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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
Three Texas Youths
Confess To Robbery
OF Pickens Firms
$500 Cash Is Token
From PresIev Firm:
Drug Store Robbed

T. j. Hamilton. Jr.. Luther
Smith. Jr., and Elmer Rogers
three Texas youths all 20 wears ~
age or under. were placed undev
$4,000 ssnd each in JP Court OF
c. G. Meek at Pickens Tuesday on
charges of robbery in connection
with thefts of cash and merchan-
disc from two Pickens business
firms.
The three men were arrested
by Sheriff Richard F. Byrd a,
Lampasas, Texas. where he wen,
on a lead while investigating the
robbery of the Presley Chevrole,
COMPANY in Pickens on Deem
Der of $500 cash.
Sheriff Byrd obtained confess
sions of the, men not only for the
Pickens robbery but for a num-
Der of robberies at Lampasas.
According to reports Hamil-
ton ana smith broke into the
Presley firm and obtained the
cash. They returned to Pickens
May l6, reports said, and broke
into the Ingram Drug Store tax
ing $500 in cash belonging to
the Miss. Valley Gas Company
and $l07.30 belonging to the Miss
Power and Light Company, plus
a quantity Of watches and CO.'S
tune jewelry.
The trio also broke into the
Presley firm again taking five
cartons of cigarettes and one box
of cigars, according to their con-
LESSONS.
The men will be tried in the
October term of Circuit Court in
Holmes County.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
District Two
Community Hospital

Mrs. S. j. Ellington, Durant
Mrs. Ophelia Patochek, Durant
Mrs, T. E. Leopard, Durant
Babv Marjorie Lynn Leopard
M. E. Rhyme, Durant
Mrs. E. j. Thweatt, Tchula
Mrs. O. r. Mcdaniel, Durant
w. E. Durham, Durant
Mrs. Addie 0. Howell, Lexington
Ken McRae, Goodman
S. A. Purdy, Sails
Colored Patients
Doris Wright, Durant
Vff'e Lee Horton, Walden
Kerry c. Melton, Goodman
Lucille Kyles, Sails
Annie Louise Hawkins, Durant
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
Henry H. Mays
Dies At Daughters
Home May II

Henry H. Mays, 80-year-old re.
tired farmer of 6ascilla. died al
the home of his daughter, Mrs
Daisy Powell in Durant Wednes-
day, May 27.
Services WIRE held at Rose.
bloom church in Tallahatchie
county with burial in Smith
cemetery. Williams and Lore
were in charge.
Mr.. Mays was a Baptist.
Besides daughter, he leaves
three sons, Taylor Mays, Clarks-
dale; Sterling Mays, Grenada and
Charles Mays, Marks; also TWEEN
ty grandchildren and sixteen
great grandchildren.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
Special Offering Day
Boptists To Have

Members are notified there will
re special offering day at the
First Baptist Church in Durant
Sunday. The offering will be for
the. building fund in order to nav
for the furniture and equipment
of the new educational buildino
A goal of $500 has been set and
all members are urged to bring
or send their contributions.
The new $4,000 educational
building is already paid for and it
IS hoped that Sunday. the amount
needed to finish paying for the
furnishings will be raised.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES

In the May 21st issue of this
column we inadvertently made
an error in quoting a figure
given in the jackson Daily
News on the amount of road
machinery which Washington
county owns.
The article said $1,000
which was a typographical err
ror on the part of the Daily
News. 1t should have been
$4,000, / found in checking
with the United Press writer,
John Herbers, who wrote the
article carried in the Daily
News.
Mr.. Herbers got the $57 COO
figure from State Auditor Will
liam Neal and wrote it just as
the State Auditor gave it to
him.
Now comes a letter from
Mr.. Hilton Waits, attorney for
the Board of Supervisors of
Washington county, who says
the $4,000 figure given to the
press was an inventory filed
more than a year ago.
Mr.. Waits said the inventory
of road equipment in Wash
ington county has increased
Since last year and the inven-
tory of March 81, 1853, shows
the entire cost of the road
equipment and machinery of
Washington county to be
S190,933.93 with a present in
ventory value of $85, 261.44.
Mr.. Waits, a prominent at
torney and longtime member
Of the legislature has been at
torney for the Washington
County Board of Supervisors
for % years. He is highly
enthusiastic about the unit
system for county road con-
struction and maintenance as
opposed to the outmoded beat
system which most Mississippi
counties still use. This means
treating the county as one unit,
using available machinery, etc.
in all beats rather than each
beat having its own road
equipment, etc.. The result,
where the unit system is sue
cessful, is saving thousands of |
dollars for the taxpayers.
Washington county started
using the unit system for roads
after the constitutional con-
vention of 1890 and has used it
ever since, Mr.. Waits said, ad-
ding that Washington county
has never had to make a tax
levy for road maintenance.
Mr.. Waits is enthusiastic
enough about the unit system
that he has worked in the leg
islature to pass laws making it
mandatory for counties to use
the unit system for road con-
struction and maintenance.
Washington county's Board
Of Supervisors appoints a road
commissioner whose duty it is I
to be responsible for all road
and maintenance.
All equipment and materials
are purchased by him after
due advertisement for bids,
etc. as prescribed by law.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
Duront Baptist Church
Holds Open House

The First Baptist Church of Du-
rant is holding open house from
2'oO-5:O0 p. m. Sunday, June 2.
and invites the people of Durant
and surrounding communities to
see the new educational annex
All denominations and friends are
invited.
Refreshments will be served.
The Rev. c. M. Day is pastor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
BPW CALENDARS

The BPW Club birthday calen-
dar for 1854 drive is on, beginning
June l. Plans are made for 100
per cent listing. Members are can
wasting the town and those who
are not contacted are asked to
list with their nearest BPW Club
neighbor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04

Holmes county has a number
of distinguished college gradu
ates in the 1858 classes of the
schools over the state of whom
it is justly proud.
At Belhaven College in Jack.
son on Monday morning Miss
Nancy Rathell Of Lexington,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Rathell, was graduated with high
est honors and received the two
highest awards made to any
graduate.
Miss Rathell received the Hon
or Council Award, a silver com.
pote, given to that student chos-
en- by the faculty as best IMPLYING
ideals of Belhaven College.
In addition Miss Rathell receiv-
ed the Trustees Medal for main
tanning the highest scholastic av-
erage in her class. She led her
class all four years in college
precedent she set as a child.
She had been valedictorian of her
eighth grade class and of her
high school class.
This young lady, member of
The Lexington Advertiser staff
during the summer of 1852, was
editor of her school annual.
white Columns and was elect
ed to who's Who" as one of Bel
Ravens outstanding seniors. She
is member of Chi Delta, nation
al honorary literary sorority and
Kappa Delta Epsilon, national
educational sorority, and active
in many other phases of school
life.
At State College
Henry Waterer, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. H. c. Waterer of Tchu-
la, was graduated with special
honors enthusiastically at the Mis-
sissippi State graduation exer-
cises held Monday afternoon. Mr..
Waterer is also active in MANY
other phases of school activities.
Other Holmes graduates at
State College included James
Robert Rogers of Lexington: Will
liam Rufus TAYLOR, son of Mr.
and Mrs. w. P. Taylor of Durant:::
Cliff Henson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
o, c. Henson of Pickens.
Ole Miss
Three outstanding members of
the senior class at Ole Miss this
year hailed from Holmes county.
two of them from Lexington.
Bobby Berman. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Berman. and Parham
Williams, son of Chancerv Clerk
and Mrs. Parham H. Williams
were two of the six seniors elect
ed to who's Who" this year and
both were outstanding in student
affairs.
A new honor came to Parham
Williams Sunday morning when
at the senior breakfast he was
elected lifetime president of the
class.
At the same breakfast Abe
Tahir of Tchula, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. Tahir, was elected life
time treasurer of the class. He
was also prominently identified
with school activities in his col
lege career. Other lifetime Of
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
Recreation Program Gets Underway With 140
Children Signed Up For Summer Months
Daily Vocation Bible
School Begins Friday

Daily Vacation Bible School
Will begin at the First Baptist
Church in Durant Friday, June
5 at 200 pm. with meeting of
all the faculty and pupils. A par
AIDE will follow Immediately.
All the children of Durant are
invited to attend from Monday
morning through Friday morning
8:30-l200.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
mi. Texas" Will Be
Shown Al Baptist
Church June 10Th
Public Is Invited To
See Billy Graham
Film On Wednesday

The public is extended cordial
invitation to attend the film, "Mr.
Texas which will be shown at
the First Baptist Church in Du-
rant on Wednesday evening at
800, June 10th.
In his leading role in "Mr
Texas, " Redd Harper portravs a
Twentieth Century Texas COW.
boy, rodeo riding and all-and
for Redd Harper that part re-
CURED very little acting" he
Just portrayed himself. Born in
the range country of Texas in
the little town of Nocona, Redd
spent much of his life right in the
great Southwest, moving while
still boy to Muskogee, Oklaho-
ma, where he was graduated from
high school. 1t was in Oklahoma
that he attended college, at the
University of Oklahoma in Nor
man. But between those early
days in the Southwest, and his
return to Texas to make the pic
ture in 1851, Redd toured the
United States-and certain other
parts OF the world - quite thor
oughly.
1t was music that took Redd
back and forth across America,
and it was Uncle Sam, in the per
son OF the United States Coast
Guard, who took Redd back and
forth across the Pacific Ocean
during four years in World War
II.
AT the University of Oklahoma.
Redd was a member of the orig
NAL "Sooners" band, and later
served as drum major of the R.
y. Il. {. band at the University |
During his college days, while |
maJoring first in journalism and
later in music, Redd began his
career in dance orchestra work.
career that saw him playing in
major cities across america, un-
til he settled in Los Angeles in
1888, the year that Los Angeles
was promptly unsettled by the
great earthquake.
In Los Angeles, Redd plaved
with Earl BURNETT and later with
Grier during a three-vear
contract at the Biltmore Bowl
Then came the wafyears, and his
service on the transport USS Ad-
miral E. w. Eberlee.
After returning from the SER
vice, Redd began singing western
and in January, 1913, he
began his broadcast of "Redd
Harper's Hollywood Roundup
over the Armed Forces Network
With potential listening audi
ence of 100,000,000 persons. the
Roundup has remained one of the
most popular programs on the
network, consistently holding the
number two spot in mail re-
sponse. On the program Redd
does all of the script writing
serves as master of ceremonies
Tor the guest stars who would
make an impressive Who's Who ]
n the entertainment world, sings
with his own guitar accompani-
ment, and closes with a bit of
lomely philosophy that has made
1im pal to hundreds of thous-
ands of soldiers around the world
Redd's introduction TO Chris
ian service came with a decision
% live his life for God, made dur
ng meeting of the Hollywood
Christian Group, where profess
;ional actors and actresses gather
or prayer and Bible study. Since
hat night, Redd has composed
several Christian songs, MANY
With the typical Western touch
which is so natural to him. The
ist includes I'm A Happy, Hap
~ Christian, "Walkin' and
ralkin' With Jesus" Show Me
rhe Way" "A Quiet Time" and
lis latest song. featured in Mr..
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04

tude.
There are always new fields
to conouer-new achievement
to be gained by those who have
the ambition and vision to see
them and the courage and
will to pursue them.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
In jackson

In jackson
Mrs. E. c. Howard and daugh-
tiers, Saranell and Shirley, Mrs.
Helen Hutchinson and Mrs ] r
Nicely spent Monday in Jackson
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-06-04
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Everyone is cordially invited to
the services of the Presbyterian
Church Sunday, June z.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-02-12

Because centric" agitation distri-
butes clothes evenly, no additional
mechanism is required to eliminate
vibration, therefore, no boiling down
is required. This feature alone adds
years Of life TO your washer.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
She Loved the Guy, but
Woman Divorces General
Bv the Associofed Press

LAS VEGAS, New, Feb. 49,
Mrs. Edna M. Hudelson, who
four months ago said II love the
guy and I'm going to fight for
him." has obtained a divorce
from Maj. Gen. Daniel H. Hudel-
son, Los Angeles oil company ex-
ecutive.
Gen. Hudelson, Al, who COM
manded California'S 4Oth Divi-
sion while it was in Korea, an
nounced last October that he
was ending his 28-year marriage
and intended to wed Mrs. Pa
tricia Lemoge, San Francisco
widow.
Mrs. Hudelson at that time
told reporters that I'm just
waiting for him to come to his
senses. He just isn't himself.
He belongs here"
But in divorce court yesterday
she charged mental cruelty and
testified her husband told her
he no longer loved her and "be-
came interested in another per-
son." Gen. -Hudelson was repre-
sented by an attorney but did
not contest her suit.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
{. Darby Burdette, 6S,
MontqomerYC YCountYNatiYe

Word Of the death Tuesday
of E. Darby Burdette. who was
born and educated in Montgom-
cry County, Md, has been re-
ceived by members of the family.
Mr.. Burdette, 68, died after
an illness Of several months in
a hospital at St. Louis. Mo-,
where he had been in the furni-
ture business for many years.
A native of Boyds, Md, he
was the son of Thomas A. and
Sarah P. Burdette.
Mr.. Burdette formerly was a
buyer for Stix, Baer & Fuller. a
st. Louis department store. He
also was sales representative for
several furniture manufacturing
companies.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Carrie Burdette. Of st.
Louis, three daughters: six
grandchildren: a sister. Mrs. E.
Estelle Snyder of 3718 Window
place NV. and several nieces
and nephews of the Metropoli-
tan Area. Funeral services and
burial will be in st. Louis to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Mrs. Charles Heider
Widow Of Broker

Mrs. Charles w. Heider. SIS.
of 1851 Shepherd street NV,
died of a heart attack Saturday
while on a vacation trip to
Miami. Fla.
Mrs. Heider, a native of Wash
ington. was the widow Of
Charles w. Heider, who until
his death in 1914 was associated
with w. B. Hibbs & Co., Wash
ington brokers.
A member of the Daughters
of the American Revolution since
1920, Mrs. Heider was the
daughter of the late David M.
Hildreth, a civil engineer with
the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Cleora H. Hagelstein, Stat
en- Island, N. Y, and Mrs. Phyl-
lis H. Ramsey, 1926 Eastern ave-
nue. NE, and a granddaughter.
Services will be at 8 pm. to-
morrow in the S. H. Hines funer-
al home, 1901 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Shoe Machinery Concern
Must End MONOPOLY
By the Associoted Press

BOSTON, Feb. ia United
States District Court Judge yes
terday held the big United Shoe
Machinery Corp. to be a monop-
oly-largely because it only leases
shoe machinery to factories.
Judge Charles E. Wyzanski
then ordered that all types Of
shoe machinery controlled by
the corporation must be offered
for sale in addition to lease.
And he ruled that the COM
pany, which conducts an inter-
national business, must license
it's patents to other manufac-
turers on a royalty basis. He
further directed that United
Shoe must cease distributing
other companies supplies and
that it must dispose of branches
and subsidiaries making nails,
tacks, eyelets, grommets and such
material.
However, he refused Govern
ment requests to dissolve the
corporation into three companies
and that it be halted from leas-
ing machinery to factories.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Dr.FestyYoakum, 10,
Retired D. {. Dentist,
Dies in Charles Town

DR.. Festy Yoakum. 70, a re-
tired Washington dentist. died
Tuesday of a kidney ailment in
the Charles Town (W. Va.) Hos
pital after a weeks illness.
His retirement in 1912 ended
Is years service as a dental sur
geon in the District. Since 1948
he had been a resident of Bolivar
Heights. w. Va.
A native of Greenbrier County,
w. Va. DR.. Yoakum was born in
the town of Travellers Repose.
He came to Washington in 1909,
Joined the Army Medical Corps
and was commissioned a lieu
tenant in the Dental Corps dur
ing World War I. He was a
graduate of George Washington
University Dental School.
With his wife, the former
Dorothy H. Langhorne. DR..
Yoakum was a Chevy Chase resi-
dent for many years. He be-
longed to the District Dental So
ciety and was a member of Ma
tional Baptist Memorial Church
and the Lebanon Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by his widow,
two sons, David L. of Anchorage.
Alaska. and Roger L., 3016 Mel
son place Sc; a brother, John
F. Yoakum of Beverly, w. Va,
and a grandson.
Services in the S. H. Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV, were to be held at
z pm. today. Burial. was to be
in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
John N. Bell, 81,
Official Of Census

John M. Bell, 81, assistant
chief of the Field Division, Bu-
reau of the Census, died Tues
day in Garfield Hospital after a
brief illness. He lived at 1903
Twenty-eighth street Sc.
Mr.. Bell, who had been with
the Census Bureau here since
1916, was formerly a rancher in
Tonkowa. Okla. A graduate of
the University of Oklahoma. he
served two terms in the Okla
homa Legislature.
His service with the bureau
began in 1912 at Woodward,
Okla. Before coming to the
Washington Office, he had been
assigned to Beaumont and Fort
Worth in Texas: Atlanta, Ca;
Kansas City, Kans., and Los
Angeles.
He received the Commerce
Departments Meritorious Serv-
ice Award for his work in plan
ming and organizing the bu-
reau's field staff for the 1850
Nationwide census.
Surviving are two sisters.
Misses Annie and Josephine Bell
of Oklahoma City, and a brother
DR.. Curry Bell of st. Paul, MINI.
Burial will be in Tonkowa,.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Mrs. P. P. Nielsen,
Came 10 D. {. in IS
From Native Sweden

Mrs. Christian Nielsen, q ma
tive of Sweden who came to
Washington with her husband
and five children in 1895, died
Tuesday after a long illness at
1913 South Ridge road, Arling-
ton, where she had lived the
last three months. She was SO
on February IL.
She was the widow of Chris
tian Nielsen, once a Maryland
farmer and former agricultural
supervisor at the National Train
ing School for Girls here, who
died in 1924.
Left Dairy Business.
Mrs. Nielsen accompanied her
husband on his second trip to
America in 1895. To bring his
family here, he gave up a pros
porous dairy products business
in Warberg. Sweden.
Mr.. Nielsen was employed
from 1900 to 1904 at the girls
training school and later be-
came a packing supervisor for
the Loeffler Provision Co.
Held Honorary Title.
Mrs. Nielsen, who was the for
mer Petronella Paulson, was an
honorary member of the Vasa
Swedish Order. She is survived
by two sons. Christian r., a
patent attorney. of 2815 South
Ives street. Arlington, and Louis
H. Nielsen, 5000 Moss avenue,
Silver Spring, and four daugh-
terS, Mrs. Dagmar N. Thomas,
1889 street NV; Mrs. Horace
L. Woodward, 1911 South Army
Navy drive. Arlington; Mrs. Ed
ward B. McDade, Sarasota, Fla,
and Mrs. Edgar L. Myers, Lake
Wales, Fla.
Three grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held
at l pm. tomorrow in the Cham
bers funeral home, 1400 Chaplin
street NV. Burial will be in
Rock Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
10 Prisoners Slug Way
Out OF Fort Worth Jail
BY the Associoted Press

FORT WORTH. Tex, Feb. 19.
Ten men. including badman
Floyd Hill. smashed their way
out Of the Tarrant County Jail
here last night.
One was recaptured q short
time later.
Hill is one of three men
charged in the $248, 900 robbery
Of two Cuban exiles here last
october 3 at the lush Western
Hills Hotel.
The break took place when
three prisoners on the fifth
floor Of the Jail slugged jailer
Jim Holcomb with shower pipe.
took his keys and then freed
Hill and four others.
After taking an elevator to the
basement. they attacked sheriff's
deputies Jason Young and Jim
Smith and trusty Eulon knight
and unlocked an outer door to
the jail office to gain the out
side.
Lonnie j. Baugh, %, charged
with receiving stolen goods, was
recaptured about 80 minutes
after the break as he walked
downtown.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
E.T. Maynard, 81, Grain
Speculation in CHICAGO
By the Asseeioted Prass

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 19.-E. T.
Maynard. 81, grain speculator
whose profits during a 194S grain
slump prompted calls for con-
gressional investigation, died yes
terday.
Mr.. Maynard pocketed a profit
Of an estimated $500, 900 as grain
prices slumped in 1948 and sew
eral members of Congress de-
manded an inquiry to learn if
he had inside information
from some Government agency.
Mr.. Maynard denied he had
any special advantage and said
he was able to anticipate a turn
in the market by reading "the
newspapers"
A native of New York, Mr..
Maynard was secretary of the
Santa Fe Elevator Corp. (not
connected with the Santa Fe
Railway and a former director
of the grain exchange. He was
also a member of the Chicago
Board Of Trade.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Rev. William Kendall, S3,
Missionary 10 Indians
BY the Associotsd Press

BRACEBRDGE, Ont, Feb.
19.-The Rev. William Kendall,
SO year old missionary who
passed up a great English estate
for life on the Muskoka Indian
reservation, died in a hospital
here last night.
His ancestral home, Shining
ton Manor in Yorkshire, was left
to him by his sister in 1948. But
he never went back to England
to take possession.
Mr.. Kendall, educated in
France and Belgium, gave up a
law career, in 1904 and came to
Canada as a missionary student.
He worked among the Indians
Of Ontario and Quebec and mar
ried an Iroquois woman, who
died in 1916.
Sinnington Manor is on the
site once occupied by the man
sion of Catherine Parr, Henry
WIS sixth wife.