Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Trench, Pit Silos Advantages Listed Biggest Disadvantage Amount of Food Spoiled In this year of near record crop and cattle production, farmers in many areas will need a larger amount of silage. Many of them do not have adequate silos. These farmers may make profita ble use of trench or pit silos, which have a number of advantages, but at the same time a number of dis advantages. The trench silo is easily and speedily filled. The relatively low The trench silo (above) may be the answer to the farm’s storage problem in time of high production, but it can ateo be a source of trouble if carelessly filled and maintained. emptied as easily as filled. As for size, they can be made to fit the crop. However, one great disadvantage stands out. A great amount of feed can be spoiled if carelessly filled, compacted or covered. But due to construction costs, a tower silo is a major project on most farms these days. Many farm ers might find it profitable, there fore, to investigate the construction and maintenance of a trench or pit silo. , - The local county agent, no doubt, can supply complete instruction. And they should be investigated thoroughly before any farmer un dertakes to build one. Forest Sites for Summer Homes Are Available Many vacationists who visit the national forests make the wish that they might have a summer home in the forest. Many are not aware that the wish might come true. The pos sibility is worth investigating. More than 16,000 families already have such summer homes, and in many forests there is room for others who want what the forest service has to offer. The services recognizes sum mer home opportunities as one of the “multiply uses” for the national forests and provides sites for ap proved buildings. This may surprise many who have motored through national for ests without ever noticing a colony of summer homes. That, in fact, is one of the features of the policy on summer home sites. Permits for summer home building are not now issued for areas within sight of highways or on lake shores, along fishing streams, or near scenic at tractions. ?>uch areas are preserved for general use of the public which, of course has first priority. Champion Broilerman Charles Vantress, Live Oak, Calif., holds one of the Califor nia Cornish-New Hampshire cross chickens which won him title of champion meat chicken breeder and $5,000 award in the Chicken - of - Tomorrow contest. Vantress, who operates a breed ing farm with 100,000 hens, has sold his eggs and stock to poul- trymen all ever the country. Farm Scrap Iron Is Needed for Defense The steel industry is asking for more scrap iron to keep its furnaces running full blast. Old worn out and broken machinery, no longer usable on the farm should be sold as scrap ■nd once more put into use in the defense program. A scrap clean-up program not only helps our defense preparations, but it also cleans up possible ac cident hazards. Scrap iron produces ready cash. CIVIUAN AIRLIFT World's First Civilian 'Airlift' Supplies Huge Ore Development The world’s first civilian “airlift” of major proportions is now taking place in the barren wastelands of northern Quebec and western Lab rador, where aircraft have really come into their own in the trans portation of heavy industrial equip ment. Iron Ore Company of Canada is using “airlift’’ techniques to rush the development of its Knob Lake mines which lie in the desolate wasteland 320 air miles north of the St. Lawrence River port of Seven Islands, Quebec. With U. S. sources and reserves of top-grade iron ore dwindling at a rapid rate, the pressure of defense production de mand for this essential mineral makes every hour count in the de velopment and exploitation of these hitherto almost inaccessible mines. Everything—mine site, camps, dams for electric power, highways, bridges, and a 350-mile railroad to bring out the ore—must be con structed from scratch. And con struction equipment to do the job at Knob Lake m^ist be hauled in By INEZ^ GERHARD B LANCHE THEBOM rushed from Paris to Hollywood last sum mer on a moment’s notice, to ap pear in “The Great Caruso” with Mario Lanza; she sang four songs in the film, two of which she had to learn overnight, and loved doing it. Now she is vacationing at her cabin in Canada and preparing for her Fall concert tour and her season at the Metropolitan Opera. In 1938 she was a private secretary in Canton, BLANCHE THEBOM Ohio; recalling what aid in her ca reer meant to her—six years later she joined the Met—she formed the Blanche Thebom Scholarship Foun dation in 1949, a non-profit organiza tion, to help young singers who can not afford proper instruction. Patricia Medina recently took a two-day bath at Monogram-Allied Artists. Stepped into a DeMille-ish palace pool in the morning for a lengthy bathing scene for Walter Wanger’s “Aladdin and His Lamp”, co-starring John Sands. CBS Radio Network’s “Let’s Pretend”, the oldest children’s pro gram in radio, celebrates its 21st birthday in September. Since au thor-director-producer Nila Mack originated the fairy tale series in 1930, the program has been cited 40 times as the best of its kind. Phyllis Chalzell was one of its first child actresses; now her daughter, 7, is in the cast. KUOSOK Ml Q. u ( I l c PHD VINCI The above map shows the territory in which the world’a first major civilian “airlift” is supporting construction of rail road to fabulously rich iron ore discovery. by air over the barren, trackless wilderness. The “airlift” is the only possible solution, according to mine officials. Largest aircraft in the lift is a Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar.” This big twin-engined cargo carrier has already flown fifteen big red International TD-14A crawler trac tors from Seven Islands to Knob Lake. The tractors were shipped complete minus only their draw bars and track shoes and were driven on and off the plane under their own power. A capacity load for the “Flying Boxcar” is 16,000 lbs. on this trip, just a shade more than the weight of the tractors. Even rubber-tired earthmoving scrapers of eight cubic-yard capac ity for use with the tractors have been carried by the “Boxcar” with out dismantling—with one inch to spare on each side. The Knob Lake airstrip was start ed in 1747 by a small International crawler tractor, flown in, piece by piece, in a flying boat which was able to land on Knob Lake itself. Now about 5,000 feet long, the gravel airstrip easily handles Doug las C-47s and the Fairchild “Flying Boxcar.” The little International TD-6 tractor first brought in is still working on road construction in the area. TWO YEARS FROM now, the 350- mile railroad now under construc tion will reach Knob Lake from Seven Islands. In the meantime, the airlift supplies the mine develop ment work at Knob Lake and sup plies the construction camps build ing the railroad by means of two other airstrips along the line. Hydro-electric power' will be de veloped at two dams to supply pow er to the mines, railroad, town- sites, and terminals. Scheduled for first construction is a dam at the rapids of Lake Menihek, which will be of the earth-fill type and will act as a bridge for the railroad. Generating capacity of the power plant at this dam will be 30,000 hp., scheduled for delivery in 1953. The second dam, also of 30,000 hp., will supply power to the ore docks and rail terminal at the town of Seven Islands. When operations are in full swing, I.O.C. expects to produce 10 million tons a year, with production, trans portation, and dock facilities de signed for twice that tonnage. But before a ton of ore is moved, close to 200 million dollars will have been invested in the project by that time, about half of the money going for railroad construction. crossword mm LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ACROSS 1. A desert mammal 6. Lean-to 10. A pointed arch (Arch.) 11. Long-eared rodent 12. Hummed 13. Forearm bone 14. Work (Physics) 15. Following 16. Exist 17. Gram 1$. Division •fa play 21. Cloyed 25. Tempest 28. Weave rope (Naut.) 29. Regard 31. Convert into leather 82. The sallow (Scot.) 35. Measure (Chin.) 36. Take as one’s own 39. Rascal 41. Son of Jacob (Bib.) 42. City (Tex.) 43. Leave out 44. Shore recess 45. Broad % 46. Piece of rock DOWN 1. Amends 2. Eager 3. A king and lawgiver of Crete (Gr. myth.) 4. Occurrence 5. Guided 6. A slow, dragging gait 7. Stop 8. Sea eagle 9. Costly 12. Degrade 15. At a distance 18. Aloft 26. Little child 22. Permit 23. Appraise 24. Disowns 26. Reprieve 27. Food in general SO-Greek letter 33. U. S. president 34. To shout aloud 36. Below (naut.) 37. Half 38. Reman poet 40. Secluded valley ' Hcmr-iid nui’dti HITlHUfl NUI1IJ HHOtllJM Hum wish imn huh I.l [TILTH billllli MI'JUiT HraHMWHMU winy srai* millL*] UifiSHU HU TILTH N-35 42. God of lower world (Rom.) n T _ 5 4 rw 1 9 n n 12 H i?” ib™ n »7 te n H ~ 2C> n TT 22 25 24 25” 2* 81 H 28 29~ / ** 1 I XT' w 15 58 i io ~ 42 1 aT n 44~ ■ ■HIM < : ' ■ n 4tr n 1-ZO THE FICTION CORNER PINKY By Sallydale Wimbrow J ULIA WARREN looked up from her pie-baking suddenly, and thought it had happened. “Bud,” she called. “Please try to keep Pinky by your side. He’ll get hurt if he keeps chasing cars the way he does.” She watched Bud through her kitchen window as he scolded Pinky — by waving a fat •A in finger at him. -miflUTe ..Mustn’t do. Fiction Pinky! Mom says you’re a bad dog!” Then he pushed along the sidewalk in his wagon. Pinky at his side. Julia went back to baking her apple pie, a worried look on her face. Pinky was lovable, but his habit of chasing cars through the streets of Collinsville made Julia dread the event which must inevita bly occur. Julia had urged her bus- band Mark to persuade Bud to give up the dog, but Mark was too soft-hearted. “It will break the boy’s heart,” he would say. Not nearly as badly as it would if something dreadful happened to Pinky, Jolla always thought. That could be some thing Bud might never get over. That might be something he would always remember like a sharp continoons pain. Julia knew well it weald be that way. Musn’t do. Pinky! Mom says you're a bad dog!” v. They buried Pinky in a small wooden box in a corner of the back yard among the flowers. Julia put a marker with Pinky’s name into the ground while Bud just watched and said nothing. Julia did not Know whether there was more sorrow than relief in her heart. Maybe it was better that it happened now instead of five or six years from now when Bud’s love for Pinky would have been too hard for the boy to forget. Bud could forget Pinky now as she had learned to forget . . . She tried to cast thoughts from her mind that were like jagged glass. She opened the oven door, saw that the pie was almost brown enough to take out. , Then she heard it—heard it like she knew she would, like she had heard it once before in the recesses of her mind. Bud’s scream, a car’s futile brakes. Pinky’s agonizing bark. All she could hear then were Bud’s sobbing words: “Pinky! Pinky!” A T dinner that night there were not many words spoken. Mark patted his son’s curly head, and tried to console him. “Pinky wouldn’t like to see you so sad, ton. He’d want you to remember him with a smile on your face, and for get what Happened today.” Forget . . . forget. Jullr looked at Bod’s face and knew he would never forget. Young minds don’t forget easily. They don’t forget the most important things. Julia knew. GRASSROOTS Russia Lurks in Background of Iran Oil Dispute By Wright A. Patterson N AN EFFORT to settle the diffi culty between the Iran govern ment and the Iran-Anglo Oil Com pany, an English corporation, 54 per cent of the stock of which is owned by the English government, the government of Iran has asked President Truman to act in the capa city of mediator. He accepted, but it means that the job will be performed by our British born and British sympathizing secretary of state. Dean Acheson. Small chance to get an unpredjudiced effort to get a settlement on its merits. And what is the heated argument all about? A number of years ago, a group of English capitalists, including the English government, organized the Iran-Anglo Oil Company for the purpose of producing the tremen dous amount of oil in the Iran field. After making an agreement with the Iran government, the English company invested more than a bil lion dollars for a plant that would take the oil from the ground, refine it and market it. Under the terms of the agreement with Iran, the English company was to pay the government of Iran 20 cents e barrel on all of the oil se cured. That agreement was satisfactory un til American oil companies entered the Arabian fields and arranged to extract the oil of those Arabian coun tries and pay to the governments of those near East nations one half of the profits derived from their opera tions. Iran demanded a new deal, with a division of the profits on the oil taken from Iran wells. The Eng lish company refused to make a new arrangement, but did advance to 26 cents a barrel paid to the Iran gov ernment. a The present controversy is over a renewed demand of Iran for a new agreement on a profit-division basis. When that was refused, Iran seized and nationalized the oil fields and the plants of the English com pany, but because of a lack of trained technicians, Iran cannot op erate the enormous plant, and the English government will not permit its citizens to work for Iran, and is taking all of them out of the coun try. The only other available source of supply of technicians is Russia. With Russians in charge of that mammouth oil plant, Russia would get the product. For Russia that represents one of the vital essentials for waging war against the free na tions. Without an assured sup ply of oil, she could not long op erate either her planes or her transport. For the Iranian oil to fall into Russian hands would be a serious blow for the nations of the Atlantic Pact, including especially the Unit ed States and England. The Iran government has an nounced that all the force that is available will be used to prevent England from sending a force into Iran to protect English interests, which England would probably do if any effort is made to operate the mammouth plant. The President and Secretary Acheson have a real problem to solve, a problem in which we all have an interest because of the danger of Iranian oil falling into the hands of Russia and being used against us, should that threatened war materialize. But England can be assured of the very best our British-born sec retary of state can render his na tive country. m The one thing in the way of pre paredness that has not lagged is the demand for more appropriations and more taxes. * If, as has so often been said, Stalin’s hope is to see a bankrupt America, he has active assistants in both the congress and the presi dent. * The civilian employees of the de partment of defense, the army of bureaucrats commanded by Gen eral Marshall, outnumbers by bet ter than two te one the fighting forces commanded by General Ridgway in Korea, and the com pensation paid those in the bureau cratic army is far greater than that paid to our fighting forces. The dif ference is that those in the bureau cratic army and their relatives can be counted upon to vote for those who gave them a job. After dinner when the family was in the living room, Mark reading his paper. Bud playing listlessly with his blocks, Julia suddenly put down the sweater she was knitting. She got up from her chair and went to wards the door. “What’s wrong, Julia?” Mark asked alarmed. “Nothing, dear. I must get some air. I think I’ll see Helen Reynolds for a few minutes.” It did not take more than a few minutes. Julia was surprised how little time it actually took. If only other people had realized what little time it took. It was not until Julia had stepped into the living room that Mark realized what Julia had done. He rose to meet her, proud of his wife. Julia knelt down beside Bud and showed him what her hands held. Bud’s eyes brightened. It was a tiny bundle of fur. A month old cocker- spaniel with sleepy eyes, and pink ears. “Pinky the Second,” Julia said with a smile. Bud reached out chubby fingers for a new Pinky, a new hope. Julia was glad she had remem bered Helen Reynolds telling her about the litter of pups. She was glad she had remembered one day many years ago when she herself was young with important things in her life. Julia watched the sadness melt from Bud’s eyes as he fondled the pup. She remembered herself as a little girl on the day her own dog had been hit by a car. They thought she would forget. They had not un derstood . . . for she never forgot. Burning It Up Railroads used 65 million tons of bituminous coal last year. HOW GOES YOUR LAUNDRY? W ANT to save time? So much to do, and so little time to do it? Sounds almost like that other daily refrain—So much to buy, and so little money to buy ’em, doesn’t it? Of course, for time needs the budget every bit as much as money. And any time-sav er is smart econ omy! ' So why not start as the week starts, with that Monday habit, the fam ily washing? Is your laundry handy and convenient? Are your washer, dryer and ironer, your ironing board, your clothes rack and hangers all in the same room, exclusively devoted to Monday’s child? Perhaps you haven’t that de luxe laundry that Good House keeping Magazine is showing in its newly-opened Home Laundry Cen ter. But most of you have either a one-wall or a small and compact space on the first floor, the base ment, or that place-for-everything, the utility room. These, too, have a place in Good Housekeeping’s show. The important thing is to do the best possible job in the least pos sible time, with the best possible equipment. So first of all, stock up at your store on soaps and deter gents your clerk recommends for all your washing purposes. He will tell you that the “unbuilt” syn thetic detergents are your best bet for colors for they contain no alka line substance, and therefore pre vent fading, running and dulling. But for your heavy-duty stuff, or for very dirty play or work-clothes, he will sell you the “built” soaps and detergents. His advice and the directions on the package, are all the guidance you need. ON LINE BY NINE When the washing’s done, shake well before hanging, and keep as straight as you can. This will save you lots of time when you get iron ing. With a weather break, it won’t be long before you can clear off the line, folding carefully as you set them for later ironing. And don’t roll ’em too tight—that makes wrinkles which cost you extra time at your board. (D THAT MAN’S SHIRT Your best work is of course de voted to that man of yours, but that needn’t mean it takes the most time. Seven minutes to a shirt is a record worth shooting at! One big time-saver is a simple thing you can pick up at the notions counter of your favorite store—a “shoulder ham” for those yokes and shoulders that seem never to reach perfection. This padded gadg et slips over the palm of your left into the shoulder, and, held slightly above the board as you iron, really does the trick so you won’t have to go over it again. But we’re ahead of ourselves in our enthusiasm. First you spread the shirt, sprinkle, and fold exact ly in thirds lengthwise and in thirds crosswise. Let the tail hang over the far side of the board, so that the yoke is next you, and begin by pressing the cuff, first inside, then out. By the time you get to the body of the shirt, you can begin with the back panel, ironing the in side so that the shirt will be in place. Then you simply fold the two side panels over in turn, and finish it up. Van, Texas, Gets First Weekly Since World War VAN, Texas—The newly launched Van Chronicle marks the return of a newspaper to this community for the first time since World War H, when the Van Banner suspended publication. S. Neil Harle is publisher-owner; Chester L. Davis is managing edi tor, and Betty Music of Van, Is society editor and bookkeeper. This is the first editor’s post for Mr Davis. 1 Fishing Pressure A contributing factor to the pan fishes getting out of hand is the dif ferential fishing pressure. The fish erman prefers to take home the large bass and crappie. He is not usually satisfied to take home a catch of smaller perch or bluegills or. sunfish. He cannot brag about them or does not feel happy show ing them to his friends. But give him a four or five pound bass and you hear about it for weeks. Thus by taking his limit in big fish he is reducing the potential of that lake for keeping the more prolific panfishes under controL It Is known that some fishermen fish only for bass and take no perch, bluegills, sunfish or small crappies at alL It sometimes seems as though it would be a wise policy te insist that fishermen be required to take some panfish when they take bass or other predatory fishes. This, of course, would be almost impossible to enforce but a code of ethics on the bass fishermen’s part might go a long way toward help ing this unfavorable situation. For farm ponds the stocking recommendation for a ratio be tween bass and bluegills is 10 bass to 100 bluegills. parrying this over, then it would seem logical to have the fishermen attempt to take 10 bluegills for each large bass h# caught. ^ AAA Not So Crazy “Crazy like a goose!” Ever heai that expression? But don’t believe it! Colorado’s experience the past winter in live- trapping and banding the wild Canadian goose at Two Buttes Res ervoir has convinced at least those assigned to trap them that geese are far from crazy. The trapping project was Colorado's first venture on geese, although the department has trapped and banded thousands of ducks the past few years. Last fall and winter over 16,060 wild geese used the Two Buttes Reservoir, almost twice as many now as when the refuge was first established. So it is quite evident that where protection and proper environment prevail, the flocks show a steady increase. It was discovered almost imme-' diately that, although some duck trapping techniques were similar, goose trapping would call for sev eral basic changes, ’due to the unique social patterns and habits of geese. For instance: hungry ducks readily decoy to the baited trap areas and walk into the trap. Geese decoy to the traps but there the similarity stops. It was found that they would not hurry into the trap for bait. In addition, mated pairs seemed to be together at all times and would not leave each other near the traps. Wild ducks, on the other hand, generally pair off in the spring and are therefore much easier to separate and trap during winter. AAA The nostrils of the giraffe are heavily lined with stiff hairs as a potection against the great number of insects the animal disturbs when it browses in the branches of trees. AAA. Use A Dog When you meet a hunter who is accompanied by a well-behaved, sleek-coated retriever, you usually may place the man in the ranks of the wildlife conservationists with out knowing anything more about him, the Wildlife Management In stitute comments. Each year, many game birds are shot but not recovered by hunters. Inexperience at judging range and poor marksmanship account for many birds which are brought'down but which retain enough life to slip into a tangle of rushes where the most conscientious search will faiL Others, dean-killed, may drop in water inaccessible to boats or into impenetrable thickets. Whatever the cause, the result is one more bird, uncounted in the bag, elimin ated from the game population and wasted. In making these humanly impossible recoveries, the retriever finds his greatest joy. The occa sional freak shot that brings a duck plummeting into the blind, exciting enough to the hunter, cheats the waterfowl dog of his greatest thrill. What he craves is the action of launching himself after a duck downed in some rush- grown quagmire where a mere human would flounder to the crown of his cap. The use ef a deg, in such cases, means the difference between bitter disappointment and a red-letter hunt. AAA Good Technique Have you ever had the aggra vating experience of being on a good bream or crappie pond with an excellent “rise” on and stilj couldn’t interest any of the fish is your flies? Its happened to us often, but we have one technique that frequently overcomes the protv lem. That is to give your leader a quick jerk just as the flies are about to settle on the water. H this doesn’t interest the rising fish retrieve the fir slowly. Come to the ROGERS HOUSE for a Perfect Family Vacation High in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains Write or Phone for Reservations Good Meals—Fessonable Rst»* Phone 4027, Mountain City, Ga. Open through October CASH FOR STAMPS We BUY UNUSED POSTAGE STAMPS In any quantity. Send US your surplus U.S. STAMPS and Set the cash. 1 RICE & COMPANY P.O. Bax 226 BELLAIRE TEXAS HULMAN A COMPANY. TERRI HAUTE. (NO. ' — Grandma’s Sayings LOTS O’ TIMES it seems folks are ao buoy 1 earnin’ the tricks o* the trade, they don’t find time to really learn the trade. M paid Mods* Moon. St PoMriberg. Ha* dee* TALKIN’ ABOUT the "new look” brings to mind the new package for Nu-M&id margarine. It’s modern in every way . . . seals in Nu-Mald’s sweet, churned - fresh flavor. Yee- slrree! I prefer “Table-Grade” Nu- Maid, the modern margarine, for my cookin' and bakin’. JWr* NO MATTER what the June weather reports were, it seems to me the brides and graduates got "showered” and their friends and relatives got “soaked.” IS paid Mr*. Mary Cholofaa. Columbia. Nate.* dee* WHEN IT COMES to style, yellow Nu-Maid is worth talkin’ about. Molded in modern table style K pound prints that fit any servin’ dish. You can bet I always look for the picture of Miss Nu-Maid on the package, ’cause Miss Nu-Maid means modern margarine. will be paid upon publication to the first contributor of each ac cepted saying or idee... $10 if accep ted entry is aoooznpanied by large picture of Miss Nu-Maid from the package. Address "Grandma” 169 East Pearl Street, Cincinnati 12, Ohio, ALWAYS LOOK FOB SWEET, wholesome Miss Nu-Maid on the package when you buy margarine. Mies Nu-Maid la your assurance of the finest modern margarine in the finest modern package.