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Scientists have reached general agreement in / recognizing that mankind is one: that all men / belong to the same species, _Homo sapiens_. / -- UNESCO Statement on Race, 1950
We'd already had the highlights of the Mount Pelley story from the local wire service but it had left a number of questions unanswered. I looked in the stringer book to see who we had in Mississippi. To my surprise I found that we had a Mr. Elbert Patterson right in Mount Pelley. I sent him a wire asking for at least a thousand words, with good color and quotes. His story was on my desk in less than two hours. Here it is: