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4 Cbc Clatfoit'LcOffcr IECTION A New Faces' Depenfls Capital City Newton James To Head JACKSON DAILY NEWS Sunday, May 18. 1958 MAX CHARGED WITH On 'Old' Talents STEALING FOOD NEW YORK The next ver. Chess Player Leaders Listed Confederate Vets Drive sion of "New Faces," a recurrent FROM NEEDY The top ten players on the lad al Newton James, former state Broadway revue, is going to depend on six previous finds as well as new talent. leadership, as the largest Camp der of the Capital City Chess i ,4 1 i the Confederacy, is definitely treasurer, has' been appointed Club, after playing ended at the secure. general chairman of the member Producer Leonard Sillman, who Y.M.C.A.

last Tuesday night are The general chairman select ship drive now being conducted announced. They are: expects his 1959 version of tha showcase to be ready for autumn. ed O. B. Brewer with the State Dr.

R. Moore, 1613; J. Poole, by Jefferson Davis Camp No. 635, Department of Education and 1525: T. Larche.

1364: H. Davis, Sons of Confederate Veterans. is going to use the group to Intro, duce his 10 latest performing dis Snowden, executive director of In announcing the appointment 966; J. Proctor, 791; C. Stubbs, 769: F.

Eastham, 738; J. Richard, coveries. the Mississippi Children's Home as team captains. The drive ends of James. Camp Commander Ed.

MILWAUKEE UrV-A 33-year old man has been charged with stealing fpod donated to a family of six children whose father is out of work. Asst. Dist. Atty. Anton Stan-kh said Anton Banasiak was charged with the theft after he took $9 worth of food from a $20 surplus bundle presented to Mrs.

June Durenski, 31, by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Stanich said Banasiak took $1.00 from Mrs. Durenski to drive her to the society to get the food, and stole part of it while Mrs. Durenski stopped at a friend's house to borrow money to buy meat.

Sturdivant said, "with Newton 664; E. Dummg, 660; Dr. A. tier at noon on June 1 and features a many. 555.

No Suspense Seen contest between the two team, James steering our membership drive, our position of nation- The following were also In at the winning team to be honored at tendance: R. Folwell, Gueder, In Mexican Vote the SCV Division Banquet at the D. T. McKenney, F. Jones, J.

Mit Heidelberg Hotel on the evening MEXICO CITY Vfi Every chell. H. Wheeler. of June 2. A five year paid up Gives Cash Prizes Mexican knows who the next pres A team from Jackson will meet membership has been offered for team from Natchez and Vicks the individual member securing burg in a match Saturday at the the greatest number of new mem ident will be but a record number of voters will vote in July.

Even the opposition concedes Adolfo Lopez Mateos of the Revolution. Vicksburg Y.M.C.A. All Mississip bers in excess of twenty. In Ad Contest pi chess players are invitea ana James, lor many years an en visitors are welcome. thusiastic member of SCV, char UNIVERSITY Cash prizes to acterizes the organization as one ary party will beat Luis a.

ai varze of the National Action par. ty. Women will be voting for president for the first time. mission was given a life of two years by Congress. Patterson does not thisk the passage of almost a of the region's most potent forces taling $100 were presented to university of Mississippi winners support of the constitutional Clean-Up Month Started In Roxie year before confirmation of its in the fourth annual Mississippi government and the fundamental membership lessens the chances of Power Light Co.

advertising con freedoms for which the Confed commission action in the South, test here this week. erate States fought and for which ROXIE The Roxie Civic Club MAY EXTEND TIME Propst Fair, senior from Jack the South continues to struggle, ana town officials have designat On the contrary, he said, the son, won the iirsi prize, ins ed the month of May as "clean The eligibility requirements for delay is getting a start may be A LIGHT, SHOT. SMOKE The three phases of a cannon blast are demonstrated here by Harry Schroeder of Monroe, La. Schroeder who is making a swing through Mississippi in promotion of "Cannon Clubs" is pictured firing his weapon off Highway 80 West, three miles from Jackson Thursday. Daily News Staff Photo by Phil Wallace.

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Mb Depl. CL KiniM City. Mo, winning layout was entitled "Tow-ers of Industry." The $25 second prize was award- used aa an argument to Congress to extend the commission's life The carriDalen will stress the federate Veterans are: any white male, 15 years of age or older, beyond 1959. ed to Paul Iligdon of Belzoni. John rehabilitation of shabby appear ing property.

The statement is who is a direct, or collateral The original civil rights bill cov Williams of Jackson won the $10 descendant of a member of the sued bv that club said that "we ered several fields, but the ver third prize. Armed Forces of the Confederate can't afford to let our town be sion finally passed after major Three Ole Miss coeds won hon States of America, and who is rec shabby." Southern-backed amendments, lim Civil War Cannon Real Comeback In orable mention prizes of $5 each Making Jackson ommended. witnout reservation its the commission's jurisdiction They are Jean Nail of Horn Lake, by a member in good standing of I Mississippi's Oldest Music House to aiding enforcement of voting Jan Holmes of Newton and Pat the Sons of Confederate Veterans rights. i Chism of Nettleton. Awards were presented by Carl The staff director, Tiffany, was approved by the Senate over South WERLEIN'S SPRING Mullican of Jackson, adver for weekend competition.

Targets would be stationary and cannons Bass Reunion Is Set In Prentiss tising director. ern objections. Georgia Sen. Richard Russell said Tiffany was a By PHIL WALLACE Daily Newt Staff Writer Have cannon, will travel! Thus a tall, likable Louislanan speaking casually may be a whole new trend in outdoor fun. would be lined up evenly just Also presnt for the occasion man of preconceived ideas and like a cannon range.

Prizes would The Bass family reunion will be were Jerry Bishop, administrative did not measure up to his hope held today at the Bethany Baptiat assistant to the president of tne Harry Schroeder likes Civil War that the spot would be filled by cnurcn in Prentiss. company, and John Mullen, ac cannon likes to fire them at dis man of national prestige who get from shooting an old Civil War cannon." Mayor Maurice Dantin of Colum mm count executive of Godwin Adver be given to winners. COULD BE DANGEROUS But starting such a program like this can be "dangerous." Just yesterday Schroeder was stopped would "inspire confidence." tising Agency, Jackson. bia will be the featured speaker in the morning. In the afternoon the Mississippi Sen.

James 0. East Traveling is easy business with Fair, president of Alpha Delta land said Tiffany had already dis Schroeder and he's in Jackson this Sigma advertising fraternity pre and questioned about stealing the Bass family reunion will present to Bethany Baptist church an Altar played he clearly disqualified cannon from Vicksburg's National sided at the Luncheon attended by University advertising majors and and Altar Furniture, a memorial tant targets but has no idea of starting another North-South conflict. It's all in fun to the friendly fellow out of Monroe. Armed with the idea of starting a chain of "Cannon Clubs" over Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, Schroeder is trying to create some interests in the project. LIKE RIFLE CLUB week complete with cannon and powder, lie was demonstrating it Thursday off Highway 80 West.

Park. to direct the commission a investigations by "inviting a Communist members of the School of Com "Someone saw the cannon rest gift of the reunion association. Mrs L. F. Alford of Georgetown will in front to give giformation." merce faculty.

Mr. Mullican was Its the first cannon made in ing on the trailer behind my car troduce Mrs. I. H. Bass Sr.

of Lum- introduced by Dr. Samuel S. Tal 'NO PREJUDICE' Tiffany will take over the com- as I left Vicksburg, said Schroed Vicksburg since the close of the Civil War," says Schroeder, who berton, who will present the gift to bert, chairman of the Department er. "Police stopped me and asked the church. Accepting for the of Journalism and advertising pro missions worK, hen.

iwris cotton (R), N. H. said, "without any where I cot it and I explained." uses beer cans filled with concrete for projectiles. It may be a new church will be Ford Saulters of fessor. He said it would be much like The old relic is loaded by the prejudice against any section of Prentiss.

"rifle clubs" which are spread over use for the popular tins which same method as confederates used the country." the country and through which have been used for practically ev which consists of shoving in Celebrating Our 116th Anniversary With The BIGGEST PIANO VALUES EVER! participants compete against neigh erything else. powder bag, paper wadding and finally the projectile last. The "I've been thinking about this boring towns in shooting matches. Commencement Exercises Set At Jeff College The commission is headed by Dr. John A.

Hannah, a Republican who is president of Michigan State University. Vice-chairman is Robert G. Storey, a Democrat and weapon is triggered by lighting a "Only I believe firing a cannon would be a lot more fun," said mmg ior aoout ten years. says Schroeder, "but really started in tuse over the butt plate. T0RK CLUBBERS DEPARTMENT January.

dean of the Southern Methodist Choose from Demonstrators, Rental Returns, Floor Samples, etc. All et tremendous Savings All Carry New Piano 10 year Guarantee. The main idea is to promote in Schroeder seriously. "I have been on many rifle matches, where men fired in competition, but I figured tcnroeier said the cannon weighed about 1650 pounds and has a maximum range of a mile University Law School. NATCHEZ UPI Jefferson mili Another Southerner is former terest in all the large cities in Mississippi to organize these clubs how much more pleasure one could and one half.

Virginia Gov. John S. Battle. Other tary college at nearby Washington will hold commencement exercises May 23 with CDR. Mircy Dupre II of the U.

S. Naval Academy as CR GROUP STARTS WORK members include the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, a native of Syracuse, N. Y.

and president of guest speaker. CDR. Dupre is the son of Admir Notre Dame; and J. Ernest WUK- ins, 63, Missouri-born, the only al Dupre. USN (retired), superintendent of Jefferson Military Col EMjwwff fa.lWeem'm 'ttj y.yy.

Negro on the body, end an as sistant secretary of labor. lege. Mississippi Has Nothing To Hide In Voter Probe this thing." he said, adding that laws specifically to meet the new "Mississippi's voting laws are ad federal civil rights legislation, and ministered fairly, without regard BUSINESS Patterson said he did not think action by the states would have to race and we certainly can show that anytime it becomes any affect on the functioning of the commission. OPPORTUNITY His'officewill'be ready, Patterson Congress setup the commission, he said, "purely as a political creature, to gratify the NAACP said, to represent "any and all" of Mississippi's 82 voter registration officials who might be sum By pat j. McDonnell ATLANTA (INS) Mississippi which may be an early target of the newly-completed Federal Civil JRights Commission, has "absolutely nothing to hide" in regard to its voting laws, the state's top legal officer said today.

Groups now in the midst of a campaign to register Negro voters In the South have had little or no success in Mississippi, and spokesmen indicated they would seek early investigation of voter-registration there. The Civil Rights Commission was completed this week, with Senate confirmation of Gordon M. Tiffany, former New Hampshire attorney general, as $taff director. and the ADA and a few others," moned before the new federal in He emphasized, however, that he quisitorial body. SACRIFICE Sacrifice for immtdiat salt, complete air conditioned and sound proofed sound recording -studio and retail phonograph 'record shop, complete with all necessary equipment of the very best professional quality, including $30,000 brand new phonograph records.

Above represents an original does not know what may be in the minds of the men appointed to the Mississippi voter-qualification body. laws require a knowledge of the constitution and government. The "They are, apparently, all high- state has questionaires, which are type individuals," he said, "and I cost of over $25, 000. 00. sell on easy terms for $3900.

or would consider trading don't mean to infer that they would for what have you. New records should filled out by prospective voters and graded. White and Negro prospective voters answer the be prone to give any more at sell for more than $6,000.00 at retail. tention to the NAACP then they would to the opposite side." Write box 2141 0 car of this paper. same questions.

The state, for Mississippi Atty. Gen. Joe Pat many years, has required that the He added: "Until we see what happens, we terson said he still views creation papers of citizens not qualified be of the commission as "political" must presume that these gentle kept for two years. Thus, Patterson said, the state is in a position to document a fair man will be doing only that which is right or just to all parties, regardless of locale." Originally, the Civil Rights Com- and impartial administration of vot and "another invasion of states' rights." Patterson said he had no idea what action the comission might plan. He does not, however, think Mississippi is vulnerable to a charge that there Is racial discrimination in voting rights.

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