Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McOORMH.K wh v v MM 'j ti « AHOI I V * Thursday, January 11, 1945 VHOME By MARY B. DAGITB E VEN the very small lot and gar den can accommodate two . small fruits that are most useful. ; These two fruits are currants and . gooseberries, both well worth grow ing but too often overlooked. Currants are one of the prime jelly-making fruits while gooseber ries are delicious in jam and as ' sauce and pie. Both fruits grow well in the shade ■ and will establish themselves on ; the north side of fences and build ings where other fruits do not • thrive. They also may be set among . plum, peach and pear trees and un der grape vines—any of the out-of-l the-way spots that seem like so much waste space will foster cur rant and gooseberry bushes. Currants and gooseberries pre fer cool moist loams or clay loams and are not happy on dry, warm, sandy soils. They, respond well to generous applications of stable ma nure and chemical fertilizers con taining potash. Since these bushes have a shallow root system, mulch ing is preferable to cultivation. The . mulching keeps the soil cool and * moist and prevents injury that might be done to the roots if tillage tools were used. The crinkly leaves of currants are caused by the feeding of plant lice or aphids. As soon as they appear control measures should be taken. A nicotine spray or dust on the tiny leaves is effective. When it comes to choosing the 'varieties your nursery-man will be able to tell you all about his spe cial plants. However, the following standard varieties may help you to decide just what you want. Red • Lake is considered the best red cur rant. But Wilder, Fay and Perfec tion as well as others are satisfac- > lory. White Grape is a splendid • white variety and is useful for des sert because it -has such a mild flavor. Poorman is recognized as the best red gooseberry, being good enough in quality to eat out of hand as a dessert fruit. The bush is very vig orous and productive. Chautauqua is a green-fruited English type and a heavy yielder oif very large ber ries. Downing is an old standard American variety of fine flavor and probably the best known of all va rieties. If you have enough room in your yard or garden for a few red rasp berry bushes you will find that they • Pay you well for every inch of space they take. They require very little care because spraying is not necessary in the average garden planting. Set the plants out 2% feet apart in the row, making the rows six feet apart. Bushes planted in • the spring will bear 1 the following year. Keep the plants free from ' weeds and treat them like currants gortgoVtorTMae ^ By Elliott Pine Seventy-eight of the nation’s best town sports editors, in a poll con- icted by the Associated Press, tiled the Army team the “team of ie year.” There was little dis- freement on this . . . scattered >tes went to Ohio State, Randolph eld, U. of Michigan, and Bain- ridge navaL The Green Bay Pack- rs, winners of the National Foot- ell league title, ranked first in the rofessional game. The St. Louis Cardinals, of narse, came first in baseball, al- lough the St. Louis Browns got tvprable mention, and the Detroit igers merited a vote or two. The U. of Utah was listed on top in basketball, but there was no agreement here, votes be ing scattered all over the map . . . anyway, the season isn't over yet. Montreal Canadiens were rated first in ice hockey, but that race is still open too. “Biggest disappointments” of tie year were listed in this order; taseball — Washington Senators, Ihicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers. Jnfavorable citations also went ti tle Browns for losing the series, tnd to the Tigers for blowing the icnnant race. Notre Dame’s inability to defeat ill comers by decisive margins, a* n the good old days, saddened the tearts of many editors. The Navy’>N ootbaU performance was disa^* minting too. In pro football the Chfc »go Bears failed to live up to >ectations, and likewise the Chi sago Cardinals and the Pittsbu*-** earn. In the sport of kings, Pe:.* five’s lack of speed at the rt-A* ime was most depressing, •• hough a number of other hor««* prere unfavorably recalled. Outstanding woman athlet* he year chosen by the same poll is tan Curtis, shapely San Franciscc iwimmer. She now holds a sWaj.- nr*tng title for each of her 18 years, although only 12 of these are offi cially recognized ... the remain ing six have been superseded by Curtis herself. Babe Didriefent •on Zaharias, the 1932 choice, c second in the voting, princi for her recent golf exploits. Pa Betz, who won the national tennAi championship for the third stra!04 fear, was ranked third. -X *********** ************** KEEP FAITH : Witt US— i \by buying'- WAR BONDS Author ot "HOW TO WIN FMENDS and /* INFLUENCE PEOPLE* STUDIED THE PROBLEMS OF HIS JOB S OME years ago a boy left the farm in Indiana, where he was born, and went to the city to get a job. He was one of 13 children on a small farm, so he thought he could do bet ter in the city. His name was Billy Scholl. The “city ,, he went to was Michigan City, Indiana, but instead of getting the fine job he expected, he went to work for a shoe cobbler. This seemed the end of a fine dream, as he was getting $3 a week. But he made a decision that if he had to be a shoe cobbler, he would be a good one! So he learned all he could about shoemaking. Then he began to study the human foot. He found this harder and vastly more" complicated than he did the matier of making shoes, but he became so proficient that he was lifted out of the cobblery department and promoted to a job in the sales department waiting on customers. He no longer wore the leather apron; he now wore a white collar. But he soon found that if he was really to learn anything about feet, he would have to learn it medically. So he asked his boss if he could be shifted to the night sales department in the store and the boss, much impressed, said yes. Then young Billy Scholl entered the Illinois Medical college. Thus he held down a store job from six till eleven at night, and went to school in the daytime. He began to specialize in foot troubles such as | fallen arches and malformed feet. He was surprised jf ; to find how much trouble came from the feet and ! distributed itself through the body. ' He continued to clerk by night and go to college by day until finally he graduated and became Dr. William M. Scholl. Meantime he had learned so much about feet that he de cided to open a foot clinic. It succeeded. Then he began in venting devices to relieve distorted feet and had them pat ented. He wrote a course to be studied by shoe clerks on how to fit shoes—this man who a shor^ time before had been a cobbler. In Chicago he established “Dr. Scholl’s Orthopedic Train ing School of Practipedics,” for training shoe clerks. Shoe clerks from all parts of the country attended it. He started a factory for making shoes for people with malformed feet. This succeeded almost,from the jump. In fact, it caught on so well that at the outbreak of this war he had branches in 49 countries. Today he is rich and famous. T £ L £ F A C T PER CAPITA INCOME AND SAVINGS INCOME 1941 SAVINGS v 1944 (KT.) }H60 The Flop FamilyBy Swan Jl)6T 60 IN THEfte. f\U0 UHf\T ^OOf? ^ OOI^6>-Jl)5T LOOK// UILUE-VOO KNOW 0ttT£:K THAN { TO 5TMP ON TH6 FUtfNOUtfE. , -yWlTH HOOtt ON? “The farmer is accustomed to taking a longer look ahead than nost of us. Most of us get paid •cgularly by the day or by the veek or the month or job. But nany farmers have to wait until •srvcst for the bulk of their in come. And that sometimes means vaiting a year. Under such cir cumstances you get so you think retty far ahead—about weather and wheat, prices and potatoes, cils and seasons, tools and taxes. \ farmer has to mix a lot of brains with his muscle and his long hours.”—Editorial in The Turrow. x- State’s Farm Forests Make War Contribution Had Gotten To Where He Was Hardly Able To Get Around / His Home, States Mr. Rudy. Eats, Sleeps And Feels Bet ter Now Than In Years Clemson, Jan. 6. — South Caro lina farm woodlands made a real contribution to the war effort in 1944 and their owners made real progress in better woodland man- aerement, declares C. W. Hall, Clemson assistant extension for ester. For the year ending November 30, 1944, Mr. Hall says, 23,098.000 board feet of timber and 1,400 One of the outstanding features cords of pulpwood were selsctively I R e tonga is the hundreds of well i* nnn ..o,ii known railroad men who have marked on 15,000 ^cres for 134: found such prompt relief through farmers in the state by foresters i its use. Among the latest is Mr. cf the Extension Service and the! W. A. Rudy, well known resident State Commission of Forestry. 122 - 18th St., S. E., Roanoke, In addition, 286 farm woodlands were examined, and forest man- aflreme^t practices were recom mended on 137.0C0 acres. Hall states that this farm for- DIM PIN R. I. MN CHATEFI TO RETONGA Va., who wears a diamond button testifying to his fifty years effi cient service with the Norflok and Western Railway. Discussing Re tonga Mr. Rudy gratefully stated: “I went down hill until I got to where I could hardly get around lots of it. MR. W. A. RUDY I sleep all night, where-- estry assistance to woodland own- my home. My digestion went back a s I used to be up and down ail ers in 1944 is consider? blv creator' on me » m y appetite practically night long. The constipation also than in nrevious vears It is an left I ? e> and for weeks a t a time ^ relieved, and I feel much strong man m pre\ious yea.s. It is ap | ± coui^ eat only f ood and er - 1 wish I could personally tell parem, therefore, that many j fruit juices. My elimination be- everybody about Retonga.” farmers are seeking to manage j came so poor that I had to depend j Retonga is intended to relieve their woodlands so as to produce entirely on laxatives. I tried va- 1 distress due to Vitamin B-l defi- ! he Possible income by tak- only 5 tS^kee^on feeUng^wo^"* 5 'of dlglsUve^jiices^iT^ mg part 01 the forest growth pe- I began to feel lots of relief stomach, and loss of appetite. Re- from the very first bottle of Re- tonga may be obtained at Peoples tonga. Now I eat anything and i Drug Store.—Adv. riodicaily instead cf heavy cuts at long intervals. The estimated value of the marked timber is about $349,000. These first markings removed from the timber stands the crowd ed, defective, and mature trees. In most cases these same farmers can make another cut of timber with in 10 years if fire is kept out of the woods. Farmers desiring assistance in the management of the woodlands or in marketing forest products should contact their county agent or the nearest forester. 1X1 Swimming Champ “The farmer, if he receives ~ 'air return for his products, i he greatest customer of businw in America. It is not only p' ' i- thropy or charity or gen''" ity that prompts the business rr.r \ to inquire into the farmer’s ^ di- tion. It is just plain good ^rn- mon sense.” — Gov. Brou* .jsn, North Carolina. Ann Curtis, shown above, won four first places and high points in the National senior champion- shivs for worven in the National AAU meet Li Kansas City, Mo. Connie’s Birthday “I never like to hear that we have an overproduction. I think that isn’t so. I think we have a lot of people who don’t get half enough to eat.” — A Michigan farmer. FINAL SETTLEMENT STATS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. In The Court Of Probate. ' Notice is hereby given that James M. Rosenswike, Executor of the estate of George C. Rosen swike, deceased, has this day made application unto me for a final ac counting and discharge as such Executor, and the 2nd day of Feb ruary^ 1945, at 10 o’clock, A. M., has been fixed for the hearing of said petition. All persons holding claims a- gainst said estate are hereby no tified to present same on or by above date. J. W. CORLEY, Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. January 2nd, 1945.—4t. Late-Planted Grain Needs Special Care Clemson, Jan. 6. — The large cotton crop and the labor shortage have resulted in the failure of many farmers to get their oats planted during the fall months, and a large acreage of small grain will be planted during January. This late planting will probab ly result in some winter killing and in a tendency of plants to stool less than if planted early last fall, thinks W. H. Craven, ex tension agronomist. To offset this late seeding Mr. Craven suggests a well prepared seedbed and increased amounts of seed per acre. He advises that at least three bushels of good clean oat seed should be seeded per acre to insure a good stand. “The small grain acreage in South Carolina is increasing fast er than any other crop grown, and in many cases this crop is grown /ear after year qn the same soil,” says Mr. Craven. “This has re-1 ;ulted in deficiencies in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash, a con dition which can be overcome partly by a liberal application of a complete fertilizer at planting. •\ 3-9-9 or 3-12-6 applied 200 to 300 pounds per acre will increase considerably the yields of our small grain. LOST — My “A” gasoline ration “This application will not only | pook. Reward for recovery. Cliff cause the small plants to make ' shannon. R. 2, McCoImick, S. C. rapid growth but at the same INSURANCE _ 1 Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance ln« eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C; BROWN, MrCOKMICK. S. C. WANT ADV. LOST — My five No. 4 books and kerosene book. Adams, Parksville, S. C. ration Arthur time offset to some extent winter killing, due to the increased vigor of the plants brought about by this complete plant food. “Following this application a tep-dressing of nitrogen in the cpring at the rate of 16 to 32 pounds per acre is necessary on nost soils, depending of course on the stand and the type of soil on which the crop is growing. “It should be remembered that fertilizer prices are such that farmers can well afford to make liberal applications this year in view of the high labor cost. H ; gh acre yields are more important now than in several years,” lie. Craven concludes. X — Among the first to wish his “ganddaddy,” baseball’s beloved Connie Mack, a happy birthday was Jimmie Nolen, S^-year-old grand son of the famous manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, who cele brated his 82nd birthday recently. FOR SALE — Fertiliser and ni trate of soda; good many good tree laps, close in. Mrs. J. E. Brad ley, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE OR RENT—The Paul Robinson farm, two miles -north of McCormick. J. L. Smith, Mc Cormick, S. C. r' ^3^ ^ ^ The Poor Cave Man Had No Newspaper To Advertise In. But You Have !!