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, ,... ; ^ ' ■- - V-j'" : ' ' <> r -' ' - ■' ' *> '■ ' '■« ' ■' ■ PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, APRIL 25, id52 ■a !■■ ■ Precision Weapons Cut Cancer Toll Three "precisipn weapons,” that can cut the toll of cancer sub stantially now, are ready for . use, the American Cancer Society an nounced in launching its 1952 Cancer Crusade. Deaths from breast and cervix cancer in women and cancer of the lung can be reduced by methods for turning up early cases. Dr. Charles S. Cameron, ACS medical and scientific di rector, declared. The techniques are: 1) Wide spread use by adult women of a simple technique for breast self- examination; 2) a vaginal smear examination twice a year for all women over 40; 3) mass screen ing of the chest by x-ray pictures. “The three precision weapons,” Dr. Cameron said, “from a blue print for the immediate future with a greater potential for pre venting deaths from cancer than we have previously been able to call upon.” Death from breast, cervix and lung cancer total about 44,000 annually. With full use of the three precision weapons, as much as 90 per cent, of breast cancers might be cured, nearly 100 per cent of cancer of the cervix and up to 50 per cent of lung cancer deaths could be averted. This could mean the saving of 34,000 lives a year. The motion picture, “Breast Self-Examination,” which teaches women to examine their breasts once a month for early cancer symptoms, has been seen by al most 1,000,000 women. Reports on the film, produced jointly by ACS and the National Cancer In stitute, indicate an increase in the lives saved. Mass chest x-rays for tubercu losis performed by government and private agencies in Mas sachusetts have been re-screened for early cancer symptoms and a number of cancer cases were dis covered in time for effective treatment. Dr. Cameron recom mends that mass x-ray exams be concentrated on persons over 60 as the disease is rare in younger persons. The vaginal smear technique for cancer of the cervix has al ready received extensive trial and wide acclaim as an effective diag nostic method. Even small, early cancers shed cells, which can be picked up by smear, stained and identified under the microscope. W. B. McKinney County Head FHA Program Walter B. McKinney has been promoted to State Field Repre sentative in charge of Farmers Home Administration program in Newberry County and 16 other counties in the Piedmont District, R. F. Kolb, State Director, an nounced this week. He will suc ceed Clarence Gunnells of Gramb- ling who is being transferred to the lower district of the State. A native of Easley and an agri cultural graduate of Clemson Col lege, Mr. McKinney has been with the Farmers Home Administra tion since 1940, when he entered on duty in the Anderson County Office. He was .in charge of the Oconee County Office at Walhalla until 1949 when he was transfer red to Orangeburg as County Sup- Give Her Your Photograph On Mother’s Day, May 11th If you phone now for a sitting you can have a fine Nichols Photo graph to give to mother on Mother’s Day! There is no gift' she will appreciate more. The cost of a fine picture here is amazingly low. Call us now for an appointment. NICHOLS STUDIO Telephone 233 Newberry, S. C. NATIONALLY ADVERTISED DIAMOND AND WEDDING RINGS We are proud to offer you these exceptional ring sets, made and guaranteed hy America’s century-old out standing ringmaker. Art- carved* diamonds are new diamonds — never before worn. Registered and guar anteed for all/ourfactors of quality—color, clarity, cut and carat weight. You will he pleased at the wide range of styles and prices in our Artcarved collection. *TRADE HARK RE9. Kins* enlarged to show detail Prices Include Federal tax BELOVED BY BRIDES FOR OVER 100 YEARS Canterbury Sat: Engogement Ring, $000.00,- alto from $87.50 to $1250 00. Bride's Wedding Ring, $00.00. Groom's Wedding Ring, $00.00. r'V W. E. Turner JEWELER Caldwell St. Newberry COMPARE VALUES—AND YOU’LL CHOOSE T^rtcaryed WALTER B. McKINNEY ervisor for that county. Prior to that time he taught vocational agriculture at Starr High School in Anderson County and at Sharon Consolidated School in Abbeville County. During World War II he served as an Infantry Officer on Guadalcanael, Bougain ville, and other Solomon islands. Later he served as Commanding Officer of a 2,000 acre vegetable farm on Guadalcanal, which fur nished vegetables to hospitals and troops in the South Pacific. He is Adjutant, Thomas Sum mers Raysor Post, American Legion; Secretary-Treasurer, Re serve Of f icers Association, Orangeburg Chapter; Superinten dent, Intermediate Sunday De partment, First Baptist Church, Orangeburg; and a Rotarian and member VFW. His wife is the former Miss Ruth Stewart of Easley. Farmers Home Administration assists farm families, unable to obtain satisfactory credit from other sources, to make changes in their farming systems through Operating, Farm Ownership, or Farm Housing loans combined with guidance in their farm and home operations. The County Office is in charge of Marion P. McMeekin, County Supervisor, whose office is in the Agriculture Building, Rooms 112 and 113, Newberry, S. C. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist Chris S. Ruff Passed Sunday; County Farmer Chris Suber Ruff, 79, died Sun day) afternoon at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital. He had been ill for three months. Mr. Ruff was born and reared and spent his life in the Mt. Bethel-Garmany section. He was a son of the late John S. and Kitty Sligh Ruff. He was a farm er and a member of Lebanon Methodist church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Caldwell Ruff; three sons, J. C., Robert C., Newberry, and G. Alf Ruff, Greenville; three daughters, Mrs. Junious O. Cromer Mrs. John Henry Ruff and Mrs. John David Setzler, Newberrry; four brothers, George S., John H„ and W. Charlie Ruff, Newberry, and Walter L. Ruff, Solumbia; two sisters, Mrs. James F. Stephens, Silverstreet; Mrs. Sally R. Brown, Newberry; eight grand children and two great-gran dchil- efren. Funeral services were conduct ed Monday at 4 p.m. at the Mc- Swain Funeral Home by the Rev. R. C. Emory. Burial followed in Lebanon church cemetery. Active pallbearers included Richard Lominick, George Steph ens, S. W. Brown, Jr., George Ruff, Jr., William Charles Ruff and George Dominick. ANSWERS TO Intelligence Test 1—albatross. 2—kitchen. 3— Africa. 4—buffoon. 5—how fast the propeller is turning. 6—mail. 7—(A) Aviation; (B) Kockey; (C) Motor Boating; (D) Tennis. COTTON NOW If you have a good stand of cotton, don’t chop too much of it out. And don’t chop until most chance for its dying out has pass ed. Then cultivate shallow and only often enough to control weeds and grass. The above is a digest of con clusions carried in Circular 36, The 1951 Cotton Contest, that's free at your county agent’s of fice. This publication is by our cotton specialist, Harry Boylston, who brought in it the vast store of successful cotton farmer ex perience, since the cotton con test was started in 1926, up to date. As to just how thick to leave cotton for best yields, he says: “Leave 3 stalks per hill about 8 to 12 inches apart.” And then he admonishes, “Do not destroy a good stand by careless chop ping.” PROTECTION NEEDED In the sparse country of the Southwest and on down deep in Mexico I was impressed by the birds of prey I saw, Owls, hawks, and eagles aplenty. Over the dry, parched expanses they skim med, flying, flying, ever flying. Evidently the open landscape of fered them the protection that accounts for their numbers. Once they were more plentiful here too. But guns by the millions have been out for anything that would run or fly, and they are becoming scarce. I wonder if these great birds too are marked for extinction, as we inhabit the land more thick ly. Remember, the Carolina parakeet, the Heath hen, the passenger pigeon, and the Arizona elk, once inhabited this country. But the last one of these has long since fallen to the hunter's aim, and their chapter is finish ed on this earth. Naturalists tell us that birds of prey were put here for a purpose. Without them, rodents are liable to build up to very destructive proportions, as the balance that Nature placed here is broken. w Our Tommy has had just about every wild creature that walks, jumps, or flies in captivity at some time during the past 8 or 10 years that he has been big enough to gratify his interest in them. Recently someone gave his a great horned owl they had caught in a trap without hurting it. He sat in the pen and studied it for hours. Finally I prevailed on him to turn it loose, as suit able food was so hard to get. He did. And now we go out into the night to hear its erie hoots, as they echo across the hills back from our place. How much better that sounds than its fret ting in a jail-like pen! Barn owls were once common. Now they are very scarce. They bothered nobody, and only ate mice. Yet they fell, easy targets as, wisp like, they floated noise lessly about the barn-lofts after dusk doing good. Spare the dwindling birds of prey. They perform a potent purpose here. FEED-GRAIN SHORTAGE The feed grain supplies of this country are low. The increased acreage needed has not been seedetk nor is there a very good prospect that it will be. We will be harvesting grain soon. Here we can follow it with another' crop, like soybeans or grain sorghum. In most of the country they can't do that Sear sons are too short. So here again is where we can cash in on our advantages. Two crops from the same land the same season. And both of them badly needed by the country, which should mean fair prices. And also two crops residue to graze off or tnrn tinder! Advantages! We have ’em. 1 often speak of them here. For generations we tried to dig the gold from our lands with the one crop—cotton. We mastered that, and it was all we knew. Now that the beam of science is being turned on other things, andE di versification is beginning to grow in our midst, we are discovering new riches at many places. Ona of these Is In a doubled grain acreage, whose yield is up over half, and which is followed the same season by another crop of lespedeza, sorghum, soybeans, sweet potatoes, or the like. Thank You! Thank you again for nominating me for the office of county treasurer without opposition. This endorse ment of my efforts is indeed gratifying. Newberry County is in excellent financial condition and I like to • * L feel that it is your opinion that I have had some lit tle hand in bringing this about, resulting in your will ingness for me to continue to serve you. J. RAY DAWKINS County Treasurer Visit Home Furniture Co. This Week Many valuable PRIZES will j be given . . . 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