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PAGE 4 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 12, 1969
NOT A STEAM ENGINE—It’s a home- in an audio-visual education course.-With
made pipe organ, being demonstrated by its one-octave console and four ranks of
its builder, Jimmy Ingram of Lexington, pipes, the miniature instrument produces
S. C. Ingram, a June graduate of Newber- all of a full-sized organ’s basic tones. And
ry College, designed it so he could show it’s portable,
how pipe organs work, as a special project
Builds organ as
part of course
Some college students, it is
alleged, look for easy courses
with minimum homework. Not
James W. Ingram, Jr., who
just received his bachelor of arts
degree from Newberry College.
Jimmy built a pipe organ last
semester.
He built it at his home in
Lexington on weekends, mostly
out of makeshift materials in
cluding an old blacksmith’s
blower and other salvaged parts.
He was majoring in music at
Newberry, but making th< pipe
organ wasn’t even part of his
music studies. It was a special
project in an education depart
ment course in audio-visual me
thods. He decided to prepare an
audio-visual demonstration o f
how a pipe organ works, and
he needed a portable pipe or
gan. So he built one.
He got an “A” in the course.
The job took 400 man-hours,
or man-and-woman hours. His
mother and father helped which
was all right with the professor,
Dr. James F. Cummings. The
senior Ingram, who is athletic
director at Lexington High, and
a former shop instructor, did a
lot of the cabinet work.
Jimmy designed the instru
ment and assembled it. Now he
has probably the only genuine
pipe organ in the world with
four sets of pipes and only one
octave of keys.
All right, so it isn’t a con
cert organ. Its four ranks of
pipes (or part-ranks) were
enough for Jimmy’s purpose.
With its miniature console of 13
keys, one stop tablet and two
pre sets, he could produce all
of a full-sized organ’s basic
tones, singly or in combination.
When he wasn’t working on
the organ, he was preparing
other parts of his classroom de
monstration. His illustrated talk
grew to include 50 color slides
of various pipe organ installa
tions. He also made a tape re
cording of organ tones at New
berry’s Redeemer Lutheran
Church, where Jimmy’s organ
and piano instructor, Darr Wise
presides at the console.
The color slides depicting the
mechanisms of big organs were
made at Redeemer,in the col
lege chapel, at Central Metho
dist and St. Luke’s Enisconal
churches in Newberry, and at
St. Stephen’s Lutheran, Jimmy’s
home church in Lexington.
Jimmy’s one-octave organ is
strictly portable, he says. He
can knock it down and move it
anywhere for a demonstration.
Putting it together again in
front of the audience is part of
the act.
The construction job took im
agination. The Ingrams used
spruce pine for the wind chest,
and made a bellows out of pine
and fine Cabretta leather. The
13 keys are hand-cut, and cov
ered with ivory salvaged from
an old piano.
Jimmy borrowed the pipes
from another organ he owns, a
10-rank instrument which was
once in St . John’s Methodist
Church in Batesburg. It’s any
thing but portable, and he stores
it at home because he hasn’t
found room to install it yet.
The borrowed pipes encom
pass all four basic “families”
of pipe organ tones: diapson,
reeds and oboe, flutes and cel
este-strings.
Jimmy would be glad to put
on audio-v i s u a 1 demonstrat
ion for interested groups, but not
just now. He got his diploma
June 1 and headed straight for
six month of active duty with
the National Guard.
When he gets back, there’s a
job waiting at Case Brothers
House of Music in Spartanburg.
He’ll be staff organist there,
demonstrating electronic organs
and assisting with the “tonal
finishing” of new organ install
ations.
If there’s room at the House
of Music, he’d like to set up his
one-octave pipe organ and de
monstrate it for customers.
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County Agents
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EVERYONE LEARN
The Board of Directors of the
National Safety Council has giv
en careful consideration to the
problem of drowning. There are
still too many people who do
not know how to take care of
themselves in the water.
At a recent meeting of the
Board it was decided to conduct
a council-wide “Everyone Learn
to Swim” program—the pro
gram is specific and life sav
ing.
Find the children and young
adults who do not know how to
swim.
Help them to get instruction
from agencies and organizations
in this field—Red Cross chap
ters, “Y’s”, Schools, Summer
Camps.
The problem is, one out of
fifteen fatal accidents is drown
ing; drowning is the fourth lead
ing type of fatal accident; of
those who drown 86 percent are
male and two-thirds are more
than fourteen years old. Almost
two-thirds were not swimming
at the time of the accident. They
fell in the water and other mis
cellaneous accidents on the wa
ter. Almost half the people who
drown were alone at the time
the accident occurred.
What can one do about drown-
ings? Look for the people who
don’t know how to swim, the
ones who never go to camp or
the ones usually who never
learn to swim; enroll in swim
ming class; and take every op
portunity to learn to be a bet
ter swimmer.
Points to stress in a safety
program are: everyone should
learn to swim; practice staying
afloat with clothes one; swim
only where there are lifeguards;
swim with others, never alone;
learn how to give mouth-to-
mouth respiration. This is one
of the most effective ways to
help revive a person. Boaters
who can't swim should wear
life preservers.
These are all good points to
remember and work on for this
summer. If you have your own
private swimming pool, fence it
in, put a lock on the gate, and
do not allow your neighbors,
children or other friends to go
in the pool without one of their
parents being with them. This
can save everyone lots of trou
ble. Just a little experience in
the water is not enough. People
need to learn to swim well
enough to take care of them
selves in the water in an emer
gency. Let’s make this summer
a safe one.
LET CATTLE
CONTROL FLIES
Throughout South Carolina the
blood-thirsty horn fly takes its
toll f rom the cattleman during
the warmer seasons of the year.
This fly can cost up to one-half
pound of grain per day.
An easy method that will give
positive control of the horn fly
and fair control of the face fly
is the self-applicatory device
known as the dust bag. Even
though data are lacking, some
cooperators who have participa
ted in dust bag trials have re
ported that since they began us
ing the bags, their cattle have
remained free of lice and cattle
grubs.
To be successful, a self-treat
ing dusting device must b e
rather inexpensive and easily
constructed, require minimum
maintenance, be situated so the
cattle will use it regularly, be
supported by “foolproof” de
vices that will hold the bags in
the correct position and last as
long as the bag will contain dust
and be easily detached for mov
ing and filling.
Any shelter which is located
in the proper place and which
will give the bags some degree
of protection from the weather
will be suitable. Walkways in
barns or sheds, overhangs of
eaves, existing shelters, etc. can
be used. One of the simplest is
to attach a two by four inch
or larger timber horizontally
four or five feet above ground.
Attach a vertical board so that
a small doorway approximately
four feet wide is formed. Close
up the rest of the area with
horizontally attached scrap lum
ber. Attach hooks to hold two
dust bags.
Each dust bag consists of two
burlap sacks one inside the oth
er. Do not use bags previously
used for feed containers.
Space the hooks so that the
bags hang four inches apart. A
gap between the bags is neces
sary so that the cattle can see
between them.
Consistent fly control will be
obtained when the station is
placed in an area where the cat
tle are forced to pass through
it at least once each day or not
less than once every two days.
Consistent control can be ob
tained also when units serve as
doorways to salt and mineral
enclosures, as gateways be
tween pastures, or in areas
where animals pass through to
obtain water. Nonincentive units
placed in cattle-loafing areas
will not give consistent control.
Enclosures do not have to be
elaborate. Barbed wire enclos
ures are effective.
Each hag should contain ten
pounds or less of the insectici
dal dust. In some instances five
pounds of dust will be sufficient,
but bags will have to be filled
more often. The bags last long
er when they contain smaller
amounts of dust. One dusting
station (with two bags) should
be used for 50 or fewer head
of cattle.
Dusts to use: The following
dust formulations are approved
and recommended for use in
dust bags:
Beef and Dairy Cattle: Dust
containing 0.75 percent of Py
thrin plus 0.2 percent of MGK-
264 synergist plus 0.2 percent
of MGK-326 repellent; or dust
containing 3 percent of Ciodrin;
or dust containing 5 percent of
Co-Ral (coumaphos). Note: for
lactation dairy cows, suspend in
the lane where they LEAVE the
milking bam. Hang so that the
bottom of the sacks hang four
to six inches below the top line
of the cattle.
Beef Cattle Only: Dust con
taining 2 percent of DDT plus
2 percent of methoxychlor; or
dust containing 10 percent of
methoxychlor.
Plans for construction of the
dust bags are available at the
County Agents’office.
City Building
Permits
Building permits totaling $835
were issued by the City last
week to: John Thompson, 2517
Fair Ave., repairs, Charles Bus
sey, 2303 Osborne Ave., erect
building; Helen B. Jackson, 935
Gilder St., repairs, Mrs. Joe
Taylor, Crosson St., repairs;
Ruth Feagle, 2301 Harrington St.
repairs.
is the time to fill in on your China or
even purchase a set.
We have a number of patterns that
remain active, but we are moving to
make room for new merchandise. Some
as much as one half price.
THESE PATTERNS
Crestmont
Delphine
Rosepoint
Berkley
Glenwood
Gloria
Lila
Candlelight
Mayfair
Silver Thistle
Prelude
Meadow Breeze
Goldmere
Grizella
Blue Danube
Paladina
Dubarry
Rosemead
Fleur-de-Lis
Sinfonette
Briar Rose
And Many More
REMEMBER most of these patterns are still avail
able.
W. E. Turner,
Jeweler