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PAGE SIX FRIDAY, 1941 THE NEWHISKftY SUN New Honors Paid To First Manufacturer of Artificial Ice (By Mary Hemphill Greene in The News & Courier) Abbeville will have a place in the Enclyelopedia Britannica in the next issue and it will be through Dr. John Gorrie, the inventor of artificial ice, who will be included. Abbeville will be named as his place of abode for six years. Dr. Gorrie was bom in the West. Indies in 1802, the son of a Scotch soldier of fortune. The parents came to Charleston and the father left the mother and was killed later while serving in the Spanish army. Gorrie went to schools in Charleston and at the conclusion of his school term his mother died leaving the young boy to his own resources. He had show ed such promise as a student that he was given scholarship funds with which to complete his education as a doctor in Fairfield Medical college in New York. In a very interesting article in a recent issue of the Atltnta Jaurnal, written after careful research by Mrs. Laurel Buxton Hobbs, we find— “After completing his medical course—from 1825 to 1827—he spent six years practicing medicine in Ab beville, S. C., where he specialized with considerable success in the treat ment of malaria.” In Abbeville there are no records of Dr. Gorrie but tradition has it that he lived here and was a close friend of one of the sons of John C. Calhoun, this possibly being, one reason for his coming to Abbeville, though at this time Charleston, Abbeville and Pen dleton were considered the cultural centers of the state. Dr. Gorrie moved from Abbeville to Apalachicola, Fla., and to these people is due the credit for having him before the public. He is in the Hall of Fame in the Capital statuary shine State and Last April a resolu- hall as a representative of the Sun- tion petitioning the Britannica to print Dr. Gorrie’s biography was pre pared by Mrs. Laurel Buxton Hobbs and State Treasure J. Turner Butler and was introduced in the state sen ate by Senator Butler. It was pass ed in May an the next day was a- dopted by the house. Florida has shown other honors to the memory of Dr. Gorrie. In Jack sonville and Tampa there are schools named for the famous man. The Gorrie drawbridge extends over Apalachicola bay, a monument erect ed to his memory by the Southern ice exchange stands on Gorrie square in Apalachicola. There is a Gorrie foun dation for cancer research named for the doctor. The inventor of artificial ice should have a place among the great men of the world for ice today is one of the most beneficial of the dis coveries of the last hundred years. Dr. Gorrie pursued his research as a method of abating the death rate in fevers and malaria in Florida. Dr. Gorrie first cooled water pipes dripping the water through the pa tient’s room, and in this way air-con ditioned the room. On one busy night in 1844 he neglected to tell the negro servant to stop the pumping and when he got around to checking on the pipes he found them filled with ice. But the big announcement of manufactured ice was not made until five years later when the French con sul entertained on Bastille Day in Ap alachicola for a number of friends. A toast was drunk to “France in warm red wine” and then waiters appeared with bottles imbedded in cracked ice an a toast was given to Dr. Gorrie. The first patent for an ice making machine was given in 1851 but it was later still before ice became a reas onably cheap addition to the table and in use for the sick. C. T. Summer, Inc, Dr. Gorrie died before he saw this come about and was a disillusioned man, for many people in the north who had money invested', in ice stor age plants opposed the manufacture of ice. It is clearly within my recollec tions when ice was brought to Abbe ville in sacks of sawdust and three or four blocks were sufficient for the needs of the town. It took a rich man to own a refrigerator in those days. Most of the men in town went to the ice dealer and with a small block tied in a string made their way home with ice for supper. Three or four pounds were regarded as suffi cient for a good size mmily. It cost money, too. But due to the wonder ful improvements of the times there is an ice making machine in almost every house from Cotton Mill creek to the mile rock on North Main street. It may be that the restrictions on BUSH RIVER SCHOOL NEWS The Bush River basketball teams have surprised everybody, themselves most of all. On Tuesday night, November 25, they played Little Mountain in their gymnasium. The credit buying will put a stop to this for a while, but refrigerators and such are a great necessity and we appreciate the feeling of the man wlho bought one of the popular makes for four dollars down and money every week until it was paid for. It was installed and 1 did not get in as soon as anticipated. Ice cream was to be the first product of the fine household conveniences and which it was frozen at about 1 o’clock at night the whole family was roused up and en joyed the cool satisfaction right then and there. SAILORS LEARN METALWORKING Enlisted men in the U. S. Navy and Naval Reserve have the oppor tunity to learn more than fifty dif ferent trades and vocations. This schooling, worth hundreds of dol lars, is free, and the sailors are aid their regular Navy pay while earning. One of the most popular trades chosen by the bluejacket is metal working. Pictured here are two enlisted men receiving instruction in acetylene welding from a quali- le fied Navy instructor. Courses in cluded at the metalworker’s school are blacksmithing, oxy-acetylene welding, arc welding and cutting, coppersmithing, sheetmetalwork ing, general metalsmithing and boilermaking. Any ambitious and patriotic young man will be given the chance to qualify for one of the Navy trade schools if he enlists for serv ice in Uncle Sam’s new “Two- Ocean” Navy. [FOOD PRODUCTION GOALS PART OF GOOD FARMING girls came out on top, after a hectic fourth quatrer, with a score of 20-18. But the boys were not so lucky. They lost to Little Mountain by a score of 12-6. The games with Stoney Hill Thurs day afternoon, however, seemed to change the tide. The girls won by a. score of 42-28 with the boys winning 19-13. The schedule next week includes a game with the Cross Hill girls on Tuesday night, and a double-header with Pomaria Friday night. Every body is hoping that tneir luck will continue. Mr. Pitts, the boys' coach is ex pected to come home from the hospi tal Sunday, November 30. All hope that he will soon be back in school. Measurements were taken last week and an order sent for new uniforms for the boys team and warf-up suits for the girls. Both teams are look ing forward to the day when they arrive. TREASURY DELAYS COLLECTION R. C. Floyd, chairman of the New berry county USDA Defense Board, emphasized this week that farm pro duction goals, called for in 1942 un der the Agricultural Defense Pro gram, are minimum goals and do not set limits on production of foods which are greatly needed. •‘The amounts of food contained in these 1942 goals,” Mr. Floyd said, “will by no means provide the ideal diet for our people and those nations resisting aggression. These are simply the barest requirements. “These goals,” he continued, “are really a compromise in some cases between what we would like to pro duce in 1942 and what we think we can produce. Land, labor, and finan cial and soil resources ail were taken into account in establishing the de fense goals.” County Agent P. B. Ezell, discuss ing the goals, reminds farmers that the food production asked for in the production goals is a part of good farm practice even in normal times. Newberry county farmers for a long time have been encouraged to produce their own food and feed needs the county agents said. “Many of our farmers already are doing this. Now, however, it has become neces sary that every fai n meet its own needs, not only for the good of the people on the farm, but also to help out in this defense emergency.” Mr. Ezell also calls attention to the fact that the county and farm goals are designed to meet only the mini mum requirements. He urges every farmer to do everything possible, not only to meet his farm goal, but to exceed it. “No farmer ever made the mistake of producing too much meat, milk, eggs, and the like,” he adds. “If more of these things are produced than can be used on the farm, there is al ways a market for good quality foods. And this will be particularly true during the coming year.” Washington, Nov. 29.—The treas ury today held up plans for collecting the $5 automobile use tax after a own. gressional subcommittee had refused to appropriate funds for its collec tion. A house appropriation subcommit tee rejected the treasury’s request for $4,300,000 to provide for compilation of lists of automobile owners, for mailing bills for the tax, and for employment of a staff of office em ployes to handle the collection. A bill for repeal of the tax, which is to become effective February 1, also is pending in congress. One treasury official, commenting on the appropriation subcommittee’s refusal of the funds for collection, said, “we can’t collect a tax without funds to do it.” |L. was estimated that the tax would yield $160,000,000 annually. The act providing for the tax spe cified that driving of a car without the receipt sticker would be a misde meanor. 20,000,000 PATRONIZE CHURCH LOTTERIES Those who play the ponies may get the big publicity, but the aver age United States citizen is more apt to buy a ticket for a church raf fle, play cards or dice with his friends, or drop a few coins in a slot machine, than to bet on a horse race, a recent Gallup poll reveals. Some 54 percent of the adult Am ericans gambled in some form dur ing the past year, and of that num ber 24 per cent participated in some type of church lottery. This means that church lotteries gained almost 20,000,000 participants last year—double the number that bought Irish sweepstake tickets be fore the war largely discontinued their sale. DEFE Davis Motor Company 1515-17 MAIN ST NEWBERRY, S. C. FIRST Make defense against heat and friction your first thought when you buy motor oil. Buy Sinclair Opaline. Opaline contains no “5th Columnist” wax and petroleum jelly—non-lubricating substances that thin out in heat and cut down on oil’s lubricating ability. Wax and petroleum jelly are removed from Opaline by an extra refining process. Play safe. Use Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil. It lasts so long it saves you money. Strother C. Paysinger AGENT SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY