The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-11-09
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
by Hazel Brannon Smith

The Blue Cross enrolment
campaign in Holmes county will
close Monday, November Is. If
your community representative
has failed for any reason to con-
tact you please phone this news
paper or your community hospital
il you are interested in becoming
enrolled in Blue Cross. Please do
this as the enrolment opportunity
cannot be held open indefinitely.
Results Of the Holmes county
enrolment drive have been high
ly satisfactory, according to MIR.
Morris Raines, Blue Cross re-
preventative.
There have been over 1900 new
people enrolled in Blue Cross in
Holmes county during the drive
this month. There were already
more than 500 Holmes county citi-
zens members of Blue Cross in
the county prior to the enrolment
campaign which brings to 1000 the
number of persons in u county
now protected by Blue Cross,
This means there are more than
1000 people in our county now
free from worry about financial
reverses in the event Of illness
a worry that plaques most fami-
lies at one time or another.
There is no doubt in our mind
about Blue Cross being the ans
wer to adequate medical care,
particularly for families with
children. When you consider that
for only $4.75 a man and his wife
and all their children under the
age of IS can be protected, it is
nothing short of wonderful.
OF course we realize that even
$4.75 per month is a pretty big
item in the family budget-but
when you consider that it is no
more than two cartons and four
packages Of cigarettes a month,
or, as one male enrollee said, the
same cost as a good pint of whisk-
ey nowadays, well it seems like
most families should be able to
swing it.
We hope there will be an addi-
tional thousand persons signed up
the remainder Of this week in
Holmes county.
Smitty and / returned Sunday
night from Dallas where we spent
all last week. He attended a school
or institute for hospital admins
traitors held at Baylor Univer-
sity Hospital in Dallas-and / just
fooled around.
There were some seventy adj
ministrators from eight states
present at the school which was
said to be very successful in every
way. The curse included field
trips to all Of the hospitals of
Dallas and Fort Worth where the
administrators took in the Texas
was of doing things.
In Texas, just like at home, all
you hear is football-and small
wonder with SMU ranking CAST
week. as number n team in the
nation. The Smu-Texas game Sat-
urday was really a football game.
Tickets were selling for $4,000
and $4,000 each in Dallas. That
was one game we would love to
have seen-but we didn't have
tickets and it was in the wrong
direction from home. We did hear
it on the car radio enroute back
to Mississippi-after stopping at
Mesquite, Texas, for lunch with
one of my newspaper friends, Co
rhine Neal Cook, editor and pub
Usher of The Texas Mesquiter.
MESQUITE is a lovely little COM
munity of 1900 in Dallas county,
IL miles from downtown Dallas.
We had a delightful visit witt
Corinne-and particularly enjoyed
seeing the many lovely things in
her home that she has picked up
in extensive travels in this coun-
try and abroad. During l949 she
spent three months taking a trip
around the world by plane-and
considerable time in Europe. We
re looking forward to having her
visit us in Mississippi some time
before too long.
We made a leisurely trip from
Mesquite to Carthage, Texas, ar
irving about dark where we visit
ed Mrs. Sallie Neal, a lovely gra-
cious lady and Corinne at
mother. Mrs. Neal has made a
number of trips with Corinne at
tending National Editorial Asso-
citation conventions all over this
country and is one of the best
loved members in the press.
Mrs. Neal knew we were COM
ing by to speak to her-Corinne
had phoned ahead. But instead OF
staying a few minutes we ended
up by eating supper which she
had already prepared for US, and
spending the night. OF course we
had a wonderful time. l think