The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 1

Of Rab iLi.WtSilllBPBljJilWi 'Si 73rd Year United Press International Greenville, Mississippi Sunday, November 12, 1961 SUNDAY EDITION Price ISC' No. 62 Kennedy, Johnson Warn: U.S. Will Fight; Observe Vets Day Rats Go Running Grid Scores Mrs. Jack Gardner at Gardner's Cleaners gratefully accepts several packages of ral poison from P. E.

Toler, a member of the Washington County Health Department ral control team, as poison was passed out nt business houses in Greenville during the past week. This climaxed a house-to-house campaign to fight rats, coming in from the fields as the weather turned cool and wet. (Staff Photo) Arkansas Woman injured In Auto Accident Saturday Mrs. Thelma Hughes, 26, of Crosselt, is receiving treatment In General Hospital for injuries received early Saturday in a collision of two cars about mile and a half south ot Swiftwater. General Hospital reported late Saturday Mrs.

Hughes received an injured right shoulder and neck injury. She was taken to the hospital in a National ambulance. The Highway Patrol said late Saturday Mrs. Hughes was a passenger in a car driven by Tom C. Scott, a Negro stationed at Fort Sill, who was driving Mrs.

Hughes to Greenville from Fort Silt, to pick up some of the Hughes family. According to the Highway. Patrol Ihe crash occurred about 2:30 a.m. when the car driven by Scott hit the rear end of anolher automobile driven by Waller Taylor, also a Negro, of 721 East Clay Street, Greenville. The Patrol said Taylor's car ran out of gas and stopped in the highway.

Two Hurt Here in Here For Two persons were injured at 11 p.m. Friday in a two-car collision at the intersection of Highway One North and Alexander Street. Taken to General Hospilal were Bertha Mae Carlwright, 22, ol Benoit; and Ray Drummond, 22, of 32-1 Mill Rd. Cily police said the accidenl occurred when a 1950 Ford, driven by Arthur Miller, of Benoit, made a left off Highway One in Ihe path of a 1056 Chevrolet, headed north and operaled by Billy Ervin, 1122 Marshall St. The CarUvright woman, a pas- scnjer in Miller's car was trcal- for lacerations and dismissed.

Drummond. who was riding in the other car, was reported in satisfactory condition Saturday morning by a General Hospital onicial. Patrolman E. R. Brown investigated the accident.

Damage to I vehicles was cstimaled at 5GOO. fcisipal Assn. To Hear Program The legislative program of the Mississippi Municipal Association will be presented lo municipal officials and legislator in four Mississippi cities this week. Slate Senator W. J.

Caraway of Lerand, executive vice prei- dent of Ihe association, said eight proposals will be presented at West Point Monday, at Oxford Tuesday, at Cleveland Wednesday and Jackson Thursday. The dinner meetings, to be attended by municipal officials and members of the legislature, are scheduled for 7:30. Probe Private Plane Crash Where 2 Died ATLANTA (UPI) Federal aviation officials investigated today the crash of a small private plane a took the lives of two Memphis, engineers Friday nipht i an attempted takeoff. One of the victims, flarold S. Roth, was pronounced dead on arrival at Grady Hospital here.

TV' William B. 38, a few hours lalcc. Dr. Zev Kogan, an Israeli native and author, attorney, and specialist on international affairs, will speak Monday night at 7:0 at Hebrew Union Temple in behalf of. the nalion-wije United Jewish Appeal campaign.

Dr. Kogan will speak under Ihe auspices of flic Temple Brotherhood. Edward J. Dogen is campaign chairman for the fund drive (his year. Prowler Hits County Courthouse A prowler broke into the Washington County Courtliouse Friday night lo rifle several desks and steal a small amount of cash and cigarettes from a vending machine.

Entrance was gained by forcing open a first-floor window near the boiler room. Nothing was reported missing except from the cigarette machine. South South Carolina 21 Clemson 14 Florida 21 Georgia 14 Maryland 10 N.C. State 7 Wake Forest 24 Virginia Tech 15 LSU .10 North Carolina 0 Tenn. 10 Georgia Tech 6 Kentucky 16 Vandcrbilt 3 Miss.

Stale 11 Auburn 10 Miss. Southern 7 Louisiana Tech 0 Memphis St. 41 N. Texas Slate 0 Alabama 66 Richmond 0 Mississippi 5-t Chattanooga 0 EAST Holly Cross 41 Massachusetts 7 Notre Dame 26 Pittsburgh 20 Rutgers 27 Delaware 19 Columbia 35 Dartmouth 14 Cornell 25 Brown 0 Yale 23 Pennsylvania 0 Harvard Princeton 7 Boston U. 14 Connecticut 6 Syracuse 51 Colgate 8 Army 48 William Mary 13 Duke 30 Navy 9 Slippery Rock 20 Clarion 13 Penn State 20 West Virginia 6 Midwest Purdue 7 Michigan State 6 Ohio State 1C Indiana 7 Miami (Ohio) 48 Dayton 6 Nebraska lli Iowa State 13 Michigan 38 Illinois 6 Kansas 3-1 Kansas State 0 Minnesota 1G Iowa 9 Oklahoma 7 Missouri 0 Wisconsin 29 Northwestern 10 Southwest Arkansas 10 Rice 0 Texas AM 25 S.

Methodist 12 Texas Tech 14 Boston Coll 6 Texas 33 Baylor 7 Houston 14 Tulsa 2 Mrs. Alice N. Babbington, home economics consultant with the Mississippi Public Welfare Department, was in Greenville last week lo plan instruction on how to use commodities. The Welfare Department is now taking applications for Ihe commodities, which will be given the needy starting in January. Applications are being made Monday al the Hollnndalc Health Clinic, Tuesday at Powers Store in Darlove, Wednesday back at Ilollan- dale, Thursday and Friday at Ihe community center in Glen Allan.

Mrs. Babbinglon saitl that ma- ny delicious as well as nutritious meals may be prepared using the free commodities, and told how to shake up the dried milk powder with water in a fruit jar, and how to make lemon pie. "MANY people do not know how lo use dried eggs and other of the commodities," she said. "It is possible to use all these foods and prepare good tasty meals from them." She met with Mrs. Lena Gail Woods, county Welfare Office director, President W.

H. Powers and Fred Neal of the Board of Supervisors, poorhouse manager Edgar Hartley, Home Demonstration Agenl Mrs. Vela Hunter, Negro Home Agent Mrs. Ernestine Slrong, child welfare worker Mrs. Bcssye Burton, welfare department homemakcr Mrs.

Willie Bee Hamilton, day care center manager Mrs. Ruth Gibson and Junior Auxiliary nursery, manager Mrs. Pat case supervisor Mrs. Jcssa Golding and case reviewc-r Miss Elizabeth Calvcrl, nnd Superintendent of Education Mrs. Norma O'Bannon.

THEY discussed various ways to reach the users of commodities and plans for selling up cooking classes in schools, churches or the communities. Mrs. Wood said lhat a full schedule will be announced later on Ihe classes. Mrs. Babbington will return here January 15 and that week will hold (en meetings with home demonstration people and others who will help teach people how lo use the commodities.

Seek 2 Women Lost Hunting Pecans At Lake A sheriffs posse was still searching late Saturday afternoon for two Greenville Negro women, one reportedly over 80, lost in the woods Lake Lee since Friday evening. A deputy in the sheriff's office Saturday afternoon identified the women as Elnora Fields, about 70, of Booker Street, and Rebecca Carter, also known as "Aunt Becky Calhoun," 82, of 1645 Roosevelt Street. Sheriff Hollingsworth and several other deputies were continuing Ihe search they had begun Friday evening. The women had been art of a lar art Greenville Negroes picking pecans in the woods around Lake Lee, which is about 13 miles south of Greenville. THEY WERE last seen around 3:45 Friday afternoon, after which they apparently wandered olf from the rest.

When their companions came out of the woods and noticed their absence, they reported to the sheriff's office at 7:45 p.m. Friday. Searchers under Sheriff Boilings- worth's supervision scoured the area all Friday night and all day Saturday in an intermittent rain. Siill Seeking Two Escaped Fugitives ABERDF.N, Miss. (UPl)-Au- thorities continued their search today for two fugitives from the Monroe County jail alter one ot the jail breakers surrendered Friday night and told officers, thought his companions were still in this area.

Sheriff J. Paul Brasficld said Dorsey Roberts, an Amory man who was jailed recently on a tad check charge, walked into the police station Friday night and told officers, "It's mighty cold outside and I realize I was in Ihe wrong." Roberts and two other prisoners, convicted bank robber Bobby Gene Johnson of Greenville and Gordon Baldwin, 30. a fugitive from Lmvncles County who was serving time here on a false prelcnse charge, escaped Thurs- dny night after locking the jailer nnd his wife in their cell. Russians Change Stalingrad's Name MOSCOW has renamed "Volgograd" by the Russian Republic Presidium in accordance with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's apparent decision to obliterate the a of Josef Stalin from Russian history, the Communist organ Pravda announced Saturday. Italian Communist leader Palmiro Toglialti told 'he Red Central Committee in Rome Salurday that he objected to the decision to rename Stalingrad "not out ol regard for Stalin but because millions of people associated Ihe a Stalingrad with the great battle which changed the course of World War II." Stalingrad was named 36 years ago in honor of the Soviet premier.

By United Press IniernaHonal The nation honored its war dead on Veterans Day Saturday in grim awareness of cold war tensions and nuclear menace. At McKinney, where the 16,000 population was tripled by crowds listening lo the vice president, Johnson said the United Slates "has hundreds of manned inler- President Kennedy led national leaders in proclaiming i States determination to I i'g again if need be to uphold and defend the nation's ideals. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson added a warning lo the Soviet Union. He told a gala crowd at McKinney, that "neither Khrushchev nor his supporters can find a place to hide" if they dare touch off a nuclear war.

The Iribule to fallen soldiers took its traditional form across the nation in main street parades and cemetery observances. Peace Demonstration A group of students worried over the danger of war added a contrast to the usual military displays. The students, banded in an organization called the Student Peace Union, staged "students speak for peace day" demonstrations on college campuses and in major cities. At Chicago, university students joined in a "vigil" as troops passed in parade down Michigan Ave. They held signs protesting Ihe arms race and passed out leaflets among the spectators.

A spokesman, Shorthills, N.J., native Donald McKelvey, said soap box speeches, literature tables and movies were part of the students' campaign. "We want to put forth our ideas that there should be alternatives to Ihe arms race." Similar demonstrations were planned in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland. Des Moines, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Ohio, and Philadelphia. The symbolized Ihe 'nation's devotion to the war dead of the past and its determination lo seek peace in the future. Kennedy was the first president lo make the annual pilgrimage lo the of Ihe Unknown Soldier in Arlington cememlery since Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day in 1054.

A 21-gun salute boomed as he c.itered the cemetery. A master sergeant handed the President a wreath and Kennedy placed it at the base of the white marble tomb. Kennedy Speaks Standing bare-headed in the bright, chilly sunshine, Kennedy said "it still is too soon to promise the living of an end to organized killing. We arc still short of that goal. But the present offers possibilities." "Don't let our patience fool anyone," the President warned.

"We are willing to fight for our country. Tliis cemetery and other. 1 like it around the world remind us of our responsibilities." Other Velcrans Day speakers followed (lie President's lead. Rayburn Visited By Lyndon Johnson continental bombers capable of reaching the remotest parts of the Soviet Union." "I do not speak of these things willingly," Johnson said. "But I feel that if I keep silent, the forces of evil in this world will interpret this silence as a sign of weakness." Former President Eisenhower said in Kansas Cily, "it is futile lo expect nations to accomplish anything substantial unless people gel together.

If we are to avoid war it is vital a there is understanding among people." Protest and bruised feelings marked Veterans Day celebrations in two other cities. At Atlanta, Negroes planned to picket a segregated Veterans Day dinner at which Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and others were to honor Sen. Richard B. Russell and Rep.

Carl Vinson of Georgia. Pilots Fight At Memphis Airport MEMPHIS (UPI)-Five airline pilots slugged it out in picket-line violence at the municipal airport here Friday while airline passengers looked on. Police said Ihree striking Southern Airways pilots and two ot Southern's non-union pilots were involved. They said each accused the other of starting the fight. Witnesses-said-there were some black eyes and bloody noses, but no one required hospilal Ireal- ment.

The pilots were charged i assault and battery and disorderly conduct and ordered to appear in court Monday afernoon. Southern Airways pilots went on i in June I960. Police identified the non-union pilots as John E. Owens of Kingsport, arid Eugene Hudman of Blounlville, Tcnn. The strikers were identified as Alford C.

Brandon William Rolcrt llaas and Joseph H. Ferrill, all of Memphis. Mechanical Drawing Classes Set Monday Free adult education classes in mechanical drawing and machine shop mathematics will be organized Monday at 7 p.m. at Greenville High School. Teachers are M.

R. Eaves, mechanical a i roorrj 132; and James E. Poilnrd. machine shop mahematics, room 13-1. The courses arc open to interested aduls.

West Berlin, Red Cops la Tear Gas Battles BERLIN (DPI) West Berlin and Communist police fought three small tear gas battles Friday night aid Saturday and the Communists fled all Ihree times, West Berlin police reported. Police Communist (Vopos) threw seven tear gas gren ades into the West Friday night and West Berlin police threw back the same number. The Vopos retreated. West Berlin police said the Vopos started it again Saturday by lobbing over three hand grenades in each of two separate incidents. The West Berliners threw some back and again the Vopos lied the scene.

Communist police carried oul a widespread search o( the border areas Saturday in search of would-be refugees but 14 East Berlin policemen have fled to political asylum in Berlin. West Berlin police said two East German youths were arrested at gunpoint as they attempted to flee to the British sector in tha Brandenburg Gale area. On the American sector. border shortly after midnight Western police on duty heard the cry; "Halt Stay where you are." Then a truckload of Communist police arrived and combed the area at Ostpreeusscndumm and Hollheimer Slrasse on the border of the American sector's Steglitz district. Police could not see ninny were caught.

Other refugees got through under cover of darkness. Three youths swam 200 yards across the icy Hacl River into the French sector. Two families six persons cul through barbed wire unobserved. THE East German Communist youth newspaper Junge Welt meanwhile passed the word along tlrat Communist Porty boss Waller Ulbricht would remain Communist chief in East Germany despite the current de-Stalinization Future Teachers Show Book Display The Beckwilh Chapter of the Future Teachers of America at Greenville High School sponsored a display of 1818 and 1051 school looks during American Education Week. The display, prepared at request of he Greenville Educa- ioti Association, was placed in the showcase nt the entrance of Greenville High School The FTA also initiated Ihe visit of MuJ.

Gen. Thomas A. l.ane, president of Mississippi River Commission, who made a patriotic address to students last week. The local chapter is sponsored hy Mrs. Thyrza McCollum who is owner of the 1818 school books.

program. The Junge Welt article followed broadcasts across the border by West Berlin radio stations telling of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's attacks on the "anti-party" group in Moscow. The paper made no mention of Vyacheslav Molotov's departure from Vienna to Moscow but did announce that Stalingrad's name had been changed to Volgograd. The Junge Welt said any ono who expected the dc-Stalinization campaign to affect Ulbright came half a dozen years too late--that the East Germans noted Khrushchev's first denunciation of Josef Stalin at the 20th party Congress and acted accordingly.

14 Bales Cotton Burn On Truck On Highway 82 Fourteen bales of cotton was burned Salurday when fire of undetermined origin broke out on a moving ton and a half truck on Highway 82 East, about six miles out of Greenville. The truck was headed west from Leland and a passing motorist saw the flames and notified the driver who drove the vehicle to the side of the road and nine bales were moved from the flaming truck. ENGINE Company 5 of tha Greenville Fire Department answered an alarm at 7:30 a.m. to the site of the blaze, east of Mink's Plantation Club. The fire fighters put out the blaze which hit 14 of the 23 bales.

Captain W. A. Jones of Engine Company 5 said the driver was moving the cotton from the B'jr- Gin Company at Leland to Greenville when the fire broke out. New Colorants Keep Grass Green STARKVILLE, Miss. (UPI) -Mississippi's agricultural experiment station announced a a it had tested colorants designed to keep grass green in the winter.

It said they were successful. W. R. Thompson Jr. of the station's agronomy department said the colorants were effective for about three months.

"For best results the grass must be dormant, uniformly clipped and free of leaves and trash," Thompson reported. Charge 'MinuteMen'Plotting To I Kill Top California Officials y. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) Members of the "Minute Men" guerrilla band have made plans to assassinate California Gov. Ed- mund G.

Brown and Ally. Gen. Stanley Mosk, according lo the r. governor's ollice. Press secretary Jack Burhy said Friday that reports to this effect were received "some time are currenlly under investigation." He refused to tell the source of Ihe reports.

Burby said the reports were that "some 'Minute Men' have made plans to assassinate Brown and Mosk in the event of a ma- jor disaster." THE i Men" is a group of privale cilizens who have formed into hands for the announced purpose of training for vival in the event of invasion. No explanation was offered as to why they would waot to assassinate Brown and Mosk. In San Diego, two men claiming to be state leaders of the guerrillas were in trouble with Ihe law today on charges of failing to register as sex offenders. ti One of them, Donald Alderman, 50, is free on $262.50 hail and the other, free-lance photographer W. F.

Colley, 36, is being f', police said. Officers who nrrestixl Alderman Friday said he was questioned about a third man picked up with a a i full of weapons and a i i He was listed as Herman Mathen, 52, San Pedro. BULLETIN BONHAM, Tex. (UPI) Speaker of (lie House Sam Rayburn, dying of cancer, lapsed into critical condition late Saturday. Hit doctor gave him only "hours to days." BONHAM, Tex.

(UPI)-Cancer- sfricken House Speaker Sam Rayburn got welcome visit from Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Saturday after spending another uncomfortable night. Johnson slopped olf to see "Mr. Sam" while en route to a Velcr- ans Day celebration at McKinney, just a few miles southwest of Bon- a Rayburn's physician, Dr. Joe Risser, said Johnson talked privately with the 79-year-old speaker for 18 minutes.

Risscr's morning report said "Mr. Rayburn was awake most of the night, but there was no pain." His condition was "still serious." Untrained People Lose State Industry TUPELO (UPI) State Sen. liayden Campbell of Jackson says Mississippi is failing to land many industries because of a lack of trained personnel. Campbell, addressing a civic club here Friday, snid Ihe state "has an overabundance of unskilled labor--labor tha! modern industry has little, if any. use lor." Holmes County Newspaper Fever Pitch; Mews Theft LEXINGTON Miss.

(UP!) A three-year battle lictween two weekly newspapers here reached a new peak this week when they leveled fiery charges at each other on their front pages. Hazel Rrannon Smith, editor of the Lexington Advertiser, accused Ihe Holmes County Herald ol stealing her news stories and wondered how Herald l-dilor Jack Shearer could his head up and look in Ihe eye. The Herald charged a 'intc- grationisls and socialist elements who hale this country and state" are raising money to keep Mrs. Smith in business. THE fight began in 1958 when a group of Holmes County citizens, claiming a Mrs.

Smith was "moderate" on the race issue, organized the Herald to compete with her paper. Roth sides agreed at Ihe outset lhat advertising could support only one paper in this community of 2.800, but bolh arc still publishing. The Herald based its latest charges on an article in a national publication, the Press Woman, which said group of Southern publishers interested in freedom of the press was attempting lo win financial support for Mrs. Rmith. The a i quoted the committee as saying she had lost more than half her revenue "hy refusing to kowtow to white supremacists." IN AN editorial, the Herald (old of the drive in these words: "A group of out-of-slalc agitators, masquerading as do-gooders and moderates, a begun a fundraising campaign to buy themselves a voice in Holmes county." It said, "they are buying an outlet for the idealistic babblings of their ilk." It said the head of the committee is Hodding Carter of Greenville, "a Mississippi editor who has made a profession of selling his writings on Mississippi's racial problems to left-wing publications." Other committee mem- Weather North Mississippi--Partly cloudy Sunday.

Not much change in temperatures, high Sunday 66-74. Mostly southeasterly winds 5-15 milts per hour. Monday outlook, partly cloudy and warm with a chance of showers. The' high temperature Friday was 67, low Friday night, 42, with 50 registered at 2:45 p.m. Saturday and over the 30 hours 1.12 inches of rain fell, Brodie Crump, wcnlhcr observer, reported.

bcrs, acoirrling to the Press Wy men, arc Ralph McGill of Atlanta. J. N. Ileiskell of Little Rock, Mark Elheridge of Louisville, Ky. and Francis S.

Harmon of Hat- liesburg, Miss. Mrs. Smith, in her weekly column, said the Herald was responsible for copies of her paper disappearing from the post office on Wednesday nights, when both papers are scheduled to go to press. She said she did not object to this but, in an open letter to Shearer, she said, "when you start copying my stories, too. tha stories I've worked so hard to get and write, that is another thing altogether--and that is where I draw the line." SHE said a Herald story on the city budget was obviously a rewrite of her story that persons who could have given the Herald its story had denied doing so.

"You are guilty not only of violating every journalistic ethic, but of downright stealing." slie wrote. "This is just to let you know that I have had enough of it and I don't intend to take any more." She threatened to report to postal authorities if copies of her paper dsifcppear from the post office in the future, and she vowed to remain in business until "bell freezes over.".