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/ I .* • • Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 15, 1951 Farms & . Folks By J. M. ELEAZER. Clemson College Extension Infor mation Specials! • Rural Church Grounds” is the name of Extension Circular 114 re cently gotten out by Miss Margaret Martin of the home demonstration staff. Your home demonstration agent hai it for those interested. Recent years have seen quite an awakening in beautifying home, school, and church grounds This publication fits the church, with parking grounds, picnic places, etc. And it also carries a lot of basic land scaping ideas that are applicable in other cases, too. Surely, with all ctf the inward beauty a church signifies, its sur roundings should be marked with beauty and dignity. It Takes Big Money Now The folks who figure tell me that it now takes afoout 40 percent of the value of a farm and equipment to operate it a year. Yes, farming, like everything else, takes a lot of money these days. The other day I sat in on the an nual meeting of the Columbia Credit Association. It, like all of the asso ciations in that great system, was a child of the depression. It came into being IT years ago. Dufmg that, .tiray ,if— has made 8,090 production loans. These totaled $5,262,209. Losses have been very small, S.214, less than a tenth of one percent. The net worth of that farm er's association is now $141,053. Similar associations now serve all sc tions of South Carolina. Well can I romember, on a bleak winter day in the midst of the great depression, w hen Frank Towles came to me as county agent at Sumter and told o: plans for organizing a source of farm credit. All others had com pletely dried up, except the seed loan. But agriculture sorely needed some thing in addition to that. We rode throughout the rough winter day, seeing interested farmers. Adjoining county agents did likewise. A meet ing was called for soon thereafter and a production credit, association vas formed to serve that area. And it too still serves its useful purpose in growing measure there. Corn and More Corn Richland county nad 42 corn con-; testants the past year. County Agent Bob Bailey tells me they made the remarkable average of 89 bushels, per acre. Seven made over a hundred bushels per acre! And practically all, of ’em were up towards that figure, as the average will indicate. With corn yields like that coming, along, livestock and poultry for this area look better and better, as time goes on. Bulldozers on Rampage As I go about, I see bulldozers on the loose here and there doing their! prodigious work clearing the low-! ands for pastures. In Orangeburg they are doing such | a good job of it that some have been tempted to plant cotton there, County Agent McComb told me. But it is mostly for pastures that the bulldozers work. It was most dif ficult to clear such lands before, for the hardwoods that abound there sorout so. But these monsters rip ’ them out, roots and all and then' level the land down to where it looks like a garden has been prepared. Much of the fertility from the hills has been left in these rich lowlands along through the years. And they supported a jungle of growth that all but defied man. But this modern monster, the bulldozer, is equal to them. Pastures are going on thousands of acres of good uplands, too. These, with the rich -bottoms, properly man aged are leading us to that long- sought goal of livestock men, year- around grazing! Fescue by the Roadside Just in La mens county there be low Gray Court fine fescue grows on! the shoulders of the highway. Each! county has a trial planting along a; mile of highway like that. Highway authorties were looking for a better grass to hold road shoulders. Clem- son suggested tryng fescue. The county agents and local highway maintenance men selected the spots and they were prepared, fertilized, and seeded a year ago last fall. Only time will tell just how practical this is going to be. Boys are That Way Most boys are alixe. As they grow up they have to have a number of live things. One of these is pigeons. -My boy went through that age, as well as all the rest, including rab bits. And, of course, 1 had to build him a pigeon house. I’m not much of a carpenter. (But on that Saturday af ternoon I did a pretty good job. An chored it to the garage. Thought I’d finish it off with a good roost. So got a four-toy-four the right length and firmly nailed a piece of two-by-four to the top for the perch. To make it stand firm, I dug a three- foot hole with the post-hole digger Then I raised the heavy timber and dropped it firmly into the hole. I had forgotten about that cross piece at the top of it. And, as the end of the timber hit firmly in the bottom of the hole, that cross piece caught me on top of the head. All that saved me. I’m confident, is the {pet that it hit the bottom of the hole the same time it did my head. Otherwise my earthly worries might have been over. As it was, all It did was stun me a little. Seeing the comic angle, I had to sit down and laugh. I had heard of the nit-wit that sawed the limb oft between him and the tree. But I had j never heard of anyone puling the; stunt I did^ . ! FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 15th day of March, 1951, we will render a final account of our acts and doings as Executors of the estate of G. Fair Buford in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from our trust as Executors. Any person indebted to said es tate is notitied and required to make payment on or before that date; and aV persons having claims against said estate will present them on or! before said date, duly proven or be forever barred. RICHARD F. BUFORD, ET AL, Executors. 15-4c February 14, 1951. 75th Anniverfary « 75 Years 0/ Sc. via to the Nation Mr. Watson, come here. I want you. *Mr. Bell, I heard every word you said—distinctly!' ... and the Telephone was bom! THE CHRONICLE Completely Coven Clinton’s Trad* Area for Advertisers There Is No Substitote for N< paper Advertising Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET Sovth Side Public Square HOURS FOR EYE EXAMINATIONS: »:W to SJ* Wednesdays »:M to MJt Phone 794 On March 10, 1876, in a boarding house in Boston, the telephone carried its first intelligible sentence. Alexander Graham Bell was about to try to send his voice over a new transmitter he had dev bed. Hu assbtant, Thomas Watson, was in another room, holding a receiver to hu ear. Suddenly, Mr. Bell upset the acui of a battery over hb clothes. He called out, “Mr. Watson, come here; 1 want' your An instant later Watson burst into the room, shouting. “Mr. Bell. 1 heard every word you said—dbtinctlyT \ n the 75 years since then, the Tele phone industry has grown up to transform our everyday pattern of living. For millions, the telephone has be come an indispensable aid—in business, government, the home, the farm, and in maintaining family and community ties. These 75 yean have brought an amazing parade of advancements in communication —switchboards, cables carrying hundreds of wires on poles or underground, the vacuum tube, the dial system, coaxial cable and microwave radio relay for transmitting hun dreds of simultaneous calls or television programs, telephone service to ships and vehicles. Today America has 62% of the world’s telephones and enjoys the most and the best telephone service in the world . . . another great achievement of American ingenuity under a system of free enterprise and indi vidual incentive and reward. Each year the telephone becomes more useful, and more essential to the prosperity and security of the nation. Today it unites the country, playing a vital role in mobiliza tion and production for defense. i Here in the South, more than 52,000 skilled employees and nearly 3V4 million Southern Bell telephones are on the job— more than twice as many as we had when World War II began. And there are four times as many Long Distance circuits. In all, we have built more than $670 million worth of new facilities in a little over five yean, and we’re still busy at the job. All this growth—and maintaining the financial strength to keep on expanding— will be increasingly important to the South and the Nation in the days ahead.—Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. 75 Years of Telephone Proaress YOUR PRINTING NEEDS CAN BE SUPPLIED BY CHRONICLE PUB. CO. In eve «« • « v# • * % 0 # * SAFEir OF £7 YOUR SAYINGS TO INSURED UP TO $10,000. Safety For Your Savings Figure it out for yourself! From the income you received last year, how much have you SAVED? Ten per cent? More? Or Less? In the future, have something to show for your efforts by sav ing part of every paycheck in an insured ac count here. Start next payday! CURRENT RATE OF DIVIDEND EDERALoAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. C ADVANCI-DISIGN TRUCKS Coast to Coast and Border to Border - MORE CHEVROLET TRUCKS IN USE THAN ANY OTHER MAKE! In 1950, truck buynrs in nvnry one of the 48 statos choso Chevrolot over any other make. Nationally, Chevrolot has outsold any other truck for the last nine truck production years. That’s because Chevrolet trucks do the job better ... stay on the job longer. When you choose a Chevrolot truck, you got the right engine— 92-h.p. Thriftmastor or extra powerful 105-h.p. Load master. You got a chassis that fits your |ob. You goto truck built to move your loads at lowest cost. Como see the new 1951 Advance-Design Chevrolet trucks. "S GILES CHEVROLET COMPANY, Inc. Phone 26 West Main Street CHnton, 8. C. Tf . ■MMkiM*. A