Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y McCORMlCK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1946 r m L. » NOTICE TO AUTO OWNER Notice is hereby given to the ■< wner of abandoned 1938 Fordor Ford automobile, Motor No, 13-4342401 that unless claim is made for and storage paid on said automobile within 60 days from the 1st publication of this notice, said automobile will be - sold for j^torage and wrecking charges. McGRATH MOTOR CO. McCormick, S. C., May 8, 1946.—3t. Itinerant Service For Veterans Here STREET TAX DUE MAY 1ST All male persons between the age of 21 and 55 afe 'requited to pay $2.50 Street: Tax on or before the 1st day of June 1946. A pen alty of 50c will be added if not paid by June 1st. J. O. PATTERSON, City Clerk. ATHLETES FOOT ITCH NOT HARD TO KILL. IN ONE HOUR, Jf not pleased, your 35c back at .any drug store. TE-OL, a STRONG fungicide, contains 90% alcohol. IT PENETRATES. Reaches MORE germs to KILL the itch. Strom's Cut-Rate Drug Store It has been announced by Sam uel R. Ayers, Contact Representa tive, Veterans . Administration, Greenwood, S. C., that the itiner ant service which was begun April 18 will be continued with a con tact representative present in Mc Cormick on'Thursday, May 16, and May 30 at the office .of the Draft Board from 1:00 p. m. until 4:30 p. m. for the purpose of furnish ing information and assistance to veterans and their dependents in any matters pertaining to pen sions, insurance, educational bene fits, and | or other matters per taining to laws administered by the Veterans Administration. It is expected that this service will be furnished on a weekly basis as soon as additional per sonnel is available. NOTICE I have moved my repair / « chop from near my home into she building formerly occu pied by J. T. McGrath, Jr., Bbdy Shop on the south side ©f Main Street near the Gulf Oil Corporation, and am ready to take care of your needs in general auto, truck and tractor repairing. W. M. CRESWELL GARAGE, McCormick, S. C. WANT ADV. In the market for timber land, any size tract. See me before you sell. Harry Ream, McCormick, S. C. Get your Garden Seed, Trucker’s Favorite and Golden Dent Corn, from Ben Franklin Store, McCor mick, S. C. Willington H. D. Club Meets Willington Home Demonstration Club met at the community house May 2nd. After the business Miss Bell gave an interesting demon stration on how to prepare fruit and vegetables to be put in their containers, sealed-in their con tainers, for the freezing unit, and the different kind of fruit that freezes best. Mrs. McBride served sandwiches, sweets and nut$. Reporter. —X McCormick Tops Saluda Two Window Guards, size 40 by 70, for sale, fair shape. S. J. King, P. O. Box 25, Plum Branch, B. C. FOR SALE—One wind mill, pump and tank in good condition. J. P. Ferqueron, R. 1, McCormick, «. C. FOR SALE—One registered ser vice boar, and one registered sow, bred to farrow in June, another good sow, bred to farrow in June, both young sows—this is their second litter. ALL HAMPSHIRES. Can be seen at my farm at Plum Branch. J. Talbert Reynolds. FOR SALE—About 75 bushels of good yellow corn, at $1.75 per bushel at my barn. D. H. Langley, R. 3, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE—A good farm, one mile East of Plum Branch, S. C., one tenant house, other out-houses, well, pasture wired for hogs and cows, saw timber, pulpwood, wired for electricity to the yard. Mrs. J. Talbert Reynolds, Plum Branch, S. C. The McCormick High baseball nine shut out the Saluda team here last Tuesday 10 to 0. McCor mick scored three runs In the second, one in each of fourth, sixth and seventh frames, and added four runs in the eighth inning. Pitcher Ed Rice starred for Mc Cormick. being credited with ten strickouts, and led his team at bat with a home run and. two singles. Miller pitched and J. Jones caught for Saluda, while Rice twirled for McCormick and R. Culbreath did a bang-up job of catching. Saluda— C.—J. Jones S. S.—Metts R. F.—B. Herlong I 2. B.—R. Herlong L. F.—Jennings IB.—Rothell C. F.—Keith 3B.—Rodgers P.—Miller McCormick— ' S. S.—P. Brown R. F.—T. Gable 2B.—T. Forrester C.F.—G. Brown IB.—B. Dukes L. F.—C. Huguley 3B.—B. Huguley C.—R. Culbreath P.—E. Rice X 458 South Carolina Veterans Get Federal Positions FOR SALE—Four building lots, in town of McCormick, near cen ter of town. Mrs. C. H. Fooshe, Beman Street, Augusta, Ga. WANTED—House or 3 room apt., furnished. See T. R. Busby, Daniel Const. Co., McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE—One good work mule. J. P. Ferqueron, McCor mick, S. C. WAKE UP BUSINESS By Advertising In | / Thi* Newspaper / 458 Veterans in the State of South Carolina were placed in Federal Government jobs during the month of March of this year announced Director O. E. Myers, Atlanta, of the Fifth Region of the United States Civil Service Com mission, today. There were 4,928 veteran placements in the entire region consisting of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. Largest employer was the War Department with 2,359 placements. The Navy Department was second with 1,371, the Post Office De partment third with 636, while the Veterans’ Administration was a large employer with 317. World War II veterans accounted for 4,- 726 positions, while widows or wives of disabled World War II veterans accounted for 32. Vet erans and the widows or wives of disabled veterans of other wars filled 170 positions, bringing the months total to 4,928. Veteran re placements in the Fifth Region to taled 11,306 for the first three months of this year. Placements of veterans to fill temporary positions are now made only through direct application to the agencies where help is needed.] Johnston To Deliver Keynote Address At The Nevada ; State Democratic Convention . - ■ -f Washington, D. ..G,. May 2. — Democratic National. Committee headquarters has requested U. S. Senator Olin D. Johnston, (D-S.C.) to deliver the keynote address at the Nevada State Democratic Con vention to be held in Ely, Nevada on May 14th. Nevada’s junior Senator, Edward P. Carville and Johnston have been close fiiends .since the days when both were > governors of their States. ' Senator Johnston will go by air from Ely to Columbia, S. C., to at tend the South Carolina State Democratic Convention to be held on May 15th. This is the second Important assignment which the National Committee has given Senator Johnston in recent weeks. On March 23rd he made the Jackson Day Dinner address for President Truman’s friends and neighbors at the President Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. with a KNOX Utilitq Trailer Turn USED /! Here’s just the trailer you need on your farm—just the trailer to lighten your farm load! The Knox Utility Trailer, made of heavy 12 and 16 gauge steel, will give you years of all-purpose service. Features include heavy-duty springs, hinged tail-gate, 6:00 x 16 tires, completely welded frame, *4 ton capacity. Engineered to eliminate weaving at any speed—loaded or empty. It’s ideal for all general hauling. See the Knox Utility Trailer today! KNOX CORPORATION, Trailer Division, THOMSON, GA. Mg - f,-- = McCORMICK AUTO SALES ? • R. L. FAULKNER, Owner Dealer For KNOX Utility Trailers 1 i McCormick, S. C. Vi // Announcement Of Poppy Day Poppy Day will be- observed in McCormick and McCormick County and throughout the United States on Saturday, May 25, Mrs. Mildred Nave, President of Thomas J. Lyon, Jr., Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary, has announced. Memorial poppies to be worn in honor of the dead of both world wars will be distributed on the streets throughout the day by vol unteer workers from the Auxiliary and cooperating organizations. Contributions received in exchange for the flowers will be used in re lief and rehabilitation work for disabled veterans, their families and families of the dead. Preparations for Poppy Day are being made by the Legion Auxili ary Unit under the direction of Mrs. J. E. Scott, Poppy Chairman. The volunteer workers are being organized into teams and assigned to locations. Parksville, Mt. Car mel, De la Howe, Clarks Hill, Plum Branch, Troy, and various school areas also will be covered to give everyone an opportunity to pay tribute to the war dead by wear ing a memorial flower. The poppies have been made by disabled veterans of both wars. They are crepe paper replicas of the European wild poppy which bloomed on the battlefields of France and Belgium in both wars and which has become a world wide symbol of America’s battle dead. Poppies will be more generally worn this year than ever before. “With peace restored and the men coming home everyone will want to pay tribute to those who can never come back to us by v/earing a poppy in their honor on Poppy Day.” X May Livestock Notes For busy farmers County Agent M. A. Bouknight gives these timely reminders on the proper care of livestock for May. Animal Husbandry 1. Breed sows for fall litters. Have all weanlings pigs double- ■reated for hog cholera. 3. See that he spring pigs are on territory ot infested with internal para sites. 4. Feed calves in a creep. 5. Use oats rather than corn for he workstock. 6. Treat navels 'f newborn animals with pine tar to prevent screw worm infestation. Dairying All signs point to a national hortage in feeding grains and ;rotein supplements for 1946 and 947. Dairy farmers should adjust their plans as follows: 1. Produce at least 3 tons of silage per cow • fs your \ STOMACH UPSET! DON’T AGGRAV ATE AN ALREADY UPSET STOMACH WITH HARSH OVERDOSES OF STRONG LAXATIVES '■ P-47 A MILD LAXATIVE and GASTRIC TONIC/ will give gentle relief to upset stomachs. A MEDICINE FOR MEN WOMEN.AND- CHILDREN PEOPLE’S DRUG STORE McCORMICK, S. C. ■ and increase protein content of silage by adding soybeans in row with corn and in alternate rows with sorghum. 2. Plan for not less than 1 ton of legume hay per cow with silage; if silage is not a- vailable, at least 3 tons of legume hay per cow. 3. Plant enough corn or grain sorghum to supple ment winter grains to provide not less than 1 ton of grain per cow. 4. Provide 1-2 acre of Pearl millet or Sudan for summer grazing. Fertilize heavily to increase pro tein content. Poultry 1. Clean and disinfect the brood er house each week. 2. Cull all weak, slow-growing pullets and sell as broilers. 3. Cull the non laying hens and sell. Do not keep ooarding hens. 4. Remove males from laying flock when incubation season is over, and produce in fertile eggs. 5. Provide shade for growing pullets. Turkeys 1. Plant soybeans and corn for summer turkey range. 2. Put clean sacks under brooder stove for young poults one day, turn the second day, replace with clean sterilized sacks the third day. 3. Allow extra ventilation in brooder house on hot days. 4. Change gradually from small water foun tains to automatic ones, keeping the old-type fountains in several days afer the new ones are pot in to use. 5. Use portable range shelters. ' Registration Notice : *| I The McCormick County Board of Registration will be open in th$ court house on the first Monday in each month from now until ! the first Monday in October, : I culsive, from 9 o’clock a. m. • o’clock p. m. for the purpose j issuing registration certificates^*^. all needing them. Certificates is- ! sued in or since 1938 are good through 1947. | W. K. MCDONALD, Chairman, 1 J. A. CHRISTIAN, T. R. CARTLEDGE, Members. McCormick, S. C., May 6, 1946.—3t. A young farmer who plants trees is growing his endowment insurance. ATTENTION Keep your Old Shoe Comfort, but have a New Shoe appearance. Invisible Resoling. LOWE’S SHOE SHOP McCormick, S. C.