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... ■ .-fv&trtJCwmx'r ~ ' McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOt'TH CAROLINA iniF* <r!i Mar«h 19, " 942 m Bichard Crooks, Opera Tenor, In Columbia Mar. 20 Columbia, March 16.—Richard Crooks, Metropolitan Opera tenor, . who • was scheduled to sing a in concert with the Southern Sym phony at the opening of the sym phony season in Columbia, Feb ruary 23, has recovered from the v»oid which prevented his appear ance there at the last minute. He had even come to Columbia and until late afternoon had ex pected to sing the concert. The date for his return has been definitely set and Music Festival natrons will hear him with the Southern Symphony under the baton, of Edwin McArthur on March 20 in Township Audito rium. Those who attended the Feb ruary 23rd concert will remember that the same tickets (perfor -nance number 5) will be honored GARDEN AND FIELD SEED See us for cheapest prices on all garden and field seeds. Giant Striata Crotalaria, Cotton Seed, Cane Se r ed, Dallis Grass, Field Corn. 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Smith, McCormick, a c. FOR SALE—Three mare mules, weighing from 1,050 1,100 to 1,200 pounds; all plow tools, one good two-horse Webber wagon; also cotton seed for planting. W. A. Winn, R. 1, Plum Branch, S. C. FOR RENT — Six-room dwell ing, with good well of water in yard, garden and pasture, 3 1-2 miles from McCormick on high way in Sar ly Branch community. t. p. Furqueron, R. 1, McCormick, S. C. at the March 20th concert as the symphony program was given to them by the Festival Associatior. This will mean that season ticke holders will have eleven ■ concerts this year instead of the usual ten, and that those who had single seats for the Crooks concert will have two concerts instead of one. In view of the enthusiastic re ception of Mr. McArthur, the new American-born, American-train ed conductor of the Southern Symphony, and the fact that the orchestra this year has been acclaimed to be better than ever before, considerable interest is being shown in this special con cert. Mr. McArthur is an old friend of Richard Crooks, having toured with him as accompanist. This will be the debut of the two, however, with McArthur wielding the baton. Looking ahead to the grand fi- nale of musical events for March, here are the dates that music lov ers will want to put in their cal endars for Columbia Music Fes tival programs: March 20, Richard Crooks, tenor soloist with South ern Symphony; March 27, Lauritz Melchior, tenor soloist, with the Southern Symphony; March 28, (Afternoon!) Zino Franceseatti, violin soloist with the Southern Symphony and State-wide Col lege Chorus; March 28, (Evening) Metropolitan Quartet, Columbia Choral Society and Southern Sym phony Orchestra. Part of the Saturday afternoon concert, March 28, will be broadcast over NBC Red network from coast to coast, originating from Station WIS, Columbia. The concert will begin at 3 p. m. and the broad cast will take place from 3:30 un til 4. High School League Begins Preliminary Contests March 30 txt- LOST—Cne high school ring with initials, “C. H. P.” Reward 4f returned to Messenger office. Garden For Victory Garden Work for March The need of tonics and other medicines in the Spring of the year is due largely to the lack of vegetables in the winter diet. If more greens and leafy foods were eaten daily throughout the year less money woul<^ be spent for medicines and doctors’ bills and there would be less suffering from many of the ills that are constantly with us. Green vege tables are valuable in the diet because they supply mineral sub stance and vitamins. Hints The wide-awake gardener has planted Irish potatoes, radishes, onion sets and plants, has his asparagus and rhubarb roots set out, and his English peas and spinach up. Make Plantings Now If Ground Will Do To Work- Potatoes—Irish Cobbler, Bliss Triump; tubers 4 inches to 6 inches deep in rows 2 1-2 feet apart; hills 10 inches to 12 inches apart; 12 to 15 bushels per acre. Spinach—Bloomsdale and Vir ginia Savoy; sow seed one-half inch deep in open, 1 ounce to 100 feet; rows 2 1-2 feet apart; thin 4 inches to 6 inches apart. Beets—Crosby’s Egyptian; sow seed one-half inch to 1 inch deep; thin and transplant to rows 2 1-2 feet; seedlings 3 inches to 4 nches apart. Peas—Laxton Progress or Lax- tonian; sow seed 2 inches deep in open, 1 quart to 100 feet; rows 2 1-2 feet; sow thinly in drill. Parsley—Mosss Curled; sow seed one-half inch deep in the open, l quart to 100 feet; transplant ■eedlings 10 inches apart each way. Kale—Curled Siberian; sow one- half inch deep in open; 1 ounce bo 100 feet; rows 2 1-2 feet apart; hin 4 inches to 6 inches apart. Mustard—Giant Southern Curl ed; sow seed one-half inch deep n open; one-half ounce to 100 feet; rows 2 1-2 feet apart; thin eedlings three inches to four inches apart. Make Planting in Hotbed— Tomatoes—Wilt resistant— Rutgers and Mar globe. Peoper—(sweep California Wonder, Ruby King, Perfection '•"-vto, (hot) Long Red Cay enne. Eggplant—Black Beauty. Make Planting of the Following vegetables as Soon as Soil will do: Mustard, Lettuce, Parsnips, Carrots, Onions, Cauliflower, Spinach, Radish, Parsley, Tur nips, Cabbage. Transplant in the Open Field— Cabbage, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprout, Lettuce, Onions (seed lings). Such plants as tomatoes, egg plants, beans, squash, sweet pota toes, etc., should not be planted until the ground is warm and all danger of frost is over. Matilda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. Columbia, March 16. — Thou sands of students in all sections Af the state will compete in pre- ’iminary examniations of the South Carolina High School League’s mental contest pro gram March 30 through April 2. The program will culminate with annual High School Week at the University of South Carolina April 29 through May 1 when final state-wide winners will be determined. Preliminary examinations will be administered in the individual schools throughout the state and will be sent to the University’s personnel bureau for scoring. The preliminary contests are in the following subjects: senior English, junior English, short hand, typing, history, French, general science, senior algebra, junior algebra, bookkepping, ge ometry, junior Latin, arithmetic, biology, short story writing, se nior spelling and junior spelling. No preliminaries will be held in the senor Latin division, the en tire contest being conducted in the finals at Columbia. Contestants in the general scholarship division, will compete in senior English and American history, in addition to a third subject to be selected by the in dividual from among French, plane geometry, senior algebra and biology. One of the general scholarship final winners will be awarded the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship to the University pf South Carolina, amounting to $100 per year for four years. At least five contestants will be selected to represent each of the League’s 13 districts in each of the mental contest fields except short story writing. In addition to the mental con test program, athletic and foren sic contests will be conducted during High School Week. Chares M. Lockwood, superin tendent of Lancaster schools, is secretary of the League. Prof. W. C. McCall, director of the Univer sity’s personnel bureau, is direc tor of examinations for the men tal contest program. Food Stamp Program Benefits Farm PeonP Clemson, March 14. — The issu ance of $42,396 in blue food itamps during January to South Carolina families participating in f he food stamp program repre sents a substantial boost to farm markets in the state, according to a report of the Surplus Marketing Administration, U.S.D.A., received by the Clemson Extension, Service. Clients spent $64,494 for orange stamps and were given additional food purchasing power in, the form of blue stamps, it was ex plained, total purchases with both orange and blue stamps for the month being $16,890. Studies made in South Carolina by the SMA show that pork ac counted for $8,967.76 of blue stamp purchases in January; butter $3,- 663.39; eggs $5,974.59; flour, meal, and hominy (com) grits $10,580.- 06; potatoes and other fresh vege tables $10,152.54; dried prunes, oranges, fresh apples, grapefruit, and pears $3,057.63. “The food stamp program is only one of several SMA programs which are designed to help assure farmers of a fair return for their all-out production effort, others being Lend-Lease and related pur chase programs, the community school lunch program, and the direct distribution program”, the report states. “These programs are also help ing to build and maintain the strength of America and other nations fighting aggression by making nutritious foods available to millions of people whose health would be endangered by the lack of an adequate diet.” -XXI- -XX- Plan Victory Gardens Studying All Factors Clemson, March 14. — Pleased with the growing interest in the Victory Garden program which he finds throughout the state, A. . Schilletter, horticulturist of the Clemson Extension Service, said today that a good garden must be so planned that foods needed for nutrition are produced n variety and in succession, for the family to eat fresh and to can or preserve any surplus. “We must keep in mind the tie- up between good gardens and good food, and between good food, and good health”, he said. The Victory Garden program, he reminds us, is a program of home-produced food primarily for farm families, and he suggests hat would-be city gardeners pro- :eed cautiously and consider all factors involved. On this point he quotes Secretary of Agricul ture Claude R. Wickard, who has aid: “I do not think the nation will benefit at present from a wide- pread, all-out campaign, intended to put a vegetable garden in ev- iry city backyard or on every va cant lot. Let me justify thai tatement—and qualify it a littP “The national supply of ferti- Bzer is almost sure to be scarce because many of the chemical. 1 which go into fertilizers also are needed to make munitions. -The same is true of some of the com monly used insecticides unr fungicides. But we don’t have s *cb large surpluses that we car y wasteful of vegetable seed, a v more than we can with ferfU:ci and spray materials. “To make efficient use of f he things required to plant gar' as. we need to plan carefully- '"ad give consideration to many ‘af ferent factors. It is ill-ac ed to plant a garden on poor r- 1— such as will be found in man;- city backyards, where subsoil fror the cellar hole has become the op- soil, or where fills have been ade with rocks, brickbats, and cin ders.” Our secret weapon: U. S. De fense Bonds and Stamps. Buy them! —ON PAY DAY, BUY BONDS— Sugarcane For Syrup Important Food Crop Clemson, March 14.—Sugarcane syrup is an important addition to the family diet of any farmer who can grow this food crop for better farm living, says H. A. Woodle. agronomist of the Clem son. College Extension Service. Syrup furnishes an abundance of vitamins and minerals neces sary to good health, Woodle de clares. Farm-produced syrup has. therefore, the double appeal of increased family food supply with little cash outlay and im proved nutrition and health. Explaining that decreased production of sugarcane for syrup in South Carolina has been due largely to the destructive mosiac disease, Woodle advises that a mosaic-resistant variety is the first necessity for success and recommends CO 290 as the most desirabe variety. Cultural suggestions for good yields, he says, include these: 1. Light sands and heavy clays are not desirable. Sugarcane is a heavy feeder demanding abun dant plant food and humus, a well drained but moisture-retain ing soil. 2. A mixed fertilizer, 1000 to 1500 pounds per acre, with most of the nitrogen from cottonseed meal and sulfate of ammonia eems best. 8 A legume crop plowed under early should give a profitable in crease in yield. 4. Barnyard manure should be used very sparingly or preferably m the preceding crop. 5. For planting open up deep arrows with a two-horse middle- buster five to six feet apart, plant stalks in a continuous line, nd cover one to two inches deep. 6. Early cultivation may be elatively deep but later cultiva tion should be shallow to avoid cutting feed roots. One to three hoeings may be necessary. Information on, making quality syrup and on plans for commu nity syrup mills where needed may be had through county farm agents, Mr. Woodle suggests. NEW SHIPMENT DISHrS POTTTRY JUST RECEIVED Mostly large Pieces Values jma, tO $1.50 for only mm .m and e dime Buy Your Dishes and Pottery As You Buy Your Merchandise' BELK WHITE LUKE CO. AUGUSTA GEORGIA Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. . No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. -XX- Veteran Gets Job; Hickey Does The Trick Columbia, Mar. 16.—A veteran wanted a lob, and a “hickey” did the trick. The story came to Felix W. Goudelock, veterans’ employment representative in South Carolina, from Miss Kathryn Lewis, mana ger of the United States Employ ment Office at Marion. The Employment Office, ac cording to Miss Lewis’ report, received a wire from an employer requesting t^° referral to him of an electrical worker. The pay offered was $1 an hour. Very little experience was required but the person to be hired had to possess certain tools, including a hickey”. Registered with the Employment Office was a veteran who had had 16 months’ experi ence immediately following the last war as electrician’s helper in a movie studio in California. The employer was contacted and a- greed to employ the worker if he could be referred immediately and could find the necessary tools. The worker started a search for a ‘ hickey” but if there was one in town it was known by some other name. The worker had an idea. He located a catalog of a well known mail order house and right there on blank page was a picture of the tool. Now his search was easier. He soon found one that had been unused for years, purchased it, and was im mediately sent on his way to the employer. Note: As a matter of general information, a hickey is a tool used in bending conduits, or pipes, through which electrical wire is run. FUEL WOOD HINTS The next six or eight months will find many McCormick county farmers cutting their year’s sup ply of fuelwood, which, next to lumber, is the most important woodland crop in the state, with a value of four million dollars an nually for South Carolina. Farmers cutting fuelwood might find it profitable to review the following hints from the county a- gent’s office: 1. Fuelwood should usually be considered as an important by product of successful timber grow ing. Accordingly, all fuelwood should be cut on a thinning ba- ::is, removing the crooked, deform ed, limby, rough, and defective trees; also the worthless kinds of trees such as scarlet oak, hickory scrub pine. Such thinnings give the trees of commercial promise a better chance to grow. 2. Dry wood has more fuel value than green or wet wood. It is a good plan to allow wood to air- dry ' fully four months before burning. 3. Some of the hardwoods have much more heat value than the pines. Hickory has the greates fuel value of our native species cottonwood is low in value, whih pine is intermediate. 4. Wood is much more efficient ly burned in improved wood-burn ing stoves. 5. A cord of hickory or oak wood compares favoraby with a ton of coal in heat value, when burned under the proper conditions. 6. Fuelwood is usually produced most economically by cutting e sticks in lengths 8 to 12 f • ! hauling to a central point, r id then sawing into *nal ler.-,-. with a power-driven saw. -xx- Buy U. S. Defense Bonds :d Stamps, the I. O. U. of the iced, White, and Blue! —ON PAY DAY, BUY BONDS— Report Of T. B. Drive Given By Counties Columbia, March 18—In spite of war problems and emergency drives during the 1941 Christmas Seal Sale, the people of South Carolina proved their interest in the national and state war against tuberculosis by raising $112,728.36 for the support of the 1942 effort to battle tuberculosis on the home front. This amount, reported to day by Charles W. Coker, State Chairman of the Christmas Seal campaign, shows an increase of $22,150 over the total of the pre ceding year. Five per cent of the returns will help to finance the work of the National Tuberculosis Association, Ninety-five per cent will be spent on the case-finding, nursing and educational activities of the state and county tubercu losis association in South Caroli na. The report by counties is as follows: Abbeville, $860.00; Aiken, $2575.- 03; Allendale, $406.38; Anderson, $4483.06; Bamberg, $1076.40; Barnwell, $915.20; Beaufort, $631.- 61; Berkeley, $650.00; Calhoun, $880.00; Charleston, $16,142.83; Cherokee, $312.86; Chester, $1910.- 00; Chesterfield, $2400.00; Claren don, $756.00; Colleton, $1445.74; Darlington, $5404.34; Dillon, $1290.42; Dorchester, $1393.83; Edgefield, $654.21; Fairfield, $1068.32; Florence, $4826.71; Georgetown, $1500.00; Greenville, $7404.33; Greenwood, $3200.00; Hampton, $542.19; Horry, $2080.- 00; Jasper, $256.69; Kershaw, $1709.14; Lancaster, $2700.00; Laurens, $3100.00; Lee, $656.55; Lexington, $1361.41; McCormick, $280.00; Marlboro $1562.74; New berry, $1442.77; Oconee, $868.73; Orangeburg, $4159.00;; Pickens* $859.16; Richland, $11,300.00; Sa luda, $691.00; Spartanburg, $5924.- 00; Sumter, $2300.00; Union, $1750.00; Williamsburg, $990.00; Eastern York, $3166.75; Western York, $939.96. wi '/ V f */L .K The Poor Cave Man Had No Newspaper To Advertise In- But You Have!! <5 Primitive Methods Need Not Be ^Followed M. 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