BellSouth has opened a new 411 Nationwide Service office in Greenville. The facility has hired and trained 70 new employees and has a growth potential for a total of 120.

Cleveland Overview

Cleveland firmly ensconced as Hub of the Delta

City gearing up for a new $10 million plant

Cleveland native offers special service to Internet users

BY ROBERT MCFARLAND, JR.

The Internet is one of today’s hottest topics and a Cleveland native formerly involved in a successful cellular phone business is now taking on the Internet and all of it’s negative content.

Jimmy Sanders, Inc. of Cleveland

A family run business for 46 years

President Clinton’s trip to the Delta

Local leaders hope that trip will bring future investments in region

YAZOO CITY LANDS FEDERAL CONTRACT 

Contributing Editor
 

News Briefs

Clarksdale resident elected at organization’s 64th annual meeting.

The campus of Delta State University played host to almost 2,000 at the Walter Sillers Coliseum on Friday, May 7 as visitors from around the state attended the 64th Annual Meeting of Delta Council. One could look no further than a few feet in either direction to see some of the state’s most influential business and agricultural leaders. Elected officials, and wanna- be elected officials were also there. United States Representative Larry Combest of Texas, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, was the keynote speaker delivering a powerful address as to what farmers are currently facing and what aspects of farming must be addressed in order for farmers to have a promising future. 

Know About Your Farm Business

Often farmers are heard to say, "We need business/marketing training to help us on our farm." They are just as often amazed to learn that business, economics and marketing training is available specifically for Mississippi farmers. The past two winters, the Agricultural Economics Department at Mississippi State University has through its Extension staff provided farm and farmer oriented training to a number of farmers all over Mississippi. Many farmers were unaware of these programs in spite of promotion through radio, television and the print media in addition to contact by their local county agricultural agents.

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Holiday Ice Company of Indianola

There is a play currently on Broadway called "The Iceman Cometh". If this is true, then his source must be a company in Indianola called Holiday Ice a bag ice supplier. Holiday Ice produces a whopping 48 tons of ice each day in order to keep many Deltan’s cool on a hot summer day. 

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Clarksdale-Coahoma County Industrial Foundation goes into cyberspace with web site ..

The Clarksdale Coahoma County Industrial Foundation is moving into cyberspace with the construction of a new web site that will enable the organization to better market its efforts to lure businesses and industries to the Clarksdale area. Other similar organizations across the state are in the process of doing the same thing - Clarksdale is one of the first.

Oil Mills Merge..

Yazoo Valley Oil Mill of Greenwood to merge with Texas concern ... New merger will control 30 percent of the processing capacity of the U.S. cottonseed oil mills 

Two of the largest oil mills in the U.S. are in the process of merging. The Boards of Plains Cooperative Oil Mill of Lubbock, Texas, and Yazoo Valley Oil Mill, Inc. of Greenwood, have announced their intention to merge the two cottonseed organizations.

Fashion designer and Delta native returns from California to start business in Tchula

Company will soon celebrate its first year in the Delta

Just over a year ago, Jannie Whitt, a native of Pace in Bolivar County, was living in sunny California working as a fashion designer. One year later, the small town of Tchula is Whitt’s new home.