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fHE CLINTON CHRONICLE Paf« Tkrec Thundmy, December 23, 1954 Itopc i**/ jotf 0*/ tc00ty fk Gmisfms SUSOH U/s Bkss jo* new ^j) tUoty! fU firftfiC /^s C0ci /Mtssiny Ay wtfilA. L^< MERRY CHRISTMAS — HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND EVERYONE EVERYWHERE Hallmark Shirt Manufacturing Corp. y l Ciulf Oil Corporation JOHN A. ADDISON, Dtatrlbotor ^ • • ► FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist Watershed Project* To control erosion and its many evils, and to conserve valuable water, efforts are now being di rected to whole watersheds at places here and there. A demon stration area of this sort has been i placed here near Clemson in Pick ens county on the Twelve Mile Creek watershed. All appropriate agencies are working with the landowners in that area and many | ideas for watershed improvement are being initiated there. The Government helps by doing some in 1965. While with County Agent Gray of Darlington, I saw one of their leading farmers, Ed Howie. I ask ed him how his irrigation had turned out the past summer. He said it had added $600 per acre to his tobacco crop. And Ed has a lot of tobacco. His irrigated com made 65 bushels per acre, while the rest made nothing, “maybe 6 bushels per acre”, he said. Drought not only dried up their crops, but their once thriving hog market too at Kingstree, accord Alcoholism Todov By Maxi* C. Collins. Director. Fairview Alcoholic Rehabilita tion Center. Ridgeway, 8. C. of the larger things needed on a.ing to County Agent Jackson. Yet sort of matching basis with what the individual farms do. Up in Oconee county, County Age lit Morgan tells me they have been working on the Coneross Creek watershed area for a sim ilar organized effort at erosion control and water management. The Bush River Community in Newberry and Laurens counties has its plan already approved. Leaders In conservation feel that this watershed approach is the thing, if we are to stop erosion, prevent silting of our streams, and get more benefits and less dam age from the water that falls. With the Agent* Mellette of Aiken says: “Many acres of grazing crops came up ' anA died from draught.’’ Shelley of Barnwell: “A two- acre field of Coastal Bermuda grass established only last spring cut 6 tons of hay, despite the j great drought.” Assistant Agent Sams of Barn well: “Yields of sweet potatoes were not large but grade and qual ity were fine.” Cain of Calhoun: “Drought cut our soy bean yields to from two to ten bushels per acre. Early seeded pastures all had to be planted over, and most of the ear ly rye was killed by the hot dry weather.” ,. Livingston of Dillon: “Close to a hundred, interested folk attended our irrigaition school the last of October. Many irrigation ponds are being dug at the present time.” Assistant Agent Brown of Dil- jlon: “Francis Bryant and Milford i Mears put on their 4-tH sweet po- fine com was noted at those few places over the dr ought-ertreiken state where water was added. No wonder interest grows fast in irrigation. We don’t know much about it yet. But we do know iti pays and pays well on most things. Experiment and experience are gradually bringing us the know how and the answers. And, as this information increases, we will get better and better results from the water we have. Beys Are Tkat Way Every few years we used to make some wine at home. Not to be drunk in the usual way. But for communion at church and for oc casional flavoring. This wine was kept in 5-quart Q. At a recent AA meeting I heard someone quote you regard ing the twelve steps the alcoholic takes downward while drinking. Would you send me a list of these? A. What you heard was prob ably the steps outlined first, I be lieve, by E. M. Jellinek while he was connected with Yale. They’ are given below, in this and next week’s column, being too long for one week. 1. The first step is, in 65 per cent of all cases, social drinking. In 10 per cent or 15 per cent the drinker finds he is completely out of control with his first drink. If you are one of the 85-90 per cent, you have as a first step be gun to drink socially. You drink, in your judgment, in moderation. Now and then you may take too much but the next morning you cannot stand the sight of liquor. After the hangover is gone you are all right again. 2. You are now drinking more than formerly. It may be a year or two years since you began to drink socially. It may be less than that. You now get more or less drunk with some regularity, especially on week-ends. You run with a crowd that likes to drink and prefer drinking friends to non-drinking friends; but you are sure that you can handle your liquor and believe that you can stop any time you want to. Dur ing this period you take your us ual amount of liquor one night, and the next morning you find that after a certain point you brown bottles that my father, the cann °t remember what happen- country doctor, got medicine in. j ^ Th “ “ your * irst blackout. They were stored away back on a shelf in the dark cellar, and be came covered with cobwebs and ddbber nests in time. taste this wine. Nor did we covet it. We were too disgusted with any sort of intoxicant, for we had seen it so misused by a few nates in the Stone Hills. ' ' One year the blackberries were specially fine. So my mother made I a sort of amnesia. You didn’t pass out cold, but you cannot re member what you did or said. This is a red light. Time to stop. , tr ,, 3 - Continuing to drink in spite *?i Ve L a lOWed < ot to* warning blackout, you find xt— j.j .... . for ijq UOr or or ; wine grows stronger. You begin! sneaking drinks at parties when no one is looking. You take two' or three more than normal every time you drink. You don’t nurse your drinks along, but gulp them up some wine, as her supply was down hurriedly and look around out. She let the berries and sugar ferment in a large crock with cheesecloth tied over it to keep the gnats out. Then when it was right, one "'afternoon she poured it up into the dark bdttles and stored it in the cellar. A colored boy that we raised was helping her. He was an over grown giant at about 15. She left him to clean up and told him to tato grading demonstration as a t pou,. t jj e j^egs 0 r skimmings from part of the program at each of the Granges in the county.” Assistant Agent MdNair of Sumter: “The farm page in the local paper continuse to be of in terest weekly. Each Friday some timely phase of agriculture is fea tured. accompanied by pictures.” Grainger of Clarendon: “We are feeling the pinch of a corn and forage crop failure due to drought.” Cannon of Lancaster: “Olin Helms says he-paid for his irriga tion outfit with vegetables the past dry summer. Our rat poisoning campaign is an annual affair, with both the towns and farms partici pating.” Interest Grows No wonder irrigation interest is growing fast. Just look at a few results and you won’t wonder why. County Agent Jackson of Wil- the wine out back of the wood- pile there. He tasted the stuff. Liked it. Drank his fill. And pour ed the rest out in a hole back of the woodpile there. Soon the pigs and geese came up to see what he had poured out. They Sniffed and tasted at it. And they too found it to their liking. Quickly they filled up on the stuff until it was all gone. Soon there was a queer sight back there around the woodpile. The colored boy had watched the critters lap it up, as his was tak ing effect. He toppled over, dead drunk. And those pigs and geese were the funniest things you ever saw. Squawking, grunting, squeal ing, and falling around out there in the weeds, they were a weird sight. Night came on, they went to sleep, and we left the boy out there with them. I don’t recall if liamsburg gave me the record of they all showed signs of headaches T. O. Baxley of Indiantown. On the tobacco that he irrigated he made 2,498 pounds per acre. It sold for $1,607.32 per acre. That not irrigated made 1,398 pounds ! per acre. And it sold for $600.36 per acre. No wonder, as Jackson for another. You drink for kicks. You want to “feel” the liquor. Before going out to a party you usually take two or three so as to get an early star£ At this point you could stop by a determined effort—but you are in grave dan ger. 4. You find that every time you take one drink you drink more than you meant to drink. You stop otf after work for one beer and when the place closes up you are still there and a pile ot empty bottles bear witness to your drinking. You meant to get home m time for dinner, but somehow time slipped away. Or maybe you go home and fully in tend to take one drink to relax and wind up stinking drunk. You go to a party, promising yourself and others you will behave, and end up drunk. You have crossed the line. You are now an alco holic, for you cannot control your drinking. 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. next day or not. Those were the only drunk hogs and geese I’ve ever seen. But I learned this, all drunks are a lot alike, whether they be hogs, geese, or men. In fact, it always seemed to me, a drunk man is a combination of said, there will be at least 50 more the other two, both a hog and a irrigation outfits in action there I goose. NOTICE OF SALE Sealed bids will be received by the Sinking Fund Commission for the Town of Clinton, South Caro lina, until 11:00 a. m., December 29, 1954, at the office of the Town Clerk, for the purchase of the fol lowing described real property, the same being a part of the sink ing fund of the Town of Clinton. All that certain piece, parcel ‘or lot of land situate, lying and be ing at the southeastern corner of the intersection of North Broad Street and Florida Street, in the Town of Clinton, County of Laur ens, State of South Carolina, be ing bounded as follows: on the north by Florida Street, one hun dred (100) feet thereon; on the east by fifteen foot alley, one hundred twenty-eight (128) feet thereon; on the south by fifteen foot alley, one hundred (100) feet thereon; and on the west by North Broad Street, one hundred twenty- eight (128) feet thereon. Bids will be publicly opened and read at we office of the Town Clerk, Clinton, S. C., at 11:00 a. m. on December 29, 1954. Each bid shall be accompanied by^a certified check in the amount of'not less than twenty (20%) ’per cent of the amount bid, rep resenting a guarantee that the successful bidder will pay the bal ance of the amount bid within ten (10) days after the opening of the bids. Terms of sale: cash, purchaser to pay for stamps on deed. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of three (3) days subsequent to the opening of the bids. The right is reserved to re ject any and all bids and to waive technicalities. SINKING FUND COMMIS SION FOR THE TOWN OF CLINTON. SOUTH CARO. UNA R. E. FERGUSON R. P. HAMER R. M. VANCE 4tc-Dec. 28 To All People By JAMES C. KINARD On that first Christmas mom-1 ing the angel said to the wonder ing shepherds: “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.” The real meaning of Christmas makes it worthy of observance by all people everywhere. The promise of the Prince of Peace came to men and women of every class, color and creed. There is I every reason for united rejoicing throughout the world. When the Child Whose birth 1 was hearlded by the hosts of _ T „.. .... . . , . , heaven grew up into manhood FINAL SETTLEMENT He became a great teacher. He Take notice that on the !8th. a new doctrine of toler- day of January, 1955, I will ren- ancei sympathy and love. His PAINTED SURFACES To clean paint mix common whiting in warm water to ,the thickness of paste. Rub briskly with a piece of flannel and then wash in cold water. der a final account of my acts and doings as Administrator of the estate of Maggie Wicker Sul- ton in the office of the Judge of kindly word and healing touch brought to the human heart a living sense of the unfailing goodness of God. He gave man- Probate of Laurens County, at 10. j^d a simple and easily under- o clock a. nv, and on the same| stoo d recipe for happipess and day will apply for a final dis- genuine success in life: “As ye charge from my trust as Admin- wou id that men should do to you, istrator. .... .. ’do ye even so unto them.” To a , Any person indebted to said es- ( wor id groping hopelessly in the 1 tate is notified and required to | darkness of superstition and sin,, make payment on or before that j esU s of Nazareth declared, “I am date; and all persons having the of the wor id.” He died claims aaginst said estate wiU a shameful death that all people present them on or before said w } 10 choose to follow in His way date duly proven, or be forever might eternal life barred. , j s the hope Q f humanity that * j 1 . LTON, t he day will soon come when the * M iniStra i 0r i °* clouds of impending war shall be a ^ ie Fulton Wicker forever dispelled and there will Dec. 13, 1954 4c-w-Jan. 13 p reva ii j n the hearts of all peo- s»l~rfb. To THE CHRONICLE FINAL SETTLEMENT Glory to God in the highest, and aastaa. a*, i * Aobitcss * on earth peace, good will toward Take notice that on the 28th „ day of Dec., 1954, we will render, a final account of our acts and doings as Executors of the estate ’ of Claude Venion Monroe in the 1 men. “Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King.” office of the Judge of Probate of c___ C,.----- Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a. 5UCCCS5 * m., and on the same day will ap- In Polio War ply for a final discharge from our ♦ v , trust as Executors 1 Columbia—Col. C. V. Padgett Any person indebted to said 0 f Donaldson Air Force Base, esUte is notified and required John C. Dunson, B. B. Owing* to make payment on or before am j Lawrence Ivie of Greenville, that date; and all persons having attended a meeting of March of claims against said estate will Dij^eg ar d National Foundation present them on or before said j n f an tiie Paralysis leaders date, duly proven, or be forever h ere . barred. —MINNIE MONROE, CLAUDE B. MONROE, Executors. Nov. 23, 1954. 4c-w-Dec. 23 All The Little Things Heeded Foe The Office CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. 74 Moy sparkle of Christmas candles Rttke your seasea ♦o eack of oer J. G. Todd Grocery It is a pleasure, at tivs time cf to greet our friends, who, througii their faith in us, have made this year one of continued progress. Our sincere thank# and hearty greetings to all We Will Be Open Sunday, December 26 9-11 A. M. 2-6 P. M. Young’s Pharmacy “The Old Reliable’ Geo. A. Copeland & Son Hardware b’s not ao much the phrasing of a Christmas greeting as (he thought that prompts it... and the sincerity with which it is offered. We sincerely wish you a very f 1 nu CHRISTMAS jjJjM Burts Ready-to-Wear 206 W. Main St. Phone 410