Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

lie tixim WEATHER Friday Fair, low 46-50. high 66-64. Saturday Fair, low 36-40, high 60-64. Thursday High 69, low S2, Pearl River at Jackson, 16.8 feet, up 1.2 feet VGA TOURNEY Byron Nelson, one of the top golfers of the country, will put on an exhibition at the Jackson Country Club from 3 to 4 p. m.

Friday. Medal play of the first PGA tournament in Jackson will get underway Saturday. Mississippi's Leading Neivspaper For More Than A Century Established 1837 AP and INS Leased Wires JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 23, 1953 VOL. CXX NO.

53 23 PAGES PRICE 5c U.S. Asks House Refuses To Trim New Talks To Budget Bills omey On Arms Wadsworth Named As Successor For Stassen's Post By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 WV-The HOUSE UPSETS Solons Okeh 837 Million Despite Pleas To Save XS1- Tate COLEMAN'S VETO United States today named a new disarmament negotiator, backed up by four citizen-advisers, and called on Russia to meet with him the governor's constitutional con vention last fall. By CHARLES M. HILLS The Mississippi House of Repre in "urgent" new talks.

In a grim coicindence, the U.S. move came as Russia exploded sentatives by a vote of 69 to 29 In answer to questioning from the floor of the House, Black said that two potent hydrogen test weapons in a single day. over-rode a veto by Gov. J. P.

Coleman and approved a local and he had known tne governor was James J. Wadsworth, deputy considering a veto, and that he private measure permitting the board of supervisors of Carroll By CHARLES M. HILLS Appropriations totaling were approved by the lower house of the state legislature here Thursday afternoon, but not with the customary smooth sailing that such acts have enjoyed in the past. Contrary to usual procedure, the chairman of the appropriations committee, John R. Junkin, Adams, and Vice Chairman Edgar Stephens, Union, sought to amend and failed, five of the acts they were delegated to steer, to passage.

Even as the appropriations chair had asked Coleman to confer with the Carroll chancery clerk before county to transfer funds. United Nations ambassador, was designated for the post of successor to Harold Stassen who quit two weeks ago as disarmament FARMHAVEN DAMAGE James Stewart of Farmhaven looks at the ruins of his home. It was destroyed by the Wednesday night tornado, but he and his family escaped serious injury. Photo by Jim Lacey. State Counts 13 Dead taking action.

However, neither It was the first time in 16 years Black nor the chancery clerk were specialist. that such action had been taken by either branch of the law-mak further contacted until the gover President Eisenhower approved his appointment and also named nor sent a message to the House announcing the veto, Black testi ing body, the last having been 1942 during the administration of the late Paul B. Johnson, then a four-man panel of distinguished fied. citizens to "advise and consult on disarmament policy. Several hassles came up over a provision in each bill to the effect that no legislator could bo paid a salary from funds for the various departments.

Rep. Her-schel Cameron, of Lamar, objecting strenuously at least twice to inclusion of the riders. Rep. E. K.

Windham, of Prentiss county came to the fore with an amendment setting out that not more than 50 percent of the voted for the National Guard be used for whiskey raiding ia his county. The amendment failed, but Windham made it known that the people of his county in majority had not" invited the governor to send National Guardsmen to Prentiss, which he S3id was one of the "most law-abiding counties ia Mississippi." Rep. Sam Lumpkin, Lee, threw the House into an uproar whea he objected to over stepping the budget and claimed a "coalition" of forces supporting the colleges, forestry, and other branches of government had forced the upping of the budget. Reps. Russell Fox and Joe Rep.

Black read an affidavit governor. man arose to the floor and toolw from the Carroll chancery clerk Members will be Gen. Alfred M. Johnson, however, sent a special Tornado Series From setting forth under oath that suf message to the legislature asking Gruenther, former Allied com that they over-ride his veto. ficient funds have accrued to form a surplus over what is needed to meet 1958 bond indebtednesses of mander in Europe who is now American Red Cross president; investment banker Robert A.

Lov- In a dramatic display of loyalty to a fellow member, the lower huddled under a mattress in their Carroll county, and that a $37,000 ett. former undersecretary of 149-year-old home at Luckney, surplus was at hand. chamber ignored pleas of Rep. Joel Blass, of Stone county, to support the governor in what the state; banker John J. McCloy, for mer high commissioner to Ger few miles east of JacKson, He further stated that the $10,000 up the appropriations calendar, he announced that bills at hand represented an over expenditure of budget commission recommendations in the sum of $2,806,264.63.

Junkin added that not on the calendar but in committee were appropriations exceeding the budget for a total of $5,417,000. BLOW TO BUDGET He called this a serious blow to prospects for a balanced budget or meeting needed additional demands for salary raises for school teachers. Stone countian said was obviously manv. ana uen. waiter ceaeu J.

C. Johnson, Farm Haven Community, near Canton. Erwin Greenwood, Farm Haven Community. Sally Day, 110, Farm Haven Community. Mrs.

Charles Jones, Chicora community, Wayne county. Aaron Johnson, Farm Haven asked to be transferred from the bond fund of the county to the road and bridge fund, was gained correct use of veto powers On the other hand, Rep. Maurice and sang a hymn. The storm left the ancient house in ruins but the family escapeo unhurt. South of Jackson, the "Little Professor of Piney Woods," Dr.

I.anrpnrc cnrrnufnll Smith, ex-undersecretary of state. The State Department announced these moves within minutes of an announcement that Russia had set off its second big nuclear explo Black, Carroll county, recited to from gas taxes re-distributed to the county and that no ad valorem the lower chamber that the gov ernor had only two years ago sign taxes were levied to repay bond' I checked the tremendous damage Community. ed indebtedness. ed almost identically the same sion of the day north of the Arc tic Circle. Life Pinkie Hester, Farm Haven done his Negro Country He said that the $10,000 would bill, and that such actions had been! Rep.

Stephens sought repeatedly Mississippians Friday continued clearing away debris from a teries of twisters that slammed through Central Mississippi, killing 13 and injuring approximately 100 persons Wednesday night. The dead included; THE DEAD Cathy Jones, 3, daughter of Mr. end Mrs. Ernest Jones of the Luckney community on Fanning road, eight miles north eaat ot here. Mrs.

Tarrin Walnut Grove. Mrs. William Burjess, Winchester Community. Wayne County. Mrs.

B. Rylee, about 50, Brewer Community, near Richion. Bslly Rylee, 13-year-old son Mrs. Rylee. Bailey, Claiborne and Yalobusha, respectively, took the floor on approved by governors ever since The twin shots, presumably of hvdrosen bombs, were disclosed School, now world famous.

"Terrible," he said. Shattered buildings and chewed 1934 for Carroll county. to amend the bills in excess of the budget recommendations to bring them back in line, but failed points of personal privilege to go to pay for tne services of a county engineer working on state-aid roads for the county and that the road program would be ser bv the Atomic Energy commis deny the Lumpkin charges. OPPOSED CONVENTION Black questioned the sudden de sion. They raised to three the number of Soviet firing of nuclear woodlands pocked a rural area 140 miles iong in central and east Mississippi, from Canton, 20 miles iously crippled without the authority to use the available funds.

Community. Bessie Johnson, 54 Farmhaven Negro died this afternoon Farm Haven area. Other windstorms caused lesser damage in parts of Louisiana, Florida. Texas and Alabama. The Mississippi twisters started just after the supper hour and several families had narrow escapes as the powerful winds struck cision this year on the part ol Gov.

Coleman in vetoing the local weapons this week. in every instance. Junkin said that the house had until time for business Thursday approved $149,253,648.50 in appropriations and that with all bills on the calendar as work started. (north of Jackson, to Poplarville. Rep.

Blass questioned the con A State Department announcement made no mention of Russia's and private act. Both Rep. Black and Rep. Clarence Pierce, also of Carroll and author of the bill, said stitutionality of the act, and said that the governor ought to veto WILL ASK VETO Rep. Lumpkin told newsmen "the truth hurts." He said further "I am going to ask the gov-ernor to veto these bills which are too high." He said that if the governor "expects me to try to hold down the budget, I ex-Continued on Page 18 rnntiniipd test firinss at a time when the Kremlin is also actively every local and private measure 120 miles to the south.

Five died between Richton and Waynesboro, near the Alabama line in southeast Mississippi. Five died at the Farm Haven commun the sum would reach that their board of supervisors ask of the 17, as there were $45,886,315.67 on ed approval of the act. Incidental pushing its "ban on the bomb campaign. He said that the fiscal integrity the calendar in new ly, both Black and Pierce opposed Luther Brewer, about 60. Union, without warning.

School Community near Richton.l The family of Charles Wright But. the announcement in effect of the state is involved in what ity near Canton, one near Jack son; and one near Walnut Grove, accused the Soviets of stalling an urgently needed disarmament 40 miles east of Jackson Blass termed a monumental issue. He called the bill a felonious method of financing when bond funds were supposed to be used only to pay off bonded indebtedness. RED CROSS AT LUCKNEY CHURCH agreement by refusing to resume arms talks at the United Nations. "The United States continues to it ursent." it said, "that The first twister hit near Jackson.

"It sounded like a million Mack Denies He Yielded To Pressure, Won't Quit AND CROSSROADS Piney Woods' Loss May Top 350,000 Rep. Luther Sims, chairman of bells," said Mrs. Leland Bolton of the local and private committee, took the podium in support of Mack testified he reached his de Black's move for a veto over-ride. an international agreement be sought and reached which will effectively limit armaments." The department in a statement noted Russia has serviced notice it would boycott any meeting of the newly created 25-nation U.N. Disarmament Commission.

cision on the basis of the evidence and absolutely nothing else even though, before going on FCC, he He said that while there had often been question about local and private legislation, it was the custom of the legislature to honor the the Luckney community. "Only the good Lord saved us. An icebox held off the falling debris when the roof fell in." At dinner, the Lee Hawthorne family heard a noise like a nearby train. "It's a tornado," joked one son. A minute later the house was only debris.

requests for local help from fel sent the commission a letter endorsing another applicant for the low lawmakers. WASHINGTON', Feb. 27 -Richard A. Mack denied today he has been swayed or influenced by anybody as a member of the Federal Communications Commission. He also declared he has no intention of quitting.

Specifically, the boyish-looking. 43-year-old Mack told House investigators the thousands of dollars he has received from an old friend in Miami had nothing to do with his voting to gie a Miami Rep. John Farese, although fa- Representatives of the Hinds-Rankia County Chapter of American Red Cross are stationed at Luckney Baptist Church to offer assistance to tornado victims. Similar headquarters have been set up at Crossroads, approximately seven miles south of Pelahatchie for tornado victims in that area. Families or individuals from other areas in the two counties needing assistance as the result of the Wednesday night tornado may contact representatives at the Hinds Rankin County Chapter House, 734 North State Street in Jackson.

icense, A. Frank Katzentine. GOP Ousted At Liberty, the Rev. Victor! Continued on 12 Admittedly a nervous witness- i Bantist church meetin? to kneel he once spilled water he was drink and prav. The tornado passed lessi CI, f( TTm than 20'yards away.

iwjIlCIlll J- LH ing Mack appeared before tne Smokers Anonymous House subcommittee on Legisla tive Oversight in the face of de TV license to a National Airlines UAW Strike uvikfuul, England, Feb. 27 If A smokers anonymous clinic is opening Friday. The sponsoring ten offices on the second floor was severely damaged, the second floor with roof gone, was completely wrecked. A class room building also lost its roof, and every single window in the building was broken. Dr.

Jones said that many of the finest pine trees were toppled, some of them falling into the lake. He said electric wires and telephone wires were down all over the campus. CLOCKS STOPPED Jones said that all 1 ic clocks stopped at exactly 6 pm. when the tornado hit. He said that he was in the Community House at the time, and did not know that the extensive damage was done until a group of boys ran into the house to tell the roof was off one of the buildings.

At the time the storm struck the mands from two members that subsidiary. he resign or be removed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 A Rep. Rcnnctt (R-Mich and Moss society of Nonsmokers said psychological treatment will be given to help volunteers drop the tobacco habit.

D-Califi have called for Mack's ouster alter testimony Dy former sheriff testified today he was "absolutely bounced" out of the Republican party for refusing to use guns against pickets out- lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside that he has given Mack thousands of By ELSIE MAY CHAMBERS PINEY WOODS Dr. Laurence C. Jones, president of the famous Piney Woods Country Life School for Negroes, said Thursday afternoon that classes had already been resumed and that students were in the process of cleaning up and repair the damage done by the Wednesday night tornado. Dr.

Jones estimated that the overall damage to his ool would be $350,000 or more. Although some insurance is carried on the Piney Woods buildings, it is not expected to cover quite half of the damage done. Adjusters will get to the school in the next day or two. With the exception of three girls who received minor cuts and bruises, there were practically no injuries. One 15-year old brick dormitory given to the school by Major George W.

Dulany now of California and his sister, Mrs. Lingo, of Dallas, Texas, was demolished. This building alone was valued at $100,000, and Dr. Jones said it would take probably $200,000 to replace it. The dormitory was called Dulany Hall.

Iowa Hall, which housed a dining room and kitchen, and about More pictures of the tornadoes on page 5. dollars in loans and advances. Senate Defeats Proposal ide the Kohler Co. plant in Koh- Russia Shifts Farm Set-Up Br HAROLD K. MILKS MOSCOW, Feb.

27 uv-The Communist party's powerful Central Committee gave its chief, Nikita S. Khrushchev, the go-ahead signal today for a far-reaching revolution in Soviet agriculture. The committee, after a two-day ler, Wis. Mack confirmed Whiteside's statement that he has borrowed monev from Whiteside, who at one Theodore J. Mosch told the To Hike 2nd Class Mail time was pushing National Air story to the Senate Rackets Committee, which is investigating vio lines' case before FCC, for 20 or school 48 girls were in a band STENNIS SEEKS AID FOR AREAS HIT BY TWISTERS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Senator John C.

Stennis iD-Miss)) Thursday asked federal government help for Mississippi areas stricken by tornadoes which killed 12 persons and injured possibly 100. The junior senator, in a tele-' gram to Administrator Wendell Barnes of the Small Business Administration, said: "I urge you to declare the affected areas eligible for disaster relief and grant prompt financial assistance to critically affected families, homes and business." Stennis also was in touch with the U. S. Department of Agriculture in efforts to get immediate assistance on the way. WASHINGTON, Fbe.

27 WV-The letters back to this country lence in the 4-year-old strike of free pro- 25 years. Both men said all but $250 of the loans made in recent years has been repaid. of charge. Sponsors of this Senate today defeated 71-17 an effort by Sen. Morse (D-Ore) to in-i the United Auto Workers against the Wisconsin plumbing fixtures vision, Sens.

Morse, Yarborough crease second-class postal rates session, announced endorsement of Khrushchev's proposals to shift (D-Tex) and Proxmire (D-Wis), firm. There was some difference in their testimony on the question of what if anything Mack did to earn nart of the money he used for newspapers and magazines by 30 per cent during each of the next three years. ownership of the nation's farm machinery from the machine-tractor dropped a clause that would have permitted letters to be sent free to servicemen overseas. Under questioning by Sen. room in basement practicing for a concert to be presented at Mississippi College next week; 140 others were in a dining room which escaped the wind's fury; about 84 were in the Junior College dormitory which was not damaged; and 35 younger girls were in the small girls' building which escaped damage.

None of the buildings occupied by boys were damaged. All of the Continued on page Mundt (R-SD, Mosch sonceded to make the repayments. stations to collective farms. 3. Rejected 57-33 an amendment Morse first proposed a 40 per there could have been some con A party communique issued af ter the committee sessions of cent increase in each of the next three years but just before the nection between his getting Whiteside testified earlier in the week that Mack furnished leads-tips on possible business to an insurance agency in which White by Sens.

Clark (D-Pa) and Proxmire to limit to $1,800,000 a year the amount of mail subsidy that any magazine publisher could Monday and Tuesday said this "will speed the evolution toward roll call vote he revised this to 30 per cent. bounced and his accepting a $300 campaign contribution from the UAW in the fall of 1954. communism." The Soviet Union side cut him in, with no payment on the nart of Mack, for a sixth The Senate bill, on which final purports to be a Socialist state, Mosch said he was sheriff of interest. not yet Communist. Sheboygan County, when the action was deferred until tomorrow, carries second-class rate increases of 10 per cent during each strike began in 1954 and mass picketing kept the Kohler plant FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IV ill shut down for 54 days.

If- of the next three years on editorial and news matter and 20 per cent on advertising OTHER ACTIONS In other actions the Senate: 1. Refused by a roll call vote of 47-40 to knock out the 5-cent rate on nonlocal letters which it INDEX 1 St Survey Shows Underground Water Supply For Jackson rsT- mT adopted last night by a vote of 49-42. loiays vote was on a mo zone with fluoride ranging from Affair of Slate 10 Amusements 8 Classified Ads 25-27 Comics 18-19 Editorial 10 Financial 24 Miss. Notebook Radio TV Logs 23 Sports 21-23. 28 Women 13-20 aquifers sands in the Cockficld formation, the Sparta sand, and sands in the upper part of the Wilcox group." lion by Sen, Monroney (D-Okla), who sought to limit the increase on first-class mail, local and un-local, to 4 cents, the present rate The water is very soft, the re is 3 cents.

2. Voted to permit U.S. Service 1 3t A men stationed overseas to send 'S port said. "The Coektieid ana Sparta formations yield water of moderate mineral content needing little or no treatment. It is used extensively in Jackson and surrounding communities for public supply and industry, Republican Congressmen about one tenth to one-half part per million.

Only the Sparta sand, the report said, has been developed to any appreciable extent in the met-ropoliton district for surburban public supplies, air conditioning and industrial use. It said the water level in the Sparta sands has declined since 1910. The Cockfield formation, comparatively thin, furnishes the municipal water supply for nearby Clinton and several other towns, factories and many farms. But the report said water sands in the deeper Wilcox group are known to be screened in only six wells in the area. They are valuable potential sources of supply ..11 'In the deeper sands of the Wil WASHINGTON, Feb.

27 W-A yeological survey today showed moderate to large supplies of fresh ground water for industrial and municipal development in the Jackson, area. The Interior Department repayment released a report on the study prepared in cooperation with the city of Jackson and the Mississippi Board of Water Commissioners. The report said "the water-resource potential of the greater Jackson area is several times greater than the present use" of an average of 25 million gallons per day each year. Jackson, the report said, Is situated atop the largest dome in the state, which was once a natural gas field. Deep wells presently supply 40 per cent of the city's average needs, the report said.

Because industrial and population Demand Benson Quit Post cox," the report continued, avail 0 able analyses show more tnan 1.000 parts per million of dis will so offend farm voters that the Republicans might lose 20 to 30 solved solids, mostly sodium at bicarbonate, I 'MKS of their U.S. House seats and per haps four governorships. PINEY WOODS DAMAGE "Fluoride ranges from 2.8 tit 7 ppm (parts per million) in five samples analyzed," the report said, noting that Fluoride above WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 () -Republican congressmen called on President Eisenhower in person today to urge that Secretary of Agriculture Benson get out of the government. One of them, Rep.

Miller of Nebraska, said afterward; "I don't think he Benson will be fired and I'm not sure he will quit." Miller said Eisenhower was sympathetic and friendly to them. but at the same time entirely loy for certain uses, it said, in spite of the mineralialinn and fluoride al to Benson. Eisenhower gave Benson firm sunnnrt at. his news content of the water. Main classroom at the Piney Woods School for Negroes is shown after it had been unroofed' by one of Wednesday night's small vicious' tornadoes.

The freak character of the storm is shown by the comparatively undamaged condition of 6ther nearby buildings. The log cabin which originally housed the school was completly missed by the twister. aerial photo by Richard The Mississippi Roard of Water conference yesterday, as he has on numerous occasions when var 1.5 parts per millior makes water unsuitable for consumption children according to the Public Health Service. Cockficld and Sparta formal inn water were well within the safety He and Rep, Weaver, nlso of Ne- Commissioners, the department growth, it said, "further detailed ftudy is needed to evaluate the rotentialites ot the three major ious persons wanted the secretary dropped, said, will publish a ground water braska. said they told Eisenhower resources study of the area, 'that if Benson stays in office this.