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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA IRMICK MESSENGER MAYOR EPTING OF McCORMICK r Published Every Thursday 1} Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN. Editor and Owner Bntered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C M as mail matter of the second class. 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 FLY TIME JUST AHEAD Ths s^o'en for the peskv fly is jtrs 1 starting and regardless of irhat you may do to reduce the fly popu 1 .e 4 'ion now, your ^ei^hhors ard townspeople may not be so in dustrious, so it is time now to make provisions for keeping flies out of your home. Of course, the accepted method of eradicating flies is to swat them, bat it is far better to keep them out of the home and eliminate the trouble and nuisance. A bit of extra effort and a few dollars spent now will make your home practically fly proof and you will not be bothered but for the ex ception of the few that will natu rally find their way into your home when doors are opened. Cover your screen doors and windows with new screen cloth and make sure that your windows and doors fit tightly. Another source of trouble is often to be found in the. basement or attic. Many times the openings in the regular jpart of the house are made secure against flies but cracks and crevices in attic and basement windows will admit them much to your annoy ance if you have not yet located the 'trouble. Flies carry filth and disease and their presence means more than mere annoyance. It is important to eliminate this danger to health, and now is the time to do it. ' Civil Service Examinations ‘ The United States Civil .Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations as fol- Jdws: Supervisor of Secondary Educa tion, $4,600 a year, less $400 a year for quarters, fuel, and light, Indian Field Service, Department of the Interior. Associate Public Health Nursing Analyst, $3,200 a year, Public Health Service Treasury Depart ment. The salaries given above are sub ject to a deduction of not to exceed 10 per cent until June 30, 1934, and of not to exceed 5 per cent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, as a measure of economy, and -gisn to a deduction of 3 1-2 per cent toward a retirement annuity. Full information may be obtained from the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board of ^Examiners at the post office in any city which has a post office of the first or the second class, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. From The Augusta Chronicle. The Chronicle called attention a few days ago to the fact that Dr. L. B. Owens had been named mayor of Columbia to succeed himself after a series of very successful ad ministrations. We are also remind ed that another South Carolina city, McCormick, has had only re cently re-elected a mayor who has served the community faithfully and ably. Dr. C. K. Epting, for many years a prominent dentist of McCormick, has just completed a four year term as mayor and he had served as a member of city council for eight years previous to this. During the time Dr. Epting has been mayor McCormick has made rapid strides for he has lowered taxes and at the same time made many civic im provements. The water mains of the city have been extended, more street paving has been done, new streets opened. He urged the building of a com munity house for the city of Mc Cormick to serve not only the so cial needs of the city itself, but as a gathering place for people from all over the county. The community house was fin fched a few months ago and there wa£ a great home coming day with large numbers of people gathered in McCormick, not only from that immediate section but from all over the state and prominent speakers addressed the gathering. Dr. Epting is not only a busy mayor who gives his time and means to building up the city of McCormick and the county, but he is also Federal Emergency Relief Administrator for McCormick coun ty. Certainly McCormick is to be congratulated upon re-electing to office such a faithful and efficient man as Dr. Epting. We have al ways felt that when a community or state has good men in office it pays to keep them there. McCor mick seems to have that idea also. Farmers’ Debts Scaled Down IN SOUTH CAROLINA FIGURE 37.8 PER CENT IN NINE MONTHS Grow Soybeans For Summer Hog Grazing Clemson College, May 12.—Soy beans rank at the top of the list for hog grazing, results of tests by the South Carolina Experiment Station show; and Prof. L. V. Star- lay, animal husbandman, urges planting soys now for summer i grazing. A good acre of soybeans, be says, will furnish forage for as i many as 15 spring pigs through the entire summer. Besides their grazing value Prof. Starkey points out two other im- ( portant values: first, the soybean, being a legume, adds nitrogen to the soil; second, the cultivation of the soybeans or piny other forage crop will help in controlling para sites. I Fear pointers the specialist gives on soybeans for grazing are: I 1. One of the best varieties for hog grazing is the Biloxi, which is also well adapted to grazing in the mature state, for the beans do not shatter from the pods after the first frost. 2. To make sure of a good stand one should plant four or five pecks per acre when drilled in rows. 3. Soybeans do best when drilled tn rows about two feet apart and cultivated two or three times. 4. You do not have to wait until the beans are mature. You may tom on the hogs when the beans are 12 to 16 inches high. Columbia, S. C., May 14.—Far mers’ debts have been scaled down in connection with approxirriately 34.8 out of every 100 Land Bank Commissioner’s loans and 30.7 out of every 100 Federal land bank loans closed in the Columbia Fed eral Land Bank district over a 9- month period, according to Frank H. Daniel, president of the Federal Land Bank of Columbia. This dis trict comprises the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. In cases of loans in which scale- dorwns occurred, the average reduc tion in each farmer’s indebtedness was about 25.5 cents on the dollar in connection with Commissioner’s loans and about 25 cents on the * * i dollar in connection with land bank loans. The amount of initial scale- downs varied from a few dollars to several thousand dollars, depend ing upon the amounts by which the total debts of applicants for loans exceeded the maximum amounts which could be loaned by the land bank and the Commissioner. The figures on scale-downs were estimated on the basis of an analy- j sis recently made of loans closed | from June 1, 1933, through Febru ary of this year. The total of scale- downs for the period was about $4,396,600 in this district. The figures show that in North Carolina on Commissioner’s loans, 37.9 per cent was scaled down for an average reduction of 20 per cent in indebtedness; in South Carolina 41.7 per cent was scaled down for an average reduction of 27.7 per cent in indebtedness; in Georgia 31.2 per cent was scaled down for an average reduction of 24 per cent in indebtedness and in Florida 27.6 per cent was scaled down for an average reduction of 28.9 per ceut in indebtedness. On land bank loans in North Carolina, 37.3 per cent was scaled down for an average reduction of 15.5 per cent in indebtedness; in South Carolina 37.8 per cent was scaled down for an average reduc tion of 23 per cent in indebtedness; in Georgia 24.5 per cent was scaled down for an average reduction of 18.6 per cent in indebtedness and in Florida 24.7 per cent was scaled down for an average reduction in indebtedness of 36.1 per cent. April Retail Sales Of Chevrolet Cars And Trucks 100,046 Units Detroit, Mich., May 10.—For the first time in three years, sales of an automobile manufacturer for a single month topped the one hun dred thousand mark. This was brought out today in a state ment issued -by , William E. Holler, general sales manager of Chevro let Motor Company, announcing re tail sal^s of Chevrolet passenger cars and trucks during April of 100,046 units. This figure includes Canadian, export and domestic de liveries. This compares with 59,193 units in April, 1933, and 98,893 units in March of this year, according 'to the statement. Retail sales the first four months of this year totaled 281,033 as com pared to 184,138 in the same period a year ago, an increase of 52 per cent. Chevrolet’s April retail sales rec ord is'considered significant in view of the fact that this company has suffered an acute car shortage, practically since the new 1934 models were introduced and only now is catching up in a small measure with the thousands of un filled orders on its books. Retail sales were higher than for any sim ilar period in 35 months, since April, 1931, to be exact, and this tremendous retail volume, accord ing to Mr. Holler, is the direct re sult of the modern features and many unusual improvements incor porated in the new 1934 knee-ac tion models. PROVED- by rnillions of miles of tbstincf^ by engineers PROVED- in tHe hands of hundreds * 9 O p ® of thousands of owners a. DEALER ADVERTISEMENT Make Chevrolets At World’s Fair Chicago, May 12.—The actual building of automobiles on the Chevrolet assembly line in the General Motors building at A Cen tury of Progress—The Chicago World’s Fair—will begin May 15, according to an announcement made here today by Dudley Frazer, production manager of the line. Thus, with more than ten days before the official opening day of the 1934 exposition, Chevrolet workmen will have ample oppor tunity to famaliarize themselves with the newly-installed assembly line machinery and the'special pre cision tools with which they will demonstrate to the exposition’s visitors all summer the smooth and painstaking manner in which all Chevrolet cars are built. The assembly line will operate ■daily, except Sunday, from 1:30 to 5 and from 6:30 to 9 o’clock each day, Mr. Frazer stated. Working hours, therefore, are predicated on the 36-hour week set by the auto motive code of the NRA. Coaches and four-door sedans of the “knee-action” Master Six line will be assembled this year. Present plans call for approximately 20 cars to be turned out each day. Al though the world’s fair assembly line is a duplicate of that in opera- Mon in each of the nine assembly plants throughout the United States, the cars will be assembled in more or less “slow-motion” in order that watchers may keep track of each of the many intricate operations. Each Chevrolet built this year at the General Motors building will bear a specially-designed medallion on the instrument panel. More than 200 employees v/ill be engaged in building these cars, it was stated. Material for the bodies and chassis will be brought into the plant each night after ten o’clock when the exposition closes. EVROLET, ' ' « W ’: < SLL it only 5 miles”? Because Chevrolet engineers have tried out all the various makes of Jow-priced cars. They have compared performance—on rough roads, in traf fic, over hills, through sand and mud and water, they know what thousands of Chevrolet* owners have proVed in their daily driving: The Chevrol simply can’t be matched by any other in the low-price field. It can’t be matched—because no other low- priced car matches any of these five leading features* CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICH. Compare Chevrolet"i loui delivered prices and easy G. M. A. C. terms A General typtors Value SAVE WITH A CHEVROLET SIX ’ or^l and^youll never satisfied with & any other low-priced car 80 HORSEPOWER 80 Miles per Hour CABLE-CONTROLLED BOqiES BY FISHER SHOCK-PROOF STEERING Farm Adjustment News NOTES ON TRIPLE A ACTIVITIES TOWARD STABILIZED AGRICULTURE Faulkner Chevrolet Company McCORMICK, S. C. of tobacco growers, local committee members, county agents, and others interested in tobacco production has resulted in more than a 90 per cent sign-up of all tobacco growers In the 1934 adjustment program of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration, thus assuring success of the plan to adjust production to demand and thereby bring about better prices to growers, states J. B. Hutson, chief of the tobacco sec tion. Distribution of initial reduction payment checks to farmers who have signed the corn-hog contract has already begun and will be car ried forward as rapidly as contracts are ifeceived at Washington, D. C., it#is reported by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The reduction payments are a part of the real income of corn and hog producers under the adjustment program. Producers also will be benefitted further by any increase in the open market price of hogs which takes place as supplies are brought into line with demand. Vy IVpv. CLarles E. Dunn, . * The Future of the Kingdom. Lesson for May 20th. Matt. 25:1-13. Golden Text: Revelation 11:15. CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION Cash income of American agri culture increased more than 39 per cent during the year which ended May 1, 1934. Estimated farm income, exclusive of the value of ^ products used on the farm, for the period which ended May 1, 1933,! was $3,979,000,000. In the year ending May 1, 1934, the cash in come is estimated at more than $5,530,000,000^-an increase of more i than $1,500,000,000. Of this in-' crease in agricultural income, ren tal and benefit payments to far-, mers who cooperated with the Ad ministration in adjustment pro grams accounted for more than 12 per cent. • Splendid cooperation on the part STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. By J. Frank Mattison, Probate Judge: WHEREAS. Ben T. Spence and Herbert Wideman made suit to me to grant them Letters of Adminis tration cum testament© annexe of the Estate and effects of Henry Wideman; THESE ARE. THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Henry Wideman, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick Court House on May 22nd, 1934, next, after publication hereof, at 10 o’clock in the fore noon, to »how cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand this 8th day of May, Anno Domini, 1934. J. FRANK MATTISON, Probate Judge for McCormick Countv. • What is to be said concerning the meaning of this familiar parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids? To begin, it is clear that the story emphasizes the necessity of watch fulness. “Watch therefore.” Now watchfulness is another name for preparation. The watchful man is he who has paid the price- of long, arduous training. Behind Paderew ski’s playing, so astonishing in its ease of execution, lie years- of painstaking toil. When asked how lohg it had taken him to prepare/a certain sermon, Beecher replied, “Forty years!” And the Duke of Wellington was so firmly moulded by years of discipline that it was said of him, “He does his duty as naturally as a horse eats oats.” The wise bridesmaids, in the par able, were prepared. They had been well trained. They showed fore sight. The foolish bridesmaids | were thoughtless. They lacked or dinary common sense. They prob ably knew little of the meaning of discipline. i Now there are two memorable ' lessons here. First of all, note the ! presence of a reserve supply. All of the ten members of this bridal party had lamps. But the five who were wise carried, in addition, | flasks containing oil. The foolish bridesmaids, on the other hand, carried no extra oil. They had ; seme oil, but not enough. And so when the bridegroom was ready to receive them, their lamps flickered, they could not enter the bridal chamber on time, “and the door was shut.” Secondly, note that the extra oil carried by the wise virgins was available for immediate use. It was right at hand so that when the summons to the wedding was sud denly sounded they were able to take their places for the ceremony with no delay. How important it is to carry a reserve of well-disciplined charac ter always on tap! Then when the crisis of life suddenly overtake us without warning, as they so often do, we are ready. Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service out of town J. S. STROM Main Slreel McCormick. S. C.