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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
Births Reported
At Local HOSPITAL

A pair of twins-a boy and girl
and six girls, four boys, were
included in the list of births from
the Montgomery County Hospital
for the period May % through
June 5. The list includes:
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland S. Dustin,
Scaggsville, a daughter, Peggy
Lee; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Thomas
Harrison, Bethesda No. 8, son ;
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Gordon Whet-
eel, Derwood, a daughter, Betty
Ann; Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Thomas
Phillips, 4128 Sampson Road, Sill
yer Spring, son, Albert Eugene
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Alan Aldrich,
Elton Road, New Hampshire Ave-,
Extended, Silver Spring, daugh-
ter, Cynthia Caprice; Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Grover Fraley, 421 Reading
Avenue, Rockville, daughter,
Paula Jean; Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Leroy Wright, 3007 Fayette Road,
Kensington, son, Douglas Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Elgar
Shorts, 215 Crabb Ave-, Rockville,
daughter, Judith Ann; Mr.. and
Mrs. James Glenn Watts, Sr.,
Brandywine, a daughter, Diane
Lynn; Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Bell
Sabin, Stonington Road, Silver
Spring, twins, Susan Aileen and
Michael Andrew.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
TakOma Teacher
To Attend Yale
Health Workshop

Harold L. Alderton has been
awarded a scholarship to attend
a workshop in school health educa-
ton at Yale University June 81 :
August 9th the Montgomery
County Board of Education and
the tuberculosis Association an
nounced jointly today.
Mr.. Alderton, who is Vice Prin-
cipal of Takoma Park Junior High
School is to head up pilot study
health education program at the
Junior High School next fall in
which he will have six other teach
ers working with him.
The workshop at Yale being
conducted jointly by the Schools of
Education and Public Health will
cover health problems and what
is being done about them as well
as the organization and conduct of
health education in secondary
schools. 1t is expected that Mr..
Alderton will be working on mater
ial suitable for use in his own
school as part of the contemplate
ed pilot study.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
Health Fund Meet
To Feature Panel
Discussion Wednesday

The Annual Meeting of the
Health Fund of Montgomery Coun-
ty will be held on Wednesday, June
%, at 8 P. M. in the Circuit Court
Room of the Courthouse in Rock
vile. '7t se
Program for the meeting will
be panel discussion on Increasing
Health Service in Montgomery
County. With case illustrations
from the experience of their
agencies, Miss Ruth Bolton of the
Social Service League, Mrs. Mary
M. DOdson of the County Welfare
Board, DIR. Mary P. Warner of the
County Health Department, and
Judge Alfred Noyes of the Juven-
lie Court will point up the uses
made of existing health services in
the County and the need for in
creasing such services.
DR.. C. M. Derryberry of the
United States Public Health Ser
vice, Chairman of the Community
Chest and Councils Health Com
mittee, will summarize the discus
sion, bringing out specifically what
the community can do to increase
its health services.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

Edward Lee Bishop, William
Henry Brown, Isaac Ross Claggett,
George Upton Copeland, Thomas
William Copeland, Harold Samuel
Dorsey, Eugene Austin Hallman,
Elridge Fairfax Jackson, Maurice
Robert Jordan, Tilghman Lee, Jr.,
Oliver Augustus Riggs, Francis
Wellington, Smith, Donald Eugene
Stewart, Aubrey Eugene Taylor,
John Robert Twyman, Francis
Theodore Weldon, Charles Henry
White, James Herman Williams.
Evelyn Louise Cole, Ethel Lucille
Hansborough, Sadie Margaret
Hill, Doris Tallulah Hopkins, Lii
lie Mae Selby, Corrine Odel Wee
don, Rebecca Irene Williams.
Vocational = Cornelius Percival
Awkard, Raymond Harold Plum
mer, Arthur Ulysses Prather.
Eleanor Mae Bell, Virginia Mae
Boyd, Della Mae Crockett, Annie
Louise Frazier, Beatrice Lennie
Garrett, Sarah Maria Jackson,
Evelyn Virginia Moore, LeVerne
Geneva Prather, Helene Florence
Wilson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
Potomac : Glen
|HOmemakers Have
Outdoor Lunch

Twenty-Five members of the
Potomac-Glen Homemakers Club
enjoyed an attractive luncheon
served on the porch at the home of
Mrs. Donald Roberts on Seven
Locks Road, at the Clubs regular
meeting held Tuesday, June 7. Mrs.
Robert Richards was co-hostess.
c. E. Powell, interior decorator
rom Malcolm Scates, gave talk
and discussed problems in interior
decorating.
Future plans of the club include
| picnic luncheon, with the Trav-
ilah-Darnestown Club as guests, to
)e held on July IL at the Nor
mandy Tea Farm; a trip to Wash
ngton this week to visit the Poto-
mac Electric Power Company
Playhouse; and a White Elephant
Sale to be held in August at the
home of Mrs. Clarence Walker in
he Glen.
Mrs. Frank Clymer will join
others attending the Rural Wo-
mems Short Course at Maryland
University this week.
Guests at this meeting were
Mrs. Edwin Cherington, of the
Eastern Shore, formerly of Glen;
Mrs. L. w. Schlesinger from San
Antonio, Texas; and Mrs. Stanley
Prince from South Carolina.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
Thrift Shop Tea Is
An Enjoyable Event

Many Montgomery County la
dies who spend their leisure hours
working effectively for community
improvements took time off last
week from serious pursuits to en-
joy the Montgomery County Thrift
Shop tea. 1t was a colorful affair
held at the Bethesda home of Mrs.
Frank P. Wilcox, Thrift Shop
president.
The guests began to arrive at
about three-thirty. Anxious to
make the most of the cool sunny
afternoon, they fingered in the
living room only long enough to
greet their hostess and her Execu-
tive Board. Mrs. Wilcox received
in simple grey crepe dress offset
by handsome sunburst pin. Next
in line were the first vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Donald F. Roberts,
smart in a dark blue linen suit;
Mrs. Thomas H. Paterson, second
vice-president; Mrs. o. Nile Har-
kins, treasurer and Mrs. Francis
Thomas, secretary.
Before the afternoon was over
almost everyone had wandered
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
House And Garden Tour.
Crosses Nearly $4,000

Attendance of more than 1900
at the 1949 Maryland House and
Garden Pilgrimage broke all pre-
vious records, and gross admission
receipts of nearly $21, 200 were
forty percent higher than the $751;
900 gate receipts in 1913, the best
previous year since the Maryland
Pilgrimages were founded in 1886.
This announcement is made by
Mrs. Blanchard Randall, Chair
man of the Pilgrimage, who has
just completed tabulating financial
reports submitted by the chairmen
of the II different tours, April 20
through May 8, which brought
visitors from every state Of the
union to more than 200 Maryland
houses and gardens, located in II
counties and Baltimore City.
Mrs. Randall also has announced
Friday, April %, 1850, as opening
day of next years Pilgrimage
which will continue for at least
ten days. Some of the houses and
gardens shown this year will be
included, she announced, but ar
rangements are being made to open
a number of places that have never
before been exhibited.
A check for $4,000, representing
a substantial portion of this years
net receipts latter Federal taxes
and expenses) has been presented
by the Pilgrimage to Mrs. Miles
White, as President of the Ham
mond- Harwood House Association,
Annapolis, thus enabling that
famed example of Georgian archi-
lecture to continue for another year
as museum visited annually by
thousands. This contribution TO-
ward maintenance of the Ham
mond- Harwood House is the major
purpose of Maryland's annual Pill
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

through the lovely gardens border.
ed with hedges of yew and tai
rhododendrons and had paused to
admire the masses of wild madden
and yellow lilies.
Mrs. Roger ]. Whieford who was
recently reelected to the busy post
of regent of the Chevy Chase
Chapter of the OAR assisted al
the tea table. She was smartly
dressed in slim black sheer re-
heved by shell pink accessories.
Many of those attending enthu.
siastically discussed the annua
elections of the Planned Parent.
hood League of Montgomery Coun-
ty which had taken place the
morning of the tea. Mrs. Rober
Huse, the retiring president, talk
ed with her successor, Mrs. Johr
G. Thompson, about the Leagues
new clinic in Silver Spring. Mrs
Thompson looked very pretty in 8
blue print with tulle hat to match
Mrs. Clifford N. Rodlun, whose
successful term as Thrift ShoI
president ended last January
chatted with Mrs. Edward A. Mer-
rift, an earlier president of the
organization. Along with Mrs. B
Peyton Whalen, a founder and
former president, they took then
turns at the tea table.
Other pouring included Mrs. j
w. Barnsley, president, Women's
Board, Montgomery County Gen.
eral Hospital; Mrs. William H.
Gridley, president Women's Aux
'iliary, Suburban Hospital, Mrs,
Katherine M. Sterling, Shop man.
ager, and Mrs. Huse.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
Summer Roundup At
Potomac School Tuesday

All new children who will enter
Potomac Elementary School should
register at the school on June 81,
between am. and IL noon.
Children entering kindergarten
and First Grade must be 5 and 6
respectively by December 1, l949
to be admitted.
These children must be immuni-
zed against diphtheria and small
pox before entering school in Sept
ember.
A doctor and nurse will be pre-
sent to give the toxoid and vaccine
to children of parents who wish to
have the immunization given at
the school.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
WOmen's Auxiliary To
MOntg. County Medical
Society Holds Election

Mrs. William T. Joyce was
elected president of the Women's
Auxiliary to the Montgomery
County Medical Society, at it's
meeting held at the home of Mrs.
E. G. Bauresfeld, Bethesda, recent
ly.
Other officers elected for the
coming year are, Mrs. G. V. Hart
ley, first vice-president; Mrs. G. B.
Queen, second vice-president; Mrs.
Baurefeld, recording secretary;
Mrs. William Aud, corresponding
secretary; and Mrs. J. M. Bank
head, treasurer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16


Richard Montgomery High
School at Rockville will hold its
Commencement, Monday, June 20
when % boys and Al girls will
graduate.
Academic George Kenneth
Mellott, Larry Clemens Messick
George Franklin Ray III, William
Leslie Redifer, John Shattuck III
David Claggett Waters.
Judith Honour Able, Annabelle
Adams, Jane Alice Chinn, Marion
Bennett Chopping, Patricia Gade
Dalton, Mescal Davis, Suzanne G.
Giauque, Gretchen Paffenbarger
Sibyl Ruth Parks, Harriet Eliza.
beth Soper, Joan Marlowe Smith.
General = j. Edmond Bissett
Jr., Charles Carroll Briscoe, Jr.
j. Zebulon Brodie, Kenneth Bru.
mitt, William Martin Grim, Neil
Barclay Davis, Wendell E. Day
Oscar T. Fraley, Jr., James l.
., Louthan, John Monday.
Alma M. Burnley, Montine Cal
loway, Laura v. Fawley, Lucinda
B. Hamilton, Harriet Virgins
Matthews, Marie Catherine Mills
Carolyn Mobley, Elizabeth Lor,
raine Pyles, Laura Ann Rainwater
Betty Lee Ray, Dorothy Mae Russ
man, Peggy Ann Weddle, Catherine
Louise Wright.
Commercial Wallace Lee
Comegys, Eugene G. Heflin, Will
liam R. Stark, Jr.
Emily Jean Carlin, Alice TodC
Clement, Dorothy Joan Duckworth
Martha Jane Embrey, Lorraine
Federline, Patricia June Fraley
Betty Mae Gates, Betty Lou Hefin
Helen M. Hutchinson, Dorothy w
Luhn, Evelyn Lynne Miles, Joe
Ann Miles, Dorothy Alma Monroe
Betty Ann Mullican, Barbara Jear
Nichols, Selma Joan Nootenboom
Catherine Lee Pollen, Loretta Fa'
Ray, Peggy Ann Ray, Virgins
Elizabeth RICHTER, Lorraine Eliza
beth Souders, Betty Jane Vaughan
Shirley Zentz.
Vocational Henry Franklin
Baker, Jr., Eugene Robert Bovey
Clarence L. Mearson, James H
Moneymaker, Chester Milton Par
ker, Charles N. Petit.
Poolesville High School, Pooles
vile, will also hold its Commence
ment, Monday, June 20, when
boys and 8 girls will graduate.
Academic June Elizabeth
Cole.
General Marshall Willard
Allnutt, Claude Hicks Belcher
Floyd Daniel Conrad, Alfred Rob-
inson Dean, Jr., James Robert
Lillard, Jr., Wilson Stonestreet
Luhn, John Thomas Ricketts,
Charles Douglas Rutter, Robert
LOUIS Wynne.
Ruby Alice Ahalt, Margaret
Virginia Bourne, Jacquelyn Aileen
Carpenter, Geraldine Eloise Hub
BILE, Mary Lois Hughes, Charlotte
Loretta Stevens, Doris Marie War
field.
Gaithersburg High School, Com,
mencement, will be held Tuesday
June Fl, when 7 boys and 33 girls
will graduate.
Academic - Thomas Devane
Bordeaux.
Betty Jean Adams, Sara Ann
Cross, Mary Caroline Gallaher,
Mary Ann Gloyd, Margaret Lucy
Gregg, Carol Robertson Hall
Dorothy Louise Mead, Eleanor
Carol Newell, Barbara Louise
Thomas, Anne Riggs White, Jo
Ann Wilson.
General - William Clyde Bog
ley, Harold Clyde Fletcher, Carlos
Lee Geisbert, William Ralph Haga
Robert Lee Owens, Jr., Lloyd Irwin
Ward.
MAry louise Bart, Dorothy
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

Lucille Campbell, Virginia Frances
Cook, Mary Estelle Gloyd, Martha
Joan Hargett, Ruth Myrtle Newell,
Rebecca Lorraine Peddicord, Betty
Ruth Ratliff, Evelyn Louise Reed,
Joan R. Rinehart, Jennie Ida Mae
Sadtler, Joyce Louise Stubs, Mil
dred LaRue Ward.
Commercial Jane Lavonne
Benson, Ellen Adele Boswell, Rose
Ella Cook, Clansy Louise Depew,
Barbara Jean Fraley, Janet Kath-
crime Musser, Marian Janet Reber,
Jean Hope Smith, Mary Jean
Watkins.
Sherwood High School, Sandy
Spring, will also hold its Com.
mencement, Tuesday, June 81,
graduates are: IL boys and 81
girls.
Academic Charles Philip
Barger, John Maurice Barnes
Alban Emerson Brooke, James
Hagerman Conner, Joseph John
Himmelheber, Guy Baker Stephen
son, Jr.. Lotion Stuart Wesley, Jr,
Mary Suzanne Baughman, Phyl.
lis Eve Bernard, Ethel Charlotte
Goodwin, Alice Evelyn Hotel
Betsy Joan Johns, Josephine
Louise Martin, Mary Jean Nor.
IRISH, Vivian Pfeferman, June
Kathleen Potter, Vonna Eunice
Snyder.
General Leighton Lamar
Burriss, Joseph Broke Haste.
Dolores Faye Beall, Lois Merle
Cooley, Ann Sumter Gartrell, MARY
Carolyn Houston, Betty Marie
Howes, Helen Lucretia O'Neal
Catherine Elizabeth Tolson.
Commercial - Mary Margaret
Martin, Janice Irene Potter, Mary
Ann Ricketts,, Alvia Virgins
Smith.
Vocational = Gerald William
Hawkins, Robert Rowland Stabler
Jr.
Damascus High School too will
hold Commencement, Tuesday
June 21, for 6 boys and 8 girls.
Academic Robert Eugen,
Bellison, Hamilton Deets Warfield
Jr.
Ruth Evelyn Brown, Shirley
Hyatt Linthicum, Betty Lorrain,
Monkey.
General - Donald Lee Barber
William Upton Gladhill, Willet
Ray King, James Browning Viii.
liams.
Pauline Thelma Fink, Ruth Ar.
lene Phebus, Beverly Dryle Saw.
yer, Lois Cecilia Staley.
Vocational - Audrey Geraldine
Bosley.
Lincoln High School, Rockville
the only Negro High School al
COMMENCEMENT, Monday, June 20
will graduate 20 boys and 40 girls
the largest class in its history.
Academic - Samuel Aaron Har-
per, Bruce Evans Hill, Theodore
John Jackson, Edward Nathaniel
Norris, Ernest Stanley Owens,
Kenneth Lawton Shelton, James
Porter Stemley.
Mary Virginia Budd, Margaret
Gearldine Carter, Catherine Agnes
Cooper, Barbara Lyndred Cope
land, Alberta Mae Driver, Faye
Elaine Foreman, Delois Louella
Hackey, Helen Victoria Hawkins,
Ethel Louise Hebron, Doris Vir-
ginia Holland, 0del Malinda Jack
son, Mary Ann Lyles, Elizabeth
Marie Moore, Charlotte Mae Par
rott, Ethel May Prather, Edith
Layinia Riggs, Grace Elizabeth
Scott, Marion Frances Smith, Jean
Marie Starke, Betty Jane Talley,
sarah Adytha Thomas, Marie
Elizabeth Twyman, Alice Mae
Washington, Lille Mae Wilson.
General - Edward j. Beverley,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

grimage. However, as in previous
years. an additional $4,000 will
also be turned over, from receipts,
to support various other such
worthy projects located in other
counties.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16
County High Schools To
Graduate us Students

The high schools of Montgomery County graduating
942 boys and 43S girls at graduation exercises June 10th
and 2st The total number of graduates IT'S by coinci-
dence exactly equals the total number of teachers
County schools this year. according to the Board of Educa
ton Five hundred and hrtone of the graduates
at Silver Spring. tsf
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

lHE approach Of Com
mencement Day 1949,
brings many high school
seniors face to face with q
big question = what nextT
There's one big opportuni-
ty. to which every high school
graduate should give serious
consideration. This is the career
offered you in today's Regular
Army.
Few openings in private en-
terpriSe offer you the leadership
training, the educational advan-
ages, the exciting travel and adj
venture, the supervised sports
mo recreation programs and the
eiean, wholesome, active life that
can be yours with an Army en-
liNtment.
Few openings offer you such
rnmradeship with Americas fin
ert young mentor today-only
tne best are acceptable for SER
wee in the United States Army.
TO win a place in today's Reg
MAR Army you must pass phys
teal examinations that are
tougher = mental examinations
more difficult--than ever before.
And with these more rigid re-
agreements you will face keener
nll-'round competition for as
Segment to the more than 200
courses offered at Army tech
ITO Commerce Lane
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

A knowledge of the past helps
understand the probable course Of
the future if that will do you any
good.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

nical and speciality schools.
The rewards are also greater
opportunity for advancement is
limited only by your ability and \
initiative. Many Of today's gen.
eral officers began their careers
as Privates. Some of today's
Privates may be our future Gem
erals!
Appointments to Officers Can
didate Schools and to the u. s. \
Military Academy at West Point
are available to those who can \
make the grade. In what other
field can you aspire so high?
You owe it TO yourself to get |.
all the facts. See the friendly re-
cruiting officer at your local /
u. s. Army and U. s. Air Force
Recruiting Station today. He will
be happy TO give you full details
without any obligation to you.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

HOLSTEIN WINNERS-From the fertile farmlands of
neighbOrng Midwest States WOOdcOc TrpO
Mary Jean Wolter Fairmon Minnesota boy
and girl All HOlstein National Champions for 194S
Against stiff competition including champions from
the national championship awarded by The
Hoein Freiian Association of America annually with
stein industry.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-16

Your markets ore right nsHi door"
by Long Distance
Want TO compare market prices before you
sell your farm producer Or locate some repair
parts for your machinery The quickest way
Is to call Long Distance.
Long Distance service is convenient and
economical. Most calls 20 through while you
hold the line. See the inside front cover OF
your telephone directory for some typical low
Long Distance rates.
The Chesapeake q Potomac Telephone Com
pany OF Baltimore City.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-12

or yellow striped, x to "a inches
long resembling a large lightning
bug. They feed in colonies and
attack most vegetables, particul-
arly tomatoes and egg plants.
These insects can be controlled
very easily by busting or spraying
with DOT, Marlate or Sabadilla
dust. If spraying with DOT use
1 cup of so per cent DOT to 5
gallons of water.
Tomato Hornworm - 1t is a
large green caterpillar 8 to 4 in
ches long with white stripes on
the side. They eat tomato leaves
and tomatoes. Handpick the
worms and dust with marlate or
undiluted cryolite.
Tomato Fruit Worm - Green
or brown caterpillar one half to
one an done half inches long, feeds
on the tomato fruit in all stages OF
growth. Dust or spray with mar
late, DOT, or cryolite.
Lice Are commonly found
on cabbage, English peas. and var
ious types Of shrubs. Plant Ice
are very destructive on various
nlants at this time OF year. To
control this insect use 2 tea
spoons of black leaf 40 in l gallon
Of water. Also put 1 Tablespoon OF
soap flakes in the water to make II
stick to the plant better. Spray
all parts of the plant thoroughly.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-12
Control Garden Insects

Control Garden Insects
The time of year has come when
it will be necessary to control the
many insects that you will find
present in your garden within the
next few days if not already pre-
sent.
The Mexican Bean Beetle - In
the larva stage is a small yellow
ish, hairy looking insect that usu-
ally sticks to the underside of
bean leaves. They eat the green
part of the leaf and just leave the
leaf shredded in a mosquito bar
appearance. This insect should be
controlled by busting with derris
dust, marlate or cryolite. II you
use cryolite use l part of cryolite
to 2 parts flour. Do not use lime.
In busting for the Mexican bean
beetle be sure that you dust from
the underside up so that you may
get the dust directly on the insect.
Blister Beetle - Gray or black
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-12

.oTHISIs
II NEW YORK

He was just going out of his Of
flee as / entered it, and | almost
bumped into him, tall, lanky
Robert E. Sherwood, with a gray
ing mustache and unruly hair. He
is a man of few words - except
on paper. The next morning
read in the papers where he won
the l949 Pulitzer Prize for his
book, Roosevelt and Hopkins"
was not surprised, however, for he
has already won it three times be-
fore for his Broadway plays. Now
at SO, he is probably Americas
most successful author, master of
the drama, of hard hitting bio
graphy and - to show how versa
tile he is, Sherwood is now en-
gagged in writing a musical COM
edy to be entitled, Miss Liberty
for which Irving Berlin is compos-
ing the music.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-12
Goodman Man Chosen
For AL. Who Who
Honor Given For
Point OF Service

James Grady Jacob, superinten-
dent of Goodman Consolidated
school, has been certified by Ma
tional Departmental officials as
eligible for a biography in Who's
Who in American Legion and Ma
tional Forty ct Eight.
Mr.. Jacob is assistant dean OF
men, veterans advisor, and tea
cher of history and government
in summer school at Holmes
Junior college. Born in Carpen-
ter, he married Eva Heard Jacob,
who teaches the third grade in
Goodman school.
He served overseas during
World War I, as a member of the
medical battalion, and after his
discharge taught school and re-
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-12
Johnson Reports
CoIored Collections

A. P. johnson serving as Coun-
ty chairman for the negroes IN the
Red Cross Fund campaign has
submitted the following report
on collections made ove the coun-
ty. The colored schools and
churches were used as mediums
of contact.
New Hope IS; Pine Grove So;
Oak Grove SIC; Mt. Zion IS; West
SIS; Rose Hill So; Franklin $3.50;
Damascus SIS; Tchula Junior High
school $26.25; Spring Hill $11.19;
Richland Vocational School (from
teachers) $11; Long Branch So;
Eulogy 81; Pilgrim Rest 81; Shiloh
IS; Horseshoe S.; Mt. Ebony 81;
Union So; Rosebank S.; New Zion
$5.25; Clover SIS; Cypress Flat
$3.50; Sharpe SIS; Lunsford $3.50;
Goodman $3.50; Bowling Green
$3.05; lebanon So; Walden SIS;
Mileston Community $88; Bethle-
hem $3.50; Durant $50.
Lexington - Ambrose High
$51.28; Lexington Trade school 81;
Asia Baptist church $26.50; Ep-
worth Methodist church $3.50. The
total shown by these figures is
which is a good report and
this contribution played a sub
stantial part in making the Coun-
ty quota reach and exceed the as
goal.