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/ Pape Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 15, 1949 &hr QUintun (Ehrmwlr FsUbllshrd 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON. Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks t ic cooperation of its subscribers and reader*— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Christmas Music By Presbyterian Group Beautifully Rendered i, Milk Output Seen As Forecastable 'Factor' Method Used In 50-70 Day Tests Breeders of Ayrshire dairy cat tle can now determine the annual j The Christmas vesper service, a | traditional event at tne First Pres- consisted of': j bytenan church, was most creditably presented Sunday evening before a son, Ansel Godfrey, William A. Sher- Nettles, Julia Gray, Billy Rowland, ratt, R. E. Wysor, III, J. F. Jacobs, j Elizabeth Glover, Nancy Catherine Jr., - Henry L heaure.iux. George ' DuBois, Horace Payne, Linda Milam, Watt. Dudley Davis, Kathy Hart, Jenny The junior choir under* the di-i Walker, Judy Bolick, Billy Sheratt, rection of Mrs. Edgar Sadler had | Bob Uldrick, Mary Ann Neighbors, part on t ie program. The group r ' ">■ Joan Todd, Dian Owen, Billy capacity congregation under the di- Brooks Owens, Martha Jane Bryson, rection of Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, choir' Nancy Nei 2 hboi 'S. Lou Jones Corn- director and organist. The contata was entitled. "His Name Shall Be Called Jesus” in- ] eluding eleven lessons. The rostrum and choir loft, were appropriately decorated with candles and green- 'ery, with effective lighting. Members of the adult choir were wall, Wallace Boyd, Jgnny Red, Ron nie Moore, Georgia Young, Marie Davis, Margaret Ann Bolick, Lillian Hart, Eloise Marshall, Rose Moore Nancy Davis, Florence Winn, Jenny Payne, Leanna Young, Jim ^Pitts. A joy gift was made at the con clusion of the impressive service to help aid those on the ministerial relief roll of the Southern Presby terian church. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLft . ... ., , Sopranos: Miss Betty Neal Derrick, milk production of their cows, with ; Mrs H McSween, Miss Helen a maximum margin of error of |Norwoodt Miss j^lty Taylor, Mrs. only eight-tenths of one per cent on ; Edgar Sadler Mrs Bailey - WillianiS( seventy day , Mj ss K ent Wysor, Miss Grace Young. to j Mrs. M. W. Brown, Mrs. E. H. Hall, CLINTON. S. C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949 The Christmas Tree blossoming cherry sapling home as a Christmas tree". in the (light and off to bend over the laun- ..r « j j i. u (dry tubs in somebody’s basement,! hWih* Legends dealing with the oiigni. jr ,j ... * , . .’i D > too . . . , „ ... . f 'and it was dark when she returned. 1 of the Christmas tree, says Watch-| But today tho anxious facc of the | * Ik 'mt X K mint 7' g °i aS back T as; little child made her wonder. By| Thls revolutionary K C r tU J y " hen Ge u ,ge nightfall, she could stand it no long-. ,n da,r >’ farming was announced by , , jb ‘ ; A ' iabiai } ® eog 4 rapher ’ d ^'|cr. Well muffled up in her old 1 Henry Mosle, chairman of the re- o.artd that all of the trees in the shawl shc hurried across the street.. search committee of the Ayrshire iorest blossomed and bore fruit the .- In a cold and cheerless room she : mght of our Lords nativity. I found the little girl still waiting-' It is believed that Jacobs story sobbing now — because Santa Claus : ight have led to the later custom had passed her by. - ^ <1 hanging apples and fruits on ev- 1 ■, ,, i , . r . j , . . ' Ordinarily, Hilda was a truthful! ,he , hab,, ln i person. But now. in htV efforts ioi Kitjm pjits of Euiope, of using a| com(ort , hc | 1(t|e gir) she strotchwi facts a little. Santa Claus, she ex-1 plained, is an extremely busy old; i l r* j . gentleman. Sometimes, it is simply I oOOu Lreed Ot Conduct impossible for him to reach every-! Eddie Cantor is one of the coun- body on Christmas Day. To thous-; try's popular comedians. Over the ands of homes, he comes on the day | radio he talks a lot of foolishness after Chrisfmas. Hope shone once i many people don’t bother about lis- more in the little girl’s face, and t* ning too. But recently when the Hilda returned to her home, gentleman spoke at the National! "Next day she yas up even earlieri Salety Council’s Congress in Chi- than usual, plodding through sleet) cago. he talked good sense* and gave and snow to a home far across the -ound advice every American who city, a home where she had done the* takes hold of a-stering wheel should laundry for many years. Here, per-j itad carefully and thoughtfully. |haps. there would be something for It people would try to be as po- the Sirl. something to make! lite while driving a car as they are g'*** Hilda's hasty assurance that when playing host in their homes, lSometimes Santa Claus comes on the thou.-orifis nf traffic accident." would day aftei Chiistmas. She was right. b. avoided. Cantor said. “What is From that hom e. and neighboring; Pr of there about you and me* that makes^hcre* went out big baskets of us an Emily' Post as a host—and a good thin « s for th c little girl—toys. the basis of fifty milking records. It is expected that dairy farmers * Mrs. Tommy Milam, Mrs. Tom Plax- will save untold thousands of dol- ico. Miss Elizabeth Wysor. Altos: Mrs. Heath Copeland, Mrs. B. C. Ferguson, Mrs. Henry Young., Jr., Mrs. Reese Young. Miss Margo j Martin, Mrs. Powell Fraser, Mr.", j Gordon Goodale, Mrs. Frank Ram-, age. » Tenors: Bill Harper, Michael Tur-1 Jacobs, III, Dr. B. O. * - » lars every year by the scientific selection of bulls at an early date. ! The breeding value of bulls, whose [ blood strains affect milk produc tion as well as the butterfat con- i tent in milk, can now be determined more quickly than ever before application of this accurate J ner, W. P. advance data, # WhittenT -1 development I Ba sses: Messrs. Carl Frederick- Tit—r 1—^T-rnnitritimim w w ji A famed Ayrshire eow, Iro quois Sally Winters, with owner Robert L. Knight, of Lippitt Farms, R, I., one of the na lion’s top dairy cattle farms. Knight can now forecast Sally's annual milk yiold on analysis of 50-70 day lactation figures by using the Ayrshire "factors’’ service. breeders’ association. Mosle, own- Meadows farm, Litch- ! field, Connecticut, made the an- ^ n e 4 . .u nouncement after the 1949 annual heel at the wheel?" he asked. cand> dolls, fruits, warm clothes, meeting of the research committee Cantor urged that every Ameri- And there the story should end— the headquarters of the Avr- ! tan tltizen who believes in a bet- Just a 8°od deed by an old woman shire breeders’ association Ur community and nation adopt on a Christmas long ago. But, as a Brandon, Vermont, tl e following creed of conduct: matter of fact, it is here that the) accuracy of the ifa "1. I will try at all times to re- ^ or >' starts - The home to which | " f 3 Ctors t e sTa member that rudeness and reckless- appealed for help was the in of the sTatistical which forecast the an- n«s on my port can hurt others ~as bomt ' a man wbo drc '* P‘« a >-e S JTubhih'rd mlur^yw', 0 ” woll as myself and is bad citizen- a , newspaper. He never forjot, ttnliv , surv , br Dor.ld Tromb J 2 ! will therefore try to drive my < hat >>?«• cheerless room lo which hfad 0( , ht J jvjsi record, of a, like a lady or a gentleman and ^ he Ped Hilda Caro- Chnrtmas |ht Ayr , hjr , bwd< „. , ssool , tio “ ne as courteous behind the wheel ^ dske ^- 11 saddened him to think; Approximately 500 Ayrshire herds as I am to guests in my home. inat there were thousands of other 3. I will check my home for haz- 1,ttle girls who. every year, would .irds and try to make it as safe as ua, t i n vain for Santa Claus. it is attractive. "The following December he drew 4. I will take all reasonable pie- a Picture of that little girl. He show in 40 states participated in the aur- 1 vey, in order to insure a genuine j cross-section in testing the "fac- | tors." Each herd numbered from | five to 125 cows. It was estab- rautions to avoid accidents as I work ea ber sitting with head bowed in . ]j s hed that the 5(1-70 dav "factors” ‘ the protection of mv fellow g nef at a rickety table from which lor the protection of my fellow worker as well as myself. hung a little empty stocking. Be- 5. Wherever I am, whatever I m *ath thc picture he lettered a sin- arn doing. I will try* to remember word: FORGOTTEN He that it takes only a second to use brought it to the editor of the pa- common sense and caution—and that Per. to be published on Christmas it takes a lifetime to pay for forget- day- But the editor shook his head, ting. ■ “We can’t use it,’’ he said. “It 6 I will do more than just be would SP 0 * 1 Christmas for a lot of careful myself. I will enlist in a P e °P* e -’ united community effort to bring ^ want to spoil Christmas for -afety to everyone through better everybody who has remembered on- laws. better enforcement, better re- himself, the cartoonist replied, alization of the problem." A good creed we sav. !y himself," the The editor saw the point. The car toon was published. "Hundreds of times it has been reprinted since then. It has been called "The Cartoon that opened i a million hearts," and it has made In many communities there ^ , organizations sponsoring programs of ^ tro ' t ' ... , Jor the needy at Christmas. Tnere F ‘"° m the heart brings that it are many families of course. a s lCausedl there came ,nto be,ng many there have a'.w ays been, who will be well-organized movements dedicat- m need, and it is to help this class ed to the one . P u, Po St> : “No child The Tragedy Of The Empty Stocking can determine a herd's annual milk yield with 99.25 per cent accuracy. Mosle stated that in order to give Ayrshire breeders th? whole truth, and avoid misrepresentation of any nature, unselected data was used in checking the accuracy of the "factors.’’ In other words, the widespread practice of using select cows and bulls was avoided. The farmer can now decide whether or not to continue using a bull for breeding purposes eight j months earlier than was heretofore possible. Untold thousands of dol- i lars will be saved by this practice. Furthermore, the use of the "fac tors” will enable the breeders to 1 improve the genetic quality of the famous the name of its creator, Tom, bulls in their herds more' rapidly than ever before. This early build ing up of "blood" will result in in- § 11 ji creased milk production with high er butterfat content. without a Christmas.’ New Demonstration Agent In County that these charitable organizations a:e interested in the hope that there wil! be no empty stockings on, Christmas morning to mar the hap-: Pine.".-; o! the season for neglected, children. j Miss Hazel Ann Dean, tram Bow-! There are children who won’t' ersvdle ’ Ga • began her duties as have much Christmas unless indi- ass i stan * home demonstration agent Mduals or organizations determine for Laurens county last week, suc- the extent of their needs and prac- oeed i n g Mrs. Adeline V. Long, who ticc the virtue of charitv. The res 'Sned. i esponsibility is therefore upon usi Announcement of Miss Dean’s ap- to assist those families who have P° intment wa s made by Miss Ger- Leen overcome by misfortune after trude Lanham. district agent. She the cases have been carefully exam- ^Bl work with Miss Susan Hall, ined and are found needy and de- county a 8*-‘nt, with offices in the ag- serving. Churches, civic clubs and ricult ural building, others can bring happiness to many Miss Dean was graduated from the : poor and needy at this glad season. ■ University of Georgia in August This is Christmas, giving rather than 1949, with a d<? gree in home eco-’ standing in the receiving line. : nomi cs. She lives on a farm, is a It is the responaibility of this)' or !! n , cr cIub fneniber and is, 'highly recommended for her work. is Miss Lanham said. C(mL' 71umt y fo see that no child withollT Christmas. The Buick Magazine ten years ago FINAL SETTLEMENT published thc beautiful story that Take notice that on the 27th day of lollows and it has been reproduced December, 1949, we will render a many times since then. We are final account of our acts and doings priming it as an encouragement to as Administrators D. B. N. C. T. A. those individuals and groups who of the estate of John H. Pitts in the are dedicated at this season of the office of the Judge of Probate of >ear to helping those who are ac- Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a.m., tually in need and in the hope that and on the same day will apply for r.o-child in our community will have a final discharge from our trust as his or her heart broken on Christ-‘Administrators D. B. N. C. T. A. mas morn by the tragedy of “Thei Any person indebted to said estate Empty Stocking.” ; is notified and required to make pay- “Hilda sat on Christmas day idly ment on or before that date; and all watching the window of a tumbled-j persons having claims against said dow n house opposite, where a little estate will present them on or before girl pushed* back the curtain and said date, duly proven, or be forever anxiously peered down the street, barred. Usually Hilda concerned herself not DAVID T. PITTS and at all about her neighbors, for she JOHN HENDERSON PITTS, was up early morning before day-\ Admnistrators DBN.C.TA. Shown here Is a view ot the recently-completed track un loading dock for cattle at the Chicago stock yards as seen in full operation on opening day. The dock is the largest and most modern in the country. It has a capacity of 14 trucks at a time. Irrigation Given as Way To Prevent Frost Damages Irrigation is being cited as a practical and economical/ method of preventing frost damage to crops in addition toyserving as a protec tion against dry weather. Strawberry growers in Michigan report that nearly 100 per cent suc cess against frost was realized on that crop when the crops were kept covered by sprinkler irrigation sys tems which ware used last spring in the first test of the procedure r*i SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! I0W SHARPLY REDUCED PRICtT on Mens, Children’s Women’s Winter COATS % u ALL BRAND NEW... ALL THE MOST. WANTED STYLES SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! 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