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Next stop was Town Creek, Ala., and Joe Wheeler Dam. So full was the President of the TVA sights he had seen that by the time he reached Tupelo, Miss., he was moved to make an extemporaneous speech. Extolling the local citizenry for being the first to sign a contract for cheap TVA electricity for its municipal power system, the President observed...
...well with the country," the President assured Tupelo, "and...we are coming back...
...shoveled in some members of the crowd chanted, "I'm Headin' for the Last Round Up," "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You," "Bye, Bye, Blackbirds." Finally Hernando went home to breakfast. Same day five other Negroes were executed- one at Tupelo, Miss, for murder; two at Raleigh, N. C. for murder; one for murder, one for rape, at Milledgeville...
Meantime, Director Lilienthal has been busy in other parts of the TVA territory. Some 50 Southern municipalities have applied to TVA for power contracts, including Decatur, Ala., Augusta, Ga., Jackson, Tenn. Last week Director Lilienthal journeyed to Tupelo, Miss, to sign formally the first such contract. En route, he stopped off at Atlanta to make a speech on "the electrification of America...
...Kramer of McComb, Miss., last week announced that next month he would have a cheese factory operating at McComb, and quickly thereafter four more-at Magnolia, Liberty, Osyka and Tylertown, Miss. Five condenseries are also to be built in the state- at Starkville, Aberdeen, Tupelo, Kosciusko and Macon...