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f FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN MAYOR McGUP By John Jarvis THE BAFFLES By Mahoney One week later ... . HERE'S YOUR OLD-EMGLlSH ) STYLE LETTER Art CAKE, AT LAST. WAMT IT GIFT WRAPPED? HO, I'LL just eat IT RIGHT HERE/ South Carolina^ Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility LAW 3 give you the privilege of driving person’s vehicle if you do so to make a living, and have lost your own driving license for violations. ....Here is a question and the answer, which should be of interest to one who may lose his own license for one reason or another. QUESTION: May a person who has lost his driving privileges for failure to post security drive a motor vehicle owned by someone else? BAKER’S FINANCE & INSURANCE CO. LOUIS C. FLOYD, INSURANCE PURCELLS ANSWER: Yes. In order to prevent a person from losing his employment, he may drive a vehicle owned by his employer, provided that the owner of the ve hicle has furnished proof of financial responsibility for any future accidents. This limited driving privU- ege will be shown on the driver’s license. For instance, if you were involved in an accident while driving your own car, and could not make a satisfactory settlement you would be deprived of your license to drive your own car. If you worked for some ; company as a truck driver, you could operate that vehicle but ONLY if the company would assume full responsibility. This still would not permit you to drive your own car. BOWERS INSURANCE AGENCY R. E. SUMMER, AGENCY SECURITY CORPORATION Kuwait Ponders What to Do With $150,000,000 a Year His Highness Abdullah as Salim as Subah, Sheik of Kuwait, faces one of the world’s most pleasant problems—what to do with an in come of $150,000,000 a year. No income taxes cut into this bonanza. There are no restrictions on what he might buy—polo ponies or palaces, gold-plated limousines or block-long yachts. But instead, Abdullah Salim is wisely turning his sudden wealth into a far better way of life for 170,000 people in an ancient and neglected part of the world. A re markable transformation is taking place in the tiny sunbaked Sheik dom of Kuwait at the head of the Persian Gulf, the National Geo graphic Magazine reports in an article by Near East traveler Paul Edward Case. Kuwait rests on a virtual ocean of oil. Beneath its sands are an estimated 16 billion barrels of black gold—a proved petroleum reserve roughly half that of the United States. Tapping this pool at a current ra*e of 800,000 barrels a day, the Kuwait Oil Company, pays the Sheikdom an even 50 per cent of all profits. By dynastic law the Sheik re ceives this money as personal in come. He alone decides what to do with it all. In the last few years, his enlightened decisions have giv en a once-backward country new hospitals, schools, a modern water supply, and an enviable position as potential banker of the Near East. Boom has come in no uncertain terms to Kuwait’s mud-walled cap ital, also named Kuwait. Shiny cars, trucks and giant earth-mov ing machinery rumble through busy bazaars among camels and goats. Arabs in flowing robes, no madic Bedouins and veiled Kuwaiti women mingle with roustabouts from Texas and Oklahoma and businessmen from London. Kuwait works today at the tempo of Times Square transplanted to the desert. There are many signs left of the old way of life. While tankers gulp oil from a 4,000-foot pier extend ing into the Gulf from the new born port-city, Mena al Ahmadi, Kuwait shipwrights still shape teak logs with hand adzes into impro vised dhows for pearling, fishing and trading. Behind the teak gates of Kuwait town, new cement-block buildings are replacing mud houses beside widened, asphalt streets. A new 1,- 200,000 - gallon - a - day distillation plant will suck water from the Gulf, providing the city as well with its first major source ef electric power. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist (This is another in a series of special paid advertisements inserted in this newspaper as public service). I saw wherq a Western state bought a number of farm ma chines in pairs. One of each sort was used in the fields, and then stored under shelter when not in use. The other was not used at all, but just left out in the weath er. At the end of a number of years the ones that had been used each season was still in good shape and serviceable. The machines bought at the same time, not used at all, and just left out in the weather had been all but ruined. We are sure mechanizing our farms fast. That machinery costs a lot of money. But it also does a lot of work. And it will pay off, if we take care of it. Our extension engineer, G. H. Stewart, reminds us that now is the so^t of off season on the farm. That gives us time to paint, fix up, and repair farm machinery, so it will be ready for heavy duty when the call comes from the fields for its use. He says: “The machines should be cleaned, rustproofed where nec essary, and paint applied to ex posed wood and metal parts. Can vases, drapes, and belts should be removed, cleaned, and put in a dry safe shelter where they can not be damaged by weather or rodents. Bearings and other mov able parts should be packed with proper lubricants to prevent the entrance of moisture, which caus es them to rust, corrode, or ‘freeze’ (dry up and stick).’’ Attention and storage will add life to your machinery. The more I travel around, the more I’m impresed with the fact that all farmers have their trou bles. In the fall I rode with the coun ty agent in the great grape sec tion of California. The vineyards were wonderful and the grapes hung in enormous bunches. He told me they used no fertilizer at all on grapes. Only water is add- , ed, for they have practically no rain. So far it looked awful good. But we visited a great winery. There the farmers were getting $35 a ton for grapes. And the Los Angeles market was loaded with ’em. I saw beautiful grapes selling retail there for 4 pounds for a quarter. There I also saw honeydew melons selling 3 for a quarter, fine tomatoes 2 pounds for 15 cents, bananas 6 pounds for a quarter, sweet corn 6 ears for 15 cents, 6 small grapefruit for 10 cents, lemons 7 for 10, cents oranges 2 dozen for 25 cents, very fine lettuce 3 heads for a dime, 3 bunches of beets for 12 cents, and so on. Some things were not so cheap. But the above things were. I knew that the folks who grew those things were really sweating blood. For, after you add harvesting and packing costs, freight, hauling, and handling costs, the farmers must I’ve been around a lot. All in all, you won’t find ’em greener anywhere than here. And at few places are they as green for good, wholesome, year-around living as here on our lands that have known but cotton seriously in our time. Master these other things, as we have cotton, and they hold the promise of a fruitful tomorrow, have gotten practically nothing for that produce. So, folks, you hear tales from other regions. And you hear of an occasional fortune being farm ed from the ground there. But don’t see just the voses. They have their problems too, just as great or greater than ours here, where most of our crops are more stable than their perishable truck and fruit. For with our trees, and grass, and cattle, and cotton, and tobacco, and. general livestock and poultry products, we have many things that will keep, and most of them are generally fn pretty good demand. LAFF OF THE WEEK Hix girls in the office recognised It right away. Mr. 4% represents the Jefferson Standard Jefferson Standard, now guaranteeing 2V4% on policies cur rently Issued, has never paid less than 4% Interest on policy proceeds left on de posit to provide In come. 4% IS THS HIGH EST RATE OP IN TEREST PAID BY ANY MAJOR LIFE INSURANCE COM PANY. Mr. 4% shows how a Jefferson Standard Policy paid $3300 more. Here Is on actual cash comparison... proceeds from a $10,000 policy in another ma jor life insurance company compared to a $10,000 Jefferson Standard policy, both at the same cost. John Blake provided for f«- turs income with s $10,000 life insurance policy. Charles White provided for future Income with a $10,009 Jefferson Standard policy. BUT HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE On Blake’s death, his wife received $50 monthly for 21 years and 5 months, at which time benefits were exhausted. This policy paid only 2%% interest income on funds left in trust. BUT— Your Mr. 4% is: A. T. NEELY, Jr. 1226 Calhoun St. When White died, his wife received $50 a month, too. At the end of 21 years and 5 months, Mrs. White could look forward to 5 years and 6 months mora of $50 monthly payments. She re ceived $3300 more in all from the Jefferson Standard ^ policy. Special Rep. Phone 274 Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S jra Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 LiVing just for to day is short-sighted. Take a long look at the future. Then start build ing for tomorrow by saving here regularly. Your funds will earn liberal dividendftr-4 all accounts are insured up $10,000.00. Our officers will also as sist you in arranging for a mortgage. Come in today. NEWBERRY J Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OP NBWBPRRY KEEPS YOUR MOTOR NEW PREMIUM SINCLAIR OPALINE AEG. U. S. PAT. OFF. MOTOR OIL City Filling Station Strother C. Paysinger, Distributor