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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-29
Links National
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work comedies with our main OBJ
jectives-to discovery accidentally
talented minority youth and to en-
courage them to go to college.
Each of the 80 chapters of the
Links contributes to the National
Project Fund. Over the years, many
of these chapters from various geo.
graphical areas have given gener-
Gus support to the annual UNCF
campaign. Some staged benefits;
others contributed directly from
their local treasures. But 1861
marks the first National Project
gift"
Community relations director of
the Riverdale Children's Associa-
ton, Mrs. Thomas is an alumna of
three UNCF member schools: Spell
man College, Atlanta; Talladega
College, Ala, and the Atlanta Uni
versity School of Social Work.
Mrs. Henry +. (Paullne) Weeden,
of Lynchburg, Va, is national
president of the Links, Inc. Mrs.
Bernice Munce, of Trenton, N. j.,
is chairman of the National Pro-
ject.
Since it pioneered cooperative fund
raising for higher education in
1914, the United Negro College
Fund has raised more than $42
million for it's affiliated institu-
tions. Its 80 members are all in
dependent, accredited colleges and
universities. All are privately sup
ported and all located in the South.
They look to the College Fund to
raise approximately 10 percent Of
their combined operating budget
each year.
DR.. Benjamin E. Mays, president
of Morehouse College, Atlanta, is
UNCF president. William j. Trent
jr. is executive director.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-29
FBI Find Reported
Lynehing Victim
In batesviIIeJaiI

Batesville, Miss. - The Justice
Department today Investigated a
Negro woman's charge that her IT.
year-old son was beaten by a
sheriff and plantation owner.
FBI agents moved into the case
Monday on the request of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People after Cath
crime jefferson reported her son,
Jerry, was beaten by his employer,
Charles Nicks, and Pamela County
Sheriff Ross Darby.
Darby denied that Jefferson had
been beaten and said "force was
used when he resisted arrest" on
Nicks' plantation Is miles west of
here last Friday. The boy was
jailed on a charge of assault and
battery. The dispute involved cot
ton chopping.
The Jefferson woman notified
relatives in Chicago and the rela-
tives notified the NAACP. The
Jackson office of the NAACP told
news agencies it had information
the boy had been beaten to death
"at the hands of a lynch mob" and
it was requesting an FBI investiga-
ton.
Later the NAACP reported it
had learned again through the
Chicago relatives-that Jefferson
was not dead but in Jail with two
holes in his head"
Sheriff Darby said Jefferson was
in Jail. He said he had received a
call from Nicks last Friday and
found jefferson threatening to kill
Nicks with shotgun. He said JEFF.
ferson resisted arrest and they had
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CORE Leader -.
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tempts of prison officials to de-
humanize the Freedom Riders
failed completely"
"At one point prison guards IN
the State Penitentiary at Parchman
closed the exhaust fans, locked the
doors and windows, and then left
US in the fetid Mississippi heat.
We were allowed to shower only
twice week. They may have been
trying to prove that Negroes do
have body odor. They succeeded
in proving only the depths to which
they would 60"
Farmer was released on $500 APP
peal bond posted by CORE. Under
Mississippi law all appeals must
be made within 40 days and no
person may appeal while remaining
in Jail. Farmer was in the first
group of q Freedom Riders who
travelled by bus from Montgomery
to Jackson. All are now out on
appeal.
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automation.
Randolph discussed the Negro
workers situation in coal mining,
hotels, farming, steel and automo-
bile. He pointed out the "perils to
Negro youth and the needed prep
aration for the new age of auto
nation"
He concluded by calling for
"broad, massive, relentless, uncom-
promising attack from within and
without the house of labor"
Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins
welcomed the 700 trade unionists
and friends to the annual labor din
ner. Herbert Hill, NAACP labor
secretary, presided.
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post after Atty j. Ernest Wilkins
had been asked to resign. Wilkins,
a Chicagoan, died shortly there
after.
Weaver, the second Negro to
hold this post is not related to
Robert C. Weaver, President Ken
nedy's federal housing administra-
tor.
The former special assistant to
Labor Sec. Goldberg will receive
$4,000 a year in his new position.
Weaver, native of Pittsburgh,
Pa, served after 1855 as executive
secretary of the AFL-CIO Civil
Rights Committee.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-29

Tarty and Mr.. du Plessis- Basson's
single National Union Party seat
and make serious threads in United
Party strength.
Whether the National Union
Party can now with Mr.. Pagan at
it's head make dynamic impase
on the Afrikaner electorate in the
few months which remain before
the rumored election date is one
Of South Africa's political impon-
derables.
Certainly there can be no pros
pect of its overthrowing the gov
eminent but conceivably it would
weaken government strength in a
number of constituencies.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-29

sery school teachers. However, en-
rollment is also invited for persons
interested in related fields: clinical
psychology, counseling, social work,
pediatrics, nursing, recreation, chill
dren's Guardianship, writing or de-
signing clothing for children.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
Annex

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not been answered." he added
Concluding the question
and answer session. Wiesen-
burg said he hoped Moss
Point. Pascagoula and the
county will get together and
come to an agreement on the
areas of Escatawpa. Eastside.
Bayou Casotte and Kreole
and that there will be no
need for court action.
eff the county puts the Sys-
tenn in, there will be no vote
If the city comes in, there will
be a VOTE" Wiesenburg added
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
Freak accident
cause Of death
of Pas woman

A 34-year-old Pascagoula
woman died at Singing River
Hospital Tuesday of injuries
received last week when she
was run over by her own car.
Dead is Alberta S. Johnson
of 428 Victor Street.
She suffered a broken
neck in the accident which
occurred last Tu e S d a Y at
the intersection of Old Mo-
bile Highway and Bayou Ca
sotte Road.
Highway Pin. Frank Ely
said the woman told him,
shortly after the accident that
she was attempting to back
up when she fell out of the
car. The vehicle apparently
crossed over her body, Ely
said.
He said an unidentified man
was a passenger in the car at
the time.
A native of Heidelberg, she
had lived in Pascagoula Is
years. She was a member of
Antioch Baptist Church.
The body will be walked
Saturday at Gulf Funeral
Home. Pascagoula. Services
will be conducted Sunday al
2:30 pm. from Antioch Bap-
fist. Interment will be in Ga
briel Cemetery.
Survivors include her huS-
band, Eugene Johnson; a dau-
ghter, Alice v. Porter, PaSca-
goula, brother, Leroy Walk
er, ftIarillo, Tex.
Two sisters, Anna Lee Nc
Farland, Heidelberg, and Mary
Thigpen, Pascagoula and her
parents, the Jack Simmonses
Of Heidelberg.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
We're crawling, not flying

the two-month period we should
have boarded 80 passengers. We
managed 100.
For the statistics-minded, Ly-
drena offered also these figures,
which complete the airlines pic
ture for Paspoint:
Air mail put aboard planes at
the airport during July totaled
l542 pounds. increasing to 1886
in August; air mail deplaned this
is airline-ese for disembarked) was
372 pounds in July. 343 in August;
Air Express shipped out total
ed SAT pounds in July, 1873 in
August; 1880 pounds came in dur
ing July, 1854 during August.
Air freight out was 134 pounds
in July, 1890 in August, and 1884
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
New pastor =.

Continued From Page u
A native of Alabama, the
new pastor was born Feb. Is,
1921. At an early age he moved
to the Mississippi delta.
He is a graduate of Skene
High School, Holmes Junior
College and Mississippi Col
lege. He holds a bachelor OF
divinity degree and a master
Of theology degree from South
ern Seminary.
He has completed two years
study toward a doctorate in
theology.
He has held pastorates in
Doddsviiie. !. Philadelphia.
Harrodsburg. KY. Stanford.
KY. and his present assign
mert.
His wife is the former Elsie
Jane Rigsby Of Lanscaster,
KY. Their four children are
David Clark, nine; John Mack,
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

reason those mattresses had
not deposited a blob Of
roquefort in the middle of
our head is because the
apex at that location would
not retain the application.
Of your vocabulary amt
good, mac, that means the
stuff'd run down into our
eyes from atop our pin
head.)
Several countians. n o n
printers all, said they too
wondered where that grain
elevator dedication program
was printed, that they MOTTO
ed the union label was no
where to be seen not
only printed outside the
county, but a non-union job
to be passed around in a
union community. w h o.
dunnit?
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

authorities reported Shorty
was in labor six hours.
We suggested to Shorty
that it might be time he
drop out of the act and let
the young folks handle the
situation. But Shorty was
glowing like a tightening
bug. "This is the greatest
part of life" he declared.
"E very b ody should be
grandparents first. It's bet
ter than tn e first time
around"
Our congratulations a n d
best wishes herewith are di-
rected to Shorty, Mrs. Shor-
ty, Young Harold and Mrs.
Young Harold. This is sin
cere and heartfelt, which
means we have grown ir-
remediably soft.
X 4 X
But don't bet on il.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

Freddy O'Brien had his
city crew h a c k in 6 and
whacking the other day,
cleaning off the lot due
south of our shop, due west
of the Jaycee building which
used to house Tommy
Stout's dental office.
Freddy reported that he
came across no wild animals,
only some ghostly echoes
remaining from DR.. Stout's
patients.
But surely there must
have been some fresher and
wilder echoes left over from
Jaycee meetings"
4 X X
Shorty became a second
degree grandfather Sunday
and, from the effort he put
into the production, you'd
have thought he was be-
coming the mother. Hospital
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
Coastal

Continued From Page y
Production on a daily bas-
is will be 400 tons. compared
with the present 200 tons. he
said.
Now being handled are about
100000 tons annually through
the port via the Casotte chan
mel.
The Bayou Casotte plant has
been in operation four years.
Originally, it was planned
as an investment of $8-million
but $14-million had been in
vested when production be-
gan.
The expansion program will.
give Coastal an investment to.
tai near $19-million.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

pounds came in during July, 1852
during August.
Mail, express and freight do not
figure in the minimums establish
ed by federal air authorities. Only
people boarding here do. And the
80-80 record for July and August
is only bit more than half the
five-a-day minimum.
With all the industrial goodies
in store for Paspoint in the COM
ing few years. we do not expect
that Southern will throw away its
Pascagoula entree.
But we, who have used the
service and pronounce it invalu-
able, do not want to take a chance.
So why don't you straighten up
and fly Southern?
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

Use of airline service from
County Airport is tagging.
1t has not yet reached the mini
mum at which Southern AirwayS
would be required to maintain
service.
Kenna L. LYbrand. Southern
station manager at Pascagoula-
Moss Point. reports that 80 passen-
gers boarded flights at the airport
during July - the first month of
service - and 80 more boarded
during August.
In order to be assured of retain
ing the service, we must put five
persons a day aboard flights leav-
ing the airport. Five times 81 is 155
for July. The same arithmetic goes
for August, and it shows that in
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
Don't let overconfidence
cloud our happy skies

have sharpened their spears. tight
ened their bowstrings and refea-
thered their arrows and gone Oft
to champion passage of the amend
ments.
Which amendments have been
endorsed by public officials IN
dividually and through their asso-
Citations and official bodies; by
commercial, industrial, fraternal
and social organizations; by the
states larger industries; by you
and me and our neighbors; by
everybody.
The only material question we
have heard raised about the pro-
posals was that posed by Hal De-
Cell, editor of the Rolling Fork
newspaper, in an editorial which
we reprinted here.
DeCell is worried that there
may not be safeguards stringent
enough to make skullduggerY i'm
possible in disposing Of school
lands in other situations in the
future.
We do not ignore this worry,
because the man has a point. But
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

we think it can be blunted by men
tioning that the statute books are
replete with words spelling out
puniShments for malefactors in
public office and for those with
whom they malefact.
So, that forms no cloud in our
blue sky. We look about some
more and perceive only one posi-
BILE but tiny blemish:
Overconfidence.
So overwhelming is the en-
dorsement of the amendments that
the citizens. including even the en-
dorsers themselves. may stay at
home Oct. 3 and let somebody else
go to the polls.
That somebody else may be
every congenital agin'er in the
state, all the perennial opposers,
and our $125 million refinery
could disappear like mirage in
our blue sky.
Don't let that happen. Circle
Oct. 3 on your calendar now -
repeat now. Go to the polls. Vote
for the amendments.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
Pas borrowing
additional funds

The city of Pascagoula has
borrowed $4,000 more to
meet expenses through Sept.
Is.
$10,500 at 40 was borrowed
from each of the two local
banks, payable Nov. /.
The city earlier had borrow
ed SAL, 900 to meet payrolls for
July and August and to Sept.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
allout

Continued From Page u
vice reported large increases
in atmospheric radioactivity at
Montgomery, A la, Atlanta,
New Orleans, Jacksonville
and Columbia, S. c., in addi-
ton to the increase in Pasca-
goula.
There is as yet no threat
to health and no danger in
the radioactive fallout, he said,
even though the increase is
undesirable"
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
~ LETTERS TO
. THE EDITOR
Pascagoula

Temperance seems to be a
forgotten word in Jackson
and Harrison Counties.
These counties are still
within a DRY state. Yet
there have been some $50
plus FEDERAL liquor per-
mits issued to these two
counties alone. There are an
equal amount of gambling
stamps according to Page z
of this Tuesdays Herald.
l understand that gambling
is illegal in any form. Clubs
are not excused. Gambling
and whiskey in clubs is just
as illegal as if it were sold
over any counter. / can walk
into any club where whis-
key and gambling is and no
one will question my men,
bership. In fact, have done
just that and / don't belong
to the club either. Anyone
can walk in and drink or
gamble without anyone ask
ing a question.
What can we do? First,
let's face the fact that we
have an ungodly situation
on our hands. Second, let's
look to the law and see if we
can rely on it.
Section 2 of the Internal
Revenue Code: "The trans
portation or importation into
any State . of the U. S. for
delivery or use therein of
intoxicating liquors in viola
ton of the laws there of is
prohibited =. The pay
ment of a liquor tax (Black
Market or otherwise) (Sec-
ton 5248 of the Code) :.
"Shall not exempt any per-
son from any penalty or
punishment provided by the
law =.
Our law enforcement Off
GERS hands are not tied. If
they are they held still for
the tying!
1t is high time we woke
up It's time for you and me
to do something.
We need good people, who
do not approve of gambling
and whiskey to stand to-
gether. We need to back up
our prayers with power of
number. We need to elect
officers sworn to uphold the
law whose word cannot be
broken. Men like the Sher-
iff of Marion County who
was murdered in 1860 on his
own front porch because he
would not let up. (Marion
County was not issued one
single federal permit to sell
whiskey in the 1960-61 year.)
BY the way, this sheriff who
gave his life was a deacon
of my church Bunker Hill
Baptist, Marion County, at
the time of the shooting.
Something can be done. We,
who believe in clean coun-
ties, can call for referen-
dunn. We don't need 1.-THE
mess is already illegal, but
we could call for a bone dry
county. l believe we have
enough good people who
love the Lord enough to vote.
We have enough Baptists in
jackson County to vote our
county dry if they will vote.
We can talk to our Off
GERS and help, if called on.
Even our grocery stores
are trying to get into the
act. Now a five year old can
put a carton Of beer into a
shopping basket and tn e
clerk will check it out for
him. Try it if you don't be-
lieve it.
How far are we going
away from the field of right
eousness?
Are you happy with things
as they are? Do you want to
do something? Are you in
terested? I would like to
hear your response. May
God help us to remain a dry
state.
The Rev. Athens Mcneil,
Pastor Eastlawn
Baptist Church
P.S. We know who is selling
whiskey and who have gam
bling stamps. Why not close
these places?
Carla has passed us by and
hit part Of the Texas coast.
This part of the coast is said
to have been wide open. We
may be the spot hit next
time! Wake up!
New pastor -.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
Youth confesses
robberies in Pas

A 14-year-old Pascagoula
boy confessed Thursday to a
series of house burglaries in
Pascagoula.
Det. j. B. Gibson said the
youth admitted entering four
houses in the past week. He is
a student at Pascagoula Junior
High.
The youth will be turned
over to juvenile authorities,
the detective said.
Police chief J. G. Ledbetter
and Pin. Wayne Howard as
sisted Gibson in an investiga-
ton which led to the arrest.
One of the houses entered
was that of mayor Ben l..
Briggs, police said.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

~ You know how it is when skies
seem everlastingly blue, when
everyone smiles, when the cash
register jungles receptively all
day long and there are no worries
in the whole wide world?
Then. sometimes. things appear
to be too good and you begin to
poke around in your mind to dis
cover if there isn't after all some
thing that we should be worried
about?
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

seven; Janet Ruth, % months,
and Mary Susan, five months.
A reception, for the new
family is being planned for
Oct. 8.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22
That's us right now.

Because no serious an d /or
wide4y-held objections have arisen
to tne proposed constitutional
amendments on which Mississip-
plans will vote Oct. 3.
The amendments will allow
18th Section school lands to be
sold or long-leased for industrial
purposes, will allow counties to
grant 1O-year tax exemptions to
new industries. They are prere-
quisites to the location here of a
$125-million oil refinery.
Organizations the state over
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-09-22

But don't bet on il.
Evening star., 1961-01-29

of the Legislature he has wound
UP in the middle of one of the
most controversial issues be-
fore the lawmakers.
As chairman of the Commit
tee on Taxation and Fiscal
Matters. he led the 1860 fight
for $300-a-year raises to teach
ers with at least 10 years Of
experience. Parent teacher
groups unsuccessfully fought
for raises totaling three times
the $4.6 million cost Of the
James plan.
In the current session, the
James committee has proposed
SOS million in aid to local
governments for teachers pay
and school construction. Par
ent-teacher organizations are
seeking about twice that much.
NA73ff 'ets ~ aF' -fsa u
Respected by Foes
In the sometimes bitter bat
tie over these rival plans,
spokesmen for the parents and
teachers are careful to EN-
phasize their respect for Mr..
James.
Hes very sincere and cor
dial" says Robert Y. Dubel. as
sociate executive secretary for
the Maryland State Teachers
Association.
I'VE may debate the subject
before some PTA group, then
have dinner together. ] really
enjoy his company"
Mr.. Dubel also recalls that
only five years ago Mr.. James
was the father Of q teacher
backed plan for increased State
aid to local governments for
school construction. It was en-
acted over the veto Of former
Gov. Theodore r. McKeldin.
with Mr.. James leading the
fight.
Mr.. James. who lives on Q
276-acre farm near Havre de
Grace with his wife and s.
year-old son. says his political
philosophy has changed little
since then.
II still believe In two things, :"
he says. First. I'm against
government by pressure groups
of any kind. And second, I
believe as George Washington
said in his Farewell Address
that the destruction Of public
credit leads to the destruction
Of Government"
Evening star., 1961-01-29
MARYLAND BRIEFS
Prisoner
AirIifted
sByCopter

WESTMINSTER. Md, Jan.
% (AP)-Hilton r. Davis, q
30-year-old prisoner trans
ported yesterday from Q YER
mont jail to Carroll County
JAN, became the first prisoner
ever airlifted q substantial dis
tance by Maryland State Po-
lice helicopter.
Davis Of Richford, Mass,
completed Q term for burglary
in the Vermont State Prison
yesterday and was turned over
to Maryland authorities. Davis
was wanted here on o safe
burglary charge dating from
1859. Suspects normally are
returned by car, train or COM
mercial airline.
Evening star., 1961-01-29

Loyola High in Baltimore
Later. he was graduated from
Loyola College and from the
University of Maryland Law
School in 1941. After three
years in the Navy. he was ap-
pointed an Assistant States at
torney for Baltimore City in
1916. He has been in private
practice since, is married and
has five children.
Mr.. Evans Is tall and spare
and has q caustic tongue In the
courtroom as proved by minor
clashes already with Judge
Thomson. He is q graduate Of
Johns Hopkins and Maryland
Law School and was q United
States Attorny for four years
from 1856 until recently. Now
in private practice with Lord.
Whip, Coughlan and Green.
Both he and Mr.. ODonnell are
court-appointed; they receive
no fee for defending Rees. The
consensus is they win give him
a defense that money could not
buy.
THE PROSECUTORS: Rob-
ert e. Cahill, 29. and H. Russell
Smouse, 20, both Assistant
United States Attorneys trying
their first big murder case.
Mr.. Cahill. who has lived In
Baltimore most Of his life, is
married, has three children and
once played guard for Holy
Cross. Today he is 5 feet 8 in
ches tall and weighs 235
pounds. Mr.. Cahill Is q fighter
who will not bulge an inch, ac-
cording to his associates. A
graduate Of Georgetown Uni
versity Law School. he spent
one year as law clerk and one
year in private practice before
becoming q prosecutor in 1858
Mr.. Smouse Is q dark, 6-foot-
er. Reporters regard him as the
smooth member Of the prosecu-
ton team. Married and the
father Of two. he Is o Princeton
graduate and received his law
degree at the University Of
Maryland In 1858. He has been
a prosecutor just one year.
THE JURY: The foreman IS
Charles August Conner. 40, a.
district sales manager for In
land Steel Products Co. In Bal
timore. His wife Is q school
teacher. He will be In charge
Of balloting In the secrecy Of
the jury room when the defense
and prosecution have completed
their cases, probably next week.
The other members Of the jury,
mostly Baltimoreans, are:
Joseph Diener. 66, retired