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FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1960 i jiZlLiLL UAjyii The in nn 1 LJ -n I By OLIVES EMMERICH The 1960 State Democratic Convention held in Jackson yesterday was the dullest in Mississippi history. It lacked enthusiasm. It lacked purpose. It lacked anything approaching full attendance. If ever there was a rubber-stamp convention this was it.

Yet, the machinery which controlled the convention was completely lacking in strategy. i i i Li Li V.J LJ There was no Senate -deceives fist OGUYIOn 3 wrnne Mi ire as Underground Blasts in Dovntown Cleveland A series of underground explosions" rum- holes. Plate glass windows were smashed bled beneath Public Square in the heart and one man was cut by flying glass, of downtown Cleveland just after the peak Troubles were caused by a short circuit on rush hour. Firemen and others scurry for electric lines. The power was cover as thick smoke pours out of man- shut off in the busy area.

(AP Wirephoto). Democratic Convention afion Mississippi -Man 23 unit Follow Suii The House reactvn sent the bill on to the Senate where Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of lexas said he would seek a vote as quickly as possible. Johnson expressed confidence the Senate would also vote to override. POSITION BLASTED The Democratic leader said he did not see how Eisenhower could condemn the measure so strongly.

The President called it indefensible. The vote was taken before gal leries packed with postal employes and other federal workers. An entire section was filled with blue-uniformed mailmen who took their places a half-hour before Congress convened. 56 GOP STALWARTS Only 56 Republicans stuck by the GOP House leadership to sustain the veto. Thirteen Democrats joined them.

Voting to override the veto were 256 Democrats and 89 Republicans. The bill affects 535,000 postal employes -and one million white collar federal It would fatten paychecks by from $350 a year to $1,500 a year, depending on -present pay scales. The bill would take effect on the first payday after it becomes law. Action on the veto Was one of the major issues facing Congress before a proposed adjournment for the political conventions. The Senate' voted 63-26 Thursday to recess Saturday until Aug.

8. The House is expected to do likewise, probably Saturday, despite opposition of some Republicans. I to Vote JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mis sissippi's 46-man delegation to the Democratic national convention will go under instructions to cast its 23 votes as a unit for the state and states rights. The vote on the instruction at the state convention yesterday came after Gov.

Ross Barnett warned that delegates must go "with full authority to negotiate freely." He said negotiations should not compromise Mississippi's interests and principles." BARNETT CONTROLS Barnett, head of the state party, apparently was in control of the entire convention. His forces had their way. The convention named Circuit Judge Tom 3rady of Brookhaven as national committeeman and Mrs. Alice Phillips of Noxubee County as committeewoman. Former Lt.

Gov. Bidwell Adam of Gulfport was re-elected chairman of the State Executive Committee; Bob Newton of Wiggins, ouse ft af WASHINGTON (AP) A 15-cent increase in the minimum wage and a token extension of coverage have been approved by a conservative-minded House. The victory of the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition Thursday night apparently fixed the limits for any minimum wage legislation in this session of Congress. Passage came on a 341-72 roll call vote. By a 211-203 margin the coalition dumped a broader bill backed by liberal Democrats and.

left Senate liberals facing a dilemma today. Any attempt to broaden the cov erage in the House bill is certain to throw it back into the House Rules Committee where efforts to dislodge it face doubtful success. Some proponents of a more generous bill expressed hope that the return of Congress after the nominating conventions might help ease that roadblock. But leaders obviously hope to keep that session short. The Senate is unlikely even to consider the bill until it returns for the post-convention session.

The political outlook at that time may help shape its course of The-Senate Committee has approved a bill similar to that rejected by the House. The same forces that last year put through the labor control bill were in evidence in the House debate Thursday. Both Reps. Phil M. Landrum (D-Ga) and Robert P.

Griffin (R-Mich), co-authors of the labor bill, Lee Plantz father, a painter-decorater, moved the family to Brookhaven in 1894. I There as another who died in Brookhaven years ago. and the family had previously lost a little girl, who died in Colorado. Lee Plantz graduated at Brookhaven High, then attended Whit-worth College for two years. He quit school when Whitworth stopped accommodating boys as students.

He says there is no connection between that act and his attendance at the girls school. In 1893, he rode the old Chicago suburban service to the World's it i 0 uaner-kenrury debate, no dis- i on, no candidates or vlntFnfrVI fin. ciples only the resolution handed down from the top. Emmerich The convention this year bore of the characteristics of a state party falling apart. The leason is that the Democratic Party is no longer a of ti people in Mississippi.

Gov. Barnett said, "I say let's get the government back into th? hands of the people." But when Jesse Shanks of Lamar County presented a motion founded upon the unanimous action of 16 counties in the Sixth Congressional District caucus, he could not even get his proposition on the floor. The Sixth Congressional district wanted to allow one-seventh of the convention delegates to constitute sufficient strength to permit a minority report. When one-seventh of the delegates cannot be regarded as a minority voice the proposition cf democracy is lost. The chief mission of the convention centered about the mechanics of determining who f-hould go to Los Angeles.

The people of Mississippi should face the truth. The Dem-ctri-tic Party in -Mississippi is, hi the process of decay. Some excellent and distinguished Mississippians are associated with the party. But the enthusiasm for control has the will to function. Gov.

Barnett said, "We are sending a team to Los Angeles which can match wits with the best of them. I say we must go to Los Anceles determined to carry the ball. It is the team that carries the ball that wins the game." This is wonderful spirit but it is Si safe bet that Paul Butler, the quarterback on the opposing team, will not let the Mississippi delegation get its hand cn the ball. "The Statement of Principles," a resume of the authorship of the 1943 States Rights Convention, is a laudable resolution. But it was so out of keeping with the undemocratic procedure of this year's state convention as to make it appear ludicrous.

The real issue today is this: Shall constitutional representative government endure in A-merica? The example set by our state Democratic Party convention yesterday was not one of American democracy in action but rather an example of total-i'arian rules sustained. It is natural that some people Mill ressnt charges such as these. But if we can become resentful to arcuse the vri'J put new life into our state Democratic Party ijietition and devotion to real, not just the verbal, essence of constitutional govern-Ment and tie system of enlightened capitalism which it provides, the cause of representative government will be advanced for all of our people. The bloodhounds have been busy over in nearby Bogalusa. And they have uncovered some robberies over that way.

Think of the Summit restaurant owner who waked up in the night and heard a noise. There is a hole between his Jivintf quarters and the dining room where he keeps his telephone, lie got a good look at lobbers and had a dead cn them if he had wanted tc iwi llrf Bidwell Adam Selected as Party Chief Again Likelv fo WASHINGTON (AP) The House today voted to override President Eisenhower's veto of a IVz per cent pay increase for VA million federal employes. The vote was 345 to override the veto and 69 against overriding it. This was 69 votes more than the two-thirds majority needed to pass the bill over the President's disapproval. Eisenhower had previously vetoed 168 bills since taking office and been overridden only once.

i (5) Rebels Turn Up in Scandinavia OSLO, Norway (AP) The hunt is on for two young men who in the past two days changed $100 in 1S64 Confederate money in two Oslo shops. They got 700 kroner, nearly $9. Police figure the unreconstructed rebels aren't through. When one shopkeeper was suspicious, the pair flashed a big roll of the bills as proof the money was good. Child Hit, Badly Hurt by Vehicle A tryfic accident just befor noon today on Highway 24 six miles west of McComb caused a small girl to suffer severe cuts about the head and face and possible other injuries.

She is Becky Smith, about six, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 'Robert E. Smith, who recently moved into the "Old Powell Home" after its purchase and renovation, by T. J.

Parker of McComb. The girl was rushed to Mc Comb City Hospital by ambulance a few minutes after the accident She was not believed to be criti- klly hurt, but examination had not been completed when the Mc Comb Enterprise-Journal went to press. The child and her equally small sister were sent to Bates Grocery across Highway 24 from their home to get a carton of soft drinks just before noon. As they walked northward back to their home, one of them made it across the highway. But Becky was struck, or walked into the side of, an eastbound truck, said to have been driven by C.

N. Welch of McComb. The motorist made an extensive effort to evade the children, an investigating state highway pa trolman was quoted as saying. The driver of the vehicle stopped immediately, a woman who saw the accident from me grocery store told a reporter. The child's father works for a bread firm in McComb.

Barnett Names H. K. Barron H. K. Barron, Amite County supervisor and grade-A dairyman, is one of six men appointed by Gov.

Ross Barnett to serve on the new Mississippi Milk Commission. Six of the governor's nine appointments to the commission, which will regulate the price of milk and milk products, were made. Others named were: Jeff Fortenberry of Wesson, representing the producers. J. R.

Denton of Cleveland and Ralph Cumbest of Pascagoula representing the handlers. Herman Mosby of Canton and John D. Mercier cf Corinth, representing processors. wi mm a played key roles In the minimum wage fight. Only three Texas Democrats deserted the Southern ranks to vote for the liberal-backed bill introduced by Rep.

James Roosevelt (D-Calif). On the key roll call vote 90 Democrats and 121 Republicans voted for the scaled-down version sponsored by Reps. A. Paul Kitch-in (D-NC) and William H. Ayres (R-Ohio).

Voting against it were 176 Democrats and 27 Republicans. On final passage, 225 Democrats and 116 Republicans voted for it and 40 Democrats and 32 Republicans against it. Oil Sand Logged at Summit After months of inactivity, the Summit field has its seventh oil producer coming up. Twelve feet of oil sand was logged at Shallow Oil Company's No. 2 Boyd well, SW SW Sec.

22-4n-7e, on the southeast corner of the field. The well has not yet been completed, but it. Is anticipated that it will make a successful producer. In another development, W. L.

Pickens' No. 1 M. Bates Estate well, located in the McComb field, has been completed. It flowed at a rate of 224 barrels of oil a day on a 11-64-inch choke from 10 2 net feet of oil sand. Fair in that city.

In 1903 the family lived in St. Louis and attended the World's Fair there. BRAKEMAN FIRST In 1907, when Lee was 22, he became an I. C. brakeman.

He was promoted to conductor Aug. 17, 1917. On Sept. 29, 1908 he married Miss Daisy Walker, daughter of the late William and Nannie Boone Walker of McComb. Her father was a carpenter who died in a building accident many years ago.

1 The Plantzes became the parents of three children. Daisy Lee became Mrs. Arthur Elliott, who lives in Lindenwood, 111. and" has three sons. This trio of Plantz grandchildren has provided the McComb couple with four greatgrandchildren, A son, William, died at six from meningitis, and a girl, Helen, passed on in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Plantz have been living at 413 Louisiana Ave. 15 years. ACTIVE CITIZENS They are active members in Centenary Methodist Church, where he has been a steward for 30 years.

The family has been very active in Masonic and Eastern Star circles. He's a Mason and Shrinet and member of other bodies ol the fraternity. Mrs. Plantz is a former Worthy Matron of Queen Esther Chapter, OES, and her husband served it as Worthy Ta-tron. Plantz has been secretary of the McComb lodge of the Ordei of Railway Conductors and Brake-men for 25 years, served as local chairman 16 years and has been a delegate to three national conventions.

Mrs. Plantz is presently granl ORC Auxiliary vice president. The Plantzes are enthusiasts reading and raising flowers, as well as work and fraternal ac tivity, and Lee stiys he likes ta fish when he Uas time. And he pians to find naore time for it now, he adds. ub vice chairman; and Byrd Mauldin of Pontotoc, secretary.

Rep. Russell Fox of Claiborne County was named permanent convention chairman. Brady and Mrs. Phillips succeeded Hugh Clayton of New Albany and Mrs. Lovie Gore of Sturgis who will represent the state until the end of the national' convention which starts July 11.

RECESS ATTEMPT In a show of sincerity, the convention rejected an attemptJiy. Charles Sullivan, defeated candi date for governor, to recess until July 23 and voted instead for final adjournment. Rep. Stone Barefield of Forrest County was turned down in his move to reapportion the conven tion on the basis of population. Barnett reaffirmed his stand of no compromise on racial segrega tion.

"A majority of the people of America think like you and I do on this matter of racial segre gation and states rights," he said 2. John Keeton of Grenada, Will Hickman of Oxford and Jim Ca hill of Senatobia, 3. Rimsey Russell of Washing ton County, former Rep. Tom Garrott of Tunica County and Jones. 4.

Bob Cannada of Jackson, former Sen. Lawrence Adams of Natchez and Rep. Francis Geo- ghagan of Fayette. 5. R.

H. Mcf arland of Jasper Coun and Sanford and former Rep. Paul Measell of Newton County. 6. Adam, Neville Patterson of Monticello and Newton.

JL aprisrs REV. OLIVER C. LADNIER North McComb Baptist pastor The new pastor's wife is the former Miss Patsy Dossett of Mobile, Ala. They have two daughters, Linda Kay, 9, and Brenda, 4. are on our side of the question, but they lack leadership to stand up and fight for what they think is right." Resolutions adopted by the convention would condemn the U.S Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation; reaffirm the state's belief in racial segregation; oppose outside attempts to enforce the laws in Mississippi, particularly the laws against lynching; and outlaw communism and membership the "Commu nist Tarty.

nreoiens Oil Firms Esso, Shell Will Lose Planfs-Or Take USSR Oil HAVANA (AP) Frime Minis ter Fidel Castro today ordered seizure of Esso Standard and Shell Oil installations and refin eries in Cuba, unless they refine token shipments of state-owned (Russian) crude oil. Both companies already have declined to handle the Russian crude, obtained in a sugar-for-oil barter deal. Seizure of Esso and Shell would put Cuba's whole petroleum industry, valued at nearly 150 mil lion dollars, in the hands of Castro's revolutionary government. Two days ago, Castro seized all Texaco Oil Co. property, includ ing its Santiago refinery, in a similar step.

Castro acted through identical resolutions- which accused both Esso and Shell of violating a 1933 Cuban law requiring refineries here to process state-owned oil. All companies have held that the law means oil produced in cuba and not oil imported in competition with their own suppliers. Some Showers Are Possible Isolated thundershowers in partly cloudy, hot and humid weather are possible in the area through Sunday, the New Orleans Weather Bureau said today. The extended forecast for Mississippi issued today by the Bureau indicates that the state will have "lighf or no" precipitation except the isolated afternoon showers through July 6. No Paper July 4 The McComb Enterprise-Journal will not publish a newspaper Monday, July 4.

The office will be closed for the national holi day. Publication will resume Tuesday. Snow Hits Norway OSLO, Norway (AP) Winter reigned today in large parts of Norway on the first day of what is usually the hottest month. Cosfro JACKSON, Miss. (AP) For- mer Lt.

Gov. Bidwell Adam of Gulfport will serve another term as chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Fred Jones of the state penitentiary nominated Adam, the only person placed before the committee. The committee selected Boh Newton of as vice chair- cuu u- 1. Mauldin, Clarence Morgan Jr.

of Kosciusko and Donald Franks of Prentiss County. McCom Lee Ernest Plantz, almost 43 years an Illinois Central Railroad conductor and an employe of the system for 53 years altogether, completed his tour of service Wednesday. The veteran conductor's final run before retirement -was on the Panama Limited from Canton to McComb. He had been a Panama conductor since 1954, and a conductor on other I. C.

trains since 1947. BORN IN MIDWEST Plantz is a native of Dana, Iowa, where he was born Dec. 7, 1884, a son of the late William and Elmira Hamlin Plantz. His 1 ave New Pastor ii Tne Rev. Oliver C.

Ladnier will assume the pastorate of North McComb Baptist Church in Mc-Comb Sunday and will preach at both services of the congregation. The new McComb pastor comes to McComb from the Carmel Baptist Church near Monticello in Lawrence County. In McComb he succeeds the Rev. W. E.

Corkern, who recently moved to the Hernando Baptist Church. The Rev. r. Ldnier had served at Carmel since June, 1957, following six years as mission pastor of Calvary Baptist Church at Jackson. While he was pastor at Carmel an educational building and a pastor's home were built to complete a plant now regarded as one of the most progressive rural churches in the state.

He is a graduate of Mississipi College and lacks some 20 weeks of study to get his degree as Master of Religious Education at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. LEE FLANTZ AAAKES FINAL RUN AS CONDUCTOR Ha closed out a 53-year career with Illinois Central.