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FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FARMS
AND
FOLKS
By J. M. Eleazer
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The Colion Fight
Since early sprimg the South
Carolina Cotton Cotmariittee has
been at work towards helping
get the most effective job of
cotton insect control done in
the state. I have ‘been rather
jtfese to this committee and
know of the endless hours they
put in. Our director, D. W.
Watkins, is chairman of this
state cotton committee.
■Not only have they employ
ed all known means of getting
the proper poisoning informa
tion out to the farmers, but
they have done what they
could to get sufficient supplies
at machines and poisons for
the rush that’s expected during
the immediate weeks ahead.
Each cotton county has been
organized for this fight through
the county agricultural com
mittee, and all agencies and in
terested commercial groups are
participating on the state and
county levels.
The cotton crop is coming
along now. It cost a lot of
money to pitch it. And it will
take a lot still to make it. We
have high hopes for the har
vest. But we should know by
now that the boll weevil, and
possibly other bugs, can take
it from us.
Last year we * had a bad
weevil situation. We fought it
to a standstill and set a pretty
good crop. But along came a
very seasonable August and rot
got a lot of what we had saved
from the weevil. That won’t
happen often, for we seldom
have that sort of weather. Nor
mally, these new poisons ap
plied right will save cotton.
Clems on’s Extension Circular
349 entitled “Cotton Production
and Insect Control for South
Carolina 1950” tells how to do
it. It is free from your county
agent’s office.
PROSPERITY NEWS
The operetta, “The I^aid and
the Golden Slipper,” which was
to be presented by the gramw
mar grades of the Prosperity
School, will not be given ’be
cause of the measles epidemic
in school.
How Much Com?
Our com yield is headed up
in this state.
This did not just happen.
Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions
CARTER’S
Day Phone 719 — Night 6212
LUCKY 13
At Fort Benning, Georgia, the 13th paratrooper
to jump from a plane fell 1000 feet to the ground
when his ’chute failed, and walked away unhurt.
Such luck!
Your lucky day will be the day you decide to let
us finance you next new car. We give our custom
mers every consideration.
PURCELLS
“YOUR PRIVATE BANKER”
Phone 197
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Remember?
Remember what a time you had getting coal this
past winter? Of course you do, and you wouldn’t
want to go through with that ordeal again.
FORTUNATELY right now we have a stock of
GOOD QUALITY COAL and can make prompt
deliveries.
Let us put in at least a part of your winter re
quirements now while you can get coal of GOOD
QUALITY. Remember, you get much more Heat
out of good coal.
FARMERS
Ice & Fuel Co.
TELEPHONE 155
GEORGE MARTIN, Manager
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The Individual or family with a savings reservt
can CHOOSE the path of its future — be it
travel, security, a home or a business. Go places
with an insured savings account here.
Plans for commeaioeimient for
the Prosperity High Sohool
have been completed.
On Friday mugsht, May 26, the
class exercise will be (held at
8:15 o’clock.
The sermon will be preach
ed 'by Rev. Aubrey Estes of
Newberry on Sunday morning,
May 28, at 11:15 in the sohool
auditorium.
The graduation exercises will
be held Monday evening, May
29, at 8:15. M|r. C. B. Seaborn,
Director of Administration in
the State Department of Edu
cation.
The graduates are:
Jacob Amdck, Lila Mad
Amick, Margie Lee Amdck,
Vbight Amick, Anne Bedera-
bangh, Doris 'Bedenbatugh, Dora
Dean Bowers, Reba Bowers,
Ridhard Cook, Wilfred Domi-
ndtck, Perry Bangle, Edward
Fulmer, Harvey Fulmer, Mir-
iam Fulimer, Edna Hawkins,
Katherine Hawkins, Narvis
Hipp, Nelda Hite, Dalton Hor
ton, Peggy Horton, ^ Gladys
Long, Charles Seastrunk, Es
telle Shealy, James Henry
Summers, RcxxdeJl Taylor.
Barnes.
Mirs. James Wicker, Miss
Mabel Hipp and' Jammy Barnes
conducted the games.
The hostess served a salad
platf with ioedi tea.
Mrs. W. E. Wessinger was
hostess to the Crepe Myrtle/
Garden Chib Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. W?. B. Ackerman, pro
gram leader, read an article,
“Roses in Every Yard.” Mrs.
John W. Taylor read a poem,
“Somebody’s Mother.”
In a cake contest conducted
by Mrs. J. Ray Dawkins, M
Elbert Shealy was the
winner.
The hostess served a salad
plate «nd iced tea.
The memlbers of the eleventh
grade were guests at a lovely
party Wednesday evening, May
10, at the Community Hall by
the grade mothers, Mrs. J. C.
Sanford, Mrs. Raymond Hipp,
Mrs. Harvey Hunter, Mrs. C. E.
Seastrunk, and Mrs. P. H.
Miss Betty Jeon 'Rickard be
came the bride of Bobby Lee
Charles in a ceremony per
formed Saturday, May 13. at
7 p.m. at the home of Dr. J. B.
Harman, D.D. Accompanying
the couple were Mir. and Mrs.
WL A. Jacobs of Columbia.
Mrs. Charles is the daughter
of Mr. and' Mrs. Robert Lee
Rickard of 2037 Montgomery
street, Newbrry, and attended
the Newberry schools. She
was dressed ip white with
white accessories and wore a J
corsage of pdnk carnations. I
Mr. Charles is the son of t
Mayfield Charlies and the late
Mrs. Charles of 2007 Lee street
Newberry. He attended the
Union schools. In the recent
war he served' eighteen months
in the US Air Force. He is
now engaged in farming.
. The counde will make their
home in Newberry.
Mrs. C. E. Hendrix was hos
tess to the May meeting of thd
Literary Sorosis, Friday after
noon, at the home of hex sister,
Mrs. A. R. Chapped.
Mrs. W. H. Leaphart read an
interesting paper on Irvin Ber
lin, noted song writer. During
the social hour a number of
Berlin’s songs were played on
the record player.
Miss Eleanor Sthearouse, chair
man of the Cancer Drive, spon
sored by the Club, gave a fav
orable report on the drive,
which was not quite completed,
though.
Mrs. Chappell assisted thd
hostess in serving a palatable
aadad plate with iced tea.
Memorial Exercises sponsor
ed by the William Lester chap
ter of the UDC were held Wed
nesday, May 10, in the high
school auditorium. The Hon
orable James Hare, Representa
tive of the 3rd District, gave a
very informing and inspiring
address. Dr. J. B. Harman
conducted! the devotions.
Supt. C. E. Hendrix' presided
over the meeting.
The children of Mr. and Mrs.
Willey Taylor gave them a sur
prise family reunion Sunday,
May 14. At noon the chdiildren,
grandchildren, and great grand
children gathered at the Taylor
home and enjoyed a bountiful
pink: dinner. The afternoon
was spent in talking. The Tay
lor s’ nine children were all
present. 55 were present flew;
this enjoyable family gathering.
Mother’s Day guests of Mrs.
M. D. Derrick were Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Derick and their three
childen, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Derrick of Columbia; Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Ackerman and son,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Counts and
children of Prosperity.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Old
ham and Mrs. Nina Norman of
Arlington, Va., were recent
guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Counts and Mrs. E. O. Counts.
Rio belt Counts has returned)
to Spencer, N. C., after a visit
with his mother, Mrs. E. O.
Counts and ether relatives.
Mrs. Norman Livingston, Mrs.
Page Roberson and two chil
dren of Columbia, were Moth
er’s Day guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Hamm.
Mrs. George Counts is visit
ing her son, Elbert Counts and
family.
FOR SALE—1 good wood range
in excellent condition. Will
sell cheap. Phone 327k2 or
call at the Carolina Remnant
Store on Main street. 2tp
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The time to clean a gun is
immediately after use, before
any deterioration has taken
place. This simple statement
evidently requires emphasis, for
we are told that 75% of those
purchasing new firearms do not
also buy the necessary supplies
to care for them.
The following methods flop
care of the bore axe suggested
by CoL Townsend Whelan, not
ed arms authority:
Use the same procedure ex
actly for shotgun, riffle, or pis
tol You need a cleaning rod,
a brass brush, cut flannel patch
es, powder solvent, oil and gun
grease. The ordinary shotgun
jointed cleaning rod serves per
fectly for that weapon. Riffle
and pistol rods should be of
tool or stanless steel
Bolt-action and single-shot
rifles, and shotguns are easiest
and best cleaned from the
breech, resting the muzzle on
a newspaper on the floor. Le-|
vex-action rifles must, be clean
ed from the muzzle.* In clean
ing the cylinder erf a revolver
hold it by the cylinder,
the frame.
1. Then saturate a patch with
powder solvent or gun oil
swab the bore.
2. Swob the bore with four
or five dry flannel patches to
remtove dirt loosened by opera
tion 1. Then look through the
bore against a strong
perfectly
udges of
dirt or
see that it is _
If not, or if smudges
lead are seen or if the _
seem to stick slightly when run
ning through the bore, the cur*
is simple. Merely screw a bra*#
wire bristle brush on the
dip it in powder solvent or
and swab through the 'bore
a dozen times. Push the
all the way through the
and out the muzzle before
ing it back. Never use a
bristle brush in any bore.
3. The bore being clean, satu
rate a patch with gun oil
use it as a swab. This pre
the bore from rust for about •
month. If the gun is to be
aside for a longer period,
the oil out the next day
swab with a patch heavily
rated with good gun g
4. Before firing the
again swab all oil or
of the. bore with sev
(Continued on Back
Clemson worked out the 5-pointf
program for increasing com
yields. The county agents put
on demonstrations of it in the
counties a few years ago. Many
farmers saw it, and toe prac
tice spread. Now the state and
county com contests serve to
further rapidly spread the new
ideas about com culture.
The first four points are good
preparation of toe land, good
seed, thicker stands, and liberali
fertilization. These have large
ly passed, as far as the 1950
corn crop ds concerned. Yes,
all but toe last one. And we
will finish that one too soon
with top-dressing.
And that brings us to our
point. Much nitrogen is need
ed to make a lot of com. You
have prepared the land, put
down a good complete fertilizer
under it, and planted your com
by now very likely. And that’s
all to the good. You have the
stage set there for a good yield.
But you need two things to
realize on it, water and nitro
gen.
A few will supplv the need
ed shower by irrigation, but
that’s not at all widespread yet.
But all can attend to the
other necessity, nitrogen*
Remember it takes about 2
pounds of nitrogen for each
bushel of com you .get. Now,
that’s got to come from the
land of the fertilizer sack. Most
of our land has only enough
nitrogen in it to make yields
like we used to make, 12 to 14
bushels per acre. What you
get above that on ordinary land
must come from the other
things you have done there
and that needed nitrogen you
have applied.
A good many of your nitro
gen materials carry in the
neighborhood of 20 percent ni
trogen!. For each 10 (bushels
of com you get, above what
the land itself will supply ni
trogen for you will need to use
100 pounds of such top-dressing.
So Clemson’s Woodle and
Craven s4y to top-dress accord
ing to the stalks you have on
the land to get the yield poten
tial that’s there. For it’s poor
business to do everything else
that goes into a crop and then
creat yourself out of toe yield
by not putting enough nitro
gen there when 20 pounds of
\ it would ordinarly give you
I about 10 additional butoels of
com.
If it’s bushels of com you
want, watch your nitrogen. If
it’s just acres of com you are
after, forget it. And the fifth
point is—cultivate shallow and
lay by early.
Your county agent is still
taking applications for the 1950
corn contest.
Boys Ar« That Way
The balmy days of late May
had arrived. It was Saturday ’
afternoon. We had put toe tubj
half full of water in toe sun 1
that morning to warm up for'
toe weekend bath. At noon wd
got that, put on clean overalls!
and shirt, ate dinner, and then
went down in the pasture \
where toe first baseball gamej
of the season was to be played.)
They laid down a place in:
the rail fence for toe' horses j
and buggies to get through. My
little colored playmate, Zeke,
and I were put to toe job of
minding toe gap so the cows
wouldn’t get out into toe com
across toe road.
We played there and had a'
good tom© eating dewberries
and wild plums that grew in
the fence comers. We didn’t!
pay much attention to toe base- 1
ball We just liked to be down
there with the crowd. So mind
ing the fence suited us pretty
well
There was a right wide ditch
that had washed between the
fence and the road. Zeke and
I got to wondering if w e could
jump it. He tried and made it
all right. He was just a shade
bigger than I was. But I’d try
to equal him on everything. So
I went away beck and got a
good start. As I approached
the ditch, my nerve failed me,
and I had to go back and get
another start. That time I was
literally flying. I made my
leap and was just a few inches
short. The toes of one foot
made it to the firm bank and
caught. All of that weight on
one foot yanked my toot up
and sprained my ankly likd
something awful.' I fell .back
in t!he ditch and Zeke oame to
my rescue. The thing pained
bad and started swelling almost
immediately. He called for
someone else to watch the gaip,
and he carried me up to toel
house on his 'back. I was in for
a week with that. And .got out
of drawing a lot of water and
bringing in a lot of. Ftovewood,
The next Saturday We were
down at our jobs again and
one of the funniest things l
ever saw happened. Will havd
to tell you about that next
week.
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