The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-01-13


program for l949. The goal in the
county is 1000. The campaign is
just getting underway.
II you are a farmer and plan to
have cotton crop in 1949 you
should investigate the crop in
surance program and what it can
mean to you. Offices are in the
basement Of the Lexington post
office.
The first farm tour Of 1949 was
made last Thursday by Holmes
county white and colored farmers
and was a great success, according
to reports.
Winter grazing was under spec
ial observation at this time by the
group which visited the farms of
c. v. and Hoover Maxwell, Ras
M. Branch, G. H. Love, and d.
c. Lundy. All Of these places
boast first-class well-planned
winter grazing programs.
Crops planted were oats, wild
winter peas, wheat, and white
Dutch clover.
One Of the planters made the
announcement that he had grazed
his pasture from November /,
through January /, and had al
ready netted $40 per acre above
the cost of preparation, seed and
fertilization. II addition he still
has two more months of addi-
tional grazing that will practical
ly double the above benefits.
What this farmer has done can
and should be done by hundreds
Of other Holmes county farmers
every year. There are only about
100 Holmes farmers participating
in the winter grazing program.
There should be hundreds.
Every man owning one or more
cows should have from one and
one-half to two acres per COW in
pasture properly fortified and
seeded.
A small group Of Holmes farm
ers are making good money by
sound year round farm practices.
What they are doing could be ac-
complished by a lot more Holmes
farmers.
Capt. A. S. Windham OF the
Mississippi Highway Patrol is
authority for the statement that
there were 389people killed in Mis-
sissippi during l948 in traffic
accidents. The record win pro-
badly reach 400 when it is COM
pleted officially.
In addition thousands were hos
pitahzed and many crippled for
life.
During the year Of the great
polio epidemic there were 498
people killed on the highways of
our state, more than died from
polio-and ~ per cent of these
were in the polio age group. The
same year 1895 went to the hos
pital from traffic accidents.
The four greatest factors in
traffic accidents, Capt. Wind
ham said, are speed, reckless
driving, running stop signs, (40
per cent or more Of the accidents
are at intersections) and drinking
drivers.
Safety is an individual thing
and begins with YOU. The two
main things we can do as good
citizens, Capt. Windham said, be-
sides being careful ourselves al
ways is to first, demand good
Acknowledgement and second,
when we are asked to sit on a
jury where there is case involv-
Ing drunken driving to Judge the
case on its merits whether il in
wolves one Of the most prominent
citizens Of town, or It's most
obscure citizen.
Sometimes juries become SYM
pathetic to person charged
with drunken driving because he
will lose his drivers license. Men
on those juries should remember
that when they turn the drunk
en- driver loose they are turning
a potential murderer loose, Capt.
Windham said.
During November of 1913 there
were 1873 drunken drivers caught
in Mississippi. There is no way
OF knowing how many were not
apprehended. November, Capt.
Windham said, is an average
month.
So 1t seems that the drunken
driver is the greatest menace to
public safety on the highway.
On Labor Day two years ago
there were nine deaths on the
highway, five Of which were
caused from drunk drivers. One
was a title girl pushing her doll
carriage along the sidewalk. A /
drunken driver ran up on the
sidewalk and killed her. A mother
and her baby were killed inno-
Gently on highway 81 near Bates
vile: returned veteran hero and
his girl were killed. Only last
Sunday drunk negro drove into
a building at Forest and did
$4,000 damage. Fortunately no
one was killed.