The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, August 12, 1954, Image 6
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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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).
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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.
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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. Thorn,
Lemmon, South Dakota: I remem
ber the old fashioned wall to wall
carpets that were pulled, stretched
and tacked (town* and were taken
up in the fall and spring, hung out
on the line to be dusted and beaten.
I also remember the straw-filled
bed ticks that were emptied and
filled each fall after threshing time
with new, clean oat straw—the
troubles we girls had making beds,
as mothers insisted they be stirted
and fluffed up each day—and to
do that without leaving hollows
and lumps required an expert hand.
(ScnS eentrlbrntlens te this eelnmn te
The Ota Timer, Cemmmnlty Press Serv
ice, Frankfort, Kentacky.)
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