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: -A*.: ^ f : x . -m r .’s' :*H! F l . ?•' • ' 4 ' r "' ^'4 •PAGE SIX ' THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1956^ | LAFF OF THE WEEK 0 . t . **Xe«slr—yoar carve is breekfaif much better, old man.' . \ ■* THE BAFFLES By Mahoney I LIKE YOUR PLAYING JUNIOR. LEAGUE BASE BALL, BILLY... BUT TO BE THE CATCHER... ISNT that a bit DANGEROUS?' B tm NAWi ANYWAV,lM A GOOD CATCHER. WELL,WHAT IF THE RUNNER ON THIRD SUDDENLY STREAKS FOR HOME PLATE- HERE COMES THE THROW RIGHT AT YOU- THE RUNNER SLIDES, STEEL SPIKES ST7 high..; what_ m^\WOULD YOU DOS / OUCKl «WOJg/- .'xvn'v .V.r.r-Nv^j^-? *me brain budi JL Capaeioiis means (a) handy; (b) flighty; (e) roomy. a^A silly is (a) a flower; (b) animal; (c) wagtm. (a) a wis; (b) weapon; (o) ruler. ANSWERS sM-, ■ Any Hour of the Day—It’s Good Listening on WKDK! / Ltit f; <1:00 Hillbilly Harmony T:00 World Newa 7:05 Wake Up and Sins 7:26 Weather Forecast 7:90 Carolina Newa 7:36 World of Sports 7:40 Wake Up and Sing 6:00 World Newa 8:06 Wake Up and Sing 8:46 Morning Devotion* 8:65 S. C. Newa 9:00 RobL F. Hnrleigh 915: Story Time 9:46 Homemaker Harmony 10:00 Music For Mom 10:30 Music for Mom 11:00 Newa / 11:05 Fiddlin’ ’Round 11:15 Mr. Food 11:30 Queen for a Day 12:00 Cotton Today 12:06 A Public Service 12:10 World New* 12:16 Obituary Column 12:20 Carolina New* 12:26 Funeral Ann*. 12:30 Farm, Home Service W K 45 Weather Forecast 60 Farm, Home Program 05 Market Report 10 Moments of Meditation 15 Mutual Music Box 65 Game of The Day 30 Steve Hood Show 30 Let’s Get Together 30 Bob and Ray 00 Sapper Serenade 26 Carolina News 30 Sports 45 Storyland 00 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 15 Weather 20 Musicale 30 Gabriel Heater 45 Les Paul :50 Here’* Hayes Mystery 9:00 Dance Party 10:00 Nelson Eddy Party 10:30 Passport to Dream* 10:55 Sports 11:00 News 15 Music of Manhattan. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist k* V MOUNTAIN BEAUTY I’ve seen mountains in differ ent parts of the country. They all have their charm. But they are so different. For sheer beauty of flower, foliage and gushing streams, ours are tops. I rode back in ’em in late May. The laurel was pink on every ledge and the daisies were thick upon the open ground. Then later the rhododendron marked its place with beauty- Your hardly notice it and laurel until they come forth in gorgeous and profuse bloom. But they are in such abundance there that they largely make up the jungle of underbrush in that well-watered vastness there to our west. Lucky are we that the bulk of our population is withina short ride of these cool mountains. And many folks live so close to them in our most industrialized areas and closest farmed communities that they can see them, invitingly blue there in the -distance. And folks are going there too, like to our beaches, for a breath of fresh cool air during the hot months. I often think of the comforts of living here. Winters mild, with seashore and cool mountains with in a short drive of every citizen! Now, folks, that’s something too. For vast areas of our country don’t have either of these com forts within reach. And in many of them the summers are hotter than here. Nights too! RABBITS EATING OKRA County Agent Livingston of Charleston told me rabbits were a bad pest on okra there. Said they had great trouble getting it up to where they couldn’t reach it- Looks like there is one or more pests for everything. Okra has been fairly free of ’em, after you get it up and started to grow. Now comes the rabbits! PEACHES IN LOW COUNTRY Science has bred peaches that don’t require such a long winter chill period. That means they can be grown further south without injury from insufficient winter rest. With these, peach orchards are showing up down-state. County Agent Shelley of Barnwell told me they had 500 acres. And Rog ers of Allendale showed me some very fine producing orchards there. W. ! ir ■■.■AyyysC.- VACATION DAYS.. .Yoon* Billy Steber* 8, with rad, bait, and COMMUNICATIONS will be the lifeline of Operation Alert, 1956, jnst as they are of any effective nationwide defense against “at tacking’* planes. Shown hero is part of the communlcationa center at Federal Civil Defense Administration national headquarters at Battle Creek, Michigan, daring last year’s Operation Alert. (Battle Creek Cnauirer and News Photo) Subscribe To The Sun <s> Only a few years ago commer cial peaches were not known much below the Fall line. Now large acreages are coming down there. v Clemson is not promoting this, but, of course, helps all interest ed growers with their plantings. And Roy Ferree tells me some of those new groyers are doing a good job of orcharding already. Change, change, the constancy of it! Things just don’t stay put in this old world of chance. WATER MEANS LIFE I speak often of water here. The President’s Advisory Com* mittee on Water Resources has this tc say: “Water is more than a natural resource—it is a necessity of life. Here in the United States, bless ed with a continent of virgin soil, we lived more than 200 years, be fore the water problem became generally acute. But the uses we make of water in modem society are so tremendous that they stag ger the imagination. The coming of our industri&l era, the rising of our living standards, and the increased application of water to land have now highlighted the problem until in much of the na tion there is a grave and increas ing concern over water re sources.” Among examples of heavy use of water it showed that 65,000 gallons were needed in making'1 ton of finished steel, 50,000 gal lons for 1 ton of paper, and six gallons of water in making each gallon of gasoline. Add to that a constantly increasing household use. Also irrigation, that is just getting started good over much of the country, and we begin to see the plight of our once consid ered abundant water supply. All means for conserving our water for use are in order now. Rainfall is its source. Therefore good farming that helps get the water into safe storage in the soil is of prime importance to all. Then ail manner of ponds and reservoirs to conserve heavy rainfall and prevent wasteful runoff during periods of heavy rainfall are coming. Our rainfall in the East is adequate only if we can retain it for use. Droughts are too frequent and runoff too heavy for rainfall to fill our needs unless we can retain it better than we have. > b- FAST RECOVERY WHATEVER IT IS- A WAD OF DOUGH OR WAYWARD DOG AN AD IN THIS NEWSPAPER RECOVERS ANY THING! TRY AN AD TODAY BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER m: ip-: -T- ."T nv The old country store, there at the foot of the hill, we started talking about that here last week. My early memories of the $tone Hills are tied hard to it. It was our main contact with neighbors from across the hills, down the road, or up the creek. For when something broke they could not fix, there they came with it to that marvelous man who ran it and the shop and could fix anything that was fixable. Usually they waited for him to fix it, thus saving a trip back. This gave the group a- round the. burnished stove there in winter, or the giant HKN SCORES 96.3 . . . Sam R. Honegger, breeder hatcbery head (left) and A. W. O’Steen, Florida test superintendent, inspect new Honegger strain-cross hen which laid 235 eggs in 244 days to top 6,356 com peting birds in national test at Chippley, Fla. -■*i, ^ ‘ ?• >;.y:>. i’ : k*i ! '" r % oak out there in the yard in the summer, a rather constant and varied group. There you could sit a few hours and catch up pretty well on local news, views, gossip, and politics. There was always whittling, whether around the stove or un der the tree. That was rather common around most country stores then. But specially so around ours there in the Dutch Ferk. The fact that the wood working shop was there m the back aggravated this. There was the smell of sawdust, shavings, and curing wood all the time. And shavings were upon the floor. So the perfect ly natural thing to do as you joined the group was to reach down into your pocket and get your knife and join the whit- tlers. I think the mam 1 reason it used to be so natural to reach for your knife and start whit tling was that same urge now thaK prompts a fellow to un consciously reach for a cigar ette and light it. Just something to do with the hands. Talking about whittling, there was an old Confederate soldier storekeeper two miles out at White Rock, where we caught the old wood-burner to Colum bia, that was a neat whittler for sure. He’d sit there around his store or oak tree out front and hardly without looking* carve the most intricate little totem poles I had ever seen. Back then we didn’t have card board cartons like now and lumber was plentiful and cheap. So things came in wood boxes, mostly white pine. And that stuff made awfhlly easy whit tling. I’ve seen 4 or 5 men whittling lip a whole box of it in the course of a few hours sit- to there around the winter stove or under the summer oak. Memories aplenty around the old country store. More of ’em next Week. lifi v- i ‘ • <, , \ ■■ ' ' i'± ■ V'-‘ ‘V;; ■ I - S. j - - : V. ^. J MANY b {jooDmmmmm : Helped Save Lives in Our Hospitals Durina the Last 6 Months! - * v v; K . /.' syi! \ In treating the ill and the injured, there is no substitute for blood. Even in these days of “wonder drugs,” blood is one thing that cannot be mined or manufactured. It must be given. And you and your fellow Americans are the only ones who can give it! In addition to the blood needs of our community - blood is needed to build a national reserve of blood de rivatives. This reserve is a form of “life insurance” for hundreds of thou sands in time of disaster. Yes, your priceless, painless gift will some day help save an American life! So give blood — now! Blood You Give Helps Someone live GIVE BLOOD MOW I ATTENTION Chvrdt, Sch#*L S*d«l» CMc and BmImm < Check The*# Vital If you oui anawor “ymT* to xnori ol them, you-end your _ are doing a needed . National mood Program. n suras bSsiiSi’s^ 1 1 Program? □ Hava you conducted a Donor Pledge Campaign? □ Have you eet up aliet of voU unteen eo that efficient plane can be made for echeduling donor*? □ Do you have a Blood Donor Honor Roll? :• Make a date for Wednesday, August 1, when the Bloodmobile will visit Newberry, sponsored by the Exchange club. PLACE: Lutheran Chore hof The Redeemer. TIME: 2 until 8 p.m. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Ass’n y A AA'y- f.-rv' I ■ Sfig 1 -’jf r -l ' V.Stl ■ Jlj -.<V ■ ''r- . ■yt - ,, • v m