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The Republican., 1962-08-09

siderably over the past decade. As
supporters of the concept that the
government knows best, they rec
ognized only that a problem
existed and that problems are
most effectively solved by the Fed
eral Government, that is, Big
The Republican., 1962-08-09

Government and the resulting cor
ruption and injusticcs which in
evitably follow. If the Government
wants to help mothers, let it re-
ducc expenditures, tighten its ad-
ministrative belt, and stay out of
the babysitting business.
The Republican., 1962-08-09

Brother.
While it is true that in many
families both parents must work to
provide for themselves and their
children, they have been forced
to this devisive practice by the
massive spending programs of the
The Republican., 1962-08-09
Return From Convention

Mr. and Mrs Lloyd Waybright,
L. c. Frey, Robert Crane and John
W. Weber returned to their homes
around Oakland Monday after at
tending three day assembly of
81 congregations of Jehovah's Wit
nesses, held in Charleston, w. Va,
over the weekend.
They heard talks on Take Cour-
age, Gods Kingdom is at Hand"
and Drawing Courage from the
Word of God"
Evening star., 1962-04-16

look at spring through
rose colored accessories
A rose is q rose is pottern, bloom
ing in q complete dozen or en-
broidered deIicoteIy on these fem
mine BurrneI hondkerchiefs. We
show just two from our eorIy-b bloom
ing collection. These, each LOO.
Others, l.5O and 200
Add other accessories to your rose
bouquet with flowers by BiItmore,
created to match BurmeI linen hand
kerchiefs and chiffon kerchiefs. Pick
them in soft pink or in whole eor-
den of fashion coIors for spring.
The Phoebe D. junior rose, 5oc
The Phoebe D. senior rose, 100
Hond-roIed linen handkerchief, Soc
Extra large chiffon kerchiefs. 100
WGL-Hondkerchef and flowers
Washington, Chevy Chose, Wheaton Pozo,
Corners and Alexandria
Evening star., 1962-04-16

when Woodies stores your
furs they pamper them
Pomper your precious furs by bring
ing them to Woodward 6 Lothrop
for repair, cleaning and Storage.
Furs ore meticuIousIy checked for
rips and worn places, then our ex-
perts can repair them to help restore
their original appearance. After
cleaning and repair, they ore tucked
carefully into our modern scientific
storage vouIts to protect them from
moths, midew, fire and theft. Now
is the wise time to plan summer
storage.
WGL-Fur Storage ond Repair =.
Washington, Chevy Chose,
Wheaton Plozo and ! Corners
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go in the near future to give
away the prizes they did not
give away before. Watch the
paper for time and place.
The following merchants
donated prizes: Cohens, Hy-
dratane, Charlotte's for Beau
ty, R. & w. Building & Sup
ply, Crown Service Station,
Western Auto, Flowers Dept.
Store, McLellan's Service Sta
ton, Ellison's, Sunshine Clean
ers, Browns, The Fincher Co.,
Peoples Drug Store, Welcome
Inn Cafe, Heinrich Drug Store,
T. & T. Grocery, Lexington
Industries, Sues Beauty Shop,
Barber Shop, Riley's,
Volunteer Grocery, Lexington
Hardware, Lannon'S Jewelry,
Stepp & Lott Lumber Co.,
Weathersby Chevrolet, Mod
ern Beauty Lounge, Lexington
Automotive Parts, Phelps,
Pattersons, Williams Outlet
Store, Liberty Cash Grocery,
Super Service Station, Orchid
Beauty Shop, Moses Ford Co.,
Hollingsworth's Oldsmobile,
Bill Power Grocery and Mkt,
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
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Last Rites Held
For Victor Byrd

Victor Lavender Byrd died
on Sunday, August 26th at
1920 am. in the Golden Age
Nursing Home in Greenwood
following several years of
falling health. He was So.
"Vic" as he was known to
his many friends, was born
June LIST, 1904, in Holmes
county, the son of Mr.. Gale
Byrd and Mrs. Fannie Fryer
Byrd and had spent his en-
tire life in the county as a
landowner and successful far
ner.
He was a member of Hebron
Methodist Church where fun
eral services were held at 3
pm. on Monday, August q,
with Rev. Dennis Johnson Of
floating. Interment was in
the church cemetery with
Southern Funeral Home in
barge of arrangements.
Mr.. Byrd is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Annie Wigley
Byrd of the Brozville COM
munity, and four children.
The sons are Walter Gale
Byrd of Clinton, and Edward
Ellis Byrd. The daughters
are Mrs. Riley (Bernice)
Brooks Of Calhoun City and
Mrs. Jimmy (HazeD Mcbride
of Natchez. A sister, Mrs.
Paul Hansen, a brother, Mr..
Motion Byrd of Lexington.
Pallbearers were Billy eau
sey, Oscar Dawes, Edward
Frost, Dewitt Poe, Udonnell
Spell and Edward Weems.
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Committees
Elected Today
Formers Urged To
Cast BuIIots In
Annual Election

Farmers of Holmes County
are being urged to take part
in the election of their local
Community ASC Committee,
which is scheduled for Thurs
day, September 6, 1862.
An announcement by Mr..
Lynn Jordan, County Agricul-
tural Sterilization and Conser-
walton Committee Chairman,
points out that this annual
election is one in which all
eligible farmers should feel a
duty to participate.
The community ASC COM
mittee to be elected consists
Of three regular members and
two alternate. The chairman
and vice chairman of the
elected committee will serve
as delegate and alternate dele
gate to the county convention
where the county ASC COM
mittee will be chosen.
Any person may vote in the
community election who is of
legal voting age, who has an
interest in a farm as an own
err, tenant, or sharecropper,
and who is taking part in one
of the farm programs admin
stored by the committee. Also,
any person not of legal voting
age, but who is in charge of
the supervision and conduct
of the farming operations on
an entire farm, is eligible to
vote. In the case of joint own
ership by two or more indi-
viduals, each is an eligible
voter.
There are some limita.
tons on voting. Each voter is
entitled to only one vote on
any one ballot. If a voter has
an interest in a farm, or farms
in more than one community
in a county, he or she may
select the community in which
he or she wishes to vote, but
the vote may be cast in. only
one community of the coun-
ty. Voting by proxy is not
allowable. In the case of pat
nership farms, the vote may
be cast by either partner.
and a corporations vote may
be cast by any authorized Of
fioer of the corporation.
Because of the vital par
that the ASC community and
county committee play in the
farming affairs of the county
it is important that each
farmer give serious considera-
ton to the men elected tt
these posts.
All information concerning
the election, on September 3
1862, may be obtained by con-
tacting the County Agricul'
tural Sterilization and Con-
servation Service Office.
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.Durant Man Heads Public Relations
N.

MURFREESBORO, N. c.
(Special)-The Rev. Virgil L..
Mcbride, who preached seven
years before coming to Cho-
wan College last summer, de-
clares he doesn't feel he has
left the ministry at all.
AS assistant to the Presi-
dent of Chowan College in
charge of public affairs, the
Rev. Mr.. McBride's duties in
clude sending news releases
to a hundred newspapers and
periodicals in North Carolina
AND Virginia, managing the
speakers bureau, making ap-
.pointments, and speaking for
the college. He also announ-
ces home football games and
coordinates Homecoming Day.
81 feel Pm preaching now
more than ever through the
various ministries of public
relations. Working with and
fo- young people in a Chris
tan College is very reward
ing and challenging" the Rev.
Mr.. Mcbride recently said.
In speaking to churches
to churches and C i v ic
groups on behalf Of Christian
education, this dynamic speak
er often points to the advan-
tage of a small junior col
lege. He notes the close re-
lationship between faculty
and students at Chowan where
the ratio of II students to one
faculty member and each
student has a faculty advisor.
The Baptist ministers wide
experience belle his three de-
cades of life. In addition to
his seven years as student
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Mrs. F. Humphreys
Dies In Memphis

Mrs. Floyd Ashe Humph-
reys, of Memphis, daughter
of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
George Ashe Wilson of Lex
ington, died at her home in
Parkview Hotel on Friday
August 31st.
Mrs. Humphreys 70, was
born in Lexington at the Will
son home now standing near
the Illinois Central Depot. She
made her home in Greenwood
before moving to Memphis
She was the widow Of the
late Benjamin G.. Humphreys.
During World War /, Mr.
and Mrs. Humphreys lived in
Hoylake, England and they
cared for several refugee
children in their home.
Mrs. Humphreys is survived
by a daughter, Mrs. Edward
Woodson, Memphis, and
son, George Wilson Humph-
reys, also of Memphis, a sis
ter, Mrs. John II. McBee,
Greenwood, a brother, George
Ashe, also of Greenwood,
Seven grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren
Funeral services were held
on Saturday, September first,
in the chapel of Second Pres
byterian Church in Memphis
where she was a member.
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Holmes Bulldogs Open
7 ooi9ht Against Perk
District Governor To Visit Lions -.

The Lions Club of Lexing-
ton will welcome Hubert B.
Scrivener, District Governor,
District 80 E, Lions Internal
ional, which includes thirty
six (36) clubs in this section
of the state.
Lion Scrivener is a post.
master at Maben and is a
member of the Maben Club
and with that club holds a
perfect attendance record over
eleven years. He holds two
key awards for securing men,
bers in the Maben Club and
likewise has been very instru-
mental in organizing new
clubs for which he has also
been recognized. At the pres
ent he is working on several
possible new clubs and has
enc ready for Charter night.
Lion Scrivener has also been
very active in the Mississippi
Chapter, National Association
of Postmasters, having held
many offices including those
Of president and secretary. He
recently returned from Eu-
rope after attending the con-
vention of Lions international
at Nice. !
A recent meeting of his
cabinet at Louisville with rep
resentatives from every sect
ion of Dist. 80 E-was termed
one of the best of its kind
ever held.
District Governor Scrivener
will visit the Lexington Lions
Club, which meets at the
Grammar School lunchroom,
both to advise and to assist
that club in matters pertain
ing to Lions administration
and the Lions program Of hu-
manitarian service.
Lion Scrivener is one of
391 district goversors who
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supervise the activities of
more than 1892 Lions Clubs.
These clubs in 118 countries
of the free world have a
membership Of over 655, 900,
each of whom is imbued with
the Lion slogan eve serve"
Lions Clubs continue to go
forward and each club not
only takes an active part in
sight conservation but can
always be found helping the
community go forward.
The Lexington Lions Club
is no exception and is rated
over the state and district 80
E as one of the most active
clubs.
Lion Malcolm Phillips is
president of the Club and will
present District Gov. Scriv-
ener to the group on Monday,
September II.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06
Locals Ranked
At Top Of JC
Conference 81

Holmes Junior College Bull
dogs open the 1862 season
against tough Perkinston Jun
ior College at home Thursday
night on Branch Field. Game
time is 800 pm.
Coach Billy Mustin's Dogs
have been ranked as the team
to beat, along with Jones in
the Mississippi &c Confer
cree this fall.
The "kiss of death applied
to the CANNES has brought
some concern to Muslin who
can't figure it out after los
ing some top-flight backs
in Ode Burrell, Johnny Ma
sen and Phil Strickland.
"The spirit of the boys has
been fine" stated the head
mentor. I'VE hope to be
ready to give Perkinston a
real battle"
The probable offensive
starting lineup will have
sophomore Charles Myers
set to author the attack at
quarterback with halfbacks
Morris Keith, the only fresh
man among the starters, and
Ralph Walker at halves and
Charles McCluskey at the full
ack post.
Jimmy Wittemore and
Johnny Vaughn will be set
at the end posts with Charles
Peoples and Billy Straw
bridge slated at tackles. Jack
Scarborough and Doug Peter
son will open at guards and
jimmy Phillips at center.
Others singled out by Mus
tin to see action will be end
Ben Andrews, tackles Paul
Swindoll, Alan Wallace and
John McAdams, guards Don
Estes and Jimmy Brown,
; quarserbacks Robert Maras-
Gallo and Roger Bynum and
halfbacks Bill Kindred, Ros-
coe Rosamond, Thomas CAT
fey, Paul Hale and Doug
Jones and James Harrison.
The series with Perkinston
since 1945 has always been
holly contested with Holmes
holding a 9-8 edge.
Holmes corraled a narrow
14-0 verdict last season and
since 1854 both teams have
been swapping victories every
o..ller year.
New coach Harold Wesson
has brought new blood to
perk with several top-notch
transfers and from all indi-
cations the game promises to
Ne a thriller.
The series history since
S45 is as follows:
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Library CIosings
Noted By Board;
Open Saturdays

The Holmes County Library
Board announces, that effect
i've September 8, 1862, all full
time branches Of the Holmes
County Library System will
be closed one day a week
governed by the closing of the
business establishments o.
their respective town. AL
libraries will be open on Sat
urday.
Mrs. J. K. Barwick, Sec'y.,
Holmes County Library
Board.
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and full-time pastor of chur-
ches Is Mississippi, Alabama,
and North Carolina, ne. has
served in the U. S. Navy and
the Naval Reserve, the Bu-
reau of Naval Personnel
under civil service, and held
REVEALS in four states. He has
also supplied numerous pull
pits in Northeastern North
Carolina.
A native of Durant, he is a
graduate of Durant High
School and received his BA
degree from Mississippi Col
lege and a BID degree from
Southeastern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06
BY Hazel BrannOn Smith

When the white leadership
Of Mississippi fails to face
up to its responsibilities il
should not be surprising that
something else should try to
move in and take its place.
The headlines during tn {
past weeks have dealt with
the organized efforts of "out-
siders" inside Mississippi -
particularly in regard to Ne
gro voter registration.
Negro voter registration has
been actively discouraged ir
many areas of the state as we
all know = there are some
twelve or fourteen countie.
which do not have a single
registered Negro voter. Thi.
has been the case because the
white leadership in those coun
ties has been land still is,
afraid of Negro domination at
the polls.
This is understandable -
but it does not answer oul
problem. r
Nor do we personally pro-
TESS to have a solution.
But it seems to us that if
we continue to fail to mea-
sure up to our responsible
ties under the law in this
respect, that We are destined
to face even greater problems
IN the near future.
Those persons who have
advocated a policy of no Ne
gro voting whatever are now
faced with what may be a
problem of mass registration
at the polls under compulsion
Of federal law = whereas If
the right to registration had
been open to persons ire
spective of race, and the de-
cision thereby left up to the
Individual Negro citizen, then
there would be fewer persons
inclined to exercise theil
rights"
It's the same old story of a
man determined to have
what someone else would
deny him.
1t seems -agic to us that
the situation should have
ever dcter:crated to such {
degree in Mississippi.
But the responsible white
leadership has been, ane
still is, virtually nmobilized
because Of real fear of the
white Citizers Councils ane
what it believes the Councils
can do.
And that fact largely &C
counts for the lack of intelli-
gent, responsible Leadership
from the Governor, tn
Legislature, the press and the
clergy.
All Of us have been afraid
to face up to what we know
to be facts and say then
out loud where anyone could
hear = instead we have been
burying our heads in the sand
like ostriches. We have been
largely ignoring the truth and
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06
GARDEN CLUB MEETS

The Lexington Garden Club
will hold a meeting on Tues
day, September 18th, at ;
pm, at the City Hall. I'm
mediately following the bust
ness session, new club mem
bers will be honored with an
informal tea.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06

WALTER SULLIVAN, JR. received me- chandise certificates and cash total
ing about $4,000 from Lexington mere nants for growing the first 1862 bale Of
cotton in Holmes County which as gin he'd in an area gin an stored in the
Lexington Compress. I @*@
Herman Flowers, chairman of Trade Promotions for the Lexington Chamber
of Commerce, sponsor OF the cotton pro notion, presents the certificates and cash
young Sullivan in above staff photo rs members of the committee, A. j Davis
and w. E. Thurmond, look N.
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wishing it would go away.
But it won't. The problem has
come to Mississippi. 1t is here
now.
The racial agitators have
moved in only because our
own native white leadership
has failed = and their work
will be effective only if an
intimidated white leadership
continues to fail to live up to
its responsibilities.
The disciples of division and
strife are working both sides
of the street - the side OF
the segregationist as well as
the integrationist. They have
done their work well - be-
cause they have divided the
great mass of Mississippians,
both white and Negro, who
want only to live and let live
in decency, individual dignity
and pride = pride in our
selves and each other, pride
in our state and hope for its
future.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06

MISS GWENDA HAMMETT. a beautiful brunette,
is Holmes County's new Forestry Queen. A senior at
Lexington High School, Miss Hammett is the daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold F. Hammett. She will
represent Holmes County in the Delta District COM
petition to be held September n at Hollandale.
Queen Gwenda is pictured above as she received
the crown from last years queen, Miss Sharon Daniel
of Durant. Smokey the Bear is an interested observer
att the ceremony held August % at w. B. Kenna Audi
forum in Lexington.
Miss Frances Peacock of Acona was selected as
first alternate and Miss Billy Faye Knox of Tchula
second alternate from the field of twenty-five lovely
Holmes County girls.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06
Appreciation Noted
By %Jaycettes For
|Bingo Success

The Jaycettes wish to thank
everyone for making their
Bingo a success. Proceeds of
$3.50, were used for play
ground equipment for the
Grammar School.
There will be another Bin
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06
School In London

School In London
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville E
Blake and five children
sailed on the SIS United States
August 25th and are now In
London where he will attend
the world famed London
School of Economics. Mr.. Blake
is the son of Mrs. M. E. Blake
and the late Mr.. Blake OF
Lexington.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06

From Texas
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Martin
o Wichita Falls, Texas, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Lonnie
BoatWright on Monday.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06

Mississippi has no sympa-
thy from other states in our
widespread denial of voting
rights to Negroes = not even
our own Southern neighbors
so along with us.
E. L. Holland, Jr., Editorial
Page Editor of The Birming-
ham (Ala.) News, discusses
the question in a lead edi-
torial in his newspaper Sun
day, September 2, entitled
"Iou Can't Deny Voting
Rights"
We are reprinting this edi-
torial in full this week as our
guest editorial. 1t gives some
idea of how others see us.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-09-06

FARM BUREAU QUEEN of 196263 is Miss Patricia Chilm, pictured as she
receives the crown from Miss Gloria Powell, who "a first alternate to last
wears queen Miss Betye Branch of Goodman, O Mrs.. Ned Alan Mitchell
Miss Chisolm is the lovely daughter of Mr.. and Mrs H. E. Chsolm of Cox
burg. She is a sophomore at Holmes Junior College.
Pictured with the new Holmes Queen are Miss Jen Maxwell OF Pckens, chosen
as first alternate and the crown bearers little Miss Lee Anne Frzen and Master
John Ddy Porter #s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
Plane Falls;
q House
Feared Dead

NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 10
(AP).-Six occupants of an Air
Force C-119 were believed to
have bailed out of the Flying
Boxcar" before it crashed into
a house % miles southeast of
here and repeatedly killed four
occupants tonight.
The dead were identified by
neighborS as Lubrett Levron,
his wife, and two children. an
other child. aged 7, was taken
to a hospital.
Two crewmen on the C-119
said they believed all six occu-
pants of the plane bailed out.
1t. Louis Yklensen of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, the navigator, and
Herb Madison of near Dayton,
Ohio, the engineer, were reluct-
ant to talk about the crash
until it could be investigated.
She (the plane) sure was
going down fast" Mr.. Madison
said. Il hope they all got out"
The Clio was based at Gin
ton County Air Force Base in
Ohio.
The plane left nearby Alvin
Calender Field on a training
flight to MacDill Air Force
Base at Tampa, Fla. The huge
craft apparently developed en-
CINE trouble and started to
return.
The radar at Calender Field
lost contact with the plane
about nine miles southeast of
the field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
Expecting Phone Call?
It's in Your Pocket

First they offered telephones
for every room in your house,
and then they offered to place
one in your car.
And now they are going to
put the next thing to phone
right in your pocket.
1t is a buzzer device called
the Bell Boy" which the tele-
phone company is about to
offer those persons who want
their calls wherever they are,
AS described by a spokesman
for the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co., Bell Boy per-
mitS a wandering executive or
salesman to keep in constant
touch with his office by using
a transformed receiver, slight
ly larger than a pack of king
sized cigarettes.
If someone calls his office
while he is out, his secretary
takes the message and then
dials the number Of his re-
ceiver. The receiver buzzes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11

property - or what's left of it
: is being watched by Ma
tional Guardsmen and State
troopers, he added.
Roadblocks have been set up
on US Route so at the bridge
from the mainland to Ocean
City, and on State Route 528
at the Delaware border, he
said.
In addition, Chincoteague
Bay, Sinepuxent Bay and ASA
woman Bay are being patrolled
to keep persons from rowing
across to the narrow sand spit
south of Ocean City and Mary
land Beach.
REHOBOTH BEACH, DEL
The town is open, except for
the ocean-front area, authori-
ties said. Those with summer
homes on the beachfront, where
most of the damage occurred,
will be required to get passes.
Officials reported merchants
See VISITORS, Page B.