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Evening star., 1947-02-28
A Mothers Bleak Outlook

~ NlOtllSI DlCdk OuClOOk
To the Editor Of The Star:
After tomorrow we can look for
ward to spring in three weeks, but it
will be a cold day for those in our city
who receive old-age pensions, and help
for dependent children from our Board
of Public Welfare. That day their al
ready pitifully meager allotments will
be cut 20 per cent because of def
cheney of $184,200 in our District ap-
preparation.
Let each Of us think how we might
adjust our expenses to fit $50 or $40
month minus 20 per cent as some of
our old folks must survive on. Then let
us consider If we wish our Nation to be
as we think Of it, this Nation under
God"
We cannot fail to care for even "the
least of these" If we are Christian.
Our Jewish brethren have been ex-
horted to care for the poor within their
cities by Moses and the prophets. Even
our classical novelists call to us: Man
kind is my business" said Marley to
Scrooge in the popular Christmas
Carol" Historians tell of rCvolts and
wars which have arisen when the poor
were ignored.
Let us take care OF these who are
suffering because they need more money
to live. Let us see that the deficiency
Of $184,200 be raised. 1t is amazingly
small compared to the amounts we
raised to kill our enemies. Write your
interest in this to Representative John
Taber, chairman, House subcommittee
or Senator Styles Bridges, Senate Com
mittee on District Affairs.
L. B. L.
(Mother of fhrea-rot ~, reHof,
Evening star., 1947-02-28
(Mother of three-not on reli
A Correction

"A Correction
To the Editor of The Star:
In my letter published Wednesday in
The Star, made an incorrect state
ment. Veterans are not guaranteed SITS
or 5000 a month as income. but are
permitted to earn up to these ceilings
and still receive subsistence allowances
up to $65 or $50 in accordance to how
much under the ceilings the veterans
earn. A VETERAN.
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PAGE NINE

things and is made binding upon
said Municipality.
SECTION 2. That for good cause
shown, the foregoing Ordinance
shall be in force and effect from
and after its passage.
SECTION 3. 1t is further order
ed that the City Clerk be, and he is
hereby authorized and directed to
cause this ordinance to be published
in accordance with law as soon as
practicable after the passage hereof.
The foregoing ordinance was re-
duced to writing and proposed and
introduced by Alderman w. D. Will
son, and was read, considered and
voted upon section by section, and
as a whole; the vote on each and all
of the Sections, and upon the Ordin-
ance as as a whole was taken by
syea" and may" vote, those
voting "yea being Aldermen Wilson,
Beall, Thompson, Johnson, and Eli
son, and those voting may" one,
and was adopted on this the 10Th day
of August, 1947.
APPROVED:
Norman Weathersby, Mayor.
ATTEST:
c. A. Glover, Clerk.
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be thereby affected, but shall have
full force and effect.
SECTION 10. This ordinance
shall take effect from and after its
passage; but Grantee shall not be
bound hereby if within 80 days
from and after this date it declines
in writing to accept this grant. The
foregoing ordinance was reduced to
writing and proposed and introduced
by Alderman w. d. Wilson, and was
read, considered and voted upon by
sections and as a whole; the vote
on each and all of the sections, and
upon the ordinance as an entirety,
was taken by yea" and may" vote,
those voting yea" being as follows:
Aldermen Wilson, Beall, Thompson,
Johnson, and Ellison, and those vot-
ing may" none: and was adopted
on this the 10th day of August,
I947.
Norman Weathersby, Mayor.
ATTEST:
c. A. Glover, Clerk.
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MIN
not and shall not be required 10 ex-
tend its street mains and service
pipes, in, upon or along streets. ave-
nues, highways, bridges, lanes,
alleys, or public grounds or places
where distribution of gas has not
already been established if the re-
venue to be derived from the Gus
toner or Customers desiring such
extension will not yield an adequate
return upon the Grantees invest
ment made for the purpose of pro-
viding such extension.
SECTION 8. Grantee will pay to
the municipality a sum of money
equal to two per cent (2%) of the
receipts of the Grantee from the
sale of gas service at retail for resi-
dental and Commercial purposes
(sales tax excluded within the COR
porate limits of the municipality
as shown by Grantees billing re-
cords, such payments to be due
quarterly and the annual aggregate
amount of such payments shall not
be less than 500. Provided, however,
the obligation to make said payment
is conditional in that the full am
mount specified shall be paid during
the term of this franchise unless and
except should there be collected by
the municipality from the Grantee
any new taxes of any nature what
soever imposed subsequent to the
date of this franchise, Or should
there be an increase in the rates of
any taxes now being collected by
the municipality Except advalorem
taxes authorized by law, then the
payment herein provided to be made
by the Grantee to the municipality
will decrease by such amount.
SECTION 10. The Mayor and
Clerk are authorized to execute, up
on the part of the municipality all
requisite contracts with Grantee
which have been approved by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen.
SECTION IL. The Clerk shall
publish this ordinance according to
the requirements of law, as soon as
practicable after the passage hereof,
and Grantee shall pay to said Clerk
any and all costs and expenses of
such publication.
SECTION IL. II any clause or
section Of this ordinance is illegal. or
is not embraced within the title
hereof, or is not cognate to the sub
ject expressed in the title. the re-
naming provisions hereof shall not
be thereby affected, but shall have
full force and effect.
SECTION Is. This ordinance
shall take effect from and after its
passage. The foregoing ordinance
was reduced to writing and propos-
ed and introduced by Alderman
Beall, and was read, considered and
voted upon by sections and as a
whole; the vote on each and all of
the sections. and upon the ordi-
nance as an entirety, was taken by
yea" and may vote. those voting
yea" being as follows: Wilson,
Beall, Thompson, johnson, and Eli
son. and those voting may" non
and was adopted on this the 10th
day of August, 1947.
Norman Weathersby, Mayor.
ATTEST:
C. A. Glover, Clerk.
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streets, alleys, throughfares, public
parks and play grounds by standard
overhead facilities; and whiteway
facilities installed prior to LILAC.
where municipality contracts with
Company for its entire street light
ing requirements.
Service is from dusk to dawn and
Company will own, operate and
maintain the street lighting system.
GALLEY SILK OaeeNshebyv,n--A
including lamp and globe replace
ments. Service is for the exclusive
use of customer and shall not be re-
sold or shared with others.
NET MONTHLY RATES
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NSAAS
3. Additional street lighting SER
vice other than as provided herein
requiring the installation of addi-
tional facilities shah be by suppleme-
ntary agreement in writing and ap-
proved by an authorized official OF
the Municipality and an authorized
official of the Company.
4. Payments are to be made by
Municipality on or before the 10th
day of each month for service rem
| dered during the preceding month,
| and in Ease of failure to pay or or
before that time, service may be
discontinued by Company without
terminating this contract, or waving
or impairing any of the right accru-
ing to Company hereunder.
5. The Company shall use rea-
sonable diligence to furnish con-
tinuous service hereunder but shall
not be liable to the Municipality, or
its inhabitants for failure to deliver
service hereunder for causes reason
ably beyond its control.
6. The term of this Agreement
shall be for five years from and after
the date hereof and shall be auto
matically extended for a period of
five years from each expiration date
of such time, or any automatic ex-
| tension thereof, unless and until Ell
Their party shall notify the other in
writing not less than 100 days nor
more than 800 days prior to any
expiration date of its intention to
terminate this Agreement.
Z. This Agreement is subject to
approval of Company's Vice-Presi-
dent.
Executed in triplicate original on
the day and year first above men
toned.
MISSISSIPPI POWER &
LIGHT COMPANY
BY Chas. c. Taylor
APPROVED:
T. w. Crockett, Vice-Presi-
dent.
MUNICIPALITY OF LEXINGTON,
MISSISSIPPI
BY Norman Weathersby, Mayor
| ATTEST:
C. A. Glover, Clerk.
(SEAL)
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on this the 10Th day of August, l947.
APPROVED
Norman Weathersby, Mayor.
ATTEST:
c. A. Glover, Clerk.
(SEAL)
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MISSISSIPPI POWER & LIGHT
COMPANY

MUNICIPAL STREET LIGHTING
SERVICE
AVAILABILITY
Within corporate limits OF munich
palities in which Company does a
general retail business ard where
Company has installed multiple or
series street lighting systems of
adequate capacity for the service to
be rendered under the terms of
Company's Standard Street Lighting
Agreement.
APPLICATION
To service for lighting public
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C. A. Glover, Clerk.

AN ORDINANCE APPROVING
CONTRACT WITH MISSISSIP-
Pr POWER & LIGHT COM
PANY FOR FURNISHING PO-
WEIR SERVICE FOR STREET
LIGHTING FOR AND IN THE
CITY OF LEXINGTON, MIS-
SISSIPPI. FOR THE TERM
BEGINNING THE 10th DAY
OF AUGUST, 1947 AND END
ING THE 10Th DAY OF AUG
UST, 1852, AND AUTHORIZE
ING THE MAYOR AND CITY
CLERK OF THE CITY OF
LEXINGTON, MISSISSIPPI,
TO ENTER INTO SAME AND
PROVIDING FOR OTHER DE-
TAILS.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the CITY
of LEXINGTON, Mississippi;
SECTION /. That the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the CITY
of LEXINGTON, Mississippi, do
hereby approve that certain contract
with Mississippi Power& Light Com
pany, a corporation, for furnishing
power service for street lighting for
said municipality for a term beginn-
ing on the 10Th day of August, 1947,
and ending on the 10Th day of Aug
ust, 1852, which said contract is re-
corded in book no. 5 page 68 ct seq of
the minutes of said Mayor and
Board of Aldermen, and do hereby
authorize and direct said Mayor and
City Clerk to execute said contract
in triplicate original, under the seal
and in the name of and for and in
behalf of said Municipality and to
deliver two copies of said contract
to said Mississippi Power & Light
Company and to receive from said
Mississippi Power g. Light Company
for the said Municipality the other
copy of said contract, and that said
contract is hereby ratified and con-
firmed III all things and is made bind
ing upon said Municipality,
SECTION 2. That for good
cause shown, the foregoing Ordinan-
ce shall be in force and effect from
and after its passage.
SECTION 3. 1t is further ordered
that the City Clerk be, and he is
hereby authorized and directed to
cause this ordinance to be published
in accordance with law as soon as
practicable after the passage hereof.
The foregoing ordinance was redu-
ced to writing and proposed and in
troduced by Alderman w. D. Will
son, and was read, considered and
voted upon section by section, and
as a whole, the vote on each and all
of the sections, andupont the ordinan-
ce as a whole was taken by yea" and
may vote, those voting YEA be-
ing Aldermen Wilson, Beall. Thomp-
son. johnson, and Ellison, and those
! voting may" none, and was adopted
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Each Wv
c. Standards
Each 0.60
D. Supply Lines
Overhead, per foot 0.00O5
Underground, per foot 0.0l00
Adjustments
First : Minus or plus .one-half of
one percent of the amount computed
at above stated rate for each whole
point decrease below 70 or increase
above 10, respectively. in the aver
age of the three most recently pub
lished current monthly values forthe
"All commodities" Index taken
from "Wholesale Prices" compiled
by the United States Department OF
Labor, adjusted to a 1926 base it
any other date be employed).
Second : Plus the applicable pro-
portionate part of any directly al
locable tax, impost or assessment
imposed or levied by any govern
mental authority, which is assess
ed or levied against the Company
or directly affects the Company's
cost of operation and which the
Company is legally obligated to
pay on the basis of meters, custo-
mers, or rates of, of revenues
from electric power and energy
or service sold, or on the volume
of the energy generated, trans
ported, purchased for sale, or sold,
or on any other basis where di-
rect ALLEGATION is possible.
REMOVAL OR RELOCATION OF
FACILITIES
The following charges shall be
made by Company upon discontin-
uance or relocation of overhead sys-
TEN facilities at locations specified
by Municipality.
Luminaires S 500
Wood Poles $1,000
PAYMENT
All bills for service hereunder are
due and payable within ten days.
from date of billing.
CONTRACT PERIOD
Not less than five years.
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING
CONTRACT WITH MISSISSIPPI
POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
FOR FURNISHING POWER
SERVICE FOR WATER PUMP
ING FOR AND IN THE CITY OF
LEXINGTON, MISSISSIPPI FOR
THE TERM BEGINNING THE
10TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1947,
AND ENDING THE 18TH DAY
OF AUGUST, 1852, AND AU-
THORIZING THE MAYOR AND
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF
LEXINGTON, MISSISSIPPI, TO
ENTER INTO SAME AND PRO
VIDING FOR OTHER DETAILS.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the City
of Lexington, Mississippi;
SECTION /. That the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the City OF
Lexington, Mississippi, do here
by approve that certain contract
with Mississippi Power & Light
Company, a corporation, for furni-
shing power service for water pump
ing for said Municipality fol. a term
beginning on the 10Th day of Au-
gust, 1947, and ending on the 10th
day of August, 1852, which said
contract is recorded at Book No. 8,
Page rs ct seq of the minutes of said
Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and
do hereby authorize and direct said
NTa1,or ord Citu Clork IN eyecIte
said contract in triplicate original,
under the seal and in the name of
and for and in behalf of said NUM-
cipality and to deliver two copies of
said contract to said Mississippi
Power & Light Company and to
receive from said Mississippi Power
g. Light Company for the said Mu-
nicipality the other copy of said
contract, and that said contract is
hereby ratified and confirmed in all
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STREET LIGHTING AGREEMENT

STREET LIGHTING AGREEMENT
Between
Municipality of LEXINGTON,
MISSISSIPPI
and
MISSISSIPPI POWER & LIGHT
COMPANY
THIS AGREEMENT made and en-
tered into this the 10Th day of Au-
gust, 1947, by and between the Mu-
nicipality of Lexington, Mississippi.
a municipal corporation hereinafter
called Municipality, and MISSIS-
SIPPI POWER & LIGHT COM
PANY, hereinafter called COM
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Granting a Gas Franchise to
Mississippi Power & Light Com
pany, its Successors and Assigns.
in the City of Lexington. Missis-
sippi, Fixing the Terms Thereof,
Prescribing the Obligations
Thereasto, and for Other Pur-
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In consideration of the mutual
covenants contained herein it is
agreed as follows:
/. Company will furnish and
Municipality will take and pay for
its entire street lighting service dur
ing the term of this Agreement in
accordance with Rate Schedule SL-4,
attached hereto and made a part
hereof.
2. The service to be furnished as
of the date of this Agreement con
sists of the following euuinment.
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Overhead, circuit tt. None
Underground, circuit
it. 1910
B. Owned and maintained
by Municipality except
that Company shall fur
nish and replace lamps
None
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
John Smits Takes Stroll
And Lady Helps Him Out

BALTIMORE.-A bearded, SCOT
covered man, who gave the name of
John Smith, walked with Lady Luck
through a mile-long railroad tunnel.
Smith said he managed to side
step five trains in the dimly lighted
cavern. He was straddling third
rail when he came out. A railroad
policeman said contact with the rail
would have killed him.
"Up to now you are the luckiest
man 1 know" Magistrate Preston
A. Pairo told Smith when he APP
peared on charge of trespassing,
''but your luck is about to change.
You're fined $25 and costs"
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Suicide by Hitler Depicted
BY Nazi for American Probers

NUREMBERG, GERMANY
Hitler's suicide and funeral pyre
were described for United States in
vestigators by a prominent Nazi,
Arthur Axmann. leader of the Hit
Ter Youth, who asserted he saw Hit
Ter and Eva Braun dead in their
Berlin air raid bunker and that he
helped burn the bodies in the gar
den of the reichschancellery. Ak
mann, under automatic arrest be-
cause of his high rank in Nazi party
councils, said that he was in Hit
ler's headquarters under the Fueh-
rer's orders from April %, 1945, to
April 30. Hitler's last day.
Hitler had been told that Reichs-
marshal Hermann Goering and
Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler
had deserted him. In his last few
days he became strangely changed
man. He strode up and down the
bunker floor almost ceaselessly and
spoke to no one, but 'the was calm"
Axmann related. Late the night of
April 80 Paul Joseph Goebbels took
Axmann by the hand and said 1.-The
Fuehrer is dead" The propaganda
minister led Axmann into the death
chamber.
Hitler was sitting upright on the
divan. He had shot himself through
the mouth, and there was blood on
his temples from the concussion.
Eva evidently had taken poison.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Allies to Dislnantle
602 German Plants
Disregard Threats OF Strikes
And Public Clam0r.

BERLIN. = Plans have been
announced by British and Ameri-
can military government authori-
ties to diSnantIe 682 German indus
trial plants in their combined areas.
despite threats Of strikes and other
expressions of non-cooperation.
Five plants of the gun-making
Krupp company were listed for lev
cling. Three plants in the Essen
area. one for making armaments.
another for miscellaneous steel
products and the Barbeck pig iron
and steel works. were designated
for extinction.
A Krupp plant at Lagenhagen
in lower Saxony. devoted to making
structural steel and submarine
hulls, and a pneumatic equipment
plant at Geisenheim in Hesse. also
were listed for the wreckers' AK.
At Dusseldorf. trade union lead
ers voiced comments such as "ap-
palling'' and crushing when they
learned that western Germany's $
Ruhr and Rhine valleys would lose
294 industrial plants.
Under the dismantling schedule.
designed to give western Germany
the go-ahead on new level of in
dustry plan intended to remove war
production from the German econ
ony, the bi-zonal area will have a
productive capacity approximately
equal to that Of 1886 The plan calls
for exports in excess of 1896.
Under the plan. remaining capac-
tiles in heavy indlstries-includin
metals, machinery and chemicals
will permit production on the aver
age of 5 to 10 per cent less thar
the 1896 level. However, light in
dustries viii have a much higher
productive capacity than in tha
| year
IF. instead Of cooperation, there
is conflict, any hope of revivinl
German economy win disappear.
/ 1t. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson. Brit
ish military governor, said.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Detention by Soviets
Termed Like Movie
Trio on Vacation Cruise Taken
Into Custody in Finland.

STOCKHOLM -''It seemed like a
movie" said Anne Blunenfeld, 20,
of San Rafael Calf, IL describing
her experiences when she and two
companions were held incemmuni-
cado almost four weeks by the Rus
slams in their leased Porkkala mill
tary zone in Finland.
Her companions. Robert Storch
of Newark. N. j., and Gordon
Thomas McGill Lawson of Glasgow.
Scotland. said she did not lose cour-
age when the vacation cruise to Hell
sinki that was planned for a month
lasted nine weeks because of their
detention
mot once did she fall down"
said Storch and Lawson. 'She
served us three meals day includ-
ing Russian 'Korsha,' or mush if
you will, in new way every day"
The trio set out about July IS
from Stockholm, where Anne and
Bob were exchange students and
Lawson an artist, aboard Lawson S
3O-foot yacht Smeoraeh. BY accident
they landed in the Russian military
zone.
Russian soldiers took them into
custody. Storch said they were
stripped of belongings and every
thing was taken away including
their belts.
1T was quite embarrassing to
have to hold up your pants with your
hands. They feared we were going
to hang ourselves
II was petrifed they were going
to strip me, too." said Anne. but
they left me with slacks and
sweater"
They were questioned thoroughly
by the Russians. "Some sessions
were rather long," Storch said, ybut
they were lenient and courteous
They put cigarets on the table anc
told us to help ourselves.
He added that afterwards the Rus
SLAMS ''let us live aboard the Smeo
rach where they brought us al
kinds of food, including apples anC
cucumbers. Anne even made jam.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Woman Found in Furnace
After Attack bv Robbers

CRESTON, IOWA. A housewife
of Creston was robbed of $500 by
two men who tortured her and then
placed her, bound and gagged, in
side an unlighted furnace where she
was left unconscious.
The woman, Mrs. Fred Welcher,
Sc years old, was in a hospital re-
covering from shock and minor in
juries.>
William M. Hiatt, police chief,
said the two men came to the
Welcher residence between 9 o'clock
and midnight. Mrs. Welcher was
alone.
II told them didn't have any
money" Hiatt quoted her as say
ing. Then one of them kicked me
hard in the back and that's the last
/ remember"
Mrs. Welcher's son, Kenneth,
called the police when he returned
home shortly after midnight and
found his mother missing.
The policemen opened the door OF
the furnace and found her inside.
She had been showed in feet first
with her back to the furnace door.
The men had made no attempt t.
kindle a fire in the furnace. he said
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-05
Broker Shuns Plea;
PIunges to Death
Jokes With CharWoman While
Preparing for Leap.

CHICAGO.-A scrubwoman's plea
to wealthy insurance broker as he
hung from Loop building window
failed to prevent his suicide plunge.
The broker. George Grivich, 55,
laughed and released his hold on the
sill. He fell IL floors to skylight
below.
The scrubwoman, Mrs. Julia An
druska, said she first saw the man
while she was scrubbing the 18th
floor corridor of the Insurance Elk.
change building. Grivich had offices
on the third floor.
He asked me if my work wasn't
pretty hard" she told police. 81 told
him it wasn't so bad when it wasn't
so hot"
The broker, she said, joked with
her as he paced slowly back and
forth before a window. Then he
climbed up on the sill.
Look out, you'll fall" the scrub.
woman warned.
Grivich stepped back into the cor
ridor but few moments later was
on the sill again. This time he low
cred himself out the window, his
hands gripping the sill.
Mrs. Andruska told police she
cried, Don't do that" and ran to-
ward the window.
He raised himself up little and
looked right at me-" she said.
Then he laughed and let 60"
In the mans pockets police found
farewell notes and letters explaining
business difficulties. One indicated
he had misstated his income while
partner in the Morton Poster Fab,
ric Products in 1914.
Another letter, from a lawyer
told Grivich the matter had beer
corrected and for him not to worry
An internal revenue report showed
he made $38,811.0 .09 that year.
Other notes were addressed to his
sisters, Berdie and Kit, and &
brother, John.