Volume 85. - Number 166.
Entered at the Foat Ofllce In Tupele, Mlsslulppl, as eecond-olua mall
Tupelo, Mississippi, 'I'hursday ,Morning, October 6, 1955• .
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Wins Top Dairy Show Award
Mississippi Pyle Appointed
Governor's Meet JACKSON - Governor }{ugh White and Governor-elect J. P. Coleman will · attend the Southern Governor's Conference at Point Clear, Alabama October 17th through the 20th.. White is chairman of the conference's freight rate committee.
Strike Hearings JACKSON - A special arbitration board will begin hearings in . Mississippi .Monday on wher. tl)~r eight persons dischar~ed for alleged acts of violence against Southern Bell Telephone Company should be re-instated, , The board will consider two cases in Jackson, two in Hattiesburg, two in Laurel and one each at Natchez and Biloxi.
Farm Testimony Being Prepared Hearing Set Tuesday At Itawamba College FULTON - Verbal testimony from three witnesses from each of ·.eight Mississippi counties and an Alabama county is planned for ·the Congressional sub-committee on agriculture which meets at Itiawamba Junior College next . Tuesday, The committee representing the counties to be heard at the Congressional hearing has named farmers, bankers, ginners; housewives and club youths to testify about. the problems facing small farmers . Written statements from many other individuals will be submitted to the su~ommittee during the hearing. Mississippi counties to be heard at the meeting are Lee Itawamba, Tishomingo, Alcorn'. Prentiss, ~O.'.:ltotoc, Union and Monroe. Marion County, . Alabama, will also be represented. . · The sub-committee will come to Fulton from· Columbus and the hearing will open around 10 a. m '.['hE; hearing will be held in the . Jumor college auditorium.
State Federation Of Labor Elects Park To Office JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 5 CUP) The Mississippi Federation of Labor today closed out Its annual session after adopting resolutioiis . that included a demand for repeal of the st~le's "right to work" law. · Forty-five locals introduced the . resolution which described the law as "punitive class legislation" backed by industrialists to destroy unions. Another resolution asked for a $1.00 an hour minimum wage law for the state in line with a recentlyenacted federal statute. P . L. Park of Tupelo, busin ess agent for the Teamsters' Union here, was named one of the state AFL vice-presidents. W. L. Hines of Hattiesburg was re· elected president and. T. G. Beckh a m of Jackson renamed secretary-tr easurer. Named vice presidents were C. Br.ewton. Jackson; . W. G. Fairchilds, Laurel; P. L. Park, Tupelo; K .. A. Parrent, Gulfport; Mrs. Frieda Guyton, Meridian; C. L. Wallace, Pascagoula ; Donald Woodall, Natchez; J. E. Peterman, .. Gulfport: G. D. Reeves, Columbia. The convention voted to hold Its 115e meeting at Meridian June u .
Colt, Horse Show Schedule.d Today; Verona Wins Honor
'Farm Prosperity' Is Possible With 'More Consumption'
By GENE GRATZ Journal Staff Writer
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Oct. 5 <UP)-Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Bens<;>n said today the administration will do what is "right and fair" to obtain for the farmer an "equitable return for his time and
Welfare Aid
JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 5 (UP)Four idle textile mills, part of the vast estate of the late R . D. Sanders, · were purchased today by a Gadsden, Ala., real estate man. Joe L . Moore of Gadsden. who closed the deal late Tuesday, was reported to be the representative of an Eastern textile concern. He said the closed mills at l}osciusko, West Point. Winona and McComb probably would be put back into operation. . The sale p r l c e was not announced. Sanders died a year ago, leaving a large estate in indusq-ial properties. Trustees of his estate negotiated the sale of the four mills It was reported they would reopen by· next s·p ring. ·
Ken Clowers, 11,.· Star Of Show; Oueen Crowne~~:
Ezra Benson Willing To Do Farmer 'Right'
JACKSON , Miss., Oct. 6 <UP)Gov. Hugh White today announced appointment of Arnold Pyle to tlle .State Veteran Affairs Board. Pyle, Hinds County chancellor, was appointed to a seven-year ·term succeeding board Cl'lairman Smiley Shipman whose term expired · July l. White said he acted on the advice of state veteran groups. The governor, who made a routine inspection of Parchman State Penitentiary Tuesday, said the · penal farm . is expected to net $1,250,000 on crops this year.
Mills Purchased
Full United Press. Leased Wire
Young Pontotoc 4-H Clubber
It Happened
JACKSON, Miss. , Oc( 5 <UP)Mississippi paid welfare assistance totalinl! $2,501,819 to more than 120,000 persons during September. State W e 1 f a r e Commissioner J . A. Thigpen said today old age benefits totaled $1,966,824 with 70,611 persons receiving grants that a veraged $27.85.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations
A pint-sized Pontotoc younif s.t er, Kenneth Wayne Clowers ·· of Algoma, emerged the bright star: of the State Junior Dairy Show. at the fair Wednesday by showing the grand champion animal and. personally winning the highlycoveted showmanship trophy. · · ·· The 11-year old 4-H club lio'f. and his cow Design Girl Peggy made a winning team in the cow classes and shownmanship· cofu~· petition. .··,. The junior show, one of the lar;, gest ever seen here, was practi:,,.
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However. Benson said the government would not rush toward QUEENS OF THE DAIRY SHOW-Miss Sybil Ann Allsup (center) of Macon, Miss., was crowned "hastily-conceived, unrealistic proqueen of the State Junior Dairy Show at the Mississippi-Alabama fair Wednesday. At left is Frances grams which destroy farm marDuncan. Dorsey, Miss ,, first alternate, and on the rigl:\t is Doris Daffron of Lowndes County. Miss All- kets." The Agriculture Secretary told a sup succeeds Gail Chisholm of Jones County. -Staff photo. convention of the American Bakers SHOW CHAMPIONS-Here are the grand champion and reserve Assn. that "solid farm prosperity" could be achieved with more grand champion of the State Junior Dairy Show. Kenneth Wayne "abundant consumption and re- Clowers, right, of Algoma in Pontotoc County holds his grand cham- cally a dawn to dusk affair, The· duced costs-greater· effieiency in last event of the show was held · ·th ·. both production and distribution." Pion. Linda Jo Davidson · of Tupelo holds her reserve grand cham- 1·n th e Iights un d er th e t ent .w1 Urging a strong, productive pion. ~staff photo. ' darkness falling outside. _.i American farm economy, Benson The unqualified success of thi said it could be assured "through junior show made· Children's Day a prtgram which helps the farmer at the fair a perfect day. The DENVER, Oct. 5 (UPl -The the a £tern o on, the President to help himself, rather than with a . Verona school made it a perfect optimistic news from President rested." system that regiments him to a day for that Lee County town .by Eisenhower's bedside tonight was Back in the capital, Adams will point where he must consult with winning the attendance prize In not in the . formal language of a participate in meetings of the Na- Washington even on simple manthe children's parade and dis.;. l · th f " 1 fl t medical bulletin, but the word tional Security Council and the agement decisions." Mrs. W. E. Holcomb o! Jack- that he was laughing over a get- Cabinet b efore returning to Denver Benson saw both the farmer and P aying e irst oa · · The all-day andPace night success· son, sister-in-law of the Rev . .well gift of bubble gum from his Saturday afternoon with Dr. Paul consumer as benefiting from a FEZ, Morocco, Oct. 5 (UPI - through the barren peaks of . the of Wednesday's events at the ibfg H. R. Holcomb of Tupelo, was three grandchildren. Dudley White, the Boston heart flexible support program. In . the 1French troops punched through Riff Mountain badlands. fair set the stage for today's pro• killed and her husband was inThe medical bulletins continued specialist. . !?ng run ,farmers would achieve the road to Boured today and It is in tlle Boured-Tizl. Ouzll- gram. jured in ·a traffic accident at to report satisfactory progress in Dr. White on Saturday night and more freedom and greater pros- claimed initial victory In the . Riff Aknoul triangle, close to the SpanThe State Open Jeney Show 11 :30 a. m. Wednesday on Hig·h- recovery from his Sept. 24 heart Sunday will examine the President peritl'." tllrough flexible supports, Mountain war against rebelling !sh Moroccan ·border, that tlle most will get underway this mo-~ ...... attack. But the more indicative and confer with his doctors on med- he sai~. . . Berber tribesmen. serious outbreaks . of the current • .._ way 11 near Gulfport. news was how the President filled ical plans for the future, plus an Flexible ~rice supports are InGen. Henri Bertron announced uprising have occurred. at the livestock ring_ . . . :. . .( Mr Holcomb was taken· to a the hospital room with laughter evaluation of how Mr. Eisenhower tended . to encourage production the road had been cleared after The annual colt and horse show hospital in Gulfport for treatment h h d 'ft b f came through the first two critical for the m. arket, rather than for Forei·gn Legi· onnai· res from the Col. Francis Borellle, who com- is scheduled for 2 p. m. iii.. front w enthree e · opene ox rom d · ·. •· ·, .· :··;,..,, b.u t was expected to be in condi- the childrena g1 of Maj. and weeks following the coronary s to rage m governmen t ware- burned out post of Boured linked manded the French battalion in the o! th e grand s t an. tion to be brought to the Bap- M J hn s E . h thrombosis he suffered Sept. 24. houses,'' Benson told the bakers. up wi' th an armored column of Kor.ean War, led some 500 Foreign The third automoblle wi:11 · 1:i•., rs. o · 1sen ower. Legionnaires out of Boured today · tonight b tist Hospital in Jackson by WedHe pored with delight over an Spahis from the main French oper- after trying and falling all day g1ven away . y Tupe1o nesday night. The extent .of his assortment of gifts that included atlonal base of Aknoul. Tuesday to clear the way south merchants followinJ the grand• injuries was not known here, but packs of gum , playing cards, writAt the same time, French Res!- to Aknoul. stand show. . . are not believed to be serious. ing paper, a Western story and af• • dent-General Pierre Boyer de La. . Although Pontotoc Count,'• The accident occurred when fectionately inscribed crayon draw-1 tour made a person a I swing Shortly after the Legionnaires: Kenneth Clowen . emerged . the the ·automobile -Mr. 1tolcomb was · ·· g through the Immouzer des Mar- ~in~d.dwith the. Spah.~ hite ags .,t.µo ~f thi!.dah:;v s}fo'iit• ~ ..~ :~·· , driving swerved 1'·n ra1·n water mU~til today, the P. re.side. nt's sick- , .. moucha region, southeast <'if: ~i!Z, '7\, , i; ov.e r . s9me ._ g~ a ong .nthAiril cub,:, out J tk&· b ·; I tt t t t t~ r thr.''·-oad to R<-.ured. ' "' ·· . ' " . ' < 11!!1· · · • ·· and ·struck the railing of a bridge. room recreation at Fitzsimons >.r" ·. . in an a emp o preven ,·~ re:st'rtron sald French · 'Moroccan state-wt . event lrit:il• lhininC ·The ·impact caused Mrs. Holcomb my Hospital was decidedly on the . bellidn from spreading. affairs officers were in touch with honors. .· ·. to fall out of the c·a r. subdued side. The gift arrived last UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 5 recall the entire French delegation heThheadretsaikdeennt-age~!~te:n~1t~!1Pc:i the rebels and some of them ap- .A pretty honey-blonde Maeoiil: She has a host Of frl·ends In week, but the President was in no CUP) - The United Nations Main t ti u N d to 'b 1 1 th · f "th I High School irl s bil A - - All n sup w g •d y """"' -· ··. sonal measures" In cooperation ·tpeare shape to b e opening pac k ages, no Political Committee today side- o ie . . h · i e os ng eir a1 · - d h T upel 0 h avmg 1ive ere until ma tt er h ow sma u, (A U, S. embassy· spokesman 1·n wi·th fr1·endly Berber trt,b esmen he e upris queen of the' 1929 · • h.l · stepped discussion of tbe poltical Th b ng. k th . h t 0 th B d' d · • has-0 erowne · 1 • w e Mr. Holcomb was in Today with his wife, however, "hot potato" of the current General Paris said French Foreign Minister knew 30 years ago when he served oad e rea • hroutlg ft e ourwiled b airTy s ~ me contest sponsored the lumber business and having d ·th th t f th d . A b i'n the · re<1i"on. r came s or y a er a y upe1o s. three banks. Francei: w1 e consen o e oc. ssem ly-the Nationalist revolt in Antoine Plnay told Ambassador Bertron"also announced a new tribesmen recaptured Duncan of Dorsey w· aa fir•t i . • an v sited here on other occasions. tors, he had a few bright minutes French Algeria. D 1 Dill th t t w t p k to th th the dNador f ~ alt•~. -·· . She also formerly resided at Hat- 1oo k.mg a t th e g ifts and b eammg . oug as on a grea er es oper· a t1·on jump1·ng off at dawn to ass, ey e nor ern e ense nate and Doris Daffron o•4 Lo--. Inclusion of the Algerian question triangl d nM tiesburg where Mr. Holcomb was grand-paternally over the crayon on the U.N. agenda caused French ern solidarity could · have prevent-· clear the road to the French outTh e. i b tt k t ff es County second alternate. president of a Baptist college, drawings, one of which showed Premier Edgar Faure last week to ed the walkout. , post of Tizi Ouzli, which twists e surpr se· ~e e.1 a ac cu O The new queen is fully qualift• Mrs. Holcomb was the daugh- seven-year-old David astride · a (The spi)kesman denied reports for second time Ill 24 hours the ed to reign over a dairy sh~ ter of th lat M d M J K h th E " h f t nor ern outposts of Boured and She's a farm ..;,.1 a·n d 16 d h e e r. an rs. . . orse on e isen ower arm a Plnay had "rebuked" the United Tizl Ouzll. The outposts, together da1 . .,.._ an a1 Kirkland of Quitman, Miss Gettysburg. States for not having done all it with the main French operational a ry prOJect .11: 4-~ club _work. Funeral· services are pianned Grandfather Eisenhower was piebase of Aknoul, form a triangle in She was a f.am1liar figure 1n thi, for JO a. m . Friday in the First tured on another steed, proudly , could to sidetrack the vote on the heart of the rugged mountains. shpw rin? Wednesday as she Baptist church at Jackson. · bearing an American flag . ! Algeria). Aknoul, set in a,shallow valley 45 (Continued On Page I) Mrs. H. R. Holcomb went to On the clinical side, news from France mai.ntains the Algerian• menieleds. north of Taza,_ was threatJackson Wednesday shortly after the . chief executi':'e's physicians revolt and nationalist's demands he~ring of the tragic accident, contmued encouragmg. Nador Pass lies a lew miles south while Rev. Holcomb remained to "The President had an excellent for independence make up an in-· of Boured and Tizi Ouzli. The stony ternal French. problem and never· main road north from Taza was conduct Wednesday night services night. He slept soundly and almost h ere at the First Baptist church. continuously for nine and a half should have been listed for public blocked. H!! will go to Jackson today, .as hours. He awoke refreshed anti discussion by the U.N. It was one . East of tlle French base, the nawill a number of other friends of cheerful. of eight items assigned to the poW tives \ilere in turmoil. th "The President's morning examHATTIESBURG, Miss.. Oct. 6 litical committee PT. PLEASANT, . Va. (U.PJ Normally peaceful men were e family. inations shows that his tempera- (UPI-Two men were killed and The committe~ approved a pro-I An. itinerant carnival worker joining the rebels from three warIn addition to her husband she ture, pulse and blood pressure are a highway patrolman was serious- posal for discussion of peaceful held here on a concealed weapons like tribes in increasing numbers. leaves a son, W. E (Edi 'Hol- normal. His cardiogram shows the ly injured Tuesday night in a two- uses of atomic energy now. but warrant will be charged with a (In Cairo, exiled Moroccan nacomb, Jr., student a"t Ole Miss; expected slow evolution ... " car collision. voted to have " no discussion of the $2,836 robbery at a bank in Vina, tionalist leader Alla! El Fassi and three d'aughters, Mrs. Richard Apparently it was right after The convertible, occupied by the order of other items" immediately. A la., FBI agents said today, Algerian nationalist leader MohamJACKSON, N.C., Oct. 5 CUP) Turner and Mrs. Abbie Jones breakfast that Mrs. Eisenhower victims turned into the path of the This shelved the touchy AlgerJ. Gordon Shanklin, special a- med El Khidir issued a joint procboth of Hattiesburg, and Mrs'. presented the gifts from David, patrolman's car five miles north Ian problem and informed sources gent in charge of the FBI Pitts- lamation announcing formation of A 32-foot regal python powerful Ross Bass of Jackson; and two Susan Elaine, 3, and Barbara Anne, of here. s~id it would be left there until the burgh office, notified Mason an "armv for the liberation of enough to crush a man like an egg. shell in its sinuous coils has vanbrothers, J. K. Kirkland, Jr.. of 6, who are with their parents at The dead were identified as Rob- s1tuat_1on ease~. County authorities a federal war- North Africa." Quitman and William Kirkland of Ft. Belvoir, Va. ert L. Stevenson, 28, of near HatLatin American delegates have rant has been issued for the sus(The proclamation said the army ished from a carnival and the secFlorida. The President scheduled a brief tiesburg, and James H. Meadows, led the attempt the past few days pect Virgil R. Vanblacrum 37 went into action for the first time ond big-game hunt in a month was business talk with Sherman Adams, 32, of New Augusta. Patrolman to solve the dilemma caused by alia; Patrick O'Flaherty. ' ' Oct. 1, the day the rebels rose up on tonight in the Carolina "veldt." Everyone in the vicinity hoped the assistant to the President, dur- C. L. Hinton of Hattiesburg was the listing of the Algerian revolt Vanblarcum was arrested here against garrisons in the Atlas on the agenda M ·t · d th s · h the reptile, one of the larger snakes ing the early afternoon . Adams was hospitalized .here. Hinton said the c·onverti·ble, turnT d • ·d· t · " 1 Sept. 20 after he was reported to ' oun ams an . near e parus of the constrictor type. had been scheduled to fly later to Washingo ay s s1 e-s eppm., proposa have flashed a number of new Morocco frontier. I. ton. Ing into a nightclub on the west was made by Colombian AmbassaMo R d nt General stolen and was still in a cage or, Adams left for Washington at side of Highway 11, veered into the dor Francisco Urrutia. The Indian $5. $10 an~ $20 . bills at a near- Pierr:o~i;er de erafour.-who won at the worst. had been fed lately. The hawser-sized serpents are , his spurs battling the Berbers in about mid-afternoon after talking path of his sout.h·liourid vehicle as and Soviet delegates spoke in sup- by taverz.i m !)hto, with the ~resident for about 20 he trailed a truck with faulty port of the proposal and the comShanklm sa1_d V:anblarcum s al- the similar Riff uprising of 1920, considered dangerous only when . BILo:x;r, Miss . Delega tes minutes and submitting six rela- lights. He said the oncoming con- mittee then approved it. leged accomplice m the Alabama raced to Aknoul to take over mili- they have to wait for their semiannual meal. The rest of the time representmg Rural Electric - Co- tively routine papers for his ap- vertible paused to let the truck In the disarmament subcommit-· holdup: Cl yde T. Brown, 30, also tary operations. operative Associations have c]os- proval. The President signed four pass. then turned left. Stevenson tee Canada's Paul Martin warned a carmval worker, was a rrested More reinforcements were or- they are docile and sleepy. The ,big snake disappeared from, ed out a four • state convention recess appointments and initialed and Meadows were thrown from the delegates of the United States, by the FBI in Birmingham Tues- dered in to bolster the weary in. Biloxi after taking a swipe a t two administrative documents . their vehicle by the impact. Britain, France and the USSR that day. Legionnaires and Spahis. Some its open-top, boxlike cage sometime private power. A 2: 30 p.m. medical bulletin said Two other persons died in separ- the development of intercontinental The FBI agent said Vanblar- 2,000 French troops were fighting before dawn Saturday. It was owned by Johnny Ryan as part of Ancher Nelson national admin - "The President's condition con- ate ·mishaps on Mississippi high- ballistic mi ssiles constituted a cum and Brow n entered the bank in the area at least report. the menagerie in his Central istrator of the REA program, told tinues to progress satisfactorily ways Tuesday. Henry P. Sullivan, "very real thre.at to all mankind" at Vina on Sept. 17 , covered emAmusement Shows. d I without complications. 69, of Lexington, w a s fatally and must be nipped in the bud. ployes witll pistols and escaped e egates private companies "are "He had a lunch of creamed to- injured when he apparently lost A tb it ti A i ~ The snake's disappearance retrying to dress themselves in . mato soup, a plate of cottage tr l f h . d 1 d ff 'du Cor adve mter cllan ts~urth.s with the money. called that of Vicki the elephant sheep's . clothi~i. . cheese and slices of peach, pine- con o o . is car an P unge o sa1b a~tat a wen ta .ou m et Va:nblarcum had $180 on him which escape~from an amusement 12 near Tchula. su comm1 ee meen gm suppor · when arrested here. and a search H e accused the companies of apple and bananna, lemon ice and Highway Raymond B. Thompson of Cull- of President Eisenhower's plan for park at Charlotte Sept. 11 and fortrying to convince the people that whole wheat .toast. man, Ala., was killed Tuesday u. s. and Soviet exchange of mili- of his hotel room at nearby Galaged for !! days in a suburban PONTOTOC - A work order "jungle" before assorted police, competition in the electric indus"After lunch, Sherman Adams night when his car left Highway 63 tary blue prints and aerial inspec- lipolis, Ohio, revealed 93 new $1 has been issued authorizing a mahouts and civilians could captry is un-American. . briefly saw the President. Later in near Agricola. tion. bills in numerical sequence. start of construction on 13 miles ture the beast. of Highway 9 between the CaL Hoping to solve the new disaphoun-Pontotoc county line and pearance quickly and at least avoid Bruce, Highway Commissioner panic before the carnival left town, Rov C. Adams announced Wed- carnival men kept it quiet until Tuesday. nesday. Police arrested the snake's ban The· work order was issued to dler, Louis Webber, 47, and his asBoyd Construction Co., contracsistant, Dominic Reo, 25, on tors for the project • 'The Highway 9 project calls charges of stealing the reptile. Held in jail here without bond: for 13 ..182 miles of grading, drain- pending a hearing tomorrow night,. age, bridges and temporary gra- Webber and Reo denied any part vel surface. in the python's disappearance. WebThe construction company is ber agreed. however, that the authorized 275 working days. 'f, snake probably was stolen. It is E. Foshee is project engineer as. worth $1,100. • signed to the job. · "It' s possible but not probable·· The Hi ghway 9 project is one of that it escaped," Webber said. The several planned to improve taa t python weighs between 200 and 300 pounds and is too heavy for one state h ighway. man to handle. He estimated it would take about four men to load the reptile into a truck. Noi;theast Mississippi - Showers Police Chief Elmo Wheeler said and thundershowers Thursday. re- the arrests were made on warrants ceding eastward in the afternoon sworn by Ryan and bis· partner, or night. Moderate to fresh south- Miss Pat Muszzinski. erly winds becoming moderate Police ran down tips that snake Thursda y and diminishing at night. snatchers attempted to sen tJr HIGH-Maria DiGilio, Martha Jo Kelly, 'rula Senter, Mitzie Brown, Mary Jo Low Wednesday 69-72 , high Thursserpent to shows at Richmond, Y and Molly Haynes of the Itawamba Junior College and High School band step high during the Misday 80-84. Friday outlook: Mostly and Beaufort. N.C., but ha" 1!1sippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show Parade Wednesda:, morning. -Staff photo by Ross. lair and cooler. sucees&. ·
Mrs. Holcomb Get-Well Gifts Bring Accident Victim Happy Chuckle From Ike Autemobile Strikes Railing · Of Bridge
Frenc h CIa Im • V•ICtO ry In Cl as.h w·th B·erbers I
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Two Mofor·1sfs Io·1e InCrash
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Caro1·1na HunIs powerfuI python
Itinerant Carnival Wor ker Faces Ch arge
Handler, Assistant Arrested For Theft
Co-op Convention Ends At Biloxi; Priyate Power Hit
Highway 9 Project Ordered Underway By State Commissioner
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