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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Gage Services Are
Held On tuesday

Funeral services for Mrs. Bob Lou
Kelly Gage, rs, were held at the
residence in Lexington Tuesday
morning following her death Mon
day after a lengthy illness.
The Rev. A. Y. Brown, Methodist
pastor, officiated. She was a mem
Der of the Episcopal Church. Inter
ment was at the Winona cemetery
with Southern Undertaking Associa-
ton in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Gage had made her home in
Lexington several years. She was
a native of Coffeeville.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs
John D. Gwin and Mrs. G. K. Col
lier. Other relatives are Mrs. Luvia
James, Memphis, Capt. Robert
Smith, Atlanta, and ]. D.. Gwin, Jr.
Lexington.
.Pallbearers were I. w. Carson, AT
Taylor, B. S. Beall, Jr., L. P. John
son, j. r. Williams, Pat Barrett, Ed
mund Whitehead, of Winona; Max
Dilworth, of Shelby.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
TchuIa Youth Dies
From Car Accident

Harold Wayne Osborne, 15-year-
old Tchula youth, died at the Com
munity Hospital in Lexington Tues
day night as a result of injuries re-
ceived in a a accident in Tchula
earlier in the evening. The car in
which he was riding was reported
to have been involved in a collision
with another car, turning over and
burning. Details Of the accident
could not be obtained.
Funeral services were held this
morning at the Baptist Church in
Tchula with the Rev. S. B. Harring-
ton, pastor, officiating. Interment
will be this afternoon at Marks
where the youth was born.
Surviving are the parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Osborne, one sister, Janice
May, three brothers, Macus, John
Allen and Jessie.
Pallbearers we're j. T. Gray, Ed
win Larkin, Vergil Tubberville, L.
J. Stay, Otto Morgan and Billy Mar
shall.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Home Nursing Glasses
Will Be Given Here
Meeting To Be Held
Friday To Make
Plans For Course

On Friday afternoon, December
18th, representatives from the
homes, churches, and clubs of Du.
rant are asked to meet at the Du.
rant City Hall at 800 P. NJ, to dis
cuss plans for putting on the Red
Cross program of Home Nursing in
Durant and vicinity after the Xmas
holidays.
Mrs. Claude Bailey, county chair
man of this program will preside.
Also present at this meeting will be
Miss Eunie E. Willis, Red Cross
nurse who gives this training. This
opportunity is given Holmes county
by your local Red Cross Chapter.
All ladies interested in taking this
free, worthwhile training are urged
to attend the meeting Friday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
All Clubs Plan
Active New Year

The boys All clubs of holmes
county have reorganized for 1916
'46 with elections being held by all
clubs in the county except Cruger.
The Cruger club will elect officers
later. There are IL All clubs in the
county this year. Holmes county had
a large enrolment last year and all
indications point to a larger enroll
ment this year.
The All club work is a fine illus
tration of democracy in action. 1t
has volunteer membership and vol
unteer leaders. Through local club
meetings the young people plan
their activities, work and play to-
gether, and carry out a program UNI
der the direction of extension lead
ers. To be selected as an officer OF
a All club is an honor and a Won
derful opportunity to develop lead
ership and citizenship.
Officers elected for the various
clubs are as follows:
Ebenezer-Billy Edwards, presi-
dent; Johnnie Burwell, vice-presi-
dent; Eugene Edwards, secretary.
Coxburg-Lindy Covington, pres
ident; James Rodgers, vice-presi-
dent; w. w. Smith, Jr., secretary.
West-A. J. Stevens, president;
Billy Tate, vice-president; William
Cade, secretary.
Tchula-Edwin Larkin, president;
L. J. Stay, Jr., vice-president; Leo
White, secretary and Henry Heard
reporter.
Lexington High-Edd Lipsey, pres
ident; Allen Murtagh, vice-president;
Joe Braddock, secretary.
Pickens-Robert Hanna, president;
E. w. Atkinson, vice-president; Jack
Sledge, secretary.
Bethesda-Reece Mayo, president;
Larkin WEIGH, Jr., vice-president;
Jimmie Mcclellan, secretary.
Durant-Frankie Burrell, presi-
dent; Robert Stonestreet, vice-presi-
dent; Gene Irving, secretary.
Lexington High-Grover Bailey,
president; Douglas Hester, vice-pres-
ident; Willie Joe Waits, Jr., secre-
tary.
Centerville-George Wilson Allen.
Jr., president; Hubert Lee Yeager,
vice-president; Byrant Ellis, secre-
tary.
Goodman-Albert Fleming, presi-
dent; John c. Donald, vice-president;
Marvin Smith, secretary.
Cruger-Billv Ratliff, president
Walter KERN James, Jr., vice-presi.
dent; Willie D. Lehman. secretary.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Mass x-Ray Needed
To Prevent TB

The only way to be sure of never
having or dying of tuberculosis is
never to become infected by its
germ, is the opinion of DR.. c. c.
Smith, Field tuberculosis Diagnostic
Unit, state board of health, who said
that to prevent such infection every
case of tuberculosis must be discov-
cred, isolated and treated. For con-
troll of the disease, Mississippi needs
a minimum of 1000 beds, according
to DR.. Smith, as well as facilities for
x-raying the chest annually Of every
person is years Of age and over.
by means of mass x-ray exami-
nation more early cases will be
found, many Of them before they
become infectious to others and
while the chances of recovery are
GOOD, stated the health official
Mass x-ray surveys in other states
have revealed that among those a
bove IS years of age from n to
two per cent have significant dis
ease. Applied to our estimated popu-
lation. this means that there are
from fourteen to twenty-eight thou
sand cases of tuberculosis in Missis-
sippi. Through the aid of the State
tuberculosis Association, the divi'
sion of tuberculosis control of the
United States Public Health Service
and the county health department:
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
| Durunt Youth Now
On Way Home

Pearl Harbor, T. H.-Pvt. Walter
White, Jr,, husband of Mary F.
White, of Durant, Miss, left Okina-
wa Nov. % headed for home on the
USS Crockett with more than 1000
other high-point Navy veterans. The
attack transport was scheduled to
arrive at Seattle about Dec. s.
The Crockett is one of more than
$50 aircraft carriers, b~attleships,
cruisers and attack transports in the
Navy's Magic Carpet" fleet, which
is carrying Pacific veterans home.
The passengers on the Crockett
were to go directly to separation
centers nearest their homes to be
discharged.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Mrs. Ida Henderson
Services Al Goodman

Funeral services were held De-
cember 9th, Sunday afternoon at
2:30 from the Goodman Methodist
Church for Mrs. Ida w. Henderson,
who died in Water Valley, Saturday,
December 9th.
Mrs. Henderson was SO years old
and was the daughter of the late
Robert j. Moody and Mrs. Moody
the former Miss Susan Powers.
She lived all her life in the state
and the last twenty years in Water
Valley and Goodman.
Mrs. c. D. Murray, Water Valley
a daughter survives.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Holmes County Whiskey Business Scars To
Near Half Million Dollar Mark
Mrs. Mildred Lunfuir
Discharged From WAC

Mrs. Mildred Lanfair returned
home Tuesday after receiving her
discharge at Fort Bragg, North Caro-
lima. She served as T-5 in the WAC
and was overseas for seven months.
While overseas she was a statistical
worker with the Inspector General,
Disc Hdqs., at Reims, France. The
Headquarters was located in the
Little Red Schoolhouse where the
Peace terms were signed. On her
boat trip back to the States Mrs.
Lanfair came on the West Point.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Nearly 81, 900. Black
Market Tax Paid
In Nine Months

Holmes county whiskey dealers
and ~bootleggers have sold $241, $685.
70 worth of whiskey Wholesale
price, during the first nine months
OF l945, according to records in the
State Tax Collectors office.
Figuring a 33 and one-third per-
cent mark-up over wholesale prices.
as allowed by government, this
means that Holmes whiskey dealers
have nipped the public for at least
$322,000.00 during the first nine
months of l945. However, since Mis-
sissippi is legally dry and there i
no control over liquor prices by the
OPA, there is no way Of telling &C
~curately how much money the
whiskey dealers have taken in.
$22.ss7.22 Tax Poid
The ten percent Black Market tar
paid by the bootleggers in Missis-
sippi has already taken $22, 1881. "A
in tax money from Holmes county
whiskey dealers. This amount has
already been paid into the state tax
collector, Carl N. Craig's office.
through September.
Holt Million Business
1t is entirely possible that liquor
sales in Holmes county alone will
reach the half-million dollar mark
before the end of the year as No
vember and December are two of
the biggest months in the year in
the whiskey business.
Two whiskey dealers alone in Hol-
mes county have already purchased
841 cases in November for the trade,
invoices listed in the State Tax Col
lector's office show.
There will definitely not be .
shortage of whiskey in Holmes coun-
ty for Christmas, 1945.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Major P. B. Brumby
Wins Bronze Star

The many Holmes county friends
of Major p. B. Brumby, prominent
Lexington physician, now comman-
der of the l76th Station Hospital on
Saipan, in the Pacific, will be inter-
ested to know he has been awarded
the Bronze Star Medal for meritori-
Gus service in the armed service.
Major Brumby assumed command
of the l76th Station Hospital on
Saipan November 20, 1945. This
hospital received the meritorious
servic unit Plaque. This unit has
assigned the task of receiving, treat
ing, and disposing of battle casual
ties and other types of patients re-
ceived from the Marianas Islands
and the campaigns of Leyte, Peleliu,
Angaur, Two Jima and Okinawa.
DR.. Brumby went into service in
January, 1943, as a captain and was
sent to the Pacific in June Of that
year where he has since served. In
April of this year he was promoted
to major.
His citation follows:
Headquarters Western
Pacific Base Command
APO 244
Citation
for
Bronze Star Medal
Major Paul B. Brumby 0543568,
Medical Corps, Army Of the United
States. For meritorious service in
connection with military operations
against the enemy from 81 Septem-
her l945. AS a member Of the staff
of the Civilian Annex Of the 369th
Station Hospital, he displayed out
standing professional skill and ex-
traordinary devotion to duty in car
ing for the sick and wounded civil
liam population Of the Island OF Sal
nan and contributed greatly to the
,successful elimination of that phase
(centinasd freu page two)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13

separation from the Army of the
United States.
Post war planning, Major Smith
explains, provides for a large reserve
army and it is estimated that APP
proximately 100000 officers will
comprise the Officers Reserve Corps.
Applications may be made to any U.
S. Army Recruiting Office.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
Red Turner'S Place
In Durant Raided

Red Turner's place on Highway
IL just outside Durant was raided
by Sheriff w. L. Murtagh and depu-
ties last Friday night, Dec. 7th.
Three slot machines and several
cases of whiskey were taken.
The trial, which will be held ip
the court Of Justice of the Peace R
E. McNeer, has not yet been set.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13

is is hoped that this x-ray service
can be offered to most of the people
of the state during the coming year..
Urging everyone to have a chest
x-ray examination through the fam
lily physician or the local health de-
partment, to help fight tuberculosis
by tellin0 friends how to be on guard
against the disease and to aid in the
'ight by buying Christmas Seals, DIR.
Smith appealed to all Mississippians
o work toward eradication of tuber-
culosis by lending all possible effort
.oward the provision of sufficient
beds and treatment facilities for the
state.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13
USA Officers MAY
Join Reserve Corps

Atlanta, Ga. (SpeciaD-There's an
opportunity for all male officers Of
the Army of the United States, who
have been or will be separated from
the service to become members OF
the Officers Reserve Corps immedi-
ately, Major Harry o. Smith, CHIEF
of the procurement branch, Fourth
Service Command, announced today
Major Smith said that such Off
GERS, between the ages Of 10 and go.
who are physically qualified for gen.
eral service, limited service, or gen.
eral service with waiver and who
have been honorably discharged, are
eligible for immediate appointment
in the Officers Reserve Corps for an
initial period of five years and in the
grade he held at the time of his
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-12-13

HAZEL
EYES
~ HAZEL eRANNoN

Several weeks ago in this column
we made the statement that the
whiskey business is the biggest
business in Holmes county from a
money-making standpoint.
Today elsewhere on this page we
show our readers how much liquor
wholesale whiskey dealers have
shipped in to Holmes county boot
leggers the first nine months of l945.
This represents the wholesale price
paid by the b~ootleggers, not the re-
tail selling price.
Holmes county bootleggers bought
$241, 888.29 worth of whiskey at
wholesale prices to sell to the pub
lie during the first nine months of
1945. They paid the 10 percent Black
Market tax on that much. There is
no way of telling how much money
they really made because they are
selling whiskey above ceiling prices
and the sky is the limit on what
they change. But allowing the 80
and one-third percent MAKEUP set
by the government for tax purposes
the retail sales Of whiskey in Hol-
mes county for the first nine months
Of l945 would have amount to around
1922. 100000.
If the whiskey trade In October,
November and December holds up
and there's no reason to think 1t
won't, retail whiskey sales in Hol-
mes county will be in the neighbor-
hood of one-half million dollars for
the year 1945.
Bootleggers in Holmes county
have already paid in to State Tax
Collector Carl N. Craig $22,987.22 in
Black Market tax for the first nine
months Of l945.
The State Tax Collector, under the
law enacted by the last legislature,
is authorized to collect 10 percent
Black Market tax on all liquor sales
in dry Mississippi.
Mr. Craig, by employing various
field men and clerical help to keep
books, ETC., has the name OF every
known bootlegger in the state and
the amount of whiskey invoiced to
him by wholesale liquor dealers
throughout the country. Mr.. Craig
receives q copy Of the invoice. He
then marks up SO and one-third per-
cent on the invoice price and sets
that down on his books as the sell
ing price and collects the ten per-
cent tax on that selling price.
Mr. Craig is paid ten percent OF
the tax he collects for collecting the
ten percent tax off the bootlegger.
Out of his 10 percent, Of course,
comes various expenses involved in
the collection.
OF course there is no way OF tell
ing how much whiskey the boot
leggers manage to get without Mr..
Craig's office obtaining a record OF
same. It would be fairly safe to as
sumo they get by with as much as
thew paw tax on.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-02
COver-All Apron

CUVtI-fII HpTUH
IF YOU like a covered-up feel
l ing while you work, you'll be
delighted with this pretty and
practical apron with tulip shaped
pocket and border. Look through
your scrap bag for pretty pieces
to trim this attractive apron.
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.AuM0&M|HB|''||IgIJJ
Is

To prevent rust on new tinware,
rub it with fresh lard and heat
well in oven before using.
To prevent steam in the bath
room when taking a bath, run one
inch of cold water into the tub be-
fore turning on the hot water.
To absorb communicating odors
in the icebox, mix a tablespoon
full of dry mustard with cold wa
ter to form paste, then place in
a saucer in the icebox.
For a new flavor in apple
sauce, add the pulp of an orange
or two the last few minutes of
cooking, and sweeten while it is
still hot.
If the sugar supply does not per-
NIT frosting on the cake, try this
topping: Mix together " cup su-
gar and 4 tablespoons peanut but
ter, blending together until the
consistency of lard; sprinkle over
top of batter in the pan and bake
as usual.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-02
MONEY CAN'T BUY

aspirin, faster-acting, more Dependable
than genuine pure st. Joseph Aspirin.
worlds largest seller at 10t. Why pay
more2 Big 100 tablet size for only 35i.
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DOUBLE LOSS

Ho,oard is coming home to his
mother from the Philippines. But
it ,UiH not be an entirely happy
return, because he ,Uas blinded
in combat. Furthermore, his ,oite
and children ,UiH not be at home
to greet him. Muriel got a divorce
and married a richer man.
These nistortunes are almost
too much for HorUards mother to
bear. 1t seems to her so unfair
that a man ,cho has lost so much
in the service of his country
should also suffer heartbreak in
domestic life. She wonders ,Uhat
she can do to help Ho,Uard read
just himself to his nero life. He
is 81, and ,Uas a lieutenant. His
interests run to books and music.
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will be tremendous help, and I'M
til he masters Braille get into the
habit of daily reading; headlines,
articles from the digests, every
thing short and cheerful that you can
find. After while introduce pas
sages from Shakespeare, Steven
son, the poets; things that uplift our
hearts and stay with us.
Music and Friends.
You say he is musical. If he plays
the piano that will be an inexhausti-
BILE interest to him. Nothing of this
will be easy at first, but you will
get through the first hard stages,
and eventually you will find that you
have a busy, content, philosophical
son restored to you, the tie between
you being more tender and close
than ever.
Remember that friends are a
great consolation to anyone so tenn
porarily handicapped. Ask the men
he likes to drop in at all hours, and
keep your tone away from pity. He
will hate to be pitied. The more
quietly and normally you take the
situation the more quietly and nor.
mally he will.
Here is perhaps the most COM
forting thing can say to you; ask
anyone who knows anything about
the blind and believe you will find
that it is true. Blind persons are
almost invariably cheerful. Perhaps
in their darkness they don't see
much that is ugly and hateful in
this world. Perhaps they see through
some of the wells that are over our
eyes.
Whatever the reason, thousands of
totally blind persons lead active,
useful, interested and happy lives.
His daughters may yet mean much
to Howard. Married love may well
come again into his life, and more
fortunately. You will find that he
does not complain; so don't you be-
gin it.
had blind friend years ago who
read, talked, wrote, played on the
organ, walked, helped in the house.
hold and generally lived a more
than ordinarily full life. We others
were the "sighted people," There's
a lot you sighted people never
see,' he used to say pityingly.
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Eeffe":
Looking at
HOLLYWOOD

IN HOLLYWOOD it's the girls who
= leave home who make good. Not
a juvenile delinquency problem, but
the record of careers of some lead
ing actresses here who leave their
home lots as newcomers, go out
side to make important pictures, es-
tablish careers and regulations for
themselves, and then return to their
home lots as stars.
There's Anne Baxter, for exam
pie, the guest in Hunt Stromberg's
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-02
LIGHTING PLANTS
Under Foreign Rule

The territories which comprise
our 48 states were once ruled by
one or more of six foreign coun-
tries, all or part of the areas of
80 states having been under Great
Britain, rs under France, 10 under
Spain, 8 under Mexico, 4 under
the Netherlands, and 2 under Swe-
den.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-02
HEART B U RN

Relieved In 5 minutes or double money bsek
When excess stomach acid causes painful suffocat.
ing stomach and heartburn, doctors usually
prescribe the fastest-actinR medicines known for
symptomatic relief medicines like those Bell.as
Tablets. No laxative. Ben-ans brings comfort In Q
bffy or double your money back return Of bottle
to us. 25c at all drugRists-
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blance to the black cloak known as
the domino, while mah-jong goes
back to about the time of Confucius.
AS for bridge, it is fairly mod
ern in its current version. The game
is variously credited to Russia, Dem
mark, Turkey, but it first came to
wide attention in Turkey, while the
modern rules we're first formulated
in England in the 1905. But of
course cards are very ancient,
probably originating in Asia.
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Most Parlor Games Were Devised Centuries AGO
By ELIZABETH RANKIN

Chess, probably the most ancient
indoor game, is essentially matter
of warfare in miniature - maybe
that accounts for its continuous ap-
peal! Certain it is that some variety
of the chess idea is found in every
land from the most ancient to the
most modern, from the most primi-
tive to the most civilized. Dominoes
on the other hand didn't turn up
till the 18th century in Italy, get
ting their name from their resem-
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BONES
BABY CHICKS

PULLETs. UNsExED, MALES, Day-old
to weeks old. Big discount on early book
tngs. Eight breeds, Pedigreed English Leg
horns. White Rocks. Bloodtested. Brooder
Stoves. Free Book saves 40E feed. time,
and raise bigger birds. INMAN POULTRY
FARMS. Aberdeen. South Dakota.
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sons" and North
Star" both of
which Anne made
away from her
home lot.
The "GueSt"
role is a strong
Hxyi11oJ rir1 xr,LNgo
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"GueSt IN the
H o u s e." t h e
browning role Of
her career. And
she's had some
pretty big ones,
including mag
nificent Amber