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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1956 Farm Action Expected Soon The Senate Agriculture Committe is expected to present to the Senate either this week or early next week a new farm bill embodying proposals designed to alleviate our farm problems and to improve the welfare of our farmers. Our farm problem is one of the gravest situationsfacing the Congress and America today .The well-being and pros perity of the whole people of the United States is insepara bly tied to the well-being and prosperity of a stable agricult ural economy in this country. I hope the Congress will be able to effect a new farm program which will meet the changing problems and needs of agriculture. Minimum Cotton Acreage Urged Shortly before the committee began voting on various provisionsof the bill, I joined Senator John Stennis (D'Miss.) in urging that our small cotten farmers be given a minium cotten allotment. We suggested they be guaranteed four acres or 80 per cent of the highest planted acreage for the proceeding three years. This could be accomplished by creating a two per cent reserve at the national level. The reserve would be created by adding one per cent to the national cotten allotment and setting aside another one per cent from the Rational allot ment. We urged that such a provision be written into the new farm bill or enacted as separate legislation. Small Quotas Affect 16,830 I pointed out to the committee members that, in the allocation of cotten acreage for the crop year 1955, there were approximately 16,830 farmers in South Carolina who were allocated less than five acres, many of them less than two acres. These were not migrants or tenants, but were small landowners. In addition, 4,147 tenants were forced off the farms in 1955 due to acreage reductions. Cotton acreage was again reduced in 1956, and'these same groups fared even worse. If the provision for a two per cent reserve had been in effect for the 1956 crop, 38,005 farms in South Carolina would have received some additional acreage. * Protest Tobacco Cut .At the same time I requested a minium cotten allotment for our cotten growers, I prested against a proposal for calling a referendum among flue-cured tobacco farmers in an effort to cut acreage allotments which were announced last July. Congressman Harold Cooly (D-N.C.) has intro duced such legislation, and it has been endorsed by the Department of Agriculture. for the present crop year based on the allotments announced six months ago. Their share crop agreements have been made, their leases signed, their tobacco beds planted,and In many cases they have contracted for their fertilizer. Although I am told by tobacco experts that further acreage reductions will be necessary next year, I do not believe it would be fair at this late date to expect farmers to accept a second reduction for this year. Cooley Proposal Unfair The Cooley Bill would require tobacco growers to vote on whether to accept a 20 per cent reduction below last year and have their crops protected by government support prices or whether they would lose the protection of price supports. That proposal is entirely unfair because, having been subjected to one acreage reduction for this year already, the farmers should not be placed in the position of accepting another reduction or losing the protection of price supports. I am opposed to this bill and I shall vote against it if it should come up in the Senate for a vote. Three States Seek Army Terminal The Army is considering the placing of the Atlantic Transportation Terminal Command in a Southeastern city and I have urged Pentagon officials to place this comma'nd somewhere in South Carolina. It was first reported that only one South Carolina city was being considered, along with cities in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. However, my conversation with the Pentagon verified that Anderson, Greenville, and Spart anburg are all in the running. Surveys of available office space and other requirements have been made in these three cities, as well as in 10 cities in the other three States mentioned. My objective is to convince the Army that South Carolina is the best state for this terminal command and I shall exert T , Caldwell Bros., Inc. Little Mountain, S. C. CONTACT US FOR: Limestone Spreader Service Pond Building Land Clearing W. H. Caldwell G. H. Caldwell Little Mountain Prosperity UNANSWERED QUESTION By Fran Pachter S USAN WELLS typified the fe male secretary that few bosses have and many wish for. She was not unaware of her charms; her filled date book verified that. Dressed in a green suit that added striking emphasis to her dark hair and eyes, her piquant face held an elfin quality of daintiness, stimu lating to masculine sensitivity. She was at the moment, awaiting the buzzer, that would introduce her to her new boss. Her brief glimpses of him had interested her, despite grapevine rumbles, that he was a stickler for work. Her pad and pencil fell to the floor, as the buz zer sounded. Bending to retrieve them, her eyes caught sight of trousered legs, standing nearby. Her gaze followed them up, until it rested on the face of her new employer. Her composure, ruffled by her awkwardness, made her en trance not at aU as . she had planned. Seated across from him, ready for dictation, she was surprised to hear him say, “No dictation, let’s just get acquainted.’’ He sat scru tinizing her until she felt sure that some part of her apparel was in disorder. When he finally spoke, his question surprised her. “Do you have a steady boy friend?” “Yes! I mean no, not a steady one.’* Susan was flustered at this approach. What business was it of his, if she had? “My reason for asking is that I need an efficient secretary with no outside attachments, such as ob jecting boy friends. My work re quires a steno to travel with me. I want you to fly to New York with me. Can you go?” Could she go? Of course she could go, but was this really busi ness he had on his mind? It must be; he hadn’t known she was alive until a few moments ago. She chided herself for her doubts. “When would we leave?” She queried. “Immediately. Get your purse and we’ll be off. I have reserva tions on the next plane/* Seated on the plane, hardly know ing how she got there, she discov ered her boss was a charming traveling companion. She stole a peek at him. Dark and handsome, he possessed a smile that defied description. So engrossed in eval uating his assets, Susan was amazed to see that they were landing. Her doubts returned to plague her as he directed the driver of the car that had awaited them, to go directly to his apartment. Mr. Sutton, turned to her explaining, “I keep a penthouse here to work in when I’m in New York. Susan thought: how does one get out of a penthouse, if this turned into monkey business? The luxury of the apartment they entered made little impres sion on the worried girl; it’s emp tiness did. She felt all alone and at his mercy. His offer of a drink did nothing to ease her nervous ness, and as he walked toward the couch she sat on, Susan rose quick ly and stepped away from him. She let out a sigh of relief upor seeing that he was reaching for a pull cord. The tingle of a bell, summoning a servant who ap peared immediately, relaxed Su san a little. His questioning of the servant caused her to blush a bright red, as she heard him ask, “Are my family at home? I want Mrs. Sut ton to meet my new secretary.” He turned to Susan, who at the moment was speechless and very ashamed, saying, “Miss Wells, you evidentally read the wrong kind of books. I am flattered to be looked upon as a wolf as I am sure it will raise my prestige with my wife.” That trip was but the ftrst oj | many such visits and Susan could not lose the thought that haunted her after each trip. It being. ] wonder what would have hap pened if he hadn’t been married? P. S. She never found out . . BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER “A mess of fresh.” If a neighbor came to your house and said he had brought you that, what would you look for? Well, with us in the Dutch Fork where I came from, that meant a batch of the fresh makings from a hog. All were small farmers there, and each killed from one to four hogs each winter. The folks were industrious, thrifty, ahd almost completely lived at home. There was no refrigeration then, but they worked out a constant meat supply. Butchering was a full day’s job, and several neighbors always came to help. They made every thing from souse to puddin’ mush, and used everything from the chitterlings to the brains. All of this took time. And on the short days of winter, it was usually dusk before it was finished. Then it was about half dozen Vic Vet jayf A REMINDER TO VETS GOING* ^ TO SCHOOL FOR THE FIRST TIME -YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL must CERTIFY your CLASS ATTENDANCE AT THE END OF EACH MONTH BEFORE VA MAY SEND VOU YOUR 61 ALLOWANCE. For fall information contact your nearest VETERANS ADMINISTRATION office pans were brought out and filled with alittle of each finished pro duct. These we kids then carried to near-by neighbors. We liked to do that for the neighbor would usually look around for some thing to give us. It would usually be a handful of parched penders, a winter apple from the cellar or maybe a baked ’tater from the apron of the stove. every effort to do so. The selection of a particular city is entirely up to the Army, based on the data it has secured concerning the facilities avaible in each. I shall not recom mend one South Carolina city over another. !***•*& Regular Savings PAYS WELL— In case of an emergency nothing takes the place of a savings reserve. You can build this security by start ing a Savings Account today. Add to it regularly and soon you will have a substantial amount. “Save Where Hundreds Save Millions” STATE > BUILDING and LOAN ASSOCIATION nNOCNer R AMAMS, S*At mr NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA DIRECTORS Ralph a Baker R. Aubrey Harley J. Dave Caldwell Thomas H. Pope Pinckney N. Abrams Louis C. Floyd &? -TH€. STARS I II J By LYN CONNELLY E D GARDNER, “Duffy’* Tav ern” comic, strikes out on a legitimate path with “The Petu nia Peddler” . Ed wrote the play and will co-star with Alan Young . Lillian Roth will record for the Spic label many old tunes in her filmed biography, “I’ll Cry To morrow”. The songs will be re leased in an album . . . Good news from CBS: “Strike It Rich” will remain on the air . . Many folks who count Warren Hull as their only friend and their last hope will be happy to hear that . . Frank Sinatra, who can’t do anything wrong these days, has the rights to film “The Jazz Train,” a musi cal owned and produced by GI’s in Europe. A European tour by Danny Kaye has postponed the start of the pro duction of “The Red Nichols Story” at Paramount Danny spends so much time in Europe it is difficult to remember at times that he is actually an American performer ... A musical version of “Anna Christie” will be made into a movie with Doris Day and Howard Keel . . . Seems like the big fad nowadays is making every known drama into a musical “Anna Christie” to music sounds rather fantastic. PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL:—Joe Carr, who is merely terrific but completely un heralded, has a honey of a record out in “Henderson Stomp” backed by “Memories of You” . . Both songs are from “The Benny Good man Story”. . . Les Brown does an instrumental on “Take Back Your Mink,” a song done hilariously by Vivian Blaine in “Guys and Dolls” . . Flip side has “Sincerely Yours,” title song of Liberace’s Introductory film . . Frank Sina tra does a scintillating job on “The Tender Trap,” a whimsicat ditty bearing the title of his latest film “Weep They Will” backs it. l REMEMBER BY THE OLD TIMERS From John C. Boyles, Tonkawa, Okla.: I remember when father got back from England in 1875, he planned to build a barn on the side of a typical Michigan hill, near Charlotte. The Ice Age had left its mark in our back yard, so the stones for the foundation were close at hand. The first thing he had to know was the size of the barn, and the size depended upon the height of the nearby trees. He sent men into his woodland to find two of the tallest and straightest trees. When this was done, the length was de termined. For the width of the barn, eight logs were used as crossbeams. Then 18 poles, 20 feet long and very stout, served as girders. They dragged the logs from the heart of the timberland into the yard, and construction be gan. The crude labor was great be cause of the large number of logs involved. Two of the logs were fifty feet long, eight were thirty- four feet long; sixteen were twen ty feet long, etc. The digging out of the bank was difficult and the scoring of the logs took many hours and left many sore hands. No sawmill in this part of the country at that time was equipped to saw such long timber. (Send contributions to this column to The Old Timer, Community Press Scrv- lec, Frankfort, Kentucky.) Pleasure boats are broadly clasified into three groups ac cording to what makes them go: sail, motor or hand power. Some combine these. FOR Expert Repair Bring Your Radio or Television GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television SALES and SERVICE 1309 MAIN STREET Newberry, S. C. 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone 811 ASSESSMENT NOTICE I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates given below for the purpose of taking tax returns on all personal prop erty, new buildings and real estate transfers. Persons owning property in more than one district must make returns for each district. All able-bodied male citi zens between the ages of 21 and 60 are liable to a $1 poll tax. At Auditor's office to first of March, after which a pen alty of 10 per cent will be adaed. RALPH. B. BLACK, Auditor Newberry County MIMIC WAR . . . Marine corps amphibious armored personnel carrier supports infantrymen “at tacking” beach while airborn troops land behind “enemy” daring maneuvers at Quantico, Va. We BeUeve That every statement we make in our advertising should be a true representation of facts. We BeUeve That a bargain is not a bargain unless it is supported by quality. We Believe That when we say we are offering items with prices not ordinarily available you will know it to be true. We are doing some changing in the selling space on our first floor—to make it more comfortable and plea sant for you—because we believe that our store exists for the customer. In doing this wfe are finding these items that for some reason are not up to our high standards of merchandise so we are grouping them for you at very low prices to move them quickly. COME TO— Carpenters NEWBERRY, S. C.