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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1941 THE NEWftc.nnr pun Plans Windowless Home For Client Who Wants ‘Different’ Type and Invisible from Air By SAM A. COTHRAN Yemassee, Dec. 20.—Strange things in this section have had the residents of usually docile Yemassee in a dith er for the last several months. Worst of all, they are being built up to a state of suspense. It’s about the things that have been under way at what is called hereabouts the “crazy house”, prop erly known as the Auld Brass plan tation, the future residence of C. Leigh Stevens, a finicier of Balti more and Savannah. For nearly two years the local citizenry have been whispering among themselves and wondering what sort of a place it is where the dogs will sleep in cedar bunks a nd the cows will have humps on their backs. The story of the Auld Brass plan tation already is legend around Ye massee. The story is that Mr. Stev ens, with a considerable amount of money, suddenly got the idea that he wanted a plantation in the South, but didn’t want anything which even remotely resembled anything any body else might have in any section of* the country. planned By Famed Architect He got the idea across to Frank Lloyd Wright, nationally known architect, who started bo work. The fantastic scheme he conjured up looked to most of the people of Yem assee like something which surpass ed even their most uncomfortable nightmares. May The Joys of The Christmas Season Remain With You Throughout The Coming Year Leavell Funeral Home With The Best of Good Wishes For Christmas and the New Year From Each of The Members of This Firm to Each of You. McSWAIN Funeral Home The finished product, to cost about 1200,000, will include besides the main house, two tenant houses and a stable 200 yards long, and without a sign of a right angle or a vertical angle. The roofs of the buildings swoop down almost to the ground on one side, then point up to the sky on another side. Each building is constructed entirely of the finest cy press and-cedar, without a smgle nail. Each section of wood is attach ed to the next by screws. More startling still to the resi dents of Yemassee is the fact that none of the buildings have any win dows. The lighting will come through glass doors, which also are set at a madcap angle. The walls slant in ward, and the doors slant with the walls and are not rectangular but are parallelograms. The roofs of all the buildings are of rolled copper, meant to withstand any kind of weather. The local populace has been told that the idea is to blend the roofs to the buildings with the surrounding terrain so that it will be next to im possible to see the place from the air or from a distance. Mr. Stevens owns 4,999 acres of swampland territory around the plan tation, which he hopes to make self- sufficient. So determined is he in this respect that he has offered a prize i FARMERS URGED TO INCREASE to the Clemson college student who j 1942 YIELD PER ACRE IN COTTON submits the best plan to make the ■■ - - ■ place self-sufficient with its Brahma Athens, Ga., Dec. 20.—Cotton seed (sacred cow of India) cattle, turkeys | has come into its own as a product and chickens, pure bred horses and for aiding national defense says Cot- CRAFTSMEN WANTED FOR JOBS IN HAWAII; TRANSPORTATION TO \BE PROVIDED TO WORKERS Newberry craftsmen not already in defense work are urgently wanted for work in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, in Hawaii, at wages ranging from 74 cents to $1.30 an hour with plenty of overtime in the offing. Applications are being received now a t post offices. An urgent appeal for such men was received here yesterday. Boiler makers, coppersmiths, electricians, gas cutters and burners, machinists, molders, pipefitters, sheet metal workers and various helpers are es pecially wanted. Pearl Harbor Is in sad shape because of the Japanese blitzkrieg and it is imperative that repairs be made at once. Transportation will be paid from the worker’s home to Honolulu and pay begins from the time of depar ture from the West Coast. The Civil Service Commission said overtime pay was authorized above 40 hours a week and added that 7B per cent of all Pearl Harbor employes worked in excess of the maximum. The commission announcement ad vised that complete details were av ailable at the nearest first or second class postoffice. fine hunting dogs. But the livestock may become psy- ton Specialist R. R. Childs. He urged Georgia farmers to m- chopathic cases before they manage crease their per-acre yield of cotton to accustom themselves to their slanted walls and new-fangled fix tures. Changes Delay Construction McDevitt and Street, contractors, of Charlotte, are the heroic builders. The company started the job nearly next year by using the Dest possible production practices and waging war on boll weevils, boll weevils. Restrictions in imports of fats and oils are making cotton seed more and more important, said Childs, special- two years ago, and probably would j j s t f or the Georgia Agricultural Ex- have finished it long ago had it not ( tension Service. been for many chamres in the plans. “in addition, cotton seed meal as Since ground was broken for the first , a f“°r\ helns dairy production, building, T. L. Haddock has served as | "And linters, another product of constuction superintendent. For the first few weeks, Mr. Had dock suffered many headaches. It was said that Mr. Haddock some times would wake up at night with a form of cloustrophobia in which he was being attacked by an army of well-armed acute angles. But Mr. Haddock aparently has recovered. He takes it easy now, and doesn’t let things worry him too much. His group of workers has shrunk from more than 100 to only about a dozen men. Mr. Haddock is waiting patiently until the plans crystalize. "The hardest work I have during the week is making out the payroll,” he confessed. Although two tenant houses al ready have been completed at the entrance to the plantation and the combination stables, bam, milking shed and dog house are finished, the people of Yemassee still are in sus pense. They are waiting to see what sort of a fright they will get when the main house is completed. Work, in a fashion, has begun on the foundation for the house. At lunch time, the befuddled workmen sit around in circles and look in amazement at what they have been doing. The outline of the building on the ground indicates that the main house may outdo its lesser predeces sors. Six-Sided ‘Bed The tenant houses, first to rear their surrealistic shapes in the mos quito, lizard and snake inhabited swampland, are to be occupied by negro helpers. They are identical, but a different view gives the ap pearance of different architecture. In each are only two rooms. One is a bedroom which contains a six-sided built-in bed and a closet. The other room is a combination living room, dining room and kitch en and fireplace. The fireplace is thirteen feet long and collides with a built-in sofa which occupies one side of the room. The caretaker’s quarters, part of the 200-yard-long building which houses the stables, bam and other cotton seed, are an important item in the manufacture of nit^i-eellulose compounds which make up the base for powerful explosives. “Hulls also are a source of feed and of compounds from which plas tics and explosives are made. units, is built to resemble a pullman car (after a fashion). The human oc cupants will sleep in double decker bunks. The rooms are lined up with exits to a norrow hall which should guarantee that none of the occupants gets too fat. Separate stalls have been built for the fine hunting dogs which will be brought to the place. Each stall is equipped with a cedar bunk which the animals must be trained to use. The hens will be regimented and taught to lay their egs in individual stalls so that the eggs may be gath ered simply by opening a small door with brass knobs. Actually hundreds of doors and small openings have been equipped with brass fixtures. Workmen esti mated that each is furnished with more than $2 worth of metal. Heated Through Floors Heating for all the units will be through the floor. Copper pipes have been set in under the concrete floors so that the floors will serve as radiators. This system is used in some insane asylums. The man who will tend Mr. Ste vens’ farm is E. L. Youmans, an ex perienced farmer. Mr. Youmans hasn’t taken to the idea of living in a place which looks like a pullman car. ' “I’m not going to stay in it if I can get out of it,” he said. Another employe said, “I guess the house will be the craziest thing about the whole plant. The plan for the whole place has been taking shape by degrees, and the more they build the crazier it gets. I don’t think anybody who has, been work ing on the place will be surprised by anything the house will have to of fer.” WARM GREETINGS GLAD THOUGHTS AND HEARTY WISHES FOR A ADO A -HAPPY n €W Y€AR T. M. Rogers & Son Jewelers ::: 1414 Main St. AND fiatf Waited FOR THE fieuA y«aA. ! T. Roy Summer | C~7 C y —' <JLere s a Christmas Qft for IJou • Not much, to be sure, but with the sincere appreciation in our hearts for the many kind nesses that have been ours to enjoy, we extend this little package of Christmas Greet ings to each of you. • The goodwill of our friends we value immeasurably be cause we well know that without them life in itself would be empty indeed. • As we wish you the Joys of Christmas and every Happiness throughout the New Year, we add our heartfelt thanks for all -t favors. S€ASON’S GR€€TINGS J. KESS DERRICK FOR YOUR Holiday Table..... Skinners Spaghetti 2 for 15c Super Suds 2 pkgs 5c Dukes Mayonnaise quart 38c Chase &l Sanborn Coffee lb 28c Rumford Baking Powder 12 oz 21c No. 33 Bleacher quart bottle 10c Dessert Peaches no. 2 12 can 15c Gordon’s Fish Roe can 15c Alaska Pink Salmon can 18c Franco-American Beet Gravy 10c Salt % 2 11-2 lb packages 5c We have a fresh stock of Christmas candies, nuts, raisins, and all fruits at at tractive prices. Get our prices on boxes of oranges and apples. PRODUCE- Beans, turnips, collards, toes, spinach, and spring onions. rutabagas, celery, carrots , lettuce, toma- Flam Fresh, whole lb 27 l-2c Balentine’s Pork Sausage loose meat lb 19c Smoked Bacon Squares lb 19c Veal Chops lb 19c Beef Liver lb 25c Bologna lb 15c Pork Chops lb 25c Boiled Ham lb 49c FRYERS AND HENS : :::: OYSTERS AND FISH Clarence T. Summer, Inc