The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 20, 1953, Image 7
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEN
Sports Afield
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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.
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FIRST QUALITY
WEEKEND SPECIAL
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49 cent value
Special 29 cents {per yard
Final Notice
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County Taxes
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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?
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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.
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An Ohio congressman wants to
exterminate the Capitol’s cock-
TH£Y CM'T PO '
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ranches. That’s right, drive the
ra#cals out!
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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
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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.
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• 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
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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. Tourist
money is the fastest growing source
of income for Hawaii—even though
it is still running well behind sugar,
pineapple and armed services
spending in size
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