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✓ "t. Thursday, February 20, 1958 Items of Interest Frotu . . West Clinton MRS. C. A. ELLEDGE, Correspondent and Representative PHONE 17M Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Meadors and Joey and J. C. Meadors visited the latter’s sister. Mrs. L. F. Jones, in the Greenville General hospital Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Ficklin and children visited her aunt, Mrs. L. F. Jones, in Greenville General hos pital Sunday. They also visited his sister, Mrs. Made McCoy, ih Green ville. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Elledge of Cross Hill, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Elledge Thursday. + Mrs. Richard Dunaway and son, Ricky, of Columbus, Ga., are spend ing some time with SPC3 Duna way a parents, Mr. ana Mrs. Dan Dunaway o n Wasnington street. Richard has been on an assignment at Fort Stewart, Ga., and is expect ed back at his base in Columbus in the near future. His family will re main here until his return. Mr .and Mrs. James Hale of Gas tonia, N. C., were recent visitors of Mrs. Homer Douglas. Mrs. Cecil Wooten spent the week end in Spartanburg with her broth er, David James, who underwent surgery at the General hospital re cently. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Wooten and daughter, Debbie, spent the week end in Sumter visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ray Goff. Mrs. John Bigham and Mrs. Des- sie Douglas visited in Greenville on Monday.v Mrs. Nancy Harris is spending a few days with Mrs. Luther Watkins in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Harmon of Jchnston, visited Mrs. William Can non on Phillips street the past week end. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Croy visited in Greenville Sunday. Boyce Wilson and .tist Church met at the home of Mrs. daughter, Pam, visited Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson during the week-end Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith and family visited Mr. and Mrs. James Bagwell and family in Laurens on Sunday. * Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Sisk of Forest City, N. C., visited Mr. and Mrs. A Guy Tumblin on Route 1 on Feb ruary LL The meeting was opened with prayer by the teacher, Mrs. Joel Cox. The president, Mrs. Richard Foster, gave "the devotional. Mrs. Maudine McGee, led the class in two new interesting games. They also enjoyed a few games of bingo with D. LancastW ^ f.milr r °- week-end. They are the parents of Mrs. Lancaster. Also visiting them were Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Baynard of Forest City. A. R. Ivester and and Mrs. M. A. a singing in Lau- Mr. and Mrs. son, Danny, Mr Milam attended rens recently. Telephone Talk kT IKE EDWARDS Your Telephone Manager WHAT’S IT \VORTH? Seems to me the simple everyday pleasures in life are those we seem to enjoy most: a leisurely cup of coffee, a friend’s cheery hello, the song of a bird. Such little things in life mean a lot, but you can't put a price on them. You only know you’d miss them if you couldn’t have them. I like to think of the telephone this way . . . that it brings folks a lot of pleasure. Natu rally, it’s a real convenience, too, and it gets a lot of things done fast. But to me it does its best work when used to add a touch of happiness to your day or someone else’s. That’s why if 1 were asked to put a value on the telephone beyond its pure usefulness, I’d say it was the “heap of pleasure” it can bring to so many folks. Yes, it’s fun to phone. "NO MATTES HOW SMALL THE PLACE, CASPER MUST HAVE A DEN WITH HIS OWN TELEPHONE." UNDER THE BLANKET. That's where the first tele phone booth was. Here’s how it happened. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, were conducting their experiments. They put a telephone in Watson’s boarding house room. Mr. Bell had his phone somewhere else and the two of them talked back and forth. Apparently, they were rather noisy and Watson’s landlady complained. So, Watson im provised a telephone booth by throwing the blankets from his bed over the instrument to shut in the noise. Then he crawled under the blanket to talk. Today, we don’t have “to holler” over the phone, and modern telephone booths. keep noise out and let you call in comfort. These -and other telephone conveniences are the result of continuing research to help make your telephoning more pleasant. ritHEREltiu gw ROVALporfabk vjrth H&, Qp&m Elector EXCLUSIVES... A New A Stnsatlonal Spaad Selactor. Naar avary member of the family can adjust spaed of the typewriter to hit Individual skill New Una Meter-tails at a ftanca tha number of typawrittan Unas laft It so oa a pact. ^ "Magic" and "Touch Control" or* I Famous "Mafic" Margin. (My Royal has It, tha tasltst known mathod to sat marfins. Plus New FIbargtas Car rying Cato, llfhtaat, stroogast and smartast cast availabtol I Tjn of Royal Typawrltar Ca» Im.\ Chronicle Pub. Co. PHONE 74 Obm Meeting Enjoyed The Fidelis class of Calvary Bap- ter and Mrs. Doris Tumblin. Refreshments were served by the hostess. The dining room was gaily decorated in the Valentine theme, with the refreshments being in the same theme. There were 80 members present for the meeting, with a special guest, Mrs. A. D. Lancaster. Sunshine Gift Enjoyed The Fidelis class recently remem- FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson College Information Specialist bered Mrs. D. W. Osborne’s grand father at a Columbia hospital with a Sunshine Box which was gaily ar ranged in the Valentine fashion by Mrs. Joel Cox. It contained many useful items. GROWING NEED FOR MEAT Armour’s Livestock Bureau ex perts figure by 1975 just 17 years from now, this country will need the following increased annual live stock production: 11 million more cattle than we now produce, 5 mil lion more calves, 33 to 40 million more hogs, 5 million’ more sheep and lambs, a billion more broilers, ami 10 milion more turkeys. In percentages of increase this fgiures 27 per cent more beef, 46 per cent more pork, 12 per cent more lamb, 35 per cent more chick ens, and 14 per cent more turkeys. Many things can happen to change these figures But they are based on reasonable assumptions The big point is, we will be needing a lot more meat. And farmers are getting fewer. So maybe there will be more opportunity for those who remain. And here’s another thing. We are just getting into this livestock thing good down here in the long growing Southeast. As we raise a generation with livestock know how, we are bound to share greatly in this live stock expansion our growing popu lation calls for. Former 4-H Club- sters are looming large in this, and the FFA boys are playing their part too. Already we are growing a lot of livestock and processing, too. That was not so in this area a generation back Much of the old livestock country is doing its utmost already. Only increases that come from bet ter stock and better methods are possible there. It is to areas like our Southeast that the future must largely look for its increased needs for meat. Clemson's new plant and animal science building and food processing piant carry the last work in meat packing, poultry dressing, and dairy manufacturing. There, in addition to learning how to grow the stuff, they learn how to dress and manu facture it * * * FARMING IS FUNNY You know, farming is a funny thing. There are so many variables It in it. Out there under the sky, it is ’must have been of poor quality, for subject to all tha vagueries of na ture. No two years are just alike, and if they were, something would turn up different Thih is why a wise man won’t be *oo dogmatic about how farming things should be done, for conditions soiling for tomatoes paid well at Clem son’s Edisto Station, while Dr and of excellent baking quality, is resistant to wilt. Its only drawback is light sprout ing and it is a little later than the Porto Rico. These things should be taken into account. Bed more for a given number of plants, and plant a little earlier for a given matur ity date. It makes only about half as many sprouts as the Porto Rico. Last year at Clemson this new po tato made 543 bushels of good clean number one potatoes to 318 for the Porto Rico. There were no cracked potatoes from it, while 29 per cent of the Porto Ricos were cracked And at the Edisto Station 49 per cent of the Porto Ricos cracked so bad they had to be thrown out and only 4 4 per cent of the CaroGolds show ed any cracks. Through all their years of breeding, they have proved to be almost immuned to cracking that so often seriously damages a sweet potato crop The Edisto Station has 1,000 bush els of foundation stock of this pota to.-They are to be put out with quali fied growers for the production of certified seed, Dr. Garrison, our ex periment station director, tells me. They are being distributed through the South Carolina Certified Grow- ers Association, P&AS Building, Clemson, S. C., at $4 50 per bush el. * * * BOYS ARE THAT WAY Last week I told you of trading Ben out of that first indellible pencil we had ever seen as kids in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. You recall, I lost it on the way home in the rain, and it was no good when I found it next morning. That was a real loss, for I had traded a number of treasures from my pocket for it. It was a year or more after that that tiie railroad agent at Chapin gave me a short nub of another in dellible pencil. The railroad was early in furnishing them to their agents to make out bills of lading with It being short, I carried it in my panes pocket where 1 couldn’t lose jit. The pencils we had back then / Church Circle Meet* The Jean Phillips Circle of Cal vary Baptsit Church met with Mrs. Louie Webb at her home on Cald well street February 4. There were nine members pres ent. The program, on ‘‘Christian Homes and Parents,” was led by the program chairman, Mrs Mau dine McGee. Refreshments we?b served by the hostess. Nan Trammel Circle MeeU The Nan Trammell circle of Cal vary Baptist Church met at the home of Mrs Charlie Foster on Florence street the past week There were seven members pres ent A very interesting program was given by Mrs Harvey Faster Refreshments were served by the hostess following the program Birth Announcement Meadors Mr and Mrs Charles R Meadors of Caldwell street, announce the birth of a son, Charles R , Jr , on Feb 14 at Hays hospital Birthdays and Wedding Anniversaries Judy Chaney of Bob Jones Uni versity, Greenville, celebrated her birthday February 16 She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Pressly Chaney of Elizabeth street Pfc Carl Lusk had a birthday February 16 Margie Stone has a birthday Feb ruary 21 Delores Dunaway will h a.v e a birthday February 22. She will be 8 years oM. Tracy Uaughman-has a birthday February 21. Vernon Kidd has a birthday Feb ruary 23. Mrs. Marshall Samples will cele brate her birthday February 24. J. F. Owens had a birthday Feb ruary 14. Mrs. J. F Owens has a birthday February 14. Little Barry Ficklin has a birth- Birthday Dinner Enjoyed Mrs. John Campbell, who was celebrating her 72nd birthday on Sunday, February 16, was honored with a birthday dinner On that day, attended by her children and a num ber of other relatvies. Birthday Party Given On Tlfursday at 1 o’clock Mrs. Durrel ^ Ficklin entertained Mrs. Pitts' first grade with a party in honor of her son. Tommy, who cde- day February 24 He will be 5 years brated his 7th birthday February 15. old.’ Tommy was crowned king by his teacher and he in turn chose Teena Kelly his queen The group then joined in singing ‘ Happy Birthday-.” The red and white birthday cake id peeping with the Valentine theme, was cut and served with ice cream. Candy was given the little folk as favors. -Kathy Lou, Barry, and Mike Ficklin were special guests for the party Mrs Raymond Pitta assisted the hostess in entertaining. Lewis Wallenzme had a birthday February 14. Louise Blackwell celebrated her birthday February 14 Darrell Hampton has a birthday February 18. Mrs David Storey celebrated her birthday February 14 Barbara Brazil has a birthday February 18. Mrs Jimmie Wooten had a birth l day February 14 , C E Elledge of Cross Hill, cele brated a birthday February 18 Thornton Meadors celebrated a birthday February 14 R 1) „ McDaniel celebrates a birthday February 21 Herbert Fallaw ha-s a birthday February 22 Mrs Florence Splawn has a birth day February 23 Li tie Jt>ey Spillers celebrates his birthday February 23 t Mrs. I^eon Hedgepath celebrates her birthday February 23 Roberta McGinnis celebrates her bri hday February 26 Joe Davenport has a birthday February 26 Mary Owens wil have a birthday February 27 Joe P Terry celebrates his birth-1 day February 27. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ don’t pass this buy! navSun** ^otor oil Texaco '"Virsal we had to moisten them by tipping to our tongue along as we wrote ; Well, being of that habit, I did it with my indellible pencil, too, that first day at school. Soon the other kids were snickering and the teach er came back in that corner to see what was up. She saw my purple mouth and gasped, "What have you Barnes tells me it made no differ- doing?’ She hadn’t had an in ence at the Charleston station j delible pencil either and didn't know Now what agricultural research but that they were poison. Anyway, is after is finding out the conditions under which a thing will or will not pay, and why. And all of this is in the background of a recommenda tion when it is finally made. • • * NEW SWEET POTATO Clemson is releasing a superior ■new potato it has produced. It Jias been named the CaroGold (Yes, that’s the w'ay to spell it, captial G and no space between it and the o). It has consistently outyieluded the it sure looked that way Well the water bucket happened to be empty. She sent two larger boys down through the woods in a : rot-to the spring, They were back in a jiffy, for they were seared, too. She washed my mouth out good. But that purple wouldn’t do much com ing off my tongue and lips. 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