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' \ / 4 ? THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Seven SOCIETY (Continued from page three) Va., where he will work in connec tion with the field training pro gram for students at Union Seminary in Richmond. The wedding TyiU take place on- September 7 at the Central Presbyte rian Church in Atlanta, Ga. Junior-Senior Banquet, Dance, Enjoyable Event At Armory The junior class of Clinton high school entertained the senior class Friday evening with the annual ju nior-senior banquet and dance at the . rmory. \ • A gypsy tneme was used in the colorful decorations. The invitations, memories, and unusual place cards, which had a fortune on the back, also carried out the theme. W. R. Anderson, superintendent of schools, gave the invocation. Jimmy Hollingsworth, junior president, gave the welcome and a toast “to the past, present, and future.” The senior president, Joe Holland, responded. | The entertainment was supplied by a number of high school girls dressed in the brilliantly colored re-, galio of gypsies, Joan Barron, Sue Cooper, Mary Catherine Anderson,! and Joan Vaughan, formed a quar-| tet which sang “In a Little Gypsy! Tea Room.” Barbara Workman, so-: prano soloist, gave the ever-loved “Gypsy Love Song.”’ A second quar tet, composed of Josephine Leaman, Betty Jean Sumerel, Joan Vaughan and Barbara Workman, sang “Gypsy Moon.” A vivacious gypsy dance by Joan Barron, Joan Vaughan and Mary Catherine Anderson closed the colorful program. The music for the dance was by Bill Blalock’s quintet. Mrs. Lewis Wallace and Mrs. Ro ger Henry are the junior sponsors. Questions About Freezing Answered by USDA Experts Two home freezers may be cheaper than one in the long run. Or no freezer at all may prove more economical. Families who ar h e thinking about buying a home food freezer shoulB make a well planned and business like approach to finding out what equipment will serve their needi best—and at the least expense— says the U. S. department of ag riculture, on the basis of investi gations by Dr. Earl McCracken of the bureau of human nutrition and home economics. Two freezers of medium capacity —10 cubic feet—would cost more to purchase than one freezer of 20 cubic feet size. But when the stored food supply is reduced to 10 cubic feet, one freezer could be turned off. Also when food is being stored, one freezer could be used for freezing and the other for stor age. If the family need was for 30 cubic feet capacity, a division of the equipment, into one 10 feet and bne 20-feet freezer, would al low still wider choice in operation with 10-, 20-, or 30-cubic feet ca pacity under refrigeration. The “no-freezer-at-all” policy is more economical for some families, Dr. McCracken points out. This may be true for a family that has access to a community locker plant—cooperative or commercial conveniently located. With a good refrigerator at home including a compartment for freezing and stor ing small lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, the family may find it more economical to depend on the central plant for large quantity storage and for the heavy freezing Jobs connected with butchering of farm animals or the freezing of poultry and of fruits such as peaches that ripen all at one time. Musgrove Club Holds May Meeting The Musgrove Home Demonstra tion club met with Mrs. A. A. May on the afternoon of May 4. The meeting was called to order by the president. • After a song, the devotional was given by Mrs. R. G. Wrenn. The roll was called and the minutes read by the secretary. Delegates to the state short course at Winthrop were elected. Also, men-j tion was made that Miss Blanche Cox was voted “Who's Who” in the Musgrove club and participated in a candle ceremony at the Council meet. It was recommended that the club observe May 1-7 as National Music week and Family week. The club msde a contribution to the can cer drive. - •. Mrs Larry DeShields had charge of the picture study, “Saying Grace,” j by Chardin. Mrs Adeline Long gave an inter esting demonstration on the making of corsages. During the social hour, contests were enjoyed and poems on “Moth er” were read. Refreshments were served by the hostess. McIntoshs shoe SHOP Send Your Shoes To Us fsr Best Materials and Workmanship. World's First Radar Port Oporatlnc Raw in Britain World’s • first specially designed port radar ayatem for harbor su pervision has now begun to oper ate. at England's great port of Liv erpool. The Liverpool radar equipment is a complex machinery that gives a complete picture of the 12 miles of narrow tortuous fairway be tween Bar Lighthouse and the docks. Coating about 40.000 pounds (S120.000), it was designed, tested and built in only 18 months. The new radar installation has uses beyond the ability to direct ships safely Into dock in foggy or bad weather. It also insures that more vessels can use a channel at one time, thus providing a quicker turnaround. It will also reduce de lay costs—delay of one hour' may easily extend to the loss of a tide, which would coat the average ves sel some 400 pounds ($1,900). Port authorities will have con tinuous observation of all shippings within the port area and its ap proached up to 20 miles range. It will alq6 enable them to check the positjphs of all floating navigation al marks—in place of the old method of personal inspection every few days, and it will give :nstantaneous information of any shipping casualty or any dangerous obstruction in the channel ap proaches. Housecleaning time on a big scale is here again! Use the following tips to help in the work. Before tackling any housecleaning i job, use your head to save your, hands. Rub baby lotion well into the hands so that the white emulsion of pure bland oil and water with larf- olin can protect the hands while you clean. Organize cleaning tools such as 1 soap, brushes, powder and polishing cloths on a basket or tray to carry, I all assembled, from room to room. J Ideal cleaner for whisking dirt from bric-a-brac, book tops, base boards and hard-to-clean corners is an ordinary two-inch paint brush. Brooms last longer and give bet ter service if you whisk them, through warm soapy water occa sionally. After rinsing them w’ell, I hang the brooms to dry so that the straws do not rest against floor orj wall. Dust hangs downward on walls as you dust, so brush them up to pre vent streaking and smearing. Before cleaning a radiator, lay a dampened cloth across the top. This catches a large part of the dust as you jxush up around the coils. Spots and stains on wallpaper can often be removed with ordinary dry cleaner. Pour a little of the solution on a soft clean, cloth and sponge lightly for best results. Liquid cream wax should be used for furniture and floors that you want to clean at the same time they are waxed. It may also be used on radiators, leather and plastic up holstery, as well as Venetian blinds. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Frozen Fruit Delight (Serves 6) 3 ounces cream cheese M teaspoon salt V« cup mayonnaise 4 tablespoons lemon juice ^ cup crushed pineapple 2 medium bananas, sliced cup walnuts, chopped H cup maraschino cherries 1 cup cream, whipped Blend together the cheese, salt, mayonnaise and lemon juice. Add. fruit and nuts; fold in whipped cream. Pour mixture into refrig erator tray; freeze until firm. Sene on lettuce leaves. A PARMER stirred restlessly on his “ corn-shuck mattresn In the bed room of his 18th century frame home located in the outskirts of an eastern town. Slowly, from the depths of sleep, he realized what had awakened him. Smoke l Instantly, he was wide awake and shouted at his son to saddle the mare and ride to town for help. Meanwhile, the farmer, his wife and two daughters formed a four-man bucket brigade and heaved water from leather buckets on the flames. Townspeople Respond. In town, men were running to sta bles where teams of horses were be ing hitched to odd-looking rigs fes tooned with lines of leather hose and laden with buckets. The first company on the scene of the Maze racketed to • halt, and the captain raced to the building with ar ladder under his arm. He set the ladder against the front of the house and climbed to a spot Just under the second-story windows. There, by the light of the fire leaping from the eaves, he care fully examined a metal plaque nailed to the clapboard, known as a “fire mark.” "It’s the New Haven’s boys,” he shouted, and hurriedly clambered down the ladder and trotted back to the road. His company of fire fight ers found seats on the rig from which they watched the progress of the Are. “Innocent” Bystanders. In the meantime, other fire com panies had arrived at the term yard, but as soon as they received word that the little metal plaque on the wall read “New Haven Home Insur ance Company” they, too, sat Idly by. It was left entirely up to a fee brigade sponsored by the New Haven company to fight the darting tongues ef flame, fer the fire mark had shown that eufe this company stood to beaefe by patting out the fire. Gradually this cold-blooded Itth century attitude gave way to a more humane concern for the domestic tragedies which follow a fire. Com pany-sponsored fire brigades like the fictitiously-named one above were supplanted by volunteer communit; organizations. There was a time. In the early 1 18th century, when neighbors stood or sat idly by and let insurance company-sponsored Are brigades do the firefighting when a fire-insured farmhouse or barn caught fire, since only the company stood to benefit by putting out the fire before total destruction. Now, however, independent farm mutuals patterned after a mutual insurance company founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1732 are saving farmers from coast to coast millions of dollars annually. Pkrmers thumbed through pages of history and adopted a mutual in surance principle which had been pioneered by one of America’s great statesmen, best remembered today for his discoveries in electricity. According to material gathered and annotated by H. L. Kennl- cott, secretary of Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty ’ company. It Franklin who In 17S2 a mutual tnswr- eompany which has sur- to this day a pattern The National Association of Mu- hsuraooo Companies estimates that 14 Milton dollars worth of rural propvtr to protected by more than lAOt farm mutuala. Kennicott explains, M ^rm mutuals are ‘grmss-rooU* organizations They are formed by the fanners them selves and usually serve local arear. * '-om a township to a few Here's how Kennicott says a typ ical loss Ls handled under the farm mutual system: A farm near Alton, Illinots. suf fered minor damage from a wind storm. Next day a fanner who lived about 10 miles away and sesved as the part-time secretary for the local farm mutual, stopped at the dam aged farm on his way to town. It was milking time, so the secretary Just walked into the barn He found the farmer and his son there and said to them: “You lost a little roofing. ( suppose that will take about three dollars worth of shingles, and you and your son will nail it on. Here are the three dollars.” He settled the loos and got a re ceipt. Aa simple as that. The national association to which a majority of farm mutuals belong Is Justifiably proud in pointing out that the total volume of insurance carried In farm mutuals is sufficient to cover three-fourtlis of Its value more than half of all the farm nrrp- • ty that is subject to L^ur.'.nce .re. t- MORE CHEVROLET TRUCKS IN USE Gold Theatre JOANNA, S. C. Morning Shows—10 A. M. Monday. Wednesday, Friday Matinee—3 P. M. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Night Shows—6:30 and 8:30 « Every Night Admission 35c (29c plus 6c tax) Children under 12—4c Thur.-Fri. May 12-13 THREE MUSKETEERS In Color Lana Turner — Gene Kelly Saturday May 14 BLACK EAGLE ...and... RUSTY SAVES A LIFE Mon.-Tues. May 16-17 THE LIFE OF RILEY From Radio Program With William Bendix Wednesday May d8 MR. PEABODY AND THE MERMAIDS ALSO CASH NIGHT VFYT MY DREAM IS YOURS In Color. With Ja^k Carson Growth of Electric Industry History of the electric industry during recent years has been one of unparalleled growth in almost every phase of operation. Demand for electric power from all classes of customers — residential, rural, commercial, industrial—has been increasing at a phenomenal rate. Electricity sales in 1947 were the highest in history, more than dou ble the 1939 total, and topped the record war-time peak set in 1944 by more than 19 billion kilowatt Tours. New customers, being added at the unprecedented rate of more than two million a year, brought ihe 1947 total of customers on the electric lines to about 38.4 million. More customers have been added since V-J day than were added dur^ mg the first 30 years of the indus try’s existence. If than any other make Official registration figures prove that more people use Chevrolet trucks . . . that more people prefer Chevrolet’s outstanding feo- tures, quality and performance at lowest prices . . . that more people know Chevrolet trucks are first in value! See for yourself how much more Chev rolet Advance-Design trucks offer. Call us, or stop in at our showroom—soon! THERE’S A CHEVROLET TRUCK FOR EVERY HAULING JOB! '•"O, C\ Weight of Mother Earth How much does the Earth weigh? Should one really speak of the mass of the earth, rather than its weight, since weight is a measure of the attraction of the Earth for an object. Mass (which is given in the sarhe^umts as used for weight) is a measure of the amount of matter that it contains. In space, away from the attraction of some celestial body, an object has no weight, though it has the same mass that it would have on the Earth’s surface. The mass of the ^Earth itself is 6,586,000,000,000,000,- i 300,000 (six sextillion, 586 quintil- 1 lion) short tons. ^ . I CHEVROLET 1! h .N y New Ape Man Reported Excavation of the fossil remains of a huge, ancient ape man, the j largest such creature yet known to science, has been reported to the University of California by a party of the university’s African expedi tion working near Johannesburg, South Africa. The remains of a lower wisdom tooth, two upper in cisors, an upper canine, and much of a low?r jaw with three premolars and four molars. The jaw is massive, and some of the teeth are typically human and larger than thpse in the recently v* - ( •] i- • GILES CHEVROLET COMPANY, Inc. CLINTON. S. C.