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i Thursday, November 29, 1962 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA Page Thre# 'Miracle Baby' with Birth Defects Is Named March of Dimes Child .Jimmy Boggass' meiht, Mrs. Shirley Boggess, reads a fairy tale to the 1963 National March of Dimes Boy, a victim of the birth defect known as open spine. She is a March of Dimes volunteer in her home town of Coy, Ark., because she wishes *o encourage research "to learn why some children, like my Jimmy, aren't born perfect." Five-year-old Jimmy Boggess of Coy, Ark., a “miracle baby” who has survived a constant battle against serious birth de fects, has been named the 25th Anniversary March of Dimes Boy for 1963. Jimmy, the son cf Mr. and Mrs. James Boggess, was born with a birth defect known as spina bifida, or open spine. He underwent an operation when he was five days old to correct this condition. A few months later, it appeared that he also had hydrocephalus, or water on the brain. However, this condi tion has apparently arrested itself without need of surgery. In spite of the fact that he also has defects in both the gento-urinary and digestive systems Jimmy is a happy, in quisitive child who plays with his pets and his toys as eagerly as any other youngster his age. He walks with the aid of steel braces and wooden crutches. He looks forward to his na tionwide tour scheduled for January, which marks the 25th anniversary of The National Foundation-March of Dimes. His picture will be on millions of coin collectors, leaflets and school cards used in every county in the nation. He will also visit with a number of congressmen, senators, gover nors, mayors, screen stars, TV personalities and stage celebri ties. A winsome, intelligent lad, Jimmy was born in Panama City, Fla., Jan. 20, 1957. His parents, both natives of Arkan sas, took him soon after to their home state to be nearer spe cialists and medical facilities there, so that their son could get the expert medical care he needed to survive. “Jimmy is a symbol of the 250.000 children born each year in this country with significant birth defects. He is living proof that something can be done for seemingly hop-elesslv crippled children,” said Bahl O’Connor, president of The National Foundatien-Mdrch of Dimes. g ess, who was a model before er marriage, today is a March of Dimes volunteer. One of the satisfactions she finds in this work is the hope it affords that “research will find the reasons why some children are not born perfect, and then will find a way to prevent these tragedies. The March of Dimes helped wipe out polio with the Salk and Sabin vaccines. I am cer tain that something can be done about birth defects. “I am going to work as hard as I can to see that Jimmy con tinues to get the best possible medical care, and that funds are available for research so that someday other mothers won’t suffer the terrible shock that I did. “Children like Jimmy will benefit most from expansion of the March of Dimcs-supported nationwide network of clinical study and treatment centers, which bring the most modern medical care to victims of birth defects, arthritis and polio. To day there are more than 50 of 'these centers. Our nation could Jimmy’s mother, Shirley Bog-l-easily use twice that number. Outstanding 4-H Youths Chosen For Top Awards An 18-year-old South Carolina girl who became an electrical whiz in 4-H Club work has been awarded an expense-paid trip to the National 4-H Club Con gress in Chicago, Nov. 25-29. Sharon Hillhouse, of Ander son, was named the state’s 1962 electrical program winner by the Cooperative Extension Serv ice and will be the guest in Chicago of the Westinghouse Educational Foundation. Alice Berry Sharon Hillhouse Judith Halfacre, 17, of Pros perity, state canning program winner, also will receive a free trip. Her sponsor is the Kerr Manufacturing Corporation. * Two other 1962 4-H program winners received other awards. Alice Berry, 17, of Chesnee, state winner in the beautifica tion of home grounds program, will receive a 19-jewel wrist watch from Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen of Chicago. Bob Stone, 19, of Starr, top achievement program competi tor, attended the 1961 4-H con gress as winner of the South Carolina field crops program. He received an achievement cita tion earlier this year from the Ford Motor Company Fund. Miss Hillhouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hillhouse, learned to repair electrical ap pliances as part of her project. She also gave demonstrations on three and four-way switches and on safe use of electricity. Miss Halfacre, daughter of Mr. and Bin. Grady Halfacre, has canned more than 600 quarts of fruits and vegetables in the eight years she has taken the canning project She fulfilled one of its goals when she pro moted a more varied, well- balanced diet for the Hillhouse family and reduced cash ex penditures for food. Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Stone, said his 1961 trip to the congress “was the most wonderful experience of my life and the week in Chicago will always be remembered and re-lived many times in my memory.” He has excelled in a host of 4-H projects, winning many awards. He is a student at Young Harris College. 1 REV. ROBERT H. HARPER cusses use fowls OPERATING throughout the ' history of mankind, there is seen in effect the law of reci procity, by which a man’s deeds whether good or bad are returned upon his own head. And there are many examples of this operation that we have known from child hood. The great Essayist has given many expressions of this law such as “Harm watch, harm catch” and “Curses always re turn upon the head of him who imprecates them.” Judith Halfacre Bob Stone Miss Berry planted shrub beries and flowers around a new home that her parents built re cently. She also helped to decor ate the interior. The 4-H congress is arranged each year by the Cooperative Extension Service, the National 4-H Service Committee and more than 50 of the nation’s leading business firms. JUST A THOUGHT: The easiest way to buy trou ble is to believe that we can take care of problems and re sponsibilities by merely pre tending that they do not exist. The long wall in the living room or family room often presents a decoration problem. Pic ture grouping doesn’t al ways do the job, so many people resort to a book case. It doesn’t really matter if you have only a few books, bric-a-brac will help fill the space. That cup you won as champion of the tenth flight in the club’s golf tournament will look good on display and will serve as a conversation piece. Don’t overdo it, however. A few books spaced in the shelves, es pecially if they have colorful * jackets, will add the right touch of color to the room. If you let the wall itself be the back of the bookcase, then your color scheme for the room is not broken. In the past of our Country, vast flocks of passenger pigeons al most darkened the skies of wood lands where they flourished, and returning at dusk to their accus tomed roosts, were slaughtered in such numbers that they became extinct. This saga of winged crea tures may illustrate, in a way, the operation of imprecated curses that return to their roost in dire destruction. We can easily surmise that curses like fowls fly home to roost because a man who curses others naturally becomes an object of dislike and loathing. But the law of reciprocity has another side by which it returns a man’s good deeds upon his* head. 1 “Cast thy bread upon the waters; thou shall find it after many da vs.” GENEROUS □□□□□□□ ^^ruuuuuuu fjjf-uuununnu □□□□□□□ □□□□□□□ Fill ia A* word tqworM. Th* lattars in tha bnovy tqwara* form an Anagram, tH« solution of which b fhn TV TEEZUt Pnrton<WiF/ of tho Wank. (SN/TfOD AMOXOa) AVdSWOOd‘8 HiNWOD-zivaasm;- HE RUNS A SMALL MOTEL R OGER B. Farley has gone into the motel business after his retirement. He’s doing pretty well at it. “I’m coming out, on the aver age, with about $600 a month in come,” he says. “In addition there’s free housing because the wife and I live in the motel.” Mr. Farley's motel is located beside a roaring expressway in northeast Georgia. He chose that general area because the first 30 years of his life were spent there. The next 35 years, all with the same company, were spent in New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago and New York. “I felt an urge to come back home when I retired last year. 1 don’t know why—I feel no more at home here than I would in Seattle. Too many changes in 35 years. I’m a stranger in a strange land. Still I’m happy enough with it. And I like the South . . Mr. Farley intended to live in leisure with his pension. But he says he got bored and, in turn, made his wife unhappy. He turned to the motel business partly be cause he thought it would be pleasant and easy, and partly be cause he had been somewhat fitted for it by his working career. He had been supervisor of real estate holdings for his company over the last 20 years. And among those holdings, at times, had been a couple of small hotels. Here is what Mr Farley has found good—and bad—about his motel retirement; It’s not good for a wife, because she can have virtually no social life. People don’t like to come visiting you in a motel home. And, at best, quarters are confined. It’s a gay, interesting place when business is good; very lonely when it’s not. There is a vast number of little things to do in running a motel, not many big ones. Cheap labor can perform most of the tasks, such as housekeeping, laundry and buying light bulbs, and cheap labor is available in the South. Repair jobs are numerous and constant, but usually minor ones. A fellow who likes tools can enjoy this. A man who has had a fairly good job must learn to accept,a role similar to a servant’s, if the motel is a small one, because he is serving the public directly and in a business where many basic problems of Jiving are involved. He must be prepared to tote over some bathroom supplies when a customer calls for them, get a customer’s suit pressed, call a doctor for his baby, help him start his cor. A man can’t keep his wife in sulated from the business even if he wants to. Too many times he is occupied elsewhere when a new customer checks in, or an old one complains. In a one-man oneration she has to steo in. WHERE TO PUT $$$$ AT 65 A/f ANY retirement-age people, during the first six months of this year, lived through one of the biggest financial shocks such people have ever experienced in this country. Other people got it too—the smart boys and the rich ones. And the weeping was mostly for them. Little attention was given to the fact that the decline of the stock market brought fright and near disaster to the quiet ones going into retirement. What can be done about it now? First, some perspective. Retire ment-age people weren’t fooling around with the stock market in the 1929 crash. Nor were there so many at them then. It was after World War n that they began moving in, and there were many pressures for them to do so. Stock prices were going up and up. All sorts of speriadisOd types of stock purchases were being introduced —growth stocks,- inflation-proof stocks, income stocks, mutual funds, installment buying, etc. The normal man past 55, in the 10 years up to this spring, felt a little stupid not to get in on the fabulous rise of stock prices and thereby increase die size of the nest egg he would have at 65. So, by the thousands, older men got in on it. And the rose really bloomed—up until about May of this year. Savings of $5,000 had grown to $10,000, and in .just a day or so They didn’t know any better— they wouldn’t have been wasting time being stock brokers if they had. And most older people own ing stocks are sophisticated enough to understand this. Still, retirement is near. The worth of retirement savings has been severely battered. The con fidence of most other 55-year-old people who still have a choice, is badly weakened. What, for the 64-year-old and the 55-year-old, is best now? The 64-year-old is probably going to get the same dividend on his $7,000 stocks as he would have had if they were still worth $10,000. Provided business stays good. So, income-wise he is not butt yet If he were planning to use his $10,000 to buy a retire ment bouse, or to switch into some static investment, then he is about 30 per cent poorer. And unless the stocks go back up he’ll stay 30 per cent poorer. That’s it Period. The 55-year-old, still in position to make a choice, doesn’t intend to be burned and is casting his eyes toward banks that are pay ing 4 per cent on savings, and toward savings and loan associa tions that are paying up to 4Vfe per cent. That's possibly a good idea. With accounts insured up to $10,000, the money put in will al ways come back. But inflation can come as surely as the stock de were back to $7,000, or $4,500. i cline did, and just as surely— And in the main it wasn’t gam- j though a bit slower—the value of bling stocks the older people had. i the savings can go down. And It was what brokers had been nobody knows any better about recommending as conservative inflation than they did about the growth issues. 1 stock market. gWHMtfac Keep Those Old Foil Pans! j* • : llllllll sSHil —act tray a asul aluminum-foil pie platoi alt foo i to throw aWU*—but ••Mom used for-lack of inspiration. This by Anacom* ^ — CMnjOyHy AygMuU Algmteom ComjMjny, on. rf th. twntof leading maoufaeturerz cf aluminum foil products, should out your supply and put it to goo* uao: For Mother: o Cut up and<fonn into Christ mas tree ornaments and bulb reflectors. • Cat and dog dinner dishes. • Container for soap and wet sponges. o Christmas gift coo ages. • Frog for flower arrangements. • Dish for cleaning jewelry and silver. • Everyday ashtrays. • Packing lunches (keeps sand wiches and pie intact). • Container for poaching eggs. • Steam iron pad. • Catch-all under range burners. • Pan to melt butter for cooking. For Dad: o Hang them* on strings in the garden or garage to scare birds. o Reflector shade, for light over ping pong table. • Drip pan under paint can. Pan to catch oil drained from lawn mowers. Flats for starting garden seed lings. Used razor blade collector. Water container for humidify ing furnace air. Pan for cleaning paint brushes. For Children: Party hats. Dart targets. Base for molded clay figures. Here’s a cute one: teach a child to tell time by cutting out pa per hands and anchoring them on a pin stuck through the cen ter of a pan. Write the num bers around the edge. Crayon trays. Try this one: punch a small hole in the center of a small 5 an and push through the han- le of an ice cream bar. Keeps the drips off the floor and chil dren. Sand box toys. FARM | NOTESlCSfe '•HiiTrirrr More About Farm-City Week. Guess you coud say we are bearing down on this subject, but it does seem mighty important to us that all of us should realize the tremendous importance of this event. * We Americans take lots of things pretty much for granted. Especially our three square meals daily. But in most countries of the world most of the population must work directly in agriculture to produce the food needed. Not so in the United States. Only 10 per cent of our working force is needed to produce the abundanT food supply we now enjoy and too often we tend to take for granted. Let us remember too that there are still many problems to be solved in agriculture. These prob lems and their solution will cer tainly affect our future standards of living. The relationship between Farm and City people therefore must continue to be developed and cultivated in order that we may remain “Partners in Progress” for many years to come. Dairy Field Day Meetings. Every dairy farmer should plan to attend one of the Dairy Field Day programs being held this month. Clemson college dairy de partment and our Extension dairy staff have joined in cooperative effort to put on a program of in terest and benefit to our dairy farmers. Three such meetings are being held over the State. The closest one for us will be in Sa luda on Thursday, November 29. Egg Production Info. • At a recent egg industry con ference held in North Carolina, ways to halt the nation’s decreas ing egg consumption was discuss ed at length. Among the decisions reached were a couple that are of vital interest to every egg pro ducer. One solution offered is to make available the kind of eggs the consumer wants, whether white or browh. Also to give the consumer a product which will still be of high quality at the re tail store level. This points up the fact that no longer can we be con cerned only with producing farm products. We must also be con cerned with the “after-leaving-the- farm” quality if we want to have contiued sales for our products. In adition, Dr. Frank Craig, Poultry Scientist at N. C. State College, predicted still greater in tensification of egg production and its related services. “Producers and others engaged in this industry terested in new doomed to fall by the wayside, who are not in- nformation are Craig said. “This change and keeping up with that change requires much effort and interest. He added that the per son who has technical know-how today can becom a very short timt This we believe writing on the vl The egg busine County is still is a day of rapid out-of-date in is sort of hand- all, so to speak, ss in Newberry growing and is highly important; to us. We’ll have to “keep up” though, if we are to continue tj; leading prbduc- ing area. A smile is a dirve that can set a lot of things istraight. AVELEIGH CIRCLES TO MEET Circle No. 1 will meet Tuesday#* December 4 at 10 o’clock a.no. witli Mrs. A. F. Busby on Evans Circle- Circle No. 2 will meet Monday# December 3 at 4 p. m. wich Mrs- Aubrey Harley on Johnstone St. Circle No. 3. will meet Decern^ her 3 at 4 p. m. with Mrs. J. D- McCord on Main street. Circle No. 4 will meet Monday, December 3 at 8 p.m. with Mrs. Ed Young on Mower street. Circle No. 5 will meet Monday, George Davenport on Purcell St. December 3rd at 8 p. m. with Mrs- ii aim “Madam,” said the male strap hanger, “you are standing on my fqoot.” “Oh, I beg your pardon,” apologized the female ditto. “I thought it belonged to the man sitting down.” Centra Hz* Incurar i*m In On* That's one ^ay ybu can save tim*' and book keeping. As a bonus you'll get preferred attention and better coverage, many times at a saving in rates. We would like to be YOUR agent. ’ l^/e Handle ALL Types of Insurance 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 I m IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT YOUR "SANTA CLAUS" CAN BE ALL PAID FOR . . . THANKS TO A Christmas Club Check FROM THE V Newberry County Bank Members of our 1962 Christmas Club who have received v? i\ . . • their checks will be able to do their Christmas shopping with out the worry of financial pressure. If you did not belong to our Christmas Club this year ... Look ahead NOW to Christmas, 1963! Plan to make it even more pros perous and merry next yeat! e Join oop 1963 Christmas Club which' is open now. Save 50c, $1.00, $2.00, $5.00 or $10.00 per week. The Newberry County Bank not only offers this special savings pro gram, but also offers Complete Banking Facilities—and you will find this Friendly Bank helpful at all seasons of the year. Newberry County Bank NEW BERRY c South Carolina JOANNA, South Carolina