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Image 1 of The Petal paper (Petal, Miss.), August 30, 1956

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i mu il i East Side By P D Certainly seems that in the Cow Palace last week there was a lot of Bull i On March If 19561 ran what has since been dubbed The Jackass Page On May 17th because of requests for additional copies of the page I ran it a second time Today for the same reason as of May 17th I am running it for the third time both press runs of March 15tn and May 17th being exhausted The exact number cf states from which requests have come fcr the page I dont know having not kept up with them but my guess is around forty At any rate I am indeed sorry to inflict the page again on my regular subscribers but it is my hope they will understand you know anything to make a dollar 1000 Reward for anyone proving any connection between me personally or this paper and any organization whatso ever with the exception of the Methodist Church to which I was at one time a member True I dont have a thousand bucks but I can of fer it safely because there is no connection no subsidy no affiliation

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mississippi department of archives and history. 1956-08-30. Image 1 of The Petal paper (Petal, Miss.), August 30, 1956. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85044791/1956-08-30/ed-1/?sp=1

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0 w As a result of the recent news stories about the citizens councils the sovereignty commission and Billy C Barton The PetalHarvey Dispatch PO Box 355 Petal Miss commented as follows THE PETALHARVEY DISPATCH REPRESENTS THE PETALHARVEY AREA The PetalHarvey Dispatch is the only newspaper domiciled in Petal Miss In a news release out of Jackson Miss last week re ference was made to the fact an individual Barton who is in controversy with the Citizens Council of the state is a close friend of P D East publisher of the Petal Paper Petal Miss At the present time there is no newspaper published at Petal by P D East The only newspaper of record in Petal is the Petal Harvey Dispatch published by the Leaf River Publications and it has no connection whatsoever with any other news paper ever published here We hold no brief for the Citizens council the Sov erignty Commission or P D East We do believe that this newspaper supported by the business men and the citizens of Petal should be fully rec ognized as the only newspaper representing Petal and its citizens The citizens council should be more careful in its presentations and

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