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THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1957
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZEH
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
FARM EFFICIENCY
With the going of much labor
from the farms and the coming of
mechanization, farm efficiency has
sure picked up in every line.
Since the 1935-39 period we’re
getting 40 percent more beef per
cow, 20 percent more pork per
sow, 45 percent more eggs per
hen, and 30 percent more produc
tion per dairy cow, according to
the United States Department of
Agriculture,
This has come from a combina
tion of better breeding, better
feeding, and improved manage
ment. And most crop yields too
have shared in this revolution in
production.
I often speak of our research
work at experiment stations and
in industry, and of the county
agents and others taking the new
findings and demonstrating them
on the land. Taking the latest
findings of science swiftly to the
land, that surely accounts for our
miracles of production in our time.
The result is, a growing abund
ance is made to continue from the
land, more product from the same
acres and number of animals.
And we haven’t nearly reached
the limit yet. Therein lies our fu
ture security of food and raim
ent. Farm programs are needed
to see to it that its abundance
.does not destroy agriculture.
SOIL SAMPLES
County agents sent many soil
samples to Clemson for testing
early this season. Clemson report
ed on them then directly to the
farmers on whose farms they were
taken. With the information thus
supplied, folks can then use lime
and apply the different fertilizer
elements more intellingently.
County Agent Johnston of Horry
te^ls me these tests have been
' specially helpful to tobacco grow
ers. For that great crop is affect
ed more by soil and fertilizer con
ditions than most crops. So to
know your soil reactinn, and the
relative amounts of fertilizer in
gredients in it, proves an intelli
gent guide to what you add to it.
Anyone can take soil samples
and send them to Clemson for
testing. But they need to be taken
right, so as to get results back
that truly represent the field. The
county agents are glad to show
any farmer just how these
samples should be taken and pack
ed for shipment to Clemson.
SALT FOR CATTLE
Cattle require salt at all • times.
The experts tell us a mature cow
needs about an ounce a day, and
if you give it to them free-choice
they wil loften eat twice that
much. Salt is best fed mixed in
the grain ration at the rate of
one percent. Then a block of it
should be kept before them too so
those needing more can get it.
A recent Kansas experiment
showed the need of cattle for salt
when salted steers gained 65
pounds more and sold for a half
cent a pound more than those not
receiving salt. This difference
made the salt used worth a dollar
a pound in that experiment.
Cattle that haven’t been on salt
should not be given free-choice of
it at first, for fear they will over
eat it and become sick. Get them
on to it gradually and have then-
craving satisfied before you put
it before them free-choice.
HYBRID VIGOR
Our livestock folks here at
Clemson tell me their crossbred
and hybrid calves have averaged
about 50 pounds heavier at wean
ing time than purebred beef ani-
mals,regardless of the breed.
Hig growers over the country
too are using a lot of cross breed
ing in poducing their meat hogs.
This does not hurt the purebred
breeder, for we still have to have
the purebred breeding stock to
make crossbred and hybrid meat
animals.
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STARS
by LYN CONNELLY
M UCH is made of the alleged
fact that Oscar winners are
unknown until the slip bearing
their names is read from the podi
um . . . This may be true, but it
seems peculiar that year after
year the so-called “guesses” by
everyone in Hollywood from a jan
itor to the top producers are in
variably right . . . How can they
•‘guess”, for instance, that
“Around the World in 80 Days”
will win the best pix award while
George Stevens will be named the
best director for “Giant?” Neither
of these Oscars was a surprise to
anyone in the movie audience or
the televiewers who had read all
predictions.
Katharine Hepburn deserved the
Oscar, but Katie is not well liked
by her co-wprkers so she lost out
in an emotional binge over Ingrid
Bergman who made her first
American movie in her first
years of self-imposed exile .
Kirk Douglas, too, deserved it if
voting was fair, but Yul Brynner
won on the basis of a role he
created on Broadway and could
play it in his sleep. The same thing
happened some years ago with
Shirley Booth . . . She created a
role on Broadway, played it a
thousand or more times, made
her first movie based on the same
play and promptly won the Oscar
for “best actress.” Last year an
unknown actor won on his por
trayal in a movie seen first as an
original TV play . . . Has Holly
wood no originality left?
PLATTER CHATTER
CAPITOL:—One of the funniest
of Stan Freberg’s disks is his
latest, a superlative satire on
Harry Belafonte’s terrific rendition
of “Banana Boat Song” This
one is good for many laughs
Flip side has a Freberg original,
“Tele-Vee-Shun” Gene Vin
cent works up a storm on “B-I-
Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go” (an indica
tion that even infants should dig
rock *n roll terminology) cov
ered by “Five Days. Five r>a~o "
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WORLD OUTDOORS
M ANY an ardent angler, hiker
or camper will allow his en
joyment pf the great world out
doors to always be somewhat less
snjoyable when he travels or visits
ireas inhabited by poisonous
makes.
Few indeed are those who do
lot have a fear—or at least some
lealthy respect — for the rattle-
make and the cottonmouth. They
»re dangerous and bite from eith-
»r, whether the snake be a large
ir small one, is certain to be ex
tremely painful, if not fatal.
Yet a constant fear of encoun
tering a snake—or being bitten
by one—should not spoil your out
door fun. When in snake territory,
be alert. If you are wading a south
ern stream inhabited by cotton-
mouths, be cautious of brush piles,
tree tops and stumps along the
bank. If you must cross a danger-
lus-looking spot, make some noise.
3ive the snake a chance and he
vill get out of your way. The rat
tlesnake will generally give you
a warning when you tread near his
domain. The wisest thing to do
when you hear this danger signal
Is to stop, immediately, and lo
cate the aroused rattler. Then, if
you are really smart, give him as
wide a berth as possible.
Some individuals—whom I be
lieve fear snakes more than others
—develop a hate attitude that leads
them to a one-man campaign to
kill all the snakes in the world, I
have known some expert and en
thusiastic fishermen who would
shake a two-pound bass off their
line in order to get a boat over to
the bank and kill a big moccasin
before he got away. This is the sort
of activity that brings about snake
bite. And these one-man cam
paigns certainly will never com
pletely kill off our snake popula
tion.
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3 April 3
3 May 12
4 Feb. 10
3 Frb. 10
0 April 1 5
7 March 6
8 April 3
9 April 3
10 April 2
11 May 13
12 May 12
13 Feb. 25
14 April 2
15 April 3
TOP TORNADOES OF 1956
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Hodaonvilla, Grand
Rapida. Mich.
Van Buren, Allegan.
Kent Counties, Midi.
Flint, Mich-
Whtte County. Ark
Monroe County. Mias.
Birmingham, Ala.
Marlon, Ind.
Henderson County, Tran.
Berlin, Wis.
Lincoln and Creek
Counties, Okla.
Muskegon, Mich.
Cuyahoga County, O.
Belleville, 111.
Cowley County, Kan.
Bancroft, Wia.
IS 940 910.500,000
12 1,010,000
9 110 4.000,000
* 1,000,000
1 55 1,000,000
95 200 1,500.000
1 31 2,000,000
3 • »•* 50.000
7 90 1,000,000
9 40 1,000,000
13 71500,000
T lOO 5,000,000
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No. 1 Moat proparty damage * 10,300,000
lit—Michigan, with 21 daad.
491 injured, >23.(fTo|opg .
MAJOR TORNADOES of 1956, as compiled from
preliminary Weather Bureau data, clearly point
to Spring as a time for special watchfulness by
residents of the central United State*—the world’s
most dangerous tornado area. Civil defense units
are on special call throughont this vast region for
possible rescue work. In addition, if a tornado-hit
locality is declared a major disaster area by the
President, as happened in Numbers 1, S, 6, and
10 above, the Federal Civil Defense Administra
tion can provide funds to aid communities in
temporary repair of public facilities. <fcda Photo)
What To Do
In a Tornado
• People in open country
can view the approach of a
tornado and move at right
angles to its path. If there is
no tune to escape, lie fiat in
the nearest depression, such
as a ditch or ravine.
• In towns or cities, seek
shelter inside, preferably in
a substantial building. Stay
away from windows.
• The southwest comer of
the basement of a frame
house is safer than in a brick
or stone house. If there is no
basement, lie down on the
first floor under a table or
bed (preferably in the south
west comer).
• Urban schools: Stay in
side, away from windows;
remain near an inside wall
on a lower floor. Avoid audi
toriums and gymnasiums.
• Rural schools of frame
construction: Teachers
should remove children to a
ravine or ditch if storm shel
ter is not available.
REY. ROBERT H. HARPER
CHANGELESS MAY?
T HE present month is usually
known, in our part of the
world, as a time of balm and
bloom and beauty. But the poet
thought of days of storm and
grief as bringing their burden in
to the present. And he asked if,
after the stormy changes, we
should find a “changeless May”?
Days of the past sometimes
reach into the present with dread
results. The accumulation of bad
things may bring their influences
to blight you in the present. On
the calendar the past is gone for
ever, but the heart feels the hurt
of unworthy things and, but for
the grace of God, given by faith,
is influenced toward wrong today.
As you sit alone with your
thought and dark images come to
vex you and tax your strength,
do not yield again to the unworthy
thing that may bring shadows to
your memories. But cling to the
bright images that you find along
the way. In true penitence and the
high resolves of faith, you may
find strength for your time of need.
So you may find a changeless
May and a peace that is unaffect
ed by all changes of weather.
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Prosperity News
MRS. B. T. YOUNG, Corrsspondsnt
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The following groups of the U.
L. C. W. will meet Friday at 3:30
p. m.
The Lillie Kyzer group with
Mrs. W. B. Ackerman, the Ger
trude Leonard with Mrs. L. A.
Black; the Anna Kuger with Mrs.
John Taylor.
The annual Children’s Festival
of the Week Day Church School
will be presented in Grace Church
Sunday morning, May 19, at the
regular morning service.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Lake are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of a daughter at the New
berry hospital. Mrs. Lake is the
former Miss Ruby McCarthy. She
and the baby are at home.
Mrs. Gurdon W. Counts and J.
Emmett Nichols of Newberry,
were married Sunday afternoon,
May 12, at 2 o’clock at Grace
Lutheran Church by 1 * the Rev. Ben
M. Clark, pastor of the bride.
The ceremony was witnessed
by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Higgins
and their little daughter of New
berry, Gurdon Wright Counts of
Charleston and Prosperity, Rich
ard Counts of Prosperity, Miss
Mary Watkins of Chappells, Miss
Elizabeth Rickenbacker of Cam
eron and Newberry College, and
Mrs. Ben M. Clark.
The couple left immediately for
a trip to the mountains of North
Carolina.
Mrs. Nichols wore a light blue
dress, with white accessories and
a pink rosebud corsage.
Mr. and Mrs. Nichols will be in
Prosperity for several weeks but
will move to Newberry later.
Mrs. Nichols, the former Violet
Epting is an employee of Belk-
Beard.
Mr. Nichols is employed at
Newberry Drug company.
Mrs. Frank Browne was hos
tess to the Literary Sorosis Fri
day afternoon. Mrs. Walter Hamm
presided over the meeting.
Mrs. P. W. Smith gave an in
formative and interesting discus
sion of Utah and Nevada. Utah
is the home of Mormonism and is
noted for its beautiful scenery.
Nevada has two outstanding cities,
Reno, the divorce city and Las
Vegas, the gambling city. Many
other interesting facts about both
states were also given. Mrs. Smith
had colored magazine pictures of
both states.
During the social hour the hos
tess served a ham and salad plate,
marshmallow cookies in the form
of May hats, ice cream and punch.
Mrs. John R. Sykes was hos
tess to the Dogwood Garden Club
Monday afternoon, May 6. Mrs.
James H. Barnes was a guest.
Mrs. Earl Bedenbaugh talked
on table arrangements for all oc
casions. She showed slides, some
of which she had taken of out
standing arrangements.
Mrs. D. H. Hamm Sr. gave
gleanings. Mrs. W. C. Barnes,
recreation leader, conducted a
word contest with Mrs W. E. Han
cock as prize winner.
The hostess served a salad
course, cup cakes, and punch.
The May meeting of the Iris
Garden club was held Wednesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. O.
K. Shealy. Mrs. Lyon Fellers was
a guest.
Mrs. Tommie Harmon, the new
president, presided.
Mrs. Woodrow Bedenbaugh dis
cussed outdoor ^gardening. She
also gave a demonstration on ar
ranging roses.
The gleaner, Mrs. B. D. Hawk
ins read an article “What’s a Boy
or What’s a Girl?”
Mrs. Wofford Copper was high
scorer in bingo.
Committees for the new year
include: Flowers, Mrs. John Earl
Dawkins, Mrs. Leon Shealy, Mrs.
Wofford Cooper; Mrs. Isadore
Ruff is the representative on the
Garden Club Council.
After adjournment the hostess
served a salad plate, block cake,
and iced tea.
Sonny Scott spent last week
with his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Scott in Ware Shoals.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Russell
Caughman and their son. Rusty of
Orangeburg spent the weekend
with Mrs. Caughman’s mother,
Mrs. R. W. Pugh.
Miss Jewel Connelly of Colum
bia College, spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Dove Connelly.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foster
and their two sons, Dick and
James Lee, Mrs. J. L. Counts, and
Miss Annie Hunter, spent Sunday
in Kings Mountain, N. C. with Mr.
Foster’s parents.
With Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mills
for Mother’s Day jvere Mr. and
Mrs. S. C. Brissie and their two
sons of Woodruff and Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Bedenbaugh atad their
two children of Lexington.
Mrs. Nan W. Ward of Colum
bia, spent Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. P. H. Barnes.
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Har
mon attended the State Dental
meetine in Myrtle Beach the
first o#the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Pugh of
Charlotte, N. C. and Mr. and Mrs.
James A. Bedenbaugh and their
daughter, Anne, of Laurens, spent
the weekend with Mrs. R. T.
Pugh. Mrs. Pugh accompanied Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis Pugh home for a
visit with them.
Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Paden and
their two daughters, Cheryl Jean
and Brenda, of Atlanta, Ga., spent
the weekend with Mrs.' Paden’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Shealy.
MU3 Marion A. Scott of the Na
val Air Station in Jacksonville,
Fla., spent the weekend with Mrs.
Scott and Sonny in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wise.
Miss Joy Thomason, Columbia
College student, spent the week
end with her mother, Mrs. Vida
C. Thomason.
Miss Mary Langford of the
North Augusta school faculty
LOSE WEIOfT THE "CORBET WAY
CURBET IS AN APPETITE SUPPRESS
ING FORMULA PRESCRIBED MOST BY
PHYSICIANS BUT NOW AVAILABLE
WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION
When token os directed, CURBET couses
less desire for food, letting you loose ugly
excess fot without discomfort or incon
venience of hunger pains.
CURBET is sold in bottles of 90 only at
drug stores. Buy oil your drugs at your
druggists with confidence, ond take only
os directed.
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TYPICAL TORNADO fuknel sweeps across the plains near Manhat
tan, Kan., located in the worst tornado belt in the world, according
to Weather Bureau records. Twisters such as this have figured
prominently in the total of 75 major natural disasters in Which the
Federal Civil Defense Administration has directed relief since FCDA
got the job of coordinating Federal assistance in January 1953.
(U. S. Weather Photo by H. E. Dale)
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Winthrop Senior, Marcia Haile of
Newberry, is a candidate for a
Bachelor of Arts degree in English
at the Winthrop College com
mencement exercises June 2. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs*
Ralph Haile of Newberry.
Time of the
Twister
Springtime is tornado time.
In the unstable transition from
winter cold to summer, heat,
great masses of cold and warm
air collide. When the heavier
cold air is forced above the light
er warm air, funnels sometimes
form to relieve the topsy-turvy
situation. This is the twister.
SOME 800 TORNADOES boil up
each year in the United States.
When they strike, local civil de
fense and the Red Cross speed to
the rescue.
Spring Is the time for s
special weather eye to the
tornado-spawning southwest.
Last year, for instance, every
major tornado occurred be
tween February and May. On
one day—April 3—four giant
twisters killed 30 persons, in
jured 415 and caused an esti
mated $13,760,000 damage.
There is no way to prevent a
tornado. But early warning, prop
er precautions and speedy rescue
of victims can save lives. In ad
dition, disaster funds adminis
tered by the Federal Civil Defense
Administration can provide
emergency repairs and restora
tion of vital community facili
ties when Federal assistance is
authorized by the President to
augment State and local efforts.
LAFF OF THE WEEK
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spent the weekend at her home
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Connelly
and their son of Aiken were week
end guests of Mr. Connolly’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Connelly.
With Mrs. A. B. Hunt for the
weekend were Mr. and Mrs.
James Hunt and their two daugh
ters of Spartanburg.
Weekend guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Carroll S. Mills were Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Camp and children
of Greenville.
Mother’s Day guests of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Ballentine were Mr.
and Mrs. Furman Ballentine and
their two children of Greenville
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bal
lentine of Chapin. . _ ^
Rev. Ray P. Hook of Charles
ton spent Thursday and Friday
with the D. H. Hamms Sr. Mr.
Hamm and Rev. Hook spent both
days at the Hamm cabin on the
lake fishing.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Riley and
their son. Gene of Union, were
supper guests Sunday of Mrs. A.
B. Hunt and Mrs. Fiances Spotts.
Mrs. Riley will stay until Thurs
day.
Gurdon Wright Counts, students
at the S. C. Medical College, Char
leston, spent the weekend at
home.
Mrs. P. C. Singley spent last
Wednesday with her daughter,
Mrs. W. D. Callahan in Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Epting and
their son, Charles of Moultrie, Ga.
were weekend guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Epting and Mr. and Mrs.
Olin Epting.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farr and
their three children of Newberry
were Mother’s Day guests of Mrs.
Farr’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Bedenbaugh.
Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Taylor and
son of Lexington, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Taylor.
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