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Evening star., 1960-10-16

center for the Offices auto
mated brain.
It will have six giant ma
chimes to "cull mail"-sepa-
rate letters from parcels, sift
out such unusual pieces Of
mail as hotel keys-and the
same number Of machines to
face" letters and cancel them
at the rate of 10000 an hour
at each machine.
1t will have IL letter sorting
machines, each sorting $4,000
letters an hour to 300 destina-
tions and two parcel post sort
ing machines, each sorting A.
300 parcels an hour to 81
destinations. And it will have
q helicopter landing pad for
ultimate helicopter mail serv-
ice to surrounding areas.
Transport Is Problem
Does this mean same-day
delivery within a city is within
reach in this country now?"
| I asked a post Office spokes-
man.
NO" was his nat answer.
Transportation problem S
within most cities will prevent
that for the foreseeable future.
The annual volume of mail in
the United States has reached
"a billion pieces compared with
26 billion only 20 years ago,
and the volume is rising at
a 3-4 per cent rate a year.
Then does this mean that
next day delivery within a
metropolitan area is now to
be expected"
YES" was his answer, and
confidently given too.
The automated post of1ceS
will eliminate one of the two
great bottlenecks. Metropoli-
tan traffic is the second, but
still a letter ought now to get
from sender to receiver within
a city area in "a hours.
To bring the mail service
truly into the Jet age would
cost billions, would compel
fundamental political reforms.
But Providence's Post Office
will at least be a symbol of
what could be.
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Evening star., 1960-10-16
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
First Automatic Post Office!
BV SYLVIA PORTER

Next Thursday the first fully
automated post ofice in this
country will open in Providence,
r. I.
Later this month. the Post
Office Department will demon
strate how successful have been
its tests in sending a letter
in a matter of seconds across
the country by facsimile trans
mission-indicating what Won
drous mail service we could
have If we were willing to put
up the billions essential to mod
ernize the mail system.
In q few months the second
fully automated post Office will
be opened at Detroit. A third
is under construction at Oak
land. Calf. Partially mech
anized post Offices are now OPP
Grating in IL cities.
These are and will be symbols
Of progress toward meeting the
staggering problem of handling
the mail.
Archaic Methods
They're not much more than
that. In most cities mail is
begin moved by hard labor
and according to methods in
use when Benjamin Franklin
was sworn in as the first Post
master General in IT'S. In New
York. the sight Of mail being
sorted on the street is almost
unbelievable. The traffic bottle
necks in getting mail to and
from the post office in the ma
jority of cities as well as in get
ting it through the post office
are nothing short of colossal.
Residents of Paris, London,
Brussels and other cities find
1t hard to accept the true horror
tales nearly every American can
volunteer about mail delays.
The Providence post Office is
a step toward modernization.
While automated Offices alone
will not bring to the United
States the same pay service so
commonplace throughout Eu-
rope, the Providence building
will be on a par with any on
the continent.
It will, for instance, have
a control tower IA feet high
which will serve as the nerve
Evening star., 1960-10-16
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Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
Dean OF Democratic
urfyInHoImesCoun

Ever since Watt D. Ford
went to the courthouse in Lex
ington some 63 years ago to
register to vote for his very
first time, he has been a staunch
Democrat. and ever since that
time he has been a loyal sup
porter of the Democratic party
in Holmes county For the
past eight years, the SO year
old native of Holmes county
has been chairman of the DEM
ocratc Executive committee.
Monday Lexington Precinct
delegates to the county Demo
cratic Convention passed a res
olution commencing Mr.. Ford
for his long and faithful SER
vice to the party.
It was in 1897 when Mr.. Ford
then 20 rode a buggy to town
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
Mass Meeting At
DurQnt MOndQv


A community wide meeting
will be held in the High School
Auditorium in Durant Monday
night beginning at 8 o'clock for
the purpose of familiarizing the
public with the Importance of
the Industrial bond issue cleo
ton May Goth.
Industrial Council leaders
and city officials will explain
the bond election to the audien-
ce, and impress on them how
important a favorable reaction
to the bond election will mean
to the future prosperity of Dur
ant.
Everyone who is interested in
Ihe future of Durant is urged to
attend the Mass Meeting.
The election is being held to
acquire a BAWI bond issue of
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

$3.50, 900 for the expansion of
Durant Sportswear. The jacket
factory, which began operation
just a little over a year ago
now employs about lbs people
mostly women, with a weekly
payroll of approximately $4,000.
The bond issue will be used to
build an addition to the plant,
making it possible for the plant
to employ from 300 to 400 peo-
pie, TRIPPING the payroll.
Larry Shutter, president of
Durant SportSWear, said en-
ployees are needed now for the
proposed expansion, and ap-
plicationS can be obtained at
the plant.
Marvin Mcclellan will be the
principal speaker at the mass
meeting. A Goodwill Ambas-
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

A publicity campaign designed
to create wide spread interest
in the idea of local citizens
trading at home, commences
with this issue of the Holmes
County Herald, and will appear
in three other forthcoming is
sues.
This worthwhile civic project
is being sponsored by many of
the leading business firms of
Holmes County in the hope that
more and more people will be-
come educated to the fact that
they would trade at home"
whenever possible.
The theme of the publicity
campaign is. What Helps
Holraes County, Helps You!"
As an incentive to interest
the county school students of
Holmes County High Schools,
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

And while we're passing out
roses, we'd like to commend
Coach Dale Brasher for a fine
job he's doing at Durant High
this year. In addition to win
ming the Mid-State football
championship, his Tigers have
also wrapped up the conference
baseball title, and one of his
tracksters, Ode Burren, walked
away, or should we say, ran
away with some top honors at
the state track meet. Ode cap
tured first place in both the
100 and 200 yard dashes. If
the baseball team gets by Ed
enburg, which they were Sche-
duled to play Wednesday in a
doubleheader, they will continue
in play-offs for state champion
ship.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

sador of Miss. and his native
Holmes county, Mr.. Mcclellan
will stress the importance of
going to the polls and voting
for the bond issue on May Goth.
People from the Durant trade
area are urged to attend the
COMMUNICATIVE meeting and
boone more familiar with the
progress Durant has made the
past few years and what is
planned for the future.
Door prizes, consisting of Dur
ant manufacturing articles will
be given away at the mass
meeting. Jackets made at Dur
ant Sportswear, Plastic toys,
which will be made at the new
Hungerford Plastics Corp, and
lppers made at Talon will be
used as prizes.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

with his late father, R. l.. Ford
to register at the Circuit Clerks
office. John McBee was Cir
cult Clerk then, and since Mr..
Ford would be q before the
next election he was allowed to
register.
Since that time, Mr.. Watt
has taken a serious interest in
good government, and at var
louS times dabbled a little in
politics. He holds the diStinc-
ton of being the very first rur-
al mail carrier operating out
of the Lexington Postoffice. He
was the first temporary rural
carrier appointed by a Lex
ington Postmaster. In 1906 he
carried the mail as a tempor-
airy carrier, appointed by Post
master Will Rhyme on Route /,
then his regular appointment
came in 1906 and for four years
he trudged the "a miles on
Route three, out toward Acona.
Mr.. Watt also served two terms
8 years as Justice of the Peace
District /, from 1914 to 1852.
Reared in the Beulah com
munity, Mr.. Ford and his wife,
ida Nixon Ford, have made
their home on a 80 acre place
about a mile out the Acona
Road.
The Fords have six children
liv ing and one dead. They are
Jeffie Ford, Memphis; Henry
Ford, San Francisco; Jasper
tord, Memphis, Scottie Ford,
Memphis, Myrtle Ford, Mem
phis and Mrs. Santa Ellis OF
Memphis.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
County Democratic Convention
To Be Held Monday Morning

The County Democratic Con-
vention will be held Monday
morning in the courthouse in
Lexington, beginning at 10 am.
Twenty four delegates will be
named to attend and cast the
county's six votes at the state
convention which will be held
May 80 in Jackson. Two dele
gates from each OF the county's
. districts will be elected and
Ia will be named from the CO.
unity at large, with each casting
a a vote at the state conven-
ton. These delegates will also
attend a District Caucus at
Greenwood Monday, May %.
Delegates from the entire 3rd
Congressional District will at
tend this meeting.
Precient conventions were
held Monday, May 9th in all
preclents in the county and del
egateS were named to attend
the cornty convention.
The Lexington precient elect
ed II delegates to the conven-
With each to cast a one third
vote. Durant named nine dele
gates and alternates to cast
lour votes. Tchula will send
six for three votes, and PickenS
will send two to cast their two
votes. All other precients will
cast one vote each.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
Breakfast
For New :.
Corners q

The Hospitality Committee of
the Lexington Chamber Of Com
merce is planning a Breakfast
for all new residents of Licking
ton. This breakfast will be held
at the Grammar School on Sat-
urday morning, May q, at 7:45.
This will be an informal affair
to welcome our new citizens
and those who work are inYited
to come just as they go to york.
Members of the Hospitality
Committee are contracting new
residents. This is an annual af-
fair, SO if you have moved to
Lexington within the last year
or you know of someone who
has and who has not been con-
tacted, please call Mrs. Juanita
Smith at the Chamber of Com
merce.
Marvin Mcclellan, Chairman,
Ruth Povall, Publicity chairman
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
DELEGATES NAMED

Lexington delegates will be;
Joe Tingle Chairman, Austin
Gibson. w. D. Ford, Wilbur
Hooker. David Miles, George
Patterson, Ruth PovaIl, M. E.
Phillips, P. P. Linlholm T. M.
Williams, S. L. White, Frank
Hughes, D. T. Ruff, P. H.
Williams, Jr., Tom Slack, Pat
Barrett. Edwin White, w. B.
Kenna, William Moses and G..
+. Marlborough.
Durant's delegates will be:
Carl Drake, Clarence Robinson,
W. w. Waller, Calvin King,
8oyd Parkinson, ST., Julious
Guion, Walter Durham, Jr.
Benny Killebrew and Henry
Mckenzie.
Tchula delegates: J. P. Love,
G.. P. Sharpe, N. S. Shelton,
Marshall Bennett, T. F. Wooten
and JILL. Shields.
Thornton: Mrs. D. c.. Peaster
and Mrs. M. E. Barrett.
Coxburg: Billy Joe Alternately
Richland: George Day Wynn.
AT presstime delegates from
other prcients were not known.
1t will be noted for the first
time the old Eugoly precient
has been officially changed tc
CoXburg, by action of the Board
If Supervisors,
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
Graduation Dates Set In County

Graduation exercises which
begin this Friday night, May Is
will herald the end of another
school year, as 104 seniors from
the four high schools in the CO.
unity get their dipolmas. In ad-
dition Holmes Junior College
will graduate ITO sophomores
during exercises Sunday, May Is
Coxburg will follow with their
graduation excuses taking place
N the gym Friday night with
six seniors receiving diplomas.
j. G.. Jacobs of Goodman will
be the principal speaker. Vale
dictorian is Carey Cannon and
Salutatorian is Faye Hocutt.
Ten eighth graders will re-
ceive certificates also.
Durant will lead the parade
Of caps and gowned boys and
girls with their graduation exer-
ciseS taking place Thursday,
May Il at 8 p. m. in the audi
torium. Valedictorian is Kay
Derrick and Salutatorian is
Sharon Daniel.
Next Will come graduation
exercises. Sunday, May Is at
Holmes A. H. S. and Holmes
Jr. College. Twenty four high
school seniors and ITO Junior
College sophomores will receive
diplomas Sunday afternoon at
5 p. m. Rev. Leland c. Jor-
gensen, pastor of First Presby-
terian Church in Yazoo City,
will bring the Baccalaureate
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
Cleanup
Week In


June Gil has been designated
Clean Up Paint Up Week in
Lexington.
The Identification committee
of the Lexington Chamber of
Commerce will again sponsor
Ire campaign and an all out
effort will be made to get peo-
pie to spruce up their property.
Jack Yates is chairman of
the committee, and he is urging
everyone to cooperate in the
campaign this year.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
King Wins
Award

w. H. King, of Lexington, has
been awarded a certificate of
Award in recognition of out
standing achievement and mer-
ltorious service as First place
winner, performance Award
for 1853.
Mr.. King travels throughout
Mississippi in his job with the
Mississippi Chapter of Inter
nation Association of Personnel
IN Employment Security.
Prior to this position, Mr..
King was Supt. of Schools at
Benton for IA years +.
He works out of the Jackson
office. but lives in Lexington
with his wife. 10 Hammett
King and family.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

OG1RH"
Holmes
by CHESTER MARSHALL

This week, May 9th through
18th is National Hospital Week,
and we'd like to take our hats
off in a salute to the two fine
institutions we have in Holmes
county; to the competent per-
sonel who staff them and to the
doctors who administer to the
patients at Holmes County Com
munity Hospital at Lexington
and District II Hospital at Dur
ant.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
Trade At Home BEING
Promoted By Herald

the Homes County Herald will
award 16 $500 prizes for the
sixteen best essays, four from
each school on the subject:
why It Is Wise to Trade In
Holmes County.
This series Of timely mes
sages is sponsored by the
Merchants listed in the AID in
this issue.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
PTA To Meet


The newly organized Lexing-
ton Parent Teachers Associa-
ton will hold a meeting Tuesday
night, May II beginning at 7:30
o'clock in the Grammar school
auditorium.
All parents are urged to at
tend this meeting.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

sermon Sunday morning at IL.
Valedictorian is Barbara Ann
Brock and Salutatorian is Bet
ty Ruth lobe. President Frank
B. Branch will deliver the dip
Tomas.
Tchula graduation exercises
will be held Wednesday, May
Is, with the Baclalaureate SER
mon on Sunday, May IS. Seven
teen seniors will receive their
diplomas. Nicky Nichols is Val
edictorian and Becky Byrd is
Salutatorian.
Lexington, with 33 seniors on
the roster, will have graduation
exercises On Beall Field Friday
night, May II, with the BAG.
Sermon Sunday, May % at
dle Methodist Church. Valedic-
Corian and Salutatorian have
not been named as yet.
EIGHTH GRADE EXERCISES
West Grammar school will
have graduation exercises in
lhe auditorium at 8 p. M, Fri
Jay night, May Ii. Val. is
carolyn Browning and Sal. is
Jimmie Tucker.
Twelve students will receive
certificates at West.
Graduation at Pickens Ora
mmar school will be held in the
school auditorium at s p. m.
May 20. Allie Bridgforth is the
Salutatorian and Patty Thomas
IS Valedictorian. Fourteen STU
dents will graduate.
Names of all graduates from
all schools will appear in next
weeks Herald.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

Speaking of Gene Herman,
who is a member of the Board
of Aldermen of Lexington, We'll
go along with his pet project
of trying to do something about
the streets of Lexington. Gene
says he is in favor of putting
the idea Of a 1 percent sales tax
up to the people in a refern-
dunn. The tax would be used
solely for street Improvement
andits high time somebody took
the bull by the horns and did
something about this situation
in Lexington. Best of luck,
Gene, if you get this rolling.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12

Another rose goes to George
Patterson this week George
made an Eagle. SO he says, the
other day on hole number Ii
out at the Country Club, with
a $50 yard stroke that went
straight for the hole. Some
shottln', we'd say, but then we
haven't checked this one out
with golf play-mates Bill Sch
heller, Gene Herman, Calvin
King, Jim Sheppard or Gillian
GWin.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
FREE

Anyone desiring a free ride to
vote in the Bond Election ON
May Goth, please call the City
Hall, Phone 1873 or call NC
Nair's Taxi, Phone 91O2 and
you viii promptly be picked up
and carried to the City Hall.
All rides free.
Holmes County herald., 1960-05-12
COMMITTEE TO MEET

The Publicity Committee of
the Lexington Chamber of Com
merce will meet with repre-
sentatives of each Chamber
Committee Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the City Hall.
Plans will be worked out to
better coordinate publicity from
all the committees at the meet
mo
Evening star., 1960-07-31

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MRS. GREEN CHARMING
HOSTESS TO WEST
JACKSON NEIGHBORHOOD
~,wr-n


Mrs. Ethel Green was a most
charming hostess for the May
9th meeting of the West Jack
son Neighborhood Club, held
in her home. Devotion was
opened by Mrs. Perry sing
ing, Higher Ground" Each
member recited a Bible verse.
The President, Mrs. Lauree
Adams presided over the bust
ness session during which re-
ports were made from each
committee. Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Adams gave report of
their visit to Luckett'e Rest
Home on hampton Avenue.
Roll call, showed the follow
ing members present: Mes
danes Lauree Adams, Annie
P. knight, Ernestine Jones,
Ruby Crockett, Bessie Free
man, Roxie Brown, Rosetta
McLaurin, Sarah ORGY, Sophia
Bozeman, Beulah Carter, De-
lores ORGY, Mary Lee Mason,
Ethel Green, Katie Johnson,
Marian Redmond, and Ida Mae
Perry. The next meeting will
be May % in the home of
Mrs. Ernestine Jones on Aber-
deem Street.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1960-05-21
HILL HIGH AND HOLY
GHOST STUDENTS
REVIEWS BOOKS

Johnnie Moore. 7th grade
student at Hill High School,
and Ruth Williams, 10th
grade, Holy Ghost Catholic
School, received books at the
May meeting of the Young
Peoples Book Club, sponsored
by Delta Sigma Theta Soror-
ity, Thursday, May 10, at 500
p. m, in the Carver Municipal
Library Auditorium, corner
Hill and Hamilton streets.
Johnnie Moore, student of
Miss Charles Mae Jewett, re-
viewed THE DIFFERENT
ONE, by Pauline Coleman,
published in 1855 by Dodd,
Mead. The book was the first
winner of the Dodd, Mead Ii.
brarian Pie Competition.