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I Thursday, May 29, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Three »v*v«v«w* «#»#**• #• #♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ #♦#♦♦♦ ♦♦♦*»• •< j.: :: :: :: :: I! COTTON BRINGS $21 MILLION TO FARMERS EACH WORK DAY FOR THAT HOLIDAY WEEK-END GET PLENTY OF PEPSI NOW ADD SPARKLE TO YOUR PARTY . . . SERVE ♦> More Bounce To the Ounce :: * * ii :: :: *.♦ ♦ ♦ No Finer at Any Price! In Big 12-ounce Bottle :: PEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, S. C. I * * :: • #«>« #« »« »•»* ♦♦♦♦ ♦^V*We«V«WeV> Income per day for the other leading cotton states and their percentages of the total for the 14 top states were Arizona, $946,- 820 and 4.5 per cent; Louisiana, $921,360 and 4.4 pre cent; South Carolina, $955,910 and 4.1 pre cent: Tenncsse. $851,820 and 4 per cent. Missouri farmers made $545,820, claiming 2.6 per cent of the com bined cotton income; Oklahoma. $494,090 and 2.3 per cent: New Mexico, $405,590 and 1.9 per cent; and North Carolina $385,910 and 1.8 per cent. Cotton in Arizona brought the highest value per acre, averaging $381.50 for the 1950 season. Cotton meant approximately $21,095,000 in cash income to Cot ton Belt farmers each working day during the 1950 growing season, the National Cotton Council re ports, v Cash value of cotton lint and seed in the 14 major cotton-pro ducing states totaled $2,320,440,- 000, making cotton America’s great est cash crop. Farmers in Texas made approxi mately $6,220,700 each working day last season, accounting for 29.6 per cent of the combined cotton farm income of the top 14 states. Mis- sippians totaled $2,862,730 per day and accounted for 13.6 per cent of the total while Arkansas producers earned $2,351,400 daily, or 11.1 per cent. NOTICE, TO VOTERS The Poard or Registration will be at the following places to register voters for the primary elections. Anyone ‘ not having a certificate dated in 1948 or since should apply for certificate to be eligible to vote in this election. Cross Hill—LeamaiVs Store, May 29. GLADYS COOK, H. C. SIMS, M. D. MILAM, Board Members. WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTINQ —EXCEPT BAD Based on a Belt-wide estimate of 110 working days during the sea son, the Cotton Council estimates that California farmers made $1,- 981,360 per day and received 9.4 per cent of the total cotton income. Alabama and Georgia were other states making more than a million dollars a day from cotton, grossing $1,212,300 and $1,058,180, respec tively, or 5.7 tf and 5 per cent of the t6tal value of the crop. “DIE FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH’ Hugh L. Eichelberger NEW YORK LIFE MAN 29 Years Experience PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE INFORMATION FURNISHED FREE Member The National Association of Life Underwriters FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist _= * Selling Stuff On March 24, 1937, the Orange burg County Farmers Livestock Ship'ping Association made its first cooperative sale of hogs. Since then it has never missed a weekly ship ment, according to County Agent McComb. The same local farmer, Carsey Mc- Cants, who graded and handled that first shipment has never missed a day, andihe still handles their weekly shipments. I never heard of hogs being sold like they are there. The day before the weekly assembly of the hogs they get bids from the buyers by wire or phone. The high bid gets them. It is published in that afternoon’s paper and it is broadcast over the local radio stations. And' then what the hogs have brought is also carried in the morning paper that goes out from therer So the farmer knows what he is going to get for his hogs before he leaves home with them. Since that market was started, Mc Comb’s records show that McCants has handled 26,817 different lots of hogs for local farmers. These con tained 201,632 head, every one of which was graded personally by him. These hogS weighed 39,560,178 pounds, and brought local growers a total of $5,191,859.32. It goes without saying that Carsey McCants does a good job of grading those hogs. The buyers show their confidence by buying them on his grade. And the farmers, too, have confidence in his work, for they con- side clean-up campaign. In Spartanburg a local leader > wrote an appropriate program that 1 was put on by all of the clubs in the county. Boys Are That Way We liked to play ball. But never had^a bought one. Ours were wound from thread we got from old home-made stockings we raveled out. All boys and girls wore long stockings then with a tight elastic garter at the knee to hold them up. Those stockings were made from our own cotton carded by 'hand, spun, dyed, and knit by hand there at! hand there at home. And they were! very enduring. As soon as they got thin on the heel- they were skillfully | darned until they were about as good as new. But eventually they were so darned and snagged up that they let us have them to make our balls with. We couldn’t always get one started to raveling. But our mothers could. r once you started, it would ravel r down to the first darned spot. As we raveled it out we wound the thread into a ball. When it got the right size we would take a needle and thread and sew it good so it would hold and not come to pieces nor ravel. A ball like that would last us for endless hours of play. In the sort of ball we played, “paddle-cat’’ Ve call ed it, you had to hit the runner to get him out. And that was all right i most of the time. But when that old A pm* or rumpai room Wt at axjMttfat m you flrfok < tilcdy if you do it with Bondaton* Boodatooe, tit* mamtom man-mad* atom, will ghu you 0» playroom yoo*vu ahray* wantad... ngyad anoo^h for anything, with walk that dnpBoata al tha hastily of natural atom, walk naad muss naad ■'■flnfahinf. i« •ddUon, Bondatom damp-psooA your collar, makaa your houao aaafar and chespar to bast, Lat ua show you how asaQy you esa fit s Bondatom playroom into yourbodfaC Write or phone 4-5546 riboFiNG G Metalworks live QTP o r> SLt • d 623 Reynolds Street <«»ugu*to. Go. '•a % :: tinue to .bring their hogs in to their i thread association. I could ball it M 11 « got good and wet, raise a blue spot where it 8 A gOQtl product and fair dealing' struck with force. It was then that $ all- along the ime make for satisfac- 1 we did some fancy stepping and fast J* tory selling of all sorts of stuff. Our! running of bases. £: marketing man, Jimmy Youngblood, MI D W A Y Drive-In Theatre :: told me that a long time agjv-and he was right. Cool Shade On a hot day I was going to Dillon. The air through the ventilators did little ‘good, for it came from the i parched road from which heat waves j danced in the distance. I came to 1 Latta. From the center of town there! on out towards Dillon the great oaks, Stale Surplus Passes Million Dollar Figure ♦ ♦ •> NEWEST AND FINEST CLINTON — JOANNA *> #> ii J WHEN TEARS and anxiety give way to gurgling health and happiness, you’re grateful for that helpful word from Mother, that you got so quickly, so easily— by telephone. SUCH TELEPHONE convenience is within arm’s reach of more Southerners today than ever before. We’ve more than doubled the number of Dixie’s telephones in just the last 6 years! - IT'S A GOOD thing the South’s telephone network has grown so fast. A good thing for our Armed Services ... for defense industry ... for homes, farms and busi ness. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. . , , , u .u . • Columbia. May 24. —- The State had been left when the street was, 0 f South Carolina has accumulated pa\ed. And what an oasis of cooling 3 general fund surplus of over a pleasure they brought to the torrid million dollars and all revenue, re- road. I was sleepy, pulled to the ceived between now and the end curb, and snoozed a bit. of the current fiscal year, June 30, It s a pity more of our town streets; will be added to the surplus funds, and country roads do not have the, However, the first $5 million of cooling beauty of trees arched over-{the surplus must be allocated to head. What comfort that brings to j the State Hospital for building and the wayfarer, when summer’s sun repairs. The legislature authorized bears down! And how pleasant the j the Budget and Control board to path is made by their benevolent ] borrow that amount of money for shade! ( hospital work and to repay it with It Can Kill I surplus funds, if any. Since it will During 6 years of phenomenal demand for new telephones. 4J00.000 applications have been taken care of—more than 95% of all applications received. BEST r nrr ’" v SERVICE — LOWEST POSSIBLE COST msem Farm machinery is rather new with us. It’s a big step from the mule to the machine. We knew the dangers the mule carried, and we stayed a safe distance from them. But we don’t know the dangers that lurk in the turning shaft, the swirling fan, gear, and chain. They look innocent enough. But in a split second they can kill or maim you. Our engineers caution us about these dangers. On most machines the manufacturers have put guards over the dangerous moving parts. Farm ers often remove these safety guards to make repairs and then fail to put them* back. County Agent Alford of Colleton told me of a machine that had seriously maimed two people. Reasonable precautions would have prevented both accidents. Instruction books and safety at tachments on machines are designed to show us the dangers and then protect us against them. The wise person will surely realize his ignor ance and make full use of these aids to his own safety. The Kids Did It During the recent National 4-H Club Week the boys and girls over South Carolina were rather active. In Beaufort they erected a wel come sign out on the highway. In Cherokee the chapel programs were put on by the 4-H members in 15 schools. In Chesterfield they put on the Sunday programs in two churches. In Greenwood they put on a road- not be necessary for the state to borrow the funds the total amount will be allocated to the hospital from state general funds. Records here show that the total revenue to date has exceeded the total general funds appropriations by $1,166,432. The appropriation act provides for expenditures of $99,- 867,435, while the revenue to date has reached $101,033,867. State revenue for the current fis cal year has exceeded all expecta tions. The estimate of the revenue for the year was $99,343,520. At the end of April, ten months, the reve nue had reacher $96,288,678, leaving only $3,114,842 to be collected in order that this estimate may be met. Leading the big increase in rev enue was the income taxes. Finance officials looked for this source to produce only $21 million, but it ap pears that it will go near $30 mil lion. The sales tax is going even higher than anticipated and al though all sales tax revenue is pledged for school purposes it re lieves general funds as it goes up ward. it it THURSDAY FIGHTING FOOLS MAY 29 DR. L B. MARION NATUROPATH Res. 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