Scott County Times from Forest, Mississippi • Page 14

5 5 segregation policy strongly suggests that John Bell Williams will run for the senate against John Stennis with Eastland's open blessing. Senator Stennis, the calm judge from DeKalb, has approached segregation forcefully but calmly more like Coleman than Eastland. There was little reason for Eastland to give Williams the benefit of joint authorship on nullification unless it had political significance. Adding Judge Brady was extra, because he wrote a book and has made speeches at Citizens Councils meetings although some of his associates vow he is planning to run for governor. Then, too, Eastland is convinced now that Coleman will oppose him in 1960 and may get backing from Senator Stennis, who supported the attorney-general in the governor's race while Eastland was helping Paul Johnson, Jr.

If Stennis could be yanked, Coleman would be weakened. John Bell Williams wanted to run for the senate in 1954 against Eastland. Several times he appeared on the verge but finally decided against it. Now he is deep in the Eastland bosom, partly because of a maneuver in the organization of Eastland's campaign. Jackson attorney Arthur Sullivan, only a slight acquaintance of the senior senator, was appointed his state campaign manager.

Sullivan had opposed Williams in his race for congress and reports said he might try again. Through mutual friends, it was arranged that Sullivan pledge never to oppose Williams for congress, and that Williams would run for the senate if Eastland ever decided to retire. It was understood that both Eastland and Sullivan would help Williams. sound truck and his personal chauffeur who drove the same truck for Williams. There was no doubt the congressman from Raymond had begun Santa Claus Letters Hillsboro, Miss.

Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl almost 9 years old. I would like for you to bring me a doll carriage, a doll and a telephone. Also some fruit, nuts, and candy. Don't forget the sick children in hospitals and others all over the world. Remember Brenda, Austin and Tom Edd.

I love you lots, Hilda Jane Waggoner Dear Santa, Please bring me some skates, boots, cowboy hat, cowboy shirt and pants, and some surprises if you can. I would like to have fireworks, fruit, nuts, and candy, too. Please bring all the boys and girls everywhere something nice. Love, Joe Roxie, Miss. Dear Santa Claus, I want a run away frankfurter game 'and a topper coat, a story book doll and a paint set.

I hope that will not be too much. I really live in Roxie, Mississippi, but I will be at my grandmother's Christmas. I will make some cookies, and mother will make some cake and I will get a glass of milk for you. It will be on the table at Grandmother's. Mery Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.

Love, Sandra Pryor Forest, Miss. Dear Santa Claus, I am a little boy 5 years old. I am in the third grade, at Pineville School. I want you to bring me a pair of guns, a pair of boots, a filling station, candy, nuts, fruit, firecrackers, and don't forget my brothers, and all the boys and girls. Love, Tommy Carr Forest, Miss.

Dear Santa Claus, I am a little boy 6 years old. I am in the second grade at Pineville School. Mrs. Posey is my teacher. Please bring me a pair of guns, a pair of boots, a filling station, nuts, candy, firecrackers, and fruit.

Don't forget my teacher, brothers and all other children. Love, Hulon Carr Dear Santa Claus, Hope you stop by to see me, bring with you a train, a dump truck and bicycle and Santa, don't forget my little brother, Jimmy Snelgrove, who lives in Okla. and don't forget all my little friends. We have been good little boys. Thanks, Santa Claus, Tommy Pearson Forest, Miss.

Pulaski, Miss. Dear Santa Claus, I'm seven years old and in the second grade at Homewood. I'd like very much for you to bring me a Bride Doll. Ralph, Jr. wants a "gee-tar" and a rifle, Norman is just one year old; so please Santa, bring him some toys little boys that age like.

Don't forget all the other little children, also mother, daddy and my teacher, Mrs. Gatewood. We all want some candy, fruit, nuts, and fireworks too. Your friend, Deborah Brown Drive carefully during the Christmas holidays and live to celebrate the New Year. SCOTT COUNTY TIMES grooming himself for the senate.

Now he's riding with Eastland so he may not wait for Eastland to retire. Stennis comes up sooner for As a clincher to the agreement, Williams loaned Eastland his own reelection. Mississippians are now watching the evolution of two separate approaches to segregation. Eastland represents the extremists who are sometimes even accused of being "hysterical." Coleman represents the practical viewpoint. Neither group is any less in favor of segregation than the other.

Coleman and Stennis are forceful but calm. The followers, of Eastland and Williams continually wave the flag. At stake in the clash over the two systems is the future of several politicians. One method or the other eventually will prove the most effective. The successful politician must maneuver into the right camp.

Segregation has been a big issue ever since Black Monday, but we can remember when it didn't make a ripple in the minds of the voters. In 1943 Mike Conner campaigned for governor on a platform of "white supremacy" and a warning that the negroes would seek equal rights. Tom Bailey, one of his opponents, ridiculed the idea. Conner mentioned incidents and Bailey said he was trying to stir up race feelings for political purposes. Conner said there was danger "around the Bailey said there was no danger "at any time in the future." Thomas L.

Bailey defeated Conner in an upset triumph after Conner led the first primary race by 40,000 votes. Mississippians paid no attention to Conner's statements. Such a viewpoint is now buried in 1 the past. Segregation statements get more applause than any other issues. It will be that way for a long time to come.

THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1955 Scott County Times REFLECTING THE GROWTH OF A HUSTLING COMMUNITY CENTER OF TIMBER, POULTRY, LIVESTOCK, COTTON Shopping Guide to This Trade Area Entered As Second Class Matter At Post Office, Forest, Mississippi ERLE JOHNSTON Editor THE COLEMAN EASTLAND FEUDA Struggle For Leadership When J. P. Coleman last week ridiculed the nullification program advocated by Senator Jim Eastland, it wasn't the first time he had tried to embarrass the senior senator on segregation. Back in 1954, shortly before Eastland mounted the stump in his reelection campaign, he called upon every lawyer in Mississippi to defend without fees any school district against which integration petitions had been filed.

Two weeks later, Attorney-General Coleman sent out a letter to the same lawyers asking if they would accept appointment as "special assistant attorneys-general" to defend integration lawsuits. Coleman's motive, according to observers, was to weaken Eastland's stature as the champion of segregation. While he publicly remained neutral in the senatorial compaign, it is known that he favored Lieut.Governor Carroll Gartin in his bid for Eastland's seat. Eastland made his appeal to lawyers in a speech at the Newton Rotary Club. Two lawyers who heard him L.

B. Porter of Union and Bill Johnson of Decatur both said after the meeting they would accept the senator's assignment. Wide publicity was given the speech. Advance copies had been handed to the press. Eastland received telegrams of congratulations.

Coleman lost little time in making contact with the lawyers. He actually had a better proposition appointment of each lawyer as an assistant attorney-general which offered a title to go with the responsibility. The split between Eastland and Coleman merely emphasizes the importance attached to leadership in the segregation program. Hereafter, a successful politician must be able to convince Mississippi voters his shoulders are strong and his ideas are effective to head off integration. On the verdict of the public will determine the election of senators and governors and even Congressmen for many years in the future.

Eastland was quick to seize the initiative after the May, 1954, ruling of the U. S. Supreme Court. He took the floor of the senate and made a speech Bilbo style. Copies of the speech were distributed widely over Mississippi and became one of the most important pieces of his campaign literature.

The senator's temper flared quickly at any challenge to his leadership in the segregation fight. It was no secret he became considerably irked when Fielding Wright made his famous suggestion right in the middle of Eastland's campaign that the states use their "police power to enforce segregation. Wright, who at that time was still telling friends he would not be a candidate for governor, issued his statement on a Sunday. The newspapers gave him generous headlines Monday because his proposal was new and appeared logical. That week Eastland campaigned in South Mississippi where every candidate always mentions the tung industry.

But he was so sensitive about Wright's gallop with the ball that he gave the industry only polite mention and concentrated on segregation In a few days he was still making page one while the Wright story, which put the former governor into the 1955 gubernatorial campaign, temporarily died away. After that, Eastland was so confident he had won the farm vote in spite of Gartin's "western steal" charge that he dwelled entirely on segregation right up to ballot time. His strategy paid off. Last summer, Coleman donned the segregation armor and recalled his trip to Washington where he watched the legal maneuvering of the states involved in the Supreme Court decision. He reminded voters of what he had done to speed convicted rapist Willie Magee to the gallows after a series of postponements.

Coleman asserted the battle to retain segregation would be "legal" and he had the best background and training for the leadership required of the next governor. Like Eastland, Coleman won his campaign, but any hope there would be harmony in spite of previous jealousies was blasted for good last week. The senator, along with Congressman John Bell Williams and Circuit Judge T. P. Brady, author of "Black Monday," issued a joint statement calling on the state legislature to "nullify" the integration decision of the supreme court.

Coleman, already pledged to the program of the Legal Education Advisory Commission which doesn't include nullification labeled their plan as "poppycock" and said it would be ineffective without secession from the union. The LEAC program would rule out common law marriages, repeal compulsory school attendance laws, require teachers to list organizations to which they belong, prohibit agitation of lawsuits to end segregation, and prohibit persons for interfering with state law under guise of federal authority. This is the program to which the governor-elect is dedicated: in fact, he was instrumental in drafting each proposal. He planned to personally steer these measures through the legislature. When the Eastland-Williams-Brady nullification statement was issued, swinging the headlines back to Eastland, Coleman was in a difficult position.

He could approve the plan and at the same time indirectly confess he never thought about it. Or he could scoff at the plan and break it down in favor of the LEAC legislation. He chose to label the idea "poppycock," which brought quick reaction from all three of the authors. They pointed to cases in the past where states had set aside court verdicts without seceding from the union and without the penalty of occupation by federal troops. Coleman petitioned the legislators to postpone consideration of nullification until he is inaugurated on January 17, although Representative Tommy Brooks of Leake county, who was a field man for Eastland in the 1954 campaign, said he would make certain the legislature gets an opportunity to vote on the issue.

The political lineup brought about by the disagreements over Bradshaw Funeral Is Held Friday A. Bradshaw, 77, a resident of Morton, died Thursday night at his home after a long illness. He was a lifelong resident of Scott county and was a retired farmer. Bradshaw was a member of the Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, three daughters, Mrs.

W. H. Cooper of Morton, Mrs. G. S.

Calhoun of Jackson, and Mrs. Walter Estes of Forest; six sons, Lonnie and Oscar Bradshaw, both of Morton, Elmer Bradshaw of Jackson, Melvin and Moody Bradshaw, both of Polkville, and Ellis Bradshaw of Pascagoula; five sisters, Mrs. 01- lie McDaniel of Soso, Mrs. 1 Missouri Merchant of Archibald, Mrs. Delphia Brantley and Mrs.

Tennie Blackwell, both of Lyman, and Mrs. Irene Mayfield of California; three brothers, Will Bradshaw of Morton, Hill Bradshaw of Flora and Talmadge Bradshaw of Polkville; and 20 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 3 p. m. Friday from the Coopersville Baptist Church.

Interment was in the Coopersville cemetery. Greetings 9 With each passing year ive come to a fuller appreciation of the bonds of friendship that have been forged by our pleasant business associations. Now. at Christmastime, we would like to say thank you and may you have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! KING LUMBER COMPANY "Manufacturers Of The King Automatic Lumber Separator" J. B.

KING FOREST IRO KING.