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W^'Wm-x * i • /■ ,•, ■ r >v ■■ .: &•: - . ■ ■ -\ >-: ■':?■<; I . i E’ > U ' m. ?< THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1960 . S \ t A South Carolina youngster 'will be selected to have lunch with Chuck Connors, The Rifle man, and meet the star person ally during his visit to the Caro lina Carillon here Friday, Nov. equipment to aid in handling damp cotton. Overcleaning and over drying hurts the quality of the cotton. The mills say they’d rather have some .trash in it than to have the fiber hurt by overheating and overcleaning. And this thing is beginning to hurt at the mills, where all cotton is headed. It must be corrected, or cotton will likely lose further ground to synthetics that don’t show similar spinning defects of over-dried and over cleaned cotton. The county agents report over 300 mechanical cotton pickers in use over South Carolina during the season now closing. And de foliants were more widely used than ever. Not only were they us ed on cotton that was to be me chanically harvested, but much of the hand picked part of the crop was defoliated too. That let the sun in, made it open up better, and dryer cotton could be picked. With mechanization, we are go^ ing to stay in the cotton business in' many areas. v 25. The lucky boy will be the one chosen in a contest to look the most like Connors’ TV son, Mark McCain, above, who appears in “The Rifleman’’ series with him. Judging Avill be from photographs. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M ELEA2ER »*» FARMS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist WILD HOGS I knew farmers had all sorts of troubles with things preying on their crops. But County Agent Hubbard of Bamberg comes up •’with a rather new one, wild hogs! 1 fThree communities adjacent to a large bay had been troubled little with this until this year. Undoubt edly the herd has increased con siderably beyond its natural food supply, for farmers generally have complained of raids on their corn Helds. Hubbard says the Fish and Wildlife folks were called in to add in trapping the excess wild creatures. GRAPES The two growers who shipped grapes fpom Calhoun county this year were well pleased with re sults, according to County Agent Cain. Three more vineyards will come into production there next jyear. A good many folks have put «out grapes in Greenwood in the past few years. Those'who did a poor job lost money on their grapes this year, County Agent Garvin tells me. But, on the other liand, those who carried out best known practices are pleased and made some money, he says. ** Clemson has worked out a grape producers’ calendar carrying ev ery seasonal step in grape produc tion. It is free from your county agent. You can see from it, good grapes are not easy to grow. But they can be grown, and will pay off. It is very much like County Ag ent Jones of Greenville told me, “A good peach grower usually makes a good grape grower. For he knows the importance of little things, of doing it right, and he has the right equipment.’’ Bouknight of Lexington says they made a good grape crop and interest in it is spreading. MECHANIZING COTTON County Agent King of Orange burg reports 37 mechanical cotton pickers have been busy there helping them harvest this year’s crop. And in other counties I sav : a lot of those mechanical mon sters going across the cotton fields at harvest time too. These are a part of the trend of the times, full mechanization. But they bring on problems as most new things do. The gins have had to put in elaborate cleaning equipment to get the trash out. And also drying Among boyhood's vivid memor ies are those about our train. It was a mixed train. The little wood-burning two-wheeler usually had 5 or 6 freight cars and flats ahead of the lone passenger coach. It took an hour to negotiate the 18 miles from White Rock to Colum bia. But to me as a kid that was literally flying. It usually stopped once at a wood rack for fuel. We all got out and helped pitch the wood onto the tender so we could be getting on down the road with out much delay., That lone passenger coach wa£ divided into 4 parts. The back portion was for.white passengers. In front of that was a smoker with 4 seats in it. Then came the baggage and. express part with doors opening on the sides. In front of that was the Colored sec tion. No mail. A wrought iron stove was in each part. Th°v made about as much smoke as tne engine. My father was the country doc tor. He got passes on the railroad. They started letting me go to Co lumbia at rather early age for necessary shopping. Neighbors thought they were rather careless, letting that kid of 10 or 12 go away to the city by himself.. One morning at 10 we pulled out from White Rock right on time. Down about half way to Ballentine we heard a commotion ahead and there was a rather sudden stop. One of the driving arms had come loose and was really battering the ends off the crossties on that side. The engineer said that was one time he sure kept his head in that cab window. After about an hour the train crew got that loose arm off. They thought they’d limp on to Co lumbia. But in trying to start, the thing got on dead-center, and we did have a time then. Everybody got out and helped. With pinch- OPEN FORUM Dear Mr. Editor: Does Newberry have a need for a City Manager? Those were three good sugges tions made to the Newberry City Council last Tuesday night by the appointed Planning Commis sion. We agree whole-heartedly with each point. First to have all vacant lots in the City cleaned. Second to pass a • Zoning Ordir nance and third to build new -4—— FARM 11 N OT E S lifiliais: Everybody has more fun with ©Q© s Christmas Club An SCN Christmas Club check makes giving more fun . . . takes the sting out of insurance and other year end bills, too! Join now for a merrier Christmas in 1961! SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK 6 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation NEWBERRY PHONE 1549 • 1 1 19-2 I BOYCE ST. SERVING CAROLINA'S NEEDS SINCE 1834 By COUNTY AGENTS COLD WEATHER / Well, old man winter is finally upon us. Along with this, many problems are brought to light* The barn lot with all its mud. What can you do about this prob lem? Ditch out areas that always hold water, Terrace around the lot to keep out excess water, and fin ally, concrete can be used. Many of our Newberry Cbunty farmers have and are doing just this. The car, truck, and tractor bat teries. It seems as if a little cold weather can cause too old tired battery to get even lazier. Better check the battery to prevent a lost day and a lot of aggravation. Fire hazards.. Cold weather with its winds dry out dying summer grasses and brush. This raises the danger' of fire and its spreading. Hunters and careless handling of fire in the form of cigarettes, and fire to warm by, cause unneces sary loss every year. Be careful this year. Frozen pipes. This can be the most aggravating to wake up and find you have no water for your self or livestock because of burst- ed pipes. Take precautions, wrap exposed pipes, put electric warm ers in the poultry house to prevent water freezing in the trough. Sure winter brings its problems, but with a little thought and care, many of these problems may be met and overcome. Let’s take care and enjoy this winter. DAIRYMEN—FOOT ROT It will be, wise for dairymen and beef producers to watch this win* 1 ter for foot rot, | ; Look for animals limping o^ showing a foot discomfort. Get v veterinarian to examine the feet if you suspect foot rot. • Wet weather, muddy lots help the disease get a grip. Once it i$ ! started it will spread rapidly. You as a dairyman should watch the rear feet of stabled cows. Tha disease appears most commonly at the heels. Foot rot produces raw areas in the skin, very similar to athlete’s foot in human beings. Treatment is effective, if done in time. Watch for this disease* which can cost you heavily this winter. DISTRICT DAIRY FIELD DAY A District Dairy Field Day is going to be held at Laurens High School Auditorium. The program will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, No vember 15th. This meeting should be very in formative to you, the dairyman. Plan to attend. If. you need transportation, let us know at the County Agents Of fice so arrangements can be made. CONGRATULATIONS POULTRYMEN Poultrymen in Newberry Coun ty have about completed another successful year with commercial laying hens. , Newberry producers are doing a better than State average job. Management practices are prov ing to pay off. Producers can well be proud of the fact that they are ahead in the State and in the na tion with their results as to num ber of eggs per hen per year and the feeding ratio per dozen eggs. 4-H DAIRY CALF MEETING Members of the Newberry Coun ty 4-H Dairy Calf Club are re minded to attends the calf club meeting, Saturday morning, at 9 a.m., November 19th. The meet ing will be held at the County Ag ricultural Building. A movie will be shown and offi cers for this coming year will be elected. This meeting is import ant, be sure and attend. bars under the wheels and every body pushing, we got slack on the coupling and unhitched the en gine. Then we inched it ahead a bit until it got off center. It started quick, slipping the wheel a bit. That made it off center then when it backed up and bump ed the cars. Ijt was on a level place and the intermittent lunges of power eventually got the thing to rolling. We paid no attention to those who tried to flag us down at Irmo and Leaphart. That engineer, old “Baby” Graham, was taking no chances of getting stuck on dead center again. City offices. It is such a pity that they did not consider some thing much greater than all three of the above mentiohed, that of an underpass under both rail roads connecting Harrington St. with Crosson street. All of these are important but there is still one greater than all four of the above-mentioned. It would be Newberry’s greatest step for ward if they would discontinue the office of the Newberry City Manager. Many years ago the ci tizens of Newberry seeing much progress and improvements made by other Cities in the State, be came aroused and began talking and making plans as to what Newberry could do to improve what we already had and then to go forward and make progress. Among the many plans and sug gestions were to unify the City Budget. In other words to take all of the money that the Water and Light Commission had and put it in with the regular C ity treasury and then we would have the hoped for utopia. Then to add to this visionary plan in some way the fact of having a city Manager was put over on the peo ple. To my knowledge no one has ever found out just what his job is or just how much he is being paid. Frankly I would . like to know just how much he has been paid both directly and indirectly sinc^ he has been on the job. I am fully aware that no one can answer that question. Now I have no desire to be irrelevant nor in the least to "be unreasonable. Yet from talking to •so tnany of the leading citizens of' Newberry I am of the opinion that this is our greatest issue of the day. We all know the conditions that exist in Newberry today, so letp face it. We have seen $0 much money from so many and differ ent sources go into the City Bud get and we, naturally wonder why can’t we hiake more progress. Lets consider the facts as every one informed knows them. Just in how many different ways has money been going into the Bud get that from ten to fifteen years ago did not go. First is the wat er and Lights (Electricity^ that is an enormous sum, extra money from the parking meters, the ob noxious commode tax. These forhis of paying taxes does not allow the taxpayer a deduction from the Federal and State in come tax. Then lets consider the greater amount of taxes in the regular way, they are most cei- tainly greater than ever before. Then lets consider all of the free work done by, the County Chain Gang, the County Highway and the State Highway Department. Once the late Dr. Geo. B. Cromer used to say, as Americans, lets thank God for the Atlantic Ocean and the’British Navy. It certainly seems to me that all Newberrians should be thankful for the Coun ty and State Highway Depart ment. When we consider these EXTRAS it certainly seems that we could make some progress. Then there was the extra $300,- 000.00 that was given just for general purposes made possible by a group of Free holding sign ers. It seems that people thought just because a City Manager sys tem worked so well in other cit- SCHO GREENVILLE 'S* o tf£S.C4, a 'FOUNTAIN INN ♦ S.CJOI g 221 Laurens Clinton Newberry* S.C 773 Lexington COLUMBIA STATE’S LONGEST FREEWAY UP TO NOW, 1-26) U.3.276, COLUMBIA TO GREEN?HLE OFFICIALLY OPEN NOV. 4 ies it would also work in New berry, but Nay and Nay, it has not worked, the people have not seen any worthwhile results. It was said of Benjamin Franklin, a great man, he once saw a whis tle he wanted and kept saving up pennies until he bought it, af ter he had had the whistle for a while he soon learned he had paid too much for his whistle. It would be something wonder ful if .the citizens of Newberry could see that they are paying a City Manager too much jnoi^ey for the good he is doing and will have ways of doing something a- bout it. I challenge any, citizen in Newberry and more especially the members of Newberry’s City Council to show to the people of Newberry just what we have now in Newberry as improvement or progress, strictly on account of having a city manager and then to let the people know just what they have paid for their whistle. I would certainly like to have the privilege of showing to them so many of the things that we most likely could have had had we not had to pay such an ex orbitant salary to a man that was not needed. Citizens of Newberry know full well that we have lost our place by the side of such ci ties as Florence, Anderson and Greenwood. When we consider such cities as Chester, Clinton and Union, we find that Union has already built their New Of fice building at a cost of about $300,000.00 and it is almost paid for without government help. Clinton made a study of New berry’s City Manager system and in some sections when the elect ion was held there were, over three to one against it. To this day Clinton does not have the City Manager system and they have just as much as Newberry and perhaps more without that extra expense. Over in Chester they granted an exemption for taxes to one of the Springs Tex tile plants in the city and they ended their years* work with over $35,000.00 in. the treasury. Do these, facts mean nothing to the people of Newberry? Why will we t>e lulled into a state of com placency and allow these things to hinder our progress. We voted to annex some sections to our city, a very noble thing to da Then tie- fore we knew it there, was an ex tra millage. added to our taxes. Just suppose that other cities dol ing so much annexation would ada extra taxes just as soon as they annexed a section? In my opin ion there .would have been few annexations. And if the people of Newberry are to be taxed every time there is an annexation, then that is the last of our annexa tions. Certainly we nCqd to do all that is necessary for these new citizens, we are all for it, but have we not ran sewer lines, water lines and electric lines in the city before? We have always had up-to-date Whiteways. T re member so well when one was turned on while Judge Eugene 1 S. 3lease was mayor. The lights were turned on just as Santa Claus was riding down the street. Judge Ble&se also made a state ment during a controversy I shall never forget, he* said that New berry qymed her streets and no one should tell thfem what to do concerning them. One cannot say a statement like that now. A- mong the many things that we have lost in recent years, lets consider the wonderful friendly spirit and good will that Newber ry was noted for. Lets face facta, much of that * spirit does not ex ist. The people of Newberry we no longer have a real Demo cratic form of government, we have an Authoritarian form of government. I am personally in favor of having a City wide re T ferendum which is a v simple pro cess of democracy in action and allow this issue to be discussed pro and con and allow the people to vote if they wished to con tinue as they are. As for myself, I would like to see the salary paid a city manager go toward city owned permanent playgrounds, cemented shuffle board. Tennis and Basketball Courts and much more needed improvements and progress. Let the men elected by the people run their jobs, if not elect others that will. Dewey Kinard Im PARRIS ISLAND, (FHTNO— Meritoriously promoted to Private First Class, Oct. 13, upon grad uation from recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, f ris Island, was Howard E. Smith, son of Mr; and Mrs. E. K. Smith of Route 2, Box 46, Newberry. He enlisted in July, 1960. He received the promotion for outstanding performance of dut ies during recrnit training. USC Debaters Are Winners The University of South Caro lina debating^ . teamQr won two first place trophies and a number <j| of certificates of superior debate ipg prowess at the Dixie Debate Tournament at Mercer Uniyer- . sity, Macon, Ga., last weekend# ' In varsity debating. the. affirm ative j team of ‘ John Newberry, and Melvin Florence, wen first place—defeat ing teams from the University of Florida, Mercer University, Ho- % ward College, EmotT Univeiuity * and Mississippi Southern. - . In* the novice cHvisian, the USC team of John McKa:, Greenville, and Pearce Fleming, Alexandria, Ya., took first place honors—this time in negative •debating. In individual honors the univer sity placed Hire© in the first five / V to be awarded superior rating**— Purvis, Chappell apd James Mann Of' Chester. While none of the novices plac ed near the top individually, the USC affirmative team of Carol A> (Toni) Metcalf* Beaufort, and. % Denis * Smi th, Great Falls, tooled second place, giving the univer sity second place school award. Recent Movmgs Mr. and Mrs. Jim Coleman are now making their home at 983 Langford St. * < Mrs. B. F. Corley is malting her home at 423 Glenn St. Mr. and Mrs. Hendrix Monts have moved to 1609 'Bachman St- ih their new home recently built by Newberry College. Mis. Victoria Bradley has mov ed to 1531 Caldwell St. , Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Black are now residing at 903 Boundary) St# AMERICANA Fort Wayne, Clltes to ANTIQUE SATIN—in White. 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It is interesting H*; I the gateway to the Indiana lake region and the hub of the north- central industrial and agricul tural activity. According to the Fort Wayne fact sheet, almost 100 years ago the mechanical washing machine and gasoline pump were invent ed here and the electric arc lamp, electrical refrigeration and tele vision all had partial inception in Fort Wayne. Today, in addi tion to having one of the world’s largest copper wire and fraction al horsepower motor plants, most of the world’s diamond tools, and certain highly specialized items of mining equipment are made in Fort Wayne. The city Is also an important engineering and re search center in the Government’s defense program. Fort Wayne is one of the lead ing industrial centers of the mid note, in keeping with our changing times, that a recent Fort Wayne publication shows that, while the number of people employed in manufacturing op erations has decreased 18% in the last five years, the. number in commercial, technical and service industries has increased over 30%. “The shift has been marked to heavy industry; to highly skilled work in missile and electronics development; to white collar workers in sales and marketing, insurance, engineer ing, research, business adminis tration and technical work.” There are some 150 industrial plants in Fort Wayne and the 65 major industrial Arms employ 30,000 persons. Principal prod ucts include gasoline pumps, dredges, cranes, hosiery, elec tronic equipment, and copper wire. World, . Carolina, Local Sports Weather Sportscast 7:35 A.M. and 6:35 A.M. —ON— 1240 Kc. jzm ■ ;%H