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•»!«.'»» l.' NEIGHBORS. OUK COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Thirty-Fourth Year
Established June 5, 1902
McCORMICK, S. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936
Four Pages
Number 42
Engineers Favor
Clarks Hill Plan
‘ Washington, March 17.—Immedi
ate construction of the proposed
$21,000,000 Claries Hill navigation,
flood control and hydro-electric
project on the Savannah river was
recommended by a special board
of engineers in a report made pub
lic today.
The' report, submitted to Presi
dent Roosevelt l£te yesterday, sug
gested four alternative plans for
the project, two contemplating
construction by the federal gov
ernment, two proposing coopera
tion between the federal govern
ment and the states of South Car
olina and Georgia.
The report explained, however,
that immediate construction could
be undertaken only if the federal
government assumed the project,
since legislative sanction would
be necessary in South Carolina,
and an amendment to Georgia’s
constitution probably would be
necessary before that state could
contribute to the cost of the under
taking.
The board estimated that by in
vesting $21,244,000, a property
“would be obtained having a value
of $31,655,000, or $10,411,000 in ex
cess of cost, equal to 40 per cent of
the investment.”
The report said the project could
JLleven WPA Project? Approved
For McCormick County
Washington, D. C., March 14.—Eleven WPA projects involving a
total expenditure of approjimately $122,516.00 have been approved for
McCormick County and have either been completed or are now under
way. Congressman John C. Taylor, representative of the Third District
of South Carolina, has been informed in a report on WPA activities
which has been submitted to him by Lawrence M. Pinckney, WPA Ad
ministrator for South Carolina.
While the report does not include all the projects which will eventu
ally be approved. Congressman Taylor stated, it includes virtually all
:completed projects and practically all which have been approved. Other
•projects are being approved as fast as they can be studied, passed on and
the funds be secured.
Listed below are the projects approved for McCormick County,
.Federal funds, sponsor’s funds and the number of people at work or the
number it is planned to put to work:
Active Projects In
McCormick County:
be completed in three years.
It was submitted to the president
without comment by Secretaries
Dern and Ickes and Chairman Mc-
Ninch of the federal power com
mission, who appointed the board.
Edgefield Baptist
Union Meeting At
Bold Spring Church
March 29
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Federal
Sponsors
Total
utes.
Description—
Funds
Funds
Workers
12:45—Recess for dinner, 1 hour
Repairs to schools $
1,723 00
$ 394.80
18
15 minutes.
Making garments
11,232.00
49
2:00—Devotional, by the Rev. O.
•Community sanitation
17,436.00
25,489.00
40
L. Orr, 15 minutes. <
School lunches
3,303.00
8,612.00
12
2 15—Sunday School Conference,
Recreational supervisors
Improve farm to market
9,136.00
2,000.00
22
led by H. E. Freeland, 30 minutes.
2:45—The Baptist Courier, by the
, roads
Extension of water mains
22,174.00
8,868.00
160
Rev. J. S. Dukes, 15 minutes.
3,789.20 *
1284.00 '
31
3:00—“Financing the Kingdom
Construct retaining walls
2,187.00
420.00
31
Work”, (30 minutes) by the Rev. B.
Promotion of general health 553.00
Recataloging government
429.00
2
W. Thomason and and J. D. Court
ney, each speaker to have 15 min-
records
1,620.00
6
utes.
Library extension
1,864.00
7
3:30—Reports of committees, 5
minutes.
$75,019.20
$47,496.80
387
3:35—Miscellaneous business, 10
minutes.
The Edgefield Baotist Union will
meet with Bold Spring Baptist
Church Sunday. March 29, at 10:45
a. m. There will be morning and
afternoon sessions, with dinner
served on the church grounds. All
of the churches in the association
are urged to send large delegations.
The following program will be
rendered:
10:45—Call to Order, by the Mod
erator, S. T. Strom, 5 minutes.
10:50—Devotional, by J. M. Bell,
10 minutes.
11:00—Roll call and report of the
churches, 25 minutes.
11:25—Minutes of the last meet
ing, 5 minutes.
11:30—The Orphanage, by W. E.
Lott, 10 minutes.
11:40—Special music, 10 minutes.
11:50—Offering, 10 minutes.
12:00—Appointment of com
mittees, 5 minutes.
12:05—Song, by the congregation,
10 minutes.
12:15—Sermon, by the Rev. G. W.
Gurley, 25 minutes.
12:40—Announcements, 5 min-
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE
McCORMICK, S. C. .
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
March 20th and 21st, 7 p. m. and 8:30 p. m.
LARRY BUSTER CRABBE
KATHLEEN BURKE
in
ZANE GREY’S
“NEVADA”
Also
Betty Boop Cartoon
“Little Nobody”
and
“Countryside Melodies”
MONDAY and TUESDAY
March 23rd and 24th, 7 p. m. and 8:45 p. m.
GINGER ROGERS
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“IN PERSON”
Also
“Capital Idea”
and
FOX MOVIETONE NEWS
ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents;
Children 12 to 15, 15 cents
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3:45—Adjournment.
Dr. Ellison M. Smith
Selected As Director
Furman University
Summer School
Greenville, S. C., March 10—Dr.
Ellison M. Smith, graduate of the
University of South Carolina, has
been selected as director of the
Furman University Summer School
to succeed Dr. E. M. Highsmith,
who resigned recently, Dr. B. E.
Geer, President of the Baptist in
stitution, announced yesterday.
Dr. Smith received his B. A. and
M. A. degrees from the University
of South Carolina and his Ph. D.
from Peabody College. He has also
done advanced work at Columbia
University, majoring in secondary
education.
For the past several years the
new summer school director has
been engaged in curriculum plan
ning work. During the 1934-1935
session he was curriculum director
of the city schools in Chattanooga,
Tenn., and in the summer of 1935
was director of the curriculum
labovatory of Mississippi State
Teacher’s College. Last year he re
turned to Greenville, where he
served previously as Principal of
the Parker High School for ten
years, as curriculum adviser of the
city schools. Prior to this he taught
summer school at Winthrop Col
lege, University of South Carolina,
and Furman, and served two years
as extension professor at Peabody
College.
Dr. Smith has already announc
ed several new courses to be offer
ed during the 1936 session of the
Furman summer school. One of the
outstanding features of the com
ing session, will be a new curricu
lum laboratory where individual
teachers or groups of teachers will
have the opportunity to study the
curriculum problems of their va
rious schools. There will also be a
class in community organization
Mt. Carmel JNcws
Mt. Carmel is beautiful tonight.
So many yards a mass of go.clen
flowers, red and yellow shrubs
peach, pear and plum trees in full
bloom and all covered with a man
tle of beautiful glistening snow or
the 17th of March. Perhaps it i c
Winter’s farewell, and we sincere
ly hope the fruit crop will not be
killed.
Mrs. Marvin Burts of Anderson
was a recent guest of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Curtis.
Miss Beffie Hester of Anderson
Co. Hospital spent the past week
end at her home here.
Miss Reba Wells of Anderson is
spending a few days here with
Mrs. D. W. Harling.
Mrs. Abner Lyon of McCormick
was a recent visitor in Mt. Carmel.
Misses Carrie and Sudie Cowan
of Willington were Mt. Carmel
visitors Sabbath morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter McKinney
and little Martha Jean and Mrs.
Carrie Connor were McCormick
visitors Saturday afternoon.
Miss Eliza Covin returned home
last Friday from an extended
pleasant stay in Pensacola, Fla.,
where she spent the fall and winter
with her sister, Mrs. Clara Majette,
and Miss Virginia Majette. The
latter accompanied her to Ander
son, and will visit in Mt. Carmel
later.
Messrs. L. L. Hester and W. H.
Horton were visitors in McCormick
and Abbeville Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Watson, Mrs.
Cecil Gilliam and Miss Virginia
Watson were Anderson visitors
Sabbath afternoon.
Mrs. Edward Hammond of Elber-
ton, Ga., visited her mother, Mrs.
Mary Smith, last Sabbath.
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Crotalaria Is Good
Summer Legume For
State’s Sandy Soils
Columbia, March 7.—Tests at the
Sandhill Experiment Station and
experiences of farmers are reveal
ing that crotalaria is a most valu
able summer legume for soil im
provement on sandy soils. Its long
taproot enables it to continue
growth even through dry periods,
it is pointed out.
The experiences with crotalaria
of two Richland county farmers,
as reported by County Agent D. R.
Hopkins, carry valuable suggestions
to other farmers.
“Tom Fry, Blythewood. and T. W
Motley, Pontiac, both of whom have
light sandy soils, have been most
enthusiastic growers of crotalaria”,
says Mr. Hopkins. “Both of these
men began growing this cover
crop three years ago on a small
scale. After seeing the benefit that
resulted in the crop following
crotalaria, they have become
thoroughly convinced that crota
laria furnishes them the means of
growing our usual cash crops, cot
ton, corn, and grain, at a profit,
with the use of one-third to one-
half the amount of commercial
fertilizer necessary before they be
gan to plant crotalaria.
“Mr. Fry plans to plant one-half
of his 150 acres to crotalaria each
year, having secured excellent re
sults on 50 acres in 1935 when he
planted crotalaria on his small
grain in late February and early
March, covering the seed by using
a drag harrow. Not only was this a
cheap method of seeding his cover
crop but it also served as a cul
tivation to his small grain. When
grain was harvested, the crotalaria
had come up but was not high
enough to be injured when the
grain was cut. The crotalaria con
tinued to grow through the summer
until frost.
“Other farmers followed the
practices of sowing crotalaria seed
in their corn middles at the last
working. While this practice does
not furnish as much growth to be
turned under, it does seem to offer
an excellent method for growing
a cash crop and a cover crop on
the same land in one season.” i
Bordeaux JNcws
Quarterly conference was held
here Sunday. Presiding Elder Gar
ret delivered a forceful message at
the morning service. Then the busi
ness session, and at noon a bounti
ful and tempting dinner wai
spread. A good sized crowd wa"
present and enjoyed this occasion.
We were pleased to have a number
of visitors with us at this time.
Mrs. L. A. Hoffman entertained
at six o’clock, in honor of Mr. Hoff
man’s birthday, the following
guests: Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cade,
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mitchell and
Mr. W. D. Morrah.
Mrs. Lucy Branyon is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Irene Link and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Harmon were
guests of Mr. Albert Gibert at
Willington Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bouchil-
lon and children, Blanche, Harold
and Carolyn, of Piedmont, were
visitors in Bordeaux Sunday.
It was a peculiar sight Tuesday
to see a snow storm with peach
trees and flowers in bloom, when
just the day before it was comfort
able without fire.
Mrs. L. A. Hoffman, Mrs. John
Lindley and Mrs. G. W. Cade were
McCormick visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. McIntosh
spent Monday in Greenwood.
Our pastor, Rev. Martin, had sup
per with Mrs. S. E. Moragne and
family Sunday night. Mr. J. C.
Link was a guest also.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker Herndon
and two sons of Augusta were see
ing friends and relatives here Sun
day.
We are sorry to learn of the ill
ness of Mr. Tom Lindley in Will
ington. We hope for him a speedy
recovery.
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Home Demonstration
Agent’s Calendar
March 20-26
Provisions Of New
Soil Conservation
Act Are Outlined
Friday, Office, a. m.; White
Town H. D. C., p. m.
Saturday, Girl’s Local Leaders
meeting, a. m.; County Choral
Practice, p. m.
Monday, Office, a. m.; Office
p. m. .
Tuesday, Office, a. m.; Wideman
H. D. C., p. m.
Wednesday, Plum Branch 4-H
Cluba, a. m.; Office, p. m.
Thursday, Office, a. m.; Parks-
ville H. D. C., p. m.
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Notice To Taxpayers
County Treasurer T. J. Price asks
that the following letter be pub
lished in regard to tax penalties,
which he received Saturday:
T. J. Price. Treasurer,
McCormick County,
McCormick, S. C.
Dear Sir:
In accordance with an Act of the
General Assembly, commencin?
Mcnday, March 16, you will add an
additional penalty of one per cent
making a total penalty of three
per cent, to all uncollected 193E
property taxes.
On April first you will add e
penalty of four per cent, making
a total penalty of seven per cen*
until April 15, at which time al?
1935 prop'.rty taxes will be placec
in execution.
Yours very truly..
A. J. Beattie,
Comptroller General.
Columbia, S. C.,
March 14, 1936.
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At The Opera House
Theatre In Abbeville
this summer which will study the
make-up and activities of the out
standing charitable and social or
ganizations.
Friday, March 20th. James Cag
ney in “The Frisco Kid”, with Mar
garet Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez.
Saturday. March 21st, Ken May
nard in “Heir to Trouble”.
Late Show Saturday Night.
March 21st, “So Red The Rose”,
with Margaret Sulla van, Randolph
Scott.
Monday, March 23rd, On The
Stage: 25 Radio Stars in Person,
Uncle Ezra Jones Barn Dance Frol
ics ... . On The Screen: “Boulder
Dam”, with Ross Alexander, Lyle
Talbot and Patricia Ellis.
P”” c e~ , 'atin n and imorovement of
r^fona! ^e^ources. reestablish—
a^d maintenance of fa-me"':’’
purchasing power, assurance r f
adeouate sunplies of foods an ?
fibe’-s, for consumers, and the tv~-
tectio^ of rivers and harbo~s
against the effects of soil erosion
are provided for in the Soil Con
servation and Domestic Allotment
Act, which was signed by the
President March 1. Provisions are
made for its administration by the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration.
Temporary Federal aid in the
form of payments direct to in
dividual farmers to assist volun
tary action by them designed to
accomplish the soil conservation*
purposes is authorized until 1938-
Commencing in 1938, grants will
be ijiade only to states upon ap
proval of state programs by the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Under the temporary plan of
Federal aid, the Secretary of Ag
riculture is authorized to make soil
conservation payments to produc
ers measured by (1) their treat
ment or qse of land for soil res
toration,.- conservation, or erosion
prevention, (2) changes in the use
of their land, and (3) the domestic
allotment of one or more designat
ed commodities. Productivity of
the land affected is to be taken
into consideration in making pay
ments measured by changes in
use of land or treatment of land
for soil conservation.
The Act contains a require
ment that the interest of share
croppers, tenants, and small pro
ducers be protected and ., ten
ants and share-croppers are spe
cifically included as agricultural
producers.
The 1909-1914 balance between
agricultural and non-agricultural
living standards, as measured by
the relative purchasing power of
the net income per person on
farms and the income per person
not: on farms, is the objective in
reestablishing and maintaining
farm income.
Authorization is included for tbe>
use of funds for expansion of do
mestic and foreign markets or for
seeking new markets or for the
removal or disposition of agricul
tural surpluses.
STAGE & SCREEN SHOW
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On The Stage At 3-7-9
MONDAY-MARCH 23rd
OPERA HOUSE t
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
Qn The Screen >
. “BOULDER DAM”
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LYLE TALBOT-PATRICIA ELLIS
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