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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1957
Page
2
A Easter Sunday sermon at a local church sparked humor when Karen, age four, shouted she was starving. The piece also promotes Joe Allbritton's Pulp Wood and Loggers Day on June 1 offering a grand prize Model 35 Chainsaw to registrants, highlighting the logging industry’s role in the area.
Silent Chief calls for action against injustice as Eye-Like-Ike leaves the White Wigwam and travels south. The public pleads for speech and peace yet he declares he is a man of action, not words, and proceeds to swing his club in a bold gambit over the Augusta tepee.
A self described shovel man laments bewilderment over federal income tax. He earned $1.60 overtime in 1956, which moved him into a higher tax bracket and raised his tax by one cent. He questions how a larger tax on a smaller income makes sense, noting many share the confusion.
In a letter from Morganfield Kentucky Pastor Harry M Wilson denounces the White Citizens Council as subversive and Communistic He claims they seek one opinion using violence to enforce conformity likening them to Communist methods.
Public auction set for May 27 1957 at the Forrest County Courthouse Hattiesburg to sell land in Section 22 Township 4 North Range 13 West described as 1.34 acres more or less in the West half of Lot 8 Block 1 D E Mc Thais Subdivision. Default on First Federal Savings loan. trust deed dated April 8 1955 with C W Sullivan as trustee.
This note advises not to waste surplus clover grazing and highlights options like crimson clover, white clover, ryegrass for silage. It recommends timing cuts for ryegrass when seed heads appear and for alfalfa at about ten percent bloom.
Sixteen landowners were named Tree Farmers at the Mississippi Forestry Association's April Directors’ meeting. The Tree Farm program operates statewide, with participants including individuals, companies, and organizations dedicated to better forestry practices on timber lands.
An agreement commits both parties to grow trees continuously and to safeguard timberland from fire insects diseases and over grazing ensuring long term forest health and productivity.
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