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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1957 THE NEWBERRY SUN i PAGE SEVEN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist BAT TURKEY Even we poor folks can eat tur- Jcey often now, for it is one of the cheapest meats. Yes, cheaper than weiners or bologna, as our turkey specialist, Charlie Risher, points out. Our growers have done a fine job of improving their breeding and feeding, and are now making turkey meat cheaper and more efficiently than in years past. But as good as they are, they can’t make anything on ‘em at prices that have prevailed for some time now. Just cutting the slices a little thicker or eating it a little oftener can help the turkey situat ion a lot. The use of turkey meat has in creased a lot in recent years, since we passed from the old \ grass hopper stage to the meaty stall- fed bird. But it has’nt been en ough to take the expanded pro duction. The turkey interests of the country tried to get together and make a reasonable reduction in production in line with pro spective demand. In South Carolina our growers cut 3 percent under last year’s turkey production. But most other areas increased theirs, giving us a 5-percent increase in turkeys this year over 1956. So it looks like a long hard winter for the turkey grower, but a good one for the rest of us. For our dollars will likely continue to buy a lot of turkey for some time to come. Think of it, turkey, once a hol iday tpeat, now the cheapest meat! And we are told it is a high-energy nonfattening meat too. PROCESSED FOODS Fewer and fewer foods go from the farm direct to the kitchen now. There are all sorts of processing, prepackaging. Chilling, freezing, cooking, etc., of foods now before they reach the kitchen. Look how Irish potatoes, for instance, have changed. They used to leave the farm in barrels, then sacks, and now as finished pro ducts in some cases. I have a friend in Maine who is a large potato grower. He sells his entire Crop now as French fries. And his move when others don’t. Pro cessed potatoes like chips, French fries, canned, and so on has in creased since 1940. It is traditional that the pro ducer of any products doesn’t usually fare so well. Processing charges are added to finished pro ducts and passed on. So the better we can prepare a product for the kitchen the better chance we have of making the most out of it. The price of the raw product usually varied greatly. But that for pro cessing and packing it is rather fixed and sure. So, if you only get the raw product price, you are in for’ a lot of violent ups and downs. I know that can’t be carried out on everything. But the more of the preparing and processing we can get done on the farm and in local establishments the better. For those added values and pay rolls help the whole community, including the farmer. THIS INSECT HELPED Back in late August the cotton leaf caterpillar did a lot of good at places by completely defoliating cotton. At a few places it appear ed too early and had to be pois oned. But in most cases the brood came just at the right time. They cleaned up every cotton leaf in whole townships and even that little trash at the base of the bolls too. County Agent Jackson told me they were easily worth a half million dollars to the cotton growers in Williamsburg. They had the most complete job I saw. Those worms eat nothing but cotton. If there was a cocklebur stalk, soybean, or bunch of grass in the cotton field, it stayed there untouched. But not a leaf of cot ton remained. Our insect man Nettles tells me this insect has to come each year from South or Central Amer ica. It can’t stand the winters here. It flies here in the moth stage when prevailing winds are right. An early hurrican will often bring them soon enough to do damage to cotton before it is ready for defoilating. But when they hit cotton just at the right Rev. Robert H. Harper TIME FOR EVERYTHING ««nnO everything there is a sea- son,” according to Ecclesias tes, and if men would cease doing things out of season, there would be less tragedy in the world. Of all the errors off men, one of the worst is giving a disproportion ate amount of time to lesser things. Jesus does not condemn the acquisition of wealth, but he does admonish men not to make earthly gain the whole of life, and to put first things first. A poor old woman appealed to King Philip of Macedonia to grant her relief in a great wrong. He refused to hear further, saying he did not have time. “Then, Sire,” the old woman« told him, “you haven’t time to be king.” Her words so struck the monarch that he heard her plea and granted her relief. If the very king on his throne hasn’t time to hear the cause of the lowliest of his sub jects, he hasn’t time to be king. Sometimes a man is heard to say that he hasn’t to do this or that good thing. If he hasn’t time to serve God, what has he time to do? The earthly seasons come and go, but all the year is the tima for serving God. BEAUTY AND GRAPES . . . Dee Hardy, 23, San Francisco drama tic arts student, is 1957-3 national vintage queen of U. S. wine growers. time, as they did on vast areas in the Low Country this year, they do the finest defoliating job you ever saw. CAN YOU SEE BEYOND TODAY? Today is yesterday’s tomorrow! The older we get, it seems, the years fly by so much faster. Year after year some people pay rent, not knowing how easy it is to own their own home just because they never asked. Savings and Loan Associations, today, are financ ing more homeg than all other financial institutions combined. Let us show you our plan, it is simple, and the pay ments on most loans are no more than monthly rent you would pay if you were renting. JSewberry. federal &aving,3 and jQoan Association “Use our Modern Night Depository for after office hoars business.” “NEWBERRY S LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION” i BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER We really hated to go to Sun day school as kids. One reason was that they made us wear shoes. And most of the year they burned our feet, as we went gloriously unshod from the last heavy frost of spring until the first freeze of fall. With the men sitting out there under the trees talking, it was punishment when they called us kids in for Sunday school. The women folks and small children had already gone in. Another thing that bothered me inside the church was the red wasps. They were always there. Shut up all week, they were still flitting about, apparently trying to get out when we were in there. And_ even_ with, windows- open', they’d mess around on the top sash, hit the glass, and fall and swoop all around us, keeping me uneasy all the time. Even in the winter there was no release fr^m this. It was worse, for the warmth from the stove thawed the hiber nating creatures out a bit and they’d zoom crazily about and light on anything, including us! After going through the ex ercises, responses, and stinging, then we’d retire to our classes. We had no classrooms. Each group just took up a different place there in the church. With about eight teachers talking to different age groups at the same time, it was a sort of babble of voices. I can’t say I ever got much out of it. And I was always afraid the teacher would ask me a ques tion, and occasionally she did. However, I don’t recall ever an swering one. It wasn’t always because I didn’t know it either. I was just scared to speak out. We had about 10 minutes be tween Sunday school and church proper. We sure enjoyed that, and it seemed so short. The playing of the organ was again the signal to enter for the service. The men were always the last to go in. They straggled in during the first hymn; only the few who helped in the choir came in at the start. By the time the first hymn was finished, the men too were all in. Those who couldn’t get along with out chewing tobacco sat by the windows. Next week we’ll finish this little excursion back to the country church of 40 to 50 years ago. \/fANY a bass fisherman who used to put away his casting rig with the arrival of the first frost now makes this first sign of winter the occasion for putting on some new line and laying in a new supply of baits and plugs. Our bass fisherman • grew up the normal way, with normal ideas —spring and summer were for fishing; winter was the time to dress in longies and parka and go a’hunting. But time, circum stances and experience suggested to our fisherman that bass must feed in cool and cold weather and one brisk October day he went fishing. This one expedition brought about a new way of tlvnk- ing. In the big bass country the Southland, fall fishing is best. When cooler weather brings the water temperatures down to the high 60’s, the old Winkers come charging off the bottom of rivers and lakes to smash viciously at top water popping baits and spin ners. October usually brings ideal fishing days. The dawn breaks slowly, revealing a fog-shrouded lake. Like hot popcorn in a skil let is the sound of top-feeding bluegills. Silently a boat pulls away from the shore and threads its way among the trees and stumps that materialize sudden ly in the misty fog. A piece of cork, a hunk at hair and a hook files through the air and comes to rest on the calm waters, twitch ing ever so slightly, sending out a gentle ring of ripples. And then the water explodes with sound and fury; down to the depths go the cork and hook and hunk of hair and in this moment of im- * pact a rod tip swings skyward, line goes taut and the battle is ioined. The cold-weather wind has a bit- l edge and fingers grow numb J cold. PRINTING: The Sun is well equip ped to handle all your printing orders. We specialize in letter heads, envelopes, billheads and statements, also invoices. We print any kind of receipt book, numbered or plain. Ruled forms, vouchers, and many other items. Try us for quality printing with prompt service. Phone No. 1. We’ll be glad to calL I REMEMBER” BY THS OLD TIMERS k >rom Pearl Peters, Hamilton, • Jhio: My first memory is of Cali fornia, where my. sisters and I ran across a road of deep sand so hot it burned our bare feet. The workers in the peach orchard laughed uproariously as we ran back to Mamma. Then we moved “back home’’ to the Kentucky hills and there was Grandma with her loom, spin ning wheel, home-made quilts, knitting, feather ticks, straw and shuck ticks and home-made clothes. There were hundreds of glass jars of fruits; dried apples, pumpkins, soup and “shucky” beans. Kraut was made in a big crock with a rock on top—and there were crocks of pickled corn, beans and briney pickles. Late fall was hog killing time, when some of us “foundered” on fresh pork. Some of the meat was salted and some was smoked in the smoke house. Mollasses was made on a cane mill pulled round and round by mules. There was the task of getting extra wood for winter, hauling it on a sled down the hillsides; and big “batches” of soap made from old meat scraps, stale grease and cleaned hog scraps, cooked with lye until thick then dried and cut in cakes. There was no such thing as soap bought from a store in those days. (Send contribnttons to this column to The Old Timer, Community Press Serr- iee. Box 39, Frankfort, Kentucky.) MfiLK EMISSARY . . . Chosen Britain’* dairy queen from 3,000 contestants. Mona Griffiths, 20, of Sanaa, Wales, tours U. S. aa reward. Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNQ, Correspondent Recent guests of Mrs. J. A. Sease were Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Phillips of North Augusta, Mr. and Mrs. John Davis of Fountain Inn, Mrs. Tom Sease, Miss Myrna Sease and George Sease of Clin ton. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leaphart Jr. announce the birth of a daugh ter at Mills Clinic on October 18. The little girl weighed 7 pounds and 10 ounces and has been nam ed Merrianne. Mrs.' Leaphart is the former Miriam Ballentine. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Paden and their two children of Atlanta, Ga. and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Tompkins and their three children of Mar ietta, Ga. spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Shealy. They came for the funeral of their uncle, H. L. Shealy. Mr. and Mrs. Webster Grayson and their son of North Augusta were guests last Friday night of Mrs. Grayson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Connelly. Rev. and Mrs. P. E. Shealy of Fincastle, Va. spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Shealy. They were called to Prosperity Vcause of the death of. Rev. Shealy’s brother, Mr. H. L. Shealy. Mrs. J. B. Goldman of North Augusta is spending two weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Sease. Mr. and Mrs. 0. F. Hendrix of Lexington spent Sunday with their C. E. Hendrix and Mrs. Hend- rix. Miss Elllen Wheeler of Winth- rop College spent the weekend with Mrs. J. F. Browne and Mrs. P. W. Smith. Mrs. P. C. Singley and Mrs. J. D. Luther accompanied the W. O. Callahans of Columbia for a weekend trip to the mountains of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. John Lowe and their son of Allendale spent the weekend with Mrs. Lowe’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Har mon. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Webster and their little daughter, Lois, of Florence were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sanford of Newberry were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Luther .and J. D. Luther Sr. Weekend guests of Rev. and Mrs. B. M. Clark were their son- in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Helton and their two children, Clark and Kathy, of Keenansville, N. C. and Mr. and Mi-s. C. A. Helton of Hickory, N. C. Mrs. W. H. Helton and chil dren stayed for a longer visit with her parents. The Rev. J. E. Stockman, pas tor of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church of Roanoke, Va., will be Evan gelism Mission speaker for Grace Lutheran Church. The theme of Pastor Stock man’s messages for the week will be, “Our Lord’s Life Is Our Life.” The schedule of services is as follows: Sunday, Oct. 27, 11:15 a. m.— “A Child Is Bom.” Sunday, Oct. 27, 8 p. m.—‘Face to Face with the Devil.” Monday, Oct. 28, 8 p. m.— “The Maker of Men.” Tuesday, Oct. 29, 8 p. m.— “Christ’s Healing Ministry.” Wednesday, Oct. 30, 8 p. m.— “The Christ of Calvary.” Thursday, Oct. 31, 8 p. m.—“The Hope of the World.” During these vesper services Pastor Stockman will also conduct an informal question and answer period. ^ NKWSMMt AOS MAKI SAUL.. NOBEL WINNER . . . Former Canadian foreign minister Lester B. Pearson was awarded 1957 / Nobel peace prise ($40435.33) for activities in UN for peace l» Egypt. . ' ■ -— . UNDERCOVER AGENT . . One-year-old Jimmy Polk, fM* «t r U. 8. embassy attache in London, dons dad’s derby at New TstR tan, D. C. WHITAKER FUNERAL HOME; AMBULANCE PHONE 270 T The bold lines of Buick’s 1958 styling- are exemplified in the luxury and beauty of the Buick Special, the big volume seller in the Buick line. Dual headlights and a dazzling new grille add breadth and lowness to the front end design. The Special, which is mounted on a 122-inch wheel base, boasts new and bigger brakes, and e xquisite new interiors that complement the glamorous exterior colors. The new miracle air ride and either variable pitch or the revolutionary flight pitch Dynaflow are v optional equipment on the Special series which comes in seven models. / ON DISPLAY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 —at— Ed YOUNG BUICK Co. NEWBERRY, S. C.