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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1949 THE NEWBERRY SUN SAVE and 'Make It a Habit! Great oaks from little acorns grow—and large savings accounts are built a few dollars at a time. Open your insured account here now. NEWBERRY‘S Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. REAL SAFETY PIN A safety pin that won’t stick anything that can yell is being sold. Its maker claims the pin cannot stick baby or “pinner.” You can be sure you won’t get stuck doing busi ness with us. Let us finance your automobile. PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKER" Phone 197 1949 TAX NOTICE At the close of business on December 31,1949 A ONE PER CENT PENALTY will be added to all unpaid 1949 State and County J. Ray Dawkins Treasurer Wringers t>j C^ijI> e < ^)rom Sc L ' ni g an la So S'Cniqhl upper! In America on Christmaa Eve, there la a merry tinkle of sleigh belie aa Santa Claus drives up in a sleigh drawn by eight reindeer. He drives from roof to roof, pausing just long enough to climb down each chimney. From a huge pack on his back he fills the chil dren’a stockings with toys and goodies. Gifts that are too large to be stuffed in the stockings are put on the Christmas tree or stacked underneath it This is Christmas in America —but it is not always Santa who brings the gifts to children in other lands. The Dutch children anxiously await the arrival on Christmas oi St. Nicholas. He was the bishop of Myra, so he is dressed in the tradi tional bishop’s robes of black wears a mitre, and carries a c roller. He rides a white horse and is ac companied by Black Peter, his page boy. Instead of hanging up their stockings to hold the gifts, the Dutch children place their wooden shoes in the chimney corner before going to bed. On the window sills they leave a bunch of hay for "Sleipner,” the bishop’s white horse. It is customary for St Nicho las to overturn chairs and leave the room in general confusion for Christmas morning. English chUdren wait for a Santa Claus who closely resembles our own. They also find gifts tied to a green Christmas tree, but this cus tom has been in effect only since Queen Victoria was a young bride She married Albert, a German prince, and it was he who intro duced this Christmas custom to England from Germany. It la an angel who leaves the gifts in Csechoslovakia. She de scends on a golden chord to accompany Santa. In Scandinavia gifts are distrib uted during the supper hour. They are brought by dwarfs and the chil dren leave bowls of porridge on the doorstep for them. Santa comes riding on a goat instead of a rein deer. The birds receive the largest number of gifts in Sweden. Each family places a sheaf of grain on a pole or on the fence posts for the birds' Christmas dinner. Spanish children place their straw-filled sleeves on the window sills so the Magi may feed their horses while they leave gifts. The older people fill an Urn of Fate from which the gifts are drawn on Christmas Day. Knight Ruppert, who is the German Kris Kringie, is repre sented by a young girl wearing a golden crown and gowned in a flowing white robe. She car ries a small tree laden with gifts which she distributes. The children of Switzerland have their gifts brought to them by a radiant angel who rides in a sleigh drawn by six reindeer. She brings them goodies to eat as well as toys. And in Poland, at least before the Communists came in, the people called at the parish house on Christmas morning where the priest presented them with "peace wafers,” which symbolized peace on earth, good will to men. The people exchanged Christmas wishes as the wafers were broken and eat en before returning home. As Americans observe this Christmas in the comfort and luxury of modern civilization, who among them will pause for a thought of how their forebears kept the holy season? An example of Christmas of the past in America is provided in a study of the history of the old vil lage of Kaskaskia, first capital of Illinois, where the pioneers braved the rigors of a new and unsettled world. Despite the hardships and dis comfort which prevailed in the days of the early settlers of this land, there was hardly a cabin so humble but what its occupants found some way to keep Christmas. OLD, OLD STORY ... If teacher could get this kind of attention as she lectures on the three R's, she’d have a room full of geniuses. She to reading the ageless Clement Moore classic *’ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” And not a creature to stirring. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer "Landslide Proportions" “Interest in permanent pas tures and seeding winter graz ing mixtures reacher landslide proportions this fall,” says Co. Agent Lloyd of Edgefield. And he says that 43 of his 72 state 5-acre cotton contestants made a bale or more per acre. Now, on an average, that would not have received notice, but in a year like 1949 has been, bale-to-the-acre cotton is a rare thing. Soon after this is published, winter grazing tours will be in order. Many counties held them last wipter. And then and there is where many a farmer resolv ed to have some of it this win ter. While much of the country is in the grip of winter, the land is frozen and under snow, and the cattle have to be fed by hand, ours <*raze on rich green stuff under sunny skies. An advantage, if ever you saw one. Poland Chinas 55 Years At the Orangeburg Fair I ran up on that grand old gentleman i of Cameron. Dr. S. J. Summers. He was watching the judging of Poland China hogs. His son was showing theirs there in the ring. Long before I ever met him I knew him as a raiser of Poland Chinas. So I asked him just how long he had been raising them. He said since 1894! Now I wonder if that isn’t some kind of a record? That’s since before I was born. And I’m getting bald-headed. Fifty- five years with the same hog, same sort, this is. How’s that for constancy? If anyone can top that with any sort of live stock, let me know. He’s Still At It At the State Fair I ran upon a friend of my Saluda days, Frank Long. He is one of those little hard- working, dried-up fellows that hasn’t changed much in the 26 years since I was county agent there. Frank was always a good small farmer, and progressive. If there was anything new, he would try it. And his yields were usually high. I asked him how they were coming along now, and he said all right. The past season he had harvested 100 bushels of oats per acre! And he had some fine corn, too. And lespedeza, he was early in recognizing its true value. Each county has a few. of Frank’s type. It‘s a pity we didn’t have a lot more of ’em. Building Pastures Among many other things for September, County Agent Dukes reported: “Photographed the sites on which the 34 contest pastures will be planted. Manv will be planted on land heretofore con sidered worthless for agricul tural purposes.” Thus the Pee Dee Pasture Contest got off to a fine start in all 15 counties in that dis trict. Over 500 farmers entered it. That was pasture on new land, you know. Pictures of be fore and after, like Dukes got, will grow in interest as the areas improve under expert handling. Pastures in tha Piedmont and in the Pee Dee! And I’d have included the other district in that too, but it wouldn’t rhyme. But they are getting the pas tures too, just the same. Chester Guernseys Chester is really building with Guernseys. For a long time they have Guernseys. But in recent years they have started doing more with them. Then they mainly raised cows, producing .little feed or milk. But now milk routes traverse the county and feed production has become a major issue. The county agent told me that they had sold at least a thous and Guernseys from the county this year. And that many, at good Guernsey prices adds up to a batch of money. At their annual sale in September the 51 head brought $18,115, or an average of $355. Get a good thing in farming and then stick to it, usually pays off. And that is just what Chester has done with Guern seys. , BOYS ARE THAT WAY On a sparsely settled road the other day I saw three cute little urchins with oversize, hand-me-downs on, leaving a filling station at a road cross ing ahead. Evidently they were too timid to start in eating their candy until they got started down the road. Then the older one peeped into the sack, fingered around a bit, and gave each one a piece. As I passed, they were so intent on unwrapping theirs that they didn’t look up. If I had money, I think I would go around giving candy to kids of that sort. For I can well remember when I was one like that. And I know what in describable charm a piece of candy holds for a kid in the deep country that doesn’t see much of that sort of thing. That’s one reason I always liked to go to grandma’s. And she usually had cookies too. In th semi-darkness of her bed room, she could go at an/ time and come out with a piece of candy for us grandchildren. And her cookies too were per petual. When I got big enough and had a penny, I would walk down the hill from our house to the blacksmith shop and get a pretty good bag of candy from the little commisary that he ran there in the front. And later, when I was about 10 and had a bicycle, about once a week I would journey two miles down the road where Mr. George Whites ran a little store in his pantry on the back porrh. Each Friday he went to Columbia and brought back fresh-made peanut candy from Fagan’s Candy Kitchen. I us ually had a nickle then, and it would get a good-sized bag of that wonderful candy. I would stop in the first woods I came to, sit on a stump, and grind candy until it stopped tasting good. Yes, candy and kids, they go together. The only thing that ever bothered me about it was, they told us that it would they did that to keep us from make out teeth rot out. Think eating so much. But it just bothered me a bit mentally. Don’t think I ever slighted candy at all on that account. RESOLUTIONS presented by Dr. Butler B. Hare and adopted by the Board of Trustees of Newberry College at the regular semi-annual meeting on December 8, 1949: Whereas, we have learned with deepregret and great sor row of the recent death of Dr. Z. F. Wright, a graduate of Newberry College and a most loyal member of its Board of Trustees for more than two decades; and Whereas, We are grateful for his highly valued services, his cherished friendship, his sin cere devotion and loyalty to his Alma Mater, and; Whereas, from early youth he developed those virtues that make truly great men, for he was first a Christian gentleman,, one who loved his fellowman i and never lost an opportunity I to minister to the needs, hap piness and comfort of others. I Not many men, if any, possess- j ed a more wholesome spirit of cheerfulness, or obtained a: greater amount of true and 1 wholesome happiness out of life than did Dr. Wright; and he never allowed his joy of living to leave him; he carried it with him upon the street, to his place of business, and to every phase of his busy life, well illustrating by his example that goodness is the true basis of real joy and happiness—the legitimate fruitage of love and Christian service. Therefore, be it resolved that at a duly assembled meeting of the Board of Trustees of New berry college at Newberry, S. C. December 8, 1949, we ex press our sincere and deepest sympathies to the members of Dr. Weight’s family, and say that we share with them in the great loss they have sustained by his death; that we give public expression of our grat itude for his loyal and gener ous devotion to the work of this board, and the contribu tions he made in the promotion of Newberry college and Christ ian education, and; Be it further resolved, that a copy of this resolution be in corporated in the minutes of this meeting of the Board of Trustees of Newberry college, that a copy be furnished to his family, and to the Board of Stewards of the Central Meth odist church, of which he was a most devout member, and which he served faithfully, loy ally, and efficiently during his long and useful life. RIDGEWAY MEETS WITH O'NEAL CLUB The O’Neall 4-H Club met Thursday morning, December 1st. in the lunch room of the school. After the meeting was called to order by the Presi dent, Jingle Bells was sung, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag and the 4-H Pledge. Devotionals were conducted by Joellen Koon and Geraldine Wessinger. The roll was called and the minutes of the last meeting were read by the secretary. Juanita White read a poem. Mis Jane Winn, Assis tant 'Home • Demonstration Agent, presented an interesting demonstration on Christmas Decorations. After the meeting the 4-H Club boys with their leader, Mr. Ridgeway joined us for the social hour. Several games of bingo were enjoyed and a Christmas Gift exchange held. Sandwiches in the shape of Christmas trees and bells, sweet crackers, and drinks were served. 1 Shirley Adams, Prea. Joellen Koon, Secy. Again in 1949 MORE PEOPLE HAVE BOUGHT CHEVROLET than any other make , —just as they have done during the total 19-Year period, 1931 to date! FIRST in passenger ear sales for ’49* I HE men and women of America know value when they see it! Consequently, they are purchasing more Chevrolet passenger cars than any other make . . . and more Chevrolet trucks than the next two makes combined . . . thereby placing Chevrolet first in sales this year, just as they have done for the total 19- year period, 1931 to date. Naturally, we and all Chevrolet dealers are deeply appred- ative of this overwhelming tribute of preference; and we join with Chevrolet in pledging to do everything possible to give you greater and greater value in the months and years to come. FIRST in truck sales for *49* (OuHmllimg Hm nut 2 makml i FIRST in passenger car sales for all postwar years CHEVROLET *1949 results based on incomplete but conducive wide registration figures. AN other facts listed here are based on complete and official nationwide registration figures. FIRST in truck sales for /all postwar years FIRST in total number of cars on road today FIRST in passenger car sales for total 19-year period, 1931 to date FIRST in truck sales for total 19-year period, 1931 to date FIRST in total number of trucks on road today KEMPER MOTOR COMPANY, INC. 1517 Main St. Newberry, S. C.