The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 27, 1940, Image 5
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1940
THE NEWBERRY SUN
WANTED—Veals, C aws and Hogs;
also your Cow Hides. Se us before
you sell. The Newberry Abattoir.
FOR SALE — Farmsll 30. Rubber
tires 10120 steel tires. Johnson-
McCrackin Co. 4tc
FOR RENT—Mountain cottage at
Bat Cave, N. C., for rent part of
September and October. Equipped
with lights and water. See Mrs.
B. M. Scurry. Phone 154-J.
FOR RENT—Three room unfurnished
apartment with two clothes closets,
pantry, kitchenette, and bath.
1003 Caldwell street
tf. Mrs. J. W. White
MRS. HAL KOHN will begin her
music class September 11. Call 105
or 391 or see Mrs. Kohn in person.
Billingsley Supervises Varied Program in
Enoree Sector Of Sumter National Forest
BY CONSTANCE ARMFIELD
ROOMS FOR RENT—One furnished
^or two unfurnished. Please call
after three o’clock. Phone 49-W.
1621 Harrington Street. 3t
FOR SALE—Second hand Deering
Mower and one second hand two-
horse wagon. O. H. Lane. Phone
5602.
FOR RENT — P ivate apartment,
downstairs. Call Mrs. D. J. Taylor,
Phone 468. 9-13-tf
MODERN HOME FOR SALE—Close
in. Five large rooms, two bath
i-ooms, two closets, back hall,
beautiful floors, built-in features,
cement porches. 12x20 garage, ve
getable garden, Shrubbery. Practi
cally new. Write “A. Z.”, Care the
Sun, Newberry, S. C-
FOR RENT—5 room furnished home.
modern in every respect; in good
section. Apply to Mrs. Harriette
L. O’Donnell, 513 Boundary St. 3tc
Riding out the Whitmire road one
notices on the right just beyond the
intersection and attractive sign on a
picturesque post fixture telling you
are entering the Sumter National
Forest. Motoring on along. the
smooth highway one thinks little
more of the sign or just what it
means. But a short piece off the
highway onto good country roads a
traveler might “see things” that
would bring to mind inttuiffnierable
questions as to what the national
forest work consists of. Forestry, as
it is now known, is a comparatively
new thing in this section. To the
majority of us the phrases “national
forests” and “forestry service” means
vaugely the government buying up
many acres of forest land and pro
tecting it from fires. Such is the
work of forest officials, but only a
part of it.
Reporting has its compensations.
In search of a feature story on the
Enoree division of the Sumter forest
(Newberry being one of the five coun-
planted two, three, or even five years
ago by the service on lands that -weri
formerly bare and lying idle. In the
Enoree district there are 45 such plan
tations averaging 40 acres each.
Over 1500 acres are producing pines
now but this figure advances greatly
soon as the service expects to add
3000 acres during the winter of
1940-41.
Our guide next brought to mind a
project that I had no idea the For
estry Service had anything to do
with — rehabilitation. To the end
that each acre of land and each re.
source be put to the use that would
bring about the greatest good to the
great number, all lands purchased
for national forest purposes were
carefully classified as to their phy
sical characteristics, need for them
as farm units, and as to their tim
ber resources. A few farms acquir
ed in the Enoree district, because of
better land usage and good soil con
ditions, were suitable for continued
agricultural use. Approximately 60
such farms have been selected. It
has been seen that every family on
ties in which it lies) Ranger John C. j national forest land has a weather-
Bulingsley came to the rescue and 1 proof house equipped with windows
graciously offered to supervise a trip and screens, a safe water supply, a
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over the Enoree district of which he
is in charge. Accompanied by his
capable secretary who was loaded
down with pictures, figures, and oth
er such data, we three started off
sanitary toliet, suitable barn," sheds,
and stock lots, and adequate garden
space. The Ranger’s secretary was
carrying a group of “before and af
ter” pictures of the farms taken over
early one morning and rode for by the service. The change was al-
hours which passed all too fast in most unbelievable. Renters are also
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watching projects and listening to
the Ranger’s instructive comments.
Parts of Newberry, Union, Ches
ter, Fairfield and Laurens counties
make up the 400,000 acres, gross
area, of the Enoree district. The gov
ernment has acquired to date 145,000
acreas of this amount. The district
waY established in the spring of 1934
but it was not until July of 1935 that
it was declared a national forest by
Presidential proclamation and then
development started when Ranger
Billingsley came to this section and
the project was organized under his
leadership.
As with all other national forest
areas, the Enoree district was es
tablished for the purpose of bring
ing about the greatest possible
amount of social and economic bene
fit through the principles of properly
integrated multiple land use. Many
of the acres acquired for national
forest purposes in the district had
been cleared and farmed to the point
of soil fertility exhaustion. Though
many acreas were definitely sub
marginal for agricultural use, there
were quite a few stranded families
residing thereupon because they had
been unable to obtain more satisfac
tory places. The well-being of these
families was recognized at the very
start as the most important objec
tive of the Forest Service program in
the district. Assisting ✓ the Forest
Service program in its program have
been the Soil Conservation officials,
the Farm Security Administration,
Extension Service, the A. A. A. and
last, but not least, the COC camps.
But back to our trip—we rode
down the Whitmire road several miles
before turning off. Constantly while
i on the highway as well as deeper in
to the forest, the Ranger proudly
being furnished with improved pas
ture space and the service maintains
four of these at present. The an
nual renter charges from these ten
ants represent a part of the income
from the National forest lands.
Our next stop was at the attrac
tive and very convenient recreational
park near Molly’s Rock. This park
which offers to the public free for
use a swimming pool, bath houses,
several cooking pits, tables, benches,
sheds, and even wood to make fires
is to be further furnished as funds
permit. Another recreational park is
being built at Slippery Rock, just
beyond Whitmire on state highway
number seven. This will have the
same equipment as the other park
but is a prettier location and has a
waterfall that is an attractive fea
ture.
All along the route the Ranger
brought to our attention places
where high banks had been graded
down and where gullies had been
filled. At least 12 gullies, miniature
Grand Canyons it appeared to me,
had been threatening roads and high
ways. Such cavities had been filled
and planted as to prevent soil ero
sion. We came across one group of
workers that were pulling down high
banks and planting them in lespe-
deza, crotolaria, and Bermuda grass
In the Enoree district the service
has taken over 94 miles of road and
14 bridges. The roads f.re so work
ed as to permit travel in all weather
and much labor has been spent on
getting the the bridges into better
shape. More roads are constantly
being, taken over.
Erecting and servicing telephone
lines is also a part of the wide-
aching work of the Forestry Ser
vice. In the district 89 miles of lines
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i pointed out “plantations” here and concoct fire towers, camps, and offices,
thei^e. lit was sometime befor.e 11 About the middle of the morning
realized that plantation^ were acres i our route brought us to-.the fire tow-
of young native pines that had been r located two miles north of Whit-
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MAIN STREET NEWBERRY, S. C.
mire on U. S. highway 176. This is
one of the six towers in the Enoree
district and is centrally located. Be
ing one of those fortunate people
never to get dizzy by heights I start
ed up the rather steep stairs leading
to the tower box with the Ranger fol
lowing. He suggested a rest about
half-way up which was all too wel
come for me. Reaching the last
flight a trap-door sort of an open
ing appeared and the guard pulled
us in. In an interesting chat I learn
ed that fires were located by obtain
ing azimuth readings from any two
towers. Tte dispatcher pk>ts th|e
readings on his map, locates the fire
accurately, and then dispatches with
the nearest crew to suppress it. Af
ter skimming the far distances with
the guard’s field glasses and being
signed up as a member of the “An
cient and Honorable Order of Squir
rels” we started back down. Greet
ing the gruard’s wife at the little
cabin at the foot of the tower we
climbed back into the car and start
ed out again.
But in a discussion of forest fires
the most amazing data came out and
the figures Ranger gave us were
something like the following: In
1935, before complete organization
of the service here, there were 98
fires in the cistrict which resulted
in 3,530 acres being burned. In 1936
there were 79 fires but only 354
acres being lost. In that year 20
law cases against "fire-bugs” were
brought up and all ended in convic
tions. By this time the service had
begun to show over the counties mo
tion pictures of forest fires and give
educational talks on fire prevention.
Such action was well worth while
for the next year, 1937, only 10 fires
occurred and only 45 acres lost. In
1938, 23 fires were reported and 223
acres lost; in 1939, 34 fires and 288
acres lost; and from the first of this
year so far there have been 30 fires
and only 256 acres burned. All
this shows the present lost less than
one-tenth of that of five years ago.
It’s a truly remarkable record.
Our last stop before coming back
to the city was at the COC camp
near Whitmire where we were
guests of the officers at a luncheon
that must have been especially pre
pared for us. After lunch we were
shown around the camp by Captain
Pinkston, commanding officer. In
1935 there were three CCC camps
in the Enoree district who had been
working on the forestry project. The
one formerly at Laurens was aban
doned in 1938 and the one at Union
in 1937. The only one remaining fur
nishes about 210 workers for the for
est. George P. Wright is project
superintendent of the camp and und
er his guide we were shown the places
proper which relate to the forestry
work—the nursery cone shed and
store room, the warehouse, the field
office, garage, and the four-room
dwelling occupied by a forest techni
cian, and most important of all—
the Iprge nursery that has mainly an
annual output of approximately two
million pine seedlings.
A question might be asked as to
what good is the Sumter National
Forest or any national forest to the
public. Few citizens realize how
much the public, as a whole as well
as individually, benefits from having
these forests. It must be remember
ed that the Enoree division of the
Forest in only five years old, very
young as compared with forests In
other states, and it has not had time
yet to become self-sustaining. When
it does, the counties in which it lies
will realize more than now how much
it can mean. But some facts as to
present value—we might mention
hunting and fishing, and the latter
is by far the larger element in the
Enoree district. Hundreds of acres
of game areas had been developed
by planting the following food ana
cover crops: various lespedezas, pri-
vit, pearl millet, sun flower, soy
beans, beggarweed, benne, partridge
pea and Asiatic chesnut. The area
is fully stocked to quail. There are
three quail management areas con
sisting of 16,000 acres. It has been
the Ranger’s plans for sometime to
conduct public hunts ana one may
be announced before long. Contrary
to former practices it is now unnec
cessary to obtain from the forestry
office permits to hunt on national
forest land in open areas. The clos
ed areas have been posted.
But where the public—or the five
counties—benefit financially is from
the sale of timber off the forest
lands and the amount the Service re
ceives from special use rentals. In
other words twenty-five percent of
all gress incomes of the Enoree div
ision is returned to the counties in
which the forest is located for the
benefit of schools, and an additional
ten percent is expended by the For
est service for the construction and
maintenance of roads within the for
est. In 1939 over one million board
feet of lumber came from the Enoree
district amounting to about $3,500
while the renters paid to the Service
$9,000. Before 1940 comes to an end
about two million board feet of him.
ber will be i taken from the forest
area amounting to $5,000 and the
$9,000 from rents again will be in
cluded in the gross income.
When contracts are let to the lum
ber purchasers, they specify the use
of local labor so salaries paid to wood
workers alone in 1940 will amount to
about $5,000.
It is interesting to note how money
from one truck load of logs is dis
bursed as an example. One truck
carries 2,400 board feet. This amount
will total $43.20 of which $2.40 goes
to schools, 96c to the road fund,
$30.41 to labor, and $9.43 to the pur
chaser.
Planting young vines, rehabilita
tion, building fully equipped recrea
tion parks, filling gullies and grad
ing and planting banks, constructing
all-weather roads, bridges, and tele
phone lines, constantly decreasing fo
rest fires and areas burned, affording
better hunting for sportsmen, and
selling timber that contributes large
ly to county treasuries—all this is
the extensive and important work of
the Forest Service. It’s a project
that means considerably more every
year to the counties in which it is lo
cated and the peoples of those
counties.
Society
and CLUB
NOTES
By DORIS ARMFIELD
IS THIS YOU?
The two young ladies described last
week were Miss Ruth Ctei^ of Bound
ary street, and Miss Christine Dom
inick of Prosperity. They both re
ceived their tickets from the Sun
office and ice cream from Stokes’
Drug Store.
The first description of this week
is of a lady, small and blackheaded,
who is a cashier in a local store. She
was seen Tuesday morning about to
leave for Columbia, wearing a most
attractive navy blue dimity dress,
trimmed with white eyelet pockets,
sleeves, and neckline. On the front
were novel button-bows.
The second “description” stopped
on the Post office steps for a few
moments to talk to your reporter of
a recent trip to Anderson. She was
wearing a blue and wine dress, with
pointed neckline, and draped at the
shoulders. She carried a wine pdCK-
etbook and wore black shoes.
If either of these descriptions could
be you, come by the Sun office by
next Wednesday and receive your
ticket for one quart of ice cream
from Stoke’s Drug store, presented
with compliments of Stokes’ and The
Sun.
BRIDGE CLUB
MET SATURDAY
Zinnias and other late summer
flowers decorated the apartment of
Mrs. S. E. Whitten last Saturday
when she entertained her bridge
club. Two tables were laid tor con
tract.
Late in the afternoon the hostess
served iced drinks with sandwiches
and cookies.
Prize for high score went to Mrs.
J. T. McCrackin, low to Mrs. Wilton
Todd.
NEWBERRY OBSERVES BETTER
PARENTHOD WEEK
MRS. PETER DAVIS, NEW YORK,
GUEST AT BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. Peter Davis of New York
City was a guest at the bridge dub
entertained by Mrs. Fitzgerald Ruth
erford at her home on College street
Thursday morning. Other guests
were Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. William
Partridge.
An attractive gift was presented
to Mrs. Davis and to the prize win
ners, Mrs. Stevens, guest prize, Mrs.
R. W. Kirkland, club prize, Mrs. Bill
Reid, bingo.
During the modning the hostess
served sandwiches and cookies with
iced drinks. The house was decorat
ed with roses.
MRS. RODELSPERGER
HONORS GUEST
V;
Miss Genie Fogle of Union was de
lightfully complimented with a drop-
in party Saturday afternoon by Mrs.
George Rodelsperger.
Mrs. Rodelsperger’s apartment on
College street was attractively dec
orated with festive summer flowers.
Helping receive, and serving hot
tea, sandwiches, and cookies were
Misses Willie Hawkins, Julia King,
and Lucille Cuttino of Union, Mrs.
T .S. Humphries, Mrs. John Henry
Baxter, Miss Catherine Humphries,
and Mrs Purkerson.
A large number of friends called
between 4:30 and 5:30.
The two groups of the Mothers
club together with the city’s three
service organizations—the Lions, Ki-
wanis, and Rotarians—are sponsor
ing two lectures by Dr. Frank How
ard Richardson, A. B., M. D., noted
pediatrist, tomorrow (Friday). The
afternoon lecture will be held at the
Newberry High school auditorium at
four o’clock. All prsons interested
in hearing Dr. Richardson are cor
dially invited. His subject will be
“Educating Our Parents.”
The evening lecture will be pres
ented to members of the service clubs
at a dutch supper given at th Wil-
lowbrook club house at 7:30 o’clock.
The lectures of Dr. Richardson is
a fitting climax to the program of
Better Parenthood Week which hks
been observed here since Monday,
September 23. In this community
the American Legion Auxiliary and
the Mothers club observed the week
by lending active support for better
schools and better school attendance
in sponsoring a bundle day on Mon
day. Clothes were received then to
be distributed to many needy fam
ilies of the county.
Another activity of Newberry dur
ing the week was the youth confer
ence Monday when a large number
of NYA boys and girls from New
berry, F'airfield, and Laurens coun
ties gathered for a day’s session.
The observance of Better Parent
hood week has, in the past two years,
been the endorsement of governors
of many states. The local observ
ance was called to the public’s atten
tion with a proclamation from Mayor
J. W. Earhardt which appeared
Monday.
CHICKEN SUPPER
Barbecue chicken supper at St.
Philips School, Friday September 27,
1940. Supper will be served, begin
ning at 6 o’clock. Prices per plate,
25c and 40c. The public is invited
and excellent fare and service is as
sured.
KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN
PARISH
Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor
Bethany:
Sunday 10 a. m.—Sunday School.
Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt.
11 A. M.—Morning Worship with
sermon.
Summer Memorial:
Sunday 10 A. M.—Sunday school.
Mr. M. E. Shealy, Supt.
6:30 P. M.—'Luther League.
All of the young people, who are
confirmed members of these congre
gations, under the age of 24 are urged
to attend the Youth Conference to
be held at the Lutheran church of
th Redeemer next Sunday evening
at 7 :30 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Matthews
spent the past weekend with her par
ents, the Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Har
man.
Mrs. George Epps is spending two
weeks visiting in Washington and
New York.
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