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Thursday, November 29, 1962
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
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'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.
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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.”
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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.
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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 |
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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-
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“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.”
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THANKS TO A
Christmas Club Check
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Newberry County
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Members of our 1962 Christmas Club who have received
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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!
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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
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