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/: ' / r \ .. .i ■Aiii.i.i fcji;.,./-' r Viiitfigi;iaKTa7^ia;Tyir^g.iEg^^ :’Siv;igTOw.yBiFfcii^ . 1 / /■ - /.'. ' 1 ■4 Poge Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursdoy, October 16,1941 > Notes From The County Agent's Office ^ C. B. CANNON, County Afeni r Approximately 1200 tons of agri- ewltural limestone were ordered last week as a grant of aid through the* AAA. This makes a total of 1763 tons to date, stated C. B. Cannon, county agent. Cannon said_ Austrian winter peas could not be brought as a grant of aid through the AAA due to prices' being so high. Each year thousands of dollars are not earned as a soil building practice by farmers of Lau rens county and Cannon is urging farmers to take advantage of earning their full amount of soil building al lowance by buying agricultural lime stone through the AAA as a grant of aid. Limestone may be bought for! $2.90 per ton in five-ton lots deliv- j ered to the farm Imd receive a credit j of $2.50 per ton as a soil building al- i lowance. At least 85 per cent of thej soils of Laurens county need lime, 1 Cannon stated. October 31 is the ten-' tative closing date for farmers filing' for limestone. Those wishing to buy limestone should contact the county agent’s ofTice at once. j Oats make a good cover crop and counts $1.50 per acre turned green next spring out of the allowance for theVarm. With high price winter le- gumVseed, the agent recommends the seediiW of oats as a cover crop. Therk is no limit to acreage seeded to smalNgt>wr7npts as oats, barley, I and rye. There is a limit to seeding' wheat. Under the AAA program for| next year the regulations allow the .^ceding of 15 acres to each holder of a work sheet or three acres per farm family or plant his wheat acreage allotment which each farmer re ceived as his allotment a few weeks., ago. Farmers .selecting the three-' acre-per-farm-family proviso must' share in the wheat procluced. j A total of 209 tons of superphos-' phate has also been ordered by farm-. ers as a grant of aid. | Eruign, Wayne Mortie Seeka Winge Wayne Morris, recent star ol **1 Want^ Wings,” became a member of Uncle Sam's Nav-y in May, 1941, when he was appointed to the rank of Ensign. W’hen asked what he thought ot the United States Navy, Morris said, “I think every man who is consider ing joining a military service should look into the ‘chance of a lifetime' which the Navy and Naval Reserve of fer to get into the big-pay field of the future—aviation. In the Navy you can attend the finest flight training schools in the world, and receive in struction from Navy pilots who intro duced dive bombing, aircraft carriers and catapult take-offs to the rest of the world Also, there are opportuni ties m Naval Aviation for men who don’t want to fly. They can be trained as aviation machinists, metalsmiths. photographers, observers, or they can receive instruction in many other trades. It’s a great life in the Navy.’ Ensign Wayne Morris is pictured here in his line of duty as a member of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selec tion Board at the Long Beach Naval Reserve Air Base. conveniences, but we’re not ready to give up eating. ' WAGES—Freeslng Another thing which government officials are studiously avoiding is control over wages. They know labor is too well organized to take wage controls without showing its reseflt- ment when it goes to cast its precious vote at the polls. They also know that labor must be treated with kid gloves so long as our nation is so de pendent on the cooperation of labor. But any plan to curb inflation is going to prove ineffective unless all groups are called upon to share equally in making it work. Higher prices mean labor wants bigger pay —but higher wages mean manufac turers have to get higher prices. It seems to be one of those vicious cir cles which can’t be controlled fairly unless it is attacked from both ends. Perhaps the only answer is to fig ure out fair prices for everything, fair profits for manufacturers, fair wages for labor, fair profits for farm-> ers and food distributors—and then freeze our whole economic set-up un til the war is over. This wouldn’t be as easy as it sounds. It would be fraught with all sorts of complica tions and would call for numerous exceptions. But most of us who are employed today would probably wel come a frozen income if we could be assured that it would buy Just as many pork chops next month as it will this month. NOTICE FOR PAYMENT OF CITY TAXES « Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town of Clinton will be due and collectable between October 1st and November 16th, for the year 1941. The Tax iBooks will be opened for the collection of taxes at the office of the Town. Cleric on October 1st, andNj^ remain open ^h day thereafter, Sunday excepted, up to and through November 16th. A penalty of ten (10) per cent will accrue on all taxes not paid on or before Saturday, November 16th, which penalty will be in force through Wednesday, December 31st, after which an additional five (6) per cent penalty will accrue. The levy for current fiscal year is 381^ mills; 12 mills for current operating expenses, and 26^4 mills for in terest and sinking fund on various Bond Issues out standing. D. C. HEUSTESS, City Clerk. Read The Chronicle-’Your Neighbor Does Four-H Club Boys and Girls To I Visit State Fair j sun is very hot. This will allow them I taking money, away from the people Approximately 60 boys and girls of4° out, giving a cleaner potato.jin the form of taxes, or by pushing the 4-H clubs will attend the Four-H The skin also hardens and this helps j the sale of defense bonds. But it will' rally day at the state fair Octoberjio prevent bruising. 'take a lot of super-arguing to con-| 22, Mr. Cannon stated. Arrangements i 3^ Run the plow deeply to avoid j vince the public that it will be better have been made for transportation ^ cutting. If a* vine cutter is used, it off if its extra income is taken away for club members who have notified; is recommended that a middle buster from it. the agent of their intention to.make i be used, running only one furrow, the trip. Both the county and home 4. pick up the No. 1 potatoes first, agents will attend and assist local placing them directly in container in leaders and club members. . j which they are ta be stored^ This ^ [should be done as they ai^e pulled Dig Sweet Potatoes Before Frost , from the vine. Handle the container Experiments and farm experience carefully in hauling. Do not fill con- have proved that sweet piotatoes keep ^ tainers so full that potatoes on top best if harvested^-^fore—frost bites will be cut or bruised. It might be the vines. Records kept by S. C.'advisable to use crates or baskets for Gambrell, agricultural teacher at' no. I’s and bins for culls. Gray Court-Owmgs high ^hool, show' 5 „ are to be bank- that sweet potatoes dug before frost I ^ and stored m the.r potato house kept .n fine condition. Potat^ dug after,,containers on the ^und: C rcuiir 17°S ^^fifoes for^ "o' “'I”* “> Circular 175, bweet Potatoes lor ,jj^ ^ Home Use, gives valuable informa-, tion on harvesting and banking sweet ^ potatoes and may be obtained free ^ from the county agent’s office or by j ' writing to the Publication Division,! TAf\ All TALIADDAIA/ Clemson, S. C. ! IUl/AT ■ ■ ■ lUrlvKKUff Sweet potatoes should be handled j n rx D k* in harvesting as if they were peaches! UOIl KODinSOII or eggs, horticultural and 'marketing! specialists of the eictension service ad'use. “The careless handling of CHOPS—Dollars sweet potatoes at time of harvesting! In tenhs of pork chops, the dollar is one of the greatest handicaps our i which you put in the bank a year ^ growers must overcome,” the special-1 ago today is now wmrth about 70 th^’the^u'ppiy’’"talT*^^^ sav “BniLsinP. which occurs' cents. In terms of coffee it is worth l__* i 4^^ s- INCREASES—Food There’s one thing about this infla-, tion business that needs to be clari fied right now. If you listen to most any govern ment official talk about infla ion, he’ll tell you that prices are going up be cause the demand for goods te greater than th^ supply—that the production of automobiles, for example, has been cut way down while the demand for automobiles is going way up. He’ll point out that prices on things like automobiles, refrigerators and other restricted products which have been restricted by defense requirement, must be controlled or they will be sold at exorbitant prices. That’s all true enough. But if you ask a housewife if the cost of living has gone up she won’t think of it in terms of automobiles and such like— she’ll say it is higher because the price of food' is higher. It may be that government de mands for food for soldiers and for the British mean farmers have less over-production than they used to have, but this "demand is greater ists say. “Bruising, which occurs mostly at the time of digging, results | about 75 cents and in terms of eggs in the potatoes being of a dark, un- about 66 cents attractive appearance and sometimes is the cause of considerable decay.” To hold down losses, six sugges tions are made: 1 If you go to the bank to draw out that dollar, you’ll still get a perfectly good dollar bill, or four quarters or ten dimes—and maybe, if it’s been! not apply to food. And it’s food pric^ es that worry us most today. We can get along without a lot of modem 1 A Champ at Marbles W» Are Champs In Saving You Money On Your Gas Bills! Ask the Hundreds of Regular McCoy Custoniers and. Then Drive In Yourself To Try McCoy’S regular Gasoline gal. 20c Phis Service You’ll Like TUNE IN on THE RANGERS over WBT—Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 to 8:45 A. M., Saturday, 7:30 to 7:46 A. M. McCQY’S Z STATION Station Corner Florida and Musgrove Streets Jollelieve MUeri/ fPjeM ^^^UOUBLtASLETS. SALVE. HOSE OSOPS Use a vine cutter to remove the j in a savings account, you’ll get a vines. A vine cutter can be made on ^ couple of cents interest for having most farms at a very low cost by left your dollar there for a year. But using a short piece of angle iron and it’s when you go shopping with that three section blades of an old mow-, dollar that you find it has shrunken ing machine. County farm agents can in value. That 2 or 3 per cent inter give instructions for ’making. | est which you get from the bank is 2. If practicable, leave potatoes in of little consequence when the pur- Ihe row for a few hours unless the [ chasing value of your dollar has fall- — en off 20 ta:36 per-cept. It is sometimes hard for us to real- I ize that money has no stable value— I that a wage of $40 a week one year jmay be a higher purchasing income 14han $60 a week in another year. But there are many instances of that be-r [ing true.' i The average American is earning ja pretty good income today—^higher ,than for many years in the past. But it’s not going to do him much good if | he can’t buy as much with it as he | could with I the smaller income he t j earned two years ago. I That’s why everyone is beginning to worry more about inflation. ! INFLATION—Curbs I I don’t pretend to know the solu tion to this rapid advance in* prices nor just what should be done to curb further advances. But there is 100 per cent agreement among govern ment officials that prices will go sky- high unless drastic steps are taken, i It’s going to be a big problem be cause it involves stepping on a lot of people’s toes. One way to curb inflation, for in stance, is to put ceilings on prices. But the farmers don’t want to see ceilings on their prices, manufactur ers, facing rising costs of mataials, are afraid of ceilings, and producers of raw materials, worried over rising labor costs and transportation prob lems, don’t want to bw the brunt of the curbs. Another way to help limit inflation is to supplement price curbs with ceilings 0^ wages paid to laborers and to farm workers. But there’s going to be a battle royal if millions of people Are told that even if prices go up they won’t be permitted to earn more money. A third way is for the government to cut down purchasing power by KEROSENE... IQc Per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL , COMPANY WEST MAIN STREET D. E. Tribble Co. 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