The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-10-27
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Your editor will leave earl,
next week for a trip around tn.
world sailing from San Francisc,
on Friday, November 4th in tn.
S. S. Monroe Of the American
President Lines - and returnin|
to New York on February 2
1850.
If I can get away soon enough
/ will attend a convention Of the
Southern Newspaper Publisher,
Association at Mineral Wells
Texas, enroute to the Colder
Gate City by plane.
The Monroe is a large and beau
tiful ship and carries a total o.
96 passengers--about half o.
them will be cruise passenger:
making the trip all the way. The
remainder will be passengers fol
one Of the Is ports of call h Il
countries touched by the lihel
on its journey.
Ports of call which l will visit
include Honolulu, Yokohama, ia
pan (only 40 minutes from Tok-
yo) and few miles from Kama
kura; Kobe, Japan; Hong Kong
China; Manila, Philippine Is
lands; Singapore, Malaga; Penang
an island in the Malayan Union
Colombo, Ceylon and a visit te
Handy, the capital.
Then we will sail around the
southern tip of India for a stop
at Cochin enroute north to Bonn
bay where l expect to spend
Christmas - and think of all the
folks back home in Holmes
county, Gadsden, Alabama, and
New York. expect to make a
trip by plane from Bombay to
Agra to see Tai Mahal.
The next schedule stop will be
at Karachi in the new state OF
Pakistan, then at Suez, Egypt,
before going through the Suez
Canal to Port Said and Alexand-
ria, Egypt, making side trip to
Cairo, Egypt, to see the Pyra-
mids and Sphinx at Gizeh.
Sailing from Alexandria the
next port call will be Marseille,
France, after sailing nearly the
full length of the Mediterranean.
The Monroe then loops back to
italy where calls are made at
Genoa, Leghorn and Naples be-
fore returning to New York.
I may leave the ship at Mar.
settle when it gets there on jan
uary Is, spend a few days in
southern Italy visiting some OF
the country I did not see when
I was there last summer, and
then come back to New York by
plane from Rome - still getting
to New York by February 2 at
the latest. / do want to visit
Naples, Mt. Vesuvius, the island
of Capri and make the short trip
to Pompeii and spend at least
four days in Rome before COM
ing home.
AL of this tells you pretty much
where I'll be and I'll be writ
ing an article every week or more
often for you while l am gone.
/ hope you won't miss single
issue of the paper and that each
of you will feel you're making
the trip with me as the weeks
roll by.
I win appreciate your usual
wonderful cooperation while /
am gone in reporting the news
and getting your ads in on time,
etc. The same competent staff
will be on duty while I am gone
with Mr.. Leo Maness, my capable
foreman in charge.
Jimmy Collard mas charge Of
the advertising and win also
write news, and his lovely wife,
Mary Lou Collard, will continue
to write society, locals and other
general news as well as take care
of office routine.
A full time force in the shop
will be on hand to take care of
your printing needs--and we are
as near to you as your telephone.
If you live out of town and have
a printing order for us or an adj
vertisement we will be happy at
any time to accept a collect tele-
phone call from you-just tele-
phone Lexington 116.