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PAGE 5 A SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 20 1959 THE LORENCE MORNING NEWS LORENCE PEE DEE MAN THE WEEK STARS Civic Church Youth Work AND STONES A By Eugene allon Hi jtA A 08 Roswell (Bob) Gant Coon KHRUSHCHEV'S HOSTS Puffing a cigarette is Sellers Church is alling into Slow Decay Too Much Soil Acidity Called Land Robber i ririJR land without the advice of the ex And it is only in our time that ty agents and ag teachers have ro Ike Nomination Record Good the Senate majority in the committee fog as f3 WO Buffalo Bill Rover Boys his interest in the business firm and had and will have Roy instruct and demonstrate good practices to groups of grape growers to the end that we can turn out a volume of quality product that the plant will require dis to church more vulnerable than some others Laos Probe Branded LONDON The Soviet Un ion Monday night called the UN investigation in Laos illegal and demanded instead that the West meet Red China and other Com munist powers to seek peace for the Laotian kingdom The Soviet position was given in a statement distributed by the officials news agency Tass on the eve of Soviet Premier Nikita departure by plant frfr the United States man will remember the places the forts trec so far removed from the And if nnlv in niir time that a bit of it has been reaching the grass roots WE ARE seeing fuller use of timber Only about 55 to 60 per cent of the average log turns out in lumber The rest has been waste But at places I now see the slabs being debarked chipped and sold to the papermills The big papermill at Charleston gets about a fourth of its wood from this source I understand Our for esters tell me about 2400 pounds of these chips can be gotten from the slabs coming from the sawing of a thousand board feet of lum ber 7 Improvement thinnings selective cutting and a fuller utilization of the tops of sawlogs are all adding to the better utilization picture of our forests And trecplanting is filling in a lot of the skips in the cutover lands where no seed trees were left Tallahassee I An indivi OUR EXTENSION horticultur ist Roy erree 'tells me 116000 grape vines were set last winter and the county agents report A lot more in prospect for setting the coming winter Our Palmetto Grape Growers organization plans to ship them to a manufacturing plant up in New York until swe get enough acreage in production for a branch plant to be built here in upper South Carolina Looks like it is now assured A lot of know how needs Io be applied to grow good grapes Coun and it's good enough for me!" They wanted no change The sec tional division suited them fine Membership at Sellers MECS once pegged steady at about 100 dwindled But services were held until about 1952 inally the con ference closed the Sellers church Many of former had transferred to other churches churches which had pulled out of the conference and established a conference of their own: one call ed Southern Methodist Church A few of the former members of attend South ern Methodist Church but most of them have switched to Temper ance Hill Ebenezer Spring Branch Zion and Pleasant Hill all of which are Southern Meth odist by denomination A sprink ling of former members now at tend Methodist Church And the Sellers dissenters are not alone There are today an es timated 5000 members of the Southern Methodist Church who attend sei vices in some 50 church es situated needless to add throughout the State The South ern Methodist conference does not own member churches and par sonages these are owned by the various congregations SPRING TRUCK prices were mostly good the past season And no group of farmers ever needed a good break more County Agent Livingston of Charleston had told me how hard hit his truckers were for several seasons back from weather damage poor yields and low prices The past spring saw good yields and good prices for most of our truck crops Jasper county is growing quite a trucking area Three pack ing sheds and markets were operating in Ridgeland when I was with County Agent Tate there in early June And he told me the farmers who irrigated their snap beans really hit the jackpot They had a lot of cucumbers and did well on them too generally oyer the county Beaufort had one of the finest tomato prospects seen They were using planes for quick insect and disease control And the there were using extensive surface irrigation regularly on theirs Said they liked that better than sprinkling It did not gel on the vines to encourage diseases nor wash off spray materials And the pumping was much lighter Ia1 iLn nrltur'u ftf tPlA CiY IdllU lUIVUt UUMVV V1V perts Our Lewis is available to you through your county agent for all matters affecting tobacco) In every county in the state soil samples are being taken in season and sent to Clemson for testing The laboratory here reports back on not only the lime requirement of each sample but whether it is high or low in its needs of the other main fertilizer elements The local county agent then interprets them for the individual fields We are fertilizing heavier than ever now Some of the materials used leave small amounts of acid in the soil This adds to the acidity build tip We just must use more lime the experts say or our di versified farming is bound to suf fer Acidity will rob us of the full fruits of that fertilizer IN 1939 the Methodist Churches in America in attempt to strength en by consolidation unified No more division North and South There was no stir up North But in the Deep South in some quar ters consternation raged At Sel lers there was discontent In no other section of these United States does change come more slowly more painfully than in Dixie 1 or the better part of a century Southerners had solemnly sung: was good enough for father it was good enough for grays imperceptibly only a long block away from US Highway 301 and weeds rise to choke it and i cracked and broken let in the rains And the pity of it is that still sub stantial The sign on the over grown iawn reads: Episcopal Church But now there is no North and South Nothing but silence and slow de cay The church was first organized here in 1900 ire of undetermined origin destroyed the original edi fice in the fall of 1923 The con ference immediately began to re build en sold back Rpnnotfsv ille came forthwith to Dillon and to an association with the Thompson Chevrolet Co in that city That association continues at this writ ing The are all members of Main Street Methodist Church A life long Methodist Mr Breeden had taught Senior Youth Sunday School Class at Bennetts ville Upon his arrival in Dillon he was immediately delegated to conduct the same class at Main Street Methodist In 1955 Mr Breeden was elected Superintend ent of the Youth Division of his church A member of the official board Breeden was made chair man in 1959 AS A MIXER Breeden is tops a Rotarian and past presi dent of that club And insofar as the Dillon County Chamber of Commerce is concerned Breeden is the fair haired boy himself Be ing elected a director of the or ganization in 1955 Billy Breeden has served as president in both 1957 and 1958 His work in helping bring new into Dillon and TELL ME WHAT HE READS: The town lies in North Central lorida The highwav Heads down the main street which is lined with old two siory frame houses The homes are ornamented in the fashion of late Nineteenth Century what with lightning rods and gin gerbread facades In one of these lives a man we will call George He is not old peihaps 55 today One day he showed me his library Climbing up to the attic I saw Yesterday: Velveteen pillows: Morris chairs of mohair pui pie drapes Time was held prisoner here so long it no longer fought The library? Horatio Alger Street and Smith Jesse James The Dead Eye Dick All the way to wondered of George dualist but not a rugged one George having learned to live at ten was satisfied with his lesson These things I said But were they true? Perhaps it was something else Perhaps a terrible sickness A fear if you must ear of the tide ear of wrinkles and rheumatism of decay and death of responsi bility Of the bookless grave Of that last room small and final George need not have been afraid Death is the oldest habit of all Queen Victoria will be there And William Cody And parents And everything be as it was when George was ten years old and began his retreat MOON THOUGHTS: But men re main boys Having flavored al the things within reach they reach for the moon It really mat ter whether the or the hits the much beaten face of the moon God has been sending His shafts there since the begin ning of time The ace of the moon is pocked like an old man back from a bout with smallpox Dr Albert Schweitzer Nobel Peace Prize winner upon learning of this hollow feat said: now the moon has inspired me only with poetic dreams I think hu manity will be happier when it has taken over control of the With a faint human tor the good doctor his views and with all due respect to his advanced humani tarianism I think his is too cau tious a statement What can he mean The day time temperatures on luna reach 250 degrees: at night it drops to 215 degrees below zero Names the astronomers have given to dimly glimpsed (and largely ima gined) physical features of the moon remind strongly of John Pro Whereas spirit ual world held Moun and a of Despair the new world (dead dead dead) has a of a of and a of And now the sea is notso tran quil any more the serenity has fled and all is as vapors with the approach of bipeds from earth No there is nothing sacred any more The heavens have been in waded and the angels are in dan amous Iowa armer Bob Garst To Give Khrush Lesson on Corn ambassador to Brazil by a 79 11 vote but then refused the post saying her usefulness had been impaired by the denunciations of her by Sen Wayne Morse Oreh Another major nomination that of Potter Stewart of Ohio to be a justice of Supreme Court stirred up some opposition from Southern senators but was con firmed 70 17 nomination like that of many other judgeship nomi nees was held up for months in the Judiciary Committee Sub mitted Jan 17 it did not come to a vote until May 5 John Tucker a Texan uho was nominated eb 12 for judge in the US Eastern Dist of Tex as gave up after waiting for five months without getting a hearing and asked that his name be with drawn In a television broadcast on Aug 16 Sen Kennqth Keat ing (R NY) blamed what he called intolerable delays in the consideration of judicial nomina tions on Sen Lyndon Johnson (D Tex) lender Johnson did not comment But a break jam occurred Sept 8 hen 10 of Mrs James Kamps 36 of Stock ton Calif Mrs Harold Lee 25 now touring Europe (her husband will teach at Carnegie Tech this fall) and Mary Garst 22 Berke ley Calif (wo sons were educated al Stanford University in what he calls the "They got their liberal arts in school and learned farming at Garst says Chances are that Mr visit to Coon Rapids goes a bit father than his love of corn or one thing he knows Garst on a me basis In recent years Garel has traveled all over the in cluding the Soviet in pro moting his seed corn operation On a recent trip to the USSR Garst was entertained by Khrush chev whom he invited to visit Coon Rapids you ever get to the United Garst has sold the Soviets quantities of seed corn and his farm has become a showplace for visiting Soviet and other farm delegations Garst feels that aiding farming in any country is working for peace "It would be dangerous for the world to have a Russia that is both hungry and has the bomb I never saw a well fed contented man who really was says Garst most insane thing' on the glohe at the present adds Garst for the world to spend 100 billion dollars a year prepar ing for a war nobody wants no body expects and nobody can Any hiding houses humdrum world On the hot sum mer nights in the beautiful city on the Gulf I had my own telegraph system WcM it really wasn't mine but belonged to the City Transit Co that organization which sent the' green painted street cars lurching alone all the way (o Lake Pontchartrain I used to pi ess my ear against the hollow power poles of iron You'd be surprised how far that humming carried that humming Which told a trolley was on the wav The poles were very cool I remember particularly after a rain I suppose they were just as hot by day as they were deli ciously cool by night I never list ened in by day It was a secret thing only permissabfe at night And now the trolleys are gone and of course the poles And I realize much belter it is to refrain from in" to the comings and the goings of men and machines That the true sec rets are known to none of u's while breath keeps surrounding area has been noth ing short of astounding say his many friends Mr" Breeden has also 'been quite active in the Boy Scout movement in Dillon County As to hobbies mere is but one: a combination fishing and boating enthusiasm informs Billy is all embracing a family project so as to speak I do a little fishing when I can wrest the boat from the other Breedens of whom are water ski fans but nice We are all to gether at least Naturally I like it that Did Billy Breeden citizen of two cities have pertinent com ment on any subject under the sun? Billy had: race is to the strong and to the young! The youth of Ameri ca are inherently good upstand ing persons This is a period of transition of upheaval if you will and we older citizens should spend more time and effort to reach a common ground with them It is my considered opinion that the young people do amazingly well under the present conditions of strain and unrest" ONE Rapids Iowa farmer who will be a host to Khrushchev in the Midwest Garst who raises hy brid seed corn has been in Russia and visited Khrushchev (AP Photolox) By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON 'AP) Despite the furor this year over nomina tions mosj of those submitted by President Eisenhower were con firmed by the Senate Aside from such specific indi viduals as Clare Boothe Luce and Lewis Strauss the principal controversy centered around the lag by the Senate Judiciary Com mittee in acting on judicial nomi nations Some Republicans as sailed the committee as a road block However by the time the ses sion came to an end early Tues day all but four of the judges nominated by Eisenhower had been confirmed The only nomination rejected was that of Strauss former chair man of flie Atomic Energy Com mission to be secretary of com merce After one of the bitterest battles of the session the Senate refused by a 49 46 vote to confirm Strauss for the Cabinet post in which he was already serving At a news conference two days ago Eisenhower said this was one of the biggest personal appointments of the session him Mrs Luce was confirmed BACK IN SELLERS the old MECS goes quietly into rack and ruin birds cry unmolested in its steeple The pines surrounding the temple appear almost black in the rain But like all churches something remains here some thing time and neglect only en hance A Presence if you will the same thing which makes the explorer hesitate a long mom ent at the door of the tomb of an Egyptian king when he is suddenly confronted with the un mistakable hieroglyphs of aith: the dogs snarling defiance at the orces ol Evil the wine wands and munificence of Paradise prom ised What thinks the former mem bers of the suspended church at Sellers? pity" said one man who wished to remain anonymous for obvious reasons cannot bear to look at the decay as I pass I wish they would put it to evne if it be a denomination hav ing nothing to do with Wesleyan ism Other churches har offered to lease or buy the property only to be turned down abruptly If they have any future plans for the church 1 haven't heard of them" And there it stands at the mom ent One wishes all the aithful would open Edward 'translation of to 'that passage which reads of the gripe of logic: "The grape that can with logic absolute Thez two and jarring sects confute The Sovereign Alchemist that can in a trice Leaden metal into gold trans mute 19 pending judicial nomination! were approved at one crack three circuit judges and seven district judges Among the district judges ap proved by the committee was Joe isher nominated the day be fore by President Eisenhower to fill the vacancy in the Eastern Dist of Texas for which Tucker originally had been selected isher endorsed by Johnson was given a brief hearing and approved along with other nomi nees who had been waiting for months for the committee to act on their appointments Subsequently in the closing rush of Congress the committee approved and the Senate con firmed several other judicial nominations leaving just four unacted on at the time of ad journment Altogether the Senate con firmed more than 40000 presiden tial nominations during the ses sion The great bulk of them were routine promotions In the mili tary services Qf 1531 postmaster nomina tions received by the Democrat ic controlled Senate 988 were confirmed 3 were withdrawn and 54n were not acted on Non was rejected COON RAPIDS Iowa (API Soviet Premier Nikita Khrus chev and farmer Bob who will renew their friendship on the Garst family farm here Wednes are both revolutionaries of a sort Khrushchev is well acquainted with revolution as the most powerful Communist in the world Garst has had a part in develop ing more than one of the radical new techniques which have peace fully revolutionized the American farm The stocky outspoken Iowan good naturedly promises he will give Khrushchev a thorough dem onstration of how Americans over threw agricultural tradition and multiplied nature's blessings a type of revolution he willingly would share with the Soviet Un ion why coming over to learn about com and cattle I'm a modest man but I can give him all the says Garst know me in Russia as a man who doesn't hand out a lot of gobbledegook on technical ag riculture I can demonstrate the latest farm techniques right What arc the ideas and tech niques that attract the Premier of the Soviet Union to a 160 acre farm a mile south of this central Iowa town of 1776 people? says Garst "Khru shchev is interested in corn And he wants his people to eat less bread potatoes and borscht and more beef eggs and Garst says he can show Mr how to grind up a corn cob add a little molasses and a high protein this one time waste product of the farm into a cattle feed He has been feeding his stock corn cobs for almost two decades His development of the lowly corn cob is one example of his agricul tural ingenuity Garst says he also can show Khrushchev how to keep farm land in good shape by fer tilization not rotation "I believed in the tation theory for 15 years I be lieve cultivating that part of the farm best suited for cultiva te nW! I Marks Life of Dillon Man ANDERSON our state director of vocational education had this to say when addressing the annual meeting of the 144 year old Pendleton armers Society back in the spring people should know that farmers the only people that the federal government helps airlines the shipping industry pe troleum industry schools housing i all receive government help and that is the past 50 years for every $1000 in subsidy the Ameri can fanner only received Yes subsidy is embedded in your history Good or bad it has been and is a part of our system There are a lot of stop lights on the road to Easy Street Many a man has gotten in a tight spot by too much loose talk as it was once tion and leaving the remainder in pasture ertilizer is the an swer" Garst says he can show the So viet Premier how to take cheap low grade cottonwood and build inexpensive farm structures He has a huge grain storage on his place Ruddy taced from years of liv ing outdoors 61 year old Roswell Cars! Bob is a nickname re sides on the farm with his wife Elizabeth They live in a six frame home In the back is a swimming pool pool that corn cobs Garst says proudly The youngest of four sons of a Civil War veteran Garst prides himself on being "The boy of a country merchant who owned some farm land" He will talk farming to anyone anywhere but parries most ques tions concerning his personal af fairs He like to discuss his religion (Presbyterian) his pol itics why they put cur tains on voting or how much worth just run a large farming He is president and main stockholder in the local bank he still retains an interest in the general store his father Edward Garst estab lished almost a century ago and is partner in a large hybrid seed corn operation Except for his college career years divided among Iowa State Northwestern and the Uni versity of Wisconsin and a brief fling at real estate in Des Moines Garst has lived on the family farm all his life He was bom in Rockford HL when his mother 'Bertha re turned to her home for the event In 1917 after sampling college education he decided to stay in Coon Rapids and begin farming In 1930 he and a boyhood friend Charles Thomas started the Garst Thomas Seed Corn Co which the lowans claim is the largest single plant operation of its kind in the country The Garsts have five Stephen 34 and David 32 who operate the family homestead WILLIAM BREEDEN the race is to the strong and the By Acid soils often rob us! I get that straight from the men who know Soil samples coming to Clemson from every county in the state show many of our fields to be too acid for the fertilizer we put there to be fully effective Yes the acid ity there is robbing us of the full re ults we seek We first learned of this back in the Thirties when Dr Cooper got one of the New Deal agencies to sample most of the fields in the state and send the samples to the College for testing That showed an alarming amount of soil acidity' It was then that lime campaigns were waged and for several years we could get lime as a grant of aid in the farm program We used lot then but never enough to anything like cure the situation Lime wears out In the soil after a few years and since that early splurge we been using anything like the amounts our Soils sorely need During this time our farming has been changing from crop farming to crops plus livestock The latter calls for forage with plenty of calcium (lime) in it And it takes lime to grow good forage Most of our field clops too bene fit from lime with the possible exception of tobacco and water melons which have a rather low lime or pH requirement (Don'troks with lime on your tobacco young surrounding area has been ger of the Crimson Terror LOST magazine this week cairics a story on the greatest haip player an American citizen via the Pyrenees Moun tains (barrier between rance and Spain) named Carlos SMzeuo Seems Carlos in 1931 bought a cottage in Maine along the roiky coast and called it the Harp Colony of Time goes on to state every summer he teaches some 30 stu dents who ate almost always young women and who worship the brilliant temperamental master dime marriages three di vorces) This guy Carlos he amt so great Ain't Time ever heard of Tommy Manville? Much more bril liant and temperamental with nine marriages and eight di vorces Give Tom time lime get rid of the ninth we feel sure SELLERS It stands and Smith former mayor of Sellers magistrate peace otticer school trustee and treasurer of the church arrived about the time of the disaster laid the foundations for my he says "before the ashes of the church had cooled My lot was directly across the street from it On that sad occasion (the fire) the conference came through beautifully Early in 1924 we were back in the new hidden meaning in Mr statement: confer ence on that occasion came through Trouble lay ahead One ot those splits which make the Protestant DILLON Mountain scene of a bitter battle during the American Rev olution was claimed by both North and South Carolina Andrew Jackson the Hero of New Orleans was almost pulled apart by North Carolina and Tennessee both of which claimed "Old as a native son William Kennedy Breeden of this town is in Sympathy with the mountain and the man for both Bennettsville and Dillon say he is their property 1 the sort of citizen Breeden is William RijBrecdenwas born in Marlboro County (Some five miles from Bennettsville on January 11 1918 The new arrival was the son of William and Annabella Ta tum Breeden The senior Breeden was a farmer and cotton ginner Young Billy attended Marlboro schools' graduating from letcher Memorial High School in June of 1935 Instead of making the usual tracks for Clemson or the Uni versity Billy marched very erect over into NC and to the Oak Ridge Mihtaiy Institute located near Greensboro in the Old Not th State Graduating from that fineschool in 1937 Billy turned back to Bennettsville and to employ ment with a couple of his uncles in the Carmichael Chevrolet Co located in the Marlboro County seat HERE HE REMAINED until March of 1942 when he entered the Army It was on to Camp Davis for the South Caro linian and candidate school at the post located be tween Wilmington and Jackson ville Upon his successful comple tion of the course Breeden was kept on at Davis in the capaci ty of teacher at the same station and for the following 18 months There were posls until towards the end of the war irst Lt Breeden in April of 1945 was shipped into the wide Pacific ana Janried at wanna rnuippuics The war had ended scarcely a month before Breeden by than a captain came home in a rush It was a sad homecoming indeed When Breeden stepped from a plane in California his mortally sick father was being laid to rest at Bennettsville The long trip was in vain Since the war was over Captain Breeden was not sent back overseas and in eb ruary of 1946 found himself sep arated from service Much earlier however Breeden had taken him a wife a pretty brunette from Columbus Ohio named Ruth Browning Although Ruth had been reared in the Buckeye capital the couple had met at Bennettsville where minister father pastored a church The date of marriage was September' 14 1940 There are three children Daughter Billie Kaye born in 1947 William Ken nedyJr born the following year and Eleanor Breeden born in 1954 and the only Breeden to be born at Dillon resh from the wars Mr Breeden rejoined Carmichael Chevrolet In 1947 William Breed en purchased an interest in the business In 1953 however Breed 1 vMl Jr i I jit WK 1W SMMKK rW: I IILWI li 4 WS 3b IHr eb wv 8l Io 9t i.