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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1953 BASEBALL TWINS . Twin Eddie (left) and John- O’Brfen, 22, are currently shortstop and second for Pittsburgh’s Pirates, twins are nationally famous fcaaketball players from Seattle. They Win Again Native Dancer has done it again to Jamie K by beating him In the Belmont Stakes by a neck. But this time the Dancer had to come from behind. The skeptics are now beginning to cal) the dancer one of the great horses of all time. The Dancer’s next start will be in the $50,000 added Dwyer at Aque duct, July 4. He will also start in the $100,000 Arlington Classic on July 15 . Since Ben Hogan an nexed his fourth victory in the United States Open golf tourne- ment the fid argument of whether Ben or Bobby Jones is the best golfer America ever produced has been revived. Gene Sarazen un hesitatingly picks Hogan. A true comparison can never be made since Jones retired at the ripe old age of 28. He won his first Open championship when he was 21. Ho gan on the other hand didn’t win his first Open until he was S5 and now, at 40, is Just starting to earn world-wide recognition. He’ll play in the British Open at Carnoustie. Farmers Kids DOES YOUR OIL TANK MEED REFILLIW3? WE ARE READY AMD WE'RE WILLING/ A phone call from you will bring a metered truck to your doorstep to fill up your tank with quality Fuel Oil. Full measure . . . reasonable prices! Phone 155 today ON THE PROWL When this gets to you I’m scheduled to be out in Washington State. Yes, on the prowl again. For awhile now it will be turning wheels and flying propellers for me. I’ll be gone a good while too. For I want to see where the bene diction of irrigation was last year j pronounced on a vast area that was dry sparse land when I was out there before. A torrent of water is raised a hundred or so feet above Grand Coulee Dam. From there it flows in an ancient river bed to countless thousands of acres of dry land that have been awaiting water through the ages to bloom with plenty. And now I want to see the abundance that water is bringing there and then tell you about it. From there • then to western Mexico. I haven’t been before. They ar3 growing cotton and ir rigating new areas there. These are two things I want to watch and keep you posted on. On the way down there, I will stop at Berkeley for the 3-day meeting of the agricultural college editors. And then back by a section in Oklahoma that’s burning up. The 1953 boll weevil fight is on us right now. How well we handle it in July largely de termines how much cotton we pick out in August and September. Our boll weevil man, Mac Sparks, keeps a close eye on the fields at this season. The county agents report on the conditions in their counties weekly to him. He then issues weekly suggestions on the v/eevil fight through the press and the Voice of Clemson radio pro gram over a state network at 12:45 p.m. each Tuesday. I hate to be away now. The time for peaches and watermelons is at hand. And those two bounties of nature make this a top month of the year along the highways and byways of South Carolina. But I’ll be back for the late ones that come along in August. And maybe I’ll run up on some as I prowl the West from Washington State on down through western Mexico. Both of these two delicacies are on the meno In South Caro lina. Our peach man, Roy Fer- ree, tells me that more of our peaches are going to market riper, due tp up-to-date precooling fac ilities that a'-e being expanded. And better melons are going to market too, thanks to Dr. Andrus at the USDA station near Char leston, who is giving us better disease - resistant melons. The vines of these hold up and ripen melons properly. And a melon of f that sort is a far call from the; tough-meated, half-starved ones that often come from half-dead, diseased vines. I have seen his new melons maturing abundant crops, with vines knee deep, while older sorts burned in the sun right by them there, and on dead or dying vines. He breeds the new melons. And when they look good in his test plots, he puts them out with coun ty agents to test out in 5 acre plantings, so their shipping qual ity can be determined. And, when they show up well there and have the desired quality and di sease resistance, they are eventu ally named and put out as a new variety. And they are never thus put out unless they prove them selves better than what we already have. The two new melons to hit the field under names this year were the Fairfax and the Dunbarton. There was a limited supply of seed of both. Seed growers pro duced the Dunbarton seed and Clemson Pontiac Station produced certified seed of the Dunbarton for distribution the first time the past season. 4-H ACTION The 4-H club boys and girls of the various counties are under taking to raise $50,000 with which to improve facilities at their sum mer camps, Camp Long and Camp Cooper. Each county was assigned a quota of this. To date 19 coun ties have completed theirs, all counties are well along though, and over ?>34,000 has been raised. The youngsters are raising this fund in various ways they devise. Many have given barbecues. Others have sold mail box name plates, and so on. By thus help ing build better camps, they take a greater interest in them. And there each summer thousands of boys and girls spend a delightful week as a sort of crowning feature or reward for their work well done. 7fly«TH6. JPv STARS By LYN CONNELLY 'T'HE handicap under, which he 1 labors almost kept Johnnie Ray from singing at the London Pal ladium when the local musicians’ union denied permission for Sam my Fede, Ray’s American drum mer, to go on with him . . Partly deaf, Ray depends on Fede’s prac ticed beat to give him the tempo ' After talk of closing the show —and even of closing the theater— Ray went on with an English drum mer behind him and with Fede sitting beside him, disguised as a member of the orchestra Fede whispered instructions on chang ing tempo into the singer’s ear. Wally (Mr Peepers) Cox, the night club comic with the day light touch, made his debut on wax for RCA Victor recently with successful results Cox, who is to the half-hour TV show what Chaplin was to one-reel comedies, has ^ut a monolog called "What a Crazy Guy" with the standard bal lad, There Is a Tavern in the Town." on the flip side . . Hope RCA has this talented comedian on a long-term contract and that goes for the NBC network also IDOL CHATTER COLUMBIA: Sweet and appeal ing LuAnn Simms of the Arthur Godfrey radio and TV shows, does a fine job with "Hand-Me-Down Heart,” a custom-made tune for the gal . . . Flip side has ‘T Wouldn’t Want It Any Other Way” . . . Here is one of the most under rated vocalists in the business . . . The same goes for Columbia’s Champ Butler who goes on mak ing good records but seems to be unrecognized by disc fans because he’s never had one really big smash . . . But he will . . . His latest is “Take These Chains from My Heart” and he does his usual rood job on it . . Reverse has ’hat beautiful new ballad, “I’m Walking Behind You.” Still on Columbia. Harry James does a beautiful instrumental on “Ruby” It’s backed by “Pal adium Pai-t-u •• ^IVE REMINDED NOD BEFORE, BUT ITS WORTH REPEATING...VOU CAN <SAVE time, money and effort by FAYING YOUP GI INSURANCE PREMIUMS ANNUALLY,SEMI ANNUALLY OR QUARTERLY INSTEAD OF MONTHLY State Building Loan Association announces with pleasure the appointment of Pinckney N. Abrams former Auditor of Newberry County as Association Secretary - Treasurer t 0 Your continued patronage is solicited and Mr. Abrams’ friends are invited to call on him. The State Building & Loan Association DIRECTORS: Ralph B. Baker Thomas H. Pope Louis C. Floyd J. Dave Caldwell R. Aubrey Harley Guy V. Whitener F«r tall Information contact your neared VETERANS ADMINISTRATION office ' Watch And Jewelry Repairs BR0ADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street FOR RENT Floor Sanding Machine and Polisher Smoothie Sanding Machine —for refinishing furniture, desk tops, and other wood surfaces. WHITAKER FLOOR COVERING CO. 1011 Caldwell St Phone 993 ATTENTION CAR OWNER Before you have seat covers in stalled on your new or old car, visit our shop on Martin street and see our. many patterns In the best materials. And re member here you will get the best workmanship at the most reasonable prices. All seat covers tailor made. Frank Wil$on 1515 Martin St. Phone 1116-J WHITAKER FUNERAL HOME AMBULANCE PHONE 270 BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER In the Stone Hills we got our drinking water mostly from rock- lined wells that had to go 60 to 80 feet down. When a new place was settled, getting a well was about as big a problem as the house. For we had no drilled wells then. They were all dug by hand. And usually down a piece we hit rock. Luckily it was a sort of slate rock that wasn’t so hard. The countryside abounded in white and vari-colored quartzlike rock. With these the wells were neatly ifned. Rocks weighing 30 to 100 pounds were used mostly. They were snugly fit together, and smaller ones wedged in between so as to make a secure wall. The curve of the well gave it the ef fect of the arch, and those wells were yery secure. Occasionally a well would dry up and had to be dug a bit deeper. Then all of that rock wall had to be taken out, a prodigious job with nothing but hand and wind lass to work with. I can well remember when the most progressive man in our community, Dr. Eargle, put in a gasoline engine driven pump. That was a sensation for the Stone Hills and there was much conjec ture about it. Some folks thought water coming through that iron pipe would eventually poison you. The water would get warm in the tank, and you wouldn’t have cool drinking water. And, anyway, it only tasted right from a dipper out of a brass-hooped cedar buck et. The overhead tank was sup ported by great cedar logs and at first there were spigots only at the horse' troughs and there under the scaffold. But eventually he ran a pipe to his back porch, and that was luxury for sure, not having to draw water and tote it in! Now that might sound like a long time ago, and it was, close to 50 years. But that is still one of the few houses in our part of the Stone Hills with running water. Not because the folks wouldn’t like to have it. But small farms can’t have everything and still keep scrupulously out of debt, as is the Dutchman’s custom. For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Television GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone 811 know your State Tobacco is South Carolina’s ond-ranking cash crop. With its value each year approximately $90,000,000, the crop’s value u surpassed only by cotton. The haunting chant of auctioneers offers the tobacco for sale in huge warehouses after it has been in spected by buyers for processors of tobacco products. 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