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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. However, an Insurance
Policy will, for many, be the most convenient method of
complying with the law.
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