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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Strom Hiurmond
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President Submits the Budget
President Eisenhower submit
ted to the Congress a balanced
budget for the fiscal year 1957.
It will total approximately $66
billion The largest share. 61 per
cent, will be used to maintain our
national defense system. »
In addition to proposing a bal
anced budget for 1957, the Presi
dent has also stated that he ex*
to determine whether drur state
cap be certified for locating new
defense industries under the Gov
ernment’s industrial dispersion
program. The dpeartment will
check the population and indus
trial cnocentrations in each coun-
ty*With a view toward qualifying
the state as conforming to Gov
ernment standards for dispersing
defense industries.
Should our state qualify, this
Only Trust
Too ill to preach, a preacher^ writes hymns
Thursday, February 2,1956
pects to balance the J° r , certification could be instrumen-
fiscal year 1956 Both budgets- ta j bringing new defense and
are expected to have small sur
pluses which will be used to help
retire our nation’s 278 billion dol
lar debt.
1 shall be happy to see the
budget balanced for both years,
nad I also welcome a reduction
in the national debt Id addition.
I hope that unnecessary spending
overseas and 4 a greater exercise
of economy in government at
home can be effected and result
in some reduction of taxes.
SC Money In Budget
Included in the President’s
budget recommendations for 1957
is approximately $50 million for
civil works and military con
struction projects in South Caro
lina. The proposed miljtary^
spending in our state totals M38,-
968.000. These projects are sched
uled for military installations ai
Beaufort. Charleston, Columbia,
Greenville ,Myrtle Beach. Pams
Island, and Sumter. The largest
single item is $17,384,000 for re
building the old air station at
Beaufort. .
Recommendations for civil
projects include $10 million for
construction of Hartwell dam
across the upper Savannah River
Valley and $297,000 f r ; dredging
Port Royal Harbor.
Survey For New Industries
The Commerce Department has
agreed to survey South Carolina
other industries to South Caro
lina,
Brdadcast On Segregation
At the request of the British
Broadcasting Corporation. I pre
sented the Southern viewpoint
regarding the Supreme Court’s
segregation decision to BBC’s
listeners on Wednesday evening.
BBC officials asked that I make
a, recorded interview with Mr.
Don Minifie of BBC so both sides
of the question could be present
ed to the people of Great Brit
ain. They had heard the other
side previously.
Mr. Minifie said he and many
Britons were impressed with the
legal argument against the court
decision. They were unaware of
the fact that the same Congress
which framed the 14th Amend
ment also established separate
schools in the District of Colum
bia. This is the amendment which
the court relied upon in handing
down its 1954 decision.
Mr. Minifie asked me during
the interview what alternatives
would we Suotherners suggest in
view of the court’s rulings. I told
him we would suggest a reversal
of this decsion and other recent
encroachments on the rights of
the states and a return to a strong
and healthy respect for the Con
stitution as written by our fore
fathers.
The church eervlce over, a group of men lin
gered outside. Oce of them was a retired minister
who had been out of the pulpit three years. He had
quit preaching a couple of times before, but had
* gone back when his health mended. Now he was
64, his health was no better and he was out for
good. Maybe some of the men nptf
feeling well, or maybe they didn’t
John Hart Stockton was reared a Presbyterian
in New Hope, Pa., where he was born in 1813.
But when he was l*,,he went to a Methodist camp
meeting and six years later changed over to that
denomination. He wanted to be a preacher, but it
‘wasn't until 1857, when he was 44 years hid, that
he ventured to take a fulltime church in the New
Jersey Conference, Even then he was in and out
of service because of his health. He loved music
and poetry so, when he couldn’t preach, he wrote
hymns whwi he felt up to it The year he retired he
collected his songs and published them in a book
titled “Salvation Melodies” and. in 1875, came out
' with another called “Precious Songs.” And when
Moody and Sankey came to Philadelphia in the
Winter of '75 he helped with the revival.
On his travels Evangelistic Singer Ira Sankey
always carried what he called his “musical acrap-
Come, ev'ry soul by tie oppressed
There's mercy with the Lord,
And. He will surely give you rest
By trusting in His word.
For Jesus shed His precious blood,
Rich blessings to bestow;
Plunge now into the crimson flood
That washes white os snow.
book.” Into this collection he put
of verse and music. Crossing the Atlantic
June,
1873. Santey had time to study his scrapbook. Com
ing across the Rev. Stockton’s hymn. “Come, Every
Soul By Sin Oppressed" Sankey liked everything
but the chorus, which began “Come to Jesus, Come
to Jesus, Come to Jesus now ...” So he changed It
Maybe some of the men noticed he wasn’t to “Only trust Him, Only trust Him, etc.” and sang
it that way in London. The hymn went over so
well that it was picked up from one end of the
Island to the other and Sankey wrote Stockton that
he thanked God for such “sweet music, as well as
words.” i *
John Hart Stockton also wrote sweet musk for
the words 6t other writers. The world still sings his
composition to the Rev. Elisha Hoffman’s camp
meeting favorite, “Down at the Cross Where My
Saviour Died . . . Glory to His Name . . ."
Ma^be the men who walked out of Philadelphia’s
Aren Street Church that Sunday in March, 1877
noticed that their retired preacher friend wasn’t
feeling well, or maybe they didn’t Whatever the
conversation, it was cut short While the men talked,
John Hart Stockton collapsed ... and fell dead. He
was not quite 65, but what matters a few years?
His life would have been worthwhile had he done no
more than write hymns like this ...
Yes, Jesus is the Truth, the Woy, /
That leads you Into restr . .
Believe in Him without delay,
And you ore fully blest.
Come, then, ond join this'holy bond, '
' And on )o glory go,
To dwell in that celestial land.
Where joys immortal flow.
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Taken from Recent Reporta of
Extension County Farm Agents
Barnwell, D. Austin Shelley.—
Dick Christopher, Who recently re
turned from Denmark, where he
spenf several months with farm
families as an International Farm
Youth j Exchange delegate, spoke
to the Ellenton Agricultural club
December 17. He gave an interesi-
"ing talk, well illustrated with col
ored slides, on agriculture and
rural life in Denmark. His talk
was well received by the club, and
the members expressed a genuine
interest in the IFYE program.
Chesterfield, J. C. Willis.—Tur
key producers who followed good
management practices showed a
profit from turkey production in
1955. The profit varied from 50
cents to $1.75. per bird. Calvin
Rivers, of Chesterfield, is build
ing a house to brood 2,500 addi
tional birds this season. Several
other growers plan to build addi
tional turkey houses.
Calhoun, O. W. Crain.—Farm
ers are beginning to take more in
terest in having their soils tested.
Some very good results were ob
tained last year by farmers who
had their soils analyzed and who
followed the county agents’ recom
mendations ^ for liming and fer
tilizing these soils.
Edgeffield, O. W. Lloyd.-^J. D.
Kemp, Edgefield, has a very out
standing demonstration - of rota
tion grazing. His entire herd of
more than 60 Angus cattle has
been grazed some each day for a
period of 8 weeks on an 11-acre
demonstration. This has been ac
complished by (1) early seeding
of rye. (2) cross fencing with an
eluetric fence, and (3 allowing the
cows to graze only what they
could eat in 1 to 2 hours per day.
Greenville, J. K. Jones.—Dairy
; farmers are becoming more and
more conscious of the importance
of good silage. Based on a survey
of dairy farmers and other infor
mation, we estimate there were 35
trench silos dug in the county
during 1955, and 5 upright silos
were constructed. This makes a
total of 82 trench and 60 upright
silos now in use in the county. We
plan to encourage further the con
struction and use of silos in 1956
Newberry, P. B. Ezell. — The
Bang’s testing and calfhood vacci
nation program is being given con
siderable time. The last summary
of this work in the county for the
period ending November 2$ shows
that 8,709 cattle in 797 herds were
tested and that 678 calves were
vaccinated. Vocational agriculture
teachers are cooperating in this
program.
Oconee, J. C. Morgan.—The 22
farmers who entered the 1-acre
corn contest this year made an
average yield of 104.69 bushels of
Com per acre. This is the highest
average yield of corn produced per
I acre for any ,year of the contest
in this county. Fifteen of the con
testants made over 100 bushels of
com per acre with 145.34 bush
els on 1 acre as the highest yield.
Orangeburg, J. C. McComb.—
The Number 1 forestry practice in
this county this winter seems to
be that of setting pine seedlings.
The local woodyard distributed
200,000 seedlings, a cooperative
truck shipment from the state
nursery arranged through the
county agent’s office totaled 163,-
lings, and a few farmers
seedlings by ex
press.
W. J. Martin. —
The lock bam, which is be-
by the Spartanburg
Producers asso-
nearing completion. The
County Foundation
made -16,000 available for build
ing the bam. The first sale in (he
new bam will be (he annual Blue
Ridge Tat Stock Show and Sale
scheduled for March.
Persons past 65 who have suf
ficient coverage to be eligbile for
old-age insurance benefits, but
have not filed application for ben-
ing, were reminded' today by
Miss Martha F, Pressly, manager
of the social security office at
Greenwood, that if their earnings
in 1955 are sufficiently low they
may receive full or partial bene
fits for the year.
‘•We’ are inclined to believe,”
Miss Pressly said, “that there are
people who could receive benefits
for 1955 who have so far not tak
en advantage of their rights, be
cause of misunderstanding or con
fusion as to the new retirement
test in the law.”
“In brief, an individual who
was past 65 years of age the en
tire year of 1955, and who has had
sufficient covered employment or
self-employmen.t to be eligible for
benefits can receive benefits for
the entire year 1955 if his total
earnings for the year do not ex
ceed $0210. He can receive par
tial benefits if his total earnings
do not exceed $2080, even though
he works throughout the entire
year.”
efits because they are still work*' 1° ^ e ' case a self-employed
person, the net profit from the
trade or business is what is con
sidered “earnings.”
Further information and assist
ance in filing application for ben
efits may be secured by contact
ing the Social Security Adminis
tration office at Greenwooc^ or
Edward G. Copestake, Hampton
Ave., Clinton, local representa
tive.
$24 million invested in the -87
Production Credit Associations in
the Farm Credi^ District of Co
lumbia.' The Clinton Production
Credit Association is included in
the Columbia district.
Farmer-owned capital and sur
plus showed an increase of $1,-
665,088 for the year ended Dec.
31, 1955.
According to Robert A. Darr,
president of the Federal Inter
mediate Credit Bank and presi
dent of the Production Credit As
sociation, loans by FCA to farm
er members amouhted to $112,-
375,384, an increase of $1,416,-
393 for the year.
Collections for 1955 were nearly
$6 million greater than in 1954,
reflecting the better crop yields
over the district.
Production Credit Associations
are local credit cooperatives
which make prdouction and inter
mediate capital loans to their
members. All 87 associations in
the Columbia District are owned
by farmers. Forty-eight of them
now own their office buildirtgs
valued at $842,453. g
Federal and other income taxes
paid for the year amounted to
$412,768.40.
Rebo E. Parrish
Promoted To Pfc. In
Women's Army Corps
Fort McClellan, Ala., Jan. 23—
Reba E. Parrish, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Parrish, Sr., 92 Pal
metto St., Clinton, has been pro
moted to private first class.
Pfc. Parrish entered the service
in March, 1955, and completed the
clerk-4ypist course'at the Wom
en’s Army Corps school here. She
is now the records maintenance
clerk at the .post personnel office.
Fort McClellan is the home of the
chemical corps training command,
chemical corps school, Women’s
Army Corps center and school.
Post personnel provide logistical
support for these activities and to
some 30,000 National Guardsmen
and Reservists who train here each
summer. 'j
Pfc. Parrish was graduated from
Clinton high school in 1954. (Be
fore joining the WACs, she was
employed by the Clinton Mills as
a payroll clerk.
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These words spatt Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
said, Father, . . ^.1 pray for them. (John 17:1, 9).
In his autobiography, Lincoln Steffens told this incident. As a
small boy, he mounted his pony early one morning and hurried to
bring the doctor to his friend, a Mrs. Neely, who was veqy ill. “You’re
a brave boy,” said the doctor; “we’ll save her together. You’ve done
your part, and I’ll do mine.’ Lincoln. Steffens protested. His part was
not over. “What’ll you do now?” asked the doctor. “I’ll pray for her.
She wants me to.” “Good,” replied the doctor. He added, “Maybe
the best thing I can do will be to tell her you are praying for her!”
Two thousand years ago our Lord knelt in prayer. Something
happened. Defeat was turned into victory. Out of weakness came
strength.
This first week of the new year, we kneel in prayer. This may
well be the best thing we can do for ourselves, our families, our
church, our world.
' PRAYER
Heavenly Father, Thou dost exhort us to pray. Thou hast prom
ised to grant that which we ask in faith. Encourage us b(y the assur
ance that Thou dost always desire our good, and dost will Thy best
for us. Nothing is too hard for Thee. Help us to trust Thee. For the
Master’s sake. Amen. e .
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