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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
Dedicotory Services For
New Gymnasium Held
Tuesday Evening

A very impressive dedication
service was held Tuesday night
at the Durant High School gymn-
asium. The ceremony took place
between the Durant boys and
girls basketball games with West.
The entire student body assem-
bled on the north side facing Du-
rant spectators and in round of
applause thanked Durant citizens
for securing the beautiful recrea-
ton plant for their school. Then
Mayor r. E. McNeer in very ap-
ropriate address turned over the
keys and remarked that the &C.
casion marked the end of his two
year dream and expressed his ap-
probation to all the citizenry OF
Durant for their efforts toward
getting the gym. He thanked
every club in Durant and the
School Board of Trustees and the
Board of Aldermen.
The dedication was concluded
with the dedicatory prayer by
Rev. c. M. Day, pastor of the First
Baptist church.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

Little brown-haired Nancy
Cleveland, Six-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Cleveland
OF Meridian, spent ten critical
days in an iron lung. When polio
struck her, she was rushed to the
polio treatment center at Vicks-
burg, where the battle for her re-
covery began.
Now Nancy is not only playing
again, she is in school and happily
carrying on her work with other
first graders. A dynamic little
personality she has been APP
pointed by Dr. Felix j. Under
wood to serve as state chairman
of the Children's division of the
1850 March of Dimes. She is do
ing this job with the same cour-
age and zest she puts into every
thing.
Her treatmena requiring "a
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

hour nursing service was very ex-
pensive. Her family couldn't pay
for this without denying their
other children's needs. But her
county chapter of the national
foundation, with March of Dimes
money, paid the cost, just as coun-
ty chapters have come to the res
cue of polio victims all over the
country.
Knowing how much money it
takes to help other children who
need such treatment so that they
can fully recover or be left with
only slight effects, Nancy urges
all Mississippians to make the
1850 March of Dimes a memoir
able one, an about effort to re-
place funds completely wiped out
by the epidemics of 1949. During
that year $50 people were stricken
by polio in Mississippi.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
Conservation Notes
by a. p. cmroll

Since November LIST, the forest
and grass fires in Holmes county
have killed millions of small pine
seedlings. If these seedlings had
been properly protected and man.
aged until they were ten to IL
years old, they would have been a
valuable asset to the farmer in
making fence posts and to cut for
pulp wood, and in addition, if a
good stand for saw logs are left
when the posts or pulp wood are
cut, it will enable the farmer to
cut from five to ten thousand
board feet of timSer from this
land within ten to II years.
The Holmes County Soil Con-
servation district is planting
100000 pine seedlings in the head
waters of Black creek. These
trees are furnished by the Soil
Conservation service by the State
Forestry service, and are to be
planted in this flood control area
planted in this flood control area.
1t is very expensive to produce
and plant these trees, yet thous-
andS of young seedlings in Holm
es county are being destroyed in
only a few minutes when these
fires are raging. When these
trees are destroyed, the farmer is
not only losing a source of future
income, but he loses his best soil
through erosion, for if these trees
are allowed to grow they help to
nail the soil down. If this rich
soil is constantly being moved
from the hill farms, then the
farmer and the entire county is
being effected. This silt and
sand is being dumped into our
streams and lakes and the con-
slant filling of these is what caus-
es the floods of the nature we had
this past week. Some of our best
bottom land in the hill section is
being damaged, and especially is
the good rich Delta land around
the foot hills being ruined with
this silt and sand. We are not
only losing our land, but two of
our Delta towns are being greatly
affected by this flood water.
Already, the lower end of Tchu-
la lake from Mileston to the va
zoo river is filled to the point that
it usually takes the high water
from three to four times as long
10 move out of the low areas along
Tchula lake. If the people along
that area would check the filling
of this lake, by silt and sand, they
would be amazed to know just
how fast it is filling.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
Extension Specialists
Enrich Corn Meal
In Holmes County

Corn meal, one of Holmes coun
tvs most popular foods, is goinf
to be made more nourishing. J
w. Helms, Extension specialist
from State college in charge OF
the corn meal enrichment pro.
gram, will work with the millers
of the county beginning January
10.
County Agent w. r. Sullivan
and Home Agent Joyce Williams
announced this week that the
grist mill operators will be told
how they can add the needed
vitamins and minerals TO the meal
they produce. These added ma
terials, the agents say, help pre-
vent anemia, ricketts,, poor eye
sight, and nervous disorders. The
enrichment is the same as is add
ed to bolted meal and flour and
will make corn bread a real heal
tn food.
A program aimed at getting all
of the corn meal produced in
Holmes county enriched with.
these materials was recently
launched by the Extension SER
vice at Mississippi State college.
According to State college nu-
tritionists, numerous dietary
studies carried on in different
parts Of the United States have
indicated that the diets of near
ly half of our people are deficient
to a greater or lesser extent in
and vitaminS."
The program is endorsed by the
State Board of Health, Mississip-
pi Experiment station, State De-
partment of Agriculture, Missis-
sippi Home Economics association,
and the Mississippi Dietetic asso-
citation.
Since large per cent of our
people consume home ground
meal, it is urgent that it also be
enriched the same as bolted meal
and white flour. This would be
an important means of improving
the health of our people in the
state.
The corn millers Of the county
IAN make an important contribu
lion to the health of their custom
ers by enriching all the meal they
produce, the agents stated.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
1850 Chevrolet ~
Offers Automatic
Transmission

The automatic transmission.
hailed as the most revolutionary
driving aid since the advent of
the sef-starter, made its first ap-
pearance in the low-price auto
mobile field Saturday, January 7,
with the introduction of 1850
Chevrolets.
Chevrolet's application is an
exclusive development known as
Powerglide. A product of COM
pany research covering the entire
postwar period, it is the chief
element in an optional, extra-cost
''power-team" Included is a larg-
er. more powerful engine and
many refinements that extend
throughout the line of new pas
senger car models.
Also presented for the first time
to the retail automobile market is
the Bel Air, luxurious, six-pas-
senger coupe possessing the
swank of the convertible with the
practically of the solid top. With
the Bel Air as leader, the latest
series contains two individually
styled twodoor Sedans and two
four-door sedans, sport coupe,
business coupe, convertible coupe
and all-steel station wagon. AS
in the 1949 models, when Chevro-
let set new volume records to
once again lead the industry in
sales, most of the bodies are avail
able in special and de luxe"
treatments.
improvements through the 1850
chassis and bodies are many. A
new ''Power-Jet" carburetor ELI
inmates the lean" periods i'm
gasoline feed and affords quicker
warmup in cold weather. Larger
exhaust valve capacity helps pow
er output. Each of the six-cylin-
der passenger car engines follows
the traditional, economical valve
in-head design. In the new bodies
stylists have accomplished strik-
ing effects with smart, two-tone
and freshly-fashioned
exterior metalwork.
The Powerglide automatic
Continued on Page Four)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
Milk Grades Announced
! Jonuury ], 1850

AS of January l, 1850, grade A
paSteurized milk is sold in every
town and in several rural schools
of Holmes county, according to a
release from the Holmes County
Health department.
This milk Is processed and sold
by Henry Dairy Products comp
any, Lexington, Grenada Farms,
Grenada, and Leflore Dairy
Products Co., Greenwood, and
each of the plants that process
this milk is carefully inspected
at regular intervals by competent
public health officials and sam
Piles of the milk are analysed by
the State Hygienic Laboratory at
Jackson.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
Hue Cagers Meet
|Copiah-LineoIn. And
). W. Fri. And Sat.
by r. w. Almond

Holmes Junior college boys ane
girls will play their first post
holiday basketball games at HON,
Friday and Saturday. Copiah
Lincoln teams will come to tn,
campus Friday morning for
doubleheader that night, anc
Southwest from Summit will bt
entertained Saturday night. The
games will get under way each
evening at pm. with the girls
playing the first game on both
nights.
Holmes won three of their four
games last week while on a road
trip to East Central, Decatur; and
East Mississippi at Ecooba. East
Central boys defeated the Holmes
five 1888 while the Holmes girls
Won from East Central six by a
score of SO to A. Holmes won
both games played at Scooba with
the East Mississippi teams. The
boys were victorious by a Ca "A
score and the girls made it two
straights by turning back the
East Miss. Sextet 1882.
The local boys have a record
to date of five conference wins
against two defeats. Northeast
won over Holmes at Bonneville in
a pre-holiday game while the
East Central win last week was
the second loss for the season
charged against the Holmes uuint.
In addition to the last win last
week over East Mississippi the
locals have defeated Northwest
twice and also won both games
from lttawamba. The girls have
Al record in conference plav.
The local seXtet won both of their
games from Northwest, and lost
TO lttawamba in pre-holiday
games in addition to the two wins
last week at Decatur and Scooba.
The Copiah-Lincoln teams are
reported to be among the strong
est teams in the conference this
season. The Colin boys are de-
Tending champions, having won
the top junior college laurels the
past two seasons. However. the
veteran team of l949-49 has
graduated, and a new coach is in
charge this season.
Holmes will be exertine every
effort to better their conference
standing in the games to be play
ed this weekend at Goodman
Coach Frank Branch will relv
heavily upon James Duke and
James Free, veteran forwards
from last season to carry on with
the heavy scoring end of the load
Shuman Allen, guard, has found
the hoop in recent games and
should be a great help to the
Holmes offense. Other locals sure
to see plenty of service in the
forthcoming games include: Ho-
ward Guthrie, Jimmie Campbell,
George Huffman, BEDFORD and
Brockway.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
N. B. Brown To Direct
March OF Dimes Drive
In Holmes County

With the completion of state
wide organization for the 1850
March of Dimes scheduled jan
uary 1851, DR.. Felix j. Under
wood, state chairman, announced
that M. B. Brown, prominent
business and civic leader of Lex
ington, will direct the drive in
Holmes county.
This has been our blacklist
year for infantile paralysis" stat
ed DR.. Underwood. "All through
the summer and fall months, the
fight against it ragged, while the
disease continued its vicious on
slaughts. Widely scattered COM
munities throughout the nation
suffered from its unprecedented
attacks. AS of November 80,
41,0OO cases had been reported.
Mississippi has been hard hit,
with record high number of
cases - $40 to date.
Financial requirements for pa
tient care have been enormous.
March Of Dimes funds were wiped
out, and it was necessary to con-
duct an emergency epidemic drive
for stop-gap funds to carry on
until the regular Embarrassing
campaign in January.
'The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis sent almost
$lO,OOO,OOO to county chapters this
year when local funds were ex-
hausted in caring for the strick-
en-. Mississippi chapters received
help in the amount of $4,000
from the National Foundations
Epidemic Aid fund.
I'VE are thankful that all our
Mississippi polio patients have
received excellent hospital and
medical care" DR.. Underwood
said. Had it not been for the
ready availability of funds dur
ing the past summer, the story
would have been tragically differ
ent for some of our Mississippi
children. Polio victims often need
treatment over a long period of
time to restore health and pre-
vent permanent crippling and in
expectation and this treat
ment is expensive.
This unprecedented number
of polio patients has created a
financial crisis for the National
Foundation at time when re-
ports from the research laborator-
les, seeking means of control of
the disease, are more encourag-
ing than ever before. This i'm
portant work must not be inter
rupted.
"These conditions" DR.. Under
wood added, challenge our best
efforts in planning for the March
of Dimes campaign. The need for
funds is urgent, and l am con-
fident that all Mississippians will
give their whole-hearted support
to this worthy cause.
Emmett c. Reese, chairman of
the Holmes County Chapter of
the National Foundation, called
on all citizens to give their full
suppot to Mr.. Brown in the forth
coming drive.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
Buy Trees For Home
Orchards Now
by John Holditch

If your farm plan for next year
includes a home orchard, and it
should, now is the time to buy
your trees and set them out. In
just a short time it will be too
late. will be glad to order your
trees for you and demonstrate
how they should be set out. l
will also be glad to furnish you
with information in spraying, and
will give a demonstration on
pruning.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
MISS. THIRD RANKING IN
SCHOOL AGE POPULATION

Mississippi has a population Of
2,096,000 and a school age (5-l7
years of age) population of 582,-
900, which represented 27.8 per
cent of the total population of the
state. This means that Missis-
sippi was the third ranking state
in the nation in terms of school
age population. OF these $4,000
school age children, 540,65l, OF
92.9 per cent, were enrolled in
schools with varying term lengths
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
MISSISSIPPI 23rd IN le4s
SCHOOL EXPENDITURES

Mississippi spent 2.3 per cent
of its total income on education in
l949 - this made Mississippi 23rd
ranking state in the amount
effort to support schools.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12
Patients At The Hospitol

Mrs. E. w. Rainwater, Lexington
Mrs. A. G. Weathersby, Lexington
Miss Margaret Brumby, Goodman
John Crowder Cain, Sails
George Ellison, Tchula
Miss Sue Cade, West
Leslie Smith, Tchula
Tom Wigley, Sails
Leon Lee, Cruger
Colofed
Ollie Lee Wright, Cruger
Pecola Henderson, Pickens
Melvin Roby, Lexington
Martin Holmes, Durant
Tanner Amos, Cola
Baby Jones, Cruger
Mrs F Majors spent Sunday in
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

Matte Qeft) and jeanette Col
Inns will lead the Holmes sextet
Friday night, January Is, VS. CO.
piah-Lincoln Wolverines of Wes-
son. This will be the first post
holiday games on the local court.
The Collins sisters are daughters
Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Collins of
Bruce, The young ladies are out
standing students at Holmes Jun
ior college. Matte was an all
star forward last season, and was
recently voted the friendliest girl
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

Robert Love, Ole Miss, spent
the weekend with his mother, Mrs.
7. Love.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

James E. Brown, Jr., University
of Florida, spent Christmas at
home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

at H. j. c. in the l949-195O Who's
Who on the campus.
jeanette received honorable
mention as forward last season on
the all-state selection. The 1949
football squad named her Foot
ball Queen the past season. In
the recent Who's Who Jeanette
was Signally honored when she
was chosen Miss Holmes Junior
college. This is the highest hon
or that can be bestowed upon a
student at H. j. c.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

Mrs F. Majors spent Sunday in
Itta Bena.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-01-12

Her treatmena requiring "a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-11-09
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TRESp ASS NOTICE

All persons are warned not to enter
upon. cross over or in any manner
trespass upon the lands Of the under
SIGNED, in the Winding Ridge, Bear
Creek, and Cove Communities, for the
purpose of hunting.
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Republicans hammered hard at the
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NO TRESPASSING

Persons are hereby warned not to
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WiIar EoTiEOrS


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No Hunting or Trespassing

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PUBLIC SALE

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SATURDAY. NOV. IL. 1850

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NO TRESPASSENG

All persons are hereby warned not
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ivy MD GRAIN

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