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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
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T. Roy Summer |
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Christmas
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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