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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
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“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
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Notice
Friday, February 22
BEING WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
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The Institutions Listed Below Will Not Be
Open For Business
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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