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Tfcuraday. July 3. 195s THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Pur* Mm Newt From The County Agent M. L. OUTZ. ('•only AfMt TRIBITE TO MR. CANNON Mr. C. B. Cannon has retired as Laurens County Agent after S3 years of srevice to (he people. The people who he had worked with these long years gave honor and recognition to him Friday, June 27 at the Laurens High School. The Farm Bureau sponsored the occa sion Those paying tribute to Mr. Cannon were Senator Robert Was son. Senator Wasson could not be present but sent a letter that was read by Tom Copeland who presid ed. Next on the program was Hen ry Faris of the Laurens Electric Cooperative. Thomas W- Morgan, Associate Director of the Exten sion Service; Pat Dickson, farmer of the Hopewell community; and L. B. Massey, Piedmont District Agent. Dr. Malcolm Cook, presi dent of the Exchange Club, pre sented Mr. Cannon with a reclining chair. Collie Anderson of Clinton, was last to take the floor and he, as chairman of the gift committee, presented Mr. Cannon the keys to a brand new ’58 Chevrolet. Mr. Cannon expressed great ap preciation to the people of Lau rens county for their cooperation and kindness through the years he had served. In behalf of the Extension Work ers of Laurens County I would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of those who worked so hard to make the. program such a success. WOOL POOL 22,106 pounds of wool were grad ed and sold at the Laurens County Armory on Tuesday and Wednes day of last week The wool sold for an average price of $42 04 per hun dred pounds and brought a total of $9.293 99 GRAPE MARKET The Extension Marketing Divi sion along with County Agents of the grape growing areas have been working to locate a market for the surplus grapes of this area. They have located the markets in Peters burg. Va., aad New York Mr Oscar Boh has been elected to represent the grape growers of Laurens County It is necessary that Mr Boh have information that aa la the Marketing to the follow Confestants in Beauty Queen Events from 15 acre' of f-ericea pasture," I he commented Also to improve the quality and quantity of hay and grating he fertilue* the sercea an nually with 500 pounds per acre of a 4-12-12 fertiliier The sericea i was established on the farm as a part of his soil and water conser vation plan with the Iwiurens Soil Conservatmn District a • *• Reese Young of Clinton, con structed 4.000 feet bf drainage 'ditches on his farm recently Mr | Young is using cost sharing pay ments through the local AS< of fice to help pay the cost of this 'work The toast ruction joh uo done>by the district's motor ..r ider I and technical help was\ given b> the Soil Conservation Service. Clerk-Treasurers' President Here are the contestants who competed in two beauty queen events Saturday, climaxing “fun day” at Clinton and Ly4la Mills. They are Beth Trammell, Melisa Burdette, Sue Hamilton, Becky Gregory, Linda Braswell, Kay Roberts, Myra Snelgrove, Francine Smith, Patsy Burdette, and Sandra Shelnut. Becky Gregory, fourth from left, won the title,, “Miss Lydia Pool,” and Patsy Burdette, second from right, • was chosen "Miss Clinton Pool."—Photo by Dan Yarborough. ing questions must be given to Mr. Bolt or to the County Agent’s of fice. The number of acres of Con cord grapes to be seld for process ing, also the number of acres of Fredonia grapes to be sold for pro cessing. This information is urgent ly needed, so please let us hear from you. DAIRY JUDGLNG TEAM The Laurens County Dairy Judg ing team placed fourth in the state contest, making a total of 1345 points out of a possible 1600. Wil liam Brown was third high judge over all other contestants. Congrat ulations to William. Other mem bers of the team were Jimmy Sim mons, Kay Baumberger and Wil- ford Simpson Railroad Held Responsible In Death Of Miss Fuhrer Landrum—An inquest last Wed nesday night into the death of Mary Helen Fuhrer, who was killed in Campohello Sunday, found that Mas Fuhrer came to her death "due to rarelesanesa on the part of the railroad company by not ring mg a bed er whistle or blocking the view with pulpwood cars.” The inquest, conducted by Spar tanburg County Coroner Georgy Adams, was held at Town Hall here. John Higgins served as fore man of the jury. W. T. Martin, chief of the Spar tanburg County rural police, as first witness, testified that he ar rived shortly after the accident and said he saw no signals or lights, only a railroad crossing sign. He testified to the fact that there were railroad cars on the siding near the crossing and that the 1953 Ford in which Miss Fuhrer was rid ing had come to rest on one of them about 60 feet from the point of impact. He said apparently she was traveling west on Highway 11. Chief Martin also told of a ware house being on the east side of the track and thus blocking the view of the highway at the crossing from the train crew as well as blocking the view of approaching trains from persons traveling west on the highway ’ John Johnson, who testified he lived within 200 yards of the depot in Campohello. said he and Henry and Mary Banks were standing in his yard when the engine pasted He estimated the speed of theloro motive which was ‘dead-heading” to SpartanbiiVg to pick up a train, at about 50 miles per hour. He testified he did not hear any whistle or bell until after he heard the crash. He told of going to the scene and attempting to get the victim from the wreckage of her car. Miss Fuhrer was engaged to John Coker, formerly of Clinton, who is administrator of music at the Transylvania Music Camp in grazing Brevard, N. C., and she was on her way to see him when the acci dent occurred. Conservation Notes By J. B. O'DELL Sen. Thurmond Reports \\ AMERICAN TRADE POLICY The Trade Agreements Extension Bill of 1958 wil soon come before the Senate for action I- hfive al ready proposed that it be amended in two respects, to provide a great- i er measure of relief for domestic tnents amount to 12 cents pdr cubic industries which are being depress- yard of earth in the dam, up to the ed by imports from competitors in soil building allowance for the cheap labor countries, and to make farm. The Soil Conservation Ser- it conform more closely to the vice assisted these farmers with ; Constitution the engineering survey and designs jhe bill, as passer! by the House for each of the ponds. All ponds 0 f Representatives, would extend were qualified for cost-sharing as- the provisions of the present law sistance in that a water supply was f or five years, and give the Pres- necessary in order to better man-j idem authority to reduce tariffs age pastures through proper dis- by an additional 25 per cent tnbption of livestock and rotation j am urging that the bill be amended to limit the extension to two years only, and to require the J H. Power of the Barksdale president to win the approval of a community, is well pleased with majority of both houses of Con- the results he is getting from se- gr ess before he can deny imple- ricea lespedeza. “I have been using mentation of Tariff Commission ac- sericea for a number of years and tions under the “escape clause" find that it fits well into my hay provision The “escape clause" and grazing program,’ he said. He was p U t into the Trade Agreements is now grazing 60 head of beef cat- Act m 1951 to provide a means by tie on about 35 acres of sericea and which industries hard hit by fo- ricea is a deep-rooted perennial r^ian competition might gam relief, 20 acres of bermuda pasture. Se- but it has not been sufficiently ef- legume that stands the drought bet- fective In too many cases, the ter than most of our pasture plants president has refused to imple- It is well suited for land on which m ent actions of the Tanff com Miss Jean Arthur, of I’nion, eUfted presMlmt .»f the v ( v < lerk- Treasurers’ Association at a meeting held this week at the L’aiveraity of South Carolina, Columbia., recedes (ongratulalion* from M B Owens (left) of Clinton. outgoing president and James \ Caldwell. Sr., of the S C. Municipal Association. The following cooperators of the Laurens Soil Conservation District have recently had stock watering ponds constructed on their farms: George Wasson, Hickory Tavern, the moisture conditions are usually mission granting tanff increases or B W. Crouch, Mountville; Rufus 1 unfavorable ,>(her relief Langston Gray Court; and C. W Mr Power ken>s the ^cea % BASIC FALLAC Y Anderson, Clinton, two ponds growing tender for grazing by One reason why I favor limiting Each of the above farmers util mowing it for hay when it gets the extension of the provisions of ized cost-sharing payments through .ihead of the cattle "I have just the bill to two years is that we the local ASC office These pay- finished cutting 260 bales of hay need to proceed immediately to a thorough study of the principles and assumptions on which our trade policy has been built We should not commit ourselves to a five-year egtervsi m of our present trade policy becaii'e it has many flaws. We have been spending money recklessly and indiscriminately through our foreign aid program, in a misguided attempt to build up the strength, of foreign nations, and. by progressively lowering our tariffs, we have opened the door for the growing industries in those nations to find such a large place in the American market that they are forcing vital segments of the American economy to the wall We have done this in the belief that nations which have progressed economically because of American help will be strongly inclined to ; join as in the event of war The lesson of history is that this is a false assumption Military allian ces are made for military pur poses, with self preservation the over-nding consideration The sta tus of trade i» a relatively small consideration in making military decisions FOl'R POLICY PROPOSAL I believe that the following four points make up the basis for a trade program that is truly Amen can I Me 'huuld shun every pro gram which attempts to use trade concessions aod gifts to foreign aa tions as diplomatic bargaining tools The paying of tribute to buy protection is both immoral and in effective 2 We should adjust our tariffs to safeguard domestic industry not leaving rate adjustments to in ternational agencies 3 We should return to Congress its Constitutional powers to regu late foreign commerce 4 We must work to make dome- tic industry as efficient as possible, so that it can maintain its place in a competitive world marke f VISITING MOTHERS Airman Billy Buchanan has been spending a leave with his mother. Mrs Annie Buchanan, following a three and a half years «tay in Munich and Frankfort, (iermany. with the Air Corpe He will leave Saturday for Ethan Allen Air Force Ba.>e, Vermont where he will be statiorv-d IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DO NT GET THE NEWS 74 Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Ph«*n< 794 Lourens, S C. Semi-Annual Statement LAURENS FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION June 30,1958 Laurens Federal's Plus Value Service 1. Top Eornings — currently 3 2 per onnum—compounded semi aitnuolly 2 insurance of All Accounts up to 510.000 00 RESOURCES Pint Mortgage Loans $6,067,066.59 Otlar Loans 182^99.74 (Including Improvement Loans) Properties Owned and Sold on Contract 36^06.62 Investments and Securities 223,000.00 (Including U. S. Gov’t Bonds) Cash on Hsind and in Banks .... 544,653.79 Office Building, Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment 266,464.99 (Less Depreciation) , Other Assets 482.84 LIABILITIES Savings Accounts $6,374,365.84 Advances, Federal Home Loan Bank 490,000.00 Construction Loans in Proceas .. . 36,511.81 Unearned Discount on Home Improvement Loans 18,104.78 Other Liabilities 14,452.77 Reserves and Undivided Profits . . 387,439.37 3 Convenient hondltng of pour Sovingt end Investments e. Convenient location b, Adequate—Free porting. I c. Drive-up Teller Service d Night Depository Service e, Save by moil Service—Free 4 Standard Savings Accounts 5. Lump Sum Investments Accounts 6 Trust and Corporate Accounts TOTAL ASSETS $7,320,874.57 TOTAL LIABILITIES $7,320,874.57 v SAVINGS INSURED UP TO $10,000 BY THE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION $104,028.00 in Dividends Paid to Laurens Federal's More Than 3900 Savers on June 30th , — Start Your Account In Person Or By Mail — Growth In Resources June 30,1948 . . $197,498.45 June 30, 1950 . . . $1,620,988.66 June 30,1952 $3,212,16723 June 30,1954 . .$4,964,112.47 June 30,1956 $6,364,650.44 June 30,1958 - $7,320,874.57 7. Free Handling of Transfer Accounts 8. Christmas and other Planners Club Accounts—all shore in our semi-an- t nuol dividends. 9. Money Orders—Honored everywhere. 10. Travelers Checks — Both American Express and National City Bank. Ill Travel Insurance.. 12. Safe Deposit Boxes. 13. Free Notary Public Service. 14 Agent for U. S. Treasury for Selling and Cashing U. S. Savings Bonds. LAURENS COUNTY'S LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE - 3'A% PER ANNUM YOUR ACCOUNT-LARGE OR 1 SMALL-IS WELCOME AT LAURENS FEDERAL 15. Home of the "FRIENDSHIP ROOM." 1 j 1 ■ ,l — " ■■ ■■ WHERE YOU SAVE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE