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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
OFFICES AT: Anderson, Belton, Charleston, Cheraw, Columbia,
Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Leesville, Newberry,
Pickens, St. Matthews, Seneca, Sumter.