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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
HOLMES JH. FINANCES
GIVEN At MEET

MI
Snpt, F. H. Williams gave
some interesting figures at
the Lexington Rotary Club
on Friday. The report dealt
with the costs and operation
Of Holmes Junior College at
Goodfnan. Aspartial quotation
from his talk follows:
The session Of 1929 had
an enrolment of rs in the
college, and SO in the agri-
cultural high SCHOOL, making
a total of ID 49,. The cost for
the session was $34,614.34 or
capita cost Of $1,000
"The session of'1g82-33 had
an enrollmept OF. $50 in the
college, and 70 in the agri-
cultural higfrr school, a total
of 358. The cost for the SEES
sion was $4,000 or a per
capita cost of $4,000"
-, "sln9l928, seeing the cost Of
operation was beyond the
bounds OF reason, we took
the matter up with the State
Department of Education.
The result was that the state
was divided into II junior
college zones. a Junior college
in each zone. Our college was
selected for this zone. en-
bracing six or eight counties.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
TWENTY YEARS AGO

World Loves a Garden" as
attested to by gardens in
every land.
Gardens, gardens, gardens
everywhere.
Gardens of contrast such as
the heat of the Beer Gardens
in Havana, Cuba, in sharp
contrast with the limpid cool
of the garden Of the lava tube
in the Hawaiian National
Park, where the sun never
seeps through to mar or fade
the velvety moss carpet,
thickly studded with ferns Of
every variety, and only an
occasional drip. drip, of crys-
tai moisture ripples its pools
of mirror smonthness.
The Japanese Garden, a
green slope, a stepping stone,
a clump of gnarled old trees,
"a waterfall, that's all. The
evercrowded Chinese Garden
a zig-zag affair, to trap the
devil, who the Chinese be-
1ieve can only follow a
straight and narrow path.
(To be continued next week.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
Sam Buck To Attend
National Conference
In Minneapolis

Sam H Buck of Lexington
will attend the National Con-
ference of the Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation to be
held in Minneapolis, Mime
sofa the week of July %. Mr..
Buck is the FCIC District Su-
pervisor for the South Mis-
sissippi Delta area of the
State and the Southeast Ar
kansas area.
The highlight of the meet
ing = called in connection
with the Corporations 25th
anniversary - will be a Spe-
cial program recognizing
states and individuals that
made outstanding perform
anee records last year. Also
the group will attend discus
sions led by Under Secretary
of Agriculture Charles Muir
ply, DR.. Clay Gilsen of Can
ada Crop Insurance, and 9TH
er USDA Division officials.
In addition to Mr.. Buck,
the Mississippi delegation to
the meeting will be H. E.
White of Marks, w. w. Jack
of Greenville, c. H. Goss OF
Clarksdale, Leo c. Langston
and j S. Smith, both of Jack
son Delegation from Louisi-
ana will include E. 0. Holley
of Coushatta and Fred Ry-
land of Marksville. j. S.
Smith is FCIC State Director
for Arkansas, Louisiana and
Mississippi.
The Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation - an agency or
the United States Department
of Agriculture - offers cot
ton, soybean, and rice far
mers insurance protection for
their cost of growing a crop
should a loss from any natur-
al hazard cause them to sell
less than their guarantee.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18

Another report came out Of MSU
last week which is of statewide in
terest and Importance.
Mississippi registered a total gain
of 10000 in population since 1860, ac-
cording to a report of Mrs. Pearl S.
Bryant of the Mississippi Agricultural
Experiment Station.
This was an increase of 81 per
cent and compares favorably with the
national population growth of SO. 1t
strengthens the idea that the long es-
tablished trend of population loss for
Mississippi has now been reversed and
VIC may look forward to a period of
growth and expansion.
Of the $4,000 gain 81 per cent,
o. $4,000 persons, were white, while
the non-white population rose 1.8 per
cent, or by 10000 according to the re-
port. s
If the reported gain is correct, the
state today is made up of 2,258, 141
persons, of which about 1921, 900 are
white.
(The 1860 census revealed Missis-
sippi had a population of 2,178,141
people. Of this total there were listed
1%,257,546 whites, 915,743 Negroes,
and 1882 others.)
Population growth and economic
expansion obviously go hand in hand.
1t is difficult, almost impossible to
have one without the other. So this
report on u population growth is
doubly welcome.
Let us hope and pray it will con-
tinue in the days ahead.
Not only hope and pray, but work
at it.
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~ Of q Young Methodist Ministers =.

and to try to offer all % min
listers positions within Mis-
sissippi.
81 took the position" the
Bishop explained, "that |
would not change any OF
these men last January. and
no PASTORAL appointment was
changed because of that state
ment. | think that's pretty
fair, don't your"
Seven of the men were
shifted within the state ear
lier this month at the regu-
lar re-assignment time. The
Bishop said some went to
larger churches to which they
were assigned. One had to
take another church with a
pay cut and the second is still
without an assignment.
The controversy over the
manifesto has aggravated the
trend of the past decade for
seminary : trained Methodist
ministers to leave Mississippi
in abnormally large numbers.
Some church officials at
tribute this to the higher pay
offered by other areas of the
nation and to the fact that
Mississippi has for some time
produced more Methodist pas
tors than the state needs.
Exodus Above Normal
Bishop Franklin said, how
ever, that this year there was
a higher than normal exodus
of "some of the finest young
men we have"
Some of the men, he said,
are unhappy with the racial
situation. They're unhappy
with the Conference relation
ship. Some of them are UNI
happy with me, | suppose.
But it's pretty well shaken
down now"
Although some of those still
in Mississippi are actively
considering leaving, others
are determined to remain as
long as possible for reasons
of conscience and conviction.
Some of them have found
themselves surprisingly well
received by their new con-
gregations, although they are
still wary about discussing
the racial issue in their new
pulpits.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18

The report on Mississippi's popu-
lation increase of $4,000 since 1860
was printed Sunday, after the McComb
papers editorial.
Thus while the overall outward
migration from the state appears to be
halted, at least temporarily, the line is
still too faint to do any premature
Growing.
The fact remains that too many
of our talented and capable citizens of
achievement, too many of Our young
college trained boys and girls, are
leaving Mississippi for other fields,
presumably for greater opportunities
in other areas.
However, many of these people
are moving to other Southern states
where economic opportunities are not
necessarily superior to those afforded
in the Magnolia State.
The atmosphere, or climate of
public opinion, is the reason privately
advanced by hundreds of gifted per-
sons who have left Mississippi during
the past few years - and we know
this to be true in the case of scores of
highly trained professional and dedi-
Gated people, who are now considering
leaving. 9 seEss
The rigid conformity demanded
by the political structure in Mississippi
today, as dictated by the white Citi-
zens' Council, is the single most inn
portant reaso for the prevailing at
mosphere in our state whichais repug-
nant to every intelligent, freedom-lov-
ing citizen.
Thoughtful persons who love Mis-
sissippi and want our state Il be de-
veloped to its fullest potential know
that the next governor will greatly
determine our peace and progress, and
the atmosphere in which we live, not
only for the next four years,-4but FOR
many years to come "A. strong COVER
nor, almost single-handedly, may con-
troll the direction in which Mississippi
moves, forward or backward.
That is why the August 6thsspri
mary is so important.
That is why we face a challenge
individually in selecting the man we
support with our ballot.
Are we big enough to rise above
pettiness and politics and elect the man
who can help Mississippi most?
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
&&aonial Page !
Business Activity, State Population, Show Gains

Business activity reached an all
time high in May, according to a re-
port of the mississippi Business Re-
view," a monthly publication of the
bureau of business and economic re-
rearch at Mississippi State University.
Another MSU report cites a total gain
of $4,000 in population in the state
since 1860.
Based upon the 1956-5S base
period 1--WE do not know how the base
period is selected) the state registered
a gain in business of 63 per cent above
the monthly base average, II points
above May of 1862 and two points
higher than April of this year, the Re-
view stated.
Retail sales for May of all goods
and services, except public utilities and
professional services, were S252,515,-
1876 with 46 of the states IS principal
reporting cities showing gains in bust
ness activity, it said.
These gains were highest at Bald
wynn, with a "a point increase, and
Magnolia, with 81 points above the
base period.
Jackson showed an 11-point gain,
the Review indicated.
Construction contracts awarded
during April were reported as "far a.
bove usual by the MSU publication
which said they included the S115 mil
lion contract for building the Standard
Oil refinery at ~Pascagoula.
We do not know how accurate this
report is. Not being an economist, we
are not prepared to interpret it's mean
ing or significance.
But it sounds good and we well
come it.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
Welcome Reports
A Challenge Is Presented State Voters

In connection with the foregoing,
we were interested in a recent recital
of Mississippi's population history con-
tanned in a McComb Enterprise-Jour-
nal editorial.
Mississippi's population was "once
phenomenal and the envy Of many
other states in earlier years history"
according to Editor Oliver Emmerich,
who wrote:
How fast has the state of Missis-
sippi grown in population during her
history? Our state = the nations
twentieth - was admitted to the
Union on December 10, 1917. In the
year 1900 the population of our terri
tory was but $3.50. In 1920 it was
75,448.
During the next 20 years it made
a startling leap to 375,651 in 1910. It
more than doubled during the next 20
years. When the wal year 1860 arrived
Mississippi had 791, 3O5 people. This
growth reflected the demand for cot
ton, for our economy was founded
upon cotton production.
By 1880 strangely, despite the
deaths of the War Between the States
which lowered the number of males,
our population was 1,131,597. Many of
these were remaining soldiers of for
tune and lingering carpetbaggers.
In 1900 our population was 1851
270. Since then it rose or fell as follows:
1910, 1,797,114; 1920, 1,790,618; 1880,
2,009,S21; 1910, 2,183,796.
just as our population dropped
between 1910 and 1920, it took IN
other tumble between 1910 and 1850,
falling from 2,183,7 96 to 2,178,914
Between 1850 and 1860 Mississip-
PTS population fell again, going from
2~,178,914 to 2,178,141. This was al
most static. But when the large num-
Der of children born in the state is con-
sidered we must recognize that there
was a mass exodus of people going into
other states seeking opportunities that
could not be found here.
Then Editor Emmerich asks:
"What about the year 1870?
'This is our problem. Our chai-
Ienge is to find the ways to acquire
job opportunities and to train our peo-
pie to capitalize upon them. It is I'M
thinkable that we should be complacent
about this exodus. With the rest Of the
nation growing We want our state to
grow with her."
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
TEN YEARS AGO

done by Eastman during the
war. The plant at Longview
is now supplying raw mater
ials to Kingsport, Tennessee
plant of Eastman which man.
ufactures acetate and other
plastic products.
Rotary guests were J. r.
GOA, ST., guest of A. p. Car
roll, Rotary president; DR.. J
E. Chancellor, guest of w. r.
Sullivan, Visiting Rotarian,
Troy Prentiss, Carthage, and
Hershel Harper, guest of W..
H. Fincher, Jr.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
YEARS AGO

aG& aa..a t
We were advised to put our
school in readiness to meet
requirements for final approx
al. Which was done, reducing
our operating expenses, as
outlined above, by $4,000 per
session."
During luncheon, w. B.
Kenna, president, presented
w. Lonnie Jordan with the
Rotary Code Of Ethics and Of
ficially welcomed him as a
new member of the club. A
guest of G. H. Marlborough
was w. A. Pierce of West
Falls Church, Virginia.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
ROAD BUILT TO
SWIMMING HOLE

A swimming hole on Clabe
Bowman's place, seven miles
northeast of Lexington is
again a popular place this
summer. Road building labor
furnished by the RFC was
done by Marion and Lowry
Steele, Fred and Stormant
Petty. Clifton Lipsey, Glen
Sudbeck. Henry Mullen. Ra-
thell Swinney, John and Jack
brennan. The road gives bet
ter access to the pool. and
picnic grounds, and there is
no charge, as stated Mr.. Bow
man.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
Sullivan Rally Sci
July Is In Jackson

6uDtIHdlOflal \ q n q | Q q [ e
Charles Sullivan announced
this week Sullivan supporters
from every county in the
state will meet in Jackson
Thursday, July IS "for a
giant rally launching the fl
nal drive to increase the Sui
Ivan first primary lead"
Sullivan will speak at 8 pm.
The rally will be the first
ever held in the Jackson Col
iseum where supporters can
sit in air conditioned comfort
to hear their candidate and
have free, convenient parking
After the speech a recep-
ton will be held in another
part of the Coliseum for
Charles and Mary Sullivan.
This week Sullivan is con-
tinuing to campaign hard all
across the state. He made TV
speeches on Memphis, Tupelo
Jackson and Meridian stations
IN addition to participating in
a panel discussion on the BIZ
loxi station. Also, he spoke
at rallies in Hattiesburg, Pop
larville, Newton. Waynesboro
and Quitman. He made nu-
merous other appearances.
Last week, Sullivan found
a warm reception, not only
from the public at his speak
ing engagements, but from
the states press.
The Jackson Daily News
asd the Greenwood Common
wealth endorsed Sullivan,
joining the Meridian Star and
Clarksda ale Press-Register.
The Tate County Democrat,
Weekly Democrat Poplar
ville) and Oxford Eagle,
joined the list of weekly pa
pers backing Sullivan. Hat
tiesburg radio station WBKH
became the first radio station
in the state to endorse a car
50.
didate. endorsing Sullivan in
a July 4 statement.
In announcing the upcom-
ing Jackson rally Sullivan
said, Because of the enthus-
iastic support from all of you
throughout the state, we have
realized substantial progress
in completing our organiza-
tional work in the last few
weeks and in maintaining
leadership in the campaign.
So that all Sullivan sup
porters will have an oppor-
tunity to participate in one
large statewide rally before
the first primary. we have
scheduled a statewide Sui
livan Rally to be held at the
Coliseum on the Fair Grounds
in Jackson beginning at $50
D. m. Thursday, July IS. The
rally will start at this time
in order to permit state and
local candidates to participate
in the program.
"This is, of course, a new
building and this will mark
the first political rally that
has ever been held in the
Coliseum and it will also be
the first time that people who
wish to attend a large politi-
cal rally will have adequate
free parking, air conditioned
comfort and will not need to
be concerned about rain.
"The band wagon is now
gaining momentum and | in
vite everyone to get aboard
at this public rally.
A program of entertainment
will be announced later. Sui
livan's headquarters said.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18
Mr.. mrs SHADDOCK
A FOR EUROPE

Mr.. and Mrs. George Roll
Inns Shaddock if Rosedale,
left Wednesday for New York
by plane, where they will
take a Belgian Lines plane
Brussels, Belgium. They will
visit other countries of inter-
est in Europe including Eng
land, and return to the U. S.
in about six weeks. They
were accompanied by Mrs.
Chap Skinner of Rosedale.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18

Attend The Church Of
Choice This Sunday!
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18

ada .f TuND pIANs-At the recent Red Cross National Convention at PhnadAphass state
"u hauonalf fund charmen talked service programs and 1864 campaign plns to raise the
.Mms needed. Msssppie ampaigns will be headed by George E Donavan of Jackson.
snoWn he second from left with Gn Alfred M Gruenuer QD ARC nresdent.
ame s g. Linen, national fund ochahman = RolandH Hartman, ARC nahona chairman;
au. rerkns lecture national fund cocharman. Donavan, a vice pusde of First
NsuonalB Ban Of jackson, is chairman NNsdsdppi Fund Campaign for the Re- Cross
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-07-18


Tires on his car were slashed.
Even though he has moved
to Indiana, he declined to dis
cuss his experience for fear
of reviving pressure against
relatives still living in Mis-
issippi.
The Ku Klux Khan burned
crosses at the parsonages of
Rev. Edward r. McCrae in
Meridian and Mr.. Trigg at
CasWell Springs because of
their views. Mr.. McCrea has
moved to Arizona, Mr.. Trigg
to Biloxi.
Requested Transfers
"The philosophy behind in
timidation here in Mississip-
pi," said the Rev. James B.
Nicholson, who had to leave
his church at Byram, "is that
you destroy a man by des-
troying his job"
Several churches sent dele
cations to higher officials to
ask for new ministers. Else
where, ministers anticipated
such efforts and, believing
they could no longer be eff
fective. requested transfers.
All Were Boycotted
Virtually to a man, the 20
pastors were boycotted by
church members, snubbed by
some of their friends, or har-
raised by telephone calls.
Boycotts range from handfuls
of families to more than half
of some congregations. All
however, had some loyal sup
porters within their congre-
cations.
In one town, segregationistS
worked to have a minister's
wife dismissed from her job
as a local school teacher. In
another, a college president
was encouraged to drop a
minister who was teaching
part-time.
The Association of Ministers
and Laymen, a segregatlonist
group with close ties to the
Citizens Councils, led the
campaign against the minis
tiers. This group warned that
any minister who proclaimed
Freedom of the pulpit"
"must be ready to accept the
consequences if what he says
offends the consciences OF
those to whom he looks for
support" Indignation, it add
ed, is un-Christian.
Statement Was Mild
The ministers statement
published in an official publ
cation. The Mississippi Me-
thodist Advocate, was mild
in tenor. 1t broke no new
ground and did not propose
any specific steps toward in
tegration. It's key passage
merely affirmed the national
Methodist Dicipline, which
says:
"Our Lord Jesus Christ
teaches that all men are bro
theirs. He permits no discrim-
nation because of race, color
or creed"
Those who left Mississippi
did SO essentially for two rea-
sons - difficulties on the ra-
cial issue and the belief that
Bishop Marvin Franklin OF
Jackson and his Cabinet did
not give them adequate sup
port after the manifesto was
published.
1T would be wrong to sug-
gest all of the men were
chased out of Mississippi"
said one remaining pastor.
"They were caught in a
squeeze. If the Bishop had
spoken one word, not neces-
sarily in support of our posi-
ton, but of our right to speak
out, it would have been an
entirely different situation"
Shortly after the original
manifesto, the Bishops Ca
binet issued its own state
ment asserting that the Me-
thodist Church constitution
places racial relationships on
a voluntary basis" and that
integration 'is not forced up
on any part of our church.
Bishop Franklin, who at SO
is nearing retirement, said
that his position was to mini
mize frictions within the
church. to resist pressure for
immediate removal of pastors,
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Through The Years

Items OF interest from the past taken from our fil4
OF The lexington Advertiser and The Durant News.
BY Ruth B. Flower
Jackson advocate., 1963-06-29
RovaI Grown Cola Go. Names
Negro To New Marketing Post

Columbus, Ga, (June II,
1963)-Appointment Of Charles
]. Chuck Smith, III, 36, to the
newly created post of Director
of Special Market Activities for
Royal Crown Cola Co., has been
announced here by Bradford D.
Ansley, Vice President-Sales,
Smith is q 15-year veteran in
the field of public relations and
promotion.
At the time of his appoint
ment, Smith was director of
public relations of Florida A &
M University in Tallahassee.
He had been a member Of the
staff there since September,
1850. Prior to working at F. A..
+. M. u, he served as director Of
publicity and publications at
Savannah State College, Savan-
nah, Georgia from 194s to 1850.
Commenting on Smiths ap-
pointment to the new post at
Jackson advocate., 1963-06-29
JOE LEWIS Land FIRST
JACKSON NEGRO POLICEMAN

Joe Lewis Land, a 27-year-
old, 250-pound "Caddy Master
at the Jackson Country Club,
was sworn in as Jackson's first
Negro policeman Friday morn
ing by Mayor Allen C. Thomp-
son as local police officials and
several Negro leaders witnessed
the ceremony.
Land, described by his friends
as being "likeable but firm"
is currently undergoing inten-
sive training at the Jackson
Police Training Center located
north of the city limits off
highway 49.
In discussing his training pro-
gram with the Advocate earlier
this week, Land stated that the
preparation for duty as police
man is really strenuous, but he
feels he's doing alright. The
husky 6 foot 8 inch athlete
said "I'm so tired when / get
Jackson advocate., 1963-06-29
REV. Martin LUTHER KING
IGNORES PRESIDENT CALL TO
STOP DEMONSTRATIONS
while CONGRESS CONSIDERS
CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION
Biggest Demonstration Ever
Held At Detroit, Michigan
Still Plan Washington March

Atlanta, Ga. June "a (Spec-
ial) The Atlanta Daily
World, the nations only Negro
owned and published daily news
paper has come out in support
of President Kennedy in his
call to Negro leaders and or
ganizations to stop public dem
onstrations while the Congress
of the United States considers
his new civil rights legislation.
The World, located in the
hometown of Rev. Martin Lu-
ther King, Jr., which is also
the headquarters of his South
ern Christian Leadership Con-
ference, and the headquarters
of its adjunct the Student Nom
Violent Coordinating Commit
tee, took its stand in support
of the President in an editorial
last Thursday in which it said:
President Kennedy has stress
Continued On Page Six)
Jackson advocate., 1963-06-29

home at night | just hit the
bed and go to sleep"
Following the ceremony at
the City Hall in Jackson, Mayor
Thompson stated that Land
would have full authority" as
a policeman, and would draw
the same starting sal ary
(S368.00 a month) as all other
policemen, and would receive
automatic pay raises that would
increase his salary to $4,000 a
month within the prescribed 49,
month period.
Obviously pleased with the
selection of the first Negro
policeman, Mayor Thompson, in
comentming on Land, told news
man that "I've known Joe Lewis
all his life and I've watched
him grow up around here. |
sincerely believe that he will
bring credit to himself and the
Continued On Page Six