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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02

Last year there were two
plans, A and B. This year only
Plan A applies.
April l is the deadline foi
releasing acreage and the sans
da.e applies to applications taken
at the ASC office in Lexington
for additional acres.
Only a few acres have beer
released to date at the ASC Of
flee. A number of application
for additional acres have been
filed.
In 1860 Holmes County farm
ers released a total of 1875
acres, all of which were re
allotted and planted by other
farmers.
Holmes farmers made applica-
lion for 6.626 additional acres
last year which they desired to
plant, leaving a deficit Of 1858
acres over the number Of acres
available.
The State ASC Committee
granted Holmes County an adj
ditional 2,248 acres for 1860,
bringing up to 4,063 the number
of cotton acres planted in Hol-
mes County because of the re-
apportionment program, with 522
farms sharing in this increase.
Holmes County's total allotted
cotton acreage for 1860 was
37,875 acres.
Of the total figure there were
1883 acres originally allotted
under Plan A with the addition
al 2,248 acres reapportioned by
the State ASC Committee,
bringing to 34,9O1 the number
Of acres planted under Plan A
The remainder was planted un-
Ter Plan B.
State Meeting
At a statewide meeting held
n Jackson of key agricultural
agencies in January a campaign
was planned to secure release of
unwanted cotton acreage on a
tatewide scale.
A similar drive last year re-
suited in hte release of 1872, 759
acres for reapportionment on
other farms in Mississippi where
additional cotton acreage was
wanted. Of this amount, 84,431
acres were released to the state
ASC Committee for reapportion-
nent to other counties, and
1898 were reopportioned with
n the county of origin.
For Mississippi last year it
was estimated the reapportion-
men program resulted in be-
tween $25 and $50 million that
would otherwise have been lost
% the states economy.
In addition, the program help
ed safeguard Mississippi's cotton
acreage history by which future
lllotments of acreage are deter
mined.
Groups meeting in Jackson
Tuesday included Mississippi
Farm Bureau Federation. the
Agricultural Extension Service.
Delta Council, Mississippi ASC
personnel, the A. and /. Board,
otton producers and industry
representatives..
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02
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us for the same purpose.
All of these have been Gre
iited on the books and most of
the address plates have been
changed to show your new date
except for about twenty.
These we hope to catch up with
by Saturday of this week.
Meanwhile, each subscriber
knows whether or not his SUBJ
scription is due. We would ap-
oreciate your checking the date
on your paper this week and
citing us hear from you. This
will avoid the inconvenience and
Expense of a second billing in
February.
We also want to welcome to
he ranks Of our readers all of
the new subscribers we have
added in 1860 and in January
of 1861, also the twelve new ones
added this week.
The Lexington Advertiser has
its largest circulation in history
today = and we believe the most
intensive leadership of any
newspaper in the state.
We have never staged a cir
culation campaign OF given pre-
miums to bride people to take
our newspapers. Nor have we
ever sent children Tor anyone
else) out to try to take advan-
tage of their friends by begging
them to subscribe.
We just concentrate on putting
out a good newspaper for you
each week.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02

Unity is a good thing in
government, whether it be on
a national, state or local level. It
shows a united front to the
world against our enemies.
But we should never give up
the right to dissent, to speak
our piece, to disagree. That is
the American way of life we
cherish, our individual freedom
to form our own opinions, do
our own thinking and voice our
opinions, if we so desire.
When conditions or situations
arise that make it impossible
for us to act like free men and
women, to have and express our
own opinions, without fear Of
boycott or intimidation, como
mic and personal reprisals, then
we have lost the precious free
dom we are supposed to be
fighting for.
And it doesn't matter who
takes away Il freedom, or in
whose name or for what cause.
When we lose it, it's gone.
We should be very careful to
try to preserve the right of every
person to dissent = and we
should resist the impulse to
smear those who do not agree
with us for this is the very
method which the Communist
employs to such good advantage.
When we try to smear a per-
son who commits the crime of
d~isagreeing with us. we r act
ing just like the Communists =
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02
Pickens And Acona
Complete Polio Drive

Hats are off and congratula-
tons are in order for the Pickens
and Acona communities for be-
ing first in the county to COM
plete their polio drives.
Jack Dunn, county chairman.
states that the Pickens drive
net.ed $206.58 and the Acona
drive netted $32.04.
A hearty thanks from the
county chairman is tended both
communities.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02
farmers Asked To Release Cotton Acres
1876 Acres Were Released In 1860
6,626 Wanted; 1885 Acres Planted

An intensive campaign will be made again this year
to persuade Holmes County cotton farmers to release allot-
ted cotton acres which they do not plan to use in order
that other farmers, who need additional acres, may plant
them and so that Holmes County will not lose any acreage
history.
This is a year which many Holmes County farmers will
have to make a decision on planting some cotton.
Farmers who released all cotton in 1859 and 1860 must
plant some cotton on the farm this year to keep their alot-
ment. If they choo1, to release all their acreage this year
they will not receive an allotment for 1862 as an old grower.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02
Attends Executive Meefind

Mrs. Bob Tidwell attended the
executive meeting of Telephone
Pioneers at the Edgewater Hotel
N Biloxi Oh Saturday, January
q. Mrs. Tidwell is president of
the Choctaw Council of the Bell
Telephone Company.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02
By Hazel BrannOn Smith

NAiooloSiPP1 ollplSdSSo GlCIt-
or movement (the Citizens Coun-
ellis and others behind it) can
take credit for triggering the
divisive and devastating battle
waged in the United States Con
gress this week over the change
in the membership of the Rules
Committee - a battle in which
the charge of SANDER and libel
was heard and in which none
can find comfort except the
enemies of this country.
Divide and conquer is one of
the best known and most used
techniques of the Communists
and other totalitarian groups
which seek to destroy America
and American principles and
ideals.
The Unpledged Elector move
ment will continue to divide our
people, in and out of Mississippi,
and if it continues to operate UNI
checked, it will destroy our
state.
A lot of pure claptrap has been
written about the Rules Com
mlttee fight in Congress.
The procedure of adding new
members to the Rules Commit
tee was nothing more than a
compromise plan devised to pre-
vent Mississippi's Congressman
Bill Colmer from being kicked
off the committee altogether for
party disloyalty.
The whole fight in Congress
had its root in Mr.. Colmer's sup
port of Unpledged Electors. The
charge was party disloyalty, and
Mr.. Colmer had certainly been
guilty of that in supporting the
Cnpledged Electors. When he
detected from party ranks, Bill
Colmer knew he was running
the risk of losing his powerful
committee assignments which he
gets from and through the party.
That was a risk he was ap-
parently willing to take. and he
had every right to follow this
course. But he laid himself wide
open.
If the political party does not
reward loyalty and continues to
overlook the disloyal, the future
of the party is in doubt. A party
which can't inspire its own
members to remain loyal may
not have a future.
Congressman Frank Smith op-
posed the move to add new
members to the Rules Commit
tee from the beginning and in
the area where the votes were
counted, not just in newspaper
columns for consumption of the
folks back home.
One would think this was a
fight between enemies and
friends of this country as
though all Congressman aren't
loyal to the welfare of this ma
ton.
Liberalization of the House
Rules Committee through en-
largement merely makes it less
hazardous to get the Congress
to consider legislation which
President Kennedy may desire
and surely a President elected
by the people of the United
States should not be unduly OBJ
structed in presenting his pro-
gram to the Congress for con-
sideration.
Congressman will still have
the vote on all matters of legis-
lation and they will cast their
votes in accordance with what
they deem to be the wishes of
the people they represent. The
enlarged committee will at least
make it certain they get a chance
to vote.
We still hold to the idea of
majority rule in this nation -
although Mississippi rarely goes
along with the majority.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02
In Lexington Hospital

The many friends of r. H.
Chisolm will be glad to know
he was transferred Saturday
from the Greenwood Leflore
Hospital to the Holmes County
Community Hospital.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02
BASKETB IL TOURNEY At
NORTH CARROLLTON
EERRuARY 2 A

The annual Mid-State Con-
ference basketball tournament
will be this week, February 2,
3, 4 at North Carrollton. The
tournament was postponed last
week because of the severe
weather.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-02

We want to express our thanks
and appreciation to every sub
scriber who has sent in checks
and money orders for renewals
since we sent out statements
about two months ago and
to all those who have visited
Evening star., 1961-12-09
Arms and the KremIin

Few things could involve more
gueSSwork, hazardous punditry or sheer
speculation than efforts to evaluate the
Soviet Unions military budget in rela-
tion to that Of the United States.
There are several reasons for this.
One is that the Kremlin owns and
controls virtually everything within its
domain, and it can therefore fix its
own prices for the materials and labor
needed for the production of armaments.
And another is that the SurreptitiouS
USSR can and does cover up many of
its war-goodS expenditures under such
budgetary headings as Scientific"
"educational' and even miscellaneous"
activities
Thus there is little point in trying
to compare RuSSia's projected 1862 arms
outlayS "a total of rubles equivalent to
approximately SIS billion) with the $50
billion or more expected to be spent by
our own country in the next fiscal year.
Clearly, looked at in any especially
in view of the fact that Soviet book
keeping lends itself to furtiveness and
finagling of type impossible in our
open American soclety-the two things,
the Kremlins budget and ours, are so
unlike in so many fundamental ways
that it is kind of exercise in futility
to attempt to measure them against
each other in any precise way.
Nevertheless, obscure as it is in
many respects, the latest fiscal news from
Moscow leaves little room for doubt
that the Kremlin has decided upon
major increase in military spending-a
tension-b breeding increase estimated to
be at level almost so per cent above
that originally planned early in 1861.
According to the official Soviet line,
this has been made necessary by what
our country has done to cope with things
like the Berlin crisis.
Here is situation that speaks
pretty much for itself. The Kremlin
quite evidently is in mood to act tough,
and the United States must govern it's
own policy accordingly.
Evening star., 1961-12-09
For the Security of All

Director j. Edgar Hoover of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation we'll
merited the 1861 Mutual of Omaha Criss
Award, a gold medal and $4,000, for
"his outstanding contribution to the
personal security and safety of the
American public" The award, in men,
ory of the late DR.. C. C. Criss, noted Ne
braSka physician and insurance execu-
tive, is made annually to an American
who has distinguished himself in the
field of health or safety. Certainly Mr..
Hoover and his famous agency, in their
relentless war on crime and communistic
subverSion, have contributed a great
deal to the safety Of the Nation and its
citizens. The record shows that this
vital mission is in good hands.
Evening star., 1961-12-09
Tonqonyiku on Its Own

The newest of the newly inde-
pendent nations Of Africa is Tangan-
yika. Colonized rs years ago by the
Germans and taken over by the Brit
iSh after the First World War, it is a
country with a lot of hope and a
population Of million. Relations be-
tween the great Negro mass and the
minority groups (totaling only a bit
more than 100000, including 10000
Whites) have been very good for a long
time, and they are expected to re-
main that way under the government
of Prime Minister Julius Nyerere.
According to those who know him
we'll, 40-year-old Mr.. Nyerere is a man
OF much personal charm, keen intel
ligence, marked administrative ability
and determined political moderation
Roman Catholic, and a graduate of
Edinburgh University in Scotland, he
has frequently spoken out against what
might be called raciSm in reverse
the dangerous and basically senseless
black-againSt-white agitation that has
characterized many Of Africa's ma
tionaliStic drives for independence. Be
yond that, in terms of both his mind
and spirit, he has left no room for
doubt that he favorS the Western way
and is opposed to Red totalitarianiSm,
even though he wants normal rela-
tionS with the Kremlin.
Mr.. Nyerere is no stranger to the
United States. During his 1859 visit,
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh be-
slowed on him an honorary degree in
recognition of his efforts to give new
hope to men long weary Of racial
strife and unresolved national differ
enceS." Moreover, he has received as
suranceS from our Government that
he will be able to count on American
aid as he undertakes a three-year
program for the economic develop
ment of his country Primarily agri-
cultural, Tanganyika bases its economy
at present largely on its output of
sisal GtS main product) and its ex-
port of such other items as cotton,
coffee and diamonds. However, even
as it begins its existence as an inde-
pendent state, it must reckon with
a prospective budgetary deficit that
could lead to considerable political in
stability.
Nevertheless, as 1t now starts doing
things on its own, Tanganyika has
ample reason for confidence that it
will be able-unlike the Congo and
certain other fledgling republics" in
Africa-to achieve progress and main
tain stability in the months and years
Immediately ahead. The promise in
that respect seems solid enough to per-
suade our own country and the West
as a whole to extend help of a type
designed to put real force behind Mr.
Nyerere's developmental plans.
Evening star., 1961-12-09
School Adjustments

District school officials
have observed that in schools
with a minority of Negro or
white children, a minority
child is susceptible to a feel
ing of isolation" To ease
this feeling, Superintendent
Hansen would have more
Negro teachers in predomi-
nantly white schools and
more white teachers in pre-
dominantly Negro schools.
In this matter of school
integration, Federal courts
have had great concern for
the welfare of the Negro
child and have ignored COM
pletely the welfare of the
white child. Following this
lead, school officials outside
the South have been ex-
tremely reluctant to recog-
nize or discuss the problems
of the white child in a school
environment which is over
whelmingly Negro.
When a Negro child is
placed in a predominantly
white school, it is usually al
the insistence of the Negro
parent who is free to remove
the child if his progress is
unsatisfactory. For the white
child in the reverse situa-
tion, the white parent usual
ly is powerlesS to act, either
Evening star., 1961-12-09
Cloud Over Justice

The indictment by Federal grand
jury of a New York State Supreme
Court justice and a former Federal
prosecutor for allegedly splitting a
$4,000 bribe is shocking climax to
ugly rumorS of an alleged court fixing
attempt growing out of a jukebox bank
ruptcy case Granted that the indicted
men must be considered innocent un-
til proved guilty, the handing up of
the charges after an intensive FBI
investigation inevitably raises a cloud
over justice that cannot easily be dis
PEELED in the public mind. And there
are ramificationS of the case that still
need intensive exploration.
Under indictment are Justice ].
Vincent Keogh, for II years on the
States high bench and before that
United States Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York; Elliott Kahaner,
former chief assistant prosecutor for
the Eastern District and three others
Appointment surgeon, a jukebox opera
tor and Well-known underworld
character. The surgeon was accused of
acting as go-betWeen in the alleged eff
fort to Subvert justice in favor of four
men awaiting sentence after conviction
of fraud in the bankruptcy case. A Fed
eral judge who allegedly was to have
been approached by the State jurist
and the former prosecutor with pleas to
go easy on the men heard rumors of
the plot and asked the FBI to investi-
gate. The grand jury inquiry followed
tits said the investigation will be con-
tinued in several directions.
Justice Keogh, through his attor-
ney, termed the charge Outrageous"
and declared himself totally innocent
of any wrongdoing." He said that when
the full story is told-presumably in
court-"my name and my honor will
remain without blemish" We hope so,
not only for the judges sake but in
the interest of unsullied justice in
New York State.
Evening star., 1961-12-09
Our Muscle Gop'

The figures on recent military rejec-
ttons for disability should jolt flabby
Americans from their leiSurely posture
into attitudes and habits more in keep
ing with the traditions of physical
strength and endurance which built our
Nation. 1t is a national disgrace to
learn that it was necessary to examine
755, 900 men to obtain the 10000 phys
ically qualified men needed to meet
the Berlin crisis. In citing this dis
turbing" statistic, President Kennedy
rightly called for voluntary, country
wide fitness program to fill what might
be termed our muscle gap"
: Speaking at the Football Hall of
Fame dinner in New York City, the
President decried the softness of pres
ent-day living, with comforts and con-
venienceS undreamed of by our rugged
forefatherS. He said: 1--WE are under
exercised as Nation. We look instead
Of play, ride instead of walk. Our push
button existence deprives us of the
minimum of physical activity essential
for healthy living"
The result? About half of the 200,-
900 school children enrolled in pilot
program of the Presidents Council on
Youth Fitness failed the minimum
test for physical fitness and only 10
per cent passed more strenuous test.
(The minimum test included one pull
up on the chinning bar for boys 10 to
13, two pullupS for those IA and Is and
three pullups for those 16 and 17)
AYaH lofi
in such wide-open-space States as Okla
homa and South Dakota as in cities of
the East and South.
Mr.. Kennedy struck at the root of
the trouble when he declared that too
many Americans are more interested
in watching baseball or football or bas-
ketball or other sports than in taking
part in these bodybuilding games. Too
many are content to get their exercise
by walking from parking lot to the
stadium or getting out of chair to
turn on the television set. Why walk
to the corner store a block away when
one can. Jump into the family auto
mobile and drive there?
But the Presidents Council on
Youth Fitness has reason to hope for
an improvement in national fitness.
During it's pilot training program it has
found that simple program of daily
exercises tried out at number of
schools has produced marked changes
in the pupils. At one school there was
a "a per cent drop in fitness-test fail
ures after only six weeks of setting
up exercises. The council will seek to
interest school authorities all over the
Evening star., 1961-12-09
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Progress Report on Synthetic Meat
By THOMAS r. HENRY

similar to those which must
have existed on the primitive
earth when life was evolving.
First amino acids, out of
which proteinS are made,
were produced by mixing to-
gether gases that are thought,
to have been present in the.
earth's early atmosphere and
exposing them to electrical
discharges. They succeeded
and there has been steady
progress in various labora-7
tories ever since.
The work still is in its
infancy. Eventually it should
be possible. it is believed, to-
make artificial proteins in
great variety. compared to
natures multitude of pro-
tien products which include
hair, nails, wool, silk, leather
and many other materials
beside meats.
When certain chemical prob
lens are solved, DR.. Fox re-
ported to the American
Chemical Society, it may be
possible to produce edible
proteins in many lines that
will be nutritionally superior
to anything found in ma
ture.
Taste apparently depends
on extremely slight changes
in the chemical structure of
various food substances.
For example, saccharine,
one of the sweetest of all
materials which is used
widely as a substitute for.
sugar, can be changed into
something extremely bitter by
chemists by minute altera-
tions in the configuration of
its molecule. BY similar meth
ods it also can be made
completely taStelesS.
Saccharine Derivatives Studied
This has just been reported
to the American Association
for the Advancement of
Science by DR.. Glenn H.
Hamor of the University Of
Southern California. He re-
ports on studies of approxi-
mately 80 saccharine deriva-
tives. All vary quite minutely
from the original sweetener
which is derived from coal
tar and first was discovered
nearly a century ago. 1t
varies somewhat according
to the individuals taste bud
Sensitivity from three to five
times the sweetness of sugar.
Perhaps, DR.. Hamor says,
the sense of taste resembles.
other types Of physiological
responses and is subject to
the lock and key" concept
of biological activity. To have
taste, the specific molecular
shape must precisely fit the
receptor site-that is. the
taste buds. .
Evening star., 1961-12-09

I see that the AFL-CIO
is using automation to ferret
out and correct union men,
bers who have thus far neg
lected to register to vote.
The individual citizen who
is not a member of a pres
sure group usually has only
his conscience to prod him
into registering and voting.
All too often, to the detri-
ment of this Nation, elec-
tions have gone by default
to the side that could line
up the support of the pres
sure groups. 1 hope that next
November's elections will not
go by default. In November
1862 the individual citizen
will have a powerful vote
to use in his own defense
against Capitalization of gov
ernment in a single body and
against Wasteful spending
that threatens our fiscal in
tegrity and the buying power
of the dollar. 1 pray that
conscience and common sense
will cause all non-organized
individuals to register and to
vote, for their own good and
for the salvation of America.
Violet Palmer.
Evening star., 1961-12-09
Tavern Incident

Sound the alarm bell!
Alert CORE and the NAACP!
Launch the Freedom Riders /!
A Senegalese official of the
U. N. was refused admittance
to a gin mill in New York
because there was no room in
the inn! The fact that there
was no room is immaterial.
This is an excellent oppor-
tunity for the press to pro-
mote further racial diScord
with the eager assistance of
the prosecuted and down
trodden colored minority oi
the United States.
w. d. LangstOn.