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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.
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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 ••
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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
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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.
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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.
In the tobacco-producing
state of South Carolina, the
United States Brewers Founda
tion works constantly to encour
age maintenance of wholesome
conditions wherever beer and ale
are sold. As in other states, the
program calls for clo^o coopera
tion between law-enforcement
officers and beer licensees
throughout South Carolina.^
Beer belongs . . . enjoy it.
United States Brewers Foundation
South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.C.
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wijh, too, when you are short of cash!
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