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III 1 _ Argentine Man Controls Weather Buenos Aires, Deo. 31.?Juan Baigorri Vear, the Argentine raluumker, whose name la pronounced "By Uorry," put th# population of Buenos a ire a iu something of a dither tonight with a little machine that he Invented to control the weather. Scoffed at by some of the country's leading aolentlata and made the object of good-humored Jokea by the public, Halgorri caliply turned the knobs on his weather machine for a demonstration that proved so successful a crowd atormod his door to beg him to turn the thing ofT. The inventor had turned on the machine?a portable apparatua designed to attract electro-magnetic waves?at 10 a. m. Friday and before dawn Saturday the official weather forecast of fair and warmer had boen knocked out by strange disturbances in the heavens. Thefe were rolling blasts or thunder and vivid flashes of lightning. A mist hung over the city, which was stifled by the summer heat. At midnight the sky became impenetrably blaok. That was enough for those who had been watching the official forecast with one eye . and comparing the results of the demonstration with the other. "A crowd assembled at Balgorrl's home and "jpiplored him to turn off the machine. The Inventor explained that he had not intended bp create such a disturbance, although, he pointed out, he could stir up a real cyclone without really trying, "s- ? amliwof fact, merely been operating his machine in order to "condition" the atmosphere around Buenos Aires for the real test, which will come January 3. On that day he has promised skeptical Alfredo Galniarlnl, director general of the federal meteorological department, that he will produce raid. What happened, Baigorri told the crowd, was that his past experiments with the machine had been in arid regions of the Interior, In turning it on In Buenos Aires, he did not consider the fact that the machine would be much more effective here than In the dry country. I haven't really tried yet," Baigorri remarked happily as he turned a knob that slacked the current flowing through the apparatus and thus retimed the power of the machine. So far, since Baigorri switched on his machine, the national weather bureau hasn't hit anything right in forecasting the weather?except that it would be hot. The bureau did predict that the sky would be cloudy yesterday but it was not until nightfall that the mist appeared. When the clouds did come they were accompanied by a furious electrical storm which the bureau had not mentioned, In addition the bureau forecast cloudy Bkies today but there was only a slight mist after Baigorri turned down the power. The inventor has attracted wide attention with his demonstration, although scientific critics say he hasn't proved anything yet. Baigorri is well known as an engineer and his associates said that he conducted successful experiments in the interior for the Central Argentina railroad, which., wanted more train in an arid section. At present the rain-making machine is tuned down to a point that Baigorri estimates will have the weather well under control by next Tuesday. But then watch out for the rain. Livestock Guide For January Attention To start the hew year right with livestock, County Farm Agent W. C. McCarley suggests these Ideas for January: Animal Husbandry?Balance co^n for hogs with fish meal, skimmllk, or. tankage. Allow beef cattle ample 1 cheap roughage.' For fall calves turn 1 bull with cows about January 15. Give 1 idle mules free access to roughage, { but cut the grain To a half ration. See that all classes of livestock have shel- 1 ter, with extra bedding during cold 1 nights. Make use of barley, rye and oats for hog and cattle grazing. Repair the pasture fences. Dairying?Make inventory df live- 1 stocky feed and equipment. Decide < now whether you will have silage next i fall and plan for Its production. Ana- < lyze herd records and decide where ( you can improve in management and 1 feeding. Repair pasture fences, clean out undergrowth, and stop washes in pasture*. Plan now for improving permanent pastures and for summer 1 - mops to supplement permauuntT?*F { tuures. Start the new year right by keeping dally inilk and feed records 1 oh each cow. Poultry?Mate breeders for hatch- ] lag egg*. Make special . breeding pen 1 r o? be*t hen* and pedigreed male to produce cockerel* for nest year's ant- ' lag*. Provide breeders with green 1 range. Oet ready for baby chicks,* , 'flaw* breeder ban** to new ground starting chlchk.y? - 1 - r j ,'L f ' ' " * * COME AND TAKE IT' SAYS OHIO TOWN TO GOVERNMENT Newcomerstowu, Ohio, Jan. 1.?This town of 4,520 people told the federal government tonight to give up hope of collecting a" $881,000 bill for ttood protection, and If It doesn't like the citizen's attitude, It can take the town. The townsfolk/staging a tax *trlko that already has developed Into a virtual siege, announced through Mayor Charles E. Mug ford that the governinent "never will collect 4 duinned cent" for assesmenis for u dum thirty miles away which "doean't mean anything." Mayor Mugford Bald the government can have Newcoiueratown "lock, stock and barrel" before It over will mark the assessment as vpald. Villagers protest that their assessments for the Muskingum watershed conservaucy dlsfrlct, doslgped to protect theih from floods of the Tuscarawas river, one mile from Main street, have tripled their tax bills due January 20. "But that Isn't the worst of It,' Mayor Mugford s?ld. "They're asking us to pay a million for flood protection that doesn't mean anything. Why, In the memory of our oldest citizens, we've never had a flood that cost $10,000 In damage." To prove his point, the mayor called 93-year-old Theodore Crator front his Job as cashier of the Oxford National bank. "We've never had any floods here when everybody couldn't take care of their own damage," Crater said. This Is an awful thing?this assessing people for more than they, can sell their property for. Just refuse to pay, that'B the ouly thing we can do." Newcomer8town, covering four equaro miles of taxable real estate with a current tax valuation of $2,700,000, declared the tax strike when the attorney general ruled that the county treasurer, Walter Gelb, could not accept real estate taxes without the flood assessment* Dr. Henry B. Kistler, president of the Newcomerstown Defense league, said the assessment would "bankrupt t?he town." "It's already paralyzed the real estate trade," he said. "No one will buy property here with assessments three times the regular taxes." Mayor Mugford pointed to the First Methodist Episcopal church, which was assessed for $7,300, and said, We can't even pay the parson." George Beers, drug store proprietor for forty years, was skeptical about the strike's future, but said, "We're In a hell of a mess now, so it can't make much difference. I ^Editor M. 0. Julian, of the Newcomerstown News-Index, iterated his page one editorial attack on the assessment, declaring "It was forced on us." "We didn't ask for this," he said. I "We didn't have the privilege of vot-1 ing on this flood program, nor on the assessments, and we won't pay." Muskingum watershed district of-1 flclal8 at nearby New Philadelphia said that if the taxpayers' strike continues, "they'll change t their minds when they don't get any money to run their schools." "The law will have to be followed, I they said. "We have the legal right to foreclose. But we've not going to do anything like that unless we're soj ordered by the court." Bryce Browning, secretary and treasurer of the project, said he hoped the strike would convince congresaj of the "absolute necessity" to appropriate $4,500,000 already allocated to relieve the assessments. Six Lynchings In U. S. During 1938 According to the records compiled in the Department of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute, there were six persons lynched in 1938. This is two less than the number eight for each of the years 1937 and 1936; and fourteen less than the number twenty for 1936. No one of the persons lynched was in the hands ;>f the law; the'bodies of two of thel rtctims were burnedr This lulu* ma*j Lion comes from F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute. I There were forty-two instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Three of these were in lorthern states and thirty-nine in jouthern states. In forty-one of the Instances the prisoners were removed >r the guards augmented or other precautions taken. In the other Instance, J jrmed force was used to repel thel would-be lynchers. A total of fiftythree persons, three white men, fortyalne negro men, and one negro worn-J an, were thus saved from death atl he hands of mobs. Of the six persons lynched, all were negroes. ,Thej>ffens?s charged were: Rape, 1; murder, 3; failure to complete payment on funeral bill, 1; inlotting remarks to woman, 1. The states in whlah lynchings oc-1 curred end the number in each state ire as follows: Florida, 1; Georgia, I; Louisiana. 1; and Mississippi, 1. Jl ' The Greeks ere mM to tare seed coal more then MOO yeere ego. . News Of Interest In Ana Near Hethune Hethune. Jan 4.? The Hethune Chapter II 1). C. held the last meeting of 1938, December 22, with Mrs. Hattie Heustlss at the home of Mrs. I). M Maya. An interesting Impromptu Christmaa program was given on which every one present look, part. During the social hour hot chocolate und sandwiches were served, each plate having on It a sprig of mistletoe. The three circles of the Presbyterian auxiliary ipet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Nell Truesdale, Mrs. Foster Gardner and Miss Sara llrannon, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. l^ee Hilton and children spent Tuesday In Pageland, the guests of Mr Hilton's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Brewer Nlveus. '? Recent guests of the D. M. Mays family were: Mr. and Mrs. Mark King and sons, Robert aiid Mark, Jr., Neesoe; Mr. and Mrs. George S. King and children, Charleston; and Mrs. Louise K. Etheredge, Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Richards and baby, of Florence, were dinner guests of, the M. G. King family during the holidays. Miss Elizabeth Drayton, of Blshopvllle; has boon a recent guest of Miss Robbie Newton Marlon and Miss Jean llethune. Miss Ethel und Miss Sara Rruco, of Camden, visited Miss Currlo Yar* brough last week. Mrs. D. L. Robinson, Miss Helen Robinson and Miss Mildred Billings, of Lancaster, wore guests in the D. T. Yarbrough home last Wednesday. Miss Pauline Fields and Allen Byrd, of Hartsvllle, were dinner guests of the Noll Truesdales Tuesday. Students from this town and community returning to school after the holidays were: Miss Mary Alice and Miss Kate Helms, Flora McDonald; Miss Marguerite Foster, Miss Robbie Newton Marlon and Miss Harriet Mays, Limestone; Miss Juanita Pate, Miss Mary B. Smith *yid Miss Iris McCaskill, Textile Industrial Institute, Spartanburg; Miss Arlene Wages, Miss I^averne Jones and Miss Katherine Foster, Wlnthrop; Miss Gerry Davis, Columbia college; Richard MeLaurin, Georgetown college, Kentucky; Neil RatcllfT, Clemson; Travis McCasklll, University of South Carolina; John Daniel McLaurin, Darlington school, Rome, Ga. Little Betsy Ann Bethune, of Richmond, Va., spefit a day and night with Rita Davis during the holidays. Her parents, the Crowell Bethunes, were dinner guests Thursday of Mr. and Mrs. Loring Davis. Other guests In the Davis home during the holidays were: Mr. and Mrs. A. F. LaBruce and little daughter, Esther Marie, Chester and Mr. and Mr9. George Davis, Bl8hopville. Mr. and Mrs. Baron Yarbrough announce the birth of a son, Sunday, December 18, 1938, E. I. Belote and son, Dick, have re wespBgHfii^ turned to their home in Atlunta. Mm indole remained for a two week's stay with her daughter. Mrs F. K. Morse Mrs. J. 1*. King and daughter-inlaw, Mrs. J I?. King, Jr., have been visiting relatives in Denmark. Mra, Johnny Burton, after an ex tended visit with her mother, Mra. F. If. Beard, returned after the holidays with her husband to Roanoke itabids, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. I). M. Maya and children, Miss Harriet, Buddie and &rnest Gilbert, Miss Ceoella Klug and their house guest, Mrs. Louise K. Htheredge, spent Now Year's day in Nueses, guests of the Mark King family. After spending the Chrlstmus holidays at their reapoctlve homes here, the following teachers have returned to their posts of duty: Miss Carrie Yarbrough, Mayosvllie; Miss Sarah Hammond, Lodge; Miss Mary King, Cakley Hall; Miss Ia>rena McDonald and Miss Elizabeth Baker, Antloch school; Miss Mary Ellen McUiurln, Roper, N. C.; Miss Elsie Mae Hammond, Kelton; Paschal Mc.Laurin, Troy, N. C.; Leander Helms, Irrno; Miss Margaret Truesdalo to Home, (>?., where she is engaged in religious activities, New Year's dinner guests of the Lining Davis family were: Mrs Davis' parents, brothers and sister-in-law, Mr. and* Mrs. T. B. Clyburn, Kershaw, Mr. and Mrs.^H&wieat "Clyburn and Stewart Clyburn. Miss Murguerlto (Jutes, of McBoe, was a week end visiter in tho D. T. Yarbrough home. Miss Cecelia King and Miss Harriet Mays visited In Charleston last week. Miss Mary Marshall has returned to Bethune, after spending two week's with her parents near Heath Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Fields and son, laiBruce, of Greenville, and l^ewls Fields, of Charlotte, have been visiting their former home here. Le^ Mt>rg?n, of clover, and Forbla Morgan, of Mullins, huvo been recent visitors of their mother, Mrs. Eva Morgan. Joyce Fowler spent last week in Bishopville, with her grand parents, the H. E. Hyatts. Mrs. Robert Black, of Cameron, N. C., has been a holiday guest of her | sisters, Misses Maggie and Nettie Brannon. She was accompanied by two nephews of Mr. Black. Miss Clarence Hyatt pf Bishopville was a visitor for several days of her sister, Mrs. G. H. Fowler. Mr. and Mrs. Manly Watford and daughter, Miss Louise, of Lamar; Mrs. Clarence Tolston, of Winston-Salem; und Mr. and Mrs. Everett Watford, of Farmville, Va., were holiday guosts of E. L. Fields and daughter, Miss Margaret Fields. Three stores in Georgetown burned with a loss of $10,000. The grocery store in the middle, where the flre originated, would have been the only one burned, but tanks of kerosene in it exploded. Mt. Plsgah Club Held Meeting The Mt. Plsgah Home Demonstration Club held Its regular monthly meeting December ti.. at r?>?> home of [ Mrs. C. N. Morton. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. Ira Kills. Since this was the month for our Chrsltmas party, the music and recreation chairman bad charge of the program. The devotional was conducted, by Miss Margaret Fewell. i She road from Luke 2:1-20. Then Miss | Fewell passed to each member proI sent a leaflet with auV6iSl Christmas songs. Wo sang first, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," then "O, Littlo Town of Bethlehem. The secretary, Mrs. C. W. Holley, called the roll and each member answered with what they would like to get for Christmas. This was very Interesting. The club joined in singing, "Hark, the Herald, Angels Sing," "O, Come All Ye Faithful," and "Follow The Gleam." The meeting was then turned over to Miss Fewell. Her subject was "Storage Space for Clothing." She showed the" club articles such as shoe bags, shoe racks, clothes bags and laundry bags. Miss Fewell explalnod how holpful each of those articles were. She also explained how each club uiomber could arrange for a closet in their homes by using orange boxes and how to re-arrange closets by.using a rod to hang the clothes on Instead of nails and hooks. She also told how much paint or wall paper would Improve the light In the closet. Then Miss F6well explained how each one could use orango crates or boxes to mako a dressing table, storage spaco for ks, toys, household linen mid oth~ er things. Her message was very Interesting and helpful. The mooting was then turned over to the president. Then Mrs. C. N. Horton gave a very interesting Christmas story. The music and recreation leader passed to each member a contest, "A Penny for Your Thoughts," but they decided to work In groups of two's. Miss Fewell and Mrs. C. N. Horton won flrst?prlze. Mrs. W. F. Byrd and Mrs. W. P. Sow ell won second. The hostess, assisted by Mrs. Ira Ellis and Olive Raley, served Russian tea and pound cake. There were eleven members present. "READY FOR HIGH GEAR" /gox /ahead 3 feGAS J r : " ' 4 A* "Potash Top-Dressing Increases My Yield 20%". . uyi Mr. Lee "I HAVE TOP-DRESSED cotton with potash for four years," says H. C. LEE of Daleville, Ala. "I believe that a liberal application of potash increases my yield at least 20%. Last season I used 300 pounds of 4-10-7 (NPK) per acre under my cotton and top-dressed with nitrate of soda and MURIATE OF POTASH. I averaged 1,170 pounds of seed cotton per acre on 45 acres. Extra potash Improves the quality, makes a better staple with a better ?turn-out at the gin. ft keeps C6fton from shedding so badly and makes picking easier." Wallace L. Martin, Gray Court, S. C., winner of first prize in the 1937 South Carolina five-acre cotton contest believes in using plenty of potash for the crops he grows. But, let's let Mr. Martin talk. He says: "As to potash on my crops?for small grains, I use a top-dresser of two parts of nitrogen material and one .of MURIATE OF POTASH; for corn, under the crop I use a complete fertilizer containing 6% POTASH; for cotton, J use a complete fertil- izer containing 7l/2% POTASH at planting 1 and a nitrogen-potash top-dresser carry, ing 15% POTASH. In 1937 I produced 12% bales of cotton on five acres and won first prize in the state cotton contest." NV POTASH PAYS! Cotton, tobacco, corn, small grains, vegetables, potatoes, peanuts, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, orchards, watermelons?all of these crops need plenty of potash to produce bigger yields and better quality at lower cost. It will pay you to ask for more NV POTASH in your fertilizer. The extra yields and extra quality that it produces cost you less and pay you more. Tell your fertilizer man yquwfrht a higher potash mlztitta for your crops and make sure the potsfh 1* femrfne NV POTASH* "The Unit Cost of Potish is Low" . . . says Mr. Holm mm "IT WOULDN'T BE worth while to (arm If I couldn't get plenty of pQtaah to use under end around att my crope," says H. H. HOLMES, Barnesvllle, Ga. "Last season with July rains and boliweerll# in abundance, I averaged better than half a bale per acre. My cotton was fertilized with 400 pounds of 4-8-1? (NTPE) and-top-dressed with nltrogen. My wheat got: M pound# of cottonseed meal and lM pound# of add phosphate per acr# at ptaiyrtng and ** tojpdrtased with tm pound# of OF POTASH acre, the unit coet of potaiSBjS? #As|S|np WIP 1PI? JHHSIMfa HWw p2ntyf#f'k flg plaaSngand1#?# H. V. POTA?H Ig!T M,,!B, Is.-firy [-flni,V . H-' tnJjVjijl v^: