The Sumner Sentinel from Sumner, Mississippi • 1

THE SUMNER SENTINEL WE ADVOCATE MEASURES -NOT MEN 56 SUMNER, TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY, 1 THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1964 No. ATTACK ON MISSISSIPPI N.H. Union Leader) (The Manchester, It is becoming increasingly more make a fair evaluation cf difficult to in Mississippi because the situation the coverage of events SO much of ceased to be factual news there instaed turned inhas reporting and has the state. 19 an attack in upon is replacing reason racial difficulties in Hysteria evaluaing the Newspapers are carrying distorted reports about the Mississippi. viciously leading magazine which state.

A to boast about its alleged oblikes noted sarcastically that Misattend churches more of. jectively than they burn them and was evten en so silly asto refer to Its girls as chewing debu A major "gum network cancelled an hour television viewing time i in order to of prime biter indictment of the state. run a sort of thing of course does not This help the situation. has come to put the MisThe time sissippi matter into proper perspecfacing up to some stark facts tive by It is. let's face imprudent tor civil rights workers to be trying to wha' they like to refer to as cause long, hot summer of discontent" in Miss.ssippi.

By doing SO they unwisely inviting viloence and are risking lives, just as Mississippians be doing if they were to take would themselves to go to Harlein it upon to crusade against the Negro terroisin in that area. is hyprotrical for so many NorIt therners to express so much concern over racial disorder in Mississippi and at the same time ignore it or to rationalize it when it occurs try their own back yard. When Nein recently began a wave of gro gangs terror in New York City, for example, many authorities swore that racial tension was not at all involved though the attackers were and the victims whites. And Negroes when a group of Negroes went on the rampage in Chicago recently, robbing and ransacking a store and beating and knifing several whites. the police tried to explain that they were "just looking for that sissippians at large admit have racial problems.

The attack on Mississippi is not only imprudent and hypocritical, it' is unfair. The Magnolia State's bad points are being examined with a magnifying glass and its good ones virtually ignored. We get the impression that Mississippi is crime ridden, but actually it hag the second lowest crime rate in the United States. We hear that it is a poor state but never seem to hear that it is having tremendous success in attracting new industry If a bombing or killing takes place In Mississippi it's a national disgrace, but if 75 bombings and 11 killings occur in one decade in Youngstown, Ohio, to name one Nor-' thern city, no one seems to particul-' arly care. Mississippi's racial population should try to realize, is unique.

Forty-two percent of its population is colored. Most Northerners cannot imagine, let alone understand, what this is like. Naturally, Mississippians resist radical change be-' cause it would throw the balance of political power into the hands of people who are by no stretch of the imagination capable of voting intelligently. This happened once in Mississippi's history during the Reconstruction era and it nearly wreckekd the state. It is not wise for the civil rights workers to be registering Negroes to.

vote before they are even able to read and write. They should be putting first things first. Certainly the persons responsibie for the disappearance of the three civil rights workers in Mississippi have done a despicable thing. But to condemn an entire state because of this incident about which no facts are known is simply not fair. Indeed it is rather strange that the persons in charge of the civil rights operations in Mississippi have so easily escaped any blame.

As colwinnist, Joe Alsop, Newsweek magazin and others have pointed out, they were hoping in the back of their minds for violence so that the federal government wourd intervene in Mississippi. Toying with persons' lives like this for political gain is ir. MISS LOUISE LEE TO MARRY MR. JIMMY GEE ON AUGUST 16 Mr. and Mrs.

Eugene H. Lee of Dumas, Arkansas, announce the gagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Louise Lai to Jimny Gee, son of Mr and Mrs. Edward Gee of Sumner. The wedding will be solemnized on responsible and cheap and should be strongly condemned Instead of simply ignored. like it or not, admit it or not, racial disorder in the United States is State not of continued Mississippi to the or borders even to of the Souh.

The North has extreme ser. ious racial problems which will become even more serious if we tinue to softpeddle them. Northerners should stop spending their time attacking Mississippi and start working harder to clean up their own back yard. Mississippi's problem, let us realize are best understood by szississippians and will be best solved by their efforts, not by the agitation and condemnation of Northerners who foolishly demand a quick answer to, an extremely complex probiem which is going to require a good deal of time, patience and understanding. CIVIL SERVICE ANNOUNCES COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION The U.

S. Civic Service Commissin through its Board of Examiners in Memphis, announces an ouen competitive examination for positions of Substituti: Clerk-Carrier in ail. First, Second and Third Class Post Offices located in the counties ol Quitman and in Mississippi. The beginning basic rate of for First and Second Class Post fices is $2.33 per nour and $1.99 per hour for Third Class offices. Applicants must have reached their 18th birthday ati the time of filing their application.

However, high school graduates can apply at the of 16, providing local child labor age laws permit. For positions requiring the operation of government vehicles, applicants must be 18 old and pessess a valid drivyears ers license issued by the State in which they live. Additional information and application forms can be obtained from Postmaster located in the counany ties mentioned above, or from the Board of U. S. Civil Service ExamRoom 37, Main Post Office iners, Buildings, Memphis, Tenn.

Applications must be filed with the Foard in Memphis on or before deadline which is August 17, 1964. TALLA T. B. ASSN. VOLUNTEERS TO ATTEND MEETING AUG.

20 Tallahatchie County Tuberculosis Association volunteers will attend annual District Campaign peting in Grenada on August: 20, according to Mrs. Steve Worley, chairman. The luncheon and meeting will be held at the Monte Cristo Motel. A large group of delegates and newsmen from other counties in the area will join the Tallahatchie volunteers in staging pians for the proaching Christmas Seal Campaign The local Association will take part in developing ideas and procedures to be used in managing volunteer work. Special emphasis will be rected toward informing the of the extensive problems of the increases of tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases in Tallahatchie County and all over Mississippi.

A total of six District Meetings are screduled this month, one in each section of the state. The purpose of these meetings is to give an informative program on the new materin's and techniques used in keeping the public abreast of the help they can offer in eradicating tuberculosis and respiratory diseases in Mississippi. is open from 11 a. m. to 6p.

m. seven days a week. Tape recorded vignettes explain the action of the work floor and describe the operations of each machine. Outsidethe building. mail boxes from 21 countries serve as background for the red, white and blue box of the United States.

A prototype stainless steel mail box being tested as an eventual replacement for the standard box used for tehpas. forty years is located at one of the Fair's busiest intersections. Postmaster Carnathan suggests that Sumner area visitors to the Fair press their comments on the new box by dropping a note addressed to be "Superintendent, World's Fair Post Office" through the modernistic mail slot. Postage is not necessary. If they wish, visitors may discuss their reactions with clerks at the post office building.

Smokey Says: GOOD! THAT'S THE WAS TO PUT OUT A CAMPFIRE! Let's keep the woods green! JELING RATE MISS FOTI TO TEACH IN GERMANY Miss Catherine Foti Mr. and Mrs. Pell Foti has been lected by the Army Chief of Stati in Washington, D. C. to teach grade in the Dependent.

Schools for the United States Army in Germany for the school term 65. Miss Foti has been a member the Greenville Public School faculty since graduation of college. was awarded a 'Pen at Teacher appreciation Night for five years outstanding workmanship. She leave the first of Augusts for week's visit at the World's Fair, then on to Europe where she ai-travel before the opening of school in September." She will study the "probems the Elementary Child" at the University of Heidelberg, founded in the oldest university in Germany. INTERESTING ITEMS FROM YOUR COUNTY AGENT By Lanlle M.

Abbey Pressure canner gauges should be checked occasionally for accuracy. Recently we checked Severai pressure canners and found most of those checkked needing some adjustrient. There is, of course, danger of food poisoning if low-acid vegetables are not processed properly. We have a gauge tester in the office. Please let me know if you would like your pressure canner checked.

Those Pesky Chiggers. A bath within an hour after you have been in places where you may get chiggers will probably kill most of them before they attach themselves. Soap yourself with a thick lather, then rinse it off. Do this several times. Next an antiseptic to any wells that may have appeared.

The anntiseptic will kill any chiggers not killed by the bath. It also helps prevent infection. Putting The Bitts On Chiggers. The chiggers can be controlled by sprayisg. But often it's hard to tell where to spray.

These mites are so small they are not easily seen. And often the bits are not felt until several hours after you'vs picked them up. Here is a tricky way to locate. chigger-infesti2d areas. It's dby entomologists of the U.

S. Department of Agriculture. Place a piece of black cardboard or construction paper edgewise 011 the ground, or lean it against a tuft of grass, or fallen branch where you suspect there might be chiggers. Watch it carefully for a few minutes. If you see small orangeish or pinkish mites moving rapidly across the paper and accumulating on the upper edge, you have founa them.

Now Spray! The leaflet "Control sawn Insects" available at the Home Demonstration offices gives recommenrations on controlling chiggers and other lawn insects. E. D. BROWNING BURIED FRIDAY Services were held at 3 p. m.

Friday for Elmer (Dutch) Browning, 59 retired Federal Compress and Warehouse Co. manager and lifelong resident of County. Mr. Browning med Wednesday afternoon at the Coahoma County Hospital in Clarksdale aiter a heart attack. The local Methodist pastor, the Rev.

E. E. Tucker, and the Rev. F. 0.

Martin, conducted the service in the Tutw. Methodist Church. Burial was in Rosemound Cemetery with Avent Funeral Home in charge. Mr. Browning was a Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Methodist Church.

The ring of laughter has ceased with the passing of Dutch Browning. The town feels a great loss for lie was the one person who alwa's could see the funny side of lie. He was an outgoing person with ma.y, many friends. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Bessie Frowning; one.

son, Nelson Frowning of Tutwiler; two brother, Bill Browning of McComb and Dorsey Drowning of Mon'agut, three Mrs. Estelle Clem of New Orlea and Mrs. Frances Jennings and Mrs. Polly Moore both of Long Beach, California and two grandchildren. SOCIAL SECURITY ITEMS OF INTEREST Many 65 year old citizens of Tallahatchie County get part of their monthly social security checks while working full time and making up to $3600 a year, according to Lutiter H.

Bolton, social security district nianager in Greenwood. Sunday, August 16, at First Baptist Church in Dumas, Arkansas. No cards are' Being sent, and friends are invited to the ceremony at three o'clock in the afternoon and the reception which will follow at the church parlors. POST OFFICE OF THE FUTURE AT WORLD'S FAIR Visitors to the New York World's Fair from this community have an opportunity to see a post office of the future, Postmaster Velma L. Carnathan said today.

A carefully chosen group of 80 employees from New York area post offices man the facilit ywhich handles all the Fair's mail and some of the Flushing New York area. The outside mail is used to keep the highly mechanized devices gat "full tilt." The post office handles approximately 250,000 pieces of mail each day. Postcards to friends and relatives back home are a big hem. About 30,000 are mailed from the Fair each day. of these are addressed to persons overseas.

Foreign visitors have no trouble understanding U. S. postal regulations. The facility has staff members who speak twenty languages. Postmaster Carnathan notes that residents of Tallahatchie County who attend the Fair and wish to try out their foreign language ability can either talk with the multi- lingual clerks or listen to a tape recorded presentation in the post office lobby which features individual earphones for those who speak Japanese, German, Italian and Spanish.

Ne wequipment on hand includes experimental Pitney-Bowes Centrifeed which spins envelopes rapidly around a wheel-like mechanism and places them upright on their longest side. They then move ino a machine which cancels stamps and postcards and envelopes at a rate of 500 letters a minute. Letters are sorted to go all over the world by machines which position the mail so that the addresses are visible to an operator who sits in front of a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter. By pressing the correct buttons, 100 letters a minute are automaticaliv directed to bins for 50 different A large device, the Burroughs sorter, drops letters and cards into 131 different bins at a rate of 58 letters per mintue for each of the twelve operators. The work area is surrounded by A I ramp and gallery for visitors which Mr.

Bolton explained that the purpose of social security payments is to replace part of the earnings last because of retirement, disability or death. He went on say that a person is presumed to be Compleerly Retired if his yearly earnings are not over $1200. He may be presumed to be Partialy Retired, and eligible to get some payment foor the year, even if he earns considerably more than $1200. "Here is how it works," said Mr. Bolton.

"A social security beneficiary may make up to $1200 in a year and still get all of his social security checks for the year. If he makes between $1200 and $1700 for the year, he will lose $1 in social security benefits for each $2 of his earnings over $1200. If he makes over $1700 in the year, he will lose $1 in benefits for each $2 he earns between $1200 and $1700 and $1 in benefits for each $1 he earns over $1700. As an example of this Mr. Bolton cited the case of a Tallahatchie Coutny man whose social security check is $100 each month and whose annual salary is $2400.

This beneficiary will get $250 in social security benefits for the years in spite of the fact that he is working full time. REPLACING BATTERY. tery in a truck during their From left are S-Sgt. Stacy C. Childpi Guardsmen of Company 223rd weeks annualfield training at Camp ress of Webb and Spec.

4 James D. Engineer Battalion replace a bat- Shelby, (Murphree of Charleston..