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:< r • McCORMICK MESSEl\<*f H. McCORMU K. S< < *ROU!Na Thursday, May 7, 1942 = 3<S' '1 ’ Plum Branch News llBSdames George Dorn and W. M. Freeland visited their husbands at Fort Jackson last Thursday. Mr. William Mallett, who has been quite sick, is much improved at this time. Mrs. Lillie Langely is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Chandler, at Rock Hill. Mrs: A. P. Willis is visiting her son, Floyd, in Charleston. Floyd is the proud father of a baby boy now two weeks old. £ The deacons of the local Bap tist church held a meeting at the parsonage May 1st. The trustees of the Plum Branch have elected the following for the ensuing year: Mm Louise Banks, principal; Miss Lacy Brown, Mrs. W. M. Freelaiid, Mm Lee Martin, Miss Emma Bell Kang. Mr. W. B. Carmichael, who has served most acceptably as principal foi; the pdst year, and who has endeared himself to pu pils and parents alike, expects to be inducted into the armed ser vices immediately after the close of this session. The Home Demonstration Club held its monthly meeting this week at the home of Mrs. G. E. Langley, with Mrs. Langley and Mrs. *R. M. Winn as joint hostess es. Mrs. Ella Lankford is visiting Mrs. R. J. Boyd at Charlotte. Messrs. G. E. Langley, W. E. Crawford, Charles Crawford, Alon zo Seigler, and George Willis are working on a government project at Durham, N. C. Letters recently received from Mr. Richard Collier, at a far dis tant army post, say that his health is excellent, and that he is enjoying immensely the fishing and fish fries there. Rev. E. F. Gettys, the Superin tendent of De la Howe, will preach the sermon at the closing of the mum Branch school. May 10th. The service will be held in the gggr E NEW SHIPMENT DISHES aid POTTERY JUST RECEIVED ■.r •nd o dime Buy Tour Dishes and Pottery As Ton Buy Yonr Merchandise BELK WHITE LUKE DO AUGUSTA GEORGIA Eg — We recently purchased a number of Home- Grown, White Face, Corn-Fed Steers, for our mar ket and are now ready to fill your meat require ments with this choice meat from 2-year-old steers that Weigh from 700 to 900 pounds each, and have been fed well and grown fast into good, tender meat Phone in yonr order, or come and make your selection in person. We deliver. JESTER’S CASH MARKET PHONE 25 McCORMICK, S. C. ■"J» 'P C PLENTY OF GARDEN SEED IN BULK AND PAG ES We have a large assortment of Ferry’s 7 Seed in bulk and packages, including vario of Beans, Turnips, Greens, Squash, Okra, Tomatoes, Beets, Corn, Etc. Also Seed tatoes. Peas, Cane Seed, Etc. DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, AND PLANTA TION SUPPLIES. J. A. HAMILTON * Augusta Street McCORMICK, S. C. ce, Po-' school auditorium at 12 o’clock. Mr. E. L. Langley is attending the meeting of the Greenwood District Conference of the Metho dist Church held at Ninety Six this week. Mrs. Georgia Campbell and POLITICAL CARDS FOR TREASURER FOR GAME WARDEN I hereby announce my candi dacy for re-election to the office of Treasurer of McCormick County, . ... , , „ j ,, „ .subject to the rules and regula children, also Mr. and Mrs. Roy j tions of the Democratic party. Ridlehoover, spent last Sunday am very grateful for the splendid with Mr. Ruby Ridlehoover. support given me in the past, and Messrs. Marion Winn Robert ^ McKinney and Willie Miner left appreciated this week to work on a govern-1 RUTH P. DUNCAN ment project at Blackstone, Va. Mrs. W. H. Gaylor and two small children of Woodruff spent last week with her parents, Mr. and I. 1 h , ereb y announce my candi- T? r dacy for the office of Game War- mts. L. Langley. j for McCormick Comity, sub- Mr. Ralph Sturkey of Salisbury, Meet to the rules and regulations N. C., spent the last week end with • >e Democratic party. I highly Mr o T aturirpv appreciate the support given me oturKey. * * in oast years and shall be very Rev. George P. Lanier spent two grateful for your support and in days of last week in Gastonia, N. tiuence this time C. He was accompanied by his I W. O. GRAVES, two children, Charles and Alta: | FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. Emma Schwuchow of $1 Fine, Home-Grown Corn-Fed Beef John’s Island recently visited her L^ v h ^ b ^ 0 “ no c 5 n ^ p ™y en g’ t ^ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Willis. from McCormick County, subject The honor roll of the Plum to the rules and regulations of Branch School for the semester ° Democratic party. I greatly appreciate the many favors from you in the past, and shall highly appreciate your support and in fluence. W. T. STROM. just ending is as follows: FIRST GRADE— Jimmy Moore, Jean CresweU, Charley Ann Miner, Janie Gable. SECOND GRADE— Betty Jean Ream, Dot Wall, Dorothy Ann Strother, Elizabeth Wall. THIRD GRADE— Rose Marie Creswell, Vera Gable, Betty Ann Langley. FOURTH GRADE— Marylene Wells, Lillian Campbell, Cat^heryne Jennings. FIFTH GRADE— Louise Rice, Evelyn Wall, Montre Jennings, Faye Bodie, Mary Lou Seigler, Julian Freeland. SIXTH GRADE— Betty Fae White, Marian Freeland, Frances Bodie. SEVENTH GRADE— Richard Culbreath, Eunice Wall. EIGHTH GRADE— Robert Strother, Marian Campbell. NINTH GRADE— Bedola Campbell, Thomas Culbreath. X Honor Roll Of McCormick Public Schools ABOVE ^ HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY These are depressing days for our side in this great war. Wher ever one looks only darkness seems to meet the eye. It is where one doesn’t look that light is begin ning to penetrate and the somber clouds of discouragement to roll aside. Nothing could seem much worse than the continuous setbacks which the United Nations have suffered, and continue to suffer, in the Pacific area of warfare. And yet all the time we are being harried and' pushed around by the fast moving Japs—we are building up strength in that region which will eventually treat them just as they have been treating us. Strength which will some day be gin to gobble up their far-flung bases as they have gobbled up ours. Remember—they have been the attackers so far and -we have been the Defenders. The Attack er can concentrate his forces at FOR FIFTH SIX WEEKS’ PERIOD arLy given P oint while the Defend- ENDING APRIL 17, 1942. i Modoc News Mr. W. S. Clem is spending sev eral days in Greenwood with his wife, Mrs. Clem, who is ill at the Greenwood hospital. Sergeant Clarence Howie, Pvt. Bob Erwin from Macon were week end visitors to Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Howie. Mr. and Mrs. James Burnett of Augusta are spending this week with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Bussey. Mr. J. O. McDaniel from Augus ta spent Saturday and Sunday here with homefolks. Pvt. James W. Bussey and Pvt. Clarence Weeks from Fort Bragg were week end visitors to the for mer’s father, Mr. E. F. Bussey. Miss Sarah Howie of Greenwood is spending a week or so at home with her mother who is ill. Miss Kate Homes of Augusta is spending several days here with Mrs. Mattie Key. Sergeant Austin Clem from Camp Gordon spent the past week here and at Greenwood with homefolks. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk White spent Sunday visiting relatives and friends in White Town. x Sullivan News FIRST GRADE— Effie Banks, Christine Dillashaw, Rpnderson, Jan Parks, Jovce Walker, T^lmadge Brown, Hobson Langley, Jack Morgan. SECOND GRADE— .T’mmy Franklin, Billie Jaynes, Connie McAbee, Ruth Jaynes, Tommie McAbee, David Wardlaw, Mary Ann Cosey, Jimmy Smith, Margaret Dansby, Charlie Sanders, Marian Hardy, Betty .Ann McNeil. THIRD GRADE— Douglass Britt, Jack Dillashaw, Ken Dowtin, Pat Parks, Joe Thomas Seigler, Phyllis Chamberlain, Betty Frances Edwards, Patricia Price. FOURTH GRADE— Betty Jane Deason, Leonard Dorn, Bobby Sanders, Lillie Ellen Wise. FIFTH GRADE— Billy Creighton. SIXTH GRADE— Virginia Smith, Bobby Huguley. SEVENTH GRADE— T.ois Edwards, Gary Brown, Claude Huguley, T^^ima Edmunds. EIGHTH GRADE— Bruce Jaynes, Belton Harmon, Billy Freeland. NINTH GRADE— Helen. Fooshe, Bertha Mae Harris, Frances New. TENTH GRADE— Carolyn Hitt. ELEVENTH GRADE— Helen Willis. Tommie McAbee’s name should have been on the last honor roll published, but was unintention ally omitted from the copy pre pared for the paper. x er must spread out thin to fight delaying actions in the many dif ferent places against which the attacks may be launched. While there is one base left in any area at which we can con centrate a powerful force—we too can plan a campaign of attack which can function just as has the Japanese initial campaign. The conditions will be somewhat iden tical though reversed. At the time of this writing the French situation looks very gloomy from our standpoint. But way down deep in the Frenchman is a “time honored” hatred and fear of Germany, and a friendly regard for the United States which prob ably lie too deep for their politi cian of the moment to scratch. When the Allied armies land on the coast of France they will doubtless be joined by the major ity of Frenchmen of fighting abil ity, unless in the meantime there is some very extraordinary change of sentiment deep down in their souls. There is nothing much new in the fundamental strategy of war fare. * Of course modern imple ments necessitate certain changes in tactics, but the principles of at tack and defense, counter-attack and counter-defense, remain the same. When one side musters sufficient strength—it attacks; and as a rule the attack progress es until such time as it begins to weaken through attrition, or ex haustion, or because it has ex tended its lines of supply to the breaking point. Sometimes it se cures victory before either of these inevitables occur; but if it does not do so—and the chance of any such happening in this war is' past—the counter-attack is sure to strike when and where it is the weakest. This has already oc curred upon several occasions in this present war—notably in the German-Russian campaign and several times in North Africa; and there is no case in the history of extended warfare where each side didn’t get its “chance” at the oth er. There is nothing sure on .earth and there seem to be no fixed rules; but if the nations which are now allied against the Axis will stick together—the outcome of this war is practically a foregone conclusion. A preponderance of men and materials will win, and there is no better proof of this than the fact that up to now the Axis successes—with few excep tions—have been made possible by just that—a preponderance of men and materials. When the United Nations have as many soldiers in the field and the same amount of equipment as the Axis possesses, the tide will be gin to turn and thereafter flow faster and faster—with occasional backwashes. The enemy’s best sol diers, their “shock troops,” are a- bout used up—ours have hardly started. The enemy’s material sup plies are difficult to obtain—ours are almost inexhaustible. —Buy War Savings Bonds— Farm Guide For May Messrs. E. P. Winn and Marian Some Farmers Winn made a hasty business trip to Virginia and Washington last CailOppillg LjOttOll week. C" ’ey To remind farmers of essen tial farm activities in May, County Agent G. W. Bonnette makes these suggestions. Agronomy 1. Do not ruin a good stand of cotton by chopping it all out. Leave two or three stalks every 8 to 12 inches. 2. For a profitable investment make a side applica tion of nitrogen to cotton soon after chopping. 3. Plan to put all grain stubble land into soy beans, cowpeas, or velvet beans for soil-conserving and soil building crops. 4. Keep peanuts cultivated clean. 5. Plant seed patches for all seed needed next year. Horticulture 1. Sow tomatoes for July trans planting, collard and cabbage for August transplanting. 2. Mulch tomatoes heavily with straw or leaves to hold moisture and prolong fruiting. 3. Do not j manure and destroy cultivate beans while the foliage i places for flies, is wet. 4. Apply nitrate of soda Animal Husbandry to garden crops if not growing 1 Breed sows for fall utters, well. 5. Have plenty of the easily 2. Have all weanling pigs double- grown vegetables this year— tr e a ted for hog cholera. 3. See greens, okra, tomatoes, sweet po- ^j ia t the spring pigs are on terri- tatoes, cowpeas, peanuts, roast- j. or y no t infested with internal ing-ear corn, etc. parasites. 4. Feed lambs in a Insects and Diseases creep. 5. Use oats rather than 1. Secure boll weevil poisoning corn for the workstock. 6. Treat materials early. 2. Spray fruit navels of newborn animals with May Livestock Notes For busy farmers County Agent G. W. Bonnette gives these timely reminders on the proper care of livestock for May. Dairying 1. Plan for three tons of silage per cow. Plant Biloxi soybeans in row with corn. Where cane is used, plant alternate rows of cane and Biloxi soybeans. If Biloxis are not available, Mam moth Yellows may be substituted. 2. Plan for one-half to one ton of good legume hay per cow with silage. If silage will not be avail able, plan for two to three tons of bright, green-cured, leafy le gume hay. 3. Plant enough ex tra corn to supply eight bushels of corn per cow this winter. 4. Sow one-half acre of pearl millet for each cow for soiling or graz ing purposes in July and August 5. Do not graze permanent pas tures too closely. 6. Clean out the barns and premises to save breeding and jvirs. naiuiu V -y i Many of the McC ormick County trees for curculio, codling moth, D me tar to prevent screw worm Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sf nday With , and , ia '|farmers are reporting stands of and diseases. 3. Band apple trees infestation. W. R. Timmerman and famil . iarmers> are rcjjv t mnth hv Mnv is 4 « K/Tr T R nnH Mr t cotton—Mr. Monroe Simpson, Mr. lor codling moth by May 15. 4. Poultry W^'of Charleston sDent the .~stl R - M - p ettigrew, Mr. H. O. Wat- Control potato bugs with arseni- L clean and dislnfect the wppIc pnrf at home son, and Mr. J. W. Morrah are cal poisons. 5. See the count} brooder house each week. 2. Cull Miss Sara Jane Gilchrist c' *0-1 chopping cotton. This indicates age ^ lt a ^° u ^ lates ^ ^ lforn i atl ° n i all weak, slow-growing pullets Jlumbia is at home for several of recuperation after a tomy. Mr. J. C. C. Seigler of Cl'^ ton and Mrs. R. D. Seigler of Ede^ield were visitors in this Friday afternoon. Wlrn and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Winn and community Hazel Winn and Mr. and Mrs. Strom Culbreath and Thomas Cul- Mrs. E. C. Shuford, Betty Caro lyn, Ethelyn and Mrs. R. V. Shu ford visited Mrs. J. B. Gilchrist Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Strom Culbreath and family were dinner guests in [week end in North Augusta with the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. j vir and Mrs. George Briggs. that our county is getting off to ° n tomato fruit worm. 6. Get and se jj as broilers. 3. Cull the a good start. ready to fight the screw worm. non-laying hens and sell. Do Agricultural Engineering not keep boarding hens. 4. Re- Keep working parts of farm move males from laying * flock machinery greased or oiled, as when incubation season is over, this is cheeper than repairs. 1. Produce infertile eggs. Provide Check the mower, binder, or ol ? :r shade for growing pullets. 6. Vacci- harvesting machinery for r - natc pullets for chickenpox when ed repairs. 3. Be sure that 1 three months old. is dead ripe before harvec.i 13 ■ -- with' a combine, which usual is 10 days to two weeks after it is customary to begin harvesting with the binder. 1 re V itors in tlffe homes of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Reel and Mr. and Mrs. John Quarles Sun day afternoon. Miss Trula Winn spent the past Gas Registration Gas registration dates are for May 12th, 13t,h and 14th. set X Am