The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 03, 1958, Image 9
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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."
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WHERE YOU SAVE DOES
MAKE A DIFFERENCE