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I: Thursday, December 1, 1960 ^ • THE CLINTON CHRONICLE 11 FARMS... ‘AND FOLKS By I. M. Eleazer * Clemton College Information Specialist WILD HOGS I knew farmers had all sorts of troubles with things preying on crape. But County Agent Hubbard of Bamberg comes up with a rather new one, wrU hogs! Three com munities adjacent to a large bay bad been troubled little with this until this year. Undoubtedly the herd has increased considerably be yond its natural food supply, for farmers have complained of raids on their corn fields. Hubbard says the Fish and Wildlife folks were called in to aid in trapping the excess wild creatures. * * * The two growers who shipped grapes from Calhoun County thus year were well pleased with re sults, according to County Agent Cain. Three more vineyards will widely. used than ever. Not only were they used on cotton that was to be V ffrethanically harvested, but much of the hand-picked part of the'| crop was defoliated. That let the sun in, made it open up better, and dryer cotton could be picked. With mechanization, we are go ing to stay in the cottoh business in many areas * * * BOYS ARE THAT WAY Among boyhood's vivid memories are those about our train It was a mixed train The little wood-burning two-wheeler usually bad 5 or 6 freight ears and flats ahead of the lone passenger coach. It took an hour to negotiate the 18 miles from White Rock to Colum bia. But to me as a kid that was lit erally flying. It usually stopped year. A good many folks have put out grapes in Greenwood in the past few years Tivose who did a poor job lost money on their grapes this year. County Agent Garvin tells me. But, on the other hand, those who carried out best known prac tices are pleased and made some money , he says. Glemson has worked out a grape producers’ calendar carrying every seasonal step in grape produc tion. It is free from your county come into production there next once at a wood rack for fuel. We all got out and helped pitch the wood onto the tender so we could be getting on down the road without much delay. That long passenger coach was divided into four parts. TTio back portion was for white passengers. ! In front of that was a smoker with 1 four seats in it. Then came the bag gage and express part with doors opening on the sides. In front of that was the colored section No mail. A wrought iron stove was in each agent. You can see from it. good hart They ntade about as much grapes are not easy to grow. But 'moke as the engine, they can be grown, and will pay off. My father was the country doc- It is very much like County Agent lor He got passes on the railroad Jones of Greenville told me, "A «They started letting me go to Co good peach grower usually makes lumbia at a rather early age for a good grape grower. For he knows 'necessary shopping. Neighbors the importance of little things, of thought they were rather careless, doing it right, and he has the right letting that kid of 10 or 12 go away equipment ” to the city by himself. One morning Bouknight of Lexington says they at 10 we pulled out from White made a good grape crop and inter- Rock right on time Down about est In it is spreading. half way to Ballentine we heard a commotion ahead and there was. a rather sudden stop. One of the driving arms had come loose and was really battering the ends off the crossties <pn that side The en gineer said that vfras one time he sure kept htrhead in that cab win dow. After about an hour the train crew got that loose arm off They thought they’d limp into Columbia But in trying to start, the thing got on dead center, and we did have a time then. Everybody got out and helped. With pinch bars under the wheels and everybody pushing, we got slack on the.coupling and un hitched the engine. Then we inched it ahead a bit until it^ got off cen ter It started quick, slipping the wheel a bit. That made It off cen ter when it backed up and bumped the cars. It was on a level place and the intermittent lunges of pow er eventually got the thing rolling We paid no attention to those who tried to flag us down at Irmo and Leaphart. That engineer, old “Ba- Orangeburg County Agent King reports 37 mechanical cotton pick ers have been busy there helping harvest this year’s crop. And in other counties I saw a lot of those mechanical monsters going across the cotton fields at harvest time, too. These are a part of the trend of the times, full mechanization. But they bring on problems as most new things do The gins have had to put in elab orate cleaning equipment to get the trash out. And also drying equip ment to aid in handling damp cot ton The mills say they’d rather have some trash in it than to have •n.he fiber hurt by over-heating and over-cleaning .And. this thing is be- ginming to hurt at the mills, where all cotton is headed It must be cor rected, or cotton will likely lose further ground to. synthetics that don’t show similar spinning defects of over-dried and over-cleaned cot ton. The county agents report over 300 by" Graham, was taking no chanc- cotton pickers in use over South es of getting stuck on dead center Carolina during the season now again Next week more about our closing. And defoliants were more 'train AROUND CUNTON HIGH By Trecie Davis The Clinton High Red Devils ended the football season with a 21-20 victory over the Parker team November 17. Even though the Parker boys outweighed ours and Coach Buzz Tedards was in the hospital, the Red Devils led the scoring during the whole game. r— The whole team has dbne an ekcellent job this year, but we would especially like tp thank the senior football players* Those twelve boys worked hard and have make a good record of nine wins and two losses. Since a good many of the ypunger players gained valuable experience sub stituting for the injured senior players, the chances of having an even better team next year seem good Recognition should be given to the team’s managers, Wade Smith, Pete Cooper, Bruce Quarles. Carol Copeland, and Virgil Cook These boys have been faithful to the Mighty Red Devil team and have done a good job. Now that football season is over the CHS boys and girls have begun to practice for the basket ball games. Let’s give the basket ball teams just as much support as we gave the football team this year. Billy Pitts was selected to re ceive the Hi-Fi T-shirt and cei;*, tificate for his accomplishments in the Newberry game. Jerry Hall and Melvin Bailey were both awarded certificate^ and shirts for their plays in the York game. In the Easley j^ame, Philip King was selected as the Hi-Fi Club’s outstanding player. Barry Whit man was selected to receive the club’s T-shirt and certificate from those who played in the Parser game A Miss Hi-Fi Contest was spon sored by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Jfliss Dianne Price was selected to represent Clinton High in the Miss Hi-Fi contest in Laurens November 23. Only members of the Hi-Fi Club were allowed to vote when Che various schools selected the girls to rep resent them in the contest. Members of the Junior Play cast are busy practicing for their play. “Cute As A Button.” The play will be given in the CHS au ditorium December 2. Admission will be 75 cents and 50 cents. The proceeds from the play Will be used when the Junior Class hon ors the Senior Class with the Junior-Senior banquet in May. Members of the play cast are: Corinne Boyd, Alice Grant, Billy Chisholm. Linda Barron, Becky farmer. Tommy Copeland. Bunky Blalock. Margaret Stump, Billy Pitts, Jimmie Furr, and Leonard Price. The cheerleaders have done an excellent job in keeping up the good spirit at CHS during foot ball season. They deserve a lot of credit for being so active at the pep meetings and at the games each Friday night' This year Dianne Price, the head cheerleader, and Dorothy Staton, were the . senior cheerleaders. Lonnie Farnell, also a senior, portrayed the Red Devil. Linda Barron and Elaine Boyce were the junior cheerlead ers, while Jane Milam and Ame Black were the sophomore cheer leaders Representing the fresh- rrtan class as cheerleaders were Sandra Huggins and Patsy Hen derson This past year the marching band at Clinton High has im proved a gfeat deal. After seeing how well the_bapd did at the Parker game, I realize that the band members! must have been practicing rather hard. At any rate, the students at CHS have noticed the band’s progress and are proud of the CHS band. During the Christmas season the CHS band has been, asked to participate in several of the sea sonal parades At present the band members intend to take part hi the Newberry and Clinton parades. The girl bus drivers at CHS will be featured in the Greenville News soon. There are fifteen girl drivers at Clinton High. Eleven of these girls have regular routes Linda Jq Poore was the first girl bus driver at CHS. Community Cash sparkling clean, pleasant to shop food stores v TOWN HALL COTTAGE ROLLS »•. 10 Marshall Farm Government Inspected FANCY Whole Lb. X Cut Up 29c Lb. Limit 4, Pleaae i $ Freshly Made GROUND BEEF 3 Lbs. 139 WE GIVE TOP VALUE STAMPS America’s Finest Stamp Plan! REDEEM THEM NOW FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS DRKHKHS AI.I.-MKAT FRANKS * Hi-Oz. 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