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THE NEWBERftY SXJN
ERIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1960
FARMS
AND
FOLKS
thus an enterprising agent trains
his 4-H boys, finds wholesome
work for them at which they can
learn while they earn, and fills
a community need -all at the'
same time.
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
FARMS AND FOLKS
WATER HOLTS IN PASTURES
Everywhere I’ve been in the
cattle country, north and west, I
saw .water holes dug in pastures
where there were no dependable
streams.
As we grow with cattle here,
we are finding a lot of good past
ure lands that do not have water.
And a pasture without a plenti
ful supply of water in it is a
pretty poor dependence. A well
and pump do. not fill the bill
very well. For one of the vir
tues of the cattle business is a
saving on labor. And if you
have to pump water eternally
for a herd ' of cattle, you are
handicapped. The chances are,
the cattle won’t have enough
water at times. And it costs
money to pump that water. So,
If it can be got in any other
way it should.
In much of our best cattle
country, the subsoils are rather
tight and will hold water well.
Specially is this true in the great
slate belt, thought by the ex
perts to be some of our best
grading lands.
At places I see the man-made
watering hole coming to our
pasture lands. This is notably
so in McCormick. The County
Agent Bonnette tells me they
have vast areas of potentially
good pasture land that have been
handicapped by having no water
on it. He and B. W. Crouch,
their SCS man, have teamed up
to pu^ pastures on these lands.
Crouch piakes the surveys and
supervses the construction of
these at the proper places where
run-off rainwater can be expect
ed to fill them. Minnows are
put in these to keep down mo
squito breeding. And Bonnette
hammers on the grass and cattle
angles.
This whole idea has right wide
adaptation to South Carolina.
DEFEAT DROUGHT
The past spring was so dry
in the Low Country that it real
ly delayed the setting of early
sweet potatoes.
Yes, it did that everywhere ex
cept in the few cases where they
had irrigation.
County Agent Bowen of Sumt
er showed me the potatoes from
a case where they irrigated the
dry land early and set the po
tatoes out. Plepty of early vine
cuttings were secured, and they
dug some of those potatoes on
July 4.
Many growers who had to
wait for rains were sq delay
ed that their potatoes were just
starting to vine then.
How long will we allow the
life-giving water, that the Al
mighty sends coursing through
our | streams, to go on to waste
down its ancient channels to the
sea, while crops parch and
perish along their very banks!
My answer’to that question is,
not long.
Costs of pitching a crop are
too great to let the harvest
persh from drought, when the
needed shower can be .economi
cally plucked from the stream for
many a field.
Clemson’s engineer, P. M.
Garvin, Jr., Is available to help
you survey your prospects for
irrigation. You can get him
through your county agent.
UP 10 TIMES
Last year Abbeville county had
three Turkish tobacco demon-!
strations. This year county
Agent Bull tells me they have
35 farmers planting it.
^nd our Turkish tobacco man.
Bob Mattlson, tells me that this
is just about like the state
picture, up 10 times from the
last year. And with insects and
diseases getting in the licks they
are against cotton in the Pied
mont area this year those dollars
from these patches of tobacco
will likely spell another great in
crease in this new money crop
again next year. And, happly,
there is room for it.
4-H TREE PLANTING CREW
Robert Smith, the Negro agent
of Lancaster county, organized a
tree-planting crew among his
4-H club boys. He would get
them after school, take them
out, and set 5,000 pines in an
afternoon. A total of 35,000
pines were thus set for nine
landowners.
Our forester, Bill Barker, tells
me he saw these plantings this
summer and a good live was se
cured. Moet of the folks they
set trees for have asked for
them again the coming season.
BOYS ARE THAT WAY
Last _week we talked here
about my playing with ants in
the cotton middles when I should
have been at work as a kid.
I want to tell to you of two
other observations with ants that
even a study of ants hasn’t ex
plained.
One day I was playing over
towards the cemetery, picking
those wild crotalaria pods that
pop when you mash them. , There
in the leaves of the open oak
woods I saw a ball of ants.
It impressed me as being as big
as a cocnut. I know the im-
How do the Counties stand?
That is an American way of in
troducing a study of the financial
condition of a county. My Greek
friend who came to me for
i“English conversation” really
wished to talk “Street-American,”
as we refer to coloquial speech;
he would have quibbled quite £8
bit over the word 1 "stand."
How about the Counties? Wte
know little sfbout the Counties,
but we know less about the
towns and their operation and
management, as units of gov
ernment.
Well, shall we look into
Orangeburg County, that rich
agricultural region, now • diversi
fying and prospering in every
venture?
Consider this:
Population 1913— 58,893; pep
Capita Debt-Federal $12.36; Total
$727,912.48.
Population 1930—62,864; pel'
Capita Deb t-Federal $131.51;
Total $8,398,754.64.
Population 1950—68,751; per
Captia Debt-Federal $1,698.06;
Total $116,743,323.06.
Assessed value of personal
property moneys and credits in
Orangeburg County 1949, $5,591,-
480.00”
Observe that in the quiet days
pressions we carry from child;
hood are prone to grow. But I
am sure it was a rather big ball
of pure ants^ I took a twig and
cut them apart. There was noth
ing in it but ants. They scatter
ed everywhere, making no effort
to reassemble. „
I wondered then, and still do,
what that was all about.
When I was grown I was sit
ting dreamily oi^ the front steps
on a 4th of July afternoon. For
years we had had the largest
black ants there I
seen before or since,
fully a half-inch or rfore long.
They were always busy, but
bothered nothing. And you could
see ‘em anywhere you- looked in
the yard.
On this afternoon I noticed
they were all fighting. You'didn't
see just one anywhere. It was
invariably two or more in a
death grapple. I watched them
for a long time and called others
to see them. At dusk the large
dead ants could be seen all over
the yard. And after that we sel
dom saw one.
War, I thought, war in the in*
sect kingdom!
Man is thought to be the most
intelligent of living things. And
he makes war, we know. Ants
txio have amazing intelligence
and complex organization. So
maybe they too have wars. May
be both ants and people would
be better off if they were not
so intelligent. If it would do
away with war, a lot of folks
would accept being dumber.
have ever
They were
of the first year of Woodrow Wil
son’s Administration the Nation
al debt rested lightly on those
sturdy Orangeburgers: it was
$12.36 per capita. During the
middle of Hoover’s Arministra-
tion the Orangeburg part of the
National debt had risen to $131.-
51 per capita. The rise from
$12.36 to $131.51 per capita was
due, in large measure, to the
First World War, together with
new undertakings such as the
R. F. C. In 1950, however, every
man, woman and child of old
Orangebuog owed $1698.06 of the
Federal debt. ' That was due In
part to the thrill of enjoying
the lavish Mr. Roosevelt and the
glamorous free-spenders who
made his administration like a
diamond in the sky. Along with
the notable outpouring on trifles
and boondoggling there was a
war which cost $400,000,000,000',
about $223,000,000,000 of which
increased the National debt.
Our President drank so deep
ly at the fount of philosophy of
Harry Hopkins that he is making
even Mr. Roosevelt seem a mere
piker. He may not have added
much to the National debt but
he has great ability as a spend
er: he seems to shovel it out
day and night with never a
thought of growing weary.
The First World .Wat cost ns
less than $30,000,000,000, but
President Wilson had. been a
poor boy and didn’t know how
to '“throw money around in
glamorous style» And even so,
for years after the war Presi
dent Wilson, President yarding
and President Coolidge faith
fully reduced both the swarming
bureaucracy and made heavy re
ductions in the National debt.
Our President Truman reduces
nothing but adds to the National
budget g so enormously that a
World War in his time would put
Mr. Roosevelt in the shade. It
is costing more to operate the
Government today than at the
peak of the First World War.'
We have learned something
new: President Wilson had been
reared in a Presbyterian manse,
and in a great University of
Presbyterian influence, and he
had the old-time notion that a
man should save a little. We
now have the new philosophy of
Harry Hopkins: to spend and
spend and tax and tax and be-
cojpe rich through spending. So
today my sturdy friends of
Orangeburg find they are so
rich in the Harry Hopkins idea
that the County of Orange
burg is today under a lien foij
$116,743,323.06 of the Federal
debt, and with the bright and
cheerful prospect of having this
increased. '
Regardless of how low the as-
sesment of property may be in
Orangeburg; even if we assume
that it is assessed at one-twenti-
Total
per
Total
$1,698.06;
property
she
per
Total
per
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eth—5 percent—of real value, the
Orangeburg County part of the
Federal debt is vastly more than
the true worth of every acre of
land, every house, every tractor,
mule, cow, dog and chicken.
Now, b3% the same token con
sider Greenwood:
GREENWOOD COUNTY
Population 1913—34,225; per
capita debt-federal $12.36;
$423,021.00
Population 1930—36,078;
capita debt-federal $131.50;
$4,744,257.00
Population 1950—41,462; per
capita deb t-federal
Total 70,404,963.72^
Assessed value all
1949 $7,690,191.OO'*
As I speak over the radio in
Columbia, Charleston and Sum
ter lets see about those good
Counties and how they fare un
der the new era of Federal
squandering.
Sturdy Sumter: here
stands:
SUMTER COUNTY
Population 1913—38,472;
capita debt-federal $12.36;
$475,613.92
Population 1930—45,902;
capita debt-federal $131.50; Total
$6,036,113.00
Population * 1950—67,566; per
capita debt-federal $l,698-.06;
’Total $97,733,541.36
Assessed value all taxable
property 1949 $4,698,980.00”
Let > us consider Richland:
RICHLAND COUNTY
Population 1913—55,143; per
captia debt-federal $12.36; Total
$681,5,67.48
Population 1930—87,667; per
capita debt-federal $131.50; Total
$11,628,210.50
Population—i960 141,883; per
capita debt - federal $1,698.06;
Total 240,926,846.98
Assessed value all property
1949 $20,047,970.00”
And now I take Charleston
County:
CHARLESTON COUNTY .
Population 1913—88,594; per
capita debt-federal $12.36; Total
$1,095,021.84
Population 1930—101,050? per
capita debt-federal $131.50; Total
$13,288,076.00
Population 1960—159,838; per
capita debt-federal $1,698^.06 Total
$271,414,514.28
Assessed value all property in
Charleston County 1949 $21,-
485,098.00”
The race between the cities of
Charleston and Columbia, If ex
tended to Richland and Charles
ton Counties, shows them run
ning neck-and-neck. Each per^
son in the two Counties owes the
same part of the Federal debt
—$1,698.06, though the County
of Charleston owes a total of
$271,414,614.38, with Richland
owing about a half million less.
The assessed valuation of all
property of Charleston County
is $21,485,098, whereas Richland
has $20,047,970. Richland has thd
big cotton mills, Columbia,EJau-
Claire, Eastover, Gadsden, Con-
garee and Horrell Hill, while
Charleston County has both
Charleston and North Charles
ton Saint Andrews Parish,
Calnhoy Rantowles and Ravenel,
along with Mt. Pleasant. . I am
not going into this exhaustively:
that is, I don’t want to exhaust
you or the subject.
Now, do you think our cherish
ed Mr. Truman should follow the
star-gazers and build dams across
every stream and engage in Fed
eral power business? Do you
think he should knock the \tax-
paying power business in the
head and at the saihe time
call for mountains of tax-payers’
dollar*?
Do you think Mr.. Truman and
his bureaucracy should take over
the profession of Medicine?
If we may judge by the sixty
billion dollars defense spending,
which seemed to provide so lit
tle, we might fear that an ordi
nary caloniel tablet, now selling
for a cent, would cost the Nation
a dollar! And then we should
Trumanize the world, all Asia
and Africa, South America and
Europe, and send them calomel
at a dollar a grain, even if they
wanted Syrup of Squills instead
of Calomel. And it would take
a ton of paper, six months, a
thousand men end a thousand
dollars to get shot of corti-
zone, wouldn’t it?
Friend, if you ever served
Uncle Sam’s bureaucracy, how
much more of it can you stand?
INSURANCE CHECKS LARGER
Each of the 2700 social secur
ity beneficiaries in this area, will
receive a substantially larger in
surance check during the week
of October 1. Throughout the
country, the September checks
for old-age and survivors insur
ance will go in the mail on their
usual schedule, the second day
of the following month, but the
three million beneficiaries who
receive them will find that the
amounts have been increased as
authorized by the recent amend
ments to the Social Security Act.
The amendments, signed into
law by the President just one
month ago, on August 28, provid
ed that larger payments should
begin for the month of Septem
ber. This should mean that most
beneficiaries will receive their
new larger payments on Tues
day, October 3. or a day or two
later if they have normally been
getting their checks on the 4th,
5th, or 6th.
The Increased September pay
ments' will be made automatically
to all those who received August
checks and are still eligible.
Increases range from 100% for
those who were receiving the
lowest amounts under the old
law, to' about 60% for those
whose payments were in the
higher brackets. The August 1950
payments in this seven-county
area, paid under terms of t£e
old law, amounted tb about $36,-
000. The new monthly payments
to be received next week will
total approximately $69,000, the
local manager estimates.
SMITH COWS CLASSIFIED
COLUMBUS, OHIO Sept. 27,
1960 — Twenty-three registered
Jerseys in the herd owned by C.
T. Smith, Kinards, S. C., were
recently classified under a pro
gram of The American Jersey
Cattle Club. The classification
rated the animals for type, com
paring them against the breed’s
score of 100 points for a perfect
animal
This classification wav for ail
previously unclassified females
that have had at least one calf
and for all bulls over 2 years old.
They were rated by Mr. Liynn
Copeland of The University of
Tennessee. Mr. Copeland is an
official classifier for the Club,
which has its national headv
quarters in Columbus, Ohio.
Seven animals were ranked
Very Good, 13 Good Plus, 2
Good, and 1 Fair. The classi
fication program sponsored by
The Amercan Jersey Cattle Club
is designed to help breeders of
registered Jerseys improve their
cattle by knowing which'*-ones
come closest to the breed’s
standard of prefection.
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TAX NOTICE
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The tax books will be open for the collection of 1950 U
and after October 2, 1950.
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The following is general levy for all except special purposes:
CHICKEN BARBECUE
A barbecue chicken supper will
be served at St. Paul’s Parish
Building in Pom aria beginning at
5:30 Saturday afternoon, October
7th, by Circle No. 2. Plates,
$1.00. A bazaar will also be
held.
NOTICE FOR BIDS
Office of Newberry County
Board of Commissioners, New
berry, S. C., will receive sealed
bids by 10:00 o’clock, A.M., Mon
day October 9th, 1950, for the
following items for the Second
Quarter—1950-1952:
LUMBER, NAILS, TIRES,
CONCRETE PIPE, PILING, RE
PAIR PARTS, GROCERIES,
CLOTHING (Convict), JANITOR
SUPPLIES, OFFICE SUPPLIES,
BOOKS, AND EQUIPMENT.
Complete specifications on
special forms may be obtained at
the Supervisor’s office in the
Courthouse. All bids mnst be
submitted on form furnished.
The right is reserved to re
ject any and all bids.
S. W. SHEALY,
Supervisor 20-2L
RENTAL NOTICE
The entire second floor of the
‘‘OLD OPERA HOUSE” or any
part thereof, is now available
for rent at very attractive terms.
It can be made into very de
sirable and attractive offices for
insurance, lending agencies and
other types of business.
E. L. Blackwell
City Manager
20-3tc.
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Ordinary County
Bonds, Notes A Interest
Hospital
Co. Bd. of Education
Co. Schools (Special)
TOTAL
4% Mills
7 Mills
% Mills
2^ Mills
1 Mill
II Mills
The following are the authorised special levies for the
school districts of the county together with the general levy:
DISTRICT NO.
General School
Tax Special School
Levy Levy Bonds
MILLS MILLS MILLS
1.
Newberry
15
32
2.
ML Bethel Germany 1
15
<
3.
Maybinton
,15
6
4.
Long Lane
15
3
6.
McCullough
16
6
6.
Cromer
15
1 0
8.
Reagin
16
1 16
9.
Dead Fall
IE
16
10.
Utopia
15
16
11.
Hartford >
16
8
12.
Johnstone i}
15
6
13.
Stoney Hill
15
15
14. v
Prosperity
16
20
16.
O’Neall
15
13
18.
Fairview
15
8
19.
Midway
15
4
21.
Central <
16
4
22./
St Phillips
15
• 8
23.
Rutherford 9
15
7
24.
Broad River
16
6
25.
New Hope Zion
15
» 6
26.
Pomaria
15
8
27.
Red Knoll
15
«
28.
Helena ' 1 ' )
15
4
29.
Mt Pleasant \
15
8
30.
Little Mountain
. 15
16
31.
Wheeland
16
3
32.
Union
16
H 6
33.
Jolly Street
15
8
34.
St Pauls
15
6
36.
Peak
15
3
37.
Mudlic , 1
16
6
38.
Vaughanville
16
6
39.
Chappells
16
6
40.
Old Town
15
16
41.
Dominick
15
20
42.
Reederville
15
20
43.
Bush River
16
20
44.
Smyrna
15
20
45.
Trinity |. ^ F
15
16
46.
Burton
15
16
47.
Tranwood
15
20
48.
Jalapa
16
8
49.
Kinards 1
16
2
50.
Tabernacle A
16
20
51.
Trilby
15
4
52.
Whitmire »
15
20
63.
Mollohon
15
4
54.
Beth Eden
15
3
55.
Fork j'
16 *
8
67.
Belfast '
16
6
58.
Silverstreet
16
16
59.
Pressley
15
4
60.
St Johns
15
3
TOTAL
Levy
MILLS
MM
4
4
4
4
4
21
21
23
21
19
23
31
13
21
23
21
18
21
21
21
36
31
SI
36
35
36
35
35
23
17
36
1»
40
19
18
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m
There will be a discount of one (1%) percent allowed on taxe
paid on or before October 31, 1950.
On and after January 1st, 1961, the penalties prescribed by law
will be imposed on unpaid taxes.
You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts ia
which the property is located.
Those who had their dogs vaccinated for rabies during the
year ended June 30, 1950 by a licensed Veterinarian, and
be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certificate
vaccination when appearing to pay taxes.
J. RAY DAWKINS ^
< , . Treasurer of Newberry Co*