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PAGE 2 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. (\, Thursday, March 28, 1968 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance Six months $1.25. COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREEDIN Now what do you know about buttermilk? Many years a^o we had a Vice President of the United States who became pleasantly known as Putter- milk Charlie because he was strongly addicted to butter milk. So now, what a milk 0 bout b utter Butter churning i s a task of the past, but tin liquid by-product of this once popu- lar -and necessary hnme pro- cess is still with n is. Th i s is buttermilk, with its unique and tan^y flavor. To many it is a treat; to others a medicine Kvon those who do not like their buttermilk straight, tho can enjoy it as an ingredient in dishes, drinks, dressings, and deserts. The commercial dairy manu facturers have taken the cream out and by adding bacterial cultures to skimmed milk and allowing the mixture to ‘ripen’ under proper conditions have developed a process producing the same refreshing flavor and goodness as its old-fashioned counterpart. However, it is still possible to buy the com mercial buttermilk, which is a by-product of butter-making. Sometimes the cuKured but termilk may contain visible granules of butterfat, pro duced by adding churned fat. It frequently contains nonfat milk solids, which increases its nutritional value. A pint of buttermilk contains the nutri tional equivalent of about 2 1-2 ounces of beef or about 8G cal ories, a big help to calorie watchers. It has become more popular, because of its digest ibility and mineral content. Among its uses: on green sal ads or fruit salads, which are popular as side dishes with hot soups and casserole such as potato scallops, giving it a zesty taste. Add a few spoon fuls to the ingredients stuffing your potatoes.” So now; is it likely that we can grow strong and powerful on buttermilk? The recent invasion of the State Capital by a body of young people brings to mind how 1 had to handle five cases somewhat similar. As Diiector (Jeneral in Peru I had full authority over forty (lovernment Colleges, and even a larger number of private col leges etc. One case will be suficient: two professors of the Normal School had a mild controversy in the press about some com paratively unimportant prob- lem. One professor, th3 older, was a strict man, a rather thorough teacher, and the younger man was very popu lar. The students of the Normal School were from all parts of Peru, on scholarships. The head of the school came to me with a report. I asked what he had done. He, a very likable man, a graduate of a great American University, threw up his hands. I urged him to take firm ac- THERE’S INSURANCE AND THERE’S INSURANCE but the best that money can buy comes from a competent, local independent agent who has YOUR interests at heart. WE WOULD LIKE TO BE YOUR AGENT! “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1 IIS Main Street Phone 276-1 122 tion at once with my full sup port. He came back almost in tears. I told him to send these students to me in groups of 20. I made the same speech to all: Either be in your classes at nine o’clock tomorrow or I cancel your scholarship, close the dormitories and dining loom, put you in the street without money, food or trans portation home, your career ended.” At nine o’clock all were in their classes. In this recent invasion of the State Capital I would have closed that college and put all the students out. I did not order expulsion be cause that has a very ugly sound, but when I cancelled their matriculation they were out and that effectually. I do not presume to advise the Governor but this is not a matter for negotiation but a matter of discipline and auth ority. Several friends have urged me to advise the Governor. Advice is cheap and those who volunteer advice are seldom appreciated. Farmers, this must be out- day. Recently we were urged to plant cotton; now we are told that corn will be at a premium. Well, let’s think it over. I am not a farm expert or auth ority, but we know something about corn, don’t we? Believe me I’m not thinking of any thing liquid! “Corn prices are expected to move higher in the next several months, with the major strengthening factor a big slash in 1968 plantings. A Wall Street Journal sur vey indicates that farmers may reduce this year’s corn seed- ings by <5 percent to possibly as much as 10 percent bemw last year’s average which pro duced a record crop. By mid summer, corn prices could be up as much as 10 percent or more, analysts say, with pos sible further increases later on, especially if the weather turns unfavorable. Corn is one of the country’s leading cash grain crops and the most important feed ingred ient in raising livestock and poultry. Price rises will in crease the cost of producing meat, milk, butter and eggs, and could nudge retail prices higher on many key food sta ples later this year and early in 1969. The main reason for the ex pected acreage cutback, of course, is the low price of corn. No. 2 yellow, a key grade, cur rently sells in Chicago for $1.13 a bushel, up 6 percent from the deepest slump in Novem ber, but still about 30c under a year ago. A ‘bin-busting’ rec ord corn crop of 4,722,000,000 bushels was harvested last year, up 005,000,000 bushels from 1900. In addition, much of the corn was hit by frost before it matured, resulting in high moisture content for which farmers are penalized. Many growers received only 00c to 80c a bushel for their ‘wet’ corn, which they say didn’t cover production costs. Then, too, the Government is encouraging less acreage with changes in the feed-grain pro gram. Washington farm plan ners figure last year's mam- mouth harvest was about 3 per cent larger than needed, so they'd like to compensate by having farmers grow 3 pel cent less corn than necessary this year. Indications are that farmers will cut back crops at least that much and maybe more. ” Marriages Jesse Oates III of Chester and Shula Marie Abercrombie of Great Falls w-ere married on March 11 at Great Falls. James B. West II and Mar jorie Ann Holler of Prosperity were married at Prosperity on March 14. “WHATSOEVER THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON We humans can pull some good ones sometimes. Up in Paterson, N. J., recently the call went out: “Car four, where are you ? ” called the police radio dispatcher. “We’re in Cedar Lawn Cemetery,” came the reply. “We’re locked in.” The two embarrassed Paterson police officers told the dis patcher they went to make their nightly patrol of the cem etery when the gatekeeper un knowingly locked them in. Another patrol car found the gatekeeper and let them out! Then there was the pilot who was flying his small, two-en gined plane and decided to land at Logan International Air port up Boston way. Spectators watched as Manning Jobbs, age 40, brought the plane down for a perfect landing. Perfect, that is, except for one thing— the wheels weren’t down! When the plane skidded to a stop after the belly lending airport officials rushed to it and asked Jobbs what had happened. “I just forgot to lower the gear” he replied. But that’s not all! There was the newspaper in Parsons, Pa. which pulled this blooper. “Saturday morning 10:30 A.M. —Easter Matinee—Every Child Laying An Egg In the Door Man’s Hand Will be Admitted Free.” Or take the healines from an Austin, Texas paper: “JURY GETS DRUNK DRIVING Case HERE.” The Idaho Statesman once ran the following story: “After Governor Daldridge watched the lion perform, he was taken to Main street and fed 25 lbs. of raw meat in front of the Fox threatre.” Well, it is the mistakes that we make that often put a little zest into life. That is unless they are serious mis takes. Then they aren't laugh ing matter. There was a young man named Mark who made a mistake once. He had decided on his life’s work and had giv en himself in service to others. One day he decided, for a reason never known, to quit what he was doing. He was working with a partner named Paul and when he quit it just broke Paul’s heart. We dont’ know what hap pened to Mark for the next few years. But we do know that he changed his mind and went back to his old work with Paul again. Paul was writing to another friend of theirs named Timothy years later and he told Timothy to “get Mark and bring him with you; for he is very useful ...” We humans make lots of mistakes. But we make our most expensive mistakes when we fail to try to correct our mistakes. Oh, to be sure, some of them we cannot undo any more than we car turn back the pages of history. But we can still make amends for them. “To err is human,” said the poet. And it is. But it is also human to correct our errors. A fellow named Peter made a mistake once by deserting his Friend in an hour of need. But he corrected it. I would imagine there are some mis takes we need to correct now. Don’t you? Permits Morris E. Hallman, Route 1, Chapin, cement block motor shop, $3000. R. Granville Boozer, Route 3, add two rooms to dwelling $1500. Annie K. Counts, Route two, four-room dwelling $9000. 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