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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
County Agent Willis of Chest-
«rfield says: “Three communities
in the county are doing wonderful
■work in the Community Develop-
jnent program.”
This important work is state
wide. In this changing agricul
ture, and with the changing rural
population, community develop
ment came as a must. For the rur-
a! church, the rural school, and
the old rural communities were
^dwindling so. And to let them go
would take the very bedrock from
under our rural life and be a blow
to the nation.
This concerted action in all
^counties is headed up by Clem-
«on’s M. H. Sutherland, who tells
me of pleasing progress in many
a county. I’ve met with some of
the community groups and saw
the potential leadership that’s be
ing developed. These interested
^groups are revitalizing many a
.community over the state and re
building out there a lot of the tar
nished, enduring values. The
church, the school, the home, re
-creation, and the like show the
-difference when this transfusion
of n6w ideas and rededications en
ter a community. Not so much help
from the outside either. Many a
run-down community is pulling it-
-.self up by its bootstraps and mak
ing it again a place where proud
people live.
out to help grow more of its di
verse needs. They need the pro
ducts. The farmers need the new
crops.
GROWING BABY FOOD
In our growing economy, there’s
always something new coming a-
long. Usually it makes a new call
for workers, a new product is
born, and we live better because
of it.
Listen to County Agent Martin
of Spartanburg: “Indications are
Spartanburg county farmers will
3?et several hundred acres to
pears, peaches, and plums for sale
to the Gerber Baby Food Com
pany that’s locating across the
line in North Carolina.”
They have been shipping a lot
of peaches up East for that pur
pose some years. But now that
this company is putting one of its
canning plants down here, the
•Spantanburg folks are branching
LOOK OUT
There used to be not many
things that could hit you and hurt
you. A cotton gin was the most
dangerous thing we had. Not
many folks were exposed to it.
But a surprising number of those
who were, lost a limb or their life.
If fact, among the old-timers
when I was coming along, you saw
a good many men with one leg.
Usually it had been lost in the
war. And you saw a goodly num
ber with one arm. Usually that
had been lost in a gin. Many had
been killed in both cases. But
these are the ones that survived.
Then to be kicked by a mule or
horse was one of the old dangers.
But we learned through tradition
to stay away from their heels. So
that danger didn’t take many
lives nor leave many cripples.
Cutting down trees was another
danger of old. But there too we
learned to look and keep out of
the way.
Those dangers have largely
gone. But others have come with
the new day. The machine is kill
ing and maiming at an alarming
rate. This is so unneccessary.
They have their danger points. We
need to learn and heed them, as
we did the heels of the mule.
Corn pickers are just coming in
our state. They are perhaps
greater potential killers than the
gins were, for more folks have’em
and work with’em. I know of one
picker a farmer got in Sumter
county last fall. Before the season
was over it had taken an arm
from the hired man and a foot
from the farmer’s son.
Machines are not necessarily
dangerous. We just disregard their
danger spots and get hurt. It
should be written in boxcar letters
all over a corn picker to never
touch it without cutting off the
power.
And on the highway, my! To
paraphrase a famous safety slo
gan, a wag has said: “Slow down,
the life you save might be mine.”
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
There was an old saying around
in the Stone Hills of the Dutch
Fork, where I was raised, to this
effect: “The Lord takes care of
fools and children.”
Surely the last part of that
must be true, or few of our crowd
would have escaped. For 20 years
now I’ve been telling you one of
these true tales of boyhood every
week. That figures over a thous
and. And many of them were dan
gerous, and could have easily tak
en a life. But, thanks be, none ev
er did. I have a few marks. But
none of ’em ever got me. And ours
was the average experience, when
we were coming along, I would
think. Many folks tell me of simi
lar ones of theirs.
Winter now reminds me of froz
en trees. Occasionally we’d have
a big freeze, with heavy ice all ov
er everything. It is then we’d
steal off down in the back pasture,
where scattered pines were always
coming up and strangling out
what little grass might have come
there. We’d sharpen the axe first.
That was hard to do, as the water
would freeze on the grindstone.
But we’d pour hot water on it un
til we got a razor edge on that
axe.
Those scattered pines were well
limbed and would collect a great ing there increasingly!
former nor fish in the latter.
We apply lime to correct it in
the soil. But so far we’ve known
little about it in our ponds anc
streams.
Our Dr. H. P. Cooper tells me
fish won’t do well and some of’em
won’t even spawn in water where
the pH is too low, too acid. He
thinks that’s what has happenec
in Lake Greenwood to the stripet
sea bass (rockfish) introduces
there.
For the first time known in his
tory, this sea fish got landlockec
in the Santee-Cooper lake and is
doing exceptionally well there. A
few years ago they transfered
lot of these up-state to Lake
Greenwood. But so far they have
found no signs of them reproduc
ing there.
Why this difference in the two
lakes? Dr. Cooper tell us.
Much of the Santee-Cooper bas
in is in the Lancaster-Charlotte
area of the Carolinas, where Ire
dell, Mecklenberg, and Davidson
soil abounds These are high in ba
sic minerals, ‘specially sodium,
giving them a rather high pH, or
low acidity. Along the rivers that
feed in there are many textile
plants whose wastes contain con
siderable sodium. And the Santee-
Cooper basin itself sits in a foun
dation that has many marl (lime)
beds in it. All of which tend to
create a high water pH reaction
(low acidity), favorable for the
growth and reproduction of fish.
And look at the phenomenal
catches of fine fish they are mak-
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burden of ice that made them bow
their heads almost to the ground.
A few of them snapped off. But
the others are where we had our
fun. One resounding whack with
the axe and a 6 inch, 30 foot pine
would pop almost like a pistol and
crash to the ground. The frozen
wood was brittle and most of the
limbs shattered on the ground in
a pile of ice.
One day I whacked a bent and
burdened pine that was either too
big or I didn’t cut it deep enough.
It popped all right, but didn’t snap
off. The cut part of it peeled off
and straightened out by my head,
knocking my hat 30 or 40 feet in
the air. If that thing had hit me
there’d have been no head left.
Sure, I believe the old saying
quoted above.
SEEN ALONG THE
ROADSIDE
Sour soils and sour water!
We have’em both at places.
Most crops don’t do well on the
On the other hand, the waters
of Lake Greenwood have little
such mineralized origin or sur
roundings. And, therefore, the
striped sea bass (rockfish) they
introduced there from the Santee-
Cooper basin a few years ago have
hardly been heard from since. Too
acid to suit them, apparently
Lacking in sodium and calcium,
and perhaps some minor elements
It is thought that all fish orig
inally c^me from the sea, where
sodium (in the salt) is one of the
dominant elements. They gradual
ly adapted themselves to less of
this essential element. But still
many of the best sorts don’t seem
to thrive unless the fresh water to
which they have adapted themsel
ves has at least a fairly good sup
ply of sodium in it. And that
means rather slight acidity, or
high pH.
A few years ago County Agent
Bob Bailey of Richland county
found many of their fertilized
ponds were not growing the fish
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they should. He called Dr. Cooper
in. He was confident it was the
lack of sodium there. So he sug
gested they add it by placing
blocks of stock salt in the ponds.
Bob tells me it has worked fine
and the fish are growing as they
should here. And J. H. Epting of
Leesville reports similar results
from his sandhill pond from ap
plying salt and basic slag for lime,
minor elements, and control of the
excess acidity. Basic slag is speci
ally good for this as it carries a
number of minor elements that
might be lacking.
They are now also getting so
dium in their ponds by applying
nitrate of soda, either as a source
of nitrogen in their fish pond fer
tilizer or as a straight top dress
ing.
Muddy or murky water isn’t
good for fish either, as the sun
can’t get through to promote the
needed j)Jant of life, despite fer
tilization. To remedy this, Dr.
Cooper suggests applying some
common form of lime, or dump a
lot of old broken-up concrete in
the water to precipitate the silt
out.
But let’s hear from Dr. Cooper
on this whole subject briefly:
“The unsatisfactory conditions
in most fresh water fish ponds in
the state can be easily corrected
through the application of suffi
cient lime to regulate the pH of
the pond water or preferably the
use of basic slag to control the pH
of the water and also supply min
or nutrients, and by the addition
of required sodium in the form of
nitrate soda or common and block
salt in combination with recom
mended mixed fertilizers. In low
boron soil areas the occasional ad
dition of a quarter to a half-
pound pqr acre of pond of common
household borax or preferably the
equivalent in the less soluble col-
emanite may be desirable. It is
necessary to be very cautious and
not add too much soluble boron to
fish ponds. The inclusion of these
essential nutrients in suitable pro
portions to fish ponds with an ad
equately balanced fish population
should produce very satisfactory
results in all sections of the
state.”
County Agent Miller of York
tells me Boyd Brown of Clover
produced 3,400 marketable canta
loupes from his acre of Edistos
the past fall. I ate some of them.
You wouldn’t wish for a better
cantaloupe.
Likewise, in m i d-October I
found a patch of these same Edis
tos just playing out, after a suc
cessful crop of them had been
marketed, in upper Spartanburg
county. They too were as good as
I ever tasted. . The man said he al
so planted Jumbos. But they were
a total failure, due to disease. The
Edistos were affected some too,
5Ut their inbred resistance car
ried them through and they made
a pretty good crop.
Dr. Hughes, who produced this
melon down at Clemson’s Edistos
Station ,tells me he has several
others, one or two that don’t get
as big as this Edistos, they are
thinking of releasing soon. I ask
ed him if they were as good as
Edistos. He said, “In all respects
as good and in some better.”
Well, we’ll look forward to
them.
Now there’s another bright
youngster down there working on
melons that we need to be watch
ing. That’s Dr. D. F. Gaboon.
Among other things, he’s working
on the growing of honeydew me-
ons for this area. He has about
whipped the diseases that formerly
made them too uncertain to risk
lere and he produces them in
great quantity And his melons
run more sugar than those ship
ped in from the west. But they
don’t taste quite as good yet. He
feels that is because of the gas
sing process they put them
through after harvesting and be
fore shipping them out there. It
is like with bananas, you know all
of them are thus gassed to make
’em better to eat. He will likely
try that out on his honeydews
next summer.
New things! science is always
working out to where
have ’em.
Zone 3 Meets
At Lewis Church
The winter Zone meeting of the
Woman’s Society of Christian
Service was held at Lewis Metho
dist Church Sunday afternoon at
3 p.m. Mrs. E. A. Shinn, leader of
Zone 3, presided.
Rev. E. W. Gott gave the scrip
ture reading and led in prayer.
Mrs. Ray Gilliam gave an inspir
ing devotional message. Special
music was rendered by Mrs. Ber
nice Turner, Ann Wood, Suth Mor
ris, Mary Longshore and Myriad
Mims.
Excellent reports from the pre
sidents were given by Mrs. L. E.
Gatlin, Epting; Mrs. Richard
Caldwell, Lebanon; Mrs. Ray Gil
liam, Lewis; Mrs. R. R. Boulware,
New Chapel; Mrs. B. A. Buddin,
O’Neal, and Mrs. M. B. Hendricks,
Trinity.
Miss Louise Best, a retired mis
sionary to Brazil, was guest
speaker. While visiting in New
berry, she was the guest of Mrs.
Sudie Dennis.
Mrs. Best talked informally
about her experiences as a mis
sionary for over 36 years to' Bra
zil. She saw the first tree cut and
the first stone turned for the
building of a girls boarding
school, Colegio Centerario, in Rio
Grande do Sul. In this school she
was a teacher and later principal.
The school was opened in 1922
with three boarding students and
four day students. Today the total
enrollment is about 700. Miss Best
said that the school and church
work hand in hand. Many of the
graduates from the school have
become successful docters, teach
ers, nurses, dentists, etc., Miss
Best said. She stated that her
“three loves” are Lander and
Scaritt Colleges and Colegio Cen
terario Boarding School. She dis
played many articles she brought
back from Brazil, among them a
citation for her work at the
school, presented to her on a na-
| tion-wide broadcast from Rio Do
Janeiro.
Mrs. F. Scott Elliot, president
of the Greenwood District, called
attention to the annual district
meeting to be held at McCormick
Methodist Church on April 2, and
the annual conference meeting to
be at Shandon Methodist Church,
Columbia on March 12 and 13.
Mrs. Gatlin, district secretary
of Spiritual Life, closed the meet
ing with prav#»r.
All present were invited,to the
social hall where delicious saria-
wiches, cake and coffee were ser
ved by the ladies of Lewis Church.
Building Permits
Jan. 21: P. N. Bookman, re
roof dwelling, 933 Gilder St*
$100.
Jan. 24: Olin and Susan Cop-
pock, 6 room wood frame brick
veneer dwelling on Springdal#
Drive, $9,000.
Jan. 26. Otis L. Whitaker, gen
eral repairs and add one room to
dwelling on Nance St., $3,000.
Local Students
Instrumentalists representing
45 South Carolina junior and sen
ior high schools will take part in
the clinic band to be formed at
at Winthrop College for the State
Band Clinic Friday and Saturday
of this week. Participating in the
clinic band will be Joev Pack, He
len Robertson and Billy Vaughn
of Newberry.
Included in the 203 junior and
senior high school students who
will form the Junior and Senior
All-State High School Bands for
the band clinic will be Charles
Cullum of Prosperity; Bobbie
Vaughn, Mac Cobb, Van Anderson,
Sue Corley and Leroy Adams of
Newberry.
Attend Golden
Anniversary
Mrs. Cecil Fellers, Mr. and
Mrs. David Ringer and Mr. and
Mrs. Alan Oxner attended the
Golden Wedding Anniversary of
Rev. and Mrs. Whitfield F. John
son of Taylors.
Rev. and Mrs. Johnson will be
remembered in Newberry, where
he was a former pastor of the
Newberry Circuit when it was
composed of Lebanon, Trinity,
Bethei, New Chapel and Ebene*er
churches.
Receiving at the door were Mr.
^nd Mrs. Gardner Hendrix. Mr.
Hendrix is a 'ormer Newberrian.
Mr. and Mrs. Keister Willing
ham and Mrs.Earl Taylor spent
Sunday in Gaffney with the Will
ingham’s daughter, Miss Joan
Willingham, who is a member of
the freshman class at Limestone-
College.
we can
Out of almost five thousand
Granges taking part in the Na
tional Grange-Sears Community
Service Contest, South Carolina
has had one in the top 10 every
year but one. And the Higgins
Grange in Saluda county had
been in the top 10 in the nation
for the past 3 years. Only one oth
er has that distinction, Cibilo
Grange in Texas.
These granges, through this
work, literally make over the
spirit and face of their communi
ties. They tie together a lot of
tangibles and intangibles and
make their communities far better
places to live in. Truly, they find
that greatness lies within them
selves. And talents, musical and
otherwise, are harnessed and de
veloped at unexpected places. If
you want some real stirring
chorus music, hear the Higgins
Community Chorus. Or if you
want a duct of organ and piano
music that causes a shiver, a
thrill, to run down your spine and
tingle in your toes, get their two
farmers, Mitchell and Price, to
come play for you.
Yes, what these communities
have done is proof that greatness
lie’s within a community. But it
has to be harnessed, developed,
The Grange organization and the
financial assistance of Sears-Roe-
buck Foundation offers the means
and the incentive. And this is one
contest in which you win if you
lose. For the liberal prizes are not
all of the gold that glitters there.
Community service, and a oneness
there, these are the enduring re
sults.
The South Carolina Jersey Cat
tle Club is holding its annual
meeting at the Community House
on the square in Newberry at 10
A. M. on Jan. 29. G. E. Hawkins,
secretary-treasurer, says business
of interest to every Jersey owner
will be transacted, and all are in
vited.
‘The bill collectors are all gone, sir—but I suggest you
get an auto loan from Purcells soon/
tt
If one has lots of small nagging
debts, it's silly to try to evade the
issue, when it's so easy to call those
friendly Purcell folks for help.
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