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THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1953 Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 —- Night 6212 Newberry Federal \^1 To save may not be easy And yet from what we hear, No thing on earth— Has equal worth— To banish want and fear. Each account is insured up to $10,000 at the NEWBERRY J7 Feperal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY John F. Clarkson President CoUege St. J. K. Willingham Secy.-Treas. Newberry, S. C. MOM HUB for LESS MONEY Mon Miles of Car Ufa-loss Money for Repairs! You may save up to $18 or more this year on repairs to your car’s fuel system by using Sinclair Anti-Rust Gasoline regu larly. It contains RD-119, an exclusive rust inhibitor which stops formation of rust and corrosion. Protect your car. Get Sinclair Anti-Rust Gasoline today— no extra cost FOR PREMIUM PERfrORMANCE USE SINCLAIR ETHYL \ SINCLAIR SUst GASOUNE 4 S. C. Pay singer Agent Week of July 19 Set As Period of Safe Practices On Farms of The Nation The week of July 19-25 has been proclaimed as National Farm Safety Week by President Eisen hower. When a farmer eliminates a gul ly or plants pines on land too steep for machinery he is elimin ating accident hazards. We read all too frequently where a farm tractor or other machinery has turned over on some person. If we use the machinery on land suitable for machinery we de crease the likelihood of accident. By the same token we eliminate the likelihood of erosion by fitting our farming to the land. Waters S. Davis, President of the National Association of Soil Conservation districts, tells how soil conservation practices made farming safer for him. According to Mr. Davis a tractor on his farm ran over him. As he described it the soil was so mellow and soft from the growing of legumes and cover crops he was saved from serious injury. The trend now is to mechaniza tion. Let’s hope we don’t go as far with machinery without insti tuting safety measures as we did with erosion before conservation was begun. In 1951, the last year for which estimates are available, 14,500 farm people lost their lives as a result of accidents. It has been es timated by those who study ero sion that we are losing the topsoil from 500,000 acres of * land in America each year. At present standards of living about three acres of land are required per per son to feed and clothe us. At any rate our population now numbers about 159,000,000 people. This means that the cropland in Ameri ca amounts to about 3 acres per person. At this rate we are losing annually enough soil to support 166,666 people. The tragedy of ero sion may not be as dramatic as the mangled bo iy of a person crushed beneath a machine but its conse quences in the long run are deva stating. Hopes for a college edu cation, a new home, or other as pirations can go down the river with the soil and the flood. Erosion could be considered as accident to the land resulting from man’s action, with man suf fering the consequences. It is not logical to conclude that most ac cidents are man made or at least could be avoided by man? When an accident occurs or top soil washes away the tragedy is to people, in many cases the inno cent suffer as well as the guilty. Is it not possible that we can condemn future generations to a lower standard of living than we now r enjoy by abusing and wasting our inheritance of natural wealth? But on the other hand, there is also the possibility of improving the standard of living for our in- cleasing population by wise use and conservation of soil, trees, and other natural resources. We do not stop using machinery or electricity because an accident mav result from their use. But good judgment dictates that every rearonable precaution be taken tp prevent accidents resulting from their use. The same is true of land. The solution is not to q|it using land because there is a pos sibility of erosion but rather put the land to its proper use accord ing to its capability and treat it according to its needs to control the water that would cause ero sion.' 1 By so doing the soil and waiter can both be used to better advantage for the benefit of peo ple. Our nation is only as strong as the combined productive efforts of all. our people. Manpower is the basic resource by which all other productive resources are made use ful and available. A man improp erly nourished and clothed is no more able to perform productive tasks than a man injured in an ac cident. / Our goal should be a strong people who are properly clothed, fed, and housed through wise use and conservation of our soil; and who are not injured, killed, or their strength reduced by acci dents to them or to their land. Paper Company Backing Planting of Pine Seedlings The largest free seedling distri bution program ever undertaken by a pulp and paper company in this state is being launched by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper company of Charleston, as a part of its forest conservation activi ties to benefit the private wood land-owner. Under this program, one million pine seedlings are to be distribut ed free of charge to individual timberland owners in this state, with the soil conservation dist ricts of South Carolina assisting in the selection of proper planting sites and the employment of ap proved planting practices. The seedlings are being purch ased by the company from the state forestry commission’s nurs ery at Wedgefield. They are to be distributed in quantities up to 5,- 000, at the company’s nine South Carolina woodyards, to each land- owmer who has obtained prior ap proval from his local soil conser vationist for planting that parti cular area in pine seedlings. Ac tual distribution of the seedlings will take place during the plant ing season 1953-54. In previous planting seasons, the state forestry commission has distributed up to 3,000 pine seed lings to each farmer, or woodland- ewner, free of charge; however, according to recent announce ments by the state agency, there will be no free seedlings available from the forestry commission, for individuals, this coming planting season. The company’s seedling distribution program, therefore, is expected to make it possible for many landowners to continue to obtain free trees for idle lands not not growing pines. Soil conserva tion district supervisors have es timated that there yet remains more than one-half million acres of land in the state that could # be profitably planted in pines. Depending upon the availability of pine seedlings from the state commission’s forest-treee nursery in succeeding years, the company anticipates that the number of seedlings to be made available will increase for following planting seasons. SOUNDS LOGICAL A collee prgofessor of logic was attempting to teach his young son the principles of clear thinking and the neceessity for defining all terms. He pointed to a wall clock which had just struck the hour. “Now if I were to take a ham mer and smash that clock,” he said, <‘cou!d 1 be arrested for killing time?” “No,” said the lad quickly. ‘Ht would be self-defense.” The professor frowned. ‘<How do you figure that out?” “Because,” answered the boy, ‘<the clock struck first.” —Wall Street Journal ONE TRIP SHORT A small girl giggled after the teacher had told the story of a man who swam a river three times before breakfast. “You don’t really doubt that a trained swimmer could do that, do you?” asked the teacher. ‘<No, ma'am,” the child replied, “but I wonder why he didn’t swim across the river four times and get back to the jide where his clothes were.” BUFFS TO FLORENCE Melvin T. Buff, who has been office manager of the local Good year store for several months, has been promoted and transferred to a larger store in Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Buff moved to Florence Monday of this week to make their home. While in New berry they occupied an apartment in the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Taylor on Harrington street. A race track is the only place to find windows that clean people. It is a singular fact that many men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in a divine providence. —Balzac. Prosperity Items r !■■* rr" , rrrT“rMiBK“Br“r"'rK”rp’:nBM * ■■■ 5 ! r ! M :tl ‘ 1 ' ! ■»- r IM«ii VI IM\ 'It MMBliBM fVMKKV' <VP ,r iF« Iw m Jt »'■■* rf P ^I'^iPPIS l I FUNNEL WATER FOUNT STOPS BOOSTING ON FOUNTAIN A simple and effective • way of stopping chicks’ from roosting on the water fountain Is to place a small, tin funnel on top of the fountain. Coil springs from old auto cushions can he used In a similar way. Capt. and Mrs. Ray Ohlhues and their two daughters, Kay and Jan, en route from a visit in Cus ter Park, 111., to their home in Miami, Fla., spent the weekend with Mrs. Ohlhues’ mother, Mrs. H. E. Counts, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Frank Wright Shealy have moved to Prosperity and are living in the Ed Counts house on Brown street. Dr. Shealy has just completed his internship in Greenville and will practice medicine in Prosperity. Mrs. W. H. Leaphart, Jr. and a group of 21 J. H. A. girls spent last week at the J. H. A. camp at Ocean Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis N. Byrd of Durham, N. C., were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foster at the home of Mrs. Fos ter’s mother, Mrs. J. L. Counts. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Myers and two of their daughters, Sharon Anne and Kathy, left Tuesday for a trip to the West Cdast. The My- er’s baby daughter, Roberta, is staying with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Fellers. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander and their son, Robbin, of Washing ton, D. C. are visiting Mrs. Alex ander’s mother, Mrs. H. E. Counts, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Newman and their two children, Kay and Bob, are vacationing at Myrtle Beach this week. Mrs. J. A. Sease spent Friday in Columbia with her sister, Mrs. De- hines. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bedenbaugh attended a meeting of the Associa tion of Seedsmen at Ocean Forest Hotel, Myrtle Beach, the first of this week. Mrs. Murray Hughes, Jr. t and her four children of Lancaster are spending this week with her moth er, Mrs. J. S. Wheeler, Sr. Mrs. A. B. Hunt, Mrs. Frances Spotts and her two children, Lar ry and Frances Ann, are spending the week in the mountains of North Carolina. Mrs. Harold Epting and her lit tle daughter, Hope, spent last week with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Elton Epting at Parris Island. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Fellers have returned from a visit with relatives at Romney, West. Va. Mrs. C. E. Hendrix and Miss Claire Chappell will leave Thurs day for a trip to Washington, New York and Canada. They will go with Mrs. A. W. Murray and Miss Faye Murray from Newberry. STRIBBLE MEMBER OF THE USS RANDOLPH Aboard the attack aircraft car rier USS Randolph, recommission ed in Portsmouth, Va., July first at the Naval shipyard, is Derrill E. Stribble, radioman second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stribble of 1618 First street and husband of the former Eleanor Meeks of 1201 Charles street, all of Newberry. The Randolph, veteran of World War II in the Pacific, was decom missioned in June 1947. SEEING IS BELIEVING A man who had discovered the joys of fishing became even more insistent than most fishermen up on recounting his triumphs to skeptical acquaintances. Disgrunt led by their thinly veiled hints that he was a liar, he bought a pair of scales, installed them in his library and had his friends watch while he weighed his fish. One evening a neighbor burst in excitedly to borrow the scales. He was back in ten minutes, his face flushed with delight. ‘<Congratu- late me,” he cried. “I’m the fath-. er of a 24-pound baby boy!” SMITH BUYS GUERNSEY SIRE I. M. Smith, Kinards, has just purchased the young Guersey sire. Coldspring’s B. R. Bomber, from Dr. F. L. Martin of Mullins. The richly bred young bull is out of the high-producing cow, Rose Maid’s Besd, that has once been classified Very Good for type, and has a production record of 18,093 pounds of milk and 739 pounds of butterfat, made as a five-year-old. He is sired by Cold spring’s Beauty’s Romulus. He was one of those tourists who liked to brag about the num ber of miles covered in a day. As the evening wore on they passed motel after motel with the “No Vacancy” sign out. Finally the little woman remarked, “I know we’ll find one soon, dear . . . peo ple are starting to get up.” CARLISLE JERSEYS ARE CLASSIFIED The herd of registered Jerseys owned by Edward B. Carlisle, RL 1, Newberry, was recently classi fied for breed type by an official classifier of The American Jer sey Cattle club, Prof.' H. P. Ewalt of Oregon/State college. The animals in the herd were given individual ratings based on a comparison with the Jersey breeds official score card, which allots 100 points for the ideal jer sey animal. The Carlisle herd now T has an average score of 84.68 per cent on 12 animals. The breeds average score is 83.15 percent. Six animals are rated Very Good, 5 Good Plus, and 1 Good. The Jersey breed has more offi cially classified animals than any other dairy breed. The classifica tion program was started in 1932. Condensed Statement of Condition • ^ The South Carolina National Bank • « * ~ as of June 30, 1953 i * > Resources Cash and Due from Banks $ 62,689,602.35 U. S. Government Bonds • 71,895,988.22 State and Municipal Bonds • 1,169,733.47 Federal Intermediate Credit Bank Debs. 455,000.00 Federal Reserve Bank Stock 195,000.00 Loans and Discounts • • 59,814,846.21 Banking-Houses (14) •• 1,237,362.00 Furniture and Fixtures , 349,429.40 Other Assets 139,920.52 $197,946,882.17 Liabilities Capital — Common • • •*• $ 2,500,000.00 Surplus * 4,000,000.00 Undivided Profits ; 1,348,570.48 Reserve—Dividend Payable July 2,1953 187,500.00 Reserve—Under Section 23K (Int. Rev. Code) — 950,000.00 Reserve—Federal Income and Excess Profits Tax • 1,008,593.39 # Reserve — Other — • • • — 37,749.68 - Deposits 187,914,468.62 r t : » | 1 j I 4 $197,946,882.17 OFFICES: ANDERSON BELTON CHARLESTON CHERAW ' COLUMBIA DILLON FLORENCE FORT JACKSON GEORGETOWN GREENVILLE JACKSON SHAW AIR FORCE BASE SUMTER LEESVILLE NAVAL BASE NEWBERRY PICKENS ST. MATTHEWS SENECA i i Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation