The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 08, 1949, Image 13
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1949
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Man Who Claims Long-Distance Speed Title
Visits Clinton In His Record-Breaking Car
Recently, there has been talk of i der „ favorable conditions produce is one of the best varieties tar salad
the cutback in inventories having headed cabbage in December," Mr. and the White Egg is^a good variety
possibly been overdone, with the rfe- Schilletter says. “They may be used for salad and turnip^ It is too late
suit that many firms find themselves, of course for green before heads are for rutabaga turnips except in the
losing sales because they are unable formed. We recommended Charles- southern part of the state. The Sho-j^ insects may be found in Extan-
Inound sneed kin* whole thin*' tod l )rovide increasingly choosy cus- ton Wakefield and Drumhead Savoy, goin or Japanese Foliage is also good sion Bulletin 102. Garden and Truck
A Mississippi dry goods salesman h; a . ^ IT ^ ° tomers a sufficient selection of goods. Sow seed the last of September or tor- tjoth turnips and salad.”
•who broke a world’s speed record ^ he ovvner 0 f a Kaiser-Frazer ag- The customer3 * it’ 3 sa i £ i> turn t° com- early October for spring planting. Other vegetables which may be
said Monday he did it by trusting ency in Aberdeen was having some P etin g fini h 3 - I "Turnips can be planted with sue- ^
in his car, his tires and the Lord 1 t 0U gh luck. He couldn’t sell cars.i Some firming of business senti- cess as late as the last of October for
and by traveling when the highway reason> acc ording to friend Park- ment was reported, meanwhile, by salad," he continues. “The Seven Top
er, was because he was in the army President Truman’s chief economic
flying planes for Uncle Sam while advisor, Dr. Edwin G. Nourse. Yes-
sown or planted now are onions,
kale, parsley, radishes, mustard,, ond
spinach.
Information of the
Crop Insects, available at county ex
tension offices," Mr. Schilletter adds.
patrolmen were asleep
L. P. Parker, 40-year-old whole
sale dry goods salesman from Aber
deen, Miss., displayed to residents of
Clinton the Frazer car which trans
ported him from Chicago to Mobile
a distance of 881 miles—in 12 hours
and 31 minutes. On the trip he av
eraged an overall speed of 70.2 miles
Rev. Deason Regains
Appetite, Weight And
Strength On Scalf's
other dealers were making money, terday he cited the recent strong,
He didn’t have the cash to cope with showing of the stock market as evi-
other dealers after the war. So. L. i dence of improved business feeling.
P., who was confident he had thei In still another report, the Corn-
Lord on his side, set out to show ’em merce department said that publicly
what a good car the Kaiser-Frazer reported cash dividends paid by cor-
_ _ folks put out. “I knew I had the Lord porations were 13 per cent higher in
per hour, including the one hour on my side> *» b e said, “because I did June than in the same month last
and 15 minutes it took to fix a blow-| it for free ’ He m i g ht not have taken year. It put the June figure at $825,-
out and get a. new tire and two gas j tare of me if j had done it f or mo n- 000,000, and said about 60-65 per
stops. The record-breaking jaunt ; ey .. cent of all cash dividends paid are
was made on April 12- - Since that, ^ ^ existing speed record was ! publicly reported _
time he has been tourin,, the country, ^ average of 52 m iie S per hour made.
as the guest of Kaiser-Frazer dealers^ , n g ^7 Angeles to savannah run.;Many Garden Jobs
While here he visited C. W. Cooper, , thoueht he could do better.Ip n 11 14 .i
Auto Sales, local Kaiser-Frazer deal "j So for three mon ths he studied brak-| FO 1, Months
er - ,, . ,, . . 01Q 1 es, blowouts and maps—and prayed—, AfC Listed
According to the bespectacled, 219- wgnt through that one blowout I
1 had on my trip 50 times in my mind
before I even started," he said. “I
thought a lot about the trip at night.
Sometimes I couldn’t sleep good. I
had to do a lot of praying.”
Going first to Mobile, he looked j tional vegetables for the fall and
“Everything I ate up the Western Union office and j winter gardens; and controlling gar-
seemed to ferment made some landmarks. To prevent den insects and pests, according to
in my stomach and!Possible discrepancies in time he;A. E. Schilletter, leader, Clemson
, L JT planned to have Chicago wire Mobile Horticulture Extension work.
I felt so bad I could |the time q{ his departur e and then
hardly go on with check in wi th the Mobile Western
my work. I eat any- Union upon his arrival.
thing now and feel' At 6 o’clock on April 12 he got in range for storage of such crops as
stronger than in Chicago at dinner and went to a sweet potatoes, dried lima beans,
a Ion* time on movie. “But it made me nervous,”, dried peas, peanuts, etc. He says local
ScalfV’ declares he said. “It was one of those Abbott county farm and home demonstration
Rev R R Deason, I and Costello things. So I got up and agents have helpful information on
Rev. Deasoon Bessemer Alabama. 1 went to my car.” ! the storage of these crops.
Scalf’s Indian River Medicine is At 11:29 that night the Chicago; In urging gardeners to keep the
on sale at all good drug stores; try! Western Union sent Mobile a tele-j garden crops growing, he suggests
it. Nothin* Replaces Its Years of; gram saying that L P. Parker had hat nitrogen is their most needed
jj se j just left that city. At noon the fol- 4 — 1 — 1 — 1
Hear ScalFs Harmoneers Quartet ’-owing day he pulled into Mobile.
Clemson, Sept. 3.—Garden work
during September and October should
include storing vegetables already,
produced; keeping the late summer
vegetables growing; planting add!-;
In the extension garden letter
just issued he points out that during
these months gardeners should ar-
over WFBC, Dial 1300, at 8:45 A.M.,
and over WSPA, Dial 950, at 4:45
P. M., Monday through Friday.
food and that an abundant and read
ily available supply should be on
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And lost his way. It seems he could | hand at all times. He adds that in
not find the Western Union office, most cases crops will be benefited
“It took me ten minutes to go around j by an application of sulfate of am-
one corner in that city,” he said with monia or nitrate of soda scattered
j the air of one who has lost some- three to five inches from the base
I thing very precious. “I ran into two' of the plants and covered with a
red lights.” (shallow cultivation.
, After crossing Illinois, Kentucky' “Cabbage plants transplanted dur-
Tennessee,, Mississippi and Alabama ing September or October should un
in 12 hours, two red lights and an ' A mimjnv ■mns'v
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his time card. But he still broke a 3-in-l Service — Advertisinc, Corn-
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faze L. P. “The only one I saw was
parked outside his station in Jack-
son, Tenn,” he said. “There weren’t
any highway speed limits ih any of
1 the states I passed through anyhow,
1 except Mississippi and I wasn t wor-
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tried.”
Until the trips began to interfere
with his dry goods business, he had
asked no remuneration from the Kai
ser-Frazer dealers around the coun- |
try who asked him to visit their'
(cities with his record-breaking car. j
Then a friend advised him to “get it
while the gettin’ is good.” The friend
\ olunteered to become his publicity j
agent, boftked him in advance, and j
now Parker, his car and his friend
pre winding up the southeastern leg;
of a tour which will carry them, they
hope, to every state in the country.
Oh yes, the friend who was going
' in the hole. L. J. smiled, resplendent
' in a pea green shirt. “From January t
| to April,” he said, “he had sold seven
cars. Since Tve made my trip he’s
sold 50!”
Consumer Incomes
Higher Past Six Months
Than Boom Period of '48
Washington, Aug. 16.—Incomes of
consumers ran 2.6 per cent higher in;
i the first half of this year than in the
! same period of 1948, when the boom
was in full swing.
Retail buying power thus was fat
tened by the flow of income to peo-
p l e — as distinguished from corpor
ations—at an annual rate of $213,-
400,000,000 in the first six months of
(this year, Commerce department fig-
| ures showed. That was a record high,
j This stream of cash was on the in
crease at mid-year, too, according to
! revised data from the department.
Personal incomes rose in total from
I'April through June after having
I bumped down from last December’s
1 peak annual rate of $217,000,000,000
to a total of $212,400,000,000 in
March. By June, the rate was back
to $213,500,000,000.
The main cause of an increase in
the annual rate of personal incomes
I from May to June was higher farm
^receipts due to disposal of a larger
volume of crops—either on the mar
ket or loans from the government.
Possibly of greater significance
! was the first increase in factory pay
rolls. since last September. The
I steady decline in that interim had
! resulted rfom worker layoffs, which
in turn showed up in increased un
employment. In June, the depart
ment said, wages rose in the non
durable goods industries and “stead
ied” in the durable group.
Another Commerce department re-
i port showed that the book value of
1 business inventories had been cut
back about $1,000,000,000 in June—
chiefly by manufacturers and retail
ers—to an estimated total of $51,-
1579,000,000.
j Some economists have dubbed the
business downturn this year as “in-
I ventory recession.” As they see it!,
; the chief cause of the downslide has
been unwillingness of businessmen
to increase or maintain stocks for
fear they would get stuck wtih the
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