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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-07-20

throwing good money after bad.
If the Herald had to survive
on its own merit in fair COM
petition, it would have sunk a
iong time ago.
This latest incident, regard
less of who is responsible for
it. came about because of the
ugly spirit which the Herale
has brought to Lexington and
will continue, as long as it re-
mains here.
l have ignored many similar
and equally revolving acts ir
the past. l shall no longer ignore
them.
l shall no longer carry on my
own shoulders alone the terri
fic burden of trying to preserve
a free and unbiased press in
Holmes County = l intend to
let you people of Holmes County
share it by telling you exactly
what has happened and what
happens in the future = the
future of our county depends
on it.
The people of Holmes County
have a right to be told to what
lengths some people will go,
what dishonorable means they
will employ in a desperate eff
fort to prevail over this editor
: for by now everyone knows
two newspapers cannot survive
in Lexington.
If this latest outrage was per-
petrated in retaliation of the
editorial we printed last week
about the Herald, Or if it was
cooked up as a diversionary
measure to get the minds of
the people off the Herald's
shortcomings Git was late again
last week for the fifth week in
a row. it won't work.
If it was intended as a man.
euver to get more suckers to
sign $1,000 notes for them, we
don't believe that will work
either.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-07-20

The revival at the First Bap-
fist Church in Tchula will be-
gin Sunday, July % and end
Friday, July %.
Sunday morning services will
begin at HOO, Sunday evening
services at 7:45. Weekday serv-
ices will begin at 1000 a. m.
and 7:45 p. m.
The Rev. D. D. Satterwhite,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Bay Springs will be
the evangelist.
Rev. Roy D. Raddin, pastor
of the Tchula Baptist Church
will lead the singing; Steven
Lee, who is organist at tn
Broadmoor Baptist Church in
Jackson, will be the pianist and
Edwin Sudduth. organist at the
First Baptist Church in Durant,
will be the organist. Soloist will
be Myron CaSteei Of Columbus,
Georgia.
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Holmes AN-Sfors Play In Tourney

Coaches are Buddy Upchurch,
Lexington; Charlie Land, and
Wheeler Bolden, Durant; Walter
Young. Goodman; Joe Dan Pat
ton, Pickens; and Jim Cunning
ham, Tchula.
All of the Holmes teams have
been invited to participate in
an invitational tournament to
be held in Canton August 5-12.
1t is not known as yet whether
or not all of them will accept,
Tourney Schedule
The winner of the Holmes
Philadelphia game Saturday
night will play the winner of
the Carthage : Edinburg game
next Monday night in Carthage.
Two games will be played
nightly in the District Four
tournament at TOO and 900 p. m.
Playing in Carthage will be
teams from Canton; Holmes
County; Kosciusko; two teams
from Philadelphia, Neshoba Ma
tionals and the Neshoba Ameri-
cans; Norton: Edinburg, and
Carthage.
The first game of the tourna-
ment will match a Kosciusko
nine against the Philadelphia
Americans at 7 p. M, Friday,
July 81.
In the second game Morton
will go against Canton at 8 p.
m. the same evening.
Carthage will meet Edinburg
in the third game at Z p. m,
Saturday, July %.
The fourth game matches
Holmes All Stars and Philadel-
phia Nationals at 8 p. m.
Plans I being made ITO en-
certain a crowd of 1900 in Car
ihage.
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Waller Lee Hooker
Rites Held tuesday

Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 400 p
m. for Walter Lee Hooker,
cattleman and highly respected
citizen Of Lexington.
Mr.. Hooker died at the Hol-
me- County Community Hos.
pital at AS p. m, Monday
July 18th of a heart attack. He
was n.
Funeral services were held at
Southern Funeral Home Chapel
at 400 p. m.
Rev. P. D. Bragg, pastor of
the First Baptist Church in
Lexington officiated. MI. Hook
er was a member of the Lex
lngton Baptist Church.
He leaves his wife, Mrs.
Mayme Gadberry Hooker of
Lexington; a daughter, Miss
Helen Hooker of Lexington:
two sisters, Mrs. j. H. Fuqua
and Mrs. w. r. Witty, ST., both
OF Winona and a host of other
relatives and friends.
lnterment was in Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Ed Wilburn
Hooker, Julian Watson. H. l.
Nichols, Jr., L. B. Nichols, L.
3. Gilliland and Jack Yates.
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Lions Club Meeting
Held Monday Night

Lions Club officers were in
stalled at the regular meeting
Monday night.
Clarence Mcdaniel was in
charge.
new officers.
Officers installed we're: Tom
HollingSworth, president; Nal
colin Phillips. first vice presi-
dent; DR.. Frank E. Houston, sec
ond vice president; Henry Nc
Clellan, third vice president;
Roy Gelston, secretary and
reaSurer.
Johnny Williams will serve as
he new Lion Tanner and w. w.
Holder will serve as the Tail
.'wiSter.
New directors installed are
Billy Stephenson and A. j.
Davis.
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Youths Employed By Local Business Firms

DR.. Frank E. Houston, Optome-
trist; jim Henley, Lexington
Hardware Company; Vivian
Bailey, Peoples Rexall Drug
Store; Sara Edna Bailey ano
Margaret Rush, ASC Office.
Students in high school en-
ployed are these boys and girls.
Madelyn Hathcock, B b a r a
Heard, William Marshall, Jr.,
Kittie Lynn Rodgers, all en-
ployed at the Ben Franklin
Store; jamie Lou Moses, Cohen's
Department Store; Nancy Wig
ley, Patterson's Variety Store.
Clyde Harthcock, TIT Grocery
Store; Walter King Farmer,
Grantham Brothers, Carpenters.
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6EronsR
8azeG Spes
BY Hazel Brannon Smith

BOOMERANG: An Austria
liam missile weapon; a curved
piece of hard wood with a
sharp edge: it can be thrown
SO as to hit an object in a
different direction from that
of projection, or SO as to re-
surn to or behind the starting
point.-Oxford Universal Die
t.onarY.
Sometimes it can return anc
knock the sender flat on hi
face, SO we are told. Never
having thrown one, we couldn't
say.
But that is exactly what is
happening to the person Or per-
sons who mailed, Or caused tC
be mailed anonymously the
little white tracts that were sc
dirty this week.
They we're printed obviously
to hurt me - but bless my
soul, whoever did it was pretty
stupid because the result ha:
been exactly opposite of what
was intended.
Instead of discrediting me,
Cooks like they'd give up by
now, doesn't it?) they have only
exposed the true nature of my
opposition and shown what re-
voting people they really are.
Even the little hard core OF
those who have been most
against me, has disclaimed re-
sponsibility for the tracts.
l regard the whole mattel
only as one more incident in a
continuing campaign that h a 5
been waged without letup since
Richard Byrd filed a libel suit
against me in July of 1854 -
seven long years ago.
The campaign of villification
was stepped up considerably
with the founding of the Hol-
mes County Herald and it will
continue as long as their doors
are kept open by a few mis-
guided men willing to 60 on
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;dstside Baptist
Church Revival

The Eastside Baptist Church
evival will begin July % and
nd July 10Th. Evening services
will begin at 7:30. There will
be no morning services.
The Rev. Ralph A. Brown,
pastor of Nicely Baptist Church
from Hattiesburg, will be the
evangelist.
Rev. Charles Cooley, pastor of
the Eastside Baptist Church will
lead the singing.
Mrs. Paul Waldrop will serve
as pianist.
Rev. Cooley says IF you
can't come to meet with us;
pray for U.s."
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Letters Mailed Out
By Unknown Persons
To Holmes Citizens

First class United States mail
was used this week to make a
fifth rate attack upon the edi-
tor of The Lexington Advertiser
and The Durant News.
Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith,
who in August will observe her
25th anniversary as a news
paper publisher and editor in
Holmes County, vas the victim
of a sneak assault by a person
or persons unknown, through
anonymous distribution of a
small printed tract supposedly
reprinted from the Bolivar
Commercial, a newspaper pub
lished at Cleveland, Miss, ir
Bolivar County.
The tract said the editor "has
finally been tagged in her true
colors, a SO called moderate"
and was an obvious effort to
smear the editor in race-con-
scious Holmes County, which
along with some other sections
of the state, particularly tn e
Delta, have come to regard
moderate" as a dirty word.
This attempted smear was
mailed in a plain sealed en-
velOpe and did not contain the
name or address of the sender.
Nor did it contain the name of
the person it was supposedly
quoting or the date the COM
ment appeared. One reference
therein indicates the article, if
authentic, was written about
three months ago.
Several thousand copies we're
mailed to citizens throughout
Holmes County and addressed
with an electric typewriter,
most of them bearing a Jack
son post mark. A number of
them received Tuesday by close
friends of the Lexington editor
bore a Lexington post mark.
On being informed by friends
of this under-handed and vi
cious campaign, Mrs. Smith
telephoned the editor of the
Bolivar Commercial, Mr.. Cliff
ion Langford, a gentleman she
knows only casually, and in
CURED if he had given per-
mission to anyone to reprint
The attack" he had made upon
Ter.
Editor Langford denied MAX
ng an attack saying he did not
consider that he had made an
attack upon the Holmes edi-
or, that it was certainly not"
lis intention to do SO.
mo one has contacted me
about reprinting anything and
{ they had l certainly would
not have given them permis-
ion," he said.
Mrs. Smith told Mr.. Lang
ford about an alleged article
from his paper being reprinted
and distributed through the
mails anonymously. He replied,
md we quote:
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-07-20

Holmes County All Stars OF
The Little Boys Baseball Lea
que will participate in the Dis
trict Four Tournament thi:
weekend which begins at Car
thage on Friday, July 81. The
tournament will match the best
boys of eight leagues in Cen
tral Mississippi.
The Holmes lads, pictured
above, held a practice session
Sunday afternoon in Pickens
and are expected to be in good
form for their tournament game
with the Philadelphia National
at 900 p. m. on Saturday. 1t
IS hoped a good crowd of boos-
tiers will be able to make the
rip to Carthage with the boys
who are coached by Walter
Young of Goodman.
The All Stars also played ex-
hlb1tlOn games tuesday nlgh'
in Carthage with Edinburg)
and in Canton Wednesday night
with Canton). Another exhibi-
ton game is scheduled viii
Canton . be played at Durant
onight Thursday.
Holmes won the game Tues
day night with Edinburg by d
score of 7 to 6.
President of the Holmes
County Little Boys League is
Leo Parker of Pickens and vice
president is Lester Lyon of
Tchula. Bill Taylor, Goodman
is the official scorekeeper and
w. H. Fincher, Jr. of Lexing-
ton is secretary.
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Holmes Editor Is Victim Oh
ANONYMOUS Sneak Attack

81 resent the fact they've used
my comment to attack you. 1t
was not my intention to cast
any reflection on you or try
to diScredit you in any way
with your people in Holmes
County or anywhere else. | did
not give them permission to
reprint anything OF mine and |
would not have given them per-
mission If they had asked for it.
II would censure them or
anyone for using somebody else
to try to influence people in
this way. They ought to have
the strength of their own con-
victions and stand on their own
feet and not hide behind me.
81 did not mean to involve
myself in your affairs or the
affairs of Holmes County. 1t is
not my policy to interfere or
try to influence any people out
side of my own county"
Editor Langford promised to
send a copy of the offending
piece and at the same time re-
called another article, a highly
complimentary one, he had writ
ten about the Holmes County
editor and wondered why they
didn't reprint that and send it
out"
Who's Responsible?
Investigation has not yet re-
vealed where the printing job
was done or who paid for it.
Mrs. Smith made a personal
call upon William Moses, Lex
ington Ford dealer who for the
past six years has headed the
Holmes County Citizens Coun-
Gil, and asked him the direct
question whether or not the
Citizens Council of Holmes
County was responsible for the
latest attack on her.
Mr.. Moses said the Citizens
Council of Holmes County has
had nothing whatever to do
with it and that he personally
had been as surprised as any
enc else when he received a
copy in the mail = and that
he did not approve of that
kind of tactics"
When asked if he thought
he would have been informed
had the Citizens Council of Lex
ington had anything to do with
it, he replied he was pretty
certain" he would have been
Informed. Then he said he had
already checked with w. r.
Bill Mcclellan, president of
the Lexington Citizens Council,
who did not know anything a
oout it either.
Mr.. Moses added 81 would not
ay the Citizens Council of
Mississippi didn't have anything
to do with it, but l don't know"
The editors interview with
Mr.. Moses was concluded plea
sanity with Mr.. Moses saying:
i may not be the biggest person
in the world, but l wouldn't
stoop that low"
Mrs. Smiths comment is a
ried in her personal column
Through Hazel Eyes," which
anncarS elsewhere on this page.
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HOLMES COUNTY ALL STARS: front DIV, left to right Mike Rucker AM Macke
Mcclellan, Duant; Luther Upshaw, Ray Bailey and Rod Taylor, Goodman Murray
Fmcher Krkham Povan and Bob Kimbrough standing, Bud Presley and Leslie Arnold,
Pnkens; Oliver Harris, Billy Foose and Johnny Self, Tchua; back row Bill Tay-
lm, official scMekeeper; All Star Coach Walter Young; Buddy Upchuch, Lexington
COACH; Leo Parker president of the Holmes County Little Boys Baseball League; and
W. H. Fncher secretary.
noonn Pckens are Jimmy McCrory, Roger Gray and Roger MCGEE, all of Goodman.
An exhibition Jane with Canton will be played by the Holmes All Stars Durant
tonight Thursday at 1880 p M The public il, invited to come out and see the boys
nv
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Attend Conference

The Rev. Crawford Ray. pas
tor of the First Methodist
Church in Lexington, Betty
Miles and Judy Fife attended
the North Mississippi Con-
ference Youth Day held at
Wood Junior College in Mathis
ton last Saturday.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-07-20

MR.. AND MRS VIRGIL KING, owners md operators of the Ben Franklin Store
the biggest anniversary sale in the history of Lexington this weekend.
The Kings are celebrating five wonder full years." in Mr.. Kings own words, of
icing in Lexington, and are offering to their thousands of friends ad customers
throughout the Holmes area many terrific buys in variety store merchandise, house
hold items mi clothing. (Se advertisement on page three) H
Members of the Ben Franklin Store staff pictured ARE, left to right Sara Thomp-
sol, Kitty Lynn Rodgers Patricia Granthan, Mrs. Heller Higginbotom, Edna Earl Ellis
William Marshall L. Maddyn Harhcock and Barbara Heard.
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In Hospital

In Hospital
The many friends of Mrs.
Edith Everett, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. S. E. Henry, will be
sorry to learn that she contin-
ues i'll in the University Hospi-
tai in Jackson.
Evening star., 1961-01-03

Ofhcers administering huge
regroupment camps where
thousands Of Mos!ems live un-
der French supervision have
Evening star., 1961-01-03
Cuban Radio Put
Into Single Net

HAVANA, Jan. 3 (AP).-
Cuba's radio stations were
merged today into, what an
announcer called the network
Of liberty" under control Of the
Communications Ministry.
Officials refused to say
whether the arrangement is
permanent or only part Of the
state Of emergency ordered to
meet what Prime Minister FL
del Castro calls q threatened
invasion from the United
States.
The effect was to reduce
Cuban radio listeners to hear
ing the same program from
all stations. Missing were the
regular voices Of two Mott
cieros"-stations broadcasting
news and commercials around
the clock. Most of today's
radio fare consisted Of re-
transmiSsions Of segments Of
Mr.. Castro's latest speech
mixed with martial music.
Evening star., 1961-01-03

District and vicinity-Fair
and colder tonight, low 25 in
city and 18 in suburbs. Tomor-
row, fair and cold.
Maryland-Fair and colder
tonight, except cloudy with snow
fiurries in the mountains, low
18 to 26 in east and IL to 18
in west portion. Tomorrow, fair
and cold, except cloudy with
snow hurries in the mountains.
Virginia-Fair and colder to-
night, except cloudy with snow
flurries in the mountains, low
In the 20s in the east and Is to
20 in west, except IL to 18 in
the mountains. Tomorrow, fair
and cold.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Northwesterly
winds, Is to 20 knots tonight
and tomorrow. Clearing tonight
and fair tomorrow. Visibility
10 miles.
Road Conditions-AAA
west-District Of Columbia 10 Penn.
sylvania turnpike. clear. Pennsylvanii
turnpike. Bedford to the Ohio. lint
Ohio turnpike. clear: U. 8. 40 west
to Ohio. slippery In spots west oi
Frostberg, Md; q. 8. so west Il
Evening star., 1961-01-03

l
violet ballots for the January
6-8 referendum.
Beyond the balloting on
President de Gaulle's Algerian
policy. the Europeans see ap-
preaching the possibility Of AL
gerian independence and the
anguish Of a mass exodus from
a country they consider their
own.
Moslems see the vision Of
new pressures, Of violent
changes, Of uncertainty and
perhaps Of more bloodshed.
Most Of them understand little
Of what the referendum Is
about.
Violet Means Misfortune
For the NTH time since Sep
tember. 1858, they are being
asked to vote to obtain peace.
And this peace has so far not
come.
The ballot marked with a
mo" is in violet. to Moslems
the color of misfortune and
death.
Rebel Nationalist. fighting
the French for independence
for the past six years are ask
ing the Moslem villagers to
boycott the referendum or vote
no. French Army officers are
once again calling on the Mos
lem masses to rally to France.
to vote massively, to answer
yes to Gen. de Gaulle.
Gen. de Gaulle has promised
that II the population of AL
geria and France indorses his
program in the referendum, AL
geria at once will get local self
government in which the Mos
lens will play a much bigger
part. And after peace is re-
stored. says Gen. de Caulle,
Algeria will be allowed to vote
Evening star., 1961-01-03

been instructed to make sure
the Moslems vote.
Although shaken by the up
surge Of Moslem nationalism in
the cities and blaming it on the
government policy. the officers
have little choice.
"Moslem abstention would
play into the hands of the
rebels" their commanders told
them.
The same problem is being
pondered In thousands Of Eu-
ropean farmhouses that dot the
green. fertile plain of orange
groves and vineyards stretching
for about SO miles along the
Central Algerian Coast.
Each farmhouse has a guard
tower. an alert tlare and a
small arsenal. 1t is surrounded
by barbed wire and many have
small military garrisons. It
has been like that for the past
six years.
Independence Means End
To these farmers an inde-
pendent Algeria-which they
believe would be the eventual
result Of a "yes" vote-would
mean an end to the life they
once knew and hope to know
again, an end to their privi-
legged position and leadership.
Most believe they would have
to flee the country before the
upsurge Of Moslem natlonalism.
But to many, refusal to vote,
or to vote no, would be aiding
the enemy they have been
fighting for the last six years.
Will they staff the polling
stations and provide trucks
needed to transport Moslem
voters?
Nothing definite has been
decided q few days before the
voting is to start. Apathy and
WEAKNESS are everywhere in
evidence.
Evening star., 1961-01-03
JOSEPH YOUNG
ON VACATION

Joseph Young Is on va
cation. He will resume writ
ing The Federal Spotlight
upon his return.
Evening star., 1961-01-03

mans appealed to Mr.. Collard to
abandon the strike.
Public Administration Minis
ter Paul Harmel told a news
conference the strike is losing
strength. Socialist spokesman
said it is increasing.
At a rally near Liege, Andre
Renard. one of the toughest
strike leaders, spoke publicly OF
separating the French-speaking
Walloon part Of Southern Bel
gium from the Flemish areas.
Stones Hurled
Trouble broke out in BRUSHES
when several hundred civilians,
led by o group Of university
students, refused to leave the
Place Rogier at the end Of the
march from Socialist head
quarters.
During the parade there were
two outburstS Of stone-throw-
ing, one at q bank and the
other at a squad Of mounted
policemen.
Mr.. Eyskens Is Premier Of a
coalition government Of Social
Christians and Liberal Con-
servatives. He says his 226-
page bill-called the Loi Unique
win balance Belgium's budget
and bring about necessary ad-
ministrative and economic re-
forms.
The Socialists contend the
Loi Unique will increase the
taxes of the working man -
more than other groups-and
cut into his social security
benefits.
Pickets Attack Bus
Fist fights broke out between
pickets and passengers Of a
bus in the southern industrial
city Of Namur. Police said the
pickets tried to overturn the
bus and the passengers fought
back.
Three thousand m arc h e d
peacefully In Ghent.
With the Socialists calling for
mass demonstrations in every
city Of the country, soldiers
with rifles and submachine-
guns were on duty at every
strategic point, Power plants,
railroads and public buildings
all had their quota Of khaki
uniformed men, determined to
prevent any sabotage.
Police made many arrests
during the night.