The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 15, 1953, Image 3

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/ # FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1953 The Capital Life Quartet will present a program of vocal numbers next Tuesday night In the New berry Community Hall during the annual Ladies Night meeting of the Newberry Exchange club. Pic tured, left to right, are Eddie Williams, first tenor; Bill Jordan, second tenor; Ward Galley, Jr., bari tone; Carrere Salley, bass; seated is Willard Brask, accompanist. Prosperity Items The May meeting of the Pros perity Garden club was held last Monday afternoon with'Mrs. T. A. Dominick. Mrs. G. W. Harmon talked on Iris. She had an arrangement of Iris and showed specimens of some of her Iris which are now blooming. After her talk, the arrangement was given to the member who drew the lucky slip. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter was winner. Miss Blanch Kibler gave glean ings. The hostess served cookies and punch. Mrs. J. A. Counts was hostess to the Dogwood Garden club last Monday afternoon. Mrs. Moody Bedenbaugh and Mrs. J. A. Wil liams were invited guests. Mrs. W. C. Barnes, program leader, discussed the culture of Iris. Mrs. H. B. Hendrix read two Mothers Day poems for gleanings. In a drawing contest conducted by Mrs. H. L. Shealy, Mrs. B. C. Bedenbaugh and Mrs. D. H. Ha mrtt > Jr. were winners. The hostess assisted by her daughter, Mrs. B. C. Bedenbaugh, | served a salad plate with iced tea. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chappell and Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Hawkins, en tertained the members of the sen ior class of the Prosperity school, Friday evening, May 8, at .the Lions club house on Lake Murray. Mary Avant Chappell, “Bunny” and Mike Hawkins are mascots of the class. Supt. and Mrs. C. E. Hen drix and Mrs. B. T. Young, class sponsor, were also present. A buffet supper was served. After supper the group enjoyed dancing. Mrs. Jo Frank Browne was hostess to the Literary Sorosls, Friday afternoon with eighteen members present. Miss Ethel Counts, substituting for Mrs. Gurdon Counts, gave a timely and informative paper on plastics. 1 During the business session, plans for next year's programs were discussed.* Mrs. W. E. Han cock checked the circulation of books. During the social period a de lectable salad plate, iced tea and strawberry short cake was served. Mr., and Mrs. H. O. Newman and their two children, Kay and Bob, attended a Newman Family Reunion in Chester Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cochran and their two children of Ander son were Sunday guests of Mr. Cochran’s parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Cochran and Mrs. Jake Wheeler and family. Mrs. Heyward Singley of Co lumbia visited Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Luther Sunday. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wessinger" were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pinson of Cross Hill, and Mr?. Rudolph Oswald and her children and Miss Elizabeth Domi nick of Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Beden baugh of Easley spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy Bedenbaugh and Mrs. J. A. Counts. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Joyper of Savannah, Ga. were guests of Mr. Joyner’s sister, Mrs. Boyd Bedenbaugh last Monday and Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Counts and their little daughter, spent Mother’s Day with Mr. Counts’s mother, Mrs. J. A. Counts. Miss Drucie Connelly of Co lumbia College spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dove Connelly. William C. Ross of Pensacola, Fla., Field Director of the Ameri- / SEARS shop comfortably in the privacy of your own home PHONE 911 ok COME IN PERSON AND SHOP FROM THE WORLD'S LARGEST MERCHANDISE STOCKS It’s so easy to shop the catalog way. You save time, money, and effort. You have a wider choice of selections in everything from diamonds to doorknobs. * If it’s for the family, the car, the home, or the farm ... Sears has it. Phone or visit Sears Catalog office today. FAST SERVICE.. . Order the merchandise you need t'dny in the week pick up your order at Sears order office. later y ^^^SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Caldwell Street Newberry THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE 1 REMEMBER BY THE OLD TIMERS From Mrs. John Pluck, Blairs- ville, Pennsylvania: I remember when grandfather would have a field of wheat to cut by July 4 the other farmers would come and help all day. The wives would help grandmother cook the big dinner and supper and she would always try to have new potatoes from her garden and young chickens. -And in the evpning they would dance in the bam. From Mrs. Katie Cooper, Okmul gee, Oklahoma: I remember when my mother sheared the sheep, washing the wool, and sent it to the cording mill to be corded. Then she would spin the thread to make blankets. gloves. jackets and sweaters for the entire family. From Mrs. G. E. Alkise, Long Beach, Calif.: I remember when our folks made vinegar by putting water and a piece of brown paper in an empty keg and keeping it warm back of the stove. The brown paper made a jelly like sub stance called “mother” that made the vinegar. From Mrs. Frank Steffen, Bow- bells, North Dakota: I remember when we lived in Minnesota. I was 15-years-old and my sister seven teen. Our brothers hired us to plow for them so they could get a job on a threshing machine. I plowed with a Sulky plow and sis ter with a gang plow. We earned five dollars with which we bought some cloth and made our fall out fits. Well-Planned Water Conservation i Helps Prevent Damage From Drouth can Red Cross, visited his moth er, Mrs. J. E. Ross and his wife’s parents, Mn. and Mrs. W. C. Barnes last week. Sunday guests of Mrs. Gurdon W. Counts were Mrs. A. K. Ept- ing, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reagin and their son Earl, of Greenwood, and Mr. and Mrs. Voight Epting of Pacolet. Miss Anne Bedenbaugh of Win- throp College spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dhent A. Bedenbaugh. Mr. and Mrs. John Schrum of Lincolnton, N. C. spent the week end with Mr. Schrum’s mother, Mrs. E. O. Counts. Miss Phyllis Wise of the Uni versity of S.- C.; Miss Pat Wise of the University of Ga.; and Frank Wise, Jr., of Atlanta and the University of Ga. spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Pat E. Wise. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Richards and their son Tommy of Heath Springs spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Young. Mrs. J. F. Browne and Mrs. P. W. Smith accompanied Mrs. George S. Wise of Columbia to Clemson Sunday for the Mother’s Day celebration. Spence Wise of Columbia is a student at Clemson. Miss Ellen Wheeler of Tamas- see, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cox and their two sons, Charles and George of Charlotte, and Mrs. John Little of Clinton visited Mrs. Jacob S. Wheeler, Sr. over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kislovitz and their two children, Andy and Amanda of New York City, are visiting Mrs. Kislovitz’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Luther. Mrs. W. D. Moore of Newberry spent the weekend with Miss Susie Langford. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Williams visited Mrs. Williams’ mother, tyrs. H. P. Wicker in Greenwood Sunday. Mrs. Wicker is recup erating from a recent^ eye opera tion at the home of her nephew in Greenwood. Mrs. J. L. Counts and Miss Annie Hunter, spent the weekend in Columbia with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foster. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Pugh of Charlotte, N. C.; Miss Kathryn rtigh of Columbus, Ga., and their two children, Jimmy and Anne of Laurens spent the weekend with Mrs. R. T. Pugh. H. D. AGENT SCHEDULE Misses Margie Davis and Bar bara Gray, Home Demonstration Agents, announce the schedule for the week of May 18th through the 23rd. The demonstration will be “Making Patient Comfortable in Bed.” Monday, May Home Visits. 18th: Office; Tuesday, May Home Visits. 19th: Office; Wednesday, May 20; Office; Mt. Bethel Garmany HDC at the school house. Thursday, May 21st: Office; New Hope Zion HDC at 3:00 p.m. at Mrs. Annie Senn’s home. Friday, May 22nd: Office; O' Neal HDC at 3:30 p.m. at Mrs. Frank Dennis’ home. Saturday, May 23rd: Office until noon. (By J. B. EARLE) Water is a universal need. Man can live longer without food than without water. Have we stopped to think what it means when we see water loaded with soil flow ing over our land and in our streams? In crop production from 350 to 700 pounds of water are required for each pound of dry plant tissue *pro- duced.. If all the water needed to produce a 4 ton crop of alfalfa hay was on top of the ground at one time it would be 24 inches deep. Water one inch deep over an acre amounts to 27,154 gallons. Thus we see that 651,696 gallons are required to produce 4 tons of alfalfa hay. .To produce one bushel of corn requires 4,725 gallons of water. In the production of 100 bushels on an acre, the amount of water transpired is equal to a layer about sixteen Inches deep over the whole acre. About 1300 gallons of water are required to produce one pound of steak. 37 gallons of water go into the crops for one slice of bread and 14 gallons of water into a helping of potatoes. Every year some farmers lose money because of drough. Most areas that have droughs some sea sons get more water than is need ed during the other seasons. Then excess runoff, soil erosion, and floods damage the crops and the land. Thousands of farmers cooperat ing with soil conservation dis trlcts in this county have found that a well-planned soil and water conservation program properly ap plied to the land helped them de crease or prevent damage from drouth. In South Carolina a total of 3, 571 farm ponds have been built by District cooperators. In terest is increasing as indicated by the number of ponds built dur ing 1952. About one-third of the total, 1067, were built last year Farmers have learned to use grass, stubble mulching, contour cultiva tion and other conservation mea sures to stop as much water as they can where it falls and store an aiVitional amount in farm ponds. At the Soil Conservation Ser vice Experiment Station at Wat kinsville, Georgia, with a 50 Inch rainfall 21 per cent ran off when cotton was grown continuously on Class III land as compared to 9 per cent when a three-year rota- j tion of cotton, small grain,, and lespedeza was followed. At this Station run-off from sericea les pedeza was only 7 per cent. When water is saved, soil and fertilizer are saved. When water runs off, soil is washed away. Water—a provision of nature, is a necessity of life. Though the average person drinks less than half a gallon of liquid in the course of a day, the daily per capita use of water for domestic and industrial purposes in the United States is over a thou sand gallons. We need to be come concerned about water con servation and management before our reservoirs get low or floods come. As population and national defense needs increase, the strain on the country’s resources will in crease, and steps must be taken to conserve water, our most fund amental resource, and to use it more wisely. Livestock Needs Water—Farm ponds provide a year-round source of water for livestock and produce fish for food and fun. Milking cows need four pounds of fresh water for each pound of milk pro duced. Free access to water at all times is essential for high pro duction of livestock. Water makes up over 60 per cent by weight of a calf’s body. A horse needs ten to twelve gallons daily, a beef cow drinks about ten gallons daily, a 175 pound hog consumes 1% gallons daily, and 1,000 turkeys require 260 gallons daily. Water conservation and soil conserva tion are both needed to safeguard us from future want. SCS tech nicians help farmers with farm ponds and other conservation mea sures needed to put each acre to its proper use and treat each acre according to its needs. Farm ponds make the best use of some acres. Industry requires great amounts of water. To process 1 ton of bleached paper pulp requires 53,- 000 gallons, to bleach 1 ton of cotton goods requires 60,000 to 80,000 gallons. 1 ton of steel re quires 65,000 gallons of water for processing. 260 gallons are re quired in preparing the wool for a man’s suit of clothing and 1 pound of rayon requires 1,000 gal lons. From 1929-1952 the South im proved its income from manufact uring at a rate 50 per cent faster than that of the other 32 states according to an editorial in the Greenville News on June 30, 1952. The gain in the South during that period was 5.16 times. So we see erosion affects every day. The solution is to conserve soil and water by treating water sheds from the top, to begin with, and continue down stream until entire watersheds are protected. Water should be stopped, in so far as possible, where it falls. We have taken soil and water for grafted. We can no longer afford to take a short sighted view of the problem of erosion and run-off water. Each year our population increase is equal to another state of South Carolina. We need to look upstream and work downstream to anchor our soil with vegetation and other conservation measures, to con serve our soil, and safeguard our future. Cadet Summer Earns Award Cadet R. E. Summer, Jr., a stu dent at The Citadel, has earned gold stars for academic achieve ment during the Winter Quarter, according to an announcement made by Colonel L. A. Prouty, Registrar of The Citadel, The Mili tary College of South Carolina. Cadet Summer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Summer of 2002 Harrington street. Gold Stars are awarded to those cadets who have made grade point ratios of not less than 2.67 in the work of the past quarter. This is roughly equivalent to four A’s and two B’s. Cadet Summer is a member of the Economic Honor Society, a Distinguished Military Student, and a member of the Summerall Guard. He is assigned to the Third Group Staff with the rank of Cadet First Lieutenant, and is studying Air Science and Tactics under the Department of The Air Force. He is majoring in Busi ness Adminisration. Kendall Mills' Roots Are Deep In The Corolinosl The Cotton Mills of the Kendall Company have time-tested founda tions, deeply embedded in the good earth, of the Carolinas. The Company has shown its confidence in the people and their com munities by continuously modernizing and expanding the productive capacities of these mills. Since 19-41, over It miHion dollars have been spent on this progressive program*. FOUR THOUSAND KENDALL MILLS EMPLOYEES About four thousand employees of the Cotton Mills of the Kendall Company earn over ten and one-half million dollars each year. This pay roll helps everybody because these men and women buy food, clothing, furniture and many other necessities and luxuries. Many own their homes. They pay taxes, support charitable organizations, and take an active part in Community life. In addition, our employees receive holidays with pay, vacations with pay, group insurance covering themselves as well as their dependents,, and a pension plan. PRODUCTS OF THE KENDAU COMPANY The Textiles made in our Cotton Mills are used in the manufacture of many Kendall Company products. Curity Surgical Dressings, Curads, Curity Diapers and nursery supplies, Polyken Adhesive Tape, Bike Elastic goods, Kendall Wash goods and curtain materials, Bauer and Black Elastic Hose, and Blue Jay foot products are leaders in their fields. When you call for these nationally known products you help Southern Industry. — Cotton Mills Division of the Kendall Company ADDISON MILL EDGEFIELD, S. C MOLLOHON MILL NEWBERRY, S. C. OAKLAND MILL NEWBERRY, S. C. PELZER MILLS PEIZER, S. C. THRIFT MILL PAW CREEK, N. C. WATEREE MILL CAMDEN, S. C. Divisional OfBco Charlotte, N. C COTTON MILLS DIVISION OF The Kendall Company