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Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22
State Mutual
Savings & Loan
Assn. In Third
Annual Meeting
A. G.. CASTOR
Principal Speaker

Approximately three hundred
and fifty persons representing
virtually every section of Missis-
sippi and many walks of life were
on hand Thursday, February 6, at
the M. w. Stringer Masonic Tenn
pie for the third annual meeting
of the State Mutual Savings and
Loan Association. The principal
speaker for the occasion was Mr..
A. G. CASTOR, outstanding business
man of Birmingham, Alabama.
Called by some the nations big
gest Negro businessman. Mr.. Gas
ton recounted some of the expert
ences faced by the Citizens Federal
Savings and Loan Association of
Birmingham, which he heads, dur
ing the organizational period of
the Association. Pointing out the
fact that there will doubtless be
a large number of persons who
could help State Mutual grow
faster if they would only give
their financial and moral support,
CASTOR urged the members not to
despair because Of the absence of
their support. He stated: "You al
ready have enough big money and
the leadership. Go out and get
some of the small depositors."
In addition to the presidency of
the newly-organized Savings and
Loan Association which skyrocket-
ed to over one and a quarter mil
lion dollars in assets, DR.. CASTOR
heads the Smith and CASTOR Fun
eral Home, the A. G. CASTOR Motel,
the Booker T. Washington Burial
Insurance Company, The Booker T.
Washington Business School and
numerous other enterprises. He is
trustee Of Tuskegee Institute.
DR.. CASTOR was introduced by
President Jacob L. Reddix.
President Reddix, Leonard
Chambliss, H. T. Sampson, E. w.
Banks and DR.. C. L. Barnes were
elected to the board of Directors.
State Mutual was organized to full
fill a need among Negroes to gain
additional self respect by lifting
themselves by their own financial
boot straps. The Association gives
a feeling of personal ownership
and affords a source of collective
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22
Jackson College
Choir Getting
|ReadyFor Tour

With less than two weeks re-
naming before they leave on the
first of two major tours, members
OF the Jackson State College Con-
cert Choir are slowly but surely
putting the finishing touch on the
repertoire they will sing at en-
gagements in 15 cities during Feb
ruary, March and April. The Choir
opened its 1853 season before
near capacity audience in Laurel,
Mississippi, as the Laurel-Jackson
State College Club honored its
founder, Mrs. Hattie V. j. McInnis
and Mrs. Lucy Beale Jones, the
Clubs only other charter member.
Five members of the Choir are
former music students of the first
honoree, Mrs. McInnis.
The Choir's other engagements
include concerts in Greenville, Hol-
landale, Natchez, Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama; New York City (Town
HalD; Lincoln University, Penn
sylvania; Virginia State College;
Hampton Institute; Washington, D.
c.; Memphis, Tennessee; st. Louis,
Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; Gary,
Indiana; and Hattiesburg.
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22
Proposed Pearl River Valley Reservoir
Called Economic Asset For Entire State

Central Mississippians, through
a series of County meetings,
have enthusiastically endorsed
plans for a proposed twenty
mile long Pearl River Valley
Reservoir to be located five
miles north of Jackson.
Following technical studies
which proved the project feasible
from both engineering and fl
nancial standpoints, leaders OF
the Pearl River Industrial Com
mission and the Water Reserves
Committee of the Jackson Cham
Der of Commerce, in cooperation
with other Central Mississippi
leaders, are drawing up detailed
plans for financing the 24,000,-
900 project.
House Bill asa and Senate Bill
1924 have been introduced ir
the Mississippi Legislature tC
make the project possible.
w. P. Bridges of the Pear
River In dustrial Commission
and R. Baxter Wilson, Chairman
of the Water Reserves Commit.
tee of the Jackson Chamber o1
Commerce, in discussing the cur
rent legislation said, "Precedent
has already been established fol
legislation allowing local pro.
jects of economic benefit to the
entire state to come into being
and we are confident that the
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22

the entire state said, can as
sured, long-range water supply
and a planned industrial area
near the reservoir would be a
powerful attraction to industry
which requires ample water for
manufacturing and related oper-
Iations."
'"The reservoir would also pro-
vide facilities of boating, fish
ing, hunting, and water sports"
they continued, thereby Great
ing economic benefit to the area
through direct leasing, rental
and licensing operations and
through indirect employment
and business opportunities
created by these recreational ac-,
tivities."
agricultural irrigation opera
tions would also be stimulated"
Wilson and Bridges said, mot
only in the immediate vicinity
of the reservoir but as far south
in the Pearl River Valley as
Copiah County and possibly
beyond"
Other factors which would be
influenced by the proposed res
ervoir include water storage for
the rapidly growing area of Cen
tral Mississippi, stream pollution
abatement and limited flood
Icontrol.
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22
Hendrix 0rg'zn
Observes Anniv.

Washington = Offices of The
Moss H. Hendrix Organization,
1880 18th Street, NV, were open
to members of the press, radio, tele-
vision and public relations repre-
sentatives last Saturday, February
8, on the occasion of the mid-win-
ter Board Meeting of the National
Association of Market Developers.
The informal reception was the
second time in as many months
that the Washington, D. C. public
relations firm undertook to enter
tain friends, colleagues and asso-
ciates in observance of its tenth an
niversary.
Mr.. Hendrix, founder and head
of the PR firm, is also chairman of
the board of the Market Developers
who held their business sessions at
the New Dunbar Hotel to discuss
special marketing programs in
periods of social change"
They also rounded out plans for
the annual marketing clinic set for
March goth at Tennessee State A.
& l. University at Nashville. Will
liam o. Walker, president, Nation
al Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton and editor-publisker of the
Cleveland Call and Post, will de-
liver the principal address.
Joseph Albright, NAMD presi-
dent, and head of Albright and As
sociates, joined Mr.. Hendrix in the
receiving line during the reception.
Tom Hawkins, Hendrix associate.
and D. c. director of NAMD, rep
resented the host chapter of the
Market Developers.
Mrs. Precola DeVore, director of
the DeVore School of Charm, par
ticipated in the reception with II
of her captivating models assisting
as hostesses.
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22

Gill, Lorean Green, Charles Grit
fifth, Charlie Gross, Louise Harris,
Annie Horton, Annie Johnson, Az
thur Johnson, Theodore c. Jones,
Margaret Louie, Othella Polk and
Earnest L. Reese.
10th Grade: Sadie Almore, Ertna
F. Armon, Shirley Berry, Edna
P. Bracey, Lois Brown, Josephine
Butler, Lois Davis, Walter Gill,
Yvonne Graham, Dolores Gross,
Falvia Jackson, Garland Hunt, Lii
liam Johnson, Kenneth Lewis, Doro-
thy Mcdowell, Annie Moffett, Eu-
nice Moore, Pearlie Patton, Thel-
ma Rankin, Fellece Scott, Chester
Taylor, John Terrell, Roosevelt
Townsend and Camille Wilburn.
9th Grade: Earlene Ammons, Lin
nell Baylis, Robbie Blackmon, Eva
Bowie, Charles Bracey, Osie Brown,
Essie Chancellor, Lula Clark, Will
lie M. Cook, Clara Cotton, John L.
Cornelius, Madelyn Evans, Bonnie
J. Gibson, Cynthia Gross, Dorothy
Hoye, Josie Jiles, Katie Johnson,
Carolyn Jones, George A. Jones,
Mia Jones, Percy Jordan, Wilma
Mosley, George Reese, Barbara A
Stubs, Bettye Stubs, Robert Ter
rell, Lawrence Thurman, Arthur
Walters, William H. Walton, and
Mary Williams.
9Th Grade: Estus Amos, Joe l.
Beard, Lille Burnett, Alvin Bur
ney, Bobbie A. Cooper, Wilbert F
Crockett, Annie R. Grant, Craw-
ford Hobbs, Mae Eva Rainey, Lc-
land Redmond, Evelyn Robinson,
Melvin Robinson, Willie Jean Rob-
inson, Leroy T. Smith, Jerelyn
Smith, Glenda Turner, Jerry Var
nado, Betty 10 Walker, Rose M.
Walters and Brenda Wolf.
TIL: Grade: Shirley Bailey, Grow
er Barnes, Sharon Coates, Odelia
Easley, Carolyn ]. Hayes, Barbara
J. Haynes, Teresa G. Hogan, Shir-
ley Lacy, Earlene McCullum, Velma
McGhee and Johnnie Ruth Man
gum.
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22
| Hill High Releases
Honor Roll

The Jim Hill Junior-Senior High
School honor roll for TIE End
weeks includes 1913 students plus
45 who made honorable mention
This represents approximately 16T
of the total student body and ar
increase of so students over the
1st 9 weeks.
To qualify as an honor student
each must maintain an average OF
High or above, and must possess
good character, good conduct, prop
er attitude, maintain a spirit of
cooperation, and meet the approval
of all teachers. Listed below are
the names of only the students who
qualified for the honor roll.
12tk Grade: Aletha Almore, De-
lores Adams, Daisy Bumphis, Ru-
dolph Graham, Harold Hendricks,
Edna Moore, Edna R. Penn, Jeanie
L. Walker and Weaver Woodson.
11th Grade: Mordine Bailey, Eli
zabeth Blackmon, Amos Brown,
Herdesene CASHIER, Ross Clay, Jr.,
Wilma Davis, Gloria Dillon, Peggie
Dixon, Booker Donnell, Barbara
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22

firm headed by John A. Roosevelt
A Dec. Z letter by Andre Theard
as Acting Secretary of the Treas.
ury, Lad accepted the firms pro.
posal to work on economic and
tourist development.
Herbert j. Morrison, formerly
of New York, said he received his
first check yesterday under a $685.
000-a-year contract as government
chief of public relations, an ap-
pointment announced by DR.. Du-
Waller before his Inauguration.
The Duvalier Administration has
obtained a $4,0O0,0O0 loan from the
Banco de Colonos of Cuba, at 5l1
per cent for seven years.
M. Blanchet says this is based on
$7,000,000 in monthly unclaimed
deposits of Haitian sugar workers,
whose ownership remains to be re-
solved.
Government data indicate Haiti
was $2,672,0O0 in arrears during
fiscal 1861 on an external debt
of $32, 100000. The internal debt
is $18,4OO,OOO.
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22

dollar power" Organized in Feb
ruary 1866, assets in December,
1857, were placed at $80,000.00 In
June, 1857, the Association declar-
ed semi-annual dividend Of three
per cent. The American Teachers
Association became one of the
depositors Thursday night when
Mrs. Lillian R. Johnson, a trustee
for ATA, presented a check for
81 100000 to President Reddix. The
check represented life membership
money being returned to Mississip-
pi
Appearing on the annual pro-
gram in addition to those previous
ly mentioned were Reverend
Frank P. Leonard, DR.. c. L.
Barnes, Mr.. Leonard Chambliss,
Mr.. Victor J. Jones, Mr.. A. L.
Johnson and Reverend G. w. Will
liams.
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22
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schools.
2. TURNED DOWN the appeal
of the Louisiana State University
Board of Supervisors and the State
Board of Education. The school
and the board want to keep Negroes
from entering the undergraduate
schools at McNeese, LSU, South
eastern and Southwestern state
college on a permanent basis.
8. AGREED WITH lower court
decision that forbids the New
Orleans City Park Improvement
Assn. to keep Negroes away from
park facilities.
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22

banana project with the West In
dia Fruit and Steamship Company
of West Beach Fla, headed by
Dan Taylor.
Roosevelt Firm Affected
Cabinet and legislative resist
ance has arisen over ratifying an
agreement to pay $150,000 in 1868
to the New York public relations
Jackson advocate., 1958-02-22
Negro Named ...
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native of Philadelphia. A grad
uate of Central Evening High
School and TIE Bible Institute of
Pennsylvania, he received his Bach
elor of Arts and Bachelor of Di-
vinity degrees from Bloomfield
College and Seminary and Mas
ter of Arts degree from New York
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19

with each million added to population
conservation nations natural takes
AZ hence conservative
nations total population well hundred million
million
to of a billion population
population Explosion which began hitting the nation with force
questions whether there will be sufficient mineral petroleum
and better the American standard of living
asou population in density.
the Pacific Northwest principal houses of Natures
maintaining
That
other northwestern states the possible benefit
policy
be formulated followed
vitality interested utiza-
the benefit of all the
highly following talk special
Committee Affairs
Mssoula
the industrial transformation
Washington
making it's formerly "ad good
utilization his is
serving Of observation-disclosures.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19
CONSERVATION ALSO
INCLUDES PRESERVATION

While l am speaking Of conserva-
ton in general terms, should like
to point out that it includes preserva-
ton as we'll as development. "The
greatest good of the greatest num-
Der" may also mean leaving re-
source undeveloped rather than ex-
plotting it, and some of our hardest
decisions will be between what to
develop and what to preserve. In the
Commerce Department in Washing
ton the Census Bureau has a clock
which ticks off our population as it
grows, adding new citizen in our
country approximately once every IL
seconds. The figures presently stand
slightly over ITS million. But by 1880
our population will number 275 mil
lion. And by the year 201O the Cen
sus Bureau tells us it will be up to
$40 million. Modern civilization is
a wonderful thing. but people need
to escape from it from time to time.
Theodore Roosevelt knew far better
than most the great need of the hu-
man spirit for recreation far from
the population masses of the city. In
hist First Annual Message to Congress
as President, he said:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19
The Relationship of Public
Power to Conservation

Reclamation of arid lands is one
Of the most creative forms of con-
servation ever invented. Twenty
seven million acres of western lands
have already been reclaimed. Other
millions of acres it is still possible
to reclaim if water can be provided,
but few of them will ever be brought
into production without the help of
revenues from the hydro-electric pow
er projects. And here we begin to
touch upon the area of conservation
where power is so vital and where,
| should like to suggest, only public
power can do the jobs which must
be done. For example. | know of no.
private power project which is ex-
pected to provide revenues to bring
under cultivation a million acres of
desert land. such as we see in the
Columbia Basin Project below Grand
Coulee Dam. or which will provide
benefits like Yellowtail Dam. And
just downstream from Missoula there
is the Paradise Dam site, which of
fers the possibility of bringing water
to between 60 and 800 thousand acres
of high arid bench lands in the Clark
Fork and Flathead basins, at the cost
of flooding only 10000 acres of pres
emily arabic land.
Teddy Roosevelt knew the value
of these projects, and they fulfilled
his definition of conservation to the
ultimate. Time and again he spoke
of the value of the family farm to
the nation; in his third Annual Mes
sage to Congress he told the House
and Senate:
"The nation as a whole is of course
the gamer by the creation of these
homes. adding as they do to the
wealth and stability of the country
and furnishing home market for
the products of the East and South"
And two years later he added:
'The creation of small irrigated
farms under the Reclamation Act is
a powerful offset to the tendency of
certain other laws to foster or permit
of the land We can
not afford to substitute tenants for
freeholders on the public domain"
The function of providing financial
assistance to irrigation has been one
Of the prime contributions of public
power in the conservation movement,
and it is one which will be increasing-
y important as we commence develop
nent of the higher cost reclamation
projects under the pressure of our
booming population.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19
Wise Resource Conservation and Utilization Is Imperative

"Some at least of the forest re-
serves should afford perpetual pro-
testion to the native fauna and flora,
safe Ravens of refuge to our rapidly
diminishing wild animals of the larger
kinds. and free camping grounds for
the ever-increasing number of the
men and women who have learned to
find rest. health, and recreation in
the splendid forests and flower-clad
meadows of our mountains. The for
est reserves should be set apart for
ever for the use and benefit of our
people as a whole and not sacrificed
to the short-sighted greed of a few"
First Annual Message to Congress,
December 3. 1901.)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19
Public Power and the
Conservation of Resources

NOAaSEE NdeaUu VI NCSUuA %CS
Can address by M. C. Mapes, Jr.,
Washington, D. c.. Special Counsel,
Senate Committee on Interior and In
sular Affairs, at the Montana Farmer
Labor Institute on the University of
Montana campus in Missoula. Mon
tana. November %. 1889
1t is a special pleasure to be here
today to speak to you on the subject
of conservation, because of the groups
you represent. Certainly if the lead
ers of the peoples organizations, the
farm and labor leaders of this coun-
try, do not take an interest in con-
servation and public power, we can
be assured no one will. | think | can
demonstrate today that this fact
places upon your shoulders tremen-
dous and never-ending responsibility,
because any rational and realistic
definition of conservation must in
clude the welfare of people as its
ultimate goal, and the people can
only speak through their leaders and
through their votes.
AS Clifford Pinchot. father of the
conservation movement in this coun-
try and in the world, said in his auto
biography, speaking of the 1908 Gov
ernors' Conference on Conservation:
"The Conference spread far and
wide the new proposition that the
purpose of conservation is the great
est good of the greatest number for
the longest time" Since it was Pinchot
who initiated the modern use Of the
term conservation" | accept his
definition of its purpose for my talk
to you today.
Before | start on my subject, |
want to bring to you all the greetings
of Senator James E. Murray, chair
man of the Senate Committee on
Interior and Insular Affairs, who has
made possible my being here. Senator
Murray, as | am sure you all know,
is the senior leader of the conserva-
tionists in the Congress of the United
States today. Because of his position
as Chairman of the Interior Commit
tee and as the fourth most senior
member of the Senate. he exercises
tremendous power-and | need not
tell you that whenever possible he
exercises it on the side of conserva-
ton. And you should all be proud |
that you have sent back to work with |
him a delegation such as you have
in Senator Mansfield and Congress
men Metcalf and Anderson. as
sure you no other State in the Union !
can boast complete delegation which |
will be found as constantly on the
right side of every conservation issue.
My subject this morning, as you
know. is public power and the con-
of resources. am going to
take the liberty of reversing the order
and speak first on conservation as a
basic concept. then on the relation
ship of public power to conservation,
and finally on the place Of public
power in the electric power industry
in this country. And because this is
Theodore Roosevelt's centennial year
and the golden anniversary Of the
Conference which he
called and which launched the con-
movement, | am going to
draw heavily on his statements on
5he subject during my discussion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19
The Conservation Concept

Basically. conservation is an exer-
else in trusteeship. In the words of
the Old Testament, "The earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof" Man
can never really possess the earth;
he can only spend his few brief mo-
ments on it, wrest his living from it
and leave it behind either better or
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19
THE COMING DOMINANT
CONSERVATION ISSUE

Now | want to move on to another
aspect of conservation which seems
to me to be clearly the dominant
conservation issue Of the next half
century And that is the control of
the earth's energy resources. The use
of energy-if we analyze the ques-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-12-19
TIME FOR DECISION WILL
SOON BE PAST

Some of our resources we must
set aside forever in their natural
state. and what this means is that
there is terrible and pressing need
for really comprehensive planning
now. Soon the time for decision will
be past. and the decisions which hap
hazard growth will thrust upon us
will most probably be the wrong ones.
Another aspect of conservation
deals with our wildlife. Many species
are already extinct and many others
are in danger of extinction. What
right has man to destroy forever a
type of living creature which was
intended to share the earth with him?
AS Senator Neuberger said in an
article last year in The Christian
Century, after describing the indis-
criminate slaughter of the passenger
pigeon whose millions at one time
literally darkened the heavens:
"In 1905 the Audubon Society,
after frantic and fruitless search Of
fored a reward of $4,000 for just
one solitary nesting passenger pigeon.
The generous prize was never claimed.
If our planet endures for the three
billion years Einstein predicted for
it, passenger pigeons will never be
found. What was once the most
numerous bird in the United States
has been slaughtered to the last
feathered survivor"