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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, March 14, 1940 Can You Prove How Old You Are? Documentary evidence of a person’s age, ranging from a birth certificate to a license to drive an nutomoblle, is going to have an Increasing importance as the Fed eral Government’s old-age and s urvivors insurance program de velops, according to Miss Martha Pressiy, manager of the Social Se curity Board’s field office at Greenwood. Miss Pressly explain ed that the Government will in sist upon the proof of one’s declaration of age before insur- mce payments are made. The law provides that monthly payments may be made to workers who have leached the age of 65 if they qual ify, but Miss Pressly asserted it win accept no loose statements ns to age. Similarly, the age of a worker’s wife or widow or of his children must be proved before, they can receive any of the supplementary benefits provided under the re vised Social Security Act. “But a claiment will be given every opportunity,” said Miss Pressly “to supply the required nroof. The applicant probably will be asked if he has a birth certifi cate. As a matter of fact, birth certificates of persons now 65 "’ears old or more are compara- -threly scarce. In only eight States nnd the District of Columbia had the practice of keeping birth cer tificates been adopted before 1874. The District of Columbia began the keeping of such records in 1874; Florida in 1865; Massa chusetts in 1850; Michigan in 1867; New Hampshire in 1640; New Jer sey in 1848; Rhode Island in 1853; Vermont in 1857; and Virginia in 1853.” The keeping of birth records in South Carolina, Miss Pressly said, v;as begun in 1915. Miss Pressly added that in the event an applicant is unable to produce a birth certificate or a church record, such as the baptis mal record, he may submit the rtatements of the doctor or mid wife with personal knowledge of his birth. But recognizing that this type of evidence would, in most cases, be as unavailable to a man of 65 as a birth certificate or a baptismal record, the Board’s representative will suggest that he turn to the old family Bible. He may find there, inscribed on one of those ornately enscrolled pages designed for the recording of family records, the date and place of his birth. “If however, it becomes evident .the claimant cannot produce a *Lirth certificate, a church record cr similar document,” Miss Pressly &dded, “he may submit the state ments of two other persons who have personal knowledge that he was bom on a certain date, but xlnce such persons will be even older than the claimant, the ob taining of this evidence is ad mittedly difficult. If it cannot be ‘'produced, the Board will open the way to the presentation of a mis cellaneous lot of evidence, which, when viewed as a whole, may be regarded as sufficient. This type x>f evidence will include public documents of varying nature, such ns a man’s army discharge, school xecords, or marriage certificates.” x Augusta Fat Cattle Show And Sale Why Not Serve Pork Today? VO BE HELD ON APRIL 2ND AND -3RD PROMISES TO BE BEST YET Augusta, Ga., March 11.—^Ap proximately one hundred head of cattle have been entered already for the Fourth Annual Augusta Fat Cattle Show and Sale, to be rtaged on April 2 and 3, it is an nounced by D. H. Johnson, presi dent of the Twin States Livestock association, sponsor of the show- rale. “This year’s show promises to be the biggest and best event of its kind ever held in this section of the South,” commented Mr. John son. A colorful feature of the Augus ta Fat Cattle Show will be an address on Tuesday evening, April 2, by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, who is deeply in terested in the South’s agricul tural problems, and who spent a part of his young manhood as a cowpuncher on a Western cattle ranch. Mayor LaGuardia’s address will be delivered at the new Municipal auditorium, and will be free to the public, so that 5,000 or more persons may hear him. He will speak at 8 p. m. Is there anything which smells better than a pork roast while it is cooking or anything which tastes better than a pork roast when it is done? Don’t you wish you had one right now ready to eat? Maybe you prefer your pork in some other way. How about pork chops, or a baked ham or shoulder or maybe spare-ribs or sausages? They are all delicious and the grand thing is that right now you can get them at such low cost. Pork is about the only food which has recently come down in price so you can indulge your taste for it without damage to your pocketbook. There is another thing on this pork question which is of general interest. There is a wide spread Idea that pork is very difficult to digest. The truth is that pork is a little slower of digestion than other meats with less fat but it is not difficult of digestion for any normal person. Pork fat, because it has a lower melting point, is more readily digested than the fat found in any other animal. Pork should always be thorough ly cooked before it is eaten. Rare or undercooked pork is not safe to eat. Pork should be cooked at a very moderate temperature and for a longer time than other meats. Any cut of pork is easy to roast because it is usually tender, and it is fat enough to be self basting. The pork loin roast is especially easy to handle and may be pur chased in a size to suit almost any family. Fresh ham also makes an excellent roast, and even the shoulder is easy to carve when the bone is removed and replaced by a savory stuffing. If paired sec tions of spare ribs are filled with an apple stuffing, they are also delicious when roasted. If you’re getting a fresh ham, have the butcher leave the rind on, in order to have it cook more quickly and shrink less. This rind is easily removed after cook ing. But a boned' stuffed shoulder will be more attractive if the skin is removed before cooking. If you’re getting a loin roast or spare ribs, have the butcher crack the bones to simplify carving. Good roasts are tender through out, with a brown crust on the outside and juicy meat inside. The first step in preparing a pork roast for the oven is to wipe it with a damp cloth. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper and dust it with flour, if you like. Then place the roast on the rack of a shallow open roasting pan without water. (The ham goes rind side up, and the loin goes fat side up). Pork is usually roasted at a con stant moderate temperature, with out searing. Use a temperature of 325 to 350 degrees F.—with the more moderate temperature for larger roasts, which require longer cooking to get done in the center. From 25 to 30 minutes per pound is the rule for roasting a fresh ham, and 30 minutes per pound for a medium-sized loin roast. But it takes longer to roast the chunky shoulder, especially when it is stuffed. About 3 1-2 hours is required for a stuffed shoulder, weighing about 4 pounds, and it is a good idea to turn this cut occasionally for even cooking. Stuffed spareribs are usually done in 1 1-2 hours. For variety in pork dishes, there are pork chops—stuffed or plain. Other favorites are steaks from the pork shoulder or ham, and fillets from the pork tenderloin. These three cuts are usually browned and then cooked slowly in a covered frying pan on top of the stove. After browning, 20 minutes is usually the time re quired to finish the cooking when the pork is cut one-half inch thick. Thicker cuts will require more time. You may prefer to brown the chops on top of the stove and then cover the pan and finish by bak ing them in a moderate oven (350 to 375 degrees F.) If the chops are baked in a little milk or can ned mushroom, soup, there will be a fine gravy to serve with them. Or, you might like to add tomatoes to make a sauce that will give a pleasing change in flavor. Because apples combine so well with pork, a platter of stuffed chops and apples is always a favorite. Simply cut pockets in thick chops, brown them, and fill with any well-seasoned stuffing. Fasten the edges together with toothpicks and lay the stuffed chops on a rack in a baking dish. Core the apples and cut them in half, but do not peel. Place a half apple on top of each chop, with the cut side down. Cover the pan and bake in a moderate oven for about 45 minutes, or until the meat is tender. Any tart fruit is a good accom paniment for pork. Try using pineapple, dried apricots, peaches, cranberries, or oranges. Among the vegetables that combine well with pork are squash, sweet pota toes, cabbage, sauer kraut, peppers and celery. Matilda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. X Lawns The front lawn is the most im portant single feature of the home grounds. A large house needs a large lawn; a small house a small lawn. It should be open to sug gest freedom and space. Separate the front lawn from side and rear or service lawns by / shrubbery borders, hedges or vine-covered lattice. The size of the lawn should be practical for upkeep. Keep the front lawn broad and open in the center. It should not be broken or cluttered with mean ingless plantings and flower beds. Keep walks and drives near edges of lawn or let them cross it direct ly, leaving as far as possible a broad unbroken front lawn. Leave natural curves and slopes as far as practicable but grade land sufficiently to get proper drainage and a smooth surface that can be easily mowed. Where natural soil is very in fertile or sandy or where top soil has been removed, spread good topsoil, thoroughly disked or properly mixed with the upper soil. It is advisable to grow and turn under soil improvement crops such as legumes, winter rye, etc., during the winter and summer preceeding sowing of grass. Select a half pint sample of soil from your lawn, securing from three or four locations of the lawn. Remove one or two inches of topsoil before taking sample, send into Clemson and have acidity tests made. A report on this sample will tell you if liming of soil is necessary, also the a- mount of limestone or basic slag to use for the size plot to be treated. Heavy fertilizer for lawns is es sential. An 8-4-4 or 7-5-5 fertili zer for general use will be satis- factor3 r when applied at the rate of 40 to 60 pounds per thousand square feet. This fertilizer should be broadcast and worked well into the soil before the seed are sown and preferably two to four weeks before seeding. Lawn grasses re quire relatively large amounts of nitrogen for luxuriant and healthy growth. In addition to the complete fertilizer, the lawns should be top-dressed with nitro gen, such as nitrate of soda at the rate of three to five pounds for the size mentioned above. Heavy applications of nitrate of soda may cause burning of lawn plants. Sow the seed in the morning or evening of a day when there is no wind and Just before a rain, if possible. . ' Use plenty of seed. Thick seed ing helps to choke out weeds and to produce a quick bed. * Plant in the following manner to secure and even stand: sow one-half the amount of seed in parallel strips until the entire T awn is covered; sow remaining one-half of the seed in strips at right angles to the first half sown. After sowing, roll the surface; if not practical, drag carefully or rake lightly. Matilda Bell, ' County Home Dem. Agent. x Conservation Farming Remaking Smith’s Land York, March 4.—Success in pro ducing home-grown seed for per ennial hay crops has given J. Forest Smith, of York, a new con- ceotion of the possibilities of con servation farming on his farm ? ' the Rock Hill erosion-control are . Smith reports harvesting pounds of lespedeza juncea sc ' fr r>m a one-acre seed patch a” 290 pounds of lespedeza serk *' ’'eed from a three-fourths-a' " seed patch this fall, after iuncea had been mowed once hay and the sericea had be n mowed twice. With seed produced from t v ' " two patches he expects to pi' 20 to 25 acres of these two cr- ' *. this year. Most of the plantk will be made in perennial strips i the steeper portions of his cu - vated land, where the eros i problem is especially severe, he savs. In this wav. Smith hopes to p - >- duce most of his hay on perennial contour strips that will protect his better row-crop land, and to turn under for soil improvement the annual lespedeza used in rota- j tions. TODAY and FRANK PARKER STOCKBRID6EI CENSUS 133,000,000 Within the next five or six weeks the Federal Census taker will call at your home and ask you a lot of personal questions which he or she will write down in a big loose-leaf portfolio. There are 160,000 young men and women who are being trained now to tackle the job of counting all the people of the United States one by one. This is done every ten years. It is required by the Federal Consti tution. The original purpose was to find out how many people there are in each state, so that the number of Representatives in Congress could be apportioned among the states in proportion to population. But a great variety of other information about all the people is now re quired and the census takers have tiie job of asking many questions which some people regard as im pertinent. So far as the actual count goes the Census Office already knows within a few hundred at any time how many people there are in the nation. Accurate records of births and deaths, immigration and emi gration, show that we have now just short of 133,000,000 men, wo men and children, about 11,000,- 000 more than in 1930. AGE confidential The most important question the census taker will ask is the age as well as the name of every member of the family. His in structions are, if a woman gives an age which is obviously several years too young either to guess at the correct figure or ask a neigh bor or relative. Since all answers given to the census man are strictly confidential, and he stands a chance of going to jail if he t~’ls anybody, the best policy is to tell your correct age. Nobody in the Census Office is permitted to disclose any facts about any individual from the Census record, except by an order from a Court or on the request of the individual concerned. After seventy years the records are open for public inspection, by which time few people care who knows their age' * Every day the Census Office re ceives hundreds of letters from elderly people who want to qualify for old-age benefits or pensions and do not know just how old they are. The Census records are ac cepted as legal evidence and thousands of old people have been enabled to qualify for pensions in this way. QUESTIONS earnings Among the questions the Census taker will ask you is whether you own your home or pay rent, and how much. Uncle Sam wants that information to help in solving the housing problem. You will be asked whether your home is wired for electricity, whether you have any roomers or boarders and what their names are. Every member of the household who is employed will have to tell what wages or salary he or she gets; every head of a household will be asked how much money he earned last year and what other income he received. The names and ages of every body who was alive on April 1 must be reported. If Grandmother died March 31 she doesn’t count, nor does the baby bom on April 2 or any later date. The commonest mistake made by people telling who constitute the family, they told me at the Census Office, is to forget to mention the newest baby, per haps still unnamed. Some questions will be asked of only one family out of every twenty, to give a 5 per cent cross-section of facts about such things as elec trification of houses and the like. PENALTIES jail If you don’t answer all of the i Census-taker’s questions Uncle Sam can, under the law, fine you $500 or send you to jail for a year. I couldn’t find out in Washington that anybody had ever been fined or imprisoned, but sometimes the Census man has had to go back with a Deputy U. S. Marshal to get answers from stubborn people, or those who did not understand the purpose of the call. In regions with a large foreign language population Census-takers who can speak those languages are t usually employed. The Government SEE STROM’S DRUG STORE FOR WEEK-END SPECIALS Ml rr- ■ ■■ ^ NEW BUS SERVICE Southeastern Stages, Inc., Announces New Bus Schedules, Effective March 1, 1940, Daily Service. Leave 8:45 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 9:10 a. m. 3:25 p.m. 9:46 a.m. 4:10 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 5:25 p.m. 11:55 a.m. 6:20 p.m. McCormick, S. C. Lincolnton, Ga. Washington, Ga. Athens, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Arrive 22:20 p.m. 12?: 05 a. m. II :55 a.m. 11:40 p.m. 11:30 a. m. 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If for any reason anyone does not want to give the Census man his or her real name and age and other personal facts, the enumera tor will furnish a blank form which can be filled out and mailed to the District Supervisor of the Census, under seal of secrecy. It is a mis demeanor, under the law, to look over the Census man’s shoulder to see what he has written about your neighbors,' but it might happen. ALASKA . . difficult The Census-taking begins on Monday, April 2nd, and is sup posed to be finished in two weeks, for Continental United States. More time is given for the island possessions, and Alaska takes more time than any other part of the Nation. The Census enumerators for Alaska are mostly Government school teachers and missionaries. They were appointed last Fall and started their count in October. Their work stopped for the most part when the Winter, freeze set in, and will begin again when the ice breaks up. They have until July to finish. Enumerators receive a basic compensation of two cents a name, in thickly populated sec tions. But they get extra pay and expense money where they have to travel long distances between families. Every square mile of the United States has been mapped by Census Office geographers into districts, each of which contains as nearly as possible the same number of people as each other. Some districts take in only two city blocks, others cover several townships or a whole county. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examinee Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. 656 Broad Street Augusta, Gu Says Small Trees Are Like Small Potatoes Clemson, March 4.—Small trees, like small potatoes, barely pay their way, says M: H. Bruner, ex tension forester of Clemson Col lege. Basing his statement on re cent investigations of pulpwood cutting in {second-growth pine stands, Brupcnr reports that the cutting of thrifty small trees proves undesirable and uneco nomical- The forester explains that, ac cording to the Forest Service, U1 S. Department of Agriculture, pulp- wood cutting should be confined to lowgrade material including limby, crooked, or defective trees, suppressed trees, and others re moved as thinnings, the upper portions of saw-log-size trees cut in logging operations, and worked out turpentine trees. The investi gations disclosed that selective timber management of second- growth shortleaf and loblolly pine is definitely profitable. It was found that the cut, when limited to trees financially mar ture because of size, poor condi tion, or low capacity for growth, improves the quality of the re;- maining stand. Furthermore, by shifting growth from trees of poor form to better trees, it assures a: increased volume and an improve quality of future yields. According to the Forest Service, Bruner continues, trees containing at least two sticks of pulpwood have been cut at a profit, but small trees do not pay. The great est returns for pulpwood have been obtained from 9- to 11-inch trees with pulpwood cut in thin ning dense young stands netting $1.20 per unft. WHY SUFFER Functional FEMALE COMPLAINTS Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vara table Compound Has Halpad Thousands 1 Few women today do not here some alga of functional trouble. Maybe you've noticed YOURSELF getting resueaa, moody, nervous* depressed lately—your work too much foryou— Then try Lydia E. Pinkhara's Vegetable- Compound to help quiet unstrung nerves* relieve monthly pain (crampe, backache* headache) and weak diezy fainting spells Cie to functional diaordera. 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