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'■■n ■■m PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN mn 1218 CoUtge Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6. 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3,1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Sitting in my car recently- my mind turned to Easter and I thought of the days of my boyhood when, as a choir boy in Charleston, Easter meant days and hours of prep aration for the great occasion. A photograph of me in the long black surplice and white cassock seems so utterly for eign, but it was I and I was reminded of what my sister used to say when trying to order me around, as older Sisters always try, you know. Said she “anyone seeing you in the choir looking like an angel wouldn’t believe what a little devil you are.” I can’t quite imagine the angelic appearance, but the other part has the ring of absolute truth. Even so. Look at the flowers in their radiant beauty; observe the seed transformed into glorious peaches. All these things spring from what we call death, the rotting of the seed and its emergence into gorgeous new forms, still the vibrant re sult of a dead seed. Shall a man merely pass into a State of corruption, all his vast and splendid energy and the immeasureable immen sity of his potential ability buried and lost in a state of nothingness ? Every year the farmer sows seed with assurance that cotton or corn or tobacco will develop from that seed, yet that seed has to die—if die is the word. It must change its form and become fruitful. Why should it be thought incredible that God should raise the dead? He makes the earth to nourish the germ of life and change its form. St. Paul said “Behold a mystery! We shall be transform ed in the twinkling of an eye; The vital spark of energy, the Soul, passes instantly into a new life.” If not even a lump of coal can be destroyed, but must resolve itself into its elements, how great would be the waste if the wondrous brain and the marvellous spirit should merely die? Easter is not merely a day; it is a celebration of the res urrection, but it tells us convincingly that so we rise to a new life. “Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the Soul.” Sometime ago I made the point that our Colored ‘people will lose so much by the so-called Integration that they should resist it vigorously. I quoted an Associated Press dispatch from Dallas, Texas. “Integration of Oklahoma schools has cost 300 Negro teachers their jobs, a social scientist said Friday. ‘The integration of Negro students has not posed a dif ficult problem but the integration of Negro teachers is prov ing more difficult,’ Dr. Virgil F. Dougherty of Oklahoma City University told the Southwestern Social Science Assn, annual convention. ‘Before integration there were 1,537 Negro teachers in Oklahoma whereas there are approximately 1,200,left,’ Dr. Dougherty, who carried out research on integration, said. Hospital Patients Mrs. Maggie Amick, Rt. 4. Mrs. Dora Berry, Rt. 3, Saluda. Baby Lou Ann Baird, Augusta, Ga. Joe W. Black, Rt. 1, Saluda. Mrs. Essie Cook, Rt. 2, Pros perity. Mrs. Elizabeth Dukes, 1502 Caldwell St. Mrs. Henrietta Dover, 901 Sloan St., ,Clinton. Mrs. Gladys Graham, Rt. 2, Po- maria. Mrs. Isabel Gist, 2230 John stone St. Mrs. Madeline Hipp, Rt. 2, Pros perity. Mrs. Nannie Lee Herlong, Rt. 4, Leesville. Mrs. Vinnie L. Hinnant, 2128 Harper St. Mrs. Lillian B. Hendrix, Rt. 4. Mrs. Narvice Koon, 1110 Vin cent St. Miss Ethel Koon, 817 Boundary St. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. * Mrs. Mary Ann McCullough, 2225 Harper St. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Harrington St. Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1. Talmadge M. Padgett, 89 Glenn St. Mrs. Margaret Reames, 1401 Boundary St. David Rowlette, 741 Oakland Ave., Columbia. Mrs. Veta Richardson, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Mrs. Erlene Ringer, Rt. 2, Po- maria. Mrs. Mathilde Smith, Rt. 2, Po- maria. Mrs. Alice Westmoreland, 2101 Ola St. Walter W. Senn, Silverstreet. Chevis I. Boozer, Rt. 1. Mrs. Mildred C. Alewine, Pros perity. Grady Ruff, Prosperity. Inez Werts, 806 Crosson St. Janie Shepherd, Rt. 3. Martha Butler and Baby Girl, Rt. 4, Saluda. Willie Margaret Chaplin, 2321 Emory St. Roseanna Caldwell, Rt. 1, Box 344. Baby Boy Crooks, Rt. 1, Po- maria. Jeff Gladney, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Willie Wilson Hair, Rt. 1, Chappells. Beaudelt McClurkin, Rt. 2, Whitmire. Prosperity News Mrs. L. J. Fellers was hostess I Spotts had a box of the. sprouted to the Prosperity Garden Club Monday afternoon, April 7. Mrs. Quay Fellers and Miss Rosa Mae Mitchell of Blythewood were guests. The new president, Mrs. H. L. Fellers presided. The committees for the year were appointed. Mrs. George W. Harmon was appointed the representative on the Garden Club Council. Mrs. B. T. Young gave a time ly discussion on perennials. She gave the outstanding and most popular perennials according to the seasons—Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. During the social hour the hos tess served a sweet course with coffee. grass and told of its advantages and value ap a lawn grass. The gleaner, Mrs. D. H. Hamm Jr. read an Easter poem. Mrs. Richard Foster, recreation leader conducted a quotation con test with Mrs. Earl Bedenbaugh as prize winner. The hostess served a salad plate, coffee, and cake. Mrs. H. L. Shealy was hostess to the Dogwood Garden Club last Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. D. H. Hamm Jr. Mrs. Earl Bedenbaugh presided. Mrs. Frances Spotts, program leader, gave an interesting discus sion on zzoysia lawn grass.’ Mrs. Daisy S. Mines and Baby Girl, Rt. 3, Box 451. Rev. John H. Penny, Box 76, Rt. 4. Fred Rogers, Rt. 1, Box 171, Mary Rikard, Rt. 4. Mildred Simpkins, 1603 Vincent St. Lillie Worthy, Rt. 4, Box 83. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Mary Dutton and Baby Boy, Rt. 2, Newberry. Mrs. Frances Epting, Prosper ity. Mrs. Minnie Frick, Chapin. Mrs. Bessie Metze, Little Moun tain. Miss Florence Miller, Pomaria. James Koon, 409 Wright St., Newberry. Mrs. Georgia Mae Haltiwanger, Chapin. Mrs. Leila Joyner, Newberry. Carl Epting, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Mrs. Minnie Reagin, Glenn St., Newberry. Emory Magbee, Pope St., New berry. Helen Burton, White Rock. What about the common cold? It has been with us since the dawn of the earliest days, from the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, as the old writ er used to say. So ponder this: “Although they take an astonishing toll each year in personal health, very little is known about the mysterious agents that produce colds. Now, with rapid strides being made in isolating these trouble makers, scientists are in creasingly optimistic that the common cold, like smallpox and polio, in the not too distant future will be largely brought under control. ‘We probably have all the research tools now at our dis posal for conquering the so-called common cold,’ declares Dr. Edwin Kilboume, a virus researcher at the Cornell Uni versity Medical School in New York. ‘It now seems to be a matter of turning the right technical trick in the labora tory.’ | m\ This is no simple matter, for researchers still are not fully agreed on exactly what a cold is or what type of virus causes it. But advances in the past few months in the fight against respiratory diseases are encouraging scientists to believe a suitable vaccine, or other preventive, can be de veloped to banish the plague of sore throats, running noses, coughing and other cold-caused misery. On the average, Americans sniffle through at least two colds a year. Now, at the height of the cold-catching sea son, some 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 persons a week are bedded for a day or more by respiratory ailments, including colds, according to the Public Health Service. Spending for colds and cough medications each year tops $220 million. This doesn’t include fees for doctors, wages lost or the immeas urable loss in decreased job efficiency. The Common Cold Foundation, a corporate-supported agency in New York, cal culates one-half of all absentees each year is blamed on colds, for a loss of 150 million work days annually at a cost of about $2 billion in wages. Growing consciousness of the economic toll of colds is spurring renewed efforts by private concerns and public agencies to find a cure that does not merely relieve the symptoms—as present remedies claim to -do—but actually attacks the disease-causing viruses. The Federally-supported National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is pumping $500,000 into research on common respiratory diseases this year. Another $100,000 is being put up in research grants by th$ Common Cold Foun dation, which gets its funds from 170 corporations trying to combat the absenteeism problem. These outlays, not especially startling in their amounts, nonetheless underscore the mounting interest in the cold conflict. Five years ago, researchers note ruefully, hardly accent was being spent in basic research on colds. It is easy to exaggerate and distort the progress of any battle against a disease. This is especially true in the case of the common cold, which is neither common nor a cold, in the lexicon of some medical men. Most prefer to talk of ‘colds’ but of respiratory diseases, not to be pedantic but to be precise. In the broad category of respiratory diseases fallother, more serious ailments such as pneumonia.” If more viruses are discovered we shall have more to worry about, don’t you think? Up to this time, in our happy ignorance, we thought a “virus” was just something you suffered from that the Doctor wasn’t certain about. But now we learn that there are more viruses than Carter had oats, as they used to say. Still, we shall persevere in spite of the viruses, sniffing our way around, spreading the germs throughout the neigh borhood. Mrs. Richard Foster was hos tess to the Literary Sorosis Fri day afternoon. Fifteen members and one guest, Mrs. J. E. Wes- singer, were present. Mrs. W. H. Leaphart Jr. gave an interesting discussion of the coral reef with colored film illus trations. Officers elected for next year are: President, Mrs. Elmer Shealy; vice president, Mrs. W. E. Hancock; secretary, Mrs. D. H. Hamm Jr.; treasurer, Mrs. W. H. Leaphart, Jr. Mrs. Walter Hamm, retiring president,presided. After adjournment the hostess served a delectable salad plate, cake, and coffee. Something good may come from the Recession, according to reports. “Recession-minded Americans are salting away savings at a swifter pace. The thriftier trend represents a sharp reversal from generally prosperous 1957, when peo ple were putting money aside at aslower rate than in 1956. The big reason behind the rise in savings, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of bankers, life insurance of ficials and savings and loan executives in every area of the nation is that worried workers are fattening up their sav ings accounts as a hedge against loss of jobs or income as the recession drags on. ‘Many people have become scared of the business reces sion and have decided to put their available money away for future use,’ says Archibald Dresser, president of Boston’s Warren Institution for Savings. ‘The fear of impending industrial layoffs makes a person realize he might be the next to go and had better start sav ing his money,’ says A. Burnham Converse, assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago. ‘In asituation such as the present readjustment,’ says an official of the First National Bank of Dallas, ‘People are prone to save their money rather than spend it while there is uncertainty about the course of the economy.’ A great many U. S. economists believe the savings upswing is siph oning cash out of the nation’s spending stream and aggra vating the recession by reducing the demand for houses, autos, major appliances and the like and more than one banker shares this view. T honestly can’t say a rise in savings at this time is a healthy thing,’ says a N. Y. savings banker. ‘The only way we can get the wheels of the econo my rolling again is through spending.” The members of the Crepe Myrtle Garden Club held their April meeting with Mrs. Jake Singley. The new president, Mrs. Roy Singley, presided. Mrs. G. H. Caldwell gave an in teresting and informative talk on herbs. Mrs. W. A. Ballentine brought a daffodil-Dutch Iris arrangement for discussion. Mrs. Raymond Ruff conducted recreation -with Mrs. John Dawk ins as prize winner. The hostess served sandwiches, cookies and London fog. The following circles of the ULCW of Grace Church will meet Friday afternoon at 3:30. The Gertrude Leonard with Mrs. O. B. Shearouse, Mrs. J. D. Luther as leader; The Anna Kug- ler, with Mrs. John Taylor with Mrs. Sam Beam as leader; the Lilly Wyzer with Mrs. S. A. Quat- tlebaum with Mrs. Wilbur Wes- singer as leader. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hunter of Short Hills, N. J. have been on a visit with relatives in and near Prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Barnes were weekend guests of their son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Ross in Athens, Ga. Mrs. Thomas Zeigler of Orange burg spent last week with the R. C. Hunters and other relatives. Mrs. Pat E. Wise spent the weekend in Athens, Ga. as guest of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Scott. With Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bal lentine for the weekend were their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. David Lee and their two chil dren of Seneca. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Montjoy and their four children of Green ville were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cole Wessinger. Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Rudisill of Cherryville, N. C. were guests Sunday of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hamm and their small son, Wally. Dr. and Mrs. George W. H&r- j mon spent Sunday in Cherryville, N. C. as guests of Dr. and Mrs. Paine. Mrs. Harmon and Mrs. Paine are planning a European trip together. They will leave the first of May. Wayne, Rachel and Jimmy Ray Counts, students at Furman Uni versity, spent last week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Counts. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Dawkins and their two children spent Sunday at the Millses’ mountain cabin above Pickens. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Richards of Heath Springs visited Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Young Sunday. Miss Clara Brown returned home Saturday from Highlands Hospital in Asheville, N. C. Staff Sergeant and Mrs. Joe FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clamson Extension Information' Specialist The April meeting of the Iris Garden Club was held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. B. D. Hawkins with Mrs. Tommy Harmon as hostess. Mrs. Harmon presided. The officers of the past year were re-elected as fol lows: President, IVJrs. Tommy Har mon; vice president, Mrs. B. D. Hawkins; secretary, Mrs. W. L. Mathis Jr.; treasurer, Mrs. John Earl Dawkins. Mrs. Isadore Ruff was appointed to represent the club on the Garden Club Council. Mrs. Isadore Ruff presented the program. After meditation and prayer, she discussed nematodes on Iris. She also gave some val uable suggestions for helping win ter-hurt plants. Mrs. John Earl Dawkins gave gleanings. In a flower contest Mrs. Leroy Pugh was high and Mrs. Hubert Stockman was low. Both received prizes. During the social hour the hos tess served a palatable salad plate, cookies, and punch. A HARD WINTER We have just passed through a winter that hasn’t been equaled for hard sustained cold in a long time. Therefore, winter grazing hasn’t amounted to much. On the milder winters, we can have good gr^en grazing clear throogh. But those like the last are reminders that we need a reserve of live stock feed to carry us through when they do cdme. It is pretty easy to get this reserve of feed, if we just plan and act in time. Now soon we will be combining grain. That straw raked, baled, and stored will serve you well when hard winters strike. Pastures are coming forth now. Arid the going will likely be easy for months. In fact, if you have enough grazing, specially Coastal Bermuda, you will have too much at the peak of the season. It is then that the mowing machine can serve two purposes. Cutting helps the pastures then, by keep ing them lush and fresh. And the hay you get is your insurance against hungry cattle when hard winter strikes. SWEET POTATOES IN . CHESTERFIELD The sweet potato has been los ing ground for years. And now we grow less of ’em than we did 100 years ago. A few farmers, who specialize in them and do the good job that modern merchandizing requires, consistently make money out of ’em. That number will likely increase here now that Clemson has given us a greatly improved variety that has been named the CaroGold. County Agent Jake Willis of Chesterfield tells me their Green Hili Community has taken the growing of sweet potatoes as one of their projects this year. They are planning a. considerable ac reage. The sandy lands of Ches terfield should grow a fine qual ity sweet potato. COTTON PLANTING TIME One of the best cotton farmers I ever knew lived in the mid-state. April 10 was his date to start planting cotton. If it was too wet, of course, he waited until he could after that. But he tried to have his land . prepared, with fertilizer out, and beds settled by then. And it didn’t take him long to gel the seed in the ground. Many around him started planting earlier. Cold often damaged their stands and they didn’t seem to go to the gin any earlier that he did, and not usually as often. This is released for April 10, right in the shank of the cotton planting time that good farmers thought best. And I believe both experiment and experience show it doesn’t pay to plant cotton too early. It is a warm weather plant and there’s no use trying to make it grow out of its elements. It’s tender seedlings are very sensi tive to cold, and to insects and di seases associated with cool spring weather. Cotton seed are reported from all quarters as being rather sorry this time. Last summer’s weather damaged them bad all across the Southeast. So we need to take every care towards getting a stand this time. And that includes seed treatment. Ask your county Dawkins and their son of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, visited Mrs. John Dawkins last week. Rev. and Mrs. Ben Clark and Dr. and Mrs. C. K. Wheeler Sr., were in Charleston,the first of the week. Rev. Clark and Dr. Wheel er attended the S. C. Synod of the Lutheran Church. Mrs. A. B. Hunt, Mrs. Frances Spotts and her two children, Lar- r; and Frances Ann, spent Sun day in Sumter as guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Preslar. Mrs. Preslar accompanied the Hunts and Spotts home and will be here for the week. Mrs. L. J. Fellers has returned home from a visit with her son- in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wise and children in Cayce, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foster and their two sons, Rick and Lee, Mrs. J. L. Counts, Mr. and Mrs. B. Cornell Bedenbaugh and their daughters, Sally and Anne Amick, visited Mrs. Rodney Counts in Orangeburg Sundayand also vis ited Edisto Gardens. agent for details, if you need them for this. MANALUCIE TOMATO Try the Manalucie tomato in, your garden this time, if you can 1 find a few plants. I'm sure you’ll like it. It is highly disease re sistant, of good quality, and bears a lot of good size tomatoes over a long period of time. It outdid other varieties where I saw it in three home gardens here last summer. They were still alive with tomatoes on ’em when frost came, while others had died some time before that. Many folks wrote me earlier as to where they could get the seed of this tomato. But it’s too late to be starting from seed now. Maybe you can find the plants at your seed store. Several green houses in this area produced them early. I imagine the same thing happened in your section. Inquire around. SOYBEANS Calhoun County has been the center from which the soybean Industry has spread over South Carolina. Thitt was quite natural, with John E. . Wannamaker being there. For he saw promise in the soybean as a possible money crop soon after the boll weevil first hit cotton there. He has worked untiringly with the crop, trying to get a high yielding shatter-re sistant bean suited to our condi tions here. And it has been large ly on his beans that our acreage has grown. They are the CNS 4, and the JEW 45. And then we also have three USD A varieties planted considerably here, the Yelnanda, the Jackson, and the Lee. Last summer I rode with Coun ty Agent Cain/ over Calhoun County. We saw beans every where we looked. I asked him about the acreage. He said he didn’t know exactly, it was grow ing so fast, but felt it was at least 50,000 acres. The official USDA figures have just reached me. They show that Calhoun county harvested 65,000 acres for bpans last year! Now, folks, that’s a lot of beans for a rather small coun ty. Orangeburg had 71,000 acres, Allendale 40,000 and Hampton 38,- 000 acres of soys last year. Many other counties have fast growing soybean acreages too. Clemson tells us we need to watch the fertilization of this rather new crop. Minimum rate and grade per acre for average soils is 400 to 600 pounds of 4-12-12 fertilizer. And for soils whose test shows them to-be high in phos phate but low in potash, use that same amount of a 3-9-18 per acre. Planting dates are May 1 to July 15. FORESTRY NOW Applied forestry, like soybeans, is rather new in South Carolina. In this country, it started with THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1958 President Theodore Roosevelt's interest in 1905, he and Pinchot of Pennsylvania. But here our forests were! still in the abund ant, wasteful stage. It was almost 20 years later that forestry- reached us with the coming of the first resident forester to South Carolina in the- form of Henry Tryon, Extension Forester for Clemson, September 5, 1924. He talked a language of trees that was strange with us far a k while. But he soon got the ear of a few conservation-minded folks. They eventually got the ear of the legislature, and the beginning of our present efficient state forestry department wss v • set up. H Now, I’m told, we have more «t| consulting foresters than anyW other state. Yep, that’s in addi-£ tion to our public ones, who have done and are doing such a good ^ educational job in our midst! Yes, our folks ace fast learning | to farm their woods, and to her* vest just what needs to come out. For small fees-, our consulting foresters do this, marking what needs to come out. Then the ers can market their holdings in * telligently. Many have and are learning this through the 4-H forestry and FFA work. And I know ers who are planting pines as vestments for small children* Wild fires once plagued woodlands annually. And could not come back very - then. But, at long last, our folks have gotten to they don’t want woods fires, we are having fewer and That’s the main thing that’s ed. For our state forester, Flory, tells me most of our over lands will come back to if we let ’em. And that keeping fires out. Burning waql ingrained in our custom and tl dition that many thought we*<t never control it. But we have liv ed to see that change too, in changing world. Fire wardens fighting crews in every cottfify j are ready atthe spotting of , first smoke. 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