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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Holmes County Park
improvements SET

Mississippi's first major repair
and Improvement program for her
state parks since prior to World
War II is underway by the State
Park Service as result of action
by the State Building Commission
in approving allotment sugges.
tons presented by the service.
The total amount for repairs and
equipment is $59,618.
The work will be under the ST.
pervision Of Albert Legett, State
Park director with A. H. Hall.
State Park coordinator, directly
in charge.
At the Holmes County Park
south of Durant six vacation ca.
bins will be repaired and stained.
The electrical wiring will be re-
worked and boat and bathing
piers will be repaired.
Money for this work was made
available by the 1850 session of
the Mississippi legislature in the
enactment of lib 1890.
In this connection Mr.. Legett
stated that 81 new boats have
been purchased by the Park Ser
vice and have been distributed
as follows: Percy Quin 16, Roose-
welt 20, Shelby 4, Holmes County
6, Leroy Percy 4, Clarke 10, Spring
Lake Is and Tombigbee IL.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Jingle Named To MEG
Education Committee

John Tingle, Lexington imple-
ment dealer, is among the 43
prominent Mississippians who
have been named to serve on the
Mississippi Economic Councils
education committee, which holds
its first meeting in Jackson on
August at 1890 am, according
to Oliver Emmerich, McComb,
chairman. There are 43 members
on the committee.
The committee is to map a pro-
gram to promote Americanism
throughout the state, with parti-
cular emphasis on the advantages
of the free enterprise system.
This is the second year the edu-
cation committee has functioned
in the MEG program, and offic-
ials are confident it will be of
much help in conveying the lay
mans viewpoint to the public
educational system.
I'VE are proud to have local
representation on the committee, ;"
the chairman said, land trust the
representatives will make an at
tempt to attend the first meeting
on August 9th"
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Presbyterian Revival
Shows Good Progress
Photo by Snitty

Much interest has been mani
fesled in the revival at the First
Presbyterian Church in Lexington
this week with good attendance
at every service.
The Rev. Hayes Clark, pastor, is
doing the preaching and his SER
mons have been very impressive
and well received.
The women of the church have
been observing each afternoon at
four o'clock an hour of prayer and
the Communicates class has been
attended each morning by from
twelve to fifteen children of the
church.
Services will be held at the
church both Sunday morning and
evening when the revival series
will come to close.
There.will be no Saturday night
service.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27

Charles B. Shuman, President
OF the Illinois Agricultural AS
ISOLATION, the largest state farm
organization in the nation, and
member of the Board of Directors
OF the American Farm Bureau
Federation, will be the principal
speaker at the Visitation Day pro-
gram at the plant site of the Mis-
sissippi Chemical Corporation
near Yazoo City.
August 2 is the day scheduled
for stockholders and friends to
visit the plant site of the nations
only farmer-owned nitrogen
plant. Mr.. Shuman is scheduled
to speak at approximately A pm.
Holmes county stockholders are
invited to hear Mr.. Shuman There
are about IS stockholders in
Holmes county holding about
$85, stock, according to one Of
fetal.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Holmes FuIIs Short
On e" Bond Quote

Holmes county bought only 95.58
per cent of its ''E" bond quota in
the Independence Bond drive re-
Gently ended. The amount of "E"
bonds purchased by Holmes coun-
ty citizens during the period of
the drive which was from May Is
through July II was $61,177.
Mississippi as a whole purchas-
ed 1928 per cent of its bond quota
during the drive, or SABOTAGE.
Rex I. Brown, state chairman,
said: Even though Mississippi
did not quite make her quota the
achievement is considered re-
markable, with our farm income
markable, with our fam income
SO per cent under what it was fos
the same period in 1949."
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Juycees PIun More
Active Program;
Committee Named

A special dinner meeting OF
the Jaycees was held Friday, July
81, at the grammar school.
David Williams, president, pre-
sided with 10 members present
The general topic under discus
sion at the business meeting was
ways and means of stimulating
and increasing interest and at
tendance in the Jaycee meetings
toward the end of better service
to Lexington.
1t was agreed that meetings are
to be held at 7::30 at the grammar
school on the first and third
Thursdays Of every month begin
ming in August. Dinner will be
served at each meeting and a
planned program will be pres
ented at each meeting.
In order to carry out these
plans, Mr.. Williams appointed
the following committees: At
tendance, to serve three months,
Mike Lannon's, chairman, Win
orfd Holder, DR.. M. S. Melvin,
and Trevie Siddon; Publicity,
Walter D. Smith, chairman, w. H.
Fincher, Jr., and Bill Jordan;
Constitution and Bylaws. to
draw up a new Constitution and
Lawrence Rabb, chair
man, Wallace johnson, James
Yarbrough, and Paul Koran; Fair
Emmett Reese, chair
man, Pill Mcclellan, Hays Parrish,
John Martin, Lawrence Rabb,
Paul Koran and Walter Strider.
The Program Chairman for the
month of August will be Leo
Maness.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Safety Committee
Works In Holmes
Community Choirmen
Are Named Today;
County Quote $500

Lawrence w. Rabb, Jr., of Lex
ington, chairman for Holmes
county in the Mississippi Safety
Councils membership drive, is
working with committee of local
citizens to enlist members in the
Mississippi Safety Council and to
a greater safety con-
sciousness throughout the county
and state, as a part of Mississippi
Safety Week now in progress.
Holmes county's quota is $500. 90.
Safety Council committee MEM
bers are: Jack Yates, DR.. M. S.
Melvin, w. r. Ellis, Jr., H. P.
Watson, T. A. Lail, all of Lexing-
ton; r. M. Branch, Goodman, and
A. J. Stevens, Jr., West.
Community chairmen for the
county have been announced by
Mr.. Rabb as follows:
Durant, DIR. G. q. Patton; Tchu-
10, w. r. Huddleston; Pickens,
Bill McKie; Goodman, Mr..
Branch; and West, Mr.. Stevens.
Continued on Page Four
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
District Official
InsfaIIs Officers

Vice c o m m ander Norman
johnson of the Central District
installed officers of the Daniel w.
Beall Post No. Is of the American
Legion at meeting at the Alb
Taylor Memorial home last week.
Installed by Commander john
son were w. H. Fincher, Jr., COM
mander; j. H. Warmer, viceL
commander; Irby Ellington, ad-
jutant; George Povall, finance
officer; Theo Moses, sergeant-at-
arms; H. w. Watson, historian;
w. B. Kenna, chaplain; Johnny
Robertson and Roy Garrett, color
bearers.
About forty members of the
Post were present to enjoy the
banquet and installation service.
Commander Fincher urges all
members to be present at the next
regular meeting to be held Tues
day, August 18th, at which time
Allie S. Povall will be program
and attendance chairman.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Statewide Disaster
Preparedness Conf.
To Be Held
Holmes Red Cross
Chopter OfficiuIs
Will Be Present

Governor Fielding Wright to-
Cay announced speakers and pan.
al discussion leaders for the state.
wide disaster and preparedness
relief planning conference to Be
held in the Heidelburg hotel at
jackson July 81.
The meeting mill be attended
by Mrs. Fanny Lumpkin, execu-
tive secretary of the Holmes
county chapter of the American
Red Cross, and Mr.. T. A. Lai1.
county chapter president.
On the agenda are some of Mis-.
sissippi's most experienced state.
county, and municipal officials in
the handling of major disaster
emergency operations, and also a
number of representatives of the
American National Red Cross who
are widely experienced in admin
lstration of disaster relief.
Continued on Page, 81
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Reserve Officers Hold
Meeting Friday
Status Of Reserve
Officers Not Clear,
Says Major Long

The Headquarters 1882 n d
Training and Induction Station
Unit, commanded by Col. Joseph
E. Berman, held its regular meet
ing at the City Hall in Lexington,
Friday night. Instructors for the
evening were Col. Berman and
Capt. David B. Miles.
Among the new officers assign
ed to this unit are 1t. Col. Thomas
0. Hall of Camden, former chap
lain with the 31st Division during
World War II, and Captain Stew
art Bridgforth, Pickens.
There were approximately 16
officers present Major Long,
Unit Instructor from Headquar-
tiers Mississippi Military District
in Jackson, was also present.
Major Long advised that the
War Department had not issued
instructions as to what Reserves
would be called at this time but
that each reserve officer would re-
ceive 80 days notice SO that he
could get his affairs in order. Also,
it was definite that those reserve
officers who had received highly
specialized training would be call
ed first and that probably some
reserve units would be called into
service intact.
The next meeting is scheduled
for the first Friday in August at
500 pm. at the Lexington City
Hall and all reserve officers and
enlisted reservists in Holmes
county or within an area of fifty
miles are invited to attend. It
is expected that additional infor-
nation will be available at that
time.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
WiIIioms Named To
MEG Committee

j. r. Williams, Lexington drug
gist, has been named to serve on
the new social welfare committee
of the Mississippi Economic coun-
ell, it was announced by Earl
Evans, Canton, chairman Of the
committee.
The group will hold its first
meeting in Jackson on August 4,
and all members are urged to at
tend. There are SO leading citi-
zens from throughout the state
serving on the committee.
Chief purpose of the committee,
according to the MEG, is to keep
abreast of the trends in social well
fare legislation and ITO make arti-
culate the views of civic, business
and professional leadership" on
the legislation.
At the meeting on the 4th, sew
eral leaders in the social welfare
field will make talks, explaining
the local, state and national pro-
grams now in effect.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Air Age Film Shown
At Rotary Club

"The Air Age" an interesting
film on the part aviation plays in
modern America, was shown
Tuesday at the Lexington Rotary
Club.
The color film, made in Idaho,
was brought to Lexington by C. A.
Bud" Moore, director of the Mis-
sissippi Aeronautics Board. It
was shown by T. A. Lail.
Guests present We're DR.. Bill
Staples, guest of Edwin White;
Bill Few of Columbus, Ohio, guest
of President Norman Weathersby:
and DIT. Marvin Keisler, of Pakis-
tan, guest of c. T. Floyd.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
WeathersbY Names
Rotary Committees
For 195O-51 Today
New Officers And
Directors Take
Over In July

President Norman Weathersby
today announces 1950-51 commit.
tees, directors and officers for the
Lexington Rotary Club:
Directors: Norman Weathersbv
president; Gordon Russell, vice.
president; William Ellis, secre.
tary-treasurer; A. P. Carroll, Boil
ton Brown, Curtis Carr.
Sergeant Alarms: Bill Kenna
Representative On Co-Ordin-
ating Council, Gordon Russell.
Aims And Objects Committee:
Norman Weathersby, Chairman;
Curtis Carr, William Ellis, A. p,
Carroll, Bolton Brown, Gordon
Russell.
Club Service Committee: Cor
don Russell, Chairman; David
Miles, Herman Flowers, "Wet''
Thurmond, Paul Lindholm, Joe
Berman.
Attendance Committee: Bolton
Brown, Chairman; Walter Strid-
er, Allie Povall, Reggie Williams,
wayne Floyd.
Fellowship Committee: H. L,
Nichols, Chairman; Pat Barrett,
David McDavid, Logan Ellison,
M. S. "Bo" Melvin.
Rotary Information Committee:
Reggie Williams, Chairman; Tom
Williams, Clint Floyd, David Nc
David.
Classification Committee: Da-
vid Miles, Chairman; Dee Lundy,
George Povall, Edwin White,
Hugh Nichols, Ben Beall.
Vocational Service Committee:
Tommy Lail, Chairman; Henry
Johnson, Ollie Cleveland, Max
Scobey, Allan Ramsey.
international Service Commit
tee: Paul Bragg, Chairman; T.
M. Williams, Max Scobey, "Wet''
Thurmond, Gabe Marlborough.
Community Service Commit
tee: Wilburn Hooker, Chairman;
John Tingle, Will Hammett, Sam
Henry, Will Wilson.
Youth Committee: Allie Povall,
Chairman; Alton Carroll, Charlie
Taylor, Bill Schneider, Pat Bar
rett.
Crippled Children's Committee:
Maurice Herring, Chairman; Will
Barrett, John Williams, Henri
Watson, Bob Patterson.
Membership Committee: Her.
man Flowers, Chairman; George
Patterson, Bolton Brown, "Wet''
Thurmond, John Williams.
Public Information Committee
Paul Lindholm, Chairman; Eu-
gene Herman, Bill Kenna.
Program Committee, Gordon
Russell, Chairman.
Monthly Chairmen: W. B. Bar
rett, July, 80; c. T. Floyd, Aug
ust; A. P. Carroll, September; H.
L. Nichols, October; Ed White,
November; Tommie Lail, Decem-
Der; M. S. Melvin, January, 81;
Wayne Floyd, February; Allie Po-
vail, March; Allan Remsey, April;
George Povall, May; H. P. Wat
son. June.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Lexington Buptists
Attend Ridqterest

A number of young people from
the First Baptist Church attended
the Baptist Training Union camp
at Ridgecrest, N. c., last week.
The group joined group of
BTU members from the First Bap-
fist Church in Durant in charter
ing special bus for transporta-
ton to and from the camp.
Those making the trip from
Lexington were:
Fannie Mae Cothran Earline
Roberts, Mrs. E. H. Skinner, Gill
bert Bradley, Harvey Hearn, Joe
Chapman, Robert Ware, David
Skinner. torrance Frost, Paul
Bragg, Ann Bragg, Deloras Tate,
Nancy Williams, Peggy Craney,
Lillian Bell Hathcock, Martha
Lee Hoff, and Ida Kate Ship.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Conservative Estimates
Show lo Per Cent
Area Is Burned

Using 2,743 acres, selected from
aerial photographs which served
as sample survey out of a totas
of 302, 1886 acres of uncultivable
acres in Holmes county, fire loss
for the ten month period from
July l, 1949 to June /, 1850
amounted to 1927, 165.
A sampling survey of all coun-
ties in the state not under the in
tensive fire protection of the Mis-
sissippi Forestry Commission DUR
ing the period has just been COM
pleted by the Fire Prevention
Control division of the commits
sion.
1t was pointed out by the COM
mission that this survey is SUBJ
ject to margin of error of from
zero to fifteen per cent. The burn
ed survey of unprotected lands
was on a statewide basis and
where the survey is broken down
on county basis there is mar.
gin Of error, but the statewide pic
ture is correct. The percentage
of area burned on the sample test
ing in Holmes county amounted
to 10 per cent and this figure was
used to arrive at the estimated
loss on all timbered and unculti.
vable lands in the county.
On the overall picture of unpro-
tected and uncultivable and tim.
bered lands in the state the fol-
lowing interesting facts were re-
vealed:
Total acres of timbered and I'm.
cultivable land not under the in4
tensive fire suppression program
7,741,54 average percentage OF
acres on which forest fires occur.
red ITO per cent. Estimated mum.
Der of acres burned 1,316, O62 with
average damage Of $500 per acre
with total estimated damage OF
$6,580,310.
At the same time there were
1851 900 acres in the state under
the intensive fire protection pro.
gram with a percentage of acres
on which fire occurred of 1893
per cent of total of $3.50, 765. Us.
ing the $500 per acre damage the
total damage on protected land
amounted to 1888, 10000.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Gene Williams Accepts
Post At Laurel Club

Gene Williams. Lexington Coun-
try Club golf pro. has accepted a
similar position at the Laurel
Country Club, one of the oldest
and finest clubs in the state. He
and Mrs. Williams, the former
Virginia Holder, will leave soon
for their new post.
Mr.. Williams is a native of Tus-
caloosa, Alabama, and a graduate
of the university there.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Attention. Please!

II you the = member Of the
Lexington Municipul Concert
Association and have NOT YET
been contacted for the renew
al Of your membership for the
lss0-5l season. please send your
membership check TO Mrs. r.
M. Gwin. secretary. At once.
An effort has been made by
the various tecm captains and
workers to see every member
OF last yeW but some may have
been missed. II Is especially
desired that al old members re-
new their memberships
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
Holmes Landowners Lose 2,743 Acres Timber
Valued At SIT, 165 By Fire In Ten Months
Paving Contract Let
For $98, $4,000

The contract for paving $3.50
miles on highway IL between
Mileston and Belzoni in this coun-
ty was awarded by the State
Highway Commission Tuesday to
Blount Brothers of Tuskagee, Ala.
Their low bid was $98,980.
This contract was one of IL let
by the Commission Tuesday for
construction work totaling more
than $1,000,000.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-07-27
St. Mary
Episcopal Church

Rev. Robert c. Donaldson. Rector
Sunday, July 80
Church School, 10 am.
Morning Prayer and Sermon,
IL am.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

Bert Andrews, chief of the New
York Herald Tribune's Washing
ton Bureau. After the broadcast
from Station WMAL, he answered
further questions by reporters.
The lie-detector issue came up
originally at House committee
hearings in August, 1948. Mr..
Chambers told the committee he
would be willing to submit to such
a test. Hiss declined on the ad-
vice of friends that the test was
not reliable.
Mr.. Chambers declared last
night he Is eager "to take this
test under proper auspices" BY
proper auspices" he meant that
those giving the test must be free
OF any suspicion of completely
with Communists or close ties with
Alger Hiss and his sympathizers. "
IT would merely insist that one
question be: Was there ever any
thing unusual about your relation
ship with Alger Hiss or any mem
ber of his family?' 7 particularly
want to spike the rumor that Alger
Hiss is shielding someone. He is
shielding nobody but himself"
In contrast to his fiat, unemo-
tional voice and poker-face ap-
pearance during the broadcast,
Mr.. Chambers in an accompanying
interview seemed far more re-
laxed and friendly than he was at
the court trials or House commit
Evening star., 1950-01-29

rumorS he was still a Communist
with orders from Moscow to seem
a renegade and wreck Mr.. Hiss.
Il know all those Stories" he
replied. Usually they say I am
working out some old grudge or
hatred. I do not hate Mr.. Hiss,
We were close friends. but we were
caught in a tragedy of history.
Mr.. Hiss represents the concealed
enemy against which we are all
fighting"
Il believe the American people
still accept the verdicts of their
duly selected juries rather than
the personal opinion of any WE'LL
meaning individual, no matter how
highly placed that individual may
be-" he said.
Mrs. Roosevelt said Friday at
a news conference on the Iowa
State College campus at Ames,
Iowa, that Hiss was involved "by
a man who by his own admission
is a perjurer and former Com
"It seems rather horrible to
condemn someone on the word
of someone else who admits to
guilt" she said. "One thing trou-
bles me. If you had been disloyal
and your conscience troubled you,
the only way you could go scott
free would be to accuse someone
else of the things you were accused
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Chambers Invites
Lie TEST on Motives
In Accusing Hiss

Whitaker Chambers declared
last night he is "eager" to take
a lie detector test to prove he
had no personal reasons for max
ing charges against Alger Hiss.
The confessed erstwhile Com
munist courier came here from
his Westminster (Md.) farm to
strike back at stories he asserted
were "assiduously spread" against
him by sympathizers of the
former State Department official.
His testimony at two trials in
Federal Court in New York City
and before the House Committee
on Un-American Activities led
largely to conviction of Hiss on
perjury counts. Hiss, convicted
January 81, has appealed a FIVE
year prison sentence imposed last
Wednesday.
The squat, gray-haired 48-year-
old Mr.. Chambers, who accused
Hiss of having given him stolen
State Department documents for
transmission to Russia, partici-
pated in a radio broadcast with
Evening star., 1950-01-29

tee sessions. He also was more
nattily dressed in a gray suit,
white shirt and black tie.
His 16-year-old daughter, Ellen,
was with him. He frequently
smiled at her while he chatted
with reporters.
Laughs at Report Of Deal"
He laughed when he described
as nonsense" a report that he
had made some sort Of deal"
with the Justice Department to
escape possible prosecution for
perjury as result of earlier. tes-
timony. He answered questions
quickly, but seldom stopped puff
ing on a pipe.
He has no "solid plans" for the
future, he said. Asked about the
implication of solid" the former
100000 a year senior editor of
Time magazine quipped: IT was
merely groping-for an adjective"
But there were no smiles or
signs of gloating when he spoke
Of Alger Hiss or of the rumors he
said were circulated against him
self.
Il have never been in a mental
hospital or sanatorium of any
sort. Period" he said grimly. Il
almost never touch hard liquor.
The whole truth about my friend
ship with Alger Hiss was placed
before the jury"
Mr.. Andrews asked him about
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Cecil Coffman, Desk Clerk
For MI. Rainier Police, Dies

Cecil Coffman. 81, night desk
clerk for the Mount Rainier po-
lice force, died in his sleep yes
terday at his home at 3112 Web
ster street. Mount Rainier.
Mr.. Coffman's body was dis
covered about l pm. by his sister
in-law, Mrs. Ida McKeewn, with
whom he had lived since 1880.
A widower, Mr.. Cofman had
been working for the police force
for the past nine months. Pre-
viously he had been employed by
the Hecht Co. in Washington.
He is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Clara B. Moore, Hyattsville,
and Mrs. Allison Dalzell, Land
over, Md.
Mr.. Coffman was a veteran of
World War I.