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I ,vr : : ■ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE &UUS MOROCCO • . . Photo shows inaugural at Rabat of Moroc co's new four-man “Council of the Throne," Mohammed Bekkal, Mohammed Sbini, Mohammed El Mokri and Si Tahar on Assou. "My wife used to bang up our garage, too. llienTur- cells gace me the idea of financing a new car, and now my wife’s afraid to drive it!” They’re mighty nice folks to know, especially when buying a new car or refinancing your old one. J^urcelld “Your Private Bankers" 1418 Mata SC Newberry FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemaon Extension Information Specialist COTTON HERE My, w ehave seen change in cot ton here in our time! We have just harvested our smallest acreage * since 1873, 716,- 000 acres in South Carolina. Our greatest acreage was in 1918, 2,849,000 acres. Our greatest productidn was in 1911, 1,649,000 bales. I well remember that year. It brought very little, and stayed in the field so long and blued up so it was hardly worth picking. One fellow down home was plow ing up unpicked cotton next spring to plant more. Said his only ex- cfuse for planting it in 1912 was to keep from losing his rows. Then they' didn’t break land broadcast. Just plowed out the old beds and thus had their row* ready. Very little rotation then. And the best lands stayed in cotton until they wore out. It is eatimated we will make 465,000 bales this year, for an av erage of 312 pounds of lint per acre. Cotton east of the Mississippi River has declined over fifty per cent in the past 25 years, while west of it acreage and production have gone up enormously. And that trend is still under way. Look at this year, we even planted con siderably under our allotment. That means we lose further acre age in future allotments when this year is figured in. While on the other hand, the west grows every acre they are permitted. Thus, the future holds an increasing per centage of the cotton acreage for them, when allotments are being made on past history. We are lead to wonder just how nearly cotton will go from our midst. This year we only planted just slightly over a fourth as much as we did 44 years ago. Those who figure on such things feel that our cotton acreage has reached close to the point where it will be stabilized. It has fast gone from the ill-adapted places and is now mostly concentrated on the acre ages where mechanization can apply. With fewer and fewer folks on the farms, each one had to cover more acres. And they are doing it. A prime reason for this, it takes more acre sto provide a suitable standard of living for^ the average fellow now. • Change, change, it is constant! CORN IN COLLETON Assistant County Agent White of Colleton tells me they are har vesting a record corn crop there. Much of it is being hogged down. I was on a county _farm tour with them down there several years ago in late June. They then had one of the finest corn pros- tfects on record. But rains were scant after that, and that fine prospect parched ayrtay. But this time the all-important; showers came, and promising prospects did not turn out to be disappoint ments. Water’s the vital thing, when we do everything* else. It takes it to make all of our other efforts pay off. Some are beginning to get it at critical times from irri gation. A great frontier lies there. SOYBEANS My, what a crop of soybeans we have! The acreage runs deep into the thousands, and they are just about all good. Farmers are planting several sorts, so as to extend the harvest. County Agent McComb of Orange burg says the Lee variety comes first in ripening. It is followed in a week or more by the Jackson. And the Jackson is followed in a week or more by the other stand ard varieties, principally the JEW- 45, . the Clemson Non-shatter-4, and CNS-24. It wil be noted that the last The hottest features for ’56 ' A. - - ■ ■ - . • are in the new Chevrolet Chevrolet never had it so good for you before . . . and no other car in its field even comes close. See if Chevrolet doesn't feature everything you want for *56. Alt N«wl Tb« ftai Air Sport Sodon with 4 door* and no sidoport* Bold now Motoramlc Styling Just look it over—the lower, longer hood . . . the wider grille . . . the big bold parking lights and the sweeping new speedline chrome treatment. V8 Horsepower Zoome to ZOS That’s the power the new '‘Super Turbo-Fire V8” pours out (optional at extra cost in all models). Chevrolet’s left-side taillight holds a stylish secret. It's hinged at the bottom . . . swings down to un cover the gas cap. Closed up, the cap’s concealed! 12-volt Electrical System Packs twice the punch of ordinary 6-volt systems . . . spins the engine up to one- third faster when you turn the key. You get surer starting in all weather. And you have a greater electrical reserve. Floats over the bumps Steering made easy Ball bearings greatly reduce friction and steering effort in Chevrolet’s Ball-Race Steering. THE HOT ONES Everything in Automatic Power Features Chevrolet offers everything you could wish for in the way of power servants! All are available as extra-cost options. EVEN Roads seem newly paved with Glide-Ride front suspension and outrigger rear springs soaking up the jolts. And Chevrolet per formance puts your safety first! It’s ths Pikes Psak Rscord Brsaksrl That’s how the '56 Chevrolet proved its championship road-action ... its surer, safer driving control! ••••••••• • • • • • • •. • • soooosoooo • • • • • KEMPER CHEVROLET COMPANY 1515-1517 Main St Newberry, S. C. three varieties mentioned were bred by John Wannamaker of St. Matthews. He gave us our first adapted, non - shattering, high- yielding soybeans suitable for crushing. Nor has he finished in that field. I passed there in the early fall and he was out there in his plots selecting and tagging the more promising sorts in his breeding rows. In a very few years, these new soybeans have become a major crop in South Carolina. We get a money crop from them following grain. We rogue the fields with hogs following the combines. And then we have that rich residue to turn under. A three-way crop for sure. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER As kids we heard a fiddle could be made from a corn stalk. And we never ceased to try. The idea was to select about a three foot piece of corn stalk that had a rather long joint at one end. With a slender knife blade we’d run .it under a section of the hard outer fiber of the corn stalk, running the knife from joint to joint. Then we’d insert a stick about the size of a match under it and push it back almost to one of the joints. Then another similar stick was inserted and pushed back nearly to the other joint This gave a tight piece, of fiber there that we split into several shreds. These the fiddle strings. Then we made a similar one for a bow. Resin was rubbed on the “strings” of both bow and fiddle. Then it was ready to play. We’d rub and fix and adjust and try and try. All we ever got out of it was a few puny squeaks. But we never lost faith. For we n<ad heard it could be done. And we believed it could. The foibles of childhood! But they develop youngsters in to men whose ideas later shape the world. REV. ROBERT H. HARPER J*s*s Teaches Hose to Live. Lesson foe November 13: Luke 6: 27-28. Golden Text 6: 31. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught men how to live so as to gain the best in life, for . themselves and for others. His teaching ran counter to many re ceived notions of conduct. Em phasis was placed not upon doing what ought not to be done but in doing what ought to be done. In many instances, this was directly opposed to what men had ap proved. Men were bidden to love their enemies, to give unto the needy, to be merciful in their dealings with others, to judge men in love and not in harsh and uncharitable thought Jesus showed that there is a re ciprocity of thought and opinion, as there is in the deeds of men. He bade men not to judge others, lest they be judged. The law of reciprocity has been declared and has been found to be in operation since the dawn at time. It is set forth again and again. It begins with the ancient law of murder, “Who so sheddeth man’s blood, by 8 hall his blood be shed,*’ and it is found at intervals and under differing circumstances through the ages. We have the common statement, “Curses like fowls fly home to roost," and Mr. Emerson’s words, “Curses always return upon the head of him who imprecates them.’’ It is a cheering truth that the good a man does in sincerity oi heart and purpose will return upon his own head and his good deeds be rewarded by and by. But we are to be good, first of all, be cause God is good and desires us to be good. MARINE BOSS . . . Lt. Gen. Randolph Pate, 57, veteran of Pacific Korean wars, was named dlsL commandant of Ma rine Corps, succeeding retiring Gen. Lemuel Shepherd. PLAYBOY LOSES . . . First South Vietnam election resulted in 98 per cent favoring replace ment of Chief of State Bao Dai (above) by Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Khf'jfirBE ydd^rk wondered, Avl why in this day and too— time, with our colleges and educational institutions overfilling their cam puses, with degrees as common as high school diplomas in the old days — why aren't we getting enough doctors, scientists, chem ists, industrial engineers, etc.? I don’t think you have to look very far to find the answer. The promising young man who might have discovered a force more powerful than the atom can prob ably be seen chasing a football on your Sunday afternoon television screen. A limber giant with the fingers and agility needed for great surgery work probably chases a nmnll round ball in the outfields of the major leagues. Among our champions in the many profes sional sports lies an abundance of hidden talents and suppressed abilities in other fields. The reasons, too, are just as obvious. Read your sports pages. Ralph Kiner earned half a mil lion dollars in 10 years of base ball ... in 1954 Casey Stengel; signed a two-year contract which, with bonuses, could net him about $100,000 a year . . . Tony Trabert signed a pro tennis contract which offered him $75,000 for less than a year and a half . . . Three heavy weight boxing champions earned .over $2,000,000 in ring combat But the great financial rewards are not to be accepted as the greatest lure offered by profes sional sports. There is the love of competition, of the “games," and probably most important oi all, the satisfaction of doing whal one likes to do best of alL Let our educators and indus trialists figure some way to up pay scales in the fields where we’re short on talent . . . and ai the same time develop an interest in these fields among our new gen eration. No. SIM Is esi is stsss S, §, It, IS, 14. Slsa S: Drasa, SA4 74a. SS-ht. Pattlaaat, 1% 7da. M ar SO-ts. ... . Na. 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