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i l rhursday, October 5, 1950 f ; THE CLINTON CHRONICLE r«t5:e fteven Plant Starvation Lowers Com Yield Lack of Phosphate May Be Factor in Failure By checking signs of plant food starvation on the corn you harvest ed this fall, you can take steps to increase yields next year. For example, if the com in your crib has a lot of ears like those in the accompanying illustration, the crop kras starved for phosphate. The reason for this was that part of the silks came out too late to catch any pollen. The kernels were not fertilized and so failed to fill out. The unfilled rows or parts of rows make the ears lopsided and curled. 4 0 1 # Milk Pail Rack This stand is welded from an gle iron and pipe. The Httom support shown here is made from two pieces of V pipe welded together with k slight spaee between them. This per mits water to drain oil. The stand ean be mounted directly In the earth or It itd He grout ed in cement. Crop starved for phosphate is illustrated by ears above. Ears are twisted and whole rows of kernels failed to fill. You can add phosphate to the soil next spring through the use of fer tilizer carrying this plant nutrient. But well-nourished com needs oth er elements besides phosphate. It needs nitrogen? and potash, too. So the surest way to keep your corn healthy and well fed and to get high yields per acre, is to give your soil a balanced supply of plant foods carrying all three major elements— nitrogen, phosphate and potash. Good soil tilth is another essential for getting high com yields. You can build tilth and put the soil in prime condition for growing com, alfalfa and sweet clover, mellow the soil, loosen tight compactions below the plow layer and make the soil more porous so water and air can get in. USDA Recommends DDT For Termite Control The U. S. department of agricul ture has come up with the answer for one of the farmers’ serious problems—terrriites. The USDA says a single treat ment of DDT will prevent termites from attacking woodwork for at least five years and anyone can ap ply the treatment. Here’s the mix ture to use: 5 per cent DDT in No. 2 fuel oil. It will give wooden structures complete protection from termites. Entomologists suggest digging a trench along the building’s founda tion—about 30 inches deep and about the width of a spade. Then the earth should be saturated at the bot tom with the DDT preparation. The soil which is used to fill up the trench also should be saturated. Ap ply the treatment at the rate of one quart per cubic foot of soil. * Record Cranberry Crop Forecast ior Wisconsin A record production of 969,000 barrels of crahberries is forecast this fall, agricultural department officials report. The prospect is 15 per cent above the previous record of 967,700 barrels in 1948. Production in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Oregon is above last year. Washington’s crop is above average but below that of last year the agricultural depart ment said. West Clinton (Continued from page three) Lucille Holtzclaw, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Holtzclaw, Jr., and children, Mr. and Mrs. Frasier Holtzclaw and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Crayton Van Pat ton and son, Mrs. Essie Powell, Misses Helen and Frances Azora and Albert Powell of Greer; John Smith of Woodruff; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Holtzclaw, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hughes and children, Mr. and Mrs. Luke Fuller and Gail, and Marvin Holtzclaw of this community. Entertain At Dinner Mr. and Mrs .Forrest Samples en tertained at a dinner, picnic style, in honor of their wedding anniversary and in honor of Mr. Samples’ father, W. M. Samples, who was celebrating his 81st birthday, at the state park near here recently. Members of the immediate family were present. . Arrive In Japan Friends of DC2 Charles Windsor and DC2 Carl Windsor will be in terested to know they have arrived safely in Japan. They have been in service 6 years and are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Windsor of this city. ^ Birthdays and Wedding Anniversaries Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cannon cele brated their 17th wedding anniver sary September 30. Joan Cannon will be 12 years old October 8. October 16th. is Linda Dunaway’s birthday. Little Lanny Earl Turner will be one year old October 13. Butch Deadwyler will celebrate his 2nd birthday October 19. Mrs. Henry Russ will have a birth day October 20. Mrs. Lydia Barnwell celebrates a birthday October 14. J. H. Lewis celebrated his 89th birthday September 28. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hancock cele brated their 12th wedding anniver sary September 24. Mr. and Mrs. Cole L. Blease ob served their 23rd wedding anniver sary October 1. Mrs. Carl Windsor has a birthday October 26. Barbara Griffin was 12 years old September 21. Mrs. Jake Quinn had a birthday September 14. September 28th was Mrs. Sarah Gann’s birthday. Michael Wright was 4 years old yesterday. Mrs. B. S. Rawls celebrated her 72nd birthday October 1. Jesse Samples has a birthday Oc tober 18. Today is Mrs. Frank Lyda’s birth day. Mrs. Andy Hames has a birthday October 9. Jmaes Edward Price celebrated his 20th birthday October 4. Jo Anne and Wilson Price will have birthdays October 20. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hamrick will celebrate their 26th wedding anni versary October 12. Paul Hardman will be 14 years old October 9. Mrs. Robert Adams had a birthday October 2. Mrs. J. W. Hedspeth will celebrate a birthday October 8. Mrs. Bud Carr and Joe Adams have birthdays October 22. Card of Thanks I wish to express my deepest ap preciation to everyone for the many nice things done for me during my ill ness and stay at the hospital in Greenville. Also for the cards, flow ers and gifts. —MRS. COLEY CAMPBELL COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator How do the’counties stand? That is an American way of introducing a study of financial condition of a county. My Greek friend who came to me for “English conversation” really wished to talk “Street-Ameri- can,” as we refer to colloquial speech; he would have quibbled quite a bit over the word “stand.” How about the counties? We know little about the counties, but we know much less about the towns and their operation and management, as units of government. Well, shall we look into Orange burg county, that rich agricultural region, now diversifying and pros pering in every venture. Consider this: Assessed value of personal proper ty, moneys and credits in Orangeburg county, 1949 $5,591,480.00. Observe that in the quiet days of the first year of Woodrow Wilson’s Administration and National debt rested lightly on those sturdy Or- angeburgers: it was $12.36 per capita. During the middle of Hoover’s ad ministration the Orangeburg part of the national.debt had risen to $131.- 51 per capita. The rise from $12.36 to $131.51 per capita was due, in large measure, to the First World War, together with new undertak ings such as the RFC. In 1950, how ever, every man, woman and child of old Orangeburg owed $1698.06 of the Federal debt. That was due in part to the thrill of enjoying the lavish Mr. Roosevelt and the glamorous free-spenders who made his adminis tration like a diamond in the sky. Along with the notable outpouring on Trifles and boondoggling there was a war whch cost $400,000,000, about $223,000,000 of which increased the national debt. Our president Truman drank so deeply at the fount of philosophy of Haryr Hopkins that he is making even Mr. Roosevelt seem a mere piker. He may not have added much to the national debt but he has great ability as a spender; he seems to shovel it out day and night with nev er a thought of growing weary. The First World War cost us less than $30,000,000, but President Wil son had been a poor boy and didn’t know how to throw money around in glamorous style. And even so, for years after the war President Wilson, President Harding and Presi dent Coolidge faithfully reduced both the swarming bureaucracy and made heavy reductions in the national debt. Our President Truman re duces nothing but adds to the nation- j al budget so enormously that a World War in his time would put Mr. Roosevelt in the shade. It is costing more to operate the government to day than at the peak of the First ! World War. We have learned something new: President Wilson had been reared in a Presbytrian manse, and in a ^rcat University of Presbyterian influ ence, and he had the old-time notion that a man should save a little. We now have the new philosophy of Harry Hopkins: to spend and tax and tax and become rich through spend ing.; So today my sturdy friends of Orangeburg find that they are so rich in the Harry Hopkins idea that the County of Orangeburg is today under a lien for $116,743,323.06 of the fed eral debt, and with the bright and cheerful prospect of having this in creased. Regardless of how low the assess ment of property may be in Orange burg; even if we assume that it is as sessed at one-twentieth— 5 per cent of real value—the Orangeburg coun ty part of the Federal debt is vastly more than the true worth of every acre of land, every house, every tractor, mule, cow, dog and chcken. The race between the cities of Charleston and Columbia, if extend ed to Richland and Charleston coun ties, shows them running neck-and- neck. Each person in the two coun ties owes the same part of the Fed eral debt—$1,698.06, though the county of Charleston owes a total of $271,414,514.28, with Richland ow ing a half million less. The assessed valuation of |11 property of Charles ton county is $21,485,098, whereas Richland has $20,047,970. Richland has the big cotton mills, Columbia, Eau Claire, Eastover, Gadstane, Con- garee, and Horrell Hill, while Charl eston county has both Charleston and North Charleston, Saint Andrew Parish, Cainhoy, Rantowles and Rav- anel, along with Mt. Pleasant. I am not going into this exhaustively: that is, I don’t want to exhaust you or the subject. Now, do you think our cherished Mr. Truman should follow the star gazers and build dams across every stream and engage in Federal power buisness? Do you think he should knock the taxpaying power business i in the head and at the same time Call for mountains of tax-payers’ dollars? Do you think Mr. Truman and his bureaucracy should take over the profession of medicine? If we may judge by the sixty bil lion dollars defense spending, whicn seemed to provide so litltle, we might fear that an ordinary calomel tablet, now selling for a cent, would cost the nation a dollar! And then we should Trumanize the world, all Asia, and Africa, South America and Europe, and send them calomel at a dollar a grain, even if they wanted syruo of squills instead of calomel. And it would take a ton of paper, six months, a thousand men and a thou* and dollars to get one shot of corti- zone, wouldn’t it? Friend, if you ever served Uncle Sam’s bureaucracy, how much more of it can you stand? COMMERCIAL household Wiring Electrical Appliance Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 406 W. Maple St. Tel. 312-XJ FOR Ptiio SAFFl'l FIRST/ FIGHT IMrANTIkf PARALYSIS f A PUBLIC SERVICE FEATURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHIROPRACTORS ASSOCIATION Mountville Prof. Gets High Award From Science Group Dr. Ruth W. Stokes, formerly of Mountville and now assistant pro fessor of mathematics at Syracuse University, has been elected a fel low of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, accord ing to Howard A. Meyerhoff, admin istrative secretary of the association. Dr. Stokes, who still calls Mount ville her home, has been on the Syra cuse faculty since 1946. A graduate of Winthrop college, she taught in the mathematics department there for 15 years, during the last ten years of which she was head of the department. Advance degrees were confered upn Dr. Stokes by both Vanderbilt and Duke universities. Dr. Stokes who has been building and collecting mathematical models for 15 years, will exhibit her collec tion at the New York State Teach ers Association meeting at Water- town tomorrow, September 29. The collection was also exhibited at the International Congress of Mathematicians held at Harvard un iversity. She is editor of the Pi Mu Epsi lon Jumal, published at Syracuse university. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” McIntosh's SHOE SHOP Bend Your Shoes'To Us for Best Materials and Workmanship. P ERHAPS you’ve noticed that there seem to be a lot of these brftwny beauties running around on America’s highways — and it isn’t just that boldly gleaming fore front that spreads this impression. It isn’t just the fact that folks who own a Buick get such a bang out of it that they do a lot of driving. Back of all this is another fact. 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