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Mixed church's
Pastor heckIed
In New Jersey

PATERSON, N. IA mob of
about 100 white persons, many of
them waving toy guns, gathered
outside a church Thursday night
and shouted curses because a white
minister was preaching to mixed
congregation of Negroes and
whites.
The preacher, the Rev. Charles
Osborn, came to the church door
four times and tried vainly to
quiet the crowd. Then he ordered
his choir to sing and drown out
the shouts. The crowd broke up
at the end of the hour-long SER
vice.
1t was the first meeting of the
local chapter of the Pentecostal
Gospel Holiness Church of Amer
lea since the group moved to
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Swollen Waters
Claim Lives OF
Three Children

Laurel, Miss.-A Negro teenager
and two small Negro children were
drowned early Friday when the
pickup truck in which they were
riding struck a highway bridge
abutment and plunged into the
swollen waters of a small creek
about two miles south of Moselle.
Highway Patrolman H. L. Crit
fin tentatively identified the IT.
year-old boy as Edward Lee Moore,
the driver. He said the identified
ton came from a Louisiana license
found in a billfold in the boys
pocket.
The children, a boy about 10
months old and a girl about four
years Of age, could not be imme-
diately identified.
Griffin said the truck is believed
to have plunged into the creek
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Funeral Service
Held For Wife OF
Founder OF Parish
St. Baptist Church
Mrs. Carrie Topp
Winder Buried
Here Monday

Funeral service was held here
at Eleven O'clock Monday, at Far
ish Street Baptist Church, the
church founded by her first hns-
band, Rev. E. B. Topp, also the
father of her only child, E. B. Topp.
Jr., for Mrs. Carrie Topp Winder
who died last Thursday, July 10th,
following brief confinement IN a
local hospital.
She had been a lifelong member
of the church founded by her first
husband, and until the coming of
the handicaps of advanced age was
an active worker in every area
looking to the advancement of the
church.
A few years ago she married
Rev. 2. M. Winder, who was also
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$500, 600 Worth Of Medicine Sent To
Hospitals In Africa As A Result Of
Effort Of The 49, Year-OId Son
OF An Air Force Sergeant
Gift To Famed Medical Missionary DR..
Albert Schwetzer Follows Boys
Letter To. Commanding Officer

LAMBARENE, French Equato-
rial Africa.-Dr. Albert Schweitz-
er patted 13-year-old Bobby Hill
on the head SATURDAY. and thanked
him for a gift of 100000 worth
of medicine.
II hope | did not cause too much
trouble, Bobby" said the 84-year-
old Nobel prize-winning philoso-
pher and physician as he welcomed
the U. S. Air Force sergeant's
son to his hospital on the Oggoue
River, so miles south of the Equa-
tor.
"Not at all, sir" replied Bobby.
The Negro lads desire to help
the famed medical missionary led
to unique multination expedition
from NATO's Southern Europe
headquarters in Naples to Lam
barene.
Bobby is the son of Sgt. Henry
Hill of Waycross, Ga. The SER
geant is stationed in Naples with
Allied Air Forces, Southern Eu-
rope.
Last month, the boy wrote. to
his fathers commanding officer
1t. Gen. Richard c. Lindsay
that he would like to send a pack
age of medicine to Schweitzer if
the general could help him de-
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Expect 5000
At Shrine Meet
In Los Angeles
$4,000 Donation
To Medicine; To
Highlight Aug. Meet

LOS Notwithstanding west
ward for the first time in their
66-year history, more than 5000
Mobiles, delegates from some 100
temples Of the Ancient Egyptian
Arabic Order of Mobiles of The
Mystic Shrine, are expected in this
city for the 58th annual conven-
ton of the Imperial Council on
August 1922. Host and hostess
to the visiting Mobiles and their
sister organization, the Daughters
of Isis, will be Los Angeles
Egyptian Temple No. 5 and Egyp-
tian Court No. 5, the former head
ed by Illustrious Potentate Kenny
Washington ST., Of UCLA foot
ball fame, and the latter by Illus
trious COMMANDERS Imogene P.
Clay.
Though headquartered for BUSH
ness sessions at the Embassy Au-
ditorium, the visiting Negro Shrin-
ers Of Prince Hall affiliation will
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Gu|fport Housing Project Named
For Dr.. Laurence 6. Jones

GULFFORT Miss. - A famed
Negro educator Friday hailed
new Negro housing unit as "a
sign to my people"
DR.. Laurence c. Jones, founder
of the Piney Woods School for Ne
groes, spoke at dedication of a
124-unit Negro public housing
project north of Gulfport.
This kind of housing is a sign
to our people as are the good
schools I've seen today" he said.
eve don't want to come into
your living rooms" he told white
persons in the group at the dedi-
cation. Eve are not asking for
social equality, but we do want
good schools and good housing and
we have been patiently awaiting
a sign. This project is a sign to
my people"
DR.. Jones deplored the present
racial tension in New York anil
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Color Bars Shift
As Deceptive Calm,
Settles Over
Central Africa
Natives Watch Action
OF British Commission
In Nyasaland

Cape Town, July 20 - Violence
which thrust Nyasaland onto front
pages around the world earlier this
year has been followed by an un-
settled and perhaps deceptive calm.
Nevertheless, the Central Afri-
can Federation, of which Nysaland
is a part, remains a crucial spot
in Africa and is held to be one Of
the most difficult issues confront
ing the British Government.
African nationalist leaders still
are in detention camps, and their
congress movements in both Sou
thern Rhodesia and Nyasaland
have been outlawed and driven
underground by white authority.
For the moment, however, the TO-
Gus of attention is the British COM
mission in inquiry headed by an
English High Court Judge, Mr..
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No Officials To Register Tuskegee Negro Voter
Vote Officials Absent As Tuskegee
Negroes Seek Registration

TUSKEGEE, Ala. = An unde-
termined number of Negroes, hope
full of being able to sign up as
voters, appeared at the Macon
County Courthouse Monday. But
they went away disappointed be-
cause the newly appointed Regis
tration Board had failed to show
up.
Alabama law sets aside the first
and third Mondays of each month
for registrars to receive applica-
tions from prospective voters. But
the new three-man board = the
first in seven months-failed to
put in an appearance.
Nor was there any assurance
that voter registration machinery
in the county where Negroes out
number white residents nearly 6
to l would start to function again
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YaIe-Coop Ask
Work Of use Prof,

Copies of "How to Write Schol-
arly Papers CA Procedure) by
Harry J. Wander, III, Associate
Professor of Social Science at
Jackson State College, have been
requested by the Yale-Coop Ia part
of the Yale University Bookstore)
for observation as a possibility of
use in some of its classes in essay
writing.
Mr.. Vander's first book, "The
Ethnology of the Pacific Basin"
received similar recognition by the
University Of California and is on
file in the General Library, Berke-
ley, Calf.
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Tuskegee Inst. School Of Nursing Gets
S125, OOC From March Of Dimes

Tuskegee Institute School of
Nursing announced today that it
has been awarded $125,OOO March
of Dimes grant to increase its
student enrolment and teaching
facilities.
The grant, announced jointly by
DR.. L. H. Foster, president of Tus-
kegee, and Basil O'Connor, presi-
dent of The National Foundation
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Guide To Survival For Small Farmers
Shown By Former Negro Tenant

Like thousands of other small
farmers who must enlarge their
farms into efficient, economic-sized
units to survive, Harry Lewis of
Sulphur Springs, Texas, once faced
this same problem and solved it.
From a small, uncertain income
from cotton and grade B milk to a
grade A milk check of more than
$1,000 month is the distance Mr..
Lewis and his family have travelled
within the past seven years partly
through credit aide from the Farm
ers Home Administration. Last year
the agency helped 4,750 farm fami-
lies to enlarge and develop their
farms with loans totaling $62.5 mil
lion.
"We probably would have been
content to keep going along as we
were1" says Mr.. Lewis, "if our out
let for grade B milk hadn't dried
up in 1882"
CONTINUED on Page Four)
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Pope John Speaks
To Second World
Congress Of Negro
Writers, Artists
Position Of Catholic
Church Outlined
Regarding Different
Religions, Cultures

Rome, Italy, July 18.-The fol-
lowing is a translation of an ad-
dress delivered in French by His
Holiness Fope John XIII to par
Elephants in the Second World Con-
gress of Negro Artists and Writ
ers recently held in Rome. In his
speech the Pope outlined the posi-
ton of the church in regard to
people of different religions and
cultures.
The text of the speech follows:
In holding the second World
Congress of Negro Writers and
Artists in Rome, the African Gull
tural Society wanted to have as
the site of its international meet
ing an outstanding center of hu-
Continued on Page Two)
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Harold Haughton
Elected President
National AmE
Youth Council

Harold Haughton, an advance
senior in the Department of Music
at Jackson State College, has been
elected National Youth President
of the Young Peoples Department
OF the African Methodist Episco-
pal Church, at its annual conven-
ton held in Detroit, Michigan, July
Continued on Page Four)
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in addition to Nigeria, Togoland,
Somaliland and other African ma
tons soon to become independent.
The history, culture and develop
ment of the rest of the continent
will also be shown.
"The Exposition is designed to
tell the story of Africa through
the ages under various theme head
ings. Original background paint
ings, recapturing the past and de-
picting the present, will be dis
played. In addition to the exhibit
of African development and The
contributions made to the worlds
culture by the people of African
heritage, a series of dance and
musical events will be presented
Continued On Page Four)
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Fist International African Heritage
Exposition To Be Held In New York

The first international Expo
sition ever held bringing together
under one roof the many contri-
buttons to culture and history CIV
en- to the world by people of At
rican Heritage will be held at the
New York Trade Show Building
on August 9th through August IL,
1859.
Mr.. KenlI Freeman, Director of
the Exposition, states:
"The main purpose of this Ex-
position is to give the people of
America better understanding
of African nations and the people
of African ancestry. Major en-
phasis will be placed on the Gull
tural heritage of the people in the
nine independent African nations
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Ex-NeWsman
Added To MvC
P. R. Staff

ITTA BENA, Miss.-A former
weekly newspaper editor has been
added to the public relations staff
at Mississippi Vocational College,
serving as assistant to Public Re-
lations Director B. E. Coulon,
MVC President j. H. White an
nounced.
Added tothe MVC Public Rela-
lions Office is Raymond F. Tisby,
a graduate of the Lincoln Univers-
lty School of Journalism, Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, and former staffer
with Birmingham, Memphis and
Continued on Page Sikh
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International Florist Association Ends
Four Day Convention AT HAMPTON

Hampton, Va, July Is. = The
four-day annual convention of the
International Florists Association,
Inc. ended at Hampton Institute
today with an election and install
lation Of new officers, and appoint
ment of new officers to the ASSOC
cations executive board.
Mrs. Harriet Watkins of Glou-
cester, Va, president Of the Vir-
ginia Florists Association, was
elected treasurer Of the IFA.
The group reelected all Of it's
other officers, including w. o.
Perry, Miami, Fla, founder and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-07-25
Southern Beauty
Congress Meets
In Birmingham
State Man Among
Those To Be HOnOred
At Meeting

Birmingham, Ala. advance
ment Through Education" is the
theme of Southern Beauty Con-
gress' 14th annual conference and
show to be held here in Birming-
ham, the Magic City of the
South" beginning Sunday, August
End, through Wednesday, August
9TH, at the newly aforementioned
Masonic Temple Auditorium, 1880
North 4th Avenue. 1t is the South's
oldest beauty culture workshop
and exhibition.
According to Ruth j. Jackson,
Chairman of the Conference, one
CT the best educational and en-
tightening programs ever planned
for practicing beauticians, teach
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in the immediate future.
All three newly appointed board
members said they are undecided
as to whether they will accept the
part-time jobs.
Chairman Howard Lynn of near
by Notasulga, Ri. 1, said he had
been busy gathering his cotton
crop and had no time to confer
with the other members, J. H.
Sadler and John Sullivan of Tus-
kegee.
William P. Mitchell, secretary
of the Tuskegee Civic Assn. which
has long campaigned for Negro
voter registration, said the efforts
will continue. He said the TEA
will ask state officials to appoint
a new board if Lynn, Sadler, and
Sullivan fail to act.
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Raleigh, N. c. Attorneys for
a 36-year-old white ex-convict sen
fenced to life Imprisonment for
raping an 11-year- Negro girl
were undecided today regarding a
possible appeal to the State Su-
preme Court.
An all-white, all-male jury de-
liberated only 80 minutes Thurs
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formerly "for Infantile Paraly-
sis"), is part of the more than
100000 ALLEGATIONS announced
today for education in the health
professions by The National Foun-
dation.
The award today brings the to-
tai support from March of Dimes
funds to the nursing program at
Continued on Page Six
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new CRYSTAL SPRINGS SCHOOL
IS NAMED FOR W. H. HOLTzCLAW

Crystal Springs, Miss. Especially
Tho new Negro School nearing
completion in Crystal Springs has
been officially named the w H.
Holtzclaw Memorial School honor
ing a former educator. The found
er of, and for many years princi-
pal of Utica Institute.
The completely modern Negro
attendance center is expected to be
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president; Mrs. Y. NJ. Washington,
Birmingham, Ala, first vice-pres-
ident; John Cloud, Cleveland, sec
ond vice-president; J. Wesley Lee,
Pittsburgh, secretary; and Arnold
Stevens, West Palm Beach, Fla,
chaplain.
Newly named to the IFA board
Of directors are Mrs. jamie Fem
nell, Wilmington, N. c., and Wal
ter Kyle, Chicago. Retained on
the board were Frank Summers,
vicksburg, Miss; Stephen English,
st. Louis, Mo-; Mrs. Rosalind Tai
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and six months and $3.50 fine for
trespass; and R. w. Bradshaw, 80
days and $1OO fine for trespass.
Both men said they were from
Detroit, Mich.
Mississippi law forbids interra-
cial service in cafes.
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Whites Sentenced To County Farm
For Asking Service In Negro Cafe

Columbus, Miss.-Justice of the
Peace M. C. Edward sentenced two
white men to Lowndes County
penal farm yesterday for seeking
service in a Negro cafe.
Edwards said the two men were
James F. Failey, three months and
500 fine for disturbing the peace
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White Man Given Life For Rape
Of 11-Year- old Negro Girl

day before finding Ralph Lee Belts
of Apex guilty of raping Mary
Lois McDougal. The jury recon-
mended mercy, sparing Belts life
The father of four showed no
emotion as the jury foreman read
the verdict or as Judge Melcolm
c. Paul imposed the mandatory life
sentence.
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ready for occupancy by Sept. /
and will accommodate approx
mately 1900 students. G. r. Brown
has been named as the principal
of the new faculty and his wife,
Abilene Holtzclaw Brown, has been
named assistant principal. Forty
one teachers will staff the new
school.
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last week returned full of enthus-
iasm and praise.
Bishop Frederick d. Jordan, Pre-
siding Prelate of the Eighth Epis-
copal District, who is Vice Pres
ident of the General Board of the
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
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anne Delegates Return From
QuadrenniaI Missionary Convention

The more than two hundred
delegates and visitors from the
Eighth Episcopal District of the
African Methodist Episcopal
Church, Mississippi and Louisiana,
to the Quadrennial Missionary
Convention held in Detroit, Mich,
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Roy wilkins And
Adam Powell
Voice Different
Views At Natl
NAAcP Meeting
Powell Sees South
Progressing
On Rights
SAY NAACP SHOULD FOCUS
MORE ATTENTION ON
DISCRIMINATION IN THE
NORTH

New York, July 20-A top Off
cial of the NAACP said Sunday
Negroes may have to vote Republi-
can to gain civil rights advances
because of the sabotage of federal
legislation by Dixiecrat committee
chairmen."
Roy Wilkins, executive secretary
Continued on Page Six
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05
Bess Mitchell Class
Meets On Monday

Thirteen members of the Bess
Mitchell Sunday School Class en-
,joyed fellowship in the home Of
Mrs. w. c. Landrum Monday eve
ming at Z o'clock. Mrs. Pat Sum
MERRILL served as co-hosteSs.
Opening prayer was led by Mrs.
Jesse Vaughn. Mrs. SummerhiIl
presented the devotional, Learn
ing To Be Content. Mrs. Ray
mond DorSett presided during the
business meeting. Reports of all
the group captains were read.
Mrs. Landrum's group leads in
the attendance contest.
All class members are urged to
take part in the visitation pro-
gram each Friday at 2:30.
Mrs. r. w. Rucker and Mrs.
Leon Worrell were in charge of
the recreational period.
The hoStesses served a delicious
frozen fruit salad with Cokes and
sailed nuts.
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05
Ebeneser NesUS

Plckens spent Tuesday with he
,a4ents, NIr. ana MRS. +. L.
O1oWn. -
WIS. William Gnemi and Mrs
i. T.. nancy atuenaed the tlrsl
grace chapel program at the Lex
lng,on Grammar School, trloay
nIoInIng. Danny Gneml, Jimmy
nancy, Larry White, I o m m y
0rown, HERBERT and j. r. Crops
we're among those taking part.
1t is always such a thrill TO see
tne first grade display their ta-
lent.
Mrs. I. V. McMin of Yazoo City
spent Tuesday with her sister,
p1rs. Bill Edwards.
Mr.. Thomas and T. E. Haffey
made a bushes trip to Goodman
Thursday afternoon.
MRS Guy Palmer of Boston.
Mass. and Mrs. Emma, Muir
tagn of Pickens were greeting
friends and relatives here Friday
afternoon. They visited the j. w.
Burwen's, the T. E. Murtagh's
the T. E. Haffey's and the w. +.
Drennan's.
We're so sorry to report little
Kathy Netherland, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Netherland,
has been confined to the Holmes
County Community Hospital. Mr.
and Mrs. Wilburn White visited
her at the hospital Friday even
ing. They also visited MIR. Plez
White who continues i'll.
Ricky Porch of Lexington was 9
weekend guest of Danny Gnemi
Mrs. Effie Brock visited Mrs.
Walter Frost Thursday. Mrs.
Frost was confined with flu. We
hope she will be feeling better
soon.
Mr.. T. E. Murtagh made a bust
ness trip to Jackson Tuesday.
Mr.. William Gnemi spent the
weekend at home, after being
stranded in Iowa for a week, due
to extremely bad weather.
Mrs. B. S. Swayze was a dinner
guest of Mrs. Mamie Jones ir
Pickens Tuesday.
Dinner guests in the home oi
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Edwards or
Sunday were her sister and fam
lily, Mr.. and Mrs. I. V. McMir
and Johnny, of Yazoo City, Rev,
Donald Williams, and Mr.. Thomas
Johnson. Mr.. Johnson has beer
conducting a study course at the
Baptist Church, which ended Sun.
-day night.
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05
BY Mrs. T. e. Haffey

Mrs. Nolan H. O'Reilly attend
ed the wedding of her nephew,
Daniel H. Dew, Jr. at the First
Methodist Church in Yazoo City
Sunday afternoon, Feb. 22nd. Mr..
Dew was united in marriage to
Miss Mary Mac Terrell of Yazoo
City. Following the wedding, the
reception was held in the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Goodlow Terrell.
Mrs. Adlia Donald and Mrs. Lii
lie Gordon of Goodman and Mrs.
Mollie Donald of Greenwood were
visitors in our community on
Tuesday afternoon. They visited
Mrs. w. D. Killebrew and Mrs.
William Gnemi, MI. and Mrs. w.
B. Lucas and Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
Burnen, Sr.
MI. K. P. Thomas and T. E.
Haffey attended the auction sale
at the Mississippi Livestock Pro
ducerS Association at Jackson
Tuesday; Mrs. T. E. Haffey and
Helen Theresa accompanied them
and enjoyed visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nolan H. O'Reilly
and Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Atkinson
were dinner guests of Mr.. George
Atkinson of Memphis in Yazoo
City Sunday evening.
Jackson shoppers on Tuesday
were: Mrs. Effie Brock, Mrs. Luz
cas- Thomas and Donna.
Mrs. Bobby Courts and sons OF
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05
A Resolution

WHEREAS, Miss America. our
own Miss Mary Ann Mobley, has
agreed to lead the Mississippi
American Legion delegation in the
giant National Convention parade
in Minneapolis this year; and
WHEREAS, The American Leg
ion of Mississippi is currently en-
gagged in an intensive membership
drive in an effort to win the lead
ing position in this highly publi-
cized parade; and
WHEREAS, the state that leads
this parade will receive millions
of dollars worth of favorable ma
tionwide publicity; and
WHEREAS, Mississippi W i t h
Miss America leading its dele
gates, would receive even more
publicity on account of Miss Mob
ley;
NOW, THEREFORE, I PRO
CLAIM the months of February,
March and April as Join the
American Legion Months" and
urge every eligible veteran to join
the American Legion and help
mississippi and Miss Mobley lead
the nation in Minneapolis this year
at the National Convention.
Signed r. K. Ray
Mayor of Durant
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05

Mrs. Robert Henley accompan-
led her two sisters, Miss Auris
Fender and Mrs. Ruby Peeler of
Kosciusko, to Jackson Tuesday
to attend the funeral of Mr.. Avery
Giles.
The family and friends of
"Smitty" Smith are welcoming
him home from the hospital in
Jackson.
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05

The Durant boys and the Nc
Adams girls won the champion
ship trophies Saturday night in
the finals of the Durant Invita-
tional Pee Wee Tournament. West
girls defeated Lexington the con-
ISOLATION game and Lexington boys
defeated McAdams in thier con-
ISOLATION game.
Friday night Durant beat Lex
ington 1852 in an overtime battle;
(boys}; the West boys beat Nc
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05

over a scrapping Durant sextet.
The Durant boys found little
difficulty in downing West in the
finals AIS.
All-star (girls> forwards slected
were Burrell and Gowan from Nc
Adams, Browning from West, and
C. McNeer from Durant. All-Star
guards were Crane from West,
Stuart from McAdams and Nc
Dowell from Durant.
Holmes County herald., 1959-03-05

Adams 1920; the McAdams girls
beat West 41-33; and the Durant
girls edged Lexington $500.
In the girls finals the score was
deadlocked 1922 with a little
more than a minute remaining.
After a basket by McAdams, the
girls in blue were able to freeze
the ball until the final second
when Miss Burren sank a beauti-
full lefty to win the game 1882