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Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Pickens Remains On
TOP In LBL Baseball

The Pickens team remained
one game out front of Good
man in the Holmes County
Little Boys League race for the
championship as the date near
ed for the district All-Star tour
nament which will be played
at Bellzoni beginning July 25th.
Last Friday the two top
teams were victorious, with
Bill Parker. pitching a one
hitter, while his team, Pickens.
downed Durant 1916. The same
night Goodman walloped Lex
ington 29-9.
Only one game was played
Tuesday of this week. with
Durant defeating Tchula 11-9.
Tuesdays game between Lex
ington and PickenS was rained
out and will be played this
Saturday night.
The All-Star tournament at
Belzoni for the third District,
will be a double elimination af-
fair, with players selected to
play in the tourney from each
league. All-Stars will be select
ed from all five teams in Hol-
mes County and they will play
an All-Star team from Mont
gomery County, with the date
and time not yet announced.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Activities
Week At
Durant

Youth Activities Week will be
held at the Durant Methodist
Church July "a through the 90.
The Rev. Harry Hawkins of
Minter City will be the Youth
Leader and Dough Killough,
who is attending school at Hol-
mes Junior College and who is
Song Leader of the church, will
be in charge of Fellowship.
Tentative times for the acti-
vities will be from 6 p. m. to
8 p. m. each day, with the first
hour devoted to discussion and
the second hour services will be
conducted with the general pub
lie invited to attend.
Mrs. R. z. WATSON and Mrs.
Cady McNair are the counSelorS
for the Durant MYF.
Refreshments will be served
at the church following services
each evening.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

will be held from 3 to S p. m.
with the public cordially invited
TO attend.
Miss Georgia Mcintyre, CO.
unity Librarian. said improve
ment to the Library has facili-
tated the work at Holmes Co.
un,y Headquarters at Durant
SO that the employees can give
better service TO all branches
and reading centers in the CO.
unity.
Working with Miss Mcintyre
at the headquarters are Mrs.
Frank Storms and Mrs. P. B.
Jenkins.
In addition to the branch lib
raries listed above, the county
library also maintains reading
centers at Cruger. Emory, and
CoXburg, and furnishes books
and magazines at both hospitals
in the county, for the patients
reading pleasure.
Miss Mcintyre said more than
20, 900 books are in constant cir
culation from the library and its
branches in the county.
Assisting with the cataloguing
and displaying of books in the
Library are Miss Evelyn Tao
kett, Field Representative of
the Miss. Library Commission,
Carolyn Patterson of the Com
mission, and Patsy Gayle War
neck, a student at Central High
in Jackson, who is working with
the Library Commission this
summer.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Services For
Mrs. Carter

Services were held Saturday
July 9, at 3 p. m. for Mrs. Mel
lie Josephine Carter of Ben
tonia at the Midway Baptist
Church. Rev. j. C. Brown pas
tor, officiated. Burial was al
the church cemetery with Sou
them Funeral Home in charge
of arrangement.
Mrs. Carter, IS, died suddenly
in Belzoni Thursday. July z. She
uary &c, 1892, and was a mem
was born in YaZoo County jan
Der of the Midway Baptist Chu-
rch.
She is survived by her mother
Mrs. George Saxton of Yazoo
City; two sons, Frank Carter
Benton; two daughter, Mrs.
Of Louise and Dudley Carter of
Ruth Woods, Benton and Mrs.
Hattie Woods, Sails; six brothers
Clabe Saxton, Bentonia. Wilson
SaXton and Grover Saxton, YaZ-
90 City, John Saxton Vaughn,
Calvin SaXton, and Dave SaXton
Benton; three sisters, Mrs. j..
N. Davis, Yazoo City. Mrs.
Matte Eldridge, Benton, Mrs.
j. R. Mauldin, Canton; fifteen
grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
.Lonnie Heard Presented Fifty Year
Masonic PinIn Monday

Lonnie Franklin Heard join
ed a small and select group
of Holmes countianS Monday
night. when he was presented
a gold pin and certificate for
having completed fifty years of
continuous service in the Ma
sonic organization.
The presentation was made
at a ceremoSy at he LeXing-
Masonic Lodge Monday night
with Mr.. w. B. Kenna doing
the honorS. Mr.. Kenna called
on Jamie Tate, granddaughter
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

Of Mr.. Heard to pin the pin
on the honoree. Miss Tate,
her mother, Mrs. j. l.. Tate,
Mr.. Heards daughter, and Mrs.
j. A. Holley witnessed the cere-
mony in the Masonic Hall.
4 npresenting the pin to Mr..
Heard, Mr.. Kenna said that he
had been an outstanding citizen
and loyal worker in the Ma
sonic organization for more
than a half century.
Only two other living mem
bers of the Lexington Lodge
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Standings
MISS u JOINS
LITTLE THEATER GROUP

Friends will be interested to
hear that Miss Mary Arlyn
Young, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Young, has joined
the Little Theater Group in
Jackson, and will be in the play
Sam Hoover In Trouble, writ
ten by a Mississippian, that will
open Friday night. Miss Young
is a most talented young lady
and will add much to the Little
Theater Group.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

Deer
Holmes
bv CHESTER MARSHALL

If nothing else comes out of
the National Democratic Cor
Liberal, we should say National
Convention in favor Of the South
we belive it has served to sold
ify the southern states more
closely together than ever be-
fore. This unity will no doubt
be felt by those who are in
control Of the convention, not
only in November, but in Con-
gress itself so far as the so
called civil rights legislation is
concerned.
We are glad our leader de-
cided to stay and fight, rather
than walk out of the convention.
But plank or no plank, neither
the convention, its delegates, nor
the nominee makes the laws of
our land, they still have to be
passed in Congress. AS long as
the seniority rule stands in Con-
gress, we will still maintain a
fighting chance to prevent the
libreals and socialists from run
ming and running the country,
From this corner and for this
reason, ii looked as if the nor
thern Liberal Democrats made
a deperate effort to drive the
south out of the party this week.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

All Holmes countians can be
proud of the Holmes County
Library at Durant, which is
headquarters for library bran
ches in Lexington, Tchula, West
PickenS and Goodman. The Lib
rary reopened after an extern
sive redecorating program.
The City of Durant is reSpon-
sible for the sprucing up of the
library, and identifying of the
interior of the building. New
blond maple book shelves, which
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Mrs. Wallace
Has Yard OF
The Month

Mrs. Louise Wallace, who re
sides at 400 Pine Street in Lex
ington. was named recipient of
the award Of Yard of the
Month" for the month of July
this week by the Lexington
Garden Club.
Each month the club selects
an outstanding yard for the
award in Lexington for appear
ance and flowers, etc.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

Durant will again host the
Mississippi Fox Hunters AS
Sociation's annual Field Trials
and Bench Show. The date set
is for October 24-27, with head
quarters at Hotel Durant.
Association directors, headed
headed by president James G..
Hobgood met in Durant last
Friday to formulate plans for
the October trials.
Weir Kyle was appointed
Chairman of Publicity, and j.
D. Cooper. was named Chair
man of Kennels, Stables, and
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Holmes County Library To Have
Open House Tuesday, July 19

add to The attractiveneSs and
better display of books, have
been added, donated by the
State library Commission. New
ligh,S have been installed by
the Board and sand colored Sha-
des were presented by the local
civic organizations.
And to show off the newly dec
grated facility, the Durant
Woman's Club will hold a tea
at the Library Tuesday, July
18th, at which time Open House
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
uruntWMAgoinHo
FoxHoundEieId7 Trials

place for Bench Show.
Serving as host to the many
sportsmen who will attend,
will be A. N. Nichols, Jr.
Durant was selected as head
quarters, with trials to be run
in the Emory community, north
west of Durant, for the third
year in a row. after the city
officially invited the sports
men back this year.
SportSmen from several sur
rounding states attend the Tri-
ais and Bench Show each year.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

No. "a are fifty year members.
Thy are c.. H. Marlborough and
R. T. Kimbrough.
Mr. Heard joined the MaSonS
on May 10, 1910. becoming a
member of Mt. Marian, Lodge
number 81 at Black Hawk. On
June 8, 1914, he moved his
membership to the Lexington
Lodge where he has been a
member since that time. He
is now a Master Mason.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
EDITOR SPEAKS TO
CCx2JRG COUNCIL

Chester Marshall, editor of the
Holmes County Herald, was
guest speaker at the monthly
meeting of the Coxburg Cit
liens Council Saturday night.
The Editor used as his subject
Whats Right With Holmes
County.
Ice cream was served.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

Tchula residents, past and
preSeSt, turned out enmaSs last
Friday nigh to pay tribue to
their beloved choolmaSter, Mr..
w. r. HuddleSton who has been
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

Holmes County once again
has reason to be proud of her
distinguished native son. Ten
nessee Governor Buford Filing
ton, because it was his quick
action that brought Tennessee
back in the fold, aligning that
state with Arkansas, Florida,
Continued on Page a
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22
What Is News?

The Catholic Times, after consider
able effort, finally obtained the names
of the students from Catholic schools
who received superior ratings. This is
we'll and good.
BUT WHAT DlSTRUBS us some
what, is why weren't the results of the
Science Fair considered newsworthy by
others? Every time two elementary or
Junior High schools have a track meet,
it gets in print. But here we have some
thing of much greater Importance and
it does not reach the public.
We don't wish to make too much out
of this omission. But we are wondering:
What is news anyway?-GAF
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22

II is automatic in journalism that
awards for merit in our schools rate
some space in the newspapers. The
amount of space depends, naturally, on
the significance of the awards.
1T HAS ALSO BEEN a cry lately
that not enough emphasis is put on
science in our schools and that If we
are to keep apace in the space race, we
need as many student scientists as we
can muster.
These two apparently disparate
statements revolve about an omission
last week in our news media on the
results Of the Central Ohio District
Science Fair.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22
Mems Convention

THIS KIND of activity should give
the lie to the old idea that Catholic men
will not participate actively in the work
of the Church. Men must perform their
role in the mission of the Church, just
as the women do. And neither can sup
ply for the omissions of the other.
God has endowed men with unique
gifts of leadership. These qualities not
only help the male of the species to be
a husband, father, career man and the
like. They enable him to lead the lay
movements within the Church. And no
man is more manly than when he exem-
plifies Christian manhood in action
under the direction of his Bishop-GAF
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22

can be efficiently used.
If federal aid' means that Negro children in
Mississippi will be given better school buildings,
equipment and teachers, that is one thing. If it means
an extra, superfluous, mink-lined swimming pool in
some wealthy community, it is another matter alto
gether.
WASTE OF the peoples money, in these times
when so many immensely important things need do
ing, is particularly inexcuSable. Federal aid to educa-
ton must not become a public trough at which the
greedy are invited to feed.
Further, there are millions of children In nom
government schools. 1t would be a mistake to forget
that they too are future citizens - and another mis-
take to ignore the fact that in a system of free enter
prise, it is wise to encourage competition IN schooling
as in everything else.
Federal aid to education ought to be thought
through not merely sloganized about. There are
any number of serious pitfalls concealed in it not
least the danger of giving a huge bureaucracy the
power to impose conformity upon whole generations.
We want Independent, thinking citizens for the
future not a faceless throng. Our present localized,
close-to-home control of education is a precious value,
not lightly to be jeopardized.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22
Inquiry Corner
Why Segregation
In Hospitals?
by Fir. Healey

@. The past week a Protest
ant friend was shocked to find
segregation in our Catholic
Hospitals. What better place
to prafiee love and the Chris
zion spirit? What cen | tell
my friend7
A. AS you explain the sit
uation you imply preferential
treatment for white people
rather than segregation, but
your friend may have a point.
1t is only honest to admit that
Catholic people and institu-
tons are afflicted as are all
other Americans, North and
South, with the heritage of
racial prejudice. There is no
doubt about the position of
Christ and of His Church;
the record of the Catholic
Church in practice is excel
lent, but deep social problems
are not solved overnight.
Catholics in business and in
industry, Catholics in politics
and in labor unions, Catholics
in the entertainment field
also fail in the Christian ideal
many times. What does such
failure prove? The Church
does not claim that all its
members practice Christian
ideals perfectly all the time.
The Church exists Christ
said not to call the just but
sinner to repentance. We are
all sinners and the Church
exists to help us improve. In
difficult social questions, as
difficult social questions, as
in personal sins (if we ignore
the social aspects Of sins
against purity, for example,
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22

This Sunday delegates from all over
the Diocese will meet at Hartley High
School for the annual one-day conven-
ton Of the Diocesan Council of Catholic
men.
MANY INTERESTING workshops
have been planned and all those attend
ing should profit greatly from the meet
ing.
1t is a sign of the continued growth
of the Diocese that the Council of Ca
tholic Men has made such great strides
since its founding in 1857.
It is heartening to see our Catholic
men take their rightful place in the work
of the apostolate under the direction of
the Bishop.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22

fusion of federal funds is that they obscure = they
almost obliterate = a pressing reality of modern life;
that is, the fact that federal funds are your hard
earned money, and mine.
Similarly, a term like Continuing responsibility"
is easily accepted unless one stops to inquire whether
we want, in the long run, to see a federal bureaucracy
in total control of the education of our children.
The moment federal aid to education is men
toned, somebody ought to ask What do you mean by
education?" aad "What do you mean by federal aid?"
And the questioner ought to insist upon clearcut an
SWerS.
IN H MINDS of most of the advocates of fed
eral aid, education means the public school systems
of the various states, and nothing else. But the pub
lie school systems vary greatly from state to state, and
school district to school district.
Many districts are already p~lentifully financed;
there is no good for the nation to be gained from pour
ing in more money. Other districts are poor, and
children living in them are educationally underpriv-
ileged.
1t would be preposterous, for example, to send
federal funds to a public school district in, say, West
chester, N. Y, or Shaker Heights, o., or a district
where industries easily pay all the school taxes that
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22
Reader Recalls Cyclone
In Washington C.. I'll.

peared that something like
large whips and guns were
firing and cracking. I turned
back in search Of a place of
refuge, but l could not get
any farther than the Catholic
church. There ] stood in the
tower, and in a quiet man
ner, I thought | was praying
my last prayer.I did not make
a noise, but / prayed secret.
"Just across the street stood
the First Baptist church, when
something like a big slap
struck it and it fell; then
with two crashes the Catholic
church fell, all except the
tower, in which I was stand
ing and praying; but the
Catholic church went down SO
easy, as it appeared to me,
that / thought it was only a
breach or two in the wall.
for where / was standing I
could not see the main build
ing. / had my umbrella in my
hand and the top part Of the
stick was broken off and car
ried away; my hat was also
taken off my head. I have
never found it. My lantern
was burning in my right hand
and the light did not go out.
l don't suppose the cyclone
lasted over two or three min
utes, but it was a long time
to me.
Nobody knew where I
was I turned back bare
headed to tell the people. -.
/ was not aware at that time
the destruction was nearly
general. | never felt so thank
full in my life as | did that
night when God heard and
answered my prayer"
This is not an earth-shatter-
ing yarn. Just a little bit OF
something that happened a
long time ago. I thought
Catholic Times readers would
enjoy the true story as it hap
pened.
Sincerely,
r. o. Bert
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22

be it among minks, mice, ele-
plants or human beings. Her
survival in large measure de-
ponds upon her female hor-
mones, which are like an auto
matte medicine kit.
The hormones in the male
and female are affective in
many other ways. Canon Lee
lercq refers to man as "car-
nal" and to the woman as
passionate" In the whole an
imal kingdom it is primarily
the male who searches for the
female. To man, the marriage
act is often an end in itself
to the woman it is a means
10 an end. To the man it may
often be 80 per cent physical
and 10 per cent psychological.
The reverse is often true
with women.
WOMAN HAS BEEN Civ
en- these Notwithstanding hor-
mones because of her role as
a mother. A mans health is
of less importance in the i'm
mediate function of carrying
on the human race; a woman's
health for nine months is in
timately connected with that
of her unborn child.
We know that a woman's
hormone reserve is highest
when she is most likely to
conceive. Pregnancy to her is
a lift, it is a fulfillment. The
very shape of her body points
to motherhood. 1t is her rem
devious with destiny, the eli
max of her bodily existence
on earth.
THERE is THEN nothing
more absurd than turning
women against maternity. Ma
ture has passed this law-no
one can change it. Woman
must of necessity be a mother
physically or spiritually. I'M
derstand that and you will UNI
derStand woman and her
needs and her problems and
her glory.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22
JOSEPH BREIG-

There are certain vital questions that ought to
be asked - i~nSistently = every time anybody talks
or writes in favor of what has come to be called, all
too loosely, federal aid to education"
Unless the questions are faced, and intelligent
answers found, there is grave danger that vast and
ever-mounting sums of the peoples money, taken in
taxes, will be poured into a bottomlesS quickSand.
Federal aid to education" is In a fair way OF be-
coming one of those formless and underlined subjects
which everybody discusses, but almost nobody really
bothers to think hard about.
THE SITUATION is growing to be entirely too
much like the old joke about the politician who, on
any day and any platform, will fearlessly take his I'M
compromising stand IN favor OF good health, Mother,
and apple pie.
One of the preliminary work group sessions" at
the 1860 White House Conference on Children and
Youth adopted, unanimously, a resolution demanding
"a massive infusion of federal funds" for education
aid.
The resolution further, spelled out the belief of
the group that "the principle of f e d. al support"
should be adopted not as an emergency, temporary
measure, but as a continuing responsibility.
THE TROUBLE with expression like massive in
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22
If THE and

If THE and
Erasmuses of the Capetown
government persist in their
policy of terror and blood
shed, the Africans to the
north will Ultimately rush to
the aid of the prosecuted Ban
tus. Where will they get arms
and munitions, and where
will the Bantu underground
in South Africa get military
supplies? There's the rub.
The Communist party in
South Africa has been look
ing for just such an oppor-
tunity to foment trouble.
Once the Reds get a toehold
in the African national move
ments, they will not let go
until they control everything
south of the Sahara.
TuNATELY, the
prospects for a change of
heart on the part of Verwoerd
are very slim. Ever since
1913 the National Party gov
eminent has been getting
tougher and has turned a deaf
ear to U.N. appeals for Glenn
ency. The Party will not even
listen to the Dutch Reformed
Church which has changed its
teaching on apartheid.
The Security Council re-
buke will only serve to hard
en- Verwoerd in his stand. He
is determined to treat Ban
tus as savages or children
and he regards talk about
the human dignity of the AT
rican as SO much poppycock.
1t will take economic sane
tons from outside South AT
RIGA and gigantic political
pressures from within to top
pie his government. Mean
while the red shadow length
ems over the dark continent.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-22
Dear Editor:

OSdT EulLOT.
On the eighth of Septem-
Der, 1885, Washington Court
House was hit by a disastrous
cyclone. Six persons were kill
ed and nearly $500, 100000 in
property damage resulted.
Witnesses say a huge black
cloud slowly crept up the
western horizon, which was
followed by a strange phos-
phorescent cloud filled with
lightning shooting from
heaven to earth in a constant
chain.
"It looked just like a huge
elephant trunk, the lower end
of which dipped down first
on the right and then on the
left" one witness exclaimed.
AS the clouds approached,
it grew very dark. The wind
roared. At five minutes past
eight the rain came down in
torrents and the full fury of
the storm hit.
Falling walls, crashing tim
bers, smashing glass and the
cries of the victims filled the
air. The earth seemed to
sway.
Down the street near st.
Colman's Catholic church, the
Rev. John B. Steptoe, pastor
of the Second Baptist church
was hurrying along. He gave
the following vivid descrip-
ton of the storm:
81 was going home from
prayer meeting at the Second
Baptist church, of which l
was pastor, and the skies
above me seemed angry and
threatening. AS the lightning
above me would flash every
moment I noticed clouds Of
different kinds and colors,
dark and angry, red, pale and
inky blue.
"Then a kind of warm some
thing passed by me. At this
time | was a few rods from
the Catholic church when
balls of hail commenced to
fall around me, and way above
my head in the air it APP