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-/ V- ^ _ . . r v f 1 ♦ I’age Four •f- FARMS AND FOLKS \ • By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Bird Men We left Atlanta at 3:00 p. m. There are 58 others on this sleek •i-motored skyliner. Ours is the 16,000 foot level. It is getting late afternoon. We must be over the dry wastes of West Texas or New Mexico now. We can scarcely see earth, lost in the pink mists below. It is quiet in here and two tables of cards are in progress back in the tail. The attractive hostesses have just passed refreshments around. And while the others em ploy themselves with cards, read ing, or sleep, I sit here and marvel. Old country me, at last up here fly ing in the very outer space. I and tried it, with outstretched wing-tip. I wonder if we are in a predicament, knowing the old Pa cific is just a few minutes ahead. But no one else seems bothered so I won’t be either. In a few min utes we broke into the clear, and there lay the sprawling sea of lights far below that was Los An geles. I wondered how we would ever get down in that place. But soon a clearing loomed. We de scended by gentle stages. As we neared the earth, houses seem to scoot from under us, giving us, for the first time, the sense of speed, imperceptibly, we touched the run way. Propellers were reversed. A flurry by the engines soon had us almost stopped, and we rolled gently to our stopping spot there at the great Los Angeles airport. I sheet from the well shed once, f ulled out my watch and it was dreamed of this when I was a kid i 9:14. spraining my ankle. | Across the country between din- I like to watch the great blue- j ner and SU pper! I didn't realize cowled motor nearest me. I call; how f ar j had gone until I came that mine. And it hasn't sputtered j back on a f ast tar i n and it took a a lick since we left earth at Atlan-1 jjttle over three days and nights, ta 6 hours ago. Purring gently, : An d folks, that train trip was won- l.ke a contented cat. That’s it-i der f u i too. The Western Pacific’s And a slight sheen is all that marks; California Zephyr , out of San Fran- ihe place of its whirling propeller. ! cisco east gave t h e greatest treat Boring, boring, ever boring into I rve ever had ru have to tell ^’ou the west! Ihats us. Over 5 ntiles! a h ou t that some time. Let me get a minute' Headed into the sunset. 1 to some thing else now. It lingers long, for we are erasing i * * * a third of its speed. But up here j Coastal Bermuda we appear to be just hanging in the Cou A Bull of Abbeville, clouds. There is no sense of our tells ' me J that 35 farme rs there4 nemendous speed. .'sprigged in Coastal Bermuda grass Twilight comes to the la d f the past S p r j ng sev eral truck atone r j oads of ce rtified sprigs that the Extension Service brought in went the sagebrush, as we drone our| westward way. Lights begin to twinkle at places far below, mark ing the occasional settlement in the' to foundation plantings in evdty . . county of the state. As many of tar reaches of the cactus countO’. these - as mcet the s t ric , p Uri t y re - Svsmal blacknel “betow eW t * uirem ‘' ms wm be <*«““<• Ab. mal mackne?, bel , except, fo dation seed growers’ assocA- for th eoccas.ona twmk e of a hi fa]1 ^se will then be light on the desert. The stare come |iab] s there , , he cou „. out briehtly in the clean thin air, o{ b of the moonless night. We must be' A*; ® over the mountains now. But the;^ t ® ^ smoothness of our ride does not tell| Now is a good time to see this us s0 , grass growing in the fields. Many We* are stretching time, for we county agents have or will be ar- have run our watches back an ran gi n g tours to see these plant- hour three times. It is now 9:00i in S s - * , * t p. m. (midnight Atlanta time). We - - are on time and due in Los An- Next week, August 17-21, is geles at 9:15. We suddenly run in- ^ ar m 3nd Home Week at Clemson. to a fog-bank. They turn on the what a week it bids to be: wing lights. Everything is milky j ^^e thinggrows every year. And whiteness outside where the lights * those kwniling arrangements and strike. I can’t see even to theJ bookings tell me this year’s growth [will be bigger than ever. No mat ter what your farm or home inter- ; est is, scan the program and you Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Phone 658 Office Hours 9:00 to 5:3C Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and .*• EMBALMERS Phones 41 and 399-J AMBULANCE SERVICE L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. M*rs. FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years T. E. Jones & Sons The Best for Over Fifty Years CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina will find things of interest there Rooms are a dollar a person for the time you stay. And meals are served in the mess hall at moderate cost. Bring sheets, pillow, towels, etc. • # * Boys Are Thai Way Last week I started off here, “Childhood’s little tragedies often become some of our most cherished memories.” And that brought such a rush of memories that I couldn’t j get nearly all of them on thal lp?ige. So here are a few more: The Christmas my brother w chasing my colored playmate, ZeWe, with the Roman candle, a ball of fire hit him in the back of ; the head, stuck for a moment, siz- ! zled there, and we put it out by j sousing his head in the horse | trough. The time my daddy thought we were joking when we said we could no longer hold that tough-headed ! yearling and keep him out of the corn field when we went to stake i him out to grass. So he tried him. Leaving the water trough there at j the well, he picked the chciin up, as the yearling started down the I path. He yanked on it to hold him j but the yearling got faster and fast- ; er. Soon my daddy lost his foot- ' ing, the calf was taking him so fast. i But he ?ield on to the chain and that strong yearling dragged him ; all through a briar patch and some 1 thorn bushes. He sure looked ' cheap when we caught up with him : and the yearling had him down ; there in the edge of the com field. The time I stepped on the hot end j just cut off a horse shoe in the black dust down there at the black smith shop. It took it a few mom- ' ents to tough the quick through ! the leather-like sole of my foot. ! But when it got through (hat, Oh ! boy. j The time I drowned six of my ; mother’s chicks trying t6 make , them swim like ducks. And the time I angrily threw a rock at the I old rooster that beat me to two ! fine mulberries I had just knocked 1 down, hitting him squarely on the j head, killing him, and I threw him 1 away down in the high weeds, only to start limberneck among our | chickens a week later. The time I stumbled on the top step, spilling the two buckets of water that were my nightly chore, as the ball game was drawing nearly to a close there in the back yard, and dusk was settling fast across the countryside. Life look ed gloomy to me then. And the time I shaved the back of my heel off on a sharp axe, as I got in the trough to see them kill the beef up at Mr. Kire’s place, thus ruining my chances for going to the creek for some time. On and on like that any country boy could go*for pages and pages of memory. --i ^ U THE CLINTON CHRONICLE 4 Thursday, August 13, 1958 Hunt’s Flavorful Coffee Vetael CHASE eri SAHDBORH Coffee-89 Tomato Catsup l Dixie-Home Quality 14-Ox. Bot. Tall 17e Dixie-Home Quality Tangy Salad Dressing j r o „ a • J ar Try Our Macaroni 4 CHEESE PIE Lb. Pkg. 29c You’ll Like Our Chieken POT PIE Dix HA Evap. Milk ; .3™.37c 27c Fresh Shipped PULLET EGGS 12-Ox. 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