Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FOR HOME FINANCING • To Build • To Remodel ■ A To Refinance Save Where Hundreds Save Millions rATE^ BUILDING and LOAN ASSOCIATION , ^ Ac: - Va.MS S* c.- ‘ ‘ * • i v ' ; . ; • . . r ! I F - • ' S 3 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA gWtfffBWBIW ' - ^ - im VW- ’- 1 . Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phones 719 & 76—Night 513-R T if 5 SEW AND SAVE 1 s WEEKEND SPECIALS — AVONDALE CHAMBRAY IN SOLIDS AND STRIPES 75c yd. {-I..;. Carolina Remnant Shop Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning Licensed Gas Fitters CAROLINA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCaughrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115 m Staple & Fancy Groceries Produce—Meats—Fish & Poultry Frozen Foods Friendly Super Mkt. Phone 517 for Home Delivery 1100 Main St. Joe Hipp, Prop. — ■ ■ * M J m ; ' ' * THE NEWBERRY SUN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist { Lespedeza Seeding Time Four dry summers in succession have hurt the lespedeza crops a lot. And last year the extreme drought just ruined it for hay, seed, and grazing. But we have faith that dll sum mers aren’t going to be dry. And when we get even a little rain along, this crop is needed on prac tically every farm. Now is the time to seed H on the grain. A good time to do it is when you top-dress the grain, and then run a spike-tooth harrow lightly over it. That sort of ties both the seed and the fertilizer to the ground and kills a lot of tiny weeds. Irrigated Corn County Agent Wood of Pickens tells me Henry Bolding irrigated 8 acres of corn last summer and averaged 147.34 bushels per acre. He had plenty of water from a creek that runs through his land. Water’s the limiting factor. Find out first if you have it, then you can proceed. Many who thought they had it found out it wasn’t half enough last summer. For it really takes water to irrigate. Ponds of all sorts are being built over the state to store some for use when drought strikes. Storage basins are being dug and wells put down in the Lowcountry. Folks are really searching for water. This was stimulated by seeing results where irrigation was used the past few years. Is It Goodbye Syrup The Upcountry used to have its sorghum and the Lowcountry its sugarcane. The cooking of syrup from these was a fall chore familiar to many a farm. But, in this changing world, this has changed too. I like sorghum syrup and kept an eye out for it last fall. Saw the remains at an old mill in the Upcountry where a little had been made. Stopped to inquire. But it had all been sold. I rode a lot in the Lowcountry too In fall. Didn't sde sugarcane molasses being made at a single spot. Even 10 years ago, I’d have seen a lot of it. Farms are specializing more, and stretching the labor out Folks tell me it doesn’t pay to make syrup any more. It’s a lot of trouble, and they say they can buy what they need cheaper. And that’s the trend of the times. But here is another angle. We are growing a lot of stuff we can’t eat up, and the government is having to buy a lot of it. In a world of atomic bombs, it might pay us not to get too commercial, too far from the old idea of liv ing-at-home. For we might have to do that some day. Soy Bean Seed The farmers of Edgefield have built up quite a little business in growing Otootan soy beans for seed. But County Agent Lloyd tells me the crop was very short last year. Many of them couldn’t grow until very late rains came and then the beans were immature when frost came. Likewise, County Agent Cain of Calhoun tells me their yellow beans grown for crushing and seed purposes were drastically cut. Many were not worth harvesting, and some were loo immature to use for seed. So it looks like it will be well to start looking around for seed soy beans of the desired sorts early. This crop h*AS been growing enormously in quite recent years. It has been a good mechanized money crop following grain, and that rich residue it leaves on the land is worth a lot too. Recoup Feed Supply Skimpy little piles of trashy nubbins of corn filled small corn ers in many a crib last fall that usually filled to the rafters with fine ears. Likewise, many a loft was empty that was usually stuff ed with good hay for the winter. And right now those puny supplies are long gone. Our 1955 grain crop is greening in the fields. It is usually the safest feed crop we grow, safest from devastating drought. Winter rains usually car ry it through. With empty barns, we sure do not need to stint on fertilizing this grain crop. For the yield is usually in proportion to the fertility. BOYS ARE By J. M. ELEAZER Boyhood's memories are many. Mine now go back to the making of syrup in the fall. We were a little too far up-state to grow sugar-cane. So it was sorghum for us. I like it. Still do, even better than famed sugar-cane syrup. We grew sorghum to cut and feed the stock and for hay. But the patch for syrup was of a bigger-growing sort. We thinned it out like cotton. And before the sap ever got sweet, we kids were sampling it to see if it had. We’d peel it and chew it, like sugar^ cane. When old sorghum got right. It GOOD READING At The Library Of much interest is the life of William Johnson, the South Caro linian, who was named to the Supreme Court in 1804 at the age Of 32 and was the first Jefferson ian appointee to that body. Prof. Donald G. Morgan of Mount Holy oke College has written an admir able account of William Johnson in his book, “Justice William John son, the First Dissenter’’, and, ac cording to the critics, it is a "valuable contribution to political and constitutional history.’* "Pictorial History of the Wild West”, by James Horan Is the story in pictures of the winning of the West from lawlessness to order. Included are the bad men, desperadoes, rustlers, and outlaws from the Revolution to the early 20th century. "Atoms in the Family” te th« biography of the famous nublear scientist, Enrico Fermi, by his wife, Laura Fermi, giving a candid and sometimes irreverent portrait of the physicist under whose di rection the first self-sustaining chain reaction was developed. A new biography of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, “They Called Him Stonewall”, by a Southern author, Burke Davis, gives a color ful and vivid characterization of the famous Confederate general. In Fred Allen’s “Treadmill to Oblivion”, the radio comedian de scribes his career from his debut in 1932 to 1949, making comments on changing styles of radio en tertainment, sponsors, giveway shows, and radio personalities. “Secrets of Charm”, by John Robert Powers, gives good advice on various phases of developing a more attractive appearance and ip?! Mrs. Lula Price Died Thursday Of 3-Year Illness Mrs. Lul '" •ooks Price, 77, wi dow of Wiii Price, died late Thursday night at the home of Mrs. P. W. Cromer on Kinard Street. She was in ill health three years and seriously ill three months. Mrs. Price was bo^n and reared in the Mount Bethel-Gannany sec tion of Newberry County, a daugh ter of the late Preston Smith and Henrietta Boozer Brooks. She was a member of Kings Creek Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian Church. She is survived by one brother, George L. Brooks of Route 3, New berry, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 Saturday afternoon by the Rev. Paul L. Grier. Interment fol lowed in Kings Creek ARP Church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Carroll Brehmer, Hayne Brehmer, Sim David Price, Claude price, Charles Price, James Hutchinson. made mighty good chewing. And ton could often trail ns through the Stone Hills by the cuds of pulp we spat out. Syrup making time! That called for a lot of work. We didn’t like the “work. But some features of syrup making appealed ' to us. We didn’t like stripping the fodder off, nor the cutting and loading of the cane. But we liked to ride on it to the mill. And we liked to feed the stalks into the rollers a while. But soon the novelty of that wore off and we spent most of our time just messing around there, drink ing the cold cane sap .as it came from the press, and tasting the molasses, as it rolled bot from the pan. Next week a little more about this. Make Principal’s List At Gallman High Switzon S. Wigfall, Sr., princi pal of Gallman High School, an nounced that the following made the Principal’s List for the first semester with averages of 90 or above: James Pratt Schumpert, 97; Joseph Singley, 96; Betty Caldwell, 95; William Davenport, 93; Henry Reeder, Emma L. Gree- ly, John Caldwell, Marion Alston, Eloise iReeder,' and Sarah Alice Wallace, 92; Dorothy Dowdy, Ernest Dean, Claude Coleman, Al bert Wallace, Charles Singley and Doris Lyles, 91; Charles Reed, Della Chick, Eddie Schumpert, Mattie M. Walker and Harriette Wells, 90. ■ % Honorable mention went to the following: Seniors — Betty Joe Davis. Maxine Johnson, Rosa Lee McMor ris, Dorothy Miller, James Perry, Ethel Rice, Eva* M, Robinson, Thehna Thacker, Mary Ellen Thacker, and Mary Wallace. Juniors —• Arizonia Brooks, John T. Gallman, Gloria Gary, Carrie Glymph, Betty Lindsay, Marion Long, Willie T. Reed, Louise Sanders, Harriett Wells, Sophomores — Mack Allen, Der ry Gray, Lilliar Hair, J. C. Perry, Jessie M. Slips, and Mary E. Wil liams. Freshmen — Thomasenia An drews, Loretta Bowser, Barbara J. Caldwell, Evelyn Davis, Gloria Hawkins, Clyde Jessie, Mattie Jeter, James Suber, and Mattie M. Walker. personality. “The Best of Church and Des”, by Philip Wylie is a selection of the author’s popular fishing tales, which will be entertaining to the non-fishing and fishing enthusiasts alike. i The autobiography of Qrantland Rice, “The Tumult and the Shout ing”, is a summing up of a half- century of American sport and is a natural tribute to competitive sport in America. “The Measure of the Years”, by Alice Colver, is an historical ro mance with the setting in Massa chusetts during the French and Indian wars. “A View of the Town”, by Jan Hilliard is a pleasant comedy of the rivalry between two descen dants of pioneer families in a small Nova Scotia town. Adventure and violence are to be found in Ernest Haycox’s new book, “The Adventurers”, which is a story of two men looking for richer opportunities in the Oregon of the mid-l$60’8. At the close of business on February 28, 1555 A THREE -• PENALTY ' 811 will be added to all unpaid 1554 State Sand Comity J. 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