The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 05, 1955, Image 6
PAGE SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1966
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OUT OF SEASON TREE
By Bertha R. Hudelson
D ICK MYERS sat looking out
the office window of the Myers
Elevator and Grain Company
when he saw Ed Brady and Jim
Farr and drive into the yard, each
with a truck load of com.
Dick was proud of his grain
business. The tall elevator, with
the little office huddled at its base,
fpqild be seen for miles across the
rich prairieland, and these two
buildings stood alone except for a
ramshackle house across the rail*
road tracks. Here Cal Henderson,
who had once worked for him,
lived with his sad but loyal wife.
Cal was a notorious drunkard, an
alleged thief, a worthless man
without * friend and what could
be worse, Dick often wondered.
But he wasn’t wondering about
JEd and Jim, He knew they were
y^tighfaig at the ten foot Christmas
tree standing on the fiat roof of the
aievator. No one realized better
he that March was not tne
time for out-of-season tree to
awing its branches gaily during
fbe daytime, and to send its mul
ticolored rays through the dark-
wess of the night.
4 Jim began—“Sure getting your
iaaoney out of that tree, aren’t
•you?” and he guffawed loud and
song*
| “Oh, he's only ten months ahead
‘eg time,” Ed chimed in and roared
'with laughter, too.
I Jim shook his head dolefully.
: rSure hope he’s not as crazy as
that tree looks flipping around in
| the spring wind. Let’s take it
down,” and he started toward the
“Oh, no you don’t!” yelled Dick,
roughly shoving Jim aside to
eland by die door with arms wide-
Jim stared in amazement. “Dick
you ought to get the thing down.
ItoOcs are beginning to think this
abbot you.” and Jim whirled a
gager. around his forehead.
And just then Cal stepped into
'gha room—not a stoop-shouldered,
defeated Cal, but a new man with
m strange look of eagerness in his
eyes and such satisfaction on his
face that it shone as brightly as
the roof of the office.
Jim and Ed started to leave as
one man, but Dick’s sharp order
-‘‘Wait! I want Cal to tell you
about the tree,” caused them to
change their minds.
“Sure! Til be glad to.” Cal
grinned and motioned toward the
elevator. “The tree and Mary and
Dick did it,” he told them quiet
ly. “When Dick first hired me, I
was about ready for Skid Row,
wasn’t I?” He looked toward Dick
who nodded.
“In fact,” he continued, “in
three weeks I skidded right out of
t!he job into bed. That’s what drink
finally did for me. Then is when
Mary said I had to break my habit,
or else! Doc Bums told me the
same thing. Mary fed me right
but I thought Td go nuts. And then
one night eight days before Christ
mas I saw Dick’s tree. It was so
wonderful, all lighted,” Cal jerked
a clean rag from his pocket and
swished it across his eyes, “that
I felt like a little boy again when
everything was all right. I thought
with the help of Mary and the
tree T can be OK again!' But
Christmas came and went and I
wasn’t. Wanting to drink kept
gnawing and chewing at me until
I—You take on from here, Dick.”
“He sent Mary over to ask if
I’d leave the tree up awhile long
er and told me why. At first I
thought, ‘He’s crazy to ask it and
I’m crazy if I do it!' But who was
I to keep a fellow from finding
salvation? And so I promised that
I’d leave it up until he told me he
was cured. I wasn’t going to break
that promise if you, he glared at
Jim and Ed, and all of Smith Prai
rie turned against me. I—”
“Wen, 1*11 be darned!” was all
that Ed could say, and Jim want
ed to know If they coukl breeze
the news around.
“Ask Cal,” Dick told him. “If s
his story. Come on] Let’s weigh
your corn.” ,
Wiley Hill Dies
At Whitmire Heme
Wiley Hill, 61, died Saturday
afternoon at his home on Emory
street in Whitmire. He was in de-
clinihg health several years and
seriously ill only a few hours.
He was horn and reared in
North Carolina but lived at Whit
mire over 27 years.
Mr. Hill is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Zeila Nix Hill; seven chil
dren, Kenneth, William Albert and
Raymond Hill, Mrs. Juanita Bled
soe, Miss Betty Lou Hill and Miss
Geraldine Hill, all of Whitmire,
and Mrs. Annie Belle Parton of
Augusta, Ga.j one bother, Walter
Hill, and one sister, Mrs. Eranie
Rhodes, both of Union, and ®i*
grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon
from the Pentecostal Holiness
Church in Whitmire by the Rev.
B. R. Nichols and the Rev. Paul
Bullington. Interment followed in
the Whitmire Cemetery.
flowers and Gifts for All Occasions
CARTER’S
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IMPORTANCE OF SMALL Things
Let it never be forgotten that
glamour is not greatness; ap
plause is not fame; noise is not
influence; prominence is not em
inence. The man of the hour is
not apt to he the man of the ages.
A stone may sparkle, but that
does not make it a diamond; a
man may have money, but that
does not make him a success; a
student may be clever, but that
does not make him a philosopher.
It is what the unimportant do that
really counts and determines the
course of history.
The greatest forces in the uni
verse are never spectacular. Sum
mer showers are more effective
than hurricanes, but they get no
publicity. The world would soon
die but for the fidelity, loyalty
and consecration of those whose
names are unhonored and unsung.
There is, therefore, no life, how
ever humble, but may take its
•place in the building of a braver
and better tomorrow. It is so easy
to exaggerate the importance of
the important and to underesti
mate the importance of the unim
portant.—Journal of Living.
Why is it, fellows with the nar
rowest minds always seem to
have the widest mouths?
One reason opportunity isn’t
recognized more often is that it
goes around disguised as work.
Sunday, May 8th is
Purchase your Mother’s Day gift from the
store where she does her own shopping.
At CARPENTER’S you will find dozens of items on
first and second floor to choose from ... items that
will make an ideal gift that mothers of all ages
will appreciate.
All gifts attractively wrapped
at no extra cost to you.
Carpenters
Newberry, S. C.
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ETABLES will ka versatfis
if their flavor is dramatized
with simple little 'flavor tricks.
Use some of these on your family
occasionally to help them gain aa
interest in their vegetables.
Green beans are delicious wheA
you best them, then Wend with
thick, soured cream to which has
been added some dry mustard.
RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Creole Swiss Steak
(Servds ®-8)
2 pounds chuck, round or
flank steak
2' teaspoons salt
% teaspoon pepper
% cup flour
3 tablespoons melted fat
1 teaspoon dry mustard, or
3 teaspoons grated horseradish
1 small onion, chopped
•1 cup tomato juice
1 cup water
Have steak cut 1ft to 3 inches
thick. Mix together flour, salt
and pepper and pound into the
steak. Brown on both sides in
hot fat, spread top with mus
tard or horseradish and sprinkle
with ontolt. Cover with tomato
and water. Cook, covered, in a
slow (300*F.) oven tor 3 to 3tt
hours or in s deep well cook
er for 1% to 3 hours.
Top the beans with well-flavored
red paprika.
Those outer stalks of celery have
valuable nutrients in them. ^Vash.
dice and cook them, then com
bine with peas and bits of pimiento
in s cream sauce for s delicious
combination.
Lemon juice and melted butter
are excellent flavoring for cooked
wax beans.
Whole kernel corn is a good
flavor team with crisp, crumbled
bacon. The corn may be heated
by sauteeing in the bacon drip
pings.
Celery seed and chopped ripe
olives are excellent with cream
style com U that’s your pref-
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
MORE IRRIGATION
• I’ve quoted you many irrigation
results.
Here are last year’s esults from
Clemson’s Sandhills Station at
Pontiac:
Sweet potatoes without irriga
tion made 82 bushels. With it 313
bushels per acre.
Alfalfa without it made 2,523
j pounds of cured hay. With it, 6187
pounds per acre.
Without it, corn made 4 bushels
per acre. With it, 64 bushels. The
4-ryear average on corn is 16 bush
els without it, 52 bushels per acre
with it.
Cotton without it 565 pounds
seed cotton per acre. With it 1116
pounds per acre.
Tobacco 763 pounds per acre
without iL With it 1084 pounds
per acre. And so it goes.
GRAIN SORGHUM
Saluda has been growing a good
bit of grbin sorghum now for some
years. County Agent Kearse says
they will have a big increase in
this drougiw-resietant crop due to
recent summer droughts that real
ly showed its worth. It has* been
making pretty well where late
corn was a complete failure.
It is usually planted on stubble
land, is equal in feed value to corn
and usually makes more. It is
planted in rows, worked about as
com and harvested with a com
bine.
COASTAL BERMUDA
Coastal Bermuda grass is rapid
ly winning its way on the farms
of the State. <
County Agent McCord, George
town, says: “Coastal Bermuda has
done so well the past few dry sea
sons that it looks like the answer
as a dependable grass tor sum
mer grazing.”
Jackson of Williamsburg says:
GOOD READING
Non-Fiction
“Complete Home Landscaping
and Garden Guide.” by Raymgpd
Korbobo is a book for the ama
teur gardener with no special 1
skill or training. The author dis
cusses the principles of good land
scape design and includes general
horticultural advice on maintain
ing the gtorden, lawn, trees, and
ornamental plantings.
In ‘(Gift From The Sea” Anne
Morrow Lindbe<rp, inspired by
shells picked up on the seashore,
writes with sensitive feeling of
her search for outward simplicity,
inward integrity, yet fuller rela
tionships with family and friends.
“Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A.”
by her husband, Richard S. Ald-
rich, is an intimate but dignified
account of the actress’s life after
her marriage.
“The Private World of William
Faulkner” by Robert Goughian
gives a profile of* William Faulk
ner as the first citizen of Oxford,
Mississippi, and makes an ap
proachable human being out of an
elusive and sometimes distant per
sonality.
Eric Sloane in his “American
Bams and Covered Bridges” re
vives interest in a neglected
source of Americana and, in addi
tion to telling what materials and
tools helped build the barns and
bridges, brings in American folk
lore whenever it relates to the
subject.
In “The Solitary Singer” an
authoritative and detailed life of
Walt Whitman, the author. Gay
Wilson Allen has written a schol
arly biography which benefits
from new source material.
Fiction
“Flamingo Feather” by Laurens
Van der Post is a novel of sus
pense and the description of the
African background gives special
interest to the basic afoy of in
trigue.
“The Goodly Seed” by Johy
Wyllie is an unusually moving
story of prisoners of war in a Jap
anese camp on an island near
Singapore during World War II.
“Coromandel!” by John Masters
tells the adventures and amours
of an illiterate Wiltshire farm boy
founder of the Savage line, who
made his way to Coromandel (In
dia) in 1637 in search of a fabu
lous treasure.
“Money To Bum” by Elizabeth
Cadell is a light comic romance
by the English author of “The Cu
ckoo in Spring”.
In “Gallant Warrior” Helen R.
Mann writes a fictionalized biog
raphy of Hannah Duston, pioneer
wife and mother, who, with her
baby and its nurse, was captured
by Indians in 1697, and carried off
to be sold to the French.
“Five farmers planted 1000 bush
els of Coastal Bermuda stolons
this spring." ^ ?
* Grainger of Clarendon: “About
100 of our farmers have Coastal
Bermuda grass and like it. Their
plantings furnished stolons for
many others to plant this impor
tant grass this spring.”
Abrams of Marlboro says^ie and
the SCS man teamed up to extend
the acreage of Coastal there.
King of Dorchester: “A large
number of additional formers
planted Coastal Bermuda this
Spring. A- good bit of it was
planted by a contractor at fifteen
dollars per acre, putting It in 30
inch rows and agreeing to use
about 2b bushels of stolons per
acre.” \
Bryant of Lee: “Due to reliable
stolons being available on a num
ber of local forms, more farmers
than ever have put out Coastal
Bermuda this spring.”
And so the story goes, all over
the sfttte. This great new grass
for hay and grazing largely defies
the droughts of the past 4 sum
mers and came up with soshe re
markable yields. Give it a little
water, and folks are wondering
just where Its limit is. It gives a
great response, even during dry
weather, to added nitrogen ac
cording to our Hugh Woodle. Hugh
has been referred to as “Old Man
Coastal Bermuda Himself” here
in South Carolina. Last spring he
got all of the certified stolons the
Tifton Experiment station, town
in Georgia, could spare. With
these, the county agents estab
lished nursery plantings on forms
in every county. It Is largely from
these that the acreage is being so
greatly extended this year.
NEW CROPS
Farmers are ever looking for
Boyhood’s memories are many.
Mine are. And I aim sure yours are
too. Since this feature was be
gun in this weekly column in
1947, 421 of these squibs have ap
peered. And before that they had
run for many years in my col
umn as county agent in Sumter.
Two years ago the University
press put about a hundred of ’em
into a book dalled “A Dutch Fork
Farm Boy.”
I’m occasionally asked if 1
don’t have to make ’em up now.
My answer is no. So ter they have
been true tales of our boyhood in
the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork.
And as for as I can see into the
distance, they can continue on that
new crops. It has always been so.
The pattern of crape has always
been a changing picture.
County Agent Bowen ot Sum
ter tells me they are planting 1500
acres of watermelons and 800 of
tomatoes this year. The melons
are on sandhill lands that have
bean cleared of black-jack and
turkey oaks in preparation tor re
foresting with pine this folL But
a fine crop of melons can usually
be grown there on that dean land
before the pfnee are set
basis. For everyone I write usually
recalls another. Or riding along a
highway or byway I will see c
try kids doing something that
remind me. Maybe it is that
thing they are doing, or
different H suggests and
me of. A jotting in my
is .made, and there it is wi
ready to write.
Folks are constantly tell:
they like to read these
boyhood. They themselves
almost Identical expert
they like to read about
live them.
So, folks, if that’s w
want, sandwiched in here
farm and home news, obser.
and reflections, you can
for a long time yet. For
periences from "boyhood
back country, when I
are literally inexhans
I like to write ’ them,
when the humor is
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Model for model, Pontiac has a longer wheelbase
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