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Kudzu Furnishes Fine Foodstuff Well established standB of kudzu can provide two cuttings of hny to help meet the increased feod requirements on many farms this year, If the first cutting Is made before the | end of July, according to V. T. Mullen, Work Unit Conservationist of the Uynches River Roll Conservation district. However, kudzu under three years old should not be cut since It roqulres about this time to become well established. When kudzu Is cut for hay In June or July, the plants have tlmo to make now growth nnd build up a roservo food supply In the roots by the end of summer, Mr. Mullen points out. Another cutting can then be made just bofore the first frost In the late fall. Frost will then come before the plants have tlmo to make new growth nnd exhaust the starchy material In the roots. This reserve food supply will be carried through the winter and ennblo the plants to mako vigorous new growth in the spring. If kudzu Is cut In August or September, the plants will make new growth during the fall, but will not have time to store up a food supply In the roots bofore the first frost. The plants will then be exhausted when frost comes and will go through the winter and Into the spring grow I . _ Iiik season In a weakened condition. Many farmers with well established stands of kudzu will want to make two cuttings of hay to meet their Increased feed requirements in the war effort. Mr. Mullen explained. But unless the first cutting is made before the end of July, it will not be safe to cut kudzu until late fall, probably in November. . TONIGHT! I "Lady In A Jam"! I I ^-wltb- 1 | J IRENE DUNNE j j PATRIC KNOWLE8 W) SATURDAYf I I L JULY 25 J 4 "North of The | ! ! Rockies" j j j ? With ? BILL ELLIOTT | ^ TEX RITTER ^ MON.-TUES. I -JULY 27 and 28J flft? GENE AUTRY I I "Home In I % Wyoming" P WEDNESDAY! I [(, JULY 29 J-TV "She's In The | Army Now" I I ? With ? VEDA ANN BORQ MARIE WIL8QN W THURS.-FRL I -JULY 30 and 31J I "Lure of The Islands" ? with ? V MARGIE HART V HAIGLAR KEEP COOL the Electric Way Jj There is no surer method of keeping cool than that of having a number of electric fans in your home or office. Come on down and look over our electric stock. We still have on hand, some TOASTERS ? IRONS g& HOTPLATES 1 if SERVICING DONE ON ALL ELECTRIC APPLIANCES * ? Barringer Hdw. Co. [ : Phone 21 ' ... " 1 1 . ^ "Pretty Boy" Berry Yields ButJ Hits That noise that was heard over in the viellnty of Laurens and Fair streets last Friday ev^iilng was not a blitzkrieg. It was just an outburst of enthusiasm resulting from the victory of the Merchants eoftball team over the crack Kendull outfit?the score being 2 to 1. It was the hist time that the Kendulls have been put back "on their heels this season in an official contest. Once before, the Mechanics topplod the Millers 5 to 4 in an exhibition game but It must be admitted thut the Kendalls lacked several star players upon thut occasion. "Pretty Boy" Berry, hurler for the Merchants was In fine form last Friday and he set the slugging Millers dutf&t.-fctth three blows. Berry was given beautiful support by the rejuvenated Merchant outfit* ahd the Infielders as well as the outfield gentry robbed the Kendall lads of many a hit through some spectacular catch or play. Arthur Robinson was on the hill for the Kendalls and was nicked lor seven blows. The Instructors really pulverized the Mechanics In the second game of the Friday evening program, winning 7 to 3 aftor a hectic event, lleulch for the Instructors was reached lor seven blows by the Mechanics but they were kept more or less scattered. The Instructors got to Horton for ten swats und they were bunched to prove effective in pushing runners over the pan. - In the Kendall-Merchants game Garnett did the backstopplng for the Merchants while Ray was back of the bat for the Kendalls. For the Instructors Nabor did the backstopplng while Kelly was receiving for the Mechanics. Wow! Mercury In Climb To 104 Mark The highest temperature reading since August 20, 1900, and September 4, 1925, was registered in Camden | Monday afternoon between 5 and 6 o'clock when the mercury rose to 104 In official government report. This means that street level readings were many degrees higher, there being several reports of 108 and 110 being recorded. Players of the city softball league who were In action at the high school athletic field during the evening became "wringing wet" after a few minutes of action. Between 11 and 12 o'clock midnight, a breeze came out of the north offering some relief to the sufferlng.humanlty. This breeze, however, did not last long and tho remainder of the night was close and uncomfortable. The all time high temperature readings for South Carolina Is 106 which was reached August 20, 1900, and September 4, 1925. Uncle Sena Thinks FourLeaf Clovers Are Lueky You may have wondered why it you find one four-leaf clover you will soon find, another nearby, as likely as not. If these leaves were U-aced back to their creeping stems they would be found usually to originate in one plant. But here is another odd point: if the whole plant, tremendous roots and all, were unearthed and separated from other plants it would probably reveal some leaves divided into three, some into four, and some irtto five, six, or even seven leaflets. A public exhibit in the patio of the U. S. Department of Agriculture building in Washington will set forth these findings. But the gospel of clover for luck, beginning ages ago, has long been preached by our agricultural experts. For instance, in 1936 cloverand-prosperlty meetings were held in J14 Missouri counties. In that year in Alabama more than 8,000,! 000 pounds of clover and other winter-legume seeds were planted. The benefits to the farmer include enriching the soil fpr subsequent crops when the clover, roots and [ stubble, or "green manure" is turned under the sod, and providing excellent pasture for livestock. In Virginia the regular turning under of one variety of clover for five years increased the annual corn yield from a maximum of 18 bushels per acre to 00 bushels. Similar results in various states prove that the farmer who plants clover can grow his own luck. $200,000 'Worth of Worms From Maine Clam Flats Clam worms and bloodwarms, close to $200,000 worth, will be dug from Maine clam flats by the time the fishing season generally ends? Harvesting of these species which are sold as an A-l bait mostly for sports fishermen in metropolitan areas was originally limited to clam flats between Biddeford Pool and Boothbay harbor. Now it has extended to the easternmost boundaries and on every clam flat scores of men are making a living digging worms. There are two kinds, sandworms and bloodworms. Nobody knows Just why they are called clamworn\s for there is no evidence that clams reed upon them or that they feed on clams. They are most plentiful, however, in clam flats and that may be why they got the name. Most of them are as big around as a fountain pen and from eight inches to a foot and a half. This worm has a horned black head, serrated sides like fine saw teetn and may be found at a depth from two inches to two feet. The captured worms are packed in seaweed or wet mosses about 500 to a box, and are shipped daily by railway express or by motor truck. The shippers received from three to four cents apiece while the fishermen will pay as high as 10 cents a worm. One worm may be cut up into pieces an- inch long and it is the most effective bait known. 'Ersatx' Rubber There are no illusions about meeting our rubber requirements through synthetics alone. The producing of sufficient "ersatz rubber" to satisfy the smallest part of our needs is still in the dream stage. In 1939 less than 2,000 tons of the artificial product were manufactured, and in 1940 the qmount was not materially increased. It was predicted that the United States in 1941 would be manufacturing 35,000 tons of synthetic rubber. But we are far, very far, indeed, at this date, from such a goal. And in connection with synthetic rubber the thing to remember is that right now we need not less than 850,000 tons of rubber a year I Even when the thoughts of war were far removed from our minds we needed around 600,000 tons, practically all of which went into manufacturing 58,000,000 automobile tires and 52,000,000 inner tubes yearly. Seven Out of Fifty Occasionally we see a person with a small dark disc in his ear, and know he is deaf, but for each such person, there are dozens who should have a hearing aid. The dozens who do not have the aid may not realize that they have become deaf, as the condition developed so gradually as to make them unaware of It Others realize their condition, but are foolishly sensitive about wearing something that will help them again catch the full sound of the world's voices. One young person out of 75 has difficulty hearing in church, at lectures, and dinner table conversation. Among persons over 50, every seventh one has similar hearing difficulty. 'Bells' Cure Planes soon will fly at heights of eight miles or more?but medical science has come to the aid of men who pilot planes and who will be subject to "bends," cramps induced by such altitudes. Dr. Walter M. Boothey of the Mayo's aviation medicine research laboratory said that increased precautions for the safety of pilots would be meeded. Medical science already has decreed preliminary decompression of all high altitude fliers before thay take off. New types of oxygen masks have been developed also, he safe). ' Your Hot Dog Hides 67 Separate Taxes! When you're munching a hot dog, whet dp you think about? Probably whether you should have another. Certainly you don't open up your red-hot and start looking for hidden taxes. But an enterprising tax expert nas done that for you?with surprising results! Here's the dope on the tax problem as it relates to Coney Island red-hots: There .are 67 separate taxes hidden in the average hot dog. And the foot-long bun the dog comes wrapped in has at least 53 tax payments milled and baked into it. The taxes, it seems, start with the farmer and continue adding up every step of the way from the producer to the consumer. The packing house, the retail butcher, two sets of supply houses, the railroads and the truckers all pay taxes that eventually are incorporated in the dog you love to eat. And a penny out of each nickel you pay, when you stand at the hot dog counter, goes to the tax collector, according to the expert. What will you think about the next time you eat a hot dog? Well, probably just what you thought about before. That's why politicians prefer hidden taxes. Report Proteins Used to Build New Body Material Successful test tube combination of amino acids, the so-called building blocks of protein/ into more complicated body substances, has been reported at the Stanford university conference on protein research. These amino acids were added to a solution containing a little salt and either some extract of the papaya fruit or of animal tissues. The result was the formation of a substance which was neither an amino acid nor a protein, but rather something in between. This gives scientists a substantial "break" in the long-standing attempt to, unravel the mysteries of proteins. Animal and plant digestive systems break down their food into simple substances and rebuild them into the particular kinds of proteins needed in their tissues, but nobody ever has been able to duplicate this feat by laboratory methods. Some animo acids have been put together by purely-chemical means, but the results fell far short of being proteins. 'Royal Guest' of Duce King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, formally accorded the title of emperor in 1936 after the Black Shirt legions strode through Ethiopia, is one of the last kings on the European chessboard. He was 72 years old November 11. He was honored philatelically in 1938 by Italian East Africa, which included Ethiopia and the former colonies of Italian Eritrea and Somaliland. This area has been conquered by Britain. The king has been called the "royal guest" of Mussolini, since most of the world knows that II Duce tolerates the pint-sized septuagenarian solely because the personal popularity of the unprepossessing monarch is greater than that of the Black Shirt leader. Victor Emmanuel rarely appears in public since he is extremely sensitive of his short stature and his spindly legs, a memento of rickets in childhood. Whei} he does appear at state functions he is attired in clothes tailored to make him seem taller. Two Kinds of Chewing Perhaps the main use the human jaw may have in the future will be to talk. In the Stone age, its job was to tear apart tough fibers which were to be eaten. The job of {he jaw today is also to chew, but not so much chewing on tough foods as on what old-fashioned people call chewing the ragtalking. Chewing the rag, however, is not hard enough exercise. So it is not surprising to learn that by the time the average American is 40 years old, half of his teeth have been lost beyond recall. This loss of teeth is not usually noticed by strangers, since it is usually the back teeth, which cannot be seen, which take flight first. As soon as they are gone, though, the jawbone begins to make an adjustment for this loss and shorten up a little. This is why girls who did net appear to have receding chins when they were in high school may seem to have no chin at all by the time they are in their forties. Defective Teeth Fully 95 per cent of the nation's school children have defective teeth because of a lack of proper dental treatment, Dr. Clarence O. Simpson, radiodonities professor, of Washington university, St. Louis, asserted. Dr. Simpson warned the nation's parents against allowing children to eat too much candy. Declaring a limited amount of sweets pn?y not be harmful, the professor said "the candy habit is bad for the health' and the teeth." Chewing gum, however, was recommended as beneficial. The doctor recommended as a corrective and pre van life measure an annual X-ray examination of every child's teeth after the sixth Hrthd** - ... Mozambique Is Rich Colony Mozambique, the l'ortuguese colony in whose capital, Lourenco Marque* ?hIP8 from America and Japan will meet to exchange diplomatic staffs, Ih one of the moat fertile and easily developed parts of Africa, points out a bulletin from the National Geographic society. Although the northern part of the country la mountainous with several peaks rising above ,6 000 feet, moat of Mozambique la grassy plalnland Ideally Hulted for agriculture. There aro no deserts or dense Jungles and few swamps, Equal to the combined areas of Texas and Louisiana. Mozambique extends along Africa's southern Indian ocean coast for 1.400 miles, opposite the huge French Island of Madagascar. The country extends '(hrough latitudes in the Southern hemisphere equivalent to those from the southern tip of Texas to central Costa Rica. Lourenco Marques has a position and a climate roughly comparable with those of Brownsville, Texas, and Miami, Fla. It has open squares and palm-llned streets, and in architecture and harbor facilities, resembles modern European ports. Beira, Mozambique's _ second most Important city, has a $10,00(|,000 harborbuilt by agreement with Great Britain to serve as port for a railway from Southern Rhodesia. Beira bas changed in the last ten years from a village, where the only roads were sandy tracts over which natives pushed small trolleys on narrow rails, to a town of 16,000 with good hardsurfaced roads. The fertile soli Mozambique makes easy the farming of a large variety of products. Vast areas In the southern part of the colony are devoted to banana and cotton growing and sugar cane cultivation, while pineapples, coffee and tea thrive on plantations in central Mozambique. In the north many acres are covered with coconut trees and tobacco fields. Sisal, a fiber used in making bindertwine and mats and rugs, comprises about one-eighth of Mozambique's ex* J ports. Cashew nuts and peanuts from j the colony make up a large part of | the. wares of American nut stores , when trade currents are flowing nor- | mally. J The town of Mozambique, on a coral j island of the northeast coast, was cipital of the colony until 1907. Ancient slave markets in the town serve as a reminder of the days when it iwas an Important center for the East I African slave trade. Ricksha clatterl lng up and down its narrow streets provide the principal means of transportation. The natives, most of whom are Bantus, have strange Ideas of glamor. Wooden disks the size of saucers in their lips, livid welts on their bodies - formed by smearing mud In open wounds, wooden pegs In their noses and heavy trinkets hung from their ear lobes are a few of their ingenious "beauty" treatments. The country has a sufficient variety of animals to stock a complete zoo. Elephants, lions, leopards, monkeys, "hippopotamuses, crocodiles, boas, pythons, Antelopes and giraffs are. among the wild creatures found there. J Millions of locusts pay sudden visits now and then, devastating crops. One of the chief activities of the natives is hunting with bow and spear. Favorite pastime is dancing to the music of marimbas?huge xylophones with goupdlt attached to the tars to add resonance. As many as 200 of these African pianos provide rhythm for 2,000 or more natives participating in the wild tribal dances thatj sometimes last for 36 hours. ' Food Price# In Dizzy Surge Upward (Continued from first page) of 37.9 per cent, canned corn 12.8 per cent, canned peaa 26.8 per cent, canned tomatoes 21.4 per cent, coffee 13 per cent, tea 30.4 per cent, lard 62.1 per cent, peanut butter 62.8 per cent, sugar 28.1 per cent, molasses ld.7 per cent. The survey further .showed that the six such items of food, priced in specified standard quantities, would have Cost the South Carolina buyer a total of $10.68 In February, 1940 and in Jun? nf thin ycsr this cost, would have mounted to $15.39. Instructors Beaten] By High Lads I How They Finished H Won Lost hfl Kendalls 9 1 Instructors . / 7 I fl Mechanics 5 '6 .ijH High School v..3 Merchants 3 4 j^? Scores In Tuesday's Psmei Kendalls, 7 runs, 10 hits; Mechanics, 0 runs, 2 hits; ; Batteries?Robinson, Taylor and EM dywine; Langjey and Jones. 9 High School, 12 runs, 12 Instructors, 9 runs, 9 hits; - 9 Batteries?Cooper and Jenniii? Hench and Nabor. The Kendalls won the tot N? honors of the City Roftball leaf? by trouncing the Mechanics in AM final game of the period 8 to 0 Tm? day evening. - -r fl The Instructors, after amaisiBf fl lend of seven runs over the H#? in the second game, blow up in t? final innings and the youngsters tfcffl ed a veritable merry-go-round oi AM pasture to win 12 to 9. Following a recapitulation of ftM games played in the city softball 1? gue, the Bureau of Recreatku^H Wednesday, ordered the MerckiiM and High School teams to play off? fourth place tie Thursday afterao? at 6 p. m. The Kendalls were orte? ed to play off in the round-robin pre? gram their game with the MecbaaJ? immediately following tho MercbuH? High School game. ""T^;? On Monday the Instructors will jl? the winner of the High School* K? chants game of Thursday in thsA? game of the evening, and the W? dalls will meet the winner of UJ? game for the championship it ?H second game of the double bil^;? NOTICE -Lf Notice is hereby given that ft? management of Chancefleld tion has' been turned over to WW| 8avage, Jr., Attorney, Camdtn, as of the date of this notice and ?* hereafter all communications JSJ speot to the business of ChagJM Plantation should be address** him and no purchases will be nlsed unless made under t^? or<Ier' ?ml-ni(.l CHANOEPIBLD PLANTATKWVJ By WhltOU Ferguson. 1 July 22, 1942. I All synthetic rubber producsj Jjl many months must be reserrWgJ military uses, and none will be able for automobile tire; "S STATE TIIKATrI KERSHAW, s.t J FWDAY^JUl^^B "SABOTEUR" I < Priscllla Laa9 !?'? -I Robert Cummingg SATURDAY, , "THE GUNMAN * I FROM BOD1E" ' Buck Jones?Tim McCoy SATURDAY, JULY I 10(30 Show I "MOONLIGHT I MASQUERADE"'* Dennis O'Keet* Jane Fratee 9 MONDAY and TUESftfl ^JULY 27-^^9 "BALL OF FIRE" Gary Cooper 1 | - Barbara Stanwyck fj WEDNESDAY, JULYIFI "THE YUKON PATROL*! Allen Lane Llta Conway .fl THURSDAY. 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