davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
Greenwood
School
Honor Roll

Wisdom F. Coleman, princi-
pal of the Stone Street Ele-
mentary School in Greenwood,
Mississippi is releasing the
names of students at the Stone
Street Elementary School who
made the honor roll and hon.
orable mention for the 1st
semester of the school year
1961-62. For a student to be
placed on the honor roll this
overall average must be be-
tween 90-10O. For the honor
able mention the average
must be between 1920.
HONOR ROLL
Willie Miller, Gene Wiley,
John D. Wright, Ella Ruth
Harris, Allean Hudson, Jerry
Gray, Lena Davis, Delquency
Carpenter, Zebra Fisher, Sher-
ry Ann Carpenter, Kathleen
Raymon, Ann Friday, o. C..
Perkins, Parilee Golden, Glor-
ia Carter, Rufus Ellis, Grenda
Fuller, Willie Murphy, Willie
James Archie;
Charlotte Hayes; Jeanette
Lotion, Jacqueline Johnson.
James Wilson, Curtis Smith.
Annette Lotion, Amanda
Hughes, Tenina Wright, Gym
thia Love, Machell Hender-
son, Shelia Beamon, Rosetta
Miller, Viola Greene, Sharon
Outlaw, Althea Mcdowell, An
norris Moore, Barbara Pitts,
Alice Denese Moore, Gregory
Boyd, Dwight Sutherland;
Sharon Ewing, Alice Baker,
Elizabeth Reaves, Leroy Ken
ten, Posey Miller, David Jo-
mes, Geraldine Sailing, ElnOra
Austin, Aaron Tribit, Mary
Christian, Lloyd Tabb, john
eta Walls, Roy Isaac, Glenn
Anderson, Alfredo Mcdowell,
Rebecca Bryant, Willie Black
mon, Shelby Davis, Linda
johnson.
Continued on Page -
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
40 Africans
Looms Total
1892 Million

UNITED NATIONS - The
International Bank for Re-
construction and Develop
ment announced that, as of
this month, 40 loans amount
ing to 1892, 100000 had been
made to African countries and
territories.
The Union of South Africa
had received the largest
number of loans, 10, totalling
S221, 300, 900. Ethiopia, Congo
0eopoldville) and the Fedora
ton of Rhodesia and Nyasa-
land had obtained five loans
each.
Other countries and terri
tories which received loans
were Algeria, Sahara, East At
RIGA, French West Africa, Ga
bon, Kenya, Mauritania, Nj
geria, Ruanda Urundi, SUI
dan. Uganda and United Arab
Republic.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

Headlines
In The Mems

"HEADS CLASS AT BOS-
TON " Boston, Mass
The Deans office, Boston uni
verslty, has announced that
Frank L. Stanley Jr., gradu-
ate student from Louisville,
KY, holds Honor Position
Number One at the close of
the first semester. Stanley,
a Negro, earned a straight
"a" average in all course
work ard obtained the high
est university score, 98.7 on
the graduate qualifying ex-
animation in Statistics ,. Out
of maximum possible go
honor points for any graduate
student to receive in one Sc
mester, Stanley earned a to-
tai of 57.3 honor points. He
is the oldest of two sons of
the publisher of the Louisville
Defender.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
Tougaloo
Students Visit
Swarthmore
College

During the week of Febru-
airy lib, Arthur johnson, a
senior from Jackson, Missis-
sippi, and Eddie O'Neal, a ju-
nior from Meridian, Miss,
will represent Tougaloo Sou
thern Christian College as ex-
change students and partici-
pants in the first Intercolle-
gate Conference on Disarm-
ament and Arms Control at
Swarthmore College, Swart-
more, Pennsylvania.
The invitation to the con-
ference was the first step in
establishing an exchange re-
lationship with a southern Ne
gro college and Swarthmore
College. Mr.. johnson will rep
resent the Student Council and
Mr.. O'Neal the Intercollegi-
ate African Study group.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
MVCClinches
SCAC Honors

ITTA BENA, Miss.-Down-
ing the Alcorn College Bra
yes, 77-59, here last Saturday
night, the Mississippi Voca-
tional College Delta Devils
clinched their share of a pos
sible three-way tie for the
South Central Athletic Con-
ference basketball champion
ship and loom within one win
for an unshared title.
Presently boasting a 81
conference record Coach Art
McAfee's Devils have one con-
ference game remaining with
Paul Quinn College at Waco,
Tex. The Paul Quinn Texans
recently upset the Devils, r.
81, here Feb. /.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

On February 3, 1862, Miss
Hattye Ethel Roseman retired
as secretary in the Agricul-
tural Extension Service in Mis-
sissippi after a distinguished
record of forty-three years. i
This was the only position
ever held by this pioneer Ex-
tension worker, although she
has served in different depart
ments in this agency. In ten
ure of service she has been
surpassed by only one worker.
who was Mr.. j. D. Howerton,
county agent of Lauderdale
County, who retired November
30, 1861.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

This week. the Mississippi
Enterprise Salutes the newly
organized Silhovettes r Club
and its charming president,
Mrs. Daisy Holiday, pictured
here. In an interview with
Mrs. Holiday, it was learned
that this club met Thursday,
February 8, 1862 in the home
of Mrs. Dora Washington on
Ridgeway Street, to elect Of
ficers and to make plans to
assist in the preparations for
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity's
Founders Day Program. Mrs.
Holiday gave for the purpose
of her organization, the aid
ing and assistaing all Kappa
programs and projects. The
membership of the Silhovettes
is made up of Kappa wives
and sweethearts. The follow
ing officers were elected:
Mrs. Daisy Holiday, presi-
dent; Mrs. Bessie Zeigler,
Vice President. Mrs. ArtimiS-
sic Nicely, Secretary Treasur-
er; Mrs. Dora Washington, re-
porter.
Members present at the
meeting, other than those al
ready named here were: Mes
Continued on Page q
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
Offer Librorions
Gronts For
Study

BATON ROUGE, La. - LOU
isiana State Library is offer
ing two $1,000 scholarships for
the 1962-63 academic year. for
graduate study leading to a
masters degree in library sci
ence.
Announcements of these
grants, which are included in
this library state plan and
made possible through funds
available under the Federal
Library Services Act, is made
by DR.. Essae M. Culver, state
librarian.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
$4,000 Fewer Persons at Work
On Farms; Wages Up Slightly

2,012, 900 persons were at work,
compared with 100000 a year
ago. Throughout the United
States 5,071,00O were employed
on farms during the Christmas
season, compared with $685.
600 in 1860.
However, wage rates were
up somewhat. The average
hourly wage without board
was Sill, or 3 cents higher
than year ago. Highest
wages. $1.35 an hour, are being
paid in Connecticut; lowest.
SIS cents, in Mississippi.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
Miss Hattye E. Roseman Retires
From Mississippi Extension Service

tension work as the second
secretary and the first All
Club secretary, having begun
under the first Club agent, the
late G. H. Wilkes on Novem-
Der l, 1918. She served with
his successor, j. r. Jackson,
who remained as All Club
agent less than one year, and
she efficiently carried on the
All Club work a few months
afterwards until the late G.. c.
Cypress became All Club
Agent.
In 1885 during the depreS-
sion when only one secretary
was held in the mems division,
Miss Roseman became the Sec
rotary for two officials, M. M.
Hubert, State Leader, Negro
Mems Work and G.. c. Cypress.
State All Club Agent. She
performed these duties in a
most satisfactory way.
In 1947, another duty was
added when she became secre-
tary for the newly appointed
Assistant State Leader, w. E.
Ammons. Clerical duties in
volved in htese departments
for the three persons with
such varied and numerous
contacts necessitated the adj
dition of another secretary,
who went to the All Club De-
partment, Mems Division, and
Miss RoSeman remained wor-
king for the State Leader and
Assistant Leader.
Z When M. M. Hubert retired
on June 80, 1852, w. E. Am
mons, the assistant, was pro-
noted as State Leader of
Mems Work, and Miss Rose
man had served faithfully in
helping Mr.. Ammons to put
over a successful program in
the mems division.
Miss Roseman's long years
of loyal, competent, and un-
firing service, enhanced by her
pleasing personality, have won
for her the esteem of all who
have been acquainted with her
services.
In appreciation of her long
and loyal service to Mississippi
State College Gas all Extension
Work is directed by the Col
lege), Miss Roseman was one
of the more than rs employees
awarded a Certificate of APP
probation by Mississippi State
College Alumni Association on
March "a, 1856. This certifi-
cate was given to those who
had served the college for Is
years or more, continuously
and had contributed to it's ma
tional recognition and growth.
In August, 1857, Miss Rose
man was selected from MiSsis-
Sippi to receive a citation dur
ing the Tenth Regional All
Club Camp in Washington, D..
c. This award was made at
the banquet. at Howard Uni
versity where she received a
citation during the Tenth Reg
ional Al Club Camp in Wash
Continued on Page D
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

One of the biggest package
deal of top recording stars
ever to be assembled will play
for the dance and show at
Stevens Rose Room, comes
Sunday night, February 26. II
Big Stars including the UP
Settlers ORCHESTRA.
You'll hear more about this
attraction in the coming
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

An estimated $4,000 fewer
persons were at work on farms
during the survey week of
December 24-3O than during
the same period; a year ago.
the U: S. Department of Agri-
culture reports.
Decline in employment in
the South accounted for 68.-
600 or slightly more than half
Of the total Sharpest de-
crease took place in Mississip-
pi where $4,000 fewer persons
were at work on farms.
For the South as a whole
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

IS MORE DISTRICTS DE-
SEGREGATED" - Nashville,
Tenn.-Four Tennessee school
districts and one in Virginia
desegregated in January for
the first time, as two prev
iously desegregated districts
in Florida announced expan-
sion of their programs. This
makes $40 districts in the II
southern and border states
having policies permitting Ne
groes to attend classes with
whites. The region has added
127 new desegregated districts
so far this school year.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

WEAVER FOR CABINET
CAMPAIGN GAINING Mount
ing Support" = Washington
"A cabinet-level department
of Urban Affairs moved a
step nearer becoming reality
with the House Government
Operations committee having
rejected by a II to s vote a
COP resolution to kill the
presidential proposal. This
same vote likewise pushed
toward reality. DR.. Robert c.
Weaver, head of the Housing
and Homes Finance Agency,
becoming the first Negro to
sit as a full secretary of a
federal department in a pre-
sidential cabinet.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17
Ted Taylor. Jimmy Nc rockIin
The Sims Twins, the Up-Setters
Orchestra and Other Stors in
Package to Come to Stevens,
February Is

weeks AS is his policy,
Promoter Miller will give you
this sensational attraction for
the same price of all his
dances at Stevens Rose Room
Advance j. SITS At
Door $500 Tax Incl. I.
REMEMBER IT'S TED TAY-
LOR and JIMMY McCRACK-
LIN. plus other top stars.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1962-02-17

"MISSISSIPPPS JOBLESS
FLOOD CHICAGO" Robert
S. Cushman, chairman of the
Illinois Revenue Commission
reported last week that over
a third of the unemployed in
Chicago are natives of Miss
issippi. He referred to his
statement as a "factual ac-
curate and very sad Stats
tic"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31
Unemployment Benefits
Almost 3 Billion Dollars

WASHINGTON, D. c. Jobless
benefits amounting to $2,777, $50, 1874
were paid to 5,988,137 beneficiaries
under the regular state programs dur
ing fiscal 1861. This was 20.8 and
22.6 per cent decline from the 49,
500, 225,392 paid to 7,732,954 unem-
ployed workers in the previous fiscal
year.
An additional $134, 063,979 were
paid to 263,918 unemployed federal
workers and ex-servicemen under the
federal unemployment compensation
programs in fiscal year 1862, a 1914
per cent drop below fiscal year 1861
when $166, 267,011 were paid to 1885,
sos such unemployed workers.
Secretary of Labor Arthur j. Gold
berg said that under the entire tempo
rary extended unemployment pro-
gram-April 1861 to June 1862
benefits of $769, 194,62O were paid
to 2,763,198 unemployed who had
exhausted their rights under state
programs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31
Sfoekpiie Scandal
0vershadowing the
Billie Estes Case

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NFU)-
While the Congressional inquiry int
the Billie Sol Estes case continues tt
drag along with no major revelations
another hearing into wrongdoings i;
being conducted in the Senate that
has already brought out some start.
ling disclosures.
Testimony before the Senate
Armed Services Committee has re-
vealed that former Secretary of the
Treasury George M. Humphrey
holdings in a chain of mining COM
panies swelled his personal fortune
by So million during an eight year
period. During half that time Hum
phrey was member of Eisenhower S
cabinet.
Also brought out in the hearing,
called to look into exorbitant prof
its from defense stockpiling, was
that the mining companies made
over a thousand per cent profit on
invested capital.
The government advanced the cap
ital to build shelters and then the
companies bought them back for a
fraction of the real value.
In addition, government account
ant who was investigating the record
of the mining companies said that
important records including cancelled
checks and invoices had been de-
stroyed when he went to inspect the
books.
In testifying in his defense, Hum
phrey said the transactions were
fconspicuously successful. He added
that the detectives of Congress were
achieved and insisted that ''both
Hanna (his mining company and the
should be justly proud"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31
Viewers Like AdIess Tv

HARTFORD, Conn. = (CNS) =
Television minus commercials is get
ing enthusiastic approval here as fee
TV begins it's Swear test.
One of the first programs cost
viewers 81 to see two movies without
interruption. The program included
Sunrise at Campobello", an episode
in the life of President Franklin d.
Roosevelt, and ga Midsummer Nights
Dream, Shakespeare's play done by
Czechoslovakian puppets. The movies
are telecast with scrambled signal.
Subscribers dial code number to ac-
tivate their decoders and unscramble
the picture and sound.
Zenith Radio, which makes the de-
coolers, and RKO General, owner of
WHCT-TV, have invested $40 million
in the pay-TV venture here.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31
Effect of Heavy
Smoking Cited

CHICAGO-Two doctors who have
conducted previous studies into the
link between cigarette smoking and
various diseases reported here pre-
cisely how excess smoking leads to
serious trouble.
The report given to the convention
of American College of Chest Physi-
clans, came from DR.. Oscar Auerbach,
Veterans Administration Hospital,
East Orange, N. j., and DR.. E. Cuyler
Hammond, director of statistical re-
search, American Cancer Society.
They reported that in studying
lung tissue of 242 people who died
of various diseases they found alb
normalities in close proportion to the
degree as to whether the person had
been a non-smoker or heavy smoker.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31
Legal Ethics

The West Virginia Bar Associa-
TONS Legal Ethics Committee has
recommended expulsion of any law
yer who is hired by a union to repre-
sent workers in compensation cases
on group basis. The committee says
the practice is unethical. The Wheel
ing INTELLIGENCER notes that in
dividual workers cannot afford to
hire lawyers ON a straight fee basis
and that justice would require the
Bar to encourage rather than dis
ourage group representation"
through unions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31

gest of all, did care; and began prob
ing, aided by some conscientious re-
porterS.
IVA and the u. S. Bureau of Rec
lamation, the two biggest U. S. sup
pliers of power, even began buying
lower-cost foreign equipment. This
brought howl from the same COM
panies that were later revealed to
have been Systematically cheating the
public.
EIsENHOWER'S COMMENT
RECALLED
Finally the u. S. Department of
Justices antitrust division under a
vigorous young head named Robert
Bicks, really went after the conspira-
tors. The evidence was so overwhelm-
ing they saw there was nothing to do
but plead guilty. "The only thing the
sons of bitches didn't warn them
about was Burn his letter." said
President Eisenhower when he saw
some of it.
But all responsible heads of the big
companies escaped. They said they
knew nothing about conspiracy by
people reporting to them, that had
reaped their companies many millions
of dollars and had gone on for years.
But, says Herring, GE later organ
lied teams to go out and plead with
400 cities not to file suit for dam
ages. GE, he says, promised to be
mice and maybe locate new plant
in a community that would thus sub
NIT to being robbed. Just one city
caved in, Herring adds.
So far more than 1000 suits, seek
ing billions of dollars in all in triple
damages under the antitrust act,
have been filed. Any damages re-
covered certainly should be sub
tracted from rate-bases public and
the public should see
that they are-so as to reduce cleo
trio rates.
But if it hadn't been for IVA,
the game of rob-the-public would
still be going on and with these
same big companies telling the peo-
pie how good and honest they are
at a public expense of millions of
dollars yearly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31
Blew the Whistle On Price-Fiing
iva Has Saved People
More Than Its Total Cost
By ROSCOE FLEMING. Denver

In one giant stroke the Tennessee Valley Authority owned
by the people of the u ST. has saved it's
Twas total cosha u.s. if the people will insist that the
saving show up their electric bills
For IVA that blew whistle huge price
fixing conspiracy that had feoousy price
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31


thing that goes into an electric-powel
system whether public or private
with yourself, the consumer, paying
the bills in higher costs and rates.
The great electrical-supply compa
MES, headed by General Electric anc
Westinghouse, pleaded guilty to in.
dictments that accused them of get.
ting away with billions of dollars in
illegal overcharges, through price
fixing and identical bids.
The full story, hitherto untold. is
now available in two recommended
books: "The Great Price Conspiracy
by John Herring; and "The Gentle
men Conspirators'' by John G. Fuller.
The books were needed, because
the conspiracy news faded quickly.
Herling, whose book is the more
thorough, says that only about half
the nations newspapers made page 1
news even of the sentencing of score
of big businessmen-the biggest anti
trust story of the century.
And these companies have gone
right on smothering the public in
their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. public re-
lations" programs-at public expense.
The IVA story is especially sensa-
tional, because IVA has been the
No. 1 target of the private-power
combine. In fact, the Eisenhower Adj
ministration boldly moved to cripple
IVA in the so-called Dixon-Yates
deal, though this backfired.
Private power companies are in
effect merely regulated agents or
cost-plus contractors hired to do
job for the public. They hate IVA
because the latter is owned and run
by the public itself, and was set up
in part as yardstick of the job pri-
vate companies do, and of the price
they charge for doing it.
PUBLIC'S GUARDIAN
AGAINST EXTORTION
IVA has now doubly fulfilled it's
job as the public's automatic guard
against extortionate rates, but partly
in way nobody could have foreseen.
This is gigantic piece of unexpected
good fortune Cor "serendipity'') for
the people of the u. S. who own it.
It's officials first began to smell a
big and very dead rat years ago, when
all bids on big equipment, costing
of dollars, would run identi-
cal down to the last penny. They'd
run high, too-up to double what the
same equipment would cost from for
eign companies.
If private power companies ever
noticed the same thing, they didn't
care. For all they had to do to col
lect would be to show the bills to
their regulatory commissions. Cost
of equipment goes into their "rate-
base'' on which they collect good
profit after paying all expenses-so
they pass it on to you, the consum-
err. Why should they care?
1t was all a very fine game, with
he public the goat. Every user was
being mulcted alike, but only the
people running public-power or CO.
'perative-power suppliers had reason
% care, as being direct agents of
heir owner-customers IVA, the big J.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31

movements; this is mo- fancifui case
such Investigations are a fact
today"
The Senate approved the investiga-
ttion and extensive hearings We're held
The testimony of witnesses docu-
mented completely the evils antici.
lpated by the committee report. This
investigation undoubtedly played a
Significant part in the Senate's re-
fusal to approve the House-passed
wire-tap bills in 1910 and 1912.
ON PREcEDENTED PROPOSAL
IN 1860
Present efforts to obtain wire-tap
legislation began late in the summer
| of 1860. The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee approved bill which would
authorize law-enforcement wire tap
Iping by the state. The proposal was
unprecedented, for all previous at
tempts at this kind of legislation had
dealt solely with federal wire tapping.
When the seth Congress adjourned
in September without Senate action,
the bill died.
The prime factor behind this bill
was the pressure exerted by New
York law-enforcement people after
the 1857 Benanti decision of the Su-
preme Court.
In 1888, the people of New York
had adopted an amendment to the
search-and-seizure guarantee of their
state constitution in order to permit
wire tapping. Based on this amend
ment, and in the face of the Supreme
Courts Nardone decision, the New
York State Legislature had enacted
court-order system of police wire
tapping.
In the Benanti case, wire-tap evil
dence obtained by New York state po-
lice with court order was turned
over to federal authorities, who used
it as evidence to convict the defend
ant. The Supreme Court held that the |
federal law, Section 605, was control
ling, and decided that the admission
of the wire-tap evidence had violated
Section 6O5 even though the evidence
had been obtained under the state
system. The Court, there
fore, reversed Benanti's conviction.
New York law-enforcement officers
Immediately raised the hue and cry
that law enforcement had been
brought to an end in New York. They |
asserted that they had case after case
where there was no doubt as to the
guilt of the accused, but that wire-tap
evidence would be necessary for proof
in court. So they turned to Congress
to amend Section COS.