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—-■$r" K "3Z-Z' y FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE Sports Afield . . . BOYS THAT ARE WAY FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist There are four basic types of or eight feet—and a sl<W sink- By J. M. El U C cl r\ bass fishing —• surface, shallow, deep and bottom. Judging by the huge tackle chests you see some anglers carting, you need a lot of plugs to catch bass. Or do you? Just what is the minimum number of plugs you need? Could you get along with just one? We asked Jason Lucas, who has the biggest tackle box I’ve ever seen, and he reluctantly admitted a guy who knows his fishing might be able to do so by clever manipulation of that one plug. Now I don’t expect any bass fisherman will actually believe I mean for him to get along on one or even two or even three plugs. But what follows should give you a hint of how to assemble a well- balanced selection of plugs. A huge majority of tackle boxes that we see are equipped for surface and shallow 1 fishing only. If you were limited to just one plug, Lucas suggests a floating shallow runner, perhaps of natural scale or an orange color. His type of surface lure, on which he gets the most bass, isn’t a surface lure at all but a floater which he re trieves very, very slowly with occasional jerks of the rod tip. You could convert this into a dee6~ plug by adding split shot or lead but you’d have to be very careful not to wreck the action If you were to be a two-plug angler, the other plug would be a sinker. One that sinks quite slowly does very well to depths of six er hovering in midwater looks most natural when worked slowly with little jerks and dead pauses. This means that a man fishing w r here the water is rarely over 10 feet deep or so will generally do best with a slow sinker; but where it’s over that, unless you have the patience of Job, you’ll want something that goes down faster, perhaps a metal lure. For really deep water my favorite is a small, heavy metal pork-rind lure. A thin, flattish one will weave and woddle too much to go down very rapidly, and the smaller, heavy one won’t have much action of its own at reasonable speed, so it needs the action of the rind. A single spinner blade at its head not only gives it a flash but sets up a slight jiggle that gives the rind a good action. PRIVATE GRIFFIN ON DUTY IN PIRMASENS, GERMANY Pvt. Morris Griffin recently re ported for duty with the 32nd Mobile Surgical Hospital in Pir- masens, Germany. Griffin, a medica^ technician, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Grif fin, Route 4, Newberry, entered the Army in June of 1952. He was formerly stationed at Camp Pickett, Virginia. POSTED SIGNS Mortgage Forms, THE SUN OFFICE Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 CITIES CALL 155 FOR PROMPT FUEL OIL DELIVERIES! SERVICE Yes, we’re eager and ready to serve you at any and all times. And you’ll find a full tank of Cities Service fuel oil will relieve all your worries of the cold weath er. Won’t you let us serve you ? Farmers Ice & Fuel Co. GEORGE W. MARTIN, Manager Wholesale Distributor CITIES SERVICE Petroleum Products 618 Drayton St. Phone 155 Newberry, S. C. PREPARE FOR TOMORROWI On tomorrow’s horizon there will be ample oppor tunities for everyone. The best way to grasp these opportunities will be to use the ready cash you have accumulated. Start saving now for this bright future. Open an account here and add to it regularly. All accounts insured up to $10,000.00. NEWBERRY J? Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY We didn’t put on shoes until the frosts of winter had bitten down rather hard. From late March until early November our feet were as free as the birds of the air. Spring saw them tender. But they soon toughened from the flint rocks and briers of the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork where we came up. They spread out and grew naturally, unhampered by shoes, except for two hours on Sunday. And that two hours was torture indeed. Naturally, our feet were grow ing. And when we pulled our shoes off, they spread out in solid comfort. Then when we corralled them for a brief spell on Sundays for church, they cut up a lot. First, we could hardly get the shoes on. They were what we had left from winter. And they were getting too tight when we pulled them off. Naturally those spread feet with tough caloused soles just didn’t fit in those things then. But they had to go there, and we forced them on. We bobbed to church a few hun dred yards down the road. By the time we got there the irritations had set in. And there would often be a blister on the heel and that seam at the bottom of the foot was kindling a fire at that point. First came Sunday School. It lasted an hour, and I thought it would never finish. While the good teacher warned us about a fiery hereafter, I was utterly con sumed by the reality of a burning present. Really it was like coals of fire along that seam at the bot tom of my foot. Occasionally it would get so bad, I’d slip one shoe off at a time, and how soothing the godly air was for a moment! When I did that I really feared my stocking would be smoking and attract attention. But I dared not let anyone see my shoeless foot there in church! And, in a few minutes discretion caused me to slip that eased foot back into that torture chamber called a shoe. Then gradually I would un tie the other and repeat the pro cess. Platoon Age Ends Football next fall is going to take on a different look, all because the National Collegiate Athletic Associ ation killed the two-platoon (free- substitntion) which in turn killed football in some 50 small colleges. The new regulation will bring back the era of the all-around “iron- man” offensive and defensive per former . Ed Price has been given a new five-year contract as head football coach at the Univer sity of Texas, the southwest Con ference champions of 1952 . . . Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly, the world’s best woman tennis player, was named “athlete of the year” for 1952. the second successive time . . Leroy (Satchel) Paige signed his 1953 contract with the Browns for a reported $20,000. Paige is probably the oldest player in big-league baseball no one knows for sure but he Is somewhere be* tween 45 and 50. I REMEMBER" BY THE OLD 7’HERS From Mrs. C. D. Hale, Route 2, Mart, Texas: I remember when af ter a quilting bee a cat was put in the middle of the quilt and the one he jumped out by was supposed to be the next bride. From Mrs. Melvin Ingelretson, Thornton. Iowa: I remember when my mother made her own mat tresses. They were made of feather ticking, buttoned down the center. There were ten children in our fam ily and mother made mattresses for all the beds. Every fall, in corn picking time, she would take a sack and go into the field and pick the softest corn husks for each ticking. From Mrs. J. J. Ms/kle, Under hill, Vermont: I remember when my grandmother used to plump up the comhusks in her mattress each morning. The furniture in her room was a set of valuable antiques. She made tallow candles in the old- time molds, kmt her stocking and mittens for us children. I can still remember getting into the spool bed in the guest room that was al ways mine; the fragrance of sweet clover that she always put in Her linen chest: the caraway cookies and strings of apples drying over the old range; and the copper ket tles and brass candlesticks. One of the candlesticks and snuffer and tray are today among my treas ures. From Mrs. H. E. Chrism an, Scottsbhiff, Nebraska: I remember when I made all my husband’s shirts. They were the old fashioned kind that had to be pulled on over the head. From Mrs. W. H. Taylor, 3451 Summer Street, Eureka, Calif.: I remember when I Lived in Kansas the snow was so deep we had to reach down to hang our washing on the clothesline Also clerking in a store from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m for $3.75 a week. THANKS It’s sort of personal like. But I got a letter from a reader in Atlanta along about Christmas that I think I’ll quote you a bit from. i It says in part, “I have taken the Press and Banner ever since I left Abbevelle forty-odd years ago. I get a great kick out of your articles ‘Boys Are That Way'. I have a friend down the hall and every Friday when I receive my Press and Banner I take it down there to his office and we enjoy reading ‘Boys Are That Way’ together. The past fall 1 visited a friend in Dallas, Texas, who came from Winnsboro, South Carolina. I asked him if he read your articles, and he said he did not. I told him he was missing the best thing in his home paper. He read one then, and tells me he hasn’t missed one since.” Thanks a lot, friend. That made the year start off good. SqURCES OF FARM MONEY I * In 1925 South Carolina farmers got 69.7 percent of their dollars from cotton. The past year they got only 40.2 percent of them from cotton. In 1925, 8.2 percent of our total farm income was from tobacco. The past year 21.3 percent of the farm dollar came from tobacco. In 1925, livestock accounted for 10.4 percent of our farm income. The past year it accounted for 20.2 percent of our income, ac cording to our Dr. Rochester. Thus we see i» bird's eye pic ture of a changing agriculture. Not that cotton is so much less. But the incomes from other things are so much more than they were back then. Diversification grows. The income is up. And there are fewer folks on the farms to di vide it with. That makes better living for those who stay and apply themselves there. The field demonstrations show new things. Then the county agents arrange tours for folks to read the new lessons from the soilthere. They are gradually adopted. Agriculture moves on to better times. And the country is better clothed and better fed from Mother Earth. AGNEW SAYS My friend and classmate, Hugh Agnew, president of the South Carolina Farm Bureau, tells me that cotton for the past 14 years that he has figured it, averaged 35 percent higher in May than it was in October. That is in line with what I once heard an old cotton planter say. He said the market was usually down when the farmer had it to sell. But that it always went up in time to bait him for a big acre age again about planting time. We have seen many periods of cheap cotton in my time. And, as i implied above, it usually got that way when the farmer had to sell it. For most of ‘em had obligations to be met at the harvest and could not hold it for the better price that usually came in the spring. And cheap cotton was a vicious thing. The cheapest it got, the more a fellow needed to meet his obligations. So he planted more and more. And the race was to the death for many, eco nomic death. The fellow who was able to hold cotton usually came out all right. For 'it has always gone up in time. But the tragedy of many holding instances is a fellow would eventually feed the pinch so that he was sold out when it was near or at bottom. That left him with an empty bag or a debt carried over, while his self-same cotton often made others rich, who could hold it a little longer until daylight showed again in the market. In late years the government loan has been a godsend to many. Through it, they were able to get needed money In the fall. Often that was as much and sometimes more than the stuff would bring them. But they retained title to it. And then in the next year or so when cotton went back up, as it always has, they got the pure gravy that their great product in herently carried. And that was gravy that had not reached them before. Yes, that government loan has been a great thing. And to think, it hasn’t cost the government a thing either. In fact the govern ment too has made a lot of money on that cotton. Cotton is a natur al for orderly marketing. It will keep for days or decades. No other great staple crop will do that. So then why not have a system of supports whereby the consumer will get his cotton at the current market price along, while the producer gets the benefit of the rises that are inherent in the cotton market. Of course, it has its low spots too. But the trouble has been that they usually prevail when the farmer has to shake loose from his fleecy staple in the past. TO WED PEN PAL . . . Lily WiL son, 19, of Liverpool, England, arrives in New York bearing 1,000 letters received in eight years from fiance Cpl. Charles Christ mas, 22, of Richmond, Va„ whj Is returning home from Korea. EASY. BY HELEN HALE It’s easy to glamorize your veg etables if you’ll follow a few sim ple cooking tricks with the com mon types that you serve often. Give them a new place in the menu with these treatments: Chopped, cooked spinach is a wonderful dish when you place it in a casserole, cover with cream sauce and top with mushroom caps. Heat in moderate oven just long enough to heat through. Glazed onions look beautiful around a roast, as a garnish and as a vegetable. Mix 4 tablespoons melted butter, 3 tablespoons lemon juice and ft. cup honey and cover cooked whole onions with this. Spoon over as you heat them through just to glaze them. Peas will have that really dis tinctive garden flavor if you add some chopped mint or parsley or both during the last few minutes of cooking time. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Spiced Tongue Slices (Serves 8) 1 beef tongue 2 tablespoons salt Water to cover 3 pieces celery 12 whole cloves 2 bay leaves 12 whole peppers 2 cups sugar 2 cups vinegar 2 cups water 6 small onions, thinly sliced Wash tongue and cover with salted water. Add celery and spices. Cook slowly until tender, about an hour per pound. Skin \ and slice. Cook sugar, vinegar \ and 2 cups water for 10 minutes. \ Pour over tongue. Add onions. Store in cool place and use as ‘ desired. Several small servings of left over vegetables can be combined with a cheese sauce and served in hollowed-out, cooked onions for a special treat. Cooked parsnips are really de licious when topped with melted butter, brown sugar and mustard. Bake to heat through. Any vegetable will rate attention if you brown butter carefully anc add a few fine bread crumbs to il before pouring over cooked vegeta ble. Add zip to treamed green beam by blending in a few drops of onior juice to the cream sauce while you make it. 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Write for FIVE DAY FREE TRIAL, post paid to you. no cost or obligation except this: when you write for it. it is agreed that you will mail it back at the end of five days if not satisfied, since it is not a sample. NATIONAL LABORATORIES. — LODI. CALIFORNIA GOP EYEING POSTAL JOBS WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — The freeze of government jobs order ed by the new Republican admin istration will have far reaching effects. That is the general con sensus from Capitol Hill today. No jobs pertaining to the gov ernment, in post offices or Social Security offices on state levels can be filled without an OK from the Republicans. This word came today simul taneously with an order that a list of 40,000 present postmasters throughout the country must be turned over to the new Admin istration within the next two weeks. It is believed that this list will be reviewed with an eye to plac ing Republican appointees in all key positions of the Post Office Department throughout the coun try. One source stated here that the Republicans intend to use the list to determine what postmasterships held by Reppublicans at the be ginning of the Roosevelt Admin istration were replaced by Demo crats. These posts presumably would be filled again by Republi cans and the present postmasters asked to “resign.” What's He Up To? 1.-»\\j; rfVlt RESTo/»‘ ^ ■ X ; - COSTLY LEGS . . . Protecting valuable assets of her budding film career, Julia Adams insured her legs for $125,000 with Lloyds of London. — <?v • V. “Non! I do not wish to finance wiz you! I wee] finance wiz PURCELLS!” “Ah! Zoz low PURCELLS rates are nerfull And they finance any car ed anyplace 1 Mala oul-” Purcells “Your Private Bankers’* 1418 Main St Newberry \ & il ni ' K Something New has been added! A hat bar on the first floor in which you may now choose yours, if you wish to pay less than five dollars. A Linen and Drapery department with many new items and where you may have whatever help with your drapery prob lems you wish. These new departments are provided to further make our store one that you may well be proud of as a Newberry business institution. Come to Carpenter’s