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CHRISTMAS TREE INDOORS SOME 400 YEARS
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AGAIN ON CHRISTMAS MORN
Entire Family Helps
With Preparations
For the Holiday
Why not make this a real Christ
mas by having the entire family
help in preparing for the great holi
day? Follow the suggestions below
and you may be amazed at the fam
ily solidarity shown around the
Yuletide feast table.
First of all, getting the tree. This
is an assignment that should fall
to the younger members of the
family. Going to the woods is the
American tradition, and there is a
special thrill in bringing in a tree
of one's choice. City dwellers, how
ever, have to buy their tree, so be
sure to let the youngsters be able
to say, 1 “We chose the tree.”
Decorating the home is a project
that will offer jobs and fun for alL
Arrange a nativity scene, decorate
the doorways and windows, and,
if there are any sick members of
the family, decorate a small tree
for the bedside. But, work together.
Then, have a party, complete
with games, dancing, caroling, re
freshments and the exchanging of
presents. The exchange of gifts
should be well planned, so that no
member of the family is slighted.
Drawing names from a hat is an
old custom in many large families.
Strive also to add some extra enter
tainment. If a member of the clan
can sing well, or dance, a solo per
formance should be a highlight.
Finally, after the party is well
under way, call everything to a
halt and give each member of the
family a pencil and piece of paper,
asking them to write in 25 or less
words, “What Christmas Means to
Me." You may be surprised at the
answers turned in by some. Faith
and sincerity may be found where
you least expect it.
Old toys, adorned with a fresh
coating of paint might make a
wonderful gift for the very young.
You can make an attractive apron
gift that would be appreciated by a
young housekeeper from a feed or
flour sack.
Just how old is Santa Claus? That
is a question that parents are
called upon to answer often and it is
one that is extremely hard to an
swer. Like everything else related
to Christmas tradition, there is a
wide difference of opinion.
The idea of Santa goes back to
Europe, hundreds of years ago.
Santa came to life from legends
that followed the great St. Nicholas,
Bishop of Myra. He adopted dif
ferent forms as suited to the dif
ferent countries, but was mostly
pictured as a thin, austere man with
a long white beard.
The age of Santa, as American
^children know him, can be almost
definitely ascertained. The plump,
smiling and jolly fellow is 88 years
old this Christmas.
Thomas Nast, an American car
toonist, drew the now familiar form
of Santa in 1863 to illustrate a book
of Christmas poems by J. M. Greg
ory. For the first time in his un
known life span, Santa appeared to
have a full stomach under his red
suit and a jolly smile on his face. It
might well be said that his Ameri
can life began in that year.
Early Puritans Frowned
On Christmas Festivities
The early Puritans looked with
disfavor upon the celebration of
Christmas, preferring instead their
own adopted celebration of Thanks
giving.
It was thus that in the year 1659
the general court of Massachusetts
made a decree that would have
startling effect in. America today.
It read: “Anybody who is found
observing, by abstinence from labor,
feasting or any other way such day
as Christmas Day for each and
every offense shall be fined five
shillings."
A CHILD IS BORN
Sing forth the honor of bis name
THE OLD AND THE NEW
Visitor Finds Two Worlds in Jerusalem
Palestinian merchants still cre
ate a scene reminiscent of the
three wise men as they carry their
wares along the desert sands bor
dering the blue Mediterranean near
ancient Tel Aviv. Their camels,
laden with wares, remind one of
the gifts the Magi brought to the
scene of the Nativity.
Teday, the visitor finds two
Jerusalems. One is the modern city
with street cars, hotels and auto*
mobiles; the other the old walled
city with narrow streets passing
through many graceful archways
and mounting from one level to
another by well - worn steps.
Donkeys and camels are the only
means of transportation, and the
section is little changed since the
time Christ lived there. Life is
much the same.
Small Town Utility
Serves Farm Folks
Gas Made Available
To Farms for First Time
The farm folks within 20 miles
of Antigo, Wis., have gone in for
gas in a big way. This new inter
est of farm folks in heating and
cooking with gas started over a
year ago with the reorganization of
Antigo’s City Gas company.
The Antigo utility which manu
factured gas from oil, coke and
steam converted its plant to “pro
pane-air" gas and offered service
Mrs. Dale Madison, a rural
homemaker, has converted he?
kitchen to gas, and reports it
gives her more freedom from
kitchen duties.
to farm homes and rural firms
within a radius of 20 miles.
The new rural, customers have
their own “backyard utility" in the
form of storage tanks for large
users and “bottled” installations
for homes with smaller consump
tion.
Because they are a part of the
Antigo utility system, country cus
tomers receive monthly fuel bill
just like the town. Fuel consump
tion is recorded on a meter at
tached to their cylinders or tanks.
Bad weather can’t interrupt serv
ice, since a sufficient supply is
stored on the premises in advance
of use. Empty cylinders are peri
odically replaced by company serv
ice men.
Since the reorganization, rates
have been reduced for town and
farm users three times.
Contour Farming Cuts
Soil Losses in Half
Iowa agronomists report that
contour farming cuts soil losses in
half, boosts corn yields as much
as 7.4 bushels per acre and ups
soybean production by 2.7 bushels.
Other advantages from contour
farming include lower fuel and op
erating costs for tractors and other
machinery and an increase in the
length of corn rows.
The need for more contour cul
tivation will increase with the
steadily expanding acreage of row
crops to meet the nation’s food
needs.
Whila contouring is a vital step
in keeping soil at home, other soil
building measures are needed to
keep farm land at high yielding
levels. Every crop burns up organ
ic matter and uses up plant nu
trients. The organic matter can
be replenished by growing well-
fertilized deep-rooted legumes reg
ularly In the rotation and by re
turning manure and crop residues
to the soil.
Safety Plus
A new safety ping has bees
developed that should be of
Interest to most farmers. It has
a tiny replaceable fuse. Elec
trical cords are connected to
the plug exactly as they are
connected to the wall socket It
self. The fuse blows out should
a short circuit develop In any
connected cord. This prevents
current from reaching the dan
ger point. Instantly catting off
the source of fire.
Nebraska Farmers Paid
High Cost for Com Crop
Nebraska farmers paid with- two
lives, 194 fingers, 18 hands, 10
arms, one leg, four toes and two
feet in gathering approximately
225 million bushels of com. That
is last year’s accident record.
Failure to stop the compicker be
fore trying to remove the stoppage
of the machine accounted for al
most every accident. Farmers
should discuss safety problems with
their harvest crews.
FREAK SQUEAKS
Driving Dog Tops 195Ts List
Of Unusual, Wacky Accidents
Do you ever have the feeling that
things in this good oft U.S.A. may
just possibly be a little wacky?
Well, take it from the National
Safety Council—you’re right!
The Council has just completed
its annual roundup of odd acci
dents, and dazedly reports some
mighty queer goings-on in the field
of freak squeaks.
A dog who’s a hot rod driver . . .
a fish that caught a fisherman . . .
an airplane that crashed a red traf
fic light ... a horse and wagon
that collided with a sailboat . « .
a garden rake that shot the raker
—these and many other dizzy do
ings indicate that things have been
slightly screwy in 1951.
The pooch who pined to drive a
hot rod was riding in a truck with
* By INEZ GERHARD
T ONY MARTIN’S singing career
really began when, at the age
of 18, he was caught by a faculty
member at Saint "Mary’s College,
Moraga, Calif., playing jazz on the
chapel organ. The teacher sug
gested that he concentrate on
music. He did, and met with noth
ing but disappointment until 1936
changed his luck. That year he
made several musicals for 20th
Century-Fox and landed the sing
ing spot on CBS Radio’s “Bums
and Allen Show." He is currently
TONY MARTIN
starred with Jo Stafford on CBS’s
“Carnation Contented Hour”; his
latest picture is RKO’s “Two
Tickets to Broadway.” And he’s
had two terrific engagements at
London’s famous Palladium.
Denise Darcel will find herself in
lively company in her new assign
ment; Universal-International has
signed her for the feminine lead
opposite Abbott and Costello, as an
Alaskan dance hall entertainer in
“The Sourdoughs."
People die in nnnsnal and
amazing ways In “Across the
Wide Missonri"; trappers, hunt
ers and Indians crowd the
screen, there's never a dull
moment. Clark Gable heads a
fine cast; Adolphe Menjou gives
a superb performance — bat
then, so does everyone else,
from John Hodlak to Frankie
Darro. This is a fine Western,
with no cute blondes to clutter
up the story.
„ Dinah Shore is plugging a new
song, “You Gotta Show Me,” which
has been recorded by Bing Crosby.
his master, William C. Hollis of
Denver. As Mr. Hollis drove through
Topeka, Kap., at a prudentpace the
dog stirred impatiently, reached
over and planted a heavy paw on
the accelerator. The truck leaped
forward, went out of control, col
lided with a passenger car. Four
persons were injured. The dog
hasn’t driven since.
Police in Miami, Fla., are used
to seeing all kinds of traffic on busy
U. S. Highway 1 during the tourist
season. But even they were startled
when Robert Simmons, of Dayton, ■
Ohio, landed his airplane on the
highway one August afternoon,
roUed through a red traffic light
and nudged a truck before he
stopped. Simmons had been forced
down by carburetor trouble. Nobody
was hurt. No traffic ticket.
In Chicago a sailboat got on the
wrong tack and collided with a
horse and wagon driven by Ran
dolph Johnson, a non-nautical pilot
who found himself a little at sea’
when confronted by a boat travel
ing along a busy street on a trail
er. Damage to the boat was $500.
The land forces suffered no casual
ties.
Many a tired and perspiring
gardener has moaned “I’m shot!"
as he finished his raking. But Lin
coln Stewart, of Columbus, Ohio,
really meant it. He was raking
trash in a\ dump when the rake
struck and discharged a bullet in
the trash. Stewart was shot in
the ankle.
And all of us who have greeted
a new day by groaning, “I feel
like I’ve been run over by a steam
roller,’’ can get a first-hand report
on the feeling from eigjit-year-old
Stanley Willoughby, of Portland,
Ore., who actually underwent the
experience. Fascinated by a three-
ton roller, Stanley grabbed on to
a pipe at its back and walked along
as it rolled. Suddenly the roller
backed up. It knocked Stanley
down, passed over his legs and hip.
and imbedded him neatly into the
hot, soft asphalt. He was injured
only slightly.
TO SKEPTICS who believe chiv
alry is dead, here is a note of
comfort: Cab Driver James-Deeds,
of Des Moines, la., gave up his
seat for a lady—and did it the
hard way. Helping a fair passenger
unload a big sack of groceries
from his cab. Deeds backed into a
passing car, felt a draft, looked
up in time to see the seat of his
pants disappearing down the street
on the door handle of the offending 1
auto. /
And in Boston, Mrs. Catherine
Meenan was injured in an auto
mobile accident as she sat in her
second floor apartment. In the
street below, a car had struck a
pedestrian, knocked off his shoe,
hurled it 25 feet through the open
window of Mrs. Meenan’s living
roqpi. It hit her on the head, in
flicting scalp Wounds.
Yes, it looks like good old 1951
was a little goofy in spots. But, as
the saying goes, aren’t we all!
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THE
FICTION
CORNER
AVALANCHE
By Rithard Hill Wilkinson
HE landslide occurred on March
8. It was the evening before that
Lorelei and Stan quarreled. The real
cause of the quarrel was Inez Thay
er, Deke Whitman’s stepdaughter.
Deke was the
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mine superintend
ent, and Inez had
come to spend a
couple o f weeks
with him.
Inez was disappointed in the
place. She had always thought of
Arizona as a land of desert. Warm.
Romantic. Nobody had told her that
there were mountains in Arizona
and that up in those mountains the
temperature in March got well down
below the freezing point.
She probably wouldn’t have
remained a week if it hadn't
been for Stan Seymour. Stan
was a young engineer. Inez took
one look at him and decided to
stay.
A woman in love sees many things
that others let pass by unnoticed.
Lorelei, who was the daughter of
Jim Tristram, the mine foreman,
had been in love with Stan since the
day he arrived six months before,
and he with her. Their love was un
spoken, but it lay between them like
a tangible thing.
Lorelei was glad now that neither
had put into words the thing that
both had felt, for now there need be
no explaining or embarrassments.
Some day, she knew, the hurt that
grew inside of her as she watched
Stan yield to the polished charm of
Inez Thayer would fade and vanish.
So on the evening of "March ,7
Lorelei and Stan quarreled. And
each knew that Inefe was the cause
of the quarrel, though both pretend
ed it was over the matter of holding
the annual spring dance in Redstone
this year instead of at the mine.
GRASSROOTS
Is DuPont Really a Monopoly or Just Too Large!
By Wright A. Patterson
F OR SEVERAL YEARS an effort
has been made to secure legisla
tion that would provide for a na
tional science foundation through
which the top notch scientists could
work at fundamental scientific dis^
coveries. Last year the long de
sired legislation was passed.
As the bill was introduced, it pro
vided an appropriation of 14 million
dollars from which to provide com
pensation for the scientists, labora
tories in which they could work,
and materials with which to work.
But in one of those rare economy
spurts, the house appropriations
^committee, Clarence Cannon, Dem.,
Missouri, chairman, cut that 14 mil
lion down to $300,000, a sum entirely
too meagre with which to start such
* foundation, and nothing has hap
pened because of that legislation.
In the DuPont hotel In Wilming
ton, DeL there is a display window
in which are shown hundreds of
those things which the scientific re
search of the DuPont laboratories,
and the top notch scientists whose
time and ability are at its disposal,
have made possible. That company
spends something like 20 million
dollars ft year on scientific re
search.
From their unhampered research,
there has come the commodities
that are shown in that display win
dow in Wilmington, a window be
fore which I have stood many times
to wonder at the accomplishments
of this one company in providing
hundreds of different things for the
convenience and pleasure of the peo
ple of the world.
They make use of wastes that
have been deemed valueless; they
provide new industries that give
employment to millions of workers;
they increase American sales to
the extent of millions, even billions,
of dollars each year. And because
of that Increased business, the gov
ernment collects a considerable
portion of the nations* taxes.
When the government wanted an
A-bomb, it perfected its own or
ganization, and spent billions of
dollars on the project. Now the gov
ernment wants an H-bomb, it turns
to the DuPont company and its
corps of scientists, working in Du
Pont laboratories with DuPont equip
ment and materials, to produce that
more terrible, more destructive
implement of warfare through which
to insure our success against the
Red hordes of communism. Wheth
er or not those DuPont scientists
will be able to construct such a
bomb and the methods of exploding
it, only time will tell, but if it can
be done they will do it.
Now the attorney general says
the DuPont Company is too big for
the good of the nation, and has
brought suit to break it up into
small pieces so it would not be able
to do for the government the things
a congress refused to do for us.
DuPont is a concern that has pro
vided the munitions needed in prac
tically every war in which we have
engaged; a company that through
its scientific research has provided
millions of jobs for American work
ers; that has turned the wastes of
mine, field and forests into com
modities of value; a company that
has added billions to America’s
sales, from which the government
collects a large portion of the na
tion’s taxes; a company that can
do for the government, if it can be
done, what the -government is not
prepared to do for itself.
It might be well for the attorney
general to study, as I have, that
display in the' window of the Du
Pont hotel In Wilmington. From it
he would probably get a new Idea
of the value of this too-big company,
and what it, and others like it, mean
to America.
DuPont is but one of a number
)f concerns that maintain exten
sive research departments into
which they pour vast sums. From
these laboratories come increased
production, increased jobs, that
240-billion-dollars annual business
from which the President insistent
ly demands a federal government
tax return of 70 billion dollars. It
takes ft too-big concern to stand
the drain the government places
upon business. Breaking them into
small pieces would be but killing
the goose that lays the golden eggs.
*■—
If Wheeler McMillen, editor of
the Farm Journal and the Path
finder, could be chairman of the
agricultural committee of either the
senate or the house, he would find
a practical solution of the vexing
farm problem.
*
Creeping socialism in America
has become running socialism.
“Help me!" the cried. And
turned desperate eyes toward
Inez.
I T pras warm that night of March
7. Unnaturally warm. The heavy
snows atop the mountain range
against the base of which the mine
buildings nestled began to melt, and
on the morning of March 8 they be
gan to move, slipping down the
mountain, loosening tons of earth
and ice and rock.
Lorelei was coming up from the
rural delivery postoffice box with
the mail. She heard the ominous
roar and stopped. A moment before
she had seen Stan and Inez enter
the tiny engineer's field office, and,
without thinking she started running
toward it, shouting at the top of her
lungs.
Med appeared from other build
ings and took up the cry, and before
long a great crowd was racing down
the valley road out of the path of
the onrushing avalanche.
But Stan and Inez didn't appear
in the doorway of the engineer's
office and Lorelei kept on running,
screaming. Above the office was a
sharp outcropping of rock. When the
avalanche hit this it divided, and
stones and earth were catapulted
into space over the building.
Lorelei had pushed open the door
when this happened. She glimpsed
Inez in Stan’s arms. Then a falling
timber crashed toward them and
she screamed. Stan .pushed Inez
away from him, and almost got
clear himself, but ft grazed his
shoulder and knocked him flat.
For a moment Lorelei stood trans
fixed. Then she leaped forward and
began prying at the timber. “Help
me!" she cried. And she turned
desperate eyes toward Inez.
At the door, Inez turned. Her
face was white. “Don't be a
fool!" she shrieked. “Save year-
self!" Then the roar and crash
became louder, drowning oat
her words. The first avalanche
had started a second.
Inez flung open the door and
rushed outside. Stan pulled Lorelei
down beside him and yelled into her
ear: “Go on! You've still got a
chance. You can’t save me!" But
she only stared at him in horror.
Then she began picking up timbers
and propping them in a sort of lean-
to against the one undamaged wall,
sheltering them.
Rescue crews came in and were
amazed to find the two alive. They
pried Stan loose and carried him
away on a stretcher. One of his legs
was broken.
When he came out of the ether.
Lorelei was beside his bed. She
smiled and said, “She’s safe. She
got clear and escaped without a
bruise.”
He looked at her and said noth
ing. Then he took her hand and
drew her down close to him. “It’s
more important that you’re safe—.”
Travellers
Bobolinks migrate from Canada
as far south as Paraguay. •
Dirty Monday?
On an Atlantic City night-club
marquee; “Good, Clean Enter
tainment—Every Night Ebccept
Monday."
It's so easy
and stuffiness of colds in a
hurry this home-proved
Just breathe fit the steam!
Every single breath carries
VapoRub's soothing medi
cations deep into throat and
large bronchial tubes. It
medicates firrltated mem
branes, helps restore normal
breathing. For coughs or
r bronchial congestion
j’s nothing like using
Vicks VapoRub in steam.
For continued .relief al
ways rub it
on throat,
and
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FEEL YOUR BEST
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YOU*!.!, ALDUS FEND the folks
that learn te be pathfinders 'stead
o' fault-finders, are the ones that
seem the happiest and spread the
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