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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN Sports Afield • • By TED RESTING Jason Lucas says fly-rod fishing is simple, but it is simple only when three things are right: one must have a suitable rod; one must get a line to match it; and one must learn correct casting technique. So let’s consider today the problem of selecting a rod. The number and variety of rods shown in catalogues is frighten ing—long rods, short rods, light? rods, heavy rods; rods with act ions described as nymph, wet-fly dry-fly, bass-bug, parabolic, hyper bolic. Lucas advises a rod some where between 7^ and 8 feet, and usually weighing betwen 3^ and 4 ounces. (Not that weight means anything, since the grip and reel seat has much to do with that, but nothing to do with the action or ^strength). You wonder if there isn't dan ger of breaking such a light rod, Certainly; but anyone who is like ly to break it would be almost as likely to break a heavy rod. In the whole history of fishing, a fish has never yet broken a rod; it’s the user who does it. Let’s digress here a moment to discuss the “unbreakable glass rod, ,fly or casting. You’ve seen salesmen demonstrate it by bend ing the tip around in a circle to touch the butt. All they were really doing was showing that the rod was about useless for casting purposes; it was designed for bending into a circle, not for fish ing. Any rod with good action can be broken by considerably less mishandling. Bending a rod by hand shows nothing whatever about its action—except that it hasn’t any. Of what material should the rod be? For one of moderate means, and especially for the beginner, Lucas recommends that it be hol low glass, since it will require less care than bamboo, and won’t take a set if improperly handled or stored—not that it won’t have some limits in these respects, too. And in the lower price ranges, it will be stronger than a bamboo, though not unbreakable if badly mistreated. How can one tell if a rod in a store has dry-fly action? The best way is to run a line through the guides, fasten it well out in front, and pull a reasonable amount, with the butt about at right angles to where the line is attached. Or, you can make a pretty good guess by flipping the rod gently and quickly; then the butt part should remain quite straight, the front taking a nice graceful bend. Watch And Jewelry Repairs BROADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street Carolina Remnant Shop Nylon Wool Blends Suiting’s Toney Tweed Prints Rayons Taffetas Crinkle Cloth Crib Sheets Drapery Curtain Material Outings Pinpoint Nubby Notions All at Popular Prices FIRST QUALITY WEEKEND SPECIAL WHITE PLISS <6REPE 36 INCHES \^IDE 49 cent value Special 29 cents {per yard Final Notice i * ' i \ County Taxes K There will be a penalty of added to all unpaid taxes at the close of business March 31st, 1953 All taxes not paid by April 15th will go into execution with further penalties and will be placed in the hands of the tax col lector. Please see the undersigned and ar range your taxes and save these heavy penalties. J. RAY DAWKINS, County Treasurer FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist WATCH MEAT Hog killing time has now be come a memory, until the frosts of winter come again. By the way, how is your meat keeping? Better watch it now and try to make it safe from bugs. They ruin a lot of it each spring. Your coun ty agent has a supply of Clemson Extension Bulletin 77, “Pork for Carolina Farms,” that covers this point, along with others. WHICH HYBRID CORN THIS YEAR Corn planting time brings up the subject of which ones to plant in 1953. Our fellows tell me that good hy brid seed are going to be scarce this year due to last year’s drought. Our experiment station tells us which sorts they have found best. For the up-state they recommend Dixie 17 as a white corn and NC 27 as a yellow hybrid. For the Coastal Plain the yellow one is Dixie 18 and the white one, Coker’s 811. Even better hybrids will soon be ready. 0ne of these is Coker's 911. No seed is available yet though. It is evident that there will not be enough seed of these to go aropnd. There are others that you can substitute. Ask your county agent which of them looks best in your area. He likely tested out a number last summer. WINTER WOODS I like the silence of winter woods, when the ice even chokes the usual murmur of the creek. Seems as if we don’t have much weather like that any more. As a kid, on the way to school, we could often walk the branch and not get our feet wet. Maybe milder winters have something to do with greater in sect troubles now. We live in a changing world. Change, change, the constancy of it! Nothing is more sure. RURAL PROGRESS The Negro home demonstration women of Newberry have 43 re sult demonstrations in “Home Im provement’’ under way. And each of their groups entertained their community 4-H Clubs with Christ mas parties. In Cherokee county, demonstra tions were given them by their agent in canning and freezing meats. A total of 290 cattle were slaughtered by different families for home use following this. In Allendale all of the Negro home demonstration clubs gave donations to the T. B. drive. In Anderson 20 homes have sign ed up for their “Home Improve ment” tour in May. These are making improvements such as bathrooms, hot and cold water, painting, screening;, repairing;, slip covers, draperies, etc. Better conditions for better liv ing is their aim. WATER HOLES Riding with County 4 Agent Bryant of Lee. I noticed an oc casional new-dug hole, usually at a low spot. He told me they were water holes. They have recently dug over 50 of ’em. Most of them are for water for the stock that’s coming on many of cotton’s lost acres. And some are being used primarily as sources of irrigation water, he said. One of the latter wa^ on the G. H. McCutchen farm. He got a fine stand of grass last year as far as his irrigation reached. Be yond there he didn’t get any. He fertilized his pond heavy, using complete fertilizer, and then some extra nitrogen in the form of Cal- Nitro, ammonium nitrate, and cot ton seed meal. Bream put in there last June would surprise you now. They grew like young corn. STRICTLY FRESH AN Atlantic City, N J., citizen ^ was arrested with 85 Coast Guard anchors in his truck. Was he singing “Anchors Aweigh” at the time? • • « Senators protested when Senate barber shop barbers were told not to take tips. Guess you just can’t abridge the right of a senator to give money away. • * • An Ohio congressman wants to exterminate the Capitol’s cock- TH£Y CM'T PO ' TMZTD ME* l\\\ ranches. That’s right, drive the ra#cals out! • • « donors in Cambridge, >. get scriptlike tickets re- deenfttble tor a pint of beer for each Ipint of bkiod donated. Do you Jpppoee they call it -blood r*** BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER The cellar, the smoke house, and the corn crib, they were our forts at home in the Dutch Fork. Yes, and the garden should be added to that. Many cherished memories cen ter around tjiese things. It was * in the cellar that we kept our varied array of canned things. There they would not freeze in winter, would stay cool in summer, and the semi-darkness kept the products from bleaching out. Potatoes, • both Irish and sweet, found a dry bed in the straw that was renewed fresh, there each season. And the milk was kept in crocks that sat on the cool ground down there. At times, when it was hot, I hid down ther* in the cool to get out of work. Sometimes when it rained a lot, water would seep in down there and mess up the place for a while. But that didn’t happen often. I dreaded cleaning it out after the water soaked up. And In the smoke house is where we'stored the broom straw, meat, lard, and soap that we made ourselves about twice a year. The Kraut barrel sat in a corner, and onions and red peppers were bunched and hung from the raft ers. Empty fruit jars and all man ner of bottles, jugs, and bags were kept in there too. A shed went off from one side of it. There is where the wash bench stood and wood was stored in the dry. Sometimes they failed to emfoty that last “blueing” water from the tub and it sat there until the next week and caught large black and blue flies. Every nubbin of corn was care fully gathered from the fields and stored in the crib. That was the most important stuff we had. We ate it in 3 forms, meal, grits, and big hominy. We cooked big homi ny ourselves in the wash-pot, with hardwood ashes thrown In to soft en it and make the outer husks come off easily. Through chickens, corn gave us poultry and eggs. Through the cows, milk, butter, whipped cream, cottage cheese, and beef. Through hogs it meant meat products and lard. And to the mute it meant power for our farming. When drought took most of our corn crop, as it sometimes did, that brought stringent times until the next crop came in. Usual ly a neighbor who fared better would bring a load to help out. And the Dutchman’s garden worked all the time. From it came everything from sauce and season ings to staples in every season. I hated working in there. The rows were too short to plow good, and the grass grew so fast and rank. Jesus Inspired His.Followers to Do Great Things TF we were to disregard the ± things about Jesus which make Him the unusual figure that He is, we would still find that He stood as a remarkable figure in the pageant of history. Other men have become famous for the books they have written, power they have won, organiza tions they have founded, or codes and laws which they have created. But Jesus wrote nothing, organ ized only teachers and evangelists, and established no codes. He did not even organize His teachings in codified form. There was something casual about His life, yet this apparent casual ness seems to have been part of God’s purpose. The Chris tian religion, like the Master Him self, was not to become a circum scribed thing, but was to take a free course. Perhaps it was essential to the future well-being of Christianity that such an attitude as this re mained with the early church. The problems to come were many. If there had been no room to ad just to changing conditions, the church would have lacked much of its early vitality. In this way we see the general pattern of His effective influence. The Master, who did not write a book, inspired what was to be come the greatest book of our time. Though He had no formal organization of His own. He so inspired the disciples that they carried on after Him and became Christian leaders. Their church became so well organized it spread out across the world, finding bases for operation in many countries. Later it went still further to reach, every part of the globe. These things are being done to day. With the strength and in spiration found in the New Testa ment, Jesus* twentieth century disciples are still working and building the structure based on His teachings. It is our privilege, as friends of Jesus, to carry on. • Prr sklent Eisenhower’s top aides i .d congress they see little chance of drastic cutbacks in de fense and foreign-aid spending now and that it is questionable whether the budget can be balanced in the coming fiscal year. This bears out previous predictions of spokesmen in the administration. t • The nation’s production of goods and services last year was the highest in history. It rose to $346 billion, a 5 per cent gain over dollar volume in 1951. Price in creases, however, accounted for about half of this rise, so that the actual expansion in physical vol ume was around 2.5 per cent. De fense purchases in 1952 took about 14 per cent of total output • Secretary of State Dulles and his department, which is having its troubles with Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, has announced that the department does need a shake- up and that he fs just the man to do it. At the same time he denied that department policies are being “dictated” by Senator McCarthy or other congressional investiga tors. > • Farmers welcomed the Eisen hower administration’s announce ment that it would continue to sup port butter and other dairy prices at 90 per cent of parity for an other year. The announcement was made in the middle of a roaring debate over declining farm prices on the senate floor. Even as the de bate raged, the Agriculture Der- partment reported that the general level of farm prices dropped 1.48 per cent between mid-January and mid-February. It was the sixth consecutive monthly decline and TT" LAFF OF THE WEEK " & . </ • ; V£:. O ' i.— V.' “Don’t think she can make tt tonight, Joe—bridgework’s busted.’ BUTCHIE © "Ah reckon Ah can pay cash, podnahl Ah just collected a full year's dividend on my savings account at Arlington Federal." JTART saving for your youngsters' future. Reg ular additions made to your insured savings accounts—plus our annual dividend add up to a college education or * start in business! Open those accounts now! —- Accounts insured up to $10,00(1 NEWBERRY 7 Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION j it sent prices about 17 per cent be- 1 low the record high of February. 1951. • Some fairly sharp price rises occurred when the government jerked price ceilings from another 12 billion dollars’ worth of goods, including cigarettes, nearly all groceries and two basic defense metals — copper and aluminum. Copper increased in price by 3 cents per pound and some cigarette makers raised their prices. The Office of Price Stabilization pre dicts that prices may continue to increase on some items for a short time. • President Eisenhower said in his recent news conference he would be willing to meet Premier Stalin face to face and attempt to thresh out differences between the East and West. There was a con dition to the offer, however, that makes such a meeting highly un likely. That condition: any agree ment made would have to be self- enforcing—that is, if there were safeguards against violation. The Russians have consistently reject ed such agreements. • Hawaii is having a spectacu lar boom. With the question of statehood under discussion in Washington, visitors are flocking to the islands. Some 60,000 visitors lolled on Hawaiian sands last year. That record rush compared with a tourist trade of 51,500 in 1951. Overflow reservation requests for the current season suggest a still bigger influx during 1953. 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