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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1944 HE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE MOTORISTS ASKED TO BE ON ALERT FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN Seventeen children in the 5 to 14 year age group have been killed and 47 injured in South Carolina traffic during the first six months of this year, pointed out Chief Highway Commissioner, J. S. Williamson, in an appeal for greater driver caution to protect our youngsters. In calling attention to this loss of child life the Commissioner remind ed that the opening of school means that over 372,000 of these elemen tary school children will be crossing our streets and highways daily as they go to and from school. Fourteen of these children struck down by a motor vehicle were cross ing not at an intersection, five were playing in the roadway, while others running from behind parked cars or crossing at intersections were killed «r injured because of non-attention on the part of the child or motorist. Although the youngster was ap- pamtly at fault in many of these tragedies, drivers must make allow ance for the impulsiveness of child ren Commissioner Williamson said. To avoid the school child accident motorists should drive with reduced speed when approaching school zones parked cars, or at intersections in the school vicinity, and have the car under absolute control when children are observed in the street ahead or near the curb’s edge. Parents, too, it was pointed out, should do their part in instructing youngsters as to safe walking prac tices and can help by selecting the safest walking route to school. On the open highway, motorists should look upon the yellow school bus as a warning sign in itself and should always remember that all ve hicles are required by law to stop for school buses loading or unloading children and must remain stopped un til the bus moves on. In this appeal for child protection the Chief Highwa Cyommissioner said that if the motorists of. South Carolina will keep in mind at all times the axiom: “Children always have the right of way” many of our school child accidents will be avoided. DR BROSSY LOCATES HERE Dr. Louis E. Brossy, opened an of fice of chiropractory at 709 Cald well street Monday. An announce ment to this effect will be found in another column of this paper. Dr. Brossy came here from Union City, N. J. where he practiced his profession for 15 years. He is grad uate of the American School of Na turopathy in New York and the Eastern Institute of Chiropractory, and took post graduate courses at New York and Columbia universi ties. Dr. Brossy has purchased a home here at 709 Caldwell street and has moved his family to the city. His wife, the' former Miss Annie Laura Hamm, is a native of the county, be ing a granddaughter of Mrs. D. L. Hamm, of Silverstreet. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The undersigned, executor of the Last Will and Testament of J. Kess Derrick, deceased, will make final settlement of said estate n the Pro bate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Monday, October 9th, 1943, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as executor of said estate. All persons having claims against the estate of J. Kess Derrick, de ceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the un dersigned, or with my attorneys, Blease & Griffith, Newberry, S. C., and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. L. C. DERRICK, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of J. Kess Derrick, deceased. Little Mountain, S. C., September 1st, 1944. MADAME LAURA BELL Reads Past, Present and Future, gives Advice on all Affairs of Life. I will tell you what you want to Know about Friends, Enemies, or Rivals, the Truth or Nothing. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Located in Pullman Trailer Office 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Private Rooms for White and Colored. ADDRESS, COLUMBIA HIGHWAY Front of NEW FAIR GROUNDS Near George Stone’s Service Station ^WILD LIFE SOUTH CAROLINA with PROF- FRANKLIN 3HBRMAN HEAD-cufthUOM COLUOt-MPT OP ZOOLOGY SHORT-HORNED GRASSHOPPERS are short-winged and cannot fly (Properly, Locusts) live in thick vegetation, tall grass, The insects which we call grass- dense woods, etc. They all feed on hoppers a re called Locusts in other vegetation a nd when abundant may English-speaking countries and they do serious damage a s shown in some are called Locusts in the Bible and ° f the movie pictures. In South Car- other writings, hence our term grass- olin a we have so much rainfall and hoppers is actually in error, but this vegetation that we do not notice it misnomer is so established in common j 'f grasshoppers eat a few tons per usage we do not combat it: we call j square mile, but in our western MEETING OF TEACHERS AT ANDERSON ’em “grasshoppers” and “thats all there are to it.’ They spring up before us in hay- fields, pastures, and along roadsides, and perhaps fly ahead for two or three rods before again alighting on the ground, facing toward us. Catch one in your hand and it will kick vigorously perhaps breaking off a hind leg in the process and it will often exude “tobacco juice” from its mouth. These typical grasshoppers have antennae (feelers) shorter than the body; crickets and katydids have them longer than the body. They are insects of good size, the grown wing ed ones usually being more than an inch long. There are more different kinds (species) of them than you might think: some prefer open fields, oth ers along roadways, ditchbanks,, etc. others in open woods and some which states such damage is often very serious indeed. Grasshoppers are often protect ively colored, species which live among green foliage may be green ish; ones living more in dried grasses may be gray or brown. A species living on wide areas of sand may be ilght gray, or, the same speceis on red clay soil may be reddish. On a railway embankment I have found them almost black matching the cinders. We have one in our moun tains which lives on lichenco-vered rocks which is itself gray and black ish so you can scarcely see it until it flies. There are many curious differences in anatomy by which they differ from one another which we cannot explain here but which in- terst the collector. The females lav eggs usually in the ground in fall; these hatch to spring, and these become grown A district meeting of the South Carolina Education association will be held a t the Boy’s High school in Anderson a t 11 A. M. September 23 to consider current problems facing South Carolina schools. The following program has been planned: 11 A.M. Call to order a nd in troduction by W. M. Scott, superin tendent of the Easley schools and executive committeeman. 11:05. “The Enlarged Program of the SCEA.”—Miss Ruth M. Williams, president. 11:20. “The National Education association”—Director S. D. Stoney. 11:35. Group meeting of public relations chairmen, legislative chair men, building chairmen, council of delegates, county association officers, led by Paul Dorman, state legislative chairman, and Gil Rowland, state public relations director. Group meeting of classroom teacher representatives and attend ance teachers, led by Miss Ella Mae Atkinson, president of State Classroom Teachers department. Group meeting of administrators small young grasshoppers in the (winged) in late summer and fall; often just one generation each year. Over 60 distinct species of these short-winged grasshoppers a re known in South Carolina. And, by the way, they make pretty good fish bait. and county superintendents of ed ucation, and lunchroom supervisors, led by T. B. Stevenson, president of the Department of Superinten dents. 12:35. Reassemble to hear re ports by chairmen. . Lunch. 2:15. “Certification and Recerti fication—Background, History, and l Plans”,, J. B. White, state Director of Teacher Training and Certifica- ' tion. 1 3:00. “What Certification Means to Education in the State”—Mrs. W. A. Hudgens member of the State Board of Education. 3:15. “Teachers’ Reaction to Re certification.”—Mrs. J. H. Elgin, of Belton. 3:30. “Administrators’ Reaction to Recertification.”—S. E. Craig, Pickens county superintendent of education. 3:45. Open discussion. 4:15. Adjournment. J. P. Coates, Secretary of the South Carolina Education association urges every teacher in the district to attepd. “Much of what we hope to accomplish this year will depend up on the success of this meeting,” he said. Teachers nearer Columbia may at tend the district meeting there Mon day, September 25, 4:20 P.M. NASSAU FISH MEAL for feeding Hogs and Poultry. Best Prices. R. DERRILL SMITH, Wholesale Grocer, Newberry. 4t JACQUELINE ABRAMS Mr. and Mrs. Malcom Abrams of Greenville announce the birth of a daughter, Jacqeline Abrams, born at the Greenville Hospital, September 5. Mrs. Abrams was formerly Mil dred Lominick of Newberry. Mrs. Julia S. Long, Mis. Elojse Morris, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hall and George Rion, all of Winnsboro, were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ruff, in the Mt. Beth- el-Garmany community. Mrs. Ellisor Adams was a weekend visitor in the home of her mother, Mrs. W. J. Dunca in Clinton. LDAHS ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES AND PERS0HAL PROPERTY HEWBERRYIHSURANCE AHD REALTY CO. NED PURCELL, Manager TELEPHONE 197 Exchange Bank Building How much does it cos l to move a pin ? On a war map of the South Pacific, the little red-white- and-blue pins march steadily westward. Tarawa ... Makin . .. the Marshalls . .. Saipan ... and each move brings the pins closer to Tokyo. And each move is mighty expensive business. The cost is high in dollars ... and the cost is high in men. Tb plant the Stars and Stripes on Saipan cost the lives of more than 2000 American boys ... plus some 12,000 wounded and missing. Naturally, these losses cannot be summed up in dollars and cents ... there is not enough money in the world to bring back 2000 dead Americans. But in guns, ammunition, and other equipment, it is estimated that Saipan cost us many millions of dol lars. Each of the many steppingstones remaining be tween our forces and Tokyo may cost as much or more. Where is the money coming from? It’s coming from you, and millions of Americans like you... from the taxes you pay, and from the War Bonds you buy. And while it may pinch a little, buying those Bonds is the smartest thing you ever did. For the dollars you put in Bonds not only help win the war. They come back to you later—and bring more dollars with them. In this postwar world we’re going to build, they’ll be the most valuable dollars anybody ever owned. Get all you can of them—now! WAR BONDS _TO HAVE AND TO HOLD Sponsored by The Newberry County Council for Defense