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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956
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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.
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