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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
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Gasoline gal. 20c
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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
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^^^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
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