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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1959 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE THREE FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER CUmson Extension Information Specialist SCARCE FEEDER PIGS Some of our hog growers have been depending upon buying their feeder pigs. And many have pros pered at this. But the agents tell me it is getting harder to get good feeders at times. It seems that more of the folks are feeding them out themselves. Along this line, County Agent Jackson of Williamsburg says: “There is a continued shortage of good feeder pigs. This caused 7 of our farmers to build farrowing houses and put in other needed equipment the past winter.” SHEEP MANAGEMENT CALENDAR Seyenty-five to 100 years ago, this .state grew a lot of sheep. Had something over a quarter of e million. But they dwindled to practically none in our time. But change, change, in our di versified program of industry and agriculture, it was felt by Clem- son authorities that some sheep could be used effectively on many of our farms. So the Extension Service put on a sheep specialist, who had been a successful county agent up in the sheep area of Vir ginia. And sheep experiments were started at Clemson and at the Wellman-' plant at Jacksonville. Since then sheep have been com ing back. But we had lost our hand withi them, and now have to ac quire all again that all-important know-how. As another aid to this, our sheep specialist, Haley M. Jamison, has prepared a Sheep Management Calendar. It shows briefly the important things with sheep for each month of the year. It is all on one large card that can be tacked up in the shed or on the barn door as a constant reminder. It is Information Card No. 89 and is free from your county agent’s office. COTTON HERE NOW Last year saw the smallest acreage of cotton planted in South Carolina since records were start-j ed in 1866, according to our P. S. Williamon. The 352,000 acres planted made 301,721 bales, for one of our best per acre yields. Under the farm program, as it stands for this year, we will plant more cotton than we did last year. We once grew about 8 times the acreage of cotton we did last year. From some counties, the crop has all but gone. But in some, best suited to its mechanization, it is holding on and will likely gain a ' bit, as programs permit. This changing status of cotton has called for one of the greatest readjustments that agriculture has ever seen. For we had been long with the crop and knew little else in the way of money crops. But in the late years we have been feeling our way with other things. Experiment and experience are showing we have other potentials that promise much. Trees and grass, with all they imply, are opening new vistas on our land. W^th many food staples that we once mainly brought from out-of- state we are fast becoming self- sufficient. These include dairy products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs, and possibly others. All of which adds to our farm stability. they’d put cockleburs under the saddle blanket. Then, when he got on, the horse would usually start bucking and kicking like lighten ing. The vandals would usually hide out nearby to hear and see this, specially if there was a moon. All of this was quite devasta ting to the morale of outsiders. And to have a hand in the night reach out and do such things to you took a lot of the romance out of courting in distant pastures. So we stayed mostly ini our own. BOYS ARE THAT WAY Last week we talked of the petty deviltry we kids of the Stone Hills got into. Our folks were ra ther strict on us, thanks be, and our indiscretions were mild. But across the creek and down the road a place was a wilder sort. Distance was a barrier then, and we hardly knew them, but we heard of their “delinquencies.” Much of their devilment was brought on about girls. Boys from another area would come in their community to see a girl Well, they didn’t like that. So they’d do all sorts of things to them. One was to rock him. That' meant to hide in some scarey place along the road and pellet him in his buggy or on horseback with rocks. Another was to sneak up in the dark while he was in the girls house and cut the harness, or un hitch his horse and turn it loose. One with a bit of humor in it, I always thought, and without de structive sting, was to change his buggy wheels. With the higher wheels in front and lower ones in the rear, a buggy would sit funny and you’d feel like you were go ing up a steep hill all the time. Well, many a boy in our section rode home that way at times, wondering what was wrong with his buggy, t Another mean trick, like cut ting harness, was to take the taps of one or more of the wheels off and throw them away. Then, soon after the boy started home late at night, those wheels of his bug gy would run off. And he was in a mess for sure. If the boy was on horseback, Building Permits April 15—Carl L. Amick, one seven room brick veneer dwelling on McHardy Street, $14,000. April 15—O. F. Armfield one five room wood frame building on Bedenbaugh street, $2500. April 17—C. D. Coleman Oil Company, one service station on College street $10,000;Mrs. E. Clara Chappell, repairs to roof of dwelling , 1908 Main Street, $136.- 00. April 20—James W. Bannister, general repairs to dwelling 503 Main Street $150. April 21—Janie and Johnny Boozer, add one room to dwelling 916 Cornelia street, $500; W. B. Timmerman, repairs to store build ing 900 Main street. $60; Mrs. Bennie Burn, general repairs to dwelling, jp46 Cline street $760 and Mrs. L. * W. Wilson, repairs to dwelling 944 Cline street, $111.00. New- Jaquard Weave Linen for Dresses Machine Washable. Black & Colors Shop And Save On All Sewing Notions At CAROLINA Remnant Shop Main Street Newberry, S. C. “THE HOUSE OF PIECE GOODS » Hospital Births Born at Newberry County Mem orial Hospital during the past week were: Joseph David, eight pound, nine ounce son born April 14 to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nicholas Nicosia, Rt. 1. The mother is the former Marie Lovelace Fellers. Jackie Lynn, seven pound, 12 ounce daughter born April 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Schumpert Quattlebaum, 501 Roland Ave., Johnston. Mrs. Quattlebaum be fore marriage was Joyce Marie Adams. Steven Victor, eight pound, nine ounce son born April 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Burgess, 1415 Dave Drive. Mrs. Burgess is the former Mary Ellen Loftis. Simmie Star, seven pound, 14 ounce baby born April 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Frank Lake, Rt. 3, Batesburg. Mrs. Lake is the form er Willie Ruth Miller. Julie Michele, five pound, eight ounce daughter born April 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Derrill Lamar Amick, Rt. 2, Mrs. Amick before marriage was Romona Long. Donald Fred, 7 pounds, 12 ounce son born April 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roscoe Shealy, Rt. 1, Little Mountain. Mrs. Shealy is the for mer Edna Regine Livingston. Two Berlins Are Example (By DR. GEORGE S. BENSON) THE TWO BERLINS East and West Berlin are separ ated only by a barbed wire fence constantly patrolled by gun-carry ing Communist police. This Iron Curtain runs directly through what used to be one sprawling city, dividing it into two distinct zones. The two cities, side by side, present the world’s most dramatic comparison between capitalism and total socialism. A West German worker can stand in his apartment in one of the tall jnodern apartment build ings a few blocks from the divid ing line and actually see across the Iron Curtain and study the desolation and poverty of the Com munist zone. An eastern German worker living under Communism can climb up through the rubble to the top of one of the vacant shattered buildings in the Soviet sector and gaze out across the Ku Klux Klan Rally And Speaking At Newberry, South Carolina Saturday night April 25,1959 At 8 o’clock P. M. Sponsored by the Association of South Carolina Klans, Knights of the KU KLUX KLAN. Rally will be held at Wicks Drive-In Restaurant, on high way No. 76 By-pass, x /2 mile north of the intersections of high way No. 76 By-pass No. 76 business coming into Newberry from Prosperity. Every WHITE PERSON should come out and hear the “GRAND KLUDD” speak on God’s word on INTEGRA TION, and why every white, Protestant, American Citizen should join our “South Carolina Klan”, and help us in our fight to keep South Carolina WHITE. If interested in joining please v/rite: Robert E. Hodges, General Delivery, Columbia, South Carolina. rising, shining, prosperous new city of West Berlin. And when he does, he doesn’t wonder any more about the Communist propaganda against capitalism. He knows that it is false. Millions Are Hearing Millions of people behind the Iron Curtain have hesyrd about this stunning contrast in the two cities. Millions of Europeans know about it. And this is one of the princi pal reasons Soviet dictator Khru shchev wants to first “neutralize” West Berlin, and then wipe it off the face of the map. The contrast of East and West Berlin is giving the lie to the whole Communist propaganda barrage beamed throughout the world. To his Kremlin yesmen, Khrushchev has described West Berlin as capital istic “cancer” growing in the land of socialism and he wants it cut out by the roots and buried. He knows that to anyone except the most sightless, warped Com munist, West Berlin must be view ed as a veritable garden spot ris ing up out of the desolate, stag nant desert that Communism has made of its 42,000 square miles and the shattered, forgotten cities of East Germany. To Khrushchev, prosperous expanding capitalistic West Germany is a foot-long thorn with barbs on it digging deeper and deeper into his hide. It is a glittering show window, trum peting the success of capitalism. Communism came into being 110 years ago declaring that capital ism was a burden on human so ciety and that the socialism de signed by Karl Marx would create a “paradise” for all mankind. It dedicated itself to stamping out capitalism by force and establish ing world socialism under a dic tatorship. Mustn’t Look Khrushchev doesn’t want any free-minded person in the vast Communist domain—now enslav ing nearly a billion people?—to see what capitalism is doing for all categories of citizens in West Berlin. John Noble, the American who spent three years as a slave in notorious Vorkuta prison camp in Northern Russia, reports that the Red Army men who guard the prisoners of Vorkuta are those who, while on military duty have had a glimpse of West Berlin or other prosperous areas outside the Iron Curtain. They are kept at primitive Vorkuta, in the frozen Arctic, at least two years to erase from their minds all remembranc es, and to frighten thi?m with the possibility of long imprisonment there—if they do not forget! Twelve years ago Communist Russia, as one of the Four Powers meeting at Potsdam, agreed to maintain complete freedom of all transportation arteries into West Berlin from the West. But that was only expedient for the mo ment, and the Communist bosses, in their worst nightmares, never dreamed that individual freedom under capitalism could accomplish so much in so short a time as has happened in West Berlin. Miracle of Rebuilding In the 10 years since establish ment of the West German Feder al Republic and the beginning of free enterprises capitalism in the West Berlin, the flattened, pros trate city (approximately 75 per cent destroyed in the great block buster and fire-bomb raids) has been reborn and rebuilt. Its auto mobile plants, its machine tool in dustries, its steel fabricating and appliance factories, its new tex tile industries, already have gain ed world-wide markets. Its com mercial and residential streets are brand-new and modern. Its shop windows are overflowing with high quality merchandise. The streets are crowded. And the peo ple are enjoying the highest living standard of their lifetime—rapidly overtaking the people of the heav ily socialized nations in Europe. Every factor of economic progress shows a continuing upward surge. Just a few miles away, in the to tally socialized Soviet city of East Berlin, the hard reality is stag nation, poverty, desolation, life in a police state, the frustration of human hopes. The free world must keep West Berlin free and open to the eyes of theworld. Indeed, the story of the two Berlins ,pught to be put in to filmed and photographic docu mentaries and carried to all the peoples of the world. On Saturday evening, April 18, Mrs. James Robert Hamm, Mrs. Jerry Epting, Mrs. Billy Bowers and Mrs. Joanne Werts honored Miss Alice Faye Koon, June bride-elect, with a miscellaneous shower in the recreational center, Zion Qomunity. The 53 guests autographed a lovely handmade apron upon arrival. The bride elect f was presented a corsage of white iris. The game of “Bride” was en joyed and prizes were won by Mrs. Guy Counts, Miss Emily Moore, Miss Aminee Dominick, Mrs. Ira Kinard, Mrs. Boyd Beden baugh and Mrs. Glenn Hamm. The hostesses served a delicious dessert plate. Miss Koon was the recipient of many lovely gifts from the guests and the hostesses. BOOKMOBILE Thursday, April, 23rd: Mt. Bethel Garmany Commun ity—Mrs. Minnie Leitzsey Mt. Bethel Garmany Commun ity—Mrs. Byron Nichols Keitts Cross Roads—Leo Van Cleave Maybinton Community — Mrs. Arthur Maybin Strother Community—Mrs. Jeff Suber Crooks Store—Homer Crooks New Hope Zion Community— Miss Olive Eargle Peak Pomaria Community—Mrs. Ben Johnston Friday, April, 24th St. Phillips Community—Mrs. John Stone Pomaria School Party Honors Bride-Elect Civil Service Needs Stenos The U. S. Civil Service Com mission has announced that there is a continuing demand for steno graphers and typists for employ ment in various Federal agencies in the Washington, D. C. area. En trance salaries for stenographers range 'from $3,255 to $3,755 a year and for typists, $3,255 and $3,495 a year. Written tests for these posi tions are being held at periodic intervals throughout the country and persons with stenographic or typing skills who are available for employment in Washington, D. C., are urged to apply. No experience is required. Applicants may apply and take the test when they are 17; however, those residing out side the Washington Metropolitan area will not be certified or ap pointed until they reach the age of 18. Further information and appli cation forms may be obtained from Louis F. Mazza, located at the Post Office. Miss Martin Is Club Speaker The Newberry Garden Club met Tuesday, April 14 at the Hal Kohn nursery with members of the pro gram committee serving as host esses. Light refreshments were served in Mr. Kohn’s meeting room, where members admired! thd rare and beautiful house plants. Mrs. H. B. Senn, president, pre sided and recognized two members of the club recently elected state officers: Mrs. Richard L. Baker, ntew president of the Garden Club of South Carolina, and Mrs. C. I. Youmans, corresponding secretary. Mrs. Louis Floyd introduced the guest speaker, Miss Margaret Martin of the extension service, Clemson College. Miss Martin is a graduate of Duke University and has done graduate work at Colum bia and Cornell universities. She served in World War II in Alaska, and has been with the Extension Service and the Department of Agriculture for 34 years. She is presently horticulturist with the service at Clemson. Miss Martin talked on landscap ing home grounds, and illustrated her talks with a number of large quality PREMIER only New Styling! ★ 4 Pewerfei Transistors! ★ Neat Battery Saver Featore! OCMONSTV AXIOM Living Sound MARINO AIDS BATTERIES for your Hearing Aid regardless of make . . can be bought at our store. W. E. TURNER JEWELER Elam-Epting Marriage Here Mrs. May Tarrant Elam of New berry, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Legare Tarrant, and Harry Darby Epting of New- betry and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James F. Epting of Newberry, were mar ried on April 5, 1959 at 3 o’clock at the home of the bride, 2023 Johnstone street. Mrs. Nat Gist, Jr. of Newberry furnished the wedding music. Rev. Melvin E. Derrick pastor of Central Methodist Church, per formed the ring ceremony in the presence of family and close friends. Prof. Thomas Epting, cou sin of the bridegroom, was best man. Mrs. Nathaniel Gist, Sr. of Co lumbia, sister of the bride, served as matron of honor. She was attir ed in a two-piece suit of dior blue silk shantung. She wore a match ing hat and carried a npsegay of white carnations. The bride was given in mar riage by her brother, Robert Mar ion Tarrant of Hickory, N. C. She was attractively attired in an im ported suit of Italian silk shan tung in the new wheat shade, with accessories in white, a matching hat with pipped brim trimmed with organza flowers in delicate pink and green covering the brim. She carried a nosegay of white carnatipns centered with a corsage Of white orchid. Receiving at the reception which followed the ceremony were Mrs. Cecil R. Butler, Mrs. L. A. Spearman, Mrs. W. D. Hornsby, Miss Verna Lane, Mrs. James F. Epting, Mrs. C. G. Blease, Mrs. James H. Aiken. Mr. and Mrs. Epting are now at their home at 201 East 10th Street, Bartlesville, Okla. Mrs. Epting attended Winthrop College, Rock Hill and for the past several years has been direct or of the Welfare Department of Fairfield County, Winnsboro. Mr.- Epting is a graduate of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga.,. and is an electric engineer with Phil lips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville. Tornadoes Given “More tornadoes occur in April in South Carolina than during any other month”, warns John C. Pur vis of the Columbia Weather Bur eau. No place within the state can be considered immune from these lethal storms, although there is a definite tendency for more to oc cur in the west central portion. The weather Bureau now issues two types of weather advisories relating to tornadoes; the first TORNADO FORECASTS, are is sued to alert volunteer storm re porters, police and the public to watch for tornadoes if the sky becomes threatening. People, up on receipt of a tornado forecast, 'should take any necessary prelim inary action so that a j^lace of safety can be reached quickly if a tornado is sighted, or if warn ing is issued that a tornado is ap proaching. The second tfpe of advisory is a TORNADO WARNING or an announcement that a tornado has been sighted. The warnings are made possible through the cooper ation of many public-spirited peo ple who promptly notify the near est Weather Bureau office when a tornado is seen. Warnings are then issued whidh include the storm’s location and direction of movement, so that safe shelter can be taken by those in the/ path of the tornado. Communities arp also encouraged to organize their own reporting and warning sy stems. charts prepared by Mr. Thode, landscape architect of Clemson. She emphasized that grounds should be planned to satisfy needs and trends, and to have a garden functional, each thing should have a purpose, either beauty or use. She discussed formal and informal gardens, and suggested that color be used with restraint. She named a variety of plants which were practical for background or “fence,” such as cherry laurel, bur- fordi holly, thotinia serrulata, ele- agnus or ilex vomitoria. Following her talk, she answer ed questions oh garden problems. The club presented Miss Martin a “Tote-bag” for use in her trav els about the state. Following the program, a busi ness session was held. Local Student Spanish Winner COLUMBIA, S. C.—Winners in the Spanish division of the Second Annual Modern Langtfcage Day foi* high school students at the Uni versity of South Carolina last week have been announced by Prof. R. M. Stephen, head of the USC languages department. In the vocabulary contests first place went to Evelyn Anderson of Camden High School. Miss Ruth Keaton was a faculty representa tive. Brenda Alexander of Green ville High School and Pat Mills of Newberry High School tied for se cond place. Science Fraternity, and the New berry College Band. Secretary Of Newman Club Harriette Morehead, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Morehead of. Newberry, has been elected cor responding secretary of the New man Club, Catholic youth organi zation at the University of South Carolina. Chosen Chairman Men’s Council Benjamin O. Burnett has been elected by the Newberry College men to {>e chairman of the Men’s Council for the 1959-60 school year. # Those elected to serve with him are Henry E.,Schaeffer, Char les Phillips, Osborne Herlong, Larry Long, Edwin Davis, James Caulder,. Eugene Epting and James Drafts. Eugene, a day student, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Epting of Newberry. He is a member of Chi Beta Phi, National Honorary Chi Beta Phi Names Officers The Chi Beta Phi Chapter of the National Honorary Science Fraternity ’ of Newberry College has elected the following as offi-* cers for the 1959-60 session: President, David Yount, son of The Rev. and Mrs. N. D. Yount of Whitmire, Vice President, Scott Speares, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Speares of Anderson, Secre tary, Susan Mayfield, daughter of Mrs. Fred S. Mayfield of Newber ry, and Treasurer, Freddy Weed, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Weed of Winnsboro. vs Lutheran Men To Sell Barbecue The United Lutheran Church Men of Mayer Memorial Lutheran i Church will haVe a chicken barbe cue supper on Wednesday, May' 27th at Mollohon Park. Tickets will go on sale this weekend. Mrs. O. O. Copeland returned to her home on Main Street lasfc* Tuesday after spending a. month in Atlanta, Ga. with her siste*. Mrs. W. C. Shealy while Mrs * Shealy was a patient in the Etoory Hospital where he underwent ma jor surgery. The movement of the eye is con trolled by sin tiny muscles. The six muscles of each eye work to gether, with an intricate regula-. tory mechanism making- both eyes move parallel together, up or ^own, right or left Fire/ Fire! Fire! were adequate insurance to... REPUCE YOUR HOME? PERSONAL BELONGINGS? GET THE BEST.. .at Purcells “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Mailt St. Newberry NEW HOURS! 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