The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 28, 1968, Image 15
THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C M November 28, 1968—15
News of Joanna
By MRS. W. J. HOGAN
Corrwpondcnt-Representat < ve
Dial 697-6949
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Niver were Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Niver, Miss
Margaret Rose Niver, Jimmy
Smith and Billy DeYoung of
Greenville. On Saturday Mr. and
Mrs. Niver and Charles attended
the football game in Clemson.
Before ' returning home they
visited Mrs. Niver's mother,
Mrs. A. N. Prichard who is a
patient at the Oconee Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Moon and
family visited the latters mo
ther, Mrs. Lorena Nix in Green
ville on Saturday.
STG2 and Mrs. Preston White,
Jr. spent the weekend here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
P. White Sr., and on Monday
they left for his new station in
Key West, Fla. Sunday guests
of the Whites were Mrs. Louise
Berry and Mrs. Mike Rollins of
Greenville.
ATTEND FUNERAL
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Simmons
and daughter Annette Adams at
tended the funeral of Ivan Frank
lin Tiller in Antreville, S.C. on
Friday. He is a nephew of Mrs.
Simmons.
Donna Brannon is spending the
Thanksgiving holidays with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Bran
non. She is a student at Win-
throp.
Mrs. D. V. Wright Jr. and
Mrs. Linda Turner and daughter
Karen were last Tuesday visitors
in Greenville. D. V. Wright, Sr.
who lives on the Whitmire high
way near Bonds Crossroad, is
spending several days with Mr.
and Mrs. D. V. Wright, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Prater
spent Sunday in Anderson with
Mr. and Mrs. John Long.
HONORED ON BIRTHDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Swygert
honored their son, Terry with a
birthday dinner onSunday at their
home on the Whitmire Road ir
Joanna. Guests for the occasion
were Mrs. Hermie Wood ofNew-
berry, Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Swy
gert, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gard
ner, Tina and Jay, and Mr. and
Mrs. Ricky Gardner.
Mrs. T.
by Mrs. J
were visitors
Saturday.
McGowan, joined
Columbia
RECEIVED DISCHARGE
S/Sgt Tommy Frarier re
ceived his discharge from the Air
Force on Oct 30 at Altus AFB
in Oklahoma. He was in the ser
vice for seven years. He and his
wife, the former Reithie Winton
of Paris, Texas is presently mak
their home with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Frazier.
Last Sunday guests of Mrs.
Janet Reeder were Mrs. A. R.
Freeman and children and Mrs.
Grace Prater of Greenwood.
Charles Davenport and son
Chucky attended the Clemson
football game last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brooks
of Easley were guests, last Sun
day of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Mur
phy.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Boyce
and Ronnie and Mrs. R. E. Boyce
and Mrs. Chessie Windham of
Lynchburg spent the weekend
here with Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Boyce, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Boyce
and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Boyce.
Weekend guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Marion Boyce and Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Johnson were Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Boyce and Amy
of Martinsville. Va.
JOANNA WOMAN’S CLUB
On Saturday the Woman’s Club
enjoyed a trip to “Rich’s" in
Atlanta, Ga. They left by char
tered bus early on Saturday. They
were Mrs. Kathleen League,
Martha Thompson, Bert Couch,
Dixie Caugham, Willie O’Dell,
Olie Abrams, Karie Abrams, and
Ruby Kay.
Also enjoying the trip were
J. C. Thomas, J. B. Wilder,
Ruth Robinson, Modeen Brazil,
Margaret White, Joyce Smith,
Gladys Nabors, Vodie Adair,
Mary Boyce, Roberta Templeton,
Helen Bozard, Annie Hall and
three women from Shriners Hos
pital in Greenville.
BIRTHDAYS,
ANNIVERSARIES
Francine Tucker celebrated
her birthday on Nov. 22.
On Thursday, Nov. 28, R. C.
Franklin and Mattie Stroud will
celebrate birthdays.
Carolyn Brown, Danny Arro-
wood, George Wright Simpson
and Gertrude Flow will celebrate
birthdays on Nov. 29.
The lastday of the month brings
a birthday to Jimmie Sexton, Don
Shealy, Rachael Ann Simpson,
Terry South, Betty Stroud and
Herbert Cockrell.
Birthday greetings on Dec. 1st
go to Becky Simmons, and Bill
Gresham. On the same day Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Cockrell will
observe a wedding anniversary.
Happy birthday on Dec. 2 to
Kerry Riser, Ruby Lewis and J.
Clifton Lollis.
Johnny Nabors and Howard
Brewington will celebrate birth
days on Dec. 3.
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WORLD CHITLIN CAPITAL
Von Hollen Heads
Bankers' Group
James Von Hollen of Clinton
has been elected chairman of
Group 4 of the South Carolina
Bankers Association.
Von Hollen is vice president
of M. S. Bailey andSon, Bankers,
in Clinton. He was elected out
of of six groups meetings held
throughout the state. Counties in
the six groups correspond to the
state’s six congressional dis
tricts.
Von Hollen also will serve on
the association’s Executive
Council during his term of of
fice (1969-70).
BULL SALE - The allbreed
bull sale has been scheduled for
January 29. The sale will be held
at the fairground in Orangeburg.
All bulls must grade 12 or over
and have clear pedigree. These
consigning bulls must file a
$20 entry fee.
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FARMS and FOLKS
BY HAROLD ROGERS
Assistant Extension Editor
CLEMSON - Anothe; ft’
“national weeks” slid across the
calendar the past few days --
and like so many of the others
it brought hardly a ripple of
sound or shadow of light to this
busy, busy land.
It should have. It had a massive
message for all people. It was
annual Farm-City Week, Nov. 22-
28.
It’s on the calendar each year
to call attention to the interde-
pendance of farm and city as two
vital segments of our economy.
The emphasis is on the con
tinuing role of agriculture in the
growth of this nation.
This year, the people driving
the Farm-City Week wagon
offered impressive new evidence
of the cost-price squeeze which is
riding a hard hammarlock on the
farmers.
Salley Stages 'Chitlin Strut'
BY JACK L. TRULUCK
Salley, S.C. - Salley’s third
annual “Chitlin Strut" will be held
November 30 and if success of its
first two “struts" is to be used
as a yardstick, the town will be
rocking again.
Pasadena has its Rose Bowl
Parade and New Orleans its
Mardl Gras, but on a compara
tive basis, nothing like the at
tendance at Salley’s Chitlin Strut
The first year it attracted
1,500 outsiders and last year
3,500. This year -- since word
has gotten around -- there’s no
telling how many people will
come.
Chitlins, as all chitlin lovers
know, are made from hog intes
tines. Salley’s Chitlin Strut and
a country music show started af
ter Mayor Jack Able looked at the
town’s old Christmas lights and
decided drastic steps had to be
taken to spruce the place up.
The town’s population of 400
people is not conducive to an
overloaded city treasury, Ma
yor Able said.
The mayor called Disc Jockey
“Friendly" Ben Dekle in Colum
bia for a suggestion for raising
money for the town’s lights. De
kle, “The Palmetto Philosopher'
declared he had always favored
a Chitlin Strut, but had never
found anybody with guts enough to
put one on.
In this way Mayor Able fell
heir to the idea. Able declared
at the outset he did not wish to
hog all the credit for putting it
on. He almost got it anyway.
Few people wanted any connec
tion at all with a Chitlin Strut.
“Even now everybody in town’s
not all sold on the idea, but the
first year hardly anybody wanted
any credit for it* The mayor
and two or three others per
sisted, however, and with the aid
of free musicians got the Strut
cooking.
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DARRELL WHITORL
Darrell Whitael, eon of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Whitael, won the Open Hairstyl
ing Contest of Stevanelh Beauty Collegtin Laurens Monday night. Dar
rell, the 1968-69 All-American Student Hairstyling Champion, is a senior
at Clinton High School and a student of Stevanella Beauty College, too.
His lovely model is Mrs. Carole Johnson of Cedar Street, Clinton. Second
place winner was Mrs. Jerry (Hanna) Hendrix of Clinton. Third place
winner was Mrs. Jerry (Margaret) McCullough of Whitmire.
STEVANELLA BEAUTY COLLEGE
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109 Jones Street
Laurens, S. C.
Behind Dr. Crow’s Office
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Word got around a little bit,
and to the Mayor and everybody
else’s surprise, 1550 outsiders
showed up for chitlins. The 200-
pound supply ran out quickly. Last
year 500 pounds were bought and
a lot of town people assisted.
But even with all the help,
there still are detractors. Some
contend the aroma from boiling
chitlin pots will cause the leaves
to wither and die and the soy
bean and cotton crops to wilt
in the fields.
Another said he thought it was
the worst thing that could happen
to a South Carolina Town since
Sherman’s March to the sea.
Despite all this, it’s suc-
cussful. “We are preparing for
a lot of visitors this year,"
Able said.
“Some people favor snails and
some like grasshoppers and rat
tlesnake meal. None of these are
in the class of chitlins," he said.
“You haven’t tasted a delicacy
until you’ve tasted chitlins."
How do chitlins smell when
they are cooking? “It’s best to
bile chitlins out in the back
yard, cause sometimes they
smell lak something dat oughten
to be et when they fust start
to bile," an expert says. Some
people believe they never smell
like something “fit to et'
Proceeds from this year’s
Chitlin Strut will go toward a new
fire truck. Salley’s volunteer fire
department now usesa!929Buick
it got from South Carolina’s
State Hospital. “It runs, that’s
about all that can be said a-
bout it," Able said.
The Strut begins at 4 p.m.
and continues until 7:30 or 8:00
p.m. Square dancing follows at
the schoolhouse gymnasium.
“Baked sweet potatoes go well
with chitlins," Able said. Bar
becued chicken or pork is served
people who don’t want chitlins.
Preparing chitlins is an art in
itself. You boil them for at least
six hours in a pot with just
enough water to keep them from
sticking. Then you dump them in
to a mixture of meal and salt
and pepper and fry them in a
pot of Wesson oil.
After that you have a rare
delicacy for some people or on
offense against tastes and cul
ture for some others, depending
on their respective outlooks on
chitlins.
Chitlins have given the Town of
Salley a togetherness not known
in many other places. “The first
year we had to beg people to
help. Last year they came and
offered to help us. About 20
women in the community assist
ed in the cooking of barbecue and
chicken." Able declared.
Mayor Able also sees another
possibility for promotion of chit
lins. “Our strut comes two days
after Thanksgiving," he said.
“This could offer a welcome re
lief to everybody who is tired
of turkey.
“Think of it,” he adds. “If
Indians had brought chitlins
to the Pilgrims, the entire na
tion might be having chitlins for
Thanksgiving, and we’d be having
a Turkey Strut.”
But Mayor Able hedged when
asked how chitlins taste. Then
sheepishly, he admitted, “I don’t
know, I don’t eat them."
SCHOOL
LUNCH MENU!
The figures show the percent
age of profit shrinkingbecause of
escalating production expenses.
The data were presented from
the national smorgasbord of sta
tistics, and it’s difficult to
localize the information here in
South Carolina, but the figures
and what they represent are very
real for the Palmetto State far
mers.
These were some of the facts
of life presented by the Farm-
City Week people:
-- In 1946 farmers had
realized gross farm income from
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all sources of $29.5 btllfc*. By
1967, this figure had cllmfrk! to
$49.1 billion, up more thaa
-- In the same period, however,
net farm income fell by $800
million.
-- Reason for the out-of-
oalance figures was that in 1947,
U.S. farmers spent $14.5 billion
for production expenses. In 1967,
this figure was $34.8 billion, a
rise of $20.3 billion in 21 years.
-- Because production ex
penses are rising faster than
gross farm income, net income
is the smallest ever, percentage
wise.
-- In 1932, at the bottom of
the Great Depression, net farm
income was 30percentof the rea
lized gross income. Before and
during World War II it was over
50 percent. In 1967, this dropped
to 29 percent, the smallest per
centage ever.
These are the basic factors in
that cost-price squeeze which is
holding the hammarlock and mak
ing today’s farmer live hard.
The swine producer in Colle
ton County knows about it. The
cotton farmer of Lee County, the
poultry producer in Pickens
County, the truck farmer in
Charleston, the tobacco grower
of Florence, the dairymen of
Chester, they know about it, too.
And so do the rest of the state’s
farmers, regardless of where
they are or what they grow.
Closed Thanks
giving Day
District 56
Week of December 1 - 5
MONDAY - Milk, fish fillets
with tartar sauce, green pepper
rings, fresh black-eyed peas,
whipped potatoes, cornbread
squares, butter, peanut butter
cookies.
TUESDAY - Milk, hamburgers
with cheese, sliced tomatoes, let
tuce, potato sticks, hamburger
guns, butter apple pie.
WEDNESDAY - Milk, southern
fried chicken, strawberries in
jello with topping, rice with gra
vy, english peas, hot biscuit, but
ter.
THURSDAY - Milk, vegetable
soup with beef, sandwiches, car
rot stix, cornbread squares, but
ter, chilled peaches.
FRIDAY - Milk, hot dog with
chili, mustard, onions, lettuce
and tomato salad, whole kernel
corn, hot dog buns, butter, glazed
donuts.
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