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I t / i t Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 23, 1953 DRIVERS ARE KILLERS! DO#'r BE ONE* STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT - COLUMBIA.*.C have left things in a mighty mess. But every time I went back, it had they baked bread every day. They all been straightened out again. Since they had a large family, had the last of the Dutch ovens I ever saw in action. It was a brick affair cut under a shed. They w'ould build a big fire in it, getting the brick hot. Then the fire qnd ashes were all raked out and the place filled with pies and cakes and the door tightly closed. Then that fireless cooker did the job that any one who ever experienced them will tell you has never been match ed as an oven. The tough crusted, puly mixed bread they cooked in there was tops in eating for us. When I would eventually leave for home, she would cut a crescent shaped piece from the side of one of those warm loaves, paste the holes full of fresh-churned butter, overlay that with blackberry jelly, and up the path I would go. And the road to Paradise could be no sweeter than that path through the pasture was then. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Prune whip can turn into a fancy dessert if you serve it in tall “parfait” type glasses, layering with sliced bananas. Top with whipped cream and finely chopped nuts. Ever tried peppermint sticks as pauddlers with tea? They’re tasty and interesting. Try them with co coa for the youngsters, too, to give them a real treat. - Chipped beef or Welsh rarebit can be made more appetizing by tossing in some peanuts. They give interesting texture. Grilled cheese- ^sandwiches are excellent when served with a sauce made by heating condensed cream of mushroom sop which has been thinned slightly with some milk. Fish and chicken sandwiches, grill ed, are good with the sauce, too. Stuff dates or cooked, pitted prunes with peanut butter and top with halves of nutmeats. These are nice as a snack or a salad oc- companiment. Exterior view of the Hart Clinic. Note large window in reception room, allowing sunny and cheerful atmosphere. SCIENTIFIC CHIROPRACTIC HEALTH CARE ^ The C. J. Hart Chiropractic Clinic 205 Church St. LAURENS, S. C. Telephone 22501 Soy "I Saw It Is Tin Chronicle" — Thank You! Stunt-Driving Causes Accidents, Deaths Jus one stunt by a daring driver' can involve a number of traffic law violations, and there is a definite relationship between violations, ac cidents and deafhs, State Highway Department records show. Of the 692 fatal accidents re corded in South Carolina in 1952, 407 of them involved one or more violations of the traffic larWs. Speeding, one of the most flag rant violations of .the show-Off driv er. was indicated in 231 of the to tal accidents which took a toll of £10 lives. Failure to grant right-of- way, another common fault of the •driver who can beat the other fel- lo wto the intersection, was re sponsible in 50 fatal accidents. The Highway Department points out that an exhibitionist driver showing how he can zip around ve hicles ahead of him could be guilty of such violations as speeding, im- warning sign, failing to give right- of-way. and failing to give a signal. Another favorite stunt of the show-off driver is weaving m and cut of traffic lanes, and this in volves following to closely in an effort to pass the vehicle ahead. Gf the total of 14,207 violations; reported in 1952, 10 per cent in volved the charge of following too closely. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Dairy Improvement Last year 1,409 dairy cows were artificially bred in Newberry coun ty. Their man who handles this. Ed Freeman, received a certificate for being the outstanding technic-, ian in the state in 1952, County Agent Ezell tells me. Fast dairy cattle improvement is coming over South Carolina where these artificial breeding associa tions operate. This enables local farmers to do away with the troub le, danger and expense of keeping bulls. And the service they get comes from the superior bulls kept at Clemson for this purpose. Thus the average farmer' is able to get far better bull service than he could t other wise afford. And, since the bull is half the herd, when it, comes to inheritance, this improve ment in the sires of our dairy cat tle is giving us rapid improvement in the quality of our cattle. If your county does not have this service and you are interested, > see your county agent. He will be glad to help organize your local prospect for an association. In some cases two or more counties go to gether and hire one technician. * * * South Leads In Pulpwood It must have been about 20 years ago. While in Savannah I visited the laboratory there where Dr. are usually left where a heavy cut 1 n»aking of paper from Southern pine. Up to then it had not been j done. And our needs of that sort orf paper had to come from some- w here else He succeeded. And then the paper mills started moving South. The formerly practically worthless young new growth of pine became valuable and folks started buying them up, where vast areas of them had been taken for taxes. Ruinous cutting practices prevailed iox some time. But now improvement cut tings are being made and seedtrees search done there in his little lab- is desired. In 1951 the South produced 56 per cent of the pulpwood of this country and now that figure is like ly still higher. And it all came from basic re lion acres of range lands out west oratory in Savannah by Dr. Hurty. * * • Our Rang* Lands Our government owns 170 mi- ileges on much of it. But has to Most of Chat is the dryest and roughest out there. From grazing, timber and mining operations, it yields but 25 cents per acre per year. So you know it is barren. Imagine grazing land that yields but 70 pounds of dry forage per acre a year. That’s what it does. Cattlemett lease the grazing priv ileges *n much of it. It has to be watdied very close, or even that will be destroyed and the land will erode Jester. While riding through the almost endless reaches of that parched ex panse, I was told that much of that land was very fertile. All it need ed was water. But at present there is no prospect for available water in hundreds and hundreds of miles of that vast dry area. If some source of water were to suddenly open up for it, we would see a whole new empire grow there in the now sparse western range coun try. Water, water, what valuaole stuff this is! We just now begin to appreciate it here, where a goodly ponton of our abundance of it is al lowed to run off. And then our crops parch and burn for the lack of it, when the frequent droughts strike. But that is changing thanks be! Folks contour their land to make more of the water soak in. We re forest it and accomplish a slow and steady run-off. We build ponds and impound it for future use. And with that, the water coming from running streams and at places from wells, we are beginning to feel the security that comes froh banishing drought from fields where we have done our best. With supplemen tary irrigation, we can afford to shoot for a big yield. And we us ually get it. But without it, we have to play to the drought. And the harvest is small. * * • Boys Axe That Way I always liked to go dowm to Aunt Vennie’s. She was a great aunt that lived at the ancestral home down the valley that was Tavern back in stage coach days. She was the kindliest of souls. I never heard her speak a harsh word. She hadn’t had it easy. She raised a large family and her hus band had been an officer in the Confederate Army. I never saw her idle, and her patience knew no bounds. She saw to it that abun dance came from the rather un yielding stone hills around her. And her garden and orchard and flowers and food patches were al ways ample. And no visitor left her house without carrying some of that bounty away. She never’ failed to have some sort of goodie for a kid that drop ped in, and I’d go down there as often as my folks would let me. I liked her pantry best, for there is where the tempting viands were. Next, b^st I liked her large half story upstairs room in the older part of the rambling house. 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