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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-30


The Dayton branch of the
is opposed to the
activation of this proposed
unit in the city of Dayton,
not because of any individ-
ual or group of individuals
involved, but because of the
policy of the Army and the
government behind it, which
makes it by force of neces-
sity, or by "orders from
headquarters" a unit com
posed only of one racial
group. The NAACP is op-
posed to lie .activ&tio1 Of
any all coloIed unit, which
is so by virtue of the pres
eft policy of segregation IN
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-30

the army. The NAACP is
opposed to the autivation
and continuance of any all
white unit, which is so by
virtue of the present policy
of segregation in the army.
The Dayton branch of the
NAACP protests, thru thsi
medium, the furtherance of
segregation in the armed
forces; WE decry those in
the high places who are re-
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-30

sponsible for such a pro-
gram.
We believe that where
there is a must on separate
ness, there can be no equali-
ty, for that the very mind
which speaks for separate
ness, eneouches a belief in
inferiority on the one hand
or the other.
We believe that where
human beings are arbitrar-
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-30
Letter To-
CONTINUED on page q

(CUIILIIUUU OH page u
of our government, and that
that government can, if it
but would, wipe segregation
from the armed forces prac-
tically overnight. Look then
to your Senators and Repre-
sentatives, look to those in
public office see where they
stand and be governed ac-
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
William |. Mdnnis
Buried Pikens

Services for William Ira McInnis,
retired Presbyterian minister who
died at Moss Point January 21st,
were held last Thursday at 2 o'clock
at the Moss Point Presbyterian
Church with the Rev. Walter Boder,
Of Moss Point, officiating. He was as
sisted by the Rev. T. w. Curtis of
Pickens and the Rev. T. Barton West
Of MCGEE. Arkansas. Burial was in
the Pickens Cemetery Friday after
noon at 2 o'clock with final rites
conducted at the graveside. Arran-
gements were in charge of Maxwell
and Owen Funeral Home of Pickens.
Mr.. McInnis, who was 70, was
born near Silver Creek in 1858. He
married the former Miss Eva Bonner
in 1915. A retired Presbyterian mini
ster, he was a member of the Ma
sonic and Odd Fellows Lodges at
Pascagoula.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Eva B. McInnis, of Moss Point; three
daughters, Mrs. J. D.. McKie, of
Pickens; Mrs. Frank Clayton of Col
Inns; and Miss Maurine McInnis of
Moss Point; three sisters, Mrs. Dora
Moak of McComb; Mrs. Mamie Ross
of V~icksburg; and Mrs. Lola Garrett
of Marlin, Texas, and five grand
children.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
vitksburg Scene Of
Presbyterian Meeting
McC uIIough Is Named
Duront Supply Postor

Representatives of a large number
of churches of the Central Mississip-
pi Presbytery met in the First Pres
byterian Church of Vicksburg jan
uary goth, with rs ministers and Is
elders present. DR.. ]. Moody McDill
was elected moderator.
S. l.. Mccullough of Goodman was
received as a candidate for the Cos
pei ministry and was granted per-
mission to supply the Durant group
of churches.
The P~resbytery voted by a large
majority for withdrawal from the
Federal Council. Other matters sent
down by the General Assembly for
action rel placed on the docket Of
the Spring meeting.
Commissioners to the General As
sembly were elected as follows: Min
listers, G. T. Gillespie, w. A. Hall and
A. w. Whitaker, Jr.; Elders, Sidney
Selvidge, Sidney Robinson, and Mr.
Everett of Vicksburg.
In response to a petition from 81
people a commission was appointed
to organize a church in the Ats
Woods subdivision of Jackson az
soon as the way is clear to do o
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Formers Urged To File
For Labor Needs Now

r. l.. Sullivan, Director, Mississip-
pi State Employment Service issued
a statement this week urging farmers
to make known their labor needs to
their local Employment Service Of
flee as soon as possible.
'We want to know the number OF
families you need on your farm and
residence as well as the number of
seasonal workers you anticipate you
will need for chopping, picking and
any other special seasonal or skilled
work" he said.
Holmes farmers may file their
labor estimated needs at the En-
ployment Service Office. 104 Spring
Street, Lexington, p. o. Box 329, or
telephone Lexington 1873.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Lexington OES Members
Guests Of TchuIu

The officers of Lexington Chapter
No. 80, Order of Eastern Star, were
| guests of the o. E. S. at Tchula Thur
sday night, January 22nd.
At the request of the Tchula
Chapter. the Lexington officers in
itiated Misses Goldie and Clare
Johnson of Tchula into the order.
Those attending from Lexington
were sisters Mary Fincher. Beatrice
Gibson, Agnes King, Mary Lee Nc
Lellan, Jean McRae, Katherine HUFF
fstatler, Ruth Reid, 10 Chennault,
Lillian Wells, Lockwood Thompson,
Josephine Upchurch, Willie Strick-
land, Hazel Hathcock, Louise King,
Anna Love Bailey; Brothers, c. M.
Mcdaniel, A. l.. Gibson and Perry
Strickland.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Country Club Members
Meet Again Tonight

Members and prospective members
of the Lexington Country Club will
meet again tonight to make another
attempt. to complete plans for the
proposed improvements and reor-
g%anization of the club, and to elect
officers for 1948.
The meeting will be held tonight
at z o'clock at the City Hall.
Notices have been mailed to men,
bers and prospective members an
nouncing the meeting. T. A. Lail
president of the club, said that much
interest is being shown in the pro-
posed plans and urges everyone in
terested to be on hand for the
meeting tonight.
A president and board of directors
will also be named tonight, he said
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Methodist IS Plans
Attendance Program;
Goal Is 200

If you will notice your calendar
you will see that February will have
five Sundays this year. 1t has been
20 years since February has had five
Sundays and it will be % years be-
fore it will happen again. Some of
us will be here in years when this
happens in 1916.
We are going to give a certificate
of perfect attendance to each one
who comes to the Methodist Church
School each of the five Sundays, so
why not make your plans to come
next Sunday and the other four
Sundays in February?
1t is not our aim to beg anyone to
come to Sunday School but we
would be terribly happy if you would
come. We need you and I feel that
you would get a blessing if you
would come.
One member of our school, Mrs.
Minnie Digs, has not missed a Sun
day in more than eight years. If
she can come for more than 400
Sundays without missing a Sunday,
it seems that we could go at least S
straight Sundays.
1t is our plan to try to enroll more
of our people in our Church School
during 1913. Instead of having an
attendance of around 1870 each Sun
day we should have 200 or more.
Won't you help us to reach that
goal?
We will be looking for you Sunday
morning at 1000 o'clock.
r. c. MOORE, Superintendent.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Ole Miss Coaches
At Rotary Club

Coach Buster Poole and Coach
Wobble Davidson, both of Ole Miss,
were guests of honor at the Lexing-
ton Rotary Club Friday when mem
bers of the club entertained members
of the Lexington High School foot
ball and basketball squads at the
annual luncheon. Coach Bill Schnel-
Ter and Coach David McDavid were
also honored guests at this time.
Pictures of the Ole Miss-LSU foot
ball game last fall were shown with
explanatory remarks by Coach
Davidson. The film was greatly en-
joyed by all those present.
A number of other guests also en-
joyed this occasion with members
of the Rotary Club.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
A. M. Burroughs Injured
In Auto Mishop Monday

The many friends here of A. M
Burroughs, District Manager, Sou
thern Bell Telephone Company
Greenwood, will be sorry to hear OF
his injury in an auto accient near
Greenwood Monday morning.
Mr. Burroughs suffered a fractured
pelvis, hand and ankle, and severe
decorations on his face, back and
arms when his car struck a guard
rail just west of the Delta Medical
Center on highway 80.
Mr.. Burroughs vas enroute to
Greenwood from Winona at the
time of the accident. He was taken
to the Greenwood Leflore Hospital
where he is now confined.
The car was reported to be a total
loss.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Bulldogs Quint Has
Full Weekend Planned

GOODMAN, -(SpeciaD-The Hol.
mes quint will have a tough road tc
travel through Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday. The open play this week
when they tangle for the second
game of the season with the Florida
Whiskered Wizards tonight.
The game will be played in the
Canton High Gym at Canton.
A good boys preliminary game
will open the nights play at Z p. m.
The Holmes-W Wizard game is schedul-
last season at Canton and played be-
ed for s p. m. These two teams met
fore a packed house. Arrangements
r being made by Superintendent
c. A. Johnson in cooperation with
coaches at Canton to accommodate the
overflow crowd expected to be on
hand Thursday night.
Friday night the Wood Junior Col
lege five will come to the campus
for a single game. The Wood quint
from Mathiston has a fast, high cor
ing team, and will probably push
the Holmes boys to the limit to keep
in the win column.
The Pearl River team from Pop
ularville came to the campus for a
double-bill Saturday night. The Hol-
mes boys and girls hope to raise their
percentage in the conference. The
boys teams have a record to date of
8 wins and 3 losses, while the girls
standing is above the 600 mark.
Local basketball fans should get
of thrills before the final
whistle Saturday night. A large
crowd will witness the Holmes Bull
dog-Pearl River Wildcat clash.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Holmes Representatives
Attend Red Cross Meet

A District Regional meeting of the
American Red Cross was held in
Jackson. January 26th. This meet
ing was presided over by Walter c.
Derrick, Regional Director, of the
Atlanta office. Other officials from
that office were leaders on the pro-
gram. The purpose of this meeting
was to organize for the 1913 Fund
Campaign. Chapter representatives
from many chapters in this district
present.
Holmes County's Chapter repres-
entatives were T. A. Lail, chairman:
Herman Flowers, Fund Campaign
chairman and W. H, Counts, former
Chapter chairman and Mrs. Edgar
Lumpkin, Executive Secretary.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Holmes Continues To
SILVER In Record
Breaking Weather
Schools Are Dismissed
Until Further Notice;
Utilities Hold Up

Holmes county, like the rest of
Mississippi and the Mid-South was
caught in the freezing grip of Ole
Man Winter and suffered blow upon
blow of icy winds, rain, sleet and
snow, and the o4a gentleman clutch
ed her close to his frozen bosom and
battered her helpless frame with
freezing blasts.
Holmes countians, ~shivering under
one Of the worst cold snaps in years,
were offered little comfort from the
latest weather reports which fore
cast continued cold temperature
predicted to 60 as low as ten degrees
above zero However, the freezing
rains, sleet and snow appears to be
abated.
Roads and highways almost
impossible due to ice which covered
them like sparkling blankets. State
highways at some points were clos
ed to heavy trucks except those car
rying emergency supplies.
County roads were in as bad con-
dition as driving became a hazard
and a problem with every turn Of
the wheel. Several tenders and tenn
pers suffered minor scrapes as auto
mobiles skidded on the icy pave
ments and in some instances refused
to climb steep, icy inclines.
Mississippi Power and Light Com
pany officials report no damage to
local power lines and received NO
complaints from natural gas Gus
toners on account of low pressure.
Local telephone lines did not suf-
fer. but long distance lines north Of
Winona and Greenwood were out
and calls beyond these points were
impossible. All lines south of Winona
and Greenwood were not affected
and local and long distance service
was not interrupted.
The only persons appearing happy
about the wintry blanket were the
school children who were dismissed
from their classes. They were max
ing the most of the winter Wonder
land" as snow men appeared and
snowballs began to fill the air.
County and city schools were clos
ed as the icy ribbons of roads made
it impossible to transport the child
rem to and from the schools.
Plumbers and repairmen continued
to be swamped with calls despite the
warnings and bills received by their
customers for frozen and bursted
water pipes.
Sunshine took a hand Wednesday
morning and the thaw on heavily
travelled roads began. By noon
some of the ice had disappeared on
the sidewalks and made life for the
pedestrian a little less hazardous.
The larger part of the ice and
snow still remains however, and if
weather predictions are true, will be
here for a little longer.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
West Church Damaged
By Fire Eurly Sunday

The West Presbyterian Church
was damaged by fire about $50 Sun
day morning when a defective flue
in the church ignited the roof OF
the building.
The Durant Fire Department was
called and with the aid of a bucket
brigade by the spectators confined
the fire to the roof.
Damage was estimated to be about
$4,000 to $4,000 including water
damage to the ceiling and floors.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Holmes Conservation District Commissioners
Give Annual Report Of Outstanding Achievements
Herman Flowers Will
Head Red Cross Drive

Herman Flowers, Lexington mer-
chant, will head the 1913 Red Cross
Fund Campaign in Holmes county,
according to an announcement this
week by T. A. Lail, Holmes County
Red Cross Chapter Chairman.
Mr.. Flowers has served as Lex
ington's chairman on the fund cam
paign for the past five years and his
ability as an organizer has been pro-
ven.
Holmes County Red Cross is for
tunate in having Mr. Flowers to di-
rect the campaign.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Rites Held For Infant
William Louis Bailey

Funeral services for infant Will
liam Louis Bailey, 2 day-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Bailey, who died
at the Community Hospital in Lex
ington Friday night, were held Sat-
urday at the chapel of the Southern
Funeral Home in Lexington with
the Rev. T. C. Floyd, pastor of the
Lexington Methodist Church of
ficiating.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by a brother, Grady S,
Bailey, Jr, and three sisters, Geral-
dine, Katherine and Vivian Bailey,
all of Lexington.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Weothersby Is Named
Boy Scout Chairman

Norman Weathersby was named
Holmes District Chairman at a bus
mess meeting of the Andrew Jack
son Council, Boy Scouts of America
held last Thursday at the Hote.
Heidelburg in Jackson.
AS District Chairman, Mr.. Wea'
thersby will serve on the Executive
Board of the Council.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Cage Ploy Resumed
Sails Tonight

Weather permitting, basketball
play will be resumed tonight after
being sidelined due to icy roads and
bad weather in general.
On schedule for tonight at z o.
clock in the gym at Sails the Hor'
net team will engage the Wildcats
in a twin bill. The game originally
scheduled for last week was post
poned as was the game with Nc
Adams.
Tomorrow night play will be re-
sumed on the home court when the
Lexington combines will tangle with
the Coxburg teams in a double head
er beginning at z o'clock.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Eddie Heath Named
Jdyeees President
John Martin, '. p;
To Show Safety Film

Eddie Heath, popular Lexington
ian, was named president of the
Lexington Junior Chamber of Com
merce in election of officers held re-
Gently.
John j. Martin was elected vice
president and will also serve as act
ing treasurer. John F. Pickens was
named secretary of the organiza-
ton.
The incoming Board of Directors
is as follows: A. B. Holder, Jr, inn
mediate past president; Emmett
Reese, E. F. Ray, and Vernon Hath
cock.
Safety Film
The Junior Chamber of Commerce
is planning to show a safety film to
the people of Lexington some time
in February, according to Mr.. Heath
Captain Windham, of the Missis-
sippi State Highway Department,
will be on hand to show the film and
to make appropriate remarks in con
junction with it.
Exact date of the showing of the
film will be announced at a later
date.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
World Prayer Day
VIII Be Held
At Episcopal Church

The World Day of Prayer will be
observed at the Episcopal Church
in Lexington Friday, February 18th,
at four o'clock.
Representatives from each Church
in Lexington will take part on the
program.
Everybody is invited to come and
pray for world peace at that hour.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29

falters we'll be the first to call his
hand.
Alabama's Governor big JIM
Folsom has fallen into line with Gov
ernor Wright's inaugural denuncia-
ton of the Democratic party and has
asked the Alabama delegation to
the national convention to back him
for president as a favorite son.
Folsom declared: ''The head of our
party in Washington is a nice man,
But he's not running our party any
more. And he's not running our
country. He's let himself get hog
tied. He's got some men hanging
around the White House who don't
are anything about him, or the party
or the country"
All of which sounds pretty corny
but true.
Truman may be a nice man but
it takes than that to be presi-
dent of the United States . serv-
ice to country above self is de-
manded.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29
Sinoino Convention Al
Jackson 3 lst 1st

The Stamps Memorial singing con-
vention will meet in the Court
House at Jackson Saturday night,
from 7:30 until midnight.
On Sunday, February LIST, the con-
vention will be held from $3.50 a. m.
to 4 p. m. All singers are invited to
come and take part in a night and
day of good Gospel singing.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29

Senator James o. Eastland has an
nounced that he will be a candidate
to succeed himself for a second
term.
He has made Mississippi a very
worthy senator in Washington and
we hope he will be unopposed this
summer.
This column claims the distinction
of being the first to call upon Jim
Eastland to run for the United Sta
ties Senate. He was our choice then
and we have never been sorry.
We believe Mississippi and the
south can depend upon Jim Eastland
for sound leadership. But if he ever
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-01-29

falters we'll be the first to call his
hand.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10

fE thousands who invade the forests each year with
LOADED guns to hunt birds and animals may find hard
to understand but there many who get just much
thrill out of Hunting with binoculars and Spon
sored by the Audubon Society," there is camp small
island in Muscongus bay, about so miles from Portland Me-
where about IS adult leaders and teachers time take
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10

to observe animals and birds in their native habitat The
value of the does not rest altogether in the pupils
Indirectly benefits tens of thousands of high school, grade
school and college students For after the Closes the
nature scholars return to their cassroom and educa
onal groups where they bring their rst-hand knowledge
Of wilde and much clearer understanding of nature
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10

twoweek intensive in conservation and nature in
struction Under many noted authorities, including Allan D.
Cruckhank of the foremost ornhologists bird
photographers they study zoology botany orthodoxy
rine and insect life and geology.
The students spend as little time in the lecture room as
possible making field trips afoo by motor boat by car
Evening star., 1948-11-28
Also Have a Role
In Army Training g

10 q Z I { E y 1 = S4
DLASTICS have come to play an Inn
portant part In the training Of sol,
diers. At Fort Belvoir, Va, model shop
fashions its own training aids Of plastics.
These include demonstration models Of
scientific equipment, electrical apparatus
and military instruments.
.In the three years this shop has been
in existence. we've made everything
from transparent gasoline pipes to truck
windshields." says Foreman 8. b. SVEN
son.
Not all It's products are military.
Among the nonmilitary items are plastic
dofnes for Civil Aeronautics air beacons
70 replace the glass domes long In use,
The CAA found that the plastic dome
was lighter. cheaper and easier to pro-
cure. The plastic Is heated to 200 degrees
Fahrenheit and blown into shape under
70 pounds Of air pressure.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
A Short Story

>HIs was the night - his night He stood
Il alone, tall, dark-haired, proud, the SPOT
lights flashing on his too-well-ftting evening
clothes with their just too long tails and Just
too large pearl studs. He stood alone, in the
center of the dance floor, holding the crowded
room in hushed expectancy by his mere
presence and his carefully nurtured fame.
These sleek, expensively dressed people
whom he had grown to envy and worship
these people - the cream of cafe society
the people that in his mind he always thought
of as the shiny people were jammed knee to
knee at the little tables. crowded in rows
behind the velvet rope at the door, hushed.
excited, waiting to see him - kim Waldo
Marvelle, In some psychic fashion incredible
to them, read their minds.
He rested his hands on the MAHOGANY table
before him because they were trembling
little with nervousness of this first try-out
performance at the fabulous salary he had
demanded for his first New York appearance.
His black eyes. blazing where the light
struck them, deep-set. tired, looked over the
audience but did not see it. They saw instead
the years of ruthless, driving work that had
brought him here - the work in an endless
succession of hot dusty carnival tents deep
in the midlands. in not quite so hot circus
tents. then in countless smoke filled halls.
They saw other nights in honky -tonk fly
by-night-clubs and then in even more ques-
tionable but far more comfortable night clubs
where men wore dinner jackets over their
shoulder holsters and women cloaked their
greed or their fear with glittering evening
dresses and bright brittle smiles that flashed
on and off like guttering candles.
f1E SAW himself stepping from one to an
other of these places, to the midwestern hotels
with name bands, to New Orleans. to San
Francisco, to Chicago, like man climbing
the steps of stairway. Now he was on the
last step, with the rainbow and the pot of
gold at his fingertips and in his nervousness
the step felt suddenly narrow beneath his
feet and slippery. He felt, and the thought
made him smile. almost as though he really
were psychic and voice out of the forgotten