Enterprise-Journal from McComb, Mississippi • Page 1

For Tomorrow: Enterprise- The One Newspaper in the World Most Interested in FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1960 McComb. Miss. Illinois Central Rail Cars Scatter Across Track at Amite, La. Second Group of Cars Jump Track, Smash Up -Enterprise-Journal aerial photos by John Emmerich City Oil Field Extended One Half Mile to East The McComb Oil Field has been extended one-half mile east with the completion of Calto Oil Co. and Associates' No.

1 Stickney, Sherman, Holmes Unit. The well is in NE NE Sec. 3-3n-7e on the northeast side of the field. It flowed 108 barrels of 41-gravity oil per day without a salt water show from a depth of 908-14 feet. Drilling has reached a depth of 2,850 feet in a new wildcat oil well attempt miles east of Summit.

The well is the D. A Biglane, J. E. Thornhill and Louis Alford No. 1 J.

E. Thornhill, SE SE Sec. 30-4n-8e. The wildcat is one mile south of one drilled on the Southwest Junior College campus to a depth of 11,022 feet without a show and abandoned in June, 1959. Jour this Community 33 Derail Firemen Alert to Danger AMITE.

La. Thirty-three cars of an Illinois Central freight train derailed near here today and firemen in the area were alerted because of possible danger from explosives and inflammables carried in some of the cars. The derailment occurred on the south edge of town. No one was injured. A car of creosote was broken open but did not catch fire.

CAUSE UNKNOWN Rail traffic in both was completely halted by the huge smashup. But spokesmen said service is expected to re-established in time for the Panama Limited, crack New Orleans-to-Chicago passenger train, to go through late this afternoon. Officials had not established the cause of the derailment nor estimated the damage. Some reports indicated that a car of ore was the first to leave the tracks, causing the others to pile up. Another guess was that a journal (axel) broke, causing the derailment.

DERAILED IN TWO PLACES The train's cars buckled in two different places several hundred feet from each other. In both cases, the cars sprawled across both tracks. Engineer of the train was George Rose and the fireman was C. S. Greer, both of McComb.

LOSS NOT KNOWN Rail traffic during the day was diverted around the smashup via Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and Jackson. Although no damage figure could be ascertained, it may in the neighborhood of several hundred thousand dollars, several railroaders guessed. Pike Girl's Alternate Princess Barbara Barr, Pike County's Dairy Princess, was named second alternate in the state Dairy Princess contest Thursday night. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

V. W. Barr, Holmesville, and a Magnolia High School graduate. She was named in a contest held several months ago i in Magnolia. The new state Dairy Princess is Kay Gartrell, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Gartrell Jr. of Horn Lake.

She was crowned by the outgoing princess, Barbara Brewer. First alternate is Brenda Stewart of Winston County. The contest highlighted the annual meeting of the Mississippi Chapter of American Dairy Association. Family of Four Needs $500 Wage WASHINGTON (AP) The Labor Department calculated today it costs about $6,000 a year to maintain a four-person city worker's family on a modest but adequate living level. An actual survey of 20 cities showed costs ranging from $5,370 in Houston, to $6,567 in Chicago.

The exhaustive survey by the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics also estimated the income of such a family conservatively is $7,000 to $7,500. It said income typically outstrips budget needs by 15 to 20 per cent. It said both income and budget costs probably would be lower in smaller cities and towns, and naturally would vary with different types of families. Today's Temperatures: 12 Mid. 74 9 a.

m. 81 2 a. m. 71 10 a. m.

84 4 a. m. 71 11 a. m. 86 5 a.

m. 72 12 noon 85 6 a. m. 70 1 p. m.

88 7 a. m. 73 p. m. 88 8 a.

m. 78 p. m. 89 A 8 72ND YEAR- -NO. 70 HEADLINES By OLIVER EMMERICH Mississippi has had two Miss Americas in a row.

and may have a third But McComb for several years has had a "Miss America" and later acquired a America." And the possession of this honor has been for more than three years in a row. Mrs. America Solomon's parents liked this countrys well and appreciated it so much that they named her "America." It is a beautiful name for a country or a Emmerich lady. Anyway, this puts McComb far out in front in the Miss and Mrs. America contests.

Flintkote Company is a nationally-k multi-million dollar industrial firm, The people of Pike County are fortunate in having this company decide to locate a subsidiary plant, the Hankins Container Corporation, in our county. The new plant will be located in the Second Supervisor's district. On Sept. 6, the people of the Second District will go to the polls to authorize a BAWI bond issue of $600,000. The funds thus raised will be used to build a 115,200 square foot industrial building in which up to 225 male workers will be employed.

There is every reason that the people of the Second Supervisor's District will vote solidly for the bond issue. It will not cost the taxpayers any money whatsoever. The company will invest $1,500,000 in machinery and equipment for the new plant. Last year the Mississippi Employment Service, through its McComb office, sent 17 Negro laborers to Michigan to pick tomatoes This year it is sending a total of 126 workers to the area. It is interesting to note that the original 17 individuals from the McComb area proved to be such good workers that the organization that employed them made a special effort to get workers from this area a this year.

The Employment Service office here says that 40 Negro workers last year were sent to Minnesota to help harvest a crop and that they brought back with them a total of between $10,000 and $12,500 that they had saved during the harvest season there. The United States can send a monkey aloft. The big question just now is how to get a thing as big as a human being into space and back again. In a venture of this nature we must depend upon our technical engineers and scientists. But they are not always practical.

Why not send that 21-inch-high midget into space and then bring him back and let him get on the air through "The Voice of America" and tell the Russians about it. Those monkeys we sent up before are not as big as midgets. In fact, we could send up a couple of midgets and then tell the world we have made a double shipment into space. While I'm being corny I may as well go the limit and let our readers throw things at will. Both the Russians and the Americans have overlooked the one animal in the world that is suited for this space business.

What animal other than the cow has ever jumped over the moon? New Social Security Bill Up for Action WASHINGTON (AP) A compromise Social Security bill containing increased federal grants to the states for medical bills of needy old persons comes up for final congressional action today. The measure, worked out late Thursday by Senate-House conferees, was expected to sail through the House with no trouble. More argument was likely in the Senate, since the conferees cut or eliminated several provisions voted by that branch. Id30 AHOLSIH 0 dW00 Freight Cars at Amite Lumumba Asks UN Withdrawal LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP)-Premier Patrice Lumumba whose government only Monday dropped its demand for revision of United Nations operations in the Congo, declared today U. N.

forces should get out when Belgium's soldiers leave. "We will assure order with our own troops and police," Lumumba told a hastily called news conference. "'We don't want to replace the Belgian military occupation with a United Nations occupation." According to a timetable submitted by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, the last of the Belgian soldiers should be withdrawn by next Monday. Lumumba called for simultaneous withdrawal of the U. N.

forces now totaling 17,000 men. The statement represents other sharp reversal in Lumumba's position. It was made in the wake of bitter antigovernment rioting Thursday in front of the modern: istic Palace of Culture where, at Lumumba's invitation delegates of 12 African nations were meeting. There was no immediate comment from the U. N.

Congress Presses to Quit WASHINGTON (AP) Three appropriation bills and a compromise medical care measure were lined up for probable final approval today as Congress pressed toward adjournment, expected in the middle of next week. Clearance of the bills for President Eisenhower's action would leave only one major measure the minimum wage bill before adjournment. While some members, anxious to hit the campaign trail still were hoping for adjournment perhaps Saturday, they weren't optimistic. Next Tuesday or Wednesday was the target date set by congressional leaders. Top priority on today's House schedule was assigned to the health bill, a compromise which limits medical care provisions to needy older persons and makes minor changes in Social Security benefits.

Labor OK Expected for Demos WASHINGTON (AP)-The AFLCIO called its labor union chiefs together today to decide the 1960 political course of the 14-millionmember organization. A. ringing endorsement of the Democratic ticket is expected. Recommendations of the 29- member federation Executive Council will be submitted for consideration by the AFL-CIO General Board, comprised of Representatives of all 135 unions. later today.

The union leaders have been generally enthusiastic, although with some exceptions, about Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts as Democratic presidential nominee They have not been so enthusiastic about Kennedy's running mate, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, whom they opposed at the convention in Los Angeles. Recently, however, Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, and David J.

McDonald, United Steel Workers president, made pilgrimages to Kennedy's summer place at Hyannis Port, and came away completely favoring, they said, the KennedyJohnson ticket. Mild, Cloudy Weather Holds Today held the familiar chance of afternoon thundershowers in this area, however, the New Orleans Weather Bureau does not see Saturday and Sunday with it. Instead, the Bureau predicts the weekend will be mainly cloudy and warm." Gremillion Walks Out on Hearing NEW ORLEANS (AP)-Louisiana Atty. Gen Jack Gremillion walked out of a federal court hearing here today on desegregation of New Orleans public schools with the declaration "I'm not going to stay in this den of iniquity." Gremillion's walkout came after Judge Richard T. Rives of Montgomery, presiding judge of a 3-judge court here, had admonished Gremillion to be more respectful before the court.

Gremillion's ire was aroused when the court ruled the paintiffs in a suit directed against the Orleans Parish School Board, could introduce affidavits in evidence. be Charles E. Richards, representing 31 white parents who seek to enjoin the school board from closing the schools to avoid desegregation, said he wanted to introduce affidavits. Gremillion objected. He said he had not had five days notice for the introduction of such affidavits and he wanted time to file counter affidavits.

Rives pointed out that originally provision had been made for the introduction of evidence by affidavit and that Gremillion had been put on notice that he could introduce such affidavits. The court added, "You your self, have indicated you have affidavits to be Gremillion said his affidavits were in the suit by the National: Association for the Advancement of Colored People and not in connection with the suit by 31 white parents. The court had combined the suit's for today's hearing. The NAACP suit seeks to keep Davis from interfering with the operation of the Orleans Parish public school system. Davis took control of the system Aug.

17. Mrs. Rey Bonney Enters Hospital Mrs. H. Rey Bonney, operator of a McComb printing company, became ill at her plant and entered the Infirmary shortly before noon today.

Her condition has not yet been completely determined. McComb Business Woman Mourned The new No. 1 Mildred Terry well in the southern part of the McComb field is expected to spark activity in that area. Three new locations have already been staked out by the discoverers of the new well J. Thornhill, D.

A. Biglane and R. U.S. Breaks Relations With Trujillo WASHINGTON (AP) The United States broke relations today with the Dominican Republic. An announcement by the State Department said the United States diplomatic mission at Ciudad, Trujillo, is being withdrawn.

The Dominican government was requested to recall its mission here. E. Williams. The new discovery is at NE NE Sec. 27-3n-7e.

NEW LOCATIONS New locations in the McComb Field are: Sun Oil Co. No. 1 Sinclair-Emmerich Unit, SE SE Sec. 3-3n-7e. Skelton Operating Co Inc.

No. 1 Carrie Widham, NE SW Sec. 4-3n-7e. Four new Amite county locations are: Justiss-Mears Oil Co. Inc.

No. 1 Ned I. Smith, SE NE Sec. 6-4n-3e, a wildcat. F.

H. Shortridge No. C-1 Board of Supervisors, NE NE Sec. 16- 4n-4e, another wildcat Two field locations are: Southwest Gas Producing Co. No.

1 Board of Supervisors, SW SE Sec. 16-4n-6e in the Smithdale Field. Sun Oil Co. No. 2 A.

W. Wilson, NW NW Sec. 22-4n-6e, also in the Smithdale field. Funeral services for Mrs. Lillian Middleton Simmons, for many years one of McComb's best known business women, are scheduled for 10 a.

m. at First Baptist Church. Interment will be in Hollywood Cemetery. Mrs. Simmons, 63, died at 2:10 a.

m. today in City Hospital, where she had been taken after she became suddenly and acutely ill at her home a few hours earlier. She had worked as usual Thursday at her post as cashier of a McComb grocery store and the fatal seizure came without warning. Mrs. Simmons was born at Magnolia Dec.

17, 1896, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Middleton, pioneer area residents.

She had lived in McComb most of her life. Mrs. Simmons reared and educated a son and four daughters by her own efforts. In 1950, her fine record as the leader of her family earned for her community recognition as "Mother Year." Dr. Wyatt R.

Hunter, pastor of First Baptist Church, will conduct funeral services. The Rev. David Ulmer, of Centenary Methodist Church, will assist, and nephews of Mrs. Simmons will act as her pallbearers. She leaves her daughters, Mrs.

Harold Godbold and Mrs. Ber- MRS. LILLIAN SIMMONS Died unexpectedly early nard Blailock, McComb, Mrs Charles, Wadsworth, Greenwood, and Mrs. Robert I. Cole, Murfees: boro, her son, Thad Sin mons, McComb, and 12 grandchildren.

She is also survived by three brothers, Hugh Middleton, Mc. Comb, George Middleton, Meridian, and Garland Middleton, Gulfport, and three sisters, Mrs. E. C. Schilling, Magnolia, Mrs.

Silas Simmons, Natchez, and Mrs. Jewell Davis, Jacksonville, Fla. Catchings Funeral Home is in charge of services..