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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22

Thanksgiving obser v a n C S
were frightened today by clear
ing skies and a brisk north
west wind after a day and
night of rain.
At National Airport h e
scene last night of an unprece-
dented jam Of outbound air
travelers-Weather Bureau OBJ
servers reported precipitation
during the 18-hour period end
ing at Z am. today totaled 1.22
inches.
The rain - and fog COM
pounded the confusion at the
airport. Airline employees said
the terminal was filled with
thousands of prospective air
travellers from 2 to 9 pm.
Despite delays Of from three
to five hours, Eastern Air Lines
I-officials said its no-reserva-
ton shuttle flights to New York
accommodated some $500 per-
sons in an eight-hour period.
The airline had "a Constel-
lations flying a virtually coh-
tinuous shuttle between Wash
lington and New York's La
Guardia Airport and Newark.
2 Killed, Scores Injured
Traffic accidents killed one
person in Maryland and three
in Virginia since the beginning
of the long holiday week end at
Is pm. yesterday. But scores
of others were injured in a rash
If accidents on rain-slick high
ways in the area.
American Automobile Asso-
citation officials earlier had es-
timated that 10000 to $4,000
cars would leave Washington
on holiday trips.
Prayers of thanks across the
Nation reflected relief over the
apparent easing of the Cuba
crisis.
In a Thanksgiving message
to members of the armed forces,
President Kennedy declared
that the Nation has "particu-
lar reason to be grateful to the
men and women of the armed
forces"
your devotion to duty, your
self-sacrifice and your. imme-
date readiness to face any
danger has been most evident
during the past several weeks"
the President said.
The President, his wife and
daughter, Caroline, were in Hy-
annis Port, Mass, for the Ken
nedy family's traditional
Thanksgiving reunion. His son,
John, jr., had to stay behind
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star staff Writer

- Clarence Randall, retired
board chairman of Inland Steel
!. Co, has told his fellow busi-
.nessmen to stop "downgrading"
those in the Government serv-
ice.
Mr.. Randall, who has served
m special assignments for
President Kennedy, Eisenhower
and Truman, said that those in
political posts as well as career
gobs have suffered unfair criti-
/. cism.
writing in Think Maya
= Zine" published by the Inter-
national Business Machines
Corp, Mr.. Randall told his fell
low industrialists: with dis
: arming impartiality we down.
grade also those Americans who
are in Government, not as
> elected officers but as civil
4. servants, by calling them either
..payrollers,' or 'bureaucrats,' OF
both.
s"'Payroller' is intended to
4. mean a soft job that is not
needed. When this is true, it is
/. wrong, just as wrong as a bust
.I1essman's creating a job for his
. .favorite nephew.
But in the main, this ugly
epithet does great injustice
; Government needs brains. anC
,, we should help to find them
, and keep them there.
Instead, we first ridicull
them, and then steal then
away.
I'VE are indifferent, too, t,
-tlhe fact that til principle o
Compatibility is not applied
at every level o. responsible,
in Government. the man Of
the job is paid less than hi
counterpart in industry.
'Bureaucrat' is often use
. to mean nothing between tn
.ears,-pompouS, bumbling, un
willing to commit oneself. Odd
: ~ enough, we do not apply tn
same epithet to men in GU
. companies who have the sam
qualities-and, of course. the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22

Tense objections that his earlier
order for a mental test bt
erased from the court record
Although the judge held thai
Mr.. Walker was mentally com.
petent to stand trial. the pri.
mary purpose Of the hearing
was the defense motion tc
strike the sanity test order.
Appeal Planned
Clyde j. Watts Of Oklahoma
City, Okla, one of Mr.. Walkers
four attorneys. said Judge
Clayton's decision in placing
the mental test in the case
record would be appealed. Mr..
Walker said afterward he felt
he had been subjected to a
great injustice.
Judge Clayton. recently
chosen to command the 31st
(Dixie) Division Of Mississippi
and Alabama National Guards
men, expressed the greatest re-
spect for Mr.. Walkers military
career.
Mr.. Walker was questioned
by his attorneys during the
hearing and gave details of his
arrest by Federal troops
Neither he nor his attorneys
mentioned his actions the
night Of the rioting.
Mr.. Walker also discussed
his reprimand and loss of COM
mand Of the oath Division over
a troop indoctrination program
in Germany. He later resigned
his Army commission.
MisquOtatiOn Claimed
During his testimony, Mr..
Walker said he had been mis-
quoted in reports saying he
described former President
Harry S. Truman and others
as Communists.
II had not mentioned Presi-
dent Truman or called anyone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22

ing yesterday at the end of a
stwo-day hearing to determine
whether there was reasonable
cause for a mental examination
of the 53-year-old Walker.
: He was arrested here october
~ following the desegregation
.l7oting at the University of
Mississippi in which two per-
sons were killed.
; Shortly before Judge Clayton
.Tited in the Walker case, he
ordered Chief United States
Marshal James McShane re-
slessed from the Lafayette
.ceunty Jail. Mr.. McShane had
surrendered to Sheriff Joe Ford
on State charges of melting a
riot and breach of peace dur
Itng the rioting.
- Mr.. McShane and one other
anerson-who has not yet been
sidentified-were indicted last
week by the county grand jury
after It probed the rioting
which followed the arrival Of
Negro James H. Meredith on
the university campus.
No Trial Date
1.-THE Judge set no date for
M. Walkers trial. He accepted
q mental test given Mr.. Walker
earlier this month at Dallas,
TEX.
THE Judge said the examina-
Ten made by DR.. Robert L.
.Sfubblefield. professor at the
Southwestern Medical School
I'm Dallas, was essentially
Negative. No opinion was ex-
pressed. 1t did not say whether
he was sane or insane"
.~yJudge Clayton added that
.from his observation of Mr..
Walkers behavior while testi-
fling yesterday he found
That this man is competent"
10. aid in his defense of such
Criminal charges as may be
Presented.
..Judge Clayton overruled de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
IndustrioIist Calls on Businessmen
To Halt SIurs on US. Employees

by offering themselves as can
didates for elective office.
MANY are fine, able men
who would distinguish them
selves in any career. Some are
unworthy, but when they are
in office it is we ourselves who
are at fault: they are there
solely because we businessmen
are not. BY our own indiffer-
ence we create the vacuum into
which they are drawn.
1.-THE executive who speaks in
disgust of the dirty politicians
is like the college senior who
from the stands yells coward
at the fullback when he him
self has refused to go out for
the team.
Though it be bad govern
ment they create. it is never
theless our government. If we
do not like it, the way to Grange
it is to take the job on our
selves, and prove that we can
do it better.
"Heaping abuse upon those
who do what we will not is
Iunbecoming. Our country will
not remain great unless we re-
store to the holding of public
office the dignity and univer-
sal esteem which it possessed
when the Declaration of indie
pendence was signed"
= \
CAPITAL ROUNDUP Pub
lie Health Service has given in
centive awards to Mrs. Juanita
Anderson, H. Melvin Brown.
Raymond Lucas, James Martin,
Richard Belt, Edward Crooks,
Mrs. Beulah Gerowe and j. F.
Mccain. =. Treasury's Blu
reau of Accounts has given sug-
gestion awards to Mrs. Mamie
Bell, Robert Gleason, Mrs. Mel
lie Kadlee and Mrs. Mary Rob-
ertson, and superior perform
ance awards to Charles Bailey,
Daisy Moore and Henry White.
Nays Bureau of Ships has
, given superior performance
/ awards to Joseph Gutmann and
, William Shida, and suggestion
, awards to Edward DeSomma
, and Marlene Mcknight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22
Judge Rules Walker
Competent for Trial

= OXFORD. Miss, Nov % P)-Edwin Walker the
verial former Army major general has been ruled mentally
competent to stand trial charges of sedous conspiracy
and melting an insurrection
u United States District Judge Claude Clayton
Army National Guard brgader general handed the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22

are there-but rather reserve
it exclusively for Government.
"Red tape usually crops up
in the same sentence, meaning
that we would get it done much
faster if we were handling it.
And usually we could-in our
own companies. But what we
overlook is that there is no
close analogy between adminis7
tration in industry and that in
Washington. The founding
fathers saw to that.
Business is authoritarian.
When the boss decides, the rest
are supposed to start moving
In Government, this is precise
ly what our system Of checks
and balances was designed to
prevent. No one man is per-
mitted that sort Of authority
Policy must be arrived at after
group consultations, and that
takes time.
when money is spent by
Government for purposes We
approve, which is seldom. we
maintain a discreet and dig
nified silence. When we dis
approve, which is most of the
time, we cry out against the
welfare state
This is the most irrationa
stereotype of all. We mean, O
course, that we deplore the U.s.
/ of public funds in such a man
ner that the individuals re
sponsibility for his own future
is taken away from him, bu
that is not what we say. Actu
ally, each one of us ferventl,
desires that our Government
shall promote the welfare o
the state, but the man from
Mars would never guess it from
our language"
POLITICIANS-Mr Randall
continued: Politician is an
! other word in our vocabular
which has corroded. What
strange paradox it is that in tn
! evolution Of our der
: democracy we have come
! downgrade those who devot
, their wives to the public servic
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25

Pay your $500 Poll Tax by
February /. 1852.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25
County Gets Pull p ype Industry
Defense Course
To Be Held AT School

Protection and Survival, a
Civil Defense course will be of
fered to adults at the Lexington
High School beginning Monday,
Feb. 5, at ZOO p. m.
The course will be for twelve
hours, divided into six two-hour
sessions and is tentatively sche-
duled to begin on the above
date. The course is sponsored by
the State Department of Educa-
ton in cooperation with the U.
5. Office of Education and the
Lexington school.
All materials for the course
will be provided free of charge
ard a certificate of attendance
will be awarded at the conclu-
sion.
If you are at all concerned
about how to protect Yourself
and family in case of enemy at
tack or in case of anv natural
disaster, make plans to attend
this course.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25
Both Teams Cop
Title For Second
Consecutive Year

For the second consecutive
year the Tchula Girls Basket
hall team and the Holmes Agri~
cultural High School Boys Bas-
ketball team copied the cham
pionship title of the Holmes
County Basketball Tournament.
The Tourney was held Friday
end Saturday nights in the w.
B. Kenna Gym at Lexington.
Tchula girls defeated Lexing-
ton girls 1884 in the finals Sat-
u1day night.
Holmes Agricultural High
School of Goodman came out
or top in the boys play by de-
feating Durant boys 1870 in the
finals.
High scorer for the girls in
The final game was Mary Ellen
Pike, with 33 points. Others
scoring were Gertrude Baker.
20; Mary Lou Jones, 3; AID Fay
Baker. 2. Billy Randle is the
coach of the girls team and
1chula boys are coached by
CONTINUED On Page Eighty
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25

Sid LETTERS of the Delta Council
was also helpful in the venture.
A. P. Carroll, a director of
MILF, was of great assistance.
The Holmes County Develop
ment Association was formed in
December, 1861, for the purpose
of promoting Holmes County
economically and every way
possible.
w. E. Thurmond heads the
organization and George Null
lendore is secretary.
Officers and members of the
HCDA have provided every as
sistance possible to the engineer
employed .Dy the Miaslsslppl IN
dustrial Land and Timber Cor
poration to determine the site
for the projected industry.
Dale L. Schubert, Tacoma
Washington, industrial engineer
employed by MILF, was in
Holmes County for ten days
surveying properties in Tchula,
Lexington. Durant and Pickens.
The decision made by Schu-
bert favoring Pickens over other
communities in the county was
announced on Wednesday night,
Jan. IL in an executive meeting
of the Holmes County Develop
ment Association.
Once that decision was made,
the next step vas having the
proposed industry cleared by
the Mississippi Agricultural and
Industrial Board. official indus
tr~y-clearing agency for the state,
which was nothing more than a
formality.
The A & I agency approved
the proposal Thursday morning
Jan. 18) and the first public
announcement made by Cover
o Ross Barnett.
Now all parties interested are
eagerly awaiting word from
Washington.
Financing Plan
The new Pickens industry
will be financed largely through
Federal funds as mentioned,
with the owners and the Town
of Pickens making up the bal
ance.
Owners of the corporation,
consisting of several hundred
stockholders, will furnish Is per
cent and the Town of PickenS
will furnih the remaining 10
per cent. The share of Pickens
will be in the nature of the
Shaw building, which MILF
plans to acquire from the bond
! holders of Pickens who own it,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25
Lexington Will Host Mid State Basketball
Tournament Thursday, Friday And Saturday

girls. At $50 Thursday night
Lex gton girls play Walden
girls. Also on Thursday ct us
North Carrollton boys will play
KjImichael boys.
The schedule for Friday night
is Durant boys VS.. Walden boys
at 600; Ethel girls VS.. Durant
girls at Tbs; Lexington boys VS..
McAdams boys at $3.50.
Semi-finols
The semi-finals will be PLAYED
off Saturday morning and after
noon. At HOO a. m. the win
ners of the Ethel Durant and
Kilmichael North Carrollton
girls game will meet. At 100
McAdams will play the winner
of the Lexington-Vaider girls
game.
In the boys games the win
ners of the Durant-Vaiden and
North Carrollton = KiImichael
game will meet at 1918. At
2:45 the winner of the Lexing-
tcn-McAdams game will play
Ethel.
Finals will be played off at
80 and 8:45 Saturday night.
Admission is seventy-five
cents for adults and twenty-five
>ents for students.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25

The capital investment and
the specific product of the in
dustry awaits the approval of
an application for a loan from
the Area Redevelopment Adj
ministration in Washington
which will furnish IS per cent
Of the money. Approval is re-
garded as certain, however.
The new industry will be To-
Gated in Pickens in the area
formerly occupied by Shaw of
Mississippi and the former Shaw
plant is expected to be used as
a warehouse by MILF. 1t will
employ from 70 to 100 men in
the plant and probably five per-
son in the office. Annual pay
roll may run in excess of ST.
0O0, 900.
If the Federal agency ap-
proves a loan application for
$4,000 o the Pickens plant will
manufacture various types OF
tissues, such as facial. toilet, etc.
and the Shaw building may be
used as the plant. 1t would re-
quire about seven months to get
into production and use soft
woods.
Should a $4,000, 900 loan be
approved. the Pickens firm
would manufacture wallboard
and a plant would have to be
constructed, taking about a year
to get into production, and use
hardwoods.
Eventually MILF expects to
manufacture both products.
Optional plans have been pre-
sented to the ARA and as soon
as one of the plans is approved,
operations will move forward.
Payroll for either of the two
types of plants is reported about
the same.
Either plant will require
about 80-100 cords of pulp wood
per day, which would cost about
$1,000 per day for raw materials.
First In State
The new industry is the first
land only one) to be approved
in the state and one of the first
in the nation to be financed
through the Area Redevelop-
ment Administration which was
created by the u. S. Congress
last year to aid depressed areas
Of the country, both rural and
urban.
Congressman Frank Smith of
Greenwood has worked closely
with officers of the Holmes
County Development Associa-
tion under whose sponsorship
the new industry was obtained.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25
Durant MPL Crew Wins Top Award
President Wilson
Addresses Annual
Meeting At Grenada

~
Recognition of the Durant
crew for outstanding workman
ship in construction and a recl-
tai of the company's growth
and development during 1861
by President Baxter Wilson
proved to be the highlights OF
the annual meeting Of the Mis-
sissippi Power and. Light Com
pany Friday evening.
Lexington Local Manager Jim
my East, with Mrs. East, and
Durant Local Manager Tom
Worley attended the affair held
a. the Municipal Auditorium OF
Grenada's recently renovated
City Hall, along with twelve
employees out of the Durant
office, some $50 other employees
of the Company, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter D. Smith of The Lex
ington Advertiser and The Du-
rant News, and a number OF
other special guests.
North Central Division Man
ager Francis Crisis of Grenada
served as POSTMASTER at tn
banquet and introduced special
guests and Company executives
attending.
Special recognition by Presi-
dent Wilson was accorded mem
bers of the Quarter Century
Club. including Mrs. Valley
Molloy of Lexington, though
Continued on Page Eighty
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25
TchuIo Girls, AIS Boys Win Journey
Holmes County Bank & Trust Co. Announce,
New Vice President; Promotions Noted

where he and his family have
taken an apartment in the old
Fuqua home.
Mr.. Powers is married and
has three small children. The
family is Baptist.
The new bank official re-
ceived his education in the
schools of Jackson, being a
graduate of Central High
School. He attended Millsaps
College where he graduated in
1854. He studied with the Amer
lean Institute of Banking and
completed courses in Funda-
mentals of Banking, Negotiable
Instruments. Business Law and
Business Administration.
MIR. Powers was employed by
the City of Jackson from 1854
% 1856 and was a bank exami-
ner for the Federal Deposit In
surance Corporation from 1856
to 1861.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25
Regular Dividend Is
Voted At Annual
Meeting J%onuory 10

Holmes County Bank and
Trust Company announces an
addition to its staff in the per-
son of Mr.. Fred Powers as vice
president and a number of pro-
motions given other personnel
at the annual meeting held
January 10.
The regular dividend was
paid and a substantial amount
passed to surplus at the annual
meeting and officers were
named as follows:
w. r. Ellis, Chairman of
Board; G. H. Marlborough, Vice
Chairman of Board: w. r. Ellis,
Jr., President; w. D. Wilson
Executive Vice President and
Trust Officer; Fred Powers, Vice
President; Mrs. Kathryn H
Ellis, Assistant Vice President;
Ben W. Murphy, Cashier; Mrs.
Jewell Jarrett, Assistant Cashier;
Mrs. Inez M. Roach, Assistant
Cashier.
Mr.. Murphy was promoted to
cashier from assistant cashier.
Mrs. Jarrett was promoted
from head bookkeeper and Mrs
Roach from secretary. to aSSiS-
tant cashiers.
Directors Elected
Directors, all reelected, are as
follows: w. r. Ellis, w. r. Ellis,
Jr., D.. K. Gulledge, S. F. Allen,
G.. H. Marlborough, w. D. Will
son. w. o. Thompson, and H.
F.. Flowers.
Branch Officers
Officers at the various branch
es of the Lexington institution
are D. K. Gulledge, Goodman,
vice president; j. Colline Mel
ton, Walden. Assistant Vice
President. from. Assistant Cash
Ter: Mrs. Hazel A. Fullilove,
Assistant Cashier.
West Bank
At the West branch James r.
Bowie was elected Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Eula Lee Stevens
was promoted to Assistant Vice
President from Assistant Cash.
Ter.
The Holmes County Bank has
common capital stock Of $780,
600 with $250,O00 passed to sur
plus. Undivided profits and re-
serve amount to $74, 80. To-
tai deposits are $5.065, 246.57 and
total resources $500, 1877.
From Grenada +.
Mr.. Powers, the new Vice
President, will assume his office
In Lexington on February 1st
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25
Duront Boys And
Ethel Girls Are
Top Seeded Teams

Lexington will host the Mid
State Conference Basketball
Tournament January 25-26-27.
This big event, which climaxeS
the basketball season, will be
held in the w. B. Kenna Gym
nasium beginning at 600 p. m.
tonight Thursday and ending
with the finals on Saturday
night.
Preliminary games will be
Thursday and Friday nights,
Semi-finals Saturday morning
ard afternoon and finals Satur-
day night.
Ethel girls are the top seeded
girls team in the conference
end Durant boys are the top
ranking boys team. Lexington
boys hold second place and Nc
Adams girls are second ranked
team.
Preliminaries
Preliminaries begin at 900 p.
m. Thursday when Kilmichael
girls meet North C~aorrollton
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25

and existing improvements al
ready in place which were made
by the community to obtain the
Shaw industry.
Nine Factors
Nine factors entered in the
choice of Pickens as the site for
the new pulp industry, and it
was the only town of the four
considered in Holmes County
which had all nine.
These included the existing
Shaw building. water tank al
ready in place to provide ade-
quate water and fire protection,
existing railroad siding, also a
spur track ready to be placed
with only the cross ties to be
obtained and the road bed built:
excellent facilities for both ma
tural gas and electric power;
adjacent to a main highway and
to the Big Black River; and
road to the plant already paved.
Ii addition Pickens also has an
airport.
Holmes County was selected
from all the counties in central
Mississippi because of its near
ness to the source of the raw
materials to be used which will
be supplied by landowners
throughout a wide ares of the
state and the availability of an
adequate labor force.
Large Holdings
Mississippi Industrial Land and
Timber Corporation has already
purchased a large acreage In
the state which will help supply
its need for pulpwood.
The new industry is expected
to be a source of potential in
come for hundreds of landown-
ers / n the area and add thou
sands of dollars to the Holmes
and area economy.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-01-25

Former President Essen
hover in a prepared state
ment told the subcommittee
headed by Mississippi Sena-
tor Stennis this week thai
the communists would be
delighted" if we prevent our
military men from spreading
"the truth" about commu-
nism. He urged that the mill
tary not be gagged and thrust
behind IAN American Iron
Curtain" according to a news
dispatch. President EiSen-
hower's statement was read
by Sen. Stennis.
Free speech is one of the
basic freedoms guaranteed
all Americans under our con-
stitution and Bill of Rights.
The communists undoubtedly
are glad to see Americans
squabbling over freedom of
speech, or any other freedom
we additionally enjoy.
In the name of fighting
communism We should not
violate the rights of any per-
son or obscure the truth.
When we do we are doing
nothing more than initiating
communists and aiding their
cause. The more they can di-
vide us, the greater their own
strength.
President Eisenhower again
criticized the extremists of
both the right and left and
said public concern over
"the communist menace" lays
the issue open to "being ex-
plotted for political pur-
poses"
We have seen plenty of
evidence of this in Missis-
sippi where some politicians
and many people have
equated the racial conflict
with the communist conspi-
racy and have come to re-
gard all aspects of the racial
question as communist in
spired. Nothing is farther