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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11
Durant Girls Will Be
Presented Friday
In Piano Recital

Friday night, April II, at
1.3U IN Tile Durdnt tilgn
School AuQlUullulIi, MIS-. BIZ
ly blnegdr Viii pIeselIl MISS
Pattle NaDerS ana MISS vlcky
Vaughn III d SENIOR rlanO
kecltal.
The program Will consist
OF piano soloS, tWo-plano
ouoS, songs by the High
School Ensemble, and vocal
SOLOS by MISS Napers.
botn glrlS alteno Durant
High Scnool where they are
members or the senior class.
MISS Vaughn ana MISS Ma
DerS are very active IN all
phases OF the school program.
Vlcky Is vice president of
the senior class, VICE preSI-
dent of the Y-Teen Clup, par
llamentarlan OF the f'HA
CluD, and a member of the
high school Glee Club and
ensemble. Miss Vaughn has
been a football cheerleader
for the past four years; she
was also a member OF the
basketball team.
Miss Nabers has been a
member of Y-Teens and
FILA. She has been a mem
Der of the Glee Club for the
past five years, and a mem
Der of the high school sex
tet for the past three.
Miss Vaughn and Miss Ma
bers have taken piano les
sons for nine years. Mrs.
Binegar has been their
teacher for the past five
years.
A reception will be held
in the corridor of the high
school Immediately following
the program. The public is
cordially invited.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11

be open to the public and
Mrs. Kithels demonstration
may be attended for $1.0O.
These two highlights OF the
convention will take place on
Thursday and Friday eve
nings. Popular authoress and
lecturer Mrs. Howard Kithcl
Of Fort Worth has chosen
for the subject of her demon
stration on Thursday Design
Is Easy"
DR.. Noah Langsdale, Presi-
dent of Georgia State College
Of Atlanta, will use for his
topic "The Garden in Civil
zation." DR.. Langsdale has
been enthusiastically ap-
plauded by audiences of both
men and women throughout
the United States.
Delegates will tour local
gardens after lunch in the
homes of members on Fri
day.
Gardens to be visited are
among the loveliest in the
area and include those of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whit
!tington, Mr.. and Mrs. John
HUGHES. Jr.. Mr. and Mrs.
George Wade, DIR. and Mrs.
Milton Person and Mrs.
George Wolfe, il Tea will
be at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Saunders.
Reservations should b
made in advo1ce by those
who wou1d li1,o TO stop at
Naaman's MctoJ Holiday Inn,
Travel Inn. Irving Hotel or
Hotel Greenwood Leflore.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11
LOCAL NEWS


Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Terry
and daughter, Miss Becky
Terry spent Saturday IN
Jackson. Mrs. Terry, Nautilus
Yearbook sponsor, attended a
Yearbook clinic held at Bel
haven College.
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Returns From Visit

Mrs. Tom A Andrews has
returned home from a visit
during the month of March
in Memphis, Clarksdale and
Jackson with her children
and grandchildren.
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Improving At Hospital

Friends of Mr.. Happy"
Johnson will be glad to know
that he is able to sit up a
few hours each day at the
Holmes County Community
Hospital. His daughters, Mrs.
Bob Cockroft (Ada) of Mem
phis and Mrs. Dick Aiken
(Bea) of Jackson, visited last
week in the Johnson home.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11
COLORED PATIENTS

Zeporah Booker
Walter Scott
Minnie Clark
Celia Smith
Annie Lee BroadnaX
Mae Wesley
Leola Clark
Lille Alexander
Lenwood Wright
Esley Rule
Rick Thurmond
Clarence Friar
Ed Horton
Essie Stephenson
Baby Girl Stephenson
Baby Boy Stephenson
Helen Blanden
Baby Boy BIanden
Abner Meek
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11
Attend MEG Luncheon

Among those from Lexing-
ton who attended the Mis-
sissippi Economic Council
luncheon in Jackson on Tues
day were Will Wilson, Jack
Yates, Lutte Ellison, Murrel
McRae and Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter D.. Smith.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11

DR.. Cruig says: If il is the
best fruit that you can en-
joy. prune. spray and treat
at the base of your trees.
Peach. plum. pecan. apple
and all fruit bearing trees.
DR.. Cruig will do your spray
ing. and call before it is too
late for 1868.
For the sake of your or
chard call DR.. Craig's Pest
DISCRIMINATING at lilo Mecca
son Street. Lexington.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11

If all printers were de-
termined not to print any,
thing until they were sure it.
would offend nobody, there
would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11
Returns To Virginia

Mrs. Eugene Zimmerman,
the former Miss Sara Glover,
returned to her home IN
Alexandria, Virginia on Tues
day, following a visit with
her sister, Miss Mary Eliza
beth Glover.
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Improving AT Hospital

Mrs. C.. L. Hathcock is i'm
proving at the Baptist Hos
pital following surgery, and
will be released in a few
days to go to Brandon for a
visit in the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Albert Wynn.
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Sunday Guests

Sunday Guests
Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dan George were their
nephew, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Oakley Floyd and daughter,
Brenda Ann of Carrollton.
Afternoon callers were Mr..
and Mrs. Eddie Malloy.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11
Easier In Alabama

Mrs. Clara Mcbride of
PlckenS and Jackson will
spend the Easter holidays in
Reform, Alabama as a guest
of her sister, Mrs. Grady
Lyles and family.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11

HAL E. HAYWARD, Jack
son insurance executive and
Mississippi's member to the
board of directors for the
American Cancer Society,
Inc, has been named to head
the Budget and Finasce Com
mittee work for the Missis-
sippi Division. Mr.. Hayward's
appointment has been made
by DIR. r. H. Fenstermacher,
Vicksburg, president of the
Mississippi Division for ACo.
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Now At Lexington Industries

Mrs. Connie Moorhead, en-
ployee of The Fincher Com
pany for a number Of years
is now with Lexington In
dustrieS, Inc
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11

attend the Church of your
choice this Sunday!
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11
To GreenvllIe

Mrs. Necie Povall will
spend Friday in Greenville
to attend a Selective Service
Clerks Club meeting.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-04-11

Attend the Church OF your
choice this Sunday!
Evening star., 1963-12-19
Man Who Passed
Bad Checks Gets
27-Month Term

A 38-year-old truck driver
who pleaded guilty to passing
nine bad checks, was sentenced
to 81 months in jail yesterday
in a Prince Georges court to
keep him from "preying upon
other individuals during the
Holy Season"-this one, the
next one and the one after
that.
Prince Georges Peoples Court
Judge william H. McGrath i'm
posed sentences of three
months on each count of false
pretenses to run consecutively
against Clarence A. Owens, OF
no known address. Owens fire.
quents the Silver Hill area.
Owens, after spinning a tale
of a two-week shopping spree
during October during which
he bought a girl friend about
1892 worth Of jewelry. luggage
and clothes, told the judge he
had been drunk.
Under the consecutive SEN
tences, Owens will not be eligi-
bic for parole until he has
served Is of the 81 months.
Evening star., 1963-12-19
AULD LANG SYNE
By MYRA MACPHERSON
Star staff Writer

They sang Auld Lang Syne
before they began taking away
the Raleigh Hotel yesterday.
Zed L. williams, an auction
eer who dressed for the occa-
sion in a black coat with velvet
collar, sat high on a chair that
moved on wheels and gave the
Pail Mall dining and dancing
room its only bit of flamboyance.
He quoted from Scriptures
about how there was a time for
all things, and then ordered
everyone to sing Auld Lang
Syne. A man sat down to play
it on a white baby grand that
later sold for $500.
It was cold in the room.
Huddled near the old band
stand with its ragged bunting,
now the color of rust, were
furniture dealers from second
hand stores, restaurant owners
and wholesale supply dealers.
There were a smattering of
housewives and a beefy- faced
man who said: Just retired, 80
years in the Navy, and I'm kill
ing time" They stamped their
feet and sang self-consciously
and then got down to business.
The room looked like a junk
warehouse. Rows of 12-year-
old TV sets and dining room
chairs and sweat-stained up
holstered chairs. Scared two
knob pre-war radios, the kind
that remember Amos N Andy
and the Green Hornet.
Mr.. Williams circled the
room, wheeled by two men,
like a potentate. His sub
jects listened and raised their
hands and occasionally paid
some ridiculous prices in the
meSmerized belief they were
getting a bargain.
"a lot Of Housewives bought
a lot Of those rubber bath
Evening star., 1963-12-19
Hit by Car, Policeman
Shoots Fleeing Driver

A Southeast man was crit
ically wounded by q Washing
ton policeman last night after
he struck the officer with his
car.
Minutes before the incident
the policeman chased the mar
from inside a police lot for
impounded vehicles near the
Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
The man, identified as Ben
jamin r. Ellis. %. Of the 1900
block Of Potomac avenue Sc,
was shot twice by Pvt. Hubert
L. Cave, 26, of the Metropoli-
tan Police Department Canine
Corps.
Pvt. Cave told officials he
fired four shots at Ellis after
the suspect tried to run him
down on the Anacostia free
way alongside the police lot.
Ellis, an employe of Safeway
Stores. was admitted in crit
ical condition to District Gen.
eral Hospital with a bullet
wound in his head. Pvt. Cave
was admitted for observation
to Hadley Memorial Hospital
with possible internal injuries
and cuts.
Deputy Police Chief Albert l..
Embrey said Pvt. Cave and an
other Canine Corps officer,
Pvt. Albert C. Hillegas, 81,
Evening star., 1963-12-19

were staked out inside the lot
to capture thieves who have
been stealing auto parts.
Shortly after 8 pm, tht
policemen saw a man climb {
10-foot fence and enter tht
lot. AS the man walked acroS'
the lot, the lights from a low
flying military helicopter re.
vealed the position Of the two
officers to the suspect. The
man ran and climbed back over
the fence, chased by the Off
GERS and their police dogs.
After the suspect reached
his car, parked about so yards
away, he locked the doors and
attempted to drive away just
as Pvt. Cave reached the We
hicle.
Pvt. Cave said the suspects
car struck him as he tried to
open the drivers door. The
officer said he then fired four
shots from his service revolver,
hitting the man and causing
him to stop.
Pvt. Hillegas, who mad be-
come temporarily entanglrd
in the fence, helped Pvt. Cave
drag the suspect out of the car.
Both officers said the man had
a knife in his possession and
struggled with them before NJ,
was Subdued.
Evening star., 1963-12-19

Haynes and DR.. McLendon fin
ished reading their statements
In other action, DR.. Hansen
told the board the approved
school budget was "a step for
ward" despite failure to ap-
prove requests which would
have provided SO teachers and
three schools.
Earlier, DR.. Hansen told g
reporter the budget, approved
in a HouSe-Senate conference
Tuesday, has many good
things in it." but added that
the loss of Is teachers for re-
tarded children and the dele
tion Of funds for three schools
creates some extremely serious
problems"
The superintendent. in out
lining the systems losses and
gains for the board, said the
schools received S79 million oi
their $95 million request.
He said this includes funds
for 344 new teachers and 1C
counselors to serve at all levels
The budget upgrades school
library expenditures from 70
cents to 81 per student at the
junior and senior levels, he
said, and gives the schools Sc
cents per student in library
costs at the elementary level,
Last year. there was no ap-
preparation for the elementary
school Libraries.
Evening star., 1963-12-19

well afford it," Mr.. Goldstein
said.
The Board of Revenue Esti-
mates told the Governor yes
terday that general fund taxes
can be expected to bring in
5000, 9,359.908 next year. They
will produce an estimated
1921 All ,496 for the current
year, which ends next June 80
Since the State budget calls
for $298 million in spending
surplus had to be used to bal
ance it. This has been the
practice for several years.
An estimated surplus o.
$25.6 million. added to ex-
pected revenues of $309.3 mil
lion. gives Gov. Tawes somC
$685. million which he can
count on for his general funC
budget next year. This is $3'
million more than the Statt
budgeted for spending in the
current fiscal year.
Evening star., 1963-12-19
AULD LANG SYM
A Song, and the End for the Raleigh Hotel

man took his own paddock up.
stairs and locked up his room
A wife, who bought two com.
plete bedrooms for her new
home, turned to her husband
and said: did we lock the
doors on both sides?"
Edward Seidman of the ABC
Demolition Corporation said
"a lot of people came for Senti.
mental reasons. We had phone
calls from people who wanted
to get the furniture from tht
rooms where they were on theil
honeymoon"
A latecomer with a twittery
bird-like manner turned to thu
elevator operator and spoke al
If she were in a department
store: II want to see some
dining room chairs" The op.
orator answered. Miss, they
sold those out this morning.
She sighed and inquired bed.
room furniture?" The mar
nodded his head and let her of
on one Of the floors.
For the adventures, there
was prowling around empty
rooms. A can of shaving cream
had foamed over and stood or
a bathroom window ledge
Frank Sinatra in his bow-tie
pre-toupee days, Gene Kelly
and Esther Williams grinnec
out from an almost life-size
poster showed in one corner ot
a suite.
In other rooms the inspection
and selling continued. They
hope to finish today or to-
morrow. The demolition crew
will come in next week to begin
knocking down the 69-year old
hotel. a SIS million office build
ing will take its place, and the
Raleigh will be just a memory.
To help people remember,
boxes of postcards showing the
hotel were set out. People took
home six boxes full of the
cards yesterday.
Evening star., 1963-12-19
LuwChonges
Procedure on
runsit Books

A Senate bill signed today
by President Johnson makes
the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Commission re-
sponsible for certifying d. C.
Transit Systems net operating
income to determine if the
utility is entitled to be exempted
from payment of gasoline and
real estate taxes.
The company is exempt from
payment Of gasoline and real
estate taxes to the District
government If its net earnings
are less than 612 per cent of
gross operating revenues.
Previously, the Public Utili-
ties Commission determined the
company's net operating in
come ad certified it to the
District Commissioners.
Another Senate bill signed
by President Johnson elimi-
mates the necessity for the
District to maintain perpetual
accounts for unclaimed money
held in trust by the Govern
ment.
The new law says the District
can transfer trust money to the
general fund, If after 10 years
it has not heard from the legal
owner of the money.
The law provides that at the
end of the 10-year period. the
District government must no
tify the owner by certified
mail that his money still is
being held in trust. If there is
no response within so days, the
District must publish a public
notice of the trust account. II
the owner does not claim the
money within 80 days after
publication Of the notice, the
money is transferred to the
general fund.
Evening star., 1963-12-19
2 Men Killed
As Car Rums
Into Wall

/ Two men were killed early
today when their car went out
of control, struck a concrete
wall at the Kenilworth avenue
tun-off at the East Capitol
street bridge and burst into
! flames.
Police identified the driver of
the car as Benny Truesdale. AZ,
of 1928 Lewis street NE. The
only passenger in the car was
identified as Cecil Stroman, %.
of 1901 Sixteenth street NV.
Both were pronounced dead at
District General Hospital.
Police gave this account of
the accident:
The car was travelling south
on henllworth avenue at q high
rate Of speed and turned into
the ramp leading to the west.
bound lane of the bridge. Il
jumped the curb. struck the
concrete retaining wall and
then caromed to the other side
Of the roadway, striking an
other concrete wall. The car
burst into flames.
Both men were thrown from
the automobile by the impact,
police said.
A passing unit of the Clinton
Md Rescue Squad picked up
Mr.. TrueSdale and took him to
the hospital. Minutes later, po-
lice found the body Of the pass
enger, Mr.. Stroman, on the
grass by the side of the road.
The speedometer of the car
was stuck at 95 miles-an- hour,
according to accident investi-
gators.
The crash brought to 80 the
number of traffic fatalities in
the District this year compared
to 81 at the same time last year.
There were only 81 traffic
deaths in all of 1862.
Evening star., 1963-12-19

"outm0ded, ineffective ana
discriminatory" track program
with "an imaginative. sympa-
thetic and democratic approach
to meet the needs of all the
children of the community. "
Her statement was a contin-
uation of an attack on the
track program begun at the
boards November 20 meeting.
The track program, in which
students are grouped in study
programs according to their
ability, was also attacked at
the elementary level by Board
Member DR.. Preston A. Nc
Lendon.
DR.. McLendon told the board
that overcrowded classes in
District elementary schools
make it impossible for one
teacher to identify those
youngsters having cultural.
social, emotional and physical
deficits affecting their future
progress"
The track program narrowS
the learning process of ele-
mentary school children, he
said.
DR.. Haynes said the track
program denies the STUDENT the
right to try and perhaps fail
in any field on his own.
There was no comment from
other board members when DR..
Evening star., 1963-12-19

to meet normal budget growth
of around $25 million, support
a new program Of State aid to
schools and meet future needs.
Therefore, he probably will
ask the Legislature next Feb
ruary to increase the State in
come tax rate from 3 per cent
to 4 per cent and make it ef-
fective January /, 1865.
The increase would produce
$42 million more a year, but
the State would receive only
one-quarter of it in the fiscal
year which begins next June
80. Surplus would help carry
the education program until
the new revenue started roll
ing in.
The additional school aid
for Baltimore City and the
counties. intended primarily
for increased teachers salaries,
Is expected to cost SIG million
the first year and edge upward
regularly after that.
The 1864 Legislature can be
expected to approve such a
program, although it might
have different ideas about fl
nancing it. The lawmakers al
most voted the increased aid
last year over the opposition
Of Gov. Tawes. He has prom
ised to support it this time.
Controller Louis L. Gold
stein suggested lowering the
rate on investment income
from 5 per cent to 4 per cent
if that on ordinary income is
raised from 3 to 4 per cent.
He said this would benefit
numerous persons dependent
on investments as well as en-
abling the State to use a simple
tax form for a uniform levy.
He said it would mean losing
only $2.2 million from what is
now being collected.
THE State economy can
Evening star., 1963-12-19
Couple Missing
SO Is $4,516

GLEN BURNIE, Md, Dec. 1s
(AP).-A young couple is being
sought by police. So is $4,516 in
cash.
Police said the 24-year-old
woman failed to return to work
at a store in the Harundale
mall Tuesday, and the money
she volunteered to take to the
bank never was deposited.
The woman's husband &C.
companied her to lunch. A
police check Of their apartment
disclosed their clothing had
been removed.
Evening star., 1963-12-19

mats" said a man who leafed
through the receipts toward
the end of the day. Radios
went for 50, television sets
for $12.
In the lobby, the red ferns
crawled on a carpet that
went for $500. Nick Berbakos,
owner of the Black Steer Res
taurant, bought the Lamp Post
Evening star., 1963-12-19

"WHERE ARE the REIN
deer?"
In the parking lot on
Tenth street / told them.
They took turns at pulling
my beard. Any skeptics were
reconverted.
They were good about their
presents except Sean and
Clark who got stuffed mon
keys, which Mary considered
appropriate. They decided
they would rather have air.
planes like a couple of the
other boys.
Teresita and Josephine
found opal pendants in their
small packages. They were
delighted.
Then Tad Foote, one Of our
younger reporters, got out
his mandolin and played 20
Come All Ye Faithful" in
march time. The children,
singing, paraded around the
room.
Danny Denny, riding a
hobby horse, was marshal.
Then came ice cream and
goodies.
The clock was ticking to-
ward five. Larry Connolly
was getting nervous.
Ihad to leave or the sleigh
and reindeer waiting for me
would turn into a pumpkin.
"Good-by, Santa Clausl We
love you!" the little ones were
chanting as I went down the
stairs.
Perhaps it's better to be
nice, especially at Christmas
time.
Evening star., 1963-12-19

Bar and Grill for $500, lock,
stock and empty mahogany
bar.
William Townsend of Ches-
tertown, Md, bought the bar
Der shop for $375. Most every
thing was sold in lots. Piles
of sheets formed snowbanks
in the lobby. An apartment
owner bought 80 bath mats
Evening star., 1963-12-19

and a motel owner bought Sc
dozen green towels for $40.
Upstairs, down halls barren
Of carpets, the crowd moved.
Fire extinguishers stood like
sentinels by elevators. The
smaller rooms with well-worn
furniture went for $25 and $50,
Others went for 5000.
In a burst of possession, one
Evening star., 1963-12-19
Charity Drive Logs

The Christmas seal cam
paign this season is more than
$4,000 short of the total collect
ed at the same time last year,
the D. c. tuberculosis ASsocia-
ton reported yesterday. Last
years total at this time was
500, 900.
Evening star., 1963-12-19
School Boord Member
Attacks Track System
Dr.. Haynes Again Urges Program
To Allow Greater Choice in Studies

member of the District Board of Education urged again
yesterday that the basic track system of the public schools be
replaced with which allows students greater choice
in their studies.
DR.. Euphemia L. Haynes in statement to the school
that School Supt replace the
Evening star., 1963-12-19

YESTERDAY 1 DECIDED
to interpret the role sympa-
thetically.
I knew I didn't feel the
Christmas spirit. It was hard
to tell how I felt. I didn't
feel like Scrooge.
Larry Connolly, one of our
stereotypers (they press the
mats against the type to cast
the half-cylinder plates that
go on the presSes) is young,
tall, red haired, freckled and
Irish.
He has a beautiful Santa
Claus costume which he
bought to bring joy to the
homes of neighbors. I have
borrowed it in past years.
But I found that he had
become a professional. He's
paid to play Santa Claus at a
shopping center near his
home.
That's show business!
Some fellows get all the
breaks.
It's the beard. He has a
beauty which he hooks over
his ears.
Heres what I can do" he
said.
'T don't go on at the shop
ping center until six.
"T'll go along with you and
dress you. You can be Santa
from 4 70 5.
But then I'll have to rip
the suit off you and race to
the shopping center"
The party was upstairs at
Caruso's on Eleventh street.
I ran up the stairs with
many a loud "Ho! Hol"
They were waiting for me
eight little girls and eight
little boys, two to five years
old.
Just the right age. Com
plete faith.
Thirty-two affectionate
eyes fixed on me.
Evening star., 1963-12-19
Tax Increase for 1865
To Be Asked by Towes

BALTIMORE Dec 19 (AP)-Gov. Tawes plans to ask the
1864 Maryland Legislature to increase taxes although he has
cushion of $37 million to finance increased spending
plus $6 million still left in a rainy day fund
Gov. Tawes explained the seeming paradox yesterday
He said the picture good but not good enough