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- / f FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. 1941 THE NEWBERRY SUN Annual After NGESALE NOW IN PROGRESS! Every Department is showing merchandise for use now and later at prices that will mean a saving’to you of 25 to 5(Tper cent. Odd lots . . . some of perfect quality . . . others that are slightly mussed .. . gather ed from stocks throughout the store, will be on racks and tables for sale at only a fraction of original prices. e want you to share in these wonderful bargains, so plan to attend this After Inventory Clear ance. LITTLE BOY SHOWS GRATITUDE AFTER RESCUE Greenwood, Jan. 6.—A little boy’s gratitude to a strange man who sav ed his life was shown, unmistakably by three year old Rudolph Holder, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Holder of Clinton, on the way to the hos pital here and after he had been re vived by treatment last night. The lad was rescued from a pos sible freezing death after he had wandered from the home of his great grandfather, Mr. McDowell, in the Friendship section of Saluda county and been exposed to the bitter cold for six hours. John Shannon of Greenwood who led a group of Negro OCC enrollees of a Saluda county camp, found him lying on a pile of straw several hun dred yards from the highway and about three-quarters of a mile from the McDowell home. At the same time the country-side was being searched by many others, including Sheriff Gary Davis of Saluda county, deputies and officers of Greenwood and Saluda, state highway patrolmen and volunteers. “We found 1 the little boy cuddled up on a pile of straw,” Mr. Shannon said today, “He had removed his shoes and all his clothing except his undershirt and he appeared to be numb from cold. He made no outcry when I picked him up and he nestled close to me as I wrapped two coats around him and carried him to State Constable Joe Hinton’s car in which he was brought to the hospital. Sheriff Davis and Luther King also came, with Constable Hinton driving. I still held the boy in my arms and on the way I knew the car heater was thawing him out when his little hand squeezed mine as we hurried to the hospital on the 15 mile trip. “After Rudolph had been placed on a table for examination,” Mr. Shan non added, “he opened his eyes and looked at me as if he knew me. Then he grabbed me around the neck with both arms and huggedi me tight. When a nurse offered him milk and bread he refused to take it until I gave it to him.” It was found that the lad had suf fered no ill effects from his experi ence and he was taken back home today. His parents were visiting relatives in Saluda county for the day when he disappeared about one o’clock in the afternoon. COMMUNITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE SET TO GO TRUCK CROf* OUTLOOK Newtberry’s Community Basket ball League, started last season, will get under way for the 1941 season on Friday, January 17. The games will be played, as last year, at 7:00 p. m. in the Newberry college gym nasium. Also as last year, games will be played regularly each week on Thursday nights; due to a col lege game on Thursday, January 16, however, the first game will be play ed on Friday the 17th. At the initial meeting of the Bask etball Committee, held in the Cham ber of Commerce office at 10:30 a. m. Monday, decisions and regulations governing the 1941 series were laid out. Businessmen and sponsors of teams will be contacted this week for final arrangements and schedules. At the meeting Monday morning, Ralph Baker was unanimously elect ed “Judge” of the entire league, to serve as a “Judge Landis”, oversee ing 'the entire project. The Commit tee in charge this year is composed of Ralph Baker, Earl Summer, J. C. Carpenter, Cyril Hutchinson, and Chamber secretary Ted W. Bremer. "R 1 imcisr! is- it- Clemson Jan. 6.—With purchasing power in 1941 greatly improved over that of recent years, prices to grow ers of South Carolina truck crops should be substantially better than in recent years, provided the daily supplies from all competing areas are not greatly in excess of normal daily supplies, says E. H. Rawl, ex tension horticulturist. Production of all commercial truck crops except cabbage, tomatoes, and watermelons for fresh market ship ment for the United States as a whole in 1941 is expected to be slight ly larger than the 1940 production, Mr. Rawl explains. For the nation as a whole larger income from the production of these crops is expect ed due to general rise in consumer purchasing power which is in pros pect for 1941. However, expected prices for these commodities in South Carolina may not be in accord with the national price outlook since South Carolina prices would be governed largely by daily supplies from competing areas. Weather conditions, Mr. Rawl points out, are after more import ant factors influencing production and, prices of vegetables for South Carolina than are other factors, such as acreage. It often happens that the outlook one week may be very unsatisfactory for a particular com modity the following week, and over night a sudden freeze completely changes the outlook picture. Similarly, there may be planted very large acreage of certain vege tables, like tomatoes and snap beans, for instance which would indicate un der normal conditions daily shipments in excess of demand, and then in sufficient moisture during the grow ing season, as was the case in 1936, for instance, might greatly reduce prospective supplies and in a very few days completely change the price outlook situation. NOXIOUS WEED FOUND IN SEED I JUST KIDS - THE ULTIMATUM!!! "my brother^ KIN LICK HIM EASY ALL I AST5 IS DID SAY IT OR* DIDN'T y uh say it- I won't let NOBODY say that ABOUT ME NAW SIR. if Id asaid it- To say i SAID IT- I AINT AFEARED NO SlREEE$'.$ Gr'WAN SPIKf PUNCH HIM] G.'WANli/ Mi 1 n T'5±D NOtTOO LOUD FELLERS OR mom'll, come OUT AN STOP EVER’THINt Columbia, Jan. 7.—Many samples of planting seed for this springs cov er and pasture crops are Showing an unusual high content of noxious weed according to analyses made in the State Department of Agriculture. Commissioner J. Roy Jones says this is especially true of dodder in samples of lespedeza submitted from several sections of the state. Dodder, a parasitic plant, if not destroyed in the field' will eventually spread through the entire lespedeza crop. Mr. Jones advises that recent sam ples of lespedeza submitted for pur ity and germination tests have shown as high as 50 percent dodder. South Carolina’s Seed Law places a limita tion of 15 dodder seed to the ounce, this being the average tolerance in all lespedeza growing States. Through the pioneering work of seed breeders and dealers, South Carolina has instituted laws to pro tect the farmers planting seed. Care ful cooperation on their part in hav ing their seed tested before planting will result in better crops of in creased yields and higher quality. Mr. Jones states that if farmers and seedsmen will cooperate by test ing all planting seed, these poor samples can gradually be eliminated. It is his opinion that some itinerant truckers in the past, peddled impure seed from farm to farm, and it will take several years to eliminate the results of this dumping of inferior seed from other States, whose laws prohibited the sale. The Commissioner advocates that farmers who are planning to grow seed for future demand in or out of State, should plant nothing but the best seed that has been tested Doth as to purity and germination. He advises all lespedeza growers who have fields now infested with dodder to root up or bum the infested spots. “With our new seed law,” says Mr. Jones, “designed to help farmers get good planting seed of known purity and germination, I feel we are head ed for better crops. I hope every farmer and seedsman will use our free service of laboratory testing for planting seed. If the farmers and seedsmen will cooperate with the department, the future may find South Carolina one of the great seed producing states. When this service is free it is certainly a fallacy not to plant seed that are known to be good before they go into the ground, in stead of planting them to find out they did not come up. Farmers should plant what they know and know what they plant. JURIST IS ALARMED OVER STATE OF NATION Greenwood, Jan. 6. — Increasing taxes, defense preparations along ma terial lines only and the condition of the county jail were emphasized today by Judge C. C. Featherstone in his charge to the grand jury at the opening of criminal court. In outlining the jury’s duties dur ing the year, Judge Featherstone de clared “God knows what’s to become of the country unless something is done about taxes” and added that the nation’s expenditures are running into billions and that everything, “in cluding death,” is being taxed now. Totalitarianism is described in for eign governments, he said, but “our government is almost in that form now.” “In this critical period of defense and preparation along material lines,” Judge Featherstone said, “we have forgotten the preparation of the heart and that, the kind God talks of in the Book. Preparation of the mind is the biggest preparation of all.” The South National CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION December 31,194o ASSETS Cash and Due from Banks ... U. S. Government Bonds ... State and Municipal Bonds ... Other Stocks and Bonds Federal Reserve Bank Stock. Loans and Discounts Furniture and Fixtures (15 Offices) Other Assets. $24,173,241.86 5,037,000.00 455,790.23 18,089.62 • 81,000.00 21,060,063.64 . $502,925.00 53,891.00 449,034.00 109,087.26 12,437.04 10,936.27 1,500.77 6,984.55 $51,391,791.93 LIABILITIES Capital: Common $ 1,320,000.00 Capital: Preferred 880,000.00 Surplus 525,000.00 Undivided Profits 518,664.52 Reserve: Retirement Preferred Stock 71,900.00 Reserve: Common Stock Dividend 66,000.00 Other Reserves 51,991.72 Deposits ' ^ 47,958,235.69 $51,391,791.93 All Bonds and Securities carried at par value or less. 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