The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 21, 1951, Image 5
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Thursday, June 21, 1951
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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CLEMSON COMMITTEE URGES IMMEDIATE USE
OF POISON TO SAVE STATE'S COTTON CROP
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Clemson, June 18.—Boll weevils
are here again and cotton growers
of the state should immediately put
on poisons to save the bolls. This
is the advice of the Clemson exten
sion cotton committee. In view of
reports of weevil infestation from
all sections of the state the commit
tee today issued an urgent appeal
to cotton growers to immediately
apply these poisons.
The committee feels that every
acre of cotton in the state, includ
ing young cotton in the Piednrjont,
should be poisoned within the next
week and called upon county cot
ton committees througnout the
state to' immediately launch coun
ty wide cotton insect control pro
grams to reach this goal.
The rains of recent days are ap
parently bringing out the overwin
tered weevils and the committee
points out that normally the ma
jority of these weevils should
emerge by the first of July and
that by that time the first genera
tion of new weevils may begin to
appear in some of the earlier Jields
which makes it imperative that the
poisons be applied promptly.
Reports from 33 county commit
tees indicate that in these counties
only about 20 per cent of this
year’s acreage has been poisoned
to date. Reports from the coun
ties in the coastal plains section of
the state indicate an average of
about 129 live weevils per acre
which the committee feels is a suf
ficiently heavy infestation to cause
serious damage unless controlled.
Reports also indicate widespread
outbreaks of bollworm, and for
boll worm control the committee
recommends that DDT be included
in all dusts and sprays except toxa-
phene. The applications should
be made at weekly intervals.
Chemical and bio-analysis of in
secticides are being made again this
season in the Clemson insectory by
the South Carolina state crop pest
commision. Samples for these tests
are being drawn by field inspectors
of the Clemson fertilizer analysis
department and those desiring to
have samples' drawn should contact
their nearest inspectors, whose
names and addresses are available
at offices of county agents.
As Washington Sees It...
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Special to the Chronicle.
Washington, June 20.—The news
in Washington ranges all the way
from a concerted effort to defeat
price controls, to continuation of
the MacArthur ouster hearings, to
a tremendous utility lobby which
is undermining the public power
and the REA program while backs
are turned, on down to the meet
ing of the International Federation
of Agriculture Produce session in
Mexico City, as reported by Kit
Haynes of the national council of
farmer coperatives.
Probably not in many, many
months has there been such a gath
ering of big business executives
here in Washington to build up a
lobby in order to defeat title four
of the national production Act of
1950. As observers point out, it
seems that the memory of the pub-
five short ago when the coun
try was in the same position as it
is today, and when the same forces,
the United States chamber of com
merce, the National Association of
Manufacturers and a segment of
the national farm organizations
spearheaded the same movement
fn using the same arguments, the
4, just eliminate government con
trols of w'ages and prices, let free
enterprise have full sway and
same figures all to the tune of,
prices will find their own level
downward.”
The only fly in the ointment wafc
after they won their fight to elim
inate price controls, and free en
terprise had full sway, prices did
find their own level, but the level
was upward, a skyrocketing up
wards which amounted to some
thing like a rate of 30 per cent a
year in the first five months*bf a
free enterprise market, and from
which the nation has never recov
ered, for prices have never gotten
back to the level at which price
controls were removed.
A part of that same refrain sung
five years ago and which is being
sung today by some of the big "bus
iness and big business farm leaders
also is that increased production is
the answer, increased production
will keep prices down—that is the
answer to inflation along with:
high taxes, credit controls, high in
terest rates et cetera and et cetera. 1
Let’s see where production is.
• • •
According to a survey by Con-,
gressional Quarterly News Fea
tures, an unbiased, non political re- 1
porting service in Washington, pro
duction of goodfc and services in
this country today—that is, right
this minute—has reached an an-!
nual rate of $314 billion dollars a
year, a production volume rfever
before achieved in America’s eco-j
nomic annuals.
In spite of this tremendous pro- i
duction, however, inflation is eat
ing at the vitals of the nation and:
has gnawed away at something like!
$3 to $4 billions of dollars of the
taxp&yers’ money in military ex-!
penditures. In other words, we;
have been able to buy goods be
cause inflationary prices have eat-|
en it up before the defense depart-!
ment could spend It.
• • •
This spiral in our economy re
flects only indirectly and minutely
the result of defense spending
which, within the next few weeks
or months, will be at the rate of
more than one billion dollars a
week. That’s tax money poured'in-;
to a market on top of the billions
spent for civilian goods.
know the score.
• • •
- This, meeting in Mexico City is
most important to American and
world agriculture and may mean a
rebirth of FAO, the food and agri
cultural organization of the United;
Nations.
Fishing Permit
Fees Set For
Lake Greenwood
Columbia, June 16. — Anglers
from 15 to 65 years old will have
to pay for the privilege of fishing
in two South Carolina lakes from
July 1 on.
A couple of recent acts of the
general assembly levy a $1.10 fish
ing permit fee from people who
want to throw their lines into
either Lake Greenw.ood in Green
wood county or Lake Murray, in,
Lexington, Newberry and Saluda
counties principally.
But if you are 14 years old, or
younger, or more than 65, you don’t
need the permits, which are being
sold by Jhe state game warden’s
office and its agents, in the lake
areas.
Non-residents have to pay $1 a
day to fish in Lake Murray, and
$2.10 for a two-day Lake Green
wood permit, with a limit of two
permits a calendar year to each
customer.
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