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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28
Program Sponsored
~ City And Civic
Organizations Here

Durant's first full-t.me recrea-
ton program for school children
and pre-school children will be
held this summer beginning on
Monday, June / and continuing
until July 31st.
The program, sponsored by the
city of Durant and civic and SER
vice clubs of this community, will
be under the direction of Coach
Hugh Walker, assisted by Mrs.
Walker. Mrs. Walker will help
with the pre-school children and
the girls.
This recreation program which
is expected to make large con-
tributation to life in the COM
munity for the children, is the
result of splendid cooperation be-
tween the various civic clubs and
organizations in the community
and the city which is taking the
responsibility for the salaries in
volved.
The various organizations have
contributed time and money and
equipment without which the
program could not have been in
augurated.
The areas to be used for re-
creation include the school play
ground, the school gym and the
Gamma Playground in Wilkes
Grove which is furnished through
the courtesy of Mr.. Claud Wilkes.
Registration Set
Registration of all children who
plan to participate in the program
will be held Monday night, June
/, at 500 pm. at the gym. Full
plans and details of the summer
program will be announced at
this time. All parents and towns
people are cordially invited to
attend this meeting.
"A part of the recreation pro-
gram will be game, reading and
craft room in the gym.
Some equipment is needed to
furnish this room. Any Of the
following articles will be help
full. If any reader has any of
these items he or she isl asked to
phone Coach Walker at 2S-J or
me school, 1865, or bring them by
the gym;
Along with our program we
plan to have game, a reading,
and craft room in the gym. /
would like to send out an appeal
to the people of Durant for equip
nent to furnish these rooms. The
following articles are needed:
l. Used furniture Chairs, card
tables, tables, pictures, lamps,
both floor and table, and maya
zine. racks or shelves).
.. Games (any outdoor or in
door games that are still in US
able condition..
8. Old books and magazines.
4. Craft and woodworking
room equipment (old saws, ham,
mers, screwdrivers, pliers, drills,
etc.).
A very interesting program is
being planned and it is hoped
that a large number of children
in the community will particip-
ate.
Beginning next week the
weeks program will be printed in
advance in The Durant News
This will continue throughout the
summer.
All children are urged to go
to the school gym Monday night
to register for the summer pro-
gram. There is no charge of any
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28
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New York Especial to Durant
and lexington - Mrs. Lillian
Rhyme Ernst, formerly of Lexing-
ton, and her brother, Ross Rhyme,
Jr., who has an important posi-
ton with the engineering depart
ment of the u. S. Army, were
guests at the annual supper dance
Of the Southern Society of New
York City at the Hotel Plaza last
week.
Mrs. Ernst told North Callahan,
New York columnist, that she
missed more than anything else
seeing all her good friends and
relatives in and around Lexington
and Durant. She is popular in
social activities here and is pres
ent at many Of Gotham's festive
occasions.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28
CARD OF THANKS

Thanks to my sincere friends
for their efforts on my behalf
during the recent race for the
office of mayor. l shall be ever
grateful.
Z. c. II. Herring
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28
Elected President

Polly Phillips of Durant has
been elected president of the
tenth quarter class degree pro-
gram) at the University of Ten
nessee Shcool Of Nursing in Mem
phis.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28

Ward Morehouse joined me for
lunch and we soon discovered
we had picked a good place,
thanks to our mutual friend, Ray
Erwin Of Editor and Publisher
and formerly Of North Carolina.
The place is called "The Dog
wood Room" and is at so East
58th Street. It is the only res
taurant in New York City that
we know of, which serves gen.
uine old-fashioned Southern cook
ing.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28
Thursday Guests

Thursday Guests
Mr.. George Vickery of Birm-
ingham and Miss Ruth vickery
OF Grenada were guests of Miss
Estelle Turner Thursday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28
Sunday Guests

Sunday Guests
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Turner, Jr
of Greenville, Mr.. and Mrs. F
Turner and. Freddie of Memphis
and Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Turner,
Sr. and Ada Lee of Bourbon were
Sunday guests in the Ed Turner
home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28
Sundays SBoseboII

Tchula at Pickens
Black Hawk at West
Cruger at Camden
Lexington at Durant
Sundov's Games
Lexington camden
Tchula ll-West O
Black Hawk 12-Pickens 5
Cruger 2l-Durant q
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28

l asked Ward what were the
best plays he ever saw. He
thought for just moment, then
replied that they were Rain, v
What Price Glory" and THE
Green Pastures" He looked at
his watch. He must soon go to
Philadelphia to review a new
play named "Can-Can." Then he
soon Wus due in Savannah and
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28

Miss Lottie Pierce is the per-
sonable owner-hostess of this
restaurant, but in her delightful
culinary activity, she is not alone.
A clan of twelve relatives from
Mississippi and Alabama help her
run the place, and they turn out
an assortment of fried chicken,
hot biscuits, corn bread, turnip
greens, black-eyed peas and APP
pie cobbler that are something
for Manhattanites to marvel at.
Others do too. Miss Pierce has
a personal note of thanks from
Winston Churchill, and one from
Mamie Eisenhower. Ward More
house, who has eaten all over the
world, said this was his biggest
meal since his recent stomach
operation.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28

This is the way he tells in the
book of getting his first job on
the Savannah Post: My ascent
of those rickety stairs to ask for
my first newspaper job reminds
one of the most terrifying of life's
experiences. | faltered at the
top step and considered a retreat.
Then quickly in a now-or-never
move and mood, l turned into the
corridor, walked through door
way, and was in the presence of
the short, pIigy flat-nosed Billy
Sutlive, a south Georgia cyclone. ;"
Ward worked for a time for
nothing, then got 50 week. For
$3.50 a week he was attracted
to the Atlanta Journal. There,
he went to the Federal peniten-
tiary with Arthur Brisbane and
Frank Musney - but it was only
on visit when the two came to
town.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28

The year after World War /,
Ward Morehouse came to New
York. His keen eyes soon took
in this town - and its possible
ties. He went to work for the
Tribune, switched to the Sun
where he spent Is years before
it merged with the World-Tele-
gram which Ward promptly join
ed as drama columnist. Said he:
SIN 26 years of daily column
writing, I've turned out some
1900, 900 words, most of them
having to do with the theatre
and its people. It's quite pos
sible that I've found more sheer
satisfaction in the writing of nom
theatre pieces, such as the ex-
ploration of Leopoldville, West
Africa, and my discovery of La
Paz, the 2-mile high city of Bo-
livia, than ! ever got from doing
a play review, or high-powered
interview in the Broadway area
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-05-28

When l sat down, Ward had
just autographed a copy of his
new book, "Just The Other Day."
published by McGraw-Hill, for
handsome young actor, Pat An
thony, who is striving hard here
to make the theatrical grade. Not
all Of the interesting experiences
of the veteran drama critic are
chronicled in his column Broad
way After Dark" for the Scripps-
Howard papers, l learned. Nor
does Ward just take up where
some of us leave off in the day
time. He has travelled a half
million miles, he told me, since
he left his native Georgia to
come to this city. Three things
lured him from home: printers
ink, wanderlust and the stage.
He has pursued successfully all
three.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-08-20
Our CTS

Ou1 Nh -
A six-weeks' course at the De-
stroyer Engineer Officers School
at the U. S. Naval Station, Long
Beach, Cal, has been completed
by Navy 1t. (jg) Kenneth A. Hol-
comb, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
K. A. Holcomb of 1743 North Tay-
lor rd. He graduated from Shaw
High School, East Cleveland, and
Kent State University, Kent.
=
Pvt. Robert D. Thompson. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert D. Thomp-
son, who reside at 14806 Dover
ave-, has completed basic combat
training at the Signal Corps Re-
placement Training Center at
Camp Gordon, Ga.
August 18th was a good day for
Mrs. Jane Burmeister, 737 East
232nd ST., Euclid and Mr.. and
Mrs. T. <. Burmeister, 1904 Alder
ave., East Cleveland. Husband and
son, Sgt. 1/c James r. Burmeister
arrived home from Korea. Enter
ing the service in February of
1851, Sgt. Burmeister served with
the 7th Inf. Division in Korea. He
reports back September 11th and
will receive his honorable dis
charge November 28th.
Among the, Reservists called to
active duty and assigned to learn
induction procedure at the Cleve-
land Center during the coming two
weeks are Sgt. James F. Fasham,
1863 Carlyon rd., and Cpl. James
A. Weizer, 1888 Hastings ave.
Following her graduation from
radio school at Scott Field, Airman
&c Geraldine O'Brien is spending
her leave with her mother, Mrs.
Lester O'Brien, 14201 Ardenall ave.
She reports to Andrews Field, Md,
August oath.
Pfc. Edward J. Palmer has COM
pleted his courses in Railway Move
ments Operation at Fort Eustis,
Va. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Palmer, 14407 Potomac ave.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-08-20
WiIIoughby Needs
instruments For Band

A lound call is being made for
musicians, especially violinists, by
Charles Ruddick, conductor of the
Willoughby orchestra.
At present the group has 50
members, non-professionals who
desire to keep in practice with the
instrument they studied in high
school. There are no doubt, readers
who have musical instruments
gathering dust, instead of giving
hours of fun and relaxation.
Rehearsals are held on Mondays
8 to 10 p. m. (no auditions), at
Union High School Cor Willoughby
High; Route 20 and downtown
Willoughby.
Any further questions can be
answered by Mrs. Robert Birr,
MU. 1-7426.
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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-08-20

Pfc. Edward J. Palmer has COM
pleted his courses in Railway Move
ments Operation at Fort Eustis,
Va. He is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Palmer, 14407 Potomac ave.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-25
Too Early to Expect Tax Cuts
Job Of Analysing the New Budget Is Greater Task
Than Ever Before Nay Not Be Done Till August

eral budget was a relatively
small affair. The Truman
budget now being studied is
more than ten times as big as
the 1888 budget.
Secretary Humphrey has a
fairly big staff trying to come
to grips with the question of
receipts and expenditures, and
when he said two or three
months" it may turn out that
he was overoptimistic and that
about the only thing the ad-
ministration will know by
June is that the budget has
many items in it that must
be further examined before
approval can be given. It may
be August before a new
budget can be completed.
Meanwhile, the task of the
Congress is equally difficult.
though the committees in
both Houses will of their own
initiative do some cutting,
and this will complicate the
Budget Bureaus problems, be-
cause it will have to make
sure that the cutting is being
done in a practical way.
Sometimes cancellation Of a
contract in one place involves
more expense in other direc-
tionS.
All this has to be taken into
account as the budget goes
through the various stages of
denomination. Normally the
public would not know about
and would not pay much
attention to the making of
a new budget. This year, how
ever, the possible reduction in
taxes is tied in with the size
of the expenditure side of the
budget, and the pinch of high
taxes, both for individuals and
corporations, is having eco
nomic consequences that could
affect adversely the future.
progress of the whole produc-
tive machinery of the Nation.
One phase Of the fiscal prob
lem that has not been dis
cussed very much, although
the House Ways and Means
Committee report made some
mention of it, is the possible
stimulus toward higher tax
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-25
Fletcher KnebeI::
Potomac Fever

Two Brooklyn College professors refuse
whether they Communists change days
professor didn't have to to Washington could
right in his classroom without yielding information
The House votes another 100000 investigate
activities It costs like to put the proper questions
the type of reliable witnesses who'll refuse answer
Republican Senator Jenner Senator Taft naive"
about communism in colleges Republicans have
pcous Of education they happened
Democrats after the people got some
Dr. Robert Johnson. president of Temple University is
named to head the foreign information service Johnson
happy to to Washington with the Republicans-t's
cnch that since they got in college president safe
campus.
y
Ike to fly to Georgia of golf Repub
licans swift to fulfill their promises progress-amos
every day their leader is out the links yelling Fore"
The State Department suspends Alfred
Voice of America in New York Morton
the last three Secretaries Of Stae-Acheson, Dulles and
Mccarthy.
German Chancellor Adenauer the world situation
getting worse while Secretary Of State Dulles tells Senators it's
than last the future
their crisis bulletins appropriate
charts After ALL Germany United
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-25

standing and cooperation. I
know that the primary re-
sponsibility for keeping out
the disloyal and the danger
Gus rests squarely upon the
executive branch. When this
branch so conducts itself as
to require policing by another
branch Of the Government it
invites its own disorder and
confusions.
IT am determined to meet
this responsibility of the Exec
utive."
But Senators Mccarthy and
Jenner never gave their new
President a chance. Before he
could take a good look at his
executive branch, Senator
Mccarthy was busy policing"
the Voice of America, and
browbeating and seeking to
COW Secretary of State Dulles.
who likewise was not given an
opportunity even for a hasty
look-see at the far-flung
domain under his jurisdiction,
which included the Voice of
America.
The McCarthy-Jenner team
is technically equipped to go
as far as it pleases. Senator
Jenner is the chairman
of the Rules and Administra-
ton Committee which ap-
proves funds for Senate in
veStigations, in which role he
was most generous with his
Wisconsin teammate. He also
is chairman of the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Subversive
Activities to give himself elbow
room. In this latter capacity,
the Indiana Senator has re-
opened an investigation into
communism in schools and
colleges, which will coincide
with another of the same sort
by the House Un-American
Activities Committee under
Chairman Harold H. Velde.
So we have at the Capitol a
three-ring hobgoblin melo-
drama, the result of which,
judging from past experience,
will be to sow distrust not only
Of ourselves and one another.
but also Of our institutions,
than which nothing could
please our enemies, the Com
munistS. more.
The current investigation of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-25
Capehart 10 Offer
Stand BY Control Bill

Senator Capehart, chairman
of the Senate Banking Commit
tee, has announced he will intro
duce bill today calling for a
90-day freeze Of prices and wages
in event Of a national emer-
gency.
He said there are three
schools Of thought. on such con-
trolls: That they be allowed to
expire April 80 with no standby
provision; that a 9O-day freeze
be provided for prices. wages and
rents, without standby controls,
and that 90-day freeze be pro-
vided with certain regulations
and standby provisions.
The controls act which Sena-
tor Capehart has already intro
duced provides for the third ar
rangement. He said that with
this new bill Senators would
have two types of emergency
controls to vote on.
There have been reports that
the administration favors the
plan in his new bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-25
D0ns rIeeson:
Dulles Has Plan to Quiet Critics
State Department Grapevine Carries Soothing News
Thot Prestige VIII be in Ascendoncy Soon

1t ever got a real chance to
show what he could do. It may
be that, with the change in adj
miniStration, one will.
The Secretary has given it a
new head-Dr. Robert L. john
son, president of Temple Uni
versity and a veteran of the
battle to reorganize the Gov
eminent. DIR. Johnson says he
will make a broad study" for
a month and then probably &C
cept for good.
Meanwhile, on the congress
Sional side, Senate Foreign
Relations Subcommittee has
suddenly been brought back to
life with Senator Bourke Hick-
enlooper as chairman. This
subcommittee was created by
Senate resolution last year
under bipartisan auspices to
study the entire international
information program. All its
members favor continuation of
the Voice and the broad pro-
gram of propaganda and psy-
Geological warfare.
They have already made
some studies and will make
more at the scene of opera
tions. 1t is part of the Dulles
plan to defer to the Hicken-
looper group on legislative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-25
Doris Fieeson:

A soothing message has been
put on the State Department
grapevine to the effect that
Secretary Dulles has a master
plan" for smethering the de-
partment's congressional critics
and restoring its prestige.
Men in the department who
could not possibly be hurt
by any investigation say they
hope nobody tells them what
the Dulles plan is. A little
knowledge is a dangerous
thing around their shop, they
aver, and grasping at respon-
sibility is not to be thought Of.
This is in the executive
branch, which is supposed to
infuse American allies with
vision and courage while
soaring the Russians out Of
their wits.
Morale at State nose-dived
last week when both under
secretaries yielded publicly to
demands by Senator Mccarthy
for protection in their jobs of
whatever witnesses he chose
to hear. It had improved
when President Eisenhower
proclaimed that loyalty and
security were the responsibility
of the executive branch
and that Attorney General
Brownell would make the rules
on it for his administration.
The concessions to Senator
Mccarthy will give him access
to personnel and personnel files
consistently denied him by the
Truman administration, ena-
bling him to pin-point his shots
almost at will. Remembering
what he accomplished against
the Foreign Service with a
blunderbuss loaded with blanks,
the departments apprehen.
sions are readily understood.
Secretary Dulles cannot be
unaware of the peril of allow
ing Senator Mccarthy even to
appear to call the tune. The
secretary, a shrewd, cool law
yer, apparently has chosen not
to stand at the barricades at
once with the President in
these matters. Instead, he is,
in military fashion, buying
space with time. .
There is some merit in this
choice of the Information
Service, especially the Voice Of
America, as the space, though
it is hard upon the many excel
lent people in it. This branch
Of States activities is a post
war catchall of various infor-
nation, publication and propa-
ganda agencies born under the
stress of war. It is a new de-
parture for the United States to
wage propaganda for peace.
From the beginning, a Con-
gress suspicious enough of
ordinary diplomacy has har-
aSSed it. ..G-
No executive given charge Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-25

receipts which may come from
reducing tax rates. Back in
the 1920s 1t was asserted by
tax experts that the lower
the surtax rates, for example,
the more revenue the Treas
ury would collect, and it
worked out that way.
Many business transactions
which are held back because
Of high tax rates are consum-
mated when tax rates come
down. Likewise, price reduc-
tons are possible in many
products where high taxes
have previously been imbedded
in the price structure. In the
end, the total volume of trans
actions tends to increase as
tax rates come down. This
swells Treasury receipts. It is
fallacious, therefore, to rely
on off-the-cuff estimates that
this or that tax will mean a
loss" to the Treasury. The
fiscal guessers here have usu-
ally been wrong in estimating
tax receipts-they have been
known for the last 20 years
under Democratic administra-
lions to underestimate receipts
and overestimate expenditures.
The Eisenhower administra-
ton would make a ten-strike if
it could go back to the &C
curate estimating which the
Treasury used to do before it
became politically the habit
to play tricks with the ma
tional psychology in forecast
ing budget figures. One of
the favorite devices used to
be to predict a $10-billion
deficit in January, and then
hope for a wave of public
approval in June when the
deficit turned out to be only
three or four billions-as if
any deficit could be a source
Of rejoicing. But that was the
kind Of psychology depended
upon to ease the deficits into
the public mind. It looks as
if the Eisenhower administra-
ton wants to take enough time
to give the public accurate
figures-and that would be
a welcome change.
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