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Clinton/S. C, Thursday, January 4, 1951
Number 1
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BATTERIES AND
ACCESSORIES
McMillan
Service Station
Sinclair Products
Phone No. 2
Gray
Funeral Home
Clinton. 8. C.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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BEPOBE!
Some day
you may bo
real mad at us
Wo wish we had time to sit
down with everybody in this
town and tell 'em personally
about the many kinds of mod
ern, inexpensive insurance
which most people should
carry nowadays.
You—for instance—may be
pretty sore at us some day if
you have a fire, a windstorm,
burglary or a boiler explosion,
or if you an sued for dam
ages, or lose a diamond ring
or a fur cdat or a suitcase full
of clothes, or sustain soma
other serious loss against
which we could havs insured
you if we had tried to sell you*
We can’t be out selling
everybody in town all tho
time, so won’t yon help us sell
you what you need. Ask us to
survey your insurance policiea
soon and to tell you of any
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America Fore
- INSUVASCE CRCL'i
CLINTON REALTY
& INSURANCE CO.
B. Hubert Beyd. Agent
Why Not?
The cotton growers are being ask
ed to increase production.
The p?|ducers of many other pro
ducts are being asked to increase pro
duction.
War has made this imperative.
. Industry will do its part. It gets
contracts at good war prices for
what it produces. The manufacturer
knows before he makes it what he is
going to get. And that’s all right.
Why not the same thing for cot
ton?
Producing it carries far more haz
ards than manufacturing most items.
It has all of the headaches of fin
ancing, labor, etc., and the adver
sities of seasons, insects, and diseas
es in addition.
Look at Virginia. For 10 years it
had averaged 378 pounds of lint cot
ton per acre. The boll weev il hit, and
the past season they harvested 96
pounds per acre. Th same or a high
er expense of production. Yet a
fourth of th« harvest! We waged an
extensive and expnsiv poisoning
campaign and did better. But added
cost was there.
If the cotton grower is to produce
for war. he should at least have a
fair bottom placed on th; price of his
product Even then he will have the
gauntlet otf pests and seasons to run.
Electricity to The Peixm
Down many a rural lane I see elec
tric wires being strung to the far
places. And nothing has ever meant
more to rural bfe. As one faimer
told me sometime ago. *Tm living on
Main Street now.” His red clay road
had been peved and electricity had
at last reached him.
I can well remember when Clem-
I mWI G. H. Stewart and the county
agents over the stale ware wrest ling
I with the problems of getting electric
| cooperatives started And from there
1 on their elected fanner-directors
1 have carried on in fine shape But
1 at some places the mssnber interest
is not shown as it was at Lexington
! Folks, you had better turn out once
a year for that annual meeting.
A LHUe Water DM It
County Agent McCord of George-
j town said: “A final check of the 33
three-acre corn contest fields reveal-
I ed that in spite of a generally unfav
orable season there were four pro
ducers who were fortunate enovgh
to receive a little more rain who pro
duced more than 100 buahele per ac
re."
We do everything in our power for
good yields, yes, except irrigate. And
along comes one of our aft-recurnng
droughts end skims off the season's
profit.
Here and there a fanner la trying
portable irrigation. Results are sat
isfactory everywhere I’ve seen. With
it you can supply that “little more
rain’’ that McCord spoke of that gave
them what they were shooting at, ov
er 100 bushels of corn per acre.
A New Calendar
The last page from the calendar it
seems I hung but yesterday is about
used up. In a few days now I will
throw it away and hang a nice new
one up there on that nail.
My, how time rolls on in relentless
flight!
The more calendars we have hung,
the faster they seem to go.
Years ago it ‘seemed a calendar
would last forever. And it got all
yellowed with age and fly-specked
before its time ran out. But not so
now. The one I will soon take down
is in about as good shape as when I
hung it there, but for the loss of
11 of its layers.
If someone could work out a
scheme to make that calendar last
longer, most of us would sure like
it.
Am Idea
Watermelons are expanding rapid
ly in the Chesterfield area. The pro
blem now is new land, as they re
quire about a six-year rotation on
account of blight.
Dr. Boole, president of Clemson,
was telling me of a plan he had
heard of. The melon grower agreed
to rent the land for a dollar per acre
for the year. He will clear the scrub
oak from it and plant it to melons.
At the end of the year it reverts to
the owner. Then it is ready for cul
tivation or, better yet, pine trees.
Young pines just won’t thrive
there among scrub oaks. And the cost
of getting rid of the oaks easily and
economically enough to just plant
trees there hasn’t been successfully
worked out yet. The above plan
might offer a way of getting a lot
of the vast send) oak areas back into
pines, from whence they came years
ago. A good crop of melons on that
clean land might make their clear
ing feasible, and then they would be
just in fine shape for pines.
It Worked
The 1950 cotton crop in this coun
try was only 2.3 pounds per acre un
der the previous 10-year average. But
the acreage was way down.
While the Far West was making
its greatest yield, we were making
one of our lowest. For the past 10
years Virginia had averaged 378
pounds of lint per acre. In 1950 they
madfe a disastrous 96 pounds per
acre!
For 10 years North Carolina had
averaged 373 pounds of lint. In 1950
they harvested a bare 147 pounds per
acre.
For the past 10 years South Caro
lina averaged 321 pounds of lint per
acre. We saw a grave weevil threat.
The greatest light on record was
staged the past season. We came up
with a yield of 228 pounds per acre,
according to the November estimate.
It costs to poison. But why go to
the other expenses of making the
crop and neglect the one that insured
the harvest?
Boys Are That Way
We had preaching at our church in
the stone hills of the Dutch Fork ev
ery fourth Sunday, preceded by Sun
day school. And then just Sunday
school on second Sundays.
The men didn’t go to Sunday
school. But on fourth Sunday they
brought the rest of the family for
that, while they sat out under the
trees chewing tobacco, whittling, and
taUtinf.
As a kid. I envied them their priv
ilege. While they enjoyed fellow
ship and cool shade, we suffered in
side with burning feet and doged red
wasps that always inhabited our
church. I would see the wasp crawl
ing on railing or window. And that
made me restless and inattentive.
For I knew they wouldn't stay there
long. Soon they would be zooming
about, and I had a. horror of one of
those stinging things lighting on me
when 1 wasn't watching.
Between all of the distractions of
burning feet, watching the wasp, and
envying the men on the outside, I
am sure that such interest as I show
ed did anything but inspire the teach
er. I longed for the time that I could
grow up and sit out there with the
men under the shade of the trees,
whittle, listen, and pull my shoes off,
if they continued to hurt a man as
they always did us kids. Kids that
went barefooted from frost to frost
should never have been tortured with
shoes on for church. I am sure we
would have liked it better then. And
we would have gotten more out of
it. For our minds could have been on
the lesson rather than on our tor
tured feet.
We kids didn’t know about cow
boys. But we revealed in the •stories
of Daniel Boone and David Crockett.
An old book we had told us about
them. And we lived their lives in
our dream world—'battling Indians,
hunting big game, and fighting the
wilderness.
At about 10 my brother let me
have his single-barrel shotgun. I
simply lived with it. Even during the
summer, when I could not hunt, I
would take it out and just hold and
handle it for hours.
On a winter day.I returned from
shooting robins back in the woods
and stopped by the country store at
the foot of the hill. A few other kids
were there, and we sat in the warm
sun there on the low front steps.
I let each one hold .it a minute. I took
it apart and cleaned every part, mak-
-iqg it go into the cracks and seams
with knife point. I was scraping a
little rust off near the plunger with
my knife blade and just happened
to push against the plunger. It would
n’t go in, as I .knew it should un
loaded. I pushed against it harder
and it wouldn’t go in. I thought I’d
snap it and make that plunger go in
as it should.
Alas, it was loaded! Off it went.
Kabinyow! Right by little Jim's head.
He could just as easily been right in
front of it. lie was a devoted cousin
we bad raised. Although it deafened
him a bit for the moment, he laughed
right out, as did the others, excited
and thrilled. They were even young
er than I and did not sense the near
tragedy.
But I didn’t laugh. It froze me with
its terrible possibilities. From then
on I lost interest in guns and was
never much for hunting.
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Note the sleek, plain center
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Blouses
ONE GROUP
1.00
Brassieres
51-15
1.00
Dresses
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Hose
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Pants
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Children’s DRESSES
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