Word: mississippis
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...Mississippi's lenient marriage laws (no blood test, no waiting period, no parental consent for youngsters) have long made the state a Dixie Gretna Green. Of the state's 66,000 wedding licenses a year, 65% are drawn by out-of-staters who skip across the border from such states as Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama to take their vows in neon-lit marriage chapels. But last week, Mississippi's hit-and-Mrs. marriage business reached the beginning of the end. Bowing to increased pressure from physicians, ministers and clubwomen, the state legislature passed and sent...
Under the law, which takes effect July 1, a couple marrying in Mississippi must wait three days for their license; pass blood tests, prove that the bride is at least 15 and the groom 17. Minors need parental consent; circuit clerks will routinely notify the parents by registered mail during the three-day waiting period. Circuit judges may waive the routine only for grievous reason, e.g., pregnancy...
SUGAR BOWL (New Orleans)-Mississippi v. Texas...
...eruditely reminded his audience that Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn bears the same name as one of Mississippi's Reconstruction governors...
Died. Frederick Sullens, 80, fire-eating editor (for the last 52 years) of Mississippi's Jackson Daily News, bushy-browed old-style columnist (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and prying reporter ("I may be a lousy editor, but I can still do a damn good job of reporting"), who was always ready to back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John...