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Thursday, July 24, 1952
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Is Hot Weather
Wearing You Down?
Do you feel simp-
1 ly “all in” before
the day’s work is
half done? Chances
are the hot weather
has taken your ap
petite, depriving
your body the nor
mal food energy it
needs as badly now
as any time of year.
Say goodbye t o
those “Summer
Doldrums” with
Scalfs Indian River Medicine. This
famous family stomach tonic has
been waking up folks’ appetites
for over 50 years. Read the prais
es of Miss Natomia Sexton, Hunts
ville, Tenn. . .
“I suffered terribly from loss of
appetite with resulting loss of
weight and a tired, weak, nervous,
rundown feeling. Most of the time
I felt too miserable to work. Then
I heard about Scalfs Indian River
Medicine and I tried it. I started
at once eating -almost anything;
then, before long I had put on ten
pounds of much needed weight. I
feel som uch stronger and better
that I can do my work with ease.”
Profit by Miss Sexton’s expe
rience: see fpr yourself how quick
ly Scalfs Indian River Medicine
brings back mealtime gusto. Re
sulting nourishment supplies vita
mins the natural way—sends new
energy surging through your body.
Ask for it today at your nearest
cirug store.
DR. L. B. MARION
NATUROPATH
Res. Phone 939
500 South Broad St.
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FARMS.....
AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist
Dr. Felder Smith
Optometrist
Laurens, S. C.
126 EAST MAIN STREET
Sooth Side Pub lie Square
HOURS FOR ETE
EXAMINATIONS:
i:t6 to 5:36
Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:30
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Pond Weed Control
For some years I’ve been telling
you about the work County Agent
Mellett of Aiken has been doing
on weed control in farm ponds. He
says, “six excellent demonstrations
in pond weed control were given
in May.”
The materials are sprayed light
ly on the weeds from a boat. Then
they just die and disappear like
magic.
With the, building of more and
more ponds over South Carolina,
what Mellette has been doing
about those troublesome weeds is
of growing importance. For they
will surely choke a pond up if you
let ’em.
Your county agent has most of
the details in a new .weed bulle
tin Clemson has put out.
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Soil Saving
County Agent Hubbard of Bam
berg had a soil conservation pro
gram with all of his 4-H clubs in
May.
Soil saving and building is being
taught the young folks in the 4-H
clubs and FFA chapters. The agri
cultural agencies are directing
their efforts in that same direction.
And the farmers serving as soil
conservation -dis-tr ic t supervisors-
, are adding the needed practical
! farmers’ touch to it all.
Our soil, the veritable keeper of
us all! It is worthy of our most
careful and decoted attention. And
in late years it has been getting
more of it than before. Ways are
known to not only save it but to
build it. On them earth’s ability
to continue to feed and clothe
growing millions depends.
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This and That
The first of June County Agent
Cain said Calhoun had an excellent
corn prospect and that several
farmers were planning to irrigate
their corn if needed.
I didn’t count ’em, but someone
told me there were only 266 words
in Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg
address, 297 in the Ten Command
ing wagon and hit a loose rock.
The rythmic beat of the old
water mill, as it started its grind
for the communiy early on Fridays.
Day dreaming in March, wonder
ing what made the wind blow,
where it came from, and where it
went.
Pants half-soled on the sfcat.
They felt almost like a pillow
when you sat down.
A cold baked potato off the ap
ron of the stove when we got in
from school.
The time I put on a hat with a
wasp in it. Didn’t get to sting me.
But it buzzed, I could smell it, and
took the hat off so fast I tore the
brim
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Pase Fiv6
Candidates
Must Contorm
With Platform
Chicago, July 20. — Democratic
platform architects said today that
unlike the Republicans they won’t
try to shape the platform to fit
conflicting views of the party’s
presidential aspirants.
“I have not even talked to any 1
candidate as yet,” Rep. John W. i
McCormack, of Massachusetts, plat
form committee chairman, told a
reporter.
“Instead of fitting the platform
to the candidates, the Democrats,
expect the candidates to fit their
views to the platform,” McCor
mack, House majority leader, add
ed.
However, the congressional lead
er still hopes to fashion a civil
rights plan that will avoid a party
splitting fight between Northern
and Dixie wings of the party.
5 “f-think we have exceptionally
good spirit at this convention," Mc
Cormack said, H and I’m hoping
that spirit will keep us unified.”
McCormack expects to wind up
public hearings on the new plat
form at a foreseen session Monday
and also assetiible the full platform
group of more than 125 delegates
to* decide on basic principles for
all the planks.
More than 125 witnesses already
have ^testified at open sessions
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
and spokesmen for major labor
union oganizations were heard
--During hearings and drafting of
the Republican platform here, Sen.:
Eugene D. Millikin of Colorado?,
chairman, and his staff spent many
w hours finding planks acceptable to
By JACK LELANDMn Th. H.w,! ^GenD^Eisenhowerj
Charleston, July 20,-What you' n batlli "S “ out tor the "omi-
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Hugh L. Eichelberger
NEW YORK LIFE MAN
31 Years. Experience
PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE INFORMATION
FURNISHED FREE
Member The National Association of Life Underwriters
Dewberries on those long run-
•ning vines ripening on the ditch
banks in May. We made paths to
them, and let none waste.
And we will dwell on a few
more recollections here next week.
LI6HTNINGimiUEK.
BUT VICTIMS AM FEW
Some Simple Precau- :
tions Will Help Protect
You From Bolts.
don’t know about lightning may j John Foster Dulles f ormer u S .
hurt you. ..I senator from New Ybrk and former
Not that your chances of being ^ e p U j J jj can consu itant on foreign'
hit by a lightning “bolt are great I policy to the Truman administra-i
In fact they are relatively sm a “ | tion, shuttled back and forth be-j
—about one in 400,000. However, tween Taft. Eisenhower and other
there are a few dangerous practices QOP candidates working out com-
which could greatly reduce your j promise planks.
iafety factor insofar as lightning
is concerned. | dptprrpH hv a simn!<» man-made
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Summer is here and the summer | insulator,
afternoon thunderstorm again is j u *t Be Careful
making its almost daily appear-! if lightning frightens you, just
aaaress, in tut: leu ance. Towering cumulo-nimbus study the statistics again. You
ments, and an even 300 in the Dec- (thunderheads) send their anvil-1 aren’t likely to get hit by it. In
laration of Independence. A few j shaped tops into the air—some-1 f ac t vou’d dn well
j words can sufe say' a lot”!f ~you times "more IHah 80,000 feet! The i ing about lightning and comren-
! know how to make ’em do it - fleece-white mountains of Wi i s t j trate on things like automobiles.-
I County Agent Thompson o f gleam in the sun and blue-black j They are much more apt to kill
I Hampton said boll worms appeared caverns opjen in the sides of the]y 0 u.
1 on coton before the weevil. Never huge masses. Areas “boil” as cur- J However, just remember those
rents of descending and ascending, dangers listed. You needn’t take a
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heard of that before.
Several told me they saw more
snakes this year than usual. And
I’ve seen a lot run over in the
roads. Yet our Mac Sparks hunted
them for days for a Farmers’ Week
air pass each other within the, chance—small as it is.
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That’s the way of things. i aerodynamics. Phone 74
Things have sure changed. Some| Deadly Force
fellow has figured this out. Fifty-
two years ago federal spen ’
amounted to $6.85 per person. „ , t — _ - - _ ,
10 more years it had increased to lombs of electricity in quantities
$7.54, and in 10 more to $60.40. i yet unattained by man-made elec-
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That was just after World War I
Then by 1930 it had dropped .to
$27.96. In 1940 it was $68.16. And
the coming year it will be $548.38.
I have a family of four.. So my
share is $2,193.52. Gracious! I
don’t know where it’s coming from.
I must be rich and don’t know it.
We grow more oats than any
state east of the Mississippi river.
Yet some are twice as big as we
are. That has great meaning in di
versification, livestock dairy and
poultry production. ^
In and Out
I know two fellows who planted
cabbage last year. Both lost mon
ey. The things wouldn’t bring en
ough to pay for the harvest and
seacks. So they left 'em
trie generators.
At any one time there are some
1,800 thunderstorms in progress!;
throughout the world. Since light-]
ning flashes occur at the rate of
about 200 an hour in a thunder
storm, there are about 100 flashes
every second on a world-wide av
erage.
A charge of 1,600 volts is con-1
sidered sufficient to kill a man. j
Since the average lightning flash
is thousands of times greater than!
this, the human is sure of death,
when hit by a direct discharge of
this atmospheric electricity.
According to the Metropolitan; j-:
Life Insurance Co., some 300 lives i
are lost each . year in the United i;
States because of lightning. Most
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Or th* money they can pmy.
It'I the clou co*h*r*t>on
Thot maktt them tvi« th* day
It u not th* tndivtdnnl
Or the army us whole
But th* trerlnUin teamwork
Of retry bloomin' tool.
As a m*r« boy down to "H«H HoW
Sunmpr to BsrksWy County. I wm
taught th* valu# and necaaaUy of co
operation Thera were 16 of us chil-
'dren. (Later my parenU decided the
family was too small and adopted
another ) The eight boy* slept m
■ ’ ■ “-v eight gl
two beds in on* room, the <
slept the same way in anu__ —
vided evenly four to the bad. Bach
foursome had to sleep facing the
same way, and all of us had to llto
over at the same time. Nightly each
group selected a “bed captain and
when he called Turnl" aU four to
that bad turned together, and we
were so good we could make the
flop-over without waking up or even
disarranging the covers. (By the
wayTthewtopted child had to sleep
on a pallet until the oldest child was
married oft) , „
We of Capital Life have tried to
instill into our amployeea that aaaae
spirit of co-operation. That we have
succeeded iaahown by the fact that
during our IB years of existence we
havehad teas man a J* Mnmwar to
employees. This record we do not
believe can be equaled by any other
tniilnm concern of comparable sue
to the state—it la indeed a remarks-
Wl a a nnom. mw_
m UBC Slave—II IS MM*Via m awasaMT-
Me record, and one of which we are
truly and justly proud.
in the of them could have been saved had
field. j they taken proper shelter during j
I went back there in May. One; the storms whence came their elec-
of them had sworn he’d never, trial executioner,
plant them again, and didn’t. The : Danger Areas
other one planted his usual three] Highest death rates occur in the*
acres. He had sold over $2,000 mountain states and the Southern
worth when I was there and he states stretching from South Caro 1
lina to Arkansas. Lowest rates are
in the Pacific coast states and the
Northwest. During the last 15
years no deaths from lightning
have been reported in Rhode Is-
You Want YOUR Customers
To Keep Coming to YOUR Store
land, where 700,000 people live.
Weather Bureau statistics show
the highest frequency of thunder
storms is near Tampa, Fla., and
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Charleston area has a large
number of storms, occurring main-
ly in afternoon and in the summer.
A lightning flash killed one man
and stunned four companions un-
wasn’t through.
Folks, that is the way it is with
most farmine specially truck. If
you have the land, labor, and fav
orable situation for a certain sys
tem of crops and livestock, you had
better stick to those things you
can do best and not be jumping
around all the tune. For almost
invariably when something sells
good and you decide to jump on it
next year, it won’t be doing so well
when you arrive at the market
place.
Good farm management shows „. 1V . —-
that this in-and-out farming sel- i der a huge live oak at the country
dom pays. You have to figure oni c i u b of Charleston golf course in,
averages. If you are suited for a 1943. Earlier a man was killed
crop, after a bad year is no time when lightning struck a boat near
to stop with it. Try to hold costs the Isle of Palms,
down and do a better job next 1 Avoid Trees
year, and you are likely to recoup! One of the most dangerous places
your losses, as the cabbage man did, during a thunderstorm is under a ]
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You Better Keep YOUR Store
Coming to YOUR Customers
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PRESIDENT
CAPITAL LIFE AND HEALTH
INSURANCE COMPANY
COLUMBIA, S. C
IT
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last spring.
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Boys Are That Way
More recollections:
Hogs squealing at dusk for the
kitchen slop they knew had ac
cumulated for them. And how
they knocked it all over you as you
tried to pour it in the trough for
them.
treei particularly an isolated one.
About one-fourth of all deaths at
tributed to lightning occur when
persons seek shelter under or near
trees. After striking a tree, light
ning may flash horizontally and it
may run along the ground—killing
anyone in its path.
Boats on open water also are
dangerous. Also listed as dangerous
The odor of horse apples, as they are picnics in the woods, playing
ripened on the tree there on the or working in open fields, standing
ditch bank by the garden. in a doorway or on a porch, swim-
The village drunkard, as he came ming and taking in the family wash
ripping and roaring down the road, froc clotheslines attached to trees.
^htoutah
beating his horse something aw
The bell in the white church
tower on the hill. They used to let
me ring it on Sundays.
The sprained ankle I got when
I stepped from the back of a mov-
While many persons do so, turn
ing off the electricity isn’t/much
protection against lightning. A
charge may make an arc over a
distance of more than 8.000 feet
from cloud to earth and, having
come that far, isn’t going to be
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' MR. MERCHANT
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