The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 20, 1957, Image 3
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1957
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
EVIDENCE MISFILED
By Don Wood
DOB GREEN, Colman County**
brand-new prosecutor, shuffled
his notes as the Judge rapped his
gaveL
The buzz of Interest behind him
In the spectator gallery said more
clearly than he cared to admit that
the county was interested in how
their new public lawyer would con
duct himself.
He was on a spot. His first case.
It was not every day that a young
lawyer was called upon to prose
cute his fiance.
At the defendant’s desk sat El
len Barker, her eyes turned away.
Bob wished he could only talk to
her a moment. It had been this
way ever since that day, two weeks
ago, when Ellen had been charged
with tampering with the court file
on an important case.
Bob called his first witness. The
aging court house janitor, Ed Jen
kins, took the stand reluctantly.
Obviously he did not want to testi
fy against Ellen. Slowly he told
what he knew of the day in ques
tion.
Ellen had been seen carrying a
brown manila folder from the
county clerk's office. Jenkins said.
He remembered the incident be
cause Ellen, as was her custom,
had stopped to chat with Ed at the
door as she left
Next came the county clerk, who
told that on the following morning
the court file had been found mis
sing. Only Ellen, he said, had the
authority to touch those files. Since
the case was an important jury
action, the county clerk had felt
compelled to take action against
his clerk. The witness told of the
way the court records were filed;
brown folders for the criminal
cases, and green * folders for the
Civil suits.
Bob stared at the cracking green
walls about him as the buzz from
the spectator gallery soaked
through his mind. Obviously he
was one of the few persons in the
room who believed Ellen innocent.
He tried to relive the day in
question. He and Ellen had planned
a dinner date. At the last moment
he had been detained from meet
ing her at the court house door,
and had cancelled the evening’s
plans. How he wished he had kept
that date! As it was, he could not
say that Ellen had not carried the
file from the building. •
The county clerk was above re
proach. Ed Jenkins was one of
Ellen’s best friends. Often he
planned his cleaning to be near
her in the vault. Old Ed was most
helpfuL When he had moved in as
new prosecutor two months before,
Ed had offered to repaint the
shelving. The colors had not
matched, but Bob had not felt up
to saying anything about it to the
old man . . .
“Your Honor, I would like to re
quest a fifteen minute recess.” Bob
Jumped to his feet as if struck by
an axe.
“Your Honor, the prosecution
recalls Ed Jenkins to the stand.”
Ed slowly stepped up to be sworn
in.
“Mr Jenkins, what color are
the walls in this court room?”
“Well, I guess they are green.”
“Mr. Jenkins, are you not color
blind?”
Old Ed admitted that he was.
“Then, how do you know that
Miss Barker carried a BROWN
folder from this building two weeks
ago?”
“Well, I guess 1 don’t know that
it was brown, but it looked just
like the missing folder to me.”
Bob could feel Ellen’s eyes stare
as he produced the missing file.
“Your Honor, here is the missing
file. It was filed in the green file
cabinet, under the same number
as that in the brown. Had Miss
Barker been allowed to search the
room she would have found it her
self.”
The judge looked at Ellen. ”1
think we owe you an apology,
young lady. And if you and the
prosecutor will meet me in my
study . . . alone” . . . there was s
twinkle in the judge’s eyes. * < Case
dismissed.”
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
“Wallowing in the gutter” is
a comon figure, of speech we
all recognize as meaning one
has reached the depths of depra
vity. »
But we kids in the Stone Hills
of the Dutch Fork actually went
further than that. We wallowed
with the hogs! And that’s not
figuratively speaking.
Down in the pasture the
meandering steam had left a
depression there in the red clay
of a little bottom. Water stood
there most of the time. It was
the favorite wallow of the hogs.’
’They would come ant of it
plastered with the soupy red
mud they stirred up and it soon
dried and crusted over their
i*
bodies.
One summer it was too cool
for us to play much in the
branch. But that old wallow
hole grew warm in the sun. So
we joined the hogs and wallow
ed there too to get warm. Our
hogs were tame and the accept
ed us as equals, as we basked
with them there in the warm
mud. We’d get it all over us,
except our heads. Then Igt it
dry on us in the sun, and we
looked like indians. It felt fun
ny then when we moved, at is
cracked and started scaling off.
Before we dressed, we’d jump
in the branch and rinse off. And
you know what that did to red
clay. Just the roughtest of it
came off and in front where we
could see it and rub it a little.
Our backs evidently carried a
good coating of it away. For it
wasn’t long until our folks hap
pened to go upstairs, where we
slept, to change the sheets!
They couldn’t imagine what had
happened. And we hadn’t seen
them, for we went to bew with
out a light and got up before
good day.
That put a stop to our enjoy
ing that filthy wallow with the
hogs. Country boys, what they
won’t do! It’s a wonder they
survive.
. ..sMEMBER"
BY THZ OLD TIMERS
From Mrs. Alma Bearse, Hunt
ington Park, Calif.: Your “I Re
member” Column always brings
back nostalgic memories. A large
family, a farm, friendly people,
the small town of Peterstown in
picturesque Monroe County, West
Virginia. A daddy who never need
ed an alarm clock to get up at four
in the morning, but I was awak
ened by the sound of the old cof
fee mill. I remember daddy’s
many chores before breakfast; the
times he walked six miles to file
saws and help cut the timber in
the mountains, and then walked
the six miles back, doing the eve
ning chores before supper. It was
my delight at times to have the
wood box filled and pine kindling
by the stove for the next morning
Daddy always rewarded me by
calling me his little ‘Brownie’
I remember the green apples we
ate on rainy afternoons and the
abdominal pains afterwards, fol
lowed by a dose of Hite’s Pain
Remedy. The moss furniture my
sister and I made in our neighbor’s
woodland; the lovely china of brok
en dishes we laid so carefully on
a flat fence rail; our ‘family grave
yard’ where we laid to rest our
pets, little chickens, and<dogs; and
after the funeral (which I always
preached), we tenderly put apple
blossoms and leaves on the new
mounds.
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The Old Timer, Community Press Sery-
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By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
SODIUM FOR FISH
We feed livestock and workstock
salt regularly. But is seems no one
ever thought of salting fish.
County Agent Bob Bailey of
Richland noted that fish did not
grow as they should in many of
their ponds, despite the fact that
they fertilized them regularly. So
a year or so ago he called it to
the attention of Clemson’s Dr. H.
P. Cooper. This eminent soil
scientist knew soils of that area
were deficient in certain elements,
notably sodium. So he suggested
to Bob that they put some miner
alized salt in them, for that form
of stock salt not only carries the
sodium that’s in all common salt
but other minor elements that
might be lacking too.
Now Bob reports results as fol
lows :
“Our experimental work in the
use of sodium and minor elements
in fish ponds is proving very
beneficial. These ponds seem to
be more productive and fish show
better quality. Experiments were
primarily with mineralized block
salt, with blocks being planted in
the head of the stream, or if the
pond is fed by a spring, the blocks
were placed throughout the pond
area. It is interesting to note that
where pond owners have been us
ing sodium nitrate in their ferti
lizer programs each year the pro
duction of fish has been satisfac
tory.” (Nitrate of soda is a large
carrier of sodium.)
The county agents reported 13,-
200 ponds of all sort in South
Carolina at the end of the past
year. Some of these are just small
cattle water holes. But many of
them are of considerable size, for
fish, recreation, and arrigation.
We know fertilizer works on fish
just like on crops. And apparently
some of the minor elements where
they are not found in the soil in
sufficient amounts can be the
limiting factor of fish growth,
just like they are for plant growth
on many of our soils.
We live and learn. Who ever
thought of salt for fish before?
PLANTING PINES
IN HAMPTON
The three county-owned tree
planters in Hampton were kept
busy the past planting season,
according to County Agent Thomp
son, who looks after their upkeep
and routing. These set 1,500,000
pines, and an additional 150,000
were set with hand dribbles in
3,000 to 6,000 lots.
By April 1 the county agent
and SCS workers there had orders
from farmers for two million seed
lings for delivery next winter, and
more orders are expected along
through the summer.
Many a county in this area is
building a strong fort for its fu
ture with trees, pine trees princi
pally.
HOGS IN CLARENDON
Many a low-country county has
hogs as a growing money crop.
County Agent Grainger of Claren
don told me of helping 55 local
farmers market 483 hogs during a
recent month for $16,171.02.
With hybrids and the Clemson
5-Point Plan for growing corn, we
are making better yields of this
crop. And the man with plenty of
corn usually needs hogs, for they
just go together. Hogs usually
furnish the best market for the
corn. And they also use a lot of
grazing to advantage too, and
glean a lot of waste out of the
fields.
MARKETING COSTS
The USD A reports marketing
costs of food products rose from
9 billion dollars in 1490 to 32 bil
lion in 1955.
So when you buy your groceries
don’t have bitter thought tbout
the farmer. He is not getting it.
That increase comes largely from
improved services and packaging
we like, increased freight rates
and much higher labor and ma
terial costs all along the line.
Everybody must eat and there’s
little many of them can do about
this. But farm folks and those
living in towns too can, where
they have space for a garden.
Even if the space is small, hand
led right, you can grow a lot of
the things the family likes best.
With us that is tomatoes, lettuce,
squash, snap beans, and okra. To
have an abundance of just those
five vegetables during their long
season helps mightily on the groc
ery bill.
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Now nearly 40 years old, the Co
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most famous community theatrical
groups in the country. With a mem
bership exceeding 2,000, the theater
gives week-long performances eight
times a year and generally plays to
packed houses. Most of its former
directors are now active in stage,
television and motion picture pro
ductions.
In today’s South Carolina, with its
emphasis on progress, the United
States Brewers Foundation works
constantly to encourage jmainte-
nance of wholesome conditions wher
ever beer and ale are sold. As in other
states, the program calls for close
cooperation between law-enforce
ment officials and beer licensees
throughout South Carolina.
Beer belongs... enjoy it.
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South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.C
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URM0ND
During the past week, the Sen
ate has largely token up its time
with the consideration of four ap
propriations bills and the foreign
aid authorization bill.
SENATE HAS CUT EACH
BUDGET REQUEST
I am happy to report that in
each instance the appropriations
bills have been reduced below the
budget request. I shall not at
tempt to describe the details of
these bills, but let me tell you
how much each one was cut/
The Departments of Labor and
Health - Education - Welfare were
included in one bill and the Ad
ministration request was cut more
than $96 million. The bill for the
Independent Offices—those not un
der any department—was cut al
most $546 million. The funds for
the operation of the District of
Columbia were reduced nearly $13
million.
Finally, the request for the De
partment of Agriculture was cut
by $296 million.
SOIL BANK PROGRAM
RETAINED
As you may have heard, the soil
bank program was retained for
another year in spite of the great
amount of dissatisfaction with the
program. I voted for retaining the
soil bank because no proposal has
been proposed yet as an improve
ment or substitute for it. I did not
feel that we should wipe out the
soil bank unless we had a new
program to help the farmers im
mediately.
FAIR COTTON SUPPORT
BILLS PENDING
There are now pending in the
Agriculture Committee of the
Senate several proposals to amend
the cotton price support program.
I want to mention them at this
time and I will be glad to hear
the opinion of any of you who are
interested in~the bills.
Senator Stennis has introduced
a bill proposing that cotton pro
duction on farm acreage allot
ments be divided into a domestic
portion and an export portion.
Seventy-five per cent of parity
would be paid on both portions. In
addition, a direct subsidy would be
paid on the domestic portion to
raise the price to 95 percent of
parity.
Another bill, by Senator Sym
ington, also would divide the al
lotment into domestic and export
portions. His bill would guarantee
90 per cent of parity on the do
mestic portion and guarantee 95
per cent of the world price on the
export portions of the crop.
RUSSELL BILL WOULD
ABOLISH ALLOTMENTS
A third bill instroduced by Sena
tor Russell would abolish acreage
allotments. Certificates would be
issued to farmers for their share
of the domestic consumption quo
ta. Certified cotton would receive
full parity price support, which
means such support as would off
set the high costs of production in
the United States.
Finally, a bill by Senator East-
land would provide for increasing
the cotton allotment by 20 per
cent and the payment of 75 per
cent of parity.
There appears to be a good deal
of sentiment for separating do
mestic and export allotments and
applying different price supports.
I doubt that these bills will be
taken up at this session of Con
gress, but I would like to have
the views of farmers and others
interested in these plans.
HEARINGS HELD ON BILL TO
RECAPTURE STATES’
REVENUE
During the past week, as chair
man of a special subcommittee of
the Senate Government Operations
Committee, I have held hearings
on a bill I introduced to protect
the Stotes from the loss of cer
tain taxes. My bill would make
contractors working under con
tract to the Federal Government
liable to payment of such taxes
to the States as South Carolina’s
sales tax. Contractors on Federal
projects now enjoy special exemp
tion and the State loses millions
of dollars in revenue each year.
Strong support was given my
bill by the Witnesses who appear
ed, including Chairman Otis W.
Livingston of the South Carolina
Ta?; Commission, who is also
President of the National Asso
ciation of Tax Administrators.
INTRODUCES. BILL TO PRO
HIBIT PAY TELEVISION
I have introduced a bill S. 2268,
in the Senate to prohibit the
charging of a fee to view tele
vision in the home. The public
should not have to pay any addi
tional expense for programs after
having purchased their television
receivers.
There is no proof that pay tele
vision would provide the public
with better programs. The one
sure thing about it is that the
public would have to pay more
than television now costs. I am
afraid the real effect would be to
deprive people of the best pro*
grams they are now seeing free.
My interest is the public inter
est and I do not want to see any
body paying to view television
which is now free. That would
amount to imposing a new tax
which would go to private specu
lators.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Reams have
moved to 1401 Boundary street
in the Stokes home which was re
cently vacated by the John David
Ruffe when they moved to their
new home on Nance street.
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