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PAGE SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, NOV. 11, 1954
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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."
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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
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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
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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-
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"Now maybe John will believe me when I tell him a
new car, financed by Purcells would save us money.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
ALL-NEW HANDLING EASE
New vertical king-pin front suspension,
new parallel rear springs and new re
circulating ball steering let you take
corners and curves almost effortlessly—
cushion road shock s6 effectively you
experience an all-new driving sensation.
* * BEAUTIFUL ALL-NEW PANORAMIC BODY
Pontiac’s new panoramic body provides
sweeping vision all around, with new
panoramic windshield and extra-wide
rear window. Front Beats are three
inches wider and, d&pite a roof line
almost three inches lower, there is no
sacrifice of head room.
EXCITING ALL-NEW INTHUORS
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NeVer has a car priced next to the lowest
extended so exciting an invitation to
relax amid so much luxury. Pontiac’s
all-new interiors—with fine fabrics and
leathers perfectly keyed to the Vogue
Two-Tone body colors—are unsurpassed
for beauty and charm at any price.
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