Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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as. * /' • •• / - r .... •!•/*!I . McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SUl TH GAKOLIIN a Thursday October 7, 1943 • / -m FALL SEED NOW READY Crimson Clover, Austrian Winter Peas, Hairy Vetch, Seed Oats, Abruzzi Rye, Beardless Barley, Seed Wheat, Winter Rye Grass, Slue Lupine, Cattail Millett. Also all varieties of Garden Seed. WALTON SEED CO. Wholesale & Retail . Augusta, Ga. Pulp wood Shortage Acute; Chance For Landowners PREWAR Truck Tires and Tubes Passenger Tires 450 x 20 WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE Phone 127 Aiken, S. C. FINAL SETTLEMENT STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate Notice is hereby given that Jo seph Luke Adams, Executor of the «state of Mrs. Kate Middleton Adams, deceased, has this day made application unto me for a final accounting and discharge ns such Executor, and the 23rd < ay of October, 1943, at 10 o’clock, A. M., has been fixed for the hearing of said petition. All persons holding claims a- rainst said estate are hereby noti- lied to present same o% or by a- * j-ove date. J. FRANK MATTISON, Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. September 23, 1943.—4t. , TOWN TAX NOTICE* EE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF McCORMICK, AND BY AU THORITY OF THE SAME: SECTION ONE: That a tax of f ix mills of the assessed valua tion of all real and personal property lying within the corpor- :ife limits of the Town of McCor- ruick, S. C., as assessed for State rnd County purposes is hereby levied and assessed to meet and refray the current expenses of the Town of McCormick, S. C., for the fiscal year beginning October 1st, 1943, the said taxes , shall be c^ue and payable at the office of lire Town Clerk ^.on the 1st day of October, 1943. SECTION TWO. That in addi tion to the above levy of six mills for current expenses as pro vided in section one of this ordi nance, a levy of thirty six (36) mills is hereby made upon all the real and personal property lying within the corporate limits of the Town of McCormick, the same being levied for the purpose of paying interest on bonds and to retire bonds of the Town of Mc Cormick, S. C. SECTION THREE. The Clerk and Treasurer shall enter said levies and assessments upon the books of the said Town of McCor- mick and receive said taxes, that (he said taxes shall be paid to the Clerk and Treasurer in lawful money of the United States on or before the 1st day of January, 1944. , , SECTION FOUR. That on all taxes and assessments, or any portion thereof, charged against any property or party on the duplicate for the fiscal Current year and due the Town of McCor mick, S. C., that shall not be paid on or before the first day of Jan uary, 1944, the Clerk shall add a penalty of 1%, that on the 1st day of February, 1% additional penal- tv shall be added making a total of 2%. That on the 15th day of March, all taxes remaining unpaia for the previous year shall be Placed in execution and an addi tional penalty of 5% be added and the Clerk shall issue his execution directed to the Chief oi Police who shall proceed to col lect the past due tax together with penalties and costs. Done and ratified by the Town Council of the Town of McCor- mick, S. C., in council assembled ?nd the seal of the town affixed, this the 11th day of August, 1943. T. J. SIBERT, Mayor. C. R. STROM, JNO. T. McGRATH, DAN A. BELL, C. H. HUGULEY, P. R. BROWN, M. L. GIBERT, Town Council, Town Of McCor mick, S. C. Attest: J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk and Treasurer. (Seal) Sept. 18, 1943.—3t. Fourth Class Post master Examination NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AT YOUR' SERVICE TO.HLLP YOU SELL* The supply of pulpwood is fall ing b^low requirements for Army, Navy, and homefront needs, ac cording to County Agent G. W. Bonnette. Recent estimates say we will be short of the pulpwood goal by 2.530,000 cords unless im mediate st'ms are taken to meet the demard. Pine trees, converted into pulp, fill many war needs. Explosives, rayon for parachutes, cordwood boxes, paper and other containers are made from pulp. Pulpwood requirements can be met by each farmer contributing three do^s’ labor cutting the wood. Pulpwood contractors are doing all they now can with the present labor and transportation shortages. This means that farm labor must help out with pulp wood cutting after harvest and fall grain planting. Prices for pulpwood are estab lished by the OPA. A unit of pine pulpwood, F. O. B. the rail road, is $8.50 for 160 cubic feet. This figure applies when the wood is cut in five-foot three-inch lengths, which amounts to 168 cubic feet. For this longer unit the OPA price is $8.92. A farmer and a helper can cut and haul three units per day under average conditions. Pulpwood companies have sig nified that they will buy stump- age, wood cut and stacked in the woods, wood on the road side, or wood loaded on the car. There is no shortage of pulp wood timber. The bottleneck is n getting the wood cut and hauled, the county agent says. Farmers can make their great est contribution in the pulpwood campaign by thinning out dense young stands of pine with their own labor during fall and winter months, cutting crooked, diseased, broken, rough, limby trees. No landowner should clear-cut pine land. The United States Civil Ser vice Commission has announced an examination to fill the position of fourth class postmaster at Parksville, S. C. The examination will be held at Abbeville, S-. C, Receipt ©f ; applications will close on Oct. 22, 1943. The salary for this position during the last fiscal year was $619. The current salary will be temporarily increased by 15%, the amount not to exceed an av erage of $25 a month, by authori ty of an Act of Congress. The date of examination will be stated on admission cards mailed to applicants after the close of receipt of applications, and will be about 15 days after that date. The examination is open t<f all citizen^ of the United States who reside within the territory supplied by the post of fice for which this examination is announced and who are at least 21 years of age, but not yet 65 on the date of the close of re ceipt of applications for this ex amination. Application blanks and full information about the requirements of the examination may be secured from the post of fice for which this examination is announced, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington 25, D. C, Applications must be on file with the Com mission at Washington, D. C., on the date specified above. X Livestock Meeting ■v- fi BELK VALUES UNSURPASSED • Right now fall and win ter stocks are complete. You have a > $400,000 stock to select from. Buy and save. SALEM MAKE HIST08E 40,000 DISHES AM) POTTERY Values up to $1.50. Choice with other mer chandise 3c & 1 He You Always Save At * B elk’s BELK WHI ^ ii 845 Broad St. — Augusta, Ga. Busiest Store In Augusta his Bank Sweet Pota toes For Home Consumption In reissuing Circular 175, “Sweet Potatoes for Home Use”, the Extension Service of Clemson College calls for special attention to a properly constructed potato bank in which to store and keep the potatoes. Suggestions for successful har vesting and banking given for im mediate guidance by A. E. Schil-. letter, extension horticulturist, are: Dig before frost and handle so as not to bruise or break the skin. Dig when the soil is dry. If the sun is not too hot, leave the potatoes in the row for an hour or two so that the skins will toughen. Potatoes will scald eas ily in hot sun. / Using a middle buster with home-made vine-cutter which per mits digging with one furrow is the best method. If vinecutter is not available, remove the vines and in digging avoid cutting the potatoes. Pick up the potatoes in a con tainer that can be carried to the bank. Build a bank (as shown by the diagram in the circular) in a well drained place and dig a ditch around it. Place potatoes four to six inches above ground level on clean dry straw. Leave the ventilators open on warm dry days and until cold weather sets in. After colcT weather comes, close the venti lators tightly. When cold weather sets in, place a uniform cover of earth over the bank and keep the ven tilators closed tight. Avoid opening the bank in rainy or extremely cold weather. Keep it open only long enough to re move potatoes needed. PJace seed potatoes or slips in a separate bank. G. W. Bonnette, County Agent. Livestock transportation for the Augusta ODT district will be dis cussed at a meeting, called by the Augusta District Office of the Office of Defense Transportation, to be held at 5:00 p. m., Friday, October 15, 1943, in the Confer ence Room of the Municipal Au ditorium, Augusta, Georgia. .The purpose of the meeting is to elect or select representatives of producers, truckers, dealers and processors to serve on an Area Livestock Industry Transportatior Advisory ’ Committee who will re view the transportation problems of the industry and formulate plans in an effort to assure the maximum utilization and conser vation of vital motor vehicles and to provide for the prompt and con tinuous movement of livestock be tween farms, concentration points, auction markets, and packing plants.- All persons involved, including members of livestock industry, producers, motor carriers, dealers and processors who raise, sell transport or handle livestock, also representatives of State and Fed eral Agencies interested in live- Live Animals Free From Ceiling Prices At Sale In Augusta October 15 Augusta, Ga., Oct. 4.~During a conference here of officials of the Second Annual Augusta Feeder- Stocker and Calf Sale, H. Glenn Segars, general chairman, and W. S. Rice, livestock specialist of the Georgia Extension Service, issued the following important an nouncement of interest to all growers and buyers who will par ticipate in the Augusta Feeder- Stocker and Calf Sale: “There are no ceiling prices on live animals. Any animals bought for feeders, stockers, or club calves, will be in no way affected by the OPA ceiling prices.” The Augusta Feeder-Stocker and Calf Sale is to be held on Friday, October 15, beginning at noon, at the East Boundary Stock Yard. Other Georgia state sales will* be held at Albany on October 11, and at Macon on October 13. Discussing plans for the Augus ta sale, Mr. Segars stated that county agents and vocational teachers would be interested to know that 100 or more of the, best calf-steers will be cut out to sell to 4-H Club and FFA boys. | Also, he added, a few of the best heifers will be sold in small lots to meet the requirements of small producer-buyers. The general chairman explained that no animals lighter than 300 pounds were to be offered for sale and producers were cautioned not to send in mature bulls or cows. He said that every seller will have the customary no-sale privilege. Officials stressed the impor tance for producers to have cat tle on hand early, stating that cattle will be received at the East Boundary Stock Yard on Thursday morning, October 14, but will not be received later USE OUR LAY AWAY PLAN BUY you* NEK Pi COAT NOW! You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by selecting your coat now. Stocks are at their best, and prices are lower than in mid-season. You can trade in your old fur coat, right now, at a good price. SOUTHEASTERN FUR CO. “Augusta’s Only Exclusive Furriers.” 911 Greene Street Augusta, Ga. FURS REPAIRED, REGLAZED, CLEANED, RESTYLED stock transportation, are invited a ° d . * attend ,this, meting than 10 a . m ., Friday, October 15, as the plans that will be developed the day of ^ ^ feed w * provided by the producer. X Government Buy Only Top Sweet Potatoes may materially affect your busi ness. X c. H. Lotnas Succeeded By L. D. Blake At De la Howe WAKE UP BUSINESS By Advertising In | / This Newspaper ^ ^ ' r, TIRES RECAPPED Methods — Passenger and truck tire re capping. SAVE 50% ON TIRE — Passenger, truck and tractor COSTS tire vulcanizing. — KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRES. i COWART RECAPPING CO. • all sweet potatoes grown from plants are suitable for storage. Many potatoes grown from plants are infested with rot when har vested and this rot will spread un der .the most favorable storage conditions. Other potatoes not suitable for storage are jumbos, culls, and strings, which should be graded out at harvest time. Clarence H. Lomas, who ha? been assistant superintendent and teacher of dairying at the De la Howe State School near here, for the past ten years, has resigned and mo^ed to Soartanburg wlv^-e he will be assistant county agent. Mr. Lomas, a graduate of Clem son in the class of ’28, is a native of Richland County, the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lomas of Co lumbia. He and his wife, the former Miss Cortez Wilson, of Commerce, Ga., and small son. have endeared themselves to the people of the entire section rnd their leaving is a matter of c' ep regret to the people of Mrr- mick as well as at the school He has been succeeded by I "3. Blake, who with his wife, "e former Miss Alice Horton, of ' :- ton, and two small children, r e moved to De la Howe. Mr. r ':e is also of Belton and a gra ' te of Clemson in the class of '31. For several years he was wi : a commercial dairy near Cha^ re N. C., and for a year did si.: lar work in Wisconsin, but for the past 14 months he has server: as assistant county agent of F ?h- land County. The Blakes arc re ceiving a warm welcome to this section. X The soil-saver ! s motto should price, be: Feed your land be'fore it is ! An important point for consicl- J Columbia, Oct. 2. — Only sweet potatoes that graded U. S. No. 1 or U. S. No. 2 will be bought by the rrovernment under its potato purchase program, T. A. Cole, chief of the Clemson extension division of markets, warns farmers, urging them to harvest, grade, and pack potatoes carefully to meet these grades. For U. S. No. 1, Mr. Cole ex plains, potatoes should be at least 1 3-4 inches in diameter and weigh not less than 3 ounces: maximum length not over 10 inches, weight not over 24 ounces. U. S. No. 2 must be at least 1 1-2 inches in diameter, not less than 3 ounces in weight. Limitations as to cuts, bruises, misshapen, cracks, decay, etc., must also be observed. Liceifsed inspectors working un der Mr. Cole’s division will certify all sweet potatoes bought under this program. The incentive to the farmer fo: curing and storing under the price support program is a margin of 50 certs per bushel between the har vest-season floor price of $1.15 per | bushel and the September to June ; fl rr prw? of $1.65 per bushel. | “This additional price,” says Mr. | Cole, “wiU take care of the added cost of curing and storing, ayd | leaves the’ grower in position to ; take advantage of any material j rise in the commercial market 5 Milliort Peach Trees Need Borer Treatment hungry. eration, Mr. Cole says, is that not Declaring that the peach tree borer is a definite menace to ev ery one of South Carolina’s five million peach trees, W. C. Nettles, Clemson extension entomologist, said today that eternal vigilance is the price to be paid for blem ish-free peaches. He named two chemicals — paradichlorobenzeno and ethylene dichloride — for borer control. Mr. Nettles reminds peach growers that October 1 to 10 for the Piedmont, and October 10 to 20 for the Sandhill and Ridge sections, is the time to apply paradichlorobenezene to peach trees for surest and safest re sults. Good results are obtained from ethylene dichloride applied during the same periods. Each material has its limita tions and also its definite merits. Paradichlorobenzene is cheaper but is not recommended for u e on trees younger than four yen's (summers! in the orchard, anr’ time for its application is linr Ethylene dichloride requires i ' labor andfmay be used in c" weather than paradichloroben Either material may cause sc injury to peach trees; there growers are urged to follow rcrMons and precautions closely. Trees under four y:ais ^ should be wormed by hand or treated with ethylene dichloride. Trees four or five years old should receive a 3-4-ounce dose of paradichlorobenezene per tree. Trees six years or over should re ceive a one-ounce dose per tree!» ( Ethylene dichloride may also be used on older trees. Ethylene diohloride may be pre pared on ‘the farm; or stock emul sions, with instructions for us£, may be obtained from insecticide, manufacturers or dealers. In structions as to mixing and ap* ; plying the 50 per cent emulsion made on the farm are to be found in Farmers’ Bulletin 1861, “In sect Pests of the Peach in the Eastern States”, and in the Sep tember 1939 orchard letter of the ; extension horticulturist. 4 G. W. Bonnette, County Agent. “Never in the open country do I see a young man or woman at nightfall , going down the high ways and the long fields but I think of the character that de velops out of loneliness, in the silence of vast surroundings, pro jected against the backgrounds, and of suggestions that must come from these situations as contrasted with those that arise from the babble of the crowds.” —Liberty Hyde Bailey in The Holy Earth. V/HAT? 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