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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-05-01
Home Demonstration
Dress Revue Held

The Holmes County Home De-
monstration Club members held
their annual dress revue on
April 18th in the educational
building of the Methodist Church
in Lexington. The contestants
and winners in the dress revue
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-05-01

SPEEDY SERVICE - Avoid
Long Delays On Needed
Printed Supplies BY Calling
The Lexington Advertiser.
Phone 666 Or 667. Lexington.
Miss.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-05-01
FOR ATHLETES FOOT

Use tai for 3 to 5 days. II
not pleased, your 40c back. Watch
the old, tainted skin slough off
to be replaced by healthy skin.
Get instant drying tai from
any druggist. Now at Howell
and Heggie.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-05-01
CLASSIFIED ADS
WANT A SPINET PIANo2 Due

WANT A SPINET PIANO? Due
to unusual circumstances we
are offering for sale a very
nice, medium sized, upright
piano. Will tsrn over to some
one with good credit. Small
down payment and several
small monthly payments will
handle. Must be seen to be APP
preciated. Write Credit De-
partment, Box asa, Florence,
Alabama. We will notify you
where you can see it. 33-2tnp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-05-01

the Lexington conference were
Mrs. Edwin White, Miss Marian
ma Kimbrough and Mrs. T. A.
Lail.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-05-01

~-ARL V. BROWN - Painting
and decorating. Call 353-Dur-
ant. 34ltnp
Evening star., 1952-10-03

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MAGAZINES this season. Nov at BIG Savings!
Amazing new textured royons and oeetotes thot
look and feel so much like wool they'd fool anybody!
Suits with their own petticoots! ToiIored styles!
Dressmoker styles! Grey, red, purple, black, ton,
brown in ribbed textures two-tones boucIe-weoves,
sizes to IS, 10 to 20 and l4lA to 24A in the
group! Ideal for yeor-round weor-come on in and
SAVE!
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04

James G. Patton, national presi-
dent, charged that the Farm Bureau
and Grange have allied themselves
with big business fronts in so-called
educational foundation" to launch
an about attack on farm programs.
The close-knit alliance between
the big-business "hayseeds" who
farm the farmers in the gulches
between high office buildings on La
Sale Street Chicago and Wall Street
in New York" is laying a propa-
ganda foundation for destruction of
price supports, soil conservation, farm
credit, rural identification, and other
farm gains scored since the 1905
Patton charged. Sitting on the boards
of these "fronts" with food process
ors, bankers, railroad and utility ex-
ecutives, and farm supply manufact-
urers, are high-ranking leaders in
both Grange and Farm Bureau, he
charged.
81 am shocked that leaders of bona
fide farm groups consort and work
with these men, whom they once de-
nounced," Patton declared.
The failure of other farm organi-
cations to give honest representation
to + m ly farmers has created a
vacuum" in the farm organization
field, John Baker, legislative secre-
tary of National Farmers Union, de-
clared in his report to the convention.
"Your Farmers Union right now
carries more weight in the making of
national and international farm policy
than any other farm organization in
the entire world" Baker said, "be-
cause it is the only general nation
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04

"The Presidents National Water
Policy Commission found an almost
complete vacuum when it started
looking for any basic policies-even
engineering in the Engineers OPP
erations. With all its experience in
the river control field, it has devel-
oped no engineering standards for
it's type of work such as one finds
for various types of highways in the
road building field. There are no
real guides or standards as to the
feasibility of a project, no standards
by which planning is related to pres
ent and future water, power, flood
control, transportation, domestic and
commercial water supply, sanitation
and recreational needs of an area,
by which project may be tested
GAS a matter of fact, it found the
Corps engaged in breaking down
the few basic water development
policies which this nation has
adopted, such as the 160-acre linn
itation on irrigation by one indi-
vidual from publicly impounded
waters, in their effort to move
into the reclaim ton field at Grand
Prairie in Arkansas.
"Piled on top of these revealing
studies is now the report of sub
committee of the House Appropria-
lions Committee which deals with
Rivers & Harbors appropriations.
This report is a shocking indictment
of even the engineering work of the
Band-Aid experts which, if circulated
about private engineering firm,
would ruin it for all time.
"The subcommittee found that the
had underestimate 1872
navigation and flood control prof.
ects, when asking for appropriations,
by 124%o-indicating cost of $2,638
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04
nFRONT" ORGANIZATION
TO FIGHT COMPENSATION
Initiative, SET UP

After weeks of preparatory effort,
search and research, a chairman and
another committee member have fin
ally been found by the company
crowd to head up their campaign
against the Workmen's Compensation
initiative.
They've also found a name for
this newest front" organization to
spring up in Montana life. 1t is the
Montana Economic Council.
Chairman of the council is Dean
Chaffin, former state legislator from
Gallatin, and past president of the
Montana Chamber of Commerce.
Assisting Chaffin, publicly, will be
Sam D. GOA, Helena, Associated In
dustries attorney, and Ben Draper,
official of the Minneapolis-contr
ed Union Bank & Trust Co. of Hell
ena.
Guiding lights of the council it
is reported, will be little-publicis-
ed but highly efficient Gene Saw
age, the ace good will ambassador
of the ACM-Montana Power axis,
and Ernest Immell, publicist, who
handled the successful campaign
of Sen. Zales Ecton in 1916, and
more recently a newsman for the
ACM's Billings Gazette.
Announced initial purpose of the
council, according to a recent state
ment by GOA, is to 'resist submits
sion" of the initiative to the voters
at the November election.
Opinion among many businessmen
is that, should the initiative be sue
cessful in getting on the ballot, it
will, like the Metal Mines initiative
OF 1924, receive overwhelming APP
prevail of Montana voters.
The initiative proposes to make &C.
diseases compensate und-
er Workmen's Compensation, as is
the case in AZ of the states, and to
increase disability benefits to a level
to benefits paid in Idaho,
Washington, North Dakota, Oregon
and Wyoming.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04

millions for projects that DID cost
$5,912 millions, and that even after
liberal allowance for rising pricse,
at least $800,000,000 of the excess
was attributable to errors, omissions
and other bad engineering.
fThe refusal of the subcommittee
to approve funds for the futile Greek
dam in Kansas and the Gavins Point
dam in South Dakota" said Stong,
"shows that Congress will no longer
go along with the Pick-Sloan program
of the Engineers and Reclamation.
Stong also emphasized the refer
edce of the subcommittee to the IL
man Presidential commission study
ing the basins problems as an indi-
cation of how thoroughly Congress
is repudiating the Shotgun" marri-
age of the Engineers and the Recla-
nation Bureau.
The situation of the Pick-Sloan
plan is so desperate, Stong report
ed that several of the Governors
involved are already throwing to
gether a "stand-in" scheme-an in
terstate compact-to forstau an
MVA when Pick-Sloan collapses.
eff the authors of this move would
take time to investigate how we'll the
Colorado River Basin compact is
working" the Regional MVA head
said, with the upper and lower bas-
ms at each others threats and de-
velopment all but completely frozen
by disputes, am sure they would not
even have started on this course.
Continued on Page Three
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04
MINE-MlLL SETS WAGE GOALS FOR
1862 CONTRACT BARGAINING

DENVER-Fifty members of the
National Wage Policy Committee of
the International Union of Mine, Mill
& Smelterworkers have returned to
their homes after adopting a 1862
bargaining program headed by de-
mand for general wage increase
of 25 cents an hour throughout the
non-ferrous industry.
Members of the unions top bar
gaining policy body unanimously ap-
proved a seven-point list of demands
which had been hammered out earlier
last week by $50 rank-and-file dele
gates to the unions annual Mining,
Smelling & Refining Conference.
The union conferees, representing
10000 workers in the copper, zinc,
lead, potash, brass, iron ore and al
lied industries, agreed that "higher
wages, sufficient to catch up with
higher living costs and speedup are
urgently needed to sustain living
standards of our members"
"We know" they declared, "that
a frantic effort will be made to apply
the freeze formulas of the Wage
Sterilization Board to our industry"
The Boards formulas, which "spring
from the distorted BIS cost-of- living
index and more speedup, are geared
only to the requirements of corporate
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04

of the unions in the oil industry,
which this year made nationwide
bargaining in oil possible"
Calling attention to the fact that
bargaining this year will be carried
on during a presidential campaign,
the conferees declared: "Our weight
as a political force must be brought
to bear in all stages of the electoral
process-in primaries, state conven-
tions and the eral elections.
Wherever possible, we should work
for support of independent, pro-labor
candidates. This may mean, in some
instances, advancing the candidacy
of our own members"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04

wide farm organization that stands
up in Washington and everywhere
else to represent the best interests
and deepest aspirations of f m y
farmers"
M. w. Thatcher, ST. Paul, general
manager of Farmers U n i Grain
Terminal Association, again empha-
sized the seriousness of the crisis
in farm legislation.
1852 ELECTIONS, THE
BATTLE-GROUND
Thatcher declared Farmers Union
will be virtually alone in the defense
of family farming and the New Deal
farm programs. The election of 1852
appears to have been chosen by their
enemies as the battlefield on which
these programs will be forced to
fight for their lives, Thatcher declar-
ed.
eve can not afford to look ahead
to the next so years." Thatcher said.
eve haven't got that much time. This
battle will either be won or lost for
ever in the next five years"
Urging the convention to launch
a tremendous expansion of Farmers
Unions legislative, cooperative, and
educational activities, Thatcher de-
clared:
''We must set our sights on the
election of 1856 and prepare to elect
a Congress, and put a man in the
White House, who will start another
New Deal"
The delegates responded o h
challenge by endorsing resolution
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04

Several years ago." Stong report
ed, "Missouri state engineers demon
strated that with more than $500
millions of flood control money, the
Corps had succeeded in seriously
worsening floods in the lower Mis-
souri, river with their band-aid plas-
tiers along the banks of the river to
restrict the channel. Floods in the
early forties, involving no more wat
er than some previous flows, crested
up to 5 feet higher than before the
Corps applied its patches.
"Next came the Task Force report
to the Hoover Commission. 1t re-
vealed to the nation that the Corps
was not only incapable of appreci-
ating the broad social and economic
values inherent in full river basin
but also that on the
engineering plane the Corps had fail
ed to take into account all the needs
within the basin for the water which
the Band-Aid Corps was trying to
slip out into the Mississippi by way
OF a wasteful flowing navigation
channel
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04
MONTANA MvA TO MEET
SUNDAY I'm GREAT FALLS

Montana MVA Association will
hold its annual meeting at Shelter
mems Hall, Great Falls, Sunday,
April 6, 10 A. M. Principal speak
ers at the gathering will be State
Supreme Court Justices r. V. Bot
tomly and Lee Metcalf, and Judge
Left Erickson.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04
FARMERS UNION MUST CARRY LOAD
TO Save FARM PROGRAMS
By ROBERT G. LEWIS, NFU

ROBERT G. LEWIS, NFU Washington Office
of agricultural legisa
ton the
That Union the only force making these fights
dandre by officers, staff members, and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04

profit" they said.
eve know that the same kind of
unity and coordination which won
last years outstanding settlement,
despite the wage freeze, can again
bring success in 1852" The list of
key demands, which will now. be sub
mitted to the rank-and-file in meet
ings of local unions throughout the
country, include:
/. A general wage increase of
Is cents an hour.
2. Elimination of all geographic
cal wage differentials.
3. Improved vacations and ad-
ditional paid holidays
a. Increased night shift differen-
tials and premium pay for
Sunday as such.
5. Sick leave and improved
health and welfare provisions.
6. Improved union security.
z. Guarantees against discrimi-
nation because of race, color,
creed or political belief.
The delegates also expressed "solid
support for the members of the CLIO
Steelworkers' Union in their, demand
for the full II u cent wage increase
recommended for workers in the steel
industry by the Wage Sterilization
Board. And they hailed the "unity
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-04
81 /etoes Engineers Latest
FBasin Pork Barrel Plans
Missou,
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Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21
KODIAK MIRROR
Former Teacher Tours Europe

Miss Marco Kiilsgaard, for mer Kodiak school teacher. is currently on a tour of Europe. Miss Kiilsgaard flew from Fairbanks, where she taught last year, to New York.
 In New York she joined a party for a conducted tour, She plans to leave the group later and go to Denmark to visit relatives. She plans to return to the west coast of the U. S. this fall.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21
Navy's Role ln Alaska Told By Navy Captain
We have here in Alaska

We have here in Alaska under General kepner, !; striking example. of unifcs tion really working, Captain C. H. Duborg, USN, told the Kodiak Rotary Club Tuesday noon.
 "The U. s. Army, the A laskan Air Command and the Alaskan Sea Frontier are working together in harmony and cooperation to improve the the efficiency and the combat readiness of the Alaskan Command" Capt. Duborg said.
 To illustrate his point he
Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21

sea power. Altogether that means Unity-Strenglh-Free dom- which preserve demo- cracy and the way of life of the free people of the world. "
 Bob Lear, son Of MT. and Mrs. Les Serum, is attending an ROTC encampment at Ft. Lewis, Wash, for six weeks. Lear has just completed his junior year at the University of Alaska.
 Later this summer, MT. and Mrs. Serum will meet Lear at Seattle and the three will vacation in the states.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21
Navy Names New
 17 ND Commander

Washington (R)-The Navy announced the appointment of Rear Adm. John Perry, 54, Greenville, s. G., as com mandant of the 17th Naval District and commander of the Alaskan Sea Frontier at Kodiak.
 Kodiak-Rear Adm. E. A. Cruise has been in command of the Naval District and the Alaskan Sea Frontier since October of 1851. The Navy announcement did not in- dicate Adm. Cruises new station.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21

Mrs. Harry Bryant arrived on the O'Hara Tuesday to join her husband. He works at the base as a carpenter.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21

Harry Donnelley, senior partner in the firm of Donnel ley and Acheson, was in Ko- diak this week.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21

| ohl Jump operation ana the ! Airforce activities on T-3, the floating ice island, near the north pole Capt. Duborg was ] aboard d Navy ski-equipped Neptune that lost an engine on take off from icy airfeld and was forced to stay until an engine change could be ] made.
 The Air Force flew in an extra engine, Navy personnel and equipment to make the ! engine change. The change was made in four days in ex- tremely cold weather and the Neptune flew off the island and returned to the base, Capt. Duborg said.
 , Speaking specifically of the ! Navy's role in Alaska he told of l the activities at Point Barrow iand those through the Aleu- tian Chain.
 An activity in which the Navy has long been interested ever since President Warren Harding turned the North western-most part of Alaska over to the Navy, has been the Naval Petroleum Reserve at Point Barrow"
 Capt. Duborg told of the many separate projects origi- mated at Washington, D. c. and carried out at Point Bar row. Studies of the ocean, ice, salinity tests, the current measurements of deep sea soundings, cold-weather tests for amphibious vehicles and clothing are among the pro- jects now being made.
 He told of the activities, pro- jects and operations underway at 17th Naval District head : quarters here.
 Rear Adm. E. A. Cruise is the head man of the Navy in Alaska, and in this capa city wears three hats. Name ly: Deputy Commander in- Chief of the Alaskan Con- mand, immediately under Lieut.. General w. E. Kep- ner, Commander of the A. laskan Sea Frontier and Com mandant of the 17th Naval District" Capt. Duborg ex- plained.
 l In pointing to the core of the Navy's mission in Alaska, he said, what role should sea power play in the plann. ing. co-ordinating and the training that the three ser vices are conducting to de- fend Alaska? First, the sea lines of communications must be kept open between Se- attle, San Francisco and other west coast ports and Alaska. "
 He emphaized the impor- tance of logistic support of troops. To accomplish logistic support it would be up to the Navy to clear the sea lanes of mines, combat aggressor sub- marines and obtain dominance lin the air over the sea to as-
Kodiak mirror., 1952-06-21

Alexis Popoff is working in Krafts grocery department.
, 1952-02-13
edges.

cages.
Mays, a bit of a prodigy in that
he is so good yet so young, may
be away from baseball 70 ra cou-
pie of years in his early 20s. He
can't hope to make that up.
Others have gone the same way.
This will not be fatal for base
ball or to the careers of these
athletes. It does mean, however,
that they will not be such good
baseball players when they come
back and, as mentioned, the po-
tential greats thus are sidetracked.
The wars also can bring an end
to a players career. Ted Williams
was out of the game for the sec
ond world wal and expects to be
recalled in May.
At his age, by the time he gets
out of this one he will be well
past his peak. He may be able to
hang on for a year, surely not
longer, and he possibly will not
be able to get back into the game
at all.
, 1952-02-13
[s,<ne
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) Opinion
sNsm@msAss@aS Aes Rm@awmmA9MmAd
essnlbsssd by ~Issssssfissa
Aews Segv9ee

I don't know what has happen
ed to meat inspection but my bar
Der claims he had a steak the 9th
er night that lost at Belmont earl
Ter in the season.
He said 81 didn't mind putting
81 on his nose but I object to
paying So for his thigh"
The butcher said it was ridicu-
lous to think he would be peddling
horse meat but two neighbors
claimed they saw a jockey ride in
the back door and come out on
foot carrying his saddle and a
new wallet.
And the next day the sign in
the window read: "Fresh Killed
Eastern Beef i. also horse meat
for Sale"
But at today's prices people will
settle for filly if it's two cents
under filet.
Sen. Kefauver sold his coonskin
cap the other night and that's apt
to turn up at a Democratic ban
quet sauteed and stuffed with
wild rice.
, 1952-02-13

World War II retread quit their
shallow carping about recall to
the services at the expense of their
civilian careers and their disrup-
ted homes.
This ought to make the respec-
tive wives of these retreads quit
signing, too. And kids of these
retreads, if they start sniveling in
public again because their OF man
is away in uniform, ought to be
spoken to sharply.
Let them all follow the example
o fthese two self-sacrificing Har-
ward boys whose faces were puffy
and swollen and whose eyes were
(concludede on page 3D.
, 1952-02-13

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. (INS)-
Willie Mays would make a prime
example OF what people are talk
ing about when they explain the
reason for scarcity o ftrue major
league baseball players today.
1t is generally agreed that in
another season or two Mays like
~ would begin to take rank with
the aH-tlme greats. The New York
Giant out1ielaer has one Of the
greatest arms ever, in point of
both accuracy and power. He is a
tremendous bali hawk, he is po-
tentially a great hitter and he has
instinct for the game.
However, he is q couple of years
away from his true greatness, a
couple Of the most important years
of his baseball life, and he is
headed for the army.
So there viii be no mistake
about this departments attitude
about baseball players and other
athletes going into the army, let
it be said that insofar as | am
concerned they should be the first
to get in.
They get a chance to make more
money faster than the average
mortal and they are physically
tough.
But what this piece is trying
to say is that the explanation for
what has happened to great ath-
letes-baseban players in the
main, but fighters, too, along with
others-is that they are sidetrack-
ed at the peak of their learning
and lose the years, that would have
established them high on the lad
der.
Thus baseball today, as Ty Cobb
said recently, IS not what it was
until a few years ago.
There was a time when pitchers
won more than 20 games and
sometimes as many as 80 almost
as a matter Of course. They are
rarities today. So far The tremen-
dous hitters who batted against
those pitchers and still did better
than all right in the averages.
Pitchers win fewer games now
and the hitters generally speak
ing hit for lower percentages.
There are still some major lea
guers around, but they are far less
numerous than previously.
Those that are not diverted af-
ter they get into the majors are
caught before they arrive. In eth
er case, their development is ar
rested at q time when they should
be polishing up the last few rough