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SdliaUaid Our Low Income crmmic Progress Are Partners v issip i has only a few prob d it 01 y couldnt overcome 1 r nev in t ie form of more ir more people could help alle viate ome of these s 1 u M comes to mind as the 1 Cu us figures are published v V h levcal that Mississippi is still st e in the union with an a prraonal income of 288400 per family gores statk up something like this 3 e are 500921 families in the st a O this number there were 25 f vh had an income of 810000 or mote 139722 with an income of fa more in the year of 1959 3 hs m a ns 155 646 families rated in t e unper income bracket or almost o of the total number of fami lies the other extreme there were 9 dandies which had to exist on h h a 81000 per year a subsistence s nd k or almost onefifth of the states families In the middle were the majority 775 families whose income was less than 81000 Obviously raising the income sta tus o f a bottom fifth
Back Numbers Two recent deaths in one family ir Machias recall boyhood memories of thal historic town Few towns in New Eng land of its size couldcompare with it ir the intelligence culture and sterling qualities of its people The old families included the Longfellows from the same stock as thepoet the Porters to one of this family Machia3 is indebt ed for her public library the OBriens of Revolutionary fame the Crockers the Hills Sargents and others all more or less distinguishedand all worthy law abiding Godfearing citizens Two mem bers of the Holway family and I think the last of their generation died withir one week Miss Eilen C Holway daughter of the late John and Leonici Crocker Holway died March 3 1912 aged 8 years As I recall her she was something of an invalid and it seems surprising that she should have attainec so great an age She was fond of flow ers and in the season there was a wealtl of bloom around the hospitable Holwaj home on what was known as the Dublir side of the Machias river I recall he as working about her flowers out oi doors or seated in a low
MONA NEWS A wedding shower was held at the Mona Hall Monday evening for Mr and Mrs Cliff Sowle A social hour was enjoyed the newly weds opei ed their gifts and lunch was served Mr and Mrs Calvin Steppler and ilj were Sidney shoppers Wed nesday and attended church that evening in Sidney Mr and Mrs Henry Miller were business callers in Sidney Monday Birthday dinner guests of the Harold Martin family Sunday were Mr and Mrs Roy Farr and fam ily Mr and Mrs Glenn Danielson i family and Moreen Taylor all of Kan view Clifford Martin from Sidney Mike Qualley of Lambert and Ellis Spencer of Seeley Lake Mi and M rs Buck Walder and family of Glendive Duane was celebrating his fourteenth birth day Spencer took his wife to Culbertson Thursday evening t tch the train home to Seeley Lake Ellis remained to attend to ome business matters Fosss Sowles George Fisher Y tgi 1 Cornclious and Henry Miller put up ice from the river on Thurs The Calvin Steppler family and Clara Steppler attended church in Sidney Sunday and the G Iden Wedding Anniversary at i Elmdale Hall in honor of Mr and Mrs Aldo
County Correspondence MORRILL The event of last week was the Merriam family reunion at the home of Elisha Mer riam There were some 73 in attendance The diuiier was served in Mr Merriams new barn which was liuely decorated with evergreens for the purposeI It White and family are spending the week at Wash ington CampgroundJames G Harding and wife were at Temple Heights last week _Mr and Mrs Edward Talk of New Hampshire arrived last week to visit her parents Mr and Mrs J K Dickey Mr and Mrs S S Adams and Mr and Mrs Carl A Mears from New Haven Conn were in town one day last week Mrs Altha Berry and Miss Jennie Meservey spent last week at the Morrill cottage Northport Campground Mrs Lottie March and Bertha Hatch are also at the Morrill cottageEddie Rich of Glen Cove Rock port was in town last Friday visiting relativesThe Cross family re union will be held at the home of Mr and Mrs Delbert Raul Thursday August 31 EAST SEARSMOST Leroy Marriner has thiee acres of corn that will compare favorably with that in the great corn growing states of Illiuois Iowa Missouri and Nebraska and which
Look Into the Home to Determine Adequate Advertising A DEQUATE advertising in any medium is determined by certain basic facts which are found in the home No advertiser can arbitrarily decide how much advertising effort is sufficient to influence the readers of any newspaper to the fullest degree The answer is found among the readerfamilies Minimum advertising is determined by the minimum purchases of the readergroup The only other controlling factors are the merit and available supply of the merchandise for saleand the spread between cost and selling prices Let us examine a thousand average homes to learn the minimum expendi ture for clothing advertising which can be called adequate The average U S family spends 23535 per year for clothing A thousand families purchase 23535000 worth of clothing annually It is the universal practice of clothing retailers to invest at least 3 for advertising Therefore the purchases of every thousand families who sub scribe to this newspaper justify an investment of more than 7000 in clothing advertising in this medium every year Ten clothing merchants would each be justified in spending 700 per thousand circulation per year Are you positive that your advertising effort is adequate in this newspaper
The Toledo Weekly Blade Every intelligent family needs in ad dition to their local paper a good na tional weekly The greatest and most widely known general family newspa per is the Toledo Weekly Blade For thirty years it has been a regular visit or in every part of the Union and is well known at almost every one of the 70000 postofiices in the country It is edited with reference to a national cir culation It is a Republican paper but men of all politics take it because of its honesty and fairness in the discus sion of all public questions It is the favorite family paper with something for every member of the household Serial stories poetry wit and humor the Household department best in the world Young Folks Sunday School Lessons Talmnages Sermons the Fat m stead the Question Bureau which an swers questions for subscribers the news of the week in complete form and other special features Specimen copies gladly sent on application and if you will send us a list of addresses we will mail a copy to each Only 1 a year If you wish to raise a club write for terms Address The
C2 THE EVENING STAR W aihinftn 0 C MWf Mey 25 IMS tffK v kMp tK 3H DISTINGUISHED PRESSMANSamueI H Kaifffmann left president 5 of The Evening Star Newspaper Co holds a plaque naming him an 9 honorary member of the International Wessmens Union after it was presented him by Anthony J DeAndrade the union president at the microphone Robert Callahan right vice president of the Washington pressmen is holdng a traditional pressmans paper cap also presented to Mr Kauffmann Edward Meyer president of the Washington press men is second from rightStar Staff Photos by Francis Routt and B Arnold Sachs Family Day at The Star Draws Crowd of 4000 Four thousand festive em ployes and guests of The Eve ning Star satisfied their curios lty yesterday at a premiere sho wins of the new Star Building Ranging in age from 4 weeks to 87 years employes ex employes and their families embarked on hourlong tours of the big modem plant at Sec ond street and Virginia avenue SJE which has housed The Star since March Probably the oldest visitor to the Family Day Open House was Charles Powers 87 of 7402 Arden road Cabin John Md A former street
I 1 swe J I tataiM obh l I HfCacHTIMI MN I i ir jptUiULavMMMl 1_ SMART HOME FOR A FAMILY Entrance to this luxury house Is adftss a sheltered flagstone porch The house with its three bedrooms family room facing a back terrace and basement recreation foom is meant for a family It has 2005 square feet of living area Plan HA1853 was designed by Lester Cohen Room 75 117 VV 48th St New York 36 N Y AAAAAawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Local Business By S S TALBERT Chaimaso Dept of Journalisas Valxsity of Mississippi AAAAAAAWWWSVWVWVWSAAVAAA Pcss women plan weeks activities Regular business meeting of Business and Professional Womens Club of Pascagoula was held Monday night in the clubhouse with Mrs Bessie Seely presiding Plans were made to visit the Biloxi and New Orleans clubs to join in activities during National Business W o m e ns Week which will end Satur day public official is subject to such constant scrutiny Another reason why t h e newspaper may be considered the most democratic of insti tutions is the fact the news paper is the only major local information medium which is not under regulation by the federal government Broadcast media by
A TRANSFORMED FARM HOUSE Marcia stood in the door of the best room surveying it thoughtfully she had graduated from college the week before and was going to teach in the village in the autumn Meanwhile she was expecting a classmate to visit her and she was trying to look at the farm house with anothers eyes The best room was dark Marcia raised the window with difficulty The blinds also stuck as though their hinges had rusted fast but the light streamed in at last Marcia sat down and looked about her Mie saw a mown ingrain carpet a walnut table with a marble top on which reposed the family liible upon a green worsted mat a sofa and six chairs hard and slippery in stiff black haircloth a narrow wood mantel with an ornament of waxen fruit under a glass shade and walls of stainless whiteness on which hung cuts of Washingtons deathbed II rants family a framed wreath of im mortelles from the coffin of her mothers aunt and a couple of chromes Asleep and Awake strange i had forgotten how hideous this room is she murmured but I have really never seen it lighted before And
Across the Isthmus in 45 Reminiscences of the Trip of Hon A G Jewett and His Family en route to Peru Of an early number of the Pine Tree Magazine the Journal said that every issue contained something of local in terest to Maine peoplereminiscent historical or descriptiveand the mag azine continues to maintain its repu tation in this respect The August is sue contains an artiele entitled A Maine Mans Trip Across the Isthmus in 1845 A Personal Experience in the Canai Zone which aside from its his torical value will interest the many in this section who knew the Hon A G Jewett his daughter Mrs Harris and her family The author of the article is Jane W Harris a granddaughter of Mr Jew ett After some interesting remarks concerning the Panama canal now in course of construction Miss Harris says In 1845 the execrable seddorethe cursed thirst for gold bad not settled upon our country Four years later in 1849 thousands were making their way across the Isthmus to California under tremendous hardships moved by that greatest drawing power on earth the chance however uncertain of be coming rich but in 1845 the Isthmus was a practically
Literary News and Notes President Roosevelt has signed a con tract with The Outlook to act as an asso ciate editor after his retirement from the Presidency in March next This is made subject to the existing contract to write the story of his African travels tor Charles Scribners Sons His work in connection with the Outlook is to cover political and economic topics William Dean Howells Mary E Wil kins Freeman John Kendrick Bangs Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Mary StewartCutting Alice Brown Henry van Dyke Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Jordan Edith Wyatt Mary Heaton Vorse and Henry James have written a composite novel The story is entitled The Whole Family and will be published next week after having run as a serial in Harpers Bazar where the puzzle was to find which author wrote what chapter The plot hinges on the engagement of pretty Peggy the daugh ter of the house to a fickle youth who is in love with her aunt and the whole family gets delightfully tangled up about it As a literary device this book is bound to create a pleasant little stir The November Everybodys is an elec tion number That is three out of
6__ Daily dose Tn these days of necessary thrift and household economy you will make no mistake in keeping your health good and preventing sickness within your family TVe do not know of any prescription that combines such reliable medicines for in digestion biliousness headache and con stipation as that longtried and trustworthy family rem edy the True L FJ At woods Medicine or Bitters 2s or is there anything so good that will cost you only one cent a dose Buy it to day of your dealer Insist upon having only the gen uine L F 60 dose bottle 50 cents as made by the L F Medicine Co Portland Me What Becomes of All the Old I Trucks B O Norton local distributor for In diana Trucks discovered the answer to the question of What Becomes of All the Old Trucks In news he received today that the first Indiana Truck built eight years ago is still in service work ing hard every day Apparently Indianas dont wear out at all A search of the truck records revealed the fact that eight vears ago when the Indiana people had built their first truck they gave it rigorous engineering
THIS IS NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK Patronize Our Advertis P A V iP1 J ackson Gs Advocate VOLUME XIVNUMBER 21 JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY MARCH 25 1961 PRICE TEN CENTS President Salutes National Negro Press Week DUKE UNIVERSITY TO ADMIT NEGRO STUDENTS __l NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION MAKES PLAN TO DEDICATE FOUR HUNDRED ACRE TRACT FOR HOMES FOR TENNESSEE NEGRO SHARECROPPER FAMILIES Tract To Be Known As National Baptist Convention Freedom Farm Farm Seen As First Attempt To Put Into Practic J H Jackson Plan Of Racial Self Help A ChicagoAll arrangements for the purchase of this farm were completed last week and it is now in the possession of the National Baptist Convention U S A Inc Dr J H Jackson president an nounced that there will be a re ligious service edication on the land this week The farm is lo cated near Mason Tenn in Fay ette County Two new four room houses are now in the process of being constructed and the other four houses are being repaired The farm will be ready for occu pancy by March 21st The farm can accommodate at least seven families The first preference will be given to the residents of Tent
eer wowjyw Umiv iaJLfci 1Day 1tU apml g m jtmmmm i MARK the development of women as economic factors through the centuries From the pale presence of medi eval days ineffectual rare of speech a mere shadow in cloistered recesses to the modern robust participant in world affairs the progress of woman has paralleled the growth of printed knowledge In the 17th Century womans thoughts had little to do with writingsthe Braillelike achievements of the monks She lived as the lily to mind her nunlike face In Revolutionary times the Diary of Samuel Pepys or the plays of Wm Shakespeare were main constituents in womens men tal pabulum In hoopskirt daysGodey s Lady Book and the heartfluttering works of Ouida What of the Women of Today What or the women or today Ur 1 Zella Ford Warner Portland Oregon says Women direct family buying They have improved themselves as homemakers and citizens through newspapers Personally I prefer the morning newspaper Judge Virginia Henry Mayfield of the Domestic Relations Court of Birm ingham Ala says Morning news paper advertising plays an important part in the economics of the home 1 he housewife owes it to her family to pay thorough attention
Today the effect of your morning news paper advertisement is evident in sales made to residents of this dty You cover a vast multi tude of buying families within the city limits But you reach also another abletobuy field outside of the city limits TrDayWl tuyingToutr JJORNING newspaper advertising lives two days This fact has dis tinct bearing upon the manner in which you use morning newspaper space if you wish to obtain maximum returns from your advertising investment Ad vertising messages in this morning newspaper that are planned to inter est and inspire returns from two sep arate and distinct classes of readers on two different days will bring two days of active selling to you Newspaper space is like a field of fertile ground The better the plant ing and cultivation the betterthe crop Discuss this vital pointwith your advertising department or agen cy Plan your messages in morn ing newspapers for a 2day pull Dailx Kennebec Journal Copyriilit TO5 EMERSON B KNIGHT In INDIANAPOLIS Tomorrow the effect of todaya delivered and read today advertise ment is shown in sales made to suburban and rural families Throughout die entire trading zone this newspaper is the strong est link