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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1957
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FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
GRAIN HERE r
Although we are not considered
to be in the “Grain Beit” of this
country, we are fast growing in
that direction. Last year our av
erage yields of wheat, oats, bar
ley, and grain sorghum were above
the national average. While with
corn, we were only about half in
the national average yield.
No wonder our grain acreage
has been going up and our corn
acreage down. But with a wider
and wider application of the Clem
son 5-point Plan for growing corn,
that yield is about twice what it
used to be, and corn is looking up
too.
Corn grows in the summer,
when droughts are most severe
So, unless you have irrigation,
grain is proving a more dependa-
able crop and better fits full
mechanization too.
The county agent of Anderson
was telling me of the fine grain
yields made by Newt Cromer the
past season, 56 bushels of wheat
and 100 bushels of oats per acre.
Now, folks, that’s making grain
in anybody’s language.
Clemson recommends complete
fertilization at grain planting time
and then top dressing with 30 to
50 pounds of actual nitrogen per
acre.
HAY FROM COASTAL
BERMUDA
County Agent Hubbard of Bam-
•berg tells me, “Most of the hay
now being produced in the county
is from Coastal Bermuda Grass.”
If you have enough of this grass
for grazing, yam’ll have too much
at the flush season in the summer.
Then is when you help your graz
ing there by cutting the surplus
growth for hay or silage. That
then becomes your fort for the
lean feed months of winter.
Everywhere I go over the state
the county agents tell me of the
great value of this grass. It stands
drought exceptionally well. Dur
ing the droughts of last summer
it and sericia lespedeza were
about the only green grazing I
saw as I went about.
PONDS APLENTY
County Agent Miller of York
tells me Dave Cameron now has
22 ponds on his farm. I was there
with Miller some years ago when
he had just one. It was a beauty,
covering about 7 acres. He used it
for more things than I had ever
heard of a pond being used for.
He used it for fishing, recreation,
stock water, irrigation, and graz
ing.
I know you are wondering about
the latter item, grazing. Here’s
the way that worked. He drained
the pond in early fall, when it
was no longer needed for irriga
tion. Larger fish were used to
stock freezers on the place and
the small ones kept through the
wrinter in a pool. He seeded the
area down to grazing and it
really came in the rich moist
earth. It was grazed heavily and
down close by early spring, when
the water was dammed up again
and it filled, r The small fish were
put back in and grew fast in that
fertilized area.
Since then Mr. Cameron has
been building ponds and more
ponds, principally as storage wa
ter for his extensive irrigation
operations. Each one backs water
right up to the one above it, 22
in all.
The past year he grew 18 acres
of intensive truck, tomatoes,
sweet com, and - cantaloupes that
were sub-irrigated through plas
tic perforated pipe placed down
every middle and covered with
straw mulch. In that way the
water oozed out there under the
mulch, never getting on the fo
liage. This is expensive, but
handled intensively, it paid off
well.
GRAIN STORAGE
As grain grows in importance
as a crop here, more and better
storage becomes a necessity. As
sistant County Agent Huff of
Hampton tells me abgout 80,000
bushels of farm storage has been
built there in the form of metal
bins. And the grain elevators at
Estill handle well over a million
bushels.
This fall 350,000 bushel capa
city grain elevators were complet
ed at Sumter, Cameron, and Or
angeburg. Each of these has
weighing and drying facilities suf
ficient to take care of as large
an operation as that at Estill
when needed.
Valuable adjuncts to our diver
sified farming, these elevators.
1 REMEMBER”!
BY THS OLD TIMERS
From P. S. Scruton, Hillsboro,
New Hampshire: I remember
when the old lamplighter made
his rounds from post to post light
ing the kerosene lamps in the
glass-partitioned cages each win
ter’s afternoon just before sun
down. He pushed a wheelbarrow
which contained an oil can for
filling the lamps, cleaning cloths
to wipe the glass lamp chimneys,
a supply of card-matches, some
extra wicks and a shovel for use
if necessary to remove the snow
from the lamp post area.
Old Joe Loeveren, past 70, liked
his job because it served a use
ful purpose and we kids followed
him around and listened to the
stories he would tell us about the
good old days.
As we trudged behind the lamp
lighter and watched him open the
glass door, take out the lamp,
fill it with kerosene, trim the
wick, replace the lamp chimney
after applying a sulphur match
to light it, wcuders were per
formed in our childish minds for
Joe was our friend and we loved
him.
Sometimes before school started
in the mornings we followed him
around as he used a long tin pipe
to extinguish the lights and often
he would allow us to use the
strange device to put out the
lamps.
Somehow Joe was more than a
man to us and as he lit the wicks
and the lamps glowed in the dark--
ness like gold beads on an invisi
ble wire he kindled the flame of
friendship in our hearts.
(Send contrlbvtlone to this eolnmn to
The Old Timer, Community Press Serv
ice, Box 89, Frankfort, Kentucky.)
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For Refugees
(Published below are excerpts
from a feature story by John
Herling, printed in the Maga
zine Section of The State on
Sunday, January 6th. The
nurse about whom Mr. Herling
writes is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Shealy, 1315
Pearl Street. She graduated
from Newberry high school in
1941, and then went on to com
plete a business course at New
berry College. She was with
the State Department in Wash
ington, D. C. from 1943 until
1949 and from there entered the
Columbia Hospital where she
was graduated in Nursing in
1951. She has been a member
of the Air Corps for almost
three years.—Ed.)
By JOHN HERLING
The.first flying, lying-in hospi
tal of the Hungarian refugee air
lift hurried in from Munich to
the McGuire Air Force Base in
New Jersey bearing eight preg
nant, Huifgarian refugee mothers,
from 19 to 29. Five of them were
in their ninth month and one
mother was told to expect twins.
When we left the Munich air
port, it was a tossup whether the
plane would become the scene of
at least one, possibly two air-
born American citizens. The
MATS (Military Air Transport
Service) fdane, a transport, was
refitted with a series of triple
deck stretchers. Two extra cots
were specially firmed up to with
stand the stress and strain of
emergency delivery.
The eight refugee husbands of
the eight pregnant women took
back and side seats, some with
one or two children. The mother
of a four-week-old baby, her hus
band and another child, were in
cluded in this air evacuation of
38 refugees.
All that morning, Air Force Lt.
Catherine Irene Shealy of New
berry, South Carolina went over
the medical histories of the pros
pective mothers. A graduate
nurse, once a government girl in
Washington, she had discussed
every medical possibility with the
doctors at the Luitpold Kossern,
the refugee staging center near
Munich. Brought on the plane
were five o. b. kits, an incubator,
an oxygen tent, an aspirator, all
the miracle drugs—complete hos
pital equipment demanded for safe
delivery of babies on a plane go
ing at 250 miles an hour 10,000
feet up in the air.
When all was set for the take
off, Lt. Shealy, regularly station
ed at Rhein-Main, near Frankfurt,
surveyed her passengers with
warm, shining eyes. She made the
expectant mothers — and their
husbands—feel as if they were
the refugees with the mostest,
She managed to communicate—
gesturing and speaking English—
and German—in a perceptible
Southern accent.
In a bassinet lay the four-week
old baby, Csaba. The mother, 24-
year-old Tsussana, sat alongside
of the infant, gazing down with
all of a mother’s dedication.
Everybody on the plane loved
Tsussana, gurgled at the little
boy who was soothed to sleep by
the hum of the motors, but woke
to cry when we were about to
land or take off. Lt. Shealy, face
shining, would lift little Csaba
and rock him gently in the cradle
of the sky.
Colonel Williams told us we
would have to make a GCA
(Ground Controlled Approach)
landing because the ceiling was
low over McGuire Air Force Base.
We broke through the clouds and
suddenly were within 300 feet of
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
Well do I remember whoa ice
(Man-made) fir^t came to our
stone hills of the Dutch Fork.
It must have been about 1902,
when I was 7 years old.
It came to our flagstop on the
old wood burner that got there
at 6 p. m. It came in large bur
lap sacks with several inches of
sawdust around it. It was kept
in a double-walled, sawdust-fill
ed box in the back of our coun
try store. That time in the sum
mer was well up in the day, and
a good many buggies and wag
ons would be hitched there in
the woods near the store on Sat
urday afternoons when the ice
was to come.
A wool blanket was taken
along to drap it in, and that
kept it well.' It would take us
close to an hour to make the 4
miles home. But when the ice
got there all the makings for
ice cream were ready.
The only freezer we had for
years was a friction top gallon
syrup bucket that we turned
back and forth by hand in ‘ a
large water bucket in which we
put the crushed ice and salt.
My, how we kids would sit
there on the back steps, with
spoons in hand, ready to delve
into that delight as soon as it
was ready.
Every few minutes they would
stop, take the lid off, and cut
the frozen part from the sides
of the bucket, as there was no
dasher to do this. After it was
pretty well frozen, they opened
it up, and filled our saucers
high with a pile of that ice
cream, the best stuff we had
ever tasted. At first we ate too
fast, so as to beat the others to
a second helping. But as soon as
one of those pains shot throqgh
our heads and we had to holler
out, we slowed up and ate as
we should.
These Saturday afternoon
treats just about topped any
thing that ever came our way.
But on two of these afternoons
misfortunes struck that were
real tragedies to us. I’ll tell
you about them next week.
Bev. Robert H. Harper
GOOD UADING
I F IS significant. that when the
presence of Satan seemed very
real to Martin Luther, he hurled
an ink well in fixe devil’s direction.
Luther was one of many who have
hurled ink wells at the devIL
Acquaint yourselves with good
reading and put it before your
children. Something is needed to
counteract the evil in the vicious
literature found almost every
where that reading matter is of
fered for sale.
And ft would seem that many
present-day writers cannot get by
without having their characters,
upon meeting, to take a martini as
a matter-of-course, and to show
themselves familiar with the high
living of low thinking.
Is it necessary to play up all the
foibles of men and to wash their
soiled linen and hang it in the front
yard? Let us do more to counter
act this evil by our support of that
which is better. There is much
good literature to be had. And al
ways there is the great Book. It
may be a light unto the feet and
a lamp unto the path.
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Shealy Family Is
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By MRS. A. H. COUNTS
The C. A. Shealy family of
Newberry is one to be proud of.
Mr. and Mrs. Shealy are the par
ents of four sons and two daugh
ters, all of whom have seen serv
ice with Uncle Sam except one.
They have four sons, all Navy
men, three of whom have seen
service and are now out in the
world in their various vocations.
The fourth is now with the Navy
in Charleston.
One of the daughters, Miss
Catherine Irene, better known as
Irene to all members of the
Shealy family is doing her bit in
a great way in the armed serv
ices. She graduated from the city
schools in 1941, and then went on
to complete a business course at
Newberry College and then on to
do special work with the State
Department in Washington where
she was employed from 1943 un
til 1949 and resigning from that
Department she entered the Co
lumbia Hospital where she was
graduated in nursing in 1951. She
then entered the Air Corps and
completed a course at Gunter’s
Air Force Base in Alabama. She
has been a member of the Air
Force for almost three years. She
became a first lieutenant May 1,
1955, and is now an Air Flight
Nurse with the Air Force.
The brothers are Robert G.
Shealy, Naval Air Base, Charles
ton; Troy A. Shealy of Green
wood; Clarence A. Shealy, Jr.,
and Richard E. Shealy of New
berry and a sister, Mrs. Floyd
Mills, 1311 Hunt street, Newber
ry.
Mr. and Mrs. Shealy live at
1315 Pearl street in Newberry.
Strom j lurmond
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the ground. Then the plane gent
ly touched down. You had the
feeling the C-118 was kissing the
American earth for all those preg
nant mothers whose babies would
now be American citizens belond
all legal quibble.
Lt. Shealy, valient 'nnd ready,
relaxed. She began to supervise
the medical orderlies who came on
board to carry the now eager, ex
pectant mothers off the plane.
“No hits, no runs, no errors,”
said the smiling lieutenant.
Whether he is a sportsman or
not, many an American father at one
time or another is faced with the
decision of whether, or not he
should allow his son to have a shot
gun.
For the father who owns a gun
and is a hunter, the choice is
simple. He knows that a gun,
properly handled, is no more
dangerous than an automobile, or
even a bicycle. The father who
has had no experience at his own
knows only that guns are used to
kill—animals mostly, but some
times people, accidentally or
otherwise.
The yearning desire to own a
gun of his own is a normal part
of the growing-up process for
most young Americans. It is a
yearning that begins when he is
far too young to be entrusted
with so much as an air rifle and
it grows stronger with the years.
Poets and writers have long done
justice to the bonds of affection
between a boy and his dog, but
only a boy himself could express
how he really feels about his
“first” gun.
Such is not to say that every
father should dash out and make
his boy happy by buying him a
shotgun. Putting a gun into the
hands of an inexperienced, clumsy
youngster without teaching him
how to handle it and supervising
its use is dangerous, if not crim
inal.
If you buy your boy a gun, see
that he is taught to use it proper
ly. Allow it to be kept and used
only if gun safety rules are ob
served at all times. Never allow
him to hunt alone, or without an
adult companion. Emphasize the
dangers of carelessly handling a
loaded weapon and the responsi-
•ility that goes with the owner-
:> of such a weanon.
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When I came to Washington,
one of my promises was that I
would do my best to have Fort
Jackson at Columbia designated
as a permanent Army installa
tion.
Shortly before my resignation
from the Senate last spring, I
was notified that Fort Jackson
had finally been given designation
as a permanent fort. Now the im
portance of this is beginning to be
clear with the announcement dur
ing the past week that approxi
mately $2,200,000 is being spent
in improving the fort’s housing
facilities this fiscal year and the
further revelation by the Army
that perhaps as much as $2,000,-
000 will be spent in the next fis
cal year for further improve
ments at Fort Jackson.
Also, during the past week I
have been having several discus
sions with officials in the Defense
Department and the Department
of the Army about the construc
tion of a permanent hospital at
Fort Jackson.
An appropriation of $5,000,000
was made last year by the Con
gress for a hospital at the fort,
but the Department of Defense
wants to build one large enough
to take care of future expansion.
It is estimated that about $11,-
000,000 will be needed instead of
the $5,000,000 already appropriat
ed.
I have been urging the Secre
tary of the Army, Wilber Bruck-
er, and the Deputy Secretary of
Defense, Reuben Robertson, to
agree to go ahead with engineer
ing and design plans for the larg
er hospital and then to present
their request to Congress for the
larger appropriation needed.
The $5,000,000 would take care
of a 250-bed hospital but the
present need is for atf least a 600-
bed hospital. The Department of
Defense also would like to con
struct a 500-bed hospital which
was designed to be expanded to
1,000 beds later. If provision is
made only for 250 beds now, it
will mean that the old hospital
will have to be continued in use
along with the new building.
The general renovation program
about to get underway at the fort
will greatly improve the housing
facilities for the soldiers. Includ
ed in the work is the lining and
painting of the interior of build
ings, providing latrines and
showers on the second floors, im
proving heating, lighting and hot-
water systems, and the installa
tion of suitable floor covering in
the barracks.
Gasoline Gas Price Probe
My efforts to have an investi
gation made of thb recent one
cent per gallon increase in the
price of gasoline moved forward a
step this week. The Senate Inter
state and Foreign Commerce
Committee voted in favor of my
motion at the organizational
meeting of the committee to* ask
the Senate to approve a resolu
tion providing for the investiga
tion.
Newsprint Price Investigation
Another price increase which
the Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee is going ahead
with immediately is of the recent
$4 per ton jump in the cost of
newsprint.
**The first hearing has been
scheduled in Washington on Feb
ruary 26. I shall urge the commit
tee to make a full survey of the
reasons for this price rise. I do
not want to see our newspapers
and other newsprint users sub
jected to any unnecessary hard
ship because of profiteering—if
that is what has been going on.
Sponsoring New Bills
I have joined Senator Potter of
Michigan in the introduction of a
resolution to establish a new Sen
ate Committee on Veterans Af
fairs. At the present time all
bills and resolutions on veterans
affairs are handled by the Senate
Labor and Public Welfare Com
mittee. My view is that veterans
affairs are too important not to
be considered by a committee deal
ing entirely with that subject.
Again this year I am co-spon
soring with Senator Long of
Louisiana a bill which would per
mit veterans to reinstate na
tional service life insurance poli
cies which have lapsed. We tried
to secure passage of this bill last
year, but only a weaker version
was tacked onto another bill. I
hope we will be able to ge c the
bill we want this itme.
Also, I am co-sponsoring with
other Senators a bill to transfer
the safety functions of the Gov
ernment from the Commerce De
partment to the Labor Depart
ment. This was one of the recom
mendations of the Hoover Com
mission for the purpose of im
proving the present safety opera
tions in the Government.
Well, everything is speeding up
in the Senate now as the various
committees start their meetings
and the many matters which must
be studied are brought before the
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to get away from Washington
from now till the end of the ses
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South Carolinians who come to*
Washington be sure to come by
my office to see ine while you are
in the city.
Sincerely,
Strom Thurmond.
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