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PAGE SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, id52
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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-
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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.
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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
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tle hand in bringing this about, resulting in your will
ingness for me to continue to serve you.
J. RAY DAWKINS
County Treasurer
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