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■' jfc • ; -■ THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA —— —— FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemaon Extension Information Specialist It ■ I & m ■ a ■ • WP me m* Predicting Plant Disease Outbreaks The USD A, in cooperation with the states, is working on a scien tific basis for forecasting certain troublesome crop disease^ out breaks. With that knowledge, farmers will know when to inten sify control efforts. A piece of equipment called the hygrothermograph is the “brain” that gives a lot of the clues. The past season one of them operated in our potato section at Clemson’s Truck Station near Charleston. Weekly reports from there showed little or no indications for dread ed late blight. And the final re port from there was, “No blight was reported on potatoes this sea son.” Thus growers were saved much on spraying. This same outfit is working on blue mold of tobacco and downy mildew that is so often bad on melons, cukes, etc. The main prin ciple, I understand, has to do with moisutre or humidity and temperatures prevailing. Certain combinations of these create the conditions under which these dreaded plant diseases grow. And, knowing when they prevail, warns the farmer to look out and get ready. The county agents will make full use of this information as it is developed. The city of Akron, Ohio has been a transportation, manufacturing and tUetribution center for more than 150 years. Its transportation his- tory even antedates its founding. Before white men entered what became Northeastern Ohio, the Portage Path was a famous Indian highway. Red men portaged their canoes from the Cuyahoga River, hi the Lake Erie watershed over the divide between the Tusca- River, in the Ohio River watershed. At one time the Portage was the western boundary of the United States. Today it is a beautiful residential street. Transportation and industry built Akron from a sprawl- t Tillage of 250 people to a city nearly •’100,000, the center of metropolitan area of nearly a million. From village wa« plants came flour corn meal, wool cloth and Later, Akron turned to of farm machinery cereal. The first American was made in Akron. The manufacturing period came With the development of huge day deposits and the production d pottery, sewer pipe and brick. then came rubber. In 1870 Beniamin Franklin Goodrich the company that bears bis name, first producing fire and similar goods, then car- tires and bicycle tiros, of the five major rubber companies of the nation today direct the manufacturing, distri bution, sales, financing and re search of their far-flung and di versified activities from their Akron headquarters. Akron is a great research cen ter, having many times more scientists in proportion to its population than many far larger industrial centers. The trucking industry regards Akron as one of the major cen ters for the highway movement of merchandise. Located in Northeastern Ohio, Akron is the county seat of Sum mit County, which gets its name from the fact that the county straddles the continental divide between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi basin. Spittlebug on Coastal Bermuda Highly fertilized Coastal Ber muda grass not kept rather close ly grazed nor cut for hay is often damaged by the spittlebug. This is a sucking insect that will turn the grass brown even in mid-sum mer. County Agent Griffith of Barnwell reports that a spraying with heptachlor cleaned the pest out of a demonstration field of Coastal for them and the grass greened right back up, while near by affected fields remained “as dead as winter.” As protection against getting a build-up of this pest, Hugh Woo- dle tells us to either keep the gn.ss reasonably well grazed dovTi or mow it when it gets away ahead of the cattle out in the summer. And those things should be done anyway to retain f he highest quality in the grass. lectively Harvested for Future Trees and Future Jobs.” And grass too is now a crop. Once we knew it only as a pest that we fought hi the cultivated field. Grass too means jobs, in addition to wealth (cattle). During the long era of row crops, we kept clearing new lands plumb to the hilltops. Much of them became gullied and ran away in red water to the sea. But most of that is now being clothed again with tree and sod, and streams are not running so red any more. The tilled lands remaining will be those best suited to the mechani zation of field crops and orchards. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Trees and Grass Trees and grass have assumed new meaning in South Carolina in our time. Trees as a crop! Trees mean wealth and jobs. County Agent Craven of Saluda tells me B. W. Crouch has this on signs tacked around his woodlands, “Se- In the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork, we got our drinking water mostly from rock-lined wells 60 to 80 feet deep. We had to clean ’em out occasionally, and it always scared me to see a man go down on a rope from a windlass to do that. In settling a new place, get ting the well was about as big a problem as building the house, and folks often carried water from a neighbor’s until they could afford a well. We had no drills, and wells were all dug by hand. Soil usually reached down some 20 to 30 feet, where we hit a rather soft slaty rock that we had to dig through, some times blasting. Wells were neatly lined with hard flinty rocks weighing 50 to 100 puonds, that abounded in the area. They were snugly fit together, with* smaller ones wedged in between, and the curvature served to give it the strength of an arch. Ossacionally a well would dry up. That was a major disas ter. The wall had to be. taken out, by hand and windlass, a prodiguious job, the thing dug deeper, and then 1 re-walled. Dr. Eargle, across the road from us, was the first to put in ater works. It consisted of a gasoline engine and pump that hoisted in into a tank set 30 feet overhead on large cedar post. There was much conjec ture in the Stone Hills about this. Some thought water through an iron pipe might pois on you. Others figured it would Colonial Style Goes Modern Modern is traditional in home design today. Odd statement? Not when you analyze it. Today’s preferred style for homes is rapidly be coming almost an exact replica —with some modern innovations —of the traditional, two-story Colonial house grandmother lived in. How does that make it mod em? Because today’s average family needs: 1) economy, and, 2) more space. That’s just what the old-fashioned Colonial-style house offers. New Jersey home builder Ja cob R. V. M. Lefferts sums it up when he points out that many new house buyers today are buying their second home: “The first buyer is buying housing. The - second buyer is buying a home.” The second buyer is wiser, more demanding. He comes sup plied with more furniture, more everything. More important, he comes supplied with children, and needs the space a tradition al style house offers. Otner home builders agree. Among them are William Levitt, of the famous Levittowns, and Fox and Jacobs, the Southwest’s most successful home building team. Both have switched to tradi tional styles with some modern innovations, such as family rooms and air conditioning. In making the transition, both havd switched to windows of ponderosa pine and wood>anel doors in Colonial styles to give their homes a - traditional ap pearance. Both of these building firms report that the best sellers among all,their models are the houses with the most traditional styling. EVEfJ TWUGH It BL6IV UP AFTtX ONLY TWO 5£CCNiDS IN TUB AiP, \HB KMoW JOTS M<?fc6 THAM before THURSDAY, FEBRUZ TRANSFERS w r x PUT L5T'^ FACS IT/ For one thing - We - /1 ‘Need A Pi'ager bupset Next Year ( \ by Brad Anderson India is the world’s second largest producer of manganese ore and the leading supplier of this vital -product to the United States. get warm in the tank and you wouldn’t have cool fresh water to drink. And anyway, we had never known good drinking wa ter in anything but a dipper or gourd from a brass-hooped ce dar bucket. At first he had only two spigots, one at the horse trough and one on the back porch. This was luxury indeed, not to tote water to either place! Now that might sound like a long time ago, and it was close to fifity years. But this is still one of the rather few old homes in our part of the Stone Hills with running water. Not because the folks wouldn’t like to have it. But small farms can’t have everything and still keep scupul- ously out of debt, as has been the Dutchman’s custom through ^ the years. ^bTHo^e THE facts’ cp life; £&>t let* mce irf ls / / D ESPITE the fact that there is clamor in somef parts of the country to make it illegal to own and use firearms, this corner would still like to propose that we take our youngsters off the streets and teach them how to use firearms safely. We’re not suggesting that we give the young “gangs” weapons to use against one another, but that we take them off the streets and let them expend some of their boundless energy in rifle clubs or the sport of hunting. It is because youngsters have idle time and unused energies that they get into trouble. Whether we like it or not, some of the blame for juvenile delinquency must go to grownups and the fact that our population and our “civiliza tion” expanded so rapidly that we have been too busy with other things to provide proper recrea tional facilities and training fox all our young people. Many of us have been too busy with other things and idle teenagers, for lack of any other type of organ ized activity, had to form their own clubs or gangs. It’s not too -later, however. We Can start with the present crop of teenagers. We’re willing to bet that 90 per cent of them would just as soon belong to a rifle club as to a group known as the “Black Jackets” or the “South Siders.” It doesn’t have to be a rifle club or a hunting group, just any other type of club that would pryo- mote worthwhile activity. But teenagers for the most part have a great interest in firearms and it would be much better for them to learn how to use and handle i guns properly, under adult su pervision. Many of them will own firearms when they are older and everyone of them, as well as those around them, would be safer if they knew what weapons are for and 1 how they should be used. I Newberry No. 1 Minnie A. Blease to South- Carolina Employment Security Commission, one lot on Boundary" St., $10 and other valuable con siderations. W.' Fulmer Wells to Ellen BL Mature and A. P. Mature, one iOC on Springdale Dr., $5 and others valuable considerations. ^ I! V Newberry No. 1 Outside James L. Lipscomb to Stuart C- Merrick, one lot and one building, £. $5 and other valuable considera tions and assumption of mortgage- Silverstret No. 2 , Thurman L. Bundrick to J. H. Bundrick, 50 acres, $6 and other valuable considerations. J. F. Hollingsworth to Jocelyn H. Larrimort, 147 and 280 acres, $5 love and affection. * • % \y; \ •. i.-rf C- •. >• j Prosperity No. 7 John F. Clarkson to O. F. Arm- field Sr., 14 lots and one building, $5 and other valuable considera tions. • C. S. Holland to J. B. McMeek- in, Route 1, Newberry, one lot, $25. K, Vs Wa# .v> ' ■ • - : • • ■ • ■ft, V DANGEROUS About 39 billion cans, worth $1.5 billion, were produced in the United States in a recent year, and, were used to hold 1,500 food and nonfood items. Dimes' Research Gains on Many Fronts BIRTH DEFECTS A newborn baby is examined at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine as part of a March of Dimes-supported study of 9,000 mothers and their babies to determine if a certain virus which attacked these women during pregnancy causes .hildren to bo born with crippling birth defects. THOUSANDS of Rawleigh Deal ers prospered in 1959. Rawleigh Retail* ig can be a good busi ness for you in 1960 and year* to come. Good opening near you in West Newberry Co. Write .today for more information. Rawleigh’s Dept. SCB-361-803, Richmond, Va. 41-4tp PREPARED to assist you with filing your income tax return* and oth< r tax matters. Located upstairf In the Turner Building- Entrance is between Turner's Jewelry Store and Dr. King’s old office. Home telephone 2018, office 80$-J.‘ A. H. and Ruby Z. Counts. ’ 40-t£e ■ .1.1 - BILUNG MACHINE FORMS * CARBON—Standard and Cus tom billing machine forms made He Spik • J . ' ^ 5 Never m mmt or oasoune TO ‘OUJCKEH - A Fl«/ to order. We stock standard - blank heading billing ticket* and carbon tolls for all mseh- ines. The Sun, Phone No. 1. STAPLES & STAPLERS—A fall line of BOSTTTCH and MARK- WELL Staplers and Staple* are available at The Sun ^Oficc. SALESBOOKS—Prin*M to order Get our prices delivery on all types sales order books* We represent Uie world's largest manufacturers. Any size sad any style, made to your speci fications. The Sun, Phone No. 1 VIRUSES New March of Dimes support for research consists of more thari grants for laboratory studies. It is also used in teaching research techWiques. Dr. Maurice Green investigates viruses at St. Louis University apply ing knowledge gained while on a National Foundation fellowship. DOI Effects of the Sabin oral polio vaccine are studied ARTHRITIS ? r .‘ No °* Ro ** °* **** U n ' v e r *»*y of Buf- ■ at Tulane University, New Orleans. Here five-year- 1 ^ falo performs a blood test in connection old Michele Musso receives vaccine from Miss Dorothy R. LeBianc, wnn an investigation into the causes of crippling rheumatoid ai* an epidemiologist. The vaccine, developed under March of Dimes .A... on ? 0 \ man V across the country being financed grants, has been subjected to extensive field testing in Russia and with March of Dimes funds. ether countries. RASH SESSION UNDERWAY The 2nd Session of the 86th Congress is already proving to be on the rash and radical side, judging by the Senate’s record for the first month. First, a band of left-wingers tried to capture control of the Democratic Party policy-making machinery in the Senate. Next, the Senate passed a bill tabbed by its proponents with the pleasant- sounding title of the “clean elections” bill. We Southern- ers voted against it for several r e a - sons. Primari- ly, we felt the 1 bill struck an- liP, other blow at local self-government by propos ing to inject the national govern ment into State and local pri maries. The national government has no authority to regulate primaries, which are already reg ulated by State and local laws. Section 265 of Title 18 of the S. C. Code of Laws requires candidates in primaries to file their campaign expenses immedi ately after the primary, and failure to do so subjects the pri mary candidate to criminal penal ties of fines up to $500 or im prisonment for six months, or both. • In addition, the bill fails to rea fttically cope with abuses in national elections. For instance, the bill does nothing to prevent union bosses from taking money from workers and using it to pro mote candidate? and causes which many of the workers detest. My amendment on this point could not hold its original support after the “bosses” got busy against it in this election year. The bill does nothing to police expendi ture of funds in a campaign for “educational” purposes. Such ■“educational” purposes include such activities as hauling voters to the polls, publication and dis tribution of campaign literature, and voter registration 'drives. Debate revealed that one union spent $37,000 per day in one county paying election workers. Last week the Senate approved a bill which sets the stage for “federal” grants to States to combat the problem of juvenile delinquency. The opposition to this bill, which included me, indi cated not a lack of concern but a realization that this moral problem can be solved only by a resurgency of parental -responsi bility, assisted by the churches and local communities for which “federal” money, now in short supply, is no substitute. At this writing, the war of ag gression for usurpation of indi vidual and States’ Rights in the Senate is concentrated in battles over poll taxes and education, both fields being exclusively within the jurisdiction of the States and the people. On the question of poll taxes, there is a two-pronged attack by the enemy—one by the route of constitutional amendment and the other by statutory action. The latter route is patently unconsti tutional, and the former is con trary to the basic precept of providing the maximum local self-government which underlies our governmental system. Ti^ assault on the educational front is imminent, and only the breadth of the approach is still in doubt With a pious effort to camouflage centralized control, the enemies’ first objective will be school construction grants, and then grants for teachers salaries. Meanwhile, the enemies of the South continue to marshal their forces for an all-out fight on “civil rights” which they have placed on their timetable for February 15. Despite the gloomy prospects for this election year session, every one of us must give his utmost efforts to preserving what is left of our constitutional republican form of government, and thereby, our liberty. Sincerely, Carolina metal works Sheet Metal - Heating - Air Conditioning COLLEGE ST. EXTN. TEL. 115 A. 6. McCAUGHRIN, PraMent It Trainer. P| m M Special Showing Friday and Saturday FEBRUARY 5 & 6 By ROGER ROGERS Of GLOBE? TAILORING CO. Hundrews of beautiful new fabrics for smart clothes custom tailored to your requirements . . . 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