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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-08-06

day through Saturday, from 600
to GAS am.
Massey's morning program fea-
lures platter chatter, the top hit
tunes of the week weather and
time checks, news and announce.
ments of spot local events.
The signing of Massey marks
the first time that WWDC, the
home of the top disc jockeys
in the Nations Capital" has hir-
ed Negro performer in that ca.
pacity.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-08-06
Jackson Soldier In
Air Force
Sd

Davis Monthan Air Force Base.
ucson, Arizona, July Is = Re-
cruit WHINE Burnside, 20, son of
Mr.. V. G. Burnside, SIG Earl
Street, Jackson, Miss, has recent
ly been assigned to Davis Mon
than Air Force Base Tucson,
Arizona, from Fort Lawton,
Washington.
He will be assigned to the
Quartermaster Corp at Davis
Monthan.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-08-06
Wash. Radio
Station Hires First
Negro Disc Jockey

Washington (ANP) - Jon Mas
sery, s, W2ashington's No. l
Negro disc Jockey, has been
signed by station WWDC to con-
duct daily morning show and a
Saturday night program according
to an announcement by Sen
Strouse, station manager.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-08-06

Rubbing a mosquito bite wifi
moist soap relieves the itching, re-
cording to the u s. department @!
agriculture. Soap also helps To pre-,
vent ivy poisoning Wash the ex.
posed area thoroughly with soap art
water, so that the irritating oil
rom the leaves Stll be flushed trcU
re skin
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-08-06
Delicious Pastry

Hcmemakers with an abundant
supply Of butter will enjoy more de.
tcjo'ls pastry II they will use butter
for onefourth to one halt the H.,
reu,l r~d IN Their rer,3ea
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-08-06

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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Kemp Malone Coming

fContinaed from fret pa1e)
just for Hardin Craig, George Cof-
man, Clifford Lyons, and a few
other Chaucer mad professors. They
are designed for the general public,
and everybody is invited
Mr.. Malone, native Of Mississippi,
was graduated from Emory Unwer-
sity, took his Ph.D at the University
of Chicago and has studied and
tauYht at many 1I1sttf II ttiios1s IN F1sts- fsts-
rope and America He has been pro-
fessor At Johns Hopkins for rs years.
As leader Of the movement 70
make the English language in Amer
ica the object of serious study he
founded with Louise Pound the
Journal. American Speech" has
taken leading role in the An.eri-
can Dialect Society. and was one Of
the editors Of the American College
Dictionary He WAS president Of the
Linguistic Society Of America in
1914 and WAS American delegate TO
the An and 5th meetings Of the In
transitional Linguistic Congress
Now and then he has taken time
on from me pursuit Of scnUiarS m p,
and IN the course Of these truaDcies
he has written The Dodo and the
Camel and other poems Maybe he
car BE- persuaded 70 desert the
Cauterbury pilgrims for few min
1tes, at one Of his lectures here, come
forward about six centuries. and read
some Of his own verses
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Miss Sylvia sparrO~ HOuOred

Miss Sylvia Rose Sparrow, who is
70 be married in June to Jesse Riley
Of the post Office staff. was honored
at miscellaneous bridal shower held
recently by Mrs. Martin Sparrow and
Mrs Charles Lowdermilk at the home
Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Sparrow Of Harrington road There
were IS guests from Chapel Hill,
Carrboro, Harrington, Durham, and
Greensboro. Mrs. Gladys Smoak of
Durham was in command of flower
arrangements and entertainment. The
entire first floor was decorated with
spring flowers Miss Sparrow was
presented with a corsage Of gar
denias and received many beautiful
gifts, including crystal, silver, and
china in her chosen pattern.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Gerheim Wins Coker Award

Earl B. Gerheim, who was the first
student to receive the Ph.D. degree in
from the University of
North Carolina, is also the first stu
dent 70 receive the Elisha Mitchell
Scientific Society's new William
Chambers Coker award for the best
dissertation by a graduate student in
any scientific department. The $50
award was presented Tuesday night
at . meeting Of the society. The
title of the winning dissertation was
"Staphylococcal Coagulation and
Fibrinolysis. Mr.. Gerheim, who is
now on the faculty Of Wayne Uniyer-
sity, Detroit, few to Chapel Hill at
the weekend to receive the award
and to be on the society's program.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13

Senator and Mrs Frank P.
Graham left for Washington not
long after the festivities. They
are staying at the Congressional
hotel.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
The Strange Case of
The Six Missing Fish

Brodie Clark, Teet Lloyd, and Paul
Robertson went down to Terrell
county last week TO fish ia the Wild
cat bay area Of the Scuppernong
river They hadn't been out long till
they had six nice bass trailing along
side the boat on their chain stringer.
But when Mr.. Robertson prepared
70 put their 7th catch on the stTinger
he was dismayed to see that il and
the six bass were missing. evidently
because II had been insecurely
fastened TO the boat
The next day they fshed in the
same part Of the river. As Mr. Lloyd
made . cast with his fly rod a FISH
rippled the water where the bait
landed. The fisherman reeled 10 and
there was the srringer and the SIX
bass, all alive and Topping By acci-
IDENTIFY hooking one Of the bass in the
side he had retrieved the previous
days loss. i
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Morehead Building

Continued from first pGoe)
the Planetarium will be the meeting
Of ear.h, skies, and people who need
q new acquaintance with the good
ness IF the earth and the ma jesty
81 the heavens"
The Planetarium spectacle, sLet
There Be Light" was introduced by
a Voice repeating the first words Of
the Bible: In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth.
And the earth vas without form, and
void; and darkness was upon the face
Of the deep. And God said, Let
there be light; and there was light. =
The sun was the first of the
heavenly bodies to come into view.
A moment later came the moon. And
then. all in a moment, the sky was
a-glittsr with the stars.
Mr., Marshall manipulated the in
strument by electric contacts. from
where he sat at console, and ex-
plained t6 the company. in simple
language and with remarkable clar-
ity, the movements Of the sun, the
moon, and the planets. With a little
golden arrow, which coursed back and
forth across the sky, he pointed out
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Silver BasketbaIIs Awarded

Silver basketballs were awarded
Coach Bill Grice and his victorious
Chapel Hill high school basketball
team at the recent meeting Of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Asso-
citation and the FIVE leading civic clubs
in the community The Junior Cham
Der Of Commerce presented the bas-
ketballs in recognition Of the team Is
tIB-0) andefeated season.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13

May Queen, the festivities were pre-
sided over by Uncle Sam and the
Statue of Liberty. Following 4 con-
test among the students, Alfred Bar
bee and Margaret Battle were chosen
to play the two roles. Their court was
made up of students dressed in the
costumes Of nations friendly to the
United States. The program included
dancing, games, foot-races, and other
contests, with the winners receiving
prizes contributed by Chapel Hill and
Carrboro merchants.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13

the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper.
the Pleiades, Orion, Cygnus, and other
consultations. And he showed the
Southern Hemisphere sky with the
consultations, the Southern Cross
and others, that are never seen in
our latitude.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Community couneil Meeting

The Community Council will clect
officers at meeting at s Pm. Mon
day in the Town Hall. Mrs. U r.
Holmes will preside and review coun-
ell activities for the past year. Cor
don Blackwell is chairman Of the
nominating committee. Reports will
be read by committee chairmen.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Happy Visitors


(C0NttREed on page ~
here to live after becoming one
OF the country's most distin-
guished illustrators, presents his
latest achievements collection
OF pen-and-ink portraits Of men
notable in the history Of the Uni
versity. They are in the Faculty
Lounge. In a row against one
wall are the Presidents from
Caldwell TO Graham, and on the
opposite wall are eminent mem
bers Of the faculty in years past.
Among the visitors were Mr..
and Mrs. William 7. Polk; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles W. Tillett; Mr..
and Mrs. James A. Gray and
their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Davis Mrs.
Arthur London, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones Fuller and Frank Fuller;
Attorney General Harry Nc
Mullan and his assistant, John
Jordan Arthur G. Nash, (the
University's consulting archi-
tectl Mrs. Rufus L. Patterson
(who came with the Morehead
party from New York; and her
brother, Lathrop Morehead Of
Durham; Miss Julie Harris Of
Danville, Va, member Of the
Morehead clan: Mrs. Louis Sut-
ton; and Mrs. Felix Grisette.
Senator and Mrs Frank P.
Graham left for Washington not
long after the festivities. They
are staying at the Congressional
hotel.
Nobody in the company dis
played more eager curiosity or
more all-around alertness than
the older men. The central fig
ure among these was Of course
the d0IOr Of Lhe DuIiding, Dir.
Morehead, who is 70. There were
Supreme Court Justice Seawell,
who will be IS in October; Su-
preme Court Justice Devin, who
will be II in July and Steve
Askew, who is Is. And the
record says that William X.
Kenan, Jr., is rs and John Sprunt
Hill is 30, but / find il hard TO
believe as | hear their voices
and observe their looks and
their movements. | recalled ID
Judge Deyin one Of my earliest
memories-his bullet throws
across the diamond when he was
first-baseman on the University
baseball team in the year 1893.
Mr., Kenan was an outfielder then
besides being on the football
team.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
Villagers in Order Of the Grail

Dave Sharpe and I'd Tenney of
Chapel Hill were among the ~ stu
dents recently initiated into the Order
of the Grail, University honor 30
ciety.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1949-05-13
May Day Party At Negro School

Lincoln high school students held
a May Day celebration last Friday
with an entertainment program titled
May Day with Friendly Nations"
Instead Of featuring the traditional
Evening star., 1949-01-21
Farley Called Feb. Z
On Social Hygiene

The annual meeting and regional
conference of the American Social
Hygiene Association and the District
Social Hygiene Society will be held
February 2 in the Hotel Statler.
Speakers at the all-day confer
ence will include Representative
Bolton, Republican, OF Ohio; DR..
Leonard A. Scheele, Surgeon Cen
eral Of the United States Public
Health Service; Mai. Gen. Edwin p.
Parker, jr., provost marshal general.
and chairman of the central board
of the Armed Forces Disciplinary
Control Boards; Birch E. Bayh. di-
rector of health and physical edu-
cation OF the District public schools;
Frances c. Haddock, chairman OF
the health and personal develop
ment area of the Howard University
women's physical education depart
ment.
Also DR.. Mable G. Lesher, sex
education consultant Of the Ameri-
can Social Hygiene Association;
Capt. Rhoda j. Milliken OF the
Metropolitan Police DEPARTMENT.
Womens Bureau; Mrs. Wallace N.
Streeter of the District Congress OF
Parents and Teachers. and DR.. s.
Ross Taggart, chief Of the Health
Departments Venereal Disease Bu-
reau.
Dean James Harold Fax Of George
Washington University School OF
Education will be chairman.
The conference is cosponsored by
the Public Health Service and CO.
operating agencies Of the District
and nearby areas.
Evening star., 1949-01-21
New Faces in Congress
Boiling, House Member From Missouri,
Is Army Veteran With Bottle Stars

Richard w. Boiling, 80, an Army
veteran with four battle stars from
the Pacific area, is a new Demo-
cratic member of the House from
Missouri. He has taken the seat of
former Representative Albert l..
Reeves, jr., whom he defeated in
November
A graduate of the University Of
the South, at Sewanee, Tenn, Mr..
Boiling took graduate work at
Vanderbilt University. He taught in
preparatory school and later
served as assistant to the head Of
the Department Of Education.
Florence State Teachers College in
Alabama.
For q while, he did adult educa-
tional work in rural communities
as well as in industrial workers
groups in the South.
Entering the Army as private
in 1941, he served four years over
seas, in Australia. New Guinea,
Philippines, and Japan. His last
duty was as assistant to the chief
of staff to General Macarthur.
He was awarded the Legion OF
Merit, Bronze Star Medal, and four
battle stars. He now is lieutenant
colonel in the organized reserve.
On leaving the Army, Mr.. Boiling
became veterans adviser at the
University Of Kansas City. and was
active in civic affairs in that COM
munity.
Taking q prominent role in
veterans affairs, he was elected ma
tional vice chairman of the Amer
lean Veterans Committee in June,
1947, and made extensive trips
throughout the country, speaking on
foreign and domestic policies.
He continued his interest also In
Kansas City civic and political
affairs.
In May, 1s47, he was appointed
Evening star., 1949-01-21

County will be distributed in Febru-
ary by Parent Teacher Associations.
The survey will aid the Board of
Education in organizing special
services for children with physical,
emotional or mental problems.
Parents Of handicapped children
IN the Bethesda-Chevy Chase and
Evening star., 1949-01-21

upper Montgomery County areas
have been urged to Cooperate with
Parent Teacher Associations in the
survey. A similar study was con-
Quoted in the Silver Spring -Takoma
Park areas last spring.
Evening star., 1949-01-21

Results of the surveys will be
combined, Mrs. Walter F. Nolte.
chairman of the Parent-Teacher
Associations Committee on Unmet
Needs, announced.
Evening star., 1949-01-21

REPRESENTATIVE BOILING.
Mid West director of Americans
for Democratic Action.
His wife, Mrs. Barbara Boiling, Is
a member of Jackson County Demo-
cratic COMMITTEES, and has been ac-
tive in educational and child well
fare affairs.
Evening star., 1949-01-21
| Montgomery PTAs Plan
Special Services Survey

Questionnaires to determine how
many children need special educa-
tional facilities in Montgomery
Evening star., 1949-07-18
New Demands Made to Divorce
Potomac, Bay Fishery Problems.

wars was drawn up last winter
by legislators of Maryland and
Virginia Tidewater counties who
held several meetings on both
shores.
Died. in Committee.
1t was originated by Senator
James B. Monroe, Republican. of
Charles County, and was passed
by the Maryland Senate.
The measure died in the House
Chesapeake Bays and Tributaries
Committee, presumably because
Gov. Lane favored a bill recon-
mended by the Bi-State Study
Commission. The latter provided
for settlement of bay and river
questions as single unit. It was
passed by both houses and signed
by Gov. Lane.
The Virginia Assembly is almost
certain to face a similar situation
when it meets early next year.
Delegates w. Tayloe Murphy, ac-
cording to reports current here, is
to introduce a bill identical to
that approved in Maryland. Con-
currence by both States is neces-
Evening star., 1949-07-18

sary perore the measure can be-
come effective.
Battle Opposes Bill.
Mr.. Murphy. who is a member
of the Study Commission, will
have the support of c. O'Conor
Goolrick, who is an important cog
in the Byrd political machine and
also is chairman of the Study
Commission.
Both Mr.. Goolrick and Mr..
Murphy are said to believe that
their bill can be forced through
the Old Dominion Assembly de-
spite powerful opposition from
every section of Tidewater Vir-
ginia.
On the other hand, John S.
Battle, the Byrd candidate for
Governor, has come out openly
against the Study Commission S
bill, as has William Pickens Mil
ler, one of the anti-organization
candidates.
State Senator Robert o. Norris,
president pro tenn of the Virginia
Senate, is expected to introduce
the Potomac River Bill. Senator
Norris took a leading part in
drafting the measure. He was a
member of a Virginia delegation
which visited the Maryland Gem
eral Assembly during the last ses-
sion while conferees of the two
States were framing the bill.
Evening star., 1949-07-18
PoroIyzed Pilot
Gets Down Safely,
Then Flies Aqoin
By the Associoted Press

PORTLAND, Oreg.. July 1s.-
An Air National Guard pilot
landed fighter plane safely yes
terday with radioed instructions
although his head and neck we're
paralyzed.
1t. John Haley tainted when he
climbed out of the plane. but he
later returned to his group and
flew formations during en- All
Force reserve dedication cere-
mony.
Maj. Gordon Doolittle. Oregon
Air Guard officer. said 1t. Haley S
mead was snapped violently back
ward in a stunting maneuver. He
lost consciousness momentarily in
trying to straighten his head
Two other pilots in the formation
detected his trouble.
While the stricken airman held
the awkward position, unable tc
look at the ground he landed per-
fectly from instructions ladioed
by another plane failing him into
the air base,
Evening star., 1949-07-18
speeioI Dispoteh 10 The Sfor

COLONIAL BEACH. Va, July
l8.-Renewed demands that Poto-
mac River conservation problems
be divorced from those of Chesa-
peake Bay we're voiced here today
as result of the shooting of a
Crisfield Md waterman by a
Virginia officer.
The waterman, Earl Nelson,
was wounded fatally July 5 by
David Acree. Virginia Tidewater
Fisheries inspector, repeatedly
during a struggle over a rifle.
IT'S only a miracle it did not
happen on the Potomac" said
John E. Mayo, executive secre-
tary of the Potomac River Oyster
mems Association.
The whine of rifle and ma
chine gun bullets from Maryland
patrol craft hot on the trail of
Virginia oyster dredgers has been
heard intermittently here for
more than a century" Mr.. Mayo
declared.
Almost the same set Of circum-
stances occurred here last spring
he recalled, when Maryland
patrol boat ran a dredger ashore
directly in front of Colonial Beach
and hundreds of townspeople
watched one of the crew and a
Maryland inspector struggle for
possession of the officers rifle.
Other crew members set the
dredge afire to prevent its cap
ture and finally all escaped. he
said.
Mr.. Mayo said the 400 members
of his association will press for
passage of legislation designed to
settle the Potomac River problem,
leaving Chesapeake Bay questions
to be solved later.
I'VE feel" he explained. that
the Tangier Sound incident has
created so much tension that a
solution of bay and river prob
lens together will be virtually i'm
possible for years to come"
A bill to end Potomac oyster
Evening star., 1949-07-18
10 Opera Performances
Planned al Waterqate

A series of 10 opera perform
ances. sponsored by the newly
organized Washington Theater
and Opera Company will be pre-
sented by the San Carlo Opera
Company at the Watergate from
August 3 to 13.
The series will be the first en-
terprise of the new group. which
plans similar musical programs in
the future. according to John
Brunner, an official.
Carmen will open the series
August 3 and will be repeated
August II. Madame Butterfly
is also scheduled for two perform
ances, on August and 13.
Others scheduled are Aida" on
Evening star., 1949-07-18
Ex-Butcher Bow Dies Rich

William Charles Reeves, firm be-
liver in private enterprise. who 70
years ago became Saturday boy
for butcher in Brighton. Eng
land, died the other day leaving
S2O3 900.
Evening star., 1949-07-18

August S; "Traviata," August g.;
La Boheme," August 7; "Caval-
leria Rusticana," and "Pagliacci,"
August 9; Faust" August 10 and
"Rigoletto," August IL.
Evening star., 1949-04-17
King George County
Doubles School Tax
D. vs.s AaS0x snsea Pres.

KING GEORGE COURT
HOUSE. Va. Aprii l6~-T1hs kiHs
Georse County Board O. Super
visorS has increased the county 's
school lax levy from 81 10 s. 20
per sl0o OF assessed valuation.
The bulk OF the increase wall be
used TO pay FOR new $3.50 900
high school for Negroes The
amount vas approved in q bond
issue referendum last year.
Federal Judge Sterling Hutche-
son has directed school officials
here and in Gloucester County to
eaualize school facilities for Ne
groes with those for white chill
dren. All agreement was reached
between attorneys for the Negroes
and the King George County
School Board TO hold UP final dis
position of the case until this fall
while Improvements are made TO
the King George framing School
for Negroes.
In the case of Gloucester. how
ever, officials there have been ad-
judged in contempt for failing 10
provide equal education facilities
Voters turned down $500 600
bond issue referendum in Glou-
cester County about two weeks age
and that county's school officials
have been directed by Judge
Hutcheson to appear before him
before May 1 In Richmond for
imposition Of penalties.
India will import no food after
1851.
Evening star., 1949-04-17
VPI Will Inaugurate
DR.. Newman Tomorrow
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, April Is
Representatives from 1913 col
leges and universities will come
here Monday for the formal in
auguration of DR.. Walter S. New
man as tenth president of Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute.
DR.. James Rhyme Killian, jr.
president of the Massachusetts,
Institute Of Technology. will be
the principal speaker in inaugura-
tion exercises in Burruss Hall
Gov. Tuck will deliver salutations
from the Commonwealth.
DR.. Newman, So. will be, sworn
into Office by the rector of the
Virginia Tech Board OF Visitors
William E. Wine of Parker.
Among the guests will be Sena-
tor Robertson and Representative
Burton, both Democrats. OF Vir-
ginia; REA Director Claude A
Wickard, and United States Com
missioner of Education Earl j
McGrath. Heads of all OF Vr-
ginia's colleges will be present.
DR.. Newman was elected to the
presidency in August. 1947. by
the board of visitors as successor
to DR.. John r. Hutcheson, who
became chancellor.
Evening star., 1949-04-17
Grandmother Kills Husband
With Car; Murder Is Charged

Mrs. Mcclure was questioned
following her arrest last night by
Mr.. High and Criminal Investi-
gator r. w. Howden.
The death, Mr.. Howden said
followed an argument during
which Mr.. Mcclure got out Of the
car and his wife drove on. She
went eight blocks, then turned
around and drove back to where
her husband was walking.
"She swerved off to the left
side of the road and the car struck
her husband" Mr.. Howden said
| He quoted the grandmother as
sayinf; II don't care whether
you send me to the electric chair
or to the penitentiary for life-I've
been in the penitentiary for the
last Is years Of my life"
The couple had been married
l. Is years and had one daughter.