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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S C PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Some days ago, in telling about the 190,000 miles of pipe line which carries oil all over the United States, I mentioned casually, in passing, that the natural gas pipelines now have reached a total of five hundred thousand miles. But I also said a word or two about the growing use of electric heat. We’ve had electric bathroom heaters for years, of course, electric kitchen ranges, electric hotwater heaters and dozens of other uses, but the electric heat pump and the home elec trically heated throughout—that is the latest use of the won derful servant brought to us by Benjamin Franklin in theory and elemental application; and more practically by Thomas A. Edison, the great wizard of developed electricity. “When frigid gales swept Chicago temperatures below zero, 46 families in a new subdivision near St. Charles got a perfect chance to test their new homes’ unusual heating sy stem that uses hidden electric wires to warm the houses, much as a toaster uses them to brown bread. All the families were enthusiastic about the performance of their electric heating equipment. Their reactions included such specific words of praise as ‘it keeps us comfortably warm without creating any hot or cold spots as we’ve had in other houses’, and ‘it enables us to keep the living room at 70 degrees, the bathroom at 80 and the bedrooms at 75’. These new dwellings are among the 370,000 American homes being heated electrically. Admittedly, they form no more than a tiny segment of this country’s 46 million heated houses. But electric heating systems are now being installed at a rapidly rising rate. As recently as 1950, only 100,000 houses were heated electrically. This year alone, however, roughly 50,000 homes Will get electric - up from some 20,000 last year - and Gor don R. Corey, predicts that the present total of 370,000 elec trically warmed homes will grow to 1,800,000 dwellings by 1965. Electric heating systems are of two main types - resist ance and heat pump. The resistance variety, which accounts for around 90 G of all electric-heat systems, is extremely simple. It does nothing more than create heat by conducting electricity through glowing wires. The wires may be in wall or baseboard fixtures. Or they may be imbedded in a non combustible plaster ceiling or concrete floor. Heat pumps, which both heat and cool, are more complex. To get an idea how they work, consider the electric refrig erator. Air inside the box is chilled by extracting its heat and passing it into the surrounding air where it impercept ibly warms the room. You can feel this heat when you put your hand behind the refrigerator. The heat pump’s basic principle is like that of the electric refrigerator. The pump cools the house by extracting heat from the air inside the house and pumping it outside, just as the refrigerator throws out warm air. In winter this re frigeration cycle is reversed. Heat is extracted from the out door air in thesame way a refrigerator takes heat from an ice cube tray filled with cold water. The resulting warmth is brought into the house and circulated. Even cold air con tains enough latent heat to yield warmth when passed through a heat pump’s compressor. Warmth also can be ex tracted from water or the earth, and heat pumps have been installed in some cases to take latent heat from both these sources. The rising demand for electric heating - which eliminates furnaces, chimneys, radiators, soot, ash hauling and the like - has raised one concern’s resistance-type units some 70 G above last year. While its heat pump volume is up 50 G over 1957.’ We now have electricity almost everywhere; and it be comes cheaper and more dependable all the time. It is, by the way, much cheaper today than it was twenty years ago— about the only thing that is cheaper and better all the time. Electricity now lights the farmer’s home and yard and barn and stables; and it cooks his meals and milks the cows. We town-farmers now climb aboard and ask for all the farm benefits in towns. Somehow, somebody always tries to be a farmer, that is in name and for the benefits intended for the remote and isolated farms. Consider this: “Electricity dispensed by the Southern Maryland Electric Co-operative illuminates the living rooms and runs the cream separators of 6,155 farm families dwelling in its 1,00-square- mile service area. Not a surprising statistic, in itself, for one of the 986 firms that borrow money from Uncle Sam’s Rural Electrifi cation Administration. What is surprising is the rest of the story: 80G of the electricity sold by Southern Maryland isn’t used by farmers at all. Most of the federally-sponsored cur rent has found such other interesting chores as these: Lighting the streets here in Hughville, a town of about 500 souls some 25 miles southeast of Washington, D. C. Hoisting oysters from boats into dockside packing facili ties on nearby Chesapeake Bay. Operating air conditioners and TV sets in the motels along gaudy, neon-splashed U. S. Route 301, a major north- south highway. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Ciemson Extension Information Specialist OUR GROWTH The growth of our population in the United States since 1950 amounts to more than the total population of Canada. Yet we have fewer farmers and are better fed and clothed now than then. What a tribute to the efficiency of our farming enter prise! Both science and the machine have had big hands in this. For they both multiply the results from man’s efforts. In California I saw 17 great cotton harvesters picking 200 bales a day in one field. Before that farm was fully mechanized some years ago, it took 1,000 folks there to harvest that much cotton in a day. In Florida I saw monster mach ines crawling slowly across celery fields harvesting some 15 to 20 rows at a time, also washing it, and packing it in shipping crates. These went through an ice water bath at the station as they moved constantly into refrigerated cars for movement to all parts of the country. In Maryland I saw them har vesting thousands of acres of baby lima beans by mowing the vines, raking them, and running them through great machines that not only got every bean out, but sort ed them into three sizes! And now they tell me they have a machine that picks snap beans! That’s one I sure thought they’d never get. No wonder our agriculture in 8 years had progressed to where it’s feeding and clothing the equiva lent of a Canada more than it did then. And. less folks are doing it. Congratulations to our men of science and the machine. CHICKENS IN SALUDA County Agent Craven of Saluda says: “The chicken has been a big factor in our retreat from cot ton. As cotton acreage dwindled, chicken numbers grew. Now the annual chicken income of the coun ty is nearly a million and a half dollars. Layers and broilers both are big business in the county.” And I’ve told you of their fast growing dairy industry, which al- leady brings them a full million dollars for milk alone, to say noth ing of their local livestock market that exceeds this figure. I was county agent there thirty- odd years ago. It was all cotton then. Change, change! MELONS Running movie projectors at local drive-in theatres. Lighting the runways and powering maintenance shops at Patuxent Naval Air Station. The increasingly non-agricultural character of Southern Maryland Electric’s ‘rural’ customers is by no means an iso lated phenomenon. The same thing is happening to R. E. A. financed power systems all across the land: As industry and population head into the countryside, farmers are giving way to suburbanites, motels, factories, restaurants and mili tary installations as the main customers of the rural electric co-operatives that benefit by this Federal credit. ‘The startling fact is’, says Budget Director Maurice Stans, ‘that three out of four new users currently being add ed are now non-farm users. About one-half of R. E. A. elec tric power goes to industries, communities or non-farm fami lies’. As recently as 1950, when comprehensive reports were started, farmers were still consuming as much as 64G of all electricity sold by R. E. A. backed power systems. Now, farmers account for about 45%. Biggest gainers have been people living outside incorporated areas, in homes along high ways, in summer cottages and the like. These ‘non-farm ru ral’ residents took 6 G of all R. E. A. financed electricity in 1950; now, its nearly 20 G • Business consumers ranging from small crossroads groceries to large suburban factories ac counted for 19G of the power sold eight years ago; since then, this percentage has drifted upward to 23G . This trend is furnishing ammunition for an Eisenhower Administration economy proposal that’s sure to show up in the budget going to Congress soon. White House and Agri culture Department policy makers say the R. E. A. is ‘grow T - ing up’, and they want the country borrowers, mostly co-ops, to assume more of the financial burden now carried by the Treasury - by paying a higher interest rate more in line with current credit costs and by doing some borrowing from private lenders. These proposals will be among a number, says Mr. Stans, ‘made to scale down or eliminate Government services which are no longer needed to serve the purposes for which they are enacted’. The R. E. A., a New Deal baby, has indeed grown up by several yardsticks. When it was created by an Executive ord er of President Roosevelt in 1935 to help bring central-station electric service to people w T ho did not have it, only 11G of the nation’s farms were connected to outside power systems. Today, the figure is 95 G ; expansion utilities, is responsble for much of the increase. Congress created a permanent program for lending mon ey to rural electrical firms in 1936, and by the end of that vear, the R. E. A. had approved loans of nearly $7 million to 29 borrowers. Since then, the R. E. A. has loaned $3.3 bil lion to rural systems and earmarked $500 million more, most of it going for construction of lines carrying electricity pur chased from private utility suppliers. The 986 R. E. A. fi nanced systems sold 21.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to nearly 4.6 million customers last year. Specifically, the Administration wants to raise the inter est rate charged on R. E. A. loans from the bargain-basement 2' r level fixed by law since 1944—easily the lowest fee on any type of Federal credit. This rate now runs below the amount it costs the government to borrow funds in the open money market; Uncle Sam has just borrowed long-term mon- ay at more than 4G . R. E. A. bookkeepers estimate that if the agency had reimbursed the Treasury for the full cost of the money it borrows, the R. E. A. would show on interest loss of about $32 million for its 23 years of operation. The Administration also wants to require R. E. A. coops to seek at least part of their expanding future money needs from sources outside the Government. No one can tell what the Court may do; not even the Court itself for if the Congress has within its membership enough statesmanship to study the problem sanely and pa triotically instead of as a matter of politics and Party expedi ency, then the Congress will exercise its Constitutional auth ority and define the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, em phasizing clearly, emphatically and categorically certain re served powers of States, as contemplated in the Constitution originally as well as in the First Ten Amendments. Folks have varied afflictions. Some can’t eat watermelon. I’d sure hace to be one of them. The county agents in the melon areas tell me the plantings this year will be mostly of the Char leston Gray variety. This great melon, that was pro duced by Mr. Andrus down at the USDA vegetable breeding labora tory near Charleston, seems now to be the standard of quality all over eastern America. I saw it all along at the stores and stands to the Canadian border last summer. And a large hauler for a big gro cery chain told me he handled no other sort. Said they cut better, hauled better, and kept longer than any other. And his folks were abundantly pleased with them. Our county agents tell me farm ers like’em too. They are highly disease resistant, do not sunscald much, are heavy bearers of uni form shaped melons, and will fre quently make a second crop. The next melon in importance is another creation of Mr. Andrus, the Congo, that came out some years ahead of the Charleston Gray. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J M ELEAZER Editors, watch out! I might be sneaking an ad in here. But it’s not so intended. Weekly now for many years I’ve been giving you a true tale of boyhood in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork under this heading, “Boys Are That Way”. You have had first run on them all. Some of you feature that item. A few years ago our University Press selected about a hundred of’ em and put ’em in a book called “A Dutch Fork Farm Boy”. It paid out and there have been some small royalty checks. Nice letters still come about that book. The latest one is from Laramie, Wyoming. It says, “One convalescing from hernia opera tion should put off reading ‘Dutch Fork Farm Boy’ until one has well recovered. There are enough laughs in the book to fill a barrel, and laughs are among the necces- sarily self-prohibited luxuries of the occasion.” Folks often ask if all of those tales are true. They are. So far I haven’t had to draw on my ima gination a bit. Nor does that ap pear likely in the forseeable fu ture. I have over a dozen written ahead right now. And every time I write one I think of another. Or, riding a rural lane, I often see something that recalls another ex cursion of boyhood. I stop right there, jot it in my notebook, and go merrily on my way. I might hgve written about some of the incidents more than once. For I make no attempt to catalog them. But they are all very real in my memory and are marked definitely as to time, place, and circum stances. Many of our experiences appear quaint to readers. Some of you tell me so. And others speak of al most identical things happening to them as they came along in my era. W riting to me is pleasant em ployment. But jotting down these tales of boyhood is a distinct plea sure. For I sort of relive them' again. And I get a kick out of your comments that I hear every where I go. ,1 have about 20 months to go be fore retirement. So you have close to 100 more tales of boyhood coming your way. And, who knows, I might continue messing along with some of this writing after laying down my weekly stint! DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Henry B. Wells and W. Fulmer Wells to J. Herman Eddy, one lot on Wells Drive, $5 and other val uable considerations. Newberry No. 1 Outside Elizabeth Burgess to Roy D. Whitaker, one lot and one build ing, grantors interest in Mrs. Lil lie Mae Bushardt estate, $5. C. E. Buzhardt et al to Roy D. Whitaker, one lot and one building, grantors interest in Mrs. Lillie Mae Buzhardt estate, $1500. Joseph Fincher Hipp, Jr. to Jo seph Fincher Hipp, Sr., one lot and one building, $5 love and affection. Car! L. Amick to Yoight W. Do minick, one lot and one building, $5 and other valuable considera tions. Ella B. Collins Gary to Ernest H. Layton, one lot on Hartford Road, $150. Pomaria No. 5 C. M. Lever to Capers Lawrence Lever, 4.86 acres, $5 love and af fection. Little Mountain No. 6 Betty Lee Mayers to Marie Cannon, 103 acres, $5 love and af- Whitmire No. 4 Outside Alfred Richard James et al to Julia James Conner, 30 acres and one building, $5 love and affection, fection. Azilee Monts Brown to Eula Monts, 32 acres and one building, $5 love and affection. Prosperity No. 7 T. Earl Bigby to Houseal G. Jay, one lot, $250. ✓ Houseal G. Jay to Clyde E. Smith, one lot, $5 and other val uable considerations. John D. Pruitt to Dennis W. Newton to Marion S. Bowers and Dorothy C. Long, one lot, $300. Olin W. Nobles et al to George R. Nichols et al, 38 acres, $1330. Building Permits Feb. 20: J. T. McCrackin, re pairs to building on Lindsay St., $18,000. (Shawnee Manufactur ing Co. location.) Feb. 25: Newberry Mills, Inc., install two doors, 1017 Tarrant St., $1312. Feb. 25: J. L. Terry, repairs to dwelling, 1917 McHardy St., $50. Feb. 25: Bennie Burn, repairs to dwelling, 946 Cline St., $500. Feb. 26: Newberry County Bank, repairs to roof of building on Main St., $200. March 2: Clarkson, Hunter and Clarkson, repairs to office build ing, 1119 Harrington St., $500. March 2: Spartan Grain and Mill Co., repairs to building, 712 Drayton St., $1500. Hospital Patients Mrs. Ellen Boozer, 526 Bound ary St. Monroe Boland, 1300 Jefferson St. Mrs. Ida Baker, 619 Main St. Bradley Bowers, Rt. 2, Prosper ity. Bland Berry, 2640 DeLoach Ave. Mrs. Minnie Burnette, Box 426, Joanna. Mrs. Hattie Bouknight, Rt. 3. Dave Bobb, Kinards. Mst. Ted Bledsoe, Rt. 5, Salu da. Mrs. Pearl Counts, Rt. 2. Mrs. Nell Clary and Baby Girl, Boundary St. Extn. Mrs. Nellie Church, Box 38. Esby Von Dedmond, 68 Player St. Mrs. Floy Eargle and Baby Boy, Prosperity. Miss Wanda Giles, Springhill Apts. Mst. James Hamm, 1309 Pearl St. Mrs. Doris Johnson, 1311 Fourth St. Mrs. Lillian Kinard, 1303 First St. Joe Kitchens, 615 Evans St. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. Mrs. Louise Lindler, Rt. 1, Cha pin. Mrs. Ella Leavell, 1601 Martin St. Mrs. Lula Langford, 603 Bound ary St. Baby Girl McLeod, Rt. 1. Miss Faye McCullough. Rt. 4. Charles Owens Metts, Rt. 3. Mrs. Louise Maw, 2718 De- Loach Ave. Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Harrington St. Mrs. Bessie A. Meetze, Little Mountain. Mrs. Patricia Ann Pryor and Baby Boy, 1416 Trent St. Mrs. Talu Ruff, Rt. 2. Heber Rish, Rt. 1, Little Moun tain. Mrs. Bessie Seymore, 1410 Third St. Fred Stockman, Rt. 1, Prosper ity. Baby Phillip Watson, Rt. 3. Baby Roy Barnes Long, Satter- white St., Whitmire. Baby Mildred Blair, Rt. 1. Janie Donner, Rt. 3. Georgia Guess, 636 Caldwell St. Alice Guise, 626 Morgan St. Thomas Gladney, Jr., Rt. 2, Blair. Vinnie Longshore, Rt. 1, Silver- street. Norma Jean Mayer, Pomaria. Mary Elizabeth Miller, Rt. 4. Eva Mae Pitts, Rt. 1, Prosper ity. Willie Mae Simpson, Kinards. Sylvester Teague, 922 Bess St. Sophie Wade, 909 Sanders St. Recent Birth.* Recent arrivals at the Newber ry County Memorial Hospital: Lillian Edith, seven pound, three ounce daughter born February 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jones of Route 3 Saluda. Mrs Jones is the former Ida Lou Rushton. John Harold, seven pound son born Feb. 25 to Mr. and Mrs. John Oliver Sease, Route 3 Prosperity. Mrs. Sease is the former Miriam Faye Metts. John Propst, Jr., nine pound, eight ounce son born Feb. 26 to Mr. and Mrs. John Propst Cole man of Blair. The mother is the former Betty Jean Cromer. Nancy Stewart, five pound, 11 ounce daughter born February 27 to Mr. and Mrs. Houseal Grady Jay, 1320 Summer street. Mrs. Jay before marriage was Nelda Summer Eargle. Cindy Lou, nine pound, six ounce daughter born March 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Gilder Huiet Clary, Travel ers Rest (formerly of Newberry.) Mrs. Clary is the former Lillie Buneli Long. Gregory Todd, seven pound, eight ounce son * born March 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lacoste Pry or, 1416 Trent st. Mrs. Pryor is the former Patricia Ann Shealy. Neal Bryan, seven pound, two ounce daughter born March 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Elon Wesley Eargle, Prosperity. Mrs. Eargle before marriage was Floy Ellen Long. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Claire Vaughn, Route 1, Newberry. Mrs. Francis Epting, Newberry. Mrs. Laura Eargle, Chapin. Mrs. Bessie Kibler, Pomaria Mrs. Kathleen Riley, Route 5, Saluda. Mrs. Luke Cox and baby girl, Chapin. Mrs. George Moates and baby girl, Joanna. Little Jimmy Ward, Batesburg. Mrs. Vesta Metts, Prosperity. Essie Wiggins and baby girl, Batesburg. Recent Marriages James Hill of Little Mountain and Faye Wertz of Newberry were married February 7 at Little Mountain by Rev. J. S. Wessinger. Ted Weathers of Laurens and Faye K. Hellams of Clinton were married by Rev. Milford J. Sand ers on Feb. 19 at Clinton. SCOUT PROMOTIONS Merit Badges Troop 1: Jimmy Callicut, dog care; Gene Morehead, music and scholarship. Troop 66: Henry Brooks, Citi zenship in the Nation, First Aid, Forestry; Public Health, Scholar ship, Soil and Water Conserva tion; Bruce Clamp, Scholarship; Jack Culler, firemanship, safety; Charlie Epps, dog care, scholar ship. Post 1: Eddie Lominack, bask etry, geology. Boys In Service CAMP LEJUNE, N. C. (FTHNC) Marine Cpl. Madison Pitts, Jr., son of Mrs. Sara D. Pitts of 1414 Backman St. took part in the 18th anniversary celebration of the 2nd Marine Division, Feb. 2, at Camp Lejune, N. C. Formed in San Diego, Calif., Feb. 1, 1941, the Division, during the week, held day-long activities highlighted with a full scale pa rade and special meals in the messhall. The parade’s Reviewing Officer was Lt. Gen. E. A. Pol lock, USMC, Commanding Gener al, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic. The Division, which trains year- round to fulfill its role as a force- in-readiness, has been based at Camp Lejune since 1946. Investment For... BUSINESS FIRMS ESTATES CHURCHES CLUBS UNIONS FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS Guardians An Account at Newberry Federal is an ideal and convenient investment for surplus, reserve or special purpose funds. Insured safety . . . consistent attrac- • tive dividends . . . non-speculative . . . available when needed. CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE iVi% 1823 COLLEGE ST BEET, NEWBERRY, S. C. “Use our Modern Night Depository for after office hours business.” “NEWBERRY’S LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION”