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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-11
Rites Set Today
For Mrs. Tate

Funeral services for Mrs. Sal
lie Lou Rodgers late Will be
held today Thursday at 800
p. m. from the Southern Funeral
Home Chapel In Lexington, with
the Rev. p. d. Bragg officiating.
Mrs. Tate, II, died Tuesday
night at 8:45 In the Holmes
County Community Hospital af-
ter several weeks illness.
She had made her nome in
Holmes County for a number
OF years, wnere she will be
missed by a host of friends. She
was a member of the First Bap-
list Church of Lexington.
Survivors are two sons, Irby
Lee late. Lexington; Earl Tate,
Belzonl; a daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Slsson, Lubbock, Texas; three
orotners, LongIno Rodgers, Bel
zonl: Leroy Rodgers, Greenville;
Cunningham Rodgers, Lexlng-
ton; three sisters, Mrs. Lille
Mcclellan, Lexington, Mrs Net
tie 1ruitt, Lexington; Mrs. An
zle Lee Williamson. Meridian;
and several grandchildren.
Pallbearers were John Massey
Calvin, Moore, Leslie Farmer,
Albert Sanford, M. d. Bruce,
Jack Farmer, Irby Ellington and
J. l.. Mayo.
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The thermometer dropped to
a low OF 3R degrees tuesday
night with a high of 7 about
900 a. m. Wednesday. Expect
ed high for Wentsday was 20
degrees.
Not only Holmes County, but
most of MISSISSIPPI was cover
ed with snow, requiring the clos
ing OF many highways through
out the state.
SCHOOLS Clo-e
All schools in the county
closed early Tuesday morning
or by noon and children sent
home on BUSES before roads
were too badly covered. Stu
dents will be advised when to
return to school.
Telephone Service
According to Mrs. Dora Pearl
Tidwell, chief optrator in the
Lexington office, about fifty
per cent of the toll lines are out
but all local lines are all right.
Mrs. Tidwell said, "the girls
worked ten hours Tuesday in
order to answer the many calls
of patrons" Every available
girl with the company was call
ri - ~ ~yorH
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-11
Sovereignty Commission, Citizens Council
Joined By Senator Williams In Attack

~. Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith, editor of two Holmes Coun-
ty newspapers, The Lexington Advertiser and The Durant
News, became the chief target of a vicious statewide smear
campaign initiated by and using the combined facilities
of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and the Missis-
sippi Citizens Councils last week.
These two organizations, both of which are supported
with state tax funds, were materially assisted in their joint
undertaking by Holmes County State Senator 7. M. Will
liams, who made a personal attack on Mrs. Smith in a speech
on the Senate floor Thursday, thereby making certain the
widest possible publicity was received.
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pose of this affidavit was to
make it appear that I was meet
ing and consorting with Negro
Indignation leaders. Therein lies
the smear which is but one
more incident of a continuing
campaign against me which be-
gan in 1854; with the organiza-
ton of the Citizens Council in
Holmes County.
Then she said flatly: ""There
was no meeting at the Missis-
slppi Free Press office attended
by me and my husband on De-
cember 18th, or at any other
time, before or since. Nor has
there been an Indignation meet
ing anywhere else at any time
attended by us. The only time
have ever been in the Free
Press office, and that has not
been over two or three times,
has been either to deliver the
papers or collect for printing
them. | have never been there
long enough to even sit down.
This despicable effort by Mr..
Jones and Mr.. Hopkins to try
to make it appear that / am
plotting with Negroes O r anyone
else is unworthy of American
citizens, much less Southern
gentlemen. I am ashamed of
them.
But | cannot get worked up
even over this when / know
that both of these men take
their orders from the Mississippi
sovereignty Commission of
which State Rep. Wilburn Hook
er is "a member.
Mrs. Smith continued:
Il cannot get excited over the
Citizens Council mailing. They
have been doing this thing un-
dercover against other good CT
tlzens for years now. This is
just the first time it's been
brought out in the open so dra-
matically. / am mindful too,
that the Citizens Council takes
It's orders from its State Execu-
tive Committee, of which State
Rep Wilburn Hooker is also a
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-11
Holmes First Baby
Born On January 9Th

Holmes County welcomed its
fust baby for 1862, little Dora
May Leopard, on January 9Th at
$50 a. m.
Dora May is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Alec Leopard,
RID, Goodman. She was born
at the Holmes County Commu-
nifty Hospital in Lexington and
weighed seven pounds, two oun-
ceS.
Sharing congratulations with
the happy parents are the ma
ternal grandmother, Mrs. Georg-
ia Billings of Goodman and the
paternal grandmother, Mrs. Fan
ME Leopard of Kosciusko, four
brothers and two sisters.
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Sovereignty Commission with it's state
wide network of paid spies (and we
now have its own sworn affidavit that
if is %spying) and the vicious and die
t~atorial Citizens Council (Which tries
to destroy anyone who does not con-
form totally and absolutely to its. line)
is a menace to every citizen and is to
be no less dreaded and feared than the
Gestapo of Hitler's Germany and the
paid infOrmers of the Communist con-
.piracy.
If we lose our personal freedom,
what does It matter what our masters
call themselves?
The smear and ~insinuations against
me circulated by the Citizens Council
out of it's state office at Greenwood
are relatively ~unimportant as to con-
tent and charges. Had | been guilty of
the worst possible implications that
could have been taken from them,
which | am not, I still would not be
guilty of having done anything illegal
or morally wrong. The people of my
home county know it. SO do the in
formed newspapers of the state and all
other interested and intelligent citi-
zens.
Despite the false implications of
the affidavit signed by Albert Jones,
director of the Sovereignty Commission,
and Andy Hopkins, its paid agent, this
battle is not an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
controversy at all, as they apparently
would have you believe.
4 X 4 4
The real question at issue here is the
same today as it has been since July
Continued on Page Two)
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Mrs. ]. E. DoNahite
Dies In Jackson

Mrs. j. E. Dollahite, widely
beloved citizen of Durant. died
Monday at $3.50 pm. in the Bap-
fist Hospital in Jackson follow
ing an illness of two months.
She was IS.
A native of York, Ala, Mrs.
Dollahite had made her home in
Durant for the past sixty years
where she had a host of friends.
She was an active member of
the Durant Methodist Church,
the Women's Society Of Christ
ian Service, the Gamma Liter
airy Club, United Daughters of
the Confederacy, the American
Legion Auxiliary and d past
Worthy Matron of the Eastern
Star.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at 2 p. m. from the
Durant Methodist Church with
the Rev. r. E. WATSON, the Rev.
Durell Makamson and Robert
Shoemaker officiating. Burial
was in Mizpah Cemetery with
Southern Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
Surviving is one son, Gene
Dcllahite of Clawson, Mich. and
two grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Joe York,
Henry Mckenzie. Herman Gle
ments, Charles Irby, DR.. c. E.
Patton and Ray Campbell.
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Mississippi Power and Light
Company reported no broken
lines or power damage in any
way.
County Offices
County offices, including the
Welfare Department. Health De-
partment, and Holmes Extension
workers we're closed. Also all
branches of the Holmes County
Library.
Thawing Pipes
Zero temperatures, which are
predicted, brought a warning
from Fire Chief Billy Rathel,
against thaWing frozen water
pipes. with blow torches or other
forms OF fire.
Chief Rathell advised resi-
dents to use common ser,se if
their pipes freeze.
ut could save their lives and
their property"
He said the best way to thaw
a frozen pipe is to wrap it in
rags and pour hot water over
the wrapping.
Most of the business firms
and stores in the county remain
ed open for business as usual.
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Editor Is ar9et Of
Smear Campaign

member. He has been since the
statewide Citizens Council
came into being. He and Sen.
Williams were two of the prln-
cipal organizers of the Citizens
Council in Holmes County
Il know also. as do all the
people in Holmes County. that
Mr.. Hooker was an organizer
along with Sen. Williams and is
the principal financial support
of the Holmes County Herald,
an opposition newspaper found
ed in Lexington nearly three
years ago, to put me out of bust
ness, simply because l will not
take orders from or be con-
trolled by the Holmes County
bosses, foremost of whom is
Hooker.
Nov Mr.. Hooker is trying DIES
perately to save the Holmes
County Herald, which would
have gone under a long time
ago without outside help, as
everyone knows, so that he can
tell the people of Holmes Coun-
ty only what he wants them to
hear-and you can rest assured
the Herald will never print
even a suggestion of criticism
against their fairhaired boy.
In fact, even the bare sug-
gestlon that Mr.. Hooker might
be less than perfect, as implied,
not stated, in my page one edi-
torial of December 18th was
probably what provoked this
latest attack on me from the
Sovereignty Commission and
the Citizens Council.
Does anyone think for one
moment that either of these spy
and smear groups would have
dared act against me without
the direct order or specific ap-
proval of one of their bosses
and Mr.. Hooker is a boss of the
Sovereignty Commission and
the state Citizens Council, be-
ing a member of the governing
bodies of both.
!. Prezent Question
"The question Holmes County
citizens must decide now is whe-
Their they want to continue to
have a newspaper open to all
the people of the~county, "a news
paper that will honestly pro-
tect and defend their right to
know, a newspaper that will
print the truth and not bow
down to a boss-controlled clique
which uses economic pressure.
reprisals and intimidations of all
kinds, to hold an entire county
in terror"
II have no doubt whatever as
to the outcome.
"The vast majority of the peo-
pie of Holmes County, and ! am
speaking of the approximately
1000 white people r complete
ly disguised with the continu-
ing efforts of Hooker and his
gang to try to force the Holmes
Continued on Page Two)
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LEXINGTON Will Host Basketball Tournament
January 1920; Schedule Listed For Event

Lexington High School will
host the Holmes County Basket
ball Tournament on January
1920. Games will begin on Fri
day afternoon at 500 o'clock.
The schedule is as follows:
On Friday at 500 the Tchula
girls will meet the Goodman
girls. At 1880 Lexington girls
ard Durant girls will play.
At 6:15 the Durant an
Tchula boys will compete and
at 8:45 Goodman and Lexington
boys will be matched.
Finals will be played at ZOO
ad 8:15 p. m. On Saturday.
Officials are Lester Lyon and
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Telephone Lines Are
Constructed In Holmes

A construction crew Ct the
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany is busy this week building
rural lines between Lexington
and Tchula.
Work began this week and
construction of the new lines
will enable better service in the
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.fazel &pes
BY Hazel BrannOn Smith

Many small landowners in
Holmes County, and some of
them not SO small. are dis
turbed over an impending
bill to be introduced in the
legislature-the compulsory
unitiZation law for state oil
and gas fields.
A spokesman for this group
contacted me Friday and
asked that / get the facts on
this measure and give them
to the people of Holmes
County. The group feels the
bill is definitely detrimental
to their interest and other
landowners in Mississippi.
They feel that it would enact
a law designed to protect the
interests of the big compan-
ies-and take away their own
rights.
l had already started a file
of information on this matter.
/ became interested when the
Mississippi-Alabama Division
of the MIDI Continent oil and
Gas Association left my four
newspapers off their "Uniti-
Zation' advertisement sche-
dule which ran in November.
This Association, a lobbying
group which represents ma
jor oil and gas companies
and large Independents, is
pushing the compulsory until
cation bill which was intro
duced by State Rep. Wilburn
Hooker of Holmes County at
the last session of the legis-
lature. Although the measure
was soundly defeated then,
they are going to introduce
another bill this session-and
Mr.. Hooker, chairman of the
House Conservation Commit
tee, has already declared in
favor of it.
l have already stated edi-
torially that the apparent
methods and tactics being
used by Midi Continent Oil
and Gas Association ano Rep.
Hooker to push what has
been described as a force
bill" are highly questionable,
to say the least, and need a
close examination and study
by all citizens of the state,
especially the members of the
Legislature to whom we
must look to protect and de-
fend the peoples interest.
Since the publication Of
that editorial on December
oath l have had many reports
from vigorous opponents Of
compulsory utilization. One
of the more interesting re-
ports was that $4,000 had
been set up in the budget to
get the bill passed" through
the Legislature and more
than that amount had al
ready been spent. 1t will be
interesting to see how these
reports turn out. But it is my
understanding that some
members of the Legislature
already have the information
and that it will be released.
In my editorial of Deem
Der 18th l said that ! was
keeping an open mind on the
question of compulsory until
zaion-and l still am. It is a
complicated and highly con-
troversiaI measure and a
very important one to every
landowner in the state. l
shall continue to study the
question and try to be able
to pass on the facts to our
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readers and let them decide
for themselves. But the more
l learn about compulsory
u%nitiZation the more / am
inclined to be against it. Per-
haps this is because l am
basically against the use of
force to make anyone do
anything.
There is organized opposi-
ton to the compulsory until
cation bill by the Mississippi
Mineral and Royalty Owners
Association of which Fred
eric F. Mellen, a consulting
geologist of Jackson. is exc
cutive director. Mr.. Mellen
has been in the oil explora-
ton and production indus
tries for more than twenty
years.
Mr.. Mellen's. contention,
and that of other qualified
opponents, is that unitization
should always be voluntary
on the part of the landown-
ers, and that a field should
be untitled only after the ne
cessity for it is definitely es-
tablished.
The Mineral and Royalty
Owners Association says the
enactment of a compulsory
utilization law would result
in the establishment of a vast
Underground storage for
OIL" The major companies
want this, it contends, be-
cause "they can import fore
ign oil cheaper than they can
produce it domestically."
Mr.. Mellen says the clamor
of the major oil companies
for a compulsory utilization
bill is motivated by the
"desire of these over-produc-
ing and over-importirg mo-
nopolistic corporations to
abrogate their lease contracts
with landowners of Missis-
sippi."
The campaign for the COM
pulsory utilization law. is
based on propaganda and not
facts, he said.
st is based solely on the
economic hole the major
companies have dug for
themselves in exploiting the
petroleum resources Of fore
ign countries. Wider spacing
and compulsory utilization
are the devices through
which they ask the domestic
producer, the land and roy
atty owners, and local gov
ernments to subsidize them
in their foreign exploits"
Mr.. Mellen and his asso-
ciates say they are Just as
interested in conservation of
resources as anyone but
think it should be done on a
sound and honest basis.
The proposed utilization
bill, they contend, will in
evitably leave oil in the
ground because it will lead
to an inadequate number of
wells for most effective re-
covery of oil and gas They
believe the present law,
which allows a field to be
untitled on the consent of
100 per cent of the landown-
ers. is adequate.
The principal objection
voiced by the average citizen
is that he loses control of his
own property-and that
alone is enough to be against
compulsory utilization.
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From jackson
Mrs. Reynolds Cheney Of
Jackson arrived Monday to
spend the day with her son, the
Rev. Reynolds Cheney, II, Mrs.
Cheney and Antoinette.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-11
Al University Hospital

Bobby Cauthen is critically i'll
at University Hospital, Room
531, in Jackson. Bobby's mo-
Their, Mrs. Joe Cauthen is second
grade teacher in the Lexington
School.
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Holmes County Hit By Snow I tuesday,
low Temperature Of S. Degrees Is
Reported; Schools, County Offices Closed

A beautiful blanket of snow covered Holmes County
this week.
Snow began falling early Tuesday morning in the north
west section of the county, around Cruger, and by 800 a. m.
a few flakes were falling over the entire county. 1t began
showing in earnest about 10: 100 a. m. and continued to fall
hard and fast until about 900 p m. and reached a depth
of 31 inches.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-11

Howard Stubb.
Admission is Twenty-Five cents
fer students and f~ifty-cents for
adults.
The Sidney herald., 1962-07-11

CALL FOR BIDS
School District No. IL calls for bids
for joining two schoolhouses together
to make a two room school. And for
digging easements for same. Carpen-
ter work and basement may be on
same bid or on separate bid Specifi-
cations may be obtained by contact
ing Curtis Rasmussen. Girard Rte,
Sidney. Montana.
The board of trustees reserves the
right TO reject any or all bids.
Alton Christensen
Clerk. District IL
publish July 4, III
The Sidney herald., 1962-07-11
Power CITY

Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Kukus are
the proud parents of a baby girl
Lynn DaVon born on Wednesday,
June 81. She weighed 7 lbs. 1912
ozs. The Kukus's have three other
children. Mrs. Kukus is a caugh-
ter of the Henry Rau's. The Rau's
are also the proud grandparents
of a baby son born to MI. and
Mrs. James Rau of Wibaux on
Thursday, June % in Beach, N.
Oak. The baby has been named
James Melvin and weighed 7 lbs.
6 oZs. Both mothers and their
babies are doing fine
Several members of the East
Side Eager Beaver All Club and
IL members Of the Timberline
Workers Club attended the 3 day
All County Camp last week, June
27-29 held at the Richland Co.
unity Fair grounds. At the close of
the session on Friday, many of the
parents attended the pot luck pic
mic supper, program and campfire
singing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Buxbaum,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Rau, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Rau and Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Rupp all of this area,
entertained church conference
guests over the weekend.
Mrs. Henry Scheetz is visiting
a few days this week at the Ray
Kolstad home in Billings.
The Sidney herald., 1962-07-11
Treasure State Life
Announces Promotion
OF c.. A. Johnston

Treasure State Life Insurance
Co. has promoted G.. M. Jerry
Johnston to be its agency director
for all II states where Treasure
Life operates, it was announced
to day by Martin o. Anderson, re-
preventative for Treasure State
Life.
Johnston will direct sales, re-
cruit and train personnel. He is
president of the Great Falls Pilots
Association and on call for search
and rescue missions as a member
of the Cascade County, Mont,
Sheriff'S Air Posse. He will retain
his Treasure Life general agency
in Great Falls.
The new Treasure Life sales
and advertising campaign will en-
phasize its balanced dollar" pro-
gram, Anderson said.
"Our balanced dollar program
provides wage earners with solid,
personal financing and planning
that balances drops in the Vests
variable economic pattern" An
derSon explained. "This new but
AAACdds NCotCd pAOSldil PlONAhCS
a maximum of life insurance for
the cost, plus the balancing mutual
investments, based upon rs per
cent insurance stocks and 25 per
cent bank stocks. Thus, the public
benefits from a complete savings
and investment program in one
great industry"
AS his company's outstanding
sales producer in 1861, Johnston
was presented with an all-star ma
tional award from an insurance
publication.
Johnston, born 80 yers ago in
Livingston. Mont, was graduated
from the University of Oregon at
Eugene after two years at Mon
tana State College in Bozeman. He
has been associated with insurance
sales since 1852. He is a member
Of several service and fraternal
organizations, including the A.
Bedoo Shrine Temple in Montana
He and his wife Bebe Dare, have
two daughters, Connie, Is, anC
Bonnie, IL.
The Sidney herald., 1962-07-11
e. II. Gale To Head
Amateur Radio Group

Elwood r. Gale, W7CGG), ITO
4th ST., Sc, has been selected
to set up an organization of Sidney
amateur radio operators prepared
to furnish organized emergency
communications in time of dis
aster, ii was announced today by
Communications Manager F. f.
Handy of the American Radio Re-
lay League, national association of
radio amateurs.
MI. Gales assignment, which
carries the title of Emergency Co.
ordinator, is to band together
members of the amateur radio SER
vice in his community to perfect
arrangements for emergency radio
communication by hams in the
event of natural disasters or other
emergencies. In addition to use OF
normal station equipment working
from commercial power, amateur
stations use self-powered radio
transmitting and receiving equip
ment as needed. Mr.. Gale, as
ARRL Emergency Coordinator
will call local meetings of am.
ateurs, establish common operat.
ing procedures, and arrange reg.
ular drill periods when the hams
personal stations may be modified
under simulated emergency con.
ditions. His duties also includ,
liaison planning with the loca
chapter of the American Red eros.
and other relief agencies. as Sug.
gested in the working understand.
ing the ARRL Emergency Corp.
has with the national headuuar
ters of the American Red eros.
and other agencies. Liaison will b.
established also with local protec
tive services, such as fire anC
police departments and civil de
Tense communications will receiv,
much attention.
The Sidney herald., 1962-07-11
Yellowstone Twp.

Donna Marker was home from
Billings Business College July
3-8. She was accompanied by her
cousin Connie Kinzle of Billings.
An out of town visitor at the
Marvin Rau home July 6 was her
brother, Lee Brietling.
Steven LorenZ, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Victor Lorenz is spending
the week at Camp Mimanagish
near Big Timber.
Visiting here recently at the
Buxbaum homes and with other
relatives and friends were MIR.
and Mrs. Irwin Asmus and two
children of Torrington, Wyo. MIR.
and Mrs. Henry Schneider and
son of Morrill,, Neb., MIR and
Mrs. John Walstrcm and family
of Alexander, N. d., Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Hoffman, and Mrs
Jake Buxbaum all Of ScottSbluff
Neb.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bell enter
tanned about 40 friends at a pc.
luck picnic dinner and supper
at their home July 4. Later ther,
was games and fireworks. Mrs
Bells mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Knels, is spending a month her,
at the Bell home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hambur;
were hosts at a 4th of July sup
per at their home, guests werv
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Hamburg an,
family of Savage, Mr.. and Mrs
H. Lee Davis and family and tn
Ruben Hamburg family.