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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-06-06
Inside Washington
Is Price Cutting Campaign
Already Beginning to Sag?

wary about the extent of Sec
ond-round wage increases. I'm
til wage demands are settled,
businessmen feel that they
should not commit themselves
on price reductions.
A third reason is the gener-
al attitude of business over the
governments food subsidy pro-
gram which continues to hold
up farm prices. Businessmen
feel that they shouldn't be told
to slash prices when the gov
eminent doesn't take reciprocal
action.
The Statler Hotel chain is
preparing for an anticipated
drop in wholesale food prices
of between 20 and rs percent
no later than early fall.
John L. Hennessy, chairman
of the hotel chains board of
directors, told a large group
of Washington reporters that
within nine months he expects
pork and beef prices to be low
er while the poultry market be-
comes stable. He expects other
foods to drop. too, and said the
chain will cut its prices by
about IA or Is percent if the
reductions materialiZe.
Some shoe retailers also look
for a 20 percent cut in prices
this summer.
The reason: Sales have drop
ped sharply since the first of
the year and inventories are so
high that store orders for next
fall were only Is to 20 percent
of anticipated needs.
A source close to the White
House. reveals that President
has a staff of experts on
the kind of a labor law he
would like to see the Con-
greSs pass.
A Truman Labor Bill Version
1t is understood that the pres
ident plans to use the bill in
framing the possible veto mes
sage that labor legislation now
under consideration in both
Houses seems certain to bring.
The bill, being formulated
under White House direction, is
designed to serve as a focal
point for the so-called liberal
Republican bloc on the Hill. 1t
probably will attempt to cor
rect the most fragrant labor
abuses without alternating the
affections of the labor vote.
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Senate Acts as Moderator
Of New House Legislation
Snecial TO Central Press

Special to Central Press
Washington.-The Senate, in
the first completely GOP-con-
trolled Congress in II years, is
acting as a kind of balance
wheel or moderator of drastic
legislation passed by the House
of Representatives. This ten
dency is appearing in virtual
ly all major legislation. Exam
Piles are:
THE House passed the dras-
tic Hartley labor regulation
bill by a 308 to LOT vote, assur-
ing that this chamber would
repass the bill over a presiden-
tial veto. The Senate passed
the Taft labor bill, 67-24, an
edge great enough to edge a
veto, but it was doubtful wheth-
er a two-thirds Senate vote
could be mustered for the
Hartley bill.
1.-The House passed the three
billion eight million-dollar tax
reduction bill and made it re-
troactive to last Jan. |. Pros
poets are that the Senate will
accept the bill, but will move
the effective date up to July
l.. This bill has turned out to
be a strictly partisan measure,
and a presidential veto is re-
garded as almost certain.
3.-The House slashed Presi-
dent Truman's request for post
UNRRA foreign relief funds
from $50 million to 200 million
dollars. The Senate is set to
vote the full $50 millions
which probably will mean a
compromise in conference.
4.-The House is ripping huge
chunks out of President Tru-
mans budget requests in pass
ing appropriation bills, but the
Senate is partially restoring
the cuts.
There III growing indica-
tions hat the price cutting cam
paign that swept through many
small cities and towns on the
heels of President Truman's
mark down request is be-
ginning to bog down.
One reason is that most re-
auctions were made at the re-
tail level and never seemed to
filter down to the jobbers and
wholesalers. Many business
men pointed out that the price
slashing drive was unhealthy"
because of this inequality.
Another reason is that many
leading industrialists are still
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So *!f |N!I!|!!I|liI|AI|!!LlIz|2IEs
By OIL 7.
WBU5

wise in holding maintenance
costs to the barest minimum
and devoting just as much mon
ey as possible to surfacing.
The current crop of BLACK
top" is far from perfect, but
anyone who has tried it knows
that it beats mud slogging,
pushing and gear-grinding over
clay hills and through sand
beds.
Good cars are the rule am
ong Jackson County residents
these days. We remember, as
most of you do, when a new
car salesman did a couple of
double hand springs and may
be a back flip or two at the
prospect of making a sale. He
would give you twice what
your old car was worth, adj
mire your children, brag on
your wife's cooking, give you
eighteen months to pay, and
fill your gas tank-all for the
opportunity of selling you a
new automobile.
Now they could sell a car
for cash to everyone big enough
to waikiki they had the cars.
Times have changed, but they
may change back.
That makes roads an even
more important item totpeople
throughout the county. A man
would hate to drag a T-Model
over some of the roads in the
county, but putting a new car
on them day after day is heart
breaking business. It's hard on
the pocket book as well.
Plenty of new cars bought in
l940-41 were literally ruined
by the time they should have
been just broken-in, State
Highway SO, with knee-deep
mud, and State Highway SO,
with salt water standing two
feet deep over the roadbed,
contributed heavily to the dam
age to the automobiles belong
ing to people who lived out in
the county.
We have said before, and we
still contend, that the counties
of Southeastern Mississippi are
treated like red-headed step
children by the powers that be
in Jackson.
Uncounted millions are spent
on the highways upstate
broad, concrete-bridged, we'll
kept highways running through
endless miles of thinly popula-
ted areas leace the coast and
you find good roads. We are
sure you've noticed it.
We would like to see some
of those millions spent and
SINE of that good concrete laid
down in our end of the state.
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Capital Comment
By CONGRESSMAN WIN. M. CoLMER

mendation of 9b million dol
lars. The other victory for the
farm group was when the MEM
bership increased the so-called
Section 80 funds by 40 million
dollars over the committees
recommendations. Section 80
funds represent 80 percent of
the custom duties which have
been set aside for years to be
used to protect farmers against
losses due to over production.
These funds have been used
largely in the administrations
program of price support.
Just before the measure fin
ally passed the House about
nine O'Clock Wednesday even
ing a motion was made by the
ranking Democratic member of
the Appropriations Committee,
Congressman Cannon of Mis-
souri,, to recommit the bill with
Instructions to the committee
to report the bill back to the
House with three additional
items:
|. To increase the committees
appropriation for soil conser-
walton payments and for the
Agricultural Adjustment Agen-
cy from los million to 300 mil
ion.
2. To restore the school lunch
program from As million dol
lars to rs million as asked in
the Presidents budget.
3. To increase the loans per-
mitted under the Rural Elec-
trification Act from 225 mil
lion to $50 million dollars.
In a record vote on this
motion the Republican major
ity defeated the recommittal
motion by a vote of $50 to ia
a slim margin of 6 votes. On
this vote all Democrats voted
for the motion, and all but a
dozen Republicans voted against
IT. The bill now goes to the
Senate where it is freely pre-
dieted that another major fight
will be had.
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L POSTPONED

The rally at the Vaneleave
Methodist Church, announced
last week for Saturday, June
z, has been postponed due to
a conflict with another rally,
ii was announced this week.
The rally will be held at a la
ter date.
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TIL word Concrete, in the
original Latin, is ''concrescere'
and means literally "to grow
together. We learned the
foregoing fact from the diction-
airy, never having studied Lat
in, and it impressed us only
because the words concrete"
and growth" have always had
a relationship in our mind.
We think concrete, the mix
ture of sand, cement and gravel
used in construction, was one of
the finest substances ever in
vented because it is lasting.
Men who work with it have
a theory that concrete improves
for the first e~ighty-one years.
We don't know why it isn't
eighty years or eighty-twoA
years-maybe it is intended az
a joke, but it is true that con-
crete hardens for a long Pc
riod of time after being poured.
The laying of concrete streets,
like the recently-opened addi-
ton to Watts avenue in Pas
cagoula, always impresses US.
We invision the hundred of
thousands of persons who will
travel it in generations to come.
Well-drained four-lane streets
like that one, made of enduring
concrete and with ample side
walks, are a real addition to
any city.
We think this street in partic-
ular, paralelling over-crowded
Delmas avenue, marked an i'm
portant step in the progress of
this county seat. It fronts on
the proposed sight of the new
court house and opens up a new
business section for develop
ment.
Concrete and growth are GER
tainly synonymous as far as this
project is concerned and we be-
lieve the money used for it well
spent.
Out in the county, we are
glad to see the same principle
applied by members of the
board of supervisors. While
concrete is impracticable, due
to the high cost of paving a
single mile, we glory in every
foot of hard surfacing that
goes on a county road.
The road beds in the coun-
ty, for the most part, are old
and tried and the continuous
grading, ditch-pulling, and hole
filling is a futile-although nee
essary-task. One gulley-wash-
ing down pour, of which we
have more than an ample sup
ply in this county, is the diff !
ference between good dirt roads
and impossible roads. ,
We believe the supervisors ,
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EVERGREEN

Old fashioned barbecue and
political rally on Saturday,
June % at John Tillman's place
at Evergreen, four miles east of
V~ancleave on Johns Bayou.
Sponsored by Latter Day Saints
Church at Evergreen, the rally
begins at 200 p. m. and will
last until 1880. All candidates
to speak and the public
invited to attend and enjoy
good eats and drinks.
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things a big around as a boy
in our childhood have grown
into massive and spreading
trunks and branches. All the
vacant lots have long been
filled, and one by one the mud
streets and the bitches and
canals have been filled.
And Mr.. Pawell has sat on
his lawn or in his porch swing
every afternoon, reading the
evening paper. while whole
generations have come and
gone in the neighborhood,
while paint has weathered and
cracked and new houses have
grown old; while streets have
been torn up and paved, then
worn out and torn up and paw
ed again.
In 1914 we stopped and sat
on the bench and had a chat
with Mr., Powell. He had left
his retirement during the man.
power shortage to work as a
night Waterman on the Mis-
sissippi river docks. AT this
time he was eighty-six.
Last week, now going on
for ninety, he told us that his
son Wasley had bought a lit
tie airplane.
I'VE fly down to the islands
on weekends,p he said very
matter-of-factly. only takes
about an hour"
During our own childhood,
Wasley was the mechanical
genius of the neighborhood. He
was always tearing down and
rebuilding some old run-about.
He became a sort of backyard
mechanic. He was in the navy
during the war. When he got
out, he tinkered himself into
an airplane.
Wasley is past forty. He is
why, chunky. a younger edi-
ton of the old man. He appears
to be a man in his late 20's.
AS a child. | never knew
that Mr.. Powell had been a no
ted baseball player. He was
simply the old man two houses
down who sat under the scrub
palm tree-the old man that
I said hello to as a matter of
habit while walking to and
from school and chureh-from
the DAYS of kindergarten till
we were grown and left the
neighborhood.
Once in another city l pick
ed up a Golfers magazine and
saw a picture of Mr.. Powell
sitting-yes, right there-and a
story about his career in base
ball. In his lifetime he played
in nine leagues. including both
major leagues. He organized
and owned the Atlanta club
when the Southern league was
started and he managed and
was part of the New Orleans
Pelicans until his retirement
from baseball in the 1905.
He bought a comfortable but
plain house on Canal street and
sat down to take his ease. And
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-06-06
You're Telling Me!
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writer

Adolf Hitler's Compromised
Volkswagon is now being man
ufactured by the British. The
Volkswagon Tor Peoples Carr
is the one pipe dream Der
Fuehrer had which wasn't
strictly from opium.
The car not only works fine
but is called revolutionary
which lies a word that always
gave Adolph the shakes.
Adolf promised the German
people he'd build 'em the
Volkswagon as long as 10 years
ago. But as this was Hitler
Promise No. 1,234,567 no one
took him seriously.
Adolf even showed burghers
and their hausfraus a set of the
prettiest blue prints ever de-
vised. II was the snappiest lit
tie gas buggy anyone ever saw
ON paper.
Then Hitler pulled his switch
and out of the Nazi motor-car
mills there poured a stream of
NOT Volkswagons-but tanks,
That's where Der Fuehrer
pulled his biggest homer. 1t
was those tanks that, in the end,
took him for a one-way ride.
Now other people are going
to cash in on Adolf's idea for
a f~irst-elass flivver. Maybe one
reason Hitler botched the
Volkswagon plan was that the
car, being a modern automo-
bile. has no need of q crank.
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ORANGE GROVE

On Saturday, July 26, at Or
ange Lake School beginning at
1000 o'clock. All day affair.
Plate lunches. home made pie
and cake, coffee and cold
drinks. Sponsored by the Or
ange Lake School Parent
Teacher Association.
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VANcLEAvE

Old Settlers Reunion, Van
cleave School homecoming, and
political rally On Saturday.
July 10, at the Ezell Lodge.
All day affair and the pub,
lie invited, particularly for
mer students in the Vancleave
School. State. district, county,
and beat candidates invited to
speak.
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Not $50 dong ago we happen
ed TO be walking in the New
Orleans neighborhood where
we grew up, and there beneath
the shade of this little scrub
palm tree sat old man Abner
Powell.
Mr.. Powell was an old man
the first time we ever laid
eyes on him, and that is going
on to thirty years ago. He was
an old mana retired base
ball player although we did not
know this fact until many
years later--and he was sit
ting on a bench beneath the
palm tree. just as he was when
we saw him a week ago.
In that time we have grown
from early childhood TO that
uncertain no-man's land be-
tween youth and middle-age.
But old man Powell has sat
on his lawn, reading without
glasses. watching one season
succeed the last and one year
succeed another, and has stayed
the same.
He belongs to that tribe of
people whose clockworks seem
to run slower than the aver
age race of men-that tribe
which includes old Marshal Pc
tain, and George Bernard
Shaw, and the others who re-
main active and in full pos
session of health and mental
alertness long after their con-
temporaries have given up the
ghost.
Old man Powell is now slen-
der and a little below middle
height. The years have shrunk
his stature. Once he must have
been broadshouldered, with a
powerful build, for he was a
big league baseball player. His
thick hair is a mixture of brown
and grey.
His skin has that thin, clear,
sallow texture of long-lived hui
man flesh. His pale blue eyes
are still young and alert, and
apparently as sharp of focus
as they have ever been. His
speech is clear, brief and cas-
ual, and he seems to take it
absolutely as a matter of course
that he is still taking his ease
on the lawn of a house where
he moved almost half a cen
fury ago when he was about to
retire from active baseball.
He was the first tenant in
a ROY of houses toward the
end of Canal street, in a sec
ton which was just being built
up when he moved there. The
section was grown up and get
ting a little old and run down
around the edges when my Own
family moved there more than
thirty years ago. Nov the oak
trees which were but little
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GAUTIER

At the Gautier. School to-
morrow Saturday night t,
June z, sponsored by the Wo-
mans Home Demonstration
Club. Box supper. beauty con-
test, and political rally. Box
es sold at 500 O'clock, speak
ing begins at 800 o'clock. Can
didates given ample time to
present their cases to the peo-
pie.
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DEAD LAKE

There will be a picnic and
community get-together on the
lawn of the Red Hill Method
list Church in the Dead Lake
community on Saturday, July
5, from 100 to ZOO p. m, spon-
sored by the Sunday School.
Everybody invited, especially
the candidates. Food and drinks
will be sold.
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LATIMER

At the Latimer Community
House on Saturday. July II,
beginning at 800 o'clock. Gum
DO and refreshments will be
sold for the benefit of the Com
munity House. All state. dis
trict, county and beat candi-
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David p. Cameron

The sad news of the untimelv
and unfortunate death of Dave
Cameron, a leader in business
and civic affairs of Mississippi.
vas received in this Capitol
City by Mississippians here
with great shock and deep re-
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ST. MARTIN

Sponsored by the Mother
Teacher Association at the ST.
Martin School on June % and
August l6. Big political rallies
and food sales, details TO be
announced later.
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ST. MARTIN

Al the st. Martin Community
House on July 10 and 20. Can
didates given an opportunity
to speak and present their
claims. All state, district, coun-
ty, and beat candidates invit-
ed.
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Political Rallies

sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus. Food sale, drinks,
games. State and local candid
date invited to speak in their
behalf.
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VANcLEAVE

June l4th, picnic from 3 to
10 p. m, sponsored by Masons
and Eastern Stars. All candidates
invited to attend.
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BEACH PARK

On Saturday, June 81, be-
ginning at 200 o'clock at the
Municipal Park in Pascagoula,
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dates invited to attend and
speak in their own behalf.
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SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION
A. FOREST MEGEHEE


A. FOREST MEGEHEE
CORONER AND RANGER
M. C. PORTER
BAYLOUS w. STOKES
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
DISTRICT ONE
H. w. COCHRAN
ROY o. CUMBEST
j. l.. Jerry DAVIS
billiard E.. JONES
DISTRICT TWO
T. V. CTIMl BLADES
A. W. CAMBLEY
T. j. DICKSON
l.. c. (BILL1 JOHNSON
EDWARD A. KHAYAT
LESTER E. MACK
j. II. ROBINSON
c. B. WILKINSON
DISTRICT THREE
H. (MAC) BOWMAN
JOHN j. Jack HOLLISTER)
JOE v. KREBS
WILLIAM H. tPIE) MOORE
EDDIE POND
w. ED WIGGINS
DISTRICT FIVE
GEORGE A. CRUTHIRDS
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
DISTRICT ONE
H. II. PARKER
S. H.. SWENDSEN
DISTRICT TWO
r. b. HOBBY
DISTRICT THREE
EDWARD w. COKER
KATE DENNY
I. ID. fTOMMIE) HARRISON
CONSTABLE
DISTRICT ONE
GEORGE E. CARTER
DISTRICT TWO
S. E. BILBO'
M, c. STEVENSON
DISTRICT THREE
FOSTER BARROW
LEVERT j. pistol Pete)BOSARGE
CHARLES N. FERRER
EUGENE Teddy LADNIER
l. f. tMACl MCGOWAN
W. F.. tBILL1 STEVENS
DISTRICT FIVE
PAUL C. CTOBYl CARTER
DAVID L. WEST, SIR.
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POLITICAL


ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following individuals have
formally announced in the columns
of the Chronicle-Star and Adverfis-
er their candidacy for political Of
flee in this summers Democratic
Primary
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
Southern Districtl
MUNDELL BUSH
JOHN d. SMITH
STATE SENATOR
Jackson. George and Greene Counties
G.. L. BEAVERS
R. E. HORNE
j. r. BLACK
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Jackson County
HERMES F. GAUTIER
W. c. (Luml OLIVER
r. l. VAUGHN
FLoATER REPRESENTATIVE
Jackson and Harrison Counties
F. w. ELMER
DREWEY J. KENDRICK
SHERIFF AND TAX COLLECTOR
II. E. (ED) BRoDNAx
r, A. HELM
JOHN D. HENLEY
j. GUY KREBS
JOHN r. McNEAL
NOLLE T. ROBERTS
ED j. SIURUA
X. L. WALTER
LAURIN r. WARE
COUNTY ATTORNEY
II. A. KRUSE
L. X. MCINTOSH
MERLE F. PALMER
cHANcEHY CLERK
FRED TAYLOR
NJ. C.. EVERETT
CIRCUIT CLERK
VERTIS C.. RAMSAY
TAX ASSESSOR
LAWRENCE GOFF
KNOX GRAHAM
W. C. JOHNSON
A. ROSCOE FLETCHER
NORMAN T. LYONS
SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION
A. FOREST MEGEHEE
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LAWRENCE GOFF
KNOX GRAHAM
w. C. JOHNSON
A. ROSCOE
NORMAN T. LYONS
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CORONER AND RANGER
NJ. C. PORTER
BAYLOUS w. STOKES
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-09-12
Potem Sc ie izvlekel IL ne

Potem Sc je izvlekel IL ne
vsecnosti: Z
- Fantje, glasujmo! Kdo je
"a, da damo Sanjki ukor? Nih-
&c? Dobro. In kdo je "a to, da
mu prvic oprostimo, drugic pa
strogo kaznujemo?
Dvignil sc je eel gozd rok.
Boris je sklenil zbor in ugas-
nil luc ma odru.
To noe je Boris zlezel pod
mojo odejo in mi sepnil:
III, SAM, ne bodi jezen
govoril sem po pravici.
- Ne jezim Sc, Borja!
Pogovarjala sva Sc do jutra
in tako krsila pravilo komune
ker sva spala v eni postelji.
27. poglavje
Komuna bivsih brezdomcev
Sc je spuntala.
ze davno je ma dvoriscu od'
klenkal jekleni kos tracnice, k
ie visel namesto zvonca, v bel
hisi pa so bila okna cd vrha de
tai jarko razsvetl jena.
Pricelo sc je v nasi sobi. Pri
dem iz delavnice. Komaj sen
vlekel noge cez stopnice \
glavi sem cutil praznoto il
omotico. jerk sub in hrapav.
! Spustim sc ma posteljo. No
Gem pitt GAIA, nocem jesti. RAJ
hi cimprej zaprl oci, da ne b
videl visokih stem in svojih to
varisev. Nisem bill bolan. Uza
lien sem.
Odgrnil sem odejo in Sc pr
pravil, da bi. legel, pa vidim, d.
je prevleka zamenjana. Moja j
bila cista, ia pa je silva cd una
zanije, polna grdih madeze'
Vpijem mad tovarisi, oni pa S
mi smejo in mi svetujejo:
- Naocnike natakni, SAM!
Pogledam natancneje, sal re
- to je moja posteljnina.
Ma njej so madezi skornj
cev. Kako da pref nisem opa