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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19
To Remain Free
Censored"
Confidential"


Restricted information"
These are words Americans are. not
accustomed to hearing in this great
land where freedom rules where
freedom of the press is unchallenged
by free. thinking citizens in all walks
of life.
This freedom did not come easily
but it can be lost before we realize it
in more ways than n We ourselves
can be misled and become the means
of our own destruction as a free people.
This week during National News
paper week we should pause and con-
slider what freedom OF the press means
to us individually and our country -.
and OF course it is not for newspapers
alone we cherish our freedom, but for
t~elevision, magazines, radio and all COM
munication media charged with the re-
sponsibility and the privilege of keep
ing the American people the best
Informed people in the world. And if
we are not, then it is our W fault.
The information is put out for us, if
we aren't too lazy to obtain it.
Americans. we suspect, today have
"A new feeling of appreciation for our
w newspapers, our own television and
radio networks. Any informed Ameri-
car does because he knows the tremen-
dous Job done every day bv the COM
munications media to bring world.
national and state affairs right into
his own home, as well as purely local
matters.
This new appreciation stems from
an awareness of the obvious lack OF
information suffered by people un-
fortunate enough to live in the Com
munist-dominated areas of the world.
These people read and hear only what
their Red Masters want them to hear.
Censorship and restricted information
are the official policies of the govern
ment in power to keep the people in
line anu unQef control.
Thus it would seem that all intelli-
gent, ~literate Americans would be truly
and absolutely dedicated to freedom of
information; that every citizen and
every public official would say '1et the
people know and mean it.
Such, we regret to say, is not the
case.
We have in some places in America,
just as there is in the Soviet Union,
potential bosses, little men who think
they have a special di~spensation to tell
the people what they can read in their
newspapers, see on television or hear
on their radios. They seem to feel they
are ordained with wisdom superior to
that of the ordinary man so they should
tell the rest of us what to think, or
control the channels of information in
a way that will force our thinking along
the desired lines.
We have much more of that type
of thinking than w need right here
in our own state today = and from
people who would be Mortified If you
suggested they have adopted the Com
munist idea on press freedom, or
thought control.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19
Americans Must Be informed, Not inundated

There are such men right here in
Kinds County, Mississippi's beautiful
Capital City.
In our neighboring states, too.
Louisiana, particularly has had
its troubles along this line within the
month.
Currently, according to reports
carried in our free press, the Louisiana
Board of Education, a state board, has
called for an economic boycott of Bell
and Howell Company'si products be-
cause that firm sponsored over the
American Broadcasting Company's net
work a .Close-Up" feature documen-
tary film entitled walk In My Shoes"
The latter repeatedly presented an in
tegrationist viewpoint Qm quite sure
it will never be shown over a Missis-
sippi s~tation) and as such drew the
fire of Citizens Council leaders and
rabid segregationists in the state.
Remember "High Wall'' in Mississippi
and it wasn't even about intepra-
tion?)
Bell and Howell offered the state
network time for a film made by
the Louisiana Sovereignty Commission
which presents the segregationist view
point, entitled "a Way Of Life" &C.
cording to the report.
But this did not satisfy the men
who wanted only one viewpoint pre-
scented. The only conclusion that can
possibly be drawn is that they do not
subscribe to the American right we
hold most dear, the right to be fully
uniformed by getting free and unbiased
information, or to hear both sides of
any question.
In order for free citizens to be
able to think for themselves and in
diligently form their own opinions they
must have a free flow of information.
This is where the responsibility of
a free press comes in. It is u job to
report fully the news of the day, re-
CARELESS of who it hits or how bad it
hurts. To say otherwise is to say a re-
porter or an editor has the right to de-
eide whether or, not the people should
be given the light, or kept in darkness.
1t is the newspapers duty to see
that citizens are informed and it is
u privilege to fight, if necessary, for
their right to know.
And if we don't have the quits to
do it. we should vacate our editors
chair in favor of someone who will.
When a free press falters for anv
reason. America falls and with It our
own freedom.
The w0uld-be dictatOrs who say
'get in lire with us or we will destroy
you by economic boycott" will prevail
only il free Americans listen and heed.
And when free Americans permit
any person or group to tell them what
they may buy, where they can trade
or what they may read, they are no
longer free.
Thus each of us has the oppor-
tunity to protect and defend our own
freedom in our own time.
This editor and this newspaper
count it q precious privilege to Be 4
small mart Of a free press that win not
be inundated.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19
MISS ROSA MAE BAXTER
JOINS SPORTSMANS RANK

Holmes County boasts of its
first hunting license to be sold
to a lady, as going to Miss Rosa
Mae Baxter popular young lady
of this CITY. Miss Baxter shoots
we'll and stated she began with
a 40 but handles a 20 guage au-
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19

Miss Mary Elizabeth Tahir OF
New Orleans. Louisiana spent
the weekend in the home of her
parents. MI. and Mrs. M. Tahir.
Mrs. Tahir accompanied her
home for a weeks visit.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Byrd Of
Jackson spent the weekend in
the home Of their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. D. Bigbee and Mrs.
Richard Byrd.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19
ELLIS JOHNSON

Mr. and Mrs. L. E johnson of
Pickens announce the marriage
Of their daughter, Mabel to Or
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Tutterow
spent last Monday in the home
OF Rev. and Mrs. L. j. Stay and
Of Anguila.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Kelly and
son spent last Sunday in the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Carson and family Of Jackson.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19

Friends OF Mr.. c. nj. Howard,
Mr.. Bruce Taylor and Mrs. Ju-
lis Barwick are sorry to hear
that they are patients in the
Greenwood Hospital. Their
many friends hope for them a
speedy recovery.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19
The Lexington Advertiser

The Lexington Advertiser
Thursday, October Is. 1861
HAZEL BRANNoN SMITH CMrs. Walter d. ----Ednor and Publisher
Established in 1887 - Published Every Thursday - Subscription rates: Av-
where in Holmes County, $500 per gear; Oumdde Holmes County, $3.50.
Entered as second class matter 1t the Post Office ct Lexington. Mississippi
Evening star., 1961-12-29
New L Street Change;
It's to Be Westbound

The District is going to make
L street westbound all the way
from Massachusetts, to Pennsyl-
vania avenues next month. Dis
trict Engineer Commissioner
Frederick ]. Clarke said today.
At the present time, L street
is one-way westbound from
Sixteenth street to Pennsylvania
avenue and one-way eastbound
from Sixteenth street to Mas
sachusetts avenue.
District highway experts de-
cided to make the shift because
the short eastbound span is
Illogical" Gen. Clarke said.
The move also fits into the
city's plan for ultimate develop
ment of one-way street patterns
in downtown Washington, he
added.
The L street traffic pattern
has undergone several changes
during the past year.
When construction of the
Washington Circle underpass
began last summer, highway
officials changed the two blocks
between Twentieth and Twenty
second streets from eastbouno
to westbound for detour pur-
poses.
Evening star., 1961-12-29

the girl three times during the
night, the chief said.
In the morning, when the
girls friend awoke, he found
that she did not move when he
attempted to wake her, the
chief said. =
When the doctor came in, he
found her dead, Chief Durrer
said. The girls friend then
called a counsellor for foreign
students at the university, who
in turn called the Wet Namese
Embassy, the chief said.
Pronounced Dead by Examiner
The girl was pronounced dead
by the Fairfax County medical
examiner, DR.. Claude Cooper.
Her body was taken to Arling-
ton Hospital, where the autopsy
was performed.
Chief Durrer said a lengthy
investigation had been required
because the police had to use
interpreters in questioning pos
sible witnesses,
DR.. BoiSclair was released in
$4,000 bond for a preliminary
hearing January 16 in Fairfax
County Court.
Chief Durrer said that DR..
Boisclair is a general practi-
toner, At one time he served
as a doctor in the Army.
Evening star., 1961-12-29
Fairfax County Fire
Routs Family Of Nine

when they arrived. A second
alarm brought the Vienna and
Great Falls departments to the
scene to help carry water from
the nearest hydrant at Tysons
Corner a half-mile away on
State Route 7.
Mr.. Gill, a roofer with the
John G. Webster Co., had never
met the Perkins before. The
Perkins, who have three chill
dren of their own, invited the
Gill family into their home
and gave them warm food and
clothing. This morning the
Perkins loaned Mr.. Gill a panel
truck to drive his family to a
brother, who lives near Oakton,
Firemen reported the blaze
extinguished by Ais am. They
said the entire second story,
which was not occupied, was
burned out. Fire Marshal Reed
estimated damage at between
$4,000 and $1,000. He said very
few of the family's possessions
were saved.
Evening star., 1961-12-29

In November, when L street
was widened and rebuilt, the
westbound pattern was extended
to Sixteenth street NV.
The decision to make L street
westbound beside the Hotel
Statler has caused the hotel
concern, a spokesman reported,
Most hotel customers will
have to make three left turns
and pass through three traffic
lights before they can reach
the Statler garage at Fifteenth
and L streets, he said.
THE move by the District
is causing us a great deal OF
inconvenience but there is not
much we can do about it," he
added.
Evening star., 1961-12-29
O'Hore, McGroth and CIogett Get
Appointments to Peoples Court

Gratis were reappointed last
May to another two-year term.
The two five-day-a-week
judges will receive annual sal
aries of $12,500 each, compared
to the present trial magistrate
pay of $4,000. The substitute
judge will receive $500 a year
plus pro-rated pay for the time
he sits.
The Peoples Court judges
shall make a circuit, sitting in
Marlboro, Hyattsville, Capitol
Heights, and Laurel" as often
as required by the case load,
according to the law. The new
court will not be one Of record.
Judge O'Hare has been hold
ing court Tuesday afternoons
In Laurel, and Judge McGrath
has a session Fridays in Capt.
tol Heights.
In Montgomery County, the
third Peoples Court fulltime
judgeship Set-up by the 1861
Legislature went to H. Ralph
Miller of Silver Spring, who
also begins his duties Monday.
Evening star., 1961-12-29
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Better Brave
Than Slave

WORLD FORECAST FOR l962-The theme of Sundays
This Week Magazine is Better Brave Than Slave"
This year-end special issue, offering 1862 world
forecast, features two-page ful-color map which
marks the changes that have taken place in our
unsteady world. In the same issue are four i'm
portant articles on the shape of the world to come
DARK SHADOW OVER SPORTS-Star Staff Sports
Writer Bill Fuchs surveys the illegal gambling prac-
tices connected with sporting events in series of
six articles The first appears in The Stars sports
section, this Sunday.
BEHIND THE VOICE OF AMERICA-The newspaper"
with the largest circulation is the Voice of America
Visit with the 81 news writer's who produce this
free-world voice in word and picture story in
SUNDAY, The Star Magazine.
NEW YEAR ESTIMATE OF Tv-Dick Van Dyke and
Mary Tyler Moore are the cover subjects of TV
Magazines year-end issue, which takes close look
at the current performance of TV networks
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-12-29
2Virginions Held
On Dope Charges

Arlington Police Sergt. Rus
sell Runyon last night arrested
two Falls Church men who, he
said, were cooking paregoric in
subfreezing weather in Glen
Carlyn Park.
Commemorative attorney
William j. Hassan said that dis
titled paregoric is used fol
injection as a narcotic.
The accused, Raymond Logan
Houser, 81, of the 6700 block o1
Glen Carlyn drive. and Charles
Woodrow Ingle, %, of the $500
block of Willston drive, were
charged with possession of mar
cotics.
Both were held on $4,000
bond pending a hearing JAN
uary Is.
Evening star., 1961-12-29

Court was patterned after the
one in Montgomery County.
Together they are the only two
in the State to handle civil
cases along with criminal and
traffic cases. Montgomery'S
judges, however, are appointed
by the County Council to eight
year terms.
Revamping its lower court
Setup to handle the needs of a
continually growing population,
Prince Georges will have
Judges O'Hare and McGrath
serving full time and prohibited
from private practice. Each
will appoint a chief clerk to be
accountable for all receipts and
administration, a responsibility
that now falls to the part-time
trial magistrates.
The three judges, all Demo-
rats, were appointed in the
spring of 1859 to succeed three
magistrates named by the last
Republican Governor, Theodore
R. McKeldin. The three Demo-
Evening star., 1961-12-29
PAGES ALL CITIES
D. c. Keeps
Telephone
Leadership

The Nations Capital still
leads the cities of the world
in telephone density" accord
ing to a statistical survey re-
leased today.
THE Worlds Telephones" a
23-page report crammed with
global telephone statistics
shows that in 1960-the latest
12-month period for which
complete data is available
Washington led the world with
1871 telephones per 100 popula-
tion.
The report, prepared by the
American Telephone & Tele.
graph Co., indicated, however
that Americans ranked second
in talkativeness to their Cana
dian neighbors.
In the year ending on Janu.
ary /, 1861, the citizens OF
Canada averaged 538 telephone
conversations per person. The
United States average was $40
Sweden ranked third with more
than 348 conversations pei
person.
The AT&T report also dis
closes that in 1860 the number
of telephones in the world rose
to 141.7 million, a gain of 81
million over the previous year
More than half of worlds tele-
phones are in the United States
Bell System users, the report
says, cannot get calls through
to Bechuanaland in South
Africa, Zanzibar, Laos, Outel
Mongolia and a few other re.
mote spots but they can reach
more than 97.6 per cent of the
earth's telephones.
Last January /, there were
74,342,000e telephones in the
United States (including Ha.
waii and Alaska), more thar
40 per 100 persons. Russia hac
about two telephones per 10t
population.
Today, it is estimated there
are IT'S million telephones il
this country.
Evening star., 1961-12-29
Hunter Sought
In Woundinq

CAMBRIDGE, Md, Dec. 2s
(AP) State Police said today
they are searching for a. hunter
who shot James A. Montgomery
%, Of Hyattsville.
Mr.. Montgomery was in fair
condition after being shot
through the shoulder yesterday
while hunting in Dorchester
County.
A companion, Charles w
Adamson, %. of Adelphi, told
police he and Mr.. Montgomery
were walking along a dirt road
10 miles south of Cambridge
when a shot rang out and Mr.
Montgomery fell wounded.
Evening star., 1961-12-29
BY JAMES b. ROWLAND
Star Staff Writer

Gov. Tawes today named
Prince Georges County's three
part-time trial magistrates to
be judges Of the new Peoples
Court.
The court comes into being
Monday under a law passed by
the 1861 Maryland Assembly
The statute calls for the Gov
ernor to name two full time
and one substitute Judge to
terms of four years each.
Appointment of the three
sitting magistrates had been
recommended by the County
Democratic State Central Com
mittee.
On the trial magistrates (po-
lice court) benches now are
George j. O'Hare, in Hyatts-
vile; William H McGrath, In
Upper Marlboro Ind r. Bowie
Clagett, the substitute Judge for
both.
TIE Prince Georges Peoples
Evening star., 1961-12-29
Fairfax Doctor Charged
In Girls Abortion Death

A Fairfax County doctor was
charged today in the abortion
death of a Wet Namese student
at the University of Maryland.
commemorative Attorney
Robert c. Fitzgerald said that
DR.. Thomas G. Boisclair, 40, of
682l North Thirty-first street,
just over the line from Arling-
ton in Fairfax County, had been
charged with performing an
abortion and with murder.
Police Chief William L. Dur
rer said the victim was Miss
Huynh Thu (Kathy) Nguyet,
81, of 1909 Nicholson street,
West Hyattsville.
The chief said Miss Huynh
had been a student at the Uni
versity Of Maryland since Sep
tember, 1860. She was a native
of Saigon, Wet Nam. Her
father is treasurer of a public
school in Wet Nam, an En-
bassy official said.
Miss Huynh died in DR.. Bois-
clair's office-home on Christ
mas Day, Chief Durrer said.
Autopsy Gives Cause
The chief said DR.. Boisclair
told authorities that Miss
Huynh had been suffering from
a rheumatic heart complicated
by pneumonia and that he had
been treating her.
An autopsy performed De-
cember 26 at Arlington Hospital
disclosed that the young stu
dent died as the result of a
septic abortion, the chief said.
Chief Durrer said investiga-
ton showed that about Decem-
ber IA DR.. Boisclair performed
an abortion on Miss Huynh
and that the night Of Decem-
Der % she became severely i'll
while attending a party in the
District.
A man friend with her took
her to her apartment, where
they tried to reach DR.. Bois-
clair, the chief said.
Reached Next Day
They finally reached him the
next day, and the doctor visited
her apartment and told her
she would have to go to his
office for some medical tests,
the chief said.
After performing the tests,
Chief Durrer said, the doctor
left her in his office, attended
by her friend.
The doctor went to a Christ
mas party in the neighborhood,
but stopped back to check on
Evening star., 1961-12-29

plaque contains a likeness of
President Wilson.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 80,
had been scheduled to unveil
the plaque, but was unable to
be present because of illness.
She died at her Washington
home last night.
Immediate beneficiaries of
the bridge will be Northern
Virginians and residents of
Prince Georges County, who
must commute to Federal and
military installations on op-
posite sides of the river.
But at present, the bridge is
connected only with U. S. Route
in Virginia and the first Sec
ton of the Anacostia freeway
and Indian Head highway in
Maryland. Its full impact on
area traffic patterns will not
be felt until the Capital Belt
way, of which it is a part, is
completed in 1868.
Some Miss Access
VirginianS who work in
Washington reported today,
after trying out the new bridge,
that they made the trip as
quickly or quicker than over
the older river spans. Those
who used the Wilson Bridge to
go home for the first time yes
terday said they had difficulty
finding the access road, Ana
costa Freeway. beside Boiling
Air Force Base. There were no
signs in evidence.
However, commuters coming
into the District from Virginia
this morning found the bridge
lightly Travelled, clearly marked
and a smoother ride than the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway.
The Virginia access roads are
at Route l and Hunting Creek,
requiring some Alexandrians
to back track in order to drive
on the bridge. Conversely, the
exit from the bridge in Alex
andria is directly onto Mt.
Vernon boulevard. Fairfax resi-
dents using the boulevard,
Route l, Route 7 or Route 236
had no inconvenience in get
ting onto the bridge.
/ The span, a basculue draw
bridge, has its own telephone
number and will be manned at
all times by an operator who
will raise a portion of it when
vessels signal for passage. The
operator will be perched 100
feet above the water in a con-
troll booth equipped with a re-
frigerator, stove, sink and
sweeping view of the capital.
Evening star., 1961-12-29
PAGEANT EVENTS
SCHEDULED
TODAY

TO-DAY
$3.50 PM. Caroling
around the Yule Log. Cath
olic Youth Organization of
st. James Parish, Mount
Rainier, directed by Joseph
Poole.
8 P.M.-Prayer of Peace.
TOMORROW
3 PM. Potomac Field
Music Fife and Drum Corps
North and South Centen-
niaD. Christmas on the
Potomac, 1861-65," directed
by Robert Miller.
5 P.M.-WaShington So
ciety of Ancient Instru-
ments, directed by Willis
Gault. ..
Z P.M.-Asbury Method
ist Church Choir, directed
by Mark Fax, Fellow Of the
American Guild Of Organ
lists.
9P.M.-Prayer for Peace.
Evening star., 1961-12-29

A Smoldering mattress flared
up early today and forced a
family of nine to run barefoot
from their burning home near
Tysons Corner, the Fairfax
County fire marshal reported.
A neighbor a quarter-of-a-
mile away turned in the alarm
at ISL am. after he was awak-
ened by the screams of the
children in snow-covered field.
The temperature was several
degrees below freezing.
The family of Albert Gill,
managed to escape without
injury after dressing hastily
and rushing outside in their
bare feet. The children range
in age from IA months to II
years.
Fairfax County Fire Marshal
Lynwood Reed said the fire
was discovered by Mrs. Gill,
who was up late watching tele-
vision, but that there was no
telephone in the house to re-
port the fire.
Mattress Afire
Mr.. Reed quoted the mother
as saying some of her children
had been playing with matches
and had set a mattress afire in
an upstairs room. She had
douSed it with a pitcher of
water, Mr.. Reed said, before
other members of the family
retired.
The nearest neighbor who
turned in the alarm was Robert
Perkins.
MY husband couldn't i'm
agine what the children were
doing out in the fields scream
ing like that until he looked"
Mrs. Perkins said. 1T seemed
like the whole forest was ablaze
None of the children had on
shoes. The mother didn't have
on shoes either"
Never Met Before
The Dun-Loring ard Mclean
Volunteer Fire Departments
answered the first alarm, and
the blaze was we'll under way