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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1953:
PAGE SIX
By TED KESTING
Just what are “custom guns?”
Very few modern-type guns are
made completely from scratch to
a customer’s order. The gunsmith
will at least start with a standard-
type action.
But if we get a production rifle
from a gunsmith and have him
cut two inches off the barrel, we
would not call the rifle a custom
gun. Under these conditions, the
barrel itself wouldn’t even pass as
custom made. On the other hand,
the barrel would be classed as a
custom barrel if it was turned to
special outside dimensions; or if
the bore was made to our specifi
cations in diameter, twist, chamb
ering, throating or number of
lands.
Then comes the question of
whether the custom barrel makes
the rifle a custom gun. Ordinar
ily not, because I believe the rifle
would be referred to as such and
such a model with a custom-made
barrel. If further work was done
on the rifle, such as special hand
engraving or a custom stock add
ed, we could begin to think of it as
a custom gun, according to arms
expert Pete Brown.
A finb custom-made gun is a
work of art and entails a lot of
handwork. I suppose it is for this
reason that people never think of
this country of mass production
specialists as turning out high-
grade custom guns. Nevertheless,
some of the finest and most beauti
ful guirs made in the world are
conceived and turned out in this
country.
Many shooters don’t know that
some of the big arms companies
have excellent custom craftsmen
in their organizations and that
they make highgrade guns to
order. There are equally capable
gunsmiths in some of the private
gunsmithing f irms, as well as
several top small-shop gunsmiths,
who build guns or specialize in
certain phases of custom work.
Custom work is expensive. If
you could see the amount of skill
ed w-ork and time that goes into a
fine custom gun, 1 think you
would be surprised that prices
aren’t higher. Cost depends a lot
on how ornate a job you want. It
is amazing what you can get for
$200 or less. On the other hand,
if you go in for a lot of topnotch
engraving and other special fea
tures, the cost can run up to $2,-
000 and more.
The carpenter ant does a con
siderable amount of damage by
tunneling passages in wet or rot
ting timbers, according to the
American Museum of Natural
History.
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PATTERN
NEW CITIZEN Hedy I,»
Marr, 38, Is now aa American
citizen. The Viennese movie star
came here from Mexico in 1938.
*1 'HAT snake that made its ap-
x pearance at my house last week
is still around. At the moment it is
down the bathtub drain.
I believed the wife when she said
it was a harmless little garden
snake, but banished it from the
house just the same. I thought it
was gone until I started to take a
bath last, night.
I had turned on the water before
putting in the plug. I was letting
it get to the right temperature.
Then behold just as I reached down
to put in the plug that thing stuck
its head out of the drain.
I tried to escape and ran head
long into the bathroom door. I
forgot it was locked.
“Get it out of there,” I screamed
at the boys.
“But it won’t hurt you. Pop,”
they insisted. “It’s only a baby
snake.”
“Why the bathtub?” I asked.
“It’s the only place we could
keep it.”
“Catch it and put it outside,”
I commanded and retreated to my
bedroom. »
An hour later the wife peeped
into the bedroom. “It’s down the
drain again, dear,” says she.
“That’s fine,” says I “Either the
snake goes or I don’t ever take a
bath.”
“Say,” the boys screamed, “that
a good idea. Us too.”
“Now see what you’ve started,”
the wife snorted and departed in
disgust.
As a result I’m still without a
bath, the boys are happy, and the
wife is peeved with all of us.
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Sheer nylon linen makes this
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BY EDNA MILES
I T’S a fact that many a tiny f
wardrobe has been*
stretched and made to seem
larger through the addition
of several blouses.
This spring, a designer lias
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wardrobe. Each one is
budget-priced in fabrics that
make upkeep simple. Some
are in that fragile-looking
but hardy synthetic, nylon
tricot. Others are in pima
broadcloth, acetate rayon,
nylon sheer, orlon-and-silk,
pure silk, nylon linen or
pique.
Colors are vivid or deli
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melon plus the basic black
and white; pink, blue, maize
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One of the most likely
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anytime, anyplace.
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For Bids
The Newberry County School
Board, Mr. J. S. Ritchie, Chairman,
will receive bids for the construc
tion of a new Negro High School
building at Newberry, S. C., until
^:30 IJ.M., E.S.T., on Tuesday, May
5, 1953, at the Office of Newber
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at which time and place all bids
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Plans and Specifications may
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The Newberry County School
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Newberry County School Board
J, S. Ritchie, Chairman
Newberry, South Cfarolina
In the past 42 years we have
had 265 droughts of 2 weeks’ du
ration or longer. That’s a little
over six a year.
These were divided as follows:
117 were from 14 to 21 days in
duration,
79 were from 21 to 27 days In
duration, and
69 of them over 27 days long.
The toll that droughts take from
all crops here is staggering. We
so often build up a high yield
potential with good seed, fertilizer,
etc., only to see it nullified by
drought.
Experiment and experience are
workipg out the details for irri
gating here. Each county already
has some, and a few counties have
quite a bit. Clemson’s Irrigation
man, Lynn, Is kept busy sur
veying irrigation prospects for
farmers over the state. And the
SC* men too help in that field.
They are aiding in the building
of many ponds. We need to hold
I a lot of water if we are to have
It when drought strikes.
WEEDERS
A weeder is a good implement
to run over crops like cotton and
peanuts just as they are coming
up. It breaks the crust, helpiilg
the young plants get through. And
it also kills a lot of tkiy grass and
weeds there in the crop. Used
right, a weeder often saves at
least one freeing. And, with the
high labor, that’s something.
I’ve seen two other sorts of
weeders. They are not farm ma
chines, but geese and sheep.
The geese are used extensive
ly in cotton on the rich lands of
Eastern Arkansas. A goose to the
acre, put in soon after the cot
ton is planted, will keep it clean’
of grass, I was told by a farm
er where I stopped jto ask about
all of those geese I saw.
And down in the Cajun country
of Louisiana I saw them using a
lot of sheep to keep the cane
fields clean. They let the cane
get up a piece, plowing It to hold
grass and weeds down then. Then,
when it is up a few feet high they
turn the sheep in. I was told they
wouldn’t bother the cane leaves
much that had gotten tough by
then. But they were very effect
ive in holding down the young
weeds and grass in the cane mid
dles.
Recently I visited what had
been a rather famous old planta
tion In the mid-state. The county
agent took me there to see the
livestock awakening that’s come.
The gnarled and battered old
mansion and the neglected yard
told of a glory that had faded.
And only a few of the tenant hous
es remained. We saw cattle eat
ing dry straw from the broken-
out windowsN In one, hogs were
sleeping under the dry porch, and
good grass blanketed cotton’s lost
acres around it.
There, where a dozen or more
families were once required, the
man’s college graduate son was on
horseback seeing about the cat
tle. He said they had enough
grass to get through the winter,
but always put up some straw or
coarse hay clipped from the past
ures for winter. The cattle Just
liked a little dry feed too. And :
they looked good. He said he -
handled the whole thing, with a
little help at times.
And, folks, that’s what’s hap
pening at many places in the cot
ton country. That land was rather
rough and cold-n&tured, not suited'
to modern cotton culture. So it
has gone to a better use. At
other places, where fields are *
right and the land suits cotton, I
see this great crop still very
much in the running. But there is
change, much change, going on in
the fields of this state. ^
Back in the late winter we at:
long last had some abundant rains.
The muddy flood waters left their ■
banks, flowed silently through
the alder bpshes, and covered the -
bottomlands along many a creek
and riyer.
This helped replenish the water
in our. great power developments.
And it filled many a rather new
farm pond for the first time. Usual
ly we have enough rainfall to do
that several times a year. But.
of late we have had few heavy
rainfalls. The consequence Is our
reservoirs have been low and our
ground water has got mighty low
too. That made summer droughts
specially destuuctive.
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