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Page Two McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICE, SOUTH CAKOUNA McCORNICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 edmond j. McCracken, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months.50 HELP BRING RECOVERY . In normal timss the* construction industry is one of the greatest di rect employers of skilled and un skilled labor—carpenters, plumb ers. bricklayers,, metalsmiths and a dozen other categories of work ers. And, indirectly, it employs as many more in the industries making construction products. In 1929, these industries fur- • nished over a million jobs. They include the manufacture of shin gles, pipe, cement, wire, paints, papers, lime, linoleum, lumber and so on. The total value of their products was over five billion dol lars. Forty-nine-thousand plants were involved, with payrolls of close to $1,609,000,000 a year. Those figures show why stimu- ulated construction is essential to recovery. Home building is the most .important branch of con struction, constituting about 50 per cent of the total. It isn’t the million - dollar skyscrapers that make the bulk of the jobs—it’s the small homes, costing three or four thousand dollars. By the same token, home repairing, in the ag gregate, is of equal importance. Spring is almost here. In the average home much can be done to make it more comfortable and \ efficient: Prices are still low with sharp rises in prospect. Build now, repair now—save yourself money and do your bit toward regaining good times. x New Pastures Aid Parasite Control Amuntncin'Q NEW LOW DELIVERED’PR] ■Q to ' . „ ' < j • * „ ON TH f* TIME - IMlO V ED & NEW ^QRJ) V-8 t, ■ . -. ■ KOR 19^*4 O ^ 6 o Clemson College, March 10. — Frequent rotation of pastures is one of the most effective means of controlling livestock parasites— It breaks the life cycle of the para sites, Prof. L. V. Starkey, chief animal husbandman here, points out again In connection with the acreage reduction program of the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration. Seeding new pastures on good lands. retired from cotton or tobacco will be a real opportunity to this end, he states, emphasizing that too large a percentage of our present land in pastures is too poor for orofitable results. With the contracted acres out of production anyhow, State and Fed eral agricultural workers believe that it will be good business for farmers to seed some of these acres to pasture this spring. The follow ing year, however, after expiration of the contracts, the pasture may be used without restriction. The use of clean pastures is the basis for the swine sanitation sys tem developed in McLean County, Illinois, and now used widely as a proved means of cutting produc- j £ in- \ $ THE FOLLOWING IS STANDARD EQUIPMENT ON ALL DELUXE MODELS: 1. Safety glass throughout 4. Two cowl lights or parking 2. Two matehed-tohe horns lights 3. Two tail lights and 5 - Painted fenders to match body stop lights ' 6. Two adjustable sun visors 7. Cigar lighter • * ,* * '' ® , 0 o v a . o * o . • : • , „ • . SEE YOUR NEARESTT^ORD DEALER FOR DETAILS * 0 r ^ 6 i * o : IMMEDIATE DELIVERY * AUTHORIZED SOUTHEASTERN FORD DEALERS ■ v v • *0 A . ® - : c Ea$y termsjhrougn Universal Credit Company C —th&autboriged Ford Finance Plan _ ^ - ■ ■> — Dear ’MBT Customers and Prospects: The sixth shipment, two truck loads of nice, smooth, sound: young Tennessee Mules arrived Tuesday. All well broken and priced as cheap as the market permits. We are making every effort to serve the farmers faithfully, honestly, efficiently, and cheaply. We shall appreciate your coming to select Mules early, while we have a large variety. D.P. McCAIN Here Are the New Reduced Prices? DELIVERED in McCORMICK FORD PRICES INCLUDE the FOLLOWING EQUIPMENT FEDERAL TAX SAFETY GLASS in WINDSHIELD BUMPERS SPARE TIRE, TUBE and METAL TIRE COVER DE LUXE MODELS INCLUDE —Safety Glass Throughout —Cigarette Lighter —Dual Sun Visors —Dual Tail Lamps —Cowl Parking Lights —Fenders to Match Body —Twin Horns STANDARD COUPE CABRIOLET STANDARD • 2-Door DE LUXE 2-Door STANDARD 4-Door DE LUXE 4-Door DE LUXE ROADSTER LISTEN IN—Ford Dealer Radio Program—Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, with Famous Guest Stars. (Columbia Broadcasting System.) Every Sunday night at 8:30, and every Thursday night at 9:30. and until then - - - Watch the New Fords Go By! r Phene 9 (INCORPORATED) Authorized Ford Dealers McCormick, S. C. GIRLS! • * • • y • • • v - • Let Me Teach You BEAUTY CULTURE Fords Lead Way As California City Picks Cars For Police Duties DIGNIFIED WORK SHORT HOURS GOOD PAY 7 $ i I am a graduate of Charlotte School of Beauty Culture and also specialized in Hairdressing at the Moler College in Atlanta. I can teach you the very latest methods, and guarantee you to he thoroughly competent in all branches of beauty culture. MRS. W. R. SHACKELFORD Located in the H. C. Walker Residence on Pine St. Night School Class of Elderly Farmers Graduate mr ' x> tkm costs through control of in- & temal parasites. ‘ A The use of temporary pastures serves a two-fold purpose in the liroduction of sheep. It produces a maximum flow of milk of the ewes for the growing lambs, and aids \ in controlling stomach worms and ^* -other internal parasites. Horses and cattle also become infested with internal parasites when grazed year after year on permanent pastures, especially if the pastures are small. . Clean range is equally important in the production of poultry. In! raising young chicks the use of | clean ground or new pastures helps j to prevent losses from coccidiosis and other parasitic diseases. ■ For general guidance Prof. Starkey’s suggestions may be put briefly in three statements: (1) Use the new pastures, when avail able, for their .good grazing and their freedom from parasites; (2) do not overstock pastures and thus increase danger, of infestation; (3) change stock from pasture to pas- ~*-4«£e and chailge the kind of stock 4*i "The-rfawie pasture, following sheep and cattle with horses and swine. x - 71 Deer, particularly mule deer, are very local in their range, and sometimes die of starvation when only a few miles away ample for- me Is available. VAN IIORNESVILLE, N. Y. . . . Over 100 farmers and villagers re ceived diplomas in the first night, school graduation class of Van Hornes- ville Central School, founded by .Owep D Young. Many of the graduates •»-ere.older than Mr. Young, who presented the diplomas. . . . Photo •hows Mr Young presenting diploma to Mrs Dora Petrie. Los Angeles, Cal.. March 10. — Last August the city of Lbs Angeles purchasing department opened bids, returnable October 2, for 53 sedan cars, either sixes or eights. | The cars considered were Ford and j two others of the low-price range.! Here’s some of the competition! the Hughson Company was up against. ‘ About this time”, writes E. C. Dahlem, manager, ‘'General Johnson was criticising Mr. Ford for not signing the code, and there was a great deal of pressure brought to bear with the thought of having the public “crack down” on Mr. Ford and boycott his prod ucts. Competition used every means possible to induce the police department and police commis sioners to boycott our product. “It was finally decided to post pone purchase for a period of 60 days during which time the gov- ruled that Mr. Ford would be eligible .for government busi ness, and that Mr. Ford’s views on the subject were sound and basic. Previous to the government deci sion, however, we endeavored to sell the police officials on a com petitive test between the three cars. As a result each car of die three was delivered at the Legion Ascot Speedway, the Los Angelos racing course, having a 5-8-milo track. “The police officials took cn:ir? charge of the cars. In the speed test, made from a standing start, the Ford negotiated the track in 46 seconds, the next car in 49 sec onds and the third in 53 seconds. Upon crossing the finish line, it was necessary to make a braking test, to determine which car could stop in the shortest distance. Al though the Ford was traveling fastest it was stopped in a shorter distance than the competitors. The drivers were then changed from one car to another until each driver had driven all ca^s. and then an average for each was taken. The results were the same, regardless of the driver. “In the pick-up or acceleration test, all cars were lined up at ».he starting line, and upon firing of a pistol there was a race to see which car would make the fastest get away. On reaching the finishing point, the Ford cars were in the lead of the second car by 75 feet and about 125 feet ahead of the third car. The distance was 300 yards. Again the drivers were ro tated-with the same results. “In the fuel economy test the Fords excelled. The tanks were completely drained and a gallon of fuel poured into the tank. Each car was paced by a motorcycle at 40 miles per hour, and the car run until the engine stopped. In the test for speed on the low gear, the Fords out-performed the other contenders. The results of the sec ond speed gear tests were interest ing in that the Ford cars were able to negotiate the track from a standing start within one second of the slowest cars’ time in which they used forward speeds. “The cars were then driven in second speed, lap after lap, to test the cooling systems, and only did the Ford cars lead their competi tors but after eight and ten laps the radiators of the competitive cars were steaming. After these tests it was quite conclusive to the police officials, and our competi tors, that the Fords were best adapted for the severe police work and we received the order for 53 cars equipped with special police antennaes, heavy duty generators, heavy duty batteries and safety glass. “The tests, and service of the 56 Fords we sold the police depart ment a year ago, proves that the Ford is designed and built for po lice work, because of its rapid ac celeration the police can overtake another car within a block or two, and avoid a long chase and prob ably miss capture by the persued dodging into a side street. If it is out on the open road, the Ford car having more speed, can overtake any car. In negotiating corners the road ability of the Ford makes it ideal for this work. The pick-up, naturally, .will save human lives. With the quick, positive brakes, if an emergency arises, the Ford can be stopped quickly and thus avoid accidents. ; “The police department now has 115 Ford V-8’s and 25 more cars are to be added, and we have ev ery reason to believe that they will j be Fords, , as the department is very well satisfied and pleased with the performance of the 1934 Fords.” Early Insect Control Measures Help Save Southern Peach Crop Jarring is one of the first steps in the program for controlling the plum curculio, or peach worm, the most serious insect pest that di- | rectly attacks peaches in the south. The jarring should start as the trees are coming into bloom, ac cording to entomologists of tha U. S. Department of Agriculture. Adult curculios — hard, brown, gray-mottled snout beetles, about 3-16th inch long—can be collected in large numbers by placing two big sheets or jarring frames under peach trees and jarring the trees with a padded pole. This disturbs the beetles, so they immediately fold their legs and drop to the sheets below. Here they can be collected and dropped into a can cf petroleum. The plum curculios pass the winter as adults under leaves, grass, bark, sticks and rubbish in woodlands near orchards and un der grass or trash in orchards or along terrace rows and fences. They come out of hibernation in the South and move to the peach trees just before the trees reach full bloom. The beetles begin at once to feed on the blossoms, and to some extent on the unfolding leaves. Control by jarring fruit trees early. in the season is particularly profitable near woodlands or other hibernating places, entomologists say, and ^ly morning is the best time to jar the fruit trees, be** cause the -beetles are least active before the sun has risen very high. x— Counterfeiting of coins was an, underworld “racket” in provinces of the Roman empire.