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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY CHICKEN OR THE EGG? W HICH comes first, the chicken or the egg? Remember that old question? Bet you never get the quick answer! But right now, the answer is this: chicken comes first—first in plenty, first in reason ably-priced meat, first in the heart of the thrifty meal-planner. It’s the young broilers and fryers you’ll find tops right now at your market. Production is all of 30 per cent higher in t h e s e tempters than it was a year ago. And the price? No higher than last year at the same time—which, these days is good news. With these larger supplies to draw on, statistics figure that by the end of the year, you will have eaten 30 pounds of chicken, or 10 per cent more than last year. Even hens will be more plentiful, be cause a heavy rate of culling is sending more hens to market. VERSATILE BIRD Sunday company? What more delicious than fried chicken, unless it's broiled chicken, or roast chicken? With your special gravy, mashed potatoes, vegetables or salad from your own garden, and a touch of your home-made cran berry sauce. Left-overs? Why, there’s no end to the things you can do with those succulent bits scraped off the bone! Sandwiches for a picnic supper, salad for your club luncheon, chicken a la king, with a touch of green and red pep per from your garden, and a few mushrooms from your store. Or that delight to the whole family, chicken pot pie'with your left over vegetables added. DUTCH TREAT Or did you ever try chicken scrapple? This Pennsylvania Dutch treat can be made with chicken flavor just as well as with the more expensive—as of today—pork. This combination of chicken, broth and com meal in proper proportion makes a tasty and thrifty dish of many helpings. And what of that chicken of the field, rabbit, which your market has hung so temptingly out out in front? If you like white meat on your chicken, these young and ten der rabbits are for you. And with other meats climbing higher, rab bit comes into its own. Do you know that 85 per cent of the mil lions of pounds of domestic rabbit meat produced annually in the country comes from these young, fryer-size rabbits? Fried by the piece, or in salad, or with creole or other favorite sauces, rabbit will make a hit with your family, save your pocketbook, and answer that constant question, “What’ll we have for a change?” As to eggs, while prices are still high, there’s better news ahead. The department of agriculture re ports that 17% million more chick ens are now laying or expected to lay in the next few months than a year ago. So the egg prospect is good for the immediate future. Ash Tray, Cigarette Lighter Installed in Marine Planes WITH THE FIRST MARINE AIRCRAFT WING IN KOREA-To smoke or not to smoke has long been a question bothering Marine aviators, since their single-seat fighter-bombers had no facility for disposing of ashes. But now. Chance Vought, maker of the world-famous Corsair line, has solved the problem by install ing not only an ash tray, but also a cigarette lighter to help pilots soothe jaded nerves on the way home from a combat strike. The new cockpit fixture replaces the time-tested method of opening the canopy and allowing the slip stream to carry away ashes. At 325, Andy Divine Fears He Is Losing His Figure HOLLYWOOD — Andy Devine (weight, 325) is afraid that he is losing his figure. Rotund Andy has capitalized up on his heftiness in getting screen roles in westerns. He complains, however, that he is melting down. Riding or dieting never had too much effect on him, he declares, but a new picture, which requires him to appear in several square dance scenes is whittling him down. RURAL LIVING Writer Tells His City Friends Why He Likes It in the Country mm puzzle LAST WEEK'S ANSWER (Editor’s Note: The following arti cle, r, I Live in the Country” by Alan Devoe, was published in the Septem ber issue of Coronet magazine. It is reprinted here with the permission of that magazine.) By ALAN DEVOE JT IS QUITE CLEAR that most of ^ my city friends feel sorry for me. The reason is that I live in the country. While they pity, they also wonder, and this reveals itself in certain perpetual questions. What on earth do I find to do in the country? What is there to see? How do I fill my time? They feel sorry for me because I have no radio or television, and be cause 11 miles separate me from the post office. They speak with sympathy of how very “dull” my life must be, and marvel that I am content to “stagnate” here. I receive these commiserations with scorn. For I extract from this life of “isolation,” as my friends term it, a deep and endless de light. The house in which I live is very ancient and somewhat askew; but from this ancientness and crooked ness I derive continuous solace. Here in this tiny dining room the china dogs on top of the old pine corner-cupboard have watched three generations at their feeding; in the great spool-bed upstairs have occurred both births and deaths. There clings in these low-ceil- inged rooms — with their faded flowered wallpaper, their horsehair sofas, and wideboarded uneven floofs—an aura of the stalwart tran quillity, the hard-toiling patience, By INEZ GERHARD B LONDF4 Marion Marshall has her best role so far in “That’s My Boy,” starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, at Paramount, but she piled up an impressive list of credits at 20th Century-Fox be fore she left that studio. She was a model when 20th signed her, sent her to dramatic school for a year, then put her into “The Snake Pit”; after that came “Sitting Pretty,” “Apartment for Peggy,” “I Was a Male War Bride,” for which she spent six months in Europe, and others. It was the test she made MARION MARSHALL for “War Bride” that Hal Wallis saw; as soon as she began to free lance he signed her for her role in “That’s My Boy.” of that succession of homely Dutch men who were our predecessors. Near the middle of the last century, one of these Hollenbecks (for such was the name of the sturdy family which tenanted this homestead) de serted the plow for a life of seafar ing. When he was an old man, and had voyaged to every quarter of the globe, he came back to this house to eke out a living by mend ing stone walls. So much for the house. It is like that tattered sampler in the hay loft of our bam which reads, “Sweet Rest in Heaven,” and like the crooked path that untold thousands of footsteps have worn through the clover field to our well—a link with the simple, earthly lives of those good souls who are vanished. In every direction, as I look from my windows, are the green wooded hills, untenanted by living man. They, lie—these carved and molded masses of rugged earth—brooding in an ageless silence, baking their hummocked backs in the hot sum mer sun, shouldering the cold white weight of countless snows, existing eternal while the oaks and firs upon their slopes wither and die, and are born and live again through the passage of seasons. My friends who speak of “loneli ness” and "isolation” take no heed of the deep companionship of trees and rocks. Yet it is easy to discover, in lichen-covered boulders and in the cool smooth trunks of maples or the rough, fragrant trunks of firs, an essence of being with which it is very easy for a man to commune. These high hemlocks are my fel lows upon earth; together we face the elements, together struggle for sustenance, together are set upon by plagues and pestilences, together will return, when we die, to the eternal embracing earth of this planet. And it is possible for me to walk upon the black leaf mold in which these hemlocks have their roots and to draw from that contact a profound tranquillity of spirit. This relaxed contentment is a far better antidote for turmoil and vexation than my citjf friends can possibly receive in the diversions afforded them by the movies, the theater, the radio or television—of which they deplore my lack. 'PHIS COUNTRY life of mine, far from being barren of things to do and see, is crowded from day break until nightfall. My personal routine of eating, working, sleep ing, and performing chores is suf ficiently simple. But the details of the lives that surround mine and demand my attention—the lives of chipmunks and phoebes and wood chucks and of the very buttercups that grow profusely in our pasture —are so vastly absorbing as to re quire all my hours. It is inconceiv able that I could possibly be “bored,” even if I had nothing more to occupy me than the con templation of the meadow upon which I lock out as I write this. In such a rural district as that in which I live, neurosis is impossible. That sickly “turning inward” which makes wretches of city victims has no opportunity to enter here. All man’s thought and energy and time are taken here, as they Were in the beginning, in a constant coping with the problems presented by the earth and the elements. And living thus in daily contemplation of the vast swing and surge of the eternal cosmic machinery, man’s minor woes assume an utter insignificance. 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Wild sheep (Ind.) 40. Compass point (abbr.) 1 5" 3 4 s i b T 6 9 % to II 12 13 14 IS lb i a . IW i IV 20 VA 21 22 23 24 % 251 , 2b 21 % l 1 29 30 31 y/A y/A 32 3* 34 35 3b 37 T sfy % 33. 39 Y//, 40 1 41 e 42 THE FICTION CORNER EPICUREAN ERROR By Isabelle Snyder L AURA FENTON viewed the rut ted road dubiously. “Are you sure this is the road, Amy?” “Oh yes—‘third road on the left’— just as you wrote it in the notebook when MrS. Ed- 3 Minula wards told us -Minute about it ... a Fiction wonderful country -I home that serves food. Hurry, I’m starved. divine And it sounds so divine!” Laura turned the carefully-cared- for coupe into the narrow road, guiding it cautiously up the steep grade. Amy giggled like a girl. “It’s a good thing it isn’t much farther, Laura. I’m starved!” Laura smiled gently at the exag gerated speech of her flighty friend who refused to grow old, graceful ly or otherwise. “I believe the food will be worth the long drive off our main route. Mrs. Edwards is most discriminating.” “There's the place,” an nounced Amy coughing from the thick Just. “Just look at all the cars In the yard—the food must be wonderful.” Laura turned the coupe into the crowded farm yard and carefully selected an ample parking spot. . Amy pouted, ‘The food may be perfect but we’ll have to wait ages to get in—just look at all those others waiting!” She bounced from the car like a child and stood im patiently while Laura fastidiously changed driving gloves for fresh white ones before leaving the car primly. “Goodness, Amy Bowen, straight en your hat,” Laura scolded as they walked to the house. “It seems strange that they don’t have a sign on the road or out front,” she com- GRASSROOTS Republicans Must Woo Dixiecrals to Win in 1952 By Wright A. Patterson A S A MEANS of stealing the show from their oppenents in the 1952 presidential campaign the Republicans should insert* state rights as a major plank in their platform, so stated as to leave no possibility of its being misunder stood or misinterpreted. To be effective it cannot be expressed in political weasel words, one of those “heads I win, tails you lose” kinds of statements that can be twisted to meet whatever occasion may present. It must be as explicit in its meaning as were those of Thomas Jefferson, the father and patron saint of the Demo cratic party, and the original states’ righter. Every piece of Fair Deal legis lation the President has been able to force through congress has taken something away from the consti tutional rights of the states, and something from the liberties of the people. All of the Fair Deal legislation the President is so insistently demanding that congress enact is of the same anti-state rights character. Each bill, should it become the law of the land, would take away some rights that are now enjoyed by the states under the provisions of the constitution, some things on which the states now have the say-so. At its convention, the Demo cratic party must either approve cur condemn the actions of the Democratic administration. If it endorses such policies, it is ap proving a limitation of the constitu tional rights of the states. That would be objectionable to the mem bers of the party in the southern states. With the Republicans propos ing to protect the rights of the states it would give the Dixie- crats a place to which they could turn, and might result in the Republicans carrying some of the Southern states as did Herbert Hoover. The Republicans have joined with the southern Dixiecrats in opposing the anti-states rights leg islation the President has asked for, and the adoption of such a plank would be but an endorsement of the party’s policies during the last two sessions of congress. The party, as such, must either endorse such actions, or apologize for them. The opportunity the situation pre sents for a "squeeze play’ would seem to have been made to order for the Republicans. Will they improve it, or will they "muff” it as not needed to win that 1952 political battle? Undoubtedly a strong states’ right plank in the Republican plat form would insure some Demo cratic votes for Republican candi dates in many states. * Thanks to the brilliant mili tary mind of the late Admiral Sherman, at the time chief of naval operations, and to his ability In the field of diplomacy. despite the pettiness of England and France, fearful that Franco might fall heir to some of the funds that would otherwise go for their rearmament, we have added to the defense of Europe a practically impregnable bat tle line in the Pyrenees moun tains and Spanish divisions to man them, for which Eisen hower will be thaWful. It will prove of enormous value in the job to which he has been as signed. There was certainly no reason why we should listen to the preju diced protests of England and France. We are paying a large portion of the bill for their defense and providing a considerable por tion of the armed manpower to defeat Stalin and his Communistic hordes. England and France, being much nearer and more vulnerable, have much more to fear from the threat ened Russian attack than have we, but those protests, based on the hates of many years standing, is an evidence of the impossibility of achieving the altruistic aims of the United Nations so long as those hates continue. If England and France cannot rise above their petty prejudices, the United Nations might as well call off its efforts for world pacifi cation. We are indebted to Admiral Sherman for ignoring those preju dices and adding to the defenses of Europe, for which we have assumed responsibility. It was a fine job, well done, and at an opportune time. “Oh, outside, please,” an swered Amy warmly. “It’s much too nice a day to stay inside.” mented as they ascended the steps to the veranda where other people already waited. T HEY were greeted by an unsmil ing woman in black. “Would you care to come inside or will you wait here on the porch?” “Oh, outside, please,” answered Amy warmly. “It’s much too nice a day to stay inside.” She continued tb chatter of the weather and the lovely view while they found chairs in the shade. Then she turned to the woman next her. “Isn’t this a love ly place?” she asked enthusiasti cally. Her enthusion apparently was not transmitted by her speech. In fact, Amy had the peculiar sensa tion that comes to one who has committed a grave social error. The woman murmered something polite and turned away but Amy was not to be denied. “I’m Amy Bowen and this is my friend, Laura Fenton. We are school teachers from over in Ohio,” she said. The woman locked at them in a pugzzled * way, acknowledged the introductions briefly and changed her place. “Well, really!” Amy said in dis gust before turning to Laura to say in a whisper, “Where do you sup pose they feed folks, Laura? I don’t smell any food nor hear any dishes.” Laura answered quietly, “Don’t fret so, Amy. There are so many flowers around that you couldn’t smell food.” Amy squirmed around in her chair, peering curiously into the house. “Goodness,” she said, “the place is banked with flowers.” “Oh,” she gasped, turning an odd greenish white. “Laura, I’m going to be sick,” she cried. Laura moved quickly, grasp ing the smaller woman by the arm to help her to the car. As they passed the open door, Laura r glanced inside, then stifled a cry with a white-gloved hand. Reality had arrived with abrupt suddenness. Not till the two women were safe ly in the car and ready to turn onto the paved highway did either speak. Amy wailed, “Oh, Laura, that hor rible place! We’ll never live this down.” Laura stopped the ear and looked at the directions in the notebook. “ Third road on right,’ ” she read. She turned to her stricken compan ion. “Amy Bowen,” she said stern ly, “maybe this will teach you tc read the directions as they are writ ten and to follow them carefully The idea of taking us to a funeri instead of a restaurant!” Legumes, Fertilizer Re-Build Worn Field Most Soil Will Produce If Cared for Properly The teamwork of legumes, grass es and plenty of fertilizer made the difference between these two fields in Huntington County, Indiana, points out the middle west soil im provement committee. The barren field in the upper photo had 6 feet of soil removed at the deepest point for road fill. It had no soil care, no fertilizer. Aft er three years the field is still badly eroded, criss-crossed with gullies 2 to 3 feet deep. The lower field located on- Nor man Thompson’s farm near Hunt ington, had 8 feet of soil removed Sliliiliiif The above fields are exam ples of what can be done to build eoil even on the most bar ren, eroded’ fields. Given proper plant food and plenty of it, plus legume-grass mixture, most soil can be made to produce. from a hilltop, for road fill. As soon as the soil was carted off, Thompson added heavy applications of fertilizer carrying nitrogen, phos phate and potash. Altogether, he used the equivalent of 600 pounds of plant food per acre—approxi mately 250 pounds of 3-12-12 and 350 pounds of 0-20-0. No lime was needed, as the subsoil is almost neutral. Thompson seeded bluegrass and some ladino and red clover. The roots anchored wx»ll and soon built up a protective growth that yields good forage. Volunteer white clo ver has come in to add to the pas ture. Now Thompson uses the field for night pasture. Stocks of Feed Grains Relatively High in June The bureau of agricultural eco nomics reports relatively large stocks of all feed grains in storage in July. Disappearance in the April- June quarter was larger than in most years for com, but about us ual for oats. It was the heaviest on record for barley. Approximately 1,270 million bush els of v corn were in storage as of July 1, 11 per cent less than on July 1, 1950. Oats stocks of 298 million bushels are the largest car ry-over of record by a small mar gin. The off-farm portion of pearly 34 million bushels is largest of rec ord also. Barley stock of 93 million bushels are a slightly larger carry-over than average, with the off-farm por tion of 53 million bushels. Toolbox on Wheels >*hm.i.hii i*>i 1 111 •' A practical idea for most farmers is the toolbox on wheels. Made of light-weight iron sheets, the drawers can slide on angle-iron channels and store a complete set of hand tools. The handles can be made to fold down when not being moved wheelbarrow fashion. Coaster-wagon wheels will serve the purpose. With a little plan ning the average farmer can build it easily. The above draw ing is a good start on the plans. Experts See Good Future For Nation's Dairy Farms Dairying looks profitable fpr the years ahead, dairy experts believe. They list six reasons: (1) Increased population; (2) higher incomes for the average working man; (3) peo ple are living longer; (4) high meat prices which are reflected in higher prices for dairy cows and veal; (5) increased use of dairy products; and (6) the greater stress being placed on the use of milk and milk products. Out Of The Mail Dear Mr. Rhody: I was greatly interested in your article on the ability of fish to see and distinguish be tween colors. Here at the Cortland Line Company in Cortland, N. Y. we hold similar views and after considerable research, both In the laboratory and in the field, we created a CAM-O-FLAGE line which we feel is less visiMe to the fish titan the traditional black casting line. This line changes color every foot or so and you’ll find In it all the col ors commonly found in ocean, lake, stream or pond. By snip ping just a bit off the end, the fisherman can match the color of most any water he encount ers. When he ties this end to Ids'bait or plug, it appears to be swimming free, unattached to any line. Does It work? Well, this season fishermen bought 35,606,066 yds. of Cortland CAM-O-FLAGE and every mall brings enthusiastic letters from successful users. That’s a pretty good indication that it works and that fish can dis tinguish between colors. Glad to be able to support your theory on this. We aP ways look forward with a great deal of interest to seeing the latest isgue of SPORTSMAN’S HORIZON. Yours very truly, CORTLAND LINE CO., INC. R. F. JENNINGS Public Relations Director AAA Canning Timetable Best Ways Often the angler will attempt to determine what kinds of fish live in his favorite stream or lake. He makes his decisions upon angling methods. It may sound strange, but the rod and line are among the poorest methods of finding out how many or kinds ,of fish exist in a stream or lake. The fishery biologist' keeps records on anglers’ catches, known as creel censuses; however, in addition to this he uses certain tools and methods which prove to be better in ascertaining what fish exist. The common methods are: draining a pond or stream, use of chemicals, seining, trapping and electrical shockers. By these meth ods, actual counts and weights of fish found in the water can be made. Often we surprise anglers by showing “new” species in their favorite holes, or greater numbers than he suspects. On other occa sions , we can show that non-game species of fish are more abundant than the game fishes he seeks. Some say that public relations provides the answer to better fish ing. I don’t agree with this. Study of the fish in a stream or lake is the job to be done. Research is im portant in industry. It is necessary in the living world—our fish and game resources. The big job in fish management of streams is find ing the answer to how to manipu late fish populations to make game fishes produce heavily and grow faster. Research and investigation will eventually find the answer. AAA The wombat, called the Australian badger, has a pouch like a kangaroo, the internal anatomy of a beaver and the habits of a rodent. Natives say it can easily cross a river by walking on the bottom. AAA •Taint So/ It has generally been accepted as a fact that fawn deer carry no odor —an act of nature to protect them from predators. Statements to this effect have found their way into print on numerous occasions. This, however, isn’t so, according to ex periences of field men of the Utah State Fish and Game Department. In the spring of 1950 WaUace Jen sen, assistant Federal aid leader for the Utah state fish and game department was assigned the task of tagging numerous fawn. After several days in the mountains re sulting in almost total failure, he returned very discouraged and solicited the aid of his trusty dog— a cross between a collie and an English setter. Returning to the hills Jensen was lucky inasmuch as he found a newly born fawn lying low in its hiding place. The dog watched with great interest while Wally placed a tag in the fawn’s ear and then released it A few moments later another fawn, a little older, was flushed. The dog promptly took after it and very carefully taking hold of it pulled it to the ground and held his front paws on top of it AAA First 'Scope Rod Know how the first telescope rod came into being? Well, the story is that a cagey Connecticut mechanic who wanted to fish on Sunday without bringing down the wrath of his righteous neighbors, invented a rod with sec tions that would telescope. He fig ured that a rod of this type would be easy to hide by slipping it down one leg of his pants. 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