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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
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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
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22 Depend 24 Period of time 40 Fluff
25 Red planet
27 Whirlwind
28 Correlative of
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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longer wheelbases, pew shock
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Easiest Handling ever found in a
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etry that stabilizes “cornering,”
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Most Gorgeous Interiors ever to
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Most Complete Choice off Price
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Ro ADM ASTER.
P. S. During April, 1,500,000 Americans fjl
will join the Thrill Of The MontDCUib—
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discovering the now thrills in power
and ride and handling ease to be had in this
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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
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