The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 22, 1951, Image 4
~ . 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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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ASSOCIATION
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