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THE CLARION-LEDGER, JACKSON, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1951 PAGE 3 Barber" Receives Freedom Pascagoula Man's Prison Term Ended William A. Dolan. "the Phantom of Pascagoula, whose case attracted nationwide attention in 1943 and later when he underwent lie detector tests at Parchman penitentiary, was given an indefinite suspension of a 10-year prison sentence Friday. Gov. Fielding L.

Wright granted the long-time suspension, following three years of freedom by the man. Dolan, who now lives in Bay St. Louis, where he operates a small shop, is described as fully rehabiliand conducting himself as a respectable citizen. He has stoutly maintained his innocence of the crime of assault and battery perpetrated upon a Mr. and Mrs.

Heidelberg at Pascagoula in November, 1942. Dolan gained the name "phantom barber" because of the activities of A person who cut the hair of a number of young women in the Pascagoula area and cast fear throughout the city. Although he also disclaimed any knowledge of these acts, they ceased After his was dubbed the phantom press and the torrestyande populace of the area. Actually, he was convicted and Mr. Heidelberg, when dissentenced for the cruel beating, of covered a person in his house attempting to cut the hair of his sleeping wife.

After his sentence, Dolan served several years of his term at Parchman. Continued efforts by his wife to get the man a hearing before Gov. Wright finally resulted in the state's chief executive going to Parchman to listen to first-hand pleas by Dolan. A local private detective took a lie detector to the scene and tested Dolan in the presence of the gOVernor and membertestations press. Dolan made of sinnocence and the lie detector report indicated such, according to the detective.

However, Gov. Wright discounted the test when he later gave the man a limited suspension of sentence on good behavior. Wright said at the time that he was not acting upon the strength of the lie detector showing, but that he had become convinced that there was some doublt as to the guilt of the man, and he was acting upon that premise. The initial suspension was granted in 1948. another action Friday, Gov.

Wright also granted an indefinite suspension to Jack Goodson, convicted in Leake county on a grand larceny count and sentenced to one year. The man has free for a year under a limited suspension. Jackson Bankers To Hold Annual Banquet The Jackson chapter of the American Institute of Banking will hold its annual banquet on the roof of the Robert E. Lee hotel Saturday evening, May 19th. The American Institute of Banking is a nation-wide bank education association and conducts one of the largest educational in the country.

Local memberships in the Institute includes a substantial majority of all employees of local banks, and some two hundred members and guests are expected to attend the annual banquet. Presiding at the meeting will be Andrew Warriner, Deposit Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, president of the local A.I.B. chapter. Out of town guests who will participate in the program include Altion P. Birmingham, Alabama, vice president of the American Institute of Banking; and A.

E. Roemershauser, New Orleans, Louisiana, member er of the executive council of the American Institute of Banking. Other program high-lights award of educational to local "certificates members, who have completed requirements during the past years, and the presentation of a past president's key to Allen Bodet of the Commercial Bank and Trust Company. During the past year, the local chapter's debate team. composed of James D.

Cox, Deposit Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, and 0. K. Pigott, Commercial Bank and Trust Company, won the Southeastern Regional debate competition and reached the nals in the national competition of the American Institute of Banking. The outstanding record of these men will be acknowledged during the Saturday program by presentation of debate keys. evening will be Mr.

Barr The principal address, of the on the subject of banking education. Following the program, dance music will be provided by Homer Hinton and his orchestra. Give 131 Pints Blood To Bank Laurel, May 18 Residents of Laurel and Jones county contributed 131 pints of blood to the Red Cross bloodmobile here on Thursday, it was announced today. In addition 14 other citizens who offered blood were rejected for var1ous reasons. Some of the blocd was type for which a spec1al call came from Red Cross headquarters in Mobile at the last minute.

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Jacksonian Said Improving After A Heart Attack The condition of Joe Latham, well-known Jacksonian admitted to the Baptist hospital after a heart attack, was said to be improved Friday. he Washeresting He was hospital said reportedly removed from der oxygen Friday morning, attaches said. Mr. Latham was admitted to the hospital around 12:20 a.m. Thursday after suffering a heart attack.

He is expected to be dismissed soon to his home, 1732 Devine street. Laurel Youth Accidentally Shot Carrying Shotgun On Tractor Laurel, May 18-Carrying a shothis tractor in the hope of shooting rabbits as he cultivated field young corn proved fatal for 17-year-old Charles Ray Hall, student at Rainey High School in Jones county. The gun fell as the driver made a turn and the full lcad struck him in the abdomen. Death came at a Laurel hospital several hours later. The victim was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Grover C. Hall, route one, Seminary, residing 14 miles west of Ellisville. A brother, Pat Hall, plowing a team of mules nearby, witnessed the tragedy and called his father immediately. Charles Ray was rushed to a hospital here but died last night.

State Income Taxes More Than $14 Million Income taxes for the state this year amount to $14,341,005.60, the director of that division of the State Tax Commission revealed here Friday. This will be a 32.6 percent increase over last year's collections, will mark an all time high for income tax reports in Mississippi. The "hike" over last year is said to be the result of higher salaries being paid in many instances, due to cost of living increases and to the probability that more people are employed than ever beforecrease in taxes collected for this year will be 02, it is reported. Last year, the collection was $11,046,888.58. In 1949, the highest collection on record, then, $13,688,593.75 was paid in income taxes in this state.

This year, there have been reported 55,903 taxable returns. Last year, the figure was 55,636 returns. Since last year was a high in number of returns, 1951 now shows the highest, due to a 267 return increase. $227,668 Awarded For City Projects Goes For Street Paving And Sewerage The joint bid of Dunn Construction and Tyler Construction companies was announced by city officials "as bids received by the procremission Monday for paving total 09 bid included: Paving of Whitfield Mills Road, from Woodrow Wilson to Delta Drive, Whitfield from 840.69; Ha Hawthorn Drive from SherPalmyra to Maderia street, wood Drive to Brookwood Road, Fryant Avenue from St. Charles street to Jayne avenue, Clinton Avenue from Fryant to Houston, Hite Street, from Bailey Avenue to Wood.

$4,206: Gardner street from Broadmeadow to Brook Drive, 747.20; Broadmeadow from Gardner to Naples Road, and also widening of the corner of Pascagoula and Gallatin streets, 179.30. The Commission took action to withhold paving of Oakride Drive, from the Old Canton Meadowbrook, after the $64,317.25 bid was awarded the Delta Paving company. Authorities said the city council would hold the bid under advisement, until more rights-of-way have been secured from property owners in that section. warded Delta Paving, the company following was pav- a- ing: Ellis Avenue from Capitol street south, $15,088. The total bid Delta Paving company, including that portion of Oakridge Drive which was withheld until later, was $90,703.65.

B. E. Walker was awarded the contract for sewer construction work in the city, which totaled $116,443.25. Walker's bid for 372.50 was approved for water mains to be constructed in the city also. The sewers to be installed includes in the Pine Hills area, Arbor Hills, Terry Road and Shadowlawn subdivision.

Joe Keith To Announce For Public Service Commissioner Joe Keith, local public accountant and former state official, said here Friday that he will announce shortly as a candidate for public service commissioner for the central district of Mississippi. He will seek the office now held by Homer Casteel, Canton, presently chairman of the commission. Mr. Keith said he would give his formal announcement within a few days and qualify for the race. The new candidate is a former employe of the State Tax Commission and was for some years assistant State, Motor Vehicle Comptroller.

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on terms you'll like and you'll convinced that greater. Capitol ans for JEWELRY City Hall Gets New Face-Lifting; A Coat Of Paint! Jackson's City Hall is presently undergoing a face lifting." But, the belated Spring cleaning job is being applied paint brushes! This 109 year-old structure, built back in 1842 by slave labor, will be brightened up with nearly grey, but specifically what is called The last painting the stately old Municipal building has had dates 15 years ago, City Engineer, Josh Halbert recalled watched the painter's beginning work late Friday afternon. The contract, awarded during the early part of 1951 to Westerfield, also includes "patching the the workmen stated. They expect to conclude the paint-job in about three weeks. Tougaloo President Receives Ph.

D. President Harold C. Warren of Tougaloo College this week received one of the highest degrees in the field of Education. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, by University five of faculty Pennsyl- memvania. Doctor Warren and his wife have just returned to the Tougaloo campus after a two weeks trip to Pennsylvania for his oral and final amination.

Members of the examining team highly commended President Warren for his excellent score. John W. Washington Dies In Capital Ex-Slave Was Former Jackson Resident Washington, May 18 John Wesley Washington, 108-year-old exslave whose portrait by Mrs. Marie Hull, Jackson, Mississippi artist, hangs in the Negro recreational and community center building in West Jackson, is dead. Washington, who was born, on the old Perkins plantation Madison County, but went to nearby Jackson to live after he was "freed," died Tuesday.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery here. The elderly Negro, who may have been the oldest person in the nation capital, lived here with two stepsons since the death of his daughter' Josie B. Washington, longtime Jackson school teacher.

Relatives here said Jackson survivors include Janie B. Johnson, a niece and wife of a dentist. Before moving to Washin on, he engaged in the real estate business at Jackson. He often reminisced of his days as a slave in Mississippi. He recalled that his master's daughter taught him to read and write, and attributed his long life to sobriety and "taking it easy." He read from the Bible every day.

The portrait of Washington by Mrs. Hull in the Negro Community Center has been pointed out to many visitors by Jackson's city officials since completion of the project. Lt. John Myers and his Marines from USS Charleston participated in the capture of Guam from the Spanish June 20, 1898. Sheriff Jones "Un-Proud" Owner Of A Lady Rabbit Sheriff Albert Jones was, late Friday, the "un-proud" owner of a lady rabbit which is being swapped by the American Legion in a membership drive.

The ill-at-ease sheriff was searching frantically for a new member of the Legion whom he must collect dues from and report before he can rid himself of animal. Once the sheriff gets a member, he can turn the beast over to some other membership getter, if that person hasn't ben "inoculated" by getting a membership since May 10. The contest is running fast. The rabbit will soon bear her young. Nobody wants more than one rabbit.

even a sheriff. Medical Society Asks Flouridation Of The City's Water Supply Dentists of Jackson, members of the Central Medical Society, met recently to recommend the flouridation of the Jackson Municipal Water supply. According to Secretary, Dr. B. A.

Cohen, "numerous studies have demonstrated the decreased incidence of dental decay on a long range basis where flourides have been added to the water supply." A resoluticn, passed Central Medical Society with reference to the flouridation of the water supply, was approved by the group on May 15. The resolution states that the members of the Central Medical Society from Jackson "do specifically recommend to the Mayor and Commissioners of Jackson that provisions be made for the proper and continucus flouridation of the Jackson municipal water supply." Other officers of the medical society includes: Dr. J. C. Boswell, Jackson, president and Dr.

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