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^TMl OAMPIWI CHWOWitetl; •OUTH tAWOLilliW FWIPAV, JULY W, im WovM Cw-tgftJifcrtjiKB " NAllONAt FARM 'safety BEING oteEBVED « 'This WMk. July Sft-tl.\is being observed sU over the ^tsiioo as NstloiHil Farm Safety W^ek. and Kershaw coimty . organisattone^are participating in It. ^ The annual observance ot a Na tional Fat.ji Safety Week was con ceived by the National Safety Conn ell in 1M4 and ia sponsored by the Nattonal Safety Council and the United States Department of Agri culture in cooperation with_AeNa- Xtoobl Tfre noledObn AHoelatfoo, lihe Farm Equipment Institute, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Farmer’s Union, the National Grange and many other organiza- ti<ma Interested in agriculture and farm life. Each year It la officially proclaimed by the President of the United 'Staten. Past retcords show that one of every 18 farm residents will suffer a disabling injury; one out of every four faems will be the scene of an accident resulting in a disabling in- jnry to a farm resident; accideotal death will occur in one out of every 320 farm familiea; a disabl ing injury will strike tome farm V 'T' Reese Refrigeration l^rvice ^ GIVES . _ • Prompt, Efficient and' Courteous » _ ^\^Senrice —• CALL JACK REESE DOMESTIC^- PHONE 7S^W H20 Broad Street (A o<‘aduate in Refrigejuitlon and Air- * CendItioninB) ^ COMMERCIAL NIGHT PHONE 104. Cun^en Motor Co.- Sldf. i resident every It seconds; ace^ dents, on the average, win klll/il farm residents ei^ery day; total cosu of accidents Involving farm people, including fire, motor ve hicle and,pr<^rty damage will be 11,0^0,000,000 or |36 per farm resi dent; four farm buildings will be destroyed by five every hour of the day, every day of the year, ac cording to the.. National Fire Pro tection Aasociatioo. t v Various studies by the National Safely Council reveal that fails Of persons Is the leading type of farm acetdent; that aeddehta involving machinery rank'second; that acci dents Involving animals and hand tools almost tie for thjrd place; that burnst rank next to falla^as a type of Home adddent ; that llr^ arma and drawnings are important recreational types of accidents; that biotor vehicle accidents kill ed more farm, residenta than any other, type. A partial check list supplied by the National Safety Council lists the following hazards which capse huhdreds of accidents each year: Stairs without handrails, or * in needof repair; faulty mechanical ’f)T electrical equipment; ‘unsafe bull pens; frayed electric cords^. unsafe ladders; defective hanil tools; rotten boards or plansk in porches or haylofts; worp-^x>pes; unprotected hay chirtein inade quately lighted haymows and bams; loose boards’with nails in them; uncovered water tanks; Cis terns, wells; unprotected cools; Z ' btsh in the yard, field or gar- ; oil-saturated or paint rags; weeds, brush, old lumber or other fire hazards around btllldings loose patches; horns on cattle; tusks on boars; makeshift^harness Incormct etectrictf "TiTses: smalT’ rugs at stairs; poisonous insecticides stored within reach of children; 648 Acres Land. In This County BummM In Year Dbtriet Foreater*a Report RemMds That Th^e Were 78 Fires fn* County In Fiscal Year Funeral Servieee Mrs. Daisy Bowers Funeral services were held Sun day morning at K Bethel chapel at Uigbff for Mrs.-Daisy Bowen Jackson, 87, who died at her resi dence five miles west of Lugof on Saturday morning. Itie Rev. Farris dr»# ackaoal PnitMiw. N. C. ant Laureas C. laelmoa. Borfbik. and Miree dsngtitm, Mn. TMh Rabon and Mrs. Pat Orr. OaaMtaa, and Mn. JnUaa 'Vlard, Charlsstoa; one brother, Bl D. Bowers, Rock Hill; two slsten. ,^Mn. Nettls Vaughan, Heath Springs, and Mrs. Mattie Vaughan, Rock Hill; ' 20 grand children and fix great-grand children. ' Mar,-Jackaon wsa bom ‘May S, 1881, near Hemh Springs, snd >ss the dauchtey of the late Mr. snd ITl i f WM t- I fc'jc.v;. Forest fire losses for the Cam den forest district for the period Jply 1, 1M7, through June 30, 1948, were reported this week by the disfriet forester. Thti dSlA com piled from records reported from each individual’s woods fire, occur- ing throngb the sis^ counties of the disulet. revealed that 319 fires wore fonght by the commission of forestry per^nnel, together with cooporstlag landowners and cltl^ ’cns. These woods fires burneiBT over 3,879 acres dr approximately j 0.2 per cent of the total ftwest land j area protected. The above ia In comparison to the 834 wxx>ds fires snd 24,898 acres burned during the "ffscal year 1946-47^ 1 Reports * from the individual county, unit’s concern indivate the following; Chesterfield county, 48 fires, 1,388 acres burned; Kershaw county, 78 fires, 648 acres burned; Lancaster county, 32 fires, 1991 acres burned; Lm county, 26 fires, 213 acres burned; Richland comi ty, 101 fires, 930 acres burned, and Sumter county had 34 fires, burn ing 331 acres. • ' The great msjorlty of fires re ported above were attributed Jo smokera, debris Wrhjng ajid rail roads. A total of 31 persons Were prosecuted under the state fire law, which prohibits promiscuous burning. • - July 28 to 31, being designated as ‘‘National Farm Safety Week," it la urged <that all landoWners work with local fire control or ganisations in order that plans may be laid to insure full cooperation upon the occurrence of fires. fficiated snd interment was in the church cemetery. Mm. Jackson U survived by her husband, Ranson A. Jackson, Lu-. Mrs. John Bowers goff; five sons, L«eroy and B. J. Jackson, Lugoff; George and An- MILLElrS for Lumbor To FUfAT. **•**«• *• karsS*_ ^ Bwnth from this *1 1948. Bertha 4 to the KobsSrS^^nR CottntWher nUni«ti4trix oftheijy * ^ », deceaseA^r?**' ^ ^ tor . •nld Adminlstratvix; •- 5<. , Hire's what you get RC Cole Cnio Y Cein Z 1 COOL L. RiFRESHMDIT / / 1* / A mo Z. PUll GLASSES / / A - UST-BY- J.TASTE-TEST FLAVOR* / % % . 3|eRC wins 6 out of 6 group taste- tests from coast to coast! 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