Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE CHRONICLE, Otatoa, 8. C, Dmator ft, 1M8—7 OFFICERS HONORED—The Clinton Lions Chib last week honored local law enforcement officers. Among those honored were those shown above, left to right, Highway Patrol Sgt. Joe Ready of Green wood; Highway Patrol Sgt. A. W. Hampton of Laurens, a native of Clinton who is in charge of Easley and also a native of Clinton, who was named the state's first “Highway Patrolman of the Year.” Oapt. Billy Fallaw, guest speaker; Lions Club President Milford Smith; Clinton Police Chief B. B. Ballard, anH I aurens County Sheriff Eugene Johnson. HOSPITAL NEWS Patients in Bailey Memorial Hospital from Clinton are Sallie Nabors, Frances Robbins, Myr tle Gilliam, Toby Robinson, Lil lie Miller, Lewis Burgess, Wil liam Starnes, Doris Ellis, Myr tle Wallenzine, Shirley Craine, Martha Tetterton, Bernice Sam ples, Elise Dawson, Hattie Bonds, Mell Harvey, Eva Ferguson, Essie Atkins, Mattie Lankford, Robert Satterfield, John Bagwell, Carl Dean, Herman Phipps, Charles Giles, Ruth Dendy, Lae Caldwell, Oscar Hill, Eortne Byrd, Stanley Fuller, Cecil Steele, Hattie Harvey, Monte Da vis, Henry Lawson, Ella Etters, Alice Lane, Theodore Blakely, Leanna Holland, Juliette Sheely, John Pate, Robert Hubbard, Al- gie Griffin, and Minnie Young Patients from Joanna are Le wie Prater, Bertha Smith, Wan da Kennedy, Faye Davis, Kevin Epting, Georgia Humphries, and Pearl Bledsoe. Patients from Cross Hill are Larry Dendy, Ruth Whiteford, and Tillman Morse. 19*1 BUICK AFTER COLLISION WITH PASSENGER TRAIN . . . At Crossing Near Clinton City Limits On Joanna Highway (Photo By Paul Quinton) the patrol in Laurens County; Corp. C. L. James of Cotton, Soybean Farmers Try To Complete Harvest Congress BY M. L. OUTZ County Agent Cotton and soybean farmers are trying desperately to com plete harvest in spite of wea ther conditions. Combine and cot ton pickers were busy last week with just a few hours each day of harvesting time. Moisture con tent of soybeans especially was running high, actually too high, but farmers had no choice but to get out every bushel possible. It seems that the weather man has not been too kind this fall. Soy beans have been ready to cut for about a month now. In many cases machines have been stuck in the mud. A shower of rain will stop harvest for several days, espec ially if it is cloudy part of , the time. A few days of sun- / shine will turn the tide and every* thing will look up. / M. C. McKenzie, Agricultural Engineer atClemson, has planned a field day for December 5. Land preparation, seedbed pre paration and fertilizer placement will be cfemoBstrated and empha sized at the meeting. The event is to be held at Florence at the Pee Dee Experiment Station. Cot ton, soybean and corn producers, along with machine dealers and others interested are encouraged to attend. Cattlemen have an opportunity to see and hear some of the out standing men in the business De cember 4 and 5 at Greenville. This is the annual South Caro lina Cattlemens’ Association meeting. One of the highlights of the program will be Jh address by Bill House of Cedar Vale, Kansas, President of the Nat ional Cattlemens’ Association. Cattle producers from Laurens County will do well to attend. ■ M. L. OUT/., County Agent Assistant County Agent Butch Brewington of Joanna and Butch Smith of Thornwellare two of approximately 30 South Caro lina youths who left Columbia by jet November 29 for the National 4-H Congress in Chica go and one of the biggest weeks of their young lives. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn at the Intersection of 1-85 and Parkins Mill Road. Corn production in S. C. is estimated to be off by about 3.7 million bushels. In fact, all crops, including cattle wrights, are off due to drought conditions last summer and fall. The S.C. youngsters are among more than 1,650 from through out the nation attending. They are staying at the Conrad Hilton Ho tel in Chicago and are having the royal red carpet rolled out as they meet with the nations’ business leaders and outstanding tour outstanding local attractions in the big city area. The annual National Pork In dustry Conference will be held at the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, N.C. December 11-13. Accord ing to Carl Ackerman this is probably the most important meeting of the year concerning the pork industry. Anyone in terested in going or needing more details should call this office. 984-3021. Cotton farmers will vote De cember 2-6 in the Marketing Quo ta Refrendum for 1969 crop of cotton. The ASCS office will mail to farmers notices of their allot ment before the referendum. It quotas are approved by 2/3 of those voting the program will be in effect. S. C. Growers have a total allotment of 679.415 acres. This is the states share of 16 million national allotment. Farmers who wish to transfer allotment will have to file an application by December 31. The week-long congress is jammed with educational and so cial programs, including numer ous award presentations. Both Butch Smith and Butch Brewing- ton received the expense paid trip for outstanding achievements in showing cattle through the 4-H Club. Among highlights is a special church service for them at the Central Church. Also featured was a Monday breakfast in the Hiltons’ International Ballroom, • sponsored by Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and a luncheon Thursday sponsored by General Motors. Educational tours included visits to the Art Institute of Chi cago, International Harvester plant, Field Musuem of Natural History, and The Museum of Science and Industry. Concluding the session was the annual 4-H Banquet In the In ternational Ballroom, and a Farewell party in the Grand Ball room. The return flight home will be December 6. FARMS and FOLKS BY HAROLD ROGERS Assistant Extension Editor CLEMSON - Let’s take a look through Clemson’s wide window on the world of S. C. agricul ture, get an updated glimpse at some of the doings and develop ments around the state reported by county agents. As the year has worn off the calendar, a common theme threading through these reports began to weave a picture not at all pretty. This was the story of the drought of ’68 and its disastrous effects on crop and animal pro duction across this marvelous strip of real estate we call South Carolina. There were few areas escaping those long days of the scorching sun and longer days when parched crops and live stock waited for dust-settling showers that didn’t come. The county agents and the farm ers knew only too well the ef fects and the ramifications then. They saw them in the stunting cotton, the half-filled soybean pods and a decimated corn crop. Now, with harvests in and bills totted up, they are facing the grim realities of the ultimate penalty. Chesterfield County is one area where the damage has been assessed, and the picture isn’t pretty. Their 1967 corn production was valued at $345,000. "Weestimate we will have approximately one- half that income in ’68, • says Willis. Last year’s income from soy beans totaled $1,185,000. “It should have exceeded this for this year as we had additional acre age planted but cm a county-wide basis we won’t harvest an eight- bushel per-acre average, "Willis says. The cotton crop was another disaster front And, the severe cotton losses came in the face of a year when growers had gone an extra step on expenses. The agent estimates it was reduced at least 150 pounds of lint per acre compared with an average of 396 pounds per acre in 1967 — which was a poor crop year. "This means a crop loss of approximately $550,000," he says. "Many of our producers," Willis says, "brought cottonseed from the plant breeder, used high rates of fertilizer, and applied sufficient insecticides expecting to make a two-hale average yield per acre, but they are actually harvesting only one-half bale per acre." "Tbe drought has taken over ; $2 1/2 million from the pockets That’s the way it is, this year of our termers this year," is the in Chesterfield County. way county agent J. C. Willis puts it * * * * * * Timely Tips BY COUNTY AGENTS, Extension Home Economist COCKROACH CONTROL - With winter arriving the cock roaches will surely make him self known. Cockroaches destroy food, leave filth, spread disease and destroy fabrics, book bindings and other materials. Prevention and control are team mates. For further information ask for Cir cular 402 at the County Extension Office. WORLD GLOBE - To make Christmas cards more interest ing place a world globe near your basket of Christmas Cards and locate the area on the globe from which they came. Slick or worn tires cause many accidents, especially in wet or icy conditions. Replace worn tires before . leaving home. Burned out ot wrongly aimed lights are dangerous. Rain-cov ered or iced windshields prevent a proper view of the road and could hide an approaching vehicle or pedestrian. If you plan to drive into an area likely to have snow or ice, take tire chains with you just in case. And wherever you go, an inflated spare tire with jack and other necessary tools to change a wheel are essentiaL * - * * OFFICE SUPPLIES THE CHBONICLE Two Youths Injured In Train-Car Wreck MISS GIDEON — Mrs. Elizabeth Wax recently was crowned ‘Miss Gid eon at Friendship AME Church. The Gideon Club, which sponsored the contest, is an organ ization of the Friendship Church of which the Rev. W. E. Crumlin is pastor. Patient from Mountville is Mary Ann Atkinson. Patient from Ware Shoals is William Griffin. Patient from Ora is Bessie Byrd. Patient from Athens, Ga. is Larry Platt. * * + Hawthorne Heads New Greenwood Mills Department R. Frank Hawthorne, an Assis tant Vice President of Green wood Mills, will head a newly- created department of the com pany’s management which will bring together some staff func tions which previously operated under the direction of other de partments. The department, Materials Management, will make wider use of present data processing equip ment employed by Greenwood Mills and will later employ a widely-expanded data processing system. Two teen-age boys, one from Clinton, were injured early Fri day morning in a train-car acci dent at a crossing just inside the Clinton city limits. The Clinton boy, who was identified as driver of the car, was confined to Bailey Memorial Hospital and the Greenwood boy, who was a passenger, was being treated this week in Self Me morial Hospital in Greenwood. The Greenwood youth was de- scritied by police as more ser iously injured than the Clinton teenager. Assistant Police Chief Horace Horton said the car they were in has been identified as a 1961 Buick which was reported stolen Thursday morning from South Woodrow Street. The car was Food Coupons To Be Issued Here Monday owned by Willie Cannon who had loaned it to relatives. The car was described as a “total loss" after the accident. Horton said the accident oc curred at 1:33 a.m. Nov. 29 at a crossing between Clinton Jun ior High School andthe city limits on the Clinton - Joanna road. He said the car was struck in the right front by northbound pass enger train No. 34. Horton did not release the names of the two boys because of their ages. He said they will be charged with automobile theft ★ ★★★★★ ★★ PC Featured On TV Program Presbyrerian College will be featured on the “South Carolina Television Pulpit’ this Sunday over Columbia station WIS-TV at 9 a.m. and again at 11 a.m. CHS Cagers Win Opener At Laurens (More Sports, Page 18) Clinton High School’s basket ball team opened its season Tues day night with a 45-36 win over Laurens’ Tigers in Laurens. CHS Coach Tommy Sublettwas particularly pleased with his team’s defensive efforts as the Red Devils managed to take 21 shots more than Laurens. At halftime, Clinton led 22-18. Chris Adair, with ISpointswas top scorer for the Red Devils. Clinton’s Junior Vansty lost 37-24 in the doubleheader opener. Frank Ivy was top scorer for the JVs with seven points. THORNWELL Thornwell’s boys dropped a 49- 38 decision to Lockhart Tuesday night in their season opener at Thornwell. The Thornwell and Lockhart girls tied 35-35. Chemistry Dept. Displays Prints The Presbyterian College chemistry department has on dis play a United States Science Ex hibit of 19 prints which feature impressions exhibited at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. The display is open to the pub lic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the third floor of Richardson Science Hall through December 14. It provides a colorful ex hibit in relating science to things people already enjoy and appre ciate. One print, for example, shows how a piece of modern sculpture approaches patterns revealed by probing electrons. In another, the fundamental co lors as observed at a spectro scope slit are superimposed on a picture of white roses. These announcements were made by Executive Vice Presi dent, J. B. Harris, Jr. Materials Management will co ordinate production planning and inventory control for all manu facturing facilities of Greenwood Mills. In addition, the depart ment will control the finishing of the greige fabrics produced in the Greenwood Mills plants in Green wood and Laurens Counties. Hawthorne, a native of Due West, is a graduate of Clemson University with a degree in tex tile engineering. He is married to the former Vera Anderson of Greenwood, and they have three children, Robert F., Jr., a stu dent at Clemson, Kenneth, a stu dent at Greenwood High School, and Carol, a student at Leslie Elementary. The Laurens County Welfare Department's Food Stamp Unit will be at The Clinton Health Department, 104 N. Woodrow St., on Monday December 9th to cer tify and issue Food Coupons. Hours will tie 9:30 until 1:00 o’clock and from 2:00 o’clock until 4:00 o’clock. The one-half-hour program, developed around an advent sea son theme, will have President Marc C. Weersing leading the worship service, assisted by the PC Choir conducted by Charles T. Gaines. ★★★★★★★★ Maynard Pierce was leading scorer for Thornwell’s boys with 15 points. Wilkins scored 13pomts for the Thornwell girls and Fow ler had 11. * * * OFFICE SUPPLIES THE CHRONICLE TELEPHONE 833-0541 A Wise Man Learns Pom Ma own axportanco. But • »til! witar man laoma from tha axparianca of othar*. Amaricant *ro wtao anough to own ovar $550 billion dolltri worth of Ufa inawrtnca and tha amount is increasing •vary day. Hava you laarntd from tha Amarican avparloMaf REPRESENTATIVES SIDNEY HARTZOG—83S-2S33 FRANK LYDA—833-1784 REPRESENTATIVES FRED BRAGG—833-1663 JACOBS BLDG.—833-0950 OLIN FURR—833-0066 INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE THE ARISTOCRAT BY THE MAKERS OF KINGSDOWN * v clrlifsfe* '-"A'.-». v' . ” -WA- 1 v i- I l '*** ‘ ' f/jfommm mm \ Regular price...$139. Now only. 99. 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