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I v 5^Sy^'. r j it THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C^ August 8, 1968 FINGER PAINTING—‘Head Start’ students are shown workng with finger paint at the M. S. Bailey iSchool in Clinton. The teacher is Mrs. Eugenia B. Johnson, right, and the teacher’s aide is Mrs. Cath erine Mosley, left.— (Yarborough Photo) 400 Participote In Head Start The Summer Head Start Pro gram for 1968 closed on Friday, August 2. The project was spon sored by the Laurens County C mmunity Action, Inc., and was attended by ever 400 children from all sections of Laurens C iuhty and was administered by a staff of 74 who were assisted by 48 volunteer workers. The children and staff were frem both School Districts =55 and.-56. Due to the inability to secure proper sites in District -55 the entire program was housed in Clinton at the Mercer Silas Bailey and the Providence Schools. Buses and volunteer transportation was provided and children were brought in from Gray Court, Laurens, Cross Hill, Waterloo, Enoree, Joanna and other parts of the county. In spite of tfce distances to be travelled, this-was the largest Head Start program ever held in Laurens County. It was funded for $71,000 by the federal government. The sessions began at 8 a.m. and lasted until 12:40 p.m., five days a week for eight weeks. The program was designed to draw out .and to develop the creative abilities of the enrollees and to tfeach them to work and play toggther in a planning society rather than in a planned one. In the curriculum, the children participated in the planning and were allowed to choose certain of their activities. These activi ties were centered around scie&ce, music, painting and drawing as well as the routine kindergarten training. The teachers led the children in group disdiissions in different areas that captivate their interests. A resbperiod and a play time were a part of the day. Field trips, train rides and educational tours were also given. Nine-fifty was “snack time* when juices and cookies were served. Later the children received a well balanced meal and participated in creative activities until twelve-forty at which time they were taken to their homes. The staff of the Clinton YMCA was most helpful with the out door activities as volunteers. Others serving as volunteers were Neighborhood Youth Corps workers, parents and individuals interested in the development of the children. One of the major featuresof the program is in the health needs of the children. A full-time trained nurse and two aides worked with this. Doctor George Blalock served as medical and dental director. All of the en rollees were given physical ex aminations, immunizations, eye, tuberculosis and hearing tests. This work having been done makes much easier for the child ren and the teachers this fall when they enter school. It was found that 12 of the children needed glasses, 31 needed dental treatment, 25 were treated for anemia, one had psychiatric eval uation, two were sent to the hearing and speech clinics and 48 will be retested for needed surgery. Five others needed mis cellaneous treatment. All of the above services are provided at no cost to the parents, all of whom are from low income brackets. 4-H Livestock Team Competes In State Meet BY THAD B. REEVES JR. Asst. County Agent Livestock Judging is an art which takes a lot of practice and study to master. When judg ing livestock in a contest, four animals in a class must be placed in order from the best on down. Reasons must also be given as to why you placed the animals a certain way. Anyone who judges must have an idea of an ideal type of animal. Each animal in the class must then be mentally compared to the ideal. Through the years the ideal type of ani mal is changing to meet demands and needs. Therefore livestock judging is always changing. Livestock judging offers 4-H boys the chance to study hogs and cattle and learn what the ideal type should be. They learn to se lect the best animal out of a group of animals. The members of this years Laurens County 4-H Livestock Judging Team were: Allen Fin ley of Mountville, Robie Wallin and Butch Smith of Thornwell Orphanage in Clinton. The con test was held July 18, duringState 4-H Conference at Clemson. The boys judged several classes of hogs and cattle. The Laurens County team placed sixth out of ten teams over the state. * * * More than 9.4 billion soft drinks in steel cans will be con sumed in the U.S. this year. CROSSWORD By A. C. Gordon Quality Cotton Program Meetings Help Farmers BY M. L. OUTZ County Agent Clemson is now holding meet ings over the state on the Qua lity C otton Program. I spent all day Wednesday in Chester listen ing to various speakers tell how to produce a quality product. They have worked out certain methods that the ginners must follow in the steps to a quality product. What does this actually mean for the farmer: Well, 1 think this is a step that will indeed help him. He gets the same informa tion that the mills get and will be in a much better position to bargain. I have read in some of the trade magazines where textile producers say they paid too much for last yeairs cotton. Of course no one close to the farm will agree with that There is one thing for sure farmers are in a better position to hold their crop off the marketthenthey have been in the past. Then there is the threat that synthetics will take over is cotton is too high. I’m WBTV RL.OTT« sure that anyone that has worn synthetice the last three weeks will doubt that they will ever capture the big market. Cotton is cool! Cotton, without question, is far superior to any product in comfort and coolness. It is the only product on the market that you can wear without being very uncomfortable, at this time of year. I therefore believe that Mr. and Mrs. U.S.A. will see that synthetics do not gain any further foothold on the textile market. Back to the testingprogram for a moment. Producers will be very much responsible for delivering to the ginner a good product. The ginner can do only so much with what he has to work with. Once the product is baled under this program it is tagged accord ingly. This should give the pro ducer a chance that he hasn’t had before. Producers should contact their ginner or our office for further information. Where fescue is to be sown it is a good idea to fallow your land during August. You will have a much better stand and it will grow off much faster if you will do so. 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Dr. Douglas Hamm, leader of poultry science Extension work with Clemson University, says it’s a story that needs telling. You may have noticed the changing picture over the state. New complexes have sprung up. Modern, economical buildings are housing thousands of hens in half the space of the old style houses. Automated feed and egg handling equipment is being put in, replacing labor. Everything’s streamlined and tailored to assembly line fashion. Dr. Hamm notes the far-reach ing effects of the expansion on the state’s economy. “Railroads, equipment manufacturers, for estry people, grain producers, truckers are just a few of the facets involved,* he says. Take the feed bill. In 1966, the hens, broilers, turkeys and chicks produced or housed in S.C. consumed about 381,000 tons of feed--enough to fill a 45-mile-long train of 100- ton “Big John* railroad cars. “It took a lot of S.C. crops to make all that feed/ Dr. Hamm says, “the equivalent of 25 per cent of all harvested crop lands in the state in ’66. It took 63 percent of the corn crop and the meal for 5.5 million bushels of soybeans--35 percentof the crop. But the industry is more than feed alone. “To carton and case out 1966 egg production in paper would have required over 6,000 cords of pulpwood, a train composed of 515 cars,” Dr. Hamm says. Look at it from the dollars CHS Cheerleaders Attend Camp The varsity cheerleaders from Clinton High School represented their school at the American, Cheerleaders Association Academy in Leesburg, Fla., from July 28 through August 2. ACA Summer Camps are de signed to train students in all phases of cheerleading in an at mosphere of healthy fun under proper supervision. The goal is for a better cheerleader, abetter youth, a better American. The cheerleaders traveled to and from Leesburg by train from Columbia, S.C. Those making the trip were: Jan Alexander and JeanMangum, seniors; Vickie Bishop, Chatherine Boyle, Kathy Frady, and Almeda Rogers, juniors. Mrs. Marion Ramage is spon sor for the varsity cheerleaders at Clinton High School. and cents flowing through the eco nomy. The poultry industry in S.C. has an annual payroll of about $34 million. Capital investment in build ings, considering only production through the first handling pro cessors, is roughly $56 million. Gross sales of poultry pro ducts in the state in 1967 topped $186 million. For the same period, the aggregate value of all principal field crops, fruits, nuts and vegetables produced in the state was $286 million. “And, like all other enterprises the poultryman must work with someone else’s money,* Dr. Hamm points out. “With the large demands for two and six-month money we need about $20 million in operating funds at any given moment. As of January 1, 1967 commercial banks and all other lending agencies for farm enter prises had about $76 million in operating capital out in S.C.’ As the Extension specialist says, it all adds up to more than “chicken feed.’ Dads May Become Liabilities Can your ton afford to support you aflar you stop working? Evan if h« could you probably wouldn't want him to. through lifa Inturanca you can b« sura of financial independanca during your dadlnktf yean. Ufa Inturanca costs to littla and maani to much-* both to you and your dependents. 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