The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-06-15
Public Urged To
Attend At2:0O
On Front Street

- ASotoiA AAudoOll OSt ANOs Az, AAdo
planned a brief but interesting
program to be held on Front
Street at the band stand at 200
o'clock sharp Saturday afternoon,
June 18th, when the famed rep
lica of the Liberty Bell come to
Durant.
c. G. Mansfield, commander of
the Legion, will be master of
ceremonies at the program.
This program is expected to
be attended by large crowd of
interested citizens, men and wo-
men, boys and girls, from Durant
and vicinity.
Everyone is invited to come
and parents with school children
are especially urged to see that
their children have the oppor-
tunity to see this bell which is
symbolic of the freedom that all
Americans hold so dear today.
Weathersby Here
Norman Weathersby, Holmes
county chairman of the bond
drive and former mayor of Lex
ington, will be here and speak
briefly on the Liberty Bell and
the Independence Bond drive.
The Rev. c. M. Day, Post Chap
lain, will deliver the invocation
and a few remarks of welcome
will be made by Mayor R. E. Nc.
Neer.
The high point of the program
will be the ringing of the Liber.
ty Bell which will be done BY
Miss Pearl. Mcgee one of Durant'.
Oldest and most beloved citizens
She will be escorted by Mrs. Mil
dred Lanfair, Legion Post Ad
jutant.
/ Mrs. L. c Lipsey will direct tn,
Durant Glee Club in rendition
OF the National Anthem and tn,
Rev. T. A. Filgo will pronounc,
the benediction.
| Color bearers will be Joe c
York, Jr., and Percy Joyce.
All business firms are asked t.
put out their flags Saturday ane
merchants and business men ar.
asked to cooperate by allowin,
their employees time enough t.
see the Liberty ben IN its dis.
play from 100 to 2:3O and. i,
possible, to hear the short bro.
gram beginning at 200 O'Clock
! The Liberty bell is the symbo'
OF the 1850 Savings Bonds In.
dependence Drive, which opened
Monday, May Is, and will END
on July 4. The theme of the drive
Is Save for Your Independence
buy U. S. Savings Bonds" The
52 Liberty Bells, replicas Of the
original, were donated to the
Savings Bonds cause by six lead
ing American companies of the
copper industry. The 40 flat-bed
trucks, painted red, white, and
blue, on which the bells will
tour, are supplied as a public
service by the Ford Motor Com
pany.
The duplicates were made al
the bell foundry of the Sons OF
Georges Jaccard at Annecy-le-
Vleux in the Province of Haute
Savoie, near he Swiss border of
Frances, from careful measure
ments taken by DR.. A. L. Bigelow.
Professor of Engineering and
Bellmaster of Princeton Univer-
slty, and from detailed photo
graphs of the original Bell its
wooden yoke and the wishbone-
shaped bronze supports between
which it is swung on its exhibit
platform in Independence Hall
Millions of Americans will be
able to hear, during visit, to
some 1000 cities. approximately
what the original Bell sounded
like when it proclaimed Liberty
throughout II the land and to
all the inhabitants the. eof - It's
prophetic inscription that could
literally have been fulfilled only
If radio broadcasting had been
available in 1776. The So bells
one for each State. one for the
District of Columbia and one
each for Alaska. Hawaii and
Puerto Rico, are exact copies of
the original; the crack is indi-
Gated on the surface: the bells
ring and harmonically turned.