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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1957
Page
2
Five Latin American nations keep diplomatic legations in Nationalist China. Suba Brazil, Panama, Venezuela and the Late Dominican Republic are named as present participants in this international posture.
The columnist recalls Go of Georgia defending white supremacy and a stance against federal milk funds for schools. Governor Coleman of Mississippi backs an integrated veterans hospital while supporting the State Sovereignty Commission. A church group story about mission workers across American Indians, Deaf, Eskimos, Jews, and prisoners is rejected for printing, citing Indigenous rights to fish with corn and Eskimos’ blubber.
A verse depicts a boll weevil harming cotton fields in the Mississippi Delta, criticizing segregation era decline. It laments planter failures and farm sales as the pest devastates southern agriculture and communities.
Alexander Hamilton, drafter of the U S Constitution, was born on Nevis in the British West Indies, a tiny island of about 50 square miles.
New Bermuda grass proves well adapted for Mississippi use. In tests it yielded much more forage than Dallas grass or common Bermuda. Advantages include erect growth for hay, frost tolerance, deeper rooting for drought, disease resistance, faster growth, and quicker ground cover. A chief disadvantage is Coastal Bermuda being a hybrid that seeds poorly and must be sprigged with a prepared bed.
A Civil War era figure praised in the North as a militant rights advocate and reviled in the South for Reconstruction is challenged by a middling voice who accuses him of “getting the other side.” He responds, There is no other side.
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