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THURSDAY, .AUGUST 6, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning CAROLINA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCaughrin, Pres. & Treas. PRone 115 Buy It on Very Easy Terms WORLD’S FASTEST PORTABLE! NOW...with PAGE GAGE! # Another Smith-Corona exclusive fea ture that makes typing easier than ever. Page Gage warns you when you are from the bottom of the page . . . shows * and keeps showing you how much space is left as you type — to the very end. Saves retyping lots of pages. Here is the portable with big machine performance. Perfect for schoolwork and for every member of the family. Smart, luggage- stvle carrying case comes with itl THE NEWBERRY SUN 'T'HE oldest son is playing Littla League baseball. In four games he had but one hit. So, I took him home and we had a practice ses sion in the backyard. At the next game, with two men on. he comes up to bat. A hit would drive in the winning run. There I sit, nervous as an old hen and keeping my fingers crossed, when this fellow in front of me says. “Too bad. That kid hasn’t had • hit yet. He should still be playing with dolls.” With difficulty I kept a check on my temper. “Why you stupid ape,” says I, “it isn’t going to help the kid by making remarks like that when he can hear you.” “Who’s stupid, stupid,” says he. “You are, you ape,” says I. With that he hit me in the eye. I banged him on the nose. We then sat down before the cop who was crossing the field could reach us. He broke the sullen silence that followed by snarling, “Five bucks will get you ten he doesn’t get a hit.” “Done,” says L “Put up your money.” The oldest son just then let a strike split the plate without taxing the bat off his shoulders. “Dolls”, sneered the guy in front of me. The next pitch was shoulder high and a little outside, but the oldest son swung. He put his body weight behind that swing. There was a sharp crack and the ball went over the centerfielder’s head. It was a home run in any Little League park. “Pay up,” says I to the guy in front of me. He turned and held out the ten spot. “Not bad at all,” he said. “Who is that kid?” “That,” saya I. “Is my boy.” 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 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemaon Extension Information Specialist HAIL THE HEN We have made great progress with cattle and hogs in recent t years in South Carolina. Yet with poultry we have done even more. Our cash farm marketings of chickens, eggs, and turkeys prac tically equals the dollar value of all cattle, calves, and hogs sold. This income from poultry prac tically doubles that from our grow ing dairy industry. And it is con siderably more than oui* total in come from dairy products and all cattle sales. So, all hail to the hen! Quietly, with just an occasional cackle, she performs her great purpose here. And from what 1 see as I ride with the county agents, we are just entering our greatest growth with poultry. I see those long broiler and laying houses going- up at new places every time I pass. Every now and then I see a great flock of turkeys at a new place. We al ready lead the Southeast, by a wide margin, in this particular. And here and there I see new poultry dressing and storage plants opening up, not only in towns, but often out in the open country where the stuff is grown. Many years ago Mr. Barney Baruch gave Clemson $25,000 for a poultry plant. Since then it has been more than doubled with its own earnings. And it serves as a teaching aid here at the college and as a source of poultry in formation for use over the state The Extension Service has 3 poul try specialists and two turkey specialists who are constantly in the field helping growers protect and promote the industry in our midst. And commercial companies have experts in the field too who help with certain phases of the poultry busipess here. The 4-H clubs have majored in poultry pro jects for years. The 100 chicks furnished by Sears-Roebuck to hundreds of 4-H boys and girls have been the foundation for many a farm poultry business that now thrives. When you say “Chickens Busi ness” in South Carolina, you are not talking about anything that’s small any more. And some of the main parts of it are just getting under way good here. Clemson has valuable bulletins on all phases of it. You will find free copies there at your county or home agent’s office. FLY KILLER Ed Young, Clemson graduate and dynamic young dairyman of Flor ence, tells me that TEPP really works on flies, killing them in 30 seconds. This material has been thorough ly tested out at Clemson and very satisfactory results have been se cured. Almost instant killing re sults, as Ed pointed out. The entomologists at the col lege have outlined how this dead ly poison should be handled for safety. Your county agent has the printed directions on how to use it against flies. Even though It Is one of the most deadly poisons, its effectiveness is too great for us to shy from its use on that account. Follow the simple instructions and it can be made to work for you against one of your principal farm pests, flies. VALUES THE MULE On many a farm, the mule has completely gone. Yet, Thomas Lee, mechanized farmer of Clarendon, finds, “A mule is worth his year’s feed for just one week’s work when you need him.” Mr. Lee is a hard-hitting young farmer that the Farmers Home Administration helped when he got out of the army about 8 years ago. He has bought more land an<V now has a beautiful and pro ductive farm. “MECHANIZE OR QUIT” Ed Baskin was assistant county agent at Florence when he went to war. When he came back he heard the call of the farm. Now he is one of the leading young farmers of that state. Ed told me he is going to fully mechanize cotton or quit with it. Planting and culture have already been mechanized on his farm. He is trying out preemerge weed killers, flame weed control, and also has a mechanical picker. He feels that band work is out for him. He will ‘mechanize it or quit with cotton,” he said. And I’m believing if anybody can do that job here, Ed will. THE BAFFLES By Mahoney MAYOR McGUP By John Jarvis IS THIS MfiTAVISH M c GOP ? r . r—- PEGGY ^iSEE. THI5 & FUN '1 PLAYING GROWN UP*! /ALL OUR MONEY ? THAT V IMUGT 3E WHERE WE ^TART) ~I BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Childhood’s little tragedies often become some of our most cherished memories. Like, for in stance: When I tried to fly by jumping off the well shed with an out stretched sheet, as the flying- squirrel did, and spraining my ankle bad. Like when Green, our colored boy, on horseback, was chasing our prized milk cow to water, the horse stepped on the chain of the fast-running cow, tripping her, and breaking her neck. Or like w’hen Cousin Bob slid into what he thought was second base while playing ball down there in the high weeds of the pasture, as Zeke and I were mending the break there in the old rail fence, the ladies all blushed and talked inh it T HOUSANDS of South Car olina boys and girls are planning to enter college this fall. Those of them who realize their opportunity and take advantage of it will in years to come be the leaders in our state in business, the pro fessions and politics. It might he inspiring to these prospective college students to quote figures recently compiled as to the monetary value of an education. It is shown that the average annua) earnings of col lege trained people are $3,400 higher than those of high school training, and that high school graduates earn $1,100 more than those with only elementary school training. Thie study figures that the total lifetime earnings of a Col lege graduate are $160,000, while the high school graduate’s are $88,000, and the elementary school graduate earns only $64,000. Thie dote not take into con sideration the greatest value of an education, the satisfaction in one’s own mind and heart, and the added pleasures that an educated person will derive throughout life. ^7 CAPITAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY "Founded on Faith—Dedicated to Service" COLUMBIA, S. C. I REMEMBER" BY THE OLD TIMERS From M. S. Brenser. Middle- town, Pa.: I remember when you wore button shoes and how diffi cult it was to put them on if the buttonhook became lost We had to borrow a hairpin to get them through the holes. • • • From Mrs. 8. B. Pittman, Jack sonville. Texas: I remember 77 years ago when my sister became of school age There was no other children near us for her to go with So my father told the school authorities he would send her if they would let me go with her. They consented. We had to walk 2% miles through deep woods. There wasn’t even a road. Dad blazed a trail for us In those days we wore long woolen stockings and high shoes, with skirts long enough to keep our legs warm. • • • From 8. L McGinnis, Culloden, W. Va. I can remember helping my mother weave rag rugs during the long winter nights when I was a ooy. We made our dye to color the rugs from bark. And I remem ber sleeping under the eves of the louse and the snow sifting under die eves on to our beds It seems he winters in those days were nucb worse than they are now in low tones, and the men laughed so you could hear ’em a half mile. And it was awful embarassing when my cousin from the city as^ed the girl sitting by her at Sunday School who that funny looking little country boy was sitting across from them and she replied, “That’s my brother.” We were warned not to snicker about the enormous nose of a visi tor that was coming, and at the first meal my sister, trying to be so nice, passed him the rice and then the gravy, saying, “Won’t you have some gravy on your nose-?” And when my brother, being asked to say grace, started out on the Lord’s Prayer and never could get on the right track. Embarassed at first visiting a city cousin, he put gravy in his coffee, and they, seeing his mis take, offered to empty it and give him some more, but, embarassed to kill, he said, “No, I like it *hat way.” Showing off on my bicycle, as I passed the house where my first girl was visiting, I took my hands off the handle bars and was coast ing gloriously along, when a shote ran from the weeds clear in front of me and I spilled all over the path there in sight of the whole family sitting there on the porch. And then there was the tragic moment I tore the whole seat out of my pants on a nail in the bench at campaign meeting at Ballen- tine, only to go down in the plum thicket and pin it up in a fashion with thorns and keep a hot rain coat on the balance of the day to hide the damage. And on and on this thing could go, true tales all, and fond memories now. f-ARMERS ICE^ fUELC Kiv? IT'6 WELL TO ORDER. 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