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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-07-04
New ROTC Units
Swell Total Tn
Negro Colleqes

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Two of
seventy new Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps units to be activated on
July l, l947 at 46 universities and
colleges throughout the United
States will be, formed at Negro col
leges. the Commanding General Of
Army Ground Forces has announc-
ed. The activations will bring the
total Of senior level ROTC units in
Negro colleges ana universities to
nine.
The new allotment of ROTC
units installs an Infantry ROTC
course at South Carolina State Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College,
Orangeburg. South Carolina and
a Quarteranxmr ROTC 1pit at sVirs
ginia Stats Seaiege, I Petersburg,
Virginia.
To head the South Carolina unit
as Professor Of Military Science and
Tactics is Lieutenant Colonel jam
es H. Robinson, Washington, D. c.,
The recipient of a Regular Army
commission in the initial integra-
ton of Regular Army candidates,
Colonel Robinson holds permanent
rank as Major, Infantry, Regular
Army. A graduate of Howard Uni
versity, Colonel Robinson was COM
missioned as Lieutenant. Infantry
Reserve. He was called to active
duty in 1871 with the 366th Infantry
Regiment at Fort Devens. Massachu-
sets, as a Captain and served on
Battalion and Regimental staff units
as Plans and Training Officer
during the Regiments combat tour.
Colonel Robinson has, during the
past fifteen months, been mem
Der of the Secretary of Wars Dis
charge Review Boards in Washing
ton, D. c.
Additional staff personnel to be
assigned to the two units has not
yet been determined.
ROTC training for Negroes was
originally offered to students at
Howard University, Washington, D.
c., and Wherefore University, Will
berforce, Ohio Both schools pro-
vided instruction which led their
graduates to commissions in the In
fantry Reserve Later expansion of
the program in Negro colleges in
stalled senior level units at Prairie
View College, Prairie View, Texas;
West Virginia State College, Insti-
tute, West Virginia; Hampton In
stitute, Virginia; North Carolina
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-07-04

Plans for construction of the ma
tons first two large commercial
scale synthetic-oil plants for con-
version of natural gas to gasoline
have progressed considerably re-
Gently. In the huge Hugoton gas
field one company expects to pro-
cess about 10O,OOO,000 cubic feet of
gas per day, yielding approximate
ly 5000 barrels per day of high
quality gasoline and 1000 barrels
of distillate fuels.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-07-04

Today there are approximately
1000 manufacturers engaged, in
whole or in part, in supplying equip
ment for oil drilling or producing
They are actually. oil-field tool
makers. The field supply stores
are widely scattered throughout the
producing areas, and there is a
tool for every job.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-07-04

nance Maintenance Company, AA,
and the 176th Military Police Bat
talon. Allocated to the State OF
Pennsylvania were the 644th and
645th Engineer Combat Battalions.
To date New York State has re-
quested and received the largest
number of units to be composed of
Negro personnel
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-07-04


Cabbages, CARTS, and almost any
thing that grows, can-if necessary
= become the basis of liquid fuels
and lubricants that now are produc-
ed from petroleum, according to
one of the nations outstanding oil
scientists. Natural gas. coal, Oil
shales, tar deposits and other sour
ces of hydrocarbons offer greater
efficiency at lower expense, but
the transformation of carbohydrate
es into hydrocarbons and thus into
fuels is a known ptential for any
far distant future.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-07-04

Railroads should be able to alb
sorb new diesel locomotives at an
average rate of 215 million horse
power year. Within the next de-
cade the railroads expect to add
about times the diesel locomotive
power now in operation.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-07-04

Agricultural and Technical College
Greensboro, North Carolina and at
Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
bama.
At Howard University and Tuske-
gee Institute, in addition to Infan-
try training, the newly devised Air
ROTC course provides students
with an opportunity to receive COM
missions in the Air Corps Reserve.
The complete list of Negro coll
leges and universities at which Re-
serve Officer Training is offered,
with type of instruction, follows:
South Carolina State Agricultural
and Mechanical College-Infan-
try
"Virg e College-Quarter-
master
Howard Uaiversity-Infantry and
Air Corns
Tuskegse Infantry and
Air Corps.
West Virginia State College-Field
Artillery
HAMPTON F stitpt FCoast Artill-
Prairie View College-Infantry
North Carolina Agricultural and
Mechanical College-Infantry
Wilberforce University-Infantry.
Newly activated ROTC units.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11

JACKSON, Miss.-R. d. (Bob)
Sanders, of Jackson, recognized as
Mississippi's leading industrialist,
has been named chairman of the In
dustrial Division of the Mississippi
State College Alumni Associations
drive to raise one million dollars
for a Student Union Memorial Build
ing at Starkville. Appointment OF
MIR. Sanders was announced by Al
bert Sidney Burns, of Newton, gen.
eral chairman, from campaign head
quarters in room SAT, Edwards Hotel
Jackson.
In turn, MI. Sanders has announc-
ed Mitchell Robinson and N. w.
Overstreet, of Jackson, as his CO.
chairmen.
Vice-chairmen named by Mr..
Sanders throughout the state in
clude: Noble Pace, of Cleveland; j
K. Miner and F. B. Hewes, both OF
Gulfport; David Junkin, R. c. Feltus
Thomas Reed and Louis c. Miller
all of Natchez; Dewey Lane of Hat
tiesburp: T. H. Harris of Laurel.
Oliver Emmerich ofsMcComb; Ray
burn Jones of Leland; r. j. Petty OF
Greenwood; Lynn HARRISON OF
Greenville; Hillrey Livingston OF
Columbus; Will Ed WYATT of Meri-
dian and Jim McCorkle, of Halle
hurst.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11

guarantee a CT loan for an auto
mobile house trailer that | can use
during my vacation to house me and
my family?
A-No. Loans for pleasure purpo-
SEES cannot be guaranteed or in,
sured by Veterans Administration.
s'.st*...
Q-I would like to change the be-
n%eficiary on my National Service
Life Insurance policy without letting
the old beneficiary know about it..
Can I do this?
Ayes. A veteran may change
the beneficiary or beneficiaries of
his National Service Life Insurance
at any time without their knowledge
or consent.
Q-I have a GIL loan and now
have lost my job. Does the law per-
NIT me to get the additional benefit
or readjustment compensation?
Ayes, you are entitled to read
justment allowance. Your home loan
has no bearing on your right to UNI
@iiiPiCy AilCAt NOlllPClAodllOlAs VI
should apply to your state unemploy-
ment service to receive readjustment
allowance.
ssssts..s
Q-To what benefits is a veteran
with a yellow or blue discharge en-
titled?
"A yellow discharge from the
army Is dishonorable and the vet
eran is not entitled to Veterans Ad-
ministration benefits. A yellow dis
charge from the navy may be dis
honorable the vet
eran is entitled to file a claim and
VA will determine whether or not
the discharge was under dishonor-
able or other than dishonorable con-
ditions. The later also applies to
blue discharges from the army.
--f-
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11
PAGE ELEVEN
HOSIERY

ANKLETS IL pairs foH $1.OO,
regular Csc value. For infants, girls
or ladies. Cuff tops, assorted colors.
LADIES' HOSE 80 pairs for
S1.00 39c value. Choice of semi
sheer seamless rayon, or full-seam
service W.T.. cotton. Fall shades.
MEMS COTTON SOx 8 pairs
for $1.00. Csc value. Medium W.T.,
long style or short elastic top. AS
sorted colors.
LADIES' RAYON PANTIES 2
pairs for $1.00. All elastic waist.
69c value.
MEMS DRESS SOx . S pairs for
$100. 35c value. Fine rayon, long
style, or short elastic top. Assorted
colors.
Hosiery are slight imperfects.
Please state sizes wanted.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
No c. o. DIS We Pay Purcel Post
SOUTHERN SALES COMPANY
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
p. o. Box 202s Dept. SID
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11
Public Health Nurse
Has important Task

In the crowded hours of her busy
days a public health nurse must
.ender many services in many diff
ieIent pla~es, ac~oruIng to Miss Opal
hegan, Instructor in Public Health
Nursing, State Board of Health. Wis
iting in the homes, she said, the
nurse not only SHARES her scientific
knowledge and skill, she demonslra-
.es 70 families how sick people can
be properly nursed so that disease
WlIl moi spread to other members of
the family Or to the community, and
gives instructions and help in carry
ing out the doctors directions.
Where there are new babies in
the homes, both mothers and in
fants are given thorough Inspections
the nurse said. '"The mother is OBJ
served for any swelling, temperature.
blood pressure reading and noting of
other important physical signs. The
baby is inspected from head to toe,
and any unusual condition reported
to the family doctor. During this in
spection the young mother is taught
how to handle and care for the baby,
how to attend to the feeding, sleep
ing and other habits and is shown
the Importance of providing the love
and affection needed. The father also
is shown how he can be most help
full to both mother and baby" f.,
School children who have such de-
fects as enlarged tonsils, poor eye
sight or hearing, and other condi-
tons that need correction are visited
at home, and the interest and under
standing of the parents enlisted in
securing these corrections. This fol-
low up work is most valuable.
In the prenatal and preschool con-
ferences, the nurse may have to
transform a rural church into an
office where privacy can be assured
both physician and patient" Miss
Regain said. although these con-
ferences are primarily for expectant
mothers, babies and p~reschool child
rem who come along with mothers
are given immunizing agents against
whooping cough, diptheria and
smallpox. Careful records of the
mothers condition are kept. The
nurse will assist the physician with
the examinations and see that any
abnormal condition found is re-
ported to the mothers family physi-
cian."
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11
Of Interest To
Veterans
Questions ond Answers

Gil l am receiving retirement
pay, will l be permitted to get the
full amount of subsistence allow
ance while I am attending school or
while l am in job training under the
GIL Bill?
Advertisement pay is not consid-
cred income from productive labor
and need not be included in your
estimate of earnings filed with Vet
Grams Administration; therefore, it
is not a bar to receipt of full sub
sistence allowance.
Q-Will Veterans Administration
increase the $3.50 I get for my 10
per cent World War II s~ervice-con-
nected disability in event l marry?
A-No. Your compensation is
based on the degree of disability.
No additional compensation is pay
able for dependents.
.ss*t*..t
Oh am an ex-WAC with an hon
orable discharge and contemplating
marriage to a non-veteran. Will the
marriage cause me to lose n of nv
rights to benefits under the CT
Bill?
A-No.
t.@*t*...
Q-May / be furnished a wheel
chair by Veterans Administration?
Ava will furnish you a wheel
chair if you have a service-connected
disability requiring the use Of IA
wheel-chair, or if a wheel-chair Is
required for use at home upon your
discharge from a period of hospital
treatment or domiciliary care.
'ts*t*...
Q-Will Veterans Administration
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11
Season For Ducks
Opened Monday

Game Warden l.. r. Cain today
called attention to the fact that duck
season in Mississippi opens Decem-
Der 8th, at noon.
lDe daily bag limit is four ducks
which may include one wood duck.
Tbs possession limit is eigth ducks,
including one wood duck. No one
may possess more than four ducks
on the opening day.
Daily bag limit on coots is 25 and
possession limit %.
Shonoting hours are from sunrise
to one-half hour before sunset ex-
cept on opening day. Opening day
hours r from neon to an hour be-
fore sunset. The season closoes an
hour before sunset on January 9th.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11

Although some subjects in engin-
eering were first offered at the Uni
versity of Mississippi in 1865, the
School of Engineering was not or
ganized until 1900.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11

Graduate work has been offered
at the University of Mississippi since
1870, but the Graduate School was
not established until 1927.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11

Use The Cldssifieds-It PCvs
Evening star., 1947-11-22

one of the honor guards" hat blew off onto
the flag held by the next detail over the ad-
joining casket. It was retrieved for him by
one of the party guides and jammed onto his
head. Again the wind blew, and again the
same hat blew off, this time onto the ground.
At the end of the service came the customary
three-gun salute. The trigger-happy, three
gun salute to fallen comrade went off in a
staccato manner, very much like Fourth OF
July celebration by small boy with chain
firecrackers.
I daresay, from the standpoint of national
defense, that, if these fallen heroes had per-
formed their duties with any such abandon
as I witnessed during this service, the Army
of the United States would never have crossed
the English Channel.
I truly believe that the carelessness which I
then observed was more certainly product OF
lack Of sufficient training, rather than any
willfulness on the part of the men involved in
the honor guard detail, but would urge, in
respect, first, to the returning dead, and Sec
ondly, to the thousands Of next of kin who
will reverently pay their last respects in the
next few months to those who fell in combat,
that this evident lack of training and instruc-
ton be remedied GEORGE S. MACDONALD.
Evening star., 1947-11-22

correspondents that he has instructed his
paper" in the Army files is made available
to responsible inquirers the
press-as rapidly as possible.
General Eisenhower's attitude is that
what the Army did in World War II is the
public's business and, therefore, should be
a matter of public record. Most docu-
ments properly marked secret" to keep
them from leaking to enemy agents during
the war no longer are entitled to remain
so classified. Yet thousands of such
papers still bear their wartime classifica-
ton stamps and hence have been withheld
from reporters and others who have
legitimate interest in military matters.
Under General Eisenhower's order, these
documents will be removed from the
classified list unless they contain data
which would compromise peacetime Sc
curity. For example, documents relating
to atomic or other still-secret weapons
obviously must be protected.
Neither General Eisenhower nor the
press questions the need for certain
amount of governmental restriction "at
the source" in peacetime. This protection
goes far afleld, however, when it fails
to release data no longer requiring protec-
ton, or when-as proposed in the original
draft of revised State-Defense security
regulations-it attempts to shield admin
istrative officials from embarrassment or
difficultv"
Evening star., 1947-11-22
A Community Responsibility

The request of the city's private nos
pitfalls that the District assume hnanclal
responsibility for all nonpaying patients
brings to a head an acute problem which
demands an early solution. That aillng
citizens with empty pocketbookS shoulo
not be turned away from our hospltals
goes without saying. Yet many OF tnem
would be turned away were it not for the
charitable attitude of private hospitals In
accepting them when no municipal taclll-
ties for treatment are available With
Gallinger Hospital badly overcroWded, 1t
is inevitable that part of the community
charity burden should fall into the lap OF
other hospitals.
But-except for three private hospitals,
Emergency, Casualty and Children's-the
private hospitals have received no aid from
tax sources for INDECENT patients. They
have been receiving five dollars day for
each Community Chest patient, but hos
pital officials declare it costs more than
twice that amount day to handle these
charity cases. The deficits incurred on
patients sponsored for the Chest by the
Health Security Administration are thus
piled on top of the deficits resulting from
admitting urgent INDECENT cases for which
neither Chest nor public funds are avail
able.
The result is that the hospitals are
faced with a serious financial crisis. Since
they cannot continue to operate in the
red, and since they cannot shut up shop
without grave harm to the public health,
the private hospitals have been forced in
the past to pass the extra burden on to
their paying patients in the form OF in
creased rates. They concede the unfair
ness of requiring few hoSpltalized clti-
zens to pay the bills of those unable to
pay. Frequently the paying patients have
had to dig into their life savings or to
borrow in order to pay their own doctors
and hospital bills. 1t is a gross injustice
to impose upon them added burdens which
rightly should be shared by the whole
community.
The Community Chest plans to increase
from five to seven and one-half dollars
day its payments to the hospital for Chest
patients. This Is contingent, however, on
the success of the current fund drive. This
increased payment will help, but it will not
solve the problem of free patients. The
Hospital Council has logic on it's side In
urging the District to extend to all pri-
vate hospitals the special payment ar
rangement now limited to Emergency,
Casualty and Children's.
The Health Department says its funds
for this purpose are limited. Undoubtedly
they are. But there may be no choice
in the matter. The hospitals must be
paid for their services. If private contri-
buttons are not adequate to enable them
to do so, public funds from taxation will
have to meet the deficiency
Evening star., 1947-11-22
Boycottins Certain Movies


TO the Editor Of The Star
I have read with interest your papers ac-
count of the recent boycott by Cardinal Dough-
erty of the motion picture films, Forever
Amber" and "The> Outlaw in Philadelphia.
While have not seen these films, I am glad
to stand with him in opposing any movie which
oversteps the bounds of decency. I am Won
dering, however, why he did not take issue
with the Board of Consultors of the Legion
of Decency, composed of is priests and 10
Catholic laymen, which, according to an article
on the Legion of Decency by Russell Whalen in
the Mercury Magazine of June, 1945 reviews
such films. For the good of the whole country
the protest should have come from the Board
of Consultors, which evidently fell down on
the job.
have not forgotten the article carried in
The Star in october, 1916, telling of the efforts
of the Protestant ministers of Steubenville,
Ohio, to clean up the admitted drunkenness,
gambling and prostitution which were RAM
pant in that city. The Roman Catholic bishop,
John King Music, openly opposed the clean
up and issued pastoral letter to be read in
all Of his churches last December l condemn
ing the campaign of the Protestant ministers
He called those Protestant ministers marrow
little people" 1t seems to the writer that
Bishop Music would in the same spirit, now call
Cardinal Dougherty marrow little person"
H. S. SOUTHGATE,
Minister, Dulin Methodist Church, Falls
Church. Va.
Evening star., 1947-11-22
Date for BEG Return
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Your paper has had several references re-
Gently regarding the Government bureaus that
are slated to return to Washington and you
have stated in your column devoted to news
of Government employees that the Public Build
ings Administration had stated that the Bureau
of Employees Compensation is not to move back
to Washington untn January 1948.
So far as know, none of the employees Of
the Bureau OF Employees Compensation have
ever been aware that they were to move in
January and even now after the notice in your
paper, the employees of the bureau are unable
to verify this information from within their
own organization.
The personal problems attendant upon mov-
ing, after date is given, are, as you can
realize, almost without end. However, the
employees can do nothing about their moving
problems until definite date for moving is
set. An approximate time is of no value what
soever because it is too subject to change.
The setting of definite date to move is
subject of vital concern to majority of the
employees of the Bureau of Employees Compen-
sation because many of them have been
separated from their families for long time,
others are undergoing the expense Of main
tanning two establishments, while all are very
anxious to have the strain and uncertainty of
not knowing when they are to move put TO
an end. GOVERNMENT EXILE.
Evening star., 1947-11-22
Well Said, But III-Timed

Major General Manton S. Eddy Army
information chief picked very inoppor-
tune time to criticize what he describes as
sinister" attacks on the military profess
sion in general and the officers corps in
particular In an address before the
Association of Military Colleges and
Schools he deplored the Campaign" to
drag the name Of the Army "in the mud"
saying the Army is being hurt and West
Point appointments are tagging as a
result
General Eddy was referring, apparently,
to the campaign Of disparagement being
waged against things military by the Com
munists, who belittle "big BRASS" express
fears of the military mind" and oppose
every measure designed to strengthen
Americas armed forces.
But, unfortunately, not all of the criti-
cism now being voiced of the officers
corps Is of sinister origin. While General
Eddy was delivering his address a commit
tee of Congress was making further dis
turbing revelations concerning the war
time activities of former Air Force pro-
curement officer, Major General Bennett
E. Meyers. These revelations cannot be
regarded as part OF campaign to reflect
diScredit on the military profession. They
constitute much-needed airing of what
appears to have been a disgusting mess
involving at least one highly placed officer
and private contractors. And they indi-
cate an indefensible cover-up attempt by
superiors.
The public is justihably disguised by
what 1t has learned about this particular
case. However. it would be wrong and
grossly unfair to the vast majority of
honest and self-sacrif1cing members of the
military profession to Judge officers in
general by what has been disclosed in the
Senate hearings. The pity of it is that
such disclosures play into the hands of
those who are seeking to destroy the good
name and the prestige of an honorable
calling. The Army is properly jealous of
It's good name and prestige Both are hurt
when it fails to clean its own house
promptly and fearlessly.
Evening star., 1947-11-22
The Crystal and the CouIs

Though in the crystal ball there may be
seen
The fabulous prospect, as mans hope
bedecked
With splendid garlands, wonderful and
green,
In triumph steps from ,0hat the past had
10recked,
And though the future may therein appear
A gracious 1oay beneath suspicious stars,
Where magic harmontes ring strong and
clear
The ,oonder to Dhich noD there are no
bars,
Still by this hearth I look into the Goals,
And am charmed by thoughts no
crystal ball
Could cause to be, for here Where t0armth
patrols
The pleasant 1Udy to reUeries content,
dream the dreams as ancient as mans
fall,
In speechless a,oe, and breathless aoonder-
ment, EDWARD D. GARNER.