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Ford Student Wins State Essay Contest rt b L^.s ,n the 1969 C_ =a UonEs- ^ O^icU Association. SHEET METAL WORK BOXES — PANS — TRUCK FLOORS ytlti* 0tttUm>y4 PUTS STEEL & WELDING CO. Laurens, S. C. Franz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Workman, Route!, Laurens. Franz will receive $75 and a certificate as First Place State wide Winner. His teacher, Mrs Virginia Epting, will be present ed a Certificate of Award on behalf of the sponsors. Foundations Should Be Strong If your home i* built only on you end your eemlng power. It it retting on theky foundetiont. When you collepee your home collaptet too. Why not bultd your home on ttronger foundetiont—on the four*- dationt afforded by adequate life Inturance protec tion? Your family and your home deeerve the strength of life Inturance. REPRESENTATIVES rv SIDNEY HARTZOG—833-2333 REPRESENTATIVES FRANK LYDA—833-1784 FRED BRAGG—833-1663 _ JACOBS BLDG.—833-0950 O&oiyiaiY rWrWi OLIN FURR—833-0066 REGISTER NOW! For The 1969-1970 School Year At The FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Greenwood Road Laurens, S. C. For GRADES 1-3 KINDERGARTEN ( 4A5 yr. oldt) • CHILD CARE 6-B—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., May 8, 1969 FARMS and FOLKS H Write For or Inquire For Free Copy 7 Reasons Why We Are Sending Our Child To A Christian School” 1607 Greenwood Rd. Laurens, S. C. Phone; 984-4277 CHECK HERD—Shown above is Jack here and yonder throughout the Adair on the left and James Jacks area. They are now among the top on the right looking over some of the in the state. This herd has been cows sired artilflcially. This herd bred artificially, with the exception was bred from cows purchased from of the heifer crop, for twenty years. Breeding Association Pays County Dividends BY M. L. OUTZ County Agent Twenty-two years ago the Lau rens Co-op. Breeding Associa tion organized. It’s purpose was to breed cattle artificially to su perior sires. This new practice was viewed with skepticiam by farmers. Many thought it would never goon. The Association first purchased semen from the Clem- son bull stud. This semen was packaged three times weekly and shipped from Clemson to Lau rens. The containers were pre served and shipped back for further use. With this somewhat meager be ginning, the Association hired a technician to breed the cows. For several years there were problems with conception. By the time'a technician was trained to do a good job he would leave for a better job, and the problem would start all over again. In 1958, the Association began to purchase semen from a bull stud in Ohio. This was a very Now... Big savings on Carolina^ best-selling Mustang Wmm. l -'. Hi .3' Mustang SportsRoof Price reduced $11946 Price reduced $5406* That’s how much the ’69 Mustang SportsRoof is priced beiow the ’68 model. That’s how much you save now with our special equipment package. $17346' Total price reduction! That’s the saving based on manufacturer’s suggested retail price alone. 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In talking with James recent ly, he says he bred approximate ly 18,000 cows and drove about 1/2 million miles. The semen has gone from the liquid type, that had a very short life to the frozen type that the life of it is not known. Semen is now used from bulls dead 10 years. The semen is frozen to minus--130 degrees F. This makes the ehtire setup much easier to handle. The frozen semen is packaged in liquid nitrogen jugs. Many dairymen have this jug and are doing their own breeding. This being the case James recently resigned as serviceman and is now employed by NOBA as su pervisor of the Piedmont area. James says he will still be con tacting dairymen and hopes that everyone will use the service on a do-it-yourself basis. This in volves purchasing a liquid nitro gen jug. It is almost unbelieveable to go into some of our dairy herds today and compare them with just a few years back. The cows not only look better they are high producers, that live and stay pro ductive much longer. Today Lau rens County has as good sires available to them as caa be found in the world. No longer do we have to go out of state to pur chase cattle because of higher production. Since the Association does not maintain a serviceman any long er, it is my advice for each dairy man to purchase this liquid ni trogen jug and breed his own cat tle. Our best wishes go to James Jacks in his new work and the dairymen throughout the area will wish him well and will be calling on him-. BY HAROLD ROGERS Assistant Extension Editor CLEMSON - Ever been caught in a dust storm? You may remember them from the depression-years when they ripped across the West, blowing chunks of Texas and Oklahoma clear to Mexico, it seemed. The newspapers carried a lot about them. And the Saturday newsreels down at the movie often told their story in gripping, pathetic rea lism. The whipping winds scooped up the topsoil from the farms, many of them deserted, and hurl ed its vicious loads across the country in blinding, choking fury. The close-ups showed wea therbeaten houses and barns with great piles of drifting sand dump ed in artistic array against the buildings. Inside it was another story. No matter how many news papers were stuffed into the gen erous cracks, they failed to stop the invading silt; and the fine car pet covered everything. We ran into a sample of this the other day down in Calhoun County. It was a small storm, but big enough to hint of the awesome power of a nature disturbed. It’s also significant of what can hap pen in many areas of the state where mechanized farming has been accelerated. They’re making wider fields for the bigger machinery, and in many cases the wind-breaks have been sacrificed. Extension Ser vice specialists have been warn ing for sometime that barriers of vegetation are necessary to help keep down windstorms. Last year’s battered cotton plants in many fields proved the need. But about that little storm we ran into in Calhoun County. . . From a distance up the road it looked like a forest fire ahead, except it was a yellowish cloud boiling across the sky. As we closed the miles in between, it took on the earmarks of a dust storm. There were no tractors plows kicking up dust. North Broad Street — Clinton, S. C. June Brides and Grads Deserve long-to-be remembered ELECTRIC GIFTS! There’s something extra special about an electrical gift! It’s so practical yet so thoughtful. It keeps saying "Congratulations” day-after-d^y, year- after-year. And you select from 188 different electrical appliances. You’re sure to find a perfect gift in almost every price range, from only a few dollars to several hundred for an extra special occasion. For Mother’s Day, consider a new electric dishwasher; for the June Bride, there are handy household appliances for a life-time of happiness; and the graduate is certain to appreciate elec trical gifts. It's so easy to shop for electrical gifts. They’re as near as your favorite appli ance or hardware store. You are certain to find the ideal gift . . . the one that LAURENS will be appreciated and cherished for ELECTRIC years to cornel ^ _ CO-OP went. Great clouds of dust hung across the low skies, east and west. Hitting the area where the storm seemedeentered, we nosed into a depression of semi-dark ness, with the buffeted Plymouth creeping through the area. We were in and out before communi cations chief Harry Durham ex pressed a desire to get some pictures. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. Cameraman Bill Os teen and the writer quickly se conded the thought. At the first interchange on I-26 we turned the car around and nosed it north, looking for the area we had passed through. We found storm. the place but no or This was a tree-bending April wind raking across the cultivat ed fields, taking topsoil as it Only on the eastern horizon were there the tell-tale yellow clouds to hint of what had just passed that way. Within a minute or two, a new cloud rising in the west sug gested more was coming. It was fascinating. Almost incredible. The thick, yellow bank swirled across the field, blotting out the landscape as it came. Where a minute before there had been a skyline with fields, buildings and trees, there was now nothing but a great, ris ing wall of yellow. Then we were in a murky, semi-darkness. Sand ripped through a window left cracked, and the car rocked in the gusts. On the highway vehicles slow ed to a crawl to inch through the gloom, emerging a few feet away as massive ghosts, sliding past, disappearing again. It was that way for several minutes. Almost as quickly as the storm had blotted out the countryside, it cleared up. Across the road the old house came back into view, taking on an eerie shape as the bright tin roof emerged in sunlight, followed by the rest of the outline. Another minute and it was all gone, there where we sat. It was again a land of blue sky and bright sunshine. To the east the yellow clouds were disappearing across the fields. There’s no telling how many times the wind whipped up similar storms across Cal houn that day, or across other areas of the lowstate. Their message seemed clear, however. Homemakers Hold Spring Council Meeting BY HELEN C. CAMP Extension Home Economist The County Extension Home makers had their Spring Council Meeting, April 29, atGray Court- Owings School. There were thir ty-eight present. Eight of the nine Extension Homemakers Clubs were represented. Mr. H. D. Taylor, Principal of Gray Court-Owings School, pre sented the devotional after which Dr. William D. Irvine spoke to the group on “The Risk Factors of Cornary Heart Disease*. Some of the risk factors stressed were: overweight, cigarette smoking, elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, lack of exercise, and tension. County Departmental Chair men gave annual reports of the accomplishments for the year. A new President, Mrs. Dick Griffin, will replace Mrs. Pauline Fanning on June 1, and a new Treasurer, Mrs. Kenneth Nabors will replace Mrs. H. B. Gossett at this time. The attendance gavel was a- warded to Harmony Extension Homemakers Club for having the largest percentage of their mem bers attending. Second runner-up was Barksdale-Narnie Extension Homemakers Club and third was Shiloh Extension Homemakers Club. Mrs. J. E. Hunt, president of the Harmony Extension Home makers Club invited the County Extension Homemakers Council to meet with them for their Fall Council Meeting.