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THURSDAY, JUlfE 25, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN % e Time-Saving Bedclothes for Baby This brand-new quilt is in pnckered nylon with an all nylon filling. It’s in floral pat terns and pastel odors. BY EDNA MILES TLJAKING up a bed for most * small fry requires athletic prowess plus the vigilance of a sheriff in a Western movie. As fast as the bed is smooth and neat, the small gremlin tears it apart. The sheets either land on the floor or engulf the bed’s oc cupant. Coming to mother’s aid in this uneven battle are some recent bedmaking innovations. First of these is the brand-new, printed, contour crib sheet that can’t pos sibly pull out. Because of its fitted corners, no pinning or tucking is needed. It comes in these colors, too: yellow with green, blue with pink, and green with yellow trim. Puckered nylon with an all nylon Ailing makes a light, airy, cozy comfort-quilt that washes easily and dries quickly. Through washings, it retains its shape. Furthermore, it is moth and mil dew resistant. This is ideal for babies who are allergic to wool. But it’s also ideal for mothers who are allergic to the idea of slaving over a wash tub. It cuts down on the need for large stacks of bedding for baby and makes it possible to save on both money and space. This is in floral patterns and comes in the pastels: pink, blue, white and maize. rnmnn lit » I *'£'* This new fitted crib sheet stays smooth and tidy no matter how much a baby kicks and tumbles about in bed. It’s printed with a gay bunny pattern in bright colors attractive to children. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist NEW CROPS In this changing agriculture, new crops are always coming in. Down in Berkeley, County Agent Mason told me a cucumber pickle plant was being built at Boinneau. And an acreage to sup port it has been contracted for and was growing in the field when I was there. And in the Upper Piedmont, the agents assisted with a pimiento pepper project that absorbed all of the contracted acreage a Geor gia canning firm could handle. The aromatic or Turkish to bacco project that Clemson has been working on now for a num ber of years, in cooperation with Duke University, got on about its most solid ground this year. Up to now curing it has been the bot tle neck. But Clemson has been working on that. And our special tobacco agent, Don Matheson, of Oconee county tells me they have It whipped. Up to now it had to be laboriously hand strung and cured in the sun. Now “Red” Martin and those at Clemson have worked out the method for curing il loose with artificial heat, much as bright tobacco in the Low Country is cured. And, according to Don, that was the biggest boost this new crop has received since we first started working with it a good many years ago. Looks like it is ready to go now, as a general field crop, that a family can handle enough of to count for a lot. And in the Low Country, it looks like commercial rice pro duction might be on its way back. The old way with it there call ed for a lot of hand labor. Now it comes bn the wheels of great machines that do all phases of the work and little labor is needed. BLOAT On the poor pastures of the past, few knew what bloat in cat tle was. But in late years many KODAK FINISHING Every Print An Enlargement NICHOLS STUDIO Newberry Federal Vfc If newlyweds began to save, As soon as they joined forces, Doubts and fear— Would disappear— And So Would Quick Divorces, Each account is insured up to $10,000 at the NEWBERRY _7 FederadSavings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MKWBERR V John F. Clarkson President College St. J. K Willingham Secy.-Treas. Newberry, S. C. a farm with finp year-around past ures had found out what it was. A good many cattle have been lost from it. And, it seems, the better the pasture, the more like ly you are to have bloat up in some of the cattle in the spring. County Agent Bob Bailey of Richland tells me they have plow ed up some pure stands of Ladino clover where it ran the grasses out. For pure lush clover is bad for causing cattle to bloat. But he tells me they have had it some from rank growths of pure grain or grasses too. He said various remedies were used. And they were usually ef fective, if you get to the affected animals in time. But that entails seeing your cattle every hour or so when they are on such rank grazing during April and part of May. After that the grazing gets tougher and more mature and does not cause nearly the trouble it does earlier. Various treatments for bloat are used, too many to get into here. Ask your county agent or veterinary friend. If you like the wild granduer of the few spots on this world as it used to be, stop in and see a part of the Great Okenfenokee in South Georgia when you are down that way. Thrilled and stilled, as with great music, I saw new vistas un fold as we rounded each turn on last Good Friday, when we went 13 miles into that Land of Tremb ling Earth, alligators, and float ing islands of indescribable beauty. There, in a tropical wilderness of 600,000 acres, we find the Bald Eagle, the alligator, the otter, and many other living things mak ing one of their last great stands against the encroachments of man. And, thanks be, the Government has acquired most of it as an everlasting home for the wild creatures that have come back there in. abundance. It starts just below Waycross and extends 40 miles to the Florida border, and the area Is from 15 to 25 miles wide. “Noth ing else like it on earth,” says one writer. And another, “Per haps another coal field In the making.” Roughly, it is 85 per- Have you heard the one about the traveling salesman who bought a Smith-Corona He was delighted ... period! It’s the perfect typewriter for travel ers. SKYRTTER is baby-weight— only 9 lbs. Fits in a briefcase—is only 3 in. high, 11 in. wide, 12 in. long. Yet it has fnll-dze keyboard and takes full-size stationery. Hurry in for a demonstration! The Sun Office BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Winter saw the candy pullin’ and the dead-fall come in season with us country boys in the Stone Hills. We grew our own syrup with sorghum. It often soured or turn ed to sugar when warm weather came. So our folks were rather free with it in the winter. It was used a lot in making ginger bread and snaps. And they let us have it for candy pullin’s. As I recall, we would cook it until it would rope or thread good off the spoon. Then we’d take it off and pour it out on a tray on the back porch to cool a bit. As soon as It got cool enough, we’d take a hunk about as big as a cocoanut and start pulling it. Usually two would work together on that. And, you know, before you knew it, that stuff would make blisters come on the toughest hands. We had to watch out and be careful about that. We’d start eating as soon as we started pulling. And when it had taken on that tempting light amber color and was really ready to eat, we usually had enough al ready. These candy pullings were favorites for a party. A shy boy and girl teamed up on it. The thrill from that was occasionally being able to touch her hand in that process. Some of the kids often did a rather heartless thing in winter. During bad weather, specially when snow was heavy on the ground and birds were hungry, they would fix a dead-fall somewhere down at the barn. It was a heavy board. They would prop one end of it up with a stick and put some sort of grain or grits under it. A long rope was tied to that prop and the boy hide behind a foeffler stack or something. When birds came and were feeding under the board, they would jerk the stick from under it, letting it fall and get the birds. But our folks wouldn’t let us do that, if they knew it. It was a cruel thing. cent water and 15 percent land or islands. But it looks like almost all land, so profuse is the tropical growth over it and so numerous and extended the floating Islands, yes, with trees growing on many of them. You punch a hole through the mattress underfoot and catch fish in the water beneath it! Out of this vast area flows two rivers, the Suwanee to the Gulf and the St. Mary’s to the Atlantic. But very little outside water comes into it. Rainfall and per haps hidden springs supply it A wonderland, for sure, the Great Okef enokee! This an' That Ben Hogan, perhaps the greatest golfer of them all, announced he would like to play In the British Open Golf Tournament but un derstood that all accommodations near the course at Carnousle, Scot land, were filled. Announced J- A. Walker, manager of the one hotel, "I'll give the Texas star my own room and bed if nothing else can be found . . • The Chicago Cubs’ grab of home ran king Ralph Kiner from the Pittsburgh Pirates is be ing called one ef baseball his tory’s most spectacular deals. He was already eu the field at Pitts burgh taking betting practice with the Pirates when he was traded to the Cubs- He Jest changed uni forms and went to hat against his eld teommstss The Pirates get six players and an fihiiil11 In hard, said oaah. LIFEGUARD . . Shapely Chic James works at Jqb as lifeguard at Palisades. N. J.. amusement park. She began swimming at age of 6 and turned pro in 1841 AARON L. ROTLTOQI 9. 9. Rant*) »nd 8«ol*) Hyglan* Soolaty Furman UalTaralty Offloaa Oraan-rlUa, Sooth Carolina BORDERLINE VICTIMS OF OUR SOCIETY Hi" face was swollen and blue and oiood matted his hair. Police officers had just delivered him to the state mental hospital. Detected in the act of stealing a pair of pants from a laundry, he had tried to get away, but blackjack and pistol butt subdued him. At the city hall it was learned that he had been a patient at the state mental hospital and he was re turned for the third time. He said, “Doc, my trouble Is I got just enough sense to know 1 ain’t got good sense; just enough to want some more. I want what others want, but they won’t let me have a job.” This young man is representative of a growing number of victims of our complicated society. Find ing it Impossible to keep up in school, they drop out to work, only to discover that there isn't a job for them. Idleness leads to de structive habits, and they steal, fight, or get into other difficulties with society and the law. Efforts to control them, which they do not understand, often lead to emotional upsets, which, when there seems not to be a solution, are interpreted as "psychotic episodes” and they are sent to the state hospital. They may make a rapid adjust ment to the protective hospital environment and be sent home for trial visit, only to be returned forcefully at the slightest incident UNABLE TO KEEP UP. Some have asked why write about “returned” children when they are such a small minority, and again we hesitate to use the word lest it become a lable. Even if there were only a few, each has a right to the kind of atten tion that would best fit him for life. But the truth is that by the end of the third grade about twenty-five percent of children have not completed school work in keeping with their ages, and by the end of the compulsory school period the number has increased to about fifty percent. This makes it everybody’s business. Low intelligence is the chief cause of children being behind their age group in school, but there are many other factors. Physical defects such as sensory, motor, and speech handicaps are among the most common. Emo tional conflicts, personality and be havior problems likewise are com mon. Poor family and community con ditions sponsor destructive rather than constructive habits. Learning difficulties include lack of readi ness to enter school, inadequate background preparation for more advanced work, change of schools, too little individual attention, and ineffective teaching and guidance. Several modern developments have forced the problem of "slow” children into public consciousness. In an agricultural society those who didn’t “take to. learnin* ” were useful in tending the crops and animals. Many could marry and operate their own farms as adequately as their neighbor, find ing happiness in a non-competitive community. Such children were an asset in early industrial society until child labor laws stopped their exploita tion. Then adults who had not kept up educationally began to find themselves left out, as em ployers began relying on “pencil and paper tests’’ in placing em ployees. The poorly trained per son is discovered immediately and n nmmm BY THE OLD TIMERS From Mrs. Maggie Smith, Laurel Springs, N. C.: I remember when it was proper for a boy who want ed to go with a girl to write her in the following form: O. Mack S presents his compliments to Miss Maggie C and asks for the pleasure of her company to the school picnic on Theresa Moun tain, May 21, 1883. And the young lady answered like this: Maggie C sends her compliments to Mr. O. Mack S and accepts his company to the school picnic on Theresa Mountain May 21, 1883. • • • ' From Mrs. Fan Nettle, Clinton, Montana: I remember when as a child 72 years ago we lived in Hardscrable, VL We had a small place and made maple sugar. Mother would skim the cream off a large pan of clabbered milk. We would scrape the sugar off the sugar loaf and put It on the clab ber milk and eat it with a spoon. It was delicious. • • • From Mrs. R. W. Nobles, Chad- burn, N. C.x I remember having to walk a foot-log on the way to school after a rain had overrun a branch adjoining the mill pond, and how the whirling black water caused my head to swim until, screaming with fright, I was afraid to go forward or backward. The rest of the group safely across tried to persuade me to join them. I can still close my eyes and see that rushing stream beneath my feet. It makes me shudder. MaU your eontrlbntlon for this col- amn to The 014 Timer, Community Fress Service. Box 89. Frankfort. Ken- tacky. is turned away. Thus families are finding the “slow” on their hands as non-productive members of society who must be cared for throughout their lives. Another development which has placed the spot-light on the slow er child is the compulsory educa tion laws, requiring attendance until fourteen, sixteen, and even eighteen years of age. Many thus kept in school just cannot keep up with “the average.” ( What is to be done about this twenty-five to fifty percent of students? Are they a responsibil ity of the home alone, of the pub lic school, private schools, or state schools and hospitals? Net week: The Parent and th« Slow Child. KEEP COOL By Bess Leeke TY7E—Lefty, the boss, me, and YV Gus—was drivin’ South for our health, you might say, (Chicago ain’t so healthy no more) when we pass this little town down in Ken tucky. I just about missed it but Lefty sure didn’t His eyes latched onto that bank building like flies on honey. "You see that,” he yelled, ”A bank in this town.** “What about it?** I asked him. To us, banks can’t mean nothing but trouble. “Look at the people goin’ in there. The dang place Is full of ’em.” “Where’d they get the money to put in banks?** I asked. “Probably got oil back In the hills.” Gus nut in. “On in Kentucky?” Lefty sneer ed, “I ain’t never heard of it.” “They got oil ever’where else.” Gus said. "What’s wrong with Ken tucky? Last week I read a book—” “Okay,” Lefty grunted. “Don’t get started on them books again.”. That just shows you how ideas get started. I had the Idea we oughta keep goln*. Lefty had the idea that a bank way out In the middle of nowhere was a push over. Gus don’t have ideas. Lefty’s idea was, we go to soon’s the guy gets there to open up next morning, get the dough and beat it before anybody knows what happened. We’re already in troub le, so I ain’t for the idea a bit but like I said Lefty’s boss. To make it worse, it’s hotter’n blue-blazes. It’s so hot it makes you think may be you ought to start livin’ better. Well, we stick it out—sweatin,’ ail night not to mention gettin’ scared to death when some old hound dog takes off after a pos sum. I ain’t never seen of possum. Still don’t know what it is, but it’s bound to be somethin’ terrible the way the dog was takin’ on. howlin’ and barkin’ like lie was strugglin’ with the deviL Some old guy w^th a gun big as he was stopped where we parked the car to sleep but instead was sitting bug-eyed listenin' to that dog. “You fellers from the city?” he asked. We nodded. - "Thought so. Ain’t nothin’ to git skeered of. That’s just old Sim after a possum. Sim’s my dawg.” “Yeh?” Lefty said. “Ain’t you afraid that possum’s gonna hurt him?” /« “Shucks no. Sim ain’t even got him yit.’’ “You mean he sounds like that when he ain’t dying?” The old man sneered at us, ♦‘Ain’t you never heard a hound dawg before? City folks—huh!” That blamed dog took on all night so we wa’n’t fit for nothin’ the next momin’. But Lefty had to go through with it and boy, it was hotter’n the day before. ‘Bout eight-thirty we was waitin’ for the bank to open. It looked easy enough. Wa’n’t a soul to sight when the guy opened up. Gus stayed in the car and me and Lefty went inside. It wa’n’t much of a bank but the minute I put my foot in the door I thought I’d died and gone straight to heaven. The danged place was air-conditioned. This was one time I was going to enjoy working. Lefty growled, “Okay, bud. this is a stick-up. Push the dough over the counter and no funny business or you’ll get it right between the eyes.” We ain’t never shot nobody but that helps ’em hurry it up. That guy’s eyes got big as balloons and he started stacking money on the counter Right then, the door open ed and them dem people started pourin’ to. Now just think, suppose you was right in the middle of a stick up and suddenly you had more witnesses than you could handle. Yeh, that’s what we did, too. We took for the door. “They robbed the bank!” - Well, brother, that was the end. Five minutes later/ the sheriff was draggm’ us off to the clink. “You ought to know better’n try to stick up that bank." the sheriff tolft us. “It’s the only place for fifteen miles that’s got air-condi tioning. Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 Mr. 4g represents the Jefferson Standard Jefferson Standard, now guaranteeing 2Vi% on policies currently issued, has never paid less than 4% interest on policy pro ceeds left on deposit to provide income. 4% IS THE HIGHEST RATE OF INTEREST PAID BY ANY MAJOR LIFE INSURANCE COM PANY. COMPARE! No other major fife iosar- ance company in the Uniled States gives more income per dollar. 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