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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-01-16
Notice To Merchants

President ARENA c. Mallory, of
the Saints Industrial and Literary
School at Lexington, said today
that she regretted to announce that
the School could not be held respon-
sible for debts incurred by either
teachers or students. She said she
would appreciate the cooperation OF
Lexington merchants in this matter.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-01-16

Of all who tried to make Western a
good college.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-01-16

ALMANAC at the Lexington Adver-
Get your 1947 MAC DONALD'S
tiser office NOW.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-01-16
Holmes County Audit 1916
Jackson, Mississippi
December 20, 1916

Mr.. M L. Smith, President
and
Other Members of the Board of Supervisors
Holmes County
Lexington, Mississippi
Gentlemen:
actions affecting the finances of your county more particularly receipts
and expenditures of funds for the fiscal year ended September 80, 1916 in
accordance with statutory requirements:
The scope of this audit embraces such examinations and investigations
of claims, allowances and other authorizations, upon which the funds OF
the county were expended, as to establish the accuracy and legal propriety
thereof; adequate notifications of collections of revenue from taxation and
other sources and a verficaton of funds o deposit to the credI IL n
various fund accounts at the period.
This report is composed of the following, which very clearly reflect
the results of this examination:
Exhibit "a" Assets & Liabilities Pages l to 10 incl
Exhibit "B" Receipts & Expenditures Pages 20 to 80 incl
Exhibit &c" Collections of
Advalorem & Other Taxes Pages 81 to 38 incl
Exhibit I'D" Officials Surety Bonds Page 80 incl
A comparison of the current Balance Sheet as presented on Page o
Exhibit "a" with that for the previous year, is presented below in con-
densed form:
ASSETS This Year Last Year Inc. Dec.
cash-Maint. Funds 2O788425 18es387O S 17e4555
Sinking Funds 26761839 68Ol873 99,59966
Trust Funds 9441 W370 6o9zS
475597O5 258y66113 21754521 6os2s
investment In Bonds $4,000 24e,eoo0o 2o1 10000
4" Road Mchy. 9249727 58,89961 3359766
Lands Acqd. Forecose 260500 2605OO
Fixed Assets 197671962 1,949983.84 26,73578
215066572 2.28583228 6633344 2o150o0o
TOTAL 2626,26277 2544,49341 s176936
Current Notes Payable 4Oe28S3 3188383 87450o -
Other Short Terms 2lOO 1887 5257
Bonded Debt 689150O0 746,200O0 5b050OO
Excess Assets Over
Liabilities 1896 1852 "a 1766S36O1 13o,12693
$2626,26277 254449341 13887l93 57lO257
Evening star., 1947-08-03

Johanna. seeing that though he was en-
barrassed, he could not help staring at her
instinctively, bent forward in an impulse to
cover up her half nakedness.
She was not afraid of him. She had lived
through destruction and thousandfold death.
when the earth itself had seemed to explode
and swallow the crumbling houses. and chill
dren, trying to escape. had been irretrieva-
ably stuck in the hot asphalt. She was not
afraid of pair of blue eyes from America.
t1E SAID: Nice evening, isn't it?" As
Johanna did not answer, he asked, smiling
shyly: Would you rather l went away?"
His embarrassment moved her she did
not know why. wait minute" she said,
and hurried into the shed, which stood among
the taller willows. Hastily she put on her only
dress, over her panties. While she wound
the blue scarf around her neck, she asked
herself. why didn't say, Yes, please 60
away?'" She had no answer to her thought.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
A Short Story

At THE last minute the IS leader rejected
IA the demand of the American general to
surrender the town without fighting. Against
the wishes of the impotent population, he
gave the order to resist, though nothing could
possibly be gained by it.
So Wurzburg on the Main, the city of
wine and fish, of churches Gothic and Barooue,
where almost every other building had been
an irrepIaceable work of art, was-after thir-
teen hundred years-destroyed in twenty
five minutes.
Next morning the Main, in which the coun-
try's loveliest town had been mirrored for
so long, flowed slowly and serenely on,
through rubble and ashes, into time.
Johanna walked along the river. The
charred ruins of the town had grown cold,
the countless dead were buried Behind her
there was nothing but hopelessness and de-
spar; before her the young green willows,
ustrous and full of sap, stood in the sunlight
as if nothing had happened.
She had been cleaning dilapidated goat
shed - ten feet square, which had stood un-
used for many years among the willows on
the river bank - and had furnished it scant-
lily with the remains of her possessions.
JOHANNA was twenty-one, and alone. Her
mother had been dead for long time. Her
father, drawing master at the municipal
high school - and a Nazi -had hanged
himself just before the steadily advancing
American Army arrived. He had left letter
in which he called down curses for the last
time on the head of his unpatriotic daughter.
Johanna had brown hair, brown eyes set
with little shining stars, and a delicate face,
white as wax even in the scorching sunshine
of July. She looked as though Nature had
destined her to pass on to future generations
a physical lovelness finally attained through
thousands of years.
Since the occupation of the country, she
had been busy all day long, every day, trying
Evening star., 1947-08-03

to get enough food to keep alive. She had no
money, and there was no work for secretary
no typewriters in town that was no more.
Also, the American military authorities had
refused to employ anyone whose father had
been Nazi. Things might have been easier
If she had shown them the letter in which her
father cursed her. But she could not bring
herself to do that
On this late afternoon in July. she had been
bathing in the river, and now she sat down
on the bank to rest. She was wearing an i'm
provised bathing suit consisting of white
woolen panties and blue silk scarf, her most
treasured possession.
Already the voices of the animals could be
heard in the quiet of the evening. A slate-gray
heron hovered over the river, motionless,
ready to swoop at any fish which might rise
to the surface.
JOHANNA. who had no present and no future,
was lost in her past. Scenes from her child
hood intimately entwined with the streets of
her home town, came back as vvidly as if
they had just happened She heard the
familiar SIX O'Clock chime of Wurzburg's
thirty church bells, and for several seconds
did not realize that she was hearing the bells
of churches that no longer existed.
She took deep breath, rose - and stepped
reluctantly out of her childhood into reality.
Looking behind her to where Wurzburg had
been, she saw only gray field of ruins. How
can one free oneself from the town in which
one grew up? she thought 1t is in us. We are
part of it. Now we alone are Wurzburg. We
alone!
Once more she sat down in the grass
motionless, her head cupped in her hands.
her elbows on her knees. seeing nothing,
thinking of nothing. So sit the homeless, who
have nothing to lean on and nowhere to 20.
Suddenly there was stirring in the will
lows. Johanna got up and listened intently.
A few seconds later an American soldier
came out of the bushes. He said, astonished:
oh. beg your pardon
Evening star., 1947-08-03

scape as though she were stranger, and had
never before seen these quiet shores and the
peacefully running river.
Finally Steve managed to light his ciga-
rette. and something had to be said, for these
two were not yet intimate enough to sit side
by side in the grass without a word.
STARTLED innocence has its own peculiar
sweetness; 50 did Johsnna's smile, parting
her lips little. But she said, as if she had
already gone too far: Those are good shoes
you have on, I can see that Cowhide."
Sure, you can't wear them out. At first
they pinched; I've worn them for almost
three years, changing off with another pair"
And you own two pairs of shoesp' cried
Johanna with sudden. inexplicable exuber-
Continued on next page
Evening star., 1947-08-03

was standing in the doorway, unable to move
for JOY.
At this point in Steve's reverie, little
wagtail hoped in front of him coquettishly
from stone to stone, so near the rivers edge
that its tail-tip touched the water. Now
Steve was again in Europe, sitting on the
bank Of the Main, wondering if Johanna
would really come back.
The American. long and thin, was one of
those fellows whose coat sleeves, no matter
how carefully he chose his suits, were always
too short. His blond head, 50 far, only sug-
gested the strong, masculine outlines it would
later assume. The thin nose, to which a little
hump above the bridge lent character, was
IN keeping with his thin-lipped mouth His
ancestors, Swedes and Germans who had
gone to America two hundred years ago,
Evening star., 1947-08-03

seemed to look out from his bright blue eyes,
deep set in finely nodded sockets.
From childhood Steve had known a few
dozen German words, and during the war he
had enlarged his vocabulary enough, through
his association with German prisoners, to
speak German without much difficulty.
He heard Johanna's step and turned
around. Her bare legs moved lightly over the
gnarled roots of the willows as she came
toward him. The thin black dress showed off
the contours of her body. Steve stood up.
He was only two years older than Johanna,
and still as inexperienced as she. He said:
I'm sorry. You would probably have liked
to lie in the sun some more"
NO." she said, 1t was getting too cool
anyway"
He felt sudden warmth all through him,
Many of his comrades had met German girls
and boasted about their conquests. For a
long time Steve had wanted to do 80, too.
But now he did not think about it. Johanna
Evening star., 1947-08-03

had stirred in him a deeper
feeling. such as he had never
known before. Not knowing
what to say, he offered her
a cigarette.
mo thank you. l don't
smoke"
A helpful half minute was
gained while Steve tried to
light one for himself, which
a mild wind prevented him
from doing. Johanna stood
looking at the evening land
Evening star., 1947-08-03

LEONHARD FRANK.
born in Wurzburg, has
always fought German
warmakcrs. Simon and
Schuster will publish
''Mathilde," his new
novel, next January
Evening star., 1947-08-03

The soldier sat down and
looked across the river. He
was seeing himself home
from the wars, back again
on the farmin Pennsylvania.
Michael. the Welsh terrier,
was tearing along, as though
trying to jump out of him.
self, barking, wiggling his
tail, licking his masters
hand. The soldiers father
was saying: well, so here
you are, Steve" His mother
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
SGCrett.IH@lR|G2YNOON
E

being jealous. That's not love,
Bill. Love is-oh, faith and trust
and knowing instinctively that
nc matter what one hears about
the beloved, one doesn't believe
| it g"
Seems to me you're asking
heck of a lot from an ordinary
everyday guy" said Bill grimly
I'm asking only what I give
in return"
"Oh, poppycock!" snapped
Bill. "You know darned well
that if I turned up missing for
a week, with some good-looking
gal, you'd promptly think the
worst"
"It's no good. Bill. We could
argue from here to Doomsday
and we couldn't reach any sort
Of understanding" she said
YEARLY.
She drew off her wedding ring
and laid it on the dressing table
and picked up her bag.
"This is goodby, Bill - for
always
"You'd rather have il like that
than to make an honest confes
sion? I could forgive you, Cathy,
if only you'd tell me the truth, .
said Bill swiftly.
Cathy stared at him.
''But I've told you the truth, u
she protested.
Like fun you haven' Bill was
stranger, ugly, almost fright
ening. 'When did you see Ora
ham last?"
cat the Officers Club in Homo
lulu the day before I showed of
for the States. she told hin
family.
"And you expect me to believe
there was nothing between
you?"
She covered from the stingins
lash in his voice. And then she
drew a deep, hare breath anc
str ightened. Without a wore
she turned toward the door.
Bill said roughly, "Here-le e
me take your bag. I'll see you
tc the station"
But she evaded him.
"Thanks, no, Bill. I'd prefe-' ii
like this" She went quickly out
of the room and closed the door
behind her with a finality that
was a stab against her naked
heart, and that had a sound ot
loneliness more desolate thar
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

Shaw, both of Hallsboro; Nov.
14-Gordon Merlin Mcqueen and
Jessie Rose Smith, both of
Whiteville; Nov. 17-Edwin For
rest Hamme and Susan Eliza
beth Burns, both of Acme Nov.
20-Thomas Rodney Greene of
Clarkton and Miriam White of
Whiteville; Nov. 81 - H arvi e
Bradley of Manning, S. c., and
Bernice Lennon of Boardman;
Nov. % - Donald Burris Stegall
|of Wilmington and Kathryn Lee
Best; and Nov. Is "A. D. Frink
of Chadbourn and Lena Mae
| Flovd of Whiteyille.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Cathy wasn't conscious of any
process of thought by which she
had reached a decision. she was
conscious only that the decision
was there, full-bloWn, ready to
be put into action.
When Bill came in a little
later, she had finished her pack
ing, and at the dressing table
she was settling her small pert
hat at a becoming angle above
a face that was white and set.
eli, where the dickens are
you going?" demanded Bill
sharply.
She leaned closer to the mir
ror to smooth her ipstick with
the tip of her finger, and looked
at him through the mirror.
"Back to Cypressville, for the
rest of my leave" she told hirl
clearly, her voice quite steady
"Oh, but look here, Cathy-if
only you'd told me the truth at
the beginning. You had no right
to marry me without telling me
about this fellow Graham."
There was nothing to tell, ex-
cept that through circumstances
over which neither of us had any
CONTROL she began, and saw
the look in his eyes and broke
off with a little weary gesture.
"You're bitterly, insanely jeal-
GUS, Bill"
81 don't deny it. Why should
II" he cut in sharply.
"You shouldn It'd rather
know it, she said quietly. But
l couldn't possibly be happy with
a man who had so little faith
in me, who believed in me so
little that he could insult me by
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

the expiration of her leave, when
she would have legitimate rea-
son for leaving Cypressville. And
perhaps when her next leave
came up, she could get Maggie
to come to her somewhere; she
wanted never to come back te
Cypressville again.
And so she filled her days as
best she could: helping Maggie
IN the garden; helping with the
canning of early fruits and veg
etables; riding in to town to the
movies, and to shop. She anc
Maggie went up to Atlanta fo1
a weekend and when they came
home, it was to find that Mrs
Kendall, Bill, and the house
guest. Elaine Stovall, were ir
what Cypressville facetiously
called residence"
TO BE CONTINUED
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

Coast Line system, the Western
Carolina Railroad system and
the Jacksonville Terminal COM
pany, Jacksonville, Fla.
Avant, now located at
Florence, S. c., joined the ACL
80 years ago and has been an
engineer for many years. He is
married to the former Miss Eve
lyn Boyette of Chadbourn.
The new head of the railroad
employees organization is a
bro h er of Representative
Homer G. Avant and P. K.
AVant of Whiteville and Mr. S.
Henry Edwards and Mrs. W. T.
Horne, of Whiteville, route /.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
WANT ELECTED
Bile CHAIRMAN
2o.Year A CL Employe
= rFlevated AT General
Committee Meet

,,IrTEVILLE. Dec. 3. Oscar
y, Aysnt. son of the late Rev.
Va ", MIS-. W. W Avant of Cerro
eordo, anu and 30-year employee
", " +5o f Atlantic Coast Line Rail
ossd o. '5I company, has been elected
Fo@e Fso.@naral chairman of the Brother
sso5 ssll3' Of Locomotive Engineers,
aVJr !. was learned here this week
The elevation of Avant to this
-;+;on took place at meeting
P.9l r ne general committee of ad-
o. 0,.tn7eat Of the Brotherhood of
Irss"on7otive Engineers last We'd
,ssday. 1s The Brotherhood oa,I9s has $
hil''ss;eJiction over the Atlantic
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
ITCH (seabiss)
Needs Something Better
Than Surface Relief

Than Surface Relief
When you are tormented by Itch
(Scabies), scratches, camp itch,
or 7-year itch, don't be satisfied
with a medicine that can do
nothing more than relieve the
surface discomfort. Use David's S
ISanative Wash, which actually
destroys itch parasites on con-
tact. so cents at any drug store,
or sent direct upon receipt of
price. Owens & Minor, Rich
mond, Va. Use only as directed.
Money back if not satisfied.
(Adv.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
COLUMBUS REGISTER
OF DEEDS ISSUES
NOVEMBER LICENSES

WHITEVILLE, Dec. 3.-Seven
marriage licenses were issued
by Register of Deeds Leo Fisher
during the month of November
The couples were: Nov. 10
Frazier Shipman and Eta Mae
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04
FOUR-DAY VACATION

BATON ROUGE, La, Dec. 8.
H. W'p- Christmas holidays for
state employees will start at the
close of the working day Dec.
"A, and continue until Monday
morning, Dec. 20, Gov. Jimmie
Davis announced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-04

Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
We Cont Afford One

There never has been a time in the
history of this nation when it could less
afford an economic crisis than at the
present time.
While the publicity-hungry actors,
authors and producers hasten from the
Hollywood fleshpots to the political pre-
cincts of WashingtOn's professional pa
trioteers, known to the American public
as the House Committee on unAmerican
Activities, we become conscious that
there is a great wave of hysteria sweep
ing over this country.
Swept along by the use of the Rus
sian veto in the u. N. meetings and the
vivid tales of professional tellerS of
stories; aided and abetted by the lurid
headlines in newspapers from coast to
coast; grasped upon by the naive minds
within the National Association of Manu-
facturers, who dearly love bOogies, the
"Red" menace has become as real as the
fancied man under the lonely spinster's
bed.
Franklin ID. Roosevelt on the day he
first became President, told the people of
this nation "yOu have nothing to fear
but fear itself" Likewise, we do not need
fear the RED" menace or Communism if
we combat the economic evils which aid
its rise and spread
Rising prices, the high cost of living,
political persecution, denial of civil rights,
low wages grudgingIy given, excessive
profits, monopoly controls and all the
evils which are associated with economic
and its consequent social injustice are the
meat upon which Communism lives and
flOurishes.
And even il we accept all what we
read in the newspapers as the gospel
truth, even if Russia has a vast and well
trained army spelling for a fight, even
if 1t already possesses the secret and know
how of the atomic bomb, even il she does
cOnspire for domination of the material
and spiritual values of the world what
better reasons could this country and its
rulers have to preserve well paid, well
fed and well propagandized people?
We need not fear Communists or
Communism provided our leaders have
the ability TO see the real problem with
discerning vision. II they fail to prevent
the debacle for which we are now surely
heading, then truly, il is the leaders them
selves, rather than the Communists
whom we should fear.
We cannot talk or write Communism
out of business in this country. That must
be done, if il is done at all, by giving this
nation true democracy, both industrial
and political.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
Sitting The News

Never has a well-intentioned and patriotic
hot-shot businessman come to Washington and
been "gven the works" in shorter order than
Charles Luckman
He is in the painful and embarrassing pre-
dicament of a Rhode Island Red rooster with
his tail feathers caught in high speed corn
Sheller. But, to date, he refuses the advice of
the only persons and groups who can get him
out of situation that is bound to be personal
ly heartbreakIng.
AS Chairman of the Citizens Food Commit
tee, Luckman is confronted with stubborn re-
sstance by bakers, brewers retail grocers,
poultry rasers, and with sly and open sabo-
tage and resistance by restaurant owners and
isolationistS who recklessly propose to let
Western European nations stew in their own
"Socialistic" juices
Luckman is more than the most pitiable
man in town. He is the man most entitled ia
the help of every American who knows that
the Big Showdown is here and who is deter
mined that in that showdown free men shall
win against totalitarianism.
That means that, while Individual citizens
take it upon themselves to comply with and
promote enforcement of the voluntary save
food campaign, each and every one of us
should push hard, individually and through
our organizations, for the immediate return of
Congress.
We should insist on legislation that will
make it possible to save the food by hundreds
of millions of bushels BEFORE it disappears
down the threats of hogs, cattle and poultry
SPEED is NEED
The speed with which this global show
down is developing makes it imperative that
Luckman quickly make up his mind to change
his mind about the adequacy sf the voluntary
program standing alone.
Recognition of the need for.such action ex-
tends across class group and party lines. AT his
Committees first meeting as previously re-
ported former UNRRA Director General Leh-
man, representatives of the AFL, CO. and
consumer groups told Luckman that nothing I
less than thorough and equitable program
for saving, allocating, rationing and control
ling the price of scarce foods, backed by law,
would be enough to do the necessary job Since
then, Stassen, Rep. Everett Dirksen (R, nl),
Mayor O'Dwyer of New York City, and others
have declared themselves for all-out aid.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
Fortnight Reply

In his reply to the question addressed
to him and other candidates for City
Council by Dan Degnan, another Council
candidate, relative to his position on the
retention of the SchoOnmaker administra-
tion, Tom Burke gave a fortnight reply
that should win the admiration of every
worker in this community.
Burke made ii clear that he does not
give George n. SchOOnmaIer and his ad-
ministration his blind loyalty, but backs
up his personal esteem for the CITY Man
ager with well defined and weighty rea-
sons.
What better reasons could any man
who represents the workers and plain
people advance for backing the SchOon-
maker administration?
If effect Burke i'm his three point re-
ply said that he backed the incumbent
administration:
/. Because George Schoonmaker was
a well trained and experienced man who
not only was well qualified TO handle the
position OF city manager, but who has the
quality of commanding the respect, loyalty
and cooperation of those whom he directs.
z. Because George Schoonmaker has
been made the butt of constant and petty
criticism on the part of some who have
personal grudge, is no reason for removing
the city manager.
8. Because labor has been treated
fairly and equitably under the Schoon-
maker administration.
Tom Burke expressed the views of
considerable segment of this city in his
reply to the Degnan question. He has
cast his lot with good government on the
grounds that it is efficient and just gov
ernment Like the administration he sup
ports, Tom Burke deserves the support
and number one vote of every clear think
ing fair minded citizen in this community.