The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1951-03-01
Sonny Meek Run,
For Sheriff's Office

.fOI yneTiH 5 VnIce
The Durant News is
authorized To announce the can
didacy of w l.. Sonny" Meek.
Jr. of Lexington for the office of
sheriff and tax collector of Holmes
county subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary election.
Mr. Meek today made the fol-
lowing statement
To the Citizens of Holmes County ::
| am a candidate for sheriff
and tax collector of Holmes coun-
ty and would like to make the
following S a t e m mt of facts
which may be of interest to you
in regard to my candidacy.
/ was born in Lexington and
have lived here all my life except
for two and one-half years, which
were spent in the United States
Marines, two years of which was
overseas combat duty. My high
school education was in Licking
ton, after which took a business
course at Bowling Green Uni
versity, Bowling Green, KY. l am
the son of w l.. Meek. formerly
of Black Hawk and Lexington
and Kathryn Heinrich Ellis, a life
long resident of Lexington. My
wife is the former Ruth Louise
White, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. L. White of Lexington, for
merly of Cruger, and we have a
two-year-old son, Forrest Lee
Since being discharged from ser
vice, | have been farming at
Tchula and working for the De-
partment of Agriculture.
In announcing for this office
there is but one promise l can
make and that is that l will not
tolerate the widespread gambling
and other forms of vice which
now exist in Holmes county =
and, as far as the whiskey prob
EN- is concerned, l will do every
hing in my power to hold it
down.
I am fully aware of and COM
mend Sheriff Ellis E. Wynn for
MS success in getting rid of the
open gambling and whiskey in
the county.
l know, however, as do great
of our male citizens that
in almost every roadside div
that lines the highways of Holmes
county a crap game is always 60
ing on and it has reached the
stage where these places will
Just about knock you in the head
for dollar. There are also othel
forms of vice in many of these
places which are rotten to the
core - and almost impossible tc
'atch by law enforcement officials.
These places l have mentioned
are the ones causing the trouble
in Holmes county today and they
are the refuge for an increasingly
large lawless element flocking to
our county.
| believe l know how to dea
with this element and | promise
the people of Holmes county ant
especially those along highway 81
to eliminate the trouble caused
in all the dives we have today
the primary cause of which is not
but hit and run gambl.
ing and other forms of vice. ]
know how to stop this and will
if you elect me your sheriff.
AS far as being capable of
handling the duties of the sher
ifs office which are many other
than law enforcement, | think I
am capable of handling the office
work, having had a sound husin-
ess course in bookkeeping and
modern machines, and I assure
you of my ability to handle that
department.
If elected, l will probably be
the youngest sheriff on record
in Holmes county, as l will be
only 26 years old when I go into
office. But what this county
needs is a young. healthy, strong
honest man, capable of doing the
hard job of tanning the lawless
element here.
l will also promise that no in
group, or organization
is running me. and that no CLIQUE
will tell me how to run this office.
If elected to this high office, |
will strive to the best of nv abil-
ity to uphold all the laws of the
county and state and I will ap-
preciate the vote and influence
of every law-abiding citizen in
the county.
Signed:
w. l.. "So1ny" MeaL