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HI MS? ' mm* . - ' # ’ ■ ,i ! : ?- ^T-v ^ > . A'/ v . .X AWf -‘- E s r ; - ■ ;»«K . «;. Pf* -'•v' •• >-/ Vsft ■v PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, NOV. 11, 1954 r(,' BINDER TWINE CLUE By D. L Alexander B UCK WILSON lay on his bunk In his cabin in the remote Lit tle Buffalo hills. His gaze rested mostly on the green clad hills that could be seen through the open doorway, although his eyes wandered occasionally to a splint er of sunshine that crept through A bole in the chinking and splashed on the floor. By it he aoald tell pretty accurately the tfme of day. Three things had occupied his atind that day. While in town Sheriff Jim Mosher had told him Thm Talbot had robbed the Cass City Bank of three thousand dol lars; that there was a reward of ana hundred dollars for his cap- -tsre; and a posse had spotted him near Wilson’s cabin. A slight noise made Buck tense. M was different than the chirping of birds and the rasp of the lo- The tall rangy figure of Tom Talbot appeared before the door way a moment later. He threw m quick glance at Buck and then to scan the hillsides in- Evidently reassured, he fain faced Buck. *Tm hungry. Got anything to .aat?** he asked. *T!ome on in. 1’U git you a snack," Buck answered as he rose from the bunk. "Was talkin’ to the sheriff this aaomin’ " Buck went on. "Dead nr alive, he said the orders are." "That’s what I heard." "Dead men’s not much account. Whyn’t you give yourself up?” 'Too risky. Might get killed do ff it.” "That’s so," thoughtfully. A moment later, "Chucks ready. Bet an’ eat. I’ll watch fer you." Talbot went to the table and Bade stood in the doorway on paard. Silence spread over the cabin for several minutes. Sud denly Buck spoke, low: "Hist," he warned. "Jist seen a bush move. Set still. Must be a deputy." He peered intently at the nearby hilL Talbot stopped eating and lifted his gun from the table. "Ifn its a deputy mebbe I can talk to him bout you givin’ your self up." Talbot studied a few minutes and then said, "No harm to try.". Buck slid from the doorway. After an interval he returned. " ’Twas a deputy, all right. He says for me to take your gun an’ you foller me out. Says for us to start toward town. The sheriff’s on his way out an’ we’ll meet him. He’s gone to round up the others now." They left the cabin, and as they rounded a hill some distance away they met the sheriff. "Good work," the officer said. "When do I git the reward money?" "I’U pay it now. The bank will pay me later.” He took out his billfold and counted out the money. He then shook hands with Buck and start ed to town with his prisoner. Buck hurried back to the cabin. He crossed the floor to a shelf and took down a box of cereal. One hand rummaged through the flakes and then he buried the re ward money in them. "Hands up." The command came from the open doorway. Buck obeyed and slowly turned— to face the sheriff and Talbot. "Wh-a-a" he began. "Never mind questions," the of ficer commanded. "We knew you was the yegg all the time. We wanted to find the take before ar resting you.” Talbot poured the cereal from the box. Also one hundred dol lars and a flat package of money with the Cass City Bank label on it. "Swag’s all here, he announced. "The next time you rob a bank, Buck, borrow a pair of suspenders. You are the only one in these parts that holds his pants up with binder twine. Come on, let’s go." ■- nrg A BOY! . . . Lloyd Brooks, 39, of Pittsfield, Me., puffs cigar triumphantly as 13 daughters greet their first brother, Leslie, shown cradled in mother’s arm. Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning Licensed Gas Fitters CAROLINA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCanghrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115 m sn .-•v gray ... Staple & Fancy Groceries Fresh Produce—Meats—Fish & Poultry Frozen Foods Friendly Super Mkt. Phone 517 for Home Delivery 1100 Main St. Joe Hipp, Prop. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Ciemson Extension Information Specialist mm CREPE MYRTLES AND SCUPPERNONGS Crepe myrtles and scupper- nongs, two delightful plants, both typically Southern. Surely every farmstead should have ’em. And town houses too. Specially the former. And the lat ter too, where there is room. Both are hearty and remarkably free from insect and disease in jury. Many an old house place is now marked only by a pile of brick-bats and the beauty of the blooming crepe myrtle that per sists there in the underbrush. And often too you can find the scup- pernong still clinging to an old cedar post that was once a part of the w'ell-kept arbor. Yes, both of these are strong growers. And they will persist, if you give them a chance. And, of course, each responds to atttention too. The beautiful crepe myrtle has been called “The Hundred Day Flower.” And that it is. For it blooms most of the summer. And the scuppernong could as truly be called “Everyman’s Grape.” It ripens in the late sum mer and early fall, when most other fruits and berries are gone. And now we have a number of improved sorts. With County Agent Cannon of Laurens I saw 28 different varieties of scuppernong grapes growing to perfection on the farm of T. B. Summerel. They were covered with sweet grapes, both black and white sorts. He had them on neat trellises, in wide rows, and kept them clean of grass and weeds. Even though the drought was severe, he had an abundant crop. They are on aver- THC m ... -M \ * ?•.*•• * • i - v i it J riffo % y.*.»•••*•■ ••‘•••./J**••••••*• ••/•v* • • •* I "Now maybe John will believe me when I tell him a new car, financed by Purcells would save us money.” V come to think of it, why wait to tell John, i’ll start looking around for that new car myself. PURCELLS “YoUr Private Bankers’* 1418 Main St Newberry M ** a P ETER POTTER, the "Juke Box Jury" kingpin, may well be considered a leading authority on pop music . . . Potter, who’s been disc jockeying since 1936. has probably spun more records than any jockey in the country . . . Reviewing the trend of pop music. Potter predicts that there’ll be e return to dancing music . . ’Too much of today's music is for lis tening only, written for novelty or unusual effects," he declares . . "I think next year’s most successful records will be those that people can not only hear and enjoy, but can dance to as wen." Anyone walking into the Holly wood office of Carlton E. Morse, creator-producer-author of "One Man’s Family," is struck by one outstanding feature . . . It's load ed with dozens of shelves—all filled with one kind of book—hun dreds of volumes of “One Man’s Family" scripts dated back to April 29, 1931 . . As for Morse himself, his office boasts only a tiny desk and an ordinary kitchen chair . "Comfort,” he says, "is not conducive to writing." PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL—Dorothy Shay, our favorite hillbilly, has come up with a wonderful high fidelity re cording of her most popular songs. Including "Doin’ What Comes Natur’Uy," "You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun," "I Wanna Get Mar ried,” "Always True to You lu My Fashion," and four others that should keep her fans happy Capitol has released Betty Hut ton’s original musleal comedy which served as her TV debut, "Satins and Spurs*’ . . Sungs are all new and authored by Jay Liv ingston and Ray Evans. Still on Capitol, Gerdau Mao- Rag and Lucille Kerman revive that operetta favorite, "The Red Mill" with its stirring Vloter Her bert songs This Is a must; the music is beautiful, the sing ing excellent and the production tops . . What more can one ask? WORLD BEAUTY ... Antigone Constanda of Egypt wen title "Miss World, 1954" over beau ties of 16 countries in London contest. She gets 91,499 and film contract. m *- age land, and he fertilizes very lit tle. Excess fertility seems to cause too much growth at the expense of grapes he says. Ciemson has found the same thing. Mr. Sumerel said the main trouble was with getting these grapes started. They are repro duced from layered vines and are rather puny when you cut the rooted parts off from the main plant. Nurse them along the first year or so and they will grow into strong vigorpus vines. But it is in that first year that most folks fail with them. • ' . i ’ JfY ; . Like apples, varieties need to be mixed properly in the plantig to insure fruiting Most scuppernong type grapes have imperfect flowers and you need some of the perfect flowering sorts planted along with them. Then they will all bear'fruit. Those interested will find full details in Clemson’s memeograph entitled “Muscadine Grapes.’’ TURKEY TIME Thanksgiving and Christmas used to be our turkey eating time. For the rest of the year, we sel dom saw turkey served. But in recent years that has been chang ing. Science has so Improved the carcass of the tnrkey that it is a far superior meat bird now. And modern streamlined methods of mass production now turn out fine turkeys by the hundreds where we used to have the old “grasshopper” sort by the tens. This year we have a record crop of turkeys, a bit over 61 million. And that has made them one of the cheapest and heist meat buys we have. Yet that is less than a half turkey per person in this country. And who couldn’t eat over a half turkey in a year it the housewives and public eating places just put it before them! Our turkey specialist, Charlie Risher of York, who is also secre tary o,f the South Carolina Tur key Federation, tells me we pro duced over a million turkeys in the state this year. We have dress ing plants at several places over the state. Folks can get the finest of turkeys dressed and fresh from these right in their local stores. Look at the source of the turkey on its label and yon can know when you are getting a top home grown product Yes, the turkey was once a lit! ' V s , ' $ s < a i ■ im wm wm .: t-r-xvw-xx-: m esst&.q Mgm- ww V V m m mm: ;isppi .-v- V* •V vv , Wm I- wm ■m . XlyX’- • ^v.VMvXvX- : : 51.: §§ III ' I i ■ : WM “C-x^jer.'v-. m Mm el 'V- THIS FARM, SEVENTH IN A SERIES, has been identified as the Dr. E. H. Moore place on Route 1, Newberry. George Halfacre, 1125 Douglas St., was the first person residing in the city to correctly identify the farpi. He will receive the plastic TV serving set by George N. Martin Radio & TV Service. David Ringer, Route 1, Bov 130, New berry, was the first person residing in the county to name the farm correctly. He will receive two free tickets to the Wells Theatre. The tickets and TV serving set is waiting for the winners to call by The Sun office for them. Others who guessed the farm correctly are named elswhere in this issue. holiday treat. But it has now grown into an everyday meat. And jt’s the highest of all common meats in the valuable protein you buy meats principally for. DROUGHT ON COTTON AND OTHER THINGS County Agent Evans of Lex ington says, “Many cotton grow- I ers report only one bale to four i or five acres.’! And McComb of Orangeburg says, “Coastal Bermuda bids fair to taking over in the summer pasture field.” That was his con clusion following the severe droughts of the past few years. “We will do well to average 3 bushels of corn per acre,” says Bob Bailey of Richland. And Bry ant of Lee says, “If we gathered and sold all the corn we are mak ing in the county, it wouldn’t pay for the seed we used.” Spring rain, the patter of April showers on the window panes and shingled roof, brings memories aplenty. School was out early in the Stone Hills, for we didn’t have but four or five months of it. That meant farm work started early for us. And rain meant rest the next day. We had a saying, “More rain more rest.” And we lazy kids sure liked that. But rain did not really mean rest to us. Acthally that wasn’t what we wanted. We wanted to play. And our plaftr usually more vigor ous than any work we did. We thought it drudgery to have to plow, which is was not, just hold ing up tho handles as the mole walked down the furrow. Bdt totin’ heavy rocks all day to build a dam across our favorite branch was fun of the highest order. Even the very light job ot drop ping peas in the corn middles at lay-by time was irksome indeed and we hated it Yet to drag great armfuls of long canes from two miles down and across the creek was in the nature of high adven ture. For look what we could make from those things! Whistles, water-squirters, popguns and the like! But the spring shower really had meaning to the grown folks. It meant the hard land could be pre pared, planted, and that the, stuff could come up. It meant power to the home garden there too,, an<t it was needed. For the winter had been long, and fall stores had dwindled low. It also meant tho danger from woods fires was about gone until winter returned agaiiu For our woods meant a lot to us. Fir^t was firewood. Then was straw for the stables and for build ing the compost heap. We conldn't have endured long without that It was the life of our land. Not much fertilizer then, and nothing to buy it with. And our woods were our fort trio when a house burned or we needed to build or repair one. And the choicest longleaf pine was selected for shingles when a building needed its seldons recovering. The ways of the past! They served their purpose well. But in this ever-changing world they seem rather strange now. with the 180-HP Strato-Streak V-8! DAIING ALL-NEW FUTURE-FASHIONED STYLING Pontiac’s brilliant new styling steps you years ahead in a single bold move. From its "dream car” front end with its twin silver streaks to upswept rear fenders, Pontiac for 1955 is far and away the most distinctive car on the road. ALL-NEW STRATO-STREAK V-S PERFORMANCE Here’s an engine so responsive it almost anticipates your demands ... so thor oughly proved that it will make even more enviable Pontiac’s reputation for dependability and economy. Three and a half million miles of testing stand back of Pontiac’s Strato-Streak V-8. 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