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fm^e Two McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 18, 1935 j- McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday iblished June 5, 1908 kdmond j. McCracken, Editsr and Owner ntered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C„ as man matter of the second class. ■UBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 Weevil Damage Rising CLEMSON, July 15.—^Increases in weevil infestations were reported by county agents for the week end ing July 13. An average of counts indicates that slightly more than 10 per cent of squares are punctur ed in the state on unpoisoned cot ton. The crop is fruiting well, the reports show. Differences between early pois oned and unpoisoned fields are noticeable. An average infestation of less than five per cent of squares was found in fields receiving early applications of poison. j “With a continued abundance of . rainy weather, and emergence of ! weevils from squares, rapid increas es in infestations may be expect ed”, says W. C. Nettles, Extension Entomologist, advising individual growers to watch infestations clopely and apply poison dust where conditions justify the prac tice. txr July 1 Crop Report What is the yardstick for a cigarette... Take mildness for one thing—how does it measure up for mildness? Chesterfields are milder—not flat or insipid, of course, but with a pleasing flavor. Then take taste for another thing — does it have plenty of taste? Chesterfields taste better — not strong but just right. In other words. They Satisfy— South Carolina Acreage: Total crop acreage in South Carolina this year is about 4 per cent more than harvested in 1934, according to the July 1 pre- . liminary estimates of the Crop Re-1 porting Board. Permitted increase of acreage under the control pro grams foj- cotton and tobacco ac counts for most of the acreage en largement this year, since the net increase of crops other than cotton and tobacco is only about one per cent. v . Comparing acreage in cultivation on July 1 with last year’s harvest ed acreage, cotton has been in- 1935, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. cigarette TASTESBETTER average production for the years 1928-32 was 75,823,000 pounds. Tame Hay prospects are for about 206,000 tons compared with 201,000 tons made last year and the five-year average of 180,000 tons. Sweet Potatoes: Due to some reduction in acreage and below av- erafre condition on July 1, the out look is for only 3,825,000 bushels compared with 4,428,000 made in 1934 and the five-year average of 4,569,000 bushels. The Peach crop is estimated at 1,662,000 bushels compared with 1,- creased 9 per cent, tobacco 32 per 610,000 bushels last year and the cent, wheat, 11 per cent, oats, 10 per cent, rye, 12 per cent, peanuts, li per cent, cowpeas grown alone 10 per cent, velvet beans alone 11 per cent, wild hay, 8 per cent, all tame hay 4 per cent, with no change in sugar cane and sorghum for sirup. Crops showing decline in acreage are corn with 2 per cent less, Irish potatoes, 14 per cent, sweet potatoes, 6 per cent, and soy beans grown alone 10 per cent. Acreage planted to the commer cial truck crops for market is esti- muteu at 58,430 acres which is an increase of 14 per cent over last year and 19 per cent above the average acreage for the years 1929- 1933. Condition and Production: The month of June was unusually dry and the condition of growing crops on July 1 was below average but about the same as the July condi tion last year. However, the situa tion has been materially improved by fair to good rains in most sec tions since July 1 although some lo calities still need more moisture. June grain harvests were good and housed in excellent condition. Com: The condition of com at 61 per cent, while below average, is better than on July 1 a year ago, and the outlook is for a crop of 22,- 035,000 bushels compared with final production of 20,760,000 bushels last year and the average production of 20,151,000 bushels for the years 1928-1932. Oats: Preliminary estimates in dicate the largest - acreage, the greatest outturn, and the second best yield per acre in the history of the State. The July estimate of 10,462,000 bushels .compares with the short crop of 6,956,000 bushels five-year average of 1,205,000 bush els. The outlook for production of Apples, Pears, and Grapes is some 10 to 15 per cent below average. United States Crops are off to about an aver age start on an acreage that is well above the acreage standing at this time last year but below the acre ages of other recent years. How ever, as less of the country has been suffering from lack of rain than in any summer since 1927 the acreage of spring crops abandoned is ex pected to be much less than in re cent drought seasons. Since the breaking of the drought in April and May, there has been a great improvement in general conditions in the drought areas and a wide spread and substantial improve ment in pastures, ranges and hay crops. Livestock that was on short rations is again feeding on green pastures. Milk production per cow on July 1 was about 12 per cent above production at that time last year, this increase much more than offsetting the decrease in cows and giving the highest total milk pro duction for that date on record. Egg production, while still low ow ing to the downward trend in the number of hens, was above produc tion on July 1 in either of the last two years, the decreases in the number of hens being more than offset by the highest July produc tion per hen that has been report ed during the ten years of record. Prospects for crops are very un even. In the West, livestock is rapidly recovering and in some areas thriving; there is nearly the usual supply of water for irrigation, about the usual acreage of crops is or may not prove serious, depending title of assistant district director; on weather conditions during the assistant district engineer, J. E. Mc- next few weeks. Farther to the Donald of Beaufort. Appointment Southwest where winter wheat is of an assistant district engineer in the principal crop, conditions are this district was made necessary, even less favorable, for about 12,- Mr. Pinckney said, because of the 000,000 acres of the wheat was kill- large projects to be carried on. ed before the drought was broken Counties in district: Charleston, and much of the remainder was Barnwell, Allendale, Hampton, Jas- damaged. Pastures are recovering per, Colleton, Berkeley, Beaufort there and spring crops have been and Dorchester, planted but they can hardly offset j District No. 3: Headquarters in the heavy loss of wheat. Columbia; director, W. W. Cromer, With several important crops Newberry; chief engineer, F. J. Wy- late and largely dependent on man of Denmark, with title of as- weather conditions during the re- sistant district director. Counties in mainder of the season, prospects district: Richland, Lancaster, Fair- are still very uncertain, but it now field, Lexington, Lee, Calhoun, looks as though the expected good Clarendon, Bamberg, York, Chester, yields of oats and barley would be Kershaw, Sumter, Aiken and Or- WPA jobs have been received, said ment due to the pressure of his personal business. He conferred with the administrator here Sat urday but returned to his home without issuing a statement as to his plans. Captain Foster is a Greenville wholesale lumber dealer. Greenville, under the set-up an nounced last week, is to be head quarters for the district, composed of Greenville, Spartanburg, Oconee, Pickens, Abbeville, McCormick, Sa luda, Laurens, Edgefield, Anderson, Cherokee, Union, Greenwood and Newberry. Mr. Pinckney, explaining that “thousands” of applications for Shirley Temple Acts, Sings, Tugs Hearts In ; Our Little Girl’ : * < made last year and the average being grown, and ranges, while production of 8,080,000 bushels for: needing rain in some areas, are the years 1928-1932. ' Wheat: The preliminary esti mate of 94,000 acres of wheat har- carrying nearly the usual quantity of feed. In the northern States of the 1934 drought area, farmers, en- vested this year and the reported couraged by good spring rains, have yield of 10.0 bushels per acre gives a crop of 940,000 bushels. This is the largest acreage since 1904 and the best outturn since 1901, but the yield per acre is slightly below the 10-year average. Rye: Rye harvested for grain at 72,000 bushels about equals the crops of the past few years. v v Tobacco: The estimate of 95,- 000 acres is 32 per cent above last year, and the reported condition of 62 per cent indicates a crop of 74,- 100,000 pounds. Production in 1934 was 56,880,000 pounds and the overcome the handicaps of a short age of seed, a shortage of working capital and work stock in no con dition to do a day’s work. By bor rowing where they could, using Government loans and seeds so far as available and keeping their trac tors chugging far beyond the usual hours of labor, they and their fam ilies have planted acreages of spring wheat, oats, barley, and flax that seemed impossible three months ago. These crops started well but the wheat faces a wide spread rust infection, which may far more than offset by a low yield angeburg. of corn, resulting in a total pro- ' District No. 4: Headquarters in duction of feed grains about 9 per Greenville; director. Dr. R. M. Da- cent smaller than the 10-year av erage prior to last year. On the whole, it is evident that the effects of the 1934 drought are gradually disappearing. The acre age of crops harvested is expected to be only about 6 per cent below the usual average as compared with nearly 20 per cent below average last year. Subsoil moisture has been at least partially restored ov er considerable areas where the shortage last spring threatened all crops. The liquidation of livestock because of the shortage of feed has been checked. The production of milk is already heavy. The num bers of hogs and hens should show a substantial degree of recovery by the late fall of 1936. Cattle num bers will increase more slowly and in the area chiefly affected by the drought several good years will be required to offset the financial loss es of farmers during the past sea son. FRANK O. BLACK, Agricultural Statistician. Columbia, S. C., July 12, 1935. x Pinckney Gives New WPA Setup GREENVILLE IS CHOSEN HEAD QUARTERS FOR FOURTH WPA DISTRICT COLUMBIA, July 13.—Location of district headquarters for the works progress administration in South Carolina, and officers of the execu tive staff to carry out the WPA pro gram were announced yesterday by Lawrence M. Pinckney, works pro gress administrator. The state is to be divided into four districts, as follows: District No. 1: Headquarters at Florence; director, E. R. Mclver; chief engineer, A. V. Hooks of Flor ence, who will have the title of as sistant district director. Counties in district: Florence, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Marion, Horry, Williams burg, Darlington and Georgetown. District No. 2: Headquarters in Charleston; director, E. P. Grice; chief engineer, John McCrady, with cus, Greenville; chief engineer, W. D. Neeves, with title of assistant district director. Counties in dis trict: Greenville, Spartanburg, Oconee, Pickens, Abbeville, McCor mick, Saluda, Edgefield,. Anderson, Cherokee, Union, Laurens, Green wood and Newberry. Executive Staff Mr. Pinckney announced the fol lowing appointments to the state headquarters staff: Assistant state administrator, R. A. Rouse, former mayor of Cheraw; deputy state administrator, J. D. Fulp of Greenwood; state director of finance, Paul R. Griffin of Co lumbia. State director of personnel, W. C. Sorrels, a former South Carolinian detailed temporarily to the WPA office from the personnel division of the civil service commission at Washington. State director of the division of projects, Frank H. Haskell of Co lumbia; state director of labor management, Furman B. Rogers of Spartanburg; women’s work con sultant, Mrs. Margaret D. Davis of Columbia, and director of intake and certification, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Barnwell of Sumter. Administrator Pinckney an nounced that all appointments would be made “purely from a standpoint of efficiency and quali fications” and that personal or political recommendations “would not be considered.” He said he was “anxious to get the program going as rapidly as possible in order that the people may be taken from the relief rolls and put to work.” no more application blanks would be sent out at present: NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of a war rant issued to me by the County Treasurer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described property to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1932, 1933 and 1934, and the same will be sold to the highest oidder for cash on salesday in August, 1935, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Carolina, and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the payment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: The property of Mrs. V. D. Lee, and is described as follows: One Hundred (100) Acres of land, more or less, situated, lying and being in School District No. 6, McCormick County, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by land of W. O. Brown; east by Long Cane Creek; south by land of J. S. McClinton; west by lands of Miss Jane Shanks and J. H. McClinton, and probably others. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector, McCormick County. McCormick. S. C., July 16, 1935.—3t. Dacus Declines WPA Position The State, July 16. Lawrence M. Pinckney, state works progress administrator, an nounced last night that Dr. R. M. Dacus of Greenville, a member of the state highway commission, had declined an appointment as direc tor of District 4 in the state WPA set-up and that Capt. Guy B. Fos ter of Greenville had been named to the post. Mr. Pinckney said Doctor Dacus explained in a letter that he would be unable to accept the appoint NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of a warrant issued to me by the County Treas urer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described prop erty to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934, and the same will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on salesday in August, 1935, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Caro lina, and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the payment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: The property of the Estate of Mrs. J. S. Britt, and is described as follows: One Hundred Thirty-Four (134) Acres of land, more or less, situ ated, lying and being in School District No. 6, McCormick County, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by land of A. K. Britt; east by land of C. J. Britt; south by land of Mrs. Minie Britt; west by land of Mrs. Mattie Watson, and probably others. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector, McCormick County. McCormick, S. C., July 16, 1935.—3t. They're calling “Our Little Girl,” Shirley Temple’s greatest. This Fox Film picture, showing at the Holly wood Theatre Monday and Tues day, July 22nd and 23rd, has been lauded everywhere. In this production, the first since the child screen wonder received the special award from the Acad emy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she gives a powerful por trayal of a child’s heartbreak. When those she loves grope in the shadows of misunderstanding, Shirley meets the crisis with a brave smile. She plays at being happy to rebuild a shattered dream. “Our Little Girl” is a poignant story, tenderly conceived, freighted with heart-tugs yet leaving the audiences, from all reports, strangely happy. Hundreds of novels and short stories in print and typescript were read before this particular story was selected for Shirley. When the list thinned down to thirty, tho producer discovered that “Our Little Girl” was ready-made for the adorable star. It tells the story of a happy fam ily disunited by suspicions, threat ened with wreckage, and of a lit tle girl who runs away from her home when she finds all the joy and safeguards gone. Alone Shirley Temple suffices to make any picture popular. But Pro ducer Edward Butcher has loaded “Our Little Girl” with talent. Rose mary Ames plays Shirley’s mother; Joel Mccrea, who needs no intro duction, plays her father. “Poodles” Hanneford, world- famous clown and circus rider has an amazing act; he clowns, rides, falls, and thrills in the circus se quence which has everything com plete from the wild animals to the big three-ring tent. Lyle Talbot, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Jack Donohue, continue the list of fine supporting cast. The direction is by John Robertson. When Irvin S. Cobb presented Shirley with the Academy Award, he said: “You have made more people happy and made more chil dren laugh than any child your age in the history of the world!” “Our Little Girl” is said to sus tain this encomium. 666 Liquid - Tablets Drops Salve - Nose checks MALARIA in 3 days COLDS first day. TONIC AND LAXATIVE