Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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11.1 ■■■ I - I . , LOBLOLLY PINE BEST CURE FOR ERODED LAND ACREAGE THE NEWBERRY SUN A Green Garden is a part of the general picture of keeping Newberry Green. WE HAVE THE TOOLS for your garden or lawn. AND WE HAVE THE TOOLS and the equipment for farm and dairy. We heartily approve of the efforts to keep Newberry Green and extend best wishes to the forces of Soil Conservation R. M. Lominack Hdw’e That’s what comes naturally! As night follows the day ... better dairy products follow in telligent conservation practices. better pastures .. *. year ’round pastures . . . improved grasses and farm ponds for plenty of good water ... these and other benefits have come to the dairying industry through a better appreciation of the move ment to help nature help us. Our very best wishes to the people of Soil Conservation. Your spade work is about over! You have been accepted ... and appreciated. The Newberry Creamery By R. J. RIEBOLD There is no cure like trees for eroded land. . In spite of good in tentions or because of neglect, many thousands of acres of once- good farm land are so eroded that they can no longer be cultivated. On some areas erosion has gone so far as to form deep gullies. For such lands, there is no cure as good as trees. And for most of Piedmont South Carolina, there is no tree as good for this work as loblolly pine. Hardwoods of all kinds are beneficial for soil build ing, but the job of reclaiming badly eroded lands falls to the lob lolly pine as the pioneer. Every farmer and gardener knows the beneficial results to be had from mulching. A mulchj cools the soil, holds the water, prevents rain from beating the surface of the soil and adds or ganic matter to the soil. A lob lolly pine forest every year puts down a mulch of one to two tons per acre in needles, leaves and twigs. In this mulch the many smaller plants get their start and add their leaves and roots to the soil rebuilding process. The an nual decay of the fofest mulch adds to the soil the organic matter on which plant and animal life depends. Where nature does not reseed forests rapidly enough or where site conditions are not suitable, planting loblolly pines is the usual remedy. On Enoree Division of Sumter National Forest, over 9,- 000 acres of eroding old fields have been planted in the past 17 years. It is in the effect on water that forests make their greatest con tribution to the cure of eroded lands. The value of forests on mountain watersheds is well known from ancient time. That trees are of equal value on water sheds of the Piedmont is less well known and believed. But it is on the clay soils of the Pied mont that trees are of especial value. The crowns of trees inter cept beating rain. The mulch on the forest floor holds water a lit tle longer and lets more of it soak Into the soil. The roots open deep channels for water to enter the subsoil. The result is slower sur face run off, less flood water, less erosion. The one essential to the suc cess of trees in holding back water and in mulching the soil is pro tection from wild fires. All the values gained over long periods of years are often wiped out in a single April afternoon. Only one person’s carelessness with smok ing or'brush burning can undo the care and labor of hundreds of timber growers and decades of Na ture’s effort. Even worse is the action of the deliberate incendiarr ist, who intentionally burns up another’s forest. The heavy penal ties prescribed by law merely re flect the outraged sense of justice with which all other citizens re gard this crime. If the trees were only worth less weeds, their value in water control and soil building would still be great enough to justify vast programs of forestry. But the trees are valuable crops. Wood crops may become in shorter sup ply and in greater demand than many other farm crops. Year in and year out the tree crops gr6w, yet they need not be harvested un til the owner chooses. Each year’s growth is added to that of prev ious years, yet the crop does not spoil. Instead, the value of all of it grows greater the longer it is allowed to stand and compound its growth. Relatively simple meas ures are all that is necessary to tend the forest crop. Technical ad vice is available to any timber grower through the Extension Ser vice, Soil Conservation Service, State Forestry Commission and the U.S. Forest Service. Certainly the knowledge of how to grow crops of trees on eroded lands is not complete. Nor is the effect of trees on soil and water under various conditions fully ex plored. There is need for re search in forest crops just as there is in field crops. To meet these needs, research centers of the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture are established and operated. The Central Piedmont Research Center is in Union Coun ty and has for one of its laborator ies the 12,000 acre Calhoun Ex perimental Forest. This experi mental forest was set aside from the Enoree Division of Sumter National Forest. Many forest ex periments are of long duration. They must be installed on lands firmly held in perpetuity for for estry purposes. Such conditions are found on the Federally-owned National Forests, which are estab lished by Presidential Proclama tions. National Forests have other valuable characteristics for grow ing trees, controlling water a^d rebuilding depleted soil. The or ganization which manages them— MORNING AFTER . , . Tommy Collins relaxes with family at Medford, Mass., after fourth round TKO by lightweight cham pion Jimmy Carter In Boston. Collins was floored ten times. the Forest Service—has had more than 50 years of continuous and progressive experience in .manag ing forests. , It is closely connect ed to the other crop growing and research agencies of the Depart ment of Agriculture. The Na tional Forests are large enough to have a staff of professional forest ers in residence for protection, management and service to the public through on-the-ground ad ministration. They are large enough to have an appreciable ef fect on the timber supply of their immediate vicinity. Their con tribution of 25 per cent of gross receipts to. counties for roads and schools usually equals ahd often exceeds the amounts paid in taxes by privately-owned lands. Enoree Division of Sumter National Forest now has over 156,000 acres of land and lies in Newberry, Laurens, Union, Chester and Fairfield Coun ties. Headquarters are in New berry. National Forests are owned by all the people and are managed so as to serve the best interests of all of the people. There’s plenty of room for everybody in the timber growing business. Only a small part of the forest land of the state is in Na tional Forests. Some of the larger private holdings are larger than the National Forest. But, actual ly, half of all the forest land in the state is owned by farmers and others in small holdings. Probably every farm has some land which a good farmer could put to grow ing trees with profit to himself. No matter who owns the forest land, all of it contributes to the control of water. Every owner of well managed woodland is a bene factor to the common good in conservation. SAYS AMOUNT OF - PRODUCTIVE SOIL DEFINITELY LIMITED f Soil, the basic factor upon which farm production depends and from which all of us, city and country people alike, live is our country’s most important resource and it must be conserved and improved if larger yields of food, feed and fiber necessary for the increasing population—6000 per day—is to be produced efficiently. It js good business any time for a farmer to conduct his op erations on an efficient basis and now that cogts are at an all-time high and receipts are relatively low it is necessary that more care ful consideration be given to pro duction. Buildings can be erected, machinery purchased, labor hired and capital borrowed but the amount of productive soil is defi nitely limited thus making “proper land use” a major factor in suc cessful farming. A good farm plan will make adequate provision for a cropping system that will bring a maximum income over a period of years and at the same time maintain or improve the fertility of the soil and control erosion. Man seems to have a habit of wasting the gifts of nature. Here in South Carolina we have allowed large areas to erode, we have wasted our water supply, we have ravished our forests and have not done what we should have to re place them. Our game and wild life is growing more scarce due in part, at least, to our misuse of our natural resources. We are rapidly ruining our bounteous country and seriously depleting the land for future generations. It is imperative that we adopt practices which will provide for the maintenance and improve ment of the soil, practices in which crop yields and livestock produc tion are sustained or increased and which will make our com munity and state a finer place to live and work . Evidences of the rapid progress being made toward conserving the soils of South Carolina are numer ous, one of the more conspicuous practices noted being the vast acreage (4 million) protected from erosion in the state the past win ter. YOUR SociarSecurity * Social security payments total ling $134,888 went to 4,277 people in the area served by the Green wood, S. C. social security office in .December 1952, according to Miss Martha Pressly, manager of the Greenwood social security of fice. The Greenwood office serves the counties of Abbeville, Edge- field, Laurens, McCormick, New berry and Saluda. This was an in crease of more than 13 per cent over payments at the end of 1951. The men and women 65 or over who had worked long enough to qualify for old-age insurance bene fits made up the largest group of beneficiaries and received larger amounts than dependents and sur vivors. Numbering 1,629 they re ceived $69,039 for the month, an average of $42.38. Most of them were from 65 to 74 and received payments after meeting the test of retirement given in the law; those 75 or over could receive pay ments even though they were still working. In the smaller groups, 224 aged widows and dependent widowers received $7598, 436 wives and de pendent husbands received $8,- 974, and 31 aged dependent par ents received $1278. Not all of the people entitled to payments in the area served by the Greenwood office were 65 or older. Monthly checks went to 1957 mothers and children—some of them dependents of retired men, but most of them survivors of those who had died. The pay ments to 337 mothers amounted to $9955 in December, and 1620 children received $38044. Changes ma4e by the 1950 and 1952 Amendments to the Social Security Act accounted for a con siderable part of the Increases, both in the number of people re ceiving benefits and in the amounts of their payments. In 1950 the law was changed to in clude millions pf people not cov ered before, and to make it easier for them to qualify for payments. Among those newly covered were self-employed people and regularly employed household and farm workers. The 1952. changes, effective in September, raised the amounts of practically all benefits, gave so cial credits for military service after the end of World War II, and provided that a person can be con sidered “retired” even though he is earning as much as $75.00 a month. In the Nation at the end of De cember, monthly payments amounting to $5,025,500 were being made to 205,719 people. Among them, according to Miss Pressly, were 2 out of 5 of the re tired aged. About 80 per cent of civilian jobs are covered by the law; 4 out of 5 of the mothers and children in the country can count on monthly survivors in surance payments in case of the death of the family bread-winner, Miss Pressly emphasized. Money to pay social security benefits comes from the social security taxes paid by employees, employers, and self-employed peo ple, on earnings up to $3,600 a year. The tax is now 1%% each- for employer and employee, and 2 1/4% for self-employed people. Under the law, the rates are scheduled to increase to 2% each for employees and employer, and 3% for self-employed people, on January 1, 1954. THE PATTERN FAVORITES OF YOUNG WOMEN April Marriage Licenses Given W. E. Marze and Dorothy Eliba- beth Copeland, Waxhaw, N. C. John Daniel Boland, Little Moun tain and Julianne Elizabeth Lind- ler, Chapin. Donley R. Koon, Chapin and Blondell Hamm, Prosperity. Richard Carroll Bundrick, Pros perity and Joan Littleton, Joanna. Elbert L. Hilley and Hazel J. Farmer, Newberry. Raymond William Fowler and Lilia Marie Wise, Newberry. James Winston Hendrix and Mary Elizabeth Folk, Newberry.. Herman E. Mayer, Pomaria and Jillette Setzler, Newberry. James Boyd Arthur, Newberry and Joyce Ann Griffith, Saluda. (br graduation give ster ling, a girl's first choice for her new home It's a sensible, heart-warming preparation for the soon- to-come marriage, your daughter's true career. PRELUDE AU PATTONS MACtt M U S A Fill her hope chest with the finest...International Sterling, lifetime solid silver painstakingly made perfect in every tiniest detail. Visit soon. ATTENDS GRANDDAUGHER CHRISTINING IN VA. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hove and Mrs. Hove’s sister, Miss Kath ryn Jones of Charlotte, N. C., spent the past weekend in Keyesville, Va., with the Hove’s son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Mosley and seven months-old daughter, Betty Lynn. They al so attended the Christining ser vices of Betty Lynn, which was held in the Keyesville Methodist church Sunday morning. BUY BY THE PIECE. . BY THE PLACE-SETTING... BY THE SET Liberal Time Payment Plan W. E. Turner JEWELER Caldwell St. Nawbarry m if||lll ■ - 5 The Farm Herd 6- The Farm Pond Both fit neatly into the picture of keeping South Carolina and Newberry County Green. The rainfall conserved in the small home pond will produce an abundant supply of fish and the propagating and upbuilding of farm herds, and the creating of pastures helps to keep the picture GREEN throughout the year.. There is nothing so satisfyingly peaceful as a herd grazing on broad green acres. Let’s keep our acres GREEN. YOU can help! Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association John F. Clarkson J. K. Willingham