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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
BARBARA GREER, by Step

BARBARA GREER, by Step
hen Birmingham little,
Brown; $4.50.
The 30-year-old author Of
young Mr.. Keefe." a first
novel that attracted no little
attention, appears with his
second novel.
Barbara Greer" has many
of the merits and most of the
faults of present-day novels
in general.
Its characters are skillfully
developed, but not one of
them is Of much significance
or very interesting. The situa-
tons in which they find
themselves are the usual sex
triangles and marital incom-
patibilities. The writing is
competent enough, but wordy
in the extreme.
The heroine (if you choose
to call her that is married to
Carson Greer, a salesman for
the overseas division of a
large chemical company
situated in a small town in
Pennsylvania.
DisIikeS Them All
Barbara hates the town
where they must live. Her
husband travels all over the
world and is away much of
the time. They have two
young children, a nice house
in a nice suburban area and
nice friends, most of the men
from the company. Barbara
dislikes them all impartially.
She likes to return to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
.HowOne Man
q Town
A TIME OF FEAR. BY Rod
erick MacLeish. (The

erick MacLeish. (The
Viking Press; $500
Terror gripped the we'll
TODD New England suburb
of Rock Ledge when the evil
broou of Albert Krune came
to live in its bosom and set
out to break the course rec
ord for being a bad neighbor.
1t was quite a while before
the Rock LedgerS, led in
spirit by young Peter Blake,
discovered that Krune was a
latter-day Loki in their
Asgard; a professional mis-
chief-maker; a paid block
buster" dedicated to destroy
them to create a low-cost
real estate development in
bllClI A14OoOs
Krune has been fashioned
into about as repellant a vii
lain by author MacLeish as
one is ever likely to encoun-
ter on the lee side of Alca-
traz. His GRUMPY doings are
even more horrifying be-
cause they are neither mys-
ferrous nor occult. They
could happen in your block
and you probably would have
been provoked into doing
what two Rock Ledgers did
when they went after Krune
and his moronic son, Mortie.
with their fists.
There is a totalitarian
ring to Krune'S subversions.
much in the manner Of
George Orwell's dictator pig
in Animal Farm" to whom
everyone was equal but some
were more equal than others.
Krune was at first merely a
slob, an annoying tomcat of
the peeping variety. But
when he came into the open
in his drive to demolish the
Rock Ledge property values.
Krune cuckolded one neigh
Dor, destroyed the property
of another and allowed Nor
tie to inf1ict serious physical
harm on the daughter of a
third.
If the outrages of the meg
alomaniac intruder are finely
fashioned and gulp-provok-
ing, the final come-uppance
rings false as the bell on a
toy fire engine.
JERRY O'LEARY, JR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09

in the splendor of the Italian
hillside where natives live
for the moment. In contrast
is Shelley who struggled to
accept a past, live fully the
present and hope for a fu-
ture. Yet. he was disillu-
stoned, afraid and lost; al
ways searching.
Mr.. Kenyon has shown
great skill in describing hui
man loyalty. Illustration and
love. The Shelley drama
might have had a happy end
ing. But it ended too soon,
at the bottom of the sea-in
an unfinished symphony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09

MELORA. BY Mignon G.
Eberhart. (Random House;
$500 "Melora" gives us
some idea of what might
have happened if the elusive
mistress of Manderlay had
ever appeared. Miss du
Maurier is the wiser author.
Socialite Brent Wystan's I'M
sure second wife broods about
the cool beauty she believes
his first wife. Melora, to have
been until Melora herself
shows up asking for money.
Soon afterward police are
looking for Melora's MUIR
derer. The plot gets very
thick. B. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09

haitian speakeaSies were
glamor spots (more than once
raided) of the flaming EOS.
Bellies upbringing was strict
and conventional. AS she ex-
plains, Like Moses, I wasn't
born, I was found" Her
foster father, a small town
editor, found her on the edge
OF Kansas prairie. Who left
her there never was known.
Her story is decidedly
amusing and informative.
There's a preface by Cleve-
land Amory.
&C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
A ScondoIous Memoir
By q Nightc|ub Queen

BELLE OUT-OF ORDER,
by Belle Livingstone (Holt;
so is the diverting story of
her life set down by the late
proprietress of speakeasies
and night clubs and owner of
a f1amboyant reputation in
America and Europe.
Belle Livingstone was mar
ried four times, she had
many romances, and her
friends included such figures
as the Prince of Wales who
early in the century became
Edward VII. Her mid-Man-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
NEPHEW TO THE EMPER-

OR, by Jacques Bremen,
translated from the French
by Marguerite Waldman.
(World; So.
The emperor in this case
is the emperor of music"
as he often was called in
Vienna Ludwig van Bee
thoven.
The nephew, Karl van Bee
thoven, was an actual char
acter. The author explains in
a preface that although his
novel about Karl is apocry-
phal, it is plausible and
based on the best obtainable
facts. In his f1ctional version,
Mr.. Bremen allows Karl to
speak for himself, to tell his
own story.
1t seems that it has been
the usual habit of Beetho-
ven's biographers to speak
disparagingly of the neph-
ew, and that's putting it
mildly.
Binding Passion
Roman ROLAND once wrote
of Karl: Modern dilettant-
ism has tried to rehabilitate
this scapegrace. This is not
surprising"
NO." Mr.. Bremen adds,
what is surprising is the
extent to which passion can
blind a man like Roland"
The great composer was
much concerned with his
brothers son. When the
brother died, Beethoven
having no use for the moth
er, whom he considered
pretty much of a tramp
arranged to adopt Karl.
Uncle Ludwig sent the lit
tie boy, then about IL, to
various boarding schools,
had him at home with tutors
and otherwise tried to give
him an adequate education.
But the two never got along.
According to this novel
however accurate it may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
Other Books of the Week in Brief

of 1.-THE Man Who Was
Not With It."
VOICE THAT FILLS THE
HOUSE. BY Martin Mayer.
(Simon and Schuster;
$3.50 Behind the scenes
OF the great opera houses,
by the author of Madison
Avenue, U. S. A."
HISTORY 6 BIOGRAPHY
THE STRANGE UNCER-
TAIN YEARS. BY Aman-
da M. Eli. (Shoe String
Press; $3.50. History of
everyday life in six Colo
RADIO communities. BY the
author of Elizabeth the
Woman"
THE TRANSCENDENTAL-
IST MINISTERS. BY Will
liam R. Hutchinson. (Yale
University; $4.50.) An
American University Amer
lean civilization professor
writes of the church reform
in New England RenaiS-
Sance.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
BUCKSHOT SOUTH. BY
Frank Davis Adams; $3.50
A wry tale of the closing
days of the Old West and
its desperadoes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
READING AND WRITING
Allen Drury's Book
Perfectly Timed
BY MARY McGRORY

Call it luck, call it prescence, Allen Drurys smashing
first novel about the confirmation of cabinet officer But
ADVISE AND CONSENT Doubleday $575) does not depend
for its impact the msortunes of
Strauss Ask Of the number of people who have been
clawing its pages in the stir surrounding its publication
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
The Trials of Shelley
Probed in New Novel
BY ROSANNA NOVAK
star stan Writer

THE GOLDEN YEARS. BY F. W. Kenyon (Crowel: $3.50
This novel of Percy Bysshe Shelley tragic that the
reader put in the unfortunate position Of wishing
happiness and less great poetry.
An uncomfortable thirst to be at war with the world
the way Shelley how life should lived to the
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
I'll. ]. C. Baccalaureate
Sermon, Sunday, May Il

The Rev. Lloyd A. Sparkman of
the First Baptist Church of Kos
ciusko will give the Baccalaureate
for the 1859 Graduation at Hol-
mes Junior College. The sermon is
set for 11:00 AM. Sunday May
18th. at the Holmes j. c. Auditor
Ium. Graduation Exercises are
scheduled for 800 Pm. the after
moor of May II.
Rev. Sparkman is a native Mis-
sisisppian. He was born at Eupora,
Webster County and completed his
high school work at E.H.S. and
worked a number of years in Ark
ansas and later attended Ouachita
College at Arkadelphia where he
was graduated. He was graduated
from the Southern Baptist Semi
nary at Louisville, KY.
His first paStorate was at Angus
ia, Arkansas First Baptist Church.
He had a long tenue of some 18
years as pastor of the first Baptist
Church at Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
He served many years as a mem
Ger of the Executive Board of Ark
ansas Baptist Convention. He was
President of the State Baptist con-
vention from 1952-54 before he &C
ceped a call to return to his native
state in Feb. 1854. His call to the
first church in KosciuSko has been
a great blessing to the people of this
area. He is regarded as one of the
states most able church and con-
ference leaders. He is beginning
his fifth year as a member of the
Board of Trustees of Blue Noun
tain College.
Rev. Sparkman has Travelled
widely and preached in Jamaica,
Cuba, and some eight other South
and Latin America countries.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Week To Be Observed By County Hospitals

May 1915 has been designated
this year as National Hospital
Week, and during this week. the
two excellent hospitals in the
county will throw their doors open
to the public with an invitation to
come see how the sick are minis
cred to in these institutions.
. There has been a constant pro-
gram of improvement at the Hol-
mes County Community Hospital
in Lexington, now in its 43rd year,
and at the District II Hospital in
Durant, first opened to the public
in 1850, to give better service to
patients through the purchase of
new and improved equipment and
scientific knowledge.
Over five thousand patients were
served last year at the two hospi-
tails in the county, considered
among the finest inthe state. At
Lexington, 1878 patients were adj
mitted during the year as bed pat
ents and 1893 were out patients of
The hospital. At Durant GA per-
sons, including AZ newborns were
bed patients, while 1884 were out
patients.
Both hospitals are run efficiently
and r equipped with the latest
equipment to administer to the
needs of the sick in the county.
C. B. Read is Administrator
at the Holmes County Community
Hospital and Miss Lillian Norris,
who is also a registered nurse, is
Administrator at District II Hosp
ital.
The Board of Trustees at the
Lexington Hospital are D. B. Miles,
Chairman, T. E. Powell, Secretary,
A. S. Donald, Jr., Hugh Garrett,
and Bobby Courts.
At the Durant Hospital Trustees
are Mrs. j. M. Howard, chairman;
w. R. Johnson, Secretary; James
R. Bowie, Rev. Curtis Ellis and
Marion Ousley.
A. staff of competent Doctors,
nurses and g1ds at both hospitals
make the institutions second to
none.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Mrs. Simpson
Rites We'd.

Mrs. Zemmie Guyton Simpson,
"a, died Monday at the home OF
her o w. Clark Simpson in
Greenwood, after an illness of 5
months.
Mrs. Simpson was born in Attala
county on February IL, 1876. She
was a member of the Sails Bap-
fist Church.
Funeral services we're held
Wednesday at 1000 am. from the
Sails Baptist Church with the
Rev. j. w. Carpenter, assisted by
Rev. John Bowie, officiating. Bur-
ial was in the Sails cemetery with
Southern Funeral Home of Durant
in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by, three sons, S.
Doyle Simpson, PickenS; W. Clark
Simpson, Greenwood; Frank L.
Simpson, Kosciusko; two brothers,
j. S. Guyton, Marks; Tom L. Guy
ton, Sails; n sister, Mrs. D. B.
Temple, Jackson; and Z grand
children.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Nichols Donates $4,000 Assuring
Lexington OF A New Library Building

With the announcement Tuesday
night at the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen meeting that Mr.. and
Mrs. H. L. Nichols, ST., would do
nate $10,0 600 toward the construc-
ton of a building, the city of Lex
ington was assured a new Library.
Meeting with the city officials
was the Chamber of Commerce
Civic Affairs committee to discuss
the library proposal and to work
out details for its construction,
maintenance, etc.
The Civic Affairs committee,
with Jack Yates as chairman, had
met previously with City officials
in an effort OF try and raise the
necessary amount to build a Lib
rary building. An estimate of
about $4,000 to buy a lot and build
a building was presented to the Of
ficials.
After Herman Flowers, president
of the Chamber of Commerce,
made the announcement that the
Nichols yer donating the large
sum, the city officials passed a re-
solution, to use city funds to sup
plement the $1,000 for the pur-
chase of a lot and to build the
building.
Mayor Poval and Alderman
Louie Bell Nichols were appointed
to work with Mr.. Nichols in Ghe
overall plans. The brick veneer
modern building is expected to be
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Jack Yates
Is President
OF Lions Club

Jack Yates was elected presi-
dent of the Lexington Lions Club
Monday night during election of
officers for the comnignig year. He
will succeed outgoing president
Tandy Stepp.
Other officers elected were Ma
than Schur, First vice president;
S. T. Hollingsworth, End vice pre-
,sident; Malcolm Phillips, third
vice president; A. J. Davis, Lion
Tanner; A. L. Gibson, Tail Twister,
and Roy Gelston, Secretary.
New directors named were Irby
Ellington Leo Alderman and out
going president Tandy Stepp.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fl. Donaldson of
Kosciusko were weekend guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. O. Moore.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Speaking OF Marriage
Mills Read This :.

Back at the turn of the century
people were marrying so fast in
Holmes county, the issuance of
marriage licenses must have TAX
en- up a large portion of the Cir
cult Clerks time.
According to the record books,
in December, 1904, Circuit Clerk
e. ". Ashley issued 164 marriage
licenses, for an average of a little
over five per day during the en-
tire month.
Colored couples then as nov
were marrying at a faster clip
than the whites. For, of the 164
licenses, 146 of them were issued
to Negro couples and Is were to
white couples.
The habit of getting married in
Holmes county seems to have
waned, especially since the new
marriage laws went into effect last
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
X-Ray Unit
Schedule

On Monday and Tuesday, May
Is and 10 the Mobile X-Ray Unit.
will be in Holmes County. This
unit is in the county semi-annually.
The schedule is as follows.
Lexington Industry May Is,
$3.50 to $3.50 am.
Lexington Square : May Is, 1000
am. to II noon.
Tchula : May Is, 1:30 to 400 pm.
Pickens : May 10, $3.50 to $50
am.
Goodman : May 10, 1000 to n:30
am.
Durant : May 10, loo to 2:30 pm.
West : May 10, 800 to 4:30 pm.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07

built on a lot on Telegraph Street,
directly behind DR.. Dunn's Clinic.
The committee also asked the
officials to contribute an additional
$50 per month for the maintenance
of the building. The city is already
contributing $50 per month for the
county library fund.
The new Library will continue to
be a branch of the Holmes County
Library, with the main office at
Durant.
Mrs. T. A. Lail, chairman of
the county Library committee, said
she was sure plans could be work.
ed out to operate the new library
when it is built. The State Library
Commission will furnish most of
the books for the library. The pre-
sent Lexington branch is located in
a room in the courthouse. Mrs.
Lois Brady is Librarian. Miss
Georgia Mcintyre is county Lib
rarian.
In addition to Herman Flowers
and Jack Yates, other committee
men who met with the city officials
Tuesday night were Austin Gibson
and Parham Williams, Jr.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07

In order that we may be able to
get the Herald out by Wednesday
afternoon, we r this week set
ting a deadline, which we plan to
strictly abide by in the future. All
news copy received after Tuesday
will be carried over until the next
week. The large amount of news
that we get on Wednesday makes it
impossible to get it set up without
working late at night. Please COOP
erae with us on this request.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Window Displays Depict
Home Demonstration Week

May 40 has been declared Nat
ional Home Demonstration week.
The Home Demonstration Clubs in
Holmes County r planning a spe-
cial display in their respective
communities to show the value of
the program to the public.
Holmes County boasts one of the
largest wolnen's programs in the
State, with eighteen clubs and a
membership of three-hundred and
sixty. Interest in the program is
growing as shown by the recent
Cotton Dress Revue with sixty-two
participants, which is the largest
number in the history of the pro-
gram.
1859 marks the 50th anniversary
If Home Demonstration work Tor
extension work.. We have come a
ong way in fifty years, with our
lone Agents always bringing us
he newest and best methods.
rom the old fashioned method of
aiming to the present method of
repairing food for the deep rfeeze.
he preparation and preservation
f food is only one of the many
subjects we have studied. To name
a few: poultry, gardening, sew
ing, cooking, landscaping, inter.
lor decorating, health, home ma
agement, b~uymanship, meal plan
ming, appreciation of art and litera-
ture and many different crafts.
We are proud of our Emblem,
which is to be found on all hand
BOOKS. The Emblem is composed of
hree concentric circles, which
.ypify the home. the state, and the
nation.
The hearth fire in the center SYM
oolizes the home and expresses the
spirit of the finer attributes of the
home, such as fellowship, hospital
-ty, comfort, peace and protection.
The oak leaf symbolizes the
strength of the home; the lamp of
knowledge, the wisdom with which
a home and family must be Great
ed; the wheat, productivity and
richness of family and community
life.
Around these symbols are the
words, Home, Family, Commu-
nity'', with Cooperative Extension
Service, in the outer circle-desig-
hating the cooperation of the
ounty, state and nation in the Elk
tension program.
The emblem was patented in
November, 1896, with the under
standing that it should not be used
for any commercial purposes OF
in connection with any advertising
but should be used only by mem.
bers, officers, and leaders of home
demonstration clubs.
We call your attention to the win
dow display arranged by the clubs
in each town in the county.
Holmes County Home Demon
stration women plan to participate
in their annual District Council
meeting held at Batesville, Friday
May s.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
B~accalaureate Sermon
To Be Held Sunday

The Baccaleaurate Sermon for
the Durant Senior class will be
held Sunday, May 1 at 500 pm.
in the school auditorium.
Rev. E. G.. Potts, pastor of the
Durant Methodist church will
bring the message.
Graduation exercises will be
held on Tuesday, May Ia at 500
pm. in the school auditorium.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Sat. Drawing
Time Changed
At Tchula

The Tchula Merchants Associa-
ton has announced a change in the
weekly drawing on Saturday after
noon.
The drawing beginning this Sat
urday will be at six o'clock pm.
The time was moved up from A
o'clock to give people in the area
an oportunity to work longer be-
fore coming to town for the draw
ing.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
HiIi(eS . +.
Oa1eH
Holmes
BY Chester Marshall

Last week the Holmes County
Herald had the names of 2118 HoE
mes county people in its news col
Inns.
Not that we didn't have anything
else to do but count the names
in our paper, but we thought this
bit of information would give our
readers and advertisers an ioea
of the number of local people that
are mentioned each week in our
paper.
In compliance with our announ-
ced policy, we are striving to give
the people an unbiased newsy
PAPER that has the undivided in
terest of Holmes county people at
heart. The letters and calls from
our growing number of subscr1b-
ers each week is testimony enough
for us to continue to improve as
we get older.
Last weeks two color cred and
black edition is believed to be
the first two color newspaper ever
published in Holmes county. We
thank you for the comments we re
ceived on it.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07

MAY 1915 has been designated
National Hospital Week which IS
being observed throughout the ma
ton. In this issue of the Herald
we are trying to give you a word
and picture story of how the two
hospitals in the county operate.
Stories and pictures about the Hol-
mes County Community Hospital
and District II Hospital will be
found throughout the paper. Read
them, they will give you an idea
of the job the two fine institutions
are doing.
The doors of these two institu-
tons are always open to the public
and stand ready to serve. Our
county is among the more fortu-
nate counties in the state to have
not just one hospital, but two and
both are considered among the
best in the state, well stated with
competent doctors and nurses.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07

July.
AS comparison to the 1904 fig
Ires, in December 1858, fifty four
years later, Circuit Clerk Henry
Mcclellan issued only "a marriage
licenses. Twenty of these went to
colored couples and four to whites.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Watkins
and daughter, Shirley Ann stopped
over for a brief visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Terry Smith
Saturday, enroute to their home in
Brundidge, Alabama.
Evening star., 1959-11-26

With purchases In cur MeYIond end vir-
sinid Stores. Except with founsoin pur.
ehosss end in MoYIond. eisarsttu
end eertein Fair Trude items.
Evening star., 1959-11-26
2 new STORES NOW OPEN
PENN.MAR SHOPPING CENTER
1924 DonneII Drive
FoFesfviIIe, Nd,

Our new washington orea s7th store to ssre you
VITA the best and latest in merchandise. Many
tree services include Prescription Pickup end delivery
Evening star., 1959-11-26

Yes muy charge sny tYps Of merehsa.
disc o. service except at seds ieua-
taia. Msks sppIiestisa ct sny PsepIss
pFus ssers.
Evening star., 1959-11-26
BELLE VIEW SHOPPING CENTER
500 Belle. View BIvd. -

Newly rsmodsIed and emerged seIf-seryiee sters
with Contract Post Office stutioa end large fully
lighted pCrkns eted. -
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-09-04
ROMULUS L. WATSON, HYDE
CITIZEN DIES IN COLUMBIA

Romulus L. Watson, Fairfield
farmer, died in the Columbia hos
.pital Friday afternoon, Aug. %, at
$50 o'clock following a long ILL
ness. He was 60 years old.
Graveside funeral services were
held in the Fairfield cemetery Sun
day afternoon at 8 o'clock. D. E.
Berry conducted the services ON re-
quest of the family.
MR. Watson was native of
Hyde county and was member of
the Fairfield Christian church. He
was veteran of World War /.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Les
sic Watson of Fairfield; four daH-
ghters, Mrs. Lucille Adams of
Gray, Ca, Mrs. Pearl Jones OF
Jacksonville, Fla, Mrs. Thomas
Cox of Fairfield and Miss Jackie
Watson of Fairfield; four sons, Ell
win Watson of Belhaven, Preston
Watson of Plymouth, Romuius
Watson, Jr., of Fairfield and Gil
bert Watson of Gray, Ga; and IL
grandchildren.