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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-07
CHATTER BOX
By RENA JENKINS

Stop, look and read! All you
cool cats and especially all of you
gossiping gals, if you want some
thing to talk about here it is
Yes, that real gone Fashion Show
at Hill was really tough. Old Ad-
die Howard came out with a walk
called the "boggie-beat," and
blamed it all on poor ]. D., then
Dorothy Smith caught this con-
tagious beat, folks they really were
hot. Then here comes Patricia
Almore, Ella Milton, Ida Ford,
Lille Wolfe, Ida Jacobs, Bessie
Hill, Martha Bingham, Billy Beard,
Aggie Bell, Muriel, and Pearlie
Marshall, trying to catch that
"boogie-beat" rhythm that had
Addie and Dot in the swing but
they were too slow. Now guys and
gals this isn't all. Laura Vance,
Vera Cotton, Eunice Miller and
Yours Truly set the place on fire,
of course we gals were the switch
ing stars of our very own creation,
and was it a creation, never seen
one like it before. There were also
some sharp guys on this show all
Of you gals, Charles Griffin, Stubs
and others. Gals you better get
hipped with them. Of all the cool
chicks, Verletta was the coolest
she came out a shakin' rafting,
and rolling. She looked up and
saw Edward and said, 81 Gotta
Go Home" Milda Bobbit, Linnie
Varnell, Earnestine Stubs and
Yavonne Thompson really made
some sharp rags. This isn't all,
there's more to show, but the rest
is really history and there is no
doubt about that. One last word
the real boomin session was when
those Belvideres came in with a
real hot number. can't recall
their names, cause when the music
started l was so whipped I couldn't
trig the wig. Gals it was really
hot.
The lovers of the week are still
Laverne Mayes, Sam Jones, Willie
Ruth Ball, Joe Graham, Johnette
Shiltnault and James Edwards,
Laura Vance, Jack Taylor, Pretic
Buchanan, Douglas Anderson, Ro-
sic Rainey, Leroy Boyd, Patricia
Campbell and Bonnie larry.
Well cool ones I'm hopin' you
dug my introduction about the
Fashion Show that was really
rockin' at Hill. Those guys and
gals were tagged to the bricks.
l hope you folks can dig my gig.
l gotta be flippin along now.
See you next week.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-07
Lessons In Meal
Planning Turn
Profits For
Home Makers

Washington, D. c., Apr. g.
What some Of the colored home
makers Of Carlisle, s. c., have
been learning in their home demon
stration clubs about planning meals
and preparing tasty dishes from
inexpensive meats is being turned
into neat profit, reports Mrs.
Marian B. Paul, State supervisor
of Negro home demonstration
work.
While a few of the homemakers
have been showing savings all
along in their family budgets as
a result of the training, others are
beginning to net a cash income
from boarders they have taken in
temporarily. The boarders are
construction workers who came to
the community to help build a
large mill.
At first some of the homemakers
were either losing money or bare
ly breaking even with their board
ers. Then they called on their
home agent, Mrs. Laura J. Whit
ney, for help. She reminded them
of their lessons in meal planning.
That did it. Now one of the
homemakers, Mrs. Addie Dawkins,
president of the Carlisle club, has
a shopping guide she worked out
by herself, and all of those with
boarders are beginning to show a
profit by serving nutritious but
inexpensive meals.
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cities. He charged that the present
system of allocating the total cleo
toral vote of each state to the can
didate with the highest number of
popular votes places a premium
on a few thousand labor votes, or
Italian votes, or Irish votes, or
Negro votes, or Jewish votes, or
Polish votes, or Communist votes,
or big-city machine votes To-
Gated in two or three large indus
trial pivotal states"
The NAACP, Wilkins said in his
telegram to the senator's, "hopes
very much that you will vote
against any change in the electoral
college system except that to elect
the President by direct popular
vote. Proposal to divide electoral
vote of states in proportion to
popular vote or according to con-
gressional districts will discrimi-
nate against urban population
which is already under-represent-
ed"
Moreover, the NAACP spokes-
man pointed out, the proposal
would partially disfranchise Negro
voters outside the South while in
creasing influence of southern
states where Negroes are not now
permitted to vote freely"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-07
Miss Jean Norris
To- Speak At Tea

Miss Jean Norris will be guest
speaker at Tea at the Branch
YWCA Sunday, April 9Th at 400
P. M.
Y-Teens and their mothers will
be present for the third annual
Pre- Charm School Tea. This affair
always precedes the regular ses-
sions of charm School. The School
is held each Spring in an effort to
help teenagers find some of the
many answers to questions which
confronts them daily along person
atty lines.
This year special stress will be
put on Travel Etiquette, topics
like what Teenagers should wear
enroute to a destination, behavior
on trains, buses and air planes.
Should teenagers tip, is so how
much, Hotel etiquette, meal selec-
ton in cafes etc. These and the
many basic questions about per-
sonality will be answered.
AS a special feature of the Tea
Miss Norris of the Language arts
area at Jackson College will give
an illustrated lecture on her recent
Tour of Europe. YTeens, their
mothers and the many friends and
members of the YWCA are urged
to share this treat with US.
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Wit To Be Watched

A of humor is of the most desirable
characteristics of any individual We all like to be around
people who can laugh and make others laugh. Some
times say "He is the life of the party. Persons
without of humor not delightful to be
around They are usually solemn, cynical and some
times bitter But humor should not be confused with
biting wit and It is thing to laugh with
people and another thing to laugh at them.
The most charming people are those who can laugh
be overdone. When laughing at oneself becomes
strategy by which seeks to bring himself into the
limelght it becomes bad. On the other hand if it is
done a matter of not taking oneself too seriously,
it becomes wholesome pastime.
wit that reflects other people is basic dis
respect for human personality 1t is frequently an effort
the part of to escape from his feeling
of insecurity by reverting attention to other people,
Take, for example, the wsecracks which stereotype.
There those who depict lawyers liars, Jews
being dishonest and grasping, Negroes being stupid
and ridiculous, and other such labelling There ndi
vduas who feel that every time they get up they must
tell story which reflects individual group
There is type of wit that is caustic and cruel that
seems to be part of people. They it
knife with which they cut at every opportunity
And while it may provoke laughter, it also draws
sentiment. When persists in such decorum over
number of years, he finds himself with multiplied list
OF enemies Worse still is the fact that he finds his
personality dwarfed and abused What do to other
people has way of registering in own lives and
reacting upon them.
cutting tongue is symptom of serious charac-
ter disease. The fact h a is expressed in
language that appears humorous does not destroy its
damage. 1t hurts both the person who and the
one against whom it is used. No person with high
Christian ideals and deep love for people will it.
Some individuals feel they have scored great points
in public discussions when they seek to rdicue those
who hold opposing points of view This represents the
lowest type OF discussion 1t usually indicates that the
speaker is without concrete argument and therefore
evades the issue by attacking under the guise
Of wit.
It is most important that ministers, teachers and
other public servants avoid such technique for it is
most "nchristian and unkind
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-07
AMEz PreIate
To Dedicate
New Church

Los Angeles, Calf, Apr. a.
The Rt. Rev. VIM. A. Stewart,
Presiding Bishop Of the 18th Epis-
copal District of the A. M. E.
Zion Church, dedicated the newly
purchased church home Of Martin
Chapel A. M. E. Zion Church on
Sunday, April 1, at pm.
The new church is located at
448 East goth Street. The congre-
cation had worshipped for nearly
80 years in their former location
at 111th st. and Wilmington Ave.
The Rev. X. L. Buford, present
pastor of the church was appointed
to the charge last September. and
Immediately set in operation the
plan to purchase the present site.
The congregation entered the
church on the fourth Sunday Of
February.
Assisting Bishop Stewart in the
services will be: Rev. Theo p.
Headen, Presiding Elder, Rev. s.
Marion, Pastor First A. M. E.
Zion Church, Rev. E. C. Watkins,
Pastor Second A. M. E. Zion
Church, Rev. Roger Willis, Pastor
Shiloh A. M. E. Zion Church, Mon
rovia, and the choir of Second A.
NJ. E. Zion Church.
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Re.Examining Booker 7. Washington

Over at Tuskepee Institute Sunday where they
observing the 18th Anniversary of the world famous
institution which he founded they also observed the
Tooth Anniversary of the birth of Booker T. Washington
ranked among the great educators, thinkers, and
statesmen of the world
The president of the City College of New York, DR..
Buell. G. Gallagher delivering the address of the occas
son under the title, Across Perous Terrain, refer
ring to the famous speech delivered by Booker T. Wash
ington at the Atlanta Exposition in the year 1895 sad
ut may we'll be that learn something from fresh
examination of that speech"
In his decisive hour, said Dr. Gallagher, Booker T.
Washington found pathway and pointed it out-a
path which enabled him and his fellow citizens OF both
races, to face the future together.
1t was in the Atlanta speech that Booker T. Wash
ington told members of his race, Cast down your
bucket where you are Cast it down in making friends,
in every manly way of the people of all by whom
you are surrounded and in which he made the famous
statement n all things that purely social we can
be separate the fingers, yet one the hand in
all things essential to mutual progress.
1t also in the Atlanta speech that Washington
by urging the members of the to learn to gorfy
and dignity labor and to- put brains and skill into the
common occupations of life which, with the general
ceptance of his philosophy of relations enable the
Negro in the south to enter the high road of
which he attained during the subsequent years. inter
rupted and slowed down only by the opposition of the
so-caled northern Negroes of the WEB Dubois school
of thinking
Deep in the philosophy of Booker T. Washington
were those ingredients with which the Negro could
achieve independence and pride of race and ultimately
Indignation of the spirit the spirit of equality, which
is the true American spirit.
Viewing the present condition of the Negro in the
South and visualzing for him it's future opportuni-
ties, despite the Glamour of those now like WEB Du
bos of an early time, who would lead him away from
it, don't think that the Negro in the South has been
long enough the pathway pointed out by Booker T.
Washington to reap and enjoy it's full benefits.
To be somewhat positive than DR.. Gallagher
feel certain that the Negro, particularly in Misss
spp and the rest of the South learn something
from fresh examination of the Atlanta speech, and
the philosophy of Booker T. Washington.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-07
NAAcP Sets
1000 Local
Membership Goal

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People set
a goal of 1000 members for the
Jackson chapter at membership
rally here Monday night.
Medger Evers, National Field
Representative for the NAACP in
Mississippi, said the meeting was
held at Pratt Memorial Methodist
church with DR.. Aaron Henry OF
Clarksdale, president of the Goa
homa County chapter, guest speak
er.
Henry is member of the State
Board of Directors. Louis Wilcher
is president of the Jackson chapter.
Evers said he did not know the
present Jackson membership in
NAACP but hoped it would reach
the 1000 mark by the end of April.
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my mothers training lived in
me-"
My Mother taught me about Jesus
She said, Jesus is the way
When was kneeling down to pray,
She taught me how to pray
Now lay me down to sleep
l pray the Lord my soul to keep
1T | should die before l wake
| pray the Lord, my soul he will
take
And this | ask for Jesus sake,
Amen.
My mother taught the children the
same prayer
That We must lift up Jesus name
While we are young and old she
said the same.
My mothers life before mine lives
in my
Mind every day
She said, my son when the Lord
call me, l want
You to always pray"
Everything she taught me was
right
She didn't spare the rod when l
was wrong
She left 8 sons and one daughter
behind
And a dear old Country Home.
I never will forget the day
When my dear mother passed away
l called the doctor, and he came
Yet he said she is passing away.
| done all I could to save her
Yet God called her home to rest
Because death is the gate OF end
less JOY
She is now my Saviour's guest.
Her training lives in me each day
To walk that narrow path
Preach Christ being crucified
To the last.
NV mothers training brought me
to Christ
When I was a young man | asked
the Lord
To forgive me, and put me on the
main line.
A line where there is salvation
And a resting place on high
When | have finished my word
here, l will
Bid this world goodby.
Rev. John R. Perkins
2611 Lilly st.
Jackson, Miss.
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Pigeon Drop
Artist Arrested

Chief Of Detectives M. B. Pierce
said Henry Lee Wiley, So, Negro
of Fort Worth, Tex, was arrested
Friday by officers in Forest. He
was held for investigation and
admitted pigeon dropping" a
Negro woman here of $33 on
March 81.
Wiley was returned to Jackson
Friday night by Detective A. II.
Martin and State Fire Marshal
Clarence Pace.
Officers said Wiley readily ad-
mitted working his game of "new
found money" on Ella Louise Up
shaw.
He confessed to detectives Fri
day night that the "young woman
really fell for the old trick" "She
ate it up" he said.
The woman told police shortly
after losing the money to Wiley
and another Negro man last week
that the pair told her they found
a wallet filled with money, but
would split with her if she would
put up some faith money"
The Negro woman told police
she borrowed $33 from her sister
for faith money" The pair took
her cash and left to "get the boss
to divide the money.
They never returned.
Friday night Wiley said he and
the other Negro split the money
and they bought pint Of whis-
key with his share.
Pierce said Wiley has long
record of similar swindles.
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Congressman
Diggs Spectator
AT Alabama Bus
Boycott Trial

DETROIT, April 2.-Congress-
man Charles C. Diggs, of Michi-
gan, and his chief legal assistant,
Atty. Basil Brown, attended the
trial of leaders of the Alabama
bus boycott, which began in Mont
gomery last Monday; and the
Congressman hopes to deliver 3d.
500 to the Montgomery Improve
ment Association to aid in the de-
tense of the 80 indicted leaders.
Three thousand people attend
ing a rally here contributed $500
to the cause; but Diggs, dissatis-
fled with the amount, took to the
radio with a plea for $4,000 more.
The Democratic Negro Congress-
man also attended the Till murder
trial in Mississippi last year.
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s. Carolina go.
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the races.
The bill is apparently an effort
to intimidate teachers as they are
the only large group Of public
employees from which NAACP
membership is recruited in the
state. the NAACP said.
In Columbia, the Rev. James M.
Hinton, president of the South
Carolina Conference Of NAACP
Branches, said the new law will
be tested in the federal courts.
He called it "a violation OF rights
guaranteed under the United States
Constitution" and predicted that 1t
Twill not stand the test before
courts of the land"
At Greenville, S. c., DR.. George
F. X. Naylor, visiting Australian
professor at Furman university,
denounced the new law as embody-
ing "the very principles OF perse-
cution which we resent as being
characteristic of Communism"
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Stars From -Four
Fields OF Music On
Woodwork Hour

Pianist Hazel Scott, motion pic
ture-stage-night club star Janet
Blair, popular singer Merv Griffin
and George Tozzi, basso Of the
Metropolitan Opera, will present
whats New In Music" on CHS
Radios "The Woolworth Hour"
Sunday, April 8 at 1:2 pm, EST.
Miss Scott, famed for her jazz
arrangements of classical themes,
will play her famous Bach Boogie-
Woogie" and as an unusual fea-
ture, will both sing and play the
French song LA Ronde." Miss
Blair, who replaced Mary Martin
in South Pacific" will sing songs
from that musical. Merv Griffin,
regularly featured on CHS Radios
Robert Q. Lewis Show" will give
olive" performances of two Of his
recent Columbia Record hits,
"Joey" from the new "The Most
Happy Fella," and "My Romance"
George Tozzi will sing one Of his
most famous arias, I'll Lacerato
Spirito" from Verdi's "Simon Boo
canegra," and as a closing hymn,
David's "Je Crois aux Dieu."
Percy Faith will conduct the
Woolworth Orchestra and Chorus
in his latest record success I'VE
All Need Love-" as we'll as in
Mortal" from the "Three Penny
Opera" and one of his new Latin
American arrangements, "Picha-
rada." In honor Of the imminent
circus season, he will play "Circus
Day Parade" in a new Faith ar
rangement.
Donald Woods is host and mas
ter of ceremonies of the program.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-07
$50 Million Spent
In 1855 Drilling,
II Fields Found

MlssisslppIs oil and gas indus
try spent approximately $50 mil
lion on the 457 drilling attempts
completed during 1866, according
to the estimate Of E. D. Kenna,
Jackson, executive vice president
of the Mid Continent Oil and Gas
Associations Mississippi Alabama
Division.
The cost of drilling for oil or
gas in Mississippi ranges from
$25, 100000 to $250,0O0.OO, depend
ing upon location, depth, character
of underlying rock strata and other
variable factors. Several expert
mental wells drilled in this state
have cost over a million dollars.
The industry spokesman set $751;
100000 as the approximate expend-
iture necessary for the completion
of the hypothetical average" Mis-
sissippi drilling venture.
A total of 457 drilling attempts
were completed during 1866, 80
more than in the previous year.
Two hundred fifty-five Of the 1866
tries were located in areas where
oil or gas production already had
been established. These resulted
in ISL new oil wells and II new
gas wells. Eighty-seven failed to
yield commercial quantities of
either oil or gas.
New Oil Fields
The remaining 202 drilling at
tempts recorded in 1866, were ex-
ploratory ventures or wildcats"
drilled in unproven areas in search
of new oil and gas reserves. Eleven
Of these were successfully COM
pleted as oil producers, establish
ing new fields and raising Mis-
sissippi's total number of produc-
ing fields to 113.
The eleven new oil fields offic-
tally designated as 1866 discoveries
are: Ansley field in Hancock Coun-
ty, South Kingston field, Moss
Grove field, Cooper Hill field and
Homewood field in Adams County;
Kelly Hill field, Mud Creek field
and Soapstone field in Wilkinson
County; North Church Hill field
and North Sunnyside field in JEFF
ferson County; and Sandersville
field in Jones County.
Discovery of a new oil reservoir
in the existing Pistol Ridge field
underlying portions of Forrest and
Pearl River Counties represented
an additional 1855 gain. Produc-
ton is from a deep formation of
lower cretaceous age, the strata
which has been most in the Mis-
sissippi Gil news since the 1853
81 period in which the important
$3.50 and Bolton fields were dis
covered.
Also lower Cretaceous producer
and probably the most significant
development of 1855 is the Ansley
field discovery in previously
productive Hancock County. The
discovery well, producing from a
sand below 1O,83O feet, is located
less than five miles from the waters
of the Mississippi Sound.
A great deal of geophysical ex-
ploratory work has been done in
the O0,OOO-acre area of the Mis-
sissippi Sound, and two deep ex-
ploratory ventures have been
drilled by barge-mounted rigs
without establishing production.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-04-07
City Wide Usher
Board meets

The City-wide Usher Board Of
Bay Springs met with the Bethle-
hem Methodist Church Sunday
night, March Is, 1856. The pro-
gram was a great success. A total
of $71.76 was collected.
Many visitors from Paulding,
So So, Raleigh, Montrose, Walnut
Grove, Louin, Stringer, Heidelberg,
and Hickory, Miss, attended this
meeting.
The next City wide Usher Board
will meet with the Nazareth Bap-
fist Church. The Matron, Mrs.
Ruby Perice has been ill.
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Powell Charges -.
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from rage OheJ
der the men and women who sur
round him."
During the Presidents first two
years in office, Powell said, "he
did as much as any other president
had done in q comparable period to
bring about equality and dignity
for all American citizens.
within recent months, however,
there has grown up around him a
palace guard of men who are not
interested in the rights of man.
kind"
Powell also contended that de-
segregation is stalled in the Dis
trict Of Columbia and the Vet
Grams Administration and that seq
reeation has returned to the arm
ed forces.
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Tide Water IS Net
Over S27.7 Million

NEW YORIA-Tide Water AS
ISOLATED Oil Companv's net earn
;ngs for the year ended December
81, 1865 amounted to $37, 790, 900,
COMPARED with 1854 net earnings
OF $34,547,0OO, according to d. T.
Staples, president.
After payment of s2,995, 900 pre-
ferred dividends, earnings per
share were $3.03 on the II ,484, All
shares of common stock outstand-
ing at the end of 1866. In the pre-
vious year, when dividends on the
newly issued preferred stock am
ounted to only $262,548 and there
were 1O,937, sol common shares
outstanding, earnings were 1913
per share.
He disclosed that capital ex-
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nenditures budgeted for 1856 will
reach a new peak of $195, 0OO, 900
Much of the sum will finance con-
stuction of the new Delaware Fly
ine-A-Refinery and modernization
Of the Avon Flying-A-Refinery in
California. Large amounts will al
40 be spent on exploratory activi-
ties.
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