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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1954 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE a. KNOWN ONLY TO GOD By Ruth McKay T HORA LINDQUIST O'HARA. called The Widow O’Hara, was reading the Chisholm HERALD, and for the moment neglecting the blueberry pies she was making for the church festivaL She was tall, willowy, vital and wore her yellow hair about her head in braids. Glancing from her read ing, she saw the man at the screen door, and the paper dropped to the floor. HE CAME BACK . . KEVIN. MY HUSBAND HOW COULD HE WHEN HE IS BURIED HERE IN CHISHOLM? The tall, lithe, graying man re moved his hat and said: *T did not mean to startle you.” THE VOICE WAS KEVIN’S, as were the words. “Would you wrap up a few sandwiches for me? I have a friend waiting.” •*Yes. Sit down.” She Indicated the porch swing. Her voice sounded like dry ashes in her ringing ears as she said: ”1 will give you some cold fish and waffles.” The fish would tell the story, if there was a story to telL Kevin loathed fish of any description, and claimed waffles were unfit for human consumption. “Anything, ma’am. Thank you.” Pa hadn’t .wanted her to marry Kevin and go from place to place with him. Kevin was a newspaper man with the red god of wander lust in his heels. He always wanted to go somewhere, and when he got there he wished he was back where he came from. They’d lived in Chisholm, Minneapolis. Pierre, Omaha, Leadville, Denver. Raton and Santa Fe, and she was soul- weary of living in hotels and fur nished rooms, so when he left the Santa Fe NEW MEXICAN to go to Tucson and work on THE REPUB LICAN, she said she would go back to her parents until he found a house. “Til get a furnished house,” he promised, “in two weeks.” He kissed her goodbye, put her on the train. His letters came every day. He loved her. He missed her. He was trying to get a place to live. Houses were hard to find. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, and then—the telegram: Kevin O’Hara —by his social security card and other personal papers—was in the morgue awaiting identification. His car and a train met at a crossing at the same time. The car was de molished. Pa went to Tucson with her, made the identification, brought her Kevin’s watch, fountaid pen, two letters she had written him, and the billfold with her picture. COULD PA HAVE MADE A MISTAKE? She was trembling when she came to the porch with the package and said: “Cold fish and waffles.” “Thank you.” She watched him go through the gate and down the road toward the edge of the town. The man with the lunch, called Harry, because it seemed appro priate in view of the words he re peated in his sleep, went to the old ice house where his friend Bucky was waiting. “Cold fish and waffles." Harry said. Bucky opened the package. “No such a thing! Ham sandwiches, pickles, pie, cookies, cheese and two bottles of orangeade,” said he and went to work to satiate his hunger. “You know every word in the dictionary, Harry, except your name and home town—four words that would open the door to a bet ter life. “Did you have a car? Did you pick a hiker? Is your name Harry?” I do not recall any name but Harry, nor do I remember having a car.” "Back to the rambler roses: Did you see any today?” “Yes, crossing through the cem etery I noticed a large bouquet on a grave and stopped to admire. The inscription on the headstone was KEVIN O’HARA.” “Come on,” said Bucky. “We’re wastincr time.” ^ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Do you know your rights under i the Social Security program? The Sun, in cooperation with Miss Martha PressLy, field office manager, Greenwood, is publishing a series of question and answer columns explaining the new pro gram. The questions will be drawn from those most frequently asked by persons who have made inquir ies at the field office. If you have a question that you would like answered, address your letter to the Social Security Office, 18 Post Office Building, Greenwood. That office will reply direct to you. QUESTION: I have lost my social security card which was ob tained in Chicago. Must I write to that office for another? ANSWER: No. We are sending you an application for a dupli cate card which you should return to this office. QUESTION: I have two social security cards and believe I hav® some credit under both numbers. Can one be cancelled? ANSWER: Yes, this should be done for your protection. Get in touch with our office and yve will be glad to assist you. QUESTION: I know I may re ceive $75.00 monthly while re ceiving benefits. Does this mean “take home” pay? ANSWER: No. It refers to your gross pay before any deductions. QUESTION: I did not pay social security tax on my self-employ ment as I thought this was option al. My manager now says it is compulsory. Is this right? ANSWER: Yes. Get in touch with the Director of Internal Rev enue as soon as possible concern ing your delinquency. JANUS IS A MYTH According to mythology, the Ro man god Janus had tw<o faces so he could see everything going on around him. That’s nice work if you could do it, but ... Nobody can see everything, everywhere, all the time. Even the best of business men and profes sional people must have the eyes and brains and voices of their fellow citizens to help make the community a better place; to help protect business interest, and to promote those things for the good of the commonweal. Your Chamber of Commerce is business organized. It is the eyes, the ears, and the voice of your business; and business, generally, in the Newberry area. It is con stantly striving for good business, good government and good citizen ship. The Chamber of Commerce is no myth Why not mlake full use of the ‘other face’ for your business. THE BAFFLES By Mahoney WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Northern Bruin Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL 1,6 Depicted animal 10 Philippic 11 Armed forces 13 Brazilian macaw 14 Asiatic nation 16 River in Virginia 17 Cushion 18 East Indian palm sap 19 Roof flnial 20 fur VERTICAL 1 Freebooter 2 Mouthward 3 Musical note 4 Mine entrance 5 Nevada city 6 Thrash 7 Measure of type 8 Military assistant 9 Harvester 10 Animal 11 Help has whitejf Shreds 15 Accomplish Kin™=]o finFira^ifTi fsnmm eiraram nn rara aFincnraa ■ rw am IdVIOd i pin iraran rarar=i pirara Piraa m ra Klf?]Pl mmn Hran HFia CTOPl KH 21 Epistle (ab.) » Solitary 22 Depend 24 Period of time 40 Fluff 25 Red planet 27 Whirlwind 28 Correlative of either 29 Symbol for sodium 20 Three-toed sloth 21 Asseverate 33 Church part 36 District attorney (ab.) 37 Four (Roman) 38 Qualified 40 Lighting devices 45 Peer Gynt's mother 46 Genus of meadow grasses 47 Propel 48 Source of light 49 Vagrant 51 Reiterate 53 Let it stand 54 Utopian 25 Complaint 26 Operatic solo 31 Rearrange 32 Mists 34 Perceptible 35 Happening 39 Tense a A Q an» igjggfggp *41 Amount (al 42 Military police (ab.) 43 Persian fail 44 Winter vehi 45 Bewildered 50 An (Soot) 52 Hebrew let! by LYN CONNELLY R ADIO, which has created many unforgettable characters, sometimes re-creates in different form a personality from another field . 4 . A few years back, an exatically beautiful girl with a sultry voice flashed into fame in a German motion picture called “The Blue Angel”. . . The girl, Marlene Dietrich, portrayed Lola- Lola, a night club singer whose beauty and charm were irresistible to men . . . She was part little girl, part seductress, part saint, one of a long line of enchantresses in the annals of show business, as un- v frogettable as Isolde or Scarlett O’Hara. Miss Dietrich must have liked her interpretation of this type of char acter, for she has re-created her in a more modem version in her own weekly radio series, “Time for Love”. . . As Diana La Volta, she is a night club singer without visi ble roots or ties, an enchantress with a true blue character behind her come-hither voice, who speaks eight languages and is equally at home in Edinburgh or Cairo. In the present series, her elusive, insolent charm decorate such va ried places as a casino at Cannes, a century-old palace in Madrid, a ring in Buenos Aires, a dive in Marseilles ... In each of these places, she encounters a difficult situation and gentlemen hostile as well as amorous, but being the trouper she is and seeing as how this is radio after all, she is able to overcome every ordeal. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Here’s how we found our great est treasure - as kids in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. THEY SAID IT The February Progressive Farm er said: “The happiest man we know this month is Jim Eleazer, Apostle of Irrigation. For now they’ve found irrigation not only makes bigger crops and better crops, but cuts the nicotine content in to bacco!” They were right. It did make me happy. For I’m firmly convinced that irrigation is our greatest un developed potential for economi cally increasing crop yields. Apply it, we must. Cautiously at first, as we learn from experiment and ex perience. And apply it widespread, eventually we will, as far as im pounded and running water will permit. Yes, I was sure glad to see to bacco get that good break. For maybe it is the nicotine that has linked it with throat and lung cancer of late. And if irrigation along with breeding, can help get that out of it, surely it will be another feather in the already well-bedecked cap of irrigation here in the rainfall belt. The Progressive Farmer sug gests two other ways of decreasing the nicotine in tobacco. First is to select a variety of known low nicotine content. And then ferti lize properly, being fcareful not to apply too much nitrogen, which tends to make a high nicotine leaf. And this farm paper warns farm ers that leaf of high nicotine con tent might be discriminated against on the markets this fall. Russell Hunt, leading Kentucky tobacco expert, has this to say: “Every grower interested in pro ducing a crop this year, and hoping to continue growing tobacco year after year, must realize the seriousness of the situation.” And he points out that the breeders already have varieties low in nico tine, and these are the ones the growers need to plant. So it looks like irrigation, variet ies of low nicotine content, arid proper fertilization (no excess nitrogen) might become embattled tobacco’s creed. THE GARDEN NOW If you buy the stuff for a veg etable dinner it will sure cost you now. 1 Guess you have already found that out. You know, it’s not the farmer’s fault either. He could give his stuff away and it wouldn’t come so much cheaper to you. For it is the transportation, refrigeration, processing, preparing, packaging, and distribution that cost so much by the time it reaches your retail store. Yes, all of these costs are rather fixed, or are getting higher. And thei^e is not much you or I can do about them, except one thing. We can grow some of our needs. It’s garden planting time now. A small plot made highly fertile and planted to a few staples your family likes best can be made to mean a lot. Keep it clean of weeds and grass, water it when needed, and remove and replant as soon as a row begins to fail. In this way you can grow a lot of fine vege tables on a very small area. If you are rusty on gardening, your county and home agents have many free helps from Clemson. «3The fumigation of old garden soils sure helps against root knot too. Ask your agent about details. SOYBEANS Soybeans following grain is a fast-coming new soil-building mon ey crop at several places in the Low Country. County Agent Cain of Calhoun says about 35,000 acres of ’em will be seeded following their grain in that county. And other agents tell me of increases too. Down in Hampton they have a soybean-growing contest. County Agent Thompson tells me the win ner last year was R. C. Deloach and his 4-H son, Bobby, with an official yield of 36 bushels of soys per acre. Second prize went to Van Peeples with 35.5 bushels, and third to A. W. Bush, who made 34 bushels per acre. Harper and Bowers, the sponsors, have art- nounced they will sponsor the con test again. The contest idea has sure We had roamed our range well, plumb back about two miles in the woods to where Cousin Jake Sum mer’s pasture started near the creek. We were firmly told never to venture in that pasture, as' a bad bull was reputed to roam that domain. And we had heard him bellowing! When we were small, we heeded that. But as the older of our crowd of about 10 white and colored boys got to the cussing age, we looked for new worlds to conquer. So we framed up one day^to explore that fascinating region beyond the fence back there. , I was among the smaller ones, but we all tagged along. I can well remember how our hearts started pounding, as we -climbed over the rail fence and ventured forth into that forbidden, yet beck oning, land. We went cautiously at first, and the smaller oneri stay ed close to the others. Zeke was my colored buddy and I remember walking so close behind him that 1 stumiped my toe on his heel several times, as I looked around, making sure no bull was coming in on us from the sides. If there hadn’t been danger expected ahead, I’d have likely been ahead of him. We at last came out of the woods to the clearing near the creek. There the good grass grew and the cattle were likely to be. But it was mid-afternoon, hot, and they were likely resting in tlje -shade somewhere or standing in the cool water of the creek. We didn’t see a thing, as we worked our way from one clumip of fine blackberry vines to the other. The going became very exciting out there in the middle, with no climb ing trees near. But soon We got to the creek bank and were out of the clear and into the jungle of growth that abounded there More next week. proven helpful in promoting bet ter methods with crops. We have state and county cotton, corn, and I&sture contests. And Darling ton has a county tobacco contest These develop information of great practical value. pgspgpllpim.|pi||i|p This an' That B abe didrkson zaharias is winner of the William D. Richardson Trophy awarded an nually by the Golf Writers Asso ciation of America to the person making the most outstanding con tributions to golf during the year . . . John Cannady, former Pur due player, and a seven year vet eran of professional football has signed his 1954 contract with the New York Giants, dispelling ru mors that he would retire this year . . . Florence Chadwick, the channel swimmer, looking for new fields to conquer, has her sights on a swim across Lake Ontario this summer . . . Dave Rosie, the left- handed pitcher sold by the New York Giants to the Baltimore Orioles, had a 6-12 record last year, was used sparingly In spring exhibition games belore the trade . . . The American Bowling Con gress voted at its Seattle meeting to let Rochester, N. Y„ be host city in 1956 ... the 1955 ABC meet is scheduled for Fort Wayne, In diana. YANKS GET SLUGGER . . . N. Y. Yankees acquired heavy hitting Enos (Country) Slaughter,, 38. veteran 8L Louis Cardinal outfielder, giving in exchange relief pitcher Mel Wright and three youngsters. Slaughter, 16 years with Cards, has .305 life time batting average. ONLY NEW 5-D PREMIUM GASOLENE HAS ALL 5! 1 ANTI-CARBON 2 EXTRA-HIGH OCTANE 3 ANTI-RUST 4 UPPER- CYLINDER LUBRICANT 5 ANTT- STALLING * Some gasolenes have none of these features! Some gasolenes have some of these features! But only Cities Service 5-D Premium has them all! CITIES service FARMERS ICE & FUEL CO. GEORGE W. MARTIN, Manager Wholesale Distributor CITIES SERVICE Petroleum Products > ID Reasons wfy- BUCK. Is the big Success More than five dozen new features are to be found in Buick for '54—but wo give you here just a few of the reasons for the soaring success of these gorgeous new glamour cars. J Greatest Styling Advance in Years—with completely new bodies of years-away design in every model. Broadest Visibility Advance— with backswept panoramic wind- 42 shields that give 19% more visibility. O Newest Ventilation Advance—in ~ Buick interior comfort—from wide, screened air intake at hood-high level. y ^ Highest V8 Horsepowers in Buick history —from advanced vertical- valve V8 engines with up to 8.5 to 1 compression and 200 hp—plus new ££ Power-Head fuel efficiency. 7* finest Million Dollar Ride-from all-coil springing, torque-tube drive, longer wheelbases, pew shock absorbers. Easiest Handling ever found in a Buick—from anew front-end geom etry that stabilizes “cornering,” insures more positive control, quicker response. Most Gorgeous Interiors ever to grace a Buick—plus new swing-away front doors for easier entrance and exit. Most Complete Choice off Price Ranges—with the low-priced SPECIAL, the sensationally powered CENTURY, the supremely spa- eious Super, and the custom-built Ro ADM ASTER. P. S. During April, 1,500,000 Americans fjl will join the Thrill Of The MontDCUib— just by taking the wheel of a 1954 Buick and discovering the now thrills in power and ride and handling ease to be had in this tomorrow-styled automobile. Wo cordially invite you to join them, by guest-driving O 1954 Buick. It's a thrilling new experience. Why not drop in this week? BUCK the beautiful buy MILTON BERLE STARS FOR BUICK-See the Bulcl-ferle Show Tuesday Evenings Widest Selection off Modem twres—available on most models either as standard equipment or extra-cost options—including Twin- Turbine Dynaflow, Safety Power Steering, Power Brakes, Power- Positioned 4-Way Front Sfiat, Power-Operated Radio Antenna, Easy-Eye Glass, Electric Window Lifts, Wire Wheels, Draft Free Air- conditioner. IO High-powered, hijh-styled "hardtop" this 1954 Buick Special Riviera delivers for just a few daUars more than similar models of the "low-price three." Giggest Values Ever-with prices that start right down next to the low-price three”— « LIKE THIS: only | $2359.88 is the Local Delivered Prica of the 1954 Buick Special 2-door, 6-passenger Sedan, Model 48D (illustrated) ^Optional equipment, accessories, state and local taxes, if any, additional. Prices may vary slightly in adjoining communities due to shipping charges. All prices subject to cluinge without notice. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM- CASQUE BUICK COMPANY 1305 Friend Street Newberry, S. C