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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 195C I THE NEWBERRY §UN PAGE THREE Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNG, Correspondent Miss Cornelia Dominick, Decern- j their two children of Columbia, ber bride-elect, was complimented! visited Mrs. J. F. Browne Sun- with a miscellaneous shower Sat nrday afternoon, October 27, in the recreation room of the edu cational building of Zion Method ist church. The shower was given by Miss Dominick’s aunts, Mrs. Lee Lominick, Mrs. George Domi nick, Mrs. Wyman Dominick, Mrs Gordon Huffstetler, Mrs. John Tarrant, and Mrs. Ralph Shealy. A green and white color scheme was used in the decorations and the refreshments Several bridal contests furnish ed entertainment for the fifty guests. Miss Dominick was told to fol low a string w T hich led her through many rooms and to a large box containing the gifts. The hostesses served sand wiches, potato chips, pickles, cake squares and punch. Mrs. H. P. Wicker was hostess to the November meeting of the William Lester chapter of the U. D. C. last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Wicker, president, led the chapter in the ritualistic opening and allegiance to the flag. Mrs. S. A. Quattlebaum, pro gram leader, read an article on “Chaplains of the Confederacy.” Mrs. John Stoskman also con tributed to the program by read ing an article, “Ministers of Dif ferent Churches in Ante-Bellum Days. Plans were completed for the celebration of the chapter’s fif tieth birthday, which will be held at a regular meeting the last of November. During the social hour the hostess served strawberry short cake and coffee. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hamm Jr. and their son, Danny, attended homecoming at The Citadel Satlr- day and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Wessing- er and their daughter, Marsha and Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Wessing- er and their daughter, Imogene of Saluda and Ambrose Wessinger of Leesville were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cole Wessinger. Little Charlie Barkley of Char lotte, N. C. spent last week with his grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. Paul Scott. Charlie’s parents came to Prosperity for the week end and he returned home with them. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Scott of Ware Shoals spent' the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wise. Mr. and Mrs. Birge Wise and day. Frank McMillan, student at the University of S. C., spent the weekend with his grandmother, Mrs. L. W. Harmon. Miss Florence Ballinger oi Walhalla is visiting Mrs. Ben M Clark. Gurdon Wright Counts, stu dent at the S. C. Medical College Charleston, spent the weekenc with his mother, Mrs. Gurdon W Counts. Sending Sunday with Mrs. Counts were Miss Elizabeth Rick- enbacker and Miss Mary Watson of Newberry College. AIDS CRIPPLED . . . Crippled Randy Peters, 4, of Silver Spring, Md., invites FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to attend an nual convention of Easter seal societies in Washington, D. C. TOUGH ONES YOU'LL FIND US EAGER TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR PROBLEMS... BE IT SALES. IUYING. HIRING OR RENTING TRY AN AD WITH US FOR FAST RESULTS. I Day Service ON REQUEST SANITONE DRY CLEANING STYLE-SET finish for Silk, Rayon & Cotton Dresses. SOFT-SET finish for Wool and other Suit Fabrics. Complete Laundry Service Damp Wash — Fluff Dry — Finished Bundles LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR CASH & CARRY All Work Guaranteed Newberry Steam Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. 934 MAIN ST. PHONE 310 “Talk about false economy—I always swore I’d never borrow money for home repairs like my neighbor does. And now I’ve scarcely got a home left.” But it’s never too late to get started. A phone call now will do it; and I’ll go right down and pick up the money tf'urcellA “Your Prlvato Bankers** 1418 Main St. Newberry FHA Expands Its Loan Service The fai’m ownership loan ser vice which has enabled many Newberry county farmers to buy enlarge, or improve their farms with 40 year loans has recently been expanded to enable the Farm Home Administration to serve the credit needs of a larger num ber of farm families, John J. Cul ler, Jr., County Supervisor, ex plained this week. Mr. Culler said the loans for refinancing will help farmers who have adequate real estate secur ity and who are otherwise in a sound position but’ who are un able to meet hteir present credit obligations and need credit on more favorable terms and condi tions than are currently available from other lenders. The new law also provides loans for developing and im proving farms that are smaller than family-type. To be eligible an applicant must be an estab lished farm owner, carrying on substantial farm operations and spending a major part of his time farming. He must also have a dependable source of outside income. These loans will assist farmers who own small farms and rent additional land and small farm owners who depend on off-farm employment for part of their in come. The credit can be used to improve land and buildings. Like the loans that were al ready available, loans under the new authorities will be made on ly to applicants whose credit needs cannot be adequately hand led by banks or other lenders. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist BROWN SWISS CATTLE IN OCONEE Some years ago Clemson intro duced Brown Swiss Dairy Cattle in its herd and a group of Oco nee county farmers also partici pated in a cooperative shipment that was brought in. These grow ers and others got in more cat tle of this breed in later ship ments until they were pretty well dotted over the county. These are rugged cattle, well suited to the near-mountain area, and originally intended as a nuc leus for a possible blue mold cheese business that Clemson has been working on, or just as a regular dairy enterprise that was needed in the area if that didn’t work out. County Agent Morgan tells me the Oconee growers put on their first sale sponsored by the South Carolina Swiss Cattle Breeders , Association back in July, at which 28 head were auctioned off. Prosperity Girl Given Scholarship Miss Joy Thomason, a senior at Columbia College, has been awarded a National Methodist Scholarship b ythe Board of Edu cation of the Methodist Church. Miss Thomason is the daughter of Mrs. J. S. Thomason, Prosperity, and a member of Wightman Methodist Church at Prosperity. National Methodist Scholarship Awards cover tuition and fees up to $400 and are granted on the basis of superior academic stand ing, leadership ability, active churchmanship, character, person ality and need. this week's patterns w»ml •YAUDCfYLAMI l YARD EACH 1520 ta-4i 256 Pattern No. 1520—Just the thing to have on hand for last-minute gifts. Tie-on or bib aprons like these illustrated—and each from just a yard or less. No. 1520 in sizes 12.14.16.18.20; 40.42. Size 14, bib apron, 1 yard of 35-inch; yoke tie-on, % yard; straight tie-on, % yard. Needlework Pattern No. 256— For foot comfort make a pair of these pretty morning-glory slip pers. (Nice for gift-giving!) No. 256 has pattern pieces; sewing direc tions. Send 35c for Aprons Pattern, 25c for each Needlework Pattern to AUDREY LANE BUREAU, Dept. ~NWNS,~ 367 W. Adams Street* Chicago 6. IU. For PROMPT SERVICE By Trained Repairmen JUST TELEPHONE Telephone 811 GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Television SALES and SERVICE 1309 MAIN STREET Newberry, 8. C. 24 HOUR SERVICE FIRST COTTON PICKER Man has worked long at trying to perfect a successful mechani cal cotton picker. It was one of he hardest farm mechanization problems tc solve. The first cotton picker, I un derstand, was patented away back in 1850. And a good many others after that in the distant past. But none of them seemed to ever get anywhere. Back about 50 years ago the late inventor, C. S. Mason of Sumter, built a machine that had many of the features of the pres ent successful cotton picker, I am told by reliable folks who saw it. But lack of a suitable source of power defeated it. It was horse drawn and got its power from ground traction. And that took just too many horses. The pres ent internal combustion engine is what it lacked. Each year now a larger part of the cotton crop in this country is harvested mechanically. In the west, where it is dry and they can control their growth with ir rigation, cotton pickers are in common use. But here, conditions and seasons vary so, they have found a more limited use. How ever, experiment stations and farmers are constantly working with time in an attempt to over come our difficulties with them here. DROUGHT INSURANCE Agriculture in our area has been fighting droughts all along. We used to try to have “new ground” and bottomlands for corn. They were more fertile, had more organic matter in them, and therefore stood drought better. County Agent Cannon of Laur ens pictures the same thing in another way that’s quite fitting to our times. He says: “Where corn was planted on well prepar ed land and well fertilized, it stood the drought better than on poorly prepared land with less fertilizer.” Litter, organic matter, humus, or call it roughage or what you will, that’s the prime need of our soils today. New grounds used to have it, for it had accumulated there when in woodland. But we don’t have those any more. Most of our farming has tended to burn it out of our soils. So they bake, get hard, the vital rainfall runs off rather than in. It is for us to keep that organic content of our soils built up. Crop resi dues are our main source of that. Manure is excellent, as far as it goes. But few have enough of that to go far. So all sorts of lit ter chopped up and turned under is our fort there. Grassland farming, with sods occasionally turned under, is a big help in this tod. And grain straw, what a pity to see any of that burned off the land. Clemson and the SCS folks are experimenting in trying to get it utilized on the land. It does carry difficulties for the soybean crop that follows. It is those that the engineers are trying to overcome. If irrigation is to work best, this organic matter content of the soil has to be looked after too. For it enables the water to soak in and then helps the soil hold it. Vic Vet jay* IF YOUR 61 TERM INSURANCE 1 EYPIEED SINCE JULY 23, »9S3, BECAUSE Y&U FAILED TO PAY EITHER OR BOTH OF THE LAST TWO TERM PERIOD PREMIUMS YOU CAN REINSTATE YOUR POLICY UNDER A NEW LAW. REV. ROBERT H. HARPER Two and Two Are Four T HERE is an old fallacy that two and two are four. But ft has the sound of finality. It is good arithmetic. It is true that two and two are four. And the statement has become a kind of proverb of that which cannot be denied. Nevertheless, there is a fallacy in the statement. Much depends upon what use is made of the two things that are multiplied. First, it all depends upon what the things are that are multiplied, whether their multiplication is of any value or not. The things in themselves may not be bad. It depends upon what you do with them whether they have any value for you or not A man’s wealth may be multiplied to the extent that he is a million aire. And he may do great good with Ms philanthropy. But if his heart Is as dry si the summer’s dust; his Wealth may ba of no value to him in the world to come, while he who gives a cup of cold water in the Master’s will never lose his reward. So let us make sore that the things we seek axe wprth while so that their mul tiplication may bring joy to others and life to ourselves. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accusulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn’t learned how to use information productively. —D. Kenneth Wenebrerner. As kids, we liked a lot of raw things. On the way from school we would often go by the turnip patch, get us each one about the size of a goose egg, wash it off there in the ditch, peel it with our teeth, and then eat it clean down to the green leaves. Then later, when the turnips had gotten pithy or the cold had ruined them, we would of ten go -by the ’tater bank, dig in through the straw and corn stalks, get us a good one out, and then proceed as with the turnip. And occasionally we would forget to close the hole back up. A hard freeze then, if it came before parents noticed it, would sure play havic with our stored potatoes. Every time our mother went out in the smokehouse to get kraut from the barrel, we tag ged along. She would squeeze the kraut and give us each a double handfull about the size of those turnips and potatoes. We sure liked that raw kraut. But, strange -to -say, we never thought about drinking the juice. Now I’m fond of it. We lived awful close and wasted nothing. That kraut juice is about the only edible thing I ever saw thrown away. The old community drunkard used to crave it on the day after. But we regarded him as a sort of hog anyway and never thought of normal folks drinking it. In the fall we feasted on pods of the honey locust wild persi piirion. But by Decem ber the former had gotten all wormy and the latter all dried up. It was then that we. hit the above three things often. • • • ■5?" IS/I t ! y, A ' «■/ *- >i . ■■ f V- £ >i ’ -{j NEW GOLDEN ROCKET tt SERIES—the value-car of the year! in our SO MUCH THAT’S NEW—SO MUCH THAT’S EXCLU SIVELY Olds! Come make your choice—from 17 glorious models in three great Oldsmobile Series • . . Golden Rocket 88, Super 88, Starfire 98. 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