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i McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCOuMiOK. SOOTH CAROiliNA iSuruwy, March 3,- 1938 Camp Modoc News Camp Modoc, Feb. 26.—The 7 , r A h cf ~obrv,ary has proven a busy one for the fire fighters of this camp as we have been experi encing unusually dry v/eather with the consequent abnormal number of forest fires. During this period we have been called upon to fight and put out seven forest fires and have been called to investigate twenty-one others that turned out to be false alarms. These fires burned about 283 acres and caused an expenditure of 228 man days, also an additional 37 man days were used in going to false alarms. Every fire that burns makes the United States and her citizens that much poorer, so be careful with your matches, cigarettes, and fires. In spite of the large amount of lire fighting, road construction has moved along at a satisfactory rate. Prescott Bridge over Dry Branch has been completed, the topsoil work on the Turkey Road will be completed this week and the appli cation of topsoil to Prescott Road is to be started this week. The planting of some 70,000 seed lings as a reforestation project has been completed. This project covered approximately 60 acres which was not considered suffi ciently near enough to seed trees to be reseeded thereby for some time to come. Plans are in full swing to land scape the camp grounds, using shrubbery and decorative trees that are native to this part of the country. The camp will not only be thus beautified but will also harmonize with the local forests. During the week the camp was ■visited by Mr. Neill M. Coney E.C.W. Inspector from the office of the Director of Emergency Conser vation Work. We are glad to report that the infected hand of Mr. Marion P. Hamilton is responding to treat ment and hope he will soon have full use of it. Project Superintendent* Bodie. who was sick for a short time, ic back on the job. We were pleased that his illness was of short du ration and that he is back to give us his guiding attention. x Card Of Thanks obtained only from Washington. ty brakes, safety glass, large tires j Workers in Greenwood and near- and steel bodies, are in operation ! by counties of Abbeville, Laurens, today,” he continued. “Too many | NewberrySaluda, Edgefield and are costly to operate. Eleven mil McCormick may now obtain dupii- lion seven years old are licensed cates, upon proper identification at for operation throughout the ccun- the Greenwood Field Office at G32 try. Hodges Building, Miss Pressly ea d. “Many of these cars can be re- j “Reports from all parts of the placed during “National Jsod Car j V Mrs. F. T. Young and children wish to thank each and every one who were so kind in their minis trations to our husband and father, the two years of his entire illness, and to Dr. Garnett Tuten for his many kindnesses when in sickness and bereavement, and pray God’s richest blessing will abide with each one. Mrs. F. T. Young, And Sons, Sampson and Fred. txt Greenwood Old - Age Insurance Office To Aid Workers Who Have Lost Social Security Account Cards ; country indicate,” she explained, “that employers are giving prefer ence to job applicants having ac count number cards. This may be due to the fact that if a worker fails to obtain an account number, the employer must, under Federal Treasury regulations, apply for a number for this worker. The em ployer is required to include both the worker’s name and his account number in periodic reports cf i worker’s wages which he files with 'the Treasury. “We have been instructed to ob tain the home address and the name and address of the employer ! of persons requesting duplicate cards. This information is required so that, if it is found necessary, the Board can communicate with the wage earner or his employer,” Miss Pressly concluded. xx Exchange Week”—to the great ad vantage cf the buyer and cf the public—with newer, “up-to-dat2 care, without initial investment be yond their present car and on terms to suit the average pocket- book. These new cars offer modern equipment and are a good invest Ljlifhe White of The Na tional federation of Busi ness and Professional Wornoids Clubs, Inc. Commercial and industrial work ers who have lost their social se curity account number cards may now obtain duplicates from Social Security Board Field Offices of which there are 42 in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missis sippi, South Carolina and Tennes see, it was learned today. This service to workers who have lost their cards has been establish ed to help them obtain employ ment, said Miss Martha Pressly, manager of the Board’s Greenwood Field Office, Bureau of Old-Age Insurance. Formerly duplicates of account number cards issued in connection with the Federal old- age insurance program could be National Used Car Ex- ;e Week Sched uled For March 5th To 12th The order of the Knight of St. Olaf, the highest decoration in ment in comfort, safty and econ -! ^ orwa ^’^ ias recen ^y * :>€en ^ es ^ owe< ^ ; upon Mrs. Betzy Kjelsberg, who for twenty-six years was chief woman factory inspector for her govern ment. She has been created a knight because of her success in bringing labor and industry to see eye to eye. Mrs. Kjelsberg, who is visiting in the United States, has been a member of the board of the Norwegian National Council of Women since 1804 and president of the organization since 1922. * She has been vice-president of the International Council since 1924 and was one of the Norwegian del egates to the first International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919 and has been a member or president of the Norwegian dele gation to conferences in Geneva. omy.” V Candling Does Least Damage To Hatching Eggs After 15th Day Clemscn, Feb. 5.—Poultrymsn probably will get a better hatch if they wait until the 15th day or later to candle incubating eggs, says P. H. Gooding, extension poul- tryman. Tests show that handling does more damage to hatching eggs between the fourth and fifteenth Auditor’s Notice FOR THE YEAR 1938 One of two New York women wr i o i j days of incubation than at any change Week bched- other time. After the first 15 days in the incubator, eggs with live embryos may be shaken violently, whirled rapidly, and jarred sharply and ever to receive the rare papal honor still hatch about as well as eggs t* 16 gold medal is Mrs. Sarah J. New York, Feb. 27. A national i carefully incubated, according to Collier, widow of the editor of “Col- Marlow W. Olson and Theodore C. lier’s Weekly.” Pope Pius XI Byerly, poultry investigators in the granted her the medal “as a mark U. S. Department of Agriculture.! of esteem and gratitude for her ac- About 34 per cent showed dead em- tivities on behalf of the Catholic MULES AND MARES P iuu Have just received another shipment of good, young, sound Tennessee mules and brood mare*. All guaranteed to give satisfaction. You are invited to come to my stables on upper Main Street and look them over. J. L. SMITH McCORMICK, S. C. drive to sweep the American auto mobile industry out of the current recession and stimulate American business generally was announced here today by Alvin Macauley, speaking for every American auto mobile manufacturer and the nation’s 46,000 automobile dealers. The campaign, to be known as “National Used Car Exchange Week” and scheduled for March 5 to 12, is an outgrowth of recent conferences at the White House between President Roosevelt and leaders of the automobile industry, Mr. Macauley said. The President bryos after the eggs were shaken violently, jarred sharply, or other- Church.” Mrs. Collier has been par ticularly interested in the mission wise roughly handled between the j an< ^ ^ as done much for the Catho- fourth and fifteenth days, com- Near East Welfare Association. pared with only three per cent dead embryos in the eggs carefully The medal is in the form of a four armed cross with the head of Pope damaged ~yi a “ nS 0t the Haly See oa the re " It \jx uiifc iiia has been advised of plans for the growing embryos. incubated during the same period. Leo on face ail d the coat ol Incubating eggs rough treatment which was not severe enough to break the shells, usually showed broken yolk sacs, or ruptured blood vessels in the verse, wards to Papacy. s one of the highest a women granted by the 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 ont of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, d. C. •eitcuc u You needn’t be a G-man to discover that Greyhound is “Public Saving No. 1“—with fares only 1/3 the cost ef driving a car, much lower than any other travel way. a'Ju *Ti Uie Augusta” $ .90 Asheville — 2.80 Richmond __ 6.90 Knoxville 4.65 Abingdon __ New York __ 10.85 Washington Miami 9.C5 Tampa 7.90 7.85 L Strom’s Drug Stort Phone 95 j| McCormick, S. C. * Big EXTRA Savings on Round Trip Tickots GREY/HOUND * tie ^ campaign, which is the first co operative effort ever undertaken in which all American manufactur ers have taken part. The campaign is timed at the outset of the spring selling season when both new and used cars usually begin to move in greatest volume, Mr. Macauley said. It is aimed primarily at stimulating the disposal of used car stocks now in dealer hands. Once this is accom plished, a substantial increase in car manufacturing schedules and employment of wage earners in the automobile factories is anticipated. To support the campaign, Mr. Macauley announced, the manu facturers will spend $1,250,000 in newspaper, yradio and outdoor ad vertising and in other promotional channels. Two-thirds of the ad vertising budget will be spent in newspapers. “The motor car industry,” said Mr. Macauley in making the an nouncement, “is generally cred t;d with showing the way out of the last depression. “Today, the automebile manu facturers, their suppliers, the na tion’s 46,000 dealers and allied in dustries are launching a cimiia drive.” So far as the automobile industry is concerned, the most serious bar rier to business improvement i the large stock cf used cars m dealers’ hands, Mr. Iviac aiie. pointed out. “Until these cars can be sold, . is impossible ior dealers to nandi. a normal volume of new-car bus iness,” he explained, “inio mean, that factories will be forced to con tinue on part-time, and iduusand of men in the motor car plant and in allied industries .must re main either out-of-work or on part-time schedules.” The primary purpose of the campaign, he said, is to make known to prospective owners the remarkable used car values which now are being offered by automobile deal ers in all parts of the United States. “The present situation has re sulted In the best used car values in the country’s history. We are confident that used car stocks will be reduced sharply as soon as the public becomes aware of the fact,” he said. During the last few years improve ments have been made in motor cars and this improved transporta tion is available on easy terms to those who take advantage of the bargains to be offered during “Na tional Used Car Exchange Week,” Mr. Macauley stated. Too many unsafe, wornout, un- eLable cars, without modern safe- Tcsts were made partly to get scientific evidence relating to the popular belief that such disturb ances as thunder, the rumbling of trains, dynamite explosions, and earthquakes are likely to pre vent eggs from hatching. Certain eggs were roughly handled at vari ous intervals throughout the incu bation period. Still other eggs were placed near blasting operations which produced a shock so severe as to break the shells of as many as one-third of the eggs, and of chose that escaped shell damage, 67 per cent hatched, compared with an 83 per cent hatch for carefully incubated eggs. XXI Feed Fruit Trees In Early Spring I am constantly being surprised at the ingenuity, and in fact genius of women in expressing their tastes in the field of art. What impresses me just now is the collection compositions in shells recently dis played for the first time in this country by the Comtesse de la Mo- riniere of Paris. She collects shells from all parts of the world, Cali fornia, China, Australia, Mozam bique, India, and Zanzibar, and ar ranges them in groups, or art com positions, each of which is signed The shells are mounted in a specia. clay and the Comtesse never dup licates one oJ her art creations. * * * Having, at the age of sixty-six passed her Massachusetts State Ear Association examination, Mrs. Esther L. Bornstein is preparing practice law just as soon as she can get her manufacturing ousine&b which she established a year ago far enough along so that her son can handle it. She wants to dea. in wills and trusts, which interest Clemson, Feb. 19.—To supplement the fall application of fertilizer recommended for peach orchards, j ler more than any other phase oi E. H. Rawl, extension horticultur- j aw ist, advises a spring application consisting of 100 pounds per acre A woman mayor has been in of 50 per cent muriate of potash stalled in Coventry, England, for and 100 pounds per acre of 19 per rent nitrate of soda the first time in tne history of am ancient town. Coventry, you maj “These amounts of material recall, is the scene of Lady Gcdivai should be mixed and applied ride. Today it is strictly moder. broadcast in late February or early | and a thriving industrial center. March”, Mr. Rawl suggests. “If a heavy growth of Austrian peas be produced and disced into the soil probably no additional nitrogen would be needed. But if a rye cover crop be produced, or no cover crop at all. then additional nitro- en should be given as needed. In he past, bearing orchards with no ’over crops probably were given on the average the equivalent of three pounds per tree or 300 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda.” For young or non-bearing or chards the specialist says that the spring applications should not be broadcast but scattered near the i ces, within the reach of the r6ots. The amount of spring fertilizer for oung trees, of course, should be creased in proportion to the age f the trees to avoid injury or kill ing. Illustrating the value of a com plete fertilizer for peaches are figures of yields per acre in 1936 end 1937 on orchard demonstra tions supervised by Mr. Rawl. In 1“36 orchards fertilized with nitro- Another ung.isn «ov. T n o. history interest wliich has a vvoman mayo. is Windsor. ■ xx Responsibility and Success Each and every individual has a responsibility to self-success, and each individual has more: We have a great influence over the success of the other fellow. What you do, or what you fail to do, influences other individuals. You are an ex ample. Make it a good one. ■■■>»* -- Intelligence of Rank and File The degree of intelligence found in the rank and file of the masses is the measure of success of a democracy. HI t Varnish Known 3,0M Years Varnishes have been in use for at least 3,000 years. The ancient Egyp- tians were experts in the varnish ing art. Insurance Fire Insurance And All pen only averaged 47V£ bushels of Qtl,,.,- Kinds of Insurance In- U. S. No. 1 grade two inches in di- ; ameter against an average of 489 ( .j,„iiiur Life Insurance, bushels from orchards fertilized with nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash, and limestone. In 1937 the j corresponding yield figures were 12 j v.shcLj against 4GJ bushels. | HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. I will be at the different places m dates given below for the pur pose of taking tax returns, on Rear Estate and Persona! property, ex sept the kind that is returned to Tie Tax Commission. All owners, agents, guardians, administrators, attorneys, etc., please take notice, and make returns. Office, Jan. 1st through the 15th. Mt. Carmel, Jan. 17th, 10 a. rm to 1 p. m. Willington, Jan. 17th, 2 p. m. to 5 p. re. Bordeaux, Jan. 18th, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Joe J. Link’s, Jan. 19th, 10 a. in to 12 noon. Young’s School House, Jan. 20th, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Vernon School House, Jan. 21st, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. R. T. Mayson’s, Jan. 21st, 2 p. m, to 4 p. m. Mrs. Mattie Hollingsworth’s Store, Jan. 24th, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. E. M. Morgan’s Store, Jan. 25th, 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Plum Branch, Jan. 25th, 2 p. m„ to 5 p. m. J. o. Marshall’s Store, Jan. 26th; 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Bennett Mer. Co., Jan. 26th, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. Parksville, Jan. 27th, 9 a. m. to 12 noon. Modoc, Jan. 27th, 2 p. m. to 41 p. m. , Office, Jan. 28th through Febi. 28th. After Feb. 28th 10% penalty oni all who failed or refused to make- returns. All male persons betweeni 21 and 60 years are liable for polL tax. 21 to 55 years are liable for* road tax or street tax. C. W. PENNAL, Auditor. Treasurer’s Notice . The County Treasurer’s Office- will be open for the purpose of re- -’.eiving taxes from the 15th day or September, 1937, to the 15th day or April, 1938. All taxes shall be due and pay able between the 15th day of Sep tember, 1937, and December 31, 1937. That when taxes charged shalb not be paid by December 31, 1937, the County Auditor shall proceed' to add a penalty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not, paid on or before February 1, 1938* the County Auditor will proceed to' add Two Per Cent for February, and if taxes are not paid on or be fore March 1, 1938, the County Au ditor shall proceed to add 3 per cent for March, and if taxes are not paid on or before April 1, 1938, the County Auditor shall proceed to add 4 per cent up to the 15th of April, 1938, after which time the County Treasurer shall issue exe cutions for all unpaid taxes, plus 7 per cent penalty. The tax levies for the year 1937 are as follows: For State Purposes 5 mills For County Purposes 3 mills For Bonds J 14 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 14 mills Buffalo S. D. No. 5 4 mills Be’lvue S. D. No. G 10 mills 3. D. No. 7 00 mills Bethia S. D. No. 8 8 mills Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 __10 mills Young’s S. D. No. 10 00 mills Wideman’s S. D. No. 11 2 mills Milway S. D. No. 13 2 mills Robinson S. D. No. 14 6 mUls Dornville S. D. No. 15 2 mills Bethany S: D. No. 16 8 mills Lyon’s S. D. NO. 17 8 mills Hibler S. D. No: 18 6 mills Vernon S. D. No. 19 4 mills Plum Branch Si D. NO: 24‘ and* Bonds 20 mills Consolidated S; D. No. 1’, Parksville, Modoc and’ Clarks Hill, and Bonds. 18 mills All male citizens between the ages of 21 and' 60 years, except those exempt by law, are liable txr a poll tax of $1.00 each: " he law prescribes that ail ma’e 1 ‘ ’Tens between the ages of 21 and " years must pay $2.00 cammuta- i v tax or- work six days on the* Tic roads. "cmmutation tax is included irk :\;perty tax receipt. RUTH P. DUNCAN. Treasurer, McCormick County*.. v,i