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' Page Four THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1962 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR'S” COLUMN SPECTATOR . . . (Continued from page 7 ) more palatable than canned varie ties. For civilian application, the Atomic Energy Commission is studying light dosages of radia tion for fresh fruits and vegetables to make it possible to preserve these foods longer under refriger ation. But additional work is need ed to determine whether this tech nique would be economically feasi ble, scientists say. Institute scientists have borrow ed a civilian product idea—ready- mix biscuit dough—for use in de veloping what they call the ‘auto matic, rapid-fire, biscuit-shooting oven.’ If the oven works as plann ed it will be wheeled up to front lines on a trailer; water and dough mix will be fed in one end and hot biscuits will emerge from the other in 45 minutes. Previous methods took up to seven hours and wern’t nearly so mobile, the army says. Much further from fruition is an institute project to use algea to stretch precious food supplies in an emergency. Algea, green plants that grow on quiet water surfaces, are cheap and easy to produce. Blended into mashed po tatoes, noodles or soup, they sharply boost protein content, re searchers say. The big hitch: Butter is needed to kill the bitter taste of algea but scientists haven’t yet figured out how an army short enough of food to resort to algea would find enough butter. Meanwhile, today’s soldiers al ready are benefiting from some advances in frood processing. Canned bread is replacing the hard crackers munched by GIs of the Korean war; the crackers de scended from the hardtack Civil War troops called ‘sheet-iron bis cuits’. The new canned bread contains a chemical additive that endows it with a fresh-from-the—oven ar oma even after it’s been in a can for many months, researchers say. The canned bread is made with yeast and has about the same tex ture as ordinary bread.” Week before last week I made much ado about the heavy tax payment by the South Carolina Electric and Gas company to Lex ington county; and I called atten tion to the’ very substantial part of the $367,416.87 which was for support of the schools of Lexing ton—$313,388.85, according to the Journal of West Columbia, but I’ve found larger figures in Live Wires. Live Wires tells, with pho tographs, of the payment of $455,- 015.34—four hundred fifty-five thousand—and then some for Ai ken county (with photogenic fig ures of gentlemen, but no hand some lady treasurer, as in Lex ington), by the South Carolina Electric and Gas company. By the way, did the Aiken Coops pay any thing at all? I did not see that in The Standard and Review, Mrs. Annie Howell King’s great daily which I enjoy every day, especially that live editorial page. I proudly claim fellowship with many fine country editors, and this week I am reminded of my association with the late admired ‘'Bishop” W. W. Smoak, grand father of the “W W.” of today. On my last visit to Walterboro, the very able widow of the “Bishop” showed me through the plant. My Colleton brother has a real ly notable paper: full of Country correspondence as well as local and State news; and the editorial page bristles with the courageous expression of the editor. I need not say that we are always in full accord, for that is unimportant: I admire the vigor and forthright ness of his opinions. Editorially also acknowledge ment is made of the timely help offered by Mr. S. C. McMeekin of the South Carolina Electric and Gas company. Colleton rejoices in some wide awake citizens and in Mr. Mc Meekin they have a gracious friend. HOSPITAL PATIENTS NEWBERRY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Mrs. Lola Reeves, 316 Berry St. Mrs. Diana Werts, 917 Glenn St. Mrs. Linda Smith, Rt. 4 Mrs. Gloria Brehmer, Rt. 1, Ki- nards Miss Annie Elizabeth Bynum, 2103 Johnstone St. Mrs. Letha Brooks and baby boy, Rt. 2 Joe Wilson Cromer, Rt. 2, Cha pin Mrs. Y-Genia Dominick, Chap pells Mrs. Frances Danielson, 1603 Hiller St. Russell Eubanks, Joanna Meredith Harmon, 1523 Clark son Ave. Adgy L. Huffstetler, Chapin Mrs. Linda Sue Jones and baby girl, Rt. 1 Mrs. Ada Kinard, Rt. 3 George L. Mills, Rt. 2, Prosper ity Louis Morris, 2012 Main St. Baby Boy Ogden, 826 O’Neal St. Mrs. Vera R. Perkins, Adelaide Extn. Albert A. Sligh, 5 Mitchell St., Whitmire Mrs. Nora Sanders, 1900 Nance St. E. Boyd Wicker, Rt. 3, Prosper ity Oscar E. Wessinger, Rt. 3, Prosperity Master Jamie E. Medlock, Rt. 4 FARM N OT E S luiurs? Thelma Bouknight and baby girl, Rt. 1, Silverstreet Anna Hawkins Bailey, Prosper ity Louise A. Caldwell, Rt. 1, New berry Aurelia B. Reeves, Rt. 1, Little Mountain Bertha Mae Sims, Rt. 2 Lula Mae Swindler, 2519 John stone St. “In this era of centralized gov ernment, hardly a day passes that we do not hear the expression, ‘paid for at government expense’ or ‘paid for by federal funds.’ So, it was with interest the other day that we read the fol lowing remarks by Howard Pres ton, published in the Joanna Way publication: This is what Mr. Preston has to say: ‘Scarcely a day passes but what the newspapers report on some project which ‘the govern ment will pay for’. Quite often politicians will' explain gleefully to his constituents how he has seved money for them. The new saved money for them. The new building will not, says the politi cian, cost his beloved taxpayers anything but a simple fee. ‘The big expense will be taken care of by Federal funds.’ ‘Now, except for their own con tribution through personal taxes, politicians don’t spend a cent of their own money. When the Pres ident of Congress approves a gift or a loan of millions or billions of dollars, inside the country or out side, the money being spent does not belong to them.’ ‘It seems to me it is about time somebody put to use the known facts of financial life, the most prominent being that there are MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS i Mrs. Caritta Whitman and baby girl, Newberry Mrs. Elizabeth Crapps and baby girl, Batesburg Mrs. James Hiller, Chapin Baby Margaret Rinehart, West Columbia Mrs. Mary Kelley, Joanna Mrs. Eva Mae Taylor, Prosper ity. Mrs. R. G. Ellisor, Newberry Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry J. W. Young, Newberry Mrs. J. W. Young, Newberry Charlie Chapman. Little 'Moun tain Mrs. Shirley Jean Lindler, Cha pin J. R. Lindler, Chapin no such things as Federal Funds in the sense the Government does not earn a single thin dime. It produces nothing.’ ’Because of this I have suggested more than once that the phrase ‘federal funds’ be changed to ‘taxpayer’s money’. In stead of accepting a statement that the government iss pending $500,000,000 for developing a fiv er, or building a dam, I think the American Cociety of Newspaper Editors ought to agree to print such an item: ‘The taxpayers of the United States today spent $5,- 000,000,000 for foreign aid,’ etc. At, least, it might get recognition abfoad for the hard-working folks who make it possible for our agents to play Santa Claus.’ Fed eral Funds? Nuts! That’s OUR dough’.” SAY HAIR DRYERS CORNING WARE ELECTRIC MIXERS ELECTRIC FRYING PANS ELECTRIC PERCOLATORS TOASTERS Hunting Clothes — Shot Guns Rifles Rods and Reels - Air Rifles - Baseball Gloves Wagons - Footballs - Baseball Gloves Chapman-Hawkins Co. 13v9 MAIN STREET NEWBERRY, S. C. ' 1 1 , hiiiii , ijiiiuii||»iiiiu * By COUNTY AGENTS Some Thoughts About Dairying A real good dairy meeting was held a couple weeks ago over in Saluda County. About a dozen Newberry County dairy farmers attended. It’s too bad more of our dairy farmers could not attend be cause every dairy farmer needs to be concerned about a lot of the information presented at that meeting. So we take this oppor tunity to discuss some of the highlights of information present ed. First, it was pointed out that we can’t hope to compete with some other areas of the country in producing milk from feed bought “in the sack”. We simnly are not producing the grain needed to support our livestock in the southeast and bought grain cost $10 to $20 per ton more than in most of the dairy sections of the country. However, we do have a big ad vantage in that we can pasture our cows more months of the year and grow grass and crops for sil age more cheaply. Therefore, it should be our goal to produce milk mainly from grass and sil age with limited grain and hay feeding. 10 tons of silage per cow should be the goal of every dairy farmer in figuring the needs of his herd each year. Next, “the cost of milk produc tion is more important than the price received for milk. Also that the production level per cow is the single most important factor re gardless of breed.” Those two statements are worth giving a lot of thought upon. Most dairymen don’t actually know what it costs them to produce a hundred pounds of milk. Also we seem to think in this part of the country, that if we’re doing pretty good with a certain number of cows we’ll do twice as good with twice that many cows. That’s not necessar ily so, according to figures pre sented at this meeting. It’s been pretty well proven that you make about the same amount of net pro fit from a herd of 140 cows with a herd average of 7,000 pounds of milk, or 50 cows with a herd av erage of 9,500 pounds, or only 31 cows with a herd average of 12,000 pounds milk. Therefore, it seems to us every dairy fanner should only keep that number of cows he can provide the best feed ing and management for yea# round. Keeping production [rec ords and feed costs are also yital to reaching this goal of top pro duction. Production inheritance must al so be considered in building a herd of top cows. In dairy states like Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin over 60% of the dairy cows are bred artificially. In S. C. only 35% of our cows are bred artificially. Does this mean we’re not using the best bulls available to build our herds for milk pro duction in the years ahead? We’re afraid it does. These are but a few of the things that every dairy farmer must be concerned with. Our be lief is strong that they are among the most important. Of one thing we can be sure. Much change will come about in this dairy busi ness with the next 3 to 5 years. It might be well to begin now those changes that will result in more profit making cows, a better feed supply of less cost and less cost per 100 pounds of milk pro duced. Let’s Soil Test and Use Lime Used to be we said a good rule of thumb to follow was to apply one ton of lime per acre every 4 years to pasture and crop land. Now we’re not at all sure you can wait that long between lime appli cations, unless you test your soil each year. On land that is heavily double cropped each year and where high yields are being made on one crop per year basis, we find the soil Ph drops sharply each year. That’s why we think some farmers will want to con sider either using 1 ton of lime per acre every other year or pos sibly 2 tons per acre every 3 to 4 years. Farmer demonstrations through out the state are showing the bene fits of lime. Thirty-three lime demonstrations on cotton last year had an average increase of 197 pounds of seed cotton per acre from the use of lime alone. True, we’re increasing our use of lime each year, but not nearly fast enough. Remember that the lack of lime limits the benefit you get from your applications of complete fertilizers to crops or pasture. Lime helps to “unlock” the plant nutrients from the soil and makes them more available to growing crops. Here are some considyi ations you should give to using more lime: 1. The cost of lime is very low compared to the expected returns. 2. Lime needs to be applied sev eral months ahead of planting. Fall and winter is an excellent time for applying lime if you can get on the land to do so. 3. Usually the smaller the lime particles, the faster it reacts with the soil. 4. Lime should be mixed with Parties Honor Miss Kemper And Miss Morehead Mrs. Dave Sokevitz honored Miss Sinclair Kemper with an af ternoon bridge party at her home on December 6th. Pink and white camellia arrangements were plac ed throughout the living and din ing rooms. Mrs. Sokevitz present ed Miss Kemper a dainty carna tion corsage upon her arrival, af ter which the 12 guests enjoyed bridge. Mrs. Richard Baker won high score, Mrs. B. M. Montgom ery second high, and Mrs. Gordon Able, low. An attractive salad plate was served, after which the hostess presented the honoree a stem of her crystal. On December 8 Mrs. r Richard Neel III entertained with a lunch eon at the Wallace House for Miss Kemper. The table was beautiful with a pink linen cloth and bridal placecards, with a center arrang ement of white gladiolii'. The bride’s place was marked with a pretty white carnation corsage. A delicious four-course luncheon was served the 12 guests. Mrs. Neel presented the honoree a handsome lazy-susan with fitted white serv ing dishes. Mrs. John Frazier and Mrs. P. M. Dennis gave a bridge luncheon on December 12 for Miss Kemper. The Frazier home was beautifully decorated with varied original Christmas arrangements. The bride-elect was given a lovely white orchid corsage, and her mo ther, Mrs. Herschel Kemper, was given a white carnation corsage. The high score winner was Mrs. Joe Hunter, Jr., second high, the bride-elect, and Mrs. O. M.*Cobb, low. Following bridge, a delectable three-course lunch was served. The hostess presented the bride a piece of her dinnerware. At the Wallace home on Decem ber 13, Mrs. Ed. Cannon, Miss Ann Cannon, Mrs. Colier Neel and Miss Tucky Neel entertained Miss Kem per with a lovely four-course lun cheon for 16. The table was at tractively arrayed with arrange ments of pink and white gladiolii and mums. Miss Kemper was pre sented a corsage of white minia ture chrysanthemums. Following the delicious luncheon, the hos tesses gave to the bride a pair of crystal and silver candleholders and bon-bon dishes. On December 15 Mrs. Clem Youmans and Mrs. M. L. Youmans entertained at the Wallace home with a breakfast, jointly honoring Miss Sinclaim Kemper and Miss Harriette Morehead. The tables were attractive with centerpieces of carnations and pom-poms. The honorees’ places were designated with white corsages. After the guests enjoyed a Southern break fast, the hostesses presented Miss Kemper a piece of her china and Miss Morehead a piece of her cho sen crystal. Mrs. Jack Chappell and Mrs. John Chappell, of Columbia, hon ored Miss Kemper and Miss More head on December 15 with a tea. The Chappell home was festive with red and green Christmas ar rangements throughout the house. The bride-elects were given white carnation and net corsages. The dining table was beautiful with a center arrangement of white mums and narcissi flanked by burning tapers in silver holders. A delight ful assortment of sandwiches, cheese straws and cake was serv ed. Mrs. Herschel Kemper and Mrs. A. E. Morehead poured coff ee. A pitcher in their respective glasware patterns was given each honoree by the hostesses. $ Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Summer will leave Saturday for Knoxville, Tenn.. to spend the Christmas holi days with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. McBeth Sprouse and family. the soil. Turn it under if possible. 5. Soil testing is the best and safest way to determine if lime is needed and how much is need ed for any particular field and crop. Containers and information for taking soil samples may be ob tained from your County Agent’s Office. Now is a good time to take soil samples in preparation for next year’s profitable farming. Another Reason for Killing Rats Recently we wrote about the economic importance of a rat con trol campaign on every farm in Newberry County. We pointed out that rats not only destroy vast amounts of feed, grain, etc. but also that they can transmit cer tain diseases. Recently it has come to our attention that rats and mice can transmit the disease, Leptospirosis to cattle and to dogs as well. During the past 3 years there have been a good many cases of this disease in our dairy and beef herds in Newberry Coun ty. Though we can’t be certain, it is possible some of these animals were infected by eating feed or drinking water contaminated with ! this disease from rats and mice. Another good reason we think for getting rid of all rats and mice on every farm in Newberry County. It can be done, you know. Dear Friend: ' fl> ' ' - - ^ - This is an invitation and a promise —• we believe our col lection of "Christmas givihg" items the best ever — second to none in this area. Do come and look us over — shop or visit at your leisure — we promise you desirable gifts, wrapped at no extra cost — ready for giving — for all on your list. We are here daily from nine to five-thirty, except the week before Christmas at which time we are here from nine to six. We thank you for everything Cordially, Carpenter’s Notice All Business ;Licenses FOR THE CITY OF NEWBERRY Due and Payable to the City Clerk and Treasurer on JANUARY 2, 1963 Notice A 2 per ct PENALTY will be added to ALL UNPAID 1961 CITY TAXES ON JANUARY 2, 1963 UNPAID CITY TAXES FOR 1961 WILL GO INTO EXECUTION ON JANUARY 2, 1963 m i ■ IhI I X ’fS! f si?