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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C,
Shortage of Farm
Labor Unknown to
Big Harvey Family
Western Maryland claims one
of America’s biggest farming
families and points to Mr. and
Mrs. Earl K. Harvey Sr., and
their 11 children, 9 boys and 2
girls. While others complained
about a farm labor shortage the
past few years, the Harveys
went right on producing record
crops on their 180-acre farm.
The eldest of the children is Mar
shall Harvey, now 25, who served
in the army. As a lad he helped form
a 4-H club and is now “assistant
supervisor.”
s.
Next is Lucile, 23, who was active
in the 4-H club until she reached the
age limit of 21. She is now married,
but still helps to hoe the Harvey
potatoes.
Then there is Calvin, who gradu
ated from the 4-H club when he
reached the age of 21 last January.
Selective service classified him 2-C,
giving him an agricultural worker’s
deferment. He and his father super
vise the 180-acre farm, the 35 cat
tle, and the 45 tons of shelled peas
the land produced last summer.
Potatoes for Fanny Mae.
The next in this pastoral family
is Fanny Mae, 20, Potatoes are her
forte. Recently the University of
Maryland experimental station, co
operating with the United States de
partment of agriculture, developed
a new potato in Garrett county. At
elaborate ceremonies here, it was
christened the “Potomac,” and
Fanny Mae did the christening.
Then comes Freddie, 17. Besides
being president of the “Harvey 4-H
club” at nearby North Glade, where
the farm is located, he is president
of the Future Farmers of America
chapter at Oakland high school.
“But this is not because of num
bers alone,” he pointed out.
Then there is Earl Jr., 16, also an
exuberant agriculturist, 4-H mem
ber, and student at Oakland high
school.
Next comes Robert, 14. Robert
bought a 4-H club calf, nursed it
along, took it to the Pittsburgh live
stock show with Joseph Steger, as
sistant county agent, recently, and
came away with fourth prize. He
was competing with boys and girls
from Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsyl
vania and Maryland.
Ernest, the “4-H Baby.”
Then there is Guy, 13. Not to be
outdone by Robert, Guy also raised
a calf and took it to the Pittsburgh
show. It weighed 870 pounds, cap
tured sixth place in the lightweight
class, and was bought on the spot
at 26 cents a pound. Guy figured he
cleared “about $90” on the transac
tion, while Robert made $119 profit.
Then there is Ernest. Ernest is 10,
which is just old enough for him to
be called the “4-H baby.” He is
studying agriculture and the whys
and wherefores of cattle during
school hours, like Freddie, Earl Jr.,
Robert and Guy, and before them
Marshall, Calvin, Lucile and Fanny
Mae.
And then there is Arthur, who is
eight. Arthur definitely leans toward
potatoes. He took it very hard when
much of the Harvey crop froze in
the ground last year.
And then the bottom rung of this
farming ladder is Douglas. Douglas
is three and has yet to prove him
self, but it was indicated that he is
a natural pea-sheller. An appren
tice by birth, he expects to grow by
example and observation.
AVC CHOICE . . . Charles G.
Bolte, 25, who lost a leg at El
Alamein while serving with the
British, is practically assured of
being named president of the
American Veterans’ committee,
an organization of World War II
veterans, when the first conven
tion is held in Des Moines in June.
Soil Conservation
Continuance Urged
By Federal Agency
WASHINGTON. — The fertility of
American land declined seriously
during the war, according to the
agricultural adjustment agency,
which is urging farmers to return
to “conservation type” farming.
Millions of acres of land were over
cropped and over-grazed during the
war to meet unprecedented demands
for food products.
JIM AND JIM . . Jimmy Cor-
riden, Brooklyn Dodgers’ coach,
is shown with his son, Jimmy Jr.,
who is trying for an outfield berth
with the Dodgers. The lad plays
center field.
Y4VIATION NOTES
WORLD AVIATION FAIR
The first postwar international air
craft trade exposition and flight
demonstration will be held at Of-
futt field, Fort Crook, near Omaha,
from July 21 to 28 and will be known
as the World’s Fair of Aviation.
Preliminary plans are based
on an attendance of 250,000 per
sons and the expectation that at
least 2,000 light planes will be
flown to Omaha for the
event. Both the AAF and the
navy will participate in the
( flight events. Special per-
' formance exhibitions will in
clude both military and civil air
craft.
The fair will be managed by
Steadham Acker of Birmingham,
well known as a director of air
shows at Birmingham, Newark and
Denver, and program director for
the national aviation clinic at
Oklahoma City.
Must Have Air Markers.
It is apparent that the pur
pose of air markers cannot be
achieved if there are only a few
widely scattered throughout the
country. Flyers may become
lost in any locality. Every city,
town and village should be air
marked. The Civil Aeronautics
administration will be glad to
assist regional, state or local of
ficials in planning air marking
programs or individual mark
ers.
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WHATISIT ... The first air
craft to receive an army number
in 1946 was the XR-9B, a new
helicopter, which is undergoing
flight tests at Wright field, Ohio.
A commercial helicopter, capable
of carrying 10 passengers and bag
gage in short-haul service, may be
ready by next fall.
• • •
COYOTE HUNTING
“Ted Hagele and A1 Binder were
hosts to Minnesota hunters who
came in to hunt coyotes by plane.
Included in the party were Marcel-
lus King, Donald Rugg and Carl
Elam of Austin, Minn.; Allen Goet-
zinger of Hollandale, Minn., and
Carl Benhoff of Gettysburg. In the
first hour and a half, the sportsmen
bagged three coyotes.” — Pioneer,
Bowdle, S. D. They used a Piper
cub.
• • •
A Safe Crash Landing.
Through the cool headedness of
Sam Sornborger of Arcadia, Calif.,
in crash-landing a plane, he and his
brother Jeff, who was taking his
first plane ride, are well and hap
py. After cruising around for 15
minutes in a plane rented from the
Rosemead airport, the engine sud
denly went dead. Sam, who had
more than 2,000 hours as pilot dur
ing the war, coolly maneuvered his
plane to a smooth landing place in
a wash. Which proves again that
flying takes a cool head.
• * •
OLD VETERANS RETIRE
Back in 1930, Boeing built a
number of 247-Ds for United Air
Lines. These were the first of the
two - engine low - winged transport
planes. Later Pennsylvania Central
used these planes, and in time they
were taken over for their sturdy
characteristics by the CAA as a lab
oratory and freight plane in Alaska.
It was of interest recently when an
nouncement came that one of these
15-year-old veterans was retired!
Some of us thought they’d fly oa
forever.
\/f ANAGER Eddie Dyer of the
1 Cardinals has about all the
pitchers two teams could use. Your
guess would be that Eddie has noth
ing to worry about. But the first
section of any manager’s job is to
worry about something.
Two of Manager Dyer’s worries
now are Johnny Grodzicki and
f George Munger.
Johnny Grodzicki,
from Nanticoke, Pa.,
is an ex-paratroop
er, who is still
working on a shrap
nel wound in his
right leg.
George Munger,
passing the offi
cer’s school test in
the Pacific area,
has made such a
fine record the army
rv f
Eddie Dyer
doesn’t want to let him' go. The
main point of this yarn is that
Dyer believes both men could have
been two of the best pitchers in
baseball.
“When I had Grodzicki at Colum
bus in 1941,” Dyer says, “I thought
he was the best minor league pitch
er I ever saw. Six-feet-one, 185
pounds, he had what you might call
everything. That season Jolmny won
19 games and lost 5 when his rec
ord might just as well have been
22 wins and 2 defeats. In addition to
a fine arm he had both head and
heart, but an uncertain right leg
due to a shrapnel wound which has
been healing slowly. But he is still
undiscouraged. In shape Johnny
might easily have been a 25 or 28-
game winner.
“George Munger, in my book, is
one of the best pitchers in Cardinal
history. In his last season with the
Cardinals in 1944, Munger won 11
games and lost 3. But he was just
beginning to find himself. He is now
on duty in the Far East and I don’t
know when we’ll get him back. Mun
ger is another who might have led
the league.”
These two are not the only cases.
The game through 1946 will give
you many others from other clubs.
Vets Will Dominate
The pennant races of 1946 will
feature largely returning players
from the service forces. Among
those I might mention are Bob Fel
ler, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams,
Tex Hughson, Joe Gordon, Bobby
Doerr, Bill Dickey, Phil Rizzuto,
Johnny Mize, Hank Greenberg, Dick
Wakefield, Spud Chandler, Charlie
Keller, Johnny Beazley, Howie Pol-
let, Peewee Reese, Pete Reiser,
Country Slaughter, Terry Moore,
Dave Ferriss, Dom DiMaggio, and
many, many more.
It is from this ex-service list tnat
you will find the pennant winners
the leading hitters and the lead
ing pitchers. They will dominate the
double show. There will be ethers
who were not in service who will
play good ball.
Here is an example. In 1945,
Snuffy Stirnweiss led the American
league hitters with a season’s aver
age of .309. Yet it is the opinion of
many smart baseball men that it
will take a mark of .360 or .370 to
lead the punching parade this season
in the junior circuit. I put this
query up to six American league
veterans, including Bill Dickey and
George Selkirk, who know their way
around. There were four or five
others from American league clubs.
It was also their opinion that the
1945 winning mark of .309 wouldn’t
finish in the first 12.
Pitching Won’t Matter
“What about the better pitching
that is coming in?" I asked. “I
mean such men as Feller, Hugh
son, etc.”
“This will make little difference,”
one veteran answered. “Hitters like
Ted Williams, Wakefield, Green
berg, DiMaggio, Keller and many
others will still keep on hitting the
ball. Good pitching can wreck the
ordinary hitter. But it never wrecks
the true hitter who knows how to
swing a bat and get his hits.
“The National league with Phil
Cavarretta, Tommy Holmes and
others was far ahead of the Ameri
can league last season. That won’t
happen again. Watch and see. The
American league will take back its
old spot as the harder-hitting
league, and it will have to face
pitching that is just as good.”
* * *
S. American Baseball
No one can shake Larry Mac-
Phail, the Dodgers’ owner, loose
from the : dea that baseball is head
ed for a big boom in Latin Amer
ica and that what we often call “The
National Game” will soon be the
national game of Mexico, Panama,
Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and oth
er tropical spots.
“The answer is simple enough,”
MacPhail says with emphatic ges
tures. “The kids of these countries
are baseball crazy. It is the only
game most of them want to play. It
is the only game most of them care
to talk about. Their knowledge of
baseball today is amazing. I’m not
guessing about this, for I’ve been
in the middle of at least part of it.
“To my mind this will be the best
possible build-up for any good-
neighbor policy for Latin American
friendship. Baseball could do more
good in this respect than all the dip
lomats we could ever assemble.
CATHEDRAL SPIRES . . . Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs,
where annual sunrise services have been held for 25 years. Top pic
ture shows the famous rocky spires; below, the chorus of 250 voices.
Each year Easter sunrise services from the Garden of the Gods are
broadcast to the nation.
In These United States
Garden o! Gods Provides
Natural Easter Cathedral
By Edward Emerine
WNU Features
More than a quarter of a century ago, the Rev. A. W. Luce,
pastor of the Central Christian church of Colorado Springs, was
walking and meditating in the Garden of the Gods, his Bible in
his hands. When he sat down he opened to the Book of John and
read, “Now in the place where he was crucified, there was a
garden—there they laid Jesus.
The Reverend Luce looked about
him, saw the picturesque Garden
of the Gods in a new light, and an
idea was born. He talked to other
pastors, and they offered their co
operation. The first annual Easter
sunrise service was held.
This year, in a church fashioned
more than a million years ago by
nature, thousands of worshipers will
gather for the 25th annual Easter
sunrise service. As the first shafts
of sunlight are reflected from snow
capped Pikes Peak, a choir of 250
will lift their voices in a song that
reverberates from pinnacle to pin
nacle among the red rocks and
spires.
There will be 20,000 or more peo
ple in the Garden of the Gods on
Easter morning, but millions more
will hear the service in their homes,
for it is carried over a nation-wide
radio hookup.
Near the monumental cathedral
spires, three crosses have been
erected. Here will stand the trum
peters who call the assembly to wor
ship. A few hundred yards away,
at the base of South Gateway rock,
which is more than 300 feet high,
the services will be held.
The service again will be predom
inantly musical with the tones of an
electric organ providing the back
ground. A 250-voice a capella choir
from Colorado Springs will feature
the program. Traditional with the
service is the well known tenor, Ber
nard Vessey, who will sing Knapp's
“Open the Gates of the Temple.”
During the past 25 years, millions
of people have attended the sunrise
service. They have faced the giant
rocks and listened to the choir in
nature’s great auditorium, acous
tically one of the most perfect.
All plans for the Easter sunrise
service in the Garden of the Gods
are handled by the Colorado Springs
ministerial alliance.
FLOWERS . . . Picked in Dixie
and rushed by airplane to north
ern cities, these flowers don’t
have a chance to wilt. Scene on
J. Swart’s farm near Wilmington,
N. C.
RARE ... The “magnolia camp-
bellii” held by Katie McGuire of
San Francisco is the only one to
bloom in all America. It was
grown at Golden Gate park ar
boretum, San Francisco. This
plant is native to India.
War Souvenirs
To Take Lives
For Long Time
GREELEY, COLO’. — Guns and
other souvenir weapons brought
back to their homes by G.I.s will
be killing United States citizens for
the next 20 years, G. E. Damon of
Colorado state college of education
believes. Damon is a firearms
expert.
Basing his prediction on studies
he has conducted on souvenir
enemy weapons, Damon believes the
average American’s lack of knowl
edge of dangerous weapons and
carelessness with firearms will take
many lives in the future.
Recently a 14-year-old boy came
to Damon with a shotgun and asked
how to open it. The boy’s father had
given him the_gun but had neglect
ed to instruct the lad in its use.
One of the most dangerous weap
ons is also one of the most popu
lar to come from Europe. It is the
Walther P-38 pistol. The army has
records of many hundreds of cases
of wounds inflicted on the person
who uses the pistol, Damon said.
The locking lugs in Japanese
rifles are made of metal that is
too soft in some cases and too brit
tle in others, he said. They can’t
stand much strain and consequently
are dangerous even if handled by
“experts.” Under no conditions
should American - made ammuni
tion be used in captured arms.
The best way to insure safety is
to keep enemy weapons only as
souvenirs and, in most cases, nevei
use them, he said.
Church Ships Heifers to Devasted Areas
Approximately 1,000 heifers from
the United States have been shipped
to the devastated areas of Europe
by the heifer project committee of
the Church of the Brethren in order
to provide fresh milk for children
and to rebuild depleted herds.
Since the committee was set up
in June, 1942, contributions of live
stock have increased steadily, and
plans for 1946 envision sending more
than 2,000 animals abroad. Fami
lies in Belgium, France, Greece,
Holland and Poland have received
most of the donated heifers. Cattle
are donated by many people who
are not members of the Church oi
the Brethren. In January 171 heif
ers were sent to Czecho-slovakia.
Usually a group of farmers band
together, under Brethren or othei
leadership, and provide a shipment
of four or more animals. The
heifer project committee in Nappa
nee, Ind., is notified and takes care
of the final arrangements. The over
seas shipping of the donated animal!
is handled by the UNRRA.
Flame Cultivation
Passes Farm Tests
Suitable for Hard-'
Stemmed Field Crops
Flame cultivation of farm crops
has been proven sound at Cornell
university and Mississippi State col
lege. Tests made with sugar cane
and with cotton have proved this
method suitable for hard-stemmed
row crops. Tests are still being
conducted on other crops.
The flame cultivator consists of
an ignition system burning diesel or
tractor fuel, with burner heads
mounted behind tractors so that two
flames hit the rows from opposite
sides.
At Mississippi it was found that
any plant which is sufficiently tall
for its leaves to escape contact with
the flame has to be removed by
hand. Johnson grass and “pig
weeds” are resistant to repeated
flaming when the leaves are not
struck, while some plants suc
cumb when the stems are repeat
edly flamed.
Flaming versus hoeing showed no
difference in the values obtained on
seed cotton, lint and spinning. Seed
Sizz flaming cultivator being op
erated in field.
showed a higher significant differ
ence for free fatty acid and signif
icant difference for grade in favor
of flaming. Under this system it
is now possible to produce cotton
without hand labor by cross-plow
ing, flame cultivation and machine
picking. Other farm crops promise
to fall under this mechanical meth
od of operation.
Swine Tuberculosis
Spread by Chickens
Tuberculosis in swine increased 10
per cent last year, according to the
American Veteri
nary Medical asso
ciation. One hog in
every 14 slaugh
tered, showed tu
berculosis lesions.
Such meat, when
inspected, must be
evondemned. This
heavy financial loss
raising industry.
Tuberculosis in swine is not
spread from animal to animal, un
less the udder of the sow is infect
ed. The control and eradication of
the disease in swine depend on erad
icating tuberculosis in cattle and
poultry.
As old-aged flocks of chickens are
the chief spreaders or tuberculosis
to swine, farmers should keep poul
a a _£ t, „ i oza nt
represents a
to the swine
Improved Machinery
Com Sheller
This corn sheller, product of In
ternational Harvester, has a
capacity of 100 to 150 bushels ol
husked corn per hour. It can be
operated by any one-plow tractor
engine or motor with capacity of 5
to 10 h.p.
It is constructed to shell corn for
sale to elevators or to meet the
immediate feeding requirements.
Elevator and cob stackers may be
attached. The corn travels down
ward in line of feed. A feature is a
one-piece cylinder.
DDT Has an Important
Rival in Velsicol 1068
A 'compound of chlorinated hy
drocarbon, product of the Univer
sity of Illinois insect experiments,
is said to be three to four times as
toxic to houseflies as DDT and
twice as toxic to potato-beatle lar
vae and to pea uid spirea aphids.
It is about equal to DDT in its ef
fect on mosquitoes. Other new com
petitors of DDT include the British
insecticide Gamrnexane and TDK,
tetrachloro-diphenyl-e thane.
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