The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 29, 1949, Image 2
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THE CLINTON CH&ONICLE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919
77,000 Phones
Announcements placed in s. c.
Since the War
LYNN
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Lynn of ^
Memphis. Tenn., announce the birth Columbia, Sept. 24.—The Southern
of a daughter. Elizabeth Jane, on 1 B ell Telephone company reported to-
Seotcmber 24. da >’ that B has ad ded 77,000 tele
phones in South Carolina since the
SOUTH'S BUSINESS
LEADERS OPTIMISTIC
FOR THE FUTURE
Cotton Growers
Offered Advice
To Destroy Stalks
Mr and Mrs. Lynn are former
residents of this city.
end of World War II.
There were 172,000 Bell’company
Bl'RLEY phones operating in the state Sept. 1
a Mr. and Mrs. William D. Burley of compared with only 95,100 Sept. 1,
Crreensbofo. N. C., announce the birth 1945. ( (
of a son. William David Burley. Jr., The increase in the number of
in Greensboro, on Thursday. Sep- phones since the war, the company
lember 22. Mrs. Burley is the former said, was at a rate five times greater
Miss Elizabeth Hatton, daughter of than the pre-war rate of develop-
Mrs. J K. Hatton of this city. _ment.
♦ The number of telephones in Co-
Interesting Speaker h ?i r . e f sed
_ j 3 /'i i "from 20,710 V-J day to 34,000 today.
For Garden Club the company said.
Atlanta, Sept. 24. — The South's
economic picture today is a portrait
of prosperity, highlighted in autum
nal golden color.
Business leaders predict a fall
boom. Retail trade in several areas
already has picked up beyond fond
est expectations.
t . Summer sales doldrum's and reces
sion talk apparently have disappear
ed. although some tycoons still have
words of warning.
It’s not the South's weevil-infested
cotton crop nor labor disputes that
mainly worry the top financiers. It's
what Uncle Sam will do.
On Friday, Sept. 30 at three o'clock
a treat will be offered to ail garden
, lub members, their friends and rela
tives (gentlemen included) by the
Green Thumb Garden Club o.f Lau
rens. Mrs. Fred Ware of Augusta,
Ga . president of the Hill Top Garden
C jo of Augusta, former staff mem-
er : the Atlanta Constitution and
: -mer Literary Edit -r of the Au-
_U'ta Chronicle, will speak that af-
Vehicle Licenses In
County $51,740
A survey by International News
Service indicates that employment is
increasing with the outset'of fall.
Buying is strong. Aggressive sales ap-
,ern<
hall
at the Laurens community
••'Ft wer Arrangement in the
Burlesque planner.’’
A imi'.'.oft charged by the club
25 cenjs A .-orial hour will
a the address.
Students To Direct
Sunday Vesper Services
Special to The Chronicle'.
Columbia. Sept. 23. — During the
past year a total of S61.740 has been
spent by Laurens county citizens for
motor vehicle licenses, according to
r. report issued by the South Carolina
highway department, covering li
cense feels collected during the pe
riod from September 13, 1948, to
August 31. 1949.
Of the amount collected for fees in
Laurens county, S60.790 was collected
ri . to last mmth. and the remain
ing S950 was collected during the
month of August.
proach can make it stronger.
Men who should" know how the
dollars bow generally are confident.
B. M. Edwards, for example, presi
dent of the South Carolina National
bank. Edwards declared:
"The business outlook in South
Carolina is definitely good for the
next three months, barring any radi
cal legislation.”
Richards Courts, the Atlanta stock
broker, also warned that the govern
ment can play the key role in the
Washington; bept. io.—Farmers of
the Carolines and other cotton states
should destroy their cotton stalks as
soon as possible after picking time
to wipe out the breeding ground of
the boll weevils which have caused
severe losses this year.
This advice was given today by R.
W. Harned. leader of the Agriculture
Department's division of cotton in
sect investigators, who has just re
turned here from an inspection of the
damage done by the weevils in 11
Southern states.
Harned said:
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“The year 1949 will be long re
membered as a boll weevil year.
Thousands of cotton growers were
forced either to use large quantities
of insecticides to control weevils or
they took great losses. Many plant
ers said weevils were more numer
ous during the first week in Septem
ber than in any year Since 1927 or
1923.
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‘•If a high percentage of the wee
vils that go into winter quarters this
fall live through .the winter, the cot
ton farmers will' have a hard fight
on their hands next summer,” he
said. ,
Although no estimates on cotton
losses caused by weevils in 19’9 a.e
available so far, the pests cost cot
ton farmers more than 3400,000.000
in 1927.
Leighton Is New
Tennis Coach at College
Harned, an official of the depart
ment’s bureau of pntomology and
plant quarantine, said destruction of
the stalks removes fall feed for the
weevils and prevents them from in
creasing in numbers. The pests then
go into hibernation hungry and part
ly starved, and winter weathers kills
them. “Insecticides”, he said, “can’t
be used eeonmically to reduce the
numbers of weevils present in the
fields late in the fall.”
A new tennis coach joined the ath
letic department of Presbyterian col-
.ege the past week.
He is Jim Leighton, professional
with a wide range of experience
along the circuit from Massachusetts
to Florida.
“The conrtol of the boll weevil by
early stalk destruction is not new,”
Harned said. The method is the old
est and most successful boll weevil
control measure known. Specialists
on the growing and culture of cottdn
all agree that if every farmer who
can get his cotton harvested in time
will cut and plow under his cotton
stalks before frost, boll weevil con
trol next year will be less expensive,
end less difficult.
Leighton said his objective is to
put P. C. on top in the collegiate ten
nis world. He chose the Blue Stocking
institution because he feels the ad
ministration ‘‘has been sound in de
veloping the sport, thus gaining for
the college considerable recognition
in that field.” He rates the college
tennis plant as one of the best in the
South,
The young tennis pro attended
Dartmouth college and has instructed
at the Essex County club, Manches-
‘.er, Mass.; Wee Burn Beach club,
Rowayton, Conn.; Gasparilla Inn,
Boca Grande, Fla.; and the St. Pe
tersburg, Fla., tennis club.
not be surprising if fall activity es
tablished an all-time ^record.”
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The new Blue Stocking coach said
he has his winter activities planned
with an eye toward developing and
scouting players to strengthen P. C.’s
tennis team. The college already
boasts a record of winning ten
straight tennis championships.
LAURENS COUNTY GIRLS ARE WINTHROP GRANDDAUGHTERS
>•••; .on: :ea;
; Will
t fc.-.ture pr >gram o
ilore’s ri Vesper service of the
’ .'Or es Sunday nijjht. Their
'.erne h A Case for Cnrisl anity.”
Jim H h.ngswjrth of Norfolk, Va..
.’ .! -ervo as moderator, and Cy Mal-
1„: J f Thomasville, Ga.. will oroide
. cr the worship program.
Parti, ipating in the discussion
..r ...> a:e Neely McCarter of Gas-
• n.a, N. C.. Ed Kenney of Aiken,
B.li Holcombe of Westminster ana
Winsor Wilder of Atlanta.
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rising tide of regional prosperity. He
explained:
“A reversal .Of trade balances will
prove a boon to all the nation, and
definitely to the South. But unless
there is a reversal, unless creditors
act like creditors and debtors like
debtors. 1 can be no optimimst.
Courts charged that “no matter
how it may look," devaluation is in-
process now.
Edwards, meanwhile, told a group
of industrialists that "the way we’re-
going now, we’re definitely headed*
t • . : - cialism.”
Except for these apparent worries,
the South Carolina banker and others
oucstioned expressed abounding faith
that business has begun to boom, i
John M. McGregor, of Memphis,
declared there is no reason why bus
iness should be anything less than
excellent "for all who make it good
by aggressiveness, intelligence and
use of good common sense.”
McGregor operates T5ne of the
South's largest appliance and auto-
mative concerns. He recently met
with 400 top retail dealers engaged;
in many types of business. He ex
plained:
“From their conversation, I feel
justied in predicting good business
Conditions this fall and winter.”
A study of August trends in New!
Orleans shows a business snap-back
that equals the high tides of imme
diate post-war years.
The research secretary of New Or
leans’ association of commerce, said
that a normal rise from here out to
Christmas may be expected- ^Arthurj
S! Graham said, in fact, that "it will
Winthrop college students who are daughters of alu nnae welcomed 45 freshmen into their Granddaughters’
club this year. Attending the annual party for new members were Winthrop's president. Dr. Henry R. Sims,
and Mrs. Sims, both standing at the fireplace. Miss Ruth Williams, executive secretary of the alumnae associ
ation, is in the doorway at left. Laurens county is represented in the Granddaughters’ club by two students:
Mary Jane Howard of Gray Court, and Nancy Royster of Laurens.— (Winthrop News Service Photo).
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