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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 1957 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist INCREASED COSTS County Agent Linder of Lee says a review of their 1956 5-acre cotton demonstration records shows an increased cost of pro duction. And that was likely true ■with all crops. Crop^ have been upward for some years, while prices have tended downward for farm products generally. This sure puts a squeeze on the farmer and calls for his best ef forts at efficient production. That calls for proper preparation of the land to facilitate getting good stands from the best quality seed obtainable. It calls for liberal fertilization, as that has advanc ed less than other elements of cost going into a crop. It also calls for insect and disease control, and careful harvesting and market ing. We are hopeful the farm pro gram will mean more to farmers in this area than it did the past year. It came too late for much participation here, While the Corn Belt was able to participate heavily. MEAT TYPE HOGS Growers of all breeds of hogs are working towards type that carry more lean and less fat. That is in conformity with the need that has developed along through the years. Vegetable fats are tak ing the place of a lot of lard. So we do not need so much lard, but we do need the good lean meat. This new type hog was in evi- < dence at our fairs last fall. All breeds are working towards it. At the Orangeburg fair they had a sale of Landrace hogs. That’s the lean ham and bacon type hog the Dutch have developed and built a reputation for. It and Yorkshire are being used consid erably in this country in crosses to get better butcher hogs. Coun ty Agent Grainger of Clarendon tells me 6 of their farmers at tended that sale and bought Landrace breeding stock. PLANTING PINES A total of 67 4-H Club members in Abbeville county are each set ting out 1,000 pine seedlings this winter, according to County Ag ent Bull. And Tuten of Edge- field tells me 24 of his 4-H’ers are doing likewise: The West Virginia Pulp and Paper company furnished 750,000 pine seedlings for this purpose and they were taken promptly by the 4-H’ers. Thus 750 of them are starting small forests of their own this winter. As fast as pines grow here, these youngsters will likely live to make the complete harvest from these plantings. It will begin with pulpwood in 15 to 20 years. Then poles in another 5 to 10 years. And after that will start the systematic harvest of sawtimber as needed. Our forester, Bill Barker, tells me these 4-H pines are being plant ed in 35 counties this winter. A similar number of trees were furnished the FFA boys, and I understand they were enthusias tically received too and are being tically received too and are being 1,000 trees each. Learning by doing, that’s the THE BAFFLES By Mahonety Day Service ON REQUEST SANIT0NE 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 Notice to the Ladies ... Ladies, you, too, can be lovely with to day’s beautiful hair fashions. Let us give you the permanent for your individ ual type of hair so that your hair will stay lovely from week to week. For appointments, call NEWBERRY BEAUTY SHOP 507 County Bank Building Telephone 476 Newberry, S. C. 4-H and FFA way with farm youth. This practical work with pines, together with the other forestry training they get, is making real tree farmers for the future. And that’s in tune with our natural land adaptation, as these are tree lands primarily. We cut trees from them whfen crops were first put there. TH £. * STARS BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER BY LYN CONNELLY ALTHOUGH rugged Jim Bowie generally is considered as American as Yankee Doodle, the famed outdoorsman and inventor of the Bowie knife is played on ABC-TV by South African-born Scott Forbes, the son of an Eng lish-French physician and an American mother of Pennsylvania Dutch descent . . . When three, Scott and his parents moved to the States and he attended grade j and high school in Manhattan . . . His knowledge of horsemanship and outdoor lore came largely from spending summer vacations with relatives on an Alabama cat tle farm . . . When Scott was 16, he moved with his family to Eng land and later joined the RAF. While with the Royal Air Force, Scott decided to become an actor . . . After participating in several stage shows, he continued acting afterwards by entering an actors’ school in England . . . His profes sional debut on the English stage led to several European movie roles, which in turn led to a num ber of Broadway shows when he returned to the U.S. In 1955, after appearing in sev eral dramatic televisipn shows originating from New York, Scott moved to Los Angeles with his wife . . . While working in Manhat tan TV, he had met Jeanne Moody, a former “Miss Alabama,” and they were married in December 1954 . . . The bosky six footer Is ambidextrous, an attribute which helped win him the Jim Bowie role . - . Louis Edelman, producer of the series, spotted him one day skillfully switching his racket from right to left hand during a game . . . Recalling that Bowie also had been ambidextrous, Edel man worked out a deal with Scott. The Forbes' occupy a modest home in Hollywood, own a cocker spaniel named “Cricket” and a parakeet named “Humphrey” . . . Both hi-fi fans, they own a large record collection, with Mozart and Broadway shows predominating. 87-7TC AIL OVER TOWN I The first show to come to our Dutch Fork school was in a covered wagon in 1902. I’ve been telling you about it here for the past three weeks. It left us in a state of mental tur moil and confusion. We were not ready for the innovations it brought. Up to then the old folks could exlain to our satis faction the things we saw and heard in our rugged hills and valleys. But this show had brought things we did not un derstand, nor could the old folks quite explain. That slight of hand, for in stance, how did that man get a large white rabbit out of Cous in George’s wool hat? And he pulled a silver dollar out of Cousin Mel’s ear! He borrowed a clean white handkerchief from Mr. Jesse, burned a hole in it right before our eyes, put it in his magic tube, and it came out whole and unburned! AU of these things puzzled us. And the explanation of one of the older folks just had to be taken, in the absence of any other ex planation of what we had seen with our very eyes. That fel low was just a “conjure man”, he said. The talking machine! Well, we had the remedy for that. In the semi-darkness, there was a woman under that table with her head in that contraption, and the music came from a mu sic-box in there, like we had seen before. Now we come to local reac tions to the most wonderful thing of all that we had seen. That was the moving picture! We could dig up neither fact nor fancy as to how that fellow almost scared the daylights out of us with a full-fledged train' running right into our faces there from a bed-sheet hung on the wall! After we kids had discussed it to and from school, families had talked about it at the din ner table, and it had been dis cussed for days down at the blacksmith shop, no one had a suitable explanation for the phenomenon we had seen. At last someone asked the resepet- ed sage of the community. And he put an end to our smaller speculations when he answered, “I’ll be tarnation if I know how that contraption worked.” And that left us in a fog for sure. COTTON MAID . . . Helen Lan- don of Huntingdon, Tenn., chos en 1957 Maid of Cotton, will tour world on behalf of cotton industry. _ APTLY PUT: “A Match Has a Head But Can Not Think. Never Let One Go Out Alone.” —Bign along a wooded highway in Washington State. u INAUGURAL SOUVENIRS AVAILABLE OFFICIAL INAUGURAL PROGRAM OFFICIAL INAUGURAL MEDAL WASHINGTON, D. C—Two officio! souvenirs of a U.S. Inauguration are now being made available throughout the nation for the first tine in history. The Official Inaugural Program features a portrait of President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon on the cover by Norman Rockwell, famous Ameri can artist. The cover and book is in four colors. The program contains Historical information on past inaugurals, photos, a calen dar of events and other interest ing material. The front of the Inaugural Medal features for the first time since 1909 the heads of both the President and Vice President. The medal measures 3% inches across and is avail able in bronze and silver as a historic keepsake of the 43rd Inauguration. Cost of the Official Inaugural Program is $1.10, postage included. Bronze medals sell for $3.50 and special silver serialized medals cost $27.50, postage included. Send check, money order or cash direct to Inaugural Committee 1957, Wash ington 25, 0. C. i ■■ i ■■r-rr--r- , rrrT-rBBE”Br-x"T|“rirrnB«if ■■ HEi EBi :i*s ’i mm '!■■* iiw m r ii ni 'm? " r ,F ! & Ik. ^ ‘fRI ides » «- HANDY STOOL . . . Rusted or leaking milk can about to be discarded can easily be converted into a stool for the farm-shop- Bolt a square board to the can cover, counter-sinking bolt heads In top surface to provide a smooth seat. REV. ROBERT H. HARPER EXCELSIOk AMID the ice and snow of winter ■^A-is a good time to read again the story of a youth who through an Alpine village passed, bearing a banner with the strange device, “Excelsior!” He was later found on the highest height, cold and dead, but he still grasped in his hand of ice a banner with the strange device, “Excelsior!” Whether in winter or in summer, in spring 6r autumn, amid what ever toils and difficulties, let us never be satisfied with less than the best. Let us consecrate our* selves to the doing of our tasks well, whatever they may be. At the last day, when the King shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him, he shall sit on the throne of his glory and of the nations gathered before him he shall judge every man according bo his ability. And the man’s abili ty in certain things will fit him to do yet other great things. Where as he has ruled over ten cities, he will be appointed to rule over twenty cities. The man of one talent who shall be cass into outer darkness where all opportunity shall be withdrawn, shall not be so dealt with because he has had only one talent but be cause he ha£ not used what he had. Do well your part, that you may one day hear the King say to you, “Well done, good and profit able servant.” OOW*8 VITAMIN C . . . Patsy FOlyaw, It, ef Orlando, FI*., “Mlee Citrus Pulp-itude,” dem onstrates that cattle like citrus palp. Ckledot) 1 ? Designed by the native architect, Gabriel Manigault, as a branch of the Bank of the United States, this building was erected in 1802, bought by Charleston in 1818 and converted into the city hall. The structure, together with its art gallery, is a popular tourist attraction. i In South Carolina, with its storied landmarks, the United States Brewers Foundation works - constantly to encourage main tenance of wholesome conditions wherever beer and ale are sold. As in other states, the program > calls for dose cooperation between law-enforcement officials and beer licensees throughout South Carolina. Beer belongs... enjoy it. United . Stotes Brewers Foundation South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.C. The beverage of maceration WHITAKER FUNERAL home AMBULANCE PHONE 270 NEWBERRY HAS JUST SUFFERED ONE OF ITS WORST FIRE LOSSES IS YOUR INSURANCE SUFFICIENT TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY ADEQUATE- PRACTICALLY NOBODY HAS ENOUGH FIRE INSURANCE. LET US CHECK YOUR COVERAGE AT ONCE AND GIVE YOU THE PROTECTION THAT YOU NEED. PURCELL’S “Your Protection Our Business” PHONE 197 “There’s people walkin’ around on him!”