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Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

News
BY A. P. Carroll

The following farmers who are
~cooperatorS with the Holmes
County Soil Conservation District
recently established good drainage
and erosion control practices on
their farms.
The Humphrey Bros. at Ebe-
nezer constructed dragline bitches
through some of their bottom land
for the main drainage system.
These bitches are placed in the
lowest part of the bottom land.
Usually they are straight, but in
some cases they have to be given
a gradual curve to be properly To-
Gated to do the best job. 1t is
quite a contrast from the old hat
were used for drainage, in the
past, as they were very crooked
and too small. This caused a pro-
blem as the entire bottoms would
overflow after heavy rains. The
new bitches are so designated and
constructed to take care of a three
inch rain in twenty four hours.
Also they have constructed v
bitches through the natural drains
coming into the dragline bitches.
These v bitches control the water
and prevent it from running across
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

Tchula W0men's Clubs
Tchula Sewing Club - Ever Y
Other Wednesday
Thursdays
Eastern Star LIST and Bird
American Legion Auxiliary - 3rd
Friday, 2:00 Pm.
Tchula Mems Clubs
American Legion Post SIS - LIST
Monday. 500 Pm.
Lions Club Every other Monday
Pickens Wonen's Clubs
Garden Club - Ind Tuesday
Heritage Club - Second Tuesday
HID. Club - Second Tuesday
AS You Like It Clube3rd Tuesday
Eastern Star Second Tuesday
P.T.A. - Third Tuesday
Girl Scouts and Brownies 49, Each
Monday
Pickens Meas Clubs
Rotary Club - Each Wednesday
Chamber of Commerce Directors
Third Tuesday
Masonic Lodge - Third Friday
V.F.W. = Second Tuesday
Boy Scouts - Each Monday
WEST CLUBS
W.S.C.S. = LIST and 3rd Monday
P.T.A. : 3rd Wednesday S:S pm.
HID. Club : Ind Tuesday afternoon
O.E.S. : LIST & 3rd Monday nights
Skating Rink ; Adults Thursday
night: Young folks Friday &
Saturday nights
Garden Club : 2nd Thursdays
Boy Scouts Every Monday night
TOO pm
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

Last week I testified before the House Judi
ciary Committee in opposition to proposed new
civil rights legislation. The following is a brief
excerpt from the testimony:
I appear today in opposition to the mass of
So-called civil rights bills that nave been intro
duced. I appear specifically in opposition to any
new authority for the Attorney General to inter-
fere in issues involving education and elections,
both of which have long been accepted as the
responsibilities of the States and az matters in
which the States have exclusive jurisdiction.
All Of these "civil rights bills come before
the Congress cloaked in self-righteous and pious
proteStations against bigotry and prejudices by
those pressure groups who wave the Constitution
on high whenever it suits their purpose but who,
to achieve their purpose, would destroy the Con-
Stitution by destroying the States.
There is nothing new, certainly, in the recur-
rent effort to persuade minority segments of Soc
iety to accept the illusion held out by political
and government leaders that through man-made
laws and courts, or military enforcement, will
come a better way of life. Inevitably disaster
overtakeS such a course.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

Lexington Council No. 3 - Bird
Thursday, 7:30 p. M.
Lexington Commandry No. 3 -
3rd Tuesday, 7:30 PM.
V.F.W. Post 258o Business
Meeting. LIST Tuesday. 1880. Alb
Taylor Memorial Fl m e -
Social Meeting, 9rd Tuesday.
1880. Alb Taylor Memorial Home
Big Black Farmers Club - End
Thursday. 7:30 P. M. Holmes
Jr. College.
Daniel w. Beal American Legion
Post No. 1S - LIST Thursday at
1880 pm.
Durant W0mon's Clubs
American Legion Auxiliary, 2nd
Tuesday. 7:30 r. M.
Castalian Street Garden Club -
1st Thursday. 9 A. M.
Hairdressers Association 3rd
tuesday, 1:W +. M.
Twentieth Century Club 2ad
and 9TH Tuesday. 800 p. M.
o. E. 8. - 3rd Wednesday, 800
p. M.
B&PW Club - End and 9TH Thurs
day, 7:30 Pm.
P.T.A. - 3rd Thursday. 1880 Pm
School
Gamma Club Every Other
Thursday, 500 Pm.
Home Demonstration Club - 3rd
Tuesday.
Durant Mems Clubs
Lions Club ~ End and 4th Friday,
1880 P. M.
Rotary Club Every Friday.
1900 Noon
Castallian Lodge FAM 4th
Tuesday, 7:3O Pm.
American Legion - End Tuesday,
7:30 Pm.
Methodist Mems Club - End
Wednesday, 1880 p. M.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

Thomas Jefferson warned us that 1t Is not
by the consolidation or concentration of powers
that good government is effected, that were this
great country not already divided into States, the
division would have to be made in order that
each might do for itself what concerns itself dir
ectly, and what it can do so much better than a
distant authority.
Decades passed. and the nation grew. Along
the way, as now, attempts were made to import
the federal body the duties and obligations OF
government reserved to the States and localities.
Woodrow Wilson reminded us that moral and So
cial questions originally left to the several States
for settlement canbe drawn into the field of fed
eral authority only at the expense of the self-de-
pendence and efficiency of the several commune
ties OF which our complex body polite is made up.
Paternal morals enforced by the judgment and
choices of the central authority at Washington
do not and canont create vital habits or methods
OF life unless sustained by local opinion and pur-
pose, local prejudice and convenience, and only
communities capable of taking care of themselves
will, taken together, constitute a nation capable
of vital action and control.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
Unemployment Shows
Decrease In March

Unemployment in Mississippi in
March of this year, as reflected by
claims for unemployment insur-
ance, showed a sharp decrease of
81 percent from the March 1858
level and a somewhat slighter de-
crease e percent) from that of
March 1857, Marx Huff, Executive
Director of the Mississippi EN-
ployment Security Commission an
nOunced today. Chiefly responsible
for the decline was the improve
ment in weather conditions las
compared with those of March
1859, which permitted work in
Construction, Lumber, an Agricul-
tural activities.
Approximately one-fifth of the
average of 16,402 persons filing
claims for weeks of unemployment
in March 1859 had become unem-
ployed in other states and return
ed to their homes in Mississippi
to file claims against the states in
which they had lost their jobs.
Such claimants represented a
higher percentage of total claim
ants this March than for March Of
the two preceding years, the 20
percent in March 1859 comparing
with Is percent for March 1858 and
IA percent for March 1857.
The March 1859 unemployment
average showed a better-than-
usual decrease from February,
dropping by 16 percent this year
as compared with decrease of 4
percent for February-March 1858
and 1857.
A total of 81, 3O3, O93 in unemploy-
ment insurance benefits was paid
in March, bringing the total for
the first three months of 1859 to
So, no, 638. For the first three
months of 1858, 81, $40, 1886 was paid
and for the first three months OF
1857 benefits totaled So, 546, 679.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
By W. r. Sullivan
Pasture Weed Control

Spring weeds are at their best
Tor worst now, SO you can go out
and see just how badly your pas
lures are infested with these
weeds. These weeds don't do as
much damage as the ones that will
come on in the summer. This is
because we have more good graz
ing plants now than we do in the
summer.
Spraying with l pound of 2,4-D
in 10 to 20 gallons Of water per
acre will control most of the weeds
that infest your pastures. If pos
sible, spray before cotton comes
up. If you must wait until after
cotton is up, use extra care. Make
sure that you do not spray pas
lures close to cotton fields. Watch
out for the wind drift when you
spray.
For spraying of cypress weeds
increase the dosage to 2 or 2h
pounds 2,4-D per acre.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
Y Calendar
OF Events
Lexington WOmen's Clubs

Lexington WOmen's Clubs
B&PW = End Tuesday Z P. M.
Garden Club End Tuesday
3 P. M. at the City Hall
VIEW. Auxiliary - End Thursday
7:30 P. M. Alb Taylor Memorial
Home
American Legion Auxiliary -
LIST Thursday, 7:30 p. M. Alb
Taylor Memorial Home
Lucky Twelve Club - End We'd
nesday. 800 Pm. with club
member.
Eastern Star - LIST Friday, 1880
P. M. Masonic Hall
OAR. - 1st Thursday, 7:S0 Pm.
Home of club member.
Home Demonstration Club - LIST
Thursday
Lexington Jr. HID Club - Fourth
Tuesday. 7:30 P. M. at the City
Hall
Arts and Crafts Sewing Club -
3rd Thursday, Home of Club
member.
Forget-Me-Not Club - Ord Thurs
day 3 pm. Home Of Club Mem
Der.
Lexington Mems Clubs
Rotary Club - Every Tuesday
1900 Noon, Grammar School
Lions Club - LIST and Bird Monday
7:30 Pm. Grammar School
Methodist Mems Club - Second
Tuesday, Z p. M. at the Church
Lexington Lodge Ne. "a - End
Monday, 7:30 Pm.
Lexington Chapter No. 9 - Sec
ond Thursday. 1880 p. M.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
RANDOM SHOTS

We wish that every colored person in the
country would read this article. 1t was written by
Dochie B. WEIGH, editor of the Arkansas Progress.
This negro woman is devoting her career to
teaching improvement to the negro race. Like
thousands of good colored people, they are DIS
covering that a certain mmuni i~nfltrated Or
ganization is more interested in collecting dues
so that its leaders may live in luxury and insd-
tute lawsuits to keep themselves in the public
eye. They realize that the colored race Is being
hurt and has cost them good will and respect
that had been faithfully earned over the years.
The message follows:
II think we all should be proud of our race.
The Lord made us Colored. Why should we want
to push ourselves on some other race? I believe
that you are wrong. God made us like He wanted
us. Why should man try to change it? He made
Five Races on the earth:
l. White Race.
2. Black Race.
3. Red Race.
4. Yellow Race.
S. Brown Race.
LET us live in harmony and peace. All work
together for good and not have strife between the
races. We are free in our own Schools and
Churches. Why not be satisfied with that? Do you
think you will be better off if you were in a white
school? No, l can answer the question. You won't
have the freedom that you would have in your
own schools. The gap is too wide to bring the
two races together.
Nov go to work and raise the moral STAN
dard of the race and improve it in every way and
bring up our standard. Stop going to the Jail house
and county farm. Stop being a dead expense on
the State. Can't we improve our way of living? I
have Travelled over four States and the schools are
much nicer than the white schools are. because
they are new ones. Who built them for us but
the White people? Yes. the whites built them all
for us. Now we must do something for ourselves.
We must stop and think sometimes. Use your head
for more than a hat rack. You are living in
dangerous times. Let all of us pray for this to be
stopped and let us have peace"
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

the fields causing erosion and
crop damage. Small v and w dit
cheS have been constructed
through the fields to drain low
areas where crops, in the past,
have been damaged from drown
ing. Then they have constructed
diversion bitches around the foot
hills above the bottom lands.
These bitches pickup the water
from the hills, that usually ran
across the bottoms, and carries it
to the V bitches in the d~epressions,
which prevents erosion of bottom
land and crop damage. The farm
ers who have constructed these
diversion bitches state that they
are amazed at the good they do.
AS they r able to pillow their bot
tom land much earlier following
rains, works better and is in for
better condition.
Other farmers around Ebenezer
who have constructed dragline,
bitches. v bitches. diversion ditch
es are T. E. Murtagh and E. E.
O'Rielly. They both have been
highly pleased with the good these
bitches have done for them.
There are many other farmers
who need this type of bitches on
their farms in order to get the
highest production. Any of the
Agricultural agencies in the county
will be glad to explain how this
service can be secured.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

Cotton
Cold weather during the past 10
days and excessive rains over the
weekends viii possibly cause lots
of cotton to have to be planted
over. However, by the time your
fields are dry enough to plant cot
ton again the cotton already plant
ed will either be up to a stand or
will need to be planted over. Cot
ton that has already been pre-
emerged at the first planting
should not have a second applica-
ton of pre-emerging when planted
over.
1t would be well in replanting to
freshen the bed before making the
second planting. However, IL your
bed is in good shape you can plant
in the same bed without disking or
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

Side Dressing Corn
Side dressing of corn with ferti-
lizer should not be delayed until
the crop is knee high but should
be done when corn is from 8 to S
inches tall. The sooner you side
dress your corn the better use the
corn will get of the fertilizer ap-
piled as all fertilizer has to go in
solution before it can be used by
the plant. If side dressing is delay
ed too long and without rains fol-
lowing side dressing the fertilizer
is not likely to be available for
the plants use. So side dress as
soon as possible after working out
your corn the first time.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
RlOat In Cattle

BOAT In C4CE10
Several farmers have lost a num-
Der of cows from bloat due to eat
ing lush growth of cloverS mainly
white or ladino. However, some
cattle are bloating on crimson clo-
yer, also. If your white Dutch clio
yer Or ladino clover has grown
faster than cows can consume it,
it would be well for you to Craze
these areas very casually. It may
be to your advantage to take a
moving machine and clip the
heavy areas of these cloverS to help
prevent bloat. IF it Is at all pos
sible for you to control Craze these
areas by giving your COWS a good
fill of hay in the early morning be-
fore turning on the clover fields
this will also help keep down bloat.
Do not Craze your lush clover
areas until the dew or rain has
dried on clover as wet clovers
have a tendency to bloat more than
from clovers after they have dried.
There is a commercial bloat salt
that will help prevent bloat if you
can get the COWS to eat it regularly.
If it is absolutely necessary for
you to Craze these areas you should
check your cattle at least twice
each day to see If any animals are
bloated. If so by exercising the
bloating animals, by running them
or by tying a stick in their mouth,
used as bits in horses mouth, you
can reduce the bloat condition
Immediately. It would be well to
leave the animals that have a ten
dency to bloat from clover fields.
BY close observation and follow
ing some of the things mentioned
above should prevent the loss of
livestock from bloat.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
It'd Bits
from your
Home Agent

Don't be surprised if you e
lengths of black plastic covering
the ground in some home and veg
etable plots.
1t is used to control weeds. The
black plastic around the plants
shuts out sunlight and keeps weeds
from growing. 1t also helps keep
the soil moist and loose.
Tests by USDA's AgriculbN al
Research Service show that this is
one of the simplest and safest
methods of controlling weeds.
You put the plastic soil covers
down after you prepare and ferti-
lie the soil-but before you plant
the seed or transplant the plants.
You can put plants into the soil
through holes cut in the plastic.
when you plant seeds, be sure
the holes are large enough for the
plants that will grow from them.
Gardeners anchor the covers by
pushing the edges into shallow
burrows and filling the burrows
with soil. To save plastic, the
scientists suggest covering plant
ing rows where you need weed
control most.
You may need to do a small
amount of hand wedding around
the holes that the plants grow
from.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
County Agents Notes

refreshing, provided there is
enough loose dirt to cover the seed
well. Do not get into your fields
too soon. Let them dry out thor
oughly before disturbing. Soils
plowed wet at this time Of year
would work mean the rest of the
year provided it is followed by a
dry spell.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
- by Graz Ruiz

This nation is sick and tired of a farm pro-
gram that has done more damage to the farm
population of anything at present. Leading groups
of business men are rallying to the farmers plight
and working for a sensible plan that win not PEN
alize good farm practices. One example follows:
Those chapters of the Stanley Yankus saga
in an American setting is almost concluded: the
Australian chapters are about to begin. The story
thus far is one to be remembered Its implica-
tons are worth thinking about.
Yankus is a Michigan farmer who after sew
eral years of sparring with the federal goven-
ment over penalties assessed because he plant
ed more wheat than his acreage allotment permit
ted. has sold his farm and paid up. He paid up
altho he felt strongly because his wheat had
been used to feed his own chickens, the govern
ment had no right to assess penalties.
Yankus cannot be r~ightfully pictured as a
victim of government persecution. The penalties
he had to pay were required by law. The Depart
ment of Agriculture was doing its duty by fore
ing him to pay for over production.
But is this right - that a man who grows
wheat not for market but for his own use ON his
own poultry farm, must be penalized for growing
more than a rigid formula allows? Is it right for
a man to grow only so much wheat and then
BUY the rest that he needs for his chickens. Is
it right in view of the fact that large sums of
money are paid to some growers for not growing
wheat.
These are questions raised by the Stanley
Yankus story. They are questions that demand
answers in the form of a better farm program
and legislation. Surely we can not afford to make
fools out of our farm people by such silly laws.
During the Sunday morning sermon, a baby
began crying. Yelling louder and louder, the mo-
Their carried it toward the door.
Stop said the minister, your baby is not
disturbing me-"
The mother turned toward the pulpit and
said: "Oh he amt, amt he? Well you're really
disturbing him.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
CalOrie-W

How calorie-wise are you?
Before you answer this question,
answer another: Which lunch
would you select?
Lunch No. l - Yes - No. -
l hamburger
1-6 apple pie
l soft drink
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23

Lunch No. 2 is full of protein,
minerals and vitamins. 1t has
only a little over half the calories
of the lunch so many of us so often
choose.
Holmes County herald., 1959-04-23
Galleries 768

Lunch No. 2 - Yes - No -
3 ounces broiled liver
l small potato
l glass SKINNED milk
1 slice bread .
l teaspoon butter
calories 1896
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-08

CHICAGO, May 3 lAPl IAN
FnI informcr whose i5-year
pose as a Communist hrouRht
him insults. a beating and the
scorn OF acouaintanceS. says
the Reds have iniiltrated the
United Packinghouse Workers
Union throughout the Nation.
Joseph A. Poskonka. 81. Of
Chicago, threw aside his dis
guise yesterday when he told
the House Un-American Actlvi-
ties Committee OF the years Of
abuse he suffered from persons
who thought he was a Com
munist.
He hasn't been able 10 And
q Job IN two years.
His voice was choked with
emotion as he told OF being
fred. how irate neighbors
smashed windows In his home
and Of the insults his wife,
children and is grandchildren
suffered during his pose as a
Red.
Mr.. Poskonka was identified
as a top Communist leader in
the Packinghouse Workers
Union at a House Un-Ameri-
can Activities hearing In 1852.
Shortly after that, he testi-
fed, he walked into a tavern
owned by a relative.
Someone pointed me out to
q soldier as a Connie and the
soldier walked over and punched
me in the jaw and knocked me
down." he said.
Representative Willis. Demo-
crat Of Louisiana, acting chair
man Of the committee. told
newsmen Mr.. Poskonka had
been thoroughly investigated by
the FBI and according to the
FBI his testimony was thor
oughly reliable.
A flood of emotional relief
engulfed 55-year-old Mr.. Pos
konka's wife, Antoinette. now
that he has dropped his dis
guise. She said:
Il was worried. ! was abashed
How would you feel II people
thought your husband was q
Communist"
Talking freely for the first
time about the bitter ordeal
she. her husband and eight
children endured. she said:
Some Of the neighbors would
say hello to me maybe, but
that's all, Hardly anyone came
to see US except the children,
Even our good friends thought
Joe was q Communist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-08
Worker Tells Of Pose
AS Rec, l5-Yeor FBI Aid

I'VE couldn't answer the
phone. talk 70 strangers. Some
times the kids would come
home from school crying. and
then I would cry. too. But we
couldn't do anything 70 let PEG
pie know Joe was workine fol-
the Government"
She has been working for q
casing company nc the Union
stockyards 10 help support the
family.
Mr.. Poskonka told the COM
mittee that he went to work
for Armour A. Co. IN 1924
Joined the Communist Party IN
i943 az the request Of the FBI
and was fired from his Job In
1887. apparently because OF his
Communist afiiliation.
II was a nervous wreck and
so was my wife" he said, but
I thank the United States for
giving me a chance 10 serve the
Government. Now maybe Ill be
able 70 get and keep q Job with
out the Red stigma attached TO
me-"
He revealed that al one time
during the long pose his family
became so Infatuated with him
he was forced to reveal TO them
he was not a Communist.
MY kids joined me in our
country's fight. and never re-
vealed what ! was doing al
though they we're constantly in
suited and threatened and
found it difhcult to 60 TO school
or church or to find employ
fnent." he said.
He told the committee that
the Communists aim to cover
every industry that has any
thing to do with the food in
dustry as a means Of aiding
the Soviet Union in event Of
war.
He read into the record a
list of union officials who he
said were Communists. One SO
identified was Charles Hayes,
the union district director who
invoked the Fifth Amendment
eight times yesterday when
asked about his alleged Com
munist connections.
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-18
BRIDGEVILLE
Mrs. David C. Spefcher
Phone ED.7.7e74

Union Methodist Church
A. Jason Blund0n, Pastor
Sunday. December 20, 1853
Christmas Sunday
9:45 a. m. Church School.
11:00 a. m. Christmas Sunday
Worship Service with sermon by
the pastor entitled 'The Marvel of
Christmas. The Junior Choir of
"a voices will sing Its Christmas
by Troup and the Senior Choir will
sing "The Birthday of the King" by
Neidlinger.
$50 D. m. The Youth Fellowship
will conduct a White Gift Offering
Service. Please bring a gift of food
wrapped in white tissue paper.
These gifts will be packed later in
the week and distributed to the
needy.
7:30 p. m. Christmas Sunday Eve
ming program in Scripture, Slides
and Song. Plan on attending this
special service.
Wednesday, December %, 1859
1880 p. m. The Church School
will hold its Christmas Entertain
ment and Santa will be there. There
will be something for every child.
Plan to bring the children and hear
the presentation of the Church
School program.
Friday, December 95, 1859
Christmas Day
Worship as Family today in
hnOnr of the Dir&hdoxr of %bo IT.
Mr. Albert Humphreys is pat
lent in the Milford Memorial Hos
pital.
Mrs. George Steinmetz is a pat
lent in Kent General Hospital at
Dover.
The visitors at Hitch's Gonzales
cent Home last week were Mrs,
Harry Passwaters, Mrs. Ray Mears.
of Seaford, Mrs Blanche Dimes,
Andrew Givens of Bethel, and Mrs.
Glenna Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Orendorf
and daughter Sandra of near Smyr-
ma, were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Max 0rendorf on Saturday
evening.
DR.. and Mrs. Thomas G. Culton
entertained the members of her
bridge club and their husbands at
a Christmas dinner on Sunday aft
ernoon.
Ronald Orendorf, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Earlis Orendorf, has been real
sick at his home on Market Street,
but is slowly improving at this
writing.