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The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25


confidence and hope as the
second quarter century OF
volunteer effort through The
National Foundation-March
of Dimes gets underway.
Our continuing combined eff
forts offer good promise of
solving other disease pro-
blemS.
Again / wish to thank you
and the members of your
staff who assisted.
Sincerely yours,
A. L. Gray, MD.
State Chairman
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
NICK WALKER, PRES.
OLE MISS ALUMNI ASSN.

Nick L. Walker, principal
of Lexington Ora m m r
Shcool, and high school
coach, is the new president
of the Alumni Association of
the University.
Mr.. Walker was reared in
Amite county. the son of Mr..
and Mrs. George K. Walker
of Smithville. Mr.. Walker has
served as principal for ten
years and coach for several
wears His many friends con-
gratulate him on receiving
this new honor. A
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25

senger capacity. For the first
time since its location in Kos
ciusko, the Southern Division
has operated at full capacity
all through the winter nor
mally a slack period. The
n'ant employs approximately
500.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
STZABLE STIPENDS

SIZABLE STIPENDS -
Although industry is battling
the cost-price squeeze in
some areas of its activities,
the pay and bonuses for COM
pany chiefs apparently is not
one of these. During 1862
more than half of several
score big firms surveyed gave
their presidents raises. On
the other hand, about 10 per
cent of the companies re-
duced the presidential stipen-
dunn. Historically this is a
normal pattern for times of
air-to-good business. In con-
trast, during recent recessions
the pattern has been one of
s'holding the line" with very
few increases or cuts.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
BAWl BOND EIsECa32H
APPROVED AT COL L114D5A

Columbia voters have ap-
proved a 100000 BAWI
bond proposal for the expan-
sion .of the New Orleans Felrn
Prairie. The AperdeenP Prairie
iture C.. The vote was 1907.
The expansion will create 80
additional jobs. according to
company officials.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25

Superior Coach Corpora
tion's Southern Division
plant iii Kosciusko, for the
twelfth consecutive year, has
received a substantial order
for major part of South
Carolina's school bus busi-
ness. Clayton Bushong, ma
nager of the plant, revealed
that the Kosciusko plant has
been awarded a contract for
ESQ Superior buses of 54-pas-
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
PATIENTLY SUCCESSFUL

PATIENTLY SUCCESSFUL
Some $4,000 patents are
applied for annually, and a.
bout $4,000 of them are grant
ed, but few inventions ac-
hieve the kind of commercial
success that seems to have
come to the worlds first cleo
tronic wrist timepiece.
Bulova Watch Company,
the .89-year-old firm that in
troduced the Accutron cleo
tronic timepiece little more
than two years ago, has man
pfactured and sold more than
100000 in that period. Now
Bulova has reported that 1t
currently is having difficult
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
Negro Conditions In State

The United States Civil Rights
Commission has urged President Ken
nedy to crack down on Mississippi be-
cause of open and fragrant violation of
the Constitution of the United States,
particularly in the denial of civil rights
to Negro citizens living within the
state, unless Mississippi acts promptly
to mend its ways.
The u. S. Commission said each
week since last October (time of the
Ole Miss desegregation crisis) has
brought fresh evidence of "the danger
of complete breakdown of law and
order" in Mississippi.
Giving credence to it's statement,
the Commission pointed out it had re-
ceived more than 100 complaints since
last October alleging denial of consti-
tutional rights to Negroes:
Citizens have been shot, set upon
by vicious dogs, beaten and otherwise
terrorized because they sought to vote.
Students have been fired upon, minis
ters have been assaulted and the home
of the vice chairman of the (Missis-
sippi) state advisory committee to
this commission Gn Columbus) has
been bombed"
The Commission further pointed
out the United States government it.
self is helping support discrimination
in Mississippi by funneling more than
$3.50 million into the state last year
while realizing total of only $270 mil
lion from us in taxes for the same
period. 1t said consideration should be
given to Withholding these funds un-
less there is change.
(This means that for every dollar
Mississippi sends to Washington in
taxes we get back $3.50 or more in
benefits = and this money comes from
taxpayers all over the United States.
This is pretty embarrassing situation
for a state that talks so much about
Estates rights!')
This report, as was to be expect
ed, has received nationwide headlines
and President Kennedy, as also
expected, Indicated he had neither the
authority or the desire to withhold
funds from Mississippi in the manner
requested.
What was not expected, possibly,
was the publicly stated support volun-
teered by the Mississippi Advisory
Committee to the u. S. Civil Rights
Commission after the latter's special
report regarding Mississippi had been
published.
The Mississippi Advisory Commit
tee, composed entirely Of Mississip-
plans, said it was ''gratified'' the Com
mission had sent the special report to
the President with recommendations
for executive action designed to force
state leaders to face up to their respon-
sibilities. The Committee statement
issued said in part:
"It is with deep regret that we
acknowledge the necessity for such
federal action. However, we find that
the existing conditions under which our
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
LARGE HAILSTONES FELL
IN EBENEZER VICINITY

E. L. Brown of Ebenezer
was in Lexington Tuesday
and stated that B. c. Swayze
picked up a hailstone the
past week after a hail storm,
that was as large as a guinea
egg and a large blade of
grass was through the CEN
ter of it.
Mr.. Brown also recalled
that his father stated that
during a windstorm in Ebe-
nezer 40 years ago, neigh
Dor reported a tornado blow
ing a sandbox from the bot
tom of a 40 foot well. To
those who have witnessed the
freaks Of a cyclone, they
know of the many things that
happen that are !, almost IL un-
believable.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25

INDUSTRIAL
PROGRESS
REVIEW
APPROVE BOND ISSUE FOR
INDUSTRIAL PARK SITE

Aberdeen and District Four
of Monroe county have ap-
proved, by a vote of 1121-37,
a bond issue to purchase an
industrial park site consist
ing of 412 acres of the Gulf
Ordnance Plant property at
Prairie. The Aberdeen-Prarie
industrial park area includes
five large buildings, one al
ready occupied by Allied
Chemical Co., as well as a
complete sewerage system,
and five water wells.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25

The 1863 Report of the Mississippi
State Advisory Committee to the Com
mission on Civil Rights issued in jan
uary carries this statement in it's Sec
tion on FINDINGS:
1--WE also find that the Commits
sion on Civil Rights itself continues
to have an unfulfilled obligation in re-
gard to Mississippi" Therefore, the
Committee is gratified that the Com
mission has sent a special report to the
President with recommendations for
executive action designed to force the
leaders of this great sovereign State
Of Mississippi to face up to their re-
sponsibilities to protect and assure the
basic individual rights of an citizens of
the State.
It is with deep regret that we
acknowledge the necessity for such
action. However, we find that the exist
ing conditions under which our Negro
citizens must live are in the main in
tolerable, with continuing depriva-
tion of rights and an ever present
threat of police brutality and economic
reprisal directed against any citizen
who attempts to break the established
patterns of segregation in the State at
whatever level. Furthermore, any citi-
zen who so much as encourages such
activity is likewise subjected to harass-
ment and threats. IF individual rights
are not assured by the State govern
ment, citizens have no choice but to
turn to the Federal Government for
protection.
Our Committee experience con-
vinces us that, contrary to many
political slogan, the Federal Govern
ment is most reluctant to intervene,
even where Constitutional rights are
concerned. Generally, it will and does
so only when a State government alb
dicates it's responsibilities.
The government of our State con-
.sistently has been guilty of such alb
,dication. 1t has brazenly espoused
racist mythology as official policy,
thus serving notice on some AZ per cent
of the population that they are in
ferior in the eyes of the State 1t has
encouraged the people of Mississippi
to disregard laws and judicial decisions
of the United States, and to place State
loyalty above National loyalty. It has
fostered a spirit of enmity towards our
dulv constituted National Government,
based on false ideas of Federal-State
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25

raj and Industrial Board fl
cures show that from Jan.1,
1860, to March l, 1868, Mis-
sissippi secured 440 new and
expanded industries, creating
81, ,497 new jobs.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
w. II. FINCHER, IR.
ATTENDS INAUGURATION

w. H. Fincher, Jr. of Lex
ington, a member of Millsaps
106th Engineers Band attend
ed the presidents inaugura-
ton and Millsaps Band was
among others in the inaugu-
raj parade in Washington on
Saturday. Other members of
the band were Thomas E.
Neblett of Pickens and James
l.. Lundy, Jr. of Greenwood.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25

White MississIppians Should Learn The Truth

Negro citizens must live are in the
main intolerable, with continuing de-
privation Of rights, and an ever-pres-
ent threat of police brutality"
Pointing finger at our official
state government, the Committee said
cit has encouraged the people of Mis-
sissippi to disregard laws and Judicial
decisions of the United States, and to
place state loyalty above national loyal
ty. 1t has fostered spirit Of enmity
towards our duly constituted national
government, based on false ideas OF
federal-state relationships in our
American system of government"
These are serious accusations, to
be sure, but one cannot seriously deny
their truth or validity.
To be sure our representatives in
Washington promptly sent up cries of
anguish after the u. S. Commission re-
port appeared, saying the Commission
should be abolished; that any charge
Mississippi is guilty Of subversion of
the Constitution is rankest falsehood;
that the report was presumptuous and
utterly ridiculous.
But their statements were more
political than pertinent, and they know
it.
What is needed now, and more
each passing day, is for all MISSISSIPPI
plans to learn the truth about the con-
ditions under. which the majority of
our Negroes in Mississippi are COM
PEELED to live today. We have said this
before and we say it again:
The majority of white Mississip-
plans simply do not have any idea of
how things are for Negroes in our
state. They have not been informed,
and much of what they have been told
is false, misleading or distorted.
If and when the right people in
this state learn the truth, we believe
conditions will be changed.
Many of these fright people" will
read this editorial. We suggest that
when you do get a compulsion to learn
the truth about present conditions,
you begin by reading carefully the full
report Of the state Advisory Commit
tee to the U. S. Civil Rights Com
mission printed in full elsewhere on
this page.
The Committee has performed a
valuable service for the state which
should be appreciated and needed, not
ignored. Any member of the Commits
sion will gladly consult in confidence
with any citizen Of the state. It's meet
ings are open to all.
Men of good will with a mutual
desire for peace, progress and harmony
among all citizens of the state, can and
must find way to work together to
achieve and maintain good relations
between the races in Mississippi We
can do so only if we are willing to
learn and acknowledge, not only the
truth, but the wrongs that exist today,
and be willing to do something to
remedy them.
1T is already later than we think.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
MANPOWEH REACHED BY
LOCAL SERVICE BOARD

The bottom of the barrel
has just about been reached
with only 81 men left on the
registration roll of the Hol-
mes County Selective Service
Board. A call for III men to
report on Monday has been
received according to off
cials. The only men who
have not been called for their
physicals are all under 19
wears Of age.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25

relationships in our American system
of government. Unless the Federal
Government, too, is derelict in the full
fillment of it's Constitutional duties, it
cannot forever ignore such gross If
responsibility, not to say subverslon,
on the part of State government.
Mississippi should regard the COM
missions special report as a warning
signal If we react constructively there
may still be time to forestall the recon-
mended Federal action, although the
hour is very late. First of all, we need
to re-think some of our basic ideas in
regard to race and to Federal-State
relationships.
Do we really believe that all of our
trouble is caused by "outside agita-
tors?" If so, how do we explain the
fact that these outsiders continue to
be so warmly welcomed by Negro Mis-
sissippians and develop such large fol-
lowings here?
Do we really believe that the bur-
dens of membership in the Federal
Union outweigh the benefits?
Is Mississippi even conceivable as
a political and economic entity outside
of the Federal Union in this day and
age?
We believe that the obvious an
swer to the four principal questions is
no.
If our State leadership continues
to act as if these questions can be an
swered with a resounding YES, the
Federal Government will be forced to
answer this senseless challenge to its
duly constituted authority with mea-
sures such as those recommended by
the Civil Rights Commission. If, on
the other hand, we can return to COM
mon sense, such highly undesirable con-
sequences may still be avoided.
Finally, standing above all other
considerations is the moral issue. Presl-
dent Kennedy spoke well when he said
in his recent special message on Civil
Rights to Congress: Therefore, let it
be clear, in our own hearts and minds,
that it is not merely because of the
cold war, and not merely because OF
the economic waste of discrimination
that we are committed to achieve true
equality of opportunity. The basic
reason is because it is right"
Signed:
Mrs. Wallis I. Schutt, Chairman
Mississippi State Advisory Committee
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
THIRTY YEARS AGO

tives attending from Tchula
were Guy Campbell, Kinds
Jumper, Tom Whitehead,
Earl M. Hooke and Lewis
Graves.
The Lexington advertiser., 1963-04-25
Through The Years
iep,s Of interest," from the past taken from flsl
Of The Lexington Advertiser and The Durant News.
By Ruth B. Flower
TEN YEARS AGO
By Ruth B. Flower

Odom, Durant, vice president
and A. P. Carroll, Lexington,
secretary.
The next meeting of the
club will be held at the court
house on May S at 8 p. m.
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c-R Advisory Committee
State Leadership And Federa|s Hit In Report

Civil Rights
issued Thursday the following special report ten
the statement
well
the Mississippi government
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Thursday, April Is, 1863

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-25
Vessel Lost
In''44 Found
With Sonar

NEW BEDFORD, Mass,
Sept. Is (AP).-The old Vine
yard Lightship, which vanished
with her crew Of IL in the fury
Of the hurricane of September
IA. 1914, has been discovered
through the magic Of modern
science. Massachusetts, Insti-
tute Of Technology sources re-
vealed yesterday.
Found with the help Of a
new type sonar system de-
veloped by DR.. Harold E. Edg-
erton Of NIT, the ship lies
In 10 feet Of water II miles
south Of New Bedford In Buzz
yards Bay. Although her bell,
weighing nearly a ton. and her
compass were brought up by
divers this week. the ultimate
cause Of her final loss still re-
mains q mystery.
Sonar Is q system Of sending
out sound impulses through
water and measuring the time
It takes for the echoes to come
back-thus revealing the dis
tance Of the object under sonor
observation.
Rather than being directed
straight downward TO the ocean
bottom, the pulses Of Prof.
Edgerton's "side-looking" sonar
device are beamed In O slanting
direction.
The high-energy, short-dura-
ton pulses, sent out from two
United States Coast and Geo.
detic Survey ships, echoed
sharply back from the dead
ships ll2-foot hull as the ships
Wainwright and Hilgard APP
preached IL.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
PAL DESCRIBES DEATH SCENE
Lipscomb Took Heroin, Police Told

Blacks belt and tied II tightly
around his upper arm. Using
an eye dropper. Lipscomb filled
the homemade syringe with
the mixture and injected II
into q vein In his arm.
Tries 10 Revive LipscOmb
Black said Big Daddy col
lapsed almost Immediately,
drooling from the mouth. When
Black was unable TO slap him
back 10 consciousness, he put
Ice bags on his head and be-
tween his legs, hoping 10 revive
him. II was at this point,
Black said, that the third man
came in.
Black said he and the third
man discussed what TO do with
Big Daddy, and the third man
suggested a salt and water mix
ture as being an effective anti
dote. Black said they injected
this into Lipscomb. but II failed
TO help.
Black said he then gave him
self a shot Of heroin and called
an ambulance.
Black said he had known
Lipscomb for more than a year.
but that the 290-pound, 6-foot-
8 Pittsburgh Steeler tackle had
Evening star., 1963-05-12

been on heroin only for a few
months.
Black told police Lipscomh
had gone TO the West Coast
several months ago and was
mainlining heroin when he
came back. Mainlining is the
injection OF a narcotic directly
into the blood stream.
All-PrO 2 Seasons
Lipscomb was named ALI
Pro In 1858 and 1869, the years
the Colts won the NIL title
At that time. he was defensive
tackle for the Baltimore team
but was traded TO Pittsburgh
In 1861.
He has lived In Baltimore
the past four years with
Sherman Plunkett, a former
Colt now with the San Diego
Chargers OF the American
Football League.
Charles Hoskins OF Detroit,
Lipscomb's grandfather, was
en- route TO Baltimore to make
funeral arrangements for Big
Daddy. Friends of LipScomb
said services and burial would
be held In Detroit, Lipscomb's
birthplace.
Evening star., 1963-05-12

take him TO Lutheran Hospital.
He was pronounced dead on
arrival.
Capt. Joseph F. Carroll OF
the Baltimore police narcotics
squad said Black told him that
a third man entered the apart
ment while he and Big Daddy
were shooting the heroin. Car
roll said a search has been
launched for the man whom
Black said sold him and Lips
comb heroin.
Capt. Carroll said the Sc
quence Of events last night. ac-
cording TO Blacks statement,
ran something like this:
Black and Lipscomb, after
spending the evening with two
girls in Blacks apartment, went
out and bought a quantity OF
heroin on Pennsylvania ave. in
Baltimore's Negro district and
returned with II 10 Blacks
apartment. Black said they
bought what he termed a "si2
deck" which Carroll said was
about four grains Of heroin.
They put the narcotic In a
wine bottle cap, added water
and held a match under tho
cap until the mixture boiled.
Lipscomb then borrowed
Evening star., 1963-05-12
RALNoUT RESET FOR MONDAY
Senators E Expect to Close
Deal for Spencer Tuesday

in exchange for Bob Lillis and
Carl Warwick. He was a utility
man at Los Angeles last year,
filling in at third and short
in n games and hitting 1856.
Spencer's best complete sea-
son was 1859 when he played
152 games at second and short,
had IL homers and batted In
65 runs.
Selkirk has not said yes or
no yet to the possibility Of
signing Pitcher Pete Burnside,
the former Washington left
handler who was released by
the Orioles this week. If Spen-
Ger joins the club he will bring
the player limit to the maxi
mum of rs.
If Burnside is signed, he
most likely will replace Art
Quirk. who came from Balti-
more with Marv Breeding and
Barry Shetrone in exchange for
Burnside and Bob johnson last
winter.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
BOTH COME IN 9TH
BowsfieId Stops
Twins on 2-Hitter

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May
IL (AP).-Vic Powers single
with none out in the ninth in
ming ended Ted Bowsfield's bid
for a no-hitter but the Kansas
City southpaw kept his poise
and pitched the Athletics to a
2-hit, 5-1 victory over the
Twins today.
The Canadian-born pitcher
also lost his shutout in the
ninth but had the satisfaction
of swapping a five-game losing
streak by the Athletics.
Bob Allison got the Twins
second hit before Bowsfield re-
tired the side.
Bowsfield, purchased from
the Angels last winter, had
permitted only four batters to
reach base, all on walks, and
needed only three more outs in
the ninth.
Zoilo Versailles, the first bat
ter to face him in the ninth,
walked. Power followed with a
single to crash Bowsfield's
dream. Versailles took third on
the hit, a ground single through
the middle, and scored as Bill
Tuttle hit into a doubleplay.
Allison followed with his sim
gle but was forced by Earl Bat
tey to end the game.
The last no-hitter pitched in
the majors was turned in by
Jack Kralick Of the Twins who
Evening star., 1963-05-12
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Star Staff Writer

BOSTON, May 1.-THE Sem
ators, idled here today by rain
and cold and faced with a chilly
double-header tomorrow against
the Red Sox, indicated they will
be able to sign Infielder Daryl
Spencer, who was made a free
agent by the Dodgers earlier
this week.
1t was bitter cold and rainy
here last night, but the game
was played and the Red Sox
took a 6-3 decision. 1t was Just
as cold and rainy today, but the
game was called off. The FORE
cast is for sunny weather and
temperatures in the 40s for
tomorrow's double-header.
The postponed game will be
played Monday night at Fenway
Park, breaking an unwritten
baseball law that a team is
never held over on its first visit
to a city to make up a post
ponement. The Red Sox, with
permission from the Senators,
broke that precedent.
Manager Mickey Vernon will
start Bennie Daniels and
Claude Osteen tomorrow
against Boston's Dave More
head. the l9-year-old rookie
who blanked the Senator's in
Washington last month, and
Earl Wilson.
Waivers will not be up on
Spencer, a 33-year-old right
Evening star., 1963-05-12
Koufax' No-Hit Game Beats Giants
SOX ON RAMPAGE
NichoIson'sN No. 7
Tops Angels, AZ

CHICAGO, May II (AP).-
Dave Nicholson's three run,
fourth-inning homer in the
face Of a stiff wind powered
the rampaging White Sox to
a Az victory over the Angels
today.
The triumph was the sixth
straight for the Sox and boost
ed their American League lead
to two games over the Orioles,
who lost to New York, 1871.
Nicholson's homer, his sew
enth Of the year, came off
starter Bo Belinsky, who stum-
bled to his fifth defeat against
one victory.
Belinsky, who was SO on
May IL last year, was in trou-
bic from the very start but
managed to squirm out Of
three Jams before Nicholson's
crushing blow.
The Sox had nine baserun-