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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1949 THE NEWBERRY SUN Marketing Quotas Explained There is no question of as much general interest to South Carolina farmers as that of cotton marketing quotas for 1950. Farmers are great to scatter rumors and to believe anything they hear. Thousands of cotton farmers are mad because they face a reduction in cotton acreage. Although no state as yet has received its cotton allot ment, perhaps most farmers think they know what their in dividual allotments will be. In most instances, they certainly do not. This is no attempt to advise any cotton grower to vote for or against quotas in the Dec ember referendum. It is an honest attempt to present the facts and to definitely advise very careful consideration of all the facts before voting time comes. According to the provisions of the new law, the Secretary of Agriculture has proclaimed marketing quotas and acreage allotments for 1950 on cotton. All producers of cotton in 1948 are privileged to vote December 15 on quotas. More than two thirds of those voting must fav or quotas or quotas will be off. Acreage allotments will remain in effect without regard to whether quotas are on or off. The difference between acre age allotments and marketing quotas is that under acreage al lotments a farmer may over plant without having to pay any penalty. He can sell all he produces in the open market but he cannot receive the bene fit of a support price loan nor can he collect any soil conser vation payment. Under quotas, a farmer can sell or obtain support price loans on all he produces on his alloted acreage free from pen alty, and he can earn and col lect the maximum soil conser vation payment for his farm. Neither under allotments or quotas will the tax-paying pub lic be required to spend large sums to support prices for farmers who fail or refuse to comply with either acreage al lotments or marketing quotas. Should quotas be revoked because of an unfavorable vote, those who do not overplant above their alloted acreage would be entitled to a support price of 50 per cent of parity. Those overplanting intentional ly would likely have no sup port price nor could they re ceive any soil conservation payment for 1950. The basis for standard grade for purposes of parity and price support has been midd ling 15-16. Beginning in 1950, middling % will be the stan dard. This will mean an av erage of approximately $10- per bale increase in parity value and loan value. Perhaps an example will best serve to illustrate the problem that cotton growers must solve to determine whether they will vote for or against quotas: Farmer: “I have an allot ment of 10 acres. I want and expect to plant 20 acres in 1950. I need the additional income to pay my debts. How much more income may I expect, under normal conditions of pro duction, from 20 acres than from 10 acres either with or without quotas? I usually make a bale of cotton per acre.” Answer: If quotas are in ef fect by favorable producer vote, a support price of 90 per cent j of parity is guaranteed to those who do not overplant. The base support price of 30.17c per pound for middling fifteen-six teenths cotton in 1949 means roughly $150 per bale loan val ue. Under similar conditions, the loan value would be about $10 per bale more in 1950; but we shall use the $150 figure. We shall also assume that pari ty remains unchanged. 10 bales at $150 per bale loan value means $1,500 income from .10 acres under quotas. If quotas are off, the guaran teed support price will be 50 per cent of parity, or about 16.75c per pound or $83.80 per bale. 10 bales at $83.80 per bale totals $838 income. 20 bales from 20 acres at $83.80 per bale without quotas would bring in $1,676 income (if market price is as high as support price). 20 bales from 20 acres under quotas from a farm on which the allotment is 10 acres would bring approximately the loan value (since it is generally con ceded that the loan value will likely determine the price be cause of the large surplus), or $150 per bale, or $3,000 income. The penalty for overplanting is 50 per cent of the June 1, 1950 parity value of standard grade cotton, or 16.75c per pound, or $83.80 per bale on the ten bales produced on the excess 10 acres, or $838. In this case, the grower would not have support price privi leges nor would he be entitled to any earned soil conserva tion payment on his farm. If the price the non-coopera tor cou!4 get for his cotton in thg open market is as much as the support price of $150 per bale, his income from 20 bales from 20 acres on a farm with 10 acres allotment would be $3,000 less the penalty of $838 plus the loss of his soil conser vation payment estimated at $60, or a net income of $2,102. Therefore, a grower who ex pects to overplant would have more income under quotas than he would if quotas are voted down. In this case, approxi mately $2,100 from 20 acres under quotas compared to $1,- 600 if quotas are voted down. For the grower # who complies by planting no more than his allotted acreage, the gross in come from cotton in 1950 prom ises to be as much from one acre under quotas as from two acres if quotas are voted down. That means no net income with out quotas. Only those cotton growers who would prefer to prepare, fertilize, plant, cultivate, poi son, harvest, gin and delivei cotton from two acres instead of one acre can justify failure to vote for quotas for 1950. A continued 90 per cent sup port price cannot be justified unless cotton farmers are will ing to decrease production ti bring supply in line with de mand. Increased domestic con sumption and exports will hel} the price of raw cotton only i the present surplus is beint reduced. Reduced production andlor increased consumption ii the only way to reduce the sur plus and hope to obtain fair prices. Support prices are de signed to protect growers from disastrous price declines while surpluses are being worked, off The new law provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may allot a minimum national acreage for cotton that would promise to reduce the surplus by one million bales per year. Because of the large surplus and a desire to protect cotton growers against a too drastic reduction in cotton acreage in 1950, Congress provided that the minimum national allot ment for 1950 should be 21 mil lion acres. The 1950 cotton acreage al lotted to South Carolina is ex pected to be above 900,001 acres. Without any restrictions whatsoever and with a guaran teed 90 per cent of parity sup- More Gift Items This Year Than Ever Come Today While Stocks Are Complete FOR THE HOME: Brass Andirons, Fire Screens, Fire Sets, Wood Baskets, Fire Pots, Electric Logs, Bronze Coal Hods. Man Likely Lived In South Carolina In Interglacial Age Dr. Stephen Taber, professor emeritus of geology and miner alogy at the University of S. Carolina, has discovered evid ence indicating that man prob ably lived in South Carolina as long ago as the last interglac ial age. Dr. Taber is working on the geology of the South Carolina coastal plain under a grant from the Geological Society of America. Dr. Taber said Prof. F. S. Holmes of Charleston had found bones of man and of pleisto cene mammals in the Cnarles- con area but that in the wake of the Confederate wrar the spe- ciments were lost and Holmes' discoveries were discredited. Emil Schmidt, who eamined them and the place where they were collected, termed them significant and incontestaoie, however. One was a man’s lower jaw found buried in a soft marl and partly in a dark- colored clay. This marl, thought by Holmes to be eocene, is part of a miocene formation, and the clay which contained the fossil bones is Pamlico in age, Dr. Taber said. At Edisto Beach state park, where beds of peaty clay oc cur, the frontal bones of a hu man skull, now at the Charles ton museum, together with the bones of pleistocene mammals, were found on the beach after a storm. “The frontal is extremely fragile and is blackened and mineralized in the same way as the other bones,” Dr. Taber said. “It is 68 per cent heavier than an unmineralized,, prehis toric frontal, of approximate ly the same size, from Anacos- tia, D.C., lent me by the Smith sonian Institution, and the den sity is 26 per cent higher.” Dr. T. D. Stewart, curator of physical anthropoligy at the National museum, states that the Edisto frontal is probably that of a young adult female. He compared it with skulls from Vero and Melbourne, Fla., which he has restored and de scribed. While there are minor PROSPERITY Dogwood Garden Club The Dogwood Garden Club will meet Monday afternoon, December 12, at 3 o’clock with Mrs. H. L. Shealy. Missionary Society The Carl Caughman Circle of the Missionary Society of Grace church will meet Friday, afternoon with Mrs. C. Beden- baugh. U. D. C. Mre. S. A. Quattlebaum was hostess to the William Lester Chapter of the U.D.C. at its regular meeting Friday after noon. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter led a pro gram on General Beauregard. The business session was pre sided over by the president Mrs. H. P. Wicker. The chapter will send Christmas gifts to the inmates of the Confederate Home in Columbia. During the social hour the hostess served a palatable salad course with coffee. Literary Sorosis The December meeting of the Literary Sorosis was held Sat urday afternoon with Mrs. J. L. Counts as hostess. Miss Effie Hawkins shared the pleasures of the afternoon with the mem bers. «Mrs. C. Mower Singley gave the history of the school foun ded by Miss Martha Berry at Rome, Ga., Pictures of Miss Berry and the school and grounds and personal obser vations added interest to the discussion. Mrs. Jacob S. Wheeler, who had also visited the Berry school, contributed several interesting facts. The hostess assisted by her sister. Miss Amie Hunter, and her daughter, Jennylee, served a salad plate, individual cakes and spiced tea.' I The Christmas idea was used in the room decorations and in the refreshments. Personal Il?ms Mrs. Brooks Epting under went an operation in the New berry Hospital last Friday. She is getting on nicely. Another Prosperitian in the Newberry Hospital is Mrs. N. H. Vaughn, who is under going treatment. Mrs. L. A. Permenter, (the former Miss Mildred Ross) of Myrtle Beach underwent an operation Friday in the Colum BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. Eleaxer As a kid, I don’t remember ever getting hot at night. Al though we slept under a half storey that must have been tor rid at times. I expect the rea son is that I never waked up to find out about it. Scraping gravy from the frying pan each morning was my signal to hop out of bed, into my overalls, and down the stairs in three leaps in time for breakfast. Neither do I remember any- thin? about mosquitoes, even though houses were not screen ed then. And I know they were there, for we had chills and fever each spring. That’s malaria, and it takes mosqui toes to have that. And it seemed that Christ mas would never come. Now we hardly get the decorations down from one before the first frosts of another winter tell us that Christmas is about here again. MISS RUBY MILLER Miss Ruby Pauline Miller, 18 daughter of Joe B. and Allie Enlow Miller of Newberry, died at the Newberry Hospital Sun day as the result of burns suf fered Saturday. Miss Miller v r as severely burned while attempting to start a fire at her home at Oak land Mill. She received her education in Newberry schools and was a member of the Hunt Mem orial Baptist Church. Surviving in addition to her parents are her maternal grand father and step-grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Will Enlow of Saluda; four brothers, Alfonso, Wannamaker, Edward and John Earl Miller of Newberry, and a sister, Mrs. Ernestine Fuller of Newberry. Funeral services were held Monday aftemon at 3 o’clock at „Hunt Memorial Baptist Church, Things just become different as we grow up. I Christmas FLOWERS! THE MAIN STREET FLOWER SHOP FEATURES POT PLANTS CUT FLOWERS African VIOLETS Christmas WREATHES DOOR BADGES China, Crystal and Other Gifts WE WIRE FLOWERS MAIN STREET FLOWER SHOP Phone 1238 2000 E. Main St. differences, it could belong to bia hospital Mrs. Fermenter’s to the race represented by those three children are staying with For DAD Electric Razors Pocket Knives, Flash Lights, Guns and Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, Golf Clubs, Balls and Bags, Tool Chests, Hunting Clothes, Rifles, Razors, and a hundred other items which DAD would appreciate. skulls.” Dr. Taber has found the fos sil bones and teeth of pleisto cene land mammals at many places along the South Caro lina coast and in v/illeys ex tending a short distance back from the coast. They also have been exposed along the inland waterway. The fossils include the remains of mamoth, mas todon, horse, bison, giant ground sloth, deer and smaller animals. Fossil woods are found at many localities in association with the fossil bones. These woods have been identified by Martin Chudnoff and Dr. Rob ert W. Hess of the Yale school of forestry. Dr. Taber explained that the trees, which are similar to those found In the region to day, were growing when the sea level and the temperature were approximately the same as at present and when the sea level and probably tempera ture were slowly rising. These conditions prevailed during the “climatic optimum” that occurred 6,000 to 4,000 years ago and also during the interglacial stages. The wood is much older than 6,000 years, and it would take a much her mother, Mrs. J. E. Ross Mrs. A. L. Wheeler, Miss Anne W'heeler, Mr. and Mrs. Qonnoe Wofford and their young son of Orangeburg were Sunday guests of Mrs. Nancy Ward and J. S. Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Will Browne of Cherryville, N. C. were weekend visitors of Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Browne. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Smith Dr. and Mrs. George W. Har mon and Joe N. Wilson enjoyed fishing in Charleston last Wed nesday and Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Wheeler attended the Shrine meeting in Greenville last Thursday even ing. Mrs. L, J. Fellers is visiting her sister, Mrs. Max Hall in Winnsboro. Mr. and Mrs. George Francis Block of Tallahhassee, Fla. have been visiting Mr. Black’s uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wicker. Say" Merry Christmas'With k Lovely Diamond Ring! MRS. SALLIE E. HIPP Mrs. Sallie Eargle Hipp, 79, died early Monday morning at the home of her brother, George M. Eargle, near Peak. Mrs. Hipp was stricken sudden For MOTHER: Electric Mixers, Percolators, Hot Point Stoves, Refrigerators, Electric Clofeks, Washing Machines, Hot Plates, Waffle Irons, Vacuum Cleaners, Toasters, Grills, Door Chimes, Heating Pads, Bath Room Scale, Electric Irons, Pressure Cookers, China, Club Aluminum in Sets, Revere Ware, Kitchen Stools, and a host of other items. For GIRLS and BOYS: Bicycles, Wagons, Tractors, Scooters, Cap Pistols and caps, Footballs and Football Pants, Helmets, Shirts, and Shoulder pads, Baseballs, Gloves, Bats, Mits, Basketballs, and Basketball Goals, Erector Sets, Chemistry Sets, and Tool Sets, Skates, Bicycle Lights, Horns, and Saddle Bags, Speed ometers, Croquet Sets, etc. R. M. LOMINACK Hardware , . ly Thanksgiving while attend- longer period of time to deposit j n g church and had been in the overlying formations and. critical condition since that later partly remove them by time. erosion, it was explained. She was born and reared Along the inland waterway near Myrtle Beach, the fossil teeth and bones of land animals together with the stumps of trees in place are found buried under 25 feet of marine .sedi ments, containing numerous fossil shells. Recently while Dr. Taber was collecting wood from this lo- port price, South Carolina farm ers planted 1,055,000 acres ol cotton in 1947 and 1,133,000 acres in 1948, Therefore, our reduction under quotas will not be too drastic. The loudest howlers are those farmers who have increased their cotton acreage most dur ing recent years. They will be reduced more than average. They cannot justly blame any one but themselves. The dis tribution of allotted acreage will be fairly equitably done for 1950. The big question to be an swered is “shall we have about 900,000 acres of cotton in S. C. in 1950 with a guaranteed sup port price of 90 per cent of parity or about $150 per bale (or about $110 per acre with average production), or shall we have a few more acres that some farmers want and all of us get only a guarantee of 50 per cent of parity or about $83 per bale or about $62 per acre from average yields?" Each farmer must decide that ques tion for himself. As a group, cotton farmers cannot “have their cake and eat it too.’’ The S.C. Farm Bureau does not believe that any support price for 1950 should be in ef fect on cotton unless farmers near Peak and was the daugh ter of the late George A. and Mrs. Lenora Haltiwanger Ear gle. She spent her entire life in the Pomaria and Peak sec tions of the county. Mrs. Hipp was a member of the Mt. Olivet (Spring Hill) Lutheran Church near White Rock, Funeral services were held at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday from Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church with her pastor. Rev. J. Kenneth Webb, conducting the service. Interment followed in the church cemetery. She is survived by two brothers, James W. Eargle and George M. Eargle, both of Little Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. P. C. Price and Miss Lora Eargle both of Columbia, and four step-children, Mrs. Anna Living ston of Pomaria, Mrs. D. A. 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TABER believes that the trees were killed and buried as the result of a rise in sea level caused by the melting of polar ice during an interglacial stage. Later the climate turned colder and the sea withdrew because of the accumulation of ice forming the great continental glaciers. This permitted the erosion of vallys out beyond are willing to vote lor quotas, the present shore line. MORE THAN EVER—A KODAK IS THE x y 'l' | I “WANTED” GIFT Priced from $2.75 up Movie Cameras and Projectors Also Accessories Films and Flash Bulbs Nichols Studio