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/ PAGE SEX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension information Specialist FRIENDLY NEMATODE The nematodes we have thus far experienced are rather serious crop pests. They are very small worm-like things that lurk in the soil and blast the roots of many crops. Now comes the word they have found a friendly one. It lives on certain insects, notably corn ear- worms and codling moth. At the Beltsville Experiment Station they have got 60 to 70 percent control of these insects so far with this nematode. That work is progress ing further, and it is hoped the effectiveness can be stepped up to the point of full controll. BEAUFORT Beaufort is a charming place. I like the informality of it, its pleasant lanes and shaded streets. Some don’t even have sidewalks. Just about all-season flowers a- bound, tree and shrub are decked with moss streamers that wave in the breeze. The odor of the marsh in in the air, and seabirds float on high. It has the air of a restful place. Following noon on a summer day it is siesta time and you’d think it was Sunday there. THEY SAY County Agent V. M. Johnson of Horry: “D. V. Richardson of the Bucksport Community harv ested 366 bushels of Lee soybeans from 10 acres. They were planted in early April where he had failed to get an earlier stand of corn/ 4 . Soybeans, a new money crop, and a soil-building one too, for the whole state. The four recommend ed varieties are Lee, Jackson, CNS 4, and JEW 45. They vary a little in time of maturity. So most far mers, specially if they plant a good many, spread the harvest by planting some of several sorts. County Agent Grainger of Clar endon: “Oakdale Community was judged in district and state com petition and placed first in the district. The people of this com munity have reached the point where every family is taking part in community improvement activities.” This organized com munity improvement work is now to be found in all parts of the state. And you can tell when you enter one of these organized com munities, where the folks are working together on general im provement, such as Grainger speaks of. For things are just spruced up a bit, making for pride of community and better living. County Agent Bowen of Sumter: “A new 350,000-bushel capacity grain elevator has been construct ed in Sumter. Corn soybeans, oats, and wheat are eligible for stor age. Farmers have three choices: (1) To sell outright, (2) to store through the State Warehouse System, or (3) to store under the CCC Loan.” With these grains growing in importance as money crops there, this fine drying, cleaning, and storage facility fills a distinct need. And it adds stat ure to those grains as marketable money crops. Cameron and Orange burg have built simular facilit ies in recent months. Florence has one as does Estill, that holds over a million bushels. Coming things, this grain storage. County Agent King of Dorche ster: ‘Some farmers are having trouble with storing shelled corn, too much moisture. This is a new method of storing com for the average farmer.” Now, folks, that’s where a grain elevator, with dry ing equipment comes in. For they sample all grain before it is put in staorage. And, if it has too much moisture to keep good, they run it through their dryer to get it right. County Agent Jackson of Will iamsburg: “Interest in dug irrig ation ponds continues strong. Several were completed this month, bringing the total, to 16 this fall. Four or five more are scheduled for December.” Yes, I see great activity in digging those water holes in the Low country, and some well digging too. In the Midstate and Upcountry interest is just as keen. But dryland ponds to catch runoff and ponds on springheads and streams are the rule in those areas. Notice On March 1, 1957 A Penalty of 10* V will be added to all UNPAID 1956 TAXES - Also- A Penalty of ' 5 per cent will be added to all ^ . UNPAID 1957 Business Licenses City of Newberry PHOTOGENIC . . . June Lundi was chosen 1957 queen of New York press photographers from field of 12 finalists. *TH£ . STARS By LYN CONNELLY S ITUATION comedy shows are really dying on television . . . All but the indefatigable *T Love Lucy,” which la phenomenal in its success but will probably nev er again be duplicated in a mil lion years Somehow the story line never grows old or bore- some, probably because once you get to loving Lucy lt*s pretty hard to tear yourself away from her sweet, nonsensical personality .' . “Our Miss Brooks.” which we always considered second only to Lucy, has folded, a pretty long endurance record. The mortality amongst the new comedy shows is alarming, but the fault lies with the producers . They’re simply not funny There Is “The Brothers,” a pain ful venture that was blown up as “The new sensation of the year” ... It barely lasted out the year 1956 and folded after 26 weeks of stilted and unfunny dialog Too bad, since its stars. Bob Sweeney and Gale Gordon, are so talented and versatile Others that make one shudder are “Oh, Susannah!** “Hey, Jeannie!" “Stan ley.** Good ones that should last a few years yet are the Danny Thomas show. **Bilko.“ and “Oz- zie & Harriet.” PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL:—Like country and ires tern mnsioT There are a couple at solid hi-fi albums just made for yon . . . First, starring young Sonny James from Hackle- burg, Ala., we have a talented fellow who sings, plays the fiddle and composes mnsio . . . Some of bis own compositions are nicely interspersed with a few pop songs of a few years back . . . You’ll love “Cold, Cold Heart,** “1 Got the Feeling,** “Only a Shadow Between,** “Forgive Me,** etc. The otter album Is by Tommy Collins, a guitar-playing singer from Oklahoma . . He does his own compositions, too, including “Lowe-A-Me,” “Smooth Sallin,** “Upon This Rock** and otters. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Where I was raised it was just natural for younguns (that’s what we called children) to go down with chills and fever periodically in the spring and early summer. We thought nothing of it, for it was the natural thing we had always known. New we know this was malaria. It got some of the kids and made a lot of us puny. But those of us who lived through developed a sort of resistance to it, it seems. In later years, after my family came along, we lived in a malar ial area for a while. The children went through the same experiences we did, and their mother, who was not raised in a malarial area, did too. But it never bothered me. So I just figured I had got a sort of immunity as a kid. That malaria thing can sure take the pep out of a person. I still feel it was the cause of most of my laziness as a kid. It was close to painful to have to do any work. But if it was building a dam down on the creek, that was different. The fascination of that just seemed to overcome the ache in my bones.* To show just how lazy I was, we had a neighbor a few hundred yards down on the 4 hill that al ways kept rather fresh cool water in the old cedar bucket on the back porch. Rather than draw a bucket of water from our well when ours got empty, many a time I have walked down to that neighbor’s for a drink. It was easy going down there, but pulling that hill back sometimes made me wonder | if it would not have been easier just ^o draw a bucket of water in thfe first place. My Brother was as lazy at times as I was. I’ll have to tell you about him next week. Strom, lurmond ple BALANCED BUDGET DESIRED In my opinion, millions of Amer icans greatly desire to see some provision requiring the Federal Government to ^operate on a bala nced budget. I so stated on the floor of the Senate on Thursday. The public debt now totals $275,906,291,121.74. I pointed out the* requirement in the South Carolina Constitution that the General Assembly “shall provide for an annual tax suffic ient to defray the estimated ex penses of the State for each year,” and that when estimates prove to be too small and a deficit occurs, the General Assembly is required the next year to levy Sufficient taxes to pay off the deficit and to defray the expenses for that? year as well. ~ While I was Governor, I refused to sign appropriations bills un til the financial officers of the State certified to me that the ap propriations would no t exceed the revenue. I told the Senate that the South Carolina Constitutional provision keeps our State in excellent fin ancial condition and that the same requirement would do the same for the Federal Government. Senator Bridges of New Hamp shire immediately requested the Senate’s approval to permit me to join him and Senator Byrd of Virginia as co-sponsor of an am endment to the Constitution which would require a balanced federal budget every year. NEW INTEGRATION THREAT Federal District Judge Walter Hoffman has set a deadline for the Norfolk School Board to in tegrate the schools in that city. He implied that he would take action to prevent the Governor and the Virginia Legislature from cutting off funds to integrated schools. I do not know what was in the mind of Judge * Hoffman when he declared that the Federal Court would give “cpmplete protection” to the Norfolk School Board if it defies the Governor of Virginia and the Legislature to carry out the integration order issued by the Judge. Regardless of what he had in mind, his statement is a threat and an attempt to intimidate the Governor and the Legislature. Any effort on the part of Judge Hoffman, or any other Judge, to carry f>ut such a threat would be in violation of the Constitut ion. Nowhere in the Constitution is any authority delegated over the publinc schools. In fact, the sub ject of education is not even men tioned in the Constitution. Fur thermore, the people have not delegated or yielded the power of their legislatures to make or not to make appropriations, whether for the public schools or for any other proper functions of the States. The 'people of the sovereign States have not delegated to any Federal Judge the power to di rect how State funds shall be spent. ADDITIQNAL>BLOWS AT STATES RIGHTS Here in Washington other at tempts are being made to invade the legal territory of the Stat Both in the Senate and the House of Representatives hearings are being held in the Judiciary Corn- rights bills. I requested the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to schedule me to testify against the bill on February 26.He notified me that I will be h that day at 10 o’clock in morning. I also plan to before the Senate Judiciary committee which is handling proposed legislation. It is difficult to tell 'what 1 outcome will be, but I shall everything in my power to pi vent the passage of these ed civil rights bills. Sincerely, Strom Thurmond Don’t harbor mean thoughts; load them if you can’t fc them. do * Z? “I’ve told you time and time again not to lean on the tablo until we get an ante loan from Purcell’s otbuy some new furniture!** .q| These Purcell folks certainly help us to • take advantage of sale prices with quick cash. We just phone, then stop in for the money! (f'urcelld "Your Private Bankers 1 * 14X8 Main St. Newberry ri REMEMBER BY THE OLD TIMERS From Mrs. Harry Graham, Adair, Illinois: I remember when I was a little girl (and I\ was a little girl, not only in size, but my name was Eva Lille) and the smallest of a family of six chil dren. ' - Each winter there was a hog butchering day at our house. Early in the morning, about 4 a.m. Papa would start a roaring fire over which he placed a huge ket tle which was filled with gallons of water carried from the stock well some distance away. Several neighbors would come in. The hogs were killed, hung on phles resembling a guidepost with cross pieces, then scraped, cut up aqd cooled out for curing in the smokehouse with hickory wood. After Mama and the women served a delicious dinner, two or more men came into the house and began to grind and mix the sausage, while the others finished the lard cooking in the big kettle. Pig’s feet and head meat were cooked in a smaller kettle. When the tender bones were removed, the broth was strained and re turned to the kettle with ‘the ground meat, and corn meal was added to make scrapple, which was fried as mush. Lots of hard work, but plenty of fun, especial ly for ths small-fry. We lived in Eldorado Township. McDonough County. My grandma Little chose the name Eldorado, which means “prosperous.” Ah this was more than 60 years ago. (Send contributions to this colnmn to The Old Timer, Commmnity Press Sery- ice. Box 39, Frankfort, Kentncky.) DEFENDS GUABD . . . BfaJ. Gen. Edgar Erickson, chief of Pentagon’s national guard bn- man, criticises army’s order ef six month’s basic training for qLaundry & Dry Cleaning Co. SANITONE DRY CLEANING COMPLETE LAUNDRY SERVICE ALL WORK GUARANTEED LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR CASH & CARRY ONE-DAY SERVICE ON REQUEST 934 MAIN STREET PHONE 310 HOLIDAY Notice Friday, February 22 BEING WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY -TX / The Institutions Listed Below Will Not Be Open For Business ^ | -f, i \ The Public Is Urged To Take Notice of This and Arrange all Business Accordingly Newberry County Bank RS NEWBERRY JOANNA The South Carolina National Bank The Bank of Commerce PROSPERITY, S. C. Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association The State Building & Loan Association