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- ~ . S3*S!; ■ t ' FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1949 . • : i THE NEWBERRY SUN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Killing Buzzards Buzzards were bothering cows and sows at calving and pigging time so in. Greenwood that County Agent Garvin call ed Clemson for relief. Plans for making a trap were furn ished. Two were made and baited with dead animals. One promptly caught 129 buzzards and the other 85. These were disposed of, and no more trou ble was experienced. I have heard of this from time to time for the past 30 years. Buzzards attacking live things seems to be sort of like dogs sucking eggs. Once they start, they become bad at it, and will teach others to do it. ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself a candidate for Mayor and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic Primary. LELAND S. WILSON I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Mayor of Newberry, agreeing to abide the results of the pri mary. JAMES E. WISEMAN ALDERMAN WARD 1 I announce myself a candi date for the office of Alderman for Ward 1, and agree to abide the results of the city primary. GEORGE W. MARTIN I hereby announce myself a candidate for Alderman in Ward No. 1, and pledge my self to abide by the results of the Democratic Primary. L. POPE WICKER, JR. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Alderman for Ward 1 and agree to abide by the results of the primary. t. c. (ted) McDowell I hereby announce myself a candidate for Alderman from Ward 1, agreeing to abide the results of the primary. ARTHUR W. WELLING, M.D. ALDERMAN WARD 3 I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Alderman from Ward S and pledge myself to abide the results of the primary. j. ed. McConnell And they can just ruin a calf and a pig crop, often attacking the mothers in labor too. Likad Hybrid Corn County Agent Bob Bailey ob served this: “In one community where there was no rain for 9 weeks, the N. C. 27 hybrid corn didn’t even wilt." Now that’s in line with what we have always heard about good hybrid corns. They have greater vigor, more roots and less stalk usually. This en ables them to stand adversity better. Consequently, a high er yield is secured. Remember there are many hybrids. Some are not as good as the corn you have. Some are considerably better. For our whole state, N. C. 27 is tops. For the Up Country, Dixie 17 is good too. And for the entire state and the Low Country especially, Dixie 18 is looking good. Yes, out of all of the hybrids, these three are being recom mended by your state corn committee after reviewing ex periment station and farm per formance by many of the hy brids. And their advice is to buy only “Certified” seed. A list of those having “Certified” seed of adapted sorts will be furnished anyone writing Bob Garrison, Clemson, S. C. scavenger worms, and about a half dozen of them were still in there alive and getting along OK, from all appearances. Nine years in a small tight box, with no air except what it contained, and no water, heat nor light. And no food except their own dead skeletons! No wonder man has never been able to eradicate an insect. Perpetual Motion In 1940 L. M. Sparks, Clem- son’s extension boll weevil man, noticed that some tiny scavenger worms (Dermestids) were eating three tiny dead ti ger beetles in his collection. The tiger beetles themselves are about twice the size of an average flea. At that time he put them all in a little metal box about the size of a half dollar and a half inch thick, with tight fitting friction top. H e opened that little box and showed it to me the other day. It was completely full of moul ted skeletons of those little Boys Are That Way In the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork, where we were raised, things were rather peaceful. We had two notorious drunkards that periodically raised a little whoopee. Once one of them stopped in front of our house in his bug gy and called us kids out there to him. We were afraid not to go. He gave each of us a coconut and a can of sardines, told us they were our very own, gave his horse a hard rap with the whip, and sped around the curve on two wheels. We thought sure the buggy was going to turn over. And we didn’t want that to happen. Wte wanted him to get on down the road. For we were as afraid of him as we were of a mad dog. We later learned that he sold his last remnant of cotton that day and had spent every cent of it on liquor, coconuts, and sardines, none of which his suffering family needed. They needed clothes and shoes and books for schoql. On another occasion the oth er one passed out while walk ing along the road a little ways below our house and rolled in to the ditch. A big rain came up and he all but drowned be fore it sobered him up enough and he crawled up in the bri ers a piece. I lived in horror of these men. Guess that’s why I have always been eternally down on liquor. I’ve seen what it can make of men. And that burn ed into my mind and is in delibly there. bf I hereby announce myself a candidate for Alderman from Ward 3 and pledge myself to abide the results of the prim ary. FORREST W. DICKERT ALDERMAN WARD 5 I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election for Alderman in Ward 5, and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic Pri mary. CECIL E. KINARD I hereby announce myself a candidate for Alderman for Ward 5 and agree to abide the results of the primary. A. H. (Bill) CLARK ALDERMAN WARD S I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Alderman in Ward 6 and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. J. LEE BOOZER I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Al derman from Ward ii and agree to abide the results of the pri mary. THOS. O. STEWART REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL ELECTION The Supervisor of Registra tion has been ordered by the City Council of the City of Newberry to open the books of registration 90 days prior to the election and keep the same open until ten days prior to the general election for Mayor and Aldermen in December. Any person applying for a Municipal Registration Certifi cate must show that he has a Newberry County Registration Certificate, has resided within the corporate limits of the City of Newberry for a perior of four months, or more, prior to the election, and has paid the 1948 poll tax, if such tax was assessed against him. D. L. NANCE, Supervisor of Registration. For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio 7 To GEO. N. 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Most folks have no trouble at all meeting ex penses, nowadays—you meet them everywhere you Wilson and Commission Issue Statements Statement from City Council In Regard* To Dirt Loader Recent ly Purchased by the Commis sioners of Public Works and the City Council September 3, 1949 The public is well aware of the fact that practically all of the dirt streets of the City of Newberry are in a bad con dition at the present time; due to the sewer and water expan sion program which is being carried out by the Commission ers of Public Works. You also realize that with the winter months coming on now short ly, it is necessary that steps be made as soon as possible to top soil these streets, in order that they may be in condition for traveling when the bad weather sets in. The Commissioners of Pub. lie Works have obligated their department to assist the street department in putting the streets back in good condition; the obligation involved in this particular instance being the loading of the street depart ment’s trucks with top soil, which we in turn are to haul and soil streets involved in this program. This called for the Commissioners to either rent a loader, which is very expensive, or make some other arrange ments. As Chairman of the Street Department, I was submitted quotations from Mr. Wise, which had been asked for and received by the Commissioners of Public Works from Indus trial State distributors of this particular type of dirt moving equipment. With the quota tions, the proposition was made that if the City Council would pay half of the cost of this equipment, the Commissioners of Public Works would assume the cost of the other half. I submitted the matter, with all literature and quotations which had been given to me from the Commissioners, to your City Council for discus sion and consideration. IT WAS THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL AP PROVED THE PURCHASE OF THIS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT ON A 50-50 BASIS, AND I WAS AUTHORIZED BY THE MAYOR TO PROCEED IN MAKING PURCHASE ON THIS BASIS. No mention was made at the meeting in re gards to purchasing it locally. I don’t think that any member of the Council thought that anyone locally would be inter ested in submitting a price on a dirt loader, which as you know comes under the head of Industrial equipment, that is the type which was purchas ed. This piece of equipment is one which has long been need ed by the street department; and will prove beneficial not only at thep resent time, but in years to come. LELAND S. WILSON Chairman of Street de partment. Verified By: A. P. SALLY Miayor, City of Newberry. — Commission, as a part of the water and sewer expansion, to aid the City, financially and otherwise, to replace the streets in good repair. Bids for dirt loaders were obtained by the Commission on behalf of the City of Newberry, from advertized dealers who sell such equipment in the sur rounding area and submitted to the City Council for their con sideration. The low bid was accepted and the equipment purchased by the City. One- half of the cost was borne by the Commission. COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS Dr. H. B. Senn, Chairman Mr. W. R. Reid Dr. A. W. Welling WITH SUBER MOTOR CO. James Mills, who has been with the Lipscomb Motor Com pany as service manager since they bagan operations in their new building on College St., | has accepted a position with the PAGE FIVE Suber Motor Company in Whit mire. Mr. Mills, who is an expert mechanic on Studebaker cars, has been connected with the Studelaker people for the past several years. Statement From The Commis- zioners of Public Works Re garding The Purchase of a Dirt Loader by the City of Newberry September 3, 1949. The piece of equipment pur chased was a Hough 5-8 yard Bucket Loader powered by a Case Industrial Tractor. This item is industrial machinery and not farm machinery. The sole distributor for this type industrial equipment in South Carolina is Gaines W. Harri son Co. The type of equip ment purchased is not sold by local dealers. It is the obligation of the BENNETT E. DAWKINS Bennett Elliott Dawkins, 83, died at the Newberry County Hospital after a brief illness. He was a son of the late Wes ley Frank and Rebecca Cook Dawkins and was the last mem ber of his immediate family. He was a farmer and was a lifelong resident of the Pros perity section of Newberry County. He is survived* by his wife, M!rs. Nennie Hardy Dawkins; eight sons, M. H. of Columbia, J. Saxon, John H. and Hubber D. of Prosperity, D. Bounce of Leesville, Fitzue B. Ben F. and Y. Dawkins, all of Newberry; 18 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the graveside at St. Lukes Cemetery near Prosperity with Dr. J. B. Harman, the Rev. C. E. Seastrunk and the Rev. H. B. Watson officiating. The body remained at the Leavell Funeral Home until Friday morning when it was carried to the home of J. S. Dawkins in the O’Neal com munity. LESSON #1 —SAVE YOUR MONEY As good advice today as it ever was! Part of what you make is yours to keep. Save it here in an insured savings account Your savings are safe*—j and earn for you.^ ■W* 1 ’' .... FOR SALE—Large circulating oil heater A-l condition with fitting and drum. Also jacket heater and electric bath room heater. Phone 751-J. NEWBERRY J Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. 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