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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

H. c. Shumock, Big Point
farmer and president of the
dormant Jackson = George
County Dairy Coop, has a
theory regarding permanent
pasture that sounds so reason
able to us that we are anxious
to pass it along to you for con-
sideration.
If there are no bugs" in
the scheme, it should result
in greatly improved livestock
and be a boon to the county's
economy in more ways than
one, since it would utilize wha
otherwise seems to be complete
ly worthless land.
Mr.. Shumoek believes that
the answer lies in the thous-
ands OF acres of meadow land
in the southern sections of the
county those endless miles be-
tween Escatawpa and the
Wade Hurley districts and
Gautier and Vancleave which
currently grows nothing but
wire" grass and cray fish.
Now Mr.. Shumock is not
bucking the timber minded
folks who know that it would
grow pine trees profitably-
if fires were kept out. He
just knows that you can't
keep fires out if it until folks
are a lot better educated along
the conservation line and so he
emissions countless acres of
the best year-round perman-
ent pasture in the country COW
ering the now worthless acres.
Every cattle man lin the
county knows that the grass
gets green in the meadows in
the early spring before the
hills further north in the coun-
ty. In the old days, folks used
to pring their cattle to the
meadows, driving them for
miles after the hard winter, SO
they could get a fill of the new
grass. Mr.. Shumock believes
il could be kept green the year
round and the cattle could fill
New Years eve as well as the
first of May.
Mr.. Shumock has five acres
of permanent pasture on his
place and he considers it a
profitable investment ever
when planted on the high
ground. 1t has done particu-
larly we'll this year because
we have had an unusually wet
season. Since every season is
a wet season in the meadows,
as you learn when you start
to cross one, the grass should
be god every year if it was
planted there, he believes.
If q bulldozer was available,
on a cooperative of commu-
nity-owned basis. Mr.. Shumock
would clear his twenty acres
of meadow land of stumps and
plant it in permanent pasture.
He would catch the driest
time possible and break the
ground, put lime in to sweeten
it, and harrow in the seed. AT
ter that, it would have to be
moved occasionally and prob
ably re-sodded every few years
and that's all.
He would seed it with win
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13
81 :9 sfN I!E;IAl!L!!l!1tE

BY NoLLE T. ROBERTS

ter and summer growing grass
and have a year-round pasture,
he believes, that would be
worth countless more dollars
to him than the same amount
of higher land elsewhere on
his place which can be used
for ordinary farming or for
timber growing.
Now there may be some
thing wrong with this propo-
sitiorf. Maybe some of you have
tried it, successfully or other
wise. But we believe that it is
worth a try and that some
step should be made to pur-
chase a bulldozer for clearing
from the war surplus. We
learned in the Pacific that a
bulldozer is a marvelously
adaptable piece of machinery,
being equally useful for build
ing air fields, burying Japs
wholesale or pushing a loaded
truck out of the bog. We have
no doubt that it. would clear
land just as effectively.
Up at Harleston, north of
Hurley and just this side of
George County, H. D. Nygard
manages the Farmers Union
Cooperative (AAL) which is a
group of farmers banded to-
gether and headed by Frank
Smell, successful Big Point
farmer and dairyman.
The coop is q. feed, fertiliz-
er and seed purchasing asso-
citation, set up under the same
laws as. the Jackson George
dairy coop. 1t is proof enough
that such a movement will
work.
After getting off to a cou-
pie of false starts resulting
from poor management. the
coop has been settled down
for several years and members
and outsiders are currently
purchasing about two car loads
or sixty tons of feed a month
from their own association.
They pay the regular price
charged by retailers but get
dividend checks from the prof
its.
Carl Brinkman, who used to
run a store at Harleston, and
who has since become a Pas
cagoula business man, was ac-
tive in the formation of the
association which includes
much of the Danish communi-
ty, as well as old settlers.
The feed shortage is over,
at least for the time, being, as
Mr.. Nygard said he can get
plenty of feed and that the COS
op is thinking of taking on q
new line. Meanwhile, they are
building up their cash reserve
for additional purchasing pow
er.
We think the above is am
pie proof that such a move
ment is practical and that ad-
ditional steps car be taken IN
time to secure a sweet potato
kiln, meat curing plant, can
ming plants, and all of the
other things that our people
need and III county needs tor
a balanced economy.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

paving the way Tor the confer
enee by pooling their informa-
ton and trying &c discover what
problems are tie most pressing
Housing, for example, is import
ant. Juvenile courts are involv-
cd. Already studies have been
made of county jails, foster
homes. detention homes and cor
reetional schools over the eeun-
try. Existing facilities are con-
sideree "far from satisfactory"
Manv delegations come to
Washington, but none with a
greater objective than ito make
all the country j better place for
young people to live"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

felligence. for intelligence Of
ten gets mixed up with self
interest. We may admire such
and such a fellow for being a
24-carat high minded citizen;
but we may love another be-
cause he is not--because he is
instead a natural simple. open
hearted human being who is
alive to all the wonders of the
world. and has all the follies.
foibles and uncalculating de-
cencies of the human spirit at
its best. This is not always
the case. but it sometimes hap
pens.
One of the plaintive aspects
of growing older is the fact
that so many old friendships
do not survive long periods of
separation, but crumble away
in the swift-running years. 1t
is a real pang through the
heart 10 meet some old friend
of youth, and to find that
either he or you or perhaps
both Of you have become COM
pletely different people. You
recall the warmth of friendship
of school days, of camp days,
of work days-and then Won
der if this stranger, with ways
so s.iff and Unfamiliar, with
ideas so alien to your own
could indeed have been that
friend of years gone by. Some
times a mans very looks seem
to change-beyond the normal
process of maturing or grow
ing old. You try to find some
comr,on interest to talk about,
but it does not exist. Some
times indeed two such friends
have come to believe exactly
the opposite ideas, and indeed
have all but become natural
enemies
Here again the process is
too deep, complex, unpredict-
able for facile explanation.
These things simply happen.
But one of the delightful
experiences is to stumble
across some old acquaintance
with whom you were never
close, though you may have
lived as ne:ghbors and school
companions, ard to find that
each in his own way, has
been drawing toward a COM
mon interest in life, and an
understandable point of view.
This discovery sometimes hap
pens when two people from
the same community meet
years later in a distant place
where they have taken up
their life's work. They get to-
gether simply because they
come from the same town. And
they find that they have more
than that in common. They
find perhaps that they are the
same kind of people-or if
not that, that there is some
thing in each that they adj
mire--some sudden sense of
respect that never before ex-
listed. And they find perhaps
that they never really knew
one another at all, though they
lived as young people in the
same group.
Sometimes such a meeting
results in the forging of a ma
tural friendship one which
has been a long time in the
making. And when such a
meeting takes place between a
youth aud a girl from the same
hoE.e town who meet while
working in distant city, the re-
suit is almost sure to be we'd
ding bells. We have seen il
hapTen many times. And the
"interded' who is waiting
back hame can just as well
start looking around once the
letters begin to mention that
two old hometown "acquain-
tances" have gone out togeth-
=. H. liz n.Ar-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13

Last week we had a visit
from an old friend of grade
school days, who was driving
through on his way from Ala
bama where he had been buy
ing lumber. With him he had
his wife, who was also part of
the old school group, and their
two little children. Years have
gone by since we were last to-
gether-and that occasion was
when we got married, and this
friend we refer to was best
man.
1t was pleasant to find that
the years had not changed us
too much and that there q
none of that air of strange
ness and unfamiliarity which
sall too often grows up between
people who have been separat-
; ed for a long time. 1t is true
that when last together we had
more. interests in common, be-
ing fresh from school days and
still living then in the com
mon friendships and associa-
tions of a tightly knit young
group. AS we grew Older, got
married and took up our life's
work, his path turned toward
business and ours to journal
ism, and we have each travel
ed a fair distance down our
respective roads. A good part
of his life is given now to the
management of a lumber bus
mess, while ours is given to
~typewriters, paper, compost
ton, and the roar of printing
presses. Our knowledge of and
interest in his lumber bust
ness is not great-nor does he
feel much concern about the
state of the scribbling business.
To that extent we have chang
ed and separated-but it was
pleasant to find that this
change was not in a fundamen-
tai sense.
Basically we had remained
to one another what we had
always been, natural friends
matchmaking, appreciative,
and at ease. That. is why we
stood as best men for one an
other. We have always been
friends. and will always be
friends. There are undoubted-
~ many people who do not
like him, and many also who
do not like us. On the other
hand there are many we do
not like. But between the two of
us exists a natural sort of trust
and acceptance, which goes
back to childhood, and will go
on very likely to the grave.
This is what we consider a
natural friendship Most peo-
pie have a few such friends.
Life would be hard without
them, indeed. Sometimes such
a relationship exists between
members of the same family
between brother and broth
err; or between cousins. II is
no mark of distinction or good
character to have such friends
because these things just
: happen. of their own inexplica-
BILE nature; and whether a
man is a saint or a rascal
seems to have little to do with
it, Indeed many an upright
citizen has been respected, but
not loved; while many a ras-
cal has been loved. though
never respected.
Life is funny that way. We
may tell ourselves. and one
another. what the things are
we ought to admire and emu
late. what the civic virtues are.
what sort of life will get a
man 10 heaven. But often our
instincts are sounder about
! these things than our cold in
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-13
Women Will
Seek Rights
Amendment
BY KERR
Alp Newsfeatures Writer

Inc Dutllc lol a WOihdnS
rights amendment TO the Cob
stitution of the United States
will be tackled with renewed
vigor when Congress convenes
next January, six months af-
ter the Senate defeat of the
famous Equal Rights Amend
ment.
This year the battle will be
marked by something new
the first concrete effort to eff
feet a compromise on the ques-
ton that has rent American
women's groups into two fac
tions-those who favored the
Equal Rights Amendment and
those who opposed it.
When Congress convenes in
AT, the Congress of American
Women expects to offer it a
new Woman's Status Amend
ment, which its supporters
hope will meet the arguments
both of those who defend the
Equal Rights Amendment and
those who attack it.
The CAV is a new virile or
ganization with 1000 members
individuals and organizations)
which seek to stimulate women
to political and civil citizen
ship activities and which is
affiliated with the Womel's In
ternational Democratic FEEDER
alton. The tentative wording
of its amendment is as TO lows:
There shall be no NOM
ic, legal, political or social dis
elimination against women be-
u of sex or marital ST ltus
in the United States of Amer
lea or territories subject to its
jurisdiction.
Nothing in this article shall
be so construed as to invali ate
or prevent the enactment of
legislation benefitting women
in their work or family sta
tus."
To understand its compro-
mise value, it is necessary to
know the position the two OPP
posing groups have taken be-
fore. The Equal Rights Amend
ment, sponsored by the Nat
ional Woman's party and favor
ed by other women's organi-
cations, provides:
Men and women shall have
equal rights throughout the
United States and every place
subject to its jurisdiction" It's
supporters hold that it is need
ed to right determinations in
more than 1000 state laws.
They point to laws in various
states which give a husband
control over his wife's earnings
or the right to dispose of the
custody of his children by viii,
and TO other laws which pre-
vent women from engaging IN
Independent businesses and
keeping their earnings without
their husbands consent, etc.
Those who opposed the Equal
, Rights Amendment, including
Carrie Chapman Gait, Eleanor
Roosevelt and prominent fig
ures in labor eontended that
it would wipe from state sta
tute books other laws which
protected women, including
those concerning minimum wa
ges, maximum working hours
and sanitary working conti-
tions.
Some action must be taken
of the subject of women's
status" says Susan B. Anthony,
grand-niece of the late famous
suffrage,te and chairman of
:. the CAW's commission which
evolved the compromise am
endment. Women are still sec
ond class citizens in the eco
nomic, political and legal life
Nof the nation. An amendment
to the constitution is the legal
weapon with which to abolish
laws detrimental to women and
to prevent future ones. We
hope, in this amendment, We
have found a solution which
will wipe out the bad legis-
lation without wiping out the
good"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

cases without even offices, where
they may be contacted"
Adopt Program
Adopting a program supporting
the National Home Owners foun-
dation, the group moved to further
the action to more closely weld
persons with small homes anc
property, in order that they may
become a force in extending anc
protecting property and home own.
ership.
The group has the backing O
the national foundation as well a.
the state board, according to Fred
erick Willetts, recently appointed
to the Board of Directors of thu
state group.
Veterans Victims
The group set forth that the CIR
tain INSCRIPTIONS groups are play
Ing on returned servicemen who
want a home at any price"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
DRIVER CHARGED
IN WRECK CASE
Clarendon Woman Injured
AS Car Hits Butane
Truck

Charged with reckless driving
resulting in the serious injury OF
his wife in an automobile accident
shortly before noon yesterday, N.
W. Walters, of Clarendon, was CIV
en- a citation to appear in Record
er's court, Friday at 10 a. m.
Riding with the couple was their
four-year-old daughter, Frances.
She suffered shock. Walters re-
ceived decorations of the head and
mouth.
Under Observation
Admitted to James Walker Me-
mortal hospital. Mrs. Walters was
placed under observation for pos
sible injuries of her back and
arms.
Walters, according to investigat-
ing officers, came out Of a curve
and swerved acros sthe road, strik-
ing a truck owned by the South
ern Butane Gas company. The car
bounced back, the officers said,
and rolled over in to a ditch land
ing on all four wheels. The truck
was operated by F. A. Farrow.
Second Truck
Following FarroW was a second
truck hauling logs driven by Henry
Craig, who told officers that he
saw Walters coming towards the
two trucks, causing him to swing
into the bridge railing to avert
era 5hing into the gas co1npany's
vehicle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Obituaries
R. P. JOHNSON

R. P. Johnson, IT died in his
residence, Al Spofford Sunday
afternoon following a long illness.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Ola Johnson; four sons, R. z.
johnson, Sanford Johnson, Coley
johnson and Lewis Johnson and
Alvin Johnson, Wilmington; six
daughters, Mrs. C. E. Brewer,
Mrs. John Duncan and Mrs. j. H.
Croker, Wilmington, Mrs. C. L.
Skipper, Roanoke Rapids, Mrs. W.
N. Leitch and Miss Patricia Ann
johnson, Wilmington; one brother,
Charlie Johnson, Wilmington.
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon at four o'clock from
the Delgado Presbyterian church
with the Rev. c. c. Myers off,
ciating.
lnterment will be in Bellevue
cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Robert
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
NAVY RECRUITERS
SIGN SEVEN MEN
High School Student Makes
Excellent Rating
On Test

Seven local men we're shipped
for induction into the U. S. Navy
yesterday, including one New Han
over High school student who
made an excellent rating on the
Eaddy test.
Excellent" Rating
Gerald K. Morton, son of Mrs.
Matte K. Morton, passed the Fad
dy test, the Navy's examination
for recruiting men who will under
go special training in the study
of electronics at its Chicago school,
Cos j. G. Paradise said.
The school is of 48-weeks dura-
ton and entails study concentrated
at making e%lectronics experts Of
it's graduates, the officer said.
Third To Pass
Morton is third to pass the test,
from this years graduating class
of the New Hanover High school
The local Navy recruiting offices
yesterday also received a direc
tive from Raleigh, instructins
them to remain open all day Sat
urday and Sunday, June. 20 and 30
in order to give all veterans thu
opportunity to re-enlist in the Nav,
while they a still get benefit.
of the CT Bill of Rights, and othel
special benefits afforded militar.
personnel.
The directive disclosed that all
sub-stations in the state will re
main open on those two days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
STATE PAYS UP

ALBANY, June 17-U.P-Bert-
ram M. Campbell, who served
three years in Sing Sing for a
crime committed by another man
Monday was awarded S115,000 by
the New York State Court of
Claims a; the States attempt to
make UP for the miscarriage Of
justice. The 58-year-old Campbell
was awarded $40, 900 for the loss OF
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

Watts, Ed Potter, Casper Norton,
H. M. Bridgers, w. c. Fowler and
Leonard Bachelor.
Honorary pallbearers a r e
Charles Garrell, W. T. Sawyer,
W. c. Scoggins, w. M. Hickman,
L. D. Ballard and Charles Watts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

earnings during the years he spent
in prison and $75, 900 in compensa-
ton for the shame and humilia-
ton of being branded a criminal
and sent to prison.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

John j. Draney, Consolidated
Vultee engineer, advocates use of
exhaust gases, conducted to lead
ing edges of airplane wings, as a
de-icing agent. 1t also will serve
to de-ice propeller hubs, he as
Serts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
POTATO GROWERS
GET ASSURANCES
FROM OFFICIALS
Morning Star
Washington Bureau

Morning Star
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Potato
growers of eastern North Carolina
and Virginia obtained official as
surances Monday that the Com
modify Credit corporation would
purchase several hundred carloads
of potatoes daily until the end OF
the present backlog" which is re-
ported jamming the market.
Agriculture department. and ODT
officials met with Congressman
Herbert Bonner, of North Caro-
lima, Rep. Ralph Daughton of Vir-
ginia, spokesmen for Congressmen
Bayard Clark and Graham A.
Barden of North Carolina, and sew
eral growers in Bonner's office
for a three-hour discussion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
REALTORS BLAST
FLY-BY-N ICHTERS
Profiteers, Unlicensed OPP.
orators Condemned
Here

The Wilmington Real Estate
Board yesterday condemned the
action of certain INSCRIPTIONS
persons who buy and sell real
estate locally, without the bene-
fl of state license, and in many
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

Between 1910 and 1913, the
death rate from appendicitis drop
ped nearly 40 per cent in the
United States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Moose Candidate
Initiation Is Set

A large class of candidates are
scheduled to be initiated into the
Wilmington Lodge, Loyal Order
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

of Moose No. 343 at special rites
Thursday night.
The meeting will be held in the
clubs hall at 416 North Front
street, it was announced y%ester-
day by M. P. Troutman, secretary.
niaI o-2211 Enr NeWsnaner Service
The Valley settler., 1946-07-25

BAKERS ORDERED TO REDUCE WEIGHT OF BREAD
 AND ROLLS
 The Depar tment or Agriculture has announc = ed amen dment to War Food Order l which prohi bi ts bakers, from making or selling any varie ty of bread or rolls, as defined in the order, weighing more than 90 per- cent of the wa ght of such bread and rolls produced on March Is, l946, ,or on the las prior da te when the bread and rolls were made. This amendment became effec tive on June l.
 Any baker who, because of equipment dif- ficult ties, cannot rAas ona bly, comply wi tn this amendment is exempted, provided that or before June 10, .lo46 he informs the Produc tion and Marke ting Admins tra tor, us. Depar tment Of Agrioul ture, in WIT ting thet he cannot comply, and also ta tes his reasons in detail.
 
 The amendment also requires every baker ta use wrappers, packages, or labels indi- eating plainly the ac tual we ght or the produc ts affec ted by this order. 4 baker who d6es not. ordinari ly wrap, package, or label his products, and is not required by law: to do so, is exempted from this re- 'Qu rament .he gives ndtice to the rerso sons to whom delivery is made of the duced we ght of such products. If baker cannot obte in wre ppers, packages, or labels, or have those hand correc ted to show the reduced weight, the baker may during the period required to obtain new wrappers and packaging ma terial, use his exis ting stocks on hand or stocks on order as of May 31, l946, provided the baker furnishes each retail es ta blishment to which he delivers bread and rolls, dis play sign or card reading as follows: L0TICE OF REDUC TICN IN WEIGHT OF TREAD
 AND ROLLS
 As a part of the Famine Tmergancy Commi t. tee program and by order of the Secre tary 0f Agriculture (War Food Order No. l) the weight af II bread and rolls has been re- duced by 10 percent. It is impossible to rbtai in new supply of packaging ma terial in the shcrt lime availe ble, and these ts are being peckaged wi tn the me ter :9l now on hand. The labels do not indi- 1ete the correct weight end it is the pur- [0So of this notice to insure that you are
The Valley settler., 1946-07-25
EXT ENSION NEWS

Director Lorin T. o1droyd arrived in Pal
 mer on Tue sday evening. He come by car
 over the richardson Hi ghway. On Thursday
 he will go to 4.nchorogo and visit tho Extons ion Office there. Hiss Margaret Martin is in Palmer this week tn the Extension Service work here. The Honomnkors' Council will meet on Mon- I1ay ct tho Mctanusko Valley Lodge on August 5th. Remember one Wcok from this next Monday.
 Tho SC rho hovc not reported thoir Soil Conscrvat ion Practices at tho Lxt onsion pffico should. report os soon cs possible. Don't forget to stop in at tho Off ice whom you arc in toyn.
 Ehoro arc q number of bulletins on Ala ske Berries in the Extension Office. If you . you'd like copy, stop ill md ask for ono. r f you w7uI7 iho tho latest inform jon on freezing vegetables and fruits, stop in and Phoch our latest 'Oul 1otin. 'v'o hope to have Fomo for distribution later, but you may use this ono in tho Office.