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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 15, 1939
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Market Improvements
In Philadelphia Aid
To Carolina Growers
TODAYand
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Columbia, June 3.—Opening of
a new terminal in the Philadel
phia wholesale produce market
was hailed today by George E.
Prince, chief of the Division of
Markets, Clemson College Exten
sion Service, as “a move which
holds possibilities of great benefit
to South Carolina growers".
Mr. Prince said the establish
ment last week of a new market
for the receipt and sale of truck-
shipped, fresh fruits and vege
tables "is the best news that has
come out of Philadelphia in many
a day”.
“For too many years”, he said,
"shipments by truck from this
state have been sold at a disad
vantage to our growers because of
the extreme congestion and other
unsatisfactory conditions in the
Dock Street and Collowhill Street
markets, principal receiving points
for truck-shipped supplies.
“In 1938”, he pointed out,
“South Carolina moved 724 car
loads of produce to the Quaker
City by truck. This is a substan
tial volume, and we know from
studies made by the Federal Bu
reau of Agricultural Economics
and state marketing authorities in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey that
Philadelphia’s unsatisfactory mar
keting facilities have boosted the
cost of distributing our produce
there.”
As a direct outcome of a de
mand for improvement in con
ditions, a group of leading pro
duce dealers in the Dock Street
Market organized the Philadelphia
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Term
inals, Inc., operator of the new
market for truck-shipped produce.
Results of the first week's op
erations, according to Leon M.
Van Hekle, manager of the
Terminals Company, “proved that
this new market is doing every
thing we expected it to do”.
Protect your win
ter clothes from
moths by letting
us clean and put
them in our moth
proof bags.
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Cleaning Co.
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DR. HENRY J. GODIN
Sight
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Eyes Examined
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Professionally Fitted.
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HOOVER influence
When I saw the former Presi
dent, Herbert Hoover, a few weeks
ago in New York, he seemed more
interested in the fishing trip in
Maine which he was planning
than in anything else. I was glad
to see by the press reports that he
had good luck, catching the legal
limit of trout, big ones, on his
first day out.
I was also interested to note a
few days ago that the new official
map of the United States gives the
great dam across the Colorado
River, at Boulder, its correct
name. It has been legally and
still is the Hoover Dam. It was
pretty small politics which was
back of the movement to change
its name to Boulder Dam, because
a different party from that to
which Mr. Hoover belongs came
into power.
There isn’t a chance that Mr.
Hoover expects or desires to be
President again. He removed | Christians
himself from consideration in a
public announcement a few days
after I saw him.
But I think he will have a
greater influence in the coming
Presidential campaign than he
has ever had before. As the only
living ex-President, whatever he
says is listened to with attention.
No other member of his party can
be sure of getting on the front
page whenever he makes a speech.
Fair was from wool clipped from
a sheep on a farm on the Fair
grounds. It was processed, spun,
woven and dyed on the Fair
grounds and there made into a
suit of clothes for the Director,
Mr. Grover Whalen.
With all of the inventions of
new fabrics to take the place of
old ones, nobody has yet been able
to make artificial wool which will
serve the purposes of the natural
fiber grown by the sheep. I saw
some men’s garments in Italy, a
few years ago, made from a
synthetic fiber, but they turned
out not to have the wearing qual
ities of real wool.
We don’t wear as much wool as |
we used to because our homes
and working places are better
heated. But sailors, soldiers, cow
boys and others whose work keeps
them out of doors know that even
in hot weather wool is a better
protection than cotton or silk.
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For Best Prices on Cattle,
Hogs, ami Calves, see J. L.
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LUMBER increase
Americans have used wood for
house building from the earliest
Colonial days. There was plenty
of wood, it was the easiest ma
terial to handle, and a well-
built wooden house was, and is,
as comfortable and durable as
one of brick or stone.
The very finest examples of
early American architecture are
the old wooden houses of New
England and Virginia. Pennsyl
vania pioneers used stone because
there was no pine or other soft
wood available and plenty of good
stone right under the surface.
One of the oldest houses in
America is the central part of the
Stockbridge house in Scituate,
Mass., built by my first American
ancestor about the year 1640, per
haps a little earlier. Many other
frame houses along the Atlantic
Coast date back into the 1600’s
and are still beautiful and com-
ortable.
The great building boom which
is now getting well under way will
call for more lumber than for any
other building material. Ameri
cans still like frame houses, and
,he Untied States Forest Service
and the National Lumber Manu
facturers Association join in pre
dicting the use of twice as much
umber in the next ten years as
in the past decade.
EPITHETS punishment
It is human nature to call peo
ple names, especially if they hold
different political beliefs from
your own. I don’t remember any
body in my time who has been
called so many hard names as
Hitler and Mussolini are being
called now, unless it was the
Kaiser during the World War.
People’s expressions change,
However, when they think there
is a chance the object of their
abuse may be able to punish
them. When Napoleon was sent
his first exile on the Island of
Elba no epithet was too violent to
je used against him. When he
escaped in March, 1815, and
started his return to Paris, his
daily progress was reported in the
Paris papers thus:
“The Tiger has escaped.” “The
Monster has been three days at
sea.” “The Wretch has landed at
Frejus.” “The Brigand has ar
rived at Antibes.” “The Invader
has reached Grenoble.” “The
General has entered Lyons.”
“Napolean slept last night at
Fontainbleau.” “The Emperor
proceeds to the Tuileries today.”
“His Imperial Magesty will ad
dress his loyal subjects tomor
row.”
WOOL protection
Millions of city people and
others from regions where sheep
are not generally raised are get
ting a glimpse at the New York
World’s Fair of the material of
which their clothes, or many of
them, are made, and how wool is
converted into cloth.
The first cloth woven at the
CHURCHES mergers
I have long felt, and have found
most of my thoughtful friends
agreeing with me, that the cause
of true religion has been hamper
ed rather than helped by the
multiplicity of sects and denomi
nations.
The recent merger of the three
American branches of the Metho
dist church into one great body of
is a forward step to
ward a genuine revival of the
spifit of Christianity. So, too,
will be the proposed union of the
Presbyterian and Episcopalian
churches, which now seems to be
close to achievement.
When good people Stop dis
agreeing about non-essential
forms and doctrines and concen
trate on the few fundamental
principles of religion, to which all
honest people can subscribe,
though some of us find them hard
to live up to, this will be a much
better world to live in.
X —
Report Cotton
Grown By S. C.
Counties In 1938
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Cotton Ginned And Total Grown,
By Counties, In South Carolina
For The Crop Of 1938.
The Bureau of the Census an
nounces the preliminary report of
COTTON GROWN BY COUNTIES
in the State of South Carolina for
the crop of 1938. These statistics
were compiled in compliance with
an enactment approved June 14,
1938, designed to make available
information of the actual pro
duction of cotton for each county.
Each individual ginner reported
the number of bales, if any, grown
in each of other counties and
ginned by him. The “total grown”
for any county was computed by
subtracting from its “total gin-
nings” the number of bales grown
in other counties and brought in
for ginning, and adding the num
ber grown in the county, but gin
ned in others.
(Quantities are in running bales.
Linters are not included.)
County
Total
Total
Ginned
Grown
The State
641,679
640,343
Abbeville
11,680
11,393
Aiken __
18,597
20,094
Allendale
7,307
7,997
Anderson
43,698
44,536
Bamberg
8,804
9,255
Barnwell
14,596
14,671
Berkeley
2,902
4,803
Calhoun __ -
13,898
14,354
Charleston __ __
345
605
Cherokee
11,953
16,199
Chester
13,440
14,745
Chesterfield __ _
20,860
18,896
Clarendon —
15,446
17,128
Colleton
7,476
7,020
Darlington __ __
14,654
14,370
Dillon
15,191
13,725
Dorchester __ __
5,598
6,011
Edgefield
12,785
11,903
Fairfield
7,829
7,943
Florence
14,756
12,724
Greenville __ __
32,685
32,445
Greenwood __ __
8,207
7,881
Hampton —
7,140
6,849
Jasper _
631
888
Kershaw
10,711
12,957
Lancaster — —
10,757
10,166
Laurens
21,709
24,017
Lee _ _ -
19,792
20,375
Lexington __
12,152
10,949
McCormick
3,764
4,055
Marion --
4,998
5,255
Marlboro __
21,000
22,381
Newberry __ —
16,411
13,796
Oconee __
12,981
13,568
Orangeburg __ _
52,843
48,799
Pickens __ __—
15,937
12,809
Richland __ —
4,883
5,789
Saluda
7,672
10,105
Spartanburg —
48,440
43,781
Sumter __
22,016
20,023
Union
8,633
8,919
Williamsburg . _
15,306
15,463
York —
19,535
18,411
All other,. __ -
1,661
2,284
cotton on a net weight basis”, says
Director D. W, Watkins of the
Extension Service of Clemson Col
lege. “This has been long advo
cated by many students of the
cotton problem as a means of im
proving the competitive position
of the southern cotton grower.”
Director Watkins calls attention
to an amendment which has been
put into effect for this year in
connection with the sale of cotton
bagging, which makes it possible
for any ginner in the* United
States to purchase and use the
cotton bagging material which
late last year was authorized to be
manufactured. The purpose is to
stimulate the consumption of
mere cotton by encouraging new
uses.
The cost of this bagging is 45
cents per pattern, f. o. b. New
Orleans, at any time up to and
including June 30, 1939. De
liveries will be made through Sep
tember 30, 1939, or special ar
rangements may be made for de
livery for use at any time during
1939 season. A sufficient quantity
of cotton bagging is available to
cover approximately 900,000 bales.
Last year only 50,000 such cover
ings were used.
Some cotton merchants and
spinners have agreed to make al
lowance in purchasing cotton on
account of the lighter tare weight.
Among the mills which had agreed
prior to September 8, 1938, to
make such allowance in purchas
ing cotton wrapped in cotton v
46 North Carolina mills and
South Carolina Mills.
“Making such allowances, of
course, does not increase the cost
of the lint cotton purchased but
prevents loss in total value to the
owner of the bale so covered”,
Director Watkins explains.
A communication from Mr.
Lawrence Myers, chief of the
Marketing Section of the Agricul
tural Adjustment Administration,
Washington, D. C., gives this
statement and illustration of the
JESTER’S CASH MARKET
Phone No. 25
Main Street
We Deliver
McCormick, S. C.
When you are in town be sure and come by our
market and let us suggest your meat needs for you.
We will give you your choice of meats.
Prices are Reasonable, Meats the Best.
We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times
and are always ready to be at your service.
Best Steak
Per pound
Chuck Steak
Per pound
Best Veal Steak
Per pound
Beef Boast
Per pound
Special prices on Pure Pork Sausage,
per pound
(Money Back Guarantee)
Special prices on Mixed Sausage,
per pound
(Money Back Guarantee)
Special on Armour’s Dexter Sliced Break
fast Bacon, per pound
Armour’s Best Star Boiled Ham, Special,
per pound
Fresh Fish on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
We highly appreciate your patronage.
Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We
pay the market price for them.
“Mills having
million spindles
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Covering Cotton Bales
With Cotton Bagging
Clemson, June 10.—“If the steps
now being taken to establish the
approximately 10
have agreed to
purchase cotton wrapped in cot
ton on a fair basis, by allowing
for the additional 7 1-2 pounds of
lint cotton in bales wrapped in
cotton. That is, the six yards of
ordinary two-pound bagging
placed on a bale of cotton weighs
12 pounds, vfiereas the six yards
of 12-ounce cotton bagging weighs
only 4 1-2 pounds. If, therefore,
two bales have the identical gross
weight and one is wrapped in cot-
use of cotton bagging succeed, ton covering weighing 4 1-2
this will lead not only to the use pounds, then the bale wrapped in
of more manufactured cotton in cotton will have 7 1-2 pounds
this country for a new use but more lint cotton in it than the
logically to a system of marketing other bale has.”
JESTER’S GASH
SERVICE STATION
You can get service night and day. Stop by and
give us a trial.
We carry a full line of Groceries and Fresh
Meats.
Hot Lunches and Cold Drinks.
Sanitary, and a good place to stop.
Located 2 miles from McCormick on Greenwood
Highway.
J