Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1959-03-11 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 546 BEALE—Ph. JA. 6-4030 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn. as second-class mall under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 Thaddeus T. Stokes Managing Editor SMITH FLEMING Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00—6 Months $3.00—3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unblasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. They Didn't Deserve To Die The blaze which swept through the Arkansas School for delinquent Negro boys, resulted in the needless loss of 21 lives, last week. Forty-four other boys living in the one-story brick veneer, 20-year-old building escaped the early morning catastrophe by kicking out screened windows and doors. All might have made a safe exit. But the door was bolted from inside in such manner until they could not escape the inferno, according to reports. This is a glaring example of gross negligence which should not go unpunished. Punishment will not breathe life back into the charred bodies of the youngsters, but it will serve as a reminder to those into to whose hands the lives of youngsters are intrusted. L. R. Gaines, the Negro superintendent of the building; Gov. Orval E. Faubus; and all other authorities who had any control over the home for delinquent boys, must answer at the bar of public opinion as to who is really guilty of this wastefully destruction of human life. These boys were not major criminals. They were there to be corrected, not to be put to death. Yet they were subjected to a death more torturous than the gallows, electric chair or gas chamber. They did not deserve to die. If There Were No Advertising Some people still think that advertising represents needless economic waste. Anyone who feels this way would do well to ponder an editorial observation made by the Portland, Oregon, Journal during the recently observed Advertising Recognition Week: "Without advertisements, the cost of a single copy of a newspaper would be so high nobody could afford to buy it. And without advertising, the public would be denied the tremendous variety of entertainment, news and cultural programs offered on radio and television. It is true that the public pays for the advertising through the price of the article sold, but the mass production which advertising makes possible reduces the unit price far below what it would be without this stimulus, and advertising cost per unit is often inconsequential. For instance, advertising expenditure on a loaf of bread is less than the cost of the wrapper." The Journal concludes that without advertising" ... the nation's economy would stutter and stop." The ads create demand — and it's from the demand for goods and services that we get our living. Ghana Sets An Example March 6 was Ghana's Day. The young African nation celebrated her second Anniversary of Independence. She has a tale to tell that democracies, whether 200 or 700 years old, would do well to hear. The story is woven around two of the most colorful figures of Ghana, Prime Minister Nkrumah himself and the Tolon Na, until recently President of the Northern Territories Council and as such, an opposition leader. There was a government crisis. Intensely bitter, the opposition parties had walked out. But the Tolon Na was a man of integrity. He cared more that the right thing happened to his country than what happened to himself. He decided to rally the opposition parties and on the basis of what's right instead of who's right to fight through to a solution of the deadlock. On this basis the Tolon Na was able to make a new approach to the Prime Minister and began by apologizing for his own bitterness. The Prime Minister responded and the solution then offered was acceptable to both. "And so a constitutional crisis was averted," was the Tolon Na's own comment. In attributing the inspiration for this act of statesmanship to that great American, Dr. Frank N. D. Buchmon, the initiator of Moral Re-Armament, he added. "What Abraham Lincoln did for America, Moral Re-Armament is doing for Africa. It is binding up the nation's wounds and setting the people free." Several months later the first bi-partisan Parliamentary delegation to leave Ghana since independence visited the World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament, Mackinac Island, Michigan. While there the six Members of Parliament dramatized the new spirit of statesmanship of this and similar situations in a play called "The Next Phase." In the deep south it played in Atlanta. Then in the National Theatre, Washington; followed by Tuskegee, and a 7week run on Broadway with standing-room-only audiences. While fighting to answer its own problems, Ghana, through Moral Re-Armament, is reaching out with a real sense of responsibility to take this secret of unity to the countries of Africa and the world. A recent cable from Lagos, where the Michigan-launched play is now being presented, tells of Nigeria's wide-open response to its basic message — how to rise above corruption, personal ambition, and party rivalry to a selfless statesmanship based on the absolute moral standards of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. This is the real secret of national unity. We in America can be grateful for the inspired lead from these men of Ghana. We can learn much from them. Their example is worthy of emulation. Tuberculosis On The Run Twenty years from how tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death, may have joined bubonic plague, yellow fever and polio among the almost forgotten medical rarities of the Western World. At least that is the implication of figures compiled and analyzed by Dr. Louis I. Dublin, dean of American health statisticians, in which he traces the steady disappearance of tuberculosis from our mortality tables. The most spectacular drop in the TB death rate, The Health News Institute reminds us, occurred with the introduction of the antibiotics streptomycin and dihydrostreptomycin, subsequently aided by such potent pharmaceutical allies as the drugs PAS (Paraaminosalacyclic-acid) and isoniazid. The relentless conquest of tuberculosis by modern medications was recently dramatized in a special dispatch to The New York Times from Saranac Lake, New York. As late as ten years Ago, Saranac was still synonymous the world over with the rest cures and surgery which were the old pattern of tuberculosis treatment. In 1948, some 1,200 chest operations were performed in the Saranac Lake Genera Hospital alone. Last year there were 86. In one peak year at the end of World War I, the Saranac cerrsus showed more than 1,700 patients in 165 private sani toriums. Now there ore only 11 sanitoriums with 57 patients, among them some who reject discharge in order to live out their old age in familiar surroundings. As Saranac's village leaders admit, the health "industry" is dead. The Adirondack community sees recreation, rather than sonitoriums and hospitals, as its future. All this is amply supported on a nation-wide scale, says the HNI, by Dr. Dublin's epidemiological figures. In 1900, there were an appalling 200 deaths from tuberculosis for every 100,000 population. By 1957, this mortality rate had dropped to 7.8 per 100,000, and at the present rate of decrease says Dr. Dublin, the figure "should probably decline to 0.3 per 100,000 by 1975." However, the HNI warns us, the reassuring fact that we have medical research and the mass manufacture of new drugs to thank for deadly weapons against tuberculosis is no reason for complacency or indifference. The bacillus is still very much with us. A consensus of sources indicates that there are still nearly a quarter of a million active cases of TB in the United States, and perhaps 800,000 active and inactive, cases significant enough to warrant public health supervision. If Dr. Dublin's prediction is to be attained, the ultimate answer lies not alone with health departments or new drugs, but also with the individual who is alert and sophisticated about prevention, and who wins peace of mind by seeking periodic examinations. GROUNDBREAKING FOR NEW CHURCH — The groundbreaking was held last week for the Triumph The Churchy and Kingdom of God in Christ. The services were conducted by the pastor of the church, the Rev. C. C. Guinn, with Rev. R. S. Walker of the Board of Trustees assisting. The church will be constructed at a cost of $18,000. Members of the church joined in with Rev. Guinn in "giving thanks to God for the wonderful blessings that are ours to enjoy." The Annionett's Social Club was organized in January. The purpose of the club is to better the teenage problems of today. The club was organized by George E. Rogers, who is a student at Booker T. Washington High School. She is a B average student. She is also president of the Antionetts. Prexy Rogers stated that, "I hope that this club can do something to help Memphis Teenagers." The Independent Social Club will reopen the Hippodrome as a skating ring March 14. The big event will be from l p. m., to 6 p. m. Skate to the latest top tunes. By the way some of you may not know that the Hippodrome is also called Club Ebony. There will be a feature attraction. Come one! Come all! and support the Independent Social Club. With your support I am sure the club will make it. The president is Isaac Young, Robert Wallace, vice president, Edward Irby secretary, Charles Banks, chaplain, and Clevan Cox, business manager. My guest writer this week is a sophomore at Booker T. Washington High School, Marion Brown. Sit in all you guys and gals and lets get started with the club news roundup. The Debonaires, a club around Melrose High School, was organized by Mrs. J. Thomas, a physical Ed. teacher, who is also club advisor. This club is suppose to be the highest club as far as culture is concerned. In the Social World they have an hour of socializing. Plans for the future include a big formal dance at the club house in Fuller's Park. Moldleens Social Club was organized last November by Miss Carlean Pierceson. Mrs. R. Q. Venson is the advisor. The Moldleens Club has been able to participate in many fashion shows and was a part of the "Jubilet." (Washington) The Debate Club discussed "Dating and Going Steady." Some of the panelists were Marion Evans, Mona Brooks. Albert Yates and Beverly Miller. The discussion was very informative. Each team discussed the points very diligently. Miss Brooks' team stated that going steady will in crease the United States population. They continued to say that going steady will stop your pleasure and you will not have a chance to meet different types of males and females. Going steady will decrease your average in high school." Marion Evans' team stated that "Going steady will not increase the population. They continued to say going out with Tom, Dick or Harry is not the proper thing to do. I also think that going steady is one of the most proper things you can do for socializing." One of her co-workers said that. "Going steady you will not be embarrassing in public because your steady boy friend will not leave you stranded in the jungle." GRAND OPENING The Annionett's Social Club was organized in January. The purpose of the club is to better the teenage problems of today. The club was organized by George E. Rogers, who is a student at Booker T. Washington High School. She is a B average student. She is also president of the Antionetts. Prexy Rogers stated that, "I hope that this club can do something to help Memphis Teenagers." The Independent Social Club will reopen the Hippodrome as a skating ring March 14. The big event will be from l p. m., to 6 p. m. Skate to the latest top tunes. By the way some of you may not know that the Hippodrome is also called Club Ebony. There will be a feature attraction. Come one! Come all! and support the Independent Social Club. With your support I am sure the club will make it. The president is Isaac Young, Robert Wallace, vice president, Edward Irby secretary, Charles Banks, chaplain, and Clevan Cox, business manager. My guest writer this week is a sophomore at Booker T. Washington High School, Marion Brown. Sit in all you guys and gals and lets get started with the club news roundup. The Debonaires, a club around Melrose High School, was organized by Mrs. J. Thomas, a physical Ed. teacher, who is also club advisor. This club is suppose to be the highest club as far as culture is concerned. In the Social World they have an hour of socializing. Plans for the future include a big formal dance at the club house in Fuller's Park. Moldleens Social Club was organized last November by Miss Carlean Pierceson. Mrs. R. Q. Venson is the advisor. The Moldleens Club has been able to participate in many fashion shows and was a part of the "Jubilet." (Washington) The Debate Club discussed "Dating and Going Steady." Some of the panelists were Marion Evans, Mona Brooks. Albert Yates and Beverly Miller. The discussion was very informative. Each team discussed the points very diligently. Miss Brooks' team stated that going steady will in crease the United States population. They continued to say that going steady will stop your pleasure and you will not have a chance to meet different types of males and females. Going steady will decrease your average in high school." Marion Evans' team stated that "Going steady will not increase the population. They continued to say going out with Tom, Dick or Harry is not the proper thing to do. I also think that going steady is one of the most proper things you can do for socializing." One of her co-workers said that. "Going steady you will not be embarrassing in public because your steady boy friend will not leave you stranded in the jungle." GUEST WRITER The Annionett's Social Club was organized in January. The purpose of the club is to better the teenage problems of today. The club was organized by George E. Rogers, who is a student at Booker T. Washington High School. She is a B average student. She is also president of the Antionetts. Prexy Rogers stated that, "I hope that this club can do something to help Memphis Teenagers." The Independent Social Club will reopen the Hippodrome as a skating ring March 14. The big event will be from l p. m., to 6 p. m. Skate to the latest top tunes. By the way some of you may not know that the Hippodrome is also called Club Ebony. There will be a feature attraction. Come one! Come all! and support the Independent Social Club. With your support I am sure the club will make it. The president is Isaac Young, Robert Wallace, vice president, Edward Irby secretary, Charles Banks, chaplain, and Clevan Cox, business manager. My guest writer this week is a sophomore at Booker T. Washington High School, Marion Brown. Sit in all you guys and gals and lets get started with the club news roundup. The Debonaires, a club around Melrose High School, was organized by Mrs. J. Thomas, a physical Ed. teacher, who is also club advisor. This club is suppose to be the highest club as far as culture is concerned. In the Social World they have an hour of socializing. Plans for the future include a big formal dance at the club house in Fuller's Park. Moldleens Social Club was organized last November by Miss Carlean Pierceson. Mrs. R. Q. Venson is the advisor. The Moldleens Club has been able to participate in many fashion shows and was a part of the "Jubilet." (Washington) The Debate Club discussed "Dating and Going Steady." Some of the panelists were Marion Evans, Mona Brooks. Albert Yates and Beverly Miller. The discussion was very informative. Each team discussed the points very diligently. Miss Brooks' team stated that going steady will in crease the United States population. They continued to say that going steady will stop your pleasure and you will not have a chance to meet different types of males and females. Going steady will decrease your average in high school." Marion Evans' team stated that "Going steady will not increase the population. They continued to say going out with Tom, Dick or Harry is not the proper thing to do. I also think that going steady is one of the most proper things you can do for socializing." One of her co-workers said that. "Going steady you will not be embarrassing in public because your steady boy friend will not leave you stranded in the jungle." WISHING WELL Registered U. S. Patent Office. HERE is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day. It is a numerical puzzle designed to spell put your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-hand comer of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the letters under the checked figures give you. Rights Commission to get the housing picture on a national scale. Chicago was chosen because of heavy minority concentrations, but no anti-discrimination laws in housing. Los Angles, because anti-discrimination laws are fairly well established, but none in housing. Atlanta was chosen to represent the South. However, it was pointed out the city was considered uique on a national scale as apparently the only major city in the United States where a true Negro suburb has been established despite housing discrimination in the area. The committee said it expects to gain valuable information on voting during its probe of housing. It was felt the two problems are interlinked, in that Negroes are not registered in slum areas, and places where they are denied urban renewal chances. The committee will also attempt to determine if federal housing policies cause increased segregation in housing; the quality of federal housing and the quantity. A commission spokeman said it is hoped that the Georgia advisory committee on civil rights "can be on hand to advise us" during the Atlanta hearings. It was also revealed that the chairman of the state chairmen and vice chairmen natioal committee has called all of state groups to a national conference in Washington, D. C., June 9 to 10. Present members of the commission include: Robert G. Storey, vice chairman, and dean of Southern Methodist Law School; John S. Battle, former Virginia goevrnor; Doyal E. Carlton, former Florida governor: and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame. No successor has been chosen as yet for the late J. Ernest Wilkins, only Negro member of the group, it was revealed. Cripple Man the suspect had been captured and hustled off to Carnesville, Ga. jail, pending further investigation. Authorities there confirmed a white suspect was under arrest, but declined to reveal his identity. MEMPHIS WORLD Want Ad Information Call JA. 6-4030 FOR RENT 171-73 BEALE REPAIR SERVICE REMODEL—REPAIR—PAINT ADD-A-ROOM SALESWOMEN WANTED BUSINESS WOMEN — SELL NEWSBOYS WANTED GET YOUR VITAMINS REPAIRS HELP WANTED — FEMALE FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS Ex 8-1533 Whitehaven NEWLY CONSTRUCTED HOMES 3 BEDROOM BRICKS Gas Forced-Air Heat Immediate Possession See These Homes At EDWARDS & UNIVERSITY Open Daily Other Homes Available Terms To Suit Will Accept Trades FHA or "Conventional Financing Agents: Phone JA 6-4317 or 1936 Chelsea BR 6-6194 Mrs. Rowland Promoted To Carnation Milk Consultant Mrs. Lola Rowland of 3400 Rochester has been promoted to consultant of the Carnation Milk Company. Officials announced her promotion last week. Mrs. Rowlan started working for Carnation in 1951, thus becoming the first time that the milk company had hired a Negro woman as a home consultant. In this position, she visited homes and told housewives the various uses of her product, especially infant feeding and cooking. She also demonstrated the use of Carnation Instant Dry Milk and served Carnation Instant Chocolate and coffee with cream and also tea and cookies. In her new position, Mrs. Rowland will visit Negro doctors, hospitals and clinics. The clinics are the most interesting, Mrs. Rowland says, because she can give instruction to mothers on the proper way to prepare the baby's formula. And of course, she still carries on the social side of servings...PTAs, churches, social clubs, and medical gatherings. She starts out early—at 8:30 a. m.—and works various hours into the night. Mrs. Rowland is one of the first demonstrators for the company. There is only one other in the city of Memphis. The company furnishes the demonstrators' automobile, which they use as their own all expenses paid by the company. This is the only company that I know which furnishes the demonstrators' automobile," Mrs. Rowland says. A native of Memphis, Mrs. Rowland graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and Henderson Business College. She is the mother of three children (4, 10,13), and finds time to take care of them. She is married to James Rowland, a postal employee. Mrs. Rowland enjoys her work at the company. "One thing I like about it in particular," she says, "is that all the persons connected with it have a friendly attitude. I get all of the respect and privileges of other employees such as insurances." WASHINGTON GRADUATE Mrs. Lola Rowland of 3400 Rochester has been promoted to consultant of the Carnation Milk Company. Officials announced her promotion last week. Mrs. Rowlan started working for Carnation in 1951, thus becoming the first time that the milk company had hired a Negro woman as a home consultant. In this position, she visited homes and told housewives the various uses of her product, especially infant feeding and cooking. She also demonstrated the use of Carnation Instant Dry Milk and served Carnation Instant Chocolate and coffee with cream and also tea and cookies. In her new position, Mrs. Rowland will visit Negro doctors, hospitals and clinics. The clinics are the most interesting, Mrs. Rowland says, because she can give instruction to mothers on the proper way to prepare the baby's formula. And of course, she still carries on the social side of servings...PTAs, churches, social clubs, and medical gatherings. She starts out early—at 8:30 a. m.—and works various hours into the night. Mrs. Rowland is one of the first demonstrators for the company. There is only one other in the city of Memphis. The company furnishes the demonstrators' automobile, which they use as their own all expenses paid by the company. This is the only company that I know which furnishes the demonstrators' automobile," Mrs. Rowland says. A native of Memphis, Mrs. Rowland graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and Henderson Business College. She is the mother of three children (4, 10,13), and finds time to take care of them. She is married to James Rowland, a postal employee. Mrs. Rowland enjoys her work at the company. "One thing I like about it in particular," she says, "is that all the persons connected with it have a friendly attitude. I get all of the respect and privileges of other employees such as insurances." Double Check Tax and handled after the proper ones have been processed. Ross said the most common errors in income tax forms are: 1. Unsigned checks and money orders. 2. Failure to show complete name and address of the taxpayer. 3. Use of wrong column of the tax table or wrong tax rate. 4. Receipt of checks or returns intended for the state department of revenue. The New WAYNE D.OVERHOLSER Thriller THE LONE DEPUTY "I'll MOVE Cronin out of the country when I get the evidence I need," Price Regan said, addressing Cole Weston. "TO hell with the evidence!" Weston said angrily. "Tonight You understand?" "No, I don't," Price said, "and you don t either. Now there's something else we'd better talk about. I've heard how you four have handled settlers who tried to locate on Elk River. It happened before my time, but I've heard it so often it must be true. Men were shot Two were lynched. Cabins burned. That's against the law, too. If you hadn't done it the nesters wouldn't be on the Yellow Cat now. They'd be on Elk River where they could make a living farming and wouldn't have to steal." Weston's temper was close to the boiling point "Regan, are you accusing me ..." "Of course I'm accusing you. Who else would do it? I'll arrest you as quick as I would Walt Cronin if I find out that you've broken the law." "Maybe you've never heard my side of If Weston said. "I'll explain it once and only once. I'm the man who opened up this country. I came here not long after the Union Pacific was built across southern Wyoming. I drove in a herd of cattle with a handful of men, and me and my wife started keeping house in a cabin made of cottonwood logs. We ran the risk of being massacred just like Meeker was we fought rustlers and we hung some of em. We depended on ourselves because we had to. Everything we couldn't make we hauled in from Rawlins. Have you got enough sense to understand what I'm telling you?" "Is that all?" Price asked. "No, it ain't!" Weston Shouted. "Can you get it through your thick head that I'm not asking for anything I don't deserve? You call it justice for men like Cronin and them settlers on the Yellow Cat to come in now when it's safe because I made it safe and steal our stock? You call it justice to let 'em stay when you Know that their staying is an invitation for every other lazy man in the country to move in here?" "Sometimes it's a little hard to know what justice is," Price conceded, "but you're wrong on one point. You are asking for more than you deserve. The land up the Yellow Cat and down Elk River is public domain, and people have a tight to claim it and farm it But if you drive them off that land, then you're outside the law and I'll arrest you. As far as Cronin and the settlers are concerned, I've told you and I'll keep on telling you that I'll arrest any or all of them the minute I get the deadwood on them." Price turned toward the door and was reaching for the knob when Max Harker called, "Price." As he turned, Harker said, "Looks to me like you just lost your marshal's star. I told you that you'd better crawl" "I'm not one to crawl for a marshal's star or anything else," Price said. Weston's restraint was lost now. He raised a fist and shook it at Price. "I've wanted to get rid of you before now, Regan. The only reason I didn't was on account of Barry Madden, who kept asking for more time so you could get some sense in your head, but you've used up your time. You've refused to do your duty, so we'll do it for you." "You?" Price said. "Or some plug ugly like Curly Blue and gunslingers like Pete Nance?" "Us," Weston snapped. "Me and Red and Tom and Joe. If you interfere, you're a dead man. You haven't got a friend left Not even Barry." Price glanced at Madden and saw that Weston was right He said, "I've never refused to do my duty. Fact is. I've been telling you I will. Just be sure it's not you, Cole, who goes to the county seat for trial instead of Walt Cronin." He went out, Weston blasting him with a volley of oaths. He smiled grimly as he went along the hall. It was in the open at last What had been said with Barry Madden in the bank this morning was only a warning to what had been said just now. Weston would not retreat He was incapable of it. Laura was waiting for him in the parlor. The instant she saw him, she cried, "We had a date for eight o'clock, but is it me you want to see?. It doesn't look like it, going back there with Daddy while I cool my heels waiting on you. If I'm going to be your wife, it seems to me I ought to come first once in a while." He looked down at her flushed and angry face, realizing more than ever how much he loved her. Suddenly he was sick with a sense of frustration, sick with the burden that all lawmen must face if they keep their jobs, sick with the choice he must make. "I'm sorry, Laura," he said. "Sorrier than I can tell you. Right now it looks like you won't be my wife." The anger died in her at once. She gripped his arms, asking. "What happened, Price? Tell me." He hesitated, glancing back along the hall, then he stepped into the parlor and, taking her hands, pulled her to him. "I should have told you a long time ago. I would have, I guess it hadn't been so afraid I'd lose you." She shut the door and led him to the loveseat on the other side of the room. She sat down and pulled him to the seat beside her. "Maybe I can understand I'll try, Price. It's part of a wife's job to understand, and all I really want to do is to be a good wife." He sensed that at this moment she was a woman, serious and competent and not the willful and prankish girl she sometimes seemed to be. He said, "You've been wanting to get married for a month, but I've been putting you off. It wasn't just that we didn't have a house to live in. It was more than that You see, Ralph Carew knew that trouble was shaping up over here. That's why he sent me to Saddle Rock. I shouldn't have asked you to marry me until it was settled." "And how you're trying to say we can't get married until it's settled?" "That's it," he said. "I'm in a pinch because I'm alone. Both sides hate me. If I could shut my eyes, or run, I'd be all right, but I can't do either. So it looks like my plow's going to get cleaned. If we got married tomorrow, you might be a widow on Monday." "Price, you fool," she whispered. "I knew that all the time. If we waited until this trouble was over, there'd just be more. Why, we'd never get married if that was our reason for waiting. He had been a fool, he thought. She understood far more than he had guessed, and he should have talked to her about it. Still there was this gap between him and Barry Madden, a gap that bad widened until now he saw no way, to bridge it. "But your dad ..." he began. "Price, it's me you're marrying, not Daddy. If it has to be a choice between you, then, it's you. He knows that." She chewed on her lower lip a moment, her eyes searching his face, then she added: "About your running away or closing your eyes. If you could do either one, I wouldn't love you. Maybe I will be a widow on Monday, but I'd rather have one day as your wife than never be your wife at all." He got up and drew her to her feet. He saw that her lips were trembling, that her eyes were shining in a way he had never seen them shine before. A girlwife at tunes, perhaps, but a woman-wife when it counted. "I love you, Laura," he said. "You set the wedding day. Maybe it'll have to be a hotel room for a few days, but we'll, make out." CHAPTER 13 "I'll MOVE Cronin out of the country when I get the evidence I need," Price Regan said, addressing Cole Weston. "TO hell with the evidence!" Weston said angrily. "Tonight You understand?" "No, I don't," Price said, "and you don t either. Now there's something else we'd better talk about. I've heard how you four have handled settlers who tried to locate on Elk River. It happened before my time, but I've heard it so often it must be true. Men were shot Two were lynched. Cabins burned. That's against the law, too. If you hadn't done it the nesters wouldn't be on the Yellow Cat now. They'd be on Elk River where they could make a living farming and wouldn't have to steal." Weston's temper was close to the boiling point "Regan, are you accusing me ..." "Of course I'm accusing you. Who else would do it? I'll arrest you as quick as I would Walt Cronin if I find out that you've broken the law." "Maybe you've never heard my side of If Weston said. "I'll explain it once and only once. I'm the man who opened up this country. I came here not long after the Union Pacific was built across southern Wyoming. I drove in a herd of cattle with a handful of men, and me and my wife started keeping house in a cabin made of cottonwood logs. We ran the risk of being massacred just like Meeker was we fought rustlers and we hung some of em. We depended on ourselves because we had to. Everything we couldn't make we hauled in from Rawlins. Have you got enough sense to understand what I'm telling you?" "Is that all?" Price asked. "No, it ain't!" Weston Shouted. "Can you get it through your thick head that I'm not asking for anything I don't deserve? You call it justice for men like Cronin and them settlers on the Yellow Cat to come in now when it's safe because I made it safe and steal our stock? You call it justice to let 'em stay when you Know that their staying is an invitation for every other lazy man in the country to move in here?" "Sometimes it's a little hard to know what justice is," Price conceded, "but you're wrong on one point. You are asking for more than you deserve. The land up the Yellow Cat and down Elk River is public domain, and people have a tight to claim it and farm it But if you drive them off that land, then you're outside the law and I'll arrest you. As far as Cronin and the settlers are concerned, I've told you and I'll keep on telling you that I'll arrest any or all of them the minute I get the deadwood on them." Price turned toward the door and was reaching for the knob when Max Harker called, "Price." As he turned, Harker said, "Looks to me like you just lost your marshal's star. I told you that you'd better crawl" "I'm not one to crawl for a marshal's star or anything else," Price said. Weston's restraint was lost now. He raised a fist and shook it at Price. "I've wanted to get rid of you before now, Regan. The only reason I didn't was on account of Barry Madden, who kept asking for more time so you could get some sense in your head, but you've used up your time. You've refused to do your duty, so we'll do it for you." "You?" Price said. "Or some plug ugly like Curly Blue and gunslingers like Pete Nance?" "Us," Weston snapped. "Me and Red and Tom and Joe. If you interfere, you're a dead man. You haven't got a friend left Not even Barry." Price glanced at Madden and saw that Weston was right He said, "I've never refused to do my duty. Fact is. I've been telling you I will. Just be sure it's not you, Cole, who goes to the county seat for trial instead of Walt Cronin." He went out, Weston blasting him with a volley of oaths. He smiled grimly as he went along the hall. It was in the open at last What had been said with Barry Madden in the bank this morning was only a warning to what had been said just now. Weston would not retreat He was incapable of it. Laura was waiting for him in the parlor. The instant she saw him, she cried, "We had a date for eight o'clock, but is it me you want to see?. It doesn't look like it, going back there with Daddy while I cool my heels waiting on you. If I'm going to be your wife, it seems to me I ought to come first once in a while." He looked down at her flushed and angry face, realizing more than ever how much he loved her. Suddenly he was sick with a sense of frustration, sick with the burden that all lawmen must face if they keep their jobs, sick with the choice he must make. "I'm sorry, Laura," he said. "Sorrier than I can tell you. Right now it looks like you won't be my wife." The anger died in her at once. She gripped his arms, asking. "What happened, Price? Tell me." He hesitated, glancing back along the hall, then he stepped into the parlor and, taking her hands, pulled her to him. "I should have told you a long time ago. I would have, I guess it hadn't been so afraid I'd lose you." She shut the door and led him to the loveseat on the other side of the room. She sat down and pulled him to the seat beside her. "Maybe I can understand I'll try, Price. It's part of a wife's job to understand, and all I really want to do is to be a good wife." He sensed that at this moment she was a woman, serious and competent and not the willful and prankish girl she sometimes seemed to be. He said, "You've been wanting to get married for a month, but I've been putting you off. It wasn't just that we didn't have a house to live in. It was more than that You see, Ralph Carew knew that trouble was shaping up over here. That's why he sent me to Saddle Rock. I shouldn't have asked you to marry me until it was settled." "And how you're trying to say we can't get married until it's settled?" "That's it," he said. "I'm in a pinch because I'm alone. Both sides hate me. If I could shut my eyes, or run, I'd be all right, but I can't do either. So it looks like my plow's going to get cleaned. If we got married tomorrow, you might be a widow on Monday." "Price, you fool," she whispered. "I knew that all the time. If we waited until this trouble was over, there'd just be more. Why, we'd never get married if that was our reason for waiting. He had been a fool, he thought. She understood far more than he had guessed, and he should have talked to her about it. Still there was this gap between him and Barry Madden, a gap that bad widened until now he saw no way, to bridge it. "But your dad ..." he began. "Price, it's me you're marrying, not Daddy. If it has to be a choice between you, then, it's you. He knows that." She chewed on her lower lip a moment, her eyes searching his face, then she added: "About your running away or closing your eyes. If you could do either one, I wouldn't love you. Maybe I will be a widow on Monday, but I'd rather have one day as your wife than never be your wife at all." He got up and drew her to her feet. He saw that her lips were trembling, that her eyes were shining in a way he had never seen them shine before. A girlwife at tunes, perhaps, but a woman-wife when it counted. "I love you, Laura," he said. "You set the wedding day. Maybe it'll have to be a hotel room for a few days, but we'll, make out." Tifton Grief that each family will receive up to $500 from county sponsored insurance benefits to cover the expenses of burial and hospitalization. Culbreath said his research revealed that Tift County had taken an insurance policy on each student riding the school buses that would provide $500 coverage for the young bus riders whether the money be used for burial expenses for the dead or hospital expenses for the injured in such incidents. Culbreath said the Negro community of Tifton was grief stricken about the tragedy that claimed the lives of nine of their only neighbors and hospitalized three others. It was reported that a spirit of brotherhood exists in the town today that would have probably otherwise taken several decades to attain. However, it was also pointed out that the sacrifice of nine lives to achieve this harmony was a giant price to pay. The WORILD reporter said he was not able to ascertain during his short visit to the town whether the spirit of kindness shown by the whites of Tifton resulted from a feeling of guilt at the overcrowded condition of the school bus that perhaps could have been alleviated long ago or if they were genuinely sorry as one Christian person is when death strikes another. Nevertheless, it was emphasized that the good resulting from the feeling; whether it be guilt or benevolence, was a miracle likened to those practiced in Biblical times. Out of the drama of death, and later the resulting brotherhood, comes another virtue termed moral courage and character. Leroy Tabor, the father of two small sons killed in the accident, was the courageous one. Tabor pointed out by the majority of the towns people as the tower of strength. He was reportedly able to keep calm composure throughout the entire incident, lending courage to many others more prone to hysteria. He also refused much of the help offered him from generous and sympathetic townsmen and instead directed the gifts to those people in town "who need it more than I do." A school holiday was declared at Wilson High School Friday to allow everyone to be available to pay last repects to their schoolmates at the scheduled funeral services. The whole town was upset, the unrelated adults were very grieved and the survivors of the crashed bus had good reason to think of a timely phrase which says, "But for the grace of God ..." BROTHERHOOD that each family will receive up to $500 from county sponsored insurance benefits to cover the expenses of burial and hospitalization. Culbreath said his research revealed that Tift County had taken an insurance policy on each student riding the school buses that would provide $500 coverage for the young bus riders whether the money be used for burial expenses for the dead or hospital expenses for the injured in such incidents. Culbreath said the Negro community of Tifton was grief stricken about the tragedy that claimed the lives of nine of their only neighbors and hospitalized three others. It was reported that a spirit of brotherhood exists in the town today that would have probably otherwise taken several decades to attain. However, it was also pointed out that the sacrifice of nine lives to achieve this harmony was a giant price to pay. The WORILD reporter said he was not able to ascertain during his short visit to the town whether the spirit of kindness shown by the whites of Tifton resulted from a feeling of guilt at the overcrowded condition of the school bus that perhaps could have been alleviated long ago or if they were genuinely sorry as one Christian person is when death strikes another. Nevertheless, it was emphasized that the good resulting from the feeling; whether it be guilt or benevolence, was a miracle likened to those practiced in Biblical times. Out of the drama of death, and later the resulting brotherhood, comes another virtue termed moral courage and character. Leroy Tabor, the father of two small sons killed in the accident, was the courageous one. Tabor pointed out by the majority of the towns people as the tower of strength. He was reportedly able to keep calm composure throughout the entire incident, lending courage to many others more prone to hysteria. He also refused much of the help offered him from generous and sympathetic townsmen and instead directed the gifts to those people in town "who need it more than I do." A school holiday was declared at Wilson High School Friday to allow everyone to be available to pay last repects to their schoolmates at the scheduled funeral services. The whole town was upset, the unrelated adults were very grieved and the survivors of the crashed bus had good reason to think of a timely phrase which says, "But for the grace of God ..." Student Awarded Assistantship At Purdue University Purdue University has granted an assistantship in bio-chemistry to Sidney A. McNairy, Jr., of 353-E Wellington, a senior who will be graduated from LeMoyne College in June. McNairy 21, will enroll at Purdue in September and will receive full tuition plus a yearly stipends of $2,300 until he has completed all requirements for the master's and Ph D. degrees. He will serve as a research assistant during his stay at the university. The 21-year-old scholar received a somewhat similar offer from Michigan State University after he had accepted the assistantship at Purdue. McNairy, who is an Alpha and president of his senior class at LeMoyne, hopes to go into industry or teach on the college or university level after he has completed his education. He also is a member of LeMoyne's Honor Society. McNairy has been praised by his instructors and has shown exceptional ability as a student leader. He is a graduate of St. Augustine High School. LOAN MONEY — on — You will like our prompt, friendly service, courteous treatment and desire to help. Open Thursday and Friday Nights until 8 p.m. Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. — NOW TWO LOCATIONS — 152 Madison Avenue 161 S. Main Street Phone JA 5-7611 Phone JA 5-1351 Examined and Supervised by The State Dept. of Insurance and Banking BILLS AND EXPENSES An Illinois legislature has estimated that if only eight of the 1,983 bills introduced on the opening day of Confess became law Government expenditures would be more than doubled next year. Representative Harold R. Collier (R., Ill.) said the eight bills he had in mind - ranging from legislation on education to public works and fanning to old age pensions — would cast more that $117,000,000000. Add on defense needs and current Federal commitments, Collin said, and the country would be spending $1,00,000,000,000 — more than twice the size of the $77,000,000,000 budget "recommended by President Eisenhower.