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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 22, 1941 Baptist Program At Coker College June 23 Through June 28 Under Direction Of Mr. J. L. Corzine. An outstanding program under the direction of Mr. J. L. Corzine, Director of the Department of Sunday School and Baptist Train ing Union Work for South Caro lina, has been arranged and is to be held at Coker College, June 23 through June 28. This will be the twenty-sixth annual session of the South Carolina Baptist Assem bly. During this period Sunday school superintendents, Sunday school teachers. Baptist Training Union workers, W. M. U. leaders, pastors and a host of others will be privileged to observe in labora tories where a Sunday school, a vacation Bible school, a Baptist Training Union, an enlargement campaign and a Woman’s Mis sionary Society will be conducted on a “show me basis.” Aside from this there will be noon day and evening lecture periods, the lectures being given by outstanding men from many parts of our nation. There will also be classes in ad ministration for general workers in the churches. The pastors will also have a school during the en tire week. Large attendance is expected. For detailed programs, write Mr. J. L. Corzine, 1301 Hampton Street, Columbia, S. C. -xx- Kudzu Good Grazing Needs Proper Care Clemson, May 19.—Kudzu is a rood grazing plant, but it will not ctand as close grazing as the g rasses, declares C. G. Cushman, • xtension dairy specialist, warning that overgrazing and failure to supply necessary. fertilizer can easily ruin well established stands of kudzu. Mr. Cushman calls attention to observations made by T. C. Maurer, assistant regional agron omist of the Soil Conservation Service, in South Carolina soil conservation districts and old erosion control demonstration nreas showing overgrazing and lack of fertilizer as the principal causes of failure to maintain good stands of kudzu. Maurer reports instances of good fields of kudzu being ruined in a single season by » vergrazing. “The value of a good stand of Kudzu”, Cushman and Maurer declare, “is too great to let it be endangered by overgrazing and lack of fertilizer. In recent years rome farmers have realized as high as $100 an acre from the sale of crowns for establishing new fields of kudzu. “Other farmers with well es tablished stands that have been properly cared for are cutting a- . mind two tons of hay per acre, which represents a return of $25 a year. This is equivalent to ap proximately 8 per cent interest on $300, and clearly shows that kudzu is an investment well worth : aintaining.” Blue Ridge Ranch Boys Here May 22 Thursday night, May 22nd, at 8:00 o’clock, the Blue Ridge Ranch Boys will appear in person in the McCormick High School Audi torium. Plenty of good clean fun with string music and vocal. Sponsored by the Epworth League of McCormick. Admission, 15 cents and 20 cents. xx Miss Jane Bracknell Participates In Pag eant At Coker College Hartsville, May 19.—Miss Jane Bracknell of Plum Branch, a sen ior at Coker College, participated In the May Day Dance Pageant presented recently on the Coker College campus by students in the dancing classes of the college physical education department as a feature of the annual Coker May Day festival. The pageant, which portrayed a medieval village celebration, was directed by Miss Aileen Moody, head of the department of physi cal education at Coker. Card Of Thanks NOTICE AUCTION SALE, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 10 O’CLOCK. We will sell to highest bidder the following items: One Molasses Mill and Pan, One 10 Horse Gasoline Engine, One 3 Horse Gasoline Engine, One Wood Saw, One Pea Thrasher, One Oat Thrasher, One Farm Bell, Blacksmith Tools, Farm Tools, Some Household Furniture, One Milk Cow. PLACE OF SALE: The house of R. F. Freeland, Deceased, near Plum Branch, S. C. C. L. Freeland, W. E. Crawford. We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our neighbors, relatives and other friends for their many acts of kindness and words of sympathy shown us, also the helpful deeds rendered to us, and we especially thank the doctors and nurses for their medical aid during the ill ness and death of our husband and father. May God bless each and every one of you here and hereafter, is our prayer. Mrs. Crate Brown, And Family. Revised Bulletins On Milk, Garden Insects Clemson, May 19.—Two popular publications of the Extension Service that have been revised and* reprinted for further use in the better farm living program are Bulletin 100, the Use of Milk and Its Products on the Farm, and Bulletin 102, Garden and Truck Crop Insects. These publi cations are again available from the county farm and home agents and from the Publications Depart ment at Clemson, A. B. Bryan, agricultural editor announces. Bulletin 100 discusses milk as a feed, production and handling of milk and milk products, and gives menus and recipes using milk and milk products. Bulletin 102 gives briefly the es sential life history facts on the various common garden insects and methods of control. Experts Study How To Spur Carolina Produce Sale liiilp :*>X'X>v>:vSx\ Prevent Trouble With Binders And Combines Card Of Thanks We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our neighbors and other friends for the many acts of kindness ren dered to us during the illness and at the death of our dear wife and mother; also we want to thank Dr. Workman for his ever-ready service. May God’s richest bless ings rest upon each one, is our prayer. E. W. Callison, And Sons. Card Of Thanks Realizing that I can’t see each of you personally, I wish to offer a simple “Thank You” to every one for your kindness shown me during my illness. Wylene Lee. txt Card Of Thanks I want to thank all those who have been so kind to and thought ful of me since my home was de stroyed by fire. Mrs. L. W. Lyon. INSURANCE Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance In eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK. S. C. Tax Notice Street Tax was due May 1st; last day for payment without penalty will be May 31st. A pen- nlty of fifty cents will be added June 1st, or six days work on the streets. J. O. Patterson, Clerk. McCormick, S. C., May 16, 1941.—3t. BUYER MEETS CCI I CD IN OUR DCLLLiN columns.... ST°Me %-CUFF Now is the time to check over binders, combines, and other bar vesting machinery to make sure that they are in good working con dition before the harvesting sea son starts, says Counr.y Agent M A Bouknight, calling attention to Extension Farm Machinery Leaflet No. 2, “Binders and Combines”. Binder and combine owners and operators should find this leaflet of great value in getting better service from their harvesting machinery as it contains numerous illustrated suggestions or* icpairs, lubrication, care, and operation. According to C. V. Phagan, ex tension agricultural engineer, who prepared the leaflet, one of the most helpful features of the pub lication is a “trouble chart” on combines. With the aid of this chart it is possible to locate sys tematically the cause of any troub le, or difficulties that may be ex perienced in harvesting of small grain. Copies of this leaflet may be ob tained from the county agents’ office or by writing to the exten sion agricultural engineer at Clem son. U. S. Marine Corps Opens Recruiting Station At Augusta The Poor Cave Man Had No Newspaper To Advertise In. But You Have !! o It has been announced by Ser geant W. S. Brewer, U. S. Marine Corps, that a Recruiting Station has just been established at Au gusta, Georgia. That all young men between the ages of 18 and 30 may now be accepted for en listment at that station from this area. Young men wishing to enlist in the U. S. Marines should call or write immediately for further in formation concerning the Marines, to Marine Corps Recruiting Sta tion, Room 318, Postoffice Build ing, Augusta. The requirements for enlistment in the Marine Corps are as fol lows: Height five feet, four inches, to six feet, two inches, weight proportionate to height and age. Educational qualification must not be less than complete gram mar school, high school and col lege graduates preferred. Char acter references are requested, no police records accepted. Applicant must not be married, have no de pendents. Must be physically fit in every respect and free from diseases. Minors must have parents or guardians written consent for en listment. The pay ranges from $21.00 to $157.00 per month, according to rank and length of service. If de tailed as a specialist to perform duties as a Chauffeur, Carpenter, Plumber, Clerk or other form p of work assigned specialists, one ill receive additional pay at the fol lowing rates: . Specialist 1st Class, $37.50 " id Class, $31.25; 3rd Class, $25.0 f th Class, $18.75; 5th Class, $7.50; *>th Class, $3.75. If qualified as Rifleman, $? "M to $5.00 extra pay per mont ’ If you become a specialized or • ili- fied gunner aboard a batti hip or cruiser, such duty receive an increase of $1.00 to $5.00 addi tional pay per month. U. S. Marines serve on land, sea and in the air. How to tie South Carolina’s fresh fruit and vegetable producers more closely to nationwide marketing campaigns such as that being initiated May 22 by the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and how to get all merchandisers interested in state produce is the subject that engaged these farm marketing experts and seventy others meeting in Columbia recently. Left to right, they are, seated, L. D. Holmes, Johnston; D. W. Watkins, director of the Clemson Extension Service, Clemson; Angus Bird, president of the Citizens and Southern National Bank, Columbia. Standing, left to right, are H. J. Williams, vice president, At lantic Commission Company, Rochester, N. Y.; George E. Prince, chief of the marketing division, Clemson Extension Service, Columbia; W. A. Campbell, Sheldon, and Earl French, national promotion director of the Atlantic Commission Company. Growers Seek Outlets For State Produce READ THE AD$ Along With the News ADS For SALE IN OUR NEXT ISSUE Columbia, May 21.—Fresh fruit and vegetable growers of South Carolina this spring are moving in on a program to solve their critical marketing problem, creat ed by record production of several crops, which competing states are sending to market at the same time as South Carolina’s produce is coming in, according to George E. Prince, chief of the marketing division of the Clemson Extension Service. The program’s basic idea is dis covery of what consumers in metropolitan markets want and transmission of this information back to South Carolina growers and packers. With that is linked an effort to interest the nation’s greatest food distributors in ag gressive sales promotion cam paigns for fresh fruits and vege tables, such as that being inaugu rated May 22 by the Great At lantic and Pacific Tea Company and to encourage other distribu tors to initiate campaigns that will help tap all 400,000 groceries in this country. “South Carolina’s farm market ing problems spring pretty much from six basic causes,” Prince said today in discussing the new effort. ‘They arise,” he went on, “from increased competition from other producing areas, the shift from rail to truck shipment, the use of tractors instead of mules which releases land formerly used for mule-feed production, changes in consumer tastes and demands, replacement of cotton and tobacco acreage with fresh fruits and vegetables and the advent of mass buying by chain stores and other organized groups reaching thou sands of outlets. “What we need and want is the opportunity to tie into such wide spread, well developed and effec tively promoted fresh fruit and vegetable campaigns of the kind we discussed Wednesday.” This meeting, Prince explained, was a gathering of growers from all sections of the state meeting with representatives of the Clem son Extension Service, the state agriculture department and the Atlantic Commission Company, produce buying affiliate for the A & P. One topic of discussion was how South Carolina growers could work with the A & P to have state products emphasized in the company’s stores nationally and also have them used aggressively in South Carolina outlets. Another topic discussed was the means by which state producers could per suade other distributors to initiate similar campaigns. The result of an all-day, round table discussion was a motion pro posed by W. W. Steadman of Ridge Spring asking D. W. Watkins, di rector of the Extension Service, and Prince to formulate a com mittee whose duty it would be to tie state fruit and vegetable pro duction up with expanding sales Refrigerators Buy a Westinghouse Refrigerator from us for $5.00 down and balance on small monthly payments. J. S. STROM \ PHONE NO. 76 McCORMICK, S. C. £A RL YVA CA T/ONS Greyhound’* + LOW FARES, Extra Fun Extra Sayinfl Beat the crowds to your favorite vacation spot—go now, go Greyhound—(or more fun,, for lest money 1 One Way Rd.-Trip Jacksonville. Fla $4.15 $7.50 Charlotte, N. C. 2.20 4.00 GreenviUe, S. C. -Z_- 1.15 2.10 Augusta, Ga. X. .65 1.20 / Strom’s Cut-Rate Drug Store Phone 95, McCormick. S. C. a G R EYH M opportunities. Prospective mem bers are now being interviewed and the list will be announced soon. H. J. Williams, vice president, and Earl French, national pro motion director of the Atlantic Commission Cpmpany, were guests at the meeting. They described the campaign and told how Caro lina growers could take advantage of it. “As Mr. Williams remarked,” n rince recalled today, “all we ’rowers down here in South Caro- ina need to do is to find out what housewives in metropolitan cen ses want and the way they want t—and give our produce to them that way. He said our quality is xll right. All we’ve got to do is to grade and pack better. “This sales promotion campaign and others like it are exactly what the fresh fruit and vegetable in dustry needs. If we can get other distributors to duplicate the A & P effort, take some of our produce and move it into great consuming centers to the accompaniment of expensive advertising campaign and aggressive store personnel contests, our growers won’t have to worry a great deal. With plen ty of money in motion and with the public everywhere more aware of their diet needs, of vitamin nnd such things found most in : c..h ruits and vegetables, our rr * .1 ’.rop productions will move : *2 eadily than ever before. So (•' ' \s why I’m hopeful we can get. a committee that v;i;I really work at this important job.” Preparedness Urged In Boll Weevil Defense “Farmers of McCormick. county who intend to use the 1-1-1 mix ture this year for controlling the boll weevil should immediately lo cate and arrange for a source of suppy of molasses and calcium ar senate”, says County Agent M. A. Bouknight. Where stands have already been secured, farmers are now becoming interested in the weevil fight for the season and are now ordering supplies of calcium arsenate and molasses ingredients of the 1-1-1 mixture. Previous experience has shown that the farmer can not wait un til he needs the materials as they are not generally available on short notice, especially the molasses. If the farmer is to be assured of a 0 supply of molasses he should now place his order. Three gallons of molasses and three pounds of calcium arsenate are usually considered adequate for the 1-1-1 mixture for an acre. In the last several years farmers have not been waiting for reports of weevil abundance before they lay in their supplies of material. More complete information on use of the 1-1-1 mixture md in direct aids in weevil control may oe found in Extension Circular 180, ‘Profitable Cotton Production Un der Boll Weevil Conditions”.