The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-07-12
Current Comment
BY Henry Willis
Man is But Dust-Woman Settles
Him."-Post.
BY Henry Willis

Ebenezer for Many Yeors a Fine
Community, has remained unincor-
porated, a name for a voting box, a
crossing Of roads running due north
and south and east and west. 1t had
m early Telephone Exchange, was
the Home Office of a Fire Insurance
Company, residence Of the President
Of the Board of Supervisors, the late
s. N. Sample, who gave 1t the i'm
petus that made an up and coming
community Of 1t, an impetus that
has been accelerated under the young
men who took over after his passing
and have made a business center of
Ebenezer. There u close by lived
State Senator Sam Sample; The
Murtaugh family Of the present
Sheriff, Walter Murtaugh; The
Thomas family to which the present
Supervisor belongs. Fine old fami-
lies like the Burwells, Humphreys,
O'Reillys, Drennans, Brooks, Browns
and many more Of the county's best.
Well now, Ebenezer is about to be-
come Incorporated, to be a Village"
with officers Of its very own-a May
or and a Board of Aldermen and
Police Force, and Treasurer-getting
all ready to step out as a town. New
paved roads will 60 through it; new
telephone lines and electric wires;
small industries, perhaps, to sup
plement its farms. The fine old COM
munity will become the fine new
community. II the new well nea
Richland develops an oil bearing
sand, activity will extend all around
Ebenezer. Let US hope II comes in.
Those Web Worm Nests. In pecan
trees and elsewhere, should be de-
stroyed right now to prevent a Sec
ond and larger crop Of the pests.
Excellent medicine" for them is a
corn cob soaked in coal oil and stuck
on a stiff wire fixed on the end of
a pole. Light it and hold under the
nest. When burned out discard it
and use another from your handy
can of oil soaked cobs. "Do 1t Nowl".
Rodor Is Still A Mystery. whot-
ever else it may be. Last weeks
life" had something about it and
showed pictures made by it. 1t seems
Radar impulses sent out come back
to the sender and throw a picture
on a screen of whatever it was that
reflected them back. Included in the
picture is a measuring device that
allows the viewer to measure exact
ly the distance to whatever it is he
is looking at. Clouds or darkness do
not matter. Thus it is that bombers
high above clouds that hide the
earth from the pilot can easily plant
bombs on the unseen target below.
So, too, our combat ships, from De-
stroyers to Battle Wagons, use Radar
for range and direction finding
which accounts for the extraordi-
nary accuracy of their shooting. Like
the first salvo from our old Texas(D
fired from Is miles off Casa Blanca
that put an unfriendly battle ship
the Jean Bart-out of action. Or our
Destroyers off Anzio beach that
knocked out German tanks in mo-
ton six miles away. We will have
to wait till Dick Barrett gets home.
He knows all about it, being the
chief shooter (but that's not what
the Navy calls him) on some armed
ship that hits the target almost every
salvo. Trouble is, information may
not be released" and he can't talk
about it. Whatever he says will be
interesting, very, anyway.
A Caution About Shoe Trees. Two
pairs of shoes worn alternate days