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N ! Mz m MS' immfg r- , •. PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 195S BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M, ELEAZER The coming of the thresher was an event to be remembered in onr lives as kids in the stone hills of the Dutch Fork. We all grew oats for mule feed. Wouldn’t give it to a cow. The Idea was prevalent it would make a cow dry up. We would thrash a little of it for seed. The balance was fed in the bundle. And then there was enough wheat to fur- aish us with bread. And, of course, all of it had to be thrashed. We cut our grain with a hand cralle and tied it likewise with .twists of grain. It was shocked in the field until dry, and then hauled and stacked in thebarn to await the coming of the thrasher. A P»*w on horseback proceeded it told each farmer when it would get there. The farmer was to have enough good dry wood and some tubs and barrels of water ready there on the spot near the barn. We kids usually went down to a neighbors and watched them finish there. Several long toots of the whistle told of the finish there, and that was a warning for the next farm to get ready. Some of the fire was pulled from the engine, blocks knocked from against its wheels, the long belt that leads to- the thrasher was taken off and rolled up, and two big mules hitched to the thrasher and four to the en gine. That engine was the heavi est thing we ever saw moved on wheels. It really ground up the flinty rocks as it rolled over them. It had a hand brake on it too that a strong man helped the tongue mules with down hills. Otherwise it would have run over them. As soon as it got to the next farm, engine and trasher were rapidly unhitched neatly in line. Crescent shaped holes about 6 inches deep were scooped out for bracing the wheels and quarter- THIMET svstemic insecticide Lzf t — cotton grown jrom seed treated with THIMET. Right — cotton grown from untreated seed is stunted. Seed treated with THIMET grows insect-killing Cotton! 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TELEPHONE: MOuntville 528 A PRODUCT OF AMERICAN CYAN AMID COMPANY \ND HOME DIVISION • NEW YORK 20, N. Y section of a log were driven be tween wheel and ground for added bracing. Otherwise that engine and thrasher would reel and rock at full speed. While all of this was going on, the fireman was busy stuffing the engine with dry wood to get the steam back up. Soon he had it pooping off. That scared us kids, and we’d get behind the barn on a high fence until it stopped. We were afraid of that whistle too. It was so loud it would hurt your ears. And the fireman gloried in getting a bunch of us kids there near the engine, and suddenly pulling that whistle when we were not looking. More of this next week. Last week I started telling of the coming of the thrasher each year to the farms of the Stone. Hills in the Dutch Fork of Lex ington County. I take up here where I left off then. Soon the strawpiles started to grow. We kids would get in and on it, having an awful good time. The women folks were ready with bed ticks ready to be refilled. We used the wheat straw for that. It lasted better and its chaff was not as itchy, if it worked through the ticking. That old straw from the year be fore they emptied out of the ticks before refilling was shred ded up until it had little give to -it. Those new straw beds then slept soft am} cool during the hot days ahead at that season. But they got pretty well packed down and admitted less air by wintertime. The thrashing crew usually stayed out all week, for travel was too slow to go home each night. The men slept in the strawpiles, and the farmers fed them. It was each farmer’s duty to feed the crew at least once when it came to his place. And there was a lot of cooking for this coming of the thrasher. For By LYN CONNELLY p\AVID NIVEN, one of the three A--' owners of Four Star, Inc., makes an interesting observation about westerns: “Westerns al ways will be a staple of TV . . . Should TV confine itself to indoor pictures, it would kill the medi um . . . People want to escape via the TV screen to the outdoors” ...incidentally. Four Star will pro duce 200 TV films this year at an average cost of $40,000 each . . . Desi Arnaz announces that Desilu Productions is blueprinting TV film’s most ambitious series to date ... a series of 37 hour-long video films involving a production outlay of about $7,500,000 . . . The series will be tagged “Desilu Playhouse” and, including time and production coin, will involve about $15,000,000. CBS has promised Victor Borge a serious dramatic show .it is a paradox in show business that* the men who work hardest to get people to enjoy themselves are the ones who take themselves the most seriously! Five clients were ready to share the tab on the Groucho Marx show but the $52,500 price tag scared them away . . . James Mason is being paged to star in a TV series based on the movie, “The Third Man.” PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: The very popular “Tequila” gets a rousing rendition from the baton of Stan Kenton . . . This is a number that should make new fans for Stan . . . Reverse has something called k ‘Cuban Mumble” that makes a small noise but who cares with “Te quila” doing so well? Jack Jones, Allan's talented son, does a mag nificent Job with “A Very Precious Love” from “Marjorie Morning- star” . . . “What's the Use?” is on the flip side. MERCURY: A disk destined for big things is “Wishing for Your Love” done beautifully by a new group called “Hie Voxpoppers” . . . Flip has “The Last Drag.” “Golden Ruby Blue” is the eye opener done by Jimmy Edwards who combines it with “My Honey” Save Where Your Savings Are Insured Look Into Financing Cost Just As Carefully As You Select Your House Plans! Stop by and let us give you the facts and figures on our low-cost home financ ing plan. Building & Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. The State Building Pinckney N. Abrams, Sec.-Treas. HAPPY BIRTHDAY . . . Mrs. Dulles helps Secretary of State John Foster Dulles celebrate his 7dth birthday at staff party. those crews of hard-working men really hid the rations. They thrashed for toll, never cash, as I recall For folks didn’t have much of that. Usually the toll wagon came later and got it. No time to fool with that then. The bushel count was kept by pushing leather washers over an arched wire, at the measur ing trough. Thrashing was one of the hot test and itchiest of jobs. Those men carried / only the overalls and shirt they wore. And after a week’s work, without even pulling them off, they were full ready for the wash. You couldn’t tell the color of men or clothes, and hardly recognized them at church on Sunday, after they cleaned up. It was a sort of honor to be working away with the thrasher. For only strong men could do it. When a boy first did, he would strpt a bit when occa sions arrived. Just as the last bundle zoom ed through the thrasher, a work er yelled “watch out” and threw the great belt with a stick. It writhed dangerously a moment on the ground like a snake and became still. Then he rolled it up and, another helping him, pitched it up on the apron of the thrasher. Others were knocking the blocks from the scotched wheels, cleahing up the sheets, and hitching up the mules. And in no time they were off down the road, with whistle blowing for the next place. Next week a little more. TRIPLETS . . Wm. H. Wil liams of Grady, Pa., poses with his 3-year-old " Hampshire ewe and her three lambs. 2 days old WORLD OUTDOORS S HORT shots concerning the furred, feathered, and finned: The pocket gopher is aptly named. Fur-lined pockets may be found ob each side of the head and neck. A busy gopher may sometimes be seen stuffing one pocket and then the other with food or nesting material. * * • A jackrabbit sometimes may weight seven or eight pounds and can leap 15 or 20 feet in a single hop if he really gets excited. * * * Thousands of years ago, we’re told, there lived in North America a giant beaver, long er than a black bear. It meas ured 7J4 feet, counting its tail. Our present-day beaver never stops growing — but doesn’t grow fast enough, or live long enough, to approach the size of his giant ancestor. * * • The fox family operates as a unit in the summer when the par ents teach the young to hunt. Foxes, like skunks and badgers, are often abused. But each per forms mankind a good service by keeping other animal life under control. It has been estimated that a single fox will kill more than a thousand Rodents per year. • • * The skunk often lends a helping hand to waterfowl. How so? Well, waterfowl will refuse to nest in marshes where too many turtles live— for obvious reasons. Skunks keep turtle populations in check by destroying their eggs. State Bank No. 67-69S REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE BANK OF COMMERCE OF PROSPERITY, IN THE STATE OF'SOUTH CAROLINA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON MARCH 4, 1958. ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve bal ances, and cash items in process of collection ^ $229,896.19 United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 240,576.20 Obligations of State and political subdivisions . 110,992.12 Other bonds, notes, and debentures 10,000.00 Loans and discounts (including $74.51 overdrafts) 253,016.54 Bank premises owned, none; furniutre and fixtures, $1,- 606.72 1,606.72 Other assets 1,402.65 TOTAL ASSETS _ 1 $847,490.42 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and cor porations $556,963.04 Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corpo rations 124,829.45 Deposits of United States Government (including postal savings) 12,851.29 Deposits of States and political subdivisi<yis 65,992.32 Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.) 2,946.30 TOTAL DEPOSITS $763,582.40 Other liabilities 4,440.12 t CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital* $ 50,000.00 Surplus 23,000.00 Undivided profits 6,467.90 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $ 79,467.90 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS __$847,490.42 ♦This bank’s capital consists of: Common stock with total par value of $50,000.00. MEMORANDA Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes $ 69,612.50 Loans as shown above are after deduction of reserves of 2,334.73 I, Jacob A. Bowers, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, and that it fully and correctly represents the true state of the several matters herein contained and set forth, to the best of my knowledge and belief. JACOB A. BOWERS, Correct—Attest: RUDOLPH C. BARNES, J. MONROE FULMER, W. G. LYLES, DAN D. LANG, Directors j State of South Carolina, County of Richland—ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of March, 1958, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank. HAZEL C. CAULEY, Notary Public. My commission expires at the pleasure of the Governor. LAFF OF THE WEEK “Oh, Mr. Rigney—I’U bet you all us ty that to »» FOOD FOR FREE CHINA . . . Taiwan farmer shows huge white beets grown on Formosa farm. 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