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Every Week More People Read The Sun The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People VOLUME 2; NO. 43 The RiKins Sen—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDA^, AUGUST 18, 1939 Slider & Greneker—1856-1860 $1 PER YEAR OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE RUN HIS GOATS OUT Coroner Wilson is having trouble with his goats again. Someone told the man in whose pasture he was keeping them that goats caused cows to have distemper or blacktongue or something and he ordered the coro ner to come get his goats forthwith. He wanted to stable them in his new office at the court house but Prank Sanders who holds forth just across the hall decided that the coroner was enough nuisance without the goats. He was willing, however to make a concession in that he would put up with either one but not both. He said he really preferred the goats—that he did not believe their bleating would be any more monotonous than hear ing the coroner repeat his ancient jokes. In the meantime anyone wishing to provide a good home for an orphan goat would do well to see the coroner. A FISHING TIP A gentleman from Greenville, waiting between buses, remarked that he would like to live in New berry for two reasons: first because it was a pretty town and appeared to be a good business town, and se condly because it was near Lake Murray. Ensued a lot of fishing talk in which he said that South Carolina had more different kinds of game fish than any other state in the union. He told of his method for fishing for crappie which he said was very successful. He takes an ordinary gourd, cuts a small hole in the handle and inserts the desired number of crickets. Then he stops the hole with a cork stopper and as a bait is needed he simply pulls the stopper, and the cricket seeing the light makes for it, crawling gently out into Ws hand. The next opera tion is to hook the bait on a five ounce fly rod and cast, halting the cast just short of the water allowing it to touch the water lightly and sink slowly. He swears he method never fails and invariably gets the big ones. There are lots of crickets at Gilder Crest t 0 which you are welcome if you want to try out the Greenvillian’s trick. As for me, I want no truck with bugs of any sort for any purpose. BELATED ACKNOWLEDGMENT For justification of an unpardon able delay, I will have to drag in the old saw “better late than never” and remark somewhat on a fine evening as a guest of Mrs. J. H. Summer and her girls at the NY A home on the night of July 4th. The invitation was originally to me alone and of course I quickly ac cepted, having visions of a session with a whole houseful of pretty girls. Someone, however, had the bright idea to amend and emasculate tht invitation to include our contrary half, and gloom descended like low- hanging clouds in a summer storm. But such is life. Miss Margaret Burnes was in charge of the home at the time and was a gracious hostess. Mrs. Sum mer soon turned up and dinner fol lowed shortly. The food and the manner in which it was served was all that could be asked. The serv ing of tables is just one of the things the girls are taught out there and they do it excellently. The twenty-odd girls seemed to be happy and contented and there is every reason they should be. While they are required to work, they re ceive in return good room and board and recreation, plus $11 a month for two weeks’ service at the home. They are taught largely the art of home- making and the home they occupy is a result of their work. It is well appointed and very pretty. The girls are well behaved, friend ly and interested in their work. The home has rigid standards as regards morals and not one bit of trouble has been experienced along this line. After a few profound (?) remarks by this writer, Mrs. Summer made the girls a good talk, emphasizing the opportunity the home offered in contrast with that of girls of her youth. Mrs. Summer lives pretty close to the soil, as it were, and the girls seemed to appreciate her words of wisdom. Her interest in the un derprivileged is deep-rooted and abiding and we trust her influence in this sphere will be given more latitude. Mr. Robert G. Wallace, Jr., who is with the Purcell Co., was taken to the hospital in Columbia on the Wed nesday evening train for an opera tion for appendicitis. Cotton Estimate Is Lowest Since 1935 Washington, Aug. 8—An agricul ture department forecase of a cot ton crop of 11,412,000 bales this year —the smallest since 1935—raised ad ministration hopes today of reducing the largest cotton surplus on record. Such a crop, farm officials said, would be below the anticipated domes tic consumption and exports during the current marketing set son. In that event, buyers would have to turn to surplus stocks estimated at 14,250- 000 bales. The crop reporting board said this year’s indicated yield was about 531- 000 bales less than was harvested last year and about 2,383,000 bales less than the average production for the 1928-37 period. Among the factors responsible for the small crop, officials said, is the government’s crop control program. Under this, growers were offered ben efit payments of about 3.6 cents a pound for planting within their acreage allotments. This program also levies a penal ty of three cents a pound on the sale of cotton in excess of each grower’s marketing quota—the production on his acreage allotment. This is the second successive season in which quotas were involod to prevent ac cumulation of greater surpluses. Another factor in the smaller crop prospects was an estimate that the yield per acre would be about 12.1 pounds below last year’s record av erage of 235.8. Weather conditions have not been as favorable this sea son. With the government paying a bounty of one and one-half cents a pound on cotton sold abroad, farm officials predict exports this seasov will total a f least 6,000,C00 bales com pared with the past season’s volume of 3,475,000, the smallest since 1881. I Should (Tomestic' heeds be as large as those of the past season, Ameri cans would consume about 6,700,000 bales. Thus exports and domestic consumption woud total about 12,700- 000 bales, or about 1,288,000 bales more than the indicated production. Extra supplies would come, for the most part, from surpluses, of which 11,050,000 bales are stored under government loans to growers. The census bureau reporteu simul taneously with the crop report that 137,076 bales of the 1939 crop had been ginned prior to August 1. This compared with 157,865 ginned by the same date last year. DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO Lenox, Mass., Aug. 11.—Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philan thropist, died at his Lenox summer home, “Shadow Brook,” at 7,10 o’clock this morning, after an illness of less than three days with bron chial pneumonia. So sudden was his death that his daughter, Mrs. Roswell Miller, was unable to get to her father’s bedside before he died. His wife and private secretary were with him at the end. The taking down of the telephone poles add very much to the appear ance of the streets. They seem to be wider. If we could get the light poles down now the appearance all around would be better. The Lutheran synod which met in Columbia the other day did the right thi-g in raising the amount from $150,000 to $300,000 for the two colleges, and even that is too small a mark to be set for the Lutherans of this state for their two colleges. The synod has apointed a central committee which will have charge of the campaign, and it is up to this committee to do the job. The cause of the Christian college and the Christian schools is receiving the attention today that it has not had for many years, and it is well, be cause these are the things that are to save our civilization and the country. MISSIONARY AUXILIARY MEET The monthly meeting of the Wo man’s Missionary Auxiliary will be held in the Mary Frances Wright Memorial Building on Monday af ternoon, August 21, at four o’clock. The program under the direction of Mrs. M. O. Summer will be very interesting. Mrs. R. D. Wright, Pres. Abandon Efforts To Retain Soil Camp District Office Is Located In City 4-H FIELD DAY HERE SEPT. 8TH That no further effort be made to retain the local conservation camp was the decision 0 f a meeting held Friday morning at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, at which Represen tative Butler B. Hare was an invited guest. Members of committees working toward keeping the camp expressed themselves as being satisfied that further efforts were futile. Representative Hare spoke at length tracing the matter from the instant it came to his attention through a newspaper clipping forwarded to him by one of his constituents. The clip ping, Mr. Hare stated, was to the effect that tw 0 new camps were to be established in his district. He contacted the head of the conserva tion service upon receipt of the news and was assured that such was the case. Later, he said, one of his con stituents in Liberty, Pickens county, wired him to the effect that it was being rumored that the camp at Li berty would be moved to Oconee county. Mr. Hare then went to the head of the service and learned that not only was the Liberty camp to be moved, but also the one at Newberry. This, he said, was the first he knew of the matter. The conservation service explained to Mr. Hare that their work was of demonstration nature and as a con sequence the camps could not remain permanently in any place. The shift ing of the camps, he was told, was vested in a state body headed by Dr. Watkins of Clemson college. It was this board that recommended the placing of the camp in Saluda county. Mr. Hare said that he was told by the conservation service that it never was the intention of anyone connect ed with the service to leave a camp at any place permanently, and that since Newberry had enjoyed the ser vice for upward of four years any ef fort to keep it here would be of no avail. Discussing the situation from a political angle Mr. Hare stated that he had never “played politics with the people’s interests. “I might play a little politics in election years” he continued, “but I would not take something from my friends to give to my neighbors.” Mr. Hare was thanked by the meeting for his unselfish interest in the matter and was commended by President Kohn of the Chamber of Commerce for the dispatch with which he handled requests of the commerce body. Commenting on the effort made to keep the camp, President Hal Kohn of the Chamber of Commerce said: “We feel that we have made a good and a clean fight. We have left nothing undone in our efforts to keep Camp 7. We have fought a good battle and (apparently) lost, but no wounds have been made. The spirit which has prevailed at every meeting has been very fine. We go down with colors flying. ‘“The Chamber of Commerce has been told by the authorities that Camp 6, on the Whitmire road, do ing reforestation work,, would remain here at least until 1940. When you realize that there are but 10 CCC Soil Conservation Camps in all the 46 counties of South Carolina, it does look selfish on our part to try and keep indefinitely one of them. Na turally, we want all we can get, but we want to be fair to others.” It was the sense of the meeting that in view of the friendly relations existing between the people of the two counties further efforts to save the camp would not be wise, Presi dent Kohn suggested that a letter be forwarded to the Saluda newspaper informing the people of that county of Newberry’s attitude. WILLIAM A. LEDFORD DIES AT SISTER’S HOME William Almon Ledford, 57, loom- fixer, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. C. W. Kirby, Tuesday after noon. Services were held from Hunt Memorial Baptisjt church with the Rev. C. M. Johnson in charge assist ed by the Rev. W. H. Lewis and the Rev. J.’ B. Harman. Burial was in Silverbrook cemetery in Anderson. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maude Kirby Ledford; one adopted child, Colleen Ledford: two brothers, H. J. Ledford, Sandy Springs, and Fred Ledford, Hendersonville, N. C. three sisters, Mrs. C. W. Kirby, Newberry; Mrs. R. L. Styles, Greer; Mrs. Corrie Doster, Shelby, N. C. FIRST COTTON SOLD The first cotton sale of the sea son here was made Saturday when Jesse Frank Hawkins sold one bale to Albert G. McCaughrin at 11c. Upon completing organization of the Lower Saluda Soil Conservation District, unit offices have been open ed in each of the three counties of the district—Greenwood, Saluda, and Newberry—with the district office, headed by William A. Mason, locat ed in this city. E. E. Epting and W. E. Cooper are in charge of the Newberry unit. At the recently opened Saluda unit office are J. N. Davis, George L. Mayer, and H. O. Newman, all transferred from Newberry. The Saluda office will carry on its opera tion in connection with the CCC camp which is scheduled to be open ed there October 1. The Greenwood unit, headed by Johnson Craig, formerly connected with the Greenwood county OCC camp, has temporary headquarters in a professional office building of Greenwood. When the office is per manently located there will be sev eral others working with Mr. Craig. Also connected with the local soil conservation office are Miss Helen Jackson, secretary to Mr. Mason, and A. H. Skardon, H. J. Montgom ery, and J. E. Shealy, in charge of maintaining the Hartford demon stration area project. Farmers of the three counties voted last winter to form a soil con servation district, consisting of a soil conservation association in each county. By joining the association of their respective counties, farmers will have the benefit of work carried on by the Soil Conservation Service on their individual farms. Newberry Selected Area Newberry has been selected the one county of this state to be the trial center of a new government program which will be launched next year. The object of the program is for all agencies under the department of agriculture including extension ser vice, agricultural adjustment act, soil conservation service, forestry ser vice, and farm security, cooperating with other government as well as private agencies to work on one pro gram so that by concerted effort more can be accomplished. The pro gram is to be arranged by the far mers whom it will benefit. Last spring 20 community meet ings were held in this county and la ter representatives from each group mapped out a program of work that the farmers would like to have car ried out. The program for Newberry county which the above mentioned agencies would work toward, includes many features, an outstanding one being pasture improvement Accord ing to acting county agent J. L. King, there are 30,000 acres of bottom land in the county that could be used for pasture land if properly treated. As in this state, one county of every other state has been named demonstration area for the new me thod of work. If the program is ef fective, it will be used in all counties. Newberry county was recommended by the extension service of Clemson because of rapid change here in agri cultural methods toward more pro gressive measures. The announce ment of the selection of this county was made by O. M. Clark, extension economist from Clemson, a recent visitor in the city. SCOUTS TO MOUNTAINS A number of Scouts, members of Troop One, left Wednesday for a camping trip to the Chimney Rock section of North Carolina to be away until Saturday. They were accom panied by J, C. Carpenter, scout master and Luther Aull, assistant scout master. The trip is sponored by the Rotary club and the tranportation was fur nished by Hal Kohn. The truck carrying the youngsters will be driv en by Wm. E. DeHines, an employee of Mr. Kohn. Scouts making the trip are: Paul Cousins, Billy DeHines, Billy Arm- field, Julian Aull, Billy Pat Able Kibler Moon, Charles Sterling, Ray Krell, Robert Clary, Maxwell Chap pell, Billy Neel, John Lee Kester and Charles Zobel. TO HOLLY HILL Miss Mary Wightman left Tuesday for Holly Hill where she has been employed as stenographer on the Santee-Cooper project. Miss Wight man was formerly with the soil con servation office of the city. Work Suspended On Roads of The County Rift Between Supervisor & Commissioners Over Hiring of Workers Brings Complete Tie-up of All Maintenance Work [Work on the roads of the county was at a stand-still Wednesday, fol lowing an order of Supervisor Ruff that a misunderstanding had arisen in the board and that work would be suspended until the matter was straightened out. Mr. Ruff notified the men as they came in from the day’s work Tuesday afternoon. Inquiry at the Supervisors office Wednesday morning revealed that Mr. Ruff was in the Chappells com munity and couid not be reached for a statement. Commissioner Paul tfaile said that he did not care to comment further than to say that the close down came as a surprise to him. He said that a meeting of the Board had been called for Thursday .morning at which time a majority of the board would outline plans for continuing the work. Commissioner Wilbur Shealy stat ed that he thought it a shame that one man could thus tie up the work of the county” rafrerring to the Supervisor“The people who elect ed me expect me to have some say in the operation of the office” he con tinued “and as long as I am in office I intend to do the work as I think best for the people.” Mr. Slu».ly said that he had tried to be more than fair in working with the sup ervisor but that the people demanded that the personnel of the mainte nance force be decreased and that he was going to “stick to what I have done, come what may.” There have been differences be tween the board members since the first of the year, resulting in one or two slight interruptions of the road and road-building work. Sometime in January the board members at least outwardly compos ed their differences by adding more men to the road force and it seems that the cutting of the workers has brought about the present trouble. At the regular board meeting some two months ago the Supervisor re commended laying off three men, all Mr. Shealy’s appointees, and this was done. At a subsequent meeting, Mr. Shealy recommended that Messrs. Richardson, Kleckley, and Living ston be removed from the rolls. This was approved by Mr. Haile and sub sequently carried and ordered. It is said that tfie Supervisor advised the men to continue working. fThis was the situation when the board met last Monday along with the county delegation. Messrs. Haile and Shealy had refused to sign the pay checks of the three discharged Into New Homes Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Haile and family have moved into their newly constructed home on Kinard street. They formerly lived on Caldwell. Patrolman Bill Martin and family have moved into a house they re cently purchased on the Columbia highway near the city. They were formerly in the Marion Davis house on east Main street Remodelling has begun on the house at 2107 Mayer avenue where the O. F. Armfields lived until a few weeks ago. The house will be oc cupied by Coach Bill Laval and family. Auditor P. N. Abrams and mother, Mrs. Verona Dominick, expect to move innto their new home on Wal nut street the last of this month. The house they are now occupying on Harper street will be taken by the Paul McConvilles. Remodelling has begun on the two story house at the corner of Mayer avenue and Summer street owned by Bill Smith and occupied by the Claude Reeders. The Presbyterian parsonage on Calhoun street occupied by the Rev. C. A. Calcote and family is being remodelled. men which automatically tossed the matter into the lap of the delegation under a law of two years ago. The delegation ruled that all men who had been discharged were to re main discharged under action of the majority of the board but that they be paid their salaries for the month as they were not properly notified of the action. The supervisor is said to have remarked in the board meeting that he would shut down the work if he were .lot allowed to pick the men he was to work. Commissioner Shealy said that he discharged Mr. Richardson (Eddie Dunn) because, among other things, he used 52 gallons of gasoline on a trip to Charleston in a county V-8 truck. This, Mr. Shealy said was an average of only about 6 miles per gallon. The Prosperity Commission er further stated that receipts in the office of the board showed that Mr. Richardson purchased in Charleston for his return trip 23 gallons of gasoline when the tank of the truck had a capacity of only 18 gallons. “This -’s the same man** Mi. Shealy continued “that the county paid a fine for on a speeding charge. The records will bear me out on this.” At a meeting of the Board of Commissioners [Thursday imorn- ing called by Commissioners Haile and Shealy, it was decided to re-open road work Friday morning. The clerk of the boi_rd was instructed to notify all work- > ers who cared to return to work to report Friday moning. A mem ber of the board said those who did not report would be replac ed by other workers. The Super visor did not attend the meeting. Contacted later in the day Wednesday Supervisor Ruff said that he did not care to make a statement at this time but would probably do so later. POLIO QUARANTINE LIFTED The quarantine against infantile paralysis put on all children under 12 at the beginning of the summer will be lifted Friday morning, Aug ust 18, according to an announce ment from the county health board. However, parents are urged to exer cise some precautions against the disease as there is still some danger. If at any time conditions become worse the quarantine will be put on again. REVIVAL BEGINS SUNDAY AT BAPTIST HOLINESS CHURCH The Free Will Baptist Holiness church near Mollohonn will be the scene of a four-week revival Begin ning Sunday, August 20. The Rev. L. M. Dabbs of Columbia will con duct services the first two weeks and the Rev. W. H. Guy of St. Paul, N. C. will be in charge the last two weeks. Services will be held each evening at 7:45. The public is invited. Friends »f W. H. Covington, coun ty radministrative officer of the AAA, will be glad to know that he is steadily improving at his home on College street, from an illness that has confined him to his bed since Wednesday, August ninth. It is thought now, with continued improvement, Mr. Covington will be able to resume his duties shortly after the first of September. LIBRARY OPENS SOONER The Newberry county library will open each morning at ten o’clock in stead of ten-thirty, according to an announcement made by Mrs. R. G. Smith, librarian. Present hours are from ten to twelve-thirty in the morning and from three to five in the afternoon. All-Day Program To Be Conducted At Fair Grounds A state 4-H dairy field day pro gram, sponsored by county 4-H calf clubs, will be held FYiday, Septem ber 8, at the Newberry county fair grounds. The program is being ar ranged by Dan Lewis, state boys’ club agent, and C. G. Cushman, ex tension dairy specialist, both of Ct-m- son college. Any parents interested in dairy improvement practices may at tend this meeting and especially urg ed to attend are 4-H dairy calf club members and their parents, dairy farmers, Dairy Herd Improvement Association record keepers, Dairy As sociation members, and members of the Dairy Breeders Association. The outstanding feature of the day’s program will be the state 4-H dairy demonstration team contest. Competing will be teams from five dairy counties of the state, the win ning team to later represent South Carolina at the National Dairy Show, Golden Gate, California, in competi tion with other states for sectional honors. Judges will be J. P. McMas- ter, professor of dairying, Clemson; B. B. Goodale, associate professor of dairying, Clemson; James C. Kinard, of Newberry college. The following teams will compete: Chester county, James Boyd of Blackstock and Law rence Stroud of Richburg, demonstra ting fitting and showing dairy cattle with D. H. Caughman as coach; Greenwood county, Harvey Gulledge of Callison and Carol Rush of Calli- son, demonstrating permanent pasture improvement with R. D. Steer coach ing; Newberry county, Bobby Duncan and Callie Parr demonstrating .per manent pasture improvement with J. L. King as coach; Richland county, Billy Swindler of Columbia, route one, and Jimmy Burnside of Columbia, route four, demonstrating judging dairy cattle with R. H. Lemmon, Jr., coaching; Spartanburg county, John F’inch of Pauline and Billy Knox of White Stone demonstrating the use of D. H. I. A. records with W. J. Mar tin, coach. The program opens at ten o’clcok in the morning with an address of welcome by Hal Kohn, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and re sponse by Virgil Corley of Saluda county, 4-H calf club member After the announcement of the demonstration contest winner follow ing the 12:30 luncheon a talk will be made by Mr. Lancaster on 4-H club work and its possibilities. J. P. Felder, secretary of the Spar tanburg county fair, is scheduled to speak at 2:30 on the state 4-H dairy classes at the Spartanburg county fair this fall. Mr. Cushman is to appear on the program at 2:45 giving dairy judging demonstbations. YOUTH CRUSADE WEEK OBSERVED BY METHODISTS The young people of Central Meth odist church are holding sessions each day this week in connection with the Youth Crusade Week. The program is being conducted by Miss Macie Davis, superintendent of the young people’s department of the church, and the Rev. H. O. Chambers, adult advisor of the young people. Beginning last Sunday, the pro gram included Sunday school ser vices in the Mary Frances Wright memorial building, vesper services at the Mlargaret Hunter park, and I worship at the church at eight o’clock. A swimming party was held at six o’clock Monday evening at the Margaret Hunter park. A candy pulling followed at eight o’clock. A youth Forum was held at the church Tuesday nnight. (An early outing Wednesday morn ing consisted of a bicycle ride to the fish hatchery where breakfast was cooked. Wednesday evening was set aside as visiting night. Tonight (Thursday) at seven o’clock the Methodist youth will gather at troop one Boy Scout cabin for a picnic and white fire service. CHICKEN BARBECUE—At Bush River school Wednesday, August 23rd, sponsored by YWA of Bush River Baptist church for benefit of church. Will begin serving at 7 o’clock. Cooking by R. G. Wallace. Price 60c. Menu, one-half chicken, rice and gravy, potato salad with slaw, tomato and pickle, bread and tea.