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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1952 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE Something New Upcoming In S. C. Voting Procedure (Anderson Independent) COLUMBIA, Sept. 11 — Some thing new will show up in the November 4 .general election. Voters will be permitted to vote a split ticket in the presidential election because the election law provides for this procedure. This will be the first presiden tial election in which the state’s Australian ballot is used and it will give specific instructions to the voters that they may vote a straight party ticket or split their vote. Since three sets of electors will appear on the ballot, eight each, this may be confusing to some voters but Secretary of State O. Frank Thornton has complied with the law. At the bottom, of the presiden tial ballot will appear the follow ing as required by the election law: “INSTRUCTIONS — To vote a straight party ticket, make a cross (X) in the circle (o) under the name of your party. Nothing fur ther need or should be done. To vote a mixed ticket, or in other words for candidates of different parties, omit making a cross (X) mark in the party circle at the top and make a cross (X) mark in the voting square opposite the name of each candidate on the bal lot for whom you wish to vote. If you wish to vote for a candidate not on any ticket, write or place the name of such candidate on your ticket opposite the name of the office. Before leaving the booth, fold the ballot so that the initials of the manager may be seen on the outside.” According to these instructions one may vote for three Democrats, three Republicans and two Inde pendent Eisenhower electors. The question of tabulating the votes would be one for the election commissioners in each county. South Carolina has eight votes in the electoral college. As far as is known the votes in the college cannot be split. Some old-fashioned mothers who can remember their husband’s first kiss, now have daughters who can’t remember their first husbands. AT LOMINICK’S DRUG STORE PRISCIPTIONS ARE CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PRESCIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED DRUGGIST PHONE 981 New Fast Car LONDON, Sept. 11—(NANA)— A very impressive new model is being made by Rolls-Royce, Ltd., known as the Continental Rolls- Bentley. It is not marketed in this country for the adequate reason that its high performance is wast ed on what G. K. Chesterton so rightly called the rolling English road. This new Bentley is particularly suited for long-distance transcon tinental motoring. It does 70 M.P. H. on second gear and 95 M.P.H. on third, and approaching 120 M.P.H. on top. The engine does not differ greatly from the stand ard four and a half liter twin- exhaust type, but wind-tunnel streamlining of the coachwork and a modified transmission give that extra performance that will appeal to those fortunate few able to make use of it. It is not until one gets into an other car that one realizes how completely smooth and quiet is this deservedly famous For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Television GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone S11 Schools Are Crowded . . More children are m South Carolina schools today than at any other time in history. And the peak of enrollment is still in the future as the state’s births continue to rise. Millions of dollars are being spent to' erect new schools for these children. Thousands of families are saving part of their income so funds will be available to continue the education of the students. Federal Savings and Loan association of Newberry offers you the op portunity to help your child by saving any amount at any time with the assurance of safety, profit and convenience. Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Ass n. John F. Clarkson, Pres. J. K. Willingham, Sec.-Treas. ■c- Attendon BROILER GROWERS SPARTAN brings you an added SERVICE! Beginning September 15 th O - ♦< Radio Station WKDK, Newberry, will give up-to-the- ^ ► • ; minute North Georgia Broiler Market report at 12:24 P.M. daily—Monday through Friday. Spartan Quality Researched-Feeds ... for the Southeast” Made by Spartan Grain & Company Newberry and Spartanburg FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemaon Extension Information SpooMlot IRRIGATION IN THE SOUTHEAST I often. tell you here of the benefits I see from irrigation as I go about over South Carolina. So far, I have yet to find a farm er who has tried it that didn’t think it paid. And practically every week I tell of results I’ve seen. Other states in the Southeast are beginning to awaken to this great untapped resource too. The Georgia Experiment Station got paying results from irrigation on both early and late sweet po tatoes for the past three years. But the difference was much greater on the late crop, from which the best commercial po tatoes come. On the early or “Mother Patch” potatoes, the aver age increased yield for this per iod was 44.1 bushels per acre." But for those same three years the average increase on the late crop was 131.7 bushels from ir rigation. This compares with fig ures got from irrigating potatoes last year in Orangeburg county by Rutledge Connor of Eutaw- ville. And Vernon Watts of the Vir ginia Truck Experiment Station says, “For several years we have been advocating more irrigation for Virginia vegetable crops. We fully realize that we do not need irrigation every year on every crop we grow. There are, how ever, very few years in which ad ditional water would not pay on at least one of the crops we grow.” And he pointed out the past sea son where growers of equal merit who irrigated harvested between 200 and 300 bags of potatoes per acre while their neighbors with- oyt irrigation came up with about 60 bags. And then he points to the money this ran into, with Irish potatoes selling as they did. And so the story goes. We have never tried it on cotton. But this year at Clemson’s Ponti ac Station, where a pipe that crossed a cotton field leaked just a little bit, they had a spot of good cotton in a field that otherwise burned up. And their held up well. Last year irrigated corn at Clemson made almost five times as much as the other right by it. So we don’t know how far this thing will go. I’m beginning S62T6&Tcltion III to believe that any crop we grow ^ f* f* __ ~ will justify irrigation where? SchOOlS Up SOOIl drought strikes. We put a lot of money in it to get it up to that point. Why not spend a little more and insure the harvest? and better varieties that the agents demonstrate in the field. And our most progressive farm ers seize all of this, apply it, add their great common sense to the whole thing, and come up with things we never before thought practical or possible here. Cotton has gone from many of NEW THINGS FROM COTTON our acres. But it looks like it will hold its own, as far as we can see, on the better lands and larger fields suited . to mechaniza tion. No plant on earth has so many uses as cotton, lint and seed. It fills a multitude of our needs. And the great plywoods plant at Hampton that Westinghouse re cently took over is making a most useful new product from cotton cloth. Micarta it is called. It is a sort of durable, hard substance that has a myriad of household and industrial uses. * New uses for cotton! Research is finding them all along. Some Non-Voters Signed For Ike A spot check of the signers of petitions asking that the names of Eisenhower and Nixon be plac*- ed on the general election ballot showed that 8.67 per cent of those who signed the petitions were not qualified electors—could not vote in the election. Secretary x of State O. Frank Thornton said that he felt it his duty to make the spot check de spite the fact that petitions bear ing approximately 55,000 names had been submitted to him. Photostatic copies of petitions from each county were made and sent to the boards of registration of that county for verification as to the qualification of the signers. An average of slightly more than two of the 25 signers on each peti tion were not qualified electors, the check disclosed. That indicates that about 4,768 of the signers were not qualified umci wioc «*/. electors but it had no effect on plots of cotton that were irrigated the petitions in general because only 10,000 names were necessary to gain a place on the ballot for Eisenhower and Nixon as inde pendents. GREEN PASTURES Cider in the sandhills! Who’d have ever expected it there? Yet Walter Rawl had it at his roadside stand near Lexington and had sold 60.gallons of it the day before. Walter is a man who bears down on sandhill and rolling clay lands and makes new things come forth. Cotton’s lost acres in this state have a lot of hidden capabilities of that sort. A cotton culture died on much of it. And now pioneer ing farmers here and there bring a new glory from it with the new knowledge they apply. In the deep, heavy sandhills of Chesterfield I rode of late with County Agent Willis through vast vineyards, groves, and winery where Tinner Bros, are bringing new riches from soils once thought all but worthless. And in every county I go the agents show me their grassland demonstrations, where a new lust er comes from cotton’s lost acres through grass and cattle. Green pastures, yes! They sure ly lie all about us on these lands that knew but cotton for so long. Our experiment stations point to new crops and new ways. Our plant breeders come up with new COLUMBIA, Sept. 11—The U.S. Supreme Court hearing of South Carolina’s school segregation suit is set for Oct. 14, Gov. James F. Byrnes’ office reported today. The suit was filed by a group of Clarendon County Negroes. They contested that school facilities for Negro children in the Summerton district were not equal to those of fered white children, and asked that segregation itself be declared unconstitutional under the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitu tion. Three-judge federal courts twice have held that segregation is consti tutional if facilities are equal. The state, meanwhile has launched a major building program and has taken over the school bus system in its drive to equalize facilities for the races. Similar suits from Kansas and Virginia also are before the Su preme Court, with Kansas suit docketed first. Byrnes has discussed the cases with Gov. Edward F. Arn of Kan sas and Gov. John Battle of Vit- ginia. All three states are ex pected to center their arguments around the premise that there is no unconstitutional discrimination if facilities are equal. Representing the State of South Carolina at ..the hearing will be John W. Davis of New York and Robert McC. Figg of Charleston. 24 Hour Plant Service FOR ICE-crushed or block ICE COLD WATERMELONS ICE CREAM FREEZERS (Electric or hand) PICNIC CHESTS GASOLINE AND OIL Farmers lee & Fuel Co. Phone 155 BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER It was a hard year in the Stone Hills. I think it was 1911. The summer sun bore down, the showers did not come, and weeds grew in the parched channel of our creek. There was moisture to bring crops up, and that was about all. Little hoeing had to be done. We kids liked that. Impending crop disaster meant little to us. That was something for parents to think about. And I now know they worried aplenty. That year the drought lasted on through, and the harvest was so meager that you could hardly see it *in the barn. The usually abundant gardens and truck patches, that largely sustained us, were sorry spectacles that yielded little. More than usual patching of clothes was done that winter, and the thrifty Dutchman’s house wife applied her skill in the kitchen to the utmost. We pulled through all right. Parents perhaps grew gray hairs a little faster. But it didn’t bother us younguns much. . We missed our old swimming hole that dried up to dust. And our wild harvest from the woods was meager too. The hickory nuts were small and harder, and even the black walnuts down on the creek were sorry. The bullice and wild grapes shriveled and drop ped early, and the honey locusts were shrunken and dry. Black haws were all seed, and the sparkleberries on the ridge tasted like sand. In all of that year’s disappoint ments, we got consolation from the saying of an old man across the creek. He said/ “The weather al ways pays its debts.” And I guess it did, for next year brought bounteous rains. We had wet spells aplenty, when we could not get in the fields. Then we re- veeled in our swollen creek. At flood stage we would ride its wild rampaging waters And when it settled down to a gentle murmur we made merry the wash hole (it wasn’t “swimming hole” to us). And the fish were abundant too. They must have come clear from the river to feed on the life that sprung -from the dry creek bed of the year before. Yes, the weather pays its debts, but not in kind. Too much water the next year will not bring back the lost harvest of the year be fore. Trees Suffer Little Damage The widespread destruction and loss resulting from floods and droughts, hurricanes and hail storms have made headline news recently. The risks involved in growing most farm crops have been dramatically demonstrated by some of the more violent of Na ture’s forces. Yet few people realize that one of South Carolina’s most valuable crops was affected only slightly by these destructive natural agencies. According to State Forester C. H. Flory, the dam age to South Carolina’s timber re sources was insignificant. Mr. Flory emphasized that the relative freedom from risk of loss by natural causes was one of the sig nificant factors in growing tim ber as an investment. He pointed out that even when natural agencies such as wind, flood, drougth, insects, disease occasion ally damage some trees, the owner can generally salvage most of the material and sell it at a profit. According to Mr. Flory, most of the other factors affecting tim ber growing in. South Carolina are extremely favorable. Favor able conditions such as adequate rainfall, suitable soil, and a long growing season make possible the rapid growth of valuable forest products. The many profitable markets for sawlogs, pulpwood, poles, piling, veneer logs and other forest products also contri bute to the attractiveness of tim ber growing as a private invest ment. Trained foresters of the State Commission of Forestry are avail able to help landowners grow tim ber profitably under the best forestry practices. Any woodland owner can obtain advice and as sistance on all phases of forestry and timber growing by contact ing the District Forester. Land- owners may find it more con venient to contact the ranger at the county seat. The ranger will be glad to get landowners in touch with the nearest District Forester. Watch And Jewelry Repairs BR0ADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstoile Street Do You Have $11,000 To % On January 1st, 1953 South Carolina’s New Automobile Safety Responsibility Law Becomes Effective The law provides that any person involved in an auto acci dent resulting in personal injury or damage ol more than $45 must report the accident, and (1) Show to the satisfaction of the Highway Department that he was not liable, or (2) Produce a Certificate or policy of Insurance issued be fore the accident showing at least $5,000/$10,000 coverage for bodily injury and $1,000 for property damage to others, or (3) Deposit with the Highway department $11,000 in cash or the equivalent Should the driver fail to comply with these requirements, his driver’s license and Auto Registration Card will be suspended. | This law was not sponsored by the Insurance companies and Insurance is not compulsory. 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