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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1952 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemaon Extension Information Specialist THB NEWBERRY BUN ■rt.-.vJ. Notable Points Seen FIRE WOOD I had a lesson in firewood dur ing the past Christmas season. We were all at home, with lit tle to do but enjoy ourselves and just sit and soak before a good fire. The hickory-logs had been cut the summer before and were dry. And so were the sour- wood thinnings we had taken from our wooded lot. But the oak had been cut just before and was green. That oak added greatly to thd charm of the fire, for it sang as it burned. And at late hour, when the chunks had burned low and the song had grown faint, it was still bewitching, and we lingered. For there was to be nd early tomorrow then. That dry sourwood burned about as briskly as pine, and it helped the oak, that would not burn on its own. And when we left it, the blackened chunks of oak were still there in the morn ing. But the dry hickory was different. No matter if a sizable log of it remained above the embers there on the andirons when we called it a day, it sim mered on, and had completely fallen into ashes when we arose. An open fire! Nothing can quite tak its place. Let the furance moderate the whole house. But for real coziness, it tofces the open fire to sit around, eat, and dream. I can’t think of the family circle around a dead and impersonal radiator or lat ticed vent in the wall. The open fire is a part of the winter scene. It has personality and can furnish companionship. It grows, it sings, it whistles, it varies, it changes. It consumes accumulated debris. It quickly warms chilled hands and toes when we come in from the out side. And its benevolent rays toast the taters and peanuts that are laid on the hearth. Yes, the open fire has no very satisfactory substitute. COTTON INSECT CONTROL The past year was favorable for the use of insect poisons on cotton. We experienced their most widespread use in our fields. Every county was well organized for it and few fields were missed. All of this surely helped our state lead the eastern states in cotton yield in 1951. This was our highest yield on record, 394 pounds per acre. Mac Sparks of the Clemson Ex tension Service will again head up the weevil fight in South Carolina. The authorities have again formulated their up-to-date recommendations for the coming season. They include directions for using a new poison or two, that late experiments proved ef fective, as well as the establish ed ones. Your county agent should have it shortly for you, if not already. TOBACCO Like everything else, the tobac co picture changes constantly. And most of this change in re cent years has been in our favor here in this part of the country. We grow bright flue-cured to bacco. It goes mostly into ciga rettes. And there is where a vast increase in consumption had occurred. Other major uses for tobacco have not grown in the past 30 years. In fact that going into cigars is down 21 percent. And that going into smoaking and chewing tobacco is down 59 per cent. But look at cigarettes. They are up 800 percent above the 1920 mark! And that figure is still growing fast. There is where we come in. A minor use, for snuff, is al so up a bit, 19 percent above 1920. But that doesn’t add up much. And, as a crop in South Caro lina, the importance of tobaccd has increased about as much as the use of cigarettes has. Not only has our acreage vastly ex panded, but Clemson’s Pee Dee Station at Florence has concen trated on tobacco research. The findings there, together with the better varieties that the breed ers have brought forth, have been .taken to the field and dem onstrated by the county agents on many farms. And, with acre age control during the past 18 years, farmers have been faster than usual in adopting the very latest know-how in producing higher yields of quality tobacco on their allotted acres. Our early tobacco specialist, H. A. McGee, was very instrumental in this, as is our present man, J. M. Lewis. He works out from District Agent J. T. Lazar’s office at Florence and is avail able to all tobacco growers ^through their county agents. PATRIOTISM I was riding in Central Mexico on their Independence Day back in November. Every town, village, and cross-road was bedecking it self for a celebration that night. Even away out in the parched cactus country, each little settle ment of mud huts by a water hole at least had a flag on a crude pole and some bright crepe, paper stretched • around. And that night in the small town where I stopped everyone for miles around turned out on the square to parade around and hear impassioned songs, speeches, and music and to see patriotic cos tume dances. It was over about 9 o’clock and the hundreds scat tered again to the darkness of the brush country or to their nearby town abodes from whence they came at dusk. After seeing this fervent cele bration I thought of our Inde pendence Day that we have 1 grown to let pass practically un noticed. Plans Being Made To Honor Gridders Plans are in the making for a banquet for members of the Newberry High School football team wl^ich is to be held Mon day nig&t, February 11, in the Newberry Community Hall. The banquet which is sponsor ed by the local canteen will have as its guest and speaker Walter Cox, assistant to the president of Clemson College. Serving as master of ceremonies will be Jimmy Coggins of Radio Station WKDK, who has followed the football team throughout the sea son. During the night a special “Best Sportsman" trophy will be presented to the player who in the opinion of the players has shown true sportsmanship during the whole season. Garner In Action On Korean Front Cpl. Carroll B. Garner, whose wife. Jewel, lives at 2800 Clyde Avenue, Newberry, is; serving with the 7th Infantry Division in the 'snow-covered mountains of Korea. In recent action the 7th jtas been patrolling and probing en trenched Communist positions north of the 38th Parallel. Corporal Garner, a rifleman in the 17th Regiment’s Company F, entered the Army in December of 1950. He received his basic training at Fort Jackson, and ai> rived in Korea in December of 1951. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Garner, live at 504 Church street in Union. Mathis Serving On Landing Ship 515 Charles S. Mathis, engineman, second class, USN, is serving aboard the LST 516, a landing ship tank operating with the At lantic Fleet Service Force. Such landing ships are capable of carrying tanks within their hold and discharging them right on enerhy beach-heads. The LST 515 served in England dur ing World War 11. The ship is now at Norfolk, Va., where she is undergoing minor repairs. Mathis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathis of Route 1, Newberry. Newberry Couple Take Nuptial Vows At Prosperity Miss Virginia Hyler and Dewey Moates, both of Newberry, were married Saturday at 7 p.m. at the home of the officiating min ister, the Rev. Julian B. Harman. The bride, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hyler of Newber ry, wore a blue gabardine cos tume. She attended the city schools The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. W. M. Moates and the late Mr. Moates of Pomaria. He at tended the Kinards school. The bride and bridegroom both are employed in Newberry. On Goodwill Tour The Mayflower Stone from which Miles Standish and com pany embarked in the New World in 1620 was only one of the sights seen recently by Murray J. Ruff, torpedoman’s mate, third class, USN, while on a visit to Plymouth, England aboard the de stroyer USS Willard Keith. The Keith was one of the three U. S. Navy ships which stood by the ailing merchant vessax Flying Enterprise in her history making but futile attempt to reach the safety of Falmeuth Harbor. Among notable points of in terest seen by Keith crew mem bers while on the goodwill visit, was the Elizabethan House, which dates back to the 16th century, and the Royal Citadel, which still stands perfectly preserved after 286 years. Ruff is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ruff of Newberry. High Seniors Guests During 2 Weekends At Newberry College Newberry college in the next two weeks will be host to a number of high school seniors of the state and surrounding area for what the college calls a pre view of college life. During the weekends of February 16-17 and February 22-24, Newberry college has invited as its guests on its campus all those high school sen iors who have expressed an in terest in the college. During the weekends the high school seniors will live in the dormitories, eat in the boarding hall, and follow the usual college routine, just as if they were actually students. They might even attend some classes. Special entertainment has been provided so that these guests of the college will find something to do the entire time. The program will include basketball games, dances, music recitals, and other activities. The arrangements for these two high school weekends are in charge of several faculty- student committees with the Boosters’ club of Newberry col lege furnishing most of the stu dents who are actively partici pating in the program. NEWBERRIANS RECEIVING RECRUIT TRAINING Undergoing recruit training at the U. S. Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif., are two New berry seamen recruits, USN, Mel vin A. Rice, and Donald E. Ward. Ward is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ward of 1310 Drayton street. Their initial training includes instruction in such fields as seamanship, fire-fighting, gunnery, signaling, and other courses de signed to make the recruit well- versed in every phase of Navy life. Upon completion of their 11- week training period at the cen ter, graduates are assigned to duty stations with the Fleet or at Navy shore stations, or are sent to service schools for ad vanced technical training. Dr. James L. Biber Announces the Opening of Offices for the practice of Optometry Offices 304 Exchange Bank Building Telephone 144 BALANCING A CHANCING AGRICULTURE Sial<e, c/i^ucuJiiuA^ We endorse point 2 of the I South Carolina Agricultural Program As Sponsored By Clemson College Extension Service And State Agicultural Committee fV ■ 1 The farmers’ part in national defense in 1952 is greater production of food, feed and fiber. Successful farming is based upon the produc tion of field and forest crops adapted to the land on which they are grown. Use modern methods of efficient production to obtain high est yields and returns. Newberry Lumber Co. 913 Cline Street Phone 58 ! CREAMS IB m.), n*w I. M.50 iue (16 o^). now $2.25 Have a radiant, sparkling clear look...with your own Tussy Cleansing Cream, prescribed for yon by beauty experts. EMULSIFIED CLEANSING CREAM for dry skins, rich in emollient oils...leaves skin dewy-soft! PINK CLEANSING CREAM for oily or normal skins. A light, luscious cream that deep- cleanses; leaves no oily residue! Save on the cream that’s special for you. Each on sale at this special price ...for a short time only. Deed Transfers Newberry No. 1 Esther Wilcox Houseal to Elbert J. Dickert, M. D., one lot and one building on College street, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. J. H. Cook to Dewey C. Hurt, one lot 60’xl67’ on Glenn street, $1100. Elbert J. Dickert to Louise R. Kirkland, one lot 76’x202’ on John stone street, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Earl Alvis Sanders. Jr., and) Margaret S. Merchant, to Rossa Lee J. Sanders, one lot and one building, 719 Crosson street, $5.00 love and affection. Mamie L. Clary to J. Hagood Clary, one lot 93 l/4’xl22' on Boundary street, $1.00 love and affection. Elbert J. Dickert to Mary Lay- ton Dickert, one lot and one building on College street, $5.00 love and affection. R. L. Sterling to A. W. Murray, one lot on Fair street, $475. Newberry No. 2 Outside Vinnie Sligh to J. C. Dominick, one lot $250. J. D. Caldwell and E. B. Pur cell to Lawrence F. Derrick, Jr., one lot 106’x222.5’ and one build ing, $5.00 and the premises. Lawrence F. Derrick, Jr., to J. D. Caldwell and E. B. Purcell, one lot 90’x222.5 on Kate street, $5.00 and the premises. J. D. Caldwell and E. B. Pur cell to B. M. Davis, two lots, each 90’x222.5’ on Kate street and two buildings, $700. A. F. Miller to Sarah H. Miller, one lot and one building, 1201 First street, $3600. ^ E. Maxcy Stone, Probate Judge, Newberry County, to Esso Stand ard Oil Company, one lot and one building, 1201 First street, $3600. Silverstreet No. 2 John Henry Dickert to Nancy Emma Dickert, Martin and Ray Alvin. Martin, 126.45 acres and one building, $1.00 and other valuable considerations. Whitmire No. 4 J. H. S. Wicker and Mattie S. Wicker to Savoy Nelson, one lot and one building, 8 Park street, $4600. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Kathleen B- Kidd to John C. Walker, one lot and one building, 1116 Sinclair Avenue, $800, and other valuable considerations. William Frank Sinclair, Jr., to David H. Funderburk, one lot, 150’x225’ on Whitmire-Goldville Highway, $3000. Pomaria No. 5 D. P. Leopard to C. O. Lever and Evelyn L. Lever, 6 % acres, $5.00 love and affection. J. Neil Stuck to Harriette E. Pinner and Carroll A. Pinner, 17.3 acres, $866. Little Mountain No. 6 Mattie B. Matthews to D. E. Abrams, one lot 105’xl35' on Mill street, $200. Prosperity No. 7 Berdell Ruff, et al to H. M. Hentz, 55 acres, $2500. know your State More than $1,700,000,000 has been invested or earmarked for new plants and expan sions in six years in South Carolina. One of those projects is the huge H-bomb installation near Aiken, which has attracted world-wide attention. Now in industrially- expanding South Carolina, a newly established United States Brewers Foundation Division Office will work * constantly to encourage maintenance of wholesome conditions wherever beer and ale are sold. As in other states, the program will call for close cooperation between law-enforcement officers and beer licensees throughout South , Carolina. Beer belongs 0 ... enjoy it. United States Brewers (Foundation South Carolina Div., Columbia, S. C The beverage of moderation Blowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 ATTRACTIVE FIGURES It has been said that if a woman fails * to watch her figure, so will the men! • *' , ; 'jt* ' • ^ ” v -|k. " ' ‘ Speaking of things pretty to look at, you should see dur plan for financing new and used cars. For Details Call 197 PURCELLS "Your Private Bankers" E. B. Purcell Keitt Purcell YOUR ■[Scrap IRO forDEFENSE! .TURN JUNK INTO CASH MONEY Bring your scrap iron, radiators and old batteries to us. WE PAY HIGHEST CASH PRICES! Let ns replace that broken glass in your car while you wait—Also new and used parts for all cars and tracks. Clark Wrecking Co. Phone 176-J—Day Phone 176-W—Night THE WARREN D * ■ "" i 1 r tWN* BOO* BSU +>* « w-f NEWBERRY J Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OPNfiWBBRRY John F. Clarkson J. K. Willingham President Sec.-TVeos. Newberry, S. C.