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Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 12

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PAGE 12 THE CLARION-LEDGER, JACKSON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1956 SECTION ON2 State To Send Big Salesman Killed In Delta Wreck CLARKSDALE Services for 'i Jtt v. 1 Of Delegation To The tine -f Mrs. Ida Bernstein To Be Buried Today VICKSBURG Mrs. Ida Bernstein, widow of a prominent Rolling Fork merchant and planter died Monday night in Rolling Fork." She was 84. Services will be held at Fisher Funeral Ch2pel in Vicksburg Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock witli Rabbi Leonard Rothstein officiating.

Burial will be in the Vicksburg Jewish cemetery. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Dave Cohen of Rolling Fork; and other relatives. IT Ilk i f. vet- Xj s00 MICE, MICE, MICE Mrs.

Billy Lee's third graders recently presented "Belling the Cat" in an assembly program at Lake School. Taking part in the program were Jerry Benson, Mac Boney, Tommy Crosby, Jane Drane, Janice Blocker, Pam Warren, Marlise Smith, Randy Moorman, Howard Bond, Nina Hussey, Nancy Dear, Walter Spaulding, Barbara Nelson, Ronnie Crews, Charles Gamill, Joe Mason, Charlene Jones, William Ray Brooks, Carol Finfrock, Sharon Hicks, Nancy Boyles, Bernard Morris, Cliff Der-rington, Patricia Tompkins, Patricia Arrington, Tommy Kelley, Jimmy Ford, Vicky Arnett, Thomas Barnett, Frank Smith, Hie Rookmaker, Rickey Bassett, Jimmy Trimm, Jimmy Lowery and Frank Carter. (Photo by John Warren). Thurman E. Ballard, 37 year-old Drew salesman who was killed in an automobile accident on Highway 61 near Lula Monday will be held at 1 p.m.

Wednesday at the Salem Methodist Church near Ack-erman. Under treatment at the Coahoma county hospital is Chester D. Law, 26 of Pineville, and England Air Force Base at Alexandria, La. Highway Patrolmen J. T.

Skel-ton and James Gardner stated Ballard was driving north in a 1949 Ford which collided with Laws 1951 southbound Oldsmobile. Both automobiles were demolished. Mr. Ballard was discharged from the Army in March after 14 years service. He leaves his parents, Mr.

and -Mrs. C. H. Ballard of Drew and two brothers Otis B. Ballard of Ackerman and Homer C.

Ballard of Cleveland. The Australian Kiwi is the onlv bird with nostrils in the tip of its bill, says the National Geographic Society. U. S. farms had 50,000 farm autos in 1910; 4,400,000 in 1952.

MR. WINFIELD H. JUNK St. Joseph, Missouri Services 3:30 p.m. Thursday Baldwin Chapel Interment Lakewood MR.

CHESTER L. CHISHOLM Remains sent to Laurel For Services and Interment MR. J. T. GILES Arrangements incomplete BALDWIN FUNERAL HOME 132 Manshlp Street Phone S-T727 MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME (12 W.

Capitol Street Pbone 2-14SS PHONE 3-4649 We Can Serve You Better City Officials Firm On Bus Segregation What does your vacation have to do with "Bank Plan" Auto Financing? Many Car Buyers SAVE as mnefc as $150 with my "Bank Plan" enough for a family vacation. CALL D. R. (DEL) BALK0 IT PATS TO KNOW TOUR STATE FARM AGEXT. til Vint Capital Street Phone S-X124.

Night S-134? 3 A RATED NO. SEE US! AIR-CONDITIONERS I Other Jacksonians on the ad vance registration list include: Mr. and Mrs. A. Boyd Campbell, Mr.

and Mrs. Marvin Collum, Major and Mrs. Frederick Sullens, Mr. and Mrs. Mendel Davis, Mr.

M. B. Swayze, Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Johnson, Rex I.

Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Les M. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry DeViney, Mr. and s. Lewis Pitts, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hederman, Mr.

and Mrs. E. E. Laird, Mr. and Mrs.

Gus Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hearin, J. W. Underwood, Purser Hewitt, Aaron Ford, Mr.

and Mrs. J. T. Brown Mr. and Mrs.

Stuart Irby, Mr. and Mrs. W. Calvin Wells, III, Mr. and Mrs.

George Wallace, Nat Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. George Godwin, Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson, Mr. and Mrs.

H. P. Nicholas, Mr. and Mrs. George Godwin, Jr.

Mrs. John Maloney, Ed Lewis, Mr. and Mrs George Godwin, Jr. Two Negro Timber Cutters Drown In Steele Bayou VICKSBURG Two'Negro timber cutters were drowned Tuesday when a small boat capsized in Steele Bayou. The office of Sheriff P.

T. Hul- lum identified them as Columbus Jackson and Anderson Chapman of Vicksburg. Their bodies were recovered Tuesday afternoon. Richard B. Woodward Dies In Greenville GREENVILLE, Funeral Services for Airman Richard Benjamin Woodward, who died in general hospital here Sunday night of injuries suffered last Wednesday in an automobile collision on Highway 82 east, will be conducted in his home town of Madison, with burial at Nashville, Tenn.

The body was sent to Madison by National Funeral Woodward, 32, was driving his own automobile which collided with another. He was assigned to headquarters squadron of the 3505th. Installations group at Greenville Air Force Base. He leaves a sister and brother in Madison, Tenn. in town! Barefield Co.

1 1 6 N. Cengrese, Diol 2-0743; 32) Woodrow Wilton Dial S-72W that this Supreme Court ruling will have no effect on actual practice in Jackson." "It will not be necessary for action to be taken because there will be no necessity for it," he added. "We are exceptionally fortunate in Jackson that we do not have individuals or groups who are interested in agitating racial problems and whose only desire is to stir up trouble," he said. "We have made tremendous progress in the last few years, and not a day passes that our Negro citizens do not impress on me that they are happy and satisfied with the situation exactly as it is," the mayor added. Jackson Teenagers Invited By Road-e-o Jackson teenagers are invited to take part in the annual Teenage Road-e-o, to be held April 28th at 9 a.

m. at the Farmers Market. A written test, made up of 50 questions, and counting 40 percent of the total mark, will be given on the 26th of April at school. Entry blanks must be turned in by 8 a. m.

April 26th to the driver education teacher. The three top winners will be eligible to enter the state contest May 17-18 in Jackson. Entrance requirements include a learners permit or drivers license, and his or her 20th birthday cannot come before August 10th. A contestant is ineligible if he has had a moving violation in the last six months. Teams representing schools can be formed, and a school may enter as many teams as it wants, each team consiting of five members.

A large trophy will be given to the winning team and each team member will be awarded individual trophies. A person does not have tc be a member of a team to enter the Road-e-o. David Sahler, chairman, said that first prize is a $50 bond, a watch and plaque; second prize is a $25 bond, protable radio and plaque; third prize a $25 bond and a plaque. Barbara Marshall Is Rebelee Queen UNIVERSITY In a runoff election that winds up the University of Mississippi contests for the year Barbara Marshall of New Albany was elected Rebelee Queen. Miss Marshall will reign over Rebelee Weekend on May 4.

She defeated Dot Allen of Rosedale by a vote of 641 to 573. Bill Shellhammer, of Warren, described by his friends as a Yankee turned Southerner, was elected editor of The Missis-sippian, student newspaper. He de feated Neal Gregory, of Tupelo by a vote- of 624 to 551. Mississippi's largest crowd ever to attend a national convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce is expected for Washington meeting April 30 May 2. According to Marvin 1 1 president of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, the Jackson delegation numbers around 60 and dele gates are also expected from 12 other state towns.

The unusual interest in this na tional convention stems from the fact that A. Boyd Campbell of Jackson will complete his tenure as national president. The convention gets underway Sunday, April 29, with a reception at the National Chamber Build ing, with the program proper to start Monday in Constitution Hall. Among the outstanding speakers slated to appear are Evangelist Billy Graham; Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale, wife of the famed minister; President A.

Boyd Campbell; Republican National Committee Chairman Leonard Hall; Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler; Commerce Secretary Sinclaire Weeks; Phillip Reed, chairman of the board for Generat Electric Company and many other prominent business and governmental figures. Mississippi communities other than Jackson to be represented at the national convention will include Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, Brook- haven, Clarksdale, Columbia, Col umbus, Meridian, Moss Point, Natchez, Picayune, Prentiss and Yazoo City. Sessions of the convention will conclude with the annual dinner Wednesday evening and installa tion of John Coleman as president. Mr.

Coleman is president of Bur-, roughs Corporation in Detroit. Officials of the Jackson Cham ber of Commerce planning attendance will include President Marvin Collum, Treasurer Nat Rogers, National Councillor Fred erick Sullens, Rex I. Brown, Purs er Hewitt and Robert a i members of the board of directors and General Manager 1 1 Davis. Jacksonians making late reser vations for the meeting include Judge Arnold Pyle, D. J.

Showalter, and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Myers, Supervisor and Mrs. Ross Dodds, Supervisor and Mrs. Dan Fergu son, Bob Everett.

W. E. Nettles, 161; Jack Mohon 53; Hilton Ball 92. CREAM The doctor's deodorant discovery that now safely stops odor 24 hours a day You're serene. You're sure of yourself.

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let The Chips Fall WhinThiyMof ly PURSER HEWITI MAWXIX. MISSISSIPPI! Experience has shown that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton AIX'T IT SO Someone has said that ideas are like children, none so wonderful as our own. FRONT HANDLE Everyone knows the middle name of F.

EARL FYKE, the well-known automobile man, but that be it now revealed, stands for FRAZIER. BASEBALL SCHEDULE For the 60-odd Jacksonians going to Washington this weekend to attend the U. S. Chamber of Commerce meeting over which President BOYD CAMPBELL presides, here is the Washington Nats home schedule for the period the Jacksonians will be in the Capital City: April 27 Baltimore, night game April 28 Baltimore, day game April 29 Baltimore, double-header, day games May 1 Cleveland, night game May 2 Cleveland, night game. FAN-FARONADE What do I care about a flat bank roll, If my only shoes need a new sole, The Farm Bill fuss or the welfare dole When the baseball game is on! What do I care- about the styles they'll wear.

The beauties of springtime, fresh and fair; And who beats who for a senate chair-When the baseball game is on! Les G. PUTTING ON BRAKES We notice a bit of complaint here and there in the state press at the appropriations voted by the recent legislature, and some of the good scribes are wanting more caution used in allocating funds in the future. The situation reminds us of the remark of one of our favorite quipsters the other day when he observed that the big trouble about putting the brakes on public spending is that nobody knows the last time the brakes were tested! ADVANCED STUDY It was a woman, mind you, who wrote the little squib in a federal bureau's publication the other day describing marriage as an "institution of learning in which a man loses his bachelor's degree and his wife acquires a master's." HAPPY BIRTHDAY Many happy returns of the day en Wednesday to GEORGE E. SHAW WOODSON JONES RANDOLPH BERBETTE ARTHUR C. MILLER ROSS A.

COLLINS, Meridian A LAMP UNTO OUR FEET "And Jeremiah commanded Baruch. saying, I am shut op: I cannot go into the house of the Lord." Jeremiah 36:5. SHUT-INS "I hear, my friend, it's come to pass That you are in the 'shut-in' class, Yes, 6hut in safe from storm and trife And all the sordid things of life The rest of us must undergo. While you calm, peace and quiet know. Your life is ruled by what you do And God's realm is inside of you So shut out fears, doubts, things distressing And make your shut-in state a blessing." Julien C.

Hyer. PACES FROM THE PAST TEN YEARS AGO Miss Virginia Hoogenakker, talented violinist of Jackson, won top honors in the loung Composers contest spon sored by the Mississippi Federation of Music Clubs and was awarded a scholarship with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the coming summer No progress was recorded in settlement of the Jackson City Lines bus strike which went into its sixth day as drivers and mechanics remained off the job. closing down street transportation in the city W. Randall Flippin. manager of the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company here for several years, was named Memphis district manager and will move to the Bluff City on the first of May.

TWENTY YEARS AGO Gover-mt Hugh White announced he wouid cot oppose fee reflection of any of the state college presidents, including Chancellor A. B. Butts at the University, Duke Humphrey of Mississippi State, W. M. Kethley of Delta State, and Barney Parkinson of MSCW Porter Wells, for many years jailer and deputy sheriff in Hinds county, was found dead in his automobile one and one-half miles north of Clinton am tfc Tinnin road and a coroners rife kyh r-.

i3 MM Mayor Says Rally Will Cause Friction Mayor Allen Thompson said Tues day he does not approve of rallies such as the one planned by the Regional Council on Negro Leadership at the Negro Masonic Temple here Saturday. "My personal belief," the mayor slated, "is that meetings such as this will cause only friction and trouble and hurt all. the efforts made by responsible white and Negro leaders to work out their problems. "I believe this is evident," he continued, "because of the type of speakers being invited, men who are interested only in proving the point of non-segregation no matter how harmful to the Negro citizens themselves. "However, I believe that Negro citizens in Jackson who are really interested in their own welfare and who are trying to do right will not be swayed by these radical speak ers." Entrican, Moreton In Second Primary For Supervisor BROOKHAVEN Louie Entri- can and S.

E. Moreton, will face each other in a second primary election on May 8 for the post of supervisor in Beat One of Lincoln County. Entrican with 998 votes and Moreton with 770 votes led a field of eight candidates in the first primary election which was being held to fill the unexpired term of Martin Holmes. Other candidates eliminated were Opie Green 278, Truman Wil liams, 212; Hay ward Douglas 96; and SIDING Nationally Advertised Brands Most Colors and White NO DOWN PAYMENT Easy. Terms i 1 It rl ,77771 TODAY'S TRAFFIC One sure way to avoid a car wreck Is to stay at home.

If yon do go out, be courteous AND careful. HOPING TO MKB JACKSON SAFES VICKS-HICKMAK LUMBER CO. "Lumber Like You Used To Get" 1302 Hottiesburg St. Dial 5-6481 Jackson, Miss. VA KEGS Ea.

5.50 Ea. 6.95 Ea. 7.95 Ea. 9.25 All Prices Plus Tax City officials stood firm Tuesday in their contention that segregation on local buses will not be discon tinued, and Mayor Allen Thomp son said he feels the recent Su preme Court decision "will have no effect on actual practice' in Jackson." The mayor and commissioners said they see no change in the local situation. Meanwhile an official of National City Lines, which operates the local bus company, said in Chicago that the company will not attempt to maintain segregation on its buses in the South, including Jackson and Montgomery, Ala.

Integration is reported to have been put into effect in the latter city. "For the welfare of the icty as a whole," commented Commissioner Chalmers Alexander, "we do not contemplate any change in the status quo at the present time." Commissioner D. L. Luckey stated: "I haven't considered any change We've been getting a-long well with the colored people I don contemplate any change." Questioned by reporters at his regular Tuesday press conference and contacted later in the after noon by The Clarion-Ledger, May or Thompson said he would prefer not to comment on any method that might be used, if any, to cir cumvent the court ruling. As for the possibility of court suits, the mayor stated: "We'll cross that bridge when we come to W7hen the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered transportation depot waiting rooms integrat ed several months ago, Jackson police replaced "white" and "colored" signs after railroad and bus companies removed them.

Mayor Thompson would not say whether a similar course of ac tion will be followed in the present situation. "There win be no change what ever in our policy of segregation on buses or in any other way in Jackson," he stated. "My idea is jury returned the verdict of death from natural causes Madison County refunded $275,000 in road bonds, some the issues bearing up to eight percent interesf, for an average rate of four.peroent. THIRTY FIVE Years ago cotton futures at New York rallied on im proved demand from British spinners and May futures crossed the 12-cent mark before closing rath er strong at 11.55 cents per pound, up 19 points from the previous close Twenty acres with a good 4-room house on Terry road near McDowell crossing was adver tising in Jackson papers in $1,500 Lieut. Willingham, with John D.

Sellers as a passenger flew the Curtiss "Bluebird," super-fast plane temporarily quartered in Jackson, to Laurel and back yes terday and averaged almost 90 miles per hour for the trip. REV. T. B. WTNSTEAD 133 S.

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