The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 24, 1957, Image 6
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY JA
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
DROUGHT AGAIN
Drought took a heavy toll o :
crops in South Carolina on 4 o::
the past 5 years. The year 1955
wae the one during which we
had fairly even showers and gooc
resulting yields.
Listen to what just a few of
the county agents had to say the
past fall; Hopkins of Anderson
M The cotton crop was off a lot
due to dry weather". Butler o
Greenville; “Yields of aromatic
tobacco were low due to dry gro
wing season".
Lloyd of Edgefield; “Irrigatec
cotton far superior to other".
Bonnette of McCormick; “Cot
ton, corn ,and hay very short
due to dry weather”.
Jones of Greenville; “Cotton
yields were low as a result of
very dry weather”.
Ezell of Newberry; “Some cat
tle were sold due to feed short-
age and drought also cut cotton
yields much below last year”
Martin of Spartanburg; “Dro
ught cut cotton crop a lot and
also the fall truck, both in yield
and quality".
Cannon of Lancaster; “^oastal
Bermuda grass stood the dry
summer better than any other
forage crop".
And so the story goes in just
about all parts of the state. The
agents that even cotton, the crop
w© once thought to be rather
drought resistant, suffered sev
erely. Increases of about a bale
per acre were noted where I saw
cotton irrigated at experiment
stations and over the state the
past summer.
A dependable source of water
is the first consideration when
we think of irrigation. County
agents, SCS men, and ag teac
hers tell me many farmers are
trying to work that out this win
ter.
TESTING SOIL
Clemson tests many thousands
of soil samples sent in from
farm© over the state each year.
What County Agent Mason of
Berkley says is typical; “Reque
sts for assistance in taking soil
samples are frequent. Farmers
are more interested in knowing
the fertilizer needs their soils.
Then they 6an apply the right
kinds and amounts of fertilizer/*
To serve their purpose, the sam
ples sent for testing must be
taken right and labeled properly.
County agents, ag teachers, and
SCS men can show you the pract
ical details of this.
SAFETY
There is a slogan, “Safety is
everybody’s job”. But it makes
it a little more personal, it seems
to* me, to think of it as MY job
and your Job.
Do you love your family, your
home, your friends, your life ?
If so, think, look, and listen
before you turn into thet high
way. Also before you drive the
tractor up a steep bank, before
you conclude a gun isn’t loaded,
or before you flirt with a turn
ing shaft.
Surely we all need to develop
sound safety rules, attitudes, and
practices in this mechanized age
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gives an idea of how $8,000 in
silver dollars can be stacked.
This table-load is golf's richest
one-day payoff—offered in the
fourth annual MacNaughton
Pro-Amateur golf tournament
at Bayshore Golf Course in
Miami Beach, Fla. in early Jan
uary. Fifty top-flight pros and
150 qualified amateurs com
peted in this year's event.
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Y 24, 1956
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
THOUGHTS
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COASTAL BERMUDA
We can’t get away from Coa
stal Bermuda Grass anywhere we
go in South Carolina. Hugh Woo-
dle’s enthuaiasm and its perform
ance where tried have sure ser
ved to put it on many acres.
Here’s a case up in Chester
field County Agent Willis told
me about;
“Harold Jackson, with 55 acres
of Coastal Bermuda grass on the
Pee Dee River, started grazing
in May of the past year. He grazed
120 head-50 cows and 40 calves
plus yearling heifers and steers-
until frost. Back in the summer,
when it got ahead of the cattle,
he also cut 20 tons of hay and
100 tons of silage from it. This
field was fertilized with 400 pou
nds per acre in April and 100
pounds in September.
This grass is sprigged in any
time during the growing season,
but preferably in the early spring.
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Great Britain’s prime minister.
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"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.’
ME t ftsr instant
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In a young boy’s eyes, a man
is about the greatest thing there
is. And men know this, for each
of them was once a boy.
Looks like that would make
’em a little careful about the ex
ampjes they set. Specially so in
the case of daddies.
Tobacco chewing was common
among men when I was growing
up. I thought it looked big to
chew it and spit red. Itried al
sorts of bark to get the effect.
Even tasted tobacco once. But it
burned like a coal of fire and I
did’nt try again. And fortunat
ely the delusion faded before I
mastered it.
I remembered watching the men,
as they came from the field, wash
their hands there on the back
por.ch. My, how they could dirty
up that water!! I wanted to do
that too. But mine would’nt ink
it up like theirs would. I remem
ber wetting mine and going out
in the back yard and fixing’em
up in ashes and soot at the wash
pot. Then I could do like a man
and really dirty that water up.
And smoking too, I tried that.
First it was cross?vine, and then
rabbit tobacco from down in the
into large cigarettes. Later I tried
a pipe with real tobacco for two
days, puffing it hard. That blist
ered my tongue and I quit. And
my final fling with cigarettes on
a cold day when we were hauling
a wagonload of turkeys to Col
umbia. It was 20 miles down there,
and it took just about all day each
way, roads were so bad. We stop
ped at Irmo on the way down and
got some cigarettes. We kept
the smoke aflyin’ for that 10 miles.
My tongue was almost blistered
that time too. But the worst part
of it was I could’nt taste a thing
I ate. And my cousins in town
had some mighty fine town rat
ions for us while we were there.
But, alas, they meant nothing to
me. Everything tasted alike, or
rather failed to taste much at
all. For my powers of taste had
been smothered out for the time
being with acrid smoke.
And that just about ended my.
trying to act like a man. And
soon was one.
Tax Notice
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS
ON
JANUARY 31,1957
A 2% Penalty
WILL BE ADDED TO ALL
UNPAID 1956
#
STATE and COUNTY TAXES
J. RAY DAWKINS
County Treasurer
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KIRK PONTIAC" CADILLAC COMPANY
1504 Main Straat Ncwbarry, S. C
URM0ND
A couple of light snows and
sub-freezing weather here in
Washington make me realize how
far away from home I am. At the
same time, the annual State of
the Union message of the Presi
dent, which was delivered to a
joint meeting of the Senate and
House of Representatives, jolts
me back into the realization that
it really isn’t far to any place in
the whole world. The interests of
this Government extend to every
family in this country and to all
the nations of the Free World.
I regret that the President took
occasion in his message to urge
the passage of legislation which
tends to divide our people at
home while we are striving to
maintain a solid front in our for
eign relations.
I refer to his proposals for the
enactment of so-called civil rights
bills and also to his plan for fed
eral aid to school construction.
Both of these proposals would
further centralize government in
Washington. Such laws would in
vade fields rightfully belonging
to the States. I shall exert all
my efforts toward the protection
of States Rights.
Three other points in the Presi
dent’s message deeply concern me
as to whether legislation propos
ed should be enacted. Careful
study must be made of any bill
to provide for increased immi
gration and we should not let the
emotional appeal of the Hungar
ian tragedy out-weight considera
tions of national security.
He urged that the United
States become a member of the
Organization for Trade Coopera-
ion. This is the group which
negotiates tariff reductions at
international conferences. I want
to give this plan a close going-
over to determine if it is in the
best interests of our country.
On his third question, it is my
emphatic opinion that the United
States should cut its foreign aid
spending far below present levels,
in spite of the President’s plea for
funds. We must insure the eco
nomy of this nation before we
try to guarantee prosperity to the
entire world. Our foreign aid
programs should be carefully se
lected. First, they should provide
really needed help to friendly
countries. Second, they should be
designed to help in fields that will
not be in competition with our
own productive enterprises.
I do concur with the President
in the idea that some action
should be taken by the Congress
to make clear to the world that
we intend to stand by .our friends
in foreign countries. The world
has grown so small that isola
tionism cannot prevail. Either we
must lead in world affairs or
some other country will do so.
The only other country able to
lead is Russia. I hope a resolution
will finally be formulated which I
can support. ^
One of the things the President
left out of his speech and promis
ed to present in his Budget mes
sage is proposals to improve the
agricultural situation. I am es
pecially anxious to have legisla
tion enacted to protect the inter
ests of the family-type farmer.
If the Administration does not
offer adequate proposals, then
the Committees of the Congress
should.
As legislation progresses in
the Senate, I shall keep you in
formed from time to time on
these and other subjects of inter
est to many of our people.
Bills Introduced by Senator
Thurmond
The first day of the Senate ses
sion on which bills were iniroduc-
ed, I offered seven.
One of them would prevent the
serving of alcoholic drinks on
commercial passenger airplanes
and on military airplanes.
Another important bill would
prevent Government agencies from
allocating procurement contracts
for various purchases to so-called
“depressed areas.” I see no reas
on why the New England States,
or any other area, should profit
by having failed in the past.
A third bill would prevent con
tractors working on Federal proj
ects from avoiding payment of lo
cal taxes, such as the South Caro
lina sales tax, which other con
tractors not working for the Fed
eral Government have to pay.
A fourth bill would provide for
the establishment and operation
of a laboratory for a study of the
utilization of the soil and water
resources of the country.
Another would deny tax-exempt
status to any organization which
promotes litigation to which it is
not a party. This would keep so-
called non-profit organizations
from accepting contributions and
using them to stir up strife with
out having to pay income taxes
like other organizations.
I was joined by Senator John
ston in introducing a bill to
amend the Soil Bank Act so as to
provide for the participation by
tobacco producers in the acreage
reserve program pn the basis of
1956 tobacco acreagb allotments.
Also, I introduced a bill to per
mit the Ci^y of Rock Hil to buy a
section of the Catawba Indian Res
ervation. This is needed to in
crease the capacity of the city’s
waste disposal plant when the
Bowater Paper Mill goes into op-
erntion.
Cosponsor of States Rights*
Bill
A bill to protect the rights of
the States to pass laws in any
field, unless specifically exclud
ed by action of the Congress in
that field, was introduced by
Senator McClellan of' Arkansas,
and I joined him as a co-sponsor
of this important piece of legisla
tion. Had this law been in ef
fect last year, the Supreme Court
could not have thrown out the
Pennsylvania sedition case in
volving a Communist. In view of
the many invasions of the rights
of the States by the Supreme
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know yoi Stole
The second largest automobile
race in the world, the Darlington
Southern 600, ran each Labor
Day, is an amazing
that annually
times th»
ton. The ^
600-mile nee in the
for stock can.
In South G
national facilities
United States
tion works constam
age maintenance o
conditions wherever
are sold. As in other
program calls for dose
tion between law-enf qrce
dais 'and beer licensees through
out South Carolina.
Beer belongs • .
United States Brewers Fc
South CaroRna Div., Columbia, SC
/ he beverade
Court, I am hopeful that this
will be approved during this e
sion.
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