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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
Last Rites Held
For A. ". Mitchell

Funeral services for Andrew
West Mitchell, Jr., "a, long time
telegraph operator and agent for
the Illinois Central railroad i'm
Durant for many years. who died
July 3 after an illness of six days,
were held from the Durant Me
thodist church Tuesday, with the
Rev. T. A. Filgo, the Rev. S. L.
MCCULLOUGH and the Rev. Johnny
Dinas, jointly in charge. Burial
was in Mizpah cemetery, Durant-
Born March 4, 1885 at Oxford.
the son of Josephine Quinn and
Andrew West Mitchell, he was
married June 26, 1912 in Lexing-
ton. He was a member of the Me-
thodist church and had been en-
ployed with the &c railroad for
As years.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Hattie
Jordan Mitchell; three sons. Mer-
rill ]. Mitchell, Shreveport, La;
Andrew w., III, Ardmore, Okla:
Walter F. Durant; three bro
theirs, Claude O., Memphis; c. D..
Millington, Tenn; and Donald,
Delta, Colorado: two sisters, Mrs.
Mary Gill White, Jamestown, N.
c., and Mrs. Ed Yeates, Stark
vile; also three grandchildren.
Southern Funeral home, Du--
rant, was in charge of arrange.
ments.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
Ebenezer Churches Hold
Vocation Bible School

The Methodist and Baptist
churches of Ebenezer will spon-
sor a Vacation Bible school at
Ebenezer Methodist church July
Ills, from 3 to S pm, it is an
nounced by the Rev. Crawford
Ray. pastor. All children between
the ages of three and is are urged
to attend.
If transportation is needed, it
is asked that Miss Nora Thomas
at Humphrey O'Reilly's store OF
the Rev. Mr.. Ray be contacted.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
Boptist RevivoIs Slated
In Holmes And AttuIu

Revivals slated during the sum-
mer at Baptist churches of Holm
es and Attala counties include:
Ebenezer, July II, the Rev. Paul
L. Bard; Hurricane, July "a, the
Rev. A. r. Favre, the Rev. L. E
Burnette.
Sails, July II, the Rev. Mr.
Favre, the Rev. Mr.. Burnette;
Ethel, July 10, the Rev. Mr.. Bard
the Rev. R. A. Corkern; Nc.
Adams, July 81, the Rev. DR.. Tee
Clark, the Rev. F. c. Norris.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07

Mrs. p. r. Roby of Durant, ane
Mrs. Jed Pepper of Pickens, at
tended the wedding of Miss Fran
ces Doss to William Roby at the
First Baptist church, Kosciusko
Sunday, June 10.
Mrs. L. P. Burrows and daugh-
tiers, Ruth and Sue, of Russville,
Georgia, accompanied by Mrs
Bessie Mcclellan, visited Mrs. j
". Justice on Friday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07

Capt. Richard B. Drane, in
structor of quartermaster ware
housing, R.O.T.C. camp. Orlando,
Florida, spent the weekend with
relatives here. Mrs. Drane and
Dick returned to Florida with
him. During their absence, Don
lis visiting his grandmother, Mrs.
c. w. Myers.
Mrs. r. w. Rhyme and Mrs.
Mary Rosamond of Montgomery
who is visiting in the home OF
Mrs. Rhyme, are spending the
week with the Aubrey Seays at
Oxford.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07

l guess we're coming to pretty
pass when dumb animals are
treated better than human beings
or are dogs dumb animals? A
lot Of you will surely answer in
the negative. Anyway, the way
these pets are spoiled and cod
died here in New York is some
thing for the books. They are
treated with all the care and dig
nifty Of genteel characters of priv
Eege. For instance, there is a sign
above the escalators in Blooming
dale's store which says Garry
your dog" A mere human is left
to stand, perhaps stumble and
fall, but as for the doggie, he gets
two rides.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
High Infestation
Plant Board Informs;
Urges Poisoning

State College, Miss. July z -
With rains continuing through the
past week in most sections of
Mississippi, prospects for cotton
crop were very discouraging, ac-
cording to the State Plant board.
Inspectors for the Board and Fed
eral entomologists examined All
fields in 40 counties, finding vice.
vile in 367 with an average in
festation of 80 per cent which
compares with 80 per cent last
week and IS per cent a year ago.
Several fields were reported to
have 100 per cent infestation. In
addition the Delta and Pine Land
company in Bolivar county re-
ported weevils on 297 out of 309
i fields, ranging from one per cent
TO 80 per cent infestation, with
, an average of 20.
About the only areas in the
state where damaging infestations
were not present were some pre-
viously flooded sections of the
Delta and some localities in the
Southern part of the state where
little or no cotton was grown last
year. All through the centra
and north central sections high
Iinfestations were recorded.
According 10 Clay Lyle, ento.
mologist of the Board, poisoning
is paying well in fields examined
the past week. In Holmes coun-
ty three fields poisoned once hao
16, 10, and q per cent punctured
while across the road from one OF
them a nonpoisoned field had sc
per cent. In Choctaw county two
fields poisoned once had 20 and
30 per cent infestations, while five
imprisoned fields examined in
that county had 81, rs, 81, 81
and 80 per cent.
Immediate poisoning is badly
needed in most of the fields
Farmers are urged by DR.. Lyle
to make infestation counts, but
where waist-high cotton is load
ed with punctured squares and no
blooms he says there is no need
wasting time making a count. An
application of three per cent gam
ma benzene hexachloride and
five per cent DOT at the rate OF
enpounds per acre is advised
followed four days later with cal
cium arsenate, Tor the same 3-s
mixture if preferred.) and then q
third application of 3-5 about four
to five days after the calcium ar
senate.
II toxapheue is preferred i
should be used for every applica-
ton and NOT alrernared with cal
cium arsenate. This should re-
duce the infestation> long enough
to set crop and when it begins
rising again which will be prob
ably within two to three weeks,
another series of three applica-
lions should be made to protect
the young bolls.
More details about cotton pois-
oning may be secured from the
State Plant board at State col
lege.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
Patients At The Hospitu|

J. " Mcbride, West
j. X. Thomas, Pickens
Rex Buchanan, Durant
Madeline Carol Harthcock,
Lexington
Mrs. Grady Sims, Durant
Mrs. Lizzie White, Cruger
Mrs. Eloise Shields, Belzoni
Mrs. Robert Wigley. Lexington
Mrs. H. E. Blue and baby, Duran
Colored
Levi Nichols, Durant
Frank Williams, Tchula
Eleanor Hayward, Lexington
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
ATTEND MCMILLAN RITES

Friends and relatives who at
tended the funeral of Mrs. Jessie
Roberts Mcmillan at Neville
Sunday included Mrs. Fred L.
Taylor, Lamar Roberts Taylor,
and Mrs. Inez Taylor of Durant.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
Admitted To Kosciusko Hospital

Admitted to Montfort Jones
hospital were the following pa
tents: June %, Mrs. w. r. AL
len, Durant; July 8, Mrs. Brown
Palmertree, Walden; July 4, Mrs.
T. S. Wigley, Sails; Miss Fran
ces Myers, Walden.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07

Miss Virginia Blankenship of
Jackson spent the weekend with
her mother, Mrs. William Blan-
kenship.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-07-07
Al Gu B


Recently this office received
and distributed one hundred quail
eggs that we received through the
State Fish and Game commits
sion.
The boys that received eggs on
their quail breeding projects were
Hugh Mcclellan, Jerry Killebrew,
Louis Temple, Harvey Hearn,
Jack Spencer and John Killebrew.
Twenty-four boys received am
monia nitrate through the efforts
of this office and iva. for fer
tilizaticu of corn.
Prize roney is available and
will be presented to boys growing
100 bushels Of corn or more. The
boys that are listed in the 100
bushel club are: Sherman Bail
ey. Curtis johnson, Bobby Bruce,
w. L. Lipsey, Bobby Harrison,
James Carroll, o. M. Byrd, Billy
Hill, Joe McCreary, Don Buchan-
an. Marion Brantley, Mabry Jones
Jerry Killebrew, Billy Hall, w. j..
Waits, Jr., James Robert Rogers,
William Cooksey, Jack Spencer.
Skipper Maxwell, Harvey G.. FL
lis, Bryant Ellis and Donald En-
glish.
, 1949-10-27
LOOK and LEARN
by A. c. Gordon

|. How does the percentage of
people who attend church inlarge
cities compare with that who at
tend church in small towns?
2. Around what everyday con-
venience are nearly one-fifth of
all patents registered today?
8. Which President of the Unit
ed States received the entire cleo
toral vote?
4. Which of the United States
extends the farthest west?
5. For what do the four HIS
stand in the Al Clubs?
ANSWERS on back page)
, 1949-10-27

Someone near to me also gave
me a thought and it is this: Here
in the v. l. Mr.. de Castro cannot
be kicked upstairs; this gov
eminent is a one-story building.
The last thought and prediction
is that if appointed, he will not
be given as long a period as Mr..
HASTE before he gets his mauling.
, 1949-10-27

We need an awakening. espec7
tally in community SPIRIT At
tempts have been made to get
people assembled in the Park or
so-called Wharf area to join in
singing patriotic airs without sue
cess. And, yet, our people really
mean no harm whatsoever.-just
bashful folks. Newcomers to the
island find it hard to understand.
, 1949-10-27
The LIGHTHOUSE
d the Truth wil. make you free

IE shall knot0 the Truth and the Truth tOil. make you free.
by Camilla
rather like the idea of a Cleanup Campaign for st. Croix,
as was suggested by Miss Helen Joseph and others in her
health group. Something similar to the one organized and is
now under way in ST. Thomas. But would like to see the con-
tractors engaged in building the sewers join in so we can get
the towns cleaned up and streetSrepaved.
, 1949-10-27
to endorse de Castro.

Did anybody notice that all the
candidates put up for high office
in the new set-up are all of st.
Thomas-de Castro for Governor,
Roy Bornn for Government Sc
cretary. The late D. Hamilton
Jackson must turn over in his
grave.
, 1949-10-27

I think Councilman Frank E.
Jacobs and Councilman Samuel
c. Chase were correct in declining
to go along" on the Resolution
, 1949-10-27

But make no mistake; I give the
St. Thomas policy makers credit
because charity begins at home.
But it seems to me if we really
want unification it would have
.been a fine gesture to "mix" the
higher posts a bit.
, 1949-10-27

James A. Bough should also
makesa pretty good governor. At
least I feel he would.
, 1949-10-27

must confess that / am impress
ed by the part being played by the
St. Thomas Chamber of Commerce
in the cleanup campaign now be-
ing carried on in the sister Island.
That verse supplied by them to
the newspapers of that, 1slanq is
very Catchy, and l must :arop
a bit of ego and borrowitf for use
here until l can find ones'1nailar
or better. It goes thus:
''Real towns are not made by.
men afraid
Lest somebody else get ahead.
Whenever everyone works and no
body shirks
You can raise a town from the
dead"
-:-:-
Government Secretary Morris de
Castro stands head and shoulders
above all the other candidates for
the Governorship-so says the St.
Thomas Photo News. That may be
true, but for his own sake my adj
vice to Mr.. de Castro is the same
one the old folks used to give:
''leave well enough alone. Stay on
your present post. At least, you.
are safe; and, mark my humble
word: You will be Actg. Gov. over
a longer period of time without
all the headaches that goes with
it and the uncertainties.
, 1949-10-27

In The District Court of the Virgin Islands of the U. s.
Division of Saint Croix at christiansted
IN H MATTER OF H ESTATE OF Prob. No Is 1910
CHARLES L. SHEEN, Deceased
Mary l. Sheen, having been appointed Exetrix of the above
entitled estate, does hereby give notice to all creditors and all
other persons having claims against the said estate to present
such claims with proper vouchers within six () months
from the date hereof. Persons indebted to the said estate are
likewise requested to make payment within the said time to
the Executrix or her attorney.
Dated October Is.
Alemeric L. Christian Mary I. Sheen
Attorney Executrix
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18
Changing Curriculum OF
Douglass School To Help
Colored Children In Life

the Douglass School pupils do not
remain IN school until gradua-
tlon.
Many conditions may be re-
spOnsible for pupils dropping out
Of school. However, it appears
quite certain that many of those
stopped because they were not
interested in the courses found
IN the strictly college prepare
tory program.
This prompted the decision
that there should be other pro-
grams added in order to help
hold more of the pupils in school
as we'll as TO give those who de-
sire a vocation or a trade which
will enable them to earn hvli-
hood: thereby becoming a better
citizen in the community. In adj
dition 20 the regular college pre-
paratory program emphasis in
the areas of health, home and
family life. physical education
and recreation and vocational
trades will be planned for the
coming term.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18

games, sports events, showers
and recording machines on which
to dictate letter" home.
Near Fairbanks. Alaska, USO
operates an old gold mine. The
mine isn't worth anything COM
merciallY but els get a bio
bang out of digging for their
own gold. A whole day of dig
ging won't produce SIS worth,
but they like it anyway.
Veterans Hospital Camp Shows
Inc, which is financed by USO
and in wartime was called USO
Camp Shows, now employs 1870
professional entertainers. There
are 10 different Shows making
the 28,000-mile hospital circuit
seven variety shows, one play
c'Turn to the Right"), one revue
CFilm Fun" written by patients
and directed by Ezra Stone). ami
a streamlined version of the hit
musical, ''Brigadoon." +.
In addition to these regular,
paid performers, Hollywood twice
a year sends out about so stars
to tour the hospitals. They work
gratis. Among them have been
Jennifer Jones, Eddie Cantor.
Dinah Shore, Van Johnson, Lin
da Darnell, Betty Hutton, Eddie
Bracken, Celeste Holm and 10
Stafford.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18
HE CAN'T GIVE MONEY
AWAY IN BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE - up Want to
give money away? Don't come to
Baltimore TO try it.
William Bond and Charles Nc
Cardle made a bet the other day
after Bond unused aloud that
money was so cheap nowadays
you couldn't give it away. McCar-
die thought otherwise, and back
ed up his thinking with a SIS bill
Then, in broad daylight, they
began walking a stipulated three
blocks, McCardle courteously Of
fering a 81 bill to the first pedes-
trian they met.
The first pedestrian glared and
wouldn't accept. They stopped
some more. Several already had
a buck. Several figured McCardle
had gimmick. He tried ten times
and found no taker.
The eleventh, however, took
McCardle. He was a cop who
formed a notion that McCardle
was trying TO. move the dollar in
the other direction, for reasons
of his own.
So. McCardle, who lives at Nor
ristown. Pa. was hailed into ma
gistrate's court. The charge: Pan
handling.
McCardle told his strange story,
The magistrate dismissed the
charge. The buck wound up in
the police poor box.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18

E Z
ends of the branches and are
produced so abundantly that they
completely cover the plant, often
weighing down to the ground the
hover branches and younger
shoots. At the same time of the
year insect lift is very abundant
among these immense flower
clusters and the dali ty little
lwarblers just coming from the
North on the way to their winter
homes, as well as the lively blue
gray gnat catchers and the hum
ming birds, find an abundance
of insect food. Indeed, in large
gardens these Towering masses of
Tecomas are fairly swarming
with different small birds.
lowing to the rapid growth
and dense foliage from the
ground, the Yellow Elder is
highly valued as screen for un-
slightly fences and buildings. It
cannot stand heavy frosts and
may be injured even to the
ground, but it will come up
again with wondrous rapidity,
Towering abundantly the same
season. In fact, the writer has
made observation that plants
which have been cut down by
sharp frost grow denses and
bloom more abundantly the sue
ceeding fall. Natures pruning
thus seems to be not without be-
nefit to this plant. The Tecoma
ripens its seed so abundantly that
hundreds of seedlings come up
around the old plant. The value
of this shrub blooming so late in
autumn cannot be overestimated.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18
BRAZILIAN
Continued From Page Onel !.

Continued From Page Onel Z.
carried on the briefing through
an interpreter. The Brazilians
gathered around several small
tables drawn together.
None of the Brazilians seemed
to be hard drinkers. Most of them
preferred soft drinks, but few
Scotch and sodas did pass around.
Here is the list of American and
Brazilian state department Off
Gals and American and Brazil
ian newspapermen in the press
party: -.,t.
Hugo Gouthier, Counselor of
Brazilian Embassy, Chief Press
Officer for the Visit. I,
Lincoln White, Department of
State, Chief Press Officer for the
Visit. ..-, .,..~
Charles D. Freligh, Brazilian
Press Officer.
Frank Standley, U. S. Press Of
ficer.
Frank H. Dram, Latin Aemri-
can Public Affairs Officers, De-
partment of State.
John S. Connolly, Newsreel Lii
asson Officer, Department of
State. ~
Martin r. Reynolds, Coordina-
tor of international BroadcaSting,
Department of State.
Henry G. Catucci, Regional
Manager of International Com
munications, Western Union Tel
egraph Company. -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18

Inc IecOmaS are uprisntj
shrubs with pinnate deciduous or
subpersistent foliage and large
and snowy usually yellow flow
ers in terminal clusters. They
stand but little frost and are, we'll
suited for cultivation in Florida
and southern California. Propa-
cation is by seeds which are usu-
ally freely produced and by,
greenwood cuttings under glass;"
In his book, my Garden in.
Florida" DR.. Henry Nehrling
speaks highly of the yellow Ed
er as follows: y:
'Tecome STAINS, the Palo de
Areo' of Mexico or the Yellow
Elder as it is usually called,
grows exceedingly we'll in high
pine land and is perfectly at
home in Florida, attaining an i'm
mense size if well fertilized and
mulched, dense masses eighteen
to twenty feet high and as much
though being not at all rare. The
Tecoma is really the glory Of
South Florida gardens in autumn
as is the Bauhinia purpurea in.
April, never failing to cali forth
enthusiastic admiration from all.
beholders.
Il do not know a quicker grow,
ing, more decidedly beautiful and
better adapted shrub for new set
tiers in sandy pine land gardens.
The flowers, which, harmonic
admirably with the abundant
light green foliage are large, tube
or thimble-shaped, bright yellow,
lined in the throat with a brown
ish tint, and are fragrant. They
are borne in huge panicles at the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18
tm"-aally large
frFreniagr Of Pupil
N"~ ilrep Oul Of
Nrianssl loo Soon

Faafa fnf thr additional curri-
ewi'ln ~ bn started neat year al
liH lhnialass school are well un-
o. asF accogdina a. statements
naesis - W G. Cogdell. the prin-
eipal
8npt tluface O'Bryunt. and
representative at the State De-
Naflment ~ Education. who
pantg = study II the present pro-
Stafn. Recommended that the
fu9Iigulan ~ the Douglas
aENenl should b. broadened 10
alel.asis mnfe SUBJECTS with prac-
tieai appiicutions to daily hfe.
Thfeuxlout ihis term the prin-
glNNi and iaCuity have held many
naaflnea and discussions on the
menlla VI the pupils of the Doug
ims 8ehuQl One important fact
has BEEN outstandina That Is. an
unsauaily large percentage of
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18


This appeared to be the end
of the line for the vast organi
zation which had spent $780,
100000 in seven years of trying
to cheer up men in uniform.
had operated 1000 clubs. en-
ploYed an administrative staff
of 5000. sent as many as 1000
performers all over the world
In one year. spent as much as
S5.000.000 a month on every
thing from table tennis balls to
trucks. had employed a million
volunteer civilians. from a Chi
cago charwoman who polished
silver. to Eleanor Roosevelt.
who fried eggs.
But last June "a, President
Truman signed the new draft act
On July 6, Secretary of Defense
Forrestal called USO back in to
service. That ensured continu-
ance of many of the organiza-
tons activities, which some in
dividual agencies had been try
ing to carry on alone.
Today. with the remains of its
furniture money and capital
raised by the Community Chest
USO is operating again, on a
much smaller scale, but for a
much smaller armed force.
The USO budget this year is
about 100000. USO runs LA
servicemen's clubs in the United
States and Is in Alaska, Hawaii
Guam, China and the Mediter-
ranean. Every three weeks a USC
show visits each of 100 veterans,
Army and Navy hospitals in this
country. The shows are limited to
hospitals on the theory that able
b o d e d peacetime servicemen
have enough time to get their fill
of movies and the theater.
IT'S a traditional American
custom" says USO president
Lindsey F. KimSall. mot to
care about soldiers in peace
time. It's this apathy that pro-
vides our greatest difficulty.
I'VE have to wake civilians
up to the fact that we. through
our Congress. voted the men
into the Army camps. There
are a million minors in the
new army. They should be re-
garded as our public respansi-
billy"
USO clubs perform many diff
ferent functions, all of them de-
signed to remind the soldier or
sailor that he has not been for
gotten by the people who sent
him into service.
These centers, says DR.. Kim
ball, are now being concentrated
in areas where the service popu-
lation far outnumber the civil
ian, where there are little or no
adequate facilities for entertain
ing vast numbers of men turned
loose on leave.
Among other things, the clubs
provide food, sightseeing tours,
hobby groups, booths to press
pants and senior hostesses to
mend them, dances, parties,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18
FOOLED BY A
HOLDUP GAME
Wilbur

MIAMISBURG, o. - Wilbur
Karpur, grocer, isn't going to play
cops and robbers with the
neighborhood youngsters any
more.
Having played a "holdup
game" with the kids for years,
Karpur wasn't surprised when a
youth entered his store, gun in
hand and his face covered with
a handkerchief. He laughed
when he was ordered to get be-
hind the counter. He didn't
laugh, however, when the youth
struck him on the head with a
homemade blackjack and then
fled when the grocer threw a
pop bottle at him.
It took six stitches to close the
wound in Karpur's head.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-18
Representatives from Rio:

representatives from Rio:
Brazilian Press Association 49,
Herbert Moses, President. =.
Dean of Presidential Core
spondents-Pascoal Ferrone. 49,
formal do Concrete - Romeu
Ribeiro. u.
Correio da Manha-A. Calado
A Note e A Manha-Jose
Clemenceau Gao Vinagre.
0 Globo-Nahun Sirotzky. a.
Diario de No ticias = Aurelio
Lacerda. .
Diaria Carioca-Octavia Thyr-
so de Andrade. -.
formal do BraSil-Carlos Alber-
to Dunshee Abranches.
0 formal Diario da Noite =
Carlos Rizzini.
Agencia Nacional - Severino
Nunes photographer. Romeu
Pasqualini (newsreel photograph
err. Fernando Augusta Pedroso,
Marinho (reporter). Teofilo Vas
concellos (announcer).
Representatives from Sac Paulo:
O Estado de Sac Paulo-Louri-
val Comes Machado. :"
A Gazeta-Orlando Mast. ut.
Folha da Mania Folha da No
ite-Joao Batist Ramos.
Representative, from Hecife:
formal do CoIhercio-Esmarag-
do Marroquim damaging direc-
tori. - 49,.
Representative from Porte Ale.
gre
Correio do Povo-Francisco de
Paula Job.
Radio MISUNDERSTANDING Cal