Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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« WctOllMICinSIESSEPJCEB, McCORMICK; SOUTH CAROtINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 194S PUBLIC NOTICE No Trespassing allowed on for mer Carroll Lot (Leslie’s Junk 'Yard.) Violators will be prose- -cuted. W. D. LESLIE. McCormick, S. C. Vat. 13, 1945.—3t. INSURANCE • Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance In eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN. McCORMICK. S. C \ Announcing The Opening Of Browne Brothers Radio And , Electrical Shop We are now prepared to re pair all makes of radios and small electrical appliances as parts become available. Pick-up and delivery any- wber-e in the city. H. R. & W. M. Browne Pine Street - McCormick, S. C. (2nd door from Post Office) DEALER Will buy by the Pen, Unit or Boundary HARRY REAM McCormick, S. C. =2/ Card Of Thanks X wish to take this means of ■capressing my sincere thanks to the many friends for their Thoughtfulness during my recent I appreciated the lovely flowers, trays, and visits. Roy A. Harling. TRESPASS NOTICE Ranting or otherwise trespass ing on my land is hereby strictly forbidden. S. C. SPENCE. R. 3, McCormick, S. C. Nov. 13, 1945.—3t. WANT ADV. In the market for timber land any size tract. See me before you sefl. Harry Ream, McCormick, S C. I am in the market to buy al! tnds of cows, yearlings, steers, and hogs, at the highest price. Write me or see me at McCormick, S. C. M. J. Jr. FOR SALE or TRADE—Spring ers and milk cows. M. J. Jester, McCormick, 8. C. Paper Shell Pecans; pick ’em oat whole; easy to crack, easy to nick out, fine for toasting. J. W. Corley, McCormick, S. C. LOST: Ration books 4 for Liza, ’"kxxie. Junior, Eva Mae, Rcb’t. Tee, Bill and Monroe Hill also Rob’t. Holmes. Box 23, Plum 8. C. HOUSES • • • scarcity The thing which amazes most real estate agents these days is the fact that, when nightfall comes, ev eryone still seems to have a roof over his head. To get a little practical insight into our nation’s housing problem, I spent the evening in the office of a busy realtor who sells and rents homes in a group of New Jersey towns. When I left the office at eleven o’clock in the evening the business was still going strong. Frantic veterans and their wives were rushing in and out, the phone was still ringing constantly, and tired real estate saleswomen were trying to think up new ways to say, “Yes—I know the house isn’t worth it—but I’d advise you to grab it” - Other snatches of conversation which I gathered as I listened in on the quick sales which were be ing transacted were: “Shouldn’t I see the house before I sign the contract?” “If you think it over over night someone else is apt tp put a de posit on the house.” “No, madam, we haven’t heard of a thing for rent since last May.” “It certainly is a bad time to buy, but prices are apt to go up an« ' other 20 per cent by next year.” “Well, you can’t expect to gel much house for $9,000 these days.” “Oh, that house. Yes, it wai $10,000 last week but now it’s eleven.” PRICES .... frantic I found, by going around to'loolj at houses with a real estate sales man, that the old sales method! have completely changed. Instead of rushing you past the cracked ceil ings in the bedroom to divert you» interest to the modern tile in thf bathroom, they now point out th< faults of a house as well as its mer its. They apparently figure tha they are going to have no troubli selling the house anyway, so the; might as well be frank. The real estate people are in thi driver’s seat. But the poor back seat drivers—the millions of fani ilies who are taken from one placi to another in a frantic search tl find a place to call home—are in * position where they can’t win. ] they find what they want the pricj is undoubtedly out of line. If thej insist on sticking to the price the; can pay, they must resign them selves to buying a home which isnl at all what they desire. And wor4 of all are the people who don’t waq to buy, who can’t afford to buy, by are forced to do so because the) can’t find any place to rent. So far as real estate is cos cerned, the much-heralded inflatia| has arrived. People who have mol «y are offering higher and highe prices to get what they want, and those who haven’t money but need a roof, are forced to bid more than they ever dreamed they could in order to get any kind of a home. LOANS . . . government There are two possible answers to the situation. One is for the government to continue its control over rents, to enact similar controls over the re sale price of homes and farms, to control prices of building materi als, and Ur launch a building pro gram by granting big mortgages to anyone who wants to bwild. . The other possible answer is for the banks, the insurance companies and the finance institutions to loos en up.with the billions of dollars they have to invest and show real faith in the future of America by being more liberal with their loans to individuals. As it is now, the financial insti tutions are not taking any chances. They have plenty of money they are glad to invest in real estate, but they refuse to take any chances with inflated prices. Thus a home which cost $8,000 in 1941, and was considered a good risk for a $6,000 mortgage, may sell for $11,000 to day, but the mortgage offer re mains at $6,000. We can’t blame the banks too much for exercising caution when they are investing other people’s money, but we must also realize that all government programs are also based on the use of the peo ple’s money. Ten years from now, unless the financial institutions do liberalize their policies, we are apt to find that we have reached the stage of socialism where the great majority of small homes are owned, at least in part, by the gov ernment. The financiers must loosen the strings on their money-bags if they want to prevent socialism from taking over. “The exploitation of producers as a group will not in the long run benefit consumers, nor in the long run will it benefit producers if consumers as a group are put at a disadvantage. There is al ways a larger framework in which producer and consumer interests are seen to be the same. It will be the business of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to seek and to emphasize this larger framework, this whole view, as a basis for the reconciliation of differences and for progress tow ard freedom from want and tow ard higher living levels for all.”— United Nations FAO report. Council Of Delegates To Meet December 1 President Dorman to Preside Columbia, November 26. — The Council of Delegates, the legislative body of the South Car olina Education Association, will hold its annual fall meeting in the Dreher High School of Colum bia on Saturday morning, Decem ber 1, at 10:30 o’clock. The Council is called into session for the pur pose of considering and adopting the legislative program for the South Carolina Education Associ ation. The proposed legislative pro gram as formulated by the Legis lative Commission and the Execu tive Committee of the South Caro lina Education Assocation is listed below. The program is divided in to Immediate Legislation and Long Time Legislation: Immediate Legislation 1— An amendment to the state constuitution providing that the State Superintendent of Educa tion shall be elected by the State Board of Education and providing that the State Board of Education shall be so appointed that the term of one member shall expire each year. 2— An amendement to the state aid law reducing the size of classes in certain type schools tj provide for more personal in struction for the children in these classes. 3— Study of the retirement law in view of providing certain need ed changes. , 4— Making statutory the nine month school term. Long Time Legislation 1— Removal of the selection cf the county superintendent of edu cation from popular election, the setting up of professional qualifi cations for this office, the paying of a salary commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the office and setting up by popu lar election of a county Board of Education to select the county superintendent of education. 2— Provide supervision for help ing inexperienced and untrained teachers. 3— Setting up of standards of elementary school libraries and li brarians and providing state aid for these without charging libra rians against the enrollment and average attendance. 4— Continued support of teacher certification and salary schedule as previously adopted by the State Board of Education. 5— Continued support of the study of our schools, looking to the simplification of their organiza tion and administration. 6— Continued support of a broader program of continued education, financed, controlled and operated through the regular school channels. 7— An adequate teacher tenure law. Above. rfA* “You know, in this country we’ve learned to feed our chickens a lot better than we feed our selves.” — A poultry scientist quoted in Country Gentleman. -X- “I have faith that fundamental and applied research in agricul ture and industry, given the op portunity for continued growth, will help to build a world in which health, enjoyment of the arts, and freedom from the ravages and the bitterness of war, will be considered normal.” — George A. Sloan, publisher, Southern Agri culturist. RUPTURE SHIELD EXPERT HERE H. M. SHEVNAN, widely known expert of Chicago, will per ^nally be at the Oregon Hotel, ^ -een- wood, Tuesday only—December 4, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Mr. Shevnan says: The Zoetic Shield is a tremendous nrove- ment over all former meth' T "\ ef fecting immediate results. will not only hold the rupture * *ect- ly no matter the size or 1 -“\tion but it will increase the cim- ’ 'tion, strengthen the weakened parts, and thereby close the op*' i ig in ten days on the average cp~'\ re gardless of heavy lifting, seining or any position the body may as sume. A nationally known scien tific method. No under st^ps or cumbersome arrangements and ab solutely no medicines or medical treatments. Mr. Shevnan will be glad to dem onstrate without charge. 6509 N. Artesian Avc., Chicago. Large incisional hernia or rupture following surgical operation espe cially- so loci ted. Adv. . . HU! Jy LYTLE HULL V.V t.^y OF CIVILIZATION T HOUSANDS of years ago o-an started his hazardous journey through a dark and dismal gorge toward that faint suggestion of light which marks the distant Valley of Civilization. Armed at first with but a club, the trials and tribula tions of his journey later forced upon him the development of keen er weapons. Today he carries a bright sword (his mind).with which to combat the black demons imped ing his progress. Through wars, plagues, floods, famine, and mani fold other da: /;ers to life and limb, he has struggled ever onward, his very nature forcing him over and past obstacles which seemed well nigh insurmountable. Very recentlv he has stum bled upon another threat—that which we call atomic energy. Had he been further along the road toward the Valley of Civil ization this new potential foe would have been a blessing rather than a danger, and even now it may hasten his progress if it does not destroy him. Some day, if he weathers the dan gers of this evil gorge, he will burst into the glorious Valley and his present three dimensional shackles will fall away from him, and the ultimate of vision and knowledge will be his. All the glittering secrets of life will be unfolded and such things as atomic energy, and fu ture and greater discoveries which today and tomorrow we do, and will, consider so fantastic, will be thrown into the discard of disuse. His very stature will have* altered and the flap-eared, snouted, bicus pid-encumbered, big-footed human of today will doubtless develop into a picturesque creature far more appetizing to the eye. This future is for our descendants. We are the trail blazers. Some power put us upon this earth tc carry on so that man would events ally reach the great glory called Civilization. It is within his power to make this promise come true, or to destroy it, and it is the duty of each generation to carry on until the following one takes up the standard. No man—or generation of men—has the right to endanger the future. Those who do so should be—and let us hope always will be—destroyed. -X- • Arbor Day Columbia, Nov. 26.—Arbor Day will again be held this year on December 7th as established by law. It is hoped that all civic mind ed organizations, churches, schools, etc., will that day hold a cere monious program at which time a tree will be planted. This may be one tree in a city park or it may be a memorial acre of forest to our loved ones who gave their lives and services to our country to make the world a better place in which to live. Conservation Week December 2 Through December 8 Bv ELf .IOTT PINE NWNS Sports Writer. Cheetahs are the fastest of run ners. . . . They can dash at 70 miles an hour for a quarter mile. Other leopards can speed at 60 to 65 mph. Lions and tigers can make a 60-mile clip for short distances. African gazelles can also travel at around a mile a minute. . . . The American prong buck is al most as fast. ... So are antelopes. A race horse does around 35 mph, but Man O’War once hit a 43-mile- per-hour rate for a quarter mile. Greyhounds have been clocked at 36 mph, which is probably tops for dogs. A rhinoceros can sprint for 100 yards or more at 35 miles per hour. ... A charging American buffalo at 32. an elephant at around 24. Human racers run at about 22 miles per hour in the 100-yard dash. “The T is too intricate for me,” admits Fritz Crisler, Michigan coach. “Worked properly, it de mands too much precision and de ception, unless you have such quar terbacks as Frank Albert of Stan ford, Luckman of the Bears, Ber- telli or Danciewicz of Notre Dame. All this plus fast, hard-hitting full backs, and speedy runners who can turn the flanks. You don’t get this type of material often, especially such quarterbacks.’’ In line with this is the hint that the T is too fast for the officials. ... At least at Army games. The Cadets have been assessed many penalties, it is said, for violations that they never committed. The hand is quicker than the eye, as the saying goes. Margery Miller, recent graduate of Wellesley college, is a full- fledged sports writer, specializing in boxing. She has been attending fights since she was 12. . .. Football players who try out for profes sional baseball are usually poor hit ters, coaches say. The curve balls are too much for them. Case in point is Steve Filipowicz, a grid star at Fordham but a dismal fail ure at baseball. . . . The largest sta dium attendance on record was in Philadelphia Municipal Stadium for the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. Largest crowd for a football game, 102,000, has been reached several times. Baseball js not the favorite par ticipating sport of war veterans, according to a poll conducted by the American Legion magazine. Hunting ranks first, fishing second, swimming third, baseball fourth, football fifth. Down the line come golf, skating, skiing, tennis, bad minton. Phil Caveretta of the Chicago Cubs has been named most valu able player of the year in the Na tionals, with a batting average of .355. Back in 1938 he was hitting a feeble .239 and looked like he would soon be washed up. WAKE UP BUSINESS / By Advertising In | / This Newspaper VuS IMESS Columbia. Nov. 26.—By procla mation cf Governor Williams, De cember 2 through December 8 has been officially set aside this year for Conservation Week. Conservation Week is a week set aside each year to bring to the attention of the public the great need for properly protecting and utilizing our natural resources. It is usually sponsored by the Gar den Clubs and Federated Women’s Clubs of South Carolina, along with a large number of public a- gencies, service clubs, churches, organized clubs, radios, and the press. Had it not been for our natural resources, we would now be living under the tyranny of a dictators hand. They, with our determina tion as Americans for right, gave us victory. Equally important are our resources in reshaping our lives and the lives of the conquer ed ^nations. Without natural re sources, we cannot have employ ment and without employment we cannot have peace. This we must have as a democratic nation. I To conserve our resources ws must have protection from fire and waste. We must give earnest consideration to the - replenishing of those resources that are renew able to the end that the future benefits from those resources may be greatly enhanced. Our forest is our natural re source has the ability to reestab lish itself provided we keep fire and abolish destructive cut- ling. It is hoped that all civic minded organizations will during Conser vation week sponsor a program for the protection and proper u- tilization of our natural resources. Farm Records Reveal Best Farm Practices Clemson, Nov. 17.—That size of the farming business and rates of production are two of the impor tant factors influencing farm in come are shown in records kept during 1944 by 88 farmers in 15 South Carolina counties, says P. 3. Williamon, supervisor of unit- test demonstration farms for the Clemson Extension Service. • These records represent most of the different type-of-farming areas of the state, Mr. Williamon states, and here are some of his conclusions regarding these two influencing factors: 1. Those two farms having the greatest number of crop acres made, on the average, the highest incomes. 2. Those farms having the greatest number of animal units per farm made, on the average, the highest incomes. 3. In general, as the number of productive horse-work units and man-work units increased, .„both the farm and the labor income increased. 4. Those farms having the highest crop yield index made, on the average, the highest farm and labor income. Good crop yields are very necessary, to obtain high profits and are probably the most Important single factor in obtain ing low cost of production per unit. 5. High productivity is just as important in livestock production as it is in crops. The farms re ceiving the highest income per cow, per sow, and per hen made the highest farm and labor in comes. v » ( “Records of the entire farm business are for the purpose bf revealing factual information Yidiich will enable farmers ,io modify their farm practices and change their farm enterprises td the end that they will make moire money,” says Mr. Williamon, urg ing farmers to their farm records to Ihis end. ,u '* AN ORDINANCE -X- Farm Calendar For December Guidance Even in December farmers have important activities, chiefly look ing to the future, says County A- gent G. W. Bonnette, who lists these reminders: Agronomy 1. Save plant food for 1946 crops —“Green fields for Christmas”. 2. Put cotton under cover to prevent loss of $5 or more per bale. 3. Clean up briar and plum thickets around edges of fields. 4. Bed down stalls and barns with leaves, pine needles, or grain straw; the bigger the manure pile the smaller the fertilizer bill. 5. Continue to build artificial or synthetic ma nure pens. 6. Put out lime. 7. Make early application for 1946 fertilizer needs—this is important. Horticulture 1. Make plans for your garden in 1946, get catalogs, and order seeds before seedsmen are out cf desirable varieties. 2. If fruit trees have not already been set, do so this month; fall or winter planting in the South is preferable „o early spring planting. 3. Pre pare hotbeds for sowing in Jan uary and February. 4. Prune fruit trees and bunch grapes. 5 Propagate grapes and ornamental eciduous shrubs from new cut tings. 6. Terrace all land to be planted to peaches before trees are set. Insects and Diseases 1. Observe how well long, close- fitting shucks protect corn against weevils. 2. Burn orchard prun- ings to destroy shot-hole borers. 3. Burn pecan twigs severed by girdlers. 4. Apply sprays af:er fruit trees are completely dor mant. 5. Destroy grubs in i"^ks of and lice on the bodies of rattle. Agricultural Engineering 1. Check over all farm mr win ery and order needed repair ,, ' , rts now. 2. Store cultivating :na- chinery and grease parts that are likely to rust. 3. In operating tractor during winter months, fol- RFLATING TO ZONING WITH IN THE TOWN OF McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA. SECTON I: Be it Ordained by the Town Council of the Town of McCormick. South Carolina: That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized, empowered and direct**' ed to appoint a Zoning Commis sion for the Town of McCormick, South Carolina, the same to con sist of five (5) citizens of McCor mick and to continue in office un til the duties devolving upon them have been fully discharged, with the right to the Mayor to desig nate a successor or successors for any members. of said Commission who shall resign, die, or move be yond the Town limits. All mem bers of the Commission shall serve without compensation. SECTION H: That it shall be the duty of said- Commission to submit to the Town Council as soon as convenient after their ap pointment, the recommendations of the Commission - for a division of the Town into districts and for limiting and restricting the types of structures to be erected and the kinds of businesses to be carried on within each of said districts and, generally, to perform all du ties devolving upon a Zoning Commission under and by virtue of Sections 7390 through 7398, both inclusive, of the Code of 1942 and any all Acts amendatory of any ot the provisions of said Code. SECTION III: That at the or ganization meeting of said Com mission, its members shall select one of their number as chairman and another as secretary. The secretary shall keep full written minutes of all meetings of the Commission and all of its pro- ceedihgs. SECTION IV^ All Ordinances, or parts of Ordinances, inconsistent with this Ordinance, are hereby re pealed. SECTION V: This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage. T. J. SIBERT, Mayor, Of Town Of McCormick, S. C. jno. t. mcgrath, W. P. PARKS. C. H. HUGULEY, M. L. GIBERT. Attest: J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk, Town Of McCormick, S. C. low manufacturer’s instruction book regarding “Suggestions for Cold Weather Operation.” 4. Use disk harrow or plow for cutting- in or turning cotton stalks and other vegetable matter. 5. Plow up terraces so they will have time to settle before the spring planting' season. Get Extension Circular j 253 on Care and Maintenance ofj Terraces. Sparing the sugar need n< spoil the fruit In efforts to eon-