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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
Moorheod- Ashton Vows
Spoken In Lexington

An announcement of interest TO a
wide circle of friends throughout
Mississippi and Texas is the wedding
of Miss Margaret Moorhead of Jack
son and Cpl. NJ. w. (Tex.l Ashton
of Camp Shelby, son of late Mr.. and
Mrs. w. l.. Ashton of Baird. Texas
The marriage of the popular young
couple is being announced by Miss
Moorheads' parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jas. Under Moorhead of Durant.
The ceremony was solemnized on
November 10. 1910, at 1880 p. m.
at Lexington with Rev. Smith. Pres
byterian minister officiating.
Mrs. Ashton is a graduate OF the
Durant Hight School and The Jack
son Infirmary School of Nursing and
for the past two months has been
employed as First Aid Nurse at the
Jackson Air Base and at present a
member of the Nursing staff of the
Kings Daughters Hospital in Yazoo
City.
CPL Ashton attended Kinds Junior
College and until stationed at Camp
Shelby was an employee of ?. Lori
Hard Tobacco Company.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
STATE UTILITY
TO SPEND MILLION
Construction PrOgf m
Keeps Step With Custom
err Needs and Defense
Program

Almost a million dollars will
be spent by Mississippi Power a
Light Company for the construc-
ton of new transmission lines and
the maintenance of existing lines
during -341. President Rex |.
Brown announced recently.
In making public the extent OF
the new construction budget. Mr..
Brown stated that 1t was concrete
evidence of his company's faith In
the continued development OF the
territory which it serves.
Pointing to the U. S. Army Air
Base at Jackson and numerous de-
Tense industries. including shell
box factory. Mr.. Brown said that
he believed 1941 would be an
epochal year for Mississippi in its
long fight to balance agriculture
with industry
Whatever comes. Mr. Brown ex-
pressed confidence that his COM
pany was prepared to meet all
power demands. thanks to its in
tercOnnection with the nation
wide power grid--a development
OF private industry during h .
past several years. BY means of
this intercOnnection, Mississippi
Power & Light Company has avail
able at present eight separate
sources Of power. assuring an un-
: interrupted flow Of energy over
its lines.
Mr.. Brown revealed that his
company will continue its policy
Of extending rural lines wherever
service demands existed. More
than 500 rural customers were
added by the company in 1910, he
said, and from $50 to 1000 will
be served by construction now un.
derway.
Mr.. Brown also revealed that
sales of appliances by dealers in
the territory served by the COM
pany totalled $2.252,656 during
1910. The company sponsored
numerous sales campaigns during
the year to assist dealers.
In view Of the overnight expan-
sion of defense industries, Mr..
Brown stated that Mississippi
Power & Light Company is keep
ing in close contact with its pres
ent Industrial customers with a
forethought of contemplating their
future power requirements and is
keeping informed of prospective
new industrial business as we'll as
power demands Of the Army and
Navy and other governmental
agencies.
In concluding his announce
ment regarding 1914 plans, Mr..
Brown disclosed that his company
il now serving more than $1,000
customers in the ~ counties of
West Mississippi. OF the total,
10000 are residential customers,
10000 are rural customers, 10000
commercial and 5000 Industrial.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

pany obtains its source power,
such as Sterlington generating
station in the heart of the world g
largest natural gas field near
Monroe, La. New steel fences
have been erected around the
Sterlington plant and all shrubs
and trees, behind which possible
saboteurs might conceal them
selves, have been cut away.
Guards are on duty day and night
and admission is by pass only.
Vice-President Sargent also an
nounced that his company main
tains q constant patrol of its thou
sands of miles of transmission
lines. In event of sabotage, crews
are so organized that the break
could be repaired within q few
hours. In the meanwhile, due to
the company's interconnection
with the nationwide power grid,
the load ordinarily carried over
the broken line would be instant
ly switched to one Of seven other
sources of power.
So vital does the federal gov
eminent consider an uninterrupted
flow of electric power that its
Suggestion" that sub-stations and
transmission lines be safeguarded
virtually amounts to an order, ac-
oording to the utility official who
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
Hairy Vetch One of
County's Best
Lequmes

Hairy Vetch has been for the
post several years one Of Holmes
County's leading winter legumes. 1t
can always be depended on to make
a good growth under almost any
condition. The only bad feature a.
bout this crop is that the farmer has
to buy his seed every year. Hairy
Vetch is poor seed producer and
to make matters worse no satisfac-
tory method has been devised where
by the farmer can save his own seed.
A new variety of vetch by the
name of Willamette is going to be
on the market this fall in CONNER
cial quantities. The Auburn Expert
ment Station in Alabama reports
that this variety of vetch produces
three times as much seed as Hairy
Vetch and produces within 10 to is
percent as much green matter per
acre.
This variety of vetch is more ad
aptable to seed production and seed
harvesting. This variety will sell
two or three cents per pound chea-
per then Hairy Vetch so / am in
formed. The director of the Auburn
Experiment Station recommends very
highly the planting of Willamette
Veteh on good land. Ve says that
on poor land Hairy Vetch is a great
deal better than other new varieties.
The Triple A office has placed a
tentative order for a carload of this
variety of vetch to be delivered this
fall to farmers under Grant-of-Aid.
Farmers wishing to buy seed of this
variety should have no trouble Sc
curing /. from local seed dealers.
/. W. Carson, County Agt.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
Grozine Crops
Recommended
BY County Agent

IN grass, millet, and soybeans
are recommended in that order by X
e. Waters Extension Pasture
Specialist of Mississippi State Col
lege, as temporary grazing crops for
dairy cows.
Since pastures furnish the chea-
pest feeds and permanent pastures
frequently fail to furnish sufficient
casturage during the hot dry sum-
ner months. Waters recommends
the planting of temporary pasture
crops for grazing during dry per-
sods. He says sudan grass has no
equal as a temporary pasture crop
IN most section of Mississippi II
planted on fertile soils.
For best results, sudan should be
seeded in 90 to 24-inch rows on
fertile soils at the rate of Is to 20
pounds of seed per acre. 1t can be
planted from April to July Row
planting permits cultivation and re-
auces tramping by cows grazing
Grazing may begin when plants are
about IS inches high. Waters says
grazing can be secured from a Civ
en- area by grazing about one hour
each morning and evening or TAX
ing the cows off as soon as they get
a fill. Provide one-fourth to one
half acre per cow.
Where sudan grass does not grow
successfully, Foxtail millet may be
used on fertile soils. The dates, rate
and method of planting millet are
about the same as for sudan grass.
Where fertile soils are not avail :
able for growing sudan or millet,
soybeans may be used if fertilized
With 200 to 800 pounds of basic Stag
or 100 to 200 pounds of superhops-
phate per acre at planting time.
Seeding should be early enough to
provide grazing in late June when
the plants should have growth or
20 inches or more before grazing
starts. This is usually 60 days af-
Ter planting.
l. w. Carson. County Agent.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

ing 1t unnecessary for Uncle Sam
to spend vital defense dollars ON
additional power plants and lines,
thus freeing such urgently needed
funds for the direct purchase of
guns, ammunition, tanks, battle
ships and other actual. defense
supplies.
The great web of electric lines
of the interconnected systems Of
Louisiana Power & Light Com
pany, Arkansas Power & Light
Company and Mississippi Power
and Light Company, shown in tho
accompanying map, Is q part Of
this nationwide power grid and
link together the Sterlington gen.
Grating station with steam-electric
and hydro-electric plants of these
companies in the three states and
with large power stations in Men,
phis, Baton Rouge and New Or
leans as we'll as with facilities OF
the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Such interconnections, Vice.
President Sargent pointed out,
make possible continuous and ade-
quate low-cost electric power to
supply not only Mississippi's do
nestle needs but the needs Of de-
Tense projects and industries a.
we'll.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
State Press Group :

NCContinued from page one)
aesigned to stump board Of "Press
Experts" will be put on in the Mark
ham Crystal Room at 1O:l5 Friday
narmng. Oliver Emmerich of the
McComb Enterprise will act As
Quizzmaster. Twenty state news
nen will form the board of EEK.
perts.'
At noon Friday an informal fell
hwship luncheon will be held on the
Markham roof. At this time Mayor
J. W. Miner Of Gulfport will well
vume the newsnen to the Gulfcoast.
Group meetings for the dailies,
weeklies and commercial printing
division will be held that afternoon
q z o'clock.
Friday night at 1880 the 18th
Anniversary Banquet will take place
on the Markham roof. President
C1isler will preside. Following the
banquet a pageant, "The History OF
che Mississippi Press, will be pre-.
scented Also the awards of excel
hence for 1871 will be made by Pre-
sident Crisler.
After adjournment on the roof,
Tie. newsmen, their wives and guests
vim enjoy dancing at the Broad
water Beach Club with Clay Reaves
rs host.
Saturday, last day Of the Conven-
ton, opens with the Press Honor
Ch1b breakfast in the Markham Gold
Room with President Crisler again
m charge.
The final business session will take
pIace at 10 o'clock Saturday morn
ing in the Crystal Room.
East on the program is seafood
lAncheon at the Gulfport Communi-
= House. For this affair, the men,
Sers Of the MPA will be guests of the
CITY of Gulfport, The Gulfport
Chamber of Commerce and the Gulf
port Port Commission.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

Dangers of typhoid fever are al
ways greater during summer months.
When vacations are on, tourists ABB
undant, and camping out" common,
the germ which causes typhoid fever
finds more frequent and easier
means of ''hitchhiking" unto un-
wary months than at other season of
the year.
Typhoid fever is the invariable re-
suit of swallowing in some way filth
which has come from the stool or
urine of someone secreting typhoid
fever germs. This is the only way
in which The disease can be spread,
and repulsive though it is, it is fair
" easy. In rural areas, wells NAL
be polluted by unsanitary privies
Milk and food supplies may become
contaminated by careless people who
failed to wash their hands before
handling food. Files with contain
mated feet may chart direct
course to the dining room table.
Whereas sanitation is the most
effective tool in preventing typhoid
fever, immunization against this dis
ease will protect against the slips
which may occur in sanitation and
personal hygiene. Be wise, and
immunize against this needless and
| prevcntable disease.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
Mary FoydeIIe Grist
Gets Dental Degree

Miss Mary Baydelle Grist Of Du-
rant will receive the Dental Hygenist
degree from the University OF Ten
nessee medical division in Memphis
at the Spring graduation exercises,
June 8.
Dean Andrew Grover Dumez OF
the University of Maryland's School
of Pharmacy, will deliver the COM
mencement address. Exercises will
be held on the University campus
874 Union Avenue, at pm.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered Sunday morning, June g.
at the st. Mary's Cathedral by the
Very Reverend Harold Brown Hoag
Final event honoring graduates
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
TREASURY CHIEF
PICKS REX BROWN
TO AID BOND SALE

Rex /. Brown, president OF Mis-
sissippi Power & Light Company,
has been named by Secretary OF
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau
as a member of a state advisory
committee to promote the sale OF
United States Defense Bonds and
Postal Savings Stamps.
Governor Paul B. Johnson IL
chairman of the Committee and
other members, in addition to Mr..
Brown, include: ALI Stone, chair
man of the State Tax Commission;
Judge w. w. Ramsey, of Vicks-
burg; ST Corley. commissioner OF
agriculture, Jackson; ]. s. Van
diver, superintendent of educa-
ton, Jackson: G.. M. McWilliams,
Hattiesburg, and Mrs. ID. C. Lea,
Jackson.
Orrin r. Swayze. yice-president
of the Capital National Bank OF
Jackson, has been granted a
years leave of absence to be dep
uty state administrator for the
Defense Savings Bond staff under
Eugene Fly. collector OF internal
revenue.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
West News Items
Continued fro mpage four.)

MIR. and Mrs. T. f. Dent and
daughter of Jackson. Mrs. W. l..
Arnold, Mrs. ]. w, Murtagh and
Mrs. Lester Arnold of Pickens; Mr..
and Mrs, Billy Arnold and little
daughter of T'rimble, Tenn. were
guests of Mrs. Walter Brock, Sat-
urday.
Miss Genelle Bowen is visiting Mr.,
and Mrs. j. c. Bowen this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Campbell and
son, Charles Walter were Lexington
visitors this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eris Tate and Mr..
James Weeks were visitors to Tchula
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Hand and chill
dren were welcome guests Sunday
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
M. Scott of kosciusko.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Hand and
family attended the graduation ex-
ercies at NJ. S. C. W. where there
daughter. Mary Nell is graduate
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Cade of
Emory were guests Sunday of Mr..
and Mrs. Murley Tate before re-
turning home they visited relatives
in Durant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Denton Rosamond
of Lexington were guests of DR.. and
Mrs. Rosamond Sunday.
Miss Minnie Sue Bailey and Mr..
Dave Ford of Goodman was here in
a business way Saturday.
Mesdames ID. H. Rhyme and l.. J
Hand, j. l.. Mason and Miss Sara
Sanders were shopping in Jackson
| Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Hand and chill
dren were Jackson visitors Wednes-
| day.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C.. Bowen, Mr.
and Mrs. "Deck' Johnson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bill Ellard enjoyed a weinei
roast at Holmes County Park Wed
nesday afternoon.
Rev. A. L. Davenport was here
for his regular appointment at the
Methodist Church; while here he
was guest in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. F. Montgomery.
Among those at the Holmes County
Park Sunday, were Mr.. and Mrs.
! Pate Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Campbell, Clovis Hardin, Jr.. Mr..
and Mrs. J. C. Bowen and daugh-
ter, Genelle, Nancy Steen, John
David Montgomery, C. J. Steen, Ear!
| Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs. JoneO Hand
and children and c. E. White.
Bobbie Montgomery has returned
to State for Summer work and
Roselee has gone to H.J.C. to con-
tinue her work there.
Miss Catherine Crisler spent the
week end in Durant with her moth
err and sister.
Mr.. Chris Henderson came Sun
day, and Mrs. Henderson returned
with him Monday.
Mrs. Corrie Wright and Mrs. Bob
Wallace with Mrs. Perry Roby at
! tended the funeral of Ralph Mctie
in Oxford, Sunday.
DR.. Joe Alexander, Mrs. r r..
Brock and Miss Annie Alexander
visited in the home Of j. A. Weeks
Sunday afternoon.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
Ten Holmes Countiuns
Report on June ID

Brigadier General Thomas j. Gray
son, State Director of Selective Ser
vice, today announced the following
distribution by Local Boards of the
LIB white selectees who will report
Tor induction at Camp Shelby june
1920 under Requisition Number 10
Holmes No. l, 5; Holmes No. 2, 5.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
Second Registration To
Be Held July First

The registration which will be held
on July will be conducted solely
by Selective Service Local Boards
and in public places designated by
them
Definite information with refer.
ence to ages required to register and
complete instructions will be for
warded from headquarters, as soon a,
received from National, Headquar
tiers.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

Mr.. Sargent announced today
that all major sub-stations have
been lighted and "No Admission"
signs posted and that visitors are
allowed to enter the stations only
upon authority of passes signed by
a responsible official.
Similar precautions are being
taken, on government suggestion,
at all power stations from which
Mississippi Power & Light Com
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

said his company was glad to CO.
operate in every way possible in
the nations defense program.
Explaining the nation wide
power grid, which has been devel-
oped by the private electric in
dustry in recent years. Mr.. Sar-
gent said the almost unlimited
power thus made possible was an
important factor in defense, max
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Nicols, of
Jackson, were the guests of his par
ents, DIR. and Mrs. w. B. Nicols
last week end.
Miss Emma Alice Porter. employee
of the County Agents office at Lex
ington spent the week end in Du-
rant with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
A. A. Porter.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

will be a reception and dance at
University Center following the gra-
duation ceremony. A banquet was
given graduates, June 3, beginning a
week of commencement activities.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Hudson and
children, Betty and Jimmy. Of Aber.
deem were Durant visitors over the
week end
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
ELECTRIC POWER LINES
SAFECUARDED AS VITAL
TO NATIONAL DEFENSE

Cooperating federal governments national defense
gram Mississippi Power Light Company taking every pos
sibe precaution protect its vital substaons and transmits
sion lines against possible sabotage according Henry s.
Sargent. executive vice-president.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

tlemen preferred. Convenient to
town. Telephone 5.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05
CT IE D
A D v f R ISL 6

FOR RENT--two three room apart
ments or the house. See Mrs. J. E.
Dollahite, Durant. Mrs. j. L. Nc
Cool, Starkville, Miss. 2tp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-06-05

Wagon Company. Phone Durant,
155.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-08
MORE BALD HEADS

Bald heads in the United States
will increase soon unless interna,
t1onAl trade is restored.
The hair supply Is getting short
Max Factor. Jr., who makes hair
piece" doesn't call them
toupees-ranging from many dis
plays for the chest TO $500 wigs for
movie stars, foresees another
economic casualty Of the war.
His materials range from the
coat OF the Tibetan Yak at little
more than the price Of good wool
10 the natural red hair at s55 a
pound. But the war blocked i'm
ports from Yak and redhead, alike.
With considerable foresight. the
late Max Factor. ST., imported a
big supply Of hair from Europe IS
months ago. The company is still
operating with 1t, but It won't last
many monhs.
Factor said he had tried 10 de-
velop Latin American sources, but
had not been too successful. It's
hard to get variety, for one thing.
Most hair from Latin America is
black.
II can be bleached and dyed Of
course, but such subteEtuges- cant
be employed in first-class hair
pieces. Artificial hair must match
what the tearer has left, without
alteration.
European peasant girls have al
ways been TIE best commercial
hair producers. The United States
Is not a good hair producer, be
cause 50 many Americans hair Ia
bleached, sun-burned or damaged
by waving.
After red. natural gray hair is
the most valuable. with ordinary
brown at the bottom OF the market.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-08
CYCLE TRAFFIC

In line with the philosophy that
an aillng person can not diagnose
his own troubles II follows, and
II is factual. that communities are
unduly slow TO recognize and solve
new problems as they arise. In.
spectlon OF the running history of
political units will show that action
materializes only when long over
due, so II will be especially notable
II needed traffic ordinance comes
through actually on a logical sche-
dule
Some plan will have to be laid
down Tor the benefit and guidance
Of the greatly increased number Of
bicychsts which have taken to the
roads within the last year. It
would have TO be started with a
new and sterner code for motor.
lists. In itself a long-awaited ges-
ture.
Let's give the youngsters with
their bicycles a break by enacting
an ordinance with a psternal senti.
ment but q sound backbone.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-08
OUT FOR REVENGE

Nature is serving as Soviet Pre-
mier Josef Stalin's bis ally in keep
ing the Firms at bay by compel
ling them to advance step by step
through seemingly endless pine
woods, laNes and other obstacles
such as have scarcely ever in-
pedel troops in wartime.
\Helsinkl itself has scarcely been
scratched by aerial attackers in
the present conflict, although the
Finnish capital has experienced
Us many as eight alarms day.
On the east side of Lake Ladoga,
Us long, roadless path leading to.
the anticipated junction with the
German troops now making their
way up from Lake linen to close
the German-Finnjsh halt-cireie
around Leningrad.
The Germans will reach Lenin-
grad first via the more easily ira
versible southern approaches
where they are now hammering
Leningrad's outskirts with artil-
lery fire. The desire for revenge
against Russia IL rooted deep In
the hearts OF the Firms. They say
Il Is now or never" and that
everything else must walt"
They point out that IN almost
every village and hamlet families
are mourning soldiers who we're
killed during the war OF 1880
and whoee deaths must be avenged.
Now, as the new conflict finds
Finland partner OF Germany.
Finland appears calm. On the land
women are doing most OF the work
OF harvesting, since every man
who can be spared Is at the fight
ing front.
There is sufficient food IN Fin
land although rationing is partially
IN force. Nightly blackouts have
commenced, and the British air
raid on Petsamo, Finlands North
ern Arctic Port, has aroused con-
siderable indignation. This raid as
much az anything else may cement
Finland with the Axis powers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-08

ticular, any more than Britain
does.
When / visited Dai Nippon, L
good many years ago, wondered
how we Occidentals had managed
to twist the name into japan. Dai
Nippon and Japan didn't seem to
me TO resemble one another a par
ticle. Managing Editor Mitsunaga
of the Nippon Dempo Tsusin sha
explained the matter to me.
Nippon means Nippon. Dempo
means Telegraph. Tsusin means
News. Sha means Corporation.
Well, according to Editor Nit
sunaga, Marco Polo perpetrated
the original error. Marco, arriving
several centuries back, in Yedo, as
Toxic, the capital Of the empire.
then was called, inquired what the
name Of the country was, and the
natives told him-Dia Nippon. ..
Dali Is pronounced Dah-ee. in two
syllables. Marco soon ascertained
that it meant Great and omitted it
from his calculations. just as we
frequently drop the word Great out
of our references to Great Britain.
So-"Dai" is immaterial.
It's Dah-ee Nee-s-pone
Nippon Is vital. It's pronounced
something like Nee-a with the
fat sound) -pone (like corn pone),
and the accents on the last sylla-
BILE. The initial N, however. is only
about 90 per cent N. 1t has approx
imately>20 per cent each of ] and
Y mixed into its pronunciation.
Marco, trying to make some Oc-
cidental sense out Of this conglom-
GRAFTON, decided on Japan" as a
pretty fair stab at It, and, in the
Occident, it's stayed that way ever
since, although, If you say" Japan"
right now, only a western educated
Jap knows what you're talking
about Y
In my youthful days Toxic al
ways was spelled Toxic. Now many
spell it Tokyo" I've never grown
accustomed to the alteration. AS a
matter Of fact, they're both wrong.
Toxic or Tokyo is correctly spelled
like this: