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» Thursday, February 13, 1958 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE tt Page Seven Bailey Foundation Gift to Bell St. Elementary School Conservation Notes By J. B. O'DELIr More than a million pine seed lings have been delivered by the Laurens Soil Conservation District to cooperators for planting on their farms this season The applications for the seedlings were made last year through the local office of the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry The seedlings were deliv ered by truck on arrangements made by the District with the New Piedmont .Nursery in Pickens coun ty. The fifth- and last truck load for the season were delivered last week. The District's three tree planters es tall and weighs a compact 180 pounds. He is married to his child hood sweetheart and they live, with their two teen-age daughters, in a quiet apartment here. ++++++++++++ Sen. Thurmond Reports I am more convinced than ever that I am doing what js best for the general public. According to one es timate. a typical family watching television for three hours a day a year for toll television, or seven would pay $9 10 per week, or $437 20 grass, and small grains—with times as much as the average fam j tattle 2 Castrate and dehorn ily spends family on shoes for the entire livestock in early spring, says Coun ty Agent C. B Cannon, making these suggestions Animal Husbandry 1 Ora/e winter for<y£g crop*—La- dino, fescue, crimson clover, rye beef beef ^ ThereVLs strong evidence ,to indi irate ttiat pay TV and,free TV can not exiSd side by side By the time this Report reaches print, 1 hope to have introduced my bill to unify the Armed Fqrces 1 Dhservant F.ye have • been studying a number ofi ( >ne <if the highlights of ftpclsesr different plans, and, as this, was sl “' 1 f,,r ' Aa ' ,,1< ‘ by Sena written, my b.ll was in thf final i |" r >";' n de r of on Kls tnp drafting stage Another plan of unification Is be ing prepared under the direction of , . , _ i the Secretary of Defense, who has have been busy since early Decern- , . . . her Approximately 1,500 acres land least suited for cultivation will! be planted with these seedlings. The Soil Conservation Service techni- Congress around cians of the Laurens District are as sisting farmers in the selection of land to be converted to trees The majority of the farmers are using ASC Cost-Sharing payments and Soil Bank payments in planting the trees. The plantings this year vary from one acre to as much as 88 acres per farm Jake Rasor of Cross Hill, is the high man with 60,- 000 trees being planted this season. Applications for seedlings for the 1958-59 season are now being taken by the Soil Conservation Office in the post office b-Uilding. The appli cations .will be held in this office un til after July 1, when they will be forwarded to the State Commission of Forestry. \ * .. * * L. N Cook of Gray Court, a coop erator of the Laurens oil Conserva tion District, was asssited last week in the survey of an irrgiation pond. Mr. Cook has received approval for cost-sharing payments from the lo cal ASC office for construction of the pond He plans for a local con tractor to start construction at an early date The pond when full will cover approximately two acres and will contain 13 acre feet of water. He plans to use the water for the irrigation of a new peach orchard which will be in production within the next year or two. This will be the second pond fur Mr, Cook to build for the irrigation of peaches He and •adjoining'land owner, A. - T. Fouche, pooled their ASC payments last year and built a joint pond Mr Cook plans to irri gate peaches. Mr Fouche plans to use the pond for stock water and fish production. to submit to I March 30. It is not my intention that Con gress should enact any legislation along this line before hearing Ihe recommendations of the Defense Department At the same time, I don’t think that Congress—which bears the primary responsibility Tor all legislation—should sit back and wait for the Executive Branch to draft the law The sooner we begin the process of„ holding hearings and sifting uteav the better we will be vprepared to Consider the Ex ecutive Department’s ideas—when they arrive If it seems desirable, the bill can be amended or com pletely 'rewritten before being brought to a final vote Toll Television I am getting a lot of mail from South Carolina on the subject of toll television The overwhelming ma jority of it is m support of my stand against pay TV last fall to Russia and ten other countries He went far into Central Siberia and saw areas that had never been mill'd by an American official / ^peaking of foreign aid, .Senator Ellender concluded, that the people of the United States have .seen the wealth of this country poured into other lands with almost complete abandonment with little or no long range results I agree with him that a new look” is needed A Personal Note I am deeply grateful for the many messages of sympathy that I have received since the death of my calves fpr fall feeder calf sales/3 Treat tx-ef cattle for.lice and gCubs I Cfjze sows and pig* on Ladino clover, small trains or^ofner winter grazing Tif sows have lice, treat them with used motor ml two or three weeks before .farrowing or spray with BHC 6 Give sows spe cial attention at farrowing time to save more pigs 7 Graze sheep on winter grazing crops and feed three- quarters pound of grain per day consisting of one third each by mea sure of corn, wheat hrar; ynd oats 8 Dock and east rate jambii ■ vfchen they are 7 to 4 days old* 9 Plan to sow lespedeza on summer perma nent pastures .md in >mull grains in February qr March for summer razing or hay- ;n Supply all live* stock ..with mineral mixture and loose salt I>airv|ng i Make plan* now for next year's fe«xt *upply 2 Follow winter grains with legumes for hay or grain sor ghums of grain or broadcast mix mother Nothing can allay my *en.se^ nn>s '>/ "orghras, millet, soy of bereavement,’but I find solace in the warm sentiments expressed by our friends ami neighbors all over the viate Early Spring Hints On Care Of Livestock Well laid plans for breeding and feeding ari 7 keynotes to success with beans for silage 3 Plan to refill si los this spnm. with winter grains or excess spring grazing 4 Heavily fertilize permam-nt pastures this spnng 5 Treat cattle for lice 6 Breed cows for November and De cember freshening IF YOU DON T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS PhoM 74 This two-ctory chute «lide was a gift of the Bailey Foundation to the Bell Street Elementary School in memory of Henderson Suber, a valued and respected employee of the Clinton Cotton Mills. Parents \ and teachers have expressed appreciation for the much-needed piece of equipment for the school playground. Suber’s wife,'Lots Y. Suber. Is shown in the above picture with her son, Stanley, who is mounting the steps for a trip down the chute.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Oiemson College Information Specialist FEBRUARY We are in the very shank of win ter now. There is never an off sea son. On the farm and around the home there are always seasonal things to do. Transplanting is now one of these. If bushes, shrubs, or trees are to be moved, now’s the time. Remember, get all of the roots you can with them. Spread these out in as natural formation as possible in the hole you dig. Get them about as deep in the ground as they were before. Firm the soil well around the roots and water to settle the §pil. ( Mulch the soil with a light coat of Utter. And prune the top back considerably to balance damaged root system. This is very important. Now that winter winds have blown the twigs from pecan and hickory trees that the girdler partly cut off last summer, pick these up and burn them, for they carry the eggs of this destructive insect. This month usually sees about the last chance for safe home kill- Found the Home You Wont? FINANCE IT HERE! When you’ve found that certain special home — then see how we work out the right financing to fit your needs. Every home loan here is a special ized, tailor-made proposition . . . fitted to the particular borrower. CITIZENS FEDtRAL. Savings & Loan Assn. , i A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Telephone No. 6 Current Dividend Rate 3V2% ing and 'curing of hogs. Clemson's Bulletin 77, “Pork for Carolina Farmers,” is free at your county agent's office and carries all of the details for this. Nor is there any better time of year to fix up the fences than now. The snakes, wasps, yellow jackets and the like are all in now. And the weeds are killed and leaves are off the briers and bushes so you can see what you are doing. And. of course, pruning of all sorts is in order now, fruit trees and shrubbery. Making and planting cuttings of all sorts, too, like grapes, crape myrtles, altheas, pomegranates, roses, and so on should be done now. Make ’em about 10 inches long and set in nursery row with only an inch or so of top above the ground Water if needed in the spring and summer, and you can get mast of ’em to grow. * * * • SILAGE FROM OATS County Agent Benton of Dillon, tells me several dairymen there maae silage from oats last summer, using molasses and citrus pulp with it, and they liked it. “No odors and the cows relish it,” he says. • * • IMPROV ED GINNING Generally, our gin man, Sam Wil liams, tells me we have a lot of very fine gins over South Carolina. But this, like everything else, is con stantly changing. 1 don’t imagine any county has better gin facilities than Lee. Yet. County Agent Linder there tells me a few of theirs put in double lint cleaners the past year. ‘‘This added $10 to $20 per bale to the value of the cotton and made it rather rough on the gins that hadn’t put this ad ditional cleaning attachment in.” he says. The coming of these cleaners was especially good the past year, According to Linder, since the crop was so damaged as to make them badly needed, and doubly effective. Few groups are up against a harder problem than our ginrfers. Our cotton crop is dwindling low in many a county, yet improve ments in ginning keep coming. And these are not cheap either. This is ha*-! on the oil nr 11s, too. But soy beans are offering hope to them. A good gin outfit now costs several times what it used to. Yet our cot ton acreage is less than a fifth of what it once was. Unless he also handles and sells fertilizer, I don’t see how the ginner keeps perform ing his service. And even then, his road must be rough. • * * FOOD PROCESSING •* Food processing is getting to be bigger and bigger business. Most foods are comiqg to u.s more and more ready for the (able. Clemson has one of the finest food processing laboratories to be found anywhere In it Professor Van Blaricom puts his horticultural stu dents through the practical mill of food processing, packing and sto rage. He has made a mechanical peach pitter that quarters the fruit and takes the seed out about as Cast as they can roll through. And it was he who worked out practical means for canning the freestone peach, like we grow here. We canned them in :he past for home use, but their dis coloration around the seed made them unsuited for commercial can ning Now, since that has been con quered, peaches of fine quality and attractive appearance are put up from the sort that we grow mainly in this area. There is a good de mand for Clemson’s surplus of ex perimentally canned peaches, and several large canneries now operate in our peach area. BOYS ARE THAT WAY Our country store would get in a shipment of cloth a time or two a year Mast mothers would go there, pick out a bolt they liked, and buy it all. She would then make garments for all the family from it. Shirts fpp-system that gives years of service —In Washington THIS WEEK With Clinton Davidson Sit in the gallery of either the House or the Senate this week and most of the talk you will hear will 1 b e about increased government spending for a big build-up in thej defense^ program. • Probably none of the orators will say anything about how a big in crease in spending is to be financed, yet that is almost as important as building inter continental missiles. Will it mean more taxes, or more debt 0 That is a question to be faced, sooner or later, and the man who is expected to provide the answer is a quiet Arkansan named Wilbur Daigh Mills, Representative from the Second District of Arkansas and new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee This is the committee through which all taxes and fiscal policies must first clear before reaching congressional debate. It has first jurisdiction over all revenue legisla tion. Mr. .Mills has b^en-a member for 15 years. ,, I have known Wilbur lilfills for the entire 20 years he has been a member of Congress’, and my esti mation of his'ability and integrity has grown in each of those years. At 48 years of age, he is one of the youngest and most capable com mittee chairman under a seniority the men and boys and dresses for the girls and women Then, for the next year or more, the family was attired in a sort of uniform. This had its advantages. Waste in remnants was small, and when patching time came we only had to match one pattern. Thus we can see, economy was the watchword in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. For living was hard. At the old one-teacher school, away back in the woods from our place. I can well remember seeing all the children of a family wearing garments from the same cloth. And our school clothes, too, occupied a special category. I recently told you of our “Sunday clothes.” They were strictly for church, weddings, particular visit ing, and the like. They were often store bought, or made at home from a little better material. Then the school clothes came next. They were always made at home, even to our pants and coats of heavy jeans. If there was work to do when we go thome from school, we pulled our school outfit off and donned over all^ our everyday work clothes. In them we were most comfortable, for we didn't have to take care then. Now from these three sorts of clothing, doh’t get the idea we had a ( lot of ’em One Sunday outfit, including shoes, was all. Two school outfits,~washed on alternate weeks, and several changes of older patch- up work clothes that had likely once occupied the upper categories. That made up our outfits in the Stone Hills when we were kids. IF YOU Dp NT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Phon* 74 priority over ..ability. Fortunately, Mr. Mills has both. Prdbably no man in Congress, and few, if any, men in the coun try know more about taxation and fiscal polity than Mr. Mills. In those matters he has the respect and com plete confidence of members of both parties in Congress. Little givven to old-fashioned ora tory, Mr. Mills «lies instead on a thorough knowledge of his subject, painstaking preparation and a clear, convincing delivery to win the sup port of his colleagues in Congress. Some of them have told us there have been times when they followed his advice against warnings that to' do so was "bad politics,” but that invariably his advice was both sound and good politics. An example of this occurred last spring when Democratic leaders decided it would be a good idea to put a tax-relief bill through the' House and have it ready for Senate action in the 1958 congressional election year Mr Mills torpedoed that move by holding hearings on a Fiscal Pol icy subcommittee, of which he was chairman, and producing expert witnesses to show that tax cuts in a period of declining revenues and rising expenditures would be fiscal ly irresponsible and politcially un wise. Events have shown that Mr. Mills was far-sighted in his action. Mr. Mills was born at Kensett, Ark , the son of a country banker, and graduated from Hendrix Col lege and Harvard University Law School He hung out his shingle in 1933 and was elected county judge in 1934 He. was elected to Congress in 1938, and has been re-elected nine times. Physically, he is 5 feet, eight inch- IMGGLY WIGGLY PLYMOUTH COFFEE Limit: One Piggly Wiggly’s Own Azalea Detergent Reg Size 19 Open Friday Nights Till 8 P. M. FREE COFFEE For Our Customers FrlandSat. - MRS. ARMSTRONG'S r PIE CRUST DOUGH pk 19 a You’ll just love ft these choice V MEATS! ; lAMI’BEI.I.'S TOMATO SOUP Can 10 SAVE ON BEEF ROUND STEAK SERLION STEAK T-BONE STEAK Budget Choice T Lean Rib STEW BEEF 3 89^ 1 DRKHKRS Whole Fig^ SAUSAGE 1 Lb. Cup