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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
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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.
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PREPARE FOR TOMORROWI
On tomorrow’s horizon there will be ample oppor
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opportunities will be to use the ready cash you
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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
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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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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?
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COSTLY LEGS . . . Protecting
valuable assets of her budding
film career, Julia Adams insured
her legs for $125,000 with Lloyds
of London.
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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