Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER VAN FLEET VISITS UN . . . Gen. James A. Van Fleet, retired commander of Eighth Army in Korea, confers in UN headquarters with UN secretary general Trygve Lie (right), Andrew Cordier, assistant to Lie (left), and ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, chief.U.S. representative at UN. Farmers Ice^ Fuels Kids VOUR FARM MEEDS GASOLINE,VOU €AV? WE'LL GET IT TO YOU RIGHT AWAV Tractors, trucks. . . they all need Gaso line. Make a note to order your supply today. Regular de livery all year ’round. H. D. AGENT SCHEDULE The Home Demonstration Agents, Miss Margie Davis and Miss Barbara Gray have announc ed their schedule for the week of April 6-11 as follows: Monday, April 6—The agents will be in the office all day. Tuesday, April 7—Agents will be in the office Tuesday morning; Vaughnville HDC, 3:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs. W. W. Watkins. Wednesday, April 8—Agents will be in office Wednesday morning; Spring County Councl Meeting at 3:00 p.m. at Newberry Jr. High School. Thursday, April 9—Silveratreet 4-H, 10:30 a.m.; St. Phillips 4-H, 1:30 p.m.; Tranwood HDC, 3:00 4-H, 10:30 a.m.; Prosperity Jr. and p.m. ( Friday, April 10—Stoney Hill Sr. 4-H, 12:46; Jalapa HDC, 3:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Ray Wise. Saturday, April 11—Agents will be in office until 12:00. Folks used to make clothes on spinning wheels . . . now they lose their shirts on them. We liked everything about our ’possum hunts in the night woods of the Dutch Fork in the winter. Last week I told you about our camp fires. We lay around ’em, roasting ’taters and peanuts until old Fido struck a trail or treed. We would get quiet every now and then and listen for him. Even if he was a half mile away, we could hear him across the hills. He was stone deaf, and we always went to him, even if ^ was across the treacherous creek. If he had hunted the woods where we were out pretty well, we .would put our fire out when we left. Most of us wore wool hats. We would turn them inside out and carry some water from the branch to put it out good< with. We were always very fire cconscious in the Fork, for we had to live from our small acreages, and the litter of those woods went into stables with the manure for the following crops. So we didn’t al low woods fires. I never saw but one as a kid, and everyone.turned out to help put it out before it got started good. Old Fido was a sure thing for ’possums. As one of the Colored boys who hunted with us said, “Dat old Fido, he kin jes make ’possums.” His deafness was a disadvantage though. You couldn’t call him off a trail. When he struck one, you just had to stay with him, even though it might be leaving time. He liked to hunt as well as we. And the only way you could ever terminate one was .to catch him and take him home with you. He had on a leather collar. We would hook a bullace vine through it and make him follow us. At first he would hang back and we had to drag him. But soon he tired of hold ing back, reconciled himself to going home, and would follow good. No tree was too big for us to cut, if old Fido treed up it. And he never fooled us. However, we found out that the old adage was true, that the smallest ’possums usually go up the largest trees. Over 6Q million people are now fully insured under the new re quirements of the social security law. Regular employment is neces sary to obtain the highest possible benefit payments when claimed. Amateur Sportsmen STOCK RACES Newbeny Fairgrounds SPEEDWAY Every Saturday Night At 8:15 P. Free Parking & Grandstand Seats Come Early Bring a Friend BIG Events Real Thrillers Laps of RACING! Come out and see the Best Drivers and the Fastest Cars in South Carolina Promoted by F. J. Bland and Buddy Davenport Admission $2, Tax Included Children under 12 FREE I LIKE to do my suffering in pri vate. But I’ve found it impossi ble to do so when you’re waiting your turn in a doctor’s office. I had a golfing date the other day with this doctor friend and he asked me to pick him up at his office. When I arrived he still had a patient to see, including a rather over-stuffed matron who looked as healthy as an ox. I eased into a corner, as if a patient. The nurse grinned, winked, and said the doctor would be glad to see me in a few minutes. “I’m first,” the overstuff lady says. “Yes, ma’am,’’ the nurse says. “My, you’re thin,” the matron says. “What is it, consumption?” •“Me!” I exclaimed. “Madam, Til have you know I never felt better in my life.” - “Well,” she snorted. “You don’t look it. If you’re feeling so good what are you doing here?” “That’s rather a personal ques tion,” says I. “Oh, a hypochondriac,” says she '“All right, madam,” says L “If you must know, they think 1 have leprosy.” “You poor man,” says she. For a while she is silent And then began to squirm and case side-long glances toward me. “Did you say leprosy?” says she. “Yes, ma’am,” says I. “Ain’t it awful.” She squirmed in her seat for a few moments and continued to lean away from me until she had a 45 degree list to port The nurse laughed. “I’ve always considered you a bad influence on the doctor,” says she, but I think this has changed my mind. “What about her?” says L “Nothing wrong with her,” says the nurse. “Just the biggest hypo chondriac in town.” “I don’t think I cap wait any longer,” says she to the nurse. “I’d better come back tomorrow.” She almost jumped from her chair after that statement and scrammed. STRICTLY FRESH A NEW ENGLAND village offl- cial was re-elected town fence-viewer, burial agent and measurer of wood and bark. Sounds like he’s a handy man- about-town. • • • One of ex-King Farouk’s huge palaces will be used to house 30,000 chickens. Heck, the play boy king himself never had a harem that big. Just goes to show, what improvements can be made if you try. • • • A Philadelphia plainclothes policeman fished gambling slips out of a restaurant stewpot hid- ing place. Guess the pot in that game was sweetened a little too much. • * • The Moscow newspaper Prav- da condemned a White Russian science institute for not having produced a single scientific re port in eight years. They prob ably wrote one but couldn’t get it past the censors. Must not have followed the party line. * * • A Chicago housewife hid her husband’s toupee when he made ready to date another woman. Bet he couldn’t top that. FROM SKI IS TO NETS . . • Mary Lois McKUIip, world’s Junior girls ski champion, poses at Cypress Gardens, Florida, in a fish-net FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER s Clcmson Extension Information Specialist HAND IN HAND I like to see couples, young and old, walking hand in hand at times. You know there are no strained relations then. And a harmonious team makes for the finest living. When I came along boy and girl were too bashful for this, or feared teasing so. And life for the oldsters was hard. They seldom, if ever, saw time to walk hand in hand and dream a bit. It Is different now. I often see our fine boys and girls walking hand in hand, unabashed. And a^ the summer camps I see gal lantries often that we did not know. Our most cherished moments now are walking at night, when the kids are at home. Hand in hand we go. And no matter how far we stroll, we never want to turn back. COTTON STANDS It’s about cotton planting time. A good stand means so much in making best yields now that we should do all we can to get ’em. Our extension cotton man, Sam Williams, m&kes these sug gestions : 1. Plant on warm natured, well drained land. 2. Use best seed of high germi nation. 3. Place fertilizer two inches to side or below seed or mix it well with the soil before planting. 4. Treat seed before planting. 5. In case of rain, break crust as soon as dry enough. , 6. The use of a weeder will help get cotton up and keep grass down. 7. Don’t thin until danger of early dying is over. 8. Leave good stand, 2 or 3 stalks to the foot. The value of these pointers has been proven by both experiment and experience. A common mis take is to take out too much cot ton at thinning time. It is a pity to get a good stand and then ruin it by thinning too much. Most of the cotton I saw out West wasn’t thinned at all. And they really make it. They -supply the needed water though, and we haven’t gotten to that yet general ly with cotton. But we do need to leave it about as Sam says above, 2 to 3 stalks per foot of row. HYBRID SEED CORN SHORA Our corn man Woodle, tells me that our supply of good planting seed of adapted strains of hybrid corn is short in South Carolina this year. One thing that will help, he points out, is for us to become ac customed to planting round grains too. You know all corn has some of that sort on the end* of the ears. In the past we have always shelled those off and discarded them from our seed corn. . But since the coming of hybrid corn, which is of necessity higher than the other sort, experiment sta tions have found that the round grains make ju^t as good corn as the flat ones. And they have the advantage of being both cheaper and having more grains to the* bushel. So therd is no reason why we should not use them. In fact there are good rea sons of economy why we should. We have to use a special plate FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1953 in the planter to put grains out. I. understand a soybean plate ream ed out a bit or properly adjusted will handle them. It is a good plan to try it there on the hard ground in the yard to make sure it is putting them out right be fore you go to the field. “MORE EFFICIENT FARMING” “More Efficient Farming” is the theme of our state farm program for 1953., ' j. Now I don’t believe most of us think we are inefficient. But we are. Every one of us could im prove on the way we do things. If we were of a mind to. We are all human. And folks just naturally resist change. We don’t generally improve our meth ods until it becomes necessary. Well, it looks like it has be come necessary for 1963. For our Dr. Rochester points out that it looks like what we have to buy will be higher and what we. sell lower. Now folks, that calls for- a change, if something Isn’t to, pop. About that only avenue open is to tighten up here and there, preventing the leaks of old inefficiencies, and thereby meet. t this squeeze that we are in. Your county agent can likely be of help in figuring on short cuts and efficiencies on your farm. MAJOR WORKMAN ARRIVES IN CITY FROM KOREA Major Jack Workman, who has been on duty for the past year in Korea with the Air Force, arrived in the city Saturday morning to spend a month’s leave with his wife and daughter, Carol at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mc- Crackin on College street. 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