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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1957
Page
2
Business Week notes October 26 1957 that black dollars bolster profitability in many Southern cities. Whites move to suburbs while Negro shoppers increasingly ride transit and fill downtown stores, altering who is waited on and how profits are earned.
The speaker recalls a January 13 talk at Dillard University and notes the high cost of education. He laments not winning a Pulitzer or Nieman and jokes about The Ten Commandments review, comparing De Mille and Moses, while poking fun at God’s delays and costs.
A article notes that shoe department seating and fitting rules now apply to white and Negro customers alike while earlier policies restricted Negroes from trying on hats or returning items. It cites Atlanta stores where white customer preferences contributed to closures, and discusses how access to charge accounts has eased for Negroes.
Tree Farmer Bill McCormick says Scott County cone gathering has become a sizeable trade with buyers in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. A local 11 year old student, Wayne Jordan, earned enough after school to buy a shotgun and shoes, while McCormick notes 5 000 bushels sold at 1 50 a bushel. Federal and state forestry services bought 2 100 bushels at 2 50 a bushel. He adds cones yield about a pound of seed per bushel in this area versus three quarters of a pound elsewhere.
A narrative framed around a white mother and her neighbors delivers an urgent message for modern times. The story emphasizes moral lessons, community impact, and social awareness through personal experiences and shared challenges.
In Lexington two young boys faced punishment after juvenile court officials ordered them to collect more than 100000 scattered feathers they had dumped while breaking into a storage house. The incident came as Damascus sits 40 miles from the Israeli border near Syria's capital.
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