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FBIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1961
THE NEWBERRY SUN
ALL NEWBERRY
Is A Unit
Behind The Forward-Looking
Management
Of The
Kendall Company
Your Faith
In Our Community
Is Not Misplaced
THE MARKET BASKET
Gerald Paysinger Wilson Bennett
Newberrians Appreciate
The
Faith Shown
By
The Kendall Company
In Their City
Best Wishes
For Continued Growth
THE HOME FURNITURE CO.
“Dee” Summer
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEA2ER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
WATfcR COMES HIGH
Tiiey have just completed the
$lt>o million-dollar Big Thompson
i rans-Mountain Water Diversion
Project out in Colorado. I saw
it in July.
It has ueen under construction
lor a number oi years. It starts
with a IJ.l-nuie tunnel that
Drings a y-foot column ol water
irom the Taciiic side of the Con
tinental Divide under snow-cap
ped mountains to the eastern side
ot the Kockies. It goes through
several power houses, generating
a lot of current * and through
other smaller tunnels until it is
finally discharged in a large stor
age Dasin that will feed water in
to a natural river on this side,
as it is needed to extend irriga
tion from that, stream.
Water rights are what carry
value out there, not land. Band
with a high water priority is
very valuable. Similar land near-
oy with a low water priority has
rar less value. This new source
of watel’ will give vast areas ot
iow priority land, or lands in
range with no water priority at
ail, a Water priority that will en
able them to bloom with abundant
crops.
iroiks, it really takes a lot of
water when you begin to irrigate.
The past summer a few of our
streams that were pumped hard
lor irrigation practically dried up.
And 1 Know of one case where a
town objected to a farmer pump
ing out of a stream from which
its water came.
With a growing industrial and
power need for our seemingly
abundant water, we will soon
find that when this vast new
farming potential of irrigation
starts really tapping that water
too that we will need new laws,
we will need to store a lot of
water, and we will need to con
serve it.
it’s time for our leaders to be
thinking about this. Dr. Poole
has had a committee at Clemson
studying the whole subject of our
water resources for some years
now. In the legal field there is a
big job ahead too. For the old
riparian laws we inherited from
the English are out of date when
industry, municipalities, and agri
culture all start calling for that
water that has been allowed
to run its unobstructed course
to the sea since the beginning of
things.
I rode with many county agents
in the late summer and saw the
miracles that irrigation has
wrought here and ( there during
the past dry season. Those who
have it like it. Many others are
planning for it.
TOBACCO TROUBLES
Farmers who don’t have tobac
co hear of returns per acre and
are liable to feel that the tobacco
grower’s life is all roses.
But tobacco has its troubles
too. In addition to insects that
try to eat it up from the time it
comes up until it’s sold, it also
has a commanding array of
diseases. Listen to County Agent
King of Marion when he re
cites the ills that beset otbacco
this year.
“Disease and insect control
are becoming a major problem.
Serious losses have occured in
several fields due to rootknot
nematode, meadow nematode,
soreshine, blackshank, Granville
wilt, fusarium wilt, mosaic, hollow
stalk, and bacterial black stalk.”
And he goes on to say that
certain varieties of tobacco carry
resistance to one or more of
these troubles. But with that
many diseases to contend with,
the tobacco farmer has to be ever
vigilant to stay in the business.
Clemson’s Florence Station does
extensive work ^on tobacco variet
ies, insects, diseases, curing
methods, etc. And J. M. Lewis,
our extension tobacco specialist,
works closely with them and
carries the latest things to the
field and demonstrates them
through the county agents on the
local farms. Thus the latest
things of science reach the tobac
co field.
IMPROVING HOGS
As we grow more hogs on a
farm, the necessity for sanitation
grows. Losses from internal and
external insects take a great
toll. Often they do not kill, but
they cause loss of thriftiness and
ruin parts of the hog at killing
time.
W. J. Huntley, extension live
stock specialist, works with coun
ty agents in supervising farm
demonstrations in grazing ro
tations and general sanitation
methods designed to produce
cleaner hogs. In Williamsburg
county. County Agent Jackson has
two such demonstrations under
way on the farms of W. C. Brown
and J. B. Crooks. A total of 95
pigs are involved in these two
demonstrations. Farrowed on
clean ground, and carried through
on clean grazing, £hey will be
followed on to the packing house
where results can be observed.
Loss of livers and other parts
of the hogs caused by worms is,
in the last analysis, a farm loss.
For those things are reflected
in the price that the packer pays.
Georges
Radio Shop
At corner of Floyd and Graves
“Expert Workmanship, Prompt
Service Guaranteed'*
Residence Phone 1271>l
GEORGE R. SUMMER, Owner
TAX NOTICE
U. S. to Hava Five Million
Mora Oldsters by 1975
The number of persons 65 and
older in the United States v ill in
crease from the present 12V* mil
lion to between 17 and 20 million
by 1975.
Philip Hauser, professor of soci
ology at the University of Chicago,
made this prediction today in ad
dressing Northwestern University’s
Centennial conference on “Prob
lems of an Aging Population.”
Dr. Hauser’s talk was filled with
significant statistics pertaining to
the aging of the population in the
United States. Here are some qf
the facts he reported:
In 1950, the average person in
the U.S. was over 30; in 1790 the
average was about 16.
In 1850, 4.1 per cent of all peo-
ple In the U.S. were 60 or older; by
,1900, the percentage had increased
to 6.^{ by 1947 it was 11.6.
Death rates have been declining
'for at least as long as any records
iare available. In 1850, expectation
;Of life at birth was 38.3 years for
iwhite males in Massachusetts; by
11900 it had increased to 44.3 and
by 1940 to 63.3.
For the original registration
'states in 1900, life expectation for
'white males was 48.2. By 1948 life
expectancy for white males in the
V. S. had increased to 85.5 years.
Between 1850 and the present, ex
pectation of life at birth has in
creased by about 27 years for white
males. For white women, the in
crease has been 30 years—an In
crease of about 70 percent In av
erage longevity.
The most phenomenal declines
in mortality have occurred in in
fant mortality and through con-
quering of infectious diseases. As
,a result, expectation of life has not
increased uniformly at all ages of
the population.
In the first half of this century,
'while the expectation of life at
I birth for white males increased by
over 17 years, expectation of life
for those at age 20 increased by
iless than seven years, at age 40
by three years, and at age 65 by
'only one year.
The tax, books will be open for the collection of 1951 taxes on and
after October 1, 1951, with the exception of Pomaria District 6 and
Little Mountain District 6, which will be opened October 10th, 1961
The following is general levy for all except special purposes:
Ordinary County 9% Mills
Bonds, Notes and Interest 6 Mills
Hospital s " 14 Mill
Co. Bd of Education 1 ~ Mill
TOTAL 17 Mills
The following are the authorized special levies for the various
school districts of the
county together
with the
general
levy:
General
School
School
Total
District No.
Tax Levy Spec. Levy
Bonds
Levy
t
Mills
Mills
Mills
Mills
1. Newberry
17
15
32
2. Silverstreet
17
16
4
36
3. Bush River
17
15
4
36
4. Whitmire
17
16 '
5
37
5. Pomaria
17
8
25
6. Little Mountain
17
15
2
34
7. Prosperity
17
16
6
37
There will be a discount of one (1%) percent allowed on Taxes
paid on or before October 31, 1951
On and after January 1st, 1952, the penalties prescribed by law
will be imposed on unpaid taxes.
You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts in which
the property is located.
Those who bad their dogs vaccinated for rabies during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1961 by a licensed Veterinarian, and expect to,
be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certificate of vac
cination when appearing to pay taxes.
J. Ray Dawkins
Treasurer of Newberry Co.
21-5 tc.
Safftr and Cheaper Water
Purifleation is Predieted
Safer, more economical fluorida
tion of municipal water supplies for
the prevention of dental decay is
promised by a self-policing new
chemical.
The new substance, called Flural,
is much less poisonous than the
fluoridating agents now in use, and
therefore ca& be handled by water
plant personnel with much lesa
danger, according to Dr. Wayne
E. White of the Ozark-Mahoning
Company, Tulsa, Okla. None of the
agents presents any hazard to the
water consumer. Dr. White empha
sized because they are so greatly
diluted by the time they past
through the reservoirs and eosne
out of the tap. ’
Flural is self-policing hi the sense
that it will release fluorine to the
water only so long as the concen
tration of the anti-dental-deeay ele
ment is below a certain safe maxi
mum, Dr. White explained. If the
water has a fluorine content of
more than about 1.5 parts per mil
lion, however, the Flural will re
verse its action and begin to re
move the fluorine, he said.
Flural, the chemist said, is a
fluorine-containing alum complex
which is readily soluble in water.
Its low toxicity is of great impor
tance to water plant personnel who
must handle large amounts of the
fluorine compounds.
Color and Fabriee
Fabrics and color take cm added
importance in this year's dual pur
pose sleep equipment Green
seem to take the lead in the raoc
for predominance in the color field,
with medium greens the moot pop
ular. Grays and reds are seemingly
battling for second place in the
color scheme, with browns, cocoas
and golds gaining favor rapidly.
Patterns also take on added im
portance. Bright or pastel plaids,
geometric and other modern de
signs, tweedy effects and florals
are vying for honors in the dual
purpose field, particularly for stu
dio couches and sofa beds. Plastics,
simulating alligator and other
leathers as well as textured fabrics
arc taking on new importance. With
the emphasis in homes being placed
on ranch type houses. Western
motifs are fast becoming'favorites.
Cowboy and covered wagon pat
terns are animating and carrying
out this style of architectural popu
larity. Dual purpose bedding has
always been able to fit into almost
any room of the house because of
its smartness of design. Now, how
ever, with its additional attraction
of extra selections in design and
color, it is in even more demand.
Doctors Increase
There were 209,040 physicians in
continental United States as of
December 15, 1950, an all-time high
record, according to the annual
medical licensure report of the
American Medical Association. The
report shewed there were 6,002 ad
ditions to the medical profession in
the United States and its possessions
last year. Against this there were
3,794 deaths, making a net gain of
2,206 in the physician populatftM.
Recommend Use of Penicillin
Ointment In Eyes of Newborn
Silver nitrate solution, the prep
aration now being used in the
eyes of newborn babies to prevent
infection, may be replaced by peni
cillin ointment, as the result of a
recent study. (Silver nitrate is re
quired by law in many states.)
Drs. H. H. Davidson and N. J.
Eastman and Sanitarian Justina H.
Hill of Baltimore, recommend that
penicillin ointment be used in the
eyes of newborn infants in prefer
ence to silver nitrate because, in
their opinion, it is “the most ef
ficacious, the safest and lerst irri
tative agent” for this purpose.
Dr. Davidson is on the staff of
Johns Hopkins University and Hos
pital and is also senior assistant
surgeon. United States Public
Health Service.
Laws requiring the use of silver
nitrate are a precautionary meas
ure to protect newborn babies from
gonococcus eye infection. Such an
infection — which can easily be
transmitted at birth to an infant
by a gonorrhea-infected mother—
could result in serious eye damage
or blindness.
The doctors expressed the opinion
that, where necessary, regulations
governing the use of silver nitrate
should be changed “to permit the
use of penicillin ointment in hospital
practice when the physician pre
fers it to silver nitrate.”
These recommendations come as
m result of their study of three dif
ferent methods of eye care at
Johns Hopkins Hospital—penicillin
ointment, penicillin intramuscular
injections, and silver nitrate. Each
method wax used in rotation for a
week at a time. During a two year
period, 4,163 infants were treated
with one of the three methods.
All three methods proved equally
effective in preventing gonococcal
infection, they reported, but the in
cidence of eye irritation varied
greatly.
Southwest Reserves of Raw
Materials Promise Growth
Hie vast raw material reserves
of the Southwest guarantee the re
gion's continued growth as a chemi
cal center, A. L. Burwell, industri
alist chemist for the Oklahoma
Geological Survey, Norman, Okla.,
has informed the American Chemi
cal Society.
Pointing out that the “giants”
of chemical industry for some
time have been building new plants
and expanding existing facilities in
the so-called West South Central
Census Area—Arkansas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, and Texas—Mr. Bur-
well said that among the several
factors responsible for this trend
the raw material supply is by far
the most important.
The Southwest produces 68 per
cent of the nation's crude petro
leum, and has proven reserves
equivalent to 70 per cent of the
United States total, he declared,
adding:
“The situation with, regard to
natural gas is only slightly differ
ent. The area produced over 4,255,-
000 gallons of natirfhl gas liquids
during the past year, representing
nearly 70 per cent of the nation’s
production, with proven reserves
remaining equivalent to over 80
per cent of the United States totaL
“To prove that the area’s 'eggs
are not all in one basket,’ attention
is directed to the 43,000,000 tons
of lignite that await a demand—to
the fact that this area produces
close to 100 per cent of the natural
sulfur—to the tremendous quanti
ties of salt occurring in salt domes,
in salt beds, and in subsurface
brines — to chemical grade lime
stone and dolomite—to trillions of
tons of gypsum—to highest quality
silica deposits—to ores of alumi
num, titanium, | iron, magnesium,
lead, zinc, barium, strontium, mer
cury and antimony.
Strippable
Hie important “strippable fhrisfa,"
used commercially, is seldom seen
by the public. When it is applied to
surface, it dries to form a finish
that can be peeled off when de-,
sired. Its use reduces labor, saves
time, and cuts costs in a wide range
of Industrial applications. Suck a
finish is used as protective mask
ing in connection with spray flop
ishing. In automobile reflnishtng,
for instance, the windows oan be
coated with a strippable finish.
After the job is finished, the coat
ing can be stripped from the win
dows, leaving them clear of any
unwanted spatters. Such finishes
are also used in the protectien of
parts or products in fabrication,
shipment or storage.
Houses and Barns Now Matoh
Many people have speculated on
the reason why barns were always
painted red in the old days. The
explanation,* according to paint ex-
perts, is that red paint was cheap
est and most easily obtained in
those days. These factors were im
portant as a barn absorbed a great
deal of paint because of its rough
surface. Nowadays other colors are
as inexpensive as red and the
planed siding of modern barns takes
paint just as easily as the clap
boards cf a house. Consequently,
most barsn are today painted with
the same material as the adjoining
house and in a color which match
es or harmonizes with it.
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To The Kendall Company
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One of the
Nation’s Finest
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