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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY S4, ld50 \ AUDITOR'S 1950 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of all personal property and real estate, poll and road tax, are to be made at the County Au ditor’s Office beginning: January 1st, 1950 through February 28th, 1950 All able-bodie c ' male citizens between the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 pole tax; all persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty outside of incorporated towns are liable to pay com mutation (road) tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. All returns are to be made by School Districts. Your failure to make return calls for penalty as pre scribed by law. This is land year- It is very important that all tax payers make tax returns before Febru ary 28th, 1950. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS County Auditor TEACH THEM THE IMPORTANCE OF SAVING Children — and adults — with the savings habit are always welcome at this Association. Our insured savings plan is ideal for small savers. Open an account now. NEWBERRY~J Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. z*- JOBS OPEN NOW Electrolux will place four or five additional men, 25, 50, with family responsibilities and good car in South Carolina, for a steady, permanent full-time job in sales service dep’t. Men wanted who can be taught (or already know) conservative, consistent selling—NOT HIGH PRESSURE. This is the best job you ever had if you can learn creative selling. Forty-five men are proving this every day. For im mediate interview in your town write age, previous job, marital status and other details to State Mana ger, P.O. Box 5112, Columbia 5, S. C. m NOTICE! Business Licenses for 1950 are due and payable at the City Clerk’s. office now. To avoid any penalties and last min ute rush, business establishments are urged to secure licenses as early as pos sible. City of Newberry By City Clerk and Treasurer. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer We Eat When We Can Hogs got down to 3c in 1932. That year we ate 70 pounds of pork each in this country. In 1946 they were bringing 10 times that. Yet we averaged eating 75 pounds of pork a year then. Hih priced pork didn’t keep us from eating it ^ then, for we had the money to buy it with. The farmer has a big stake in general payrolls over the country. And this applies spe-‘ dally where you are producing a food product. And particu larly in the richer foods like animal and poultry products. Wb are growing rapidly the production of more such prod- ,ucts. And less of our land and j effort is going to cash crops. | Not that the latter is being abandoned. But diversification is bringing more of the other things. And this adds up all to the good. For during hard times folks can and will patch up and wear old clothes a bit. But they will eat good food, i there is any way to get it. And as farmers, we are safer if we grow some of that too. < , What _ An Opportunity! One farmer out of every seven in this country will have had special farm training when the present veterans’ training program is completed, I am told. What meaning this could carry! For that many young farmers to have a little better know how for applying science to their acres cai) mean much to our future farming potential. I have met with a number of these veterans groups. A spe cially alert ,and interesting one is being handled by Mr. Haig- ler at Cameron. They had some sort of contest themsfelves when I was there, and I got the im pression that these were up and hustling young farmers. Their wives were there too that night and we partook of a fine sup per they prepared at Hutto’s pond. Trees and Grass A quarter of a million pines are being planted by farmers in Greenwood county. County Agent Garvin tells me they have five of those tractor- drawn tree planters in use there. Considerable c&stom work is being done by them. And many an acre there is going to grass and clover. Ten thousand acres there are now green with reseeding critmon clover. Yes, grass and trees are add ing a new back-log of solidarity to farming ttfere. For those two things have much meaning. Those Lupines l I was shocked when County Agent Searson of Allendale told me they had 25,000 acres of blue lupines growing there now. For that’s a small coun ty, and that adds up to a lot of acreage for them. After that I rode with him on a routine trip over the coun ty. We were seldom, if ever, out of the sight of great fields of this crop. And lupines are beautiful on the land in the winter. As rich and dark green as alfalfa, full knee high now, and so thick on the ground that you can hardly walk through them. Many of these fields will be left and harvested in June for seed, It makes a good money crop, as well as land builder. But a lot of them will be plow ed— in and the land prepared for summer crops. Nitrogen applied to a crop following that makes little if any differ ence, Searson says. They made 75 to 100 bushels of corn to the acre the past year with no ni- NOTICE—Am now prepared lo assist taxpayers with their in come tax returns and am lo cated in two rooms of the BUS station at the rear of the court house where I’ll appreciate your business. Mrs, A. H. Counts. Checker Cab^- TAXI 24 For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOURS SERVICE v Telephone 311W THE NEWBERRY SUN trogen except what the lupines added. And down in Hampton they have a similar story with lu pines.' 1 This crop is suited to the southern part of the state only. It will winter kill if you plant it too far up. Boys Are That Way Weathered picnic tables by the country church! I like to see ’em. Memories! Many churches still have ’em. i hate to see a country church go so modern as to abandon its picnic table out there under the trees. church I saw on a byway down in Bamberg doesn’t intend doing away with theirs. They have erected a neat metal shed over it. Back in my day as a kid in the Dutch Fork, those tables carried great meaning. A time or two each summer the horn of plenty poured forth its choicest viands there. Usually we would sit through a pro gram that seemed long to us kids. Our feet were on fire, for that was the only place we wore shoes, to church. We squirmed and fretted there through . song and story, con cerned only with when it would be through and we could eat. We were used to eating at noon. But is was an hour later when the picnic was spread. That put a keener edge on our appetites. And most of the kids were so hungry they had gotten mean. It made me mad for the folks to come leisurely from the ;hurch, and to stop and talk when they got outside before joing to their buggies and get their baskets. But after what seemed a long time to me, the men would start arriving at the table with baskets. The first ones would select the shadiest spots, and their wives would spread gleaming white tablecloths over a section of the table. Others would connect up with and soon the whole long table was covered. Then they started piling the goodies on the table from those PHILLIPS SPEAKS TO TEACHER ASSOCIATION Mr. Dpde Phillips of the State Department of Education was the guest speaker at the meeting of the 'Newberry Coun ty Education Association, held Thursday afternoon, February 16, at the Newberry High School Auditorium. Mr. Phil lips spoke very enthusiastically on the place of physical educa tion in the schools and the close relationship of the physical ed ucation program and die hot lunch program. Mr. Phillips presented Miss Lucille Bowers, Physical Education Director of Spartanburg County, who gave a most enjoyable demonstration using a number of children from the Newberry City schools. The president, Miss Pearl Stockman, presided over the meeting and Rev. N. E. Trues- dale of Newberry conducted the devotional Mr. J. C. Hatchett, Supt. of Saluda Schools and Executive Committeeman of the SCEA ex plained some Facts on the Pub lic Schools of South Carolina. Public education in S. C, faces a serious crisis which can be solved only by the South Car olina public working through its General Assembly. The structure of education is at stake. To ignore the needs in S. C. now is to invite educa tional disaster. In closing Mr. Hatchett challenged the teach ers to give their best efforts to informing the public of this crisis and to help correct the deficiencies that threaten the structure of education in this Both Mr. Hatchett and Miss baskets. And what a sight it became for hungry youngsters! iWihen everything -was ready, they called upon the preacher to ask the blessing. I thought he always took longer than nec essary. But I guess he figured that, we had much to be thankful for right then. Il This column has reached its limit. Will have to finish that picnic next week. Stay around. Stockman urged the teachers to use their influence to get in terested citizens of their com munities to attend a statewide meeting in the interest of edu cation to be held at the Uni versity Field House, Tuesday morning, February 21, at 10:30 o’clock. There will also be a committee hearing at 3:00 pjn. that afternoon, probably in the hall of the House. Mr. James D. Brown report ed that Newberry County now has 100% membership in the SCEA After the business meeting the teachers enjoyed a delight ful social hour at which deli cious refreshments were served by Mrs. Ruth Longshore, coun ty Lunch Supervisor, and a group of lunch room operators. NEWBERRIAN'S BROTHER DIES IN MISSISSIPPI Pressley McLeod Seay, Sr., brother of Mrs. Frank Mower of this city, veteran railroad dispatcher and local business man, died at 8:37 Thursday morning, February 9 at the Methodist hospital. He was 78 years of age. Mr, Seay had been in ill health for the past year and was hospitalized sev eral weeks ago. He was born Dec. 2, 1871, at Kingsville, S. C., and lived there as a boy. His parente were the late John Robert and Rachel Elizabeth Stack Seay. He came to Hattiesburg in 1902 as* a dispatcher for the Gulf and Ship Island railroad. He married the late Mary Len- ora Mclnnis in 1906, and they established their home at 117 Jackson street. He retired from railroad work in 1933 after serving with the Gulf and Ship Island and Southern railroads here con tinuously for 31 years. Since retirement, Mr. /Seay has been interested in real es tate and other business enter prises. He U survived by three sons, P. M. Seay, Jr., and Kenneth Lance of Hattiesburg, and Clant Seay of Jackson; four sisters, Mrs. S. W. Glass of Lion, Miss., Miss Brooks Boultman of Sum ner, S. C., Mrs. Bessie Bates of Eastoba, S. C., and Mrs. Nina Mower of Newberry, S. C., and one brother, Arthur Seay of Wlaldo, Fla.; two sisters—in-law, Mrs. J. E. Gray and Mrs. Lu ther A. Smith of Hattiesburg; and seven grandchildren. The grandchildren are Sally Sue, Frances Lenore and Kath ryn Ann Seay of Hattiesburg, Clant Seay, Jr., adn Samuel Pressley Seay of Jackson, Ken neth E. Lance, Jr., of Hatties burg, and Mrs. Jerry Probst of Dallas, Texas. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Friday at Hulett Fun eral home chapel, Rev. John W. Moore, pastor of Main Street Methodist church officiating, assisted by Rev. Garland Mc- Innis, pastor of River Avenue Baptist church. —Hattiesburg American. Feb. 9, 1950. WHO DUNNIT? 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