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USED TRAILERS
Why pay rent any ionger1 Our
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plans are avail IA USED MOBILE
HOME MARKET, 1882 Richmond
hwy. Alex, Va, Ed. $4,000.
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The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1958-05-03
THINK IT OVER

Religion is not emotion nor
the mere belief in correct doc
trines, but it is a life in obedi.
ence to God.
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1958-05-03
Page II
THE ROBBINS EAGLE
Saturday, May 8, 1868
NOTE OF THANKS

To friends and neighbors, Mrs.
Bessie Carroll and family wish
to thank you for your kindness
and sympathy in their time of
bereavement. May God bless and
keep you.
Mrs. Bessie Carroll.
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Zipperless
Upper New

A new disclosure on q new
closure is destined to create
news wherever it is seen. We
happened to see 1t on q pair
of David Evins shoes.
The Velcro closure Is two
strips of woven nylon fabric
that has q hooked pile sur
face on one side and o blan-
ket-like pile material on the
other.
The inventor Of the closure
SwiSs-born Georges de Mes
trail Of Nyon, it seems, be-
came fascinated with the idea
Of why buIrs stuck to his
clothing when he went for q
walk in his mountain town.
Years Of research went into
the creation of the synthetic
"burrs" which will soon find
their way on bathing suits,
belts, skirts. Stacks and every
place else where a closure is
needed.
Short skirts are the real
reason why a great many
strapped shoes are being
shown. The strap cuts the
distance between the foot and
the high rise.
Daytime heels are decidedly
lower, anywhere from an
inch-and-a-half to two-and-
a-half.
Lest worried males antici-
pate a shortening of those
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the great show Of slender
high-heeled shoes which are
also being featured.
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idsss .:" s ssS%ss AM ' '' ' ''' open :"
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great American stems" via
lowered heels, trim ankle ad-
vocates can be treasured in
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01
An open letter to:
Mr.. Ellis w. Wright. President
Jackson Citizens Council
1914 Plazae Building
TooLcop Micciccippi

Dear Mr. Wright
reply your letter of January 49, 1858 in which
Honorable Ross R. Barnett would see that
was Intercepted home regarding views on megra
ton have weeks vain for want to meet the
Citizens Councils alleged candidate for Governor.
In YOUR pamphlet stated the Citizens Council is the
odern old time town meeting would pre-
fer to make such meeting rather than
through the more method suggest In lieu OF
of either print Your letter supposedly
went my neghbors so trust this open letter Will be
order.
appreciate the your officers and directors 1t is
responsible Jacksonans board
am sure they when the term ntegra-
tom is an ambiguous shall try to state specifically what
l understand by this term.
concur in the practice of vertical Indignation in the tel
Ter window lines Columns Jackson Kinds Bank
see this practiced in many public places in our city
have mixed feelings in the practice of sitting ntegra-
ton" This is apparently alright at times provided each
This the practice the loan department
of Mr. p McCulans Deposit Guaranty Bank and Trust
Company Is the arrangement in the Honorable
Ross Barnets denominations school of nursing in our fair
city? sasf Asse - Z = 8
From the of mulattos in Jackson think OF
our ancestors believed in and pracced orzonal
neeration old southern tradition which
Continued on Page p ~-~-~-.--..s.-.-
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01
U. S. CRIME

Based on figures for the first
six months, the United States is
headed for another record num-
Der of crimes this year. FIJI Di-
rector j. Edgar Hoover has esti-
mated that 1880, 67Q major crimes
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01

were committed through June 80,
or one for each II persons in the
nation. The figure was 8.4 per
cent above that for the first six
months of 1856, and 24.4 per cent
over the average for the previous
five years.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01
Our Heads We Bow
In Memoriam: 6. Gissinq Vines

ticularly ranking to the Southern
sense of pride was the authors
first and last novel, Another In.
truder In The Dust which is mer-
cilessly keen in its portrayal of
a Southern town whose citizens
are so staggeringly incompetent
in the practice of racial bigotry
that they find themselves depen-
dent upon half-demented young
man who comes down from New
Jersey to conduct their affairs. To
Southerners who could remem-
Der the Golden Age of Bigotry,
when there was scarcely bed
sheet south of the Mason Dixon
Line without armholes in it, this
came as a particularly bitter pill.
When the novel appeared in
Degradation bookstores, some of
those bedsheets felt the vivifying
influence of the night air once
more as a delegation of citizens
went to call on the author.
First of all, the delegation de-
plored the complete absence from
the book of imbeciles, alcoholics
and sexual aberrants, which
would, it said, give outsiders a
completely distorted picture of
the South. Secondly, Mr.. Vines
had neglected to mention a single
crumbling mansion or ramshackle
cabin in his novel, although the
community that had sheltered
him from his earliest childhood,
as he well knew, consisted of
very little else. Was he trying to
undo the work of his illustrious
predecessors? Thirdly and most
Extensively, he had brought down
a bigot from the North when, as
everyone knew, the South was
full of them.
To this, young Vines answered
in spirited manner that tn
South had no monopoly on bigots,
or idiots either, but only size
able majority, and furthermore
crowning heresy-he'd bet the
North would have proved just as
decadent if it hadn't had the bad
luck to win the Civil War.
After angrily taking leave of
Mr.. Vines, the delegation did not
Immediately disperse to their
homes, but stood awhile in SOL
emn elaboration. There were
some offenses, they agreed, that
literary critics cannot, or will not,
punish as they ought. The only
gentlemanly alternative was to
take matters into their own hands
in the good old decadent South
ern manner.
Some few days later, a stranger
who seemed very closemouthed
sort of person, got off the train
at Degradation. He did not pause
and speak to any of the towns
people, but went straight to the
hardware store, where he bought
a hunting knife with a good stout
blade. From there he went to the
lumber yard and asked for enough
wood of any easily inflammable
sort, to make a cross about five
feet high and proportionately
wide. Inasmuch as he left town
the next day, apparently for good,
very little is known about him,
except that he spoke with a
clearly observable Brooklyn ac-
cent. Doubtless young Vines
would have been amused if he
had known.
Donald Malcolm in The
New Republic).
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01

Vines quietly passed away in his
sleep last month, an era ended
in regional American literature,
almost unobserved. Indeed, if it
weren't for the knife protruding
from his chest and the flaming
cross found cracking on the
lawn, it is doubtful whether the
story would have attracted the
attention of the newspapers at
all. AS it was, only handful of
obituaries made so much as
passing reference to the literary
achievement upon which his fame
will chiefly rest. 1t remained for
one Mr.. Vines townsmen, who
served as foreman of the jury
that returned a verdict of death
by natural causes" to pronounce
q fitting eulogy. cts shame"
he said heavily, that George
won't be able to write any more
Of them books
Yet, if the truth were told, the
novels of G. Gissing Vines were
never really popular among in
habitants of Degradation, Missis-
sippi. For just as William Faulk-
ner found little favor, at first
among the citizens of Oxford, Mr..
Vines has met with the disap-
prevail Of his townsmen-but for
precisely the contrary reasons.
To understand how this could be
so, we must first examine the
momentous changes that have
taken place in recent years. When
Mr.. Faulkner's novels first APP
peared with their idiots, sadists,
lunatics, voyeurs, sodomires, al
coholics, criminals, nymphoman-
iacs, racists and other emblems of
cultural stagnation, many South
erners could see little to laugh at.
But with the passage of time,
there has come a growing aware
ness, at least among the more
progressive and enlightened citi-
zens of Dixie, that the South's
only hope of distinction lay in
its career as national disgrace.
For if one should subtract these
denominations, what has the South
left to boast of? Nothing but a
dubious cuisine and an impene-
trable accent.
These considerations had a GER
tain influence on Mr.. Vines edu-
cation. 1t was the lifelong wish of
bis father, a local plantation own
er, that his son should become a
famous Southern novelist, and to
this end he used to sneak out at
night to the back pasture and
erode the soil. Although an alb
stemious man by nature, he
forced himself, for the sake of
his sons career, to. consume great
quantities of powerful liquors,
and so we'll succeeded in this that
he eventually became a victim of
absinthism and died a broken
man.
But in spite of this solicitous
upbringlng there was something
about young Vines that caused
uneasiness among his friends. In
his first published short story, for
instance, he broadly limited that
the Degradation : village idiot,
who came out on moonlit nights
to bay at the Civil War monu-
ment, had actually been imported
from Detroit by civic leaders Gag
err to heighten the local color.
His subsequent writings did lit
tie to atone for this affront. Par
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01
Wutch On The
POTOMAC
by
Robt. G. Spivacle

WHY DO PRICES STAY UP?
The paradox of the 1858 recess
sion is easily stated, but not so
readily understood and it's be-
ginning to worry a lot of people.
The economy is in the midst of
what TIME magazine calls a
pause for breath. If what we
learned in college economics
were true prices should be tum-
bling.
The essence Of the sfree econ
omy" as we were taught it was
this: if the demand falls off the
seller lowers his price. When the
prices becomes attractive enough
for the buyer he will take the
product off the sellers hands.
But, it isn't working that way.
Take the case of oil and gasoline.
There is so much oil now in the
U. S. we don't know what to do
with it. According to reliable re-
ports from Texas there are excess
stocks OF 781, 100000 barrels.
X X X
Do the Big Oil interests let the
public in on this secret? You can
be darned sure Of the answer and
it's mo-. Instead the Texas oil
men send up a hue and cry about
foreign" imports. Venezuela,
which is virtually a colony of
Standard Oil of New Jersey, is
forced to cut back on her produc-
ton. Other small -oil-producing
nations face the same situation.
Canadian oil sales are in bad
shape.
The main drive of the Big Oil
interests-the little Gilman simply
has nothing to say about it's to
keep prices high. In many Eastern
states gallon of gasoline sells
for anywhere from 80 cents to 80
cents depending on whether it is
high test" or regular or super
duper high octane. Result: many
ordinary people who used to go
riding on the weekends for plea
sure now stay home and watch
television. It's not only cheaper;
it's more convenient.
There is a further result: tire
dealers can't sell their products.
General Tire Co. has even sane
toned announcements on radio
that its dealers are overstocked.
Yet tire manufacturers aren't Of
fering any bargains.
X X X
WHO GETS 1T IN THE NECK?
The question of cutting prices
resolves itself simply into this:
who is going to take the newt
able financial beating that must
come with price reductions? If
the retailer cuts prices while he
is overstocked, he is the profits
loser. If the wholesaler does the
cutting while the stock is on his
hands he must bear the burden of
a profits reduction.
The only solution that Big Bus
mess has come up with so far is
to let the laboring man take the
beating. He's simply fired and
that removes high cost from the
industrialist's budget. But there
are other things that result from
mass lay-offs.
If a working man cannot buy
then the retailer can't unload his
stock. If he can't get rid of what
is on his shelves then he'll GER
tainly not take off the wholesal-
er's hands the inventories he is
carrying. And then we get back
to the lndustrialist who isn't pro-
ducing or selling. That's how a
downward spiral makes a little
Continued on Next Page
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01
JACKSON CITIZENS COUNCIL
A Mississippi Corporation
1914 Plaza Building Phone 2-4456

A Mississippi Corporation
1914 Plaza Building Phone 2-4456
Jackson, Mississippi
January %, 1858
Dear Mr. & Mrs Sutphin:
We are going faced with three serious attacks
from the NAACP other pressure groups. These
l. School migration.
q Mass voting by Negroes as bloc
g. Residential Indignation.
To determine how Jackson would react to
positive program under responsible leadership to meet these
threats a house house survey is in progress
Neghborhood groups being appointed to conduct this
survey your neighbohood the survey is led by Mr. Ross ~
Barnett 9O4 Fairveiw Jackson Mississippi.
you realize the urgency OF this situation ana
when your negbos calls will give the few minutes
needed
The neighbor will call is giving time for the
hest interests of our community courtesy and cooperation
will be appreciated
Rubber Stamp Sincerely yours,
Picture (Signed by Rubber Stamp
REMEMBER Ellis w. Wright
LITTLE ROCKY President
dedicated to government promotion of peaceful
atons of segregation by all legal and
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-05-01

The following exchange of letters is sef-explana-
tory think John Sutphin is Methodist minister and
Ellis Wright is undertaken. However, this exchange
seems to represent more than clash between preaching
and undertaking
And me? He'll I'm on the preachers side!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-26
Nosser's Latest

Leaving aside its emotional bonn
bast and its incendiary libels about the
governments of Lebanon and Jordan,
President NaSSer's latest speech seems
on the whole to have been relatively
moderate in content, if not in tone.
While predicting ultimate victory for
Arab DationaliSm from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Persian Gulf" and while
saying some bitter and quite mendacious
things about Anglo-American "aggres-
sion" and imperialism" the Egyptian
leader has been at pains to emphasize
that he and minded leaders in that
part Of the world are not Communists,
desire nothing but peace, wish to be
completely neutral" and have no in
tention whatsoever of cutting of oil and
other resources from the West.
Thus, likening rebellion in the
Middle East to our own American Revo-
luton against the British, the leader Of
the United Arab Republic has had this
to say about his own country and its
neighborS: I'VE don't want to make an
enemy Of anyone, because it is not to
our advantage to make enemies. We
want to live in peace. All we want is
to be left alone and not to have our
land used as military bases We
all call for positive neutrality. All =.
are determined to have nonalignment"
with opposing power blocS And he has
gone on to declare that the West has
IN hof hn Nd
countries like Iraq are plotting to strike
economic blows against it. On the con-
trary, according to him, these countries
are ready and eager to do business with
the free world on genuinely friendly
and mutually profitable basis.
These are reaSSuring words, and
perhaps they may mean what they say
But the West must be pardoned If it
displays a large measure of skepticism
or a Showme attitude. After all, just
to illustrate the point, there is some
reason to doubt-in view of his implied
suggestion that the leaders of Lebanon
and Jordan ought to be asSassinated-
that President NaSSer is being entirely
honest when he says that he doesn't
want to make an enemy of anyone. Still,
read in text, his language seems earnest,
especially as regards wanting to be
neutral" and carrying on fair economic
and political dealings with everybody.
What is needed from him, however, are
deeds-Such as a cessation Of Cairo'S
poisonous radio propaganda-to confirm
that he'll really sincere and that his
call for peace and friendship With the
free world can be taken at face value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-26
On the Road

1t has become obvious that a great
deal Of time will be required to iron all
the bugs out Of the Districts new coming
code. This was to be expected, however,
and there is reason for considerable
satisfaction in the calm and studied
reaction Of the community as whole to
the complex new rules
Thus far, with the revised regula-
lions and coming maps on the books for
two months, only handful Of requests
for changes has been submitted. I'm
doubleday many others will follow. And
some of these may well generate major
controversies in city policy. Extensive
studies Of the code, such as that under
way by the Washington Building Con-
gress, however, should clarity the issues
and hasten their settlement.
A year ago, 1t appeared highly ques-
tionable that the city would succeed In
the difficult revision effort, or, II 1t did,
the indications all pointed to sweeping
and violent opposition Thanks to SEN
sible Zoning Commission, most of the
reasons for fighting were removed. The
need now ahead is an equally under
standing series of adjustments to per-
feet 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-26

Two sets of economic indicators
released in recent days offer mildly
encouraging reading in this generally
gloomy summer period.
One is that living costs inched up
so slightly in June-even while setting
new high Of 1897 per cent of their
1947-49 average-that there is ground
for belief there will be a mild downturn
in the immediate future. In support OF
this hope, Evan Clague, Commissioner
of Labor Statistics, attributes principal
significance to the fact that service costs
leveled of for the first time since Feb
ruary, 1856 Since services make up
about one-third of the total index, a re-
versal of their long climb could con-
tribute material weight to more favor
able statistical reading. 1t has, in fact,
been largely because Of this continuing
rise in service costs that the overall
index kept moving up during the worst
of the recession months.
The second encouraging straw in
the wind" bearing more directly on the
recession itself, was the estimate by the
Presidents Council Of Economic Ad-
visers that Gross National Product had
moved up in the second quarter, The
sharpest GIMP drop in this recession took
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-26
ProIonging the ICY

There is no good reason why the
United States and other powers should
hesitate 10 respond affirmatively to the
Soviet proposal Tor a l2-month extern
sion Of the international Geophysical
Year. The proposal, as outlined in
Pravda, is based on the fact that certain
phases Of the ICY program-which is
formally scheduled to end next Deem
Der 3l-require more time to be carried
through to successful completion. This
is undoubtedly true, and so the idea
OF prolonging the whole undertaking is
eminently sound.
As matter of fact, the United
States has already called for such an
extension Zone of indefinite or perma-
nent duration) as regards ICY projects
in Antarctica. The American idea is
that this vast and uninhabited region
of the world-the So-called white con-
tinent-should be 'perpetuated as a sort
of International cooperative workshop
for scientific endeavors dedicated to the
peaceful progress of mankind. The en-
beavers would consist of several South
NOAdA CApAOA dOOAy lCoCdlCll PIOJCCbo,
including continuous meteorological
studies, that promise to expand human
knowledge and thus beneft peoples
everywhere.
Significantly enough, Moscow has
been prompt In declaring that 1t favors
this American plan, which calls for a
special treaty under which Russia would
join with the United States-and with
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain,
Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand,
Norway and South African making
Antarctica promoting laboratory
where scientists from many lands would
collaborate far into the future. Ger
tainly, having received such an en-
couraging Soviet response regarding the
white continent in particular, our own
country and other nations have reason
to react similarly to the Kremlin's call
for year-long prolongation Of the ICY
in general.
1t is difflcult to see how anything
but good could flow from such an extern
sion. After all, as President Eisenhower
said Of 1t at its start, the ICY is "one
of the great scientific adventures Of our
time"-an adventure in which 10000
savantS representing almost 70 coun-
tries have pooled brains and equipment
in an unprecedented effort to learn new
things and improve the lot of mankind.
Clearly, in our tense and dangerously
divided world, cooperative undertake
ing Of this sort is we'll worth continuing
as an example of how minds of all ma
tionalities can be harnesSed not merely
to advance knowledge, but also to pro-
mote mutual understanding and peace.