c.
Martin, and H. L. Harrington.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13
GRADUATION DATE
SET AT DuRAnT
HIGH SCHOOL
TWENTY-ONE SENIORS tt
GET DEGREES

Graduation exercises will be
held on Tuesday, June l, for
twenty-one students who will
finish Durant High School at the
end of this session.
The exercises will be held in
the school auditorium and the
principal speaker on the occasion
will be Leone Wheeles, jackson,
chairman of the Social Security
Commission.
The Senior Vesper Service viii
be held on Sunday, May 80. The
Rev. R. E. Hough, Of the Central
Presbyterian Church at Jackson
will preach the sermon.
The eighth grade promotion
night will be held on Monday,
May 81, at which time the honor
able William A. Bacon, Durant,
will be the principal speaker.
Those slated to receive their
diplomas from the High School
are -. II. Angle, Albert Dick.
ems, Gwin Kolb, Billie Montgom
cry, James Odom.
Annie Adams, Ophia Blanton,
Mary Nell Browne, Maxine Car.
roll.
Martenia Game, Mary Cooper
Louise Counts. Myrtis Hayniei
Arlene Howard, Sara Howard.
Mamie Ingram, Mary Frank
lin Moore, Margaret Moorhead
Lavinia Siddon, Katheryn Till
man, Mary b. Wilburn.
MI. Dayle Alsbury, Of New
Orleans, La, spent the weekend
with home folks.
Miss Maybelle St. Clair spent thu
weekend with her mother. May
belle finishes at Holmes Juniol
College next week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13

Mr.. and Mrs. j. A Crum spent
an enjoyable weekend in Mem
phis where they were met by
their daughter, Mrs. d. l.. Oakley
and her little son, David, from
Knoxville, Tenn.
Mr.. James Biggs spent thf
weekend at home in Meridian
with his mother who Just under
gone an operation.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13

There was at least one person
in the British empire that had
the proper reaction to the coro-
nation. -. Princess Margaret
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13

We see in the days news
where q ship was christened with
q seventy year old bottle Of
champagne.
Ut wasn't in Mississippi
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-13

"Planned economy is q phrase
used often today. The idea. we
suppose, is for the government
to do the planning, using the tax
payers money. Now where does
the economy part come mi
The Washington times., 1937-01-14
Warning Issued

Coupled with an urgent appeal
for immediate new construction to
house loW-income families was this
warning:
"UnleSs these troubles are an
ticipated and dealt with, the
inevitable results will be jerry
building and various other rack
cts in construction, unwise puF.
chaSes of houses by families
desperate for what looks like
protection from rising rents,
high-pressure subdividing and
selling, unsOund prOmOtiOnal
schemes for apartment prop
critics and nearly all the lest of
the abuses that become SO ap-
parent in the middle and late
twentieS."
Although the PWA demonstrs
tion program Of slum-clearanc
and loW-rent housing, involving
an expenditure of $133, 500, 900 OF
81 projects in SO cities, will ulti
mately provide $1,000 families O.
the IoW-income group with mod
ern sanitary living quarters, anc
1imited-dividend corporations oper
ating in part with Federal funds
will provide additional dwellings
The Washington times., 1937-01-14
Immediate Need

And in a paper prepared for the
Congress of the International
Housing Association at Prague,
in June, 1885, the same authority
put the immediate need for new
dwellings in the United States
then at 100000, involving an
expenditure estimated at IL bill
lion dollars on the basis of $4,000
a home.
Again, Director Engle saw a
need for the expenditure of Eat
least three billion dollars" on re-
pairs and improvements, to pro-
vide minimum standards in ex-
isting structures.
In the relatively short period
in which the Federal Housing Ad.
ministration has insured loans for
modernization, half billion dollars
has been borrowed for this purpose,
revealing a further potential &C
tivity in this direction as the
country advances on the road to
recovery.
A further study Of store mod
ernization needs, published by the
Department of Commerce last
August as the product of CO.
opertive survey by the depart
ment and Federal Housing Ad-
ministration, showed what was
described as a generally unsatis-
factory" physical condition in
most of the 8,108 retail establish
ments inspected in % selected
cities.
Only half OF. them had modern
fixtures and most of them needed
paint, new signs or other improve
mentS to make them attractive to
customers. Although this study
bore no direct relationship to the
housing problem, it suggests the
existence of this further field for
improvement as business picks up,
and as in the case of new dwell.
ings calls aloud for labor, ma
terials and equipment, a mounting
The Washington times., 1937-01-14
Acute Home Shortage in IT, S. Shovn To Be Increasing

took a sharp squirt in 1886, jump
ing to somewhere near half the
10-year predepression average, in
dicative of a natural movement to
overtake the accumulated short
age of the post-depression period.
Nor is that all. N. H. Engle, as
sistant director of the Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
and the Commerce Departments
ranking authority on housing, de-
clared in a paper presented at the
Conference on Low Cost Housing
at Pennsylvania State College last
April:
"The facts collected by the
Department of Commerce
through housing surveys, such as
the Real Property Inventory, re-
veal appallingly low housing
standards in urban American
communities for housing in gen.
eraI."
The Washington times., 1937-01-14
Shortage GrOWing

In the bulletins Of the Nationa
Association of Housing Officials
with headquarters in Chicago. Di
rector Woodbury. frequently dis
cusses the problem in its more
immediate aspects. Under date
of November 20, 1896, he declared;
"For some time past a hOus-
ing shortage has seemed inevita-
BILE. :.
although the activities Of the
last few years have educated
many people in the need for re-
liable measures of the housing
market. the available infOrma-
ton is still very scattered. Worse
still, very little of it is collected
periodically.
mo one can doubt, however,
that the abnormal housing va
cancies Of the depression have
disappeared and that the nor.
NAL reserve is being rapidly used
up in many cities"
After quoting reports received
from Chicago, Cleveland, Pitts
burgh and Dayton, Ohio, all indi.
eating an imminent shortage OF
housing units, he appealed to mem
bers of the association to follow
the trends closely in their own
communities, so the country may
not be caught wholly unprepared
A week later. on November 81
the NAHO bulletin spoke OF "th'
seriousness of the impending hous
ing shortage in New York CITY,
The Washington times., 1937-01-14
What Surrey ShOWed

There are 16,5OO,0OO homes in
the United States. Millions OF
these are Sub-standard, others are
falling to pieces, others are badly
in need of repair, and in those
which may be occupied comfort
ably and healthfully families are
doubled up and rooms filled to
overflowing.
In 1884 the Department Of Com
merce made real property inven-
tories in 64 typical American
cities. These inventories showed :
1871 per cent of all dwellings
needed major repairs or were
unfit for human habitation.
1877 per cent were more than
40 years old.
20.6 per cent rented for less
than SIS a month-indicative Of
their condition rather than Of
their original grade.
1853 per cent were over
crowded.
81 per cent lacked gas or
electricity.
S per cent had no running
water.
1875 per cent had no private
indoor toilets.
20.2 per cent had neither
bathtub nor shower.
These figures were compiled
from a study Of approximately
100000 buildings. From this sur.
vey Washington housing author
tiles reach the conclusion that
from one-sixth to one-fifth of all
urban residences are a social al
well as an individual liability.
The Washington times., 1937-01-14

demand for which already is max
ing itself manifest.
On the subject of housing pei
Sc, Washington authorities come
back time and time again with
this warning:
q 1t isn't big houses or costly
houses that are needed. It's
houses costing less than $4,000.
1t isn't jerry-built houses that
are wanted, but houses that are
honestly built and honestly fl
nanced.
1t isn't a false boom that is
wanted, and buyers of Shaky
subdivision houses are warned
that in buying topheavy, flimsy,
high-priced property they are
accepting almost certain loss.
AS one of the most eminent
financial specialists in Washing
on-a man who has lived with
housing and its problems and de
voted some of his best years to
working out an adequate and
sound home mortgage-reServe sys-
TEN for the country put it:
Speculative building bOOms
already have made their appear
ance in Florida, California, Long
Island and a few other spots.
People who go into that sort of
investment do it at their own
risk. That is not what the Gov
ernment is interested in. What
the country needs is honest hOuS-
ing, inexpensive housing, sound
financing, safe investment.
There is all the room in the
world for constructive activity
in this field. That is what we
are aiming at"
ITO BE COntinued)
The Washington times., 1937-01-14
Data ShOWs Slump

A chart compiled by the statisti-
clans of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board from Department Of
Labor figures on building permits
shows how new dwelling construc-
ton has dropped in cities with a
population of $4,000 or more since
1929. Here are the round figures
on the number of new dwelling
units of all kinds provided in each
year fom 1925 (the peak) to 1885,
inclusive, in these cities: 1925, 540,-
600; 1926, $4,000; 1927, 440, 900;
1928, 100000; 1929, 100000; 1880,
10000; 1881, 100000; 1882, 3d.
600; 1888, $4,000; 1884, $4,000, and
1885, $4,000.
From these lows new construction