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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1955 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist y. IRRIGATION IN MARION Listen to County Agent King of Marion: "Many new irrigation systems Trere put in this year. Most far mers are depending on dug ponds sta a source of irrigation water. Over 100 ponds have been dug the past year, and we already had a good many. Also, many farmers are supplementing the ponds with amall wells.” BROWN SWISS CATTLE Oconee got a substantial start with Brown Swiss dairy cattle a good many years ago. It was de signed to ultimately furnish white milk for the making of the fam ous Clemson blue mold cheese that’s ripened in the old Stump- house Mountain tunnel back there in the mountains. Since then the thing has grown constantly. It was several years ago that County Agent Morgan an nounced they then had a good Brown Swiss bull in walking dis tance of every farm in the county. Now they announce their first Brown Swiss heifer sale for this fall. It is to be preceded by two junior Brown Swiss shows and a county-wide dairy calf show. These rugged high milk produc ing cattle were selected early toy Cldlnson as being well suited to that near-mountain area. And they produce rich white milk, well suited to the making of this blue mold type of oheese. LAWN INFORMATION “Lawns for South Carolina” is 308 recently got out by Schilletter the name of the revised circular and Woodle of Clemson. It’s free at your county and home agent offices. POLE BARNS Clemson has designed pole barns of various sorts. These are struc tures without the usual floors or foundations. Treated poles are set in the ground and form the rigid skeleton of the building. I saw my first one of the larger sort of these recently while with County Agent Rogers of Florence on Hollie Lloyd’s farm. His is $2x75 feet, with the high part off- center for hay storage and the low.gide is open for cattle shelter and feeding. Regular creosoted light poles were used and set five feet in the ground 13 and 15 feet apart. Holes for these were drill ed by their local electric co-op erative in a few minutes. Our engineer, W. A. Jones, who designed and assisted with it, tells me the cost of construction amounted to about 50c per square loot for the 3,900 feet of floor apace in this barn. It is covered In Horry they send many to bacco soil samples to Clemson each spring for testing. County Agent Johnston tells me a large percentage of them show too high a pH for best quality tobacco pro duction. Tobacco likes a slightly acid soil —something we have been trying to get away from for most crops. Watermelons too, and Irish pota toes ,also like this sort of soil. But other common crops benefit ff-om a rather light pH. Their common remedy is to keep lime materials off their to bacco lands and use fertilizers that carry an acid reaction to the soil. And in late years they have found some of their irrigation water contains too much lime and chlorine for their tobacco. So now they are having Clemson test it too. Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNG, Correspondent Twentytwo Luther Leaguers of Grace church and five advisors are spending the week at Lake Jemimi, near Walhalla. Making the trip were Rev. and Mrs. Ben M. Clark, Mrs. Ray Hunter, Mrs. Hubert Stockman, Miss Doris Moore and the following Leaguers —tKay sftockman, Roscoe Beden- baugh, Phyllis Shealy, Kay New man, Evelyn Wessinger, Sandra Shealy, Marjorie Bedenbaugh, Ann Amick, Gerald Lester, Jas. Lea ter, Mary Eleanor McDonald, Bil ly McDonald, Randall Epting, Sha ron Ann Meyers, Sally Beden baugh, Rodney Epting, Gene Am ick A1 Potter, Kay Dawkins, Judy Hartman, Julia Pugh and L. C. Pugh. Mrs. Troy Adams (the former Dovie Wise) a July toride, was complimented with a miscellan eous shower, Saturday afternoon, July 30, at the home of Mrs. Gladys Adams. Hostesses were Miss Reba Adams, Miss Mary Koon, Mrs. Junius Killian, Mrs. Harold Seibert and Mrs. Lloyd Chapman. A pink an^ white color scheme was used with an umbrella motif. On arrival a small lace doily um brella was pinned on each guest. The honor guest’s chair was marked by a pink and white bow and she was given a corsage of pink rosebuds. A number of individual and group contests furnished much merriment. A salad plate with iced tea was served. The gifts were presented to Mrs. Adams in a large pink and white box covered with an open pink unbrella. She opened her gifts and graciously thanked the donors. FOrty-five of Mrs. Adams’ rela- i « mm il ii ■ »■ • ■ 'i - v . g+f ^ tives and friends were prcaont for this delightful party. Mrs. Robert W. Pugh, Mrs. J.R. Stockman and Mrs. R. T. Pugh, spent several days last week in Decatur and Atlanta, Ga. Linda Pugh, who had been visiting in Decatur returned home with the group. P|C Donald Bowers has return ed to Fort Sheridan, Chicago, af ter a two weeks’ furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lynell Bowers. Frank Y. Blackwell, Jr. of Mar ion spent the weekend with his aunt and uncle, Miss Effie Haw kins and John M. Hawkins. Miss Martha Counts of Savan nah, Ga. spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. H. E. Counts, senior. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Callahan, of Columbia, were weekend guests of Mrs. Calahan’s mother. Mm. P. C. Singley. Mrs Richard Foster and her son Rick of Eau Claire are spending the week with Mrs. J. L. Oountn and Miss Annie Hunter. Mr. and Mm Fred Wise and their three daughters, of Winns- (Continued, on page 6) kX V4C< m types of musical BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER DISNEYLAND OPENS . . . First visitor te Walt Disney’s $17,000,- 000 amusement park near Ana- helm, Cal., was Elaine Long, S, Shown sipping soda with Walt. stnd sided with metal. A Jarge a- mount of loose hay ban be stored In it and mechanically fed by ma nipulating movable racks. If interested, contact your County Agent for plans and aid -from Clemson. 'WATCH TOBACCO SOILS JOINS CABINET . . . U. 8. treas ury undersecretary and social security expert, Marion B. Fol som, 61, was named by Pres. Elsenhower to succeed resigned Oveta Culp Hobby as secretary of Health, Education A Welfare dept. In late summer our winter-cur ed meat supply had about given out or become rancid. And frying chickens had grown out of that stage. For then we set the eggs under hens. And spring was the time for that. During hot weather lice and mites were too bad for the setting hen, chicks were hard to raise then too, and matured scrawny as cold weather ap proached. To bridge that fall gap between meats in the Stone Hills, we had beef clubs in late summer and fall when I was coming up. Eight large families or 16 small ones banded together in beef “Beef Clubs.” They killed a fatted beef on Friday afternoons, taking turns. Someone from each family would get his clean white sack after dinner and go by horseback or buggy to the appointed place. 1 would help with the butcher- . Most folks wouldn’t let the s go along, for they’d bother be ip the way. mt they always let me go and I looked forward to it. I’d get high in a loft or up in the hay and watch them axe the barling. Sometimes it would ve its head and there was a esome sight. Once up at Mr. Kire Amick’s I stepped over in the trough, get ting up out of the way, and didn’t see a razor-sharp axe lying in there with the blade up. It shaved the peeling pff the back of my heel and the blood eased through. Cousin Paul was there, saw it, peeled of fthe back of my heel peeled off the back of my heel plug, slapped it over the cut, and tied it up with my handkerchief. I was all right then, and enjoyed the proceedings from there on, which I will tell you about next week. A RIGHT refreshing thing hap pened in our office a couple of days ago. A smiling youngster of not more than 10 or 11 year* came in and politely asked if he could sweep the floor, wash windows or perform some other task in ex change for “show fare.” This brought pleasant summer time memories of long ago when we kids would mow a monstrous lawn for 11 cents, (“show fare” in those days), or rake bushels of leaves for a nickel or a dime, both powerful spending agents , of the time. Many of today’s children wouldn’t bother to give you the time of day for less than 15 cents and a number (whose parents are too poor to provide allowances) aren’t above standing on a street corner and giving out with a “Say, buddy, I need three cents to get into the movie,” until they get enough pennies to make up the price of admission. The youngster willing to ex change a few minutes work for a few cents is as scarce today as s redcap in a busy train station or a shoe shine boy in a small town barbershop, ha this modern world even grownups are too busy sell ing goods to sell “service.” It seems the “odd-jobs”' man who could fix a window screen, spade a garden, rake a lawii, or plant flowers disappeared into a defense plant several years ago and hasn't been seen since. Nowadays when you need some thing done that you have neither the talent nor the time to do for yourself, it generally stays undone until you get out and hire someone to do the job. Nobody brings serv ice to the doorstep. Some folks just make it available and you have to go out and get it. SUBS FOR MARILYN . . . Pos ing with dressmaker’s dummy of Marilyn Monroe, whom she is replacing during suspension by Hollywood studio, Sheree North looks thrilled with her big chance. GETS ARMS POST . , Eisenhower appointed Operations chief Harold to aew cabinet Job te u policy on world BUILD YOUR FINANCIAL - Surely - -! knew vow S/o f e % itiee MfKSDAY. AUGUST Mu W—WUdBffl Sjtf-A.Vv 7:#e 11*00 THUBSDAY, AUGUST 11, St IS —^ - S:«0 StSS PM—Tbs Wost •:S0 St4S 7:00 7tS0 StOO StOO iSS 11*0 PM—S10U Off' FRIDAY, AUGUST IS. MM 0:25 0iS0 7*0 £2 1S:00 10:00 11*0 This Is: Off SATURDAY. AUGUST It, IMS m U*S 11:SS &01 SOsSS > 11*0 * '•atuo: iturdar Camora. Jubdaa -Poopte Ara: Star Thaat Haro's Tho Si -Your Play Tima Off Mbjaet to Last ■ad Carracttons. REY. ROBERT H. HARPER Tbs Exiles in Babylon. Lesson for August 7: Psalms 137: 1-6; Daniel 3: 13-18. Golden Text: Daniel 3: 17-18. “By the rivers of Babylon,” the exiled poet wrote of loyalty to God and to Judah. For in Babylon the exiles were asked to sing a song of Zion for the entertainment of their masters. And the poet refused to sing the Lord’s song in a strange land and he hanged his harp in the willows that grew along the streams. There was nothing wrong in sing ing the Lord’s song in a strange land, with the right purpose in view in the worship of God. But the poet refused to sing the song for the entertainment and mirth oT those who held them captives. As the poet refused to dishonor the Lord’s song, there were others of the exiles who would not dis honor God by worshipping the image 'of himself that Nebuchad nezzar had set up. And the king ordered Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be cast in a fiery furnace. But God intervened to save the young men from a hor rible death. Thus did they maintain their loyalty when they were threatened with terrible death. Likewise many of the exiles were true to their way of life, in a strange land, as they stood firm against a worldly policy to compromise with things that were evil. On the east side of Columbia’s State House plaza stands the Spaniah-American War monu ment, erected in 1941 by the state and her citizens in honor of par ticipants in the war with Spain, the Philippine insurrection and the China relief expedition. In South Carolina, whose 'sons are heroes in war and peace, the United States Brewers Foun dation works constantly to en courage maintenance of whole some conditions wherever beer and ale are sold. As in other states, the program calls for close cooperation between law-enforce ment officials nnd beer licensees throughout South Carolina. Beer belongs ... enjoy it. United States Brewers Foundation South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.C. Hie- heveraqe 'T'O GIVE e new and inviting touch to creamed chicken, make a baking powder biscuit ring in a ring mold, then turn this out on platter when baked to fill with the chicken. Cranberry sauce cut in cubes or other shapes with a cookie entice can be used for a delightful garni**. Use pineapple juice left from the canned fruit as the liquid in RECIPE OF THE WEEK Frosen Prone Whip (Serves 5) 2 eggs H cup confectioners* sugar % cup prune pulp % cup orange juice % teaspoon lemon extract teaspoon salt 1 cup heavy cream, whipped Beat eggs and add sugar gradually. Add prune pulp, orange juice, lemon extract and salt Mix welL Fold whipped cream into mixture. Pour into refrigerator tray and freeze. (If desired, pureed prunes canned for youngsters may be used for the prune pulp). - which you cook pork chops for a new and thoroughly appetizing flavor. Leftover ham mixed with your favorite ham loaf ingredients may be placed in greased muffin pans to bake right alongside potatoes for dinner. Serve the “little loaves” with cherry sauce. Chilled chopped apples, dates, nuts and snipped marshmallows gently folded in cooked salad dressing offer a delicious salad to serve with meat loaf. Try this trick ^JHth French bread: Slit the loaf and butter generously. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and wrap in aluminum foil. Heat through in the oven, about 10 minutes. You can beat honey butter passed with hot muffins. Cream Vi cup butter and add to it % to Vk cup of honey. Beat until fluffy. SAFELY—Each Account is Insured to $10,000. SURELY—This association has paid regular dividends never less than 3% for 20 years. ■h OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT TODAY “OUR GREATEST ASSET—YOUR GOOD WILL" Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Ass’n. “An Institution Devoted to Thrift and Homo Ownership” . ASSETS OYER $7,725,000.00 John F. Clarkson, Pres. J. K. WUUngham, Sec.-Treas. NEWBERRY, S. C. v DIRECTORS John F. Clarkson M. O. Summer J. K. Willingham E. B. Purcell G. K Dominick Waldo C. Huffman mm m. M