Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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S'/ . .•••' tor. ' FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1962 ^J!P23 THE NEWBERRY SUN vi m Wi- tH I ; ... . NIPPON VOTES . . . Beefy Suomo wrestlers in col trfnl kimonos cast their ballots in Tokyo In Japan's recent national elections. The pro-American Libera i of Premier Shigeru Yoshida retained power and the Communists took a bad shellacking. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist CHANGE IN UNION I’m told that Union county made 33,000 bales of cotton in 1897. In 1950 it made 3.520. Like many other - counties, its rolling clay lands eroded heavily under a constant cotton culture. Great gullies grew, and large fields were soon cut into smaller ones. Much of the land went out as old fields . Trees came to a lot of it, and now those areas sup port a profitable pulpwood and timber business. And the open land too is un dergoing change. The last time I rode with County Agent Cochran, I was amazed to see the vast reaches of cotton’s lost acres there that had gone into profitable pro ruction of grass. In fact, we were seldom out of sight of it. When I was in Hartsville early in October two mechanical cot ton pickers were harvesting a large field that Coker had pro duced with 100 percent mechaniza tion. With chemicals and flame- cultivators they had kept it per fectly clean of weeds and grass. They did not even chop it. And that day they were doing a simply wonderful job of harvesting it with those mechanical pickers. The cotton looked to me to be as clean as the hand-picked sort. And they were getting so nearly all of it that I doubt if it would have paid to go over it again or send hands after what little was left. At Clemson’s Blackville Station they have mechanized a consider able acreage of cotton too. Weeds and grass have been a great pro blem. Powers down there tells me h ebelieves they have the elements wherewith to whip them. There are still a lot of kinks in it before it can be carried to the average field. , But they have seen enough there to see the full mechanization of cotton on suit able lands as a reality for the not-too-distant future. And, folks, all of this is good news, specially if you wish to see the great money crop, cotton, stay with us. In the dry irrigated Southwest they have almost com pletely mechanized cotton. It looks like we are going to have to follow suit, if we stay In the game. I can well remember when we didn’t have a rural traveling library in the state. Now all but eight counties have their bookmo biles that carry good reading to the far corners. As I recall, this whole thing started when some interest was shown by the county councils of farm women. At first their voice was small. But it had a good and wholesome ring to it, they persisted, and the idea caught hold here and there and grew. Now it thrives. And country folks, even back in the far places, are now able to commune with the great minds of all ages, just like others who are privileged to live near good libraries. I see the bookmobiles making their stops at dim cross roads as well as along the torrid highways. And usually there is a little clump of folks there getting books. The home demonstration agents tell me that their county councils of farm women are still very much interested in this project and it is a part of their aims and ob jectives for the year. For it is a thing that is never finished. It "■•’I r*i! i83t*li»» ” - • mm j : ts k t mm r iiBR ps •»*. • k Ha mbba ■■■ * mm i am HINT TO BEEKEEPERS ... To avoid stained appearance in honey sections in beehive supers, coat upper surface of sections with hot paraffin, before placing supers in hive. When honey harvest time comes, scrape wax off, leaving section tops clean. Be A > Sales • ••• BUICK • ••• Service — AT Gasque Buick Company “Authorized Dealer” Factory Engineered Parts and Accessories Factory Trained Mechanics “The Post Office Is Across From Us” Phone 1676 1305 Friend St. Newberry AT BY HELEN BALE S AVE YOUR HANDS from getting soiled when you have to brush yeast doughs or meats with melted fat. There’s a pastry brush which does this neatly, or a piece of crumpled paper dipped in the fat may be used. When meat or fish is lean, you may havo to *Tard” it before cook ing it. Cut gashes into the meat, fish or fowl with a sharp knife and insert pieces of salt pork into them which will melt and baste the meat with tasty fat. Carmelizing sugar? Use a heavy cast iron skillet and place the sugar in the pan over just medium heat. Stir constantly until it melts and forms a golden brown syrup. Fried foods are tasty but they’re not palatable if they’re served greasy. Always drain before serv ing on some crumpled paper towel ing. When you want to broil meat, fish or fowl, it isn’t always neces- can be made better and better. Your home agent can acquaint you with what’s available in your coun ty in the way of a rural library service. Maybe you have some thing good available there that you haven’t become acquainted with yet. Editor P. D. Sanders of the Southern Planter said: “I hardly know what the South would be today without the 4-H club program; its contribution to day and wliat it has done in the past. The tremendous agricuV tural production that is coming out of the South today stems from 4-H club work.” National 4-H Achievement Day is being observed this year on November 8. And we here in South Carolina have special cause to celebrate it. We have a 4-H enrollment of 52,613 in the 1,- 658 organized clubs. y These are boys and girls, black and white. And each club has its adult lead ers, and the service of its county and home agents. I have been around long enough to know what Mr. Sanders -was talking about. Four-H has led the way to most of the farm progress we cee now. The members have been showing good hogs and corn at fairs away back through the years, when cotton was still undis puted king. And beef cattle had its start in our midst in the early calves the 4^H youngsters fed out. And so it goes. Yes, 4-H has just cause for'celebrating. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Chilled Lemon Cream (Serves 6) 1 cup sugar 5 tablespoons cake flour 1 egg, slightly beaten cup lemon juice % cup water 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel 1 cup heavy cream, whipped Blend sugar, flour, egg, lemon juice and water. Cook in top part of double boiler until thick ened and smooth, abolit 10 min utes. Cool. Add lemon peel and fold in whipped cream. Chill thoroughly. Serve as dessert or use over cake. sary to turn on the broiler. A heavy skillet heated until very hot may be used. Add no fat. For those times when you have to have seasoned flour to dredge meat, poultry or fish, mix together % cup flour, iy» teaspoons salt and Vfc teaspoon pepper. If you have to season with, onion juice, cut a slice off an onion and scrape the onion with a small paring knife to extract its juice. Scrape right into measuring tea spoon or tablespoon for the sake of efficiency. . If you have to cut part of an orange or a lemon, it can be placed cut side down on a plate and refrigerated so the remainder of the fruit will not dry out. Adding Machine Paper Mimeograph Paper The Sun Office By LYNN C.ONNELLY R emember the old slogan, “it’s fun to be fooled?” It used to bring to mind the vaudeville magi cians . . . Nowadays, there’s sim pler and oven more plentiful proof that millions of people just can’t wait to be fooled . . . With an aver age of 3.6 persons in every family in the nation, maybe the 6th isn’t a radio mystery fan . . . “Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons,” heard regularly on CBS Radio, has been posing his riddles to an eager public for more than 15 years . . . Many a dialer whose parents used to require him to finish his home work before he could listen to Mr. Keen's current investigation now has youngsters of his own on whom to impose similar restrictions. PhiUp Clarke plays the shrewd and skilled old tracer, with James Kelly assisting him as Mike Clan cy .. . After all these years, Clancy has yet to reach the finish line ahead of his boss . . . Mr. Keen enjoys consistently high audience favor, if only for the fact that each night he engineers the tri umph of justice in a way that makes us want to go out and com mit mayhem for failing to see the key clue. IDOL CHATTER President Truman Is said to have received many lucrative offers for a variety of public appearances af ter next January, Including lecture tours and a video series . . . The State Department has been report edly experimenting with long-range TV transmitters that conld span the Atlantic with Voice of Ameri ca telecasts . . . Sam Levenson may switch to NBC because of CBS’ failure to provide him with his own program spot . . . Jackie Gleason, now a CBS star, has been named to lead this year’s Thanks giving day parade in New York. Rural area viewers using high TV antennas, have nothing on a na tive in Puerto Rico . . . Unwilling to wait for local TV, he erected a 74-foot tower’ and claims he gets good reception from the U.S. . . Surveys continue to show viewer, annoyance with TV commercials, particularly those advertising to bacco and beer. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER The other day here I spoke of us harvesting bullaces from the wild woods of the stone hills when I was a boy. A friend wrote ask ing what was or were bullaces. That fellow must not have been raised in the country, specially our section. For that’s all we knew them-by. They are the wild muscadine grape. This fall saw a bumper crop of ’em. I ate them in all sections of the state, and specially down in the sandhills of Lexington. I never saw as many. There was a bit of conserva tion in our code as kids. Although that word didn’t come into com mon use until many years later, we practiced it in the case of bullace vines. Parents taught it to us, and it stuck. With us anything that was wrong was a sin. It was all right to feed on nature’s bounty in the woods. But it was distinctly bad to’ destroy the source of any of that bounty. For instance, bull aces were hard to get. The best of ’em were almost invariably high in trees, where the vines had climbed up to the sunlight. They would bang thick and black up there. A few depraved people would yank on the vines and pull ’em down to the ground. They would get those grapes. But there wouldn’t be any. more, as the vines don’t bear well on the ground. We kids thought that awful, and it was. We could jerk on the vines a bit to shake ’em down, and the ripest ones would fall. But the bullace hog wanted ’em all and would tear the vines down. He was like the fellow now who traps birds, baits fields, and electrocutes or dynamites fish. He didn’t own the land and didn't care. But we treasured our woods and did no harm to those vines; black- haw, sandberry, and plum bushes; scaly bark trees; and the like. Thus given a chance, they con tinue to bring us their annual har vests. Let Royal Help You Keep It! Even more important than hair-do and manicure is that well-groomed appeal of spotless, unwrinkled clothes! Beautiful women of refinement and taste al- ways keep that “bandbox” look with attire forever “fresh from the cleaner.” It’s economical, too! Certified Cleaners PHONE 12 QOMETIMES I think that many d persons’ disregard of atomic data is like my small daughter’s refusal to contemplate the ele phant—both are inattention to something too big to comprehend. Some persons stare blankly at headlines proclaiming the won drous feats of power to be per formed by atomic energy in their time and fail to be impressed enough even to read the stories underneath unless they concern some new destruction to be wrought by the A-bomb. The readers save their marveling for a late model motorcar or a new potato peeler or a new track record set by a race horse. And in like manner my small daughter at the zoo observes the elephant with the same blank stare that persons unlearned in astron omy turn toward the sky when they feel like noticing the heavens at all. It’s too big to mean much to them. If the elephant raises his trunk and starts trumpeting, the little girl cringes in fear, much as the adult does when an Awful storm breaks with thunder and lightning. At the boo, my small daughter reserves her admiration for the tiny birds, snakes, turtles and monkeys. Even the larger exam ples of these species—the os triches, anacondas, huge turtles and gorillas—she refuses to specu late about. She isn’t swayed by the strength, agility and majesty od lions. Perhaps the monsters fright en her when they roar and show their teeth and she hopes that ii she ignores them they will fade like bad dreams. This is the way some persons heed news of atomie reaction. Of course some crazed ones take enormous delight in contemplat ing the destruction and death im prisoned in the atom and are fas cinated by thoughts of the release of doom, but most normal persons confronted with the subject of the atom plead with their eyes and a half apologetic tongue that yon for sake fantasy and discuss food, clothing, politics, football. Their expression is something like the bored pout my little girl wears when she pulls me away from viewing the elephants and leads me to the bird cages. I sup pose that, to her, as to one of the Blind men in the poem, the ele phant is very much like « wg& AT LOMINICK’S DRUG STORE PRISCIPTIONS ARE CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PRESCIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED DRUGGIST PHONE 981 FOR SEPIC TANK REPAIRS—pr cleaning see me. Inspection is free of charge on cess pools or grease traps. I have no hidden charges ^whatsoever. I charge by the gallon only, so you know immediately what it will cost you. Tom Brigman, phone 1297-W. or drop me a’ card. 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Here then are the factors af fecting tippiness or stability in a small boat, as outlined by boat ing expert Willard Crandall: 1) Width. By far the most im portant factor. Just a few inches* can make a difference even a 300-pound fisherman would notice. 2) Bottom Style. Flat bottoms give the least tip, round bottoms the, most, largely because the flats have more effective beam— more width well in the water. The more a round or V bottom tends toward flatness, the more stable it’s apt to be. 3) Flare to Sides. Tip may start just as easily in a boat with sides that lean outward mark edly, but it will stop a lot quick er. 4) Height of Seats. The higher up any weight aboard is, the more tippy the boat becomes. Center of gravity should be kept low— that’s the way it’s usually stated. Low seats do make a difference, especially with narrow boats. 5) Length. This is less impor tant than width, but does play a part. The longer the boat the more there is to be shoved against the water when any tipping starts. 6) Keel. One with some depth or weight to it, or both, will help steady the boat. 7) Height of sides. Last, and least important factor. But high sides do add to tippiness a little, since they catch wind better and add weight higher up. As long as we’re on the subject of boats, I’d like to comment on boat handles. If your wood out board boat is heavy and doesn’t have lifting handles, don’t hesi tate to put some on. You’ll need three; two are placed On the back of the transom, one on each side and the other is put on the front deck right at the point of the bow. It’s best to bolt rather than screw these handles on. They sell for around $2 at marine supply stores. MOTOR{ NEW PREMIU KOTOR OIL City Filling Station Strother C. Pay singer, Watch And Jewelry Repairs BR0ADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street “Let’s go to Purcell’s! 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