Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1952 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 Frozen Food Supplies ALUMINUM FOIL POLYETHYLENE BAGS FROZEN FOOD CON- TAINERS OAKEN BUCKET CON TAINERS ALL PLASTIC FREEZ- TAINERS STOCKINETTES PLASTIC POULTRY BAGS • • • AND OTHER SUP- PLIES FOR THE FREEZER Lominack HARDWARE 24 Hour Plant Service FOR ICE-crushed or block ICE COLD WATERMELONS ICE CREAM FREEZERS (Electric or hand) PICNIC CHESTS GASOLINE AND OIL Farmers Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 155 Auto j pga. U Bank Rates Puicells FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist ’ v X / THE DIFFERENCE I attended a meeting of beef cattle growers in Greenwood in mid-July. Most of ’em were wondering when it would rain. But five were not. They got their irrigation working in time to save their grass. One said his 25 cows couldn’t keep his 16 acres of Ber muda and Dallis grass down. It appeared that most of ’em were getting ponds ready and making other arrangements to supply water to their pastures, too, when it is needed. County Agent Garvin told me that 10 farmers in Greenwood county now have irrigation out fits and many more are planning for it. When I see the magic that ir rigation has wrought in many a field, orchard, and sod here in South Carolina this summer, 1 am led to wonder just how fast this thing is going to grow here. I believe very fast! I see situations for easy ir rigation everywhere I go. Not all fields, nor all farms, but at count less places I’ve seen crops parch and burn to nothing, while rivu lets of life-giving water course their ancient ways down their channels to the sea right by those fields, as they have always done. There the farmer follows the ancient way and looks into the unresponsive skies for the showers that do not come, while his hopes lie burning there on the parched fields. We here, where there is some water, need to awaken^ to what’s economical ly possible now. We put our land, our fertilizer, our seed, our work, and our hopes in the soil. And we know that the needed plenty can be made to come forth. Yes, IF WE GET THE WATER! Ah, there’s the rub. Throughout an ancient past, we have been able to keep going in a way, despite the dreadful toll that droughts took. But times have changed now. Costs are so great that we must do every thing in our power to insure the harvest. We have the know-how for big yields. And we can make ’em, IF WE HAVE THE WATER! The Almighty has put fairly abundant water at our disposal. Not abundant, for . sure, at many places, after the burning rays of summer have held sway for weeks. But the torrents that ran away were once abundant. Stored in farm ponds and reser voirs, those waters can be made abundant when needed. / And, folks, there’s our great problem for the immediate future. JSnough water falls on our land in a year to swim anywhere, if it stayed there. But most of it runs away. We are not so dumb as not to know how to keep a lot of it un til we need it. Hot, clear weather is growing weather. It takes that sunlight, fertility, and moisture ,to build great crops. The Almighty gives us the magic of the sunlight in abundance here. Through soil management and fertilization, we are putting the fertility there. But, lo and behold, all too often the other essential element of moisture is lacking. And when that is the case, the life-giving sunshine s dverted from ts pur pose and burns the crop. And the precious fertility ,we have, through pain, put there goes for naught. Use the ingenuity the Almighty has given us, along with our fairly abundant water, and yours will usually he a splendid harvest. Clemson is digging in on this. Last year corn yield was upped 4% times by irringation here at the College. And similar results are apparent for thi^ year. Coun ty Agents in practically every county I go tell me of the good results and the few farmers who have put in irrigation there in their counties are getting. So, folks, this whole great new potential of irrigation begins to roll on the oft dry lands of South Carolina! PLANT GREENS NOW For both man and critter, now is the time to plapt winter greens. Turnips, mustard, rape, tender- greens, kale and the like should be planted in September. (I leave spinach out, because I don’t like it, and modern nutritionists teir us it’s not the full ' ecm#,! of turnip greens anyway. Hurrah for that!) And if late hot, dry weather gets ’em, plant again. An irrigation at planting time m 5 J v-v/.y v ^vv"-T-.- • - Ulti ji SHARPSHOOTER AND DECOY . . . With P.F.C. Henry Friday, Mikoosa, Wise, (right) acting as decoy by popping his head from slit trench, T/Sgt. John Boitnott, Comfort, N.C., got a bead on and killed nine Red sniners fn K«r«»n Real Estate Boom—He Hopes *.* *+<** /k r v* Ufbj I- COUNTY FARM BUREAU OFFERS INSURANCE Automobile casualty insurance at cost is now being offered to Newberry County Farm Bureau members through the South Caro lina Farm Bureau’s new automo bile casualty insurance program. To make this insurance avail able, South Carolina Farm Bureau members have invested more than $100,000 in the Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Com pany. Approximately 30 agents have already been trained by the company and are now engaged in selling this insurance to Farm Bureau membership. L. B. Bedenbaugh of Silver- street is agent for Newberry County. He reports that farmers generally are pleased with the service this program affords to Farm Bureau members and pre dicts that it will greatly strength en Farm Bureau in Newberry County. In addition to an initially low- rate for liability, comprehensive and collision insurance, the com pany promises dividends to policy holders as soon as business vol ume in South Carolina warrants them. The company operates In five other states—Texas, Missis sippi, Louisana, Arkansas and Florida. In these states, annual dividends to policyholders are paid ranging from 15 to 35 percent. The South Carolina Farm Bureau planned early in 1952 to enter the automobile casualty in surance field to serve Farm Bureau members in this state. The plan was sponsored by the Farm Bureau State committee, headed by Ed. B. Baskin of Bish- opville. It was approved in April by the state board of directors. During the months of May, June and July, Farm Bureau members and almost every county in South Carolina invested stock amount ing to more than $100,000 in capital stock in the company to make this service available to Farm Bureau members in this state. Mr. Bedenbaugh said that he was giving about 75 percent of his time to writing this insurance for members of the Newberry County Farm Bureau. He explain- ABOVE THE HULLABALOO V <5 y LYTLE HULL SELDOM pays to crow too .,oon! The Democsats searched me dictionary for words of scorn to heap upon the behavior of the dele* gates at the Republican conven tion. But when the so-called “lib erals’* of that party opened their attack upon the south, they, for the time being at least, turned an other wise respectable convention into "a cheap spectacle. It was dirty pol itics at its triumphant best; it was the sort of politics this country may expect if a left winger is ever elected President. Incidentally the reputations of some of those who engineered this exhibition have definitely not been enhanced. Few Americans admire a cheap sport. It probably would not be an ex aggeration to say that regardless of the entertainment afforded the pub lic by these conventions, 90 per cent of the American people would like to have an ACTUAL opportunity to select the men who are to stand for election to the presidency and vice presidency. It sounds all right to talk about primaries, but in reality just how much did you have to do with the selection of the nominees? Had you authorized the trade your delegate made with another? Did you instruct your delegation to switch to some other candidate? Did you have any say in the choice of the men who may some day succeed to the Presidency—Senators Nixon and Sparkman? Under the emotional stress and excitement of these often hysterical meetings, nearly any sort of per son could be nominated; and we the people who own this country should not he subjected to even the slight est risk of this sort. This writer does not pretend to have invented a system which will give to us citizens the right to choose our nominees; but there are many persons in political life who know well how to improve upon the present undemocratic anr* unsound method. We believe that a constitutional amendment designed to give to the people the actual right to select the men who are to be the heads of "tate would pass overwhelmingly. will bring them up. And then you can keep ’em growing if you have command of that water and can apply it as needed. PRECOOLING Precooling of fruits and veget ables before shipping is a com ing thing. I saw McLeod Brothers at Seabrook, dow nin Beaufort, giving fresh corn a 20 minute ice bath before going into the car. At Gramlhig, in Spartanburg, they tried out the same thing for peaches, and our Roy Ferree tells me the trade like it, and there was not one complaint. That way they can ship riper peaches, Which helps all along the line. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER We had an old gander that would fight everybody but my mother. For some reason he was very fond of her. We got him from Mrs. Sites, a neighbor, to replace our old gander that as I recall,, flew away with some wild geese the fall before. A few geese were kept by practically every family. I never heard of us eating one. We kept ’em for their feathers. And the young cockle-burs killed the gos lings so that we never accumu lated many. Spring was goose picking time, just before they started losing their heavy coat of feathers by moult. The women folks did it. We kids would catch the geese for them. They had a special way for holding them on their lap, with feet and tail in the left hand and the head buried down in the lap, as the goose was held there upside down. That left the right hand free to yank the brest feathers out. And with every jerk the goose usually honked a bit. When the breast was picked clean of feathers and nothing but the new down re mained, they would set the goose upright, keeping the same hold with left hand and with the head and neck clamped under the left arm. When the pickers finished with a goose, it looked like a scare crow for sure. They seemed to be ashamed of the way they looked and hid out a lot. Then that old gander wouldn’t bother us much. But at other times we little kids knew better than to go in the yard without a stick. And when we wanted to play, they shut him up in the lot. He caught us out aAiumber of times. He would run • after us, catch on to our clothing or skin with his bill, and proceed to beat ire unmercifully with his great wings. A scream would bring a parent running, and we were soon rescued. And that thing went on for some years. But there was no relief until another gander could be found. For a Dutchman just had to have his geese. In addition to the feathers, they kept the grass out of that rank cotton there near the house. Ticklers By George \ % r ' i.. .K&r “He allows himself one luxury-—an occasional spiked drink.” KEEPS YOUR MOTOR •Sxg&SgKft ed that the insurance is being oi fered at actual cost since the company pays back to its policy holders in the formof dividends all profits over and above the actual cost of operation. Since the organization of the company, policyholders have received al most a million dollars in divi dends. Watch And Jewelry Repairs BR0ADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Television —To— GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television Service SALES 'and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone 311 TAILORED SEAT COVERS We are equipped to give you the best of service In automo bile seat covers, tailor made. Convertible tops, auto head- linings and other Interior work done promptly and at reason able prices. Stop by or phone us today. Frank Wilson 1515 Martin 8L Phone 1116-J Y il AT LOMINICK’S DRUG STORE PRISCIPTIONS ARE ; CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PRESCIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED DRUGGIST PHONE 981 NEW PREMIUM SINCLAIR REC. U. S. HAT. OFF MOTOR OIL m City Filling Station Strother C. Paysinger, Distributor ■ ■ Men! Here’s The Way To Beat INflation... and DE flat ion, Too! / SAVE YOUR DOLLARS WHILE THEY'RE CHEAP! Dollars are plentiful today... and you are probably making more of them! Now is the time to start sav ing ... for every dollar that you manage to put away into an interest-bearing savings account at the Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association well be worth $1.50 or $2 in buying power when this inflation period is over! A long-term savings program is the best way to beat inflation... and de flation, too. Let’s'talk it over. Remember, we are currently paying 3% interest on savings. ACCOUNTS INSURED UP TO $10,000 Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association Newberry, South Carolina - ► ,