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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1964 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA SECTION C — PAGE THREE £ s s s I 1 i s May your holiday be blessed with much joy. MARTIN FEED & SEED CO. 630 Caldwell Street Phone 276-4011 Newberry? S. C. E(ctc«c«c<«[ietctc««eiceeectctctete{gte4c(ete46«tcec{6« I s £ £ £ 1 £ I £ £ £ £ 1 X X X X £ £ £ £ £ i MAy ITS PROMISE , OF HOPE REMAIN EVERGREEN. '■Osar. me. PRICE REFRIGERATION SERVICE Olan, Louise, Melvin and Butch 1500 Drayton Street Phone 276-4587 ~ m £ 1 £ £ £ be bright with special joys ROYAL CLEANERS “BEAUTIFUL DRY CLEANING” 1107 Caldwell Street Newberry, S. C. tcictctctetctctetctetetcictc^ctctciststetc^tcteteictetctctcte c«tei6te4ctctcxtct64c««:6>!c^tctetct6tr%«te«cietcte«ctctc4ctctctctc ' - M £ A FAMILY to All die best wishes to our good friends. iBILL’S glass shop BILL GRAHAM 1229 Main Street Phone 276-1332 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ There is something about the season of Christmas that brings a family closer together. The extent of this"togetherness” de pends upon the number of ac tivities that are undertaken as a family project. A real “family” Christmas can include working together on everything, from selecting the tree to preparing Christmas treats in the kitchen. The male members of the family may grumble a bit, but, with few exceptions, they enjoy being assigned the task of pre paring the tree. If such is pos sible, they enjoy even more an excursion to the woods where Mother Nature offers a wide selection of trees in various shapes and sizes. Helping prepare cookies and other Christmas treats is fun for distaff members of the household. Most young girls are pleased with the opportunity to show their versatility in mak ing original decorations for the home. Give them a supply of pine cones, holly, tree branches, cardboard, tinsel and spray paint and they are ready to go. Putting the tinsel, lights and other decorations on the tree should be a family project. After this, going to church as a family and the traditional gathering around the festive board combine to put real “to getherness” in the holiday ob servance. “THE CRICKET” Charles Dickens is best re* membered for “The Christmas Carol''—but this was not the most popular of his Christmas stories during his lifetime. An instant hit with the public was “The Cricket on the Hearth," a touching story of a father’s attempts to shield his blind daughter from the realities of life. Shortly after it appeared in 1845, some 1Z different thea tres in London were present ing dramatic versions of “The Cricket.” GONE TO WORK Each Christmas week the Geor gia Power Company of Valdosta, Georgia, decorates its glass-walled lobby with a beautiful Christmas tree and a Santa who sits by the tree and waves and smiles to all who go by. On Christmas Eve, Santa has disappeared. On the chair is a sign bearing this mes sage, “Sorry—this is my busy night. Santa Claus." Holiday Greenery Brightens Home Home decorations are not com plete without holiday greenery about the house. The best choices linclude spruce, pine, hemlock, yew and aborvitae. Of these, yew seems to hold up best. If you use broadleaf evergreens —laurel, andromeda, boxwood, or Japanese holly—ior table decora tions, keep them in water or the leaves will shrivel and die within a short time. Even though short lasting, broadleaf evergreens are ideal for making wreaths. For this purpose, they may be mixed with holly, balsam or yew. LARGEST CHURCH St. Peter’s, in Rome, is the largest church in Christendom and is built over the tomb of the Apostle Peter. At Christmas, in the year 1950, Pope Pius' XII announced that excavators had found Peter’s tomb, a simple grave buried beneath the debris of altars and other shrines placed over it since his martyrdom about A.D. 67. EVERGREEN LEGENDS Long before the Christian era, Egyptians celebrated the winter solstice (shortest day of the year) by bringing green date palms into their homes as a symbol of the triumph of life over death. Rais ing of an evergreen bough was a traditional part of the Roman ob servance of the Feast of Saturn. FOR THE BIRDS You r' /.rt need an elaborate (feeder to ohare Christmas with ithe birds. You can trim an out- ;door tree and decorate it with such things as pine cones dipped in suet, popcorn, bits of apple and grated carrot, even pie crust. Blue jays, woodpeckers, nut hatches, chicadees, warblers and 'brown creepers are “meat" eat ers. Cardinals, juncos, sparrows ! and finches like vegetable seeds. FARMf notes! nur=: 'llllllllllllnilMI HHIA Valuable Tool For Dairy Farmers Fifteen years ago a 10,000 pounds per cow herd average for milk production was practically unheard of. However, a recent report showed five Newberry., county dairy farmers whose herds topped this goal for the 12-month period ending in Sep tember. Cook Brothers, Max and Har old of Prosperity, were tops in Newberry county with a herd av erage of 12,953 pounds of milk per cow. A well-balanced feed pro gram that supplies plenty of grazing, hay and silage has no doubt contributed to this remark able record. Our congratulations' to Max and Harold for this out-! standing achievement! Others who passed the 10,000 pound level this year include W. D. Cromer and Charles Cromer, P. T. Harris, Henry L. Parr and Ralph Waldrop. We swelled with pride a bit, too, when we noticed that nearly half our Newberry county dairy cows are enrolled in some form of record-keeping program such as DHIA. Henry Longshore, and Heyward Riddle, our two out standing DHIA Supervisors, have made this program go over big in Newberry county. ^ Soybean Reports Continue We continue getting reports a- bout outstanding soybean yields. Ellerbe Sease called us to look at a field of late-planted beans fol lowing the first frost in October. He thought perhaps he should cut those beans for hay. We advised him to save the field for combin ing. Last week “Mr. Ellerbe" report ed that field, when harvested, turned out better than 40 Obushels per acre. Yes Sir! We finally got the right kind of weather this year to make a soybean crop. Reports at our annual outlook meeting last week point to this crop as being one of the best in come opportunities for next year. Plan Next Year’s Crop Now Bob Garrison, our seed man at Clemson, reminded us recently that most soybean farmers save seed beans too many years. Soy beans like other crops can “run out" after several years or can become mixed so you don’t have pure seed. As a seed expert. Bob adyises Newberry county farmers to plant enough acreage of new seed each year to produce seed for the following year's crop. Hampton 266, an improved var iety, will be out this year and the new Bragg variety will be some what more plentiful also. John Martin of the Trinity community has a limited amount of the Bragg variety produced from Registered seed this year. Cotton South Carolina has long sought that magic goal of a bale of cot ton per acre. At last, this year saw this dream come true. Yes, weather helped, but scien tific know-how was applied to this year’s crop as never before. Grass and insects have plagued * cotton for as long as we’ve been growing it. Now these two enemies of pro fitable cotton production can be controlled. This year some farmers were simply not bothered by insects. That’s good. But those who plan to stay with cotton should plan on obtaining equipment that will give full season ^insect control during years it’s needed. Cotton farmers who are now fully mechanized are optimistic over the bright future of cotton as never before. We hope Newberry farmers will make every effort to hold on to their cotton allotments so that they may benefit from the future that lies ahead for this im portant crop. Dairy Meetings It’s back to school for Newberry Dairy farmers. A series of Mon day night meetings will begin the first week in January to help dairy farmers in every phase of Dairy farming. Hold open your Monday nights during January for these important meetings. Building Permits F. M. Schumpert, move dwell ing, Dave Drive; Smiley Porter, repair dwelling, Harrington St.; Lawrence Graham, repairs to dwelling, 1803 Harper St. Total for above permits issued by the city during ix ) past week, $6,600. FORT EUSTIS, Va. (AHTNC) —Sgt. Jack E. Brooks, 30, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Brooks, 600 Pope Circle, completed a 19- week single engine rotor helicop ter repair course at the Army Transportation School, Fort Eus- tis, Dec. 11. During the course Sergeant Brooks was instructed in the re pair of rotary wing aircraft of the reconnaissance type by inspect ing, adjusting, removing, and re placing helicopter Santa’s here! The air is a-tingle with ex citement. Good cheer and friendly warmth shines in every face, in every window. In these last joyous moments of this most joyous of days, we proudly and happily say: It’s always a pleasure to serve you... It’s a special pleas ure now to wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS Prosperity Lumber Company ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER Telephone 364-2606 Prosperity, South Carolina