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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 1957
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE SEVEN'
Prosperity News
MRS. B. T. YOUNG, Correspondent
Mrs. John Stockman was hos
tess to the January meeting of
the William Lester chapter, U. D.
C., Friday^afternoon- The presi
dent, Mrs.fH- P. Wicker, presid
ed over tire meeting.
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Mrs. Stockman, also the pro
gram leader, gave a New Year’s
greeting. Mrs. S. A. Quattlebaum
read an iffticle, “The American
Flag.” “Our Flag,” was read by
Mrs. Vida ^Thomason.
During the social hour the hos
tess served a s^eet course.
Out-of-town friends and rela
tives here for the funeral of P.
W. Smith Monday were Col. and
Mrs. George S. Wise, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert K. Wise, Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Wise, Mr. and Mrs. C.
Mower Singley, Mr. and Mrs.
Hart Kohn, Miss Nell Kohn, Mrs.
W. J. Wise of Columbia; Mrs. J.
• C. Taylor and Miss Rebecca Tay
lor of Charleston; Mrs. Ed Price
and son Jimmy Price of Den
mark; Mrs. Lillian Hartsell, Mrs.
Louise Darrs, and Mrs. Estelle
, Sudderth of Greenville; Jake
Wheeler of Charlotte, N. C.;
Clayton Guion of Aberdeen, N.
C.; Mr. and Mrs. David Meredith
> of Guilford College, Greensboro,
N. C.; Mrs. Claude Creason, Dr.
and Mrs. George E. Meetze of
- Columbia.
j Wise and family since an opera
tion several months ago, will re
turn to Columbia Thursday to re
sume her nursing profession.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wise and
their three daughters of West
Columbia, spent New Year’s Day
with Mrs. Wise’s mother, Mrs.
L. J. Fellers.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kislovitz
and their four children, Andy,
Amanda, Adam and David of
New Jersey are visiting Mrs. Kis-
lovitz’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Luther.
:"I REMEMBER"
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BY THE 01D TIMERS
, ^ WIDE, wonderful
Qj WORLD
By FRANKLIN J. MEINE *
Editor, The American Peoples
Encyclopedia
M OTHER SHIPTON’S prophe
cies are not all that legend
has made them. A 15th century
English prophetess, her name ap
peared on a tract dated 1641,
prophesying the deaths of Crom
well, Wolsey, Earl Percy and oth
ers. The narrative now is regarded
as fiction. Her prophecies foretold
James B. Hunt of Aiken and
Spartanburg "Vfas the Sunday
night supper guest of his moth
er, Mrs. A. B. Hunt and sister,
Mrs. Frances Spotts.
Mrs. A. B. Hunt and Mrs. H.
O. Newman spent Monday in Co
lumbia. .
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sease of
Hackensack, N. J. were weekend
guests of Mr. Sense’s mother,
Mrs. J. A. Sease. Also visiting
Mrs. Sease on Sunday w-ere Mrs.
Walton Eargle, Mrs. Carrie Ear-
gle and Mrs. Dorothy Chapman
of Columbia.
The fdterary Sorosis will meet
Friday afternoon at 3:30 with
Mrs. 4* Chappell.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schultz of
Atlanta, Ga. spent several days
last week with Mrs. Schultz’s
mothe^, Mrs. R. T. Pugh. Mrs.
Pugh ‘and her guests visited Mr.
-and Mrs. James Arthur Beden-
baugh in Laurens on Thursday.
Mr. and. Mrs. A. J. Richards,
Sr., of Heath Springs visited Mr.
and Mrs. B. T. Young Saturday.
Miss Marguerite Wise, who has
been with her brother, Pat E.
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the invention of the steam engine,
the electric telegraph, and the end
of the world in 1881. However,
these were additions made by a
certain Charles Hindley in 1871,
who acknowledged the fraud two
years later.
• * * * *
If you could travel with the
speed of light — approximately
186,000 miles a second—it would
take you about one and one-half
seconds to reach the moon, near
ly 238,857 miles away. A “light
year” is the time it takes a beam
of light to travel six million mil
lion miles, or the speed of light
times the munber of seconds in a
year. The nearest star cluster, ac
cording to the American Peoples
Encyclopedia, ia about 100 light
years away. Star clusters more
remote than 10 or 12 thousand
light years in distance cannot be
seen because of clouds of inste-
stellar dust.
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From Paul S. Scruton, Hillsboro,
New Hampshire: I remember the
skis we kids used back in 1908,
made of barrel staves which were
turned up a little more by the
use of steam and rope clamps,
and the leather straps which were
nailed to ( the staves and under
which we shoved our feet. They
cost nothing and we often used a
piece of glass to make the under
side a little smoother, although it
was soon discovered that simply
shoving the contraptions over bare
ground soon gave that glassy sur
face without the effort expended
in trying it the harder way
We took to the gentler slopes
and rarely used sticks or poles,
unless the other kids would call
us sissies or because of it and if
we fell down in the snow nobody
ever got hurt. The skis were usu
ally quite short and you could
kick em’ off quickly and with
gusto if necessary on occasions.
We chose pine knoll because the
slopes were not too steep and af
ter mastering the art of keeping
balance were soon trying to leap
over rocks and boulders along the
path.
We doubt if the kids of today
had as much fun as we with our
old barrel stave skis even though
the skis of today are far better
and cost real money but that is
simply a matter of opinion. It is
a fact however that we could
compete with the kids of today on
most any slope in the snow country
and perhaps beat the modern ski
ers at their own game and still
remain in standing position. We
had no ski instruction, learned by
instinct and knew how and when
to come to a full stop without
breaking our necks or hitting a
pine tree full force in the ascent.
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THOUGHTS
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MORB INHERE THIS
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REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
OLD AND NEW
J ANUARY is named after Janus,
the two-faced god of gates
and doors among the ancient
Tinmans. With one face he looked
behind him to the past, with the
other he looked before to the future.
In January we incline to cast lin
gering glances behind us over the
way we have traveled in the Old
year. But we also give thought to
the New Year, and that is bet
ter than giving too much time to
the Old.
For, while it is well to remem
ber the past and acknowledge our
debt for the great heritage it has
left us, our time is needed for the
problems of the present. And it is
to bear in mind that the best
way to be true to our heritage is
to be true to the ideals and prin
ciples the past has left to us. It is
our duty and privilege to carry on
and try to add to the blessed sum
of good that we shall one day
leave to others.
So, while we may look back
over a momentous year in the'
history of our nation and of the
world, let us rouse ourselves to
the that belong to us and as
the would remind us, for
get the things that are behind us
wnri press forward to the things
that are before us with hope and
courage to the days as they corn#
and go.
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By J. M, ELEAZER
The old covered wagon show
brought many wonders into
our restricted world in 1902 in
the Dutch Fork. For the past
two weeks I’ve been telling you
about that great event. Today
I want to tell you of the crown
ing act.
We had seen the monkey put
his cracker in his water to
soften it, and then when it dis
solved, we saw him mix it up
good and drink the entire
thing. We saw the slight of
hand man and heard our first
talking machine, with great
wonder and considerable misgiv
ings. But as great as they were,
they didn’t touch the moving
picture!
That was saved for the last
of the sow. The men up front
were asked to get the two-lan
terns down and blow them out.
They had let the fire die down
on purpose and the embers
were covered with ashes so
thdre would be no light in the
room to mar the picture. They
lit up something on the table
there at the back of the room.
It sputtered and fizzed like it
might explode. But soon it set
tled down to a steady purr.
Then, very dramatically, the
man announced, “Ladies and
Gentlemen, get ready for the
treat of your lives!!” And,
with that, intense light flicker
ed on the bed sheet that had
been tacked up at the other end
of the room. Figures jumped
across the screen before the
picture came. Then all of a sud
den there it was, a railroad
leading right up to you. And to
our perfect consternation, away
up the track we could see a
train coming right at us! As it
approached, a bit of restless
ness grew in the room. Every
one seemed to forget where he
was, and to feel that he was
alone, standing there in the
middle of the track, with that
monster of fire and steam com
ing right at him!
As it got closed it seemed to
come faster. Someone opened a
shutter and a half dozen folks
jumped out of the window.
Mothers drew their children
close to them artd awaited the
wnsequences. Several screamed
out, and the show man an
nounced there was no danger.
The film fluttered and broke
before the train quite got there.
After a ten minute pause to fix
it, it was run again. And when
the engine finally got there and
looked like it was jumping
right out of the screen at you,
there were squeaks all over the
place. Two men fell backwards
from the top of the wood box
where they were sitting.
Soon the lanterns were lit
again. -Folks rubbed their eyes
to see if they had been dream
ing, and wondered if they had
n’t been “seeing things.” And
the talk about that train run
ning and spouting steam and
smoke there on that sheet in
our school house never ceased
around there for weeks.
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FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Ciemson Extension Information Specialist
WHAT AILS LESPEDEZA?
In our time we have seen les-
pedeza grow from a , weed left
by Sherman’s cavalry camps into
a major hay, grazing, and soil
building crop. It thrived in that
role for a while, and then its de
cline set in. And the past year
I saw pratically none of It grow
ing where vast acreages of it
stretched across hill and vale be
fore.
I’ve Inquired around a lot as to
the cause of this eclipse of les-
pedeza. The main reason I’ve
gotten is that we now plant our
grain a lot thicker. That, with
spring and summer droughts, is
just too much competition, and
the lespedeza seeded with it just
dies out. And late spring frost
have gotten a lot of it too.
Hugh McGee, emminent farmer
of Anderson, incorporated these
same ideas in his answer and sail
“We’ve got to make a crop out of
lespedeza and ont try to just let
is tag along in grain.” And he
pointed to a fine field of it where
he prepared the land in late
March and seeded it there in
early April.
With better varieties, heavier
seedings, and more fertilizer, we
are making a lot more grain
than we used to. In fact, our
grain yields last year were above
tfte national average for the first
time. And this grain is proving
profitable. So we are not going
to change our way of growing it
in order for lespedeza to be suc
cessfully interplanted with it, as
was the old custom. The past
summer was a dry one and ruin
ed most of what little lespedeza
we had sown on grain. Yet, Hugh
McGee’s, that was planted by ti-
self, was just about as fine as
you ever saw. So maybe Hugh
has the answer to the question,
“What Ails Lespedeza?”
FUTILITY OF WAR
One is almost made a pacifist
when he considers the futility of
war. But when a man gets loose
in the world with power, what
else is the remedy?
Everywhere we turn we see
scars of war that never heal.
These are mostly in the hearts of
loved ones. Some are in evi
dence, like McGregor Garden, up
in Chesterfield. There, in a pleas
ant shaded dell surrounded by
green pastures on rolling hills,
where Santa Gertrudis cattle
graze, is a recreation pabk J. S
McGregor developed in memory
of his son and a devoted nephew,
both juniors in their family, who
were taken by the heartless hand
of war.
Of late, I’ve visited two farms
where generations of traditional
good farmers abided long. In
both cases, war had taken an
only child, each educated . at
Ciemson for a purpose there. And
now, in the twilight that fast
settles, there is no succession for
tomorrow. Yes, a dynasty ends.
Tragedy, yes, for the present,
and future, too!
PONDS A PLENTY
County Agent Miller of York
tells me a farmer there, Dave
Cameron, has 22 ponds, some of
them large ones, and backed right
up against each other.
Mr. Cameron is a pioneer with
irrigation. He has a unique way
of irrigating truck.
He has enough perforated plaatfe
pipe to go down the rows of 18
acres of truck. It is plaetd
there for the season and covered
with straw mulch. Then you never
see the water, it just oozes out
there under the mulch and does
n’t get on the foliage at all. This
is obviously a rather expeneive
set up. But the interesting thing
about it is that it pays off, and
yields arenormous.
A few years ago I saw Mr.
Cameron doing more with a large
pond than I’d ever seen before.
He irrigated extensively from it
in the summer, grew fish, and en
joyed recreation there. Then in
early fall, when he didn’t need
the water, he drained it, got
enough mature fish to stock the
freezers on his place, and he put
the smaller ones in another oond
to keep. Then sowed winter
grazing in the 7-acre bottom of
that pond. It made fine grazing
and the cattle droppings and fer
tilizer residue was left to ferti
lize the fish that were put back
when the grazing was giving out
in the spring and the water al
lowed to accumulate in there
again. Then the fish were put
back in and grew to nice size
that summer, there in the ferti
lized water.
Now I call that really working
a pond!
—
Flordia probably has the highest
percentage of anglers of any
State. — Sports Afield
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RESERVES AND INSURANCE OF
ACCOUNTS AT NEWBERRY FEDERAL
As of December 31st, 1956, Reserves of Newberry Federal stood at almost
three quarters of a Million Dollars. In addition to this added protection,
each Account is Insuredby Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corpora
tion, Washington, D. C. to $10,000.00. You may invest any amount at any
lime from $1.00 to $1(^,000.00. Or, if you prefer. Federal Savings and
Loan Certificates are issued from $100.00 to multiples up to $10,000.00.
All Savings and Investment Accounts or additions to present
accounts received by January 10th, will earn dividends from
January 1st.
%
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Savings & Loan Ass’n.
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ASSETS OVER $8,000,000
John F. Clarkson, Pres. J. K. Willingham, Sec.-Treas.
NEWBERRY, S. C.
DIRECTORS
John F. Clarkson
M. O. Summer
J. K. Willingham
E. B. Purcell
Waldo C. Huffman
G. K Dominick