The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 15, 1954, Image 6
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."
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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.
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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.
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and granddaughter Sonia for vacation in Italy.
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Kadlits, S, pleads with mother
net to ban his pet dog from
henae after bit of canine misbe
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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
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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.
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