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~ . THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. BE ALIVE ON THE FIFTH! Independence comes high. Many Americans bought it with the price of their lives in the Revolution and many more died since to preserve it. It is written into the Con stitution and into the hearts of the American people. Americans will never question the value of independence, •but it is time for all of us to weigh the price we pay each year just to celebrate it. Last year, when the Fourth of July provided a four-day weekend holiday for many persons, the accident death toll hit an all-time high of 793. Traffic accidents alone took 491 lives. Other miscellaneous accidents, such as drowning and fire, claimed 302. The calendar will save lives this year, since the Fourth falls in mid-week, bringing only a one-day holiday for most persons. But even so this anual celebration of our national independence will bring tragedy and death to many Ameri cans. 4 The traffic accident death toll already is up 10 per cent this year. Add to that the heavy travel and recreational activity of a holiday and the fourth remains on the na tion’s danger day list. With traffic accident deaths now numbering more than 971,000—and the millionth victim expected in December, according to the National Safety Council—it is time for Americans to apply voluntary controls to accidents. Since the invention of the automobile, the number of Americans killed in traffic accidents is nearly twice the number of patriots killed in all the nation’s wars. The Constitution guarantees every man liberty and in dependence. In America no one questions anyone’s right to go wherever he pleases to celebrate Independence Day, or any other holiday, but level-headed Americans are question ing the right of a minority to endanger the lives of the majority. ' ; U : i -,* f # ife The police alone cannot curb accidents without the whole hearted support of the nation’s motorists—the very people whose lives are at stake. STRICTLY FRESH A LONG BEACH, Calif., citizen complained that his pocket was picked of $15 while he was stand ing in the city assessor’s office. Bet that taxed his patience! • * • Three hundred clothing factory workers in Tredegar, Wales, staged a strike because they didn’t like the popular music played over the factory’s loudspeakers. Maybe they wanted waltz time and a half! • • • Newest electrical gadget is a bedside switch with which milady can floodlight the whole house and yard if she thinks she hears l burglar. It may also shed some light on the mystery of what time hubby rolled in! ■ June is Dairy Month... Every Month Is Butter Month With ... Newberry Maid Butter The matchless creamrich flavor of butter is the “key to good eating!” Into every pound of butter goes the golden goodness of four pints of cream. , Butter is truly Nature’s Masterpiece. As a spread, cooking aid or flavor ingredient, butter has no equal. Across America the best cooks in homes, restaurants, hotels and eating places everywhere use butter. Winning favor with its flavor, no other ingredient makes so many foods taste better. Use butter liberally for breads, toast and hot biscuits, waffles and pancakes, soups, potatoes, meats and poultry, vegetables, cakes and dozens of other foods. *- • Newberry Creamery NEWBERRY, S. C. MAGS TO < MOVIES When the public first became aware of Joyce Holden’s beauty she was a magazine cover girl and and Kansak City model. Then the movies drafted her, and now she’s upped to featured roles in Univer sal-International films. Currently >dn “Target Unknown,” she’llbe seen soon in “Iron Man,” starring Jeff Chandler and Evelyn Keyes.’ WANT ADS ^OR, RENT —3-room furnished apartment. Electric stove and electric refrigerator. 2013 Nance St. Phone 703-J.v -7-2tp. WANTED TO BUY—Iron, Metal Batteries, Radlatorto and Rags. W. H. Sterling, 1708 Vincent street. Phone 731-W 28-th FOR SALE — Recently painted seven room house, two baths, on lot fronting 150 feet on Sum mer Street. C. E. Salnt-Amand 4-TF. FOR SALE—Two good cheap Mules and a good Milk Cow. A. B. Miller, prone 2904. ' 6-2tp. WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRS BROADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Television GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone 311 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist KILL WEEDS IN PONDS When I dropped in on County Agent Melette of Aiken, he and his assistant, Mr. Beasley, were discussing their plan for a small motor compressor to be mounted in a boat for spraying weeds in ponds. They have pioneered with weed killing in fish ponds there in Aiken. Mellette tells me that something under $5 worth of weedkiller in crude oil is enough to kill the weeds on an acre of pond. With a small motor to give the pressure, he plans to fix up a rig that will do It rapidly and thoroughly. Up to now he has used an ordinary spray pump in a boat. Weeds usually get to be quite a pest In a farm pond. Now that we have a remedy for them, ponds should contain less weeds and more fish. Full details may be secured by writing county agent R. R. Mellette at Aiken or Sam Williams in care of Exten sion Service at Clemson. YOU CAN TELL 'EM A fellow down-state told me the other day that you could readily tell a city raised person out in the country at gnat sea son. I^e would fight them away with his hands and be much an noyed. While the fellow who was raised out there simply blew out of the corners of his mouth, shoving them away, and worked right on unperturbed. SOIL SAVING BUILDING Spartanburg county has 27 com munities that have entered their soil conservation contest. The newspaper there offered substan tial annual prizes, and the thing has been going several years. I met the other night with the folks of the Green Pond com munity. They are striving hard for the main prize this year, which is a power hay baler. W. P. Gaston heads that group. The 15 farmers who are in it are really remaking their small farms. I saw gullies being filled, trees planted, terraces being built, meadow strips being con structed, and in fact very few sore spots remain on the land there. Their SCS man Skardon showed me over the community. His explanations showed me that he had a finger in the beautiful job they are doing there. The group meets monthly in their abandoned schoolhouse. The month before that County Agent Martin had talked with them about work ing the needed cotton program and weevil control into their community effort. Such an awakening of commun ity interest in taking care of the land is unique in this country. And, my, what meaning it has for the future! And not only for the future, the folks who are there now are seeing new things come from the soil. "COMPANY” Why do we make folks feel cramped when they visit us by making company out of 'em? I’ve always been to plain for much of that. I usually drive on around to the back door and go in .through the kitchen. That’s the way I do at home. And I like to find towels in the bathroom that I can use, not the stiffly ironed, monogrammed and embroidered sort arranged so beautifully on the rack that it’s a shame to touch ’em. I hate to mess that sort up, and often use my handkerchief to keep from doing so. But good housekeeping seems to demand a sort of stiffness in trying to give the visitor the best, and I guess I can’t do any thing about it. 4-H FIELD DAY Cherokee county varied its spring 4-H rally by having a group of field events for both boys and girls. County Agents Lee and Stone tell me that a lot of interest was shown. The agents from another county came to see how it worked out with an eye to enlivening theirs with an similar event. SOUTH CAROLINA FIRM Have you seen that wonderful film on “South Carolina” that the Esso folks made? If not, you have a treat coming. I’ve seen it three times and wouldn’t mind seeing it again. I talk and write of the glories of this section . That film has caught much of our potential and beauties, and filmed them in col or. See it. You will then think BOYS ARE THAT WAY As a kid I sought the flaming red that came to the maple, as winter showed its first signs of leaving. But it was awfully hard to get, too high and at inacces sible places. Once they were cutting timber near home. A big pine crushed a blooming maple to the ground and I thought I had' found a gold mine. But they were not. as pretty as they looked on the standing tree. Another thing I treasured was the catkins that grew from the beech bushes along the streams in late winter. “Tags” .we called 'em. They were usually out of reach for a small child. They seemed to grow longer back in the ravines toward Hilton. And Louie would walk - the frozen creek and pick up bunches on his way to School from back In there. Just what we wanted with them, I don’t know. But we treasured them highly and would trade to bacco tags, slingshot rubbers, Indian arrowheads, and the like tor them. Another thing we always want ed was the bright red and the blue-black berries that brambles hung at impossible places. I never saw any that a kid could get to. If there was a marshy spot they would be draped from a blackgum in the middle of it. Or if there was a brier patch impossible of pentration, in the middle of It we would see them hanging from a rustic elm, as se cure from our grasp as if they were in the clouds. As a kid I often wondered why such treasures had to be so out of reach. Now I can see it as the wisdom of Providence. For otherwise there would not have been any of ’em. Put Up Your Dukes We take on all comers when it comes to making loans and you will realize what a punch we have when you see what we save you in interest over some 1 out of town firms! You are helping to build up your home town and saving money at the same time when you deal with us. Chicago is not interested in you, nor is Pitts burg, or Baltimore, but We are. For Details Call 197 PURCELLS "Your Private Bankers" E. B. Purcell Keitt Purcell Harvesting cash crops from a well-ir^naged forest is like collecting interest on a savings account. . .. The principal stays at worlju When you protect your trees and harvest them wisely you can “eat your cake and have it too.” If you own woodlands, see your nearest forester for information, on how you cm become a Tree Farmer. % Place Your Earnings Frqm Sale Of Forest Crops Wit h Us For Additional Dividends NEWBERRY John F. Clarkson, Pres. FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION * * Newberry, S. C. J. K. Willingham, Sec