The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 24, 1964, Image 19
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1964
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
SECTION C — PAGE THREE
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be blessed with much joy.
MARTIN FEED & SEED CO.
630 Caldwell Street
Phone 276-4011 Newberry? S. C.
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Olan, Louise, Melvin and Butch
1500 Drayton Street Phone 276-4587
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ROYAL CLEANERS
“BEAUTIFUL DRY CLEANING”
1107 Caldwell Street Newberry, S. C.
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BILL GRAHAM
1229 Main Street Phone 276-1332
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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
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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