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Page Two rt THE CUNTON CHRONICLE S. C. Troffic Toll Down 22 Per Cent In 1954 Columbia, Seoi. 12 — South Carolina traffic deaths during the first six months of 1954 showed a decrease of 22 per cent over the corresponding pe riod last year, according to es timates by the National Safety Council. Only three other states had a larger decrease in fatalities. These include Montana with a 31 per cent decrease; West Virgin ia 27 per cent; and Delaware 24 J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CUNTON. 8. C. Phone 3493 Joanna per cent decrease. There was a six per cent de crease nationwide during the first six months. If the decrease con tinues during the last half, 1954 wil show the lowest national mo tor vehicle death toll since 1950 when the figure was 34,7^3, the safety council notes. Among 46 states reporting for June, 29 had fewer deaths, 15 had increases and two reported no change. Deaths per 100,000 population in South Carolina basW on six months reports for identical pe riods during the past three years show 405 deaths in 1952, 352 in 1953 and 275 in 1954. However, as of current date the margin is greater, deaths being 95 under the 1953 record. Deaths per 100 million vehicle miles of travel in 1954 is estimated at 7.9. Rhode Island has the lowest death es timate with 2.6 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles of travel. it’s EASY to open a i * Checking Account at BAILEY’S Cancelled checks of money spent Are clear and true instructions. Case after case They form the base For income tax deductions. t% INTEREST PAID ON SAYINGS ACCOUNTS SEMI-ANNUALLY M. $. BLILEY k SOlld&t. S T A 6 l I S H E D t 8 8 ft CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 1600 000 00 MfMIfR - FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 'MOAmm Okealne * : k Always C-O-O-L and Comfortable The Exploits King Arthur's Knights Today and Friday — M-G-M i GREAT SPECTACLE IN CRLATU THAN "IVAMHOr AND •QUO VADin IN MAONlFlCCNT 'KNIGHTS of Hie ROUNDTABU ttomng Robert TAYLOR'An GARDNER Mil FERRER Anne CRAWFORD • Stanley BAKER NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Saturday (One Day) ; Sept. 18;: Fighting Seabees Romance on the Seven Seas JOHN WAYNE - SUSAN HEYWARD CARTOON Monday -Tue&day September 20-21 Dr. Herbert Spaugh Everyday Counselor Man's most acute shortage today is a personal sense of the pres ence, kindness and help of Almighty God. AH of us need it, many want it, but too few know how to get it God has provided the opportunity to secure salvation and security. You can have it. Anyone can have it. The obstacles are sin and sel fishness. Sin is considered an old-fashioned word today. Call it what you will, bad thinking, thinking about self, evil, in feriority complex, it’s still the same old sin dressed up in other words. God wants man to be free from sin, so He came in human form. For three years He put on a lab oratory demonstration of how man should live whose heart was filled with the love of God. Sin brings misery, unhappiness, spiritual death. That’s its penalty. ‘The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Jesus Christ paid the full pen alty for that on the cross. He rose from the grave Dr. Spaugh to s tand at the door of His Father’s house offering a pardon for every sinner who will accept it, then join the Divine Family in the Father’s house. The picture in the New Testament is of the divine and loving Father offering love and a place in the Di vine Family circle through Jesus Christ to those who will accept the pardon and live a new life. Parental love is the strongest human love. So God used a picture of that to show His love for us. To get salvation from sin and a new life with divine guidance there are three steps: (1) Show true repentance for your sins, humbly confess them to God, accept the Divine pardon offered through Jesus Christ. The most important prayer to pray here is, “God be meciful to me, a sin ner.” Pray it and mean it. That gets rid of yesterday with its sins. This is an act of the will. , (2) Now surrender your will to God. Pray next, “Not my will, but Thine be done.” That puts God in the center of your life instead of self. That gets rid erf selfishness. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God,” is the sum of the Sermon on the Mount. This is another act of the will. You are now a member of the Divine Family. “As many as receive Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name ...” (3) You are now ready to take God’s plan for your life, secure daily Divine guidance. You should pray the third prayer, “Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?” This is an act of the spirit and heart, reaching out for the cousel of God. The Bible uses the term Holy Spirit or the Counselor to describe God as giving daily leading to those who have accepted the pardon and taken a place in the Di vine Family. This picture of how to overcome sin with salvation, selfishness with security, is so simply presented that even a child can under stand it. Accept it and you are a Christian; ignore it and you are not. It’s yours for the taking right now. “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shell be saved.” Why stumble along with sin, selfishness, uncertainty, and confus ion, when you can have salvation, certainty, happiness, joy, peace, security here and hereafter? “ JS ftm 9 s 91 crcrrccr mmmm mmmmmmm FARMS... AND FOLKS ■ W if: By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist f xf f rrrrrrrr* - **“»»“»»»* a '^**'*^****———“~******“ Live and Laarn ' that soil for a good crop. Than All of these years, for no ap-' when the water does not come, parent reason, watermelons have they supply it, and the harvest is been carefully stacked length- sure, wise of the car. And with bright labels stuck to the top layer they sure have looked good that way. But now comes Clemson’s mar keting men and the railroad folks trying to find ways of lessening damage and loss in transit. They noticed that the softer bloom- ends of the melons are most of ten damaged in shipment. The harder stem-end, of the next melon fit right against that. The jostling in the car of these lengthwise^ packed melons real ly worked on that weak Spot. So they tried stacking the mel ons crosswise of the Car. That way the pressures from starts and stops of the car would be on the sides of the melons and not on the soft ends. Rather start ling results were secured, ac cording to our marketing chief, Jimmy Youngblood. The cross- N*w Things Down at the Stoneville, Miss., Experiment Station they have found a cotton that has smooth leaves and stems. Normal cot ton foliage is fuzzy, you know, and it clings to the cotton. If all the other needed characters can be bred into this slick cotton, it will be a great aid to mechanical harvesting. At the famous Dortch plant breeding farms over in Arkan sas we saw a lot of curious look ing cotton. The parent seed for it had been subjected to atomic radiation at Oak Ridge some years ago. That caused it to break up into all sorts of crazy looking stuff. One strain of that, too, has slick foliage. Another is yellow. And there are all sorts , of other variations. The whole packed cars had 70 per cent less bundle of nature’s secrets was Shuns Movies For Education, Returns To Lander MIRIAM STEVENSON, who went from Lander college to fame a# Miss Universe, Is retaining to the tnotitation this week to complete her senior year. Calling Dr. B. M. Grier, jreetdeni of Lander, from Hollywood, she said she had terminated her six- month 3259-s-week contract at Universal International Stadias, the chief prise she won with her title last Jane 24. In making the decision Miss Stevenson said, *T have enjoyed being in Hollywood, bat think it best to return to school. I want to be with my family and school friends and grodaate with my class at Lander.” She ia a senior and will receive the B. S. degree in home economics next May. Her first cousin, Tom Castles, of Winnsboro, flew to Hollywood to return to South Carolina with her. She will drive the 1*54 Dodge Royal V-S convertible that she won In the “Mlm Universe” con test back to WInnobore. The picture above shows her in s familiar role, walking the path from Chipley hall on the Lander campus with text books in hand. months, after which he suddenly became paralyzed again. Would you then say, “I carnot stand it. I cannot go back to waiting on an invalid?” Believe me, Mrs. D., if your husband is a true al- Q. My husband is an alcoholic I cholic, he does not drink be cause he wants to, but because ingredients. However, the mole cule of alcohol itself cannot be incorporated into the body tis sues for growth or repair, and cannot be stored in the body. TYie body may use alcohol for about 20 per cent of the requirements for heat-energy, but alcohol can never take the place of a balanc ed food diet, 'nils is one reason, perhaps, why many alcoholics become' ill. Drinking without eating deprives the body of need ed food. Q. I am an alcoholic. I was told by a friend who knows you that you recommend Alcoholics Anonymous. I know that other Christian Centers do not recom ment AA, and wonder why you do. I wondered even more after I visited the local group and heard nothing but a lot of talk about how drunk they used to get, and one man used a lot of profanity. So I told my friend that I would not do it again. A. Yes, every man who comes R. H. J. to Fairview is advised to do three things when he returns home: (1) Pray every day. (2) Go to church regularly. (3) At tend AA whenever possible. A program that has helped more than 100,000 alcoholics can neith er be ignored or cast aside. You are making the common mistake of confusing AA with individual members of AA. The AA pro gram is one thing. The interpre tation or abuse of this program by individual alcoholics is an other. If you will read the Twelve Suggested Steps you will, I believe, see that this is a good program for alcoholics. Re member also, the majority of AA members are still “infants” with only brief periods of sobriety be hind them. You have to give them time to grow. As they grow they will talk less about how drunk they got ,and more about what tHb grace of God has done for them. Be patient, be un derstanding and in time you will find a warm fellowship an a real help in AA. Among Clinton contributors to Fairview are: Bank of Clinton, D. B. Smith, Baldwin Appliance Co., Baldwin Motor Co., Mc Gee’s Drug Store, M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers. ' CITATION FOB LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION The State of South Carolina County of Laurens By J. H. Wasson, Probate Judge: WHEREAS, Wm. R. Pitts and Olson P. Rykard made suit to me to grant Cleon P. Rykard Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Ina Vance Pitts. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kin dred and Creditors of the said Ina Vance Pitts, deceased, that thecr be and appear before me, in the Court Vrf Probate, to be held at Laurens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on September 25, next, after publica tion hereof, at 10 o’clock In the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Admin istration should not be granted. Given under my band this 4th day of September Anno Domini 1964. J. HEWLETTE WASSON J. P. L. C. 2tcw-Sept 16 WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTHfO—EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. How To Kill Athlotes Foot Gorm SSSf t e* we. wsefcod tin. IWHOlMt Boat woltl dot BLIS-TO-SOL NOW. adv. MCGEE'S drug store Dr. Felder Smith Lourens, S. C. 794 Alcoholism Today By Maxi# C. Collins, Director. Fairview Alcoholic Rehabilita tion Center. Ridgeway, S. C. In 1952- H1GH noon~... in 1953- SHANr... and bruieses when they arived at the other end of the line, 69 per cent less cracked melons, and 47 per cent less surface scars. Thus we live and learn. The fact that a job is and has been done a certain way for a long time doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best way. I understand inventors all along through history had been trying to make a cotton gin. They tried to take the seed from the lint. At last Eli Whitney came along and reversed that. He tried to take the lint from the seed. And you know the story from there on. might! BURT LANCASTER JEAN PETERS A-..- rrrrrrrrrrrrrf » u j > Wednesday September 22 BAD FOR EACH OTHER With Chariton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianna Foster ‘*************--* r~ rrrrrrr rj jj rrrrr COMING IN OCTOBER—“DRAGNET" Oases Here ^ We think of an oasis as being in the desert. And that is gen erally where you’ find them. But the past summer I found them over South Carolina. For most of the state was a parched ruin. But everywhere I ^aw the man made shower being brought with irrigation I saw the green prom ise of abundance from the land. Yet, oases in a desert. That is what irrigation made here the past summer. And that has been largely so for 4 years now. Irrigation costs something, sure. But it costs more not to have it, far more. I know thous ands of fanners over South Caro lina who have paid and paid dearly for not having irrigation the past few years. If you are really trying to farm not having irrigation costs you a lot more than having it does. We have been paying like that all along, and getting no benefit. And drought, recurring drought, has kept Lis poor. We have a fast growing num ber of fanners in the state who now largely control their own destiny. They no longer spend their days looking into the stem blue skies and longing for the shower that often does not come, while their, crop parches and burns. They put the power in upset in those treated seed. And after a number of generation from them, they have not yet regained their stability nor com posure. Boy, that atomic stuff! Won der if we are not getting beypnd our depth there. The scientist is using it in many ways. Maybe he knows what he is doing. The agricultural research worker finds beneficial uses for it, too. One way is to feed plants treated fertilizer elements. You can’t destroy that stuff, and it will be found in the parts of the plant or animal that consumes it. In that way feeding habits, nutria tion, and many other processes can be pinned down and studied. New things! Yes, eternally. Boys Are Thai Way Last week I told of the hand out and tied bundles of spring grain that covered some of the bars cracks that winter feeding had left in our bam in the Stone Hills as kids. 17181 came in early June. By early July the thresher, with the loud whistle that fright ened me, had come and threshed, the wheat and enough oats for planting that fall. And we had played in that straw pile so much the itchy chaff had made us break out with a rash. Anyone around who wanted to refix their straw mattresses had ruled ’em 'with fresh wheat straw. It threshed cleaner and did not have the itchy chaff like ogte, After threshing time, our bam loft looked rather empty again. Only a batch of bundled feed oats remained. But out in late July and August it was filled again when the fodder was ready to puH That was the blades and tops of com, taken as they began to yellow. These were tied in small sheaves and hung across the drooping care to cure. Then about the third or fourth day we took it up and tied it in bundles, about four or five small sheaves and has been for ten years. Five months ago he became interested in AA, and stopped drinking. But yesterday he^started drink ing again, and it seems that I cannot stand it. These months have been the happiest of our married life, and to see him go back to the old pattern of drunk enness is more than I can bear. I have tried to think of some thing that could have caused hun to start drinking again, but can’t even imagine what could have caused it. He seemed so happy and everything was goingl y““ so well, and then he came home drunk. Mr. Collins, I love my husband, but I simply can’t go back to what I endured for so many years. I want to help him if I can. Can’t you please tell me something that I can do? Un less he can be brought to his senses it means the end for us. Please tell me what to do. (Mrs.) B. L. D. A. There are many things you can do. First of all, you can be lieve that your husband is a side man. Suppose he had been para lyzed for ten years, then found the use of his body for five he has to. Try to believe this, for he and all alcoholics are vic tims of a mysterious affliction which no one on earth under stands as yet. Another thing that you can do is thank God for the five months of happiness you hod during his sobriety. And fin ally, you can believe that your husband wanted to stop drinking and did make some effort, or he would never have remained so ber for five months after ten years of almost continuous drinking. You can have faith. can believe that because he found five months of sobriety he can find sobriety again. You can show you have faith in him by not nagging or criticizing him. Yes, I will gladly talk with both of you if you come to Fairview. Q. Is it true that alcohol is a food? R. E. G. A. Alcohol is pure calories, with no vitamins. Whiskey has, m addition to about 43 per cent alcohol, sugar, water and other OUAtlTY SERVICE ] tm fRrSC:,(..CN FHAMMCr To pay for Knowledge is Often Real Economy.... by yow Doctor* Ike fee paid to Mm knot for work n aH9v ivr na tot Knowwig wnor to of • part at bill • portal Bo cart of yow McGee’s Drug Store Phone No. 1 to the bundle. This we hauled and stacked in the loft of the bam. fTfcprf we kids liked to play, too. And we would build forts and houses out of those bundles. I know much of it was mostly stems when we got through With the dry, crumbly stuff. Following the fodder came the hay, such as we had. It was usually peavines. And, man, that stuff was hard to handle, when it grew rank. . Those runners were like wires. And unless you tore it into small forkfuls in the field, loaded it right, and then t(>pk it off right, you had a job .on your hands for sure. Those peavines were hard to cure and had to lie in the field 10 days to 2 weeks. Usually dur ing that time some rains would come and further complicate the deal. Then the sun would come out on it, stopping the mold, turning it black, and most of the leaves shed off when we handled it. It was then mostly stems and very poor hay. But a lot better than one. We’d stack it in the pasture and put a rail fence around it if the loft was still full of fodder and oats. 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