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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-11-19
The Petal Pare.

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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF FORREST
TRITSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE


WHEREAS on December 18th, 1856
Vaster Kendrick and wife Lizzie Kendrick
executed their Deed of Trust to the I'M
dersigned Trustee in the Deed of Trust
Recorded in Book 1919, page 1913, of the
Land Deed of Trust Records of Forrest
County.
WHEREAS, default having been made
in the payment thereof, and l having
been called upon by the beneficiary to
foreclose the same.
THEREFORE, / will on December 4th
1859, at the front door of the Courthouse
within legal hours, sell to the highest
bidder for cash, the land described:
Lots 7, 8, and all of Lot less the
East 10 feet, in Block of the George
L. Pace Subdivision, together with i'm
provements.
Witness my signature on this the 2nd
day OF November, 1853
B. H. B.tKER, Trustee.
At LIP, 10, 26, 1913
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Letters !.

of Soloman and a "cheap paper
back" Then he goes on to prove
that the Bible cannot be taken
literally, hence, supporting his
theory of evolution. He has a
clever way of making everything
he wants gift in" with his phil
osophy. But I wonder if he is
really content with his conclu-
sions. He seems to be.
I wonder what man is trying
to say when he breaches evolu-
ton. Is he being simply rebel
lious-a wonderful quality-or is
he trying to say that we are IN
truth little better than apes be-
cause science shows us we came
from them? Is he trying to say,
because the grasshopper and the
frog do a certain thing, man does
it, too? Is the evolutionist really
trying to bring man down to the
animal level?
Well, I protest! I say that man
is not an animal and it is not i'm
portant that we evolved but that
we evolve. Man is man in spite
of what he was. And I could tell
you more but you wouldn't be-
lieve it.
Sincerely,
Robert Hart.
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Robert Hart.
Grand Bay, Ala.
Dear P. D.

Dear P. D.
To say the least, / am quite
amused at the exceptions and rear
guard action of Mr.. Peter VOL
nut to my letter in the Petal Pa
per of Sept. Oath. To begin with,
I believe Mr.. Wolnut to be proof
of my every word and that he
must be a master in the art OF
Theology which was the prlncl-
pal subject of my letter.
Mr.. H. L. Mencken has said
Theology is an effort to ex-
plain the unknowable by putting
it into terms of the not worth
knowing, and that if you will
subscribe to any religious paper
and read it attentively you will
find it never admits the tremen-
dous achievements of modern sci
ence, save grudgingly, and never
praises a concrete scientist, save
when he happens to be narrow
specialist and is willing to let
priests do his thinking for him
outside the bounds of his spe-
cialty."
cannot gather just what point
he is trying to bring out, but if
Mr.. Wolnut should tell us that
he is a student of Christian Sci
ence l could know how to an
swer him. You see, Christian
Science is theory that if a
swinging door gives you a wal
lop in the eye it is an optical de-
fusion, the wallop itself is a de-
fusion and the eye another
It is too late to get into a dis
cussion as to who created the
tree. The tree was not created
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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF FORREST

STATE OF MlSSiSSlPPI
COUNTY OF FORREST
TRUSTEES NOTICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on February 4th 1858, w
S. Cooley and wife Mary Lou Cooley exc
cuted their Deed of Trust to the under
signed Trustee in the Deed of Trust Re
corded in Book 200, page 431, of the Land
Deed Records of Forrest County.
WHEREAS default having been made
in the payment thereof, and having
been called upon by the beneficiary to
foreclose the same.
THEREFORE, I will on Dec. 4th, 1859
at the front door of the Courthouse
within legal hours, sell to the highest
bidder for cash. the land described:
The South 80 feet of Lot 6, Block 6
of the Burkett Survey as per map or
plat thereof on file in the office of
the Chancery Clerk.
Witness my signature on this the End
day of November, 1859.
B. H. BAKER Trustee.
1T Hip, 10, &c, 1913
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but evolved. The more sensible
question would be who created
the creator and did he also Gre
ate snakes and poison ivy, earth
quakes, floods and cyclones.
All gods were created by man
to fit his personal needs and the
story of Moses is only another
example of that truth
No god was ever in advance of
the age that created him and
right now I feel a little too far
advanced to accept the religion
of savages.
Now, Mr.. Wolnut speaks Of
Christ, and | can only presume
that he means, The Christ Jesus.
If SO I beg to inform him that
there is no more historical proof
that Jesus ever lived than there
is that the man Moses ever lived.
There has been large rewards Of
fered for this proof and up to
this time no one has made a
claim. Before anyone can prove
anything by the Bible they would
first prove the Bible and its char
acters to be true.
OF course, I am a little old to
go back to school, as will be 70
in a few months, and my educa-
ton consists of only the first six
grades but if anyone has any
doubts a good beginner would be
a Mississippi school book, Build
ers of the Old World" by Hart
man-Nevins-Heath.
knowledge must be preceded
by love of inquiry and, there
fore, a spirit of doubt, because
without doubt there will be no
inquiry, and without inquiry,
there will be no knowledge. If
anyone wishes to learn more
about Mythology they can have
their bookstore order them a copy
of The Worlds Sixteen Crucified
Saviours, by Kersey Graves, or
order direct from Philadelphia
Nationalist Society Book Shop,
5526 Westford Rd., Philadelphia
20, Pa. $500 postpaid. Warfare
of Science with Theology by An
drew D. White $500 postpaid is
another important study.
Now, just what was it tn
brought all this discussion about
the Ten Commandments The
most wonderful document ever
written wrote by that finger
of God himself in the presence of
Moses, face to face with God. But
where are the Ten Command
ments now? The Bible tells us
that when Moses came out Of
the mountains bearing the rock
with the Commandments thereon,
that he, Moses, became SO angry
at his brother Aaron (brotherly
love) that he brake the Ten Com
mandments to Smitherines.
Now, God was old and his
memory bad SO the next time
Moses met God in the mountains,
Moses spake unto God saying
"Show me thy Glory" God re-
piled, mo one can look on my
face and live" So, God picked
Moses up and placed him. in a
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East Side

broadened economy for EVERYONE not Just chosen few
Of course the thought has occurred to me, I'm so damned
smart how come amt rich? To date I've not been able to answer
it.
ANYWAY the moral of this narrative Isl If insist on beat
ing ourselves over the head why don't hit hard enough to go
ahead and get out of our pain.
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Forrest County.
WHEREAS, default having been made
in the payment thereof and I having
been called upon by the beneficiary to
foreclose the same.
THEREFORE, I will on December 4th
1853, at the front door of the Courthouse,
within legal hours, sell to the highest
bidder for cash, the land described:
Lots z, 8 and 8 in Block of the
Washington Heights Survey or Sub
division of Forrest County Mississippi,
together with improvements.
Witness my signature on this the End
day of November, 1859.
M. W. SUITS, Trustee.
4t HIP, 49, &c, 1913
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The Good Man

Man. at his BEST remains sort Of one-Unged animal never
completely rounded and perfect cocnoach say is perfect
If he shows valuable quality it almost Unheard OF for him
to show any other Give him head and he lacks heart Give
him heart of gallon capacity and his head holds scacey pint
The artist times out of TO- deadbeat and given the de-
bauching Of virgins socaed The patro is bgo and more
often than not bounder and poroon The man of physical
bravery is often level intellectually with Baptist clergy
man. The intellectual giant has bad kidneys and cannot thread
needle In all my years of search in this world from the Golden
Gate in the West to the Vsua the East and from the Orkney
Islands in the North the Spanish Main in the South have
never thoroughly mora man who honorable H. Men,
Cken The Smart Set, 1927
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LIT
u9

QUIZ DeS1 DuY
With school reopening, we par
ents find that we have to put out
lot of money for schools and
teachers. Is it worth it? Well,
Benjamin kiln answered
that one a long time ago. "He
who pours his purse into his
head" he declared, need never
fear thieveSp
Equal Justice?
The free worlds labor move
ment, the International Confed-
Grafton of Free Trade Unions, has
called for boycott of the Union
of South Africa to protest the
brutal treatment of native Afri-
cans in that country. The ICF-
TU's magazine, FREE LABOUR
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-11-19
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF FORREST
TRUSTEES NOTICE OF S!

NO4lO1i OT otALE
WHEREAS, on July 21st, 1859, Cornelius
Henderson and wife Matte Lee Lewis
Henderson executed their Deed of Trust to
the undersigned Trustee in the Deed of
Trust Recorded in Book 230, page so
of the Land Deed of Trust Records Of
crevice in rock and walked past
him and showed Moses his back
parts. ! guess this must have oeen
the nearest thing to Glory that
the Old man had that he could
show. What a Book!
Now, Mr.. East, my troubles be-
gin. I know my letter is too long,
but how can one do justice on a
discourse. as old as this one and
not use space? ii II
Respectfully, N
q, e. Marihaler.
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AS for me- find no evidence support the belief that hU
man nature has changed much since 1928
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Blasting q Dream

Representative Landlord of Mary
land made commendable but futile ef-
fort to save from destruction in the
House the "30-year dream" Gas he aptly
called it) Of an extension through Prince
Georges County of the George WASH
ington Memorial Parkway He correctly
described the banning Of funds for the
parkway as "a tragic loss for the people
of the United States.
Yet the House voted against the
appropriation apparently under the mis-
taken belief that this parkway is local
project that the State of Maryland was
trying to put over in the guise Of Fed
eral highway. The vote came after Rep
resentative Kirwan Of Ohio, chairman of
a subcommittee which recommended
against the parkway item, declared on
the floor that Maryland, zone Of the
wealthieSt States in the Union, wants
an almost bankrupt Nation to build a
road that will cost millions Of dollars"
But the facts are that the chief
advocate of the road" is the Federal
Government (through the National
Park Service and the National Capital
Planning CommisSion), that the extern
sion is needed to complete national
parkway in memory Of George Wash
ington authorized by Congress some 80
years ago and that Maryland has agreed
to cooperate by putting up 81 million
as its share of the cost. 1t is the whole
Nation, not Maryland, which will be hurt
If the dream Of completing the parkway
as tribute to the first President Is
wrecked by hasty and misguided action
by Congress at this late stage Of the
parkway program. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
The Jackson Murders

With the finding In Anne Arundel
County, Maryland, of the bodies Of Mrs.
Mildred Jackson and her 5-year-old
daughter, Susan Ann, the jackson fam
lily quadruple killings have assumed an
interstate aspect justifying the about
Joint investigation being conducted by
Federal, District, Virginia and Maryland
authorities. The transporting Of kid
naped persons across State line is
crime within the Jurisdiction Of the FBI.
Until discovery Of the bodies Of the
mother and the little girl in Maryland
last Saturday the Federal agents had
been restricted to cooperating with
State police. This horrible. kidnap-
murder case calls for the most intensive,
comprehensive and relentless sort Of
investigation by the best minds and
techniques available.
There are many mysterious angles
to the crime which began last January
II when Carroll jackson, his wife and
their two daughters disappeared while
en- route by automobile to their home
at Apple Grove, in Louisa County, Vir-
ginia. Their car later was found parked
on the roadside, with evidence Of hasty
abandonment. On the night they van
ished there were reports of efforts by a
wild-driving motorist to force other
cars from the road in the same general
vicinity, although these incidents have
not been definitely linked with the
murders. No eyewitneSSes to the abb
duction or Sayings have been found.
Medical officials believe that the parents
and girls were killed within few hours
of one another-probably on the night
they were kidnapped.
Clues to the killer or killers have
been sparse-if, indeed, they are clues
at all. A vague note to police indicating
that the bodies might be found in Vir-
ginia, Maryland or West Virginia has
been discounted as a hoax. There was
little Of significance at the scene near
Fredericksburg where the bodies of the
father and his lh-year-old daughter
were found, in sawdust pile. He had
been shot through the head, while the
little girl presumably died from suffoca-
ton or exposure. At the improviSed
grave Of the mother and the older
daughter some hair that might have
been from the murderer was retrieved
by the FBI and is being examined in its
laboratory. Some tire tracks also are
being studied.
These are meager clues, at best.
But sometimes seemingly unimportant
evidence from one place can be dove
tailed into evidence from another source,
to produce tangible lead. 1t is well,
therefore, that the full resources Of the
FBI and Of local authorities in three
Jurisdictions are being thrown into the
investigation of this atrocity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Indictment at Proxmire

I was amused when Senator
Proxmire first made his at
tack on Majority Leader Lyn-
don johnson and could not
help wondering what his mo-
tive really was. Now I feel
very indignant about it. Per-
haps he felt this would get
him more votes back in his
home State. or perhaps Mr..
Proxmire is such a radical"
he wants to hurt Senator
Johnson's chances for the
presidential nomination in
1860. I notice the only Sen
ators to side with Proxmire
are from the radical group"
With the country demand
ing leadership. and with Sem
ator johnson providing that
leadership so magnificently,
1t seems to me that what Sen
ator Proxmire has done Is en-
tirely uncalled for.
j. F. Anderson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Fast Work on q Bad Bill

The secrecy shrouding introduction
at Annapolis Of bill to restore gam
bling casinos on the Potomac River is
indicative of the misgivings which even
its sponsors must have about the meas
ure. This is bad legislation and 1t ought
to be- decisively defeated.
The bill was dropped into the hop
per under suspension Of the rules
voted ,bv manv delegates who had no
knowledge of the nature of the measure.
They contended that the House was con-
fused when 1t voted to accept the bill,
DESPITE passage of the deadline for in
PRODUCTION of new legislation However,
parliamentary maneuVers to block the
measure failed.
But this is proposal that ought to
be given wide publicity and careful de-
liberation, rather than 11th-hour treat
ment. 1t would repeal law passed
only last year to end friction with Vir-
GINA over operation, on wharves jutting
out from the Virginia shore, of gambling
joints that would be illegal on the shore
itself The over-the-water casinos were
licensed in Maryland, which Gowns" the
river as far as the high-water mark on
the Virginia side. To repeal the ban
on such establishments now would be
an affront to Virginia that would open
old wounds at time when relations
between the two States are beginning
to improve most encouragingly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Special Tax for D. &.

Why should the District
government have need to tax
nonresidents of Washington
because they happen to be
employed within the city?
The answer is plain: Due
to the District School Board
and our do-gooders that pro-
NOTED such living conditions
in this city. 1t became i'm
possible for many tax-pay-
ing residents to live here. and
they were forced to move out
into Maryland and Virginia.
Why do not our brain truS-
tiers on Capitol Hill set up a
special tax tsuch as a luxury
tax throughout the United
States Of America and call it
the welfare Tax Fund for
the District Of Columbia?
Mrs. S. p. Fitzpatrick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Assault on Treasury

House Republicans have charged
that Representative Spence's bill pro-
viding low-intereSt loans to municipal
tiles is new, needless billion-dolla
budget-buSting assault on the Treasury"
We suppose that the normal partisan
discount rate should be applied to this
accusation. Nevertheless, there is some
thing to be said for the Republican
claim.
Mr.. Spence, Kentucky Democrat,
is chairman Of the House Banking Com
mittee and is responsible legislator.
He thinks the Federal Government
should lend up to 81 billion to munich
palities, chiefly for such things as water
and sewage systems, at a maximum in
terest rate of two and "a per cent. Mr..
Spence argues that the need for these
programs is real, but that without Fed
eral loans they probably cannot be built
since many of our cities already are
in serious financial straits"
There is no doubt that this is true,
as far as it goes. But it overlooks the
fact that the Federal Government also
Is in serious financial straits. Repub-
lican Representative Kilburn points out
that the Treasury now is offering 50
billion in 10-year bonds and four-year
notes at per cent interest. ITO Dor
row at 4 per cent" he says, "and then
to relend at two and 70 per cent is a
sure way to go broke"
If this is fair summary, there is
but one answer. municipalities which
may borrow from the Federal Govern
ment to finance essential needs should
be required to pay rate of interest at
least equal to that which the Treasury
has to pay when it goes into the money
market as borrower. If it be said that
the municipalities cannot afford to pay
such an interest rate, the obvious con-
cluSion is that the Federal Government
cannot afford it either.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
Wor-H Necessary

II log prevails IN Wnlte
House thinking about what
David Lawrence so aptly calls
a surrender" conference,
there is certainly clarity in
the thinking of our military
leaders.
Admiral Arleigh Burke IS
one Of them. If the Russians
want to make war over Berlin.
they will start a war. II not
they can make the point at
any time. In other words,
the powerful free Western
world leaves war or peace up
to the Soviet blackmailers!
What a sorry state of affairs!
People everywhere ask: Why
let the Russian gangsters
prey upon the civilized world?
Moreover. Admiral Burke
says the West has the power
to destroy the Soviets "at
this moment" Why wait,
appease and placate the Rus
SLAMS until they have the
power to destroy us, the free
world asks. What has hap
pened to our leaders?
In his broadcast. President
Eisenhower admitted we shall
have to live for years amid
Soviet made tensions and
crises. What a defeatist type
Of admission! No doubt it
initiates Khrushchev's ego to
hear the world. by the Ameri-
can Presidents own admis-
sion. must dance to his tune,
or else.
In America the great I'M
organized majority CT people
ask: Why must the free world
knuckle to the Soviet de-
mands, Establishments and
blackmail? If we're strong.
why not put an end to Soviet
threats? Why tolerate crises
in Berlin, in Iraq, Iran, the
Far East, the Caribbean?
And why stage a publicity
carnival" or summit confer
ence to further initiate the
Soviet ego?
1t is high time the Western
world, the United States in
particular, issued an ultima
tum to the Soviets 1t should
demand evacuation of the
satellite countr,es--the baltic
states, Poland, Hungary.
Czechoslovakia. Rom ania,
Bulgaria - total Withdrawal
from these countries. with a
guarantee of a "demil'tariZed
zone" and abandonment of
interference In the Middle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-24
PTA Budqetinq

At a recent meeting Of the
Key School PTA "a school
with about las families) 1t
was the unanimous decision
of the members present that
public officials particularly
concerned with setting up
the District school budget
should be kept informed con-
corning the items in our PTA
budget which we feel rightly
belong in the District budget.
The following are expendi-
lures which belong in that
category:
Twenty-Five dollars for
such elementary playground
equipment as balls and Jump
ropes. This has.been a recur-
ring budget item for at least
ten years and has often been
q larger amount.
Fifty dollars for library
books. This also has been a
recurring item and In recent
years has included materials
for repairing and rebindinY
books as well, work which wa,
done by parent volunteers.
This money is In addition to
personal donations Of books,
or money for books. by indi-
vidual parents and is supple
mented by time given by
parents in library duty.
Fifteen dollars cash fund
to each Of our seven teachers,
totaling sos. This is another
long standing item to prevent
the teachers from spending
money of their own for the
so-called extras" which they
feel are necessary and for
which there is no school
budget money.
We are also financing a
child guidance program this
year. a new project. but one
we feel is greatly needed.
This consists of paying for
the service of q clinical
psychologist one-half day
every other week. and will
cost between $700 and $500
for the year. We hope. the
request for elementary coun-
selors will eventually be kept
in the school budget so that
the time can come when such
programs will not have to be
financed by parent groups.
LOree d. Bernard.