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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-03-21

Freshmen include outfield-
er David Sim, Alderman:
second baseman Otha Shiv-
ers, Madison; pitcher and
first baseman Payne Spence,
Grenada; second baseman
Perry Spence, Grenada; pit
cher Marshall Stafford, Win
ona; outfielder Sammy Stay,
Ethel; outfielder and pitcher
BRYAN Fore, Lexington; and
outfielder-catcher Duard Ste
wart, Walden.
Managers are John Dag
gett and Pete Peterman.
1863 Baseball Schedule
March % = Northwest
Home
March % - Northeast
Home
March 20 Mississippi Delta
Home
April 5 - Itawamba
There
April 6 - East Mississippi
There
April IL - Northwest
There
April Is - Northeast
There
April is = Belhaven
There
April 10 - Mississippi Delta
There
April rs - Itawamba
Home
April ~ - East Mississippi
Home L----
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Dick Sanders On Comment"
Political Faction Would Take Over State
(WLBT March 14)

This Comment" is about political
SPECULATION raised last night and today
because of the last-minute court effort
to keep Mississippi State from playing
in the NCAA basketball tournament.
In the conversations while report
ers, attorneys, and the curious waited
for court action, the question was
raised, 'sWas this injunction filed as a
shrewd political move to put Attorney
General Joe Patterson on the spot and
add fuel to Senator John McLaurin's
campaign against him?"
The ATTORNEY Generals office is
charged with defending state agencies
when thew are brought into court. in
Guiding the state college board and the
universities.
This s,,it has nut the ATTORNEY
Generals office in The nocitinn of hav-
ing to defend the right of the Missis-
sipni State team to- play in an integral
ed tournament.
In some areas, this can be an an
pealing point from the stump, and
there are manv who believe the suit
was filed with this purpose in mind.
Tt is said there is a thread of con-
tinuity running from the Ole Miss af-
fair and the Citizens Council group
that helned formulate the plan that
was DESIGNED to force armed federal
jn+ervnntion through the recent
presidential elector plan which was
first presented to the legislature by
some of these same people -. and con-
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percentage gain of 1852 percent and
appears to be rather remarkable.
Especially does it appear good when
comrared with the U. S. as a whole
which had a gain of 1929 percent, the
median advancing from $3.50 in 1949
TO $4.791 in 1859.
But percentages don't tell an ac-
curate story. In 1859 this states
median income was 1887 behind the
nations average. Despite all our big
percentage gain, Mississippi in 1859
was S2.072 behind the national average.
Hence during the ten year periods
we dropped S485 behind the nations
total average Or about 80 percent loss
over that period.
And, so, in spite of the big per-
centaee gain in comnarison with our
income in 1949 and 1852. we find that
when we compare with the national
change we did fall behind and material
Nv so. We simply did not keep up with
the average income advance in dollars
and cents. and that is the true measure
of accomplishment.
IF we are ever going to catch up
with the nation as a whole We are go
ing to have to double our ACCOMPLISH
ment of the past decade. In fact, more
likely to have to tribe it or better, be
cause the national income median may
show a greater gain this decade than
fhe nrevious one. It is going to be a
Hercn1ean task.
While we can take bride in recent
economic pains. we are not Keeping
pace with the nation as a whole.
When the wear 1000 dawns will
Mississippi still be a state with perhaps
two and a half million neople and q per
canita income among the lowest Of all
fifty states?
That is the grim probability and
possibility we must face up to soon.
Right now we are racing hard but
actually falling behind.
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HOLMES B
NATIONAL GUARD
Is REACTIVATED

Battery B, Of the 114th
Field Artillery. Mississippi
National Guard, was re-
activated Friday, with Sec
ond Lieutenant Louis D.
Pepper in command, and
Dudley Rinicker as warrant
officer. Lieutenant Pepper
served in both the Navy and
the Army for two years each
after World War II.
The authorized strength of
the Battery will be 33 enlist
ed men, and three officers.
Fourteen Holmes men have
already enlisted. including
Douglas Hester. Charles Eli
son. Edgar Scapgs. Hugh
Skinner, Vernon Bailey and
Charles Sykes. all Of Lexing-
ton; Birdie Lee Keen, and
T. j. Hutchinson of Durant.
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tinuing to yesterdays injunction a.
gainst State.
State Senator McLaurin and Kinds
County County Judge Russell Moore
were prominently identified with
both the Ole Miss affair and the cleo
tors plan.
And though it NAV have been Just
coincidence, one of the persons who
SIGNED the bond so the writ could be
issued in Kinds County was Judge
Russell Moore's court stenographer
and Moore was the one who took the
petition to Chancellor Stokes Robert
son. And there are other reported
condolences we haven't been able to
check out.
What energies is q pattern of a
well-nlanred campaign of this faction
of Mississippi politics to take over the
state political scene. with control, both
locally and nationally.
The Ole Miss affair produces the
dramatic issue for a CAMPAIGN - the
electors plan, as n senator was pre-
pared to argue on the floor, is designed
to turn the states Democratic
party machinery over to the Unpledg-
ed Elector groun They are working to
nut their candidate in the Attorney
Generals office-and apparent1v Mey
feel they can elect their candidate as
governor.
Or so the political speculation goes
its open to argument-but it's a
good indication that we're in for q long
hot summer of politics.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO

JUST c $3.50
Reprinted from Lexington
High Beacon)
Elsie Boyd beating UP
Wallace johnson.
Ed Lipsev, Joe Braddock
and Allen Murtagh as woman
haters. IA
Lbs with no telephone.
Floise Moore failing in de-
pertinent.
Grace. Lucas with long yell
low curls.
Charlotte Pvrd taking over
Miss Met afferty's class as
English teacher.
Martha Ann Kealhofer
with a crew cut.
Everybody making a hun
dred on geometry test.
Patricia Scobey weighing
200 pounds and chasing boys.
George Lannon's being a
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-03-21
TchuIo Gurden Club
Announces Annual
Flower Show Plans

Mrs. Everarde Jones, gen.
eral chairman of Tchula
Garden Clubs Annual Flo
wer Show, announces plans
for the show, to be presented
April Oath, at the City Hall
in Tchula.
The theme for this years
show is Salute The Ameri-
can Woman. There will be a
Horticulture Division entitled
"How Her Garden Crows;
Artistic Division: Junior
Garden Club, School Days;
and Conservation and Educa-
ton Exhibit. !
The following members
will serve as chairmen of
the committees: President,
Mrs. w. G. Gwin: Flower
Show Chairman, Mrs. Ever
arde Jones, ST.; Co-Chair-
man, Mrs. S. J. Foose, Jr.;
Schedule Committee, Mrs. c..
c. Wade: Staging Committee,
Mrs. N. B. Parrish, Sr.;
Properties and Dismantling
Committee: Mrs. III. C Water
er, Sr.; Entries Committee,
Mrs. B. B. Brannon; Judges
Committee, Mrs. S. J. Foose,
Sr.; Hospitality Committee,
Mrs. c. w. Spradley; Clerks
Committee, Mrs. S. j. Foose,
Jr.; Awards Chairman, Mrs.
E. ]. Sheppard: Publicity
Chairman, Mrs. j. l. Shields;
Conservation and Education
Chairman, Mrs. D. c. Scott;
Junior Garden Club Chair
men, Mrs. Ned Parrish, Jr.,
and Miss Lorraine Norman.
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Duune Tucker Saws
Thinks" To Those
Buying 4-H Animals

Assistant County Agent
Duane Tucker said he wished
to express through this news
paper his deep appreciation
to those who bought animals
at the District Show in
Greenwood last week, thus
encouraging the All bows
and girls of Holmes County.
Among those buying were
John Kim brough, Omega
Plantation, People Drug
Store. Weathersby Chevrolet-
Buick. Hrmphrey-o'R eiily
Company, Humphrey Gin of
Ebenezer. McL91ahs Texaco
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TWO CHILDREN INJURED
IN ACCIDENT

Little Jewel Eel, daugh-
fer Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Eel. was painfully injured
on Monday in a fall from a
Jog wagon. She and little
Maggie Written were riding
on the wagon with Mr.. Whit
ten when the mules became
frightened and the children
fell off Magpia was not hurt.
The wide tires of a wheel
passed over Jewels legs a.
bout the knees. and she re-
ceived bad cuts and bruises
from the hard gravel. She
was rushed up town from
east Lexington for immediate
medical aid.
On Tuesday afternoon lit
tie Sarah Bennett. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Ben
nett of north Lexington suf-
fered a fractured arm, while
playing in the yard with her
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Of the President and his bro
ther. the Attorney General.
It's most specious implica-
tion wus that Mississippi
would have allowed Mr.. Me-
redith TO enroll peaceably at
fhe unworthy If only the Al
forney General had awaited
The completion of The Judi
cial processes which he had
invoged." On argument later
raised bv The honorable Mr..
John Ssfterfield. immediate
past president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association and a
native Mississippian.
Such a brazen attempt to
shift the suitability from
those responsible for the
violence to those enforcing
the law could succeed only
among a people suffering
from a touch of paranoia.
But Mr.. Satterfield main
tanned an Olympian judicial
composure compared with
JUDGE O'Barr who. in his
charge to the LAFAYETTE
County Grand jury investi-
eating the death of two peo-
pie on the night of the riot,
described the United States
Supreme Court as made up
OF political greedy old men"
who together with the hun
Egrv. mad. ruthless. unoodlv,
power-mad men lin Wash
ineton) would change this
government from a democrat
CIV to a totalitarian dictator
ship" The grand Jury re-
sponded appropriately with
an Indictment of the chief
marshal for setting off the
riot {.
Exactly one month after
fhe riot a thousand Women
for Constitutional Govern
ment" were called TO Jack
son by the sister of the
Speaker of the Mississippi
House Of Representatives to
udopf a bill of grievances"
against the "unwarranted
and unlawful use of military
force" and the alleged viola
ton Of fwhite) Mississip-
pions civil rights resulting
from The collision of the
President Of the United
Sfdtes. the Justice Depart
ment. md the federal courts"
The high-flown language Of
these indignant women OBJ
scured. for Mississippians at
least. the rank inaccuracy Of
their fucfs.
Politically conscious edu-
Gators swan with this tide
and the Mississippi Baptist
Convention even decided not
to vote on a resolution re-
affirming "our intelligent
good will toward all Chris
tians to pray = that we may
live - consistent with Chris
tan citizenship"
AS one clergyman put it,
such a statement would be
open to misinterpretation
and would be "most unwise
at this time" One of the few
Independent minded minis
tiers in the state summed it
up rather sadly: "The church
in Mississippi has said that
segregation is the Christian
way" And so it has.
1t is well known that be-
hind most of the present
agitation in MiSsiSsippi
stands the powerful and
semi-secret White Citizens
Council. In November tn
Council issued a document
from an anonymous source
calling for a referendum on
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-03-21
Attend Funeral

Attend Funeral
Miss Martha Brooks Park
er of Mississippi State Col
lege for Women, was join
ed on Saturday by Mr.. and
Mrs. Alton Parker for q visit
in Itta Bena with Mr.. Park
er's sisters, Mrs. w. N. Du-
bard and Mrs. F. M. Frazier.
On Sunday Afternoon the
family continued to Herman.
do to. attend the funeral OF
Mr., Parkers great nephew,
Edward, Pickle. Mr.. Pickle,
IS. lost his life ii ! tow boat
accident. --L
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-03-21

E tAH.sA .A4M HrHhat
Following is an article
published in The Economist,
London. England, on the
Meredith case. It was titled
as the headline above1
from A Correspondent
in Mississippi)
The riot at the University
of Mississippi in Oxford on
September 30th may have
shocked the civilized world,
hut it was only a spectacu-
lar incident in a train of
events of which the end is
not in sight.
The real question is whe-
Their the forces of the far
right, directed by the White
Citizens Council will gain
control Of the university and
thus complete their domi-
nation of the state. Several
hundred reporters came to
Mississippi to ferret out what
actually happened when a
Negro. Mr.. Meredith, de-
manded admittance to the
university and why it hap
pened. BY and large their re-
ports were accurate.
Those who wish TO under
stand must conclude that.
while President Kennedy
may have made some incl
denial errors in his effort TO
GET Mississipui 10 obide by
decisions Of the federal courts
aquinst raciul segregation in
It's university. in general his
approach to a delicute prob
lem has been one Of great
UNDERSTANDING. patience and
calm perseverance.
This is accented bv all the
world except Mississippi.
With a long history of being
on the defensive against out
side criticism and a predispo-
sition to believe that their
own leaders can do no wrong,
the people of Governor Bar
nett's sovereign domain have
accepted the idea that they
were the victims of a bru-
tai invasion consciously plan
ned by the dictatorial Ken
nedv brothers.
The fraud which shifted
the blame for the riot from
state officials to federal mar
shals started when the uni
versity administration at
tempted to justify its own
conduct and tried to placate
the political powers in the
state capital.
Governor Barnett and SEN
ator Eastldnd Of Mississippi
took up. and grossly exag-
gerated. the cry and called
Tor federal and state inves-
LEGATIONS; these came to no.
thing because they RON into
stubborn and unpalatable
facts. -ssvW
But the barrage OF propa-
ganda was just getting UP
steam. The two newspapers
in Jackson, the state capital,
which are owned by the
same family, poured forth a
steady flow of distorted news
and i~nflammatory invective
against all who were inclin-
ed TO- dissent. Mississippians
were led to believe that the
rest Of the country was
rallying behind Governor
Barnett.
The Mississippi Junior
Chamber Of Commerce dis
tributed more than a quar-
ter Of a million copies of
phamphlet entitled oxford:
a Warning for Americans"
which put the blame for the
riot squarely on the shoulders
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closing the racially inte-
grated university (the coun-
Gil itself pretended to be
neutral on the proposal but
recommended the use Of
democratic procedures).
A minister in Oxford has
stated publically that preach
~ who refused TO 90 along
with Citizens Council were
presumed out of the pulpifs
they held" II is generally
acknowledged that q recent
postcard CAMPAIGN 10 secure
the dimissnl of certain mod
crate professors at the uni
versitv originated with the
council.
Not only is it suspected of
directing the hundreds Of
hoodlums to the university
grounds on the NIGHT of the
riot but it has also openly
encouraged defiance of the
university authorities by ex-
tremist students. If is hard
w surprising that Mr. Mere
dith is CONSIDERING leaving
the UNIVERSITY when the pre-
sent terms ends this month.
The attitude of members
of the Mississippi LEGISLATURE
nav be illustrated by 2 reso-
11r+ion in the State Senate:
"Ploodshed. strife and tur-
MOL have been brought
about within our Nation by
a despotic, ruthless and cor
ruDted administration in
WASHINGTON headed by the
Kennedy Klsn.' A few legi-
slators demanded the i'm
~peachment of the President.
At the end of November.
tho Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools placed
the university of Mississippi
under close surveillance with
a sharp warning that fur
Their political interference in
its affairs would result in the
university losing its official
academic standing.
AT once the association be-
come the target of a blister
inq attack bv press and poll
ticians In Mississippi. Judge
MCGOWAN a stuunch advocate
of The status quo ante bel
1um 1.-THE Civil War;. CHARGED
thut II catered to Socialist
minded professors" who had
deliberately ignored the COM
munist plot to stir up racial
trouble in the South. and de-
monded IFS abolition.
Anywhere else in the world
a revulsion might be expect
ed against such fraud, gross
intimidation and violence.
But in Mississippi there has
been no 1essening of the re-
solve to preserve southern
folkways regardless of what
the federal courts may say,
and no amelioration of the
vigilante methods being used.
Harassment of the mod
crate or the dissenter is
growing: conform or get
out of the state" is the cry
= Mississippi still says
Never" to its Negro citizens
and asks the rest of the
world to leave it alone to
sulk in its own misery and
self-pity.
Thomas Jefferson may
have been right in thinking
that the average man would
make wise decisions when
confronted with the facts but
his proposition has no reality
in the closed society that is
Mississippi.
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Through The Years
Items Of interest from the past taken from cur filea
Of The Lexington Advertiser and The Durant News.
BY Ruth B. Flower
TEN YEARS AGO
By Ruth B. Flower

All of these men have been
in service before.
In addition to those en-
listed before are Alvin
Brock, Henry Herbert Dow
ner, Robert Harrison and
Robert Ware. all of Lexing-
ton. The latter group are
high school boys who have
not been in the service be-
fore.
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HOLMES All BOYS
WIN HIGH HONORS

Three Holmes County All
Club boys exhibited five
beef animals last week at
Greenwood and took high
honors.
Larry Hand of West, Here
ford heifers: Jan Stone, of
West, Hereford bulls; and
Mack Etheridge won on
Aberdeen-Angus heifer cal
yes.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-03-21
SHOWS OLD
PAPER ISSUED IN 1883

E. c.. Wentworth of Pick
ems visited The Lexington
Advertiser office this week,
and left a copy Of The Ad-
vertiser that was published
on November 80, 1883. The
edition was published under
the editorial and publishing
direction of the beloved Cap
tain C.. O%ltenburg. The news
paper was among the pos
sessions Of Mr.. Wentworth's
father, the late Captain r. G..
Wentworth. It contained the
Constitution Of the Holmes
County Farmers Alliance,
and many familiar names.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-03-21

CITIZENS OF TOMORROW in Lexington will be
featured this week as they look now. Someday these
youngsters will be in positions of responsibility in our
city and county.
They are: L to r, Paula, Alex, and Pamela Cooksey,
three and five-year-old daughters, and thirteen-months-
old son, of Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Cooksey.
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THIRTY YEARS ACC

brother. Both children fell
and Sarah's arm struck a
brick. breaking the arm Just
above the elbow. She was
placed in the hospital where
treatment was given.
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Rndium treatment is now
available at the Holmes Corln
tv Community HOSPITAL. The
late DR.. r. M. Stenhenson,
in the last wear of his life.
set his heart on maxine Ra-
dunn treatment available to
an He addressed the Rotary
Club, and ACCOMPANIED by
Lester Barr, made trips in
the interest of the need for
Radium.
Following the death Of the
bio hearted Doctor. Mr.. Barr
continued the work until it
was completed. He was as
sisted by Rotarians. Junior
Chamber of Commerce and
numerous individuals.
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Attend the Church of your
choice this Sundayl /,
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Service Station, Jordan Radio
& TV and the Greenwood
Staple Cotton Association.
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AS OTHERS SEE US
Where White Is Black

(Reprinted From The Economist. London. Eneland)
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regular high school Casano-
va.
- Smoky Phelps baldheaded.
m, srrpHENsoN's IDEA
o A REALITY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-22
Evening. Cont.
7:30 q WALT DISNEYs WORLD.

WALT DISNEYS WORLD.
Special Christmas program. / Hour.
Color. FROM All Of Us to All of YOU"
Features Disney cartoon favorites, Donald
Duck. Chip m Dale, Peter Pan, Bambi,
Pinocchio, Lady and the Tramp, Gin
derella and Snow White and the Seven
0warfs. Jimmy Cricket. host.
@ MARK EVANS SHOW.
Public Affairs. Hour. Guests: The
Smothers Brothers. George Woodcock,
General Secretary Of the Trade Union
Congress of Great Britain; Or. Frederick
Brown Harris. Chaplain Of the Senate
and Rev. Bernard 6raskamp, Chaplain of
the House Of Representatives.
q JAMIE McPHEETERS.
Drama. Hour. "The Day Of the
The Sunday Star " M0suzins, v
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-22

Pawnees" Part l. Jamie becomes a
pawn in a tug Of war between Indians
and white ruffians. Kurt Russell stars.
u MY FAv0RITE MARIAN.
Comedy. Tim t6ilI Blxbyl Is getting no.
where trying to date his pretty CO.
worker NANCY RennlcO so he asks
Uncle Martin Tray WaIston) to read
her mind.
800 q Ed SULLIVAN SHOW.
Variety. ! Hour. Guests: Frank Field,
British singer; The Italian Mouse, Pup
pet, named Topo eielo Also a scene
from the movie "The Cardinal" featuring
John Huston as a priest
$50 q GRINDL.
Comedy Twas the Week Before Christ
mas" Grind tImogene coea) discovers
robbery plot while working as a de-
partment store Santa Claus Paul Lynde
is featured.
Cd LAW ON TRIAL.
Public Affairs Marriage Problems and
the Law"
'hinstUn. D. C.. December q, 1868
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-18
Womun's Body
Found Beneath
Calvert Bridge

The body Of a woman was
found in Rock Greek Park be.
low the Calvert Street Bridge
early today by a passerby, po-
lice reported.
Capt. George Donahue, head
Of the homicide squad. said she
was tentatively identified from
papers found in her purse al
Anna Claire Dunston. 30, Of
7Ol Nineteenth street NV. The
body was taken to the Morgue
Detective Ronald Banta, Of
the homicide squad, said that
a note found in the purse indi.
Gated that the woman believed
she might have q radio trans.
mitter inside me-" Another
bore the initials "FBI." Their,
were also two business cards Of
doctors.
Detective Banta said resi-
dents Of the hotel where she
was staying indicated the
woman was single and hac
been living there since Septem.
Der, but had been In the city
since July.
He said the woman was wear.
ing a black winter coat. There
was a red and blue plaid scar
around her head.
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p. Carter with her two twin
sons.
Mrs. Carter. 81. who attended
school here as did her parents
who we're also married here)
has been coming TO this early
mass since 1858 when her hus-
band died.
He was a linotype machinist
with The Star for So years.
Il like this mass" she said.
but I don't really know why.
It's something like coming
home again for me"
Mrs. Carter lives In Hyatts-
vile with her sons. Walter, jr.,
and Frederick. SO. both bache-
Tors.
After the Carter family left,
Father Powderly joined the
Rev. John Francis Xavier
O'Connor. the pastor. and the
Rev, John Patrick Kemp at the
rectory next door. All three
priests are natives Of Washing
ton.
Most OF the congregation
went directly home after the
mass but some returned TO
work after spending their
lunch hour" In the church.
The Mount ST. Mary junior
class members went on TO a
party.