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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955 THE NEWBERRY SUN \ t. & TEN-MINUTE BREAK By F. L. Rowley 3m, lA : Conductor George Owens liked the kmg, level stretch between HQlcrest and Shelbyville. He called tt hia ten-minute break.' Today one of his passengers had ghren George an exceptionally fine cigar, and he was eager to try it. First, however, he had to take tickets from a young couple and an elderly gentleman who had just boarded. George couldn’t remem- ber when he'd taken on fares at HOIcrest on the late trip. The old man seemed ordinary enough, but George stopped when he came to the young couple. The conductor had a big heart, and when he looked down at the two white faces and their pitifully light luggage he was touched. "So you young’uns are eloping," he said with a smile. "Bow do you know?" asked the boy nervously as he looked across at the old man who had gotten aboard with them. That white- haired gentleman was already fast asleep. "How do I know?" repeated George, thrusting the precious cigar - Into his breast pocket and taking • a aeat opposite the youngsters. "I know because I did the very same tiring when I was a young man. It'was great fun too, until—until—” £ "Until what?” urged the girl, opeaking for the first time. "Until Nellie died. It happened * a year after we ran away from home." "How terrible!" The girl’s blue ayes were moist. "That was bad, but then my real trouble started." "Such as what?" asked the boy suspiciously. "My town disowned me. When X went home no one would speak to me. The more I tried to ex plain the worse things became. Wheh I called on Nellie’s family they called me a 'sneak’ and a ‘murderer’.’’ 1 "Will you please leave us alone?" asked the young man coldly. 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She placed a child-like hand over his mouth. “Our parents aren’t CRUEL," she explained, turning to George. "It’s just that they don’t understand. They want us to wait another whole year." George feigned surprise. He hoped he wasn’t overdoing-it when he stood up with his mouth open, his eyes popping: "Your folks aren’t mean? All they want you to do is wait a year? Then why elope?" "You make it sound like we’re a couple of crooks,’’ said the young man gruffly. "That’s just about what they called me,’’ said George reminis cently, "Why I didn’t listen to Nellie I’ll never know.” "To Nellie?" asked the girL "Sure. Nellie always talked about a real wedding gown with a long train—and flowers. She loved flowers. Sometimes I think Nellie died of a broken heart—being cut off from her folks like she was. It’s lonely in the city." The girl had real tears in her eyes now. “It looks like you win," said Henry, looking steadily at George. Then to the conductor’s surprise he held out his hand. At Shelbyville a few minutes later George smiled happily as he watched the young couple get off to wait for a train for Hillcrest. As he was turning to leave he col lided with a fellow conductor. “Careful George!" laughed the other man. “Say, I hope you’ve been a good boy on this trip—no drinking or smoking? You’ve had a gumshoe with you!" He pointed significantly to the old man who had boarded the train at Hillcrest FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist “DROUTHS OR DOLLARS?" The Carolina Power and Light Company made a survey of re sults from irrigation on the farms in their area of the Carolinas. They have been published in an attractive booklet entitled “Drouths or Dollars?”. The summary shows tobacco yields were upped from Ifi to 200 percent, pastures from 25 to 1,000 percent, alfalfa from 25 to 100 per cent, cotton from 10 to 30 per cent, cucumbers from 50 to 1,000 percent, sweet potatoes from 15 to 50 percent, sorghum from 20 to 50 percent, home gardens from 25 to 200 percent, peanuts from 20 to 50 percent, and so on. One of the irrigation farmers interviewed, S. R. Bryant of Lo ris, said, “If I didn’t have the money to buy & system, 1 would mortgage something to get enough to buy one.” TURKEYS FOR EASTER / J. K. Brogdon of Clarendon had an idea about turkeys, and it worked. There are few if any fresh dressed turkeys for Easter time. Practically all grow theirs off in the fall. If you serve this fine meat in the spring, you’ll most likely have to use a bird that has been in storage a good while. And some folks prefer a fresh killed bird. So Mr. Brogdon puts in several thousand poults in December. Then they are prime and ready for the market out in late April and early May. He made enough on these the past bad turkey year to rescue his total operation from n the red. \ Distributing the risk, more even employment for labor, longer use for facilities, and less competi tion are some of the advantages he found in this practice, accord ing to Qounty Agent Grainger. His 12,000 turkeys are started in three equal batches of 4>M)0 each, getting them in early October, early December £nd February. HOME GARDEN NOW At a recent meeting of exten sion workers at Clemson, Roy Ferree called attention to some important angles of the vanishing home garden. Costs are high and Farm income is low. In this squeeze there is one thing each farm can do to heip itself. And that is, have a good, small, well-kept, producing garden of quality vegetables. In the past we have been prone to say, “Oh, I can buy ’em cheap er than I can grow ’em.” And may be that was so during flushed times. But is it so now? A small -well kept, producing home garden can easily save a hundred or so dollars a year you’d otherwise have to spend for store- bought stuff. And it will add just that much to your income. Of course, it would cost you some thing to grow those vegetables. But not nearly as much as you’d have to spend for Inferior stuff otherwise. You will note I have stressed a “small’’ garden. And I do that for a purpose. Most gardens are en tirely too ibig. You plant them with enthusiasm that comes with spring. You have so ,much early stuff it just wastes there. Soon the ?iot weather arrives and you let grass take iL Then by late sum mer the garden hfs become a snakey place, overgrown with weeds and grass the fertility stim-. ulated there. j It is amazing what you can grow in a very small garden that’s made very fertile, watered, and at tended to properly. Before one vegetable io finished,, you can have another planting already coming along there in the middle. Then take the old one out just as soon as it begins to fade, and work the soil to the new one that’s already coming there between the ol'd rows. , Another reason for the small garden, it’s not as much work, and you can handle it with noth ing but a hoe, if you have nothing else. You can afford to mulch it too, which helps hold moisture and keep down weeds. And you can also afford to irrigate it as needed. Nothing insures your gar dening efforts like water at the right, time. For that makes quality stuff as well as quantity yields. THE WINDS OF MARCH This is a dynamic time of year. The winds of March are blowing winter away. The miracle of growth is writhing in awakening bud, limb, root, bulb, and seed. And very soon now the drabness of winter will be swallowed up by mircle that's spring. My, it's gqod to’ be' alive and abroad' in the land! . . . Egyptian dancer Sarnia Gamal, Baba" movie set in Frankfnrft. Germany, gives " camel actor. i Bov. Robert XL, Harper Frmyr m the CMstisah Life. Lesson for Mortb 13: MoSSbew 6: y-8i 7: 7-11; femes 5: 13-16. Golden Tests: 1 John 3: 14. When the disciples asked Jesus how to pray, he first exposed the false notions of those who loved to prey on the corners of the street that they might be seen of men. Prayer is to be made to God and not to men. Therefore the disciples were told to enter into their closets when they would pray. And Jesus declared that men are not heard for their much speaking. • Some men In their praying deliver long addresses unto God as if he needs to be informed about conditions. God knows all about us and all our needs before we ask him any thing. Jesus used the form of Hebrew poetry, using a double triplet, as he was speaking of prayer. We are to ask and seek and knock, as sured that we shall receive and find and have the door opened (Mat thew 7: 7-8). Through trust in an earthly fa ther, Jesus taught men to look with confidence toward the Heav enly Father, as knowing that He will not give them a stone when they ask for bread but will, out of his infinite goodness and wisdom, grant them all good things. James believed in faith healing and wrote the disciples to avail themselves of it, not only for themselves but also for others. Healing by faith has been neg lected by the present church. We would not abandon all the fine means of healing of the time. But when we avail ourselves of the means* let us depend for the out come upon the Heavenly Father. \yfY FAMILY once owned a 1VI beautiful dog of the Cocker Spaniel type that was just a big bundle of nerves. Whenever a stranger entered the animal would dash under a chair or couch and remain there for hours unless coaxed out with constant pleadings. The local dog expert (he sold us the animal) said: "Don't worry about that. It's a sign of his high intelligence. He’ll get put of it as he gets older. If he wasn’t so smart, he would sleep in the mid dle of the floor and people could walk all over him." I was rather young at the time and couldn't see what the fear of people had to do with high Intelli gence, but the expert proved right The older and smarter the dog got the longer it took to coax him out of his hiding places. If the old Grammar school teach er had a ruler a thousand miles long she would whack me on the ear for even bringing 19 such a thing, but I wonder if maybe the present generation, like the Cock er, isn't just too smart for its own good. Time was when two farmers met en the street they started talking about crops, the weather, and the price of fertilizer. Busi nessmen compared sales and prof its. housewives discussed food prices and soap box operas, still do these things, of course, but such banter is only a "side dish." The main course consists of an objective session of "war wor rying" and “Did you see the front page this morning?" Sure, we'd be dumber—but a lot happier; if Russia was a word we associated with .caviar and china nothing more than table paraphernalia. COSTLY BULL*. . . Ft. Worth, Texas, millionaire Jack Danciger (left) pays $100,00# for one-third interest in Aberdeen-Angus bull. Prince 105-SAF, to other owners, J. V. Hampton of Ft. Worth and Urban Simon of Madison, Kansas. m-M * 1 IT / - ^ gv - - ; v* vxxv • mm '■ 1 v : POLIO GRAD . . . Confined since 1948 In iron long In Los Angeles Veterans’ Hospital, AUen Conkwright Jr., 28, World. War II naval aerial gunner, receives diploma from UCLA. \* v ^ L ■ « t' A Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning Licensed Gas Fitters CAROLINA METAL WOR Extension A. G. McCanghrin, Pres. * Treas. Telephone your News Items to The; Sun, Phone 1 7 A ^ > f ' Birthday! American Legion! V* v ' •’-i. cAfaer 36 y[eard - Still Serving. ZJhe Communitg, State and -Nation i ' • ' i y ... r * X . ■' The American Legion will celebrate the 36th Anniversary of its birth March 15 to • " "i .* v * 17, 1955. All America joins in a salute to this “All American" team. i i > It’s been a long, long trail from Paris, France, when on those March 15 to 17 dates, a handful of AEF veterans met to organize The American Legion. « * 4 * The American Legion, the world’s largest veterans’ organization, has been dedicated always to the inter ests of America and the defenders of America—dedicated from its inception to continue serving “For God and Country”! , • / Another of its prime purposes has been to “inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation.” The American Legion programs of Americanism, Child Welfare, National Security and Rehabilitation were founded on those basic principles. We wish all American Legionnaires all over the world a Happy American Legion Birthday. Eligible vet erans of World War I, World War H and the Korean War can help make it the greatest by joining Hie American Legion today. This Advertisement is Sponsored By NEWBERRY FEDERAL Savings & Loan Ass’n. • ASSETS OVER *7,000,000.00 1223 College Street Telephone 246 Newberry, a C. JOHN F. CLARKSON, President J. K. WILLINGHAM, Sec’y-Treas. DIRECTORS M. O. SUMMER J. F. CLARKSON G. K. DOMINICK E. B. PURCELL J. K. WILLINGHAM W. C. HUFFMAN