McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, December 07, 1933, Image 2
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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
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Cormick. S. C.. as mall matter of
the second class.
SCBSCKIPTION RATES:
—' strictly Cash In Advance —
One Year $1.00
01 > Months .75
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Nci/ Cotton Contract
Loads To Adjustment
Clemson College, Dec. 4.—Rcduc-
the 1934 and 1935 cotton crops
and continuing the fight to lower
..the burdensome cotton surplus and
restore a “fair exchange” buying
power for the crop are the aims of
the acreage (reduction contracts,
. first copies of which were made
available by the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration last week,
Bays Dr. W. W. Long, director of
the Extension Service through
which the campaign will be con
ducted in South Carolina.
Every effort is being made to
*peed printing and distributing the
full supply of contracts in order
that the sign-up campaign may be ‘
started at an early date, probably j
before January 1, thinks Cully A.
Cobb, chief of the cotton section of
the A. A. A.
Restriction of cotton planting for
1934 to 25,000,000^cres is the gene-
lal goal of Njthe new program. This
would be a reduction of approxi
mately 40 per cent from the “base
acreage”, or average acreage for
the period 1928 thrtugh 1932. The
contracts also provide for a possi
ble acreage reduction in 1935, if the
Secretary of Agriculture finds this
to be necessary, not to exceed 25
per cent of the ‘“base acreage”.
Rental payments, based on the
productivity of the acres rented to
the Secretary of Agriculture under
the contract, and parity payments
•f not less than one cent per pound
•n their farm allotments will be
made to growers who take part in
the program. The rate of rental
for each acre will be three and
one-half cents per pound on the
average yield of lint cotton per
acre for the farm during the base
period, 1928-32—with a maximum
of $18 per acre. :
The parity payments of “not less
than one cent per pound” will be
paid on the individual “farm allot
ment”, which is 40 per cent of the
average annual cotton production
for the farm during the base pe
riod.
The retired or rented acres must
represent, in productivity,. ;a fair
average of the cotton land on the
farm. Other provisions of the con
tract concern use of the rented
acres, assignability of the rental
payments, increase in total crop
acres pn the farm, problems in
volved in various landlord-tenant
relationships, and other special
matters of direct concern to the
grower.
Tile rental payments provided
under the contract will be made in
two equal installments, the first be
tween March 1 and/April 30, 1934;
and the second between August 1
and September 30, 1934. The parity
payment will be made between De
cember 1, 1934, and Jsfauary 1, 1935.
In administering the program,
each county agricultural agent will
be the representative of the Secre
tary of Agriculture in his county,
and local operation of the plan will
fall quite largely to county produc
tion control associations, composed
of growers who take part in the
plan, through which it is estimated
that approximately 15,000,000 acres
Will be rented by the Secretary of
Agriculture in 1934.
Public Sales |
Made Monday
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Probate Judge J. Frank Mattison
conducted the following sale here 1
Monday for Probate Judge John K.
Snelling cf Barnwell: ' * |
George Bates Hagood, individual
ly and as administrator of the Es
tate cf M. B. Hagood vs. Jennie B.
Hr gocd et al., 290 ac^es of the es
tate of J. West Jennings, one and
ono-half miles southwest of Mc
Cormick, to T. G. Tarver, receiver
for Bank of Western Carolina, for
$2,460.00.
J. T. Fcoshe, tax collector, made
rales as follows: „. t *
' J. 'Ll Pulle'V^rcneft:'' one China
closet, to Mrs. Tom Hartline, for
$7.05. One Royal typewriter:, to J. C.
Corley, for $15.75.
W. A. Lawton property, one lot
14x00 feetr iri town of Willing ton,
to A. H. LeRoy, for $81.21/
The two tracts cf land offered by
the tax collector were bid in by the
county.
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Crew of the Ford V-8 truck at end of cross-country trip from Atlantic City to Los Angeles. Left to right-r-Lester
Moore, Jack Burns, Harold Peterson, Lawrence Houck, drivers, and, in uniform, a representative of the Key-
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Treasurer’s Notice
Masonic Meeting
Monday Night
A call communication of Mine
Lodge, No. 117, A. F. M., will be
lieici in the lodge hall at McCor
mick on Monday night, December
11. t$33, at 7:30 o’clock, for the
purpose of conferring the Master’s
Degree.
The Webb Lodge from Augusta,
Ga., will confer this degree in- full
dramatic form.
All members are urged to be
piesen*, and visiting brethren are
cordially invited.
• W. N. Smith, W. M.
A. C. Dair.hardt, C20.
The County Treasurer’s Office
will be open for the purpose of re
ceiving taxes from the 15th day of
September, 1933, to the 15th day of
March, 1934.
All taxes shall be due and pay
able between the 15th day of Sep
tember, 1933, and December 31,
1933. '
That when taxes charged shall
not be paid by December 31, 1933,
the County Auditor shall proceed
to add a penalty bf on0 per cent
for January, ^nd if taxfes are not
paid on or befqije February 1, 1934,
the County Auditor will proceed to
add Tvto Per Cent and Five Per
Cent from the 1st of March to the
15th of March, after which time
unpaid taxes will be collected by
the Tax. Collector,., .
The tax levies Tor the year 1933
are as follows: ,
For State Purposes 5 mills
For County Purposes 10 mills
For Bonds - — -12 mills
ConstitutiOnal.School Tax__ 3 mills
Mt. Carmel School
District No. 1 — 2 mills
Willington S. D. No. 2 5 mills
Bordeaux S.D. No.3 2 mills
McCormick S. D. No. 4
* / and Bonds
Buffalo S. D. No. 5 -
Bellvue S. D. No. G '--10 mills
S. D. No. 7 00 mills
Bethia S.. D. No. 8 3 mills
told Branch S. D. No. 9 10 mills
Young’s S. D. No. 10 —2 mills
Wideman’s S- D. No. 11 2 mills
Milway* S. D. No.' 13 3 mills
Robinson S. D. No. 14
Dornville S. D. No. 15
Bethany S. D. No. 16 —
Lyon’s S. D. No. 17
Hibler S. D. No. 18 Z
Vernon S. D. No. 19 —
Plum Branch S. D. No. 24
and Bonds • --16 mills
Consolidated S. D. No. 1,
Parksville, Modoc and
Clarks Hill, and Bonds J17 mills
All male citizens between the
ages of 21 and 60 years, except
those exempt by law, are liable to
a poll tax of $1.00 each.
The law prescribes that all male
citizens between the ages of 21 and
55 years must pay $2.00 commuta- j
tion tax or work six days on the j
public roads.
Commutation tax is included in
property tax receipt.
T. J. PRICE,
Treasurer, McCormick County.
14 mills
4 mills
Here is a sport and street suit
that combines just about all that
could be desired in smartness and
utility in fall apparel. As shown in
the illustration above it represents
exactly what it is, one of the new
and bold fall tweed suits with a
warm collar of raccoon.
The woman with imagination will
not have to be told that the coat,
worn separately with one of the
new woolen dresses, serves as an ex
cellent fancy sport coat and thus iy
the utility of the suit enhanced.
In tlie better shops this suit is
shown in many modified forms.
And in fabric it may be had in a
wide variety of color tones, with
the browns, coppers and rust hues
predominating.
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Ford V-8 Truck
Sets Speed Record
Leo Angeio ,, >, Cal., Nov. 23.—
Smashing all previous speed rec
ords for motor trucks on a trans
continental trip, a Ford V-8 .ruck,
carrying a full twe-ton load of mer
chandise. sped into Los Angeles at
8:13 o’clock last nirht aft“T cross
ing the continent in 71 hours. 12
minutes and 30 seconds elapsed
time. The run was made under the
official observance of Glenn Walde
for the Keystone Automobile Club,
who accompanied the truck.
The truck out-distanced by four
hours the fastest regular passenger
train service between Atlantic City
and Los Angeles. Today, Mayor
Shaw of Los Angeles, together with
city and state officials and repre
sentatives of automobile associa
tions received the crew of four
drivers who made the run in a typ
ical California civic ceremony. The
drivers presented letters of greeting
from Mayor Harry Bacharach of
Atlantic City and Mayor J. Hamp
ton Moore of Philadelphia.
F , n.nsf*ontin*'ntal freighter
'xaz welcomed at the T . r »- l^ge'e'j
city' limits last night with all the
spec ocular enthusiasm of a Holly-i
wood opening night. Nearly «3.000 ;
people were on hand to greet the
transcontinental drivers to Calif or-
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nia in a blaze of floodlights. Fol
lowing the termination cf the run
the truck was checked officially on
the Southern California Automobile
Club 13-mile check run and the
speedometer found accurate to two-
tenths of a mile for the 13 miles.
In making the 2,945 mile run 'thej
Ford freighter clocked an average j
of 41.3 miles per hoar, which re-j
suited, according to Ford officials, |
from safe driving all the way under,
police escort and not by dangerous,
bursts of speed.
The transcontinental run re
quired 322 gallons of gasoline and:
five quarts of oil, the final quart'
not being used. Only one pint of
water was added to the radiator
during the entire trip.
At the ceremony at the City Hall
today. Mayor Shaw welcomed the
four drivers, L. C. Houck, Jack
Bums, Harold Peterson and Lester j
Moore to California. The four drove
the freighter in relays. With the
mavo- we e + he oresident of die
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
representatives .of the Southern
oak fornia Automobile Club and
other prominent officials. Accord-
to the.drivers the truck came
'hrough the record run in excellent
'hnne, de^oitc bad driving condi
tions all the way. The truck en
countered snow and ice the first
night out, ran through a heavy
rainstorm in the Ozarks the second
night and yesterday plowed through
desert, rand and dust two-feet deep
for more than 12 hours.
In addition to its full load of
merchandise the Ford freighter
carried improvised bunks for the
relay drivers and the official ob
server of the Philadelphia club. It
looped only for gasoline and oil,
3 hours and 27 minutes being lost
in refueling stops, making the net
running time across the continent
67 hours, 45 minutes and 30 se
conds.
The transcontinental freighter
is a stock model Ford V-8 one and
one-half ton truck.
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Here is a gay little dinner dress
that is simplicity itself but which
qualifies its wearer for much at
tention when madam chooses to
take advantage of the colorful
season in fabrics which is upon us,
All of the, silks .and the velvets
are colorful this year.' There are
bright reds, Chinese lacquer, deep
scarlet, brilliant cardinal, coral ru
by, Chinese jade green rust and
many purple^ and blue hues.
The sleeves, the “v” neck, , the
high waist and. the pull through
tie back style in the illustration all
explain themselves. The skirt is a
wrap around model and is cut out
to accentuate curved lines of the
hips.
WARNING
Will Publish 'y;'
Santa Claus Letters
The Messenger will again this
year publish letter from children
to Santa Claus, or at least as many
as space can be found for, if th?
children will write them and mail
or send them to this office right
away. There will be only two more
issues of this paper before Christ
mas, so don’t delay getting your
letter here if you want it printed.
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Drought Increases
Forest Fire Hazard
All persons trespassing on my
lands will be prosecuted by law.
MRS. W. G. BLACKWELL, (has accentuated the fire hazard,
A survey of the timbered areas
burned in the Aiken forest district
during the past few days indicates
that the drought in South Carolina
District Forester H. Y. Forsythe,
: AiNm. said one day the past week.
Mr. Forsythe, who has just made
a survey cf the fire situation, re
ports that the siege of forest fires
has brought about a general alert-
ness’on the part of the entire per
sonnel of the Forest Protective As-
cpciaUpns and that the people in
rural sections generally realize that
the fires are more than usually de
structive to timber and are not only
i cautious but are showing gratifying
wiHngness to co-operate in fight
ing fires.
Working willingly and patiently
the 400 men stationed in the Ci
vilian Ccnservation Corps camp in
Fairfield and Aiken Counties have
fought • several fires since Sunday.
All last night C. C. C. men detailed
in groups cf 25 men were patrolling
large areas with complete equip
ment looking for fires and extin-
gui hing all fi~es observed. Camp
.iporintendeuce R. a. Clowe and
J. T. McAlister of C. C. C. Camps
55-P and 66-P praised highly the
courage and endurance shown by
the Civilian Conservation, men who
have been out almost continuuosly
fighting forest fires for the past
week.
District Forester Forsythe in urg
ing hunters, rural citizens and
others to exert every effort to pre
vent woods fires, pointed out the
tremendous damage done by such
blazes, not only in the destruction
of young timber and other growth,
but in the damage to the soils. He
said that the blazes destroy all hu
mous and organic matter
left unburned, would decay and
make plant food. The outbreak of
forest fires is alarming, hesald, afid
it is the usual thing to pass ofLthe
Tores, fires as a responsibility of
hunters, but as a matter of fact,
the a.el ss toeing away of ciga
rettes along the Toad is the mOrfe
responsible fac.or.