The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 21, 1949, Image 5
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE FIVE
OIL PROGRESS PACTS !
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FOR SALE
The entire estate of the late Berry M.
D. Livingston located on Dewalt Ave.
in Prosperity, S. C., consisting of a six
room home with modern conveniences,
garage, several outbuildings on an acre
lot. If interested, contact Mrs. J. F.
Ruff, Prosperity, S. C.
TAX NOTICE
The tax books will be open for the collection of 1949 taxes on
and after October 1, 1949.
The following is the general levy for all except special purposes:
Ordinary County 3% Mills
Bonds, Notes and Interest 8 Mills
Hospital % Mill
County Board of Education 2V4 Mills x
County Schools (Special) 1 Mill
I —————
TOTAL : 15 Mills
The following are the authorized special levies for the various
school districts of the County together with the general levy:
General School School TOTAL
Tax Special Bonds Levy
DISTRICT NO Levy Levy
U & - MILLS MILLS MILLS MILLS
1.
NEWBERRY
15
32
47
2.
Mt. BETHEL-GARMANY
15
6
21
3.
MAYBINTON
15
6
21
4.
LONG LANE
15
3
18
5.
McCullough
15
6
21
6.
CROMER
15
0
15
8.
REAGIN
15
18
2
35
9.
DEADFALL
15
18
2
35
10
UTOPIA
15
18
2
35
11.
HARTFORD
15
8
23
12.
JOHNSTONE
15
5
20
13.
STONEY HILL
15
15
30
14.
PROSPERITY
15
20
5
40
15.
O’NEAL
15
13
28
18.
FAIR VIEW
15
8
23
19.
MIDWAY
15
4 •
19
21.
CENTRAL
15
4
19
22.
ST. PHILIPS
15
8
23
23.
RUTHERFORD
15
7
22
24.
BROAD RIVER
15
6
21
25.
NEW HOPE ZION
15
6
21
26.
POM ARIA
15
8
23
27.
RED KNOLL
15
6
21
28.
HELENA
15
4
19
29.
MT. PLEASANT
15
8
23
30.
LITTLE MOUNTAIN
15
16
31
31.
WHEELAND
15
3
18
32.
UNION
15
6
21
33.
JOLLY STREET
15
8
23
34.
ST. PAUL’S
15
6
21
35.
PEAKE
15
3
18
37.
MUDLIC
15
6
21
38
VAUGHNVILLE
15
6
21
39.
CHAPPELLS
15
" 6
21
40.
OLD TOWN
15
18
2
35
41.
DOMINICK
15
20
35
42.
REEDERVILLE
15
20
35
43.
BUSH RIVER
15
20
35
44.
SMYRNA
15
20
35
45.
TRINITY
15
18
2
35
46.
BURTON
15
18
2
35
47.
TRANWOOD
15
20
35
48.
JALAPA
15
8
23
49.
KIN ARDS
15
2
17
50.
TABERNACLE
15
20
35
51.
TRILBY
15
4
19
52.
WHITMIRE
15
20
5
40
53.
MOLLOHON
15
4
19
54.
BETH EDEN '
15
3
18
55.
FORK
15
8
23
57.
BELFAST
15
6
21
58.
SILVEERSTREET
15
18
2
35
59.
PRESSLEY
15
4
19
60.
ST. JOHN’S
15
3
18
There will be a discount of 1 per cent allowed on taxes paid
^ on or before October 31, 1949.
On and after January 1st, 1950, the penalties prescribed by law
will be imposed on unpaid taxes.
You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts in
which the property is located.
Those who had their dogs vacinated for rabies during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1949 by a licensed Veterinarian, and expect
to be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certificate of
vaccination when appearing to pay taxes.
J. RAY DAWKINS,
i Treasurer of Newberry Co.
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FARMS
AND
FOLKS
By J. M. Eleazer
A Belter Future
While making the rounds
with County Agent Martin ot
Spartanburg, I saw a sign by
the road and asked him to back
us so 1 could read it all.
It said, “Entering Poplar
Springs Community. Organized
to build a permanent agricul
ture.” •
It so happened that I had an
engagement on my calendar to
address the /arm folks of that
community just a week later.
Beginning right at that sign,
the once gullied hillside was
tied down with sod and kudzu,
and beautiful Hereford cattle
grazed. And a few places that
had not fully healed over were
carpeted with brush and olo
cane pumice from a near-bj
syrup mill.
And on we rode into this
community of rugged land that
only a few years ago was about
washed out. But you see few
reminders of that era of ero
sion there now. Good terraces,
strip cropping, meadow strips,
improved forestry, fish ponds,
and the like are in evidence
everywhere you turn.
We had one of the most beau
tiful and best farm dinners that
I have ever eaten. It was with
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bridwell.
He is the head of the organized
community for soil saving and
soil building. And he takes
a personal interest in every
one of the 5,000 acres in 81,
tracts that comprise it. Some
of his machinery was that day
at work for a neighbor, who
didn’t have what it took for
that soil improvement job.
I learned that Mrs. Bridwell
has been a home demonstration
club woman from the start.
And she asked about “Mother”
Walker, South Carolina’s pion
eer in girls’ 4-H club and farm
women’s work. And she spoke
in. kindest terms of Miss Kate
Hooper, long-time home dem
onstration agent for Spartan
burg.
A week later I met with
tltem. Just about everyone in
the community turned out, men
and women. They are intent
upon building and holding their
soil. And that brings a diversi
fication that’s serving them
well.
The future can be nothing
but bright for a community
that gets a vision of that sort,
and then goes everlastingly at
it.
I Saw
17,000 turkeys on the W. V.
Hursey farms at Pageland.
180 acres of watermelons in
one field in Chesterfield be
longing to Oaten and Nichol
son.
A goodly part of the 1,710
acres of hybrid seed corn that
the John F. McNair farms pro
duced at Laurinburg just across
the line in North Carolina, this
year.
The oleanders swaying in the
sea-breezes and blooming in
our coast country, the jessa
mine spraying its gold along
hedgerow and highway in. the
mid-state, and the rhododen
dron planting its beauty at re
mote places in our mountains
in early summer.
Many farm fish ponds in
Lancaster. County Agent Can
non said they had over 200.
And their SCS man is kept
busy supervising the building
of more. Recreation and irri
gation values being created
there!
A good friend had become a
. onfirmed tobacco addict. The
doctor told him he must stop
smoking. He did. But took
up chewing. I asked him how
come. He said, “I’ve just got
to do something, or go crazy.”
Wlhat a pity to get one’s ner
vous system so fickle by mess
ing with it! Why not go forth
into the woods and study the
marvels that lie there, if one
has “Just got to do something?”
Or perchance, stroll out into
the night and contemplate in
finite space and the millions
of worlds that twinkle at you
there? But maybe I don’t know
what 1 am talking about. For,
fortunately, I have never been
in the clutches of that man’s
master, nicotine.
A million dollars worth of
up-to-date farm equipment on
display at Clemson during
Farmer’s Week.
Farm land on Long Island
For Expert Repair Bring
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SALES and SERVICE
1014 Main Street
Oppocite Memorial Square
24 HOURS SERVICE
Telephone 311W
that rents for $65 an acre, and
the tax is $12 an acre. It’£ ir
rigated and makes great crops
of cauliflower, cabbage, and po
tatoes. It costs ’em $300 per
acre to grow potatoes. They
usually make above 400 bush
els.
Six farmers called during the
hour and a half I was in Coun
ty Agent Bowen’s office in
Sumter in September. All
wanted final instructions for
seeding their new pastures. And
then he had to leave to make
two farm calls, both about pas
tures too. From there I went
to see Grainger in Clarendon.
His office too was busy on the
subject of winter grazing. They
were delivering inoculation. 170
white and colored farmers had
just attended their forage
school, where Clemson special
ists Craven, DuRant and Lazar
brought the latest know-how.
BOYS ARE THAT WAY
As a kid I hated to run er
rands across the hills to neigh
bor’s houses. That was quite
natural for me, as I hated any
thing that looked like work.
Recalling now how lazy I was,
I try to think that the malaria
we had caused it. Yet I can’t
take much stock in that when
I recall that I could run all
day playing fox, or dig all day
building a dam down on the
branch.
But there was one place I
always liked to run errands to.
And that was down to Aunt
Vinnie’s, about a quarter of a
mile away. The reason for that
was, she was so good to kids.
And she cooked that delicious
treat to a Dutchman, mixed
bread, every day.
I liked to arrive about 11:30
in the morning. At that time
she had taken fragrant brown
loaves from the oven, and they
were cooling off for dinner.
She would cut the crust piece
from the end. That was the
choicest of all, for we prized
that tough pully crust. And she
Bty Tad Xt***"^
Few sportsmen realize that
the entire $12 million a year
Great Lakes fisheries, the na
tion’s richest source of fresh
water fish for sportsmen and
commerce, is threatened with
extinction by an invader from
salt water — the sea lamprey.
Not only has the lampprey be
come a deadly peril to the fish
life of the Great Lakes but it
appears that all waters that can
be reached from the Lakes will
eventually be taken over by
this parasite.
To understand the magnitude
of the problem, remember that
Lake Huron was once the great
est producer of lake trout com
mercially of any of the Great
Lakes. In 1937 it produced 1,-
399,901 pounds for the markets.
Then year by year the catch
fell off until the take on the
United States side was less
than 5,000 last year; the story
is the same on the Canadian
side. Lake Michigan trout face
the same peril: the 1948 catch
dropped tp one sixth of its
had usually just finished churn
ing. With that fresh butter,
she would plaster shut all of
the holes in that v/arm piece of
bread, and the crust side kept
it from running through. Then
on top of that she would spread
blackberry jelly. And as she
handed me what I had come to
borrow, she would give me this
piece of pure heaven.
Now, if you have ever seen
contentment on this earth, it
was there, as I strolled slowly
up the lane eating that slab
of mixed bread that Aunt
Vinnie had so glorified for me.
Next week I will give you a
mordern version of this.
norman figure. It was thought
that Lake Superior was iih-
mune, but the lamprey was dis
covered there in 1946. And it
is moving on. In Michigan
alone investigation shows that
in 108 streams and rivers now
have spawning runs of the
lamprey.
How did this salt-water
scourge get into the Great
Lakes in the first place? Rob
ert Page Lincoln reports that
the lamprey, which is distrib
uted along the shores of the
North Atlantic, first moved up
the St. Lawrence but was
stopped by the Niagra Falls.
Then the Welland Canal open
ed up all the Lakes west of
the Falls.
Not every fish attacked by
a lamprey will die, although
many no doubt do after even
a single attack. The lamprey
has a suctorial apparatus in its
disklike mouth which fastens
immovably to the fish’s side.
Then the flattened tongue, pos
sessed of exceedingly sharp and
fine teeth cuts through the
scales and flesh, reaching the
blood stream. It sucks blood
until its hunger is satisfied. If
the fish is beig enough, it sur
vives.
Lake trout are the most vul
nerable because their small and
relatively soft scales are easily
cut into by the lamprey. But
other game fish are also vic
tims — “coaster” rainbows,
northern pike, smallmouth bass,
walleyes, and even whitefish,
suckers, herring and carp are
prey.
Attemppts to solve the sea
lamprey problem are still in a
highly experimental stage. At
the moment it appears that the
most feasible method of at
tempting to control the lamprey
is by rapping and destroying
the spawning runs. But many
investigators feel that the lam
prey will never be wholly erad
icated. As the situation stands
now, there seems little to com
fort the fisherman.
HELP AVAILABLE TO
TIMBERLAND OWNERS
Do you have a patch of tim
ber that you don’t know what
to do with? Is it too small to
thin? Is it large enough for
pulpwood or sawtimber? Are
you thinking of setting out the
open field in pines? How much
should you thin? All these
questions and many more can
be answered by the technical
personnel of the Newberry dis
trict office of the State Com
mission of Forestry, according
to Harry Avedisian, assistant
forester. .
All that is needed to be done
is to drop a penny postcard
addressed to the District For
ester, Newberry, S.* C. Upon
receipt of the request, a train
ed forester from this office will
come out and examine your
timberland, free of charge.
Based on his examination, a
report will be written, com
plete with recommendations.
These recommendations are for
the present action, as well as
the future care of the woods.
If marking is recommended
for puplpwood or sawtimber,
this service is also given by 4he
forester. There is a charge of
35c per thousand board feet for
sawtimber, and 13c per cord for
pulpwood marked. With the
marking service, you will be
given an estimate of the total
amount of timber marked. You
will also be aided in finding
a sale for your product. .
Last year, the Newberry dis
trict office personnel examined
121 tracts of timber. It marked
a total of 4,668,486 board feet
of sawtimber and 696 cords of
pulpwood.
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