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VOLUME 4; NO. 10 The Rising Sun—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940 PUBLISHED WEEKLY $1.00 PER YEAR Chemicals Make Cotton Use Safe Pireproof Stable Result of Research Conducted by Texas Manufacturer Taylor, Texas, Dec. 21.—A discov ery by a Taylor mattress-manufact urer, trying to find out how to prev ent Christmas tree fires caused by cotton “snow”, may go a long way toward absorbing the South’s No. 11 problem—the cotton surplus. D. F. Forwood, president of a bedding manufacturing company, has demonstrated widely his discov ery of treating cotton chemically so it wop’t bum. The result is an in sulating material much less costly than most insulations now used. Cotton’s inflammability has been its chief drawback for such purposes in the past. The cotton is treated with a cheap chemical, attached to a solid backing and is ready for use in insulating homes or other buildings. Forwood estimated that a six-room frame house can be insulated with the ma terial for $100, and that the insula tion will be fireproof. Futhermor* the building will be heat- and cold-resistant, Forwood said. The manufacturer demonstrated the fireproof quality of his cotton recently. A lighted match was ap plied to the usually high-inflam mable product. The match burned down but the cotton showed only a discoloration from the smok«.. A lighted blow torch also failed to ig nite the cotton. Forwood said that the cotton had many other possibilities for insulat ing use. Iced drinks in bottles were wrapped in the material for three hours on a hot day this summer. When the bottles were unwrapped, they were still frozen inside. State and federal farm experts who viewed a recent demonstration of Forwaad’s invention predicted that 400,000 to 1,000,000 bales of sur plus cotton might be used annually in the new industry. The inventor made his product public for the first time when the Texas legislature of fered $10,000 prize for the person who could find a new way to use 300,000 bales of cotton annually. Forwood was rearer on a farm. He moved to Taylor and became a correspondent for city newspapers. He later opened a furniture store and decided to manufacture mattresses for the beds he sold. The cotton insulation business al ready has been tried out experi mentally in several American cities. Three cottages in Memphis, Tenn.. were insulated for a total cost of $250. The federal government plans to conduct experiments with the mat erial in Midwestern construction. Experiments in summer heat have indicated that the houses insulated with the cotton product average about 10 degrees cooler inside than those without insulation. NYA Boys Will Move To Home On account of increased NYA ac tivities, Mrs. Gladys Carlton has been promoted from office assistant to Assistant Area Supervisor. Mrs. Carlton has had much experience in NYA work, having served as office assistant in the Newberry area office for two years. Mrs. Nina Cromer Price succeeds Mrs. Carlton as NYA office assistant. Mrs. Price is well qualified to head the NYA office. Mrs. Mamie S. Summer, Area Sup- erviser of all NYA work in Newber ry, Laurens and Fairfield counties will have under her supervision the planning and project work experience of more than 600 youths and their Supervisors and instructors. The fifty boys now workng in the local NYA shop will move into the Boozer house on Nance street around January 1, 1941. This house was re cently purchased by a friend of the National Youth Administration to be used as a home for Newberry Coun ty NYA boys. The house will be re paired, painted and the grounds beautified. The county delegation and the city council have set aside money to build a modern shop. This shop will be located in the park area. At an early date heavy machinery to cost around $4000.00 will be placed in the shop now in use, so that the boys may have work experience in mass production. Mrs. Summer says that NYA is speeding up under the Na tional Defense Program. NEW CLASSES New classes in Shorthand, Typing, Business English, and Business Spell ing will begin January 2, 1940 at the WPA Commercial School located at 1109 Boyce street. All persons Inter ested are asked to report at 1 o'clock on the above date. LINDLER-CUM A LANDER Miss Betty Mae Linder and Mr. James William Cumalander were married December 21, 1940, at the residence of the officiating minister, the Rev. J. B. Harman, in the pres ence of several relatives. Mrs. Cumalander is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Bachman Lindler of Chapin, and Mr. Cumalander is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Cum alander of Little Mountain. They will have their residence in Little Mountain. PECAN TREE PROLIFIC A. D. jRupIe of Orangeburg Gets 710 Pounds Orangeburg, Dec. 21.—A. D. Ruple reported today he had gathered and sold 710 pounds of pecans from one tree on his farm this season. Season’s Greetings M«y thi» b» your happioit Christmas of thorn all... and tha Now Yoar bo tho most prosporous. our Yulotido wish for oach of our frionds. Greystone Serivce Station 925 Main Street NEWBERRY, S. C. Owl Ifyianwii, fihaASL f Stop unwrapping your gifts just long enough for us to say "Merry Christmas and "Thank You."...We hope you get everything you have longed for and a lot more, too. e PAUL H. HAILE ★ A more fitting opportunity to express our • appreciation for your consideration could not be found than at Christmas-time. • The Holiday Season, with its spirit of good cheer and friendliness, brings to mind the splendid associations that have been ours during the past year. • ^We gratefully acknowl edge your consideration and favors. • The confidence shown is our incentive to even greater service during the years to come. • It leads us to keep thoughtfully in mind your needs and desires so that we may efficiently fulfill them. • The old year holds scores upon scores of cherished memories—new acquaintances made—the closer binding of old ties of friendships and many happy relationships. • That is why, as the old year draws to a close amid the good fellowship of Christmas time, we consider it an honor to extend compliments of the season to our good friends of this area. • The sincere wish of every member of this organization is that we may continue to serve you to your satisfaction in the years to come. •We wish for you the Merriest Christmas you have ever known and a year full of happiness, health and prosperity, with the fulfillment of your every ambition and plan and vis ion. May we again say to each of our good friends HAPPY NEW YEAR Jffnmt ®IIjn IHak? SOUTH GETS BIG SHARE 40 Per cent juf Trees Sent to Seven States Washington, Dec. 22.—South Caro lina was one of the greatest benefi ciary-states of the 1940 tree planting program of the soil conservation ser vice, Director H. H. Bennett an nounced today. Moire than 40 per cent of the trees distributed under the program were planted in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Soil conservation workers and farmers planted approximately 26,- 000,000 trees and shrubs on over 26,- 000 acres ill the southeastern region Plantings were made on projects in soil conservation districts, C C C camps and land utilization areas. Next year the number of seedings to be planted in the southeastern states is expected to be dropped to about 20,000,000, while national plantings will be raised from 67,- 000,000 this year to about 100,000,- 000 in 1941. Hare Honor Guest Mrs. J. H. Summer, has invited a group of Newberry county men and women to a banquet at the NYA home on December 31 at 7 p. m. Congressman Butler B. Hare will be the honor guest and will speak to the guests assembled. Congressman Hare is now serving on several im portant National Defense committees so an opportunity to hear him speak will be of great interest. Dr. Roger L. Coe, State Youth administration will also be present. DEVELOPS BEE THAT WONT jFIGHT BACK SECOND CALL FOR MEN Newberry county received its sec ond call Monday morning to furnish 19 men for training under the Selec tive Service law. Eleven white men are to be taken from registrants on Local Board No. 58 and eight white men from Local Board No. 59. All will leave on Mon day, January 20, 1941. The nineteen men will be notified at an early cate to report for induc tion and the list of selected men will be published at that time. Alfred, N. Y., Dec. 22.—A placid bee which seldom stings and “just won’t fight back” has been developed by Dr. Lloyd R. Watson, chemistry professor at Alfred university, after twenty-three years of experimenting with controlled mating of queen bees. Since 1927 when he completed his work for a doctor of philosophy degree at Cornell university. Wat son has been conducting various ex periments in bee breeding. Among other things he hoped to produce bees with longer tongues, larger stomachs, stronger wings or more wing hooks. The longer tongued bee could work deeper flowers—red clover for instance—than the ordinary bee, while other “accessories” would merely insure a more profitable car rier. “I don’t see why a farmer should not be able to go as safely into his bee yard as he is able to go into the hen yard to get eggs,” Watson said in discussing the non-stinging bee. “However, it is too early to tell what hereditary factor has produced the gentle bee. It may be dominant, rec essive or even environmental.” The gentle bee appears to be fully civilized. It has a sting but is con siderate in its use, Watson said. In a demonstration, he pounded a hive, knocked the frame and brushed the insects off a honeycomb. The college professor has been able to re-queen most of his yard with queens raised from the “civiliz ed'’ hive. N OLD FASHIONED MERRY CHRISTMAS IN STREAMLINED DRESS May the Yuletide Season, with all its spirit of good fellowship, bring great joy to you and abundant prosperity in the coming year. Clarence T. Summer, Inc. Filling Stations Close Christmas Day In order that our employees may enjoy Christmas Day with their fam ilies we will be closed all day Wed nesday, December 25th. ELLISOR ADAMS C. D. COLEMAN CO. BROWN’S SERVICE STATION SCHUMPERT & STEVENS SMITH MOTOR CO. MOWER MOTOR CO. CITY FILLING STATION GREYSTONE SERVICE STATION HOMESTEAD SER. STATION Ben M. Sawyer Dies Result Asphyxiation Ben M. Sawyer, 50, chief highway commissioner of South Carolina and a colonel in the Thirtieth division now stationed at Fort Jackson, was found dead of asphyxiation shortly before 6 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the office of Dr. George Bauer, chiro practor, at 1305 Laurel street. Lucile Hagood, Negro nurse in the employ of Doctor Bauer, who was supervising a colon therapy treat ment for Mr. Sawyer, was also ov ercome by the gas and died despite the heroic efforts of an inhalator squad which worked for almost two hours on both Mr. Sawyer and the nurse. Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Tuesday at Shandon Baptist church with interment in Elmwood. Mr. Sawyer had been receiving treatments at Doctor Bauer’s office in an effort to rei his weight. The treatments were given by the nurse. T. C. Hutchinson, registration clerk of the motor vehicle division of the highway department, took Mr. Saw yer to Doctor Bauer’s office at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. Mr. Sawyer told Mr. Hutchinson the treatment would take about 40 minutes and ask ed Mr. Hutchinson to go to a friend’s house and get some shells for a pro jected hunting trip during the holi days. Mr. Hutchinson returned about 5 o’clock and waited outside in the car until shortly after 6 o’clock. When Mr. Sawyer did not appear, Mr. Hutchinson entered Doctor Bau er’s office. When no one answered to his knocks at the door of the treat ment room, he called Mr. Sawyer, and, receiving no reply, opened the door. There he found Mr. Sawyer and the nurse and summoned the po lice and the coroner. Both bodies were removed to the main office room and inhalator squads went to work. Doors and windows were flung open to clear the place of gas and the inhalator was immed- iatelv put into use. along with arti ficial respiration by police officers trained in the uses of first aid. Physicians were summoned and pronounced both Mr. Sawyer and the nurse dead after the first aid squad had worked feverishly for some time. A. W. Bohlen, chief of the motor vehicle division of the highway de partment, was called and supervised removal of Mr. Sawyer’s body to a mortuary. In reconstructing the tragedy, Coro ner John A. Sargeant, who was as sisted by Chief of Police L. J. Camo- bell and members of the Columbia fire department, said that the man ual gas heater attached to a hot water tank in the small room adjoin ing the treatment room bad been the source of the gas. The heater had to be lighted and regulated by Hand. Apparently, when the water tank had become sufficiently hot, the nurse had turned off the gas heater and had either failed to close the valve completely or else had accidently opened it again after the flame had been extinguished. Another possi bility was that in some manner the heater had been accidently extin guished. CANTEEN TAX IS OPPOSED BY GOVERNOR MAYBANK Columbia. Dec. 21.—Governor Bur net R. Maybank said tonight he was opposed to the state’s so-called “lux ury” taxes being charged on sales at canteens’operated by the army, navy or marines or their agents on mili tary reservations. The tax commission announced this week it considered these sales subject to these taxes, which affect cigarets, soft drinks and the like. Maybank recalled that he and State Draft Director Holmes B. Springs had asked employers to supplement the low pay of persons called for a year’s military training. Now, he said, “many” of the employers who responded had asked him to keep the "luxury” taxes from being applied, since they would decrease the youths income indirectly. He said that he would ask the tax commission to withhold the enforce ment pending a study to see if it would he necessary to repeal some existing statute. If the latter should be necessary, the governor said he would recommend repeal to the legis lature, which meets January 14. COTTON GINNINGS Cotton ginned to December 13, this year, amounted to 21,040 bales as compared with 22,164 for the same period of last year. Carolina Mills Get Defense Orders Washington, Dec. 22,—South Caro lina textile industries received na tional defense orders totaling more than $4,000,000 during the past week, a check of purchases of the war and navy departments revealed today. The Ware Shoals bleachery. of Ware Shoals, and Gregg Finishing company of Graniteville, shared in the biggest order, contracted through J. P. Stevens and company, New York, for $3,355,917 worth of cotton cloth for the war department. The only navy department supply contract of the week that went to a South Carolina industry was award ed to Pacolet Manufacturing com pany, of Pacolet, providing for cot ton drill in the amount of $36,210. Other awards are listed as foluowe: Renfroe Bleachery, Traveler’s Rest cotton cloth, $117,931; Graniteville company, Graniteville, cotton and twill cloth, $162,799; Union Bleach ing company, Greenville, twill, $100,- 198; Southern Worsted corporation, olive drab cloth, $264,800; Southern Weaving company, Greenville, web bing, $2,871. in the last two years have stayed put, refusing to be transferred to budget-balancing purposes. It remains to be seen whether this time the governor will succeed in what has been his major effort in the first two years of his adminis tration. If not so, then a third year of similarity would go upon the rec ords; if so then change would be re corded. But even if the larger doings of the year now coming to a close have had quite a resemblance to those of the previous years, there have been enough minor changes since last Christmas to be worthy of some year- end summarizirg. ANNUAL DELEGATION MEETING The Newberry County Delegation will hold its annual public meeting in the County Court House Tuesday, January 7th at 10 a. m. Everyone who has any business with or suggestions to offer are in vited to meet with the delegation and submit their requests. M. E. Abrams, Chairman, R. Aubrey Harley, Sec INJURED IN AUTO WRECK Superintendent of Education, C. E. Hendrix, is recovering at his home on Cornelia street from a fractured rib and several head cuts sustained in an automobile accident Monday morning, December 23. He was the only occupant of the car. The accident occurred when the automobile Mr. Hendrix was driving suddenly got out of control and turn ed over on a roadi near Silverstreet. The car was badly damaged. Miss Ruth Wilson, teacher at Prosperity is spending the holidays with her family, Mr. and Mrs. Clem- son Wilson, and Billy Wilson. FIXTURES FOR SALE — Complete and excellent set of grocery store fixtures for sale. Will also rent building in which they are now lo cated, the J. Claud Senn stand. Ap ply to Mrs. J. C. Senn, 69 Player Street. 27-6tp SFFN ABOUT TOWN Buses filled with college stu dents going home for holidays*. . DR. HUGH K. BOYD ringing for elevator in court house... and teasing your scribe about walking so fast ...TAMES .AB RAMS of Stoney Hill in town Friday. BROOKSIE HUTCHIN SON making deposit at bank... JOHNNY KINARD walking hur riedly up Caldwell street... CHRIS KAUFMANN leaving post office with arm full of mail ...THELMA LESTER carrying package wrapped in Christmas paper. RUBY RUFF walking up College street... WILLENE WICKER carrying brown um brella.. ANNIE BANKS SLIGH in Sun office to get ice cream ticket. . EVELYN McCRACKIN shopping.. .Birthday anniversar ies between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3 are as follows: James R. David son, 88 years old, Dec. J23; P- D- Johnson, Jr., Dec. 25; Mrs. T. B. Jacobs, Dec. 25; Mrs. Griffin Coleman. Dec 26; Ann Brock Culbertson. Dec. 26; J. H. Beden- baugh, Dec. 27; Grace French, Dec. 29; Mrs. Nat Gist. Jr., Dec. 31; Kirby Lominack. Jan. 3; Car ter Abrams, Jan. 3.