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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1954 BIFF'S SECOND CHANCE By Don E. Wilhite B IFF totted hit btteball shoes into hit locker end slammed the door angrily. Quickly, he jerked hie sweater over his head and stomped out of the locker room. •*Wow. is he tore!*' Freddy Johnson broke the silence as he turned away from the door and reached into his locker for his T*ehirt. “Well, let him be, him his big deal. He had to see pros. Yeah, had to skip school day before our big'’game. The pitcher Franklin High's ever had and he let us down. If he'd’ve we’d’ve won. Well, I don't coach for benching him." steps slowed as he rounded corner of the stadium and home. "It isn’t fair." he _ aloud. "It Just isn't fair." lowered his head and viciously ' a clod of dirt. "Biff," Coach had said that morn- tag when he’d been called into the pHneipal's office, "No one player Is as big as the whole team. You’ve the rules and that's all is to it. I hope we can win game this afternoon without „ but win or lose you’re spend ing the afternoon on the bench." Okay. so they hadn't won, they'd Isat. That should show them all how good he was. Funny though, the fellows had been awful quiet, they seemed to blame him. not Coach, for the loss, acted as if hs*d let them down. Huh. a lot he cared; a fat lot of difference it made to him. Suddenly Biff re membered last fall when his Dad had taken him to see a big league game in St. Louis. Dad had been a big leaguer himself until he’d tried to stop a fast center drive and smashed nil the bones in his left hand. What was it Dad had aaid then about the players having to pay fines for breaking rules? •The team’s the most important thing, every great ball player knows that." Biff remembered a lot of other tilings his Dad had told him about baseball. He remembered his first ball and glove on his fifth birth- day . The help, the practice ses sions, and always the talks. “Play for the team. Play with the team. Nine men on the team.” • It was dark when Biff walked up on the wide front porch of his home. Lights were burning in the dining room and he knew his fami ly' were at dinner. He wondered how he could face them all. He knew what Timmy, his little broth er, would be thinking. Lately he'd been in on the practice sessions and the talks with Dad. Quietly he opened the front door and slipped into the entrance hall. He went straight upstairs to his own room and threw himself across the bed. “What a dope I've been. Big, 'strong Biff Elliot, rules aren’t for me. oh no. I’m the star pitcher. Franklin High couldn't play ball without me. Nuts, what a dope." Biff had lost track of the time sc he didn't know how long he'd beer in his darkened room when h« heard a light knock at the dooi and his Dad's voice softly calling his name. “Biff. Biff, are you asleep? May I come in a minute, son?" , Here it was. here came what he'd known all along Would have to come and what he’d been dread ing. "Yes sir, come in." His Dad looked a little tired. Biff thought, and a little sad as he switched on the desk lamp and sat on the edge of the bed. “Well, son. Franklin lost a tough one today." “Dad. Dad. I'm sorry, I’ve been such a darn fool." All the remorse that had built up in Biff since leav ing the locker room earlier seemed to burst out, and somehow he knew his Dad understood how he felt. “Maybe benching you was a little rough just for breaking one rule You know I wanted to win this one just as much as anybody. Biff, but you’ve got to remember that no one player is as big as his team We’re still in the running, son. if we can win next week’s game we can still win the pennant What do you say?" “1 say we’ll whip the pants off 'em. Coach, just wait and see." T Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating:—Air Conditioning: Licensed Gas Fitters CAROUNA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCaugfhrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115 WEEKEND SPECIAL Extending Traverse Tracks and Rod for Draw Draperies equipped with Nylon Cord also Pleat Master Tape and Hooks Carolina Remnant Shop “The bill collectors are all gone, sir—but I suggest you yet an auto loan from Purcells soon.” If one has lots of small nagging debts, it’s silly to try to evade the issue, when it's so easy to call these friendly Purcell folks for help. PURCELLS “Your Prlvave Bankers” 1418 Main St Newberry FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist PEACH PICKING TIME Our commercial peach business is undergoing great change right now. The growers are making a concerted effort to put better peaches on the market. This entails everything from the right variety, orchard care, and on down to marketing. And on this latter point they are making great strides. Pre-cooling is en abling an increasing number of them to put a better tree-ripened peach on the market. This is in marked contrast to the' rather green and unpalatable sort that so often went to market in the past. And the growers have banded together to advertise this superior product too. Thus the consumers all ground will know that quality rides with these peaches. Dave White of McBoe is chairman of this group, and Clemson’s Roy Ferree is secretary. Along about now they are bringing the food editors of large newspapers and radio and television stations from the North and Midwest down to see and sample these hydro-cooled tree-ripened peaches. For it is a different product to that they are accustomed to, delightfully dif ferent. SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY RANCH About six or seven years ago Paul Thomas came from up in York county with a considerable knowledge of turkeys and bought some very light sandy land near Sumter. I went by there the other day with County Agent Bowen and saw one of biggest and best turkey setups in the country. A modern sign by the road marks it. Southeastern Turkey Bible Comment: Positive Thinking And Action Make The Good Life' TY/'HAT is the conception of the ** good life, the best life of all, as we see it set forth and exem plified in the teaching and ex ample of Jesus? Though there are profound and striking exceptions, there have been many followers of Jesus who, inspired by Him, have lived lives of conspicuous devotion and service. In our own time there have been men like Fathdr Da mien of Molokai, and Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador; women like Jane Addams of Chicago. And their name, In spite of all the shortcomings of professed Christians, has been legion; for many unknown to fame have not been unknown to God for their sincerity and goodness. But in general the emphasis in historic Christianity and the church has been negative, rather than positive. It has been upon sins, rather than upon the great, positive expressions and acts of righteousness and truth. If one doubts this, he need only make wide observation of life to see how many lives of “good" men and women, well- intentioned and free from evil, are none the less inconspicuous for evidence of the "fruit of the Spirit." The thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians, next to the Sermon on the Mount the greatest ser mon ever written, in its simplic ity, conciseness and brevity, makes plain the nature of the good life as the Apostle Paul learned it from His Master.. In the positive emphasis upon the good life, such as Jesus made, there is no danger that there will be less inhibition against sin and sins. The positive attuning of the heart to truth and righteousness is, in fact, the surest guarantee that one's life will be inwardly and outwardly correct. A world concentrating more upon right eousness and the spirit and acts of love will be, correspondingly, a world freer from sin and evil. Ranch. And, my, what an opera tion it has grown ito! He main tains large improved laying flocks and conducts a hatchery. When I was there he was setting 37.000 eggs a week. The very last word in sanitation is practiced and everything was spotlessly clean. We walked through a shallow pan of disin fectant as we entered the premise. He not only sells poults by the thousands, but Tie raises 67,000 a year for market. He has wide ranges where he rotates them and keep 'em on clean land. He has mostly the large broad-breasted whites, which he thinks is the coining turkey. Now, folks, we have a lot of farmers who are rather expert in their lines. But you won't find one who knows a business more thoroughly than Paul Thomas down there in Sumter. And there he has taken the turkey, that used to have to chase grass hoppers for a living, and made a big and expert business out of it. WILD LUPINES The wild blue lupine blooms, in beautiful clusters in the near barren sandhills of the mid-statq in April and May. Many have tried to transplant it. I did. But I’ve never seen it succeed. It defies domestication. Like the cactus on the desert, it thrives in the sterile sand. Its roots must reach to the deeper regions, where there is life-giving' water and nourishment URBAN FARMER'S CLUB I met with County Agent Bob Bailey and his Urban Farmers’ Club at a lake out in Riohl&nd county in*April. It was a special occasion, and they had Bill Camp from California there to talk of irrigation. Well over 300 were there. They had invited adjoining county agents and a few interested farmers from those counties too. So far ae I know, this club is something new. And it would like ly serve a need at some other places too. For many a business- jnan also has a farm. Once a month at the club’s meeting they can see and hear their county agent and get a lot of answers they need. This saves the agent a lot of wear and tear and makes his service more easily accessible to them. CONSERVATION SIGNS .Green and white signs by a good many farms over the state tell that a conservation farmer lives there. And his fields and pastures and woodlands silently proclaim the same thing. If they didn't, the sign would be out of place. As things are going, more and more farms are becoming worthy of the name. Conservation Farm. And this sort of conserving does not mean to horde. It means to grow things for use, managing them right, so as to take care of the land. KOREAN PRODIGY . . . n Han, 11, wha's played plane since age ef twe. Is being sent to New York’s Jnlliard School of Music on scholarship through U. S. 5th Air Faroe. Jr MAESTRO S ADIEU . . . Arturo Toscanini, 87, resigned conductor of NBC symphony orchestra, leaves with daughter Wanda Horowitz and granddaughter Sonia for vacation in Italy. 'PLEASE, MOM! »» . Dennis Kadlits, S, pleads with mother net to ban his pet dog from henae after bit of canine misbe havior. Case ef "when a feller needs n friend/* BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER ATOMIC TOAD . . . Prof x E. M. K. Gelling measures action of radioactive drugs on toad's heart in demonstration before joint congressional atomio energy -ommlttee. The last chapter of this ac count of our early expedition into a forbidden area back of home in the Stone Hills is thin one. We had gotten the great canes from back there, lugged ’em on a log across a treacherous creek, made all sorts of things out of, ’em, caught fish back in those unfished waters with hook and basket, and now for our last great adventure there. • A returned school teacher was there for the summer. He was at tracted by the fish we had ca&ght and suggested that we go grab bling there. He described it to us, how we would take cotton- picking sacks on our shoulders to put the fish in. Then we'd just get in there in the shallow waters and shoals and feel around under rocks for the fish. Well, that fellow was known as a practical joker and we sure thought he was trying to pull a fast one on us. So we just laughed around and didn't encourage him much. We thought it was like snipe hunting; we knew about that. But he was so insistent, and was taking his sack too, that we ventured forth on this new sort of expedition. We hadn’t been in the water on our knees' feeling around any time ' at all before vre started pulling fine catfish out. I remem ber well, under an old stump I could feel several nice catfish, un der there in the cool shaded water. Gradually I gripped one in my hand, letting the sharp fins go be tween my fingers. I pulled it out and slipped it in my sac'k. Went back time and again until I had them all from there. And so it went. Everyone of us got a good many fish. That was a new sort of STRICTLY FRESH T*HE Royal Air Force plans to parachute two cats to a mouse-infested fort in the Ma layan jungle, haunt of tigers. Another case of carrying coals to Newcastle. ' * • • Thief in Hagerstown, Md., will really be caught in a tight squeeze when he opens the bag he stole from a car. It contains a 10-foot, 60-pound python. * • • Burglars in Norman, Okla., went to back-breaking effort to steal a safe which had the com bination ppsted right on the door. IEEVEI mmi N' Same guys, no doubt, who go right past big yellow-and-black STOP signs. • • • • • Fellow in Topeka, Kan., wants permission from the city to brick- over his front lawn. Hell find grass growing there as never before, if he does. see Agriculturist in Miami, Fla.* says a mechanical scarecrow won't be.built until some can tell the difference between a crow's warning and mating caws. Just ask any old, married' crow. fun we were having. And we could hardly believe it was so. Moving easy, our hands didn't frighten them at all. There- is always something new for boys in the country. And we never had a dull moment. In the rough and rugged countryside, we found potentials at every turn, and we made our fun as we went along. OTHING annoys me more than a “perhapser." You generally meet “perhapsers" at parties or some other type of social gathering. You’re introduced by a mutual friend who leaves the two of you alon£ and wanders off. It takes but a moment or two to discover that neither of you have anything in common. He think* your hobby is a time-waster. The clubs you belong to don’t carry their weight of the civic burden. He thinks your views on politic* are antiquated. In a situation like this, it doesn't take long for your side to run out of polite conversation. Yet, he goes on, and on. and on. until you come to decide that ha's really a friendly and well-meaning fellow even though you can't agree with • word he says. Mind you, this is not the only type of "perhapaer." You find aO kinds, even those who agree with everything you say. This type often leaves you with the impression they would make an excellent next- door neighbor. "Perhapser" traits are never evident when you first meet suds individuals. You never know for sure until you have spoken t-> them two or three times on the street, in the local cafe, or some other public place. Perhaps your greet ing was acknowledged, perhaps it wasn’t . . that's where they get the name. The only way I know to deal with "perhapsers" is to play baseball with them. Allot one strike for each time ydu meet them and speak. If you fail to get a response in threw tries, put ’em out of your league. Subscribe to The Newberry Sun Honevon Wheels * ^7 — - -and only $ 2359 .68 buys it! 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