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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
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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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10 - Invest with
clothing
12 - To tranrfer
13 - Poem
14 - 'The Bard
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16 - Unit
17 - To exhort
19 - Mrs . Sheep
20 - Warm up an
airplane engine
21 - Ship's diary
23 - Complete
26 - Instigates
29 - An age
30 - Vegetable
31 - fcrcelves
34 - Containers
37 - Conceit
38 - Broadcast
39 - Largest Euro
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42 - Protect
44 - Time past
46 - Performs
43 - Word element
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49 - Prevaricated
50 - Golfing device
51 - Female parent
52 - Beverage
53 - Profits
54 - Exhausts
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31 - iiirried
32 - Ovum
33 - Measures
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34 - Rebounds
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41 - Ardent
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LIVESTOCK JUDGES—These three boys were the
members of Laurens County’s 4-H Livestock Judg
ing team this year. Left to right are Butch Smith
and Robie Wallin of Thornwell Orphanage in Clin
ton and Allen Finley of Mountville.
FARMS and FOLKS
By L. C. HAMILTON
Clemson University Extension Information Specialtet
Poultry business in S.C. is no
longer “chicken feed.*
It’s big business. Big money.
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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THURSDAY. AUGUST 8
Mike Douglas, 4:30 p.m
George Segal is co-host for
the week Color
Campaign '68: Republican
National Convention. 7:30 p.m
Walter Cronkite is anchor
man from Miami Beach Flor
ida Color
The Late Show. 11:30 p.m
“Oh. Man! Oh. Women!” with
Tony Randall Ginger Rogers,
David Niven
FRIDAY. AUGUST 9
Gomer Pyle. 8:30 p.m
Corner meets Lou-Ann’s fa
ther Color
Friday Movie, 9 p.m
“Around the World Under the
Sea,” with Marshall Thompson,
Lloyd Bridges Color
SATURDAY. AUGUST 10
My Three Sons, 8:30 p.m
Oscar-winner Anne Baxter
guests Color
Hogan’s
Heroes. 9 p.m
Hogan plays
matchmaker
and Hollywood
talent scoot
Color
Petticoat
Junction.
9:30 pji -
Railroader Homer B e d 1 o e
puts the Hooterville Cannonball
up for sale. Color.
SUNDAY. AUGUST 11
NFL Pre-Season Game, f |Un
Detroit Lions vs. Philadelphia
Eagles. Color.
Anne Baxter
Lassie, 7 p.m.
Lassie saves the life of a
trained raccoon. Color.
Ed Snllivan. 8 p.m.
Guests Include The Beatles,
A1 Hirt. Jane Morgan. Connie
Francis Color
MONDAY. AUGUST 13
Mike Douglas, 4:39 p.m.
Nancy Wilson is co-hostess
for the week. Color.
Best of Hollywood, 9 p.m.
“The Reformer and the Red
head.” with Dick Powell. Coler
Andy Griffith. » pan.
Aunt Bee takes flying lea-
sons. Color.
TUESDAY. AUGUST II
Showtime. 8:39 p.m
Guests are the Dave Clark
Five, Juliet Prowse. Buddy
Greco Color.
Good Morning World, 9:19 pja.
Dave and Larry find them
selves doing two radio shows a
day. Color.
Of Black America, 19 p.m.
Slavery and attitudes estab
lished during slavery are ex
amined. Color.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14
Theater Three, 7 pja.
“Sierra,” with Audie Murphy.
Color.
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