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J Thursday, January 5,1956 PONT DIG YOUR AW GRAVE IN 1956 VV .---vv^-v , — yj rc k. THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Umm Dtiue CwjuMg Every Moment* AVOID TRAGEDY! chips. By 1954 that had grown to one bag out of each 7! ^ There you have an enormous new outlet for a farm crop. In late years the packaging of pre cooked French frys, too, his en tered the market and made a hit. And so it is with many food stuffs. New ways of processing and better ways, are always pos sible. Clemson’s new food pro cessing building < is . second to none anywhere. There the students have the latest facilities for getting their hands into food processing. Not just the theory of it. But the very feel of the thing from prac tical experience. The fruit and vegetable pro cessing plant is a modern can nery, with all sorts of research Equipment in it. Poultry has a Complete' streamlined dressing storage plant. The animal hus bandry part is a .complete little packing plant, with cold storage and all. And the dairy section is the latest word in varied pro cessing of milk. It is not now sufficient to know just how to produce raw products. In, refin ing and processing them lies add ed chance for profits. ~W FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Snedalist - Highlights of '55 County agents’ fall reports give some farm highlights for the past year. Bowen of Sumter: “There is a steadily growing interest in sheep in Sumter county. Our first sheep show was held in con nection with the Sumter county fair.” L- Johnson of Clarendon: “Pres- ' ton Brailsford of Summerton re ceived several blue ribbons at both the state fair and the Flor ence' fair with his sheep exhib its.” . Liebenrood of Georgetown: “Feeder pigs aVe at a premuim in this county with a bumper crop of com.” King of Marion: “Tobacco yields jmd dollar return per acre were the highest no record. Cok er’s 139 variety led others in Traffic Deartt ToH Climbs Higher Traffic deaths on the highways during the week immediately be fore Christmas^ December 18-24 totaled 20, the preliminary report of the state highway department shows. ' . ' 0 The total was exactly twice that of the previous week, but still less' than the record toll of 22 for another week of the year. Altogether 142 persons were in jured in 529 accidents reported. The death toll for the year up through December 24 had reached 691, as compared to 550 as of the same period of last year. / » I As the end of the year ap proached it was estimated that the annual death toll would 4p- approximate 700. While ^this would be higher than that’ of 1954. it still would be consider ably under the. all-time high of 810 in 1952, or even 763 in 1953. With only 564 deaths in 1954, South Carolina motorists expe rienced their safest year since 1949. -J K / * • It looks high priced - j • i . it's thie'56 Chevrolet! v. Lee -of Cherokee: “Cotton, com and fed crops were unusually good. Eighteen new silos wefe dug and filled.” Wylie of Cheater: “A record cotton 4 yield (this year and good feed crops, too.” • X CaitnOn of Lancaster: “One fanner has made over 10Q bush els in the com contest for the past 6 years except dry 1954. All of this was done without irriga- to* 1 ” u_ A Giant , ' Cotton has grown to a giant in our midst! I do not npeak of it just as a crop. In fact it has been subor dinated a bit there. Justly so. For it was once a despot, and we had a one-crop agriculture which is not good. But now it seems yieJF fha^dODar value per acre.^T stabilized on about a third of its of AbbevUle:'“Six of the ----- Ids entered in the com con- made over 100 bushels per acre. And our cotton yield, too. 17 test was the best on record." Cain of Calhoun:* “Soybean yields of 35 bushels . per acre were not uncommon.” Lloyd of Edgefield: “Record yields of cotton and com, with fine soybeans, and a bumper yield of grain sorghum marked 1955 in the county.” Garvin of Greenwood: “Com and cotton yields of record pro portions were harvested in Greenwood and much feed, too.” Thompson of Hampton: “A 30- bushel yield of soybeans this year was common.” Bonnette of McCormick: “Our high fertilization demonstration on Coastal Begnuda grass pro duced 9 3-4 tons of hay per acre.” M c C o m b of Orangeburg: “Bumper crops of corn and soy beans were harvested, feed plentiful, and the sweet pota crop was good. But the cot crop this year vas very spot due to late rains and consequent weevil damage aid rotting of bolls.” • Boy* Are Thai Way Brush ■ brooms and brooYn straw? Youngsters- now don’t likely know what those things are. But in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork, where I was raised, they had meaning,* everyday meaning. 1 Brush brooms were made of fast growing dogwood suckers bouhd together. They were used to sweep the yard with.' They were tough and springy and last ed a long time. Many a time my mother sent me to the Woods to get her the shoots for a new yard broom. *We always found the best ones where logging operations had been a year or so before. For that broke down a lot of the dog wood trees and caused them to send up many fast-growing suck ers. These at two years old were just prime for brooms. We’d cut ’enj off about four feet high, se-- curely bind about 10 together, and thiem we had a broom that would last a good while. We had never seen a lawn then. It was the custom to keep the hard red clay and gravelly yards clean and bare. Guess the reasons were, we had no lawn mowers then, and dead grass there in the winter time would be a fire hazard. And the uncut grass would wet your' feet so easy. But the mud there was pain for sure. We always swept away .from the house, the accumulated trash going off the bare yard into the weeds that bordered it. Erosion cut the soil away and left the house on a mounds A lively dust usually followed the sweeper. Yards had to be swept on Satur day, for you’d likely-have com-, pany droppin’ in on Sunday. The 4 lb THE CHRONICLE PHONE 74 ROWNING GOLDSMITH repreeeiiting'the METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 1 Madison Ave., New York 19, N. Y. will gladly recommend a program planned to fit your personal Life insur ance needs. Call or write: TELEPHONE 512 197 Calhoun St, P. L Box 354 Clintoa. 8. C. Dr. David T. Mixon OPTOMETRIST ~ 201 H. Broad St. Phone 1308 Office Hours 9—5:30 THE NEW 9Et AM SROVT COUP* Who wouldn’t ’ mistake this new Chevrolet for a high-priced car!.' It looks strictly “upper bracket” with its bold new Motoramic styl ing ... * its longer, lower hood . .. its proud new full-width grille. But, even beyond the Jcos^ly ap pearance of its beautiful Body by Fisher, Chevy gives the high-priced cars a run for their money. It brings THE HOT v you lightning acceleration for safer passing. Horsepower ranges up to 205! All engines now have hydrau lic-hushed valve lifters. Besides, you get safety - door latches in all models. 1 You can also have seat belts, with or without shoulder harness, and instrument panel padding at extra cost Come highway-test a Chevrolet! EVEN HOTTER CUES CHEVROLET B. L. Mitchell Funeral Held At Cross Hill former acreage in Souh Carolina By applying latest know-how to that, we have about doubled yields. This was necessary, if we were to stay with cotton as » 1 £^n“^Tthen kept”m the back crop- — chimney comer. Aside from higher yields of pu g e t to that' broom better quality cotton, the manu- nex t week facturir^ end has grown until we lead all states in that. Clem son’s textile school is attuned to thik growth, as the Extension Service, is to the economic' pro duction of cotton on the farms of the state. Even though the stu dent body, hasn’t increased ma terially since the war, the num ber of. students taking texiles has practically doubled. . „ Working very Closely with the growing textile - industry, men are being trained at Clemson to the liking of the industry. And graduates readily find places in this giant industry that’s growing here. . • • • Wf can well remember When no Irish potatoes were processed. By 1940 one bag uot of every 50 produced in this country was processed, mainly into potato Lat us put SPRING IN Yi Oat your TDCACO chock-up now I kwtu RCMI *^wru nu. your ^ Havounk. It deKvea performsaoe no other motor oil can match, m» gordhm of price. LUBRICATE the chants with Superior MARFAK. Youl enjoy quieter driving, easier handling and that cusmony feel ing for 1,000 milaa or more, _ S^jOUll REALLY TAKE Of* with ton Btane Sky Chief, super-charged Funeral services for Burt L. Mitchell, 72, of Croes Hill, were condUKted at 3 p. m. Thursday at Cross Hill Baptist church by the Rev! C. B. Rogers, the Rev George E. Smith, the Rev. Flay Riddle and the Rev. Ware Mad den. . - Mr. Mitchell died December 24, following an illness of five years. Pallbearers were J. H. Coleman, Clayborne Hipp. Will Ivey Smith, J. B. Cole, Stanley Tinaon, Ken neth Hannah and William Gray. Honorary escort was composed of the Men’s Bible class and G. F. Williams, ^ Joseph Hr Shealy, Millejf Leaman, Weldon Leaman, J. T. Hollingsirorth and* H. K Boyce. ’ « Mr. Mitchell was born in West minster. a son of the late C. E. O. and Mary Ellen Holcombe Mitch ell. He had lived in Cross Hill since 1092 and was a merchant He was a member of Cross Hill Bapti$J church and Knights of K. L. P. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eva Martin Mitchell; one daughter, Miss Charlotte Mitchell, of the home; a son, Col. B. L. Mitchell, Jr., of !Ft. Jackson; three sisters, Mrs. Jack Mathews, of Anderson; Mrs. R. O. Tribble and Mrs. G. L. Hull, of Manchester, Ga.; two brothers, O. T. Mitchell, of Mul berry,, Fla., and W. W. Mitchell, of Tallahassee, Fla., and two grandchildren. Plentiful Supply Young, Tender, Juicy Perk Roost ? 25c » 35c Plentiful Supply Tender, Center Cmt Rib NATUB-TENDU. U. S. CHOICE STANDING U> ROASTI QUALITY-CONTaOLXED FRESH-CBOU1 BEEF 3 W1NNEB QUALITY SLICED BACON I LBS. Pork Chops r 39c amip cow ram MEAT BALLS Sr AGHETTI 2 “ 43- cow rami GOCDKN ISLE Field Pees 2 - 2S cow ram; thank you red tart fitted fie Cherries 2 - 35 COW FRICHt emeu K CITTLE SAUSAGES VIENNAS 3-35- Lew Price Specie! J EatwcU GRATED TUNA 2 - 43* Grand In Casseroles, Salads or Sandwiches! Lew Price Spatial! 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