The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 27, 1955, Image 6

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> PAGE SIX SURE FLOW ... Here's a simple tip that will make molasses January flow like it's July. Just thread the valve stem from an old truck tire into the bung and hook on a tire pump. ■mn AO’S SON ENLISTS - . . Maj. Gen. Wm. F. Dean watches as i, Wm. Jr, 24, is sworn in as air force cadet in San Francisco Maj. T. S. Scales. Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phones 719 & 76—Night 513-R m MEMBER Send Them Together DRY CLEANING - LAUNDRY Sanitone Dry Cleaning Removes all dirt, makes colors sparkle like new. Leaves no Dry Cleaning Odor and Careful Pressing lasts longer. Damp Wash - Fluff Dry Finished Bundles Commercial Laundering makes your clothes TNI Wat IN iaumdky sitvics Cleaner and Sparkling White. Phone 310 for Pick Up and Delivery Service or save 20% f6r Cash & Carry The Newberry Steam Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co. 934 MAIN ST. Iv \ . . PHONE 310 FLORIDA mo HOTEL " • A phoci^ M ARIZONA okqfv FLORIDA POINSETTIfl Whoro oIm but of Ml AftoMtl Hotel will you Rod mdi • plan for (wisurel JOKAKE INN, in flU "Val- loy of fbo Sun," 10 milos oast of Ptwonix. Typically Soufhwuatom In docor, climate and manners. All resort octivitios. Privata pool. Hand picked guests. The SORENO, St. Petersburg, Florida, on beautiful M. the comer from everything." Luxurious appoint* monts, finest bathing on the coast. All sports and recreation. AlsontH Hotels are renowned for fine facilities and courteous, efficient service. Write for reservation information directly to hotel of yotv choice, or our Chicago Office— Horn* t I Alsonett Resort Hotels, 808 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Telephone No.—Superior 7-3933 • • - * THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 195! - ■ n *v< . N' : : :S¥v ... " , > .1 ' . . ■■■■■-■■ ■ m i ■yv-‘^<'>y.-y:-yyy- EEVE EXPERIMENTAL ‘DREAM CAR’ IS NOW IN PRODUCTION ilp; SPEEDS ON SLED . . . Lt. Col. John P. Stepp is shown in seat of high-speed rocket sled in which he set new 632 mph record at HoUo- man Air Development Center in New Mexico. I FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist SYDUP MAKING In this changing world, the art of syrup making has about gone from our farms. It hasn’t been long since sorghum patches were found on most farms of the mid and up-state. And syrup mill was active in practical ly every community. But now all of that has changed. Last fall I saw only one cane mill operating. And it had just made a little sorghum syrup for that man. I stopped to see if I could get some. He said what little he had to spare was taken by folks who had stopped by as I had, almost before the stuff got cold. The past fall I rode a lot over our Lowcountry. Up to a few years ago you would seldom be out of sight of green sugarcane patches there at that season. This time I saw one patch, only one. And nowhere did I happen to see sugarcane syrup being made. Now I know more is still being made than I saw, for I didn’t travel every road. But the point is, a practice that was once com mon is now very rare. I happened to stop by a crossr roads store in the Upcountry. Saw a lone unlabeled half-gallon jar there on the shelf. Asked and found it was sorghum syrup. I got it. The man said it was the last of 71 gallons he had made. He sold it quick at $3 a gallon. I know there is a lot of labor and trouble connected with • syrup making. But it does look like more folks would find it Worth while to make some at that price. It was 50c a good many years ago. The tendency of the times is towards specialization, with less of the live-at-home we once knew. Each produces what he can best, and he buys the rest. I’m not argu ing it one way or the other, but just reporting what I see. PAID FOR IT I’ve been telling you along about the 12 acres of land Olin Helms of Lancaster has been ir rigating there below-his pond by gravity. He got a small sprinkler system last summer, County Agent Cannon tells me, and it paid for itself there on truck the first year. He also made 147.2 bushels of corn summer. per acre the past dry THIS AND THAT Wallace’s Farmer says; "Lin coln was greqi, not because he was born in a log cabin, but be cause he was able to get out of it.' And; "A marriage license is like a deer hunting license. Each en titles you to just one, no more." Also; "In the past 50 years the use of wheat has dropped from 230 pounds to 140 pounds per person." It takes a lot of stuff to run this country. Look at bags, for instance. Over 600 million are used each year just to carry livestock and poultry feed to the farms in. Insects! Man, there are a lot of 'em. I’m told that as many as 200 million can live well on one acre of land. And Wallace's Farmer says 4 tons of aphids (lice) have been found on an acre of alfalfa. At times smut is had in corn, specially late corn. And folks won der if it’s dangerous to cattle Michigan State College says not. Not only folks flock south in the winter, but some fish do too. was as Pawley's Island in late October. Twenty men were sein ing in the surf with a long sein. They were really raking ’em, as many as "two barrels of fine fish A CHRISTMAS story in January —or it really happened to me: As usual, 1954 Christmas buying was put off around my house until tiie last minute. Time was short indeed when I contacted Santa concerning file toy tractor he was to bring my young son. Other matters pressing at the time, Santa and I put the unassembled toy in the garage until Christmas Eve. On the night before Christmas, we slipped out quietly, with screw driver, to put the machine to gether. We opened the box. Alas! of the tractor was missing! Santa and I were in a dither. It was nine o’clock. What to do? What to do? We hopped into the tamily's four wheel sleigh for a tour of the toy shops. All were closed. We searched and searched. Only after almost giving up did we locate a similar, but more costly tractor—at an all-night fill ing station. Santa paid the price and we took the machine home, where he gently placed-it beneath the tree. The story could have had an unhappy ending. There might have been no tractor beneath the tree on Christmas mom —- or Santa might have been stuck with a half a tractor. Neither happened. The first tractor to the toy shop for a refund. So all ended well. However, there is a moral to the story: Shop early, then check carefully what you buy to see if it is all there. And, also a warning. If it’s not all there, take it back at once. The place where Santa obtained a refund on the incomplete tractor burned to the ground the very next day after he returned the toy. ..... ’V.-a Patterned after the "dream car” first displayed at the General Motors Motorama, Chevrolet's Nomad station wagon is now in production. This adds a fifth station wagon to the 1955 Che line. It reflects, the company says, a strong d« mand for a "different” styling in this type of THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER to the pull. I wondered about so many fish there in that boundless ocean, and was told they were migrating south for the winter. At other times there are nowhere near that many fish there. * FLY CONTROL County Agent Mason of Berkley told me they got good results from their fly control demonstration last summer. The extension ser vice put on these demonstrations in all counties. The agents report ed uniformly good results. The fly season will be here again before long. Your county agent has the details for killing them. ".V. As a kid, I was frightfully afraid of the dark. But at home it never bothered me. For I went to sleep before the lamp was blown out and was then all right until day. Once my mother was in the hos pital, and they sent us to grand ma’s. I liked it down there. But before that we had always gone' back home at night. But this time we had to stay. We slept in a shed room in which the window didn’t have a sash. So the shutter was pulled tight shut and latched at night. And that made it black dark in there. Not even a star nor faint beam from the moon could be seen in that void of utter black ness. 1 couldn’t go to sleep promptly, as usual. And soon there was snoring in the adjoining room. I could see all sorts of monsters in that room, and I felt like the oppressive darkness would choke me. I’d open my eyes, and theu shut them. It made no difference. I wanted someone else to wake up. But was scared to speak out and wake them. It seems I stewed in that broth for endless hours, until at long last, blessed sleep overcame me. I’d then sleep late. But Hie wel comed light of day was marred every time the dismal thought of approaching night came upon me. That went on for about 10 days. ,?>• 1. Lutecium le (a) name et a star; (b) metallic (c) medicine. 2. Scaramouch meaaa (a) — —- (b) clown; (c) 3. The avocet M (a) a shove bird; (b) A- •^ W? r; <«> ANSWERS •vxra ***** t *s 1U*1B*I* •IHV»*1« •*»* *1 1 .v A Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning Licensed Gas Fitters CAROLINA METAL WORKS College Street Extension a A. G. McCaughrin, Pres. & Treas./ Phone 1 ^Staple§& FancyGroceries^ Fred* Produce—Meats—Fish & 1 Frozen Foods' 1100 Main St. V ^ ■ Phone 517 for Horae Delivery Joe SOB JOHNSON HAG00D CLARY’S JANUARY >, m I n 2195 SIZES 6 - 14 ? i r ^ *- MEN’S SUITS $55.00 Value. $45-95 $52.50 Value. $44.95 $49.50 Value. $39.95 $45.00 Value. $37.95 • JACKETS $17.95 Value. $12.95 $11.95 Value. $ 8.95 $ 7.95 Value . $ 5.95 SPORT COATS $29.50 Value. $24.50 $27.50 Value. SWEATERS $12.95 Value.. $9.95 r ahie.. $7.95 el SPORT SHIRTS $4.95 Arrow... All $3.95 Sport Shirts $2.95 $5.95 Norris Corduroy $3.95 $14.95 Value.. $3.95 fiNTS 1 ^ $17.95 Value. $13.95 $12.95 Value. $ 9.95 $ 8.95 Value . $ 6.95 $ 7.95 Value. $ 4.95 One Assortment of ■ One Assortment of SPORT SOCKS I RAYON SOCKS Made by Interwoven. To close out at pair To dose out at pair. CORDUROY COATS $16.95 Cresco Corduroy coat RUSHING THE SEASON . . . Pat Stricter, bathing suit model, was lared by mid-sixty tempera ture to dip a toe into Potomac River daring Washington’s De cember 'hot spell.’’ N*. 2195 Is eat to sixes 9, 9, 19, 12, 14. Sime 9: Dress, VA yds. 95-la. Pcttlesat, Hfc yds. 85 sr S0-to. Ns. 112. Fsar-ptess knitted baby set to ebeckerboard design with French knot trim. Complete tostraetioas. Send SOt for EACH dress pattern, 25* (er each Needlework pattern, to AU DREY LANE BUREAU, Boa 9C9, Madi son Bqaare Station, New York 10, N. Y. The new FALL,-WINTER FASHION BOOK with seeres of additional styles, 25* sxtra: Needlework Gnide 25* extra. Insects and disease destroy at least half again as much timber every year as do the forest fires. —Sports Afiled. JOHNSON HAGOOD CLARY ON THE SQUARE PHONE 117 NEWBERRY, S. a