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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Garden Pilgrimage
Held Next Week

The annual garden pilgrimage
sponsored by the goth Century Club
this year on May 22nd at three o.
clock in the afternoon will start at
the Hotel Durant instead of the
Presbyterian Church as previously
announced.
At the beginning of the pilgrim
e a film in color of table settings
and flower arrangements will be
shown in the dining room Of the
hotel and miniature flower arrange
ments will be presented by the Pre-
sent Day Club in the lounge.
Ribbons will be awarded the best
| arrangements of roses, vaikety, and
c%enterpiece in each home visited on
the tour.
The tea will be given in the gar
den of Mrs. s. R. King instead Of
Mrs. Harry O'Cain as announced
prior to this.
The pilgrimage is free and al!
the ladies of Durant and surround
ing territory are cordially urged to
come. Each person is expected to
provide or make arrangements for
her own transportation.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Services Al Methodist
Church Announced

Church School at GAS, Walter
Odom superintendent. We had more
than usual present last Sunday.
This growth ought to continue.
Worship at IL o'clock.
Special music, David Comfort and
Jimmie Odom will give us a special
number.
Sermon by the pastor.
Both Leagues meet at $50.
Evening service at 8 o'clock. Rev.
Spiva McCullock of the High School
viii preach. for us.
The Woman's Society will have its
| program meeting at 3 o'clock Mon
day afternoon under the direction Of
Mrs. Watkins and her circle.
The Wesleyan Guild will meet
Monday night at the parsonage with
Mrs. Lewis as hostess.
Prayer meeting Wednesday night
at 8 o'clock.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Tires and Tubes Issued
May Through Moy 9

DR.. Walter G. Brock, two car tires
and two tubes. Cass Oltenburg Po-
vail, five obsolete tires. Clyde c.
Cole, one truck tire. w. NJ. Thomp-
son, two tractor tires. Holmes Coun-
ty, Beat 4, two truck tires and two
tubes. Holmes County, Beat 4, One
truck tire. Cecil Daniel Mangrum,
two truck tires. Willie Miller. one
truck tire. Hubert Cleveland Nc
Phail, two truck tires. John Edgar
Gwin, two truck tires.
Samuel Earl Rutledge, two re-
capped tires and one car tube. Fred
Clifton Worrell, three recapped tires
and one recapped tire. NJ. l.. Smith.
two recapped tires and two truck
tubes. Lee Holt Cade, Jr., three re-
capped tires and two car tubes. Mr..
Lucille Nee. Steele, two recapped
tires. George F. Wilkin, one recapped
tire. Clyde Vernon Maxwell, two re-
capped tires. Hugh Melton Garnet,
four recapped tires. General Huston
Pltman, two recapped tires, Nc
Daniels Service Station, two re-
capped tires. Otho Ray Campbell,
two recapped tires.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
County Agent Says
Potatoes Con Be Soved

The survey made in Holmes Coun-
ty last winter indicated that thous-
ands of bushels Of sweet potatoes
we're lost by farmers last year. The
reason for this loss was improper
storage and the fact that this crop
was not harvested as early as it
should have been, says County Agent
l. w. Carson.
In order that something definite
may be done to prevent this great
waste in the time of our country's
need, plans will be offered in the
coming months for building banks
for storage of carrots, turnips, beets,
~rutabagas, and sweet potatoes. These
homemade banks may be placed in
the garden or at some other con-
venient location about the house.
Drainage, warmth, and ventilation
have been taken car of in these
simple plans which can be carried
out by anybody without the cost OF
materials. All that is needed is a
good spade and the willingness to
work.
This plan will be furnished any
body upon request at anytime. AT
a later date a mimeographed sheet
showing how these storage banks may
be built will be mailed to all farmers
of the county.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
White Dutch Clover
Seed Bring 500
Per Acre Now

One of the most profitable crops
that can be grown in Holmes County
is White Dutch Clover. Two hundred
pounds of seed per acre is not too
much to expect where a good stand
is grown. For the past two years
White Dutch Glover seed has sold
at a price above so cents per pound.
If you would like to see some ex'
cellent White Dr. ch Clover growing
| at the present time, you may do sc
by visiting Mr.. H. P. Watson's farm
J miles west of Lexington on the Lex
ington-Howard Highway.
This crop is a voluntary crop from
seed that were matured on the 194l
crop. 1t came up last fall and cattle
grazed it until April Is. In other
words, it is a good pasture crop and
a very profitable seed crop.
At the same time you visit the
White Dutch slower you can have a
look at a good crop of Red Clover
in the same field. This clover was
pastured the same as the White
Dutch Glover and is big enough to
be cut in the next week or two for
hay. After the hay crop is taken
off, Mr.. Watson will permit it to
then mature seed for harvest. He
should expect a yield of around 300
pounds per acre. The price of Red
Glover seed usually runs around 10
cents per pound and above. This is
also a profitable grazing and seed
producing crop and in addition a
good hay crop.
1. W. Carson, County Agent
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
National Cotton Week
Observed May 1913
Domestic Use Was
10 Million BuIes
For Lost Yeur

National Cotton Week sponsored
by the two principal organizations,
the National Cotton Council of AM
erica representing raw cotton and the
cotton Textile Institute representing
cotton manufacturing, will be OBJ
served May Is to May %.
Although domestic cotton con-
sumption has reached the new high
peak of ten million bales per year,
the cotton industry leaders find
themselves confronted with a new,
headache, that Of the loss Of the
greater majority of their export
markets. The only remaining outlet
for American cotton is the market
afforded by the one hundred ana
thirty million people of the United
States. With high hopes of lettering
last years record breaking cotton
week every available individual and
organization medium have been ell
listed in this campaign.
The prosperity and well being Of
the people of Mississippi depend to
a large extent on the ven from
cotton and cotton seed.
The Chain Store industry through
their two National Organizations, the
Institute of Distribution, New York
and the National Association of Food
Chains( Washington, has thrown the
full strength and support of all the
Chain Stores of the Nation behind
National Cotton Week.
All chain stores in Mississippi are
giving full and complete support to
this program. This is being done first
by informing u of what cot
ton goods will be available under
war conditions, mainly ubleached
cotton, because of chlorine shortage;
second, by informing cosumers of
how they can contribute to the war
effor thy using cotton-for example
substitution for more scarce ma
~terial; third by establishing cotton
comparatively in many uses where
other staples are now available -
for example-Agricultural bagging;
and fourth, featuring e-use of cot
ton bagging and maintaining momen-
tium of publicity gated in previous
years.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Lequme Seed Should
Be Important Job

Saving legume seed such as White
Dutch, Crimson, and Bur c~lovers
wild winter peas and vetch seet
should be one of the important job;
to undertake by every farmer VINO
will have any to harvest. Plans
should be underway now to get these
seeds saved when the proper ma
turity has been reached. Most OF
these seed mature the last Of May
and the first of June.
The best method Of saving seed
from these crops is the combine with
the exception Of bur clover, but
where it is at all doubtful that the
services of a combine cannot be Sc
cured, some homemade method
| should be mapped out SO that seed
from these crops can be saved. In
other words, if the best method can
not be secured, use a second best
method. A farmer told me last year
that he was unable to get a combine
to harvest his vetch seed so he cut 1t
with a moving machine when about
73 per cent of the pods were ripe
! (brown), raked it up before it had
| dried too much, and placed it in a
stack. Later when he had more time,
he took trails and whipped the seed
out.
Very naturally we will agree that
this was a slow and tedious method
but the fact remains that he saved
his seed and had plenty to plant the
next fall and some to sell. You can
do the same thing. Some of the seed
is naturally going to pop out and
will be wasted, but remember you
will need vetch on that land where
the seed wastes out next wall any
way.
l see no reason why White Dutch
clover, wild winter peas, and crimson
clover can not be handled the same
way.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Jim EasIand Announces for United States Senate
= Cites Principles Underlying Present Race
Attends Convention

DR.. and Mrs. B. Frank Smith left
Tuesday morning for San Antonio
to attend the Southern Baptist Con-
vention. They will be gone about ten
days. Prayer service vas conducted
last evening by Mr.. McCulloch OF
the High School faculty and next
Wednesday will be under the diree-
ton of the men of the church. Next
Sunday the pulpit will be filled by
Rev. Ellison Salley for both morn
ing and evening hours.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
instructions Given
For Trade Users
OF Sugar Today
Cafes, Commissories,
Boarding Houses.
Are Included

A Purchase Certificate (Form
1909 authorizes the person to whom
it is issued to take delivery within
sixty days (60) from the date it was
issued, of the amount of sugar spe-
Gifted in the certificate.
A certificate authorized a whole
saler or merchant to whom it has
been surrendered to make delivery
of sugar within a period of thirty
900 days from the date of the last
endorsement on the reverse side Of
the certificate, according to d. c.
Lundy, chairman of the Holmes
County Rationing Board.
War Ration Stamps
Each War Ration Stamp is only
good for the period named below:
No. ! stamps are good from May
9Th to May 18th 1912. No. 2 stamps
are good from May 18th to May 3Oth.
No. 8 stamps are good from May
31st to June 18th. No. 4 stamps are
good from June 14th to June 9th.
No. 1 Stamps should be pasted on
a separate card and also each sue
ceeding number must be pasted on q
separate card. Stamps of different
number can not be placed on the
same card.
! All Cards (Form 3O4) on which
are pasted War Ration Stamps must
| be turned in to the distributor not
later than the following dates:
No. l stamps must be turned in by
May 26. 1912. No. 2 June 9. No. 3
June 90. No. 4 July 7th.
Where a retailer, a commissary or
any other registering unit had IN
excess amount of sugar at the time
they registered and for which they
are to surrender War Ration Stamps
until said excess has been liquidated,
they are turn in such War Ration
Stamps to the Local Rationing Board
each set of stamps. by the dates
above mentioned.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14

damaged in the battle of the Coral
Sea with relatively slight losses to
L. S. forces. U. S. losses will be re-
ported when the information is
without value to the Enemy, the
Navy said, but all Tokyo claims Of
damages inflicted were declared
without foundation. The Navy re-
ported IS japanese Warships and
SO noncombatant vessels had been
sunk or damaged from Pearl Har-
Dor to May IL. Resistance of U. S.
and Filipino troops on Corregidor
was finally overcome. The Navy re-
ported the torpedoing of 10 more
merchant vessels off the Atlantic
coast.
Army and Selective Service
First regulations were issued for
the Army Specialist Corps which
was set up to make available to the
Army specially skilled persons not
otherwise eligible for active duty
Officers and specialists will make up
the Corps. Officers pay will range
from $4,000 for second Lieutenants
to $4,000 for the Director General,
and Specialists pay will range from
$1,000 to $4,000. The Department
said construction has been started
on flight strips adjoining highways
in a strategic are on the Atlantic
Seaboard. The War Department said
it cannot answer individual inquiries
as to army casualties OF the where
about of Army personnel.
Selective Service Headquarters
said occupational questionnaires tc
determine civilian skills will be mail
ed not later than May 81 to men of
the first and second registration who
are NOS already in the armed for.
Continued on : page five.)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Demonstration Club
To Meet Nay 10Th

The Durant Community Club of
Holmes county will meet at the
Hotel Friday, May 29th from three
until five o'clock, with Mrs. w. H.
Counts as hostess.
At this time a demonstration in
drying fruits and vegetables will be
given by home demonstration agent
Miss Alleen Mccormack. Also a dress
show will be featured.
All of the ladies of the com
munity who are interested in this
phase of the program are cordially
invited to be the guests of Mrs.
Counts and the club at this meeting.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
A Week of The War

The Office of Price A~dministra-
ton announced amounts of gasoline
that motorists in IL Eastern Sea-
board States will be granted upon
presentation of %rationing cards from
May Is to July /. After July | an
other rationing system will be plac-
ed in effect.
Drivers for pleasure or those who
drive less than six miles a day will
receive 81 gallons, or an average Of
three gallons a week for the 47-day
period. Motorists who drive from
six to 10 miles a day will receive
33 gallons for the period; those who
drive from 10 to IA miles daily, ~
gallons; and drivers of ID or more
miles daily, 81 gallons. Persons
whose vehicles are necessary to their
employment, such as physicians and
ministers, will receive unlimited sup
plies. The OPA estimated that about
one-third of all motorists in the ares
win be classed as nonessential and
limited to three gallons weekly.
Preliminary figures showed 1913
million persons, approximately 81
percent of the total population, re-
gistered for sugar %rationing. Nearly
seven million persons were refused
War Ration Book No. l because they
already held more than six pounds
Of sugar. The OPA also reported
persons or businesses needing a type
writer may rent a used machine or a
new portable directly from any dea-
Ter. War Production Chairman Mel
son said emergency coal r%ationing
is probable unless i'm
mediately build up their reserve sup
plies to the limit Of storage cap
aeity."
Production and Conversion
The War Department said the
Chicago Ordnance District is about
70 produce more tanks and tractors
monthly than 1t produced in the en-
tire World War | period. The Mari
time Commission reported U. S. Sip
yards delivered SO merchant vessels
in April. Fifty-one vessels, double
the January number, were launched
during the month. The WPB es.
tablished a services branch to clear
priority and other problems confront
ing about 3 million service institu.
tons such as Banks, Laundries, etc,
The Commerce Department said in
come payments to individuals during
March were 81 per cent higher tha:
a year ago and reached the record
annual rate of $106 billion.
The War Front
The War Department announced
the planes which recently raided
Japan were U. S. Army Bombers
The attack was made in clear wea'
Their, in the middle Of the day, and
| at low attitudes. The selected targers
"were accurately attacked with de-
molition and incendiary bombs,'
the Department said. japanese broad
casts admitted that between 5000
and 1000 casualties and fires which
ragged for as hours were caused By
the raid, the Department said.
The Navy Department said 81
Japanese Warships were sunk or
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Cooperative Wool Sale
Al Yozoo City 2lst

On May 81 a cooperative WOO.
sale will be held at Yazoo City. Far
mers are being notified that their
wool will be sold at 200 o'clock in
the afternoon.
l am quoting in part a letter re-
ceived from Mr.. A. R. Ruby, County
Agent of Yazoo County.
IF you have growers who will
not be able to come, but would like
to have their wool in the pool may
suggest that they ship it to me at
Yazoo City to arrive either on Tues
day or Wednesday, 10Th or Goth"
l. W. CARSON, County Agent
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Durant Contributes
S116.58 10 Chinese

The drive for Chinese relief has
been concluded in Durant under the
direction of Mrs. F. V. McCullar,
Mrs. ]. L. Longinotti and Mrs. +.
c. Calender.
The sum of $116.58 was given oy
our citizens which ~overreached the
goal set by the workers who wan,
to express their appreciation to the
people of the community who 50
generously responded to this appeal
for u Chinese friends.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
County Singing Meet
AT Nj. Vernon 18th

The Holmes County Singing Con-
vention viii meet with all day sing-
ing at the Mt. Vernon Bap,ist
ChU'ca 6 miles north of Duraftt,
Sunday May II, 10 o'clock. C.N.F
Everyone is cordially invited 20
attend.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Duront- Rosy BoseboII
Game Set For Sunday

Durant and Kosciusko will play
baseball Sunday afternoon at two
O'Clock ac bennett Field in Durant.
TIE public is invited to come out
ono enjoy The zane,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. McNair and
daughter, Patsy and Miss Bobbie
Nell Ivey spent the week en- N
Gulfport as the guests of Mrs. Min
ME B. atwright.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14

Mr.. AID Nj. Ian ice S rock
and infant laughter of Pieayune,
we're the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. W.
II. Counts Sunday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14
Rev. Spivo Met Outlook
At resbyterion Church

Rev Spiva L. NcCullock will
preach at the Presbyterian Church
sunday, May 18th at II I'm.
Everybody cordially invited.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Bishop visited
their son., John, who is stationed at
the Jackson airbase recently.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-14

Mrs. Harry Gwinner, Birmingham
Ala, Is visiting her mother, Mrs. R.
c. Elmore this week.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
War Program
mena(eS Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-A

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-(R
"A Senate banking and cur
rency subcommittee was told
today that the country's war
program by reducing consumer
goods, threatened the life of the
advertising industry and thus
jeopardized the future of the
American newspaper.
c. II. Kaletzki, Syracuse, N.
Y. advertising counsel, testify
ing on a proposed bill to estab-
lish small business division
under the war production
board, said the government
should Immediately take steps
to continue the flow of consum-
err goods.
He suggested the use of SUBJ
stitutes such as plastic to re-
place materials found essential
to the war effort.
1.-THE life of the newspapers
! threatened by the very acts
of government in the develop
ment of the war program up to
the present time" Kaletzki said.
Mere a ntile establishments
throughout the country, he con-
tinued, could not advertise for
business because they will have
nothing to advertise.
when advertising is with
drawn. the foundation of free
press is threatened.
Without strong, virile indie
pendent newspapers in the
cities, towns and villages
throughout this nation, served
by adequate wire facilities and
news services. the task of keep
ing 100000 people within
a cohesive national unity will be
practically impossible"
weaken your newspapers
and you weaken the nation -
and there is ony one way to
prevent weakening your news
paper, by seeing to it that the
merchants of the nation have
something to SELL"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
peIiier Honor
al Pioneer Banquet
outstondins Leaders
to Attend Event

Robert G.. Peltier. manager Of
the Jewel and Macomb theatres,
Mount Clemens. tomorrow is to
be an honored guest at the Pion-
Ger Banquet. Detroit.
Bob" is listed right up at the
top among the names of Michi-
gan Film Pioneers and the Book
Cadillas hotel banquet honoring
veterans of the industry will be
marked by the appearance OF
some Of the nations outstanding
personalities.
Jimmy Walker is slated to
serve as POSTMASTER. Senator
Claude Pepper will be on hand,
an Raj pilot will relate his ex-
periences and a galaxy of prom
inent writer's and civic leaders
will be there to welcome Peltier
and his fellow old-timers.
Among those who will appear
on the program are; Malcolm
Bingay, S. l.. A. Marshall, Cyril
H. Cane-British Consul, and a
host of Army and Navy officials.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
Seeks puImo!or:;
Gets Fire Engines
Girl Overcome;
SiqnoIs Get Twisted

When William Floore. of 1914
South Wilson, called the fire
department at tbs am. today to
ask for a pulmotor, he got two
fire trucks but nary pulmotor.
FLORES daughter, Joyce, col
lapsed after a furnace explo-
sion flooded the home with coal
gas. She was revived by her ia
Their as the "all dressed up and
no place to 60 firemen' returned
to the barns.
Assistant Chief Edmund Smith
quoted Floore as saying "we're
overcome with gas Smith said
Floore did not specifically ask
for a pulmotor. w, don't have
a pulmotor, something we real
ly need" the assistant chief add
ed.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
Herman Rick
Dies Suddenly
Heort Attack
Proves FotoI

Herman L. Rick, a lifelong
resident of Mount Clemens,
dropped dead of a heart attack
in front of AZ Barbara at GAS
pm. yesterday as he was en-
route to his home at ITO Bar
bara.
Born the son of William and
Louise Rick, Mr.. Rick for
years was a painter and deco
rator employed by Ed Thinner
man. He was a member of Zion
Evangelical church.
Besides his wife, Asenath, he
is survived by two sons. Ross, of
Mount Clemens, and Gerald at
home: a daughter, Dorothy, at
home; his mother, Mrs. Louise
Schalm; a brother, William, of
Pontiac two sisters Mrs. Anthony
Smith, of Selfridge Field, and
Mrs. Earl Snay, of Grafton,
w. Va, and a grand child born
yesterday noon to the Ross
Riecks.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at 200 pm. from the
Hubbard Funeral home with the
Rev. Jacob whitman, pastor of
Zion Evangelical church, Off
ciating. Burial will be in Clin-
ton Grove Cemetery.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
Valves Examination
in LIQUOR Sale Case

Thomas Marson, AZ, of De-
troit, waived examination on
charges of illegal sa,es of liquor
when arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Donald j. Parent
this morning and was bound
over to circuit court. He was
committed to the county Jail
in lieu of $500 bond.
Marson was arrested in War
rem township this morning by
troopers from the BEDFORD Post
of the Michigan State Police.