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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN \ THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, COUNTRY GIRL By F. L Rowley M ISS BETTY JOHNSON’S heart danced to the clickety-clack of train wheels as her eyes settled on familiar country. She swallowed hard when the conductor poked his if into the car to announce: “Hillcrest—next stop!” After a fnseling year of facing glassy- eyed cameras and carping direc- tara Betty was returning home. Her stay in Hillcrest would be Jarief. She would then leave for York in a blaze of affected —and complete oblivion. For Betty Johnson was through with show business; irrevocably finished; washed up. True, she had made one picture—of sorts. Hill- acast was playing it up big in an- flcipation of its release—DESERT starring our own Betty Zf her friends and neighbors had w ' known! If they’d been with her the set day after day; if they seen the director slapping his on the floor in despair, a night had she allowed her- too little sleep in order to a script—only to forget it by camera time. Her friends would Ip ok upon her as a quitter. Let tbem! She’d be buried in some New Tork business school by tho time afi this excitement had died down. "I think the whole town’s here!” cried Mayor Fulcrum doffing his topper as the train came to a halt. ••Best turnout I’ve seen since Willie Watkins won the tjog-calling con test over by Silver Creek.” “How’s it feel to be r celebrity?” came a voice from the crowd. Betty blushed. “I wouldn’t know,” iffc* said faintly. “Hear that?” Mayor Fulcrum turned to face those on the platform. “That’s a Hillcrest girl! Ho airs for her. Just real honest-to- fioodness talent.” The mayor then proceeded to outline the plan drawn up by the entertainment commit tee. The festivities would begin with an old-fashioned square dance ]p Pat Quigley’s barn. “Hello Betty!” A familiar voice her around as she was enter ing the big barn later that eve ning. “Why Bill Saunders!” she cried, feigning surprise. “Whatever hap pened to your promise to write?” Bill was no fool; she knew that the hurt look in his eyes was the result of her own attempted whop per. His letters hadn’t gone astray —of that he was sure. She tried to make up for it by catching his hand as the music started. Square dances were never de signed for serious conversation be tween partners. Betty soon allowed Bill to steer her into the cool night air; the moon was just rising be hind Quigley’s orchard.’ “I—I wish things were differ ent,” he whispered. “What do you mean. Bill?” She knew perfectly well what he meant. The poor chap was pitying himself for being a farmer, while she—why she was Betty Johnson, the big movie star. “Why you’re famous. If you weren't so important—if you were just a country girl; oh, what’s the use! Let’s go in—” She caught his flannel sleeve: “You never was a coward, Bill.” Even in the moonlight she could see the perspiration on his brow. “All right,” he gulped, “I’U say it. You’ve probably heard it from a dozen guys who can say it real fancy-like; only I mean it. I love you, Betty. Will you marry me?” She • thought of her New York plans. She thought of those diffi cult days in Hollywood where she had struggled to be something she was not. “It’s like coming home after a long trip; I guess maybe I am just a country girl after all. Yes, Bill—I will marry you.” And as they started back toward the barn to tell all their friends the good news, Betty didn’t see the crushed letter that Bill tossed into the high grass; a letter that contained a newspaper clipping de scribing Betty Johnson’s release 1 from her studio. les Carroll £*OUNTRY artists have been amazed during personal ap pearances at the many requests for gospel numbers, and this is being reflected in the number of •acred recordings being released. Hank Snow’s M My Religion’s Hot Old-Fashioned,” and “The Alphabet,” are moving gospel of the spiritual type. And Darrell Glenn gives a beautiful rendition of “Once and Only Once” (both Victor). “Chapel of Memories” and “In the Chapel in the Moonlight,” by Rex Allen, are two of his best numbers, and he sings them with deep feeling. Webb Pierce sounds great in “Bugle Call From Heav- en” (both Decca). A smooth and unusual fluet by Mallie Anne and Slim is “Love You,” featuring good trick har mony. Gene Autry has two fine releases in “20/20 Vision” and “I’m. a Fool to Care” (all Co lumbia). Elton Britt, one of country music’s top yqdelers, has an espe- cially good recording, “Trailing Arbutus,” in which he yodels a with himself. And Skeeter yodels well in “Honey Baby,” a nice rhythmic love song (Victor). The Carlisles have a good com edy number in “Moody’s Goose,” done in their inimitable style. And Tibby Edwards* latest is a nice ballad, “If You Lose, You’ll Understand” (Mercury). Two excellent love ballads with the accent on melody fire “Change” by Rod Morris, and “But, I Do” by Skeets McDonald (both Capitol). And “Show Me That You Love Me” is a good, fast-p&ced love song by A1 Terry (Hickory). “Redheaded Stranger” by Ar thur Smith (MGM) is a pleasing western-type song with a nice beat. • • • OTHER GOOD RELEASES are “Padre of Old San Antone” (Jim Reeves. Abbott); “This Is the Thanks I Get” (Eddie Arnold, Victor); “I’m Sorry, Sorry Now” (Ray Haney, MGM); “Love March” (Bobby Williamson, Vic tor); “Angels, Rock Me to Sleep” (Carl Story, Mercury); “John Henry and the Water Boy” (Jim mie Skinner, Decca) and “You Ougta’ Know” (Jimmy Heap, Capitol). Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning Licensed Gas Fitters 9 CAROLINA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCaughrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115 RUS DELIVE SERVH 'f, " ' —^and just think, it all started by financing a scooter with Purcells. ,, These wonderful folks have helped a lot of people In many ways. If you need mon- t ey, why not phone them, and then stop in to pick up your cash? PURCELLS “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Main St Newberry FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist UNIQUE BUSINESS Who’d have even thought of pigeons as a business, yes, big business? Well some folks at .Sumter did, years ago. Now it is said to be the world’s largest pigeon plant. I stopped by there the other day and found an old 4-H Club boy, Wilbur Bernshouse, active there with Harold Moise who runs it, the Palmetto Pigeon Plant, He told me they now produce 160,000 squabs a year from their 25,000 breeders. Each is pedigreed and "a complete record kept on its productiveness, qualityr etc. There they have reduced the art of pigeon growing to an exact science. In cooperation with gov ernmental and private research agencies, they have done and are doing advanced breeding, feeding, and management work with pige ons all along. Old pigeons are sent away mostly to research cen ters for clinical use. But their main purpose and chief business is the raising of superior squabs that they pack and ship away by the thousands w r eekly. Many frontiers lie around. All we have to do is master them. About a block from this great pigeon plant I found another old boy I had known as a youth in Sumter, “Butch” Cuttino. He had built a good business there mak ing fishing flies, employed a num ber of people, and was enlarging his' building. He calls it the Drag on Fly Company. All manner of materials are used in his cunning to fool the fish. Feathers from far places and buck tails from Maine were piled there before us. The deft fingers of ladles were fashioning lures from them by se curing them to hidden hooks. And so is it with farming. Every now and then I’m telling you of some new idea that has taken root and is bearing fruit. At the experiment stations I see much. And, as I ride with the county agents, I see the new things being demonstrated in the field. Then about all of this we talk in the columns. On Sundays it reaches you in your daily papers. On Thursdays it reaches you again in your weekly tand afternoon papers. And then on Saturdays at 12:36 p.m. on “The Voice of Clemson” radio I’m likely there in your living room squawk ing about the great story of change that’s taking place on our farms that once knew but cot ton. Cotton is still there. But in a new and better role. IRRIGATION IN LEE County Agent Bryant told me they had a dozen irrigation outfits on the farms of Lee county. A Bible Comment: God's Blessing Depends Not on Wealth, Poverty r FHE rich young man who came to Jesus inquiring the way to eternal life has had an un enviable place in religious his tory. Though we do not know his name, the Gospel incident has given him anonymous fame, and at the same time brought upon him much harsher judgment than he would seem to have deserved. In correctness of life he was undoubtedly remarkable, for Jesus loved him and offered him a place in His small circle of im mediate followers. We should view the young man with a compassionate sadness, re membering that he went away sad, never again to enjoy the great possessions that had kept him from the greatest glory and treasure of alL Other rich men who heard Christ’s call, either from Jesus, Himself, or in the early days of the Christian church, made a bet ter response than the rich young man. But Christianity, despite the fact of some rich disciples and the “saints’ in Caesar’s house hold,” seems to have had its rise chiefly among the poor. This association of Christian ity with poverty, and the fact that later saints renounced wealth and worldliness to lead lives of devotion and service, has often led to a glorification of pov erty that is not justified by the facts. The blessings of poverty are often sung by those who have never known what it is to be poor. Moreover, Christianity was built upon the heritage of the Old Testament, with a philosophy of abundance. It was only when material prosperity led to unrightness and forgetfulness of God, the giver of ail, that the prophets gave warn ing. There is no blessing in either wealth or in poverty, but only in the blessedness that God bestows. numlber of them get their water out of holes they dug in little bays that abound in the area. There the water just seeps in. And they re cover rather ^quickly after hard pumping. ' He showed me a cute gravity ir rigation arrangement that Gene McLendon has. As is usually the case, some arable land lies below the dam to his beautiful farm pond. There he irrigates pasture through a four-inch pipe that’s buried in the side of the dam. A little wood door over the intake shuts the wtater off as nee&ed. Raise that and a good batch of water goes through and fans out down there, insuring abundant lush grass during the severest droughts.- And this arrangement doesn’t quite take all of the normal overflow from his pond either. Therefore, he can irrigate indefi nitely there without lowering the water level in his pond. Below many a pond such a thing is easily possible. I’ve told you about Olin Helms up in Lancaster. He thus irrigated 12 acres of truck and field crops Below his pond. And last September, when I was there with County Agent Cannon, he had an abundance of turnips larger than eggs while neighbors hadn’t gotten their up yet. And his pasture was very ghod, while others were as parched and dead as winter. / FARMER RESPONSIBILITY There was a time when just about everybody in this country farmed. That started dwindling, as industrialization came. The per centage of farmers has gone down, down, while production has gone up, up. It is well that this was so, or somebody would have gone hungry and naked. Population experts say this trend hasn’t stopped yet The percentage of our folks on the farms now is 14. They say it will continue to drop until it has reach ed about 8 percent And with mod ern methods, machines, and tech nology, they feel it will be stabi lized there. They figure that pro gress has gone so far that there is not much more room for ad vancement in what one man can do. Bo they expect this thing to LAFF OF THE WEfiK By TED RESTING You’re proud of your boat, motor and accessories and you want to take care of them be cause they cost a good-many dol lars. But just how careful have you been in building or buying the trailer to transport this precious cargo ? In an article in Sports Afield magazine, Ross B. Hall points out that many trailers incessantly hammer critical spots on a hull, or risk boat damage from careless ly secured support slings, or tie downs. Major considerations in good trailer ‘design are hull contact, point of support, and secure fastening. Neglect of these im portant features has caused many expensive hull repair jobs and, frankly, you shouldn't blame the design or craftsmanship of the boat. Hull contact: A proper aft hull support should shape to the hull contour. Spread across the bottom width of the boat, this support then distributes the weight and road impacts over a larger area and lessens the pressure against each square inch of boat bottom. Also, the support padding material and the way it’s fastened play an important role. Use wear-repistant yet soft k and resilient materials. Hose of large diameter, rubber covered and containing an inner cord for toughness, is ideal. Don’t nail or screw to the top surface of the support because the heads of the fasteners may work up to mar the finish or puncture the hull. Point of support: This location should be choeen to coincide with an internal structural member such as a husky bottom brace or frame. The ideal boat trailer should support the hull directly under the transom. Experience has proven that with boats over 15 feet which weigh more than 250 pounds, you’d be smart to add an additional contour hull support about one-third of the boat- length back from the bow. Fastening boat to trailer: On boats that Vide front and rear supports or kOel-length contact, the general rule is that all tie downs should be positive and tight. But when your boat is sus pended or slung in the trailer you’ve got a different problem. The back of the boat may be hung on hooka at the gunwale or slung in a web strap that passes under the boat. But more important is the bow fastening. A proper mounting for the front end uses rope, web straps or springs to ab sorb shocks and at the same time allows practically no sloppiness in the tie-down itself. (•••■Sr-V' f**:**;**;**: m A ff start leveling off and be final when about 8 folks out of 'every 100 are on the farms. That will put a lot of responsibility on a few folks. But with science in the saddle, they say 8 percent of 'em will do the job that’s needed. a REMEMBER BY THE OLD TIMERS From A. W. Curtis, Galesburg. Michigan: 1 remember when my uncle ran the dairy in our town in Ohio. He would come along in the evening with milk and we would have our meal out of the way so we Could meet the milk wagon and buy ice cream by the dip. It was dipped out of the freezer into' a pan at five cents for a large scoop. Milk was ladeled out into a pan at that time as there were no bottles. What a long way we have come in fifty years. I can also remember the man who opened the first ice cream parlor (he is still alive aqd in his 70’s). It was closed up the first winter, for who wanted ice cream in the winter time? I also remember' the first auto in town. Most horses were scared and a lot of people would get out and hold the horse by the bridle until the noisy contraption went by. * • • From Mrs. Altia M. 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