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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956 I fM,. m » ML' f 1218 Collegre Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Caroling, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Do you know Charleston? Are you like many who say that Charleston IS, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be? Well such croakers really don’t know Char leston. But that’s quite a story and only a Chamber of Com merce booster can do full credit to it. Well, what do you know even of old Charleston, the °scene of sot much history? Let’s imagine ourselves skimming over Charleston. Tut, tut! Such an expression is tantamount to impiety. The real Charlestonian feels like a policeman I saw one day. I was coming out of the Francis Marion hotel, when radio station WCSC was on the 12th floor of the big hotel. At the Calhoun street entrance a stout and pompous lady stood waiting for ' h^r big car. A Charleston policeman was standing by, ob serving but saying nothing. Said the lady to herself, I think , “Huh, I don’t see anything to rave over here.” Then she rode off. When she was beyond hearing, the policeman said, apparently to himself, “Huh, you got to know something to appreciate Charleston. All right. You have been to St. Michael’s, the famous church? You have visited the beautiful Battery Park? You have enjoyed Hampton Park, in all the amplitude of its splendor? You looked out over the bay to Fort Sumter and strolled along East Battery? Of course you saw the Citadel, both the old and the new? And did you drop in at a typical grocery store? Well, there is a store in Charleston, on Wentworth street that carries in stock 200 kinds of cheese, beginning with every type, kind, flavor and strength of American cheese and including the cheeses of Europe, South America, Tur key, and other lands. It is a treat to walk through that rich assortment of del icacies. I suppose they sell hog and hominy too, but I don’t know; What impressed me, and always stirs rich, warm, gustatory sensations is that extraordinary variety of every thing, ranging from 50 appetizers, to 75 spices, herbs and seasonings. Between the first group and the last are bis cuits and cookies, from Belgium, Germany, Holland, Canada, England, Prance, Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, India; bakery products such as English Celery Rounds, pumper nickel crackers, French ginger cookies, wheatality coffee cakes, as well as all kinds of tea, coffee and everything else. Christmas has its special religious significance but most % housewives also serve the most tempting dishes they can think of. Ajmong the 60 appetizers, T saw Norwegian Puree of shrimp, smoked mussels in olive oil, caviar, imported Rom anoff. I counted more than a hundred kinds of biscuits land bakery products. Those cheeses are from Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Can ada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Sardinia, Sweden, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and Switzerland—^and 60 kinds of American cheese. I think I counted more than 200 kinds of cheese. Say, do you like cheese? t My introduction to that store grew out of a request that I buy some bread for the Communion service of an up-coun try church. Later I was asked to buy some German choco late which Mrs. Eisenhower had suggested. I didn't know where to go, but someone had a bright idea and said* Try Harold's Cabin on Wentworth street, back of Kress’ store." Well, there it was. I am asked to do many things, from buying toy pianos for a lovely lady in Columbia, to Bibles..for Manning. So I started out with a brave heart and reckless daring to buy Mrs. Eisenhower's recommended chocolate. But Harold had it. How much would Harold charge to turn a lad of big appetite loofe in that store? Perhaps I’ve made a mistake in regaling you with all this story of food. It makes me think of the lad who came from^ Europe to a great wheat farm in Iowa. He wrot^ to his people about the abundance of everything in America, top ping off the account with this statement: "We have meat three times a week." Mis employer read the letter and snorted “Three times a week!" You have meat three times every day." “Yes," said the lad, “but dad couldn’t believe that. I told him all he would believe." experience was something of the long ago. When I attend ed New York university I had rooms in Gould Hall, main campus, up in the Bronx. Frequently I walked 40 or 50 blocks for exercise and looked in the bakery windows often thinking I could buy a different kind of bread, foreign and domestic, every day in the year. I didn’t do it; I just thought about it. If I had gone in 500 or more bakeries I might have been so dumfounded by the confusion of tongues that I should have done as most of us had to do in Peru,. at first, when someone ordered something: “Para mi lo mismo” —“for me the same.” of other products, its use at this point’ “A $10.9 million maze of pipes and silvery pots is about set to turn out a sugar-like crystal that may make house paints more durable and suitcases stronger. It’s a plastic muscle-builder, spelled isophthalic, and pro nounced i-so-thal-ic, which up to now has been produced in pilot plant quantities of less than 20,000 pounds a year. That figure is expected to zoom to 5*0 million pounds a year as the new plant percolates into production. This sudden avalanche will push even higher U. S. produc tion of petrochemicals, which in 1954 scaled 27 billion pounds, more than twice the 10.5 billion pounds made in 1945. The concern that will market the new chemist’s material is touting it as a sort of vitamin pill for plastic products, including synthetic paints and enamels. Most paint makers agree, though they note problems in using the material. lake many other petrochemicals, isophthalic is a building block that goes into the manufacture ‘It’s impossible to guess at the scope of an official claims. Tests show that using isophthalic in the base of syn thetic paints makes them more flexible and therefore less apt to crack and peel because of the coptraction and expan sion of the surface the paint covers. The outside surface of a building, for instance, undergoes almost continuous movement due to temperature changes. Soft exterior house paints could be made tougher with isophthalic, and would also retain their color and gloss longer, says a specialist. Derivatives of the versatile new cheipical make such soft plastic goods as shoWer curtains and seal; covers more supple, and inhibit their tendency to get brittle as they get old. As a binder ingredient, isophthalic makes items such as plastic luggage and glass fibre boats and fishmg rods stronger. Thirsty World War II fighting plane^ were the beginning of isophthalic’s saga, as a refinery to produce aviation gaso line was established. Chemists involved in the operation dis covered that this hiph octane fuel contained sizable portions of the potentially valuable chemical family of ‘xylenses.’ The first member of this family isolated by scientists was used in phthalic anhydride. Standard how makes approxi mately 15 million pounds of this chemic il a year at its Rich mond facility. This ingredient of many paints and plastics is also produced by other firms from coal-tar-4eriveu naphtha lene. U. S. output of phthalic anhydride in 1955 is expected to reach 300 million pounds. . According to reports, isophthalic will supplement phthalic anhydride in many of its uses. The technical director at the South San Francisco plant which makes paint resins, says thqre,s been a perpetual shortage of th<; older material, and he expects productions of both chemical 3 to expand. Scientists began concentrating on the source of isophthalic in 1948. At that time it was a laboratory freak costing $25 to $100 a pound. The search then begap for ways to utilize it and a means to produce it commercial under tight secrecy. About three and one-half years ago, thalic was accelerated from the laboratory level to the pilot plant, stage with a capacity of 100 pounds daily. Samples were then distributed to potential customers for study. Con struction on the commerciaj plant that is getting up steam began last January." FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemspn Extension Information Specialist y. Proceses are kept >roduction of isoph- HIGHLIGHTS OF ’55 County agents’ fall reports give some farm highlights for the past year. Bowen of Sumter: “There is a steadily growing infferest in sheep in Sumter county. Our first sheep show 'was held in connection with the Sumter County Fair.” Johnson of Clarendon: “Preston Brailsford of Summerton r e - ceived several blue ribbons at both the State Fair and the Flor ence Fair with hjs sheep exhibits.” Liebenrood of Georgetown: “Feeder pigs are at a premium in this county with a .bumper crop of corn. „ King of Marion: '“Tobacco yields and return per acre weje the highest on record. Coker’s 139 variety led all others in yield and dollar value per acre.’’ Bull of Abbeville: “Six of the seventeen fields entered In the corn contest made over 100 bush els per acre. And our cotton yield to was -the best on record.” Cain of Calhoun: “Soybean yield of 35 bushels per acre were not uncommon.” Lloyd of Edgefield: “Record yields of cotton and corn, with fine soybeans, and a bumper yield of grain sorghum marked 1955 in the county.” Garvin of Greenwood r “Corn and cotton yields of record pro portions were harvested in Green wood. and much feed too.” Thompson of Hampton: “A 30 bushel yield of soybeans this year was common.” v Bonnette of McCormick: “Our high fertilization demonstration on Coastal Bermuda grass produced nine and 3-4 tons of hay per acre.” McOomb of Orangeburg: “Bum.- per crops of corn and soybeans were harvested, feed is plentiful, and the sweet potato crop was good. But the cotton crop this year was very spotty, due to late rains and consequent weevil dam age and rotting of bolls.” Lee of Cherokee: “Cotton, corn and feed crops were unusually good. Eighteen new silos were dug and filled.” Wylie of Cheater: “A record cotton yield this year,and good feed crops too.” Cannon of Lancaster: “One far mer has made over 100 bushels In the corn contest for the past six years except dry 1954. All of this was done without Irrigation. A GIANT Cotton has xrown to a giant In our midst! Before I went to Peru I didn’t spend much time visit* inir stores. My first effort probably was in Paris, where I roamed about the Galeries de La Fayette, as I recall it. Later, in Lima; I had to look around because the stores sell merchandise from Italy; Spain, France, Germany, Switz erland, China and Japan—those especially. When I covered Macy’s in New York two years ago I was piloted around for five hours by a young lady; I was preparing a broadcast on that great store. Well, that place in Charfleston—Harold’s Cabinr- is quite like strolling through a dozen foreign lands. This is no ad;; it is my travelogue of .Qmrleston. You can eat a different cheese everyday for si xmonths. Do you like cheese? Really, the nearest approach to Harold's Cabin in my T HIS n«w year 195S will b« an •lactlon yaar, alwaya an Impor tant mllaatona in our country’* hiatory. The voters will have ba- fora them this yaar daciaiona to maka in tha aalactlon of a Prasi- dent, probably mora difficult than in many presidential alacUons here tofore. Xt will set the meeting of the eecond session of the 84th Con gress, which will have before it some of the most important meas ures to face any Congress . measures which will affect the lives and homas, pookatbooks and wallbeing of every living Amer ican, from school children to old sters. This new year will b* of particu lar importanc# to farmars and th# rural communiUsa of America, which art not sharing equally in tha general prosparity of the na tion. Xt will ba of soma mora than ordinary importanca to small bus iness concerns which maka up the bulk of business organisations in the smaller “home towiuC' of the country-—whoee profit spiral haa not kept pace with that of their biggar brothers in tha larger cities of the country. There will ba no dearth of news from Washington—in fact -there will be an over-supply of news and the newa . reporter will be constantly sorting out the meaning ful and tha revelant, the natural and honeat nawe from the trivial and gossipy and the endless hand outs from public relations mills. This year? 1958 win be a yaar in which you will read reams of ma terial and, via radio and televi sion, hear again and again tha politicians of both partial and tha marita and demerits of individual candidates. There will be .talk of "left” and “right”; of and “conaervativa," of tha dle-of-the-road” and of “modara- tion.” And there will be many qualifying adjectives describing what niche each man fits into inso far as tha abote designations are concerned. The two big political partita ax- pact a record vote this yaar, sur passing any vote yet recorded in a presidential yaar and. both par ties era building a war chest from which millions will ba spent to win this ' election—this may wall ring up a new record of election ex pense. ’One issue which rates high In Im portanca in this coming election will deal with an enargy program to revitalize our free Institutiona and . to safeguard our individual freedoms and liberty, and what cpt be done about freadom for millions of humans now in bondage elsewhere in the. world-a world concepts of time and dlstanca, that It cannot liva half-slave, half-free any more than this great nation ours could live half-slave, and half-free. With this new. year 1988 we shall have to face strongly tha problam of true world peace. And of one thing we can ba certain. There can be no world peace under the guise of “co-existence” with Com- munism—for Communism makes no allowance for the concept of freedom end liberty. Q—Doee the American Medical A—eoiaHan oppose the prepeeal to pay benefits to persons who become totally and permanently disabled, and who are 58 years of age or older? A—Yea. Tha AMA calls these payments M «aah handouts” and brands them as another “step toward socialixation of medicine." Under present law, the worker permanently and totally disabled must wait until he is 85 years old for any benefits no matter when he was injured. •q—li the Department of Interior still planning to build a dam In Kch* Park hi Dineeaav national Monnmeatr A—No. On November 88, Interior Secretary McKay announced his de partment is abandoning plana for this dam as part of tha upper Colorado River storage project |H—Is It true that the Government control ever water poUntleA will end nest year enleea a new bin Is paeeedf A—Yes. The National water pollution control program under the Taft- Barkley bill of 1948 expiree June 80, 1908, leaving the U. 8. Public Health Service without authority over water pollution unlees the bill to either extended or new authority provided. ibershlp doe to A—Yes. In 1840 after the decennial census, tha house membership was reduced from 848 to 8M members. k AU1H0R OF “HOW 10 SIOP WORRYING AND STAR! LIVING" ^ M R . 8 „. D ““ W * 1 ! Un » ton **«•». Al.jc.ndrU, LoqUl- Mh. hS*hl!2LASi? 1 n?^"S n0 f • chronl ° worrUr. More, .ho lma|lnod ^ 1 “ d * eou « ,, • * h * w ** run COlUl'nu^d ll J > wnr^^n!i" r “h ^ ,K nd 2 W *’ • 0UB<, 3* OO^.UVO. But Ml. . ^ ^ T5? th * C ^.°* r drlv * w “ on ,h " awnuM her- self a victim of that dread disease. She told her doc tor about her symptoms and about the dlfferent-mem- here in her mother's and father's families who had suggested that she go to the hoapltal and have tests ^ llowahe was really worrtod.n prat torwedayi , before she was admitted to the hospital, and during that time she worried herself half tq death. What wmdd happen to bar three chOdren If she did have "« di “*.««”» «» MMtfw. -- - ^ gun «h» didn't .top worrying Sts* bMu to hm OASNXOK ether pains and aches. £* r v huaband i brought to her a book on banishing worry. While t “ d j n « * [“"“A tor th. flrrt ttm. how umUm all of t*r **— P” h * d «*<wumbad to worry and tear onr thteg* Prosperity News MRS. B. T-. YOUNG, Correspondent *'% I do not speak of it just as a crop. In fact it has been subord inated a bit there. Justly so. Vor it was once a despot, and we had one-crop agriculture,, which is not so good. But now it seems stabil ized on about a third of its for mer acreage in South Carolina. By applying latest know-how to that, we have about doubled yields. This was necessary, if we were to stay with cotton as a crop. Aside from higher yields of bet ter quality cotton, the nianufac- turijng end has grow n until , w e lead all states in that. Clemson’s textile school is attuned to this growth, as the Extension Service is to the economic production of cotton on the farms of the state. Even though the student body hasn’t increased materially since the war, the" number of students taking textiles has practically doubled. Working very closely with the growing textile industry, men are being trained at Clemson to the liking of the industry. And grad uates readily find places in this giant industry that’s growing here. PROCESSING We can well remember when no Irish potatoes were processed. By 1940 one bag out of every 50 pro duced in this country was pro cessed, mainly into potato chips. By 1954 that had grown to ono bag out of each seven! There you have an enormous new outlet for a farm crop. In late years the packaging of pre-cooked French frys too has entered the market and made a hit. And so it is with many food stuffs. New ^ways of processing, and better ways, are always pos sible. Clemson’s new food process ing building is second to none anywhere. There the students have the latest facilities for get ting their hands into food process- ing. Not just the theory of it. But the very 'feel of the thing from practical experience. The fruit and vegetable pro cessing plant is a modern cannery with all sorts of research equip ment in it. Poultry has a complete streamlined dressing and storage plant. The animal husbandry part is a complete little packing plant, with cold storage and all. And the dairy section U the latest word in varied processing of milk. It is not now sufficient to know Just how to produce raw products. In- refining and processing them lies added ehance for profits. The Prosperity Garden club will meqt Monday afternoon, January 9 at 3:30 with Mrs. P, E. Wise. Mrs. J. C. Taylor and Miss Re becca Taylor of Charleston. are visiting Mrs. Taylor’s sisters, Mrsr J. Frank Browne and Mrs. L. W.- Harmon. Mrs. R. T. Pugh left the latter part of last week for a two months visit with her children. In January she will be in Decatur, Ga. with Graydon Pugh and family and in Atlanta, Ga. with Mrs. Paul Stutz and Mr. Stutz. In February she will visit Mrs. J. A. Bedembaugh and. family in Laurens and Gray don Pugh and Mrs. Pugh in Char lotte, N. C. Mr. and Mns. Robert Todt .and their two sons. Bill and Roger, of Keyport, N. J. spent Christmas week with their daughter and sis ter, Miss Todt, who is a nurse in the Mills’ clinic. Mr .and Mrs. J. A. Williams at tended the funeral of A. P. Ram- age .in Saluda county, last Tues- daiy. Pfc. Donald Bowers has return ed to his post in Chicago after a few days furlough with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lynell Bowers. ^onday guests of Mrs. J. A. Sease anJ Miss Grace Sease were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sease of Sav annah, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Her man Richardson and their two children, Rickey and Miss Betty Richardson and John David Sease of Columbia, Carl and Gene Rich ardson of Chapin. 'Mrs. Ralph Witt of Swansea spent last Tuesday with her bro ther, Vernon Pugh and Mrs. Pugh. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lang ford of Columbia were guests on Sunday of Misses Susie and Mary Langford. Mrs. Corrie McWaters spent Christinas weekend in Tampa, Fla. with her grandson, R. L. Courtney and family. Mr. and Mrs. Webster Grayson and their small son Toni of Dar lington, spent part of Christmas holidays with Mrs. Grayson’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Connelly. Mirs. J. A. Sease and Miss Grace Sease spent New Year’s day with Mrs. Tom Sease and family in Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wise, Miitses Marguerite Wise and Phyllis Wise spent Sunday In Ware Shoals as guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Scott. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Richards, Sr. and Tommy Richards of Heath Spring-s, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Rich ards, Jr., of Raleigh, N. C. visited r. and Mrs. B. T. Young last Tuesc Mrs. Bob Smith of Swansea vis ited Misses Susie and ~«Mary Lang ford last Tuesday. Misses Elsie Benerea and Ve ronica Gillitte of Geneva, N. Y^. atfid Miss Marjory Banford of Ith aca, N. Y., enroute home from a vacation in Florida, spent Satur day night with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mills. Mrs. W. D. Moore of Newberry spent a few days last week with Misses Susie and Mary Langford. Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Stuck and their daughter of Connecticut are visiting Mrs. Stuck’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs. S. C, Brissie and their two sons, Robert and. George, of Woodruff, visited Mrs. Bris- sie’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mills during the Christmas holi days Mr. and Mrs, Johnnie Sykbs and their two sons, Johnny and Steve, have returned home from a visit with relatives in Raleigh, N. C. and Lancaster. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Eargle and Mrs. J. W. Chapman attended the 19th Anniversary of Nativity Lu theran church in Spartanburg on Sunday, January 1. The Eargles and Mrs. Chapman are former members of the church. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McFefrin and their daughter, Miss Sara Mae spent the Christmas holidays with Mrs. MdFerrin’a' sister in Palm Beach. Florida. They were accom panied by Mrs. McFerriu’a par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smith of FStyetteville/ Tenn. who had been visiting the McFerrins. The Smiths celebrated their 60th wed ding anniversary while they were in Florida. Misses Erin and Nell Kohn. of Columbia spent Friday with Mrs. J. Frank Browne. Mr. ahd Mrs. B. A. Scott, of Ware Shoals were guests New Year’s day with Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wise, Rev. and Mrs. Ray P. Hook and their three children, Sammy, Mary and Lydia, visited Mrs. Hook's parents in Kannapolis, N. C. dur ing the Chrietmae season. j. I ill n ' *• ' . p * : r:;l ImEuT'L 0 riCK1S J • • • fawned model Uonai d^e f,krm * al * n k S9W T#rk ‘"ring ■ ’ i • ’o Any Hour of the Day—It’s Good ‘ • >, ' A - t . on WKDK! 6:00 Hillbilly Hartnony 7:00 World Newa 7:08>Wake Up and Sing 7:86 Weather Forecast 7:80 Carolina News 7:86 World of Sports 7:4)0 Wake Up and Sing 8:00 World Nawa 8:05 Wake Up and Sing 8:46 Morning Devotions 8:56 8. C. Newa 8:00 Robb F. 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