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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
Play Ball

For many years. baseball has been recognized and
accepted Americas national sport 1t is game of the
people, the spectator sport that blends all social and in
telectual classes into cheering collection of Amer
leans
1t is the little boy who skps classes to sit in the
beachers 1t is the top executive who shuns high
level conference to rub elbows with the who de-
vers his milk his mall the who trucks his prod
ucts packs themto sit in the grandstand and chew
peanuts hot dogs and wash them down with
bottle of soda pop.
Baseball is free mans privilege to jump up and
cheer or boo-to grandstand manage when apparent
victory for the home team suddenly turns into dsap
pointing defeat
And in today's fast moving world as we look long
ngy at paths to other planets and strive doggedly to
keep the peace professional baseballs National and
American League pennant races, its home and
strkeouts its rockies and canny veterans base
ball remains despite expansion moves air travel, and
other changes anchor of stability the American
scene.
Not even broadening open road the varied
tertanments of televison have dmmed baseballs pop
uar beacon 1t continues to hold it's basic place in the
hearts of Americans. The ball and the bat mean a
for ALL offering the opportunity to every boy to
compete equal footing with his fellows. The
pires shout of "Play ba heard this week from coast
to coast carries unmatched appeal. = The Christ
ian Science Monitor.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
AUTO SEAT BELT URGED
TO SAFEGUARD RIDERS

The Automobile Seat Belt is the
most effective device for prevent
ing serious injuries and deaths that
has been developed in recent years,
according to the labor department
of the National Safety Council.
When cars crash into each other,
a tree or some other object, the
driver and passengers, without
seat belts to hold them, fly forward
until they hit something solid. They
may be thrown out when a door
opens and hit the ground or the
pavement; or they may stay in the
car and be slammed against the
windshield or dashboard. The
chances of being killed are five
times greater when hurled out Of
a car than in being thfown around
in the gar s.s-e
A seat belt prevents passenger
from being hurled out of the car
or banged around in it. Drivers
and passengers who wear safety
belts are IS to so percent safer
than are people without belts.
A seat belt has a distinct advan-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
Hold ThreeIn
Saturday Mite
Poeahontas
Shaving

Simon Peter was stabbed tc
death in crap game at Pocahon-
tas Saturday night.
Sheriff's officers charged George
Coslon, Negro, with murder in the
death Of Peter, also a Negro.
Sheriff j. R. Gilfoy said the
stabbing occurred in an argument
which erupted during a dice game
at home near Pocahontas.
Colston, an ex-convict who serv-
ed term in Louisiana for murder,
fled. A bloodhound trailed him
most of Saturday night and Con-
stable Lucene Holden arrested him
yesterday.
Gilfoy also jailed Tom Wells
and Jessie Bracey, Negroes, of
Pocahontas, on charges of help
ing Colston escape.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

tage in case car catches fire or
is submerged in water after an
accident. Since belt holds driver
or passenger in place in the car,
the chances of being knocked UNI
conscious and burned to death or
drowned are greatly lessened. A
belt can be instantaneously released
by conscious person with flip
of the hand.
Only belts meeting the stand
ards of the Society of Automotive
Engineers should be purchased.
The installation also should be in
accordance with sac specifica-
tons,
The only sure way to get full
value from automobile safety belts
is to develop the habit Of fastening
the belt on getting into the car,
even before turning on the ignition
switch. They are useless unless
worn whether going few blocks
or 70 ma long trip. It's fact that
most people are killed within %
miles of their homes. Furthermore,
belts should be worn whether driv-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
Under The Skin

The African state of Sierra Leone will become
independent country April 81 But already the State
Department has had to express sincere regrets for
insult offered its representative in the United States
DR.. William Fitzjohn refused service in Hagers
town, Maryland, restaurant because of his color. We
hope most Americans truly distressed by this Incl
dent-only the latest in long series.
There should be distress first of all over unknd-
ness hurtfu and unnecessary. The African diplomat,
who educated in the United States and holds doc
tor of philosophy degree from Columbia, trying to
avoid such incident. He sought out restaurant in
chain which had stated it did not discriminate
Unless belongs to minority it is difficult to
realize how many times day mans inhumanty to
is thoughtlessly expressed Millions of Americans
know that of the crueist crudest forms of it is
failure to look under the skin One of the free worlds
great defenses against totaaransm is it's respect for
the individual. But this defense is lost when
Jumped in categories according to physical appearance
rather than their Individual spiritual and mental quail
ties
There should be distress also the damage to
America in such Incidents. Communists eager to
herald them around the globe the true "voice" of
America They get under the skin and hurt the United
States among nonwhite hosts who may swing the
balance of power in the world In hard terms of nation
al security sabotage that knocked out aircraft
rier might be less costly
Whatever may have supported code which
gives certain rights to hoolgans of color which
denied to cultured scholars of another it is support
ed today by Christian teaching American ideals even
sense
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
Mvc Prexy, Union
Director Attend
Colorado Meet

Itta Bena, Mississippi - DR.. ].
H. White, President; and George
E. White, Director, Jacob Aron
Student Union, at Mississippi Vo-
cational College, will represent
the college at the 18th annual As
ISOLATION Of College Unions inter-
national conference at Colorado
Springs, Colorado, April 1919.
Approximately 325 delegates
from colleges throughout the ma
ton, in Canada and Puerto Rico
are expected to attend the Colorado
meet. Higher Education and the
National Purpose" is the theme of
the four-day meet. Gerald 0. T..
Erdahl, North Carolina State Col
lege, Raleigh is National president.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

ing at low or high speeds. Most
fatal accidents occur at speeds
under 40 miles an hour.
~ urge all union members to
equip their cars with safety belts
for the protection of themselves,
their wives and children" states
Lloyd Utter, NSC vice president
for labor and safety director of the
Auto Workers.
Last year. 5, 900 men, women and
children, many Of them members of
union families, would not have died
in traffic accidents if they had been
using seat belt. Furthermore,
many more thousands Of members
of Hnion, families would not have
been hurt or seriously injured"
Under no circumstances are seat
belts a substitute for knowing and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
honors Day
Observed At
TougaIoo College

Eighty-three students were hon
cred by Tougaloo Southern Christ
ian College at chapel on Friday
morning, April 7. Dean A. A..
Branch presented the Deans List
Certificates to 81 students who
earned "B" or better grade av-
erage for the first semester of the
current school year or the second
semester of last year. Nine stu
dents, elected to Who's Who A
mong American Colleges and Uni
versities, received honor certifi-
Gates. Four other students were
recognized for being honored by
the Woodrow Wilson National Eel
lowship Foundation. Miss Hilda J.
Young and William H. Taylor re-
ceived a joint Southern Education
Foundation and Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship to study at the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma. The group will
cover the cost of room, board, tut
ton, and fees. Misses Easter Smith
and 10 Ann Vicks received Hon.
orable Mention by the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foun-
dation.
President and Mrs. A. D. Belt
tel entertained the honor students
in their home from 8 to 5 FRIDAY
afternoon.
The students were as follows:
Freshmen - Bobbie J. Gray, AL
bert Lassiter, Ernest Mcbride, Will
Moorehead, Charles Quinn, Villa
Robertson, Louis Stallworth, Roos-
evelt Townsend, Gloria Waller,
Jerry Ward, and Dorothy Wilburn.
Sophomores = Bettye Andrews,
Mary Bradley, Verna Brown, Etha
Coleman, Blancha Davis, Norman
Forester, Jacquelyn Green, Ike
Haynes, Dorothy Henderson, Beat
rice Hicks, Sylvester billiard, Shir-
ley Jones, Bettye Lewis, Eddie
O'Neal, Patricia Tabb, Sylvester
Tape, James Todd, and Easter
Ward.
Juniors - Mary Allen, Eugene
Carter, Lucille Carter, Barbara
Ferguson, Henry Frazier, Barbara
Gill, Mary Harrison, Roy Hudson,
Janice Jackson, Ramona Jackson,
Arthur Johnson, Dave Jones, Sue
Jones, Theodore Jones, cry Lewis,
Vivian Lyles, ames Mclaughlin,
Bobbie Martin, Anna Polk, Eliza
beth Ransom, Frank Reid, and
Ethel Sawyer.
Seniors - Richard Anderson,
Bettye Blakney, Willie Carr, Mary
Champion, Bobby Cooper, Eddie
Dawson, Yvonne Anderson Ether
edge, Clarence Ewell, Rosa Far
rar, Robert Harrison, William JEFF
ferson, Norma Jones, Mahalia Mel
son Little, John McKelphin, Josie
Moore, Robert Moreland, Ardelia
Parker, Gwendolyn Pnipps, Robert
Sampson, Forrestine Seiferth, Ben
jamin Shepherd, Alfred Simms,
Dolores Singletary, Easter Smith,
William Taylor, Ruth Thompson,
JoAnn Vicks, Carlton Wilson, Hill
da J. Young and Katherine Will
liams.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
EIks Grand
Daughter Ruler
In Demand
As Speaker

Mrs. Nettie B. Smith, Grand
Daughter Ruler of the Grand
Temple Daughters of the IBPOE
of World, the largest fraternal or
ganization of Negro women in the
United States, is in demand as a
speaker and consultant to the
temples comprising the jurisdic-
ton. She is booked for a number
of state conventions to be held in
May and June, including New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, the New England States,
Missouri and others.
The head of the women's order
is working closely with the New
York Convention Committee to
make the coming annual conven-
ton the greatest. Convention head
quarters will be in the ultra fash
ionable hotel, The Commodore in
New York City where both the
daughters and brothers will be
lodged.
Support for the candidacy of
Mrs. Smith is pouring in to her
from all over the country based
upon the forward and progressive
program she has already initiated.
This program is a streamlining of
the departments, enlargement of
social service and welfare pro-
grams, added emphasis upon edu-
cation, voting and civil rights,
conservation of finances, increased
membership with the inclusion of
teenagers and a national shrine
project.
| Mrs. Smith is known for her eff
fective organizational work with
in the women's group of the Ma
tional Council of Churches as well
as numerous other groups.
Recently Mrs. Smith attended
meeting of the Executive Board
of the National Council of Negro
Women, Inc. of which she is
member, held in Washington, d. c.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

vice.
,tt.You don't have to break the
land in the fall. You put the ferti-
lizer in "a band so that the sod
seeded plants get most of it.
"Sod seeding with a mixture
Of oats, ryegrass and clovers gives
early grazing from the oats and
later grazing from the ryegrass
and clovers," Mr.. Thompson point
ed out. "This grazing is ready
Normally long before permanent
pasture plants are big enough to
Craze.
hMr. Thompson also is recon-
n,ending use Sof fertilizer on per-
n,anent pastures, especially for
farmers who want q profit from
livestock. Er aa-se
eve can't make any money on
4&rFft
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

Bay Saint Louis, Miss, April
ID, 1961-On May A the cleric Mark
Malcolm O'Leary, S.V.D. of Sacred
Heart Church, Camden, Mississippi
will be ordained a priest at the Di-
vine Word Seminary in Bay Saint
Louis. Along with six companions
ne will be ordained by the Most
Rev. Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,
STD, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, the personal repre-
sentative of Pope John XIII in
this country.
Rev. O'Leary is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank O'Leary, ST., of
Sacred Heart Church parish in
Camden. He attended the parocial
school at Camden and Holy Ghost
School in Jackson before entering
the Divine Word Seminary at Bay
Saint Louis in 1947 where he COM
pleted the minor seminary course
in 1851. His novitiate, or spiritual
training course, and his college
work engaged him from 1851 to
1855 at his Orders seminaries in
Techny, Illinois and Epworth, Iowa.
Through ski years, after, after
1856, the young religious has pur-
sued the study of Philosophy and
Technology at the Bay Saint Louis
seminary.
A solemn mass at Sacred Heart
Church will be sung by the young
priest on May Z at Il a. m. Assist
ing him will be Father Francis
Theriault, S.V.D., deacon, and Fa-
Their Bernardine, INSIST, SUBJ
deacon. The pastor of Sacred Heart
Church is the Rev. Gerald Swift,
M.S.Ss,T.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
African Nations .
f,o.~, Dnra n,oaA

=
and officials of "a African states
at the reception that his admins
tration wants to be intimately
associated with their drive for
independence, peace and economic
development.
1--WE wish for them the same
things we wish for ourselves -
peace, and an opportunity to de-
velop their own institutions in
their own ways" Kennedy said.
He referred to speech by
George Washington, written in
1896, to warn the African nations
against adopting hasty improviza-
tons at the expense of principle
which thus might undermine what
cannot be directly overthrow"
Washington told our forefath-
ers in this country to reject perma-
nent, inveterate antipathies against
particular nations and passionate
attachments for Others" he said.
(He) said any nation failing in
this in some degrees slave
One African nation not invited
was the Union of South Africa.
Africa freedom day was started
by the Conference of Independent
African States in Accra, Ghana,
in 1858, which the Union of South
Africa did not attend.
Kennedy said the United States
has "a strong sense of commun-
ity" with all countries which are
free. But it also has a strong
sense of community, he said, with
those who are not free but who
some day will be-"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

s. &
livestock from broomsedge pas
lures, he pointed out. "Our hope
is to fertilize. manage and make
a profit.r
The agronomist urges all live
stock producers to have pastures
to suit the kind Of livestock they
ara producing. N :
"Dairymen must have plenty of
temporary grazing. This must be
we'll fortified and managed. Beef
cattlemen need lots Of good per-
;nanent pastures. Sheep and hog
PRODUCERS need temporary pas
lures when animals are being
grown for SALE"
All OF those types Of pastures
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
10-Year-OId
Boy browns In
Town Greek

Jimmie Lee Harper, 10, Negro,
drowned here yesterday while
swimming in Town Creek near
Monument Street.
Police said Harper, of 337 West
Monument, was swimming with
Willie Earl Scott, Negro, of 922
Bloom Street. Scott told police
Harper disappeared in the water
and that he tried to save him but
couldn't get him out.
Two passers-by recovered the
body at 3:15 p. M, a few minutes
after the mishap.
A coroner's jury ruled that
Harper's death was accidental.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
.IUD Offers AID On
Writing Congress

The AFL-CIO Industrial Union
Dept. has launched major cam
paign to impress trade unionists
with the Importance of flood of
letters to Congress urging action
on labor's legislative program.
The IUD has prepared a tabloid
size page, suitable for use in most
union publications, explaining how
to write to Congress and why such
letters are important. !.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

II do hope you'll give my money
to some real nice country" SAID
the kind old lady to the Internal
Revenue clerk.
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will do better when fortified, he
emphasized. IA
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
Fall Sod Seeding
Provides Cheapest
Type Of Grazing

State College, Miss, - Sod
seeding done in the fall gives the
cheapest spring grazing available,
says w. R. Thompson, agronomist
Of the Agricultural Etension Ser
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22
U P
A! n D
D o W n
IA R Is H
S I R < < 7
BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: You never can tell what
you'll hear if you'll keep your ears
open as groups of Aine Haggar's
Chillun gather around the table at
their favorite spots along the Ole
Avenue comes Satee Mite. So |
wasn't surprised when as l went
in my favorite spot for my regu-
lar Satee Mite fish and beer (Fal-
staff to you Brother) when heard
some talking going on about the
growing pre-occupation of our
preachers with things political. One
Brother even brought up where the
real commandment to the Bre-
thern-of- the Cloth was made where
the Good Book says, Jesus speak
ing to Peter said Do you Love
me Peter, feed my sheep Do
you love me Peter, feed my lambs
l perked up my ears to listen
for some more when one brother
ups and saws yeah, that part of
the Good Book meant for the
Preacher to feed the spiritual needs
of the folks, both young and old,
and since all this political talk IS
coming from the pulpits the spirit
ual part is finding it hard to get
in one fellow wound up the
talking on said subject by conclud-
ing that a Preacher is going to
have to have a nightly heap of
religion in order to mix the poll
teal and the spiritual in his
church and give his flock the kind |
of spiritual food it needs more than
most other things in times
like these AS I listened
took another sip and said to N.Y.
self, Amen, Brother
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
II made me laff when l heard son e
pool players talking about the
Palace Pool Hall up in the Harlem
of the Ole Avenue, when one said
he hope they'd COON get some covers
for tire tables and spruce up the
place before it win; the prize for
being behind all the other pool
halls IL the state.
MAKE UP ARTIST: Mrs. Vienna
Bell, owner of Velma's Beauty Sa-
Ion, down at the Corner of Farisa
and Hamilton was in New Orleans
where she served as makeup artist
during demonstration of new pro-
duct 70 aid your beauty.
DO YOU REMEMBER: Joe Cat. !
chings, owner and opc :ator of the
once fabulous Blue Flame on the
Fannin Road during the hey-day
of East Jackson Mite spots, he was
engaged in a long distance con-
versation with his friend Julius
Mitchell, who called me to say,
Hello. Joe says he's just got mar
ried again down in New Orleans
and send Hello to all of his old
friends.
= WEEKLY QUOTATION: Be po-
lite. Write automatically. Even in
a declaration of war one observes
the rules of politeness.-Otto Van
Bismarck.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

Observing traffic rules and reguia-
lions. Belts only reduce the possi-
hility Of a more serious injury or
being Killed, but do not prevent an
accident
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

WEEKLY QUOTATION: Be po-
lite. Write automatically. Even in
a declaration of war one observes
the rules of politeness.-Otto Van
Bismarck.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-04-22

MAKE UP ARTIST: Mrs. Vienna
Bell, owner of Velma's Beauty Sa-
lon, down at the Corner of Farisa
and Hamilton was in New Orleans
where she served as makeup artist
during demonstration of new pro-
duct 70 aid your beauty.
Evening star., 1961-06-06
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
How Does Your Income Rate?
BY SYLVIA PORTER

How does your family rate
on the income scale? This is
how:
You're an average family if
your income before taxes is
over $1,000 a year, a couple Of
hundred dollars more than in
1860, $500 or so more than in
1859.
Your family is on the bottom
half of the income scale l. its
income isn't over $500 a year
This was the median income of
American families last year
meaning half earned more, half
earned less.
There are 10 million families
like yours if your annual in
come tops $4,000; you repre-
sent II of the 100 American
families. There are 3.5 million
families like yours if your in
come tops $4,000; you repre-
sent six of every 100.
You are in the insignificant
minority - account for only
slightly more than one of every
1O-if your family is under
$4,000. In this case, there's
probably no wage-earner in
your family and you're depend
ent on Social Security or SINH
lar benefits, or your low cash
income is supplemented by food
and shelter you get from
farm.
You're typical if your real
income has been climbing by
about 2 per cent a year ever
since World War II, for close
to 2 per cent has been the aver
age postwar rate of growth in
real family incoLles. Real"
means the average family in
come has been corrected" for
price increases and thus the
percentage gain reflects the
real gain in what the extra
dollars will buy in the
marketplace.
The Commerce Department
Evening star., 1961-06-06
Giant Will Open
12New Suburban
Centers by 1868

Giant Food, Inc, has an
nounced its new Glenridge
Shopping Center in nearby
Prince Georges County will be
the first of IL new suburban
shopping centerS to be COM
pleted in the Washington and
Baltimore suburbs by 1868.
The Glenridge Center on An
napolis road near Carrollton will
include an 84,000-square-foot,
one-level discount department
store and food Supermarket and
several service stores. It will
open this fall.
The firm will continue to
build Super Giant Food stores.
The next of these will open this
summer near the town of Fair
fax, Va.
Evening star., 1961-06-06

has just issued its annual
analysis of family personal in
comes, and out of the mass of
data in its Survey of Current
Business I've plucked these few
statistics.
These income figures pound
home the extent to which we
are changing our economic
shape from that of a pyramid
with most families at the low
income levels and only a
wealthy few at the top-into
that of a diamond-with most
families in the middle income
levels and fewer and fewer at
the bottom and top.
An average across-the-board
family income of $1,000 in re-
ceSSion 1860 and over $1,000 in
Evening star., 1961-06-06

services-and Americans are
spending more and more OIL
services every month. Only a
Nation which is affluent can
afford to be so selective about
how it spends and how it saves
and we are selective to an
unparalleled degree.
Another point the statistics
illustrate is that we are on the
threshold of new affluence.
Last year was a recession year
and yet IA million new families
broke into the $8,000-and-up
income bracket. This year is a
year of renewed expansion and
an even lager number will
move into this bracket. Since
Evening star., 1961-06-06

1861 is mighty impressive. de-
spite our unemployment and
depressed areas problems. In
even the most expensive cities,
this will permit a family an
adequate standard of living.
The income figures also en-
phasize the extent to which we
have become a Nation in which
increasing millioni of families
have money left after they buy
the necessities of life, and thus
have discretion over how they
spend or save the extra left.
Only families which have
money left after they buy es-
sential food, shelter and cloth
ing can spend so much on