Gadsden Jury Indicts Quincy, Bristol Men 4 Mary Jean Butler Greensboro Joan Maynard Quincy Betty Shelfer Emily Johnson Jane Blake Chattahoochee Quincy Quincy Tobacco Fair To Open QUINCY-One of the Gadsden this page will be crowned queen and Fair which opens here The queen contestants will at 2:30 tomorrow. The queen's Livestock Pavilion. The fair actually gets judging of the 4-H Dairy during the morning include dairy cattle and the agricultural County beauties pictured on of the annual Tobacco Festival tomorrow. ride in the opening day parade contest begins at 7:30 p.m. at the underway at 10 a.m.
tomorrow with contest. Other events to be judged the 4-H Dairy calves, swine and exhibits. NO ADMISSION CHARGED The fair grounds will be open to the public immediately after the parade. No admission will be charged. The corn judging contest will be at 4 p.m.
Friday and Saturday the close at about midnight. Negro Friday for a special day at the As usual, this year's fair will number one crop- tobacco. The a number of exhibits. In the ufacturers have their products machines used in the curing to tobacco growers. fair grounds open at 10 a.m.
and schools in the county will colse fair. heavily stress Gadsden County's tobacco theme is carried out in industrial section, local cigar manon display. Tobacco stringing barns available for inspection VARIETY OF EXHIBITS But the Tobacco Festival and Fair is not limited to the colorful shade-grown leaf. Just as Gadsden County's agriculture, industry, and culture is well diversified, the exhibits at the Tobacco Festival also are characterized by variety. A big portion of the exhibit space is devoted to dairy cattle, swine, and poultry.
Vegetables, corn, and other field crops also occupy a prominent place in the agricultural section. Special exhibits of interest to farmers include white fringe beetle and sweet potato weevil exhibits displayed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The social security exhibit shows the farmer his reponsibilities under the new.
social security provisions that will be effective at the first of the year. Square Dance And Lemonade But No Bridge A barrel of lemonade get results 10 years ago. Now Gadsden County on the Concord-Tallahassee to appeal to Gov. LeRoy partment. Leslie M.
Lewis, of Havana, president of the a group which has been promoting the bridge, appeared before the Leon County commissioners this morning and asked forand got-their support for the proposed campaign to get state aid. He showed the Leon commissioners a resolution passed by the Gadsden County commissioners in which they asked the State Road Department to make Route 157 (the Concord-Tallahassee road, also known here as the "Moore a primary road because it is "a more direct route" to the capital city. He said this would enable the bridge promoters to get the span built with state funds, rather than Gadsden County or Leon County funds. Leon County has paved the road up to the existing condemned one-way bridge and County has paved it to within three miles of the bridge, according to the meeting discussion. Lewis asked the Leon commissioners to pass a resolution similar to the one passed in Gadsden County.
WON'T INTERFERE They agreed to after deciding it won't interfere with their present road program. Lewis then asked for three copies of the resolution and said he was going to go to see Gov. Collins today about the bridge project. He also asked the Leon commissioners if they would be willing to hold a joint conference regarding the bridge with the Gadsden commissioners and State Road Department representatives. The Leon commissioners said they would, arranged the conference and notified them.
Lewis recalled that in 1945 the present Route 157 was given a priority rating by both the Leon and Gadsden commissioners as a farm to market road. He said he was chairman of a Joint meeting of commissioners and other interested persons from both counties that same year. SQUARE DANCE Although It was wartime and sugar was scarce, Lewis said, the host group provided a barrel Tallahassee Democrat public schools, and would have had the effect of permitting the state to support private schools. It was killed in com- Wednesday, October 12, 1955 SECTION TWO Vol. XLI, No.
278 Claims Libel Rep. Pruitt Sues For Half Million By CARL STAUFFER Democrat Staff Writer Jefferson County Representative Prentice P. Pruitt, Monticello, filed a $500,000 libel suit in circuit court here yesterday against Dr. Von D. Mizell, Ft.
Lauderdale, chairman of the Negro Voters League of Broward County. In his complaint he charged that a telegram he received and ida with the Talmadges, White a letter Broward County Rep. or Burns." A. J. Musselman received In the letter to Musselman from Dr.
Mizell in regard to he said neither the white nor segregation legislation during the colored people of Broward the recent session of the legis- County want the U. S. Constitulature injured his reputation tion changed in order to cirand good name and exposed cumvent the U. S. Supreme him to scandal and ridicule.
Court decision. A member of the legislature "We expect Ex-Governor for over three years and a Johns, Rep. Pruitt and their practicing attorney, Pruitt said kind to carry on this red or in his complaint that until Dr. communistic tactics against our Mizell's statements were made citizens," the letter adds. he had not been accused of It also stated that for Musprejudice toward the Constitu- selman, "who represent the tion or his fellow men because of finest part and the finest peorace, creed or color- nor had he ple in the State of Florida, to been accused of lacking respect join ranks with the hoodlums for religious or racial tolerance.
of West Florida, at whose acHe said the Mizell utterances tion of this type we are not also marked the first time he surprised, is, more than we can had been accused of tactics understand." which have as their object the "We are hoping," it says, overthrow of the U. S. Govern- "that you will ractify your good ment- methods used by the name by withdrawing any efCommunist Party. fort on your part to even sugThe telegram to Pruitt, which gest any such vile and unjust is incorporated in the com- legislature to our federal govplaint, criticized the represen- ernment." tative for his "announced plan The letterhead, as reproduced to introduce a bill to abol- in the complaint, shows that ish the public school system as Dr. Mizell is a surgeon and opa means of circumventing the erates a clinic in Ft.
LauderU. S. Supreme Court (anti-seg- dale. regation) decision." During the session Pruitt inIt stated that with 63 per troduced a bill which would cent of the population of Jet- have done away with a proferson County being Negroes, vision of the state constitution "you are not a true representa- requiring the state to provide tive of the people, but assume dictatorial power over the majority by force, if you proceed introduce or assist in the passage of the aforementioned bill." AND COMFORT' "You may not be a Communist." the wire added, "but the aid and comfort you give the Communist cause by your philosophy and tactics do them more good than any card carrying member can do in these parts." The wire ended by asking Pruitt not to introduce "any bill that would class the reputation of the people of Flor- mittee. SEGREGATION ISSUE The letter to Musselman referred to a memorial to the U.
S. Congress urging it to propose a constitutional amendment allowing states to continue their educational systems as they see fit, including school segregation. The memorial- in the House by Rep. John Shipp and in the Senate by Sen. John Rawls, both of Jackson County--was adopted.
Commission Notes County Employes Get Pay Raises The Leon County commission, has voted a pay raise of approximately 5 per cent for its employes. The boost applies to some 60 persons, including county road department workers, court house janitors, Road Superintendent Ed 1 Bradshaw and Zoning Director Frank Branan. It docs not apply, however, to County Librarian Morris G. Lamb, since he was hired only last month; and to County Attorney Lewis Hall, whose salary was raised from $275 to $350 a month by action of the commission in July. The commissioners themselves received a raise from $2,400 to $3,600 a year by action of the 1955 legislature.
It became effective in July. The new county budget, which went into effect Oct. 1, contained an appropriation to cover the 5 per cent raise which was approved unanimously by the board yesterday. Other county board develop- Attempted Theft At Bond School Someone attempted unsuccessfully to break into an orange juice machine at Bond School last night. Police said a small door of the machine was damaged beyond repair and about six and a half gallons of orange juice were ruined in the attempt.
Money in the machine was untouched, police said. The intruder evidently used an instrument somewhat like an ice pick in his attempt to get into the machine, police said. The damaged door was valued at $125. The ruined orange Juice was valued at $1.87. Tallahassee Datebook Today TALLAHASSEE RIFLE AND PISTOL CLUB 8 p.m.
in City Hall. KATE SULLIVAN PTA- 3:30 p.m.. school auditorium. ROTARY CLUB -1 p.m., Country Club, ladies night. TAU ALPHA ALUMNAE with Mrs.
Huxley Coulter, 412 Inglestde. DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB 7:30 p.m.. Garden Center. Call 2-2422 or 2-2642 between 5 and 6:30 p.m. TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES, hospital, dinner meeting.
6:30 p.m. GARDEN CLUB SEMI ANNUAL MEETING 10 a.m., Garden Center. B'NAI B'RITH p.m. Downstairs Dining Room At Hotel Duval. SHARP MUSIC GROUP.
UNIVERSITY WIVES 8 p.m. with Mrs. Maurice Vance, 2229 Amelia Circle. MOOSEHEART AND HOOSEHAVEN COMMITTEE 8 p.m., Moose Home. Thursday SOUTH CITY PTA 8 p.m., school auditorium.
JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB BOARD 8 p.m. with Mrs. O. M. McReynolds, 223 Westridge.
LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES ASSOCIATION 7:30 p.m.. TMH medical Library, LIONS p.m., Cherokee hotel. DAMES CLUB 8 p.m., Longmire lounge, FSU. POLICE AUXILIARY- 7:30 p.m., police station. WOMAN'S CLUB-1 p.m., Woman's Club.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMAN'S CLUB-8 p.m., 404 N. roe. LEON COUNTY FARM p.m., Chaires School. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ANNUAL COLUMBUS DAY DANCE 8:30 to 12 p.m.. Country Club.
GIRL SCOUT AREA COMMITTEE- 10 a.m., Girl Scout A Little House, Lafayette Park. Mrs. Mallard Dies In Quincy QUINCY-Mrs. H. H.
(Josie May) Mallard, 74, died Tuesday in the Gadsden County Hospital. She was A resident of Mascotte, Fla. and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Funeral services were scheduled at 3 p.m. today from the First Presbyterian Church here with the Rev.
T. I. Deane and E. S. Quarterman officiating.
Burial will be at Old Philadelphia Church. Survivors include her husband; one son, H. Law Mallard of Mascotte: a sister. Mrs. J.
M. Oliver, Quincy; four brothers, O. L. M. and Fred, all of Quincy and E.
Q. of Trenton. Truck Driver And Its Owner Face Charges Ann Fletcher Greensboro Betty Joe Parkman Chattahoochee Helen Woodbery Quincy Personals By MRS. L. G.
PRIEST Mr. and Mrs. Jason Gregory returned to their home Sunday after spending the weekend at High Springs with their son-inlaw and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Buck Register.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis Tay. lor and Mr. and Mrs.
Durwood Owens were visitors in Bainbridge, Ga. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sechrest and daughter Marsha of Tallahassee spent Sunday here with their parents Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Morris and Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Sechrest. Mrs. J.
W. Haire was a visitor in Tallahassee Monday with Mrs. A. W. Haire.
Mrs. Louie Wilson is spending several days visiting in Cairo, Ga as the guest of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ira Lewis. Mrs.
Frank Chamberlain of Oxford. N. C. is expected to arrive today for a visit of 10 days with Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Price and other friends and relatives. Mrs. Ruffin Smith had as her guests for the weekend her daughter Mrs. W. H.
Cain and daughter Sue of Dothan, Ala. Mrs. A. B. Cellon of Gainsville is spending several days here as the guest of Miss Marguerite Hendrix.
G. D. Livingston is spending this week in Orlando. Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Mosely have as their guest Mrs. Mosely's nephew M. G.
Clayton who has been 1 stationed on ship at Norfolk, Va. and is now enroute to Green Cove Springs. Mr. and Mrs. C.
T. Straughn had as their guest for the weekend Mrs. Straughn's niece Sarah McCall of De Funiak Springs. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Mosely and daughter Anne of Port St. Joe will be the weekend guests of his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Mosely. Mrs. J. H. Davis spent the weekend in Tallahassee with her Mrs.
Mary Brumby Taken By Death QUINCY Mrs. Mary Ann Brumby died here yesterday after an extended illness. Born Dec. 8, 1869, Mrs. Brumby had lived here since 1914.
She was a former resident of Tallahassee. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and was hte wife of the late F. M. Brumby, one of Quincy's most prominent businessmen. Survivors include three daughters, virs.
Bin Royal, Mrs Ruby Lowery and Mrs. Mary Frank Barnett of Quincy; four granddaughters, Mrs. June Sands, Miss Mary Barnett, Miss Carol Barnett and Mrs. H. C.
Simon all of Tallahassee. Funeral services were scheiuled at 5 p.m. today from the First Baptist Church here. Butler-Morgan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. QUINCY The Gadsden County indictments grand jury charging has both returned the owner and the driver of a pulp wood truck with manslaughter in a fatal highway accident.
State Attorney W. D. Hopkins said the indictment unprecedented in his experience-was filed against Black, Bristol, because he allegedly allowed Bernard Payne, Gadsden County Negro, to drive his truck A although he knew the brakes were faulty. Payne was charged with manslaughter earlier in a Justice of the Peace court affidavit and released under bond. Black was arrested by the Gadsden County sheriff's office and was held today pending setting of bond.
OTHER INDICTMENTS Other indictments returned by the grand jury yesterday following two days of secret deliberations charge A. D. Johnson, Quincy, with manslaughter in fatal highway accident; and a 15-year-old Chattahoochee Negro boy with attempted rape of an eight-year-old Chattahoochee Negro girl. The accident which resulted in the charges against Black and Payne occurred about five miles north of Greensboro, Aug. 5, and resulted in the death of L.
W. Boyd, a Greensboro Negro. Hopkins said Payne allegedly drove the pulp wood truck onto the highway without stopping and collided with an oncoming car. SEVERAL INJURED The truck caught fire and Boyd, a passenger, died of burns. Several persons were injured in the accident.
The accident which produced the charge against Johnson occurred April 10, in Quincy, and resulted in the death of O. W. Miller of Quincy. Hopkins said a pick-up truck allegedly driven by Johnson ran off the highway and overturned, but Johnson claims he was not the driver. grandchildren.
Mrs. Judson Shelfer of Leesburg arrived Saturday for a weeks visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Crofton. Mrs. Eula Hanna has as her guests her brother and sister-inlaw Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hinsey of Sarasota, Mrs.
Hanna and guests were visitors in Tallahassee Sunday with their sister Mary Calder and other relatives. They were also accompanied by their sister Mrs. Annie Owen of Quincy. Jackson Board Plans $70,000 New Building MARIANNA- County Commissioners have adopted a resolution confirming the necessity of construction of a County Agricultural building at an approximate cost of $70,000, according to clerk E. W.
Bowles. The building will be constructed without a tax increase, officials said, and the building is expected to save the county around $3,000 in rents now being paid out annually. Specifications are yet to be completed but tentative plans call for a two-story structure and the proposed sit eis adjacent to the new county jail on Marion street. To be located in the new building will be the offices of the Home Demonstration agent, Farmers' Home Administration, Farm Bureau, Soil Conservation, County agent, Agriculture, Stabilization and Conservation, Soil conservation and a conference room for the various committees. Lamar Harrison Dies In Crash Word has been received here of Harrison the in death of Lamar crash Flint a plane San Diego, Calif.
last Friday. Harrison, 36, is the son of Mrs. Carrie Harrison of Tallahassee. He was a navy pilot. A graduate of Leon High School, Harrison had been in the Navy since 1940.
Funeral services will be held Friday at the Naval Cemetery in San Diego. His three brothers, Sterling, Blanchard and Duff, all of Tallahassee, left here yesterday to attend the funeral. Other survivors include his wife and two children and two sisters. Mrs. W.
F. Bennett, Phillipine Islands, and Mrs. William Skinner, Washington, D. C. No Action Taken On Lake Sink Hole and a square dance failed to residents seeking a new bridge road have indicated they plan Collins and the State Road De- of lemonare and a square dance.
As the hoedown broke up, he said, the commissioners parted with the comment "'we'll meet you are the river" (the Ochlockonee River which divides the Leon portion of the project from the Gadsden portion) but the promised meeting symbolic of the completed road and bridge project has never occurred. Leon County Road Superintendent Ed Bradshaw said the bridge, a way structure, is in very bad shape and should be replaced. Asked about the name of the Lewis said it got its title from the fact that Route 157 was formerly designated as Route 94. Jackson Schools Enroll 12,378 MARIANNA- County schools have a total enrollment of 9,473 white and 2,905 Negro students, according to figures released by Roy DeLoney, supervisor of schools. In the elementary grades there are 3.597 white students and 996 Negroes.
Chipola Junior College has 336 students and 235 in the adult education classes. There are 290 white teachers and 121 Negro. Faculties Chipola College are not included in this tabulation. Sixty-three buses transport school children in this county. Valdosta Students Here For Lecture A group of students of Spanish came from Valdosta, to Florida State University last night to hear Dr.
Victor R. B. Oelschlager deliver in Spanish his address "New Horizons' commemorating Columbus Day. They included Mrs. Dorothy Tharpe, who recently received the M.
A. degree in Spanish, and the following members of her Spanish class: Anne Scala, Peggy Davidson, Donna Boone, Marilyn Morris, Marie Converse, Cay Cranford and Lt. and Mrs. Hayes, all of Valdosta. Dr.
Oelschlager is head of the FSU Department of Modern Languages. I No action was taken by the Leon County commissioners yesterday regarding a new sink hole which is draining water out of slowly dying Lake Jackson--and the board seemed to feel there's little that can be done about it. The hole is located on the west side of the lake in an arm known as "Porter Florida wildlife officers and fishermen dipped some 1,500 pounds of fish out of the sink hole site Saturday when the water Judson Clark Dies In Quincy QUINCY Judson Clark, 86, of Mt. Pleasant community, died yesterday at Gadsden County Hospital. Funeral services were scheduled at 3 p.m.
today from the Providence Baptist Church with the Rev. Don Davis. Rev. G. T.
Hunt and Rev. Vernon R. Clifton officiating. Burial will follow at the Providence Cemetery. A native of Gadsden County, Mr.
Clark was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Gretna Baptist Church and a former member of the Gadsden County school board. Survivors include six daughters. Mrs. Virgia Bateman and Miss Nellie Clark of Mt.
Pleasant; Mrs. R. J. Davis and Mrs. E.
S. Rarick of Quincy; Mrs. J. W. Bishop of Hernando, and Mrs.
C. A. Layman of Ft. Lauderdale; one son, J. Douglas Clark of Port St.
Joe. The J. B. Adams Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Boy Missing Since Monday A 15-year-old Tallahassee boy is believed to have run away from home.
Police said Willard Carraway of 815 Wies St. has been missing from home since Monday morning when he went to school. School officials said they have no record of him attending school Monday. The boy's mother, Mrs. Rossie Carraway, told police late Tuesday afternoon that her son had not been heard from Tuesday.
Small in height and weighing only about 110 pounds, the sandy-haired youth was wearing dungarees and a plaid shirt when he left for school Monday. level became critical. Chairman Jack Levins said the sink hole problem had been brought to his attention and he brought it up for discussion at the board meeting. Commissioner Christie Hall said the trouble with Lake Jackson is there are sink holes all over it and when one is stopped up another appears. He said the lake has a "hollow bottom" and it would be impossible to stop up all the holes.
Commissioner L. C. Tully said it would be impossible to plug the hole as long as the water is running out. In a similar emergency at Meginniss Arm, another section of the same lake, a sink hole was filled with bags of concrete. County Road Superintendent Ed Bradshaw said this procedure seems to have been at least partially effective both at Lake Jackson and Lake Bradford.
Some fishermen are of the opinion that if the sink holes are left open the water will rise back up through them to fill the lake when the water table rises. Old timers are more or less resigned to the disappearing and reappearing lakes in this area. The lakes have been drying up and coming back for years, they say, and are merely going through the drying up portion of the cycle at the present time. Less patient, fishermen and boating enthusiasts find the dropping of the lake levels a matter of grave concern. ments: Boat Landings County Road Superintendent Ed Bradshaw was instructed to construct boat hitching posts at Williams Landing, Lake Talquin, and post a sign prohibiting the mooring of boats in such a way that they obstruct the boat trailer unloading ramp.
Commissioners said they have received complaints of boat owners blocking several public landings on the lake. Clay Routine -Board decided to require subdivision developers to sign a declaration showing they intend to eventually dedicate their streets to the county before any county-owned clay can be used on them. The street contractors will be able to get the clay free if such a declaration is signed, but will have to pay the market price for it later if the streets are not dedicated to the county, according to a board proposal. Pistol Permit George Arnold Nelson was granted a permit to carry a pistol, after submitting proof of good character, showing that he is over 21, and posting a bond. Truck Bids--County Road Superintendent Ed Bradshaw was authorized to advertise for bids for a long chassis truck without body.
MISS McCULLOUGH REVIVAL A SPEAKER Miss Eva Mae McCullough, evangelistic speaker from Madison, has begun leading revival services at the Church of God, Ninth Avenue at Branch Street. The revival, which opened Sunday, will continue for several weeks. Services will begin Monday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Sunday services will be held at 7 p.m. Song services will be featured each evening.
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