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n ■ ■' M *• M •' ' V* 'A TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHB ORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. ^Forty-Second Year K.t.hli.t.^1 June 5, 1902 WcCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944 Number 38 ft Washington, D. C., Feb. 21.— ^HWNB)—A new high in confu sion over legislation has been set ihy the bills and amendments in troduced regarding the plan for soldiers to vote in the November 'otootions. At one time this con fusion reached the point where -an administration bill and an 'op position bill were included in the same measure—one being an a- mendment to the other. TRle -great commdtion over this measure was caused -almost en tirely by the political issues in volved, members df each party -wanting it written in such a way “that it would mean a maximum number of votes ior their party. And not only did -the congress men have to consider how the -soldiers might vote, but how 'their action on the bills would in fluence the soldier vote. It was apparent, throughout the long debate on these measures, that no matter what legislation was passed the situation would Russia on how to build an ideal economy. The two statements made by Mr. Wallace which will give the anti-New Dealers ammunition for months to come, were: 1. “American Fascists at this very moment are desperately striving” to control political con ventions. He then defined Am erican Fascists as “those who be lieve that Wan St. comes first and the country second and who are willing to go to any length, through press, radio and dema gogue to keep Wall St. safely sit ting on top of the country.” 2. “Wc are not >going to use the whole Russian political and economic system here in the U- nited States.” Much pressure will be put on Mr. Wallace to get him to name names and back up his charges about the “American Fascists” and he will be questioned in de tail about his intimation that we may adopt part of the Russian still be a difficult one at Election j political and economic system, time. Some of the same difficul-1 Congressmen and reporters are 'ties will also be encountered by the thousands of war workers who are not now living in the state in which, they ordinarily vote. The soldier vote bills got the political war of 1944 off to an early start and major battles are now developing." These have been encouraged by “party” speeches made by Vice President Wallace, as well as by several of the can didates for the Republican nomi nation. The speech made by the vice president has caused the greatest explosion here because he net on ly damned the people of “Wall fit.” as a group, but at the same time implied that our nation will, in the future, take lessons from also trying to find out if he was speaking for the administration or as an individual. Wendell Willkie, meanwhile, who already has begun what might be termed a whirlwind campaign to try to get the Republican nomination, admitted that there is sharp discord between leaders of the Republican party and compared it with the discord which exists between New Deal and anti-New Deal Democrats. These inter - party differences, which are admitted by members of both parties, are apt to make the political fighting worse this year than during a normal presi dential election year. Nqt only will there be bitter rivalry be tween parties, but also between Death Of Mrs. May ■ Tailor Sharpton Clarks Hill. S. C., Feb. 17.—The many friends of Dr. Ben T. Sharpton of 946 Juniperro Serra San Francisco, Csil., ^tnd Mrs. D. W. Sharpton, his mother, of Clarks Hill will regret 'to learn of the passing of Mrs. May Taylor Sharpton, wife of Dr. Sharpton at their home in San Francisco, after a lingering illness. “Miss May” was loved and ad mired by both races for her kind ly deeds. In fact, she found joy in ministering unto others. Her death brings sorrow to her many friends. After the World War, she ac companied Major Sharpton and the Gold Star Mothers to France. Afterwards they were stationed in Manilla, Philippines and later in Honolulu, Hawaii. Upon Major Sharpton’s retirement from ac tive service they made their home at Clarks Hill with Dr. Sharp- ton’s parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Dave W. Sharpton. Shortly after returning to their home in San Francisco a few years ago, her health failed and for months she bore her illness with fortitude, passing away Feb. 1, 1944. X De la Howe Boys Win District No. 3 Tournament Funeral Services For J. W. Faulkner, Jr. McCORMICK, S. C FRIDAY and SATURDAY Feb. 25th and 26th, 7:15 P. M. and 9:10 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. JAMES CAGNEY_HUMPHREY BOGART m 66 99 ‘J&») OKLAHOMA KID Also CHAPTER 8 “CAPTAIN AMERICA” and A DISNEY CARTOON Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 20c, Plus Tax The boys’ basketball team of John de la Howe High School won the class C division of the District No. 3 tournament held in Trenton, February 16, 17 and 18. The De la Howe boys won the right to compete in the tourna ment finals by defeating Monetta by the score of 30-9. Friday night, February 18 they defeated the Trenton boys for the champion ship by the score of 29-14. Dick Limehouse, De la Howe Captain, led his team in scoring with 13 points. The De la Howe boys will play Jenkinsville at a time and place to be decided later for the cham pionship of Districts No. 2, 4, 3, and 13. The De la Howe girls lost their tournament game to a strong Trenton team by the score Of 17- 16. This game was closely con tested, interesting throughout. Both teams from De la Howe will end up their regular season by playing Abbeville in the Abbeville Armory on Tuesday, February 22 X Modoc News Mr. Sanders Extends Thanks As Chairman War Finance Com mittee, McCormick County, would like to thank each worker and each one who bought bonds in the Fourth War Loan drive making it possible for our county to again go over the top. Your cooperation was greatly appre ciated and all of us should be proud of our county. G. J. Sanders. Applications For 1944 Seed Loans All farmers in McCormick County that are interested, in making applications for purposes of securing a loan to finance’ their 1944 farming operations, are urged to apply at the Court House in McCormick at once to avoid any last minute rush. S. H. Salley. X Buttermaking Demonstration Well, we are having a few days of spring time. The fruit trees are trying to bloom. Miss Hazel Dukes of Augusta ’vas a week end visitor here t? her mother, Mrs. G. E. Dukes. Funeral services for James W Faulkner, Jr., age 32, who was killed instantly in Charleston Saturday night, were held at the graveside in the Plum Branch cemetery Monday afternoon -at 3 o’clock. The officiating mini sters were the Rev. J. Claude Evans of the McCormick Metho dist Church and the Rev. Foster Speer of Plum Branch. Mr. Faulkner served in the U. S. Army for 2 1-2 years and re ceived an honorable discharge a- bout a year ago. He was doing defense work in Charleston at the time of his death. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Faulkner of Charles ton, he is survived by two broth ers and three sisters, Manly and Richard Faulkner, Charleston; Mrs. Wilbur White, Mrs. William Doolittle, Modoc; Mrs. Walton Dorn, McCormick. X 6,000 Workers Needed To Help Build Ships Workers in AbbeviHe, Green wood, and McCormick counties can help to avenge the recently revealed atrocities committed by the Japs against American pris oners by helning to build landing ships urgently needed for the march on Tokyo, according to P. £>. Mazych. manager of the U- nited States Employment Service at Greenwood. These ships are 1 0 f such cream vyill make about being built at the Charleston (S. 3 pounds of butter. Cream will C.) Navy Yard and 6,000 workers no t churn easily when too warm are urgently needed to rush chem or too cold. Churning tempera te completion. A hiring crew U ures should be regulated so the which visited #this city in January churning time requires 25 to 30 will return here this week as suf- minutes and the butter granules ficient men have not yet been se- are fi rm without being hard. A cured * thermometer should be used in This work is of the utmost im- or( jer that proper temperature? 1 Darlington Feb 21 — Because portance, Mr. Mazych pointed out, may be obtained. The tempera- of importance of legumes and for Undines on J^fheW P^ Sh ° Uld ** in winter -* 55 * grasses as sources of food and for landings on Jap-held Pacific 105 degrees Fahrenheit and during fcedt and importance in ■ t 1 . 1 summer 50 to 60 'degrees j building -and conserving the soil, cessful surprise Invasion of our Fahrenheit." the AAA *111 n^ge Jvments to troops on the Italian Coast just| Por further information see the L BTmers of PrptsiHPrtt -1 Home ^^nstration Agent or phosphoric acid and basic slag on . * Roosevelt ’ ^ attend . a Home Demonstration certalll Jegnmes *nd grasses. told the Navy to concentrate on club Meeting during to “ TJ/ fhp nunwg .marcn w The crops on which these sna the construction oi landing ships. 1 gee .a demonstration. Miss Martha Buttrill, Extension Nutritionist, Winthrop College, gave a timely demonstration on Buttermaking to local leaders of the Home Demonstration Clubs on Thursday, February 17. “Buttermaking begins with the production of the milk and good butter can be made only from good clean-flavored cream. Cream for butermaking should be 30 per cent butterfat and a gallon Navy Recruiter Here Every Tuesday Lieutenant Commander Dan Henry, head of "Navy Recruiting in the state, today issued an ap peal for 17 year old youths of South Carolina to make immedi ate application for urgent RADAR training with the United States Navy, and at the same time is sued a list of handy reference guides designed to help would-be applicants in taking the qualify ing test. Young men may apply at the navy recruiting station in Colum bia, Charleston, Conway, Florence, GreenviHe, Greenwood, Rock Hill or Spartanburg, or with the Traveling Navy Recruiter in this area. They will be given the Eddy Test to determine qualifications. Their papers will be sent to Chi cago to be checked by Command er Eddy, and, if acceptable, will be called in, sworn into service, and transferred to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station for indoctrination and RADAR train ing. Comndr. Henry pointed out the importance of this program to day, and urged 17 year olds to try out for RADAR now. To ajd the applicants when they take the Eddy Test for RADAR, the following study references are suggested by navy officials: “Wartime Refresher in Funda mental Mathematics”, published by ^Prentice-Hall; any high. school physics, or “Invitation to Experiment” by Ira Freeman; “Radio Material Guide” by Olm- stead and Tuttle, or “Elements of Radio” by Marcus Horton. The Traveling Navy Recruiter will be at the Court House, McCormick, S. C., Tuesday of each week. X ! AAA Encourages Use Of Phos. Acid, Basic Slag placing this job ahead of all | other warship projects for the] next few months. Workers are needed ih practi cally all of the shipbuilding trades and closey related skills, it was | stated, and qualified men who are not now in essential war work are asked to get in touch with the U. fe. Employment Ser vice at once. Every worker at the terials may he put 'for AAA pay ments, soys J. M. Napier, Otem- son extension-AAA .'agent are: G) full seeding df perennial or bien nial legumes, (2) perennial grasses, (3) winter legumes, (4) summer legumes grown alone (ex cluding soybeans for beans and South Carolina I a11 peanuts), <5) lespedeza seeded alone or with small grain, (6) crotalaria, (7) cowpeas, Matilda Sell, County Home Dean. Agent. X Tomato Varie ties Best For MONDAY and TUESDAY Feb. 28th and 29th, 7:15 P. M. and 9:30 P. M. Claudette Colbert Paulette Goddard in Charleston, Feb. 19. — Tomato (8> Yard is a Civil Service employee, I varieties best suited to South manen ^ Pf sture ’ (9) cover transportation is paid to Charles- Carolina growing conditions are ir ! ar s or grown on an on ^on, and housing is available I being tested each year at the w lc ° r VeSG 68 a Miss Lucy Bussey has returnee’j Wages are good and the yard Truck Experiment Station, near gr ° wn 111 1944 • home after spending a month in .works 54- hour week, which in- Charleston. Superintendent W. C. To Py allf y f i or Payment, the afiorvto nruv, t d I ^ _ A ,___ _ I material must be evenly distri buted and may be applied only to eligible crops grown alone or in mixtures, or approved mixtures of 66 SO PROUDLY WE HAIL Also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS and LATEST NEWS EVENTS 99 ADMISSION: Adults, 28 cents; Children up to 12, II cents; Children 12 to 15, 17 cents, including defense tax. Atlanta with Mrs. L. B. Guillebeau j dudes overtime pay. The hiring Barnes and J. M. Jenkins, Jr., as and daughter, Rosa. ’rew will include a representative J sistant horticulturist, report tha^ Sgt. and Mrs. B. F. Bussey from Louisville Ky., are spending the week here with Mr. E. F. Bussey Miss Marie Bussey was the guest Sun. evening to Miss Rosa lie Bussey. Cpl. J. M. Reese from Memphis, Tenn., is spending the week here with his mother, Mrs. Rose- lind Reese. Sgt. T. J. Stone, Jr., from Camp Davis, N. C., was a week end visi tor here to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Stone. Miss Nell Bussey was a week end visitor to Augusta. Mr. E. F. Bussey was a business visitor to Augusta Saturday. groups in the same party. The President is expected to run for a fourth term as the Democratic candidate, but some political analysts here think he may have two candidates to run against—a Republican, and a candidate who will try to com bine the votes of the anti-New Deal Democrats and the Repub licans who are dissatisfied with chinist, the nomination for their own j worker, j party. ^ maker. if the U. S. Civil Service Com- Marglobe, the variety most com mission and an employee of the monly grown in the state, con-, , A J ,, Navy Yard. Qualified workers will sistently proves to be one of the | winte f legumes an sma gT& s be employed on the spot. best in trials at the station. The LSM is a newly-devised The Pritchard variety also gives landing ship to get heavy equip- good yields. The Stokesdale, ment to our troops after they eomparativtly new variety, yield' land on enemy shores. * Without ^ fr active fruit as early as th( | gr ° wn a one - this heavy equioment such as Pritchard. The Rutgers, one of tlv tanks, big guns, and armored better performing varieties, h . , oars, our men cannot maintain gaining in popularity in the state. | f bridgeheads or advance against | The Pan America tomato v containing at least 25 per cent (by weight) of winter legumes. Winter legumes seeded in row- crop middles are considered as Payment will not be made for applying these materials to sum- the enemy. Hundreds of these ships are needed for the sched uled invasions of Jap-held terri tory in the Pacific as well as a- gainst Hitler’s so-called Fortress Europe. Workers in the following classi fications, or related skills, are needed: Auto mechanic, classified labor er, electrician, machinist, welder, pipecoverer and insulator, pipe fitter-, packer, plumber, sheetmeta- worker, shipfitter, boilermaker new to South Carolina and is re planted prior to the fall of 1944. Where AAA specifications have ported to be more wilt-resistant 156611 met . under t* 1 * 8 practice, than any of the more commonly P a y ments wil1 136 mad e as follows. grown varieties. The 1942 trial with the Pan America at tlr Truck Experiment Station indi- (a) One pound of available P2 05 AAA deduction rate, (b) One ton of basic slag—$12.50 per ton. cate that this tomato may be too Pa y n J en t' under this practice must come within the soil-building al lowance for the farm. ir late for the commercial crop the coastal area of the state. The Victor/ a dwarf plant in troduced in 1941 by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, is very early. In fact, it may be Further explanation may be had from county agents or coun ty AAA offices. “There may be things more sat isfying than living on a farm of expected to produce about one- chipper and calker, driller, hold- j half its total yield by the time of er-on; and helpers for the follow-j the first picking of Marglobe. good soil and growing fine crops ing: blacksmith, electrician, ma- Since the plant is smaller than! and livestock; but I do not know pipefitter, sheetmetal most tomatoes, it should be set 1 what they are; and that is why shipfitter and boiler- more closely to keep up the aver-, I like the country.”—Dr. C. B. age yield. i Smith, USD A Extension Service.