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THE CWNTON CHRONICLE. CUTITON. 8. C
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. TPltePAY, JlAY 9, 1985
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pman
Ne^ Station
Chapman’s Servitfa Siatio^, headed
tqr R. P. Chapman ais proprietor, will
«|>en its attractive'new home on West
Main street within the next few days.
^Iie station recently completed, is one
«f the most invitinf, well-arranged
and well equipped in this section, and
is prepared to mder a complete mo
torist service in this community. The
celebrated Sinclair products will be
liandled exclusively, together with
tires and accessories. '
Mr. Chapman recently resigned his
position as manager of the McDaniel
VulcanizingJWorks which he had held
the past twelve years to operate the
new Sinclair station for himself. He
is one^of the well known and popular
filling station men of the city, pos
sessing a wide circle of friends who
will wish for him success in his new
business venture. .
UONS AT LAKE MURRAY
A group of about l5_members of the
Clinton Lions club attended the group
meeting of clubs from Newbeiyy, Mc
Cormick, Greenwood and Clinton. Sev
eral others were present from Bates-.
burg-Lcesville and Columbia.
The meeting was held at the Nfw-
berry Lions club house. M. B. Camack,
Biqierintendent of the Ware) Sh<^ls
schools was the speaker. He told many
•tories and^ave some of the original
▼erses, for which he is well-known, to
the assembled company of about sev
enty-five men. >
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DID YOU
KNOW...
That thia is the most
completely equipped
shop in the city, and
we are prepared to
give you up-40- date,
modern service.
Stowers Garage
phone 196
T HH^ofall the things
that have been deliv
ered to your home since
your Fire Insurance Policy
was issued. A good many
are still there and they
to 1^ protected.
MOTORS — New Fads
What may tuih out to be the most
significant news of recent years is the
announcement from - Germany that
means heen developed for driv
ing motor cars with illuminating gas
and wood. *
One type of truck now widely used,
it in reported, uses gas distilled from
wood. It carries wood in a rear com
partment, and is said to cost 30 per
cent less to operate tha^ if drived by
(rasoline. Other cars have been quick
ly and cheaply adapted to use illumi
nating gas instead of gasoline, a tapk
of gas being carried in place of the
gasoline tank. Also there have been
developed new types of steam-propell
ed automobiles, using a variety of
fuels, while a new stationary motor
for farm use can be operated on coal
dust, vegetable dust, dried leaves or
pulverized corncobs.
There never has been any question
in my mind that the problem of the
future supply of* petroleum was fio
real problem at all. The time will
come, whenever it is economical to do
so, when we will agpin g^t our power
from vegetable products.
|l hear from other sources that avi
ators^ have not abandoned the idea of
steam engines instead of internal
combustion motors for stratosphere
flights.
I may not live to see it, but some
day, I believe, men will fly around the
world between sun and sun, with
steam-engines propelling their-planes
at a height of ten miles.
j And while^g^ing around ... if
you see Collie Anderson . . . ask
him if he likes "pig foot" stepr.
Understand that Pope
man is to operate the new Sin
clair station on West Main St.
A word to you merchants . . .
and a word to the wise is suffi
cient ... our next meeting is
Monday night. May 13th . . .
and IM'PpIRTANT . . . Supper
to be served . . . ny extra cost
- . . time and place wlil be an
nounced later . . . Afternoon
closing will be voted on~. . . but
the real issue^ is the LIFE or
DEATH of the Association ...
Are you interested? ... If so,
come . . . Remember—it’s up^to
you—either DO or DONT.
CODDLING r- All Wrong
One of the troubles with modern
youth, as I have often remarked be
fore, is that they have too much done
for them and are not thrown on their
own resources early enough or em
phatically enough. They grow up ex
pecting society to provide a soft cra
dle for them to ease their way thruogh
life.
That is why I applaud the refusal
of ^e New York State Commissioner
of-f^ucation to order a school bus to
makje a half-mile detour to piclt up
one ihirteen-year-old boy. Any boy of
thirteen who is not a cripple or an in
valid ought to be able to walk a half
mile to the bus stop, remarked Com
missioner Graves.
The first school I ever attended was
more than half a mile from our house.
I was under five"when I began to walk
to and from school. In ‘ my grade
school days it was a mile walk each
way; when I went to high school it was
a three-mile walk. Nobody had ev^r
thought of providing free and easy
transportation for school children ih
those days, We didn't get even free
school books. And we gre'w up with a
pretty clear idea that anything we got
out of the world had to be paid for,
with money or -with labor.
'Around ThOiSquare’
This is the Bulletin of the
Rrtail Merchanta’ Aaaodatiota. -
Read it every week.
TIGERS SWAMP
FIELD OF SEVEN
Oemson Amasses 7i 5*6 Points
To Lead Sewing In Annual
Contests Here Saturday. Four
New Records Set.
See ns about briaging your covers
age up to the proper amount with
a policy iuued by the depeodable
Automobile Insurance Company'
Hartford, Cono.
S. W. SUMEREL
Aetna-izer
Next Door to Western Union
Phone 80
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THAT GREATEST OP
GREAT MUSICALS
...with...
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Irme Dunne
MOST BEAUTIFUL
DANCING EVER SEEN
ON THE SCREEN.
Mtmday
• and Tuesday
iMay 13 and M
Capitol
Theatre
Laiirehs, S. C
INQUIRY — To All
I w’ould like to heai^ from anybody
who knows of an actual instance of
anybody who has received money from
the federal government for not grow
ing tobacco or cott()n~or corn or hogs
jir wheat, who had not pi-eviously been
in the business of growing those
things.
Every Hjttle while somebody tells or
prints a ^ory of some man getting a
check front Uncle Sam who has never
been engaj^ in the line of agricul
ture for the control of which the mon
ey-was paid. Those have always seem
ed like fairy tales, to me. I can believe
almost anything about the stupidity
or carelessness of government employ-
ees^this or any other government, hut
these yarns have strained my credul
ity*.
They have come to the front ag^iu
by a statement made in all seriousness
by an eminent historian, James Trus-
low Adams, who told Of three such
iBsUnceaC Chester Davis, the AAA
administrator, came out with a prompt
denial. I have no' doubt both men be
lieve they are right. It would he a
real public service to get at the fact^.
I would like to hear from any read
er of this column who can furnish the
name, date, place and amount of any
such ^yment to any individual who
was not entitled to it under the law;
FOOD — Sky High
Costs to city folk of the principal
articles food have gone up 34 per
cent in the year ending last month', the
department of commerce reports.
Eggs are up 80 pe rcent, meats 41
percent, dairy products 29 per cent,
and so on.
I don't know how much of .this in
crease has filtered back to the farm
ers who produce the foodstuffs, and
how much has heen ab8oi4>ed by mid
dlemen on the way^from farm to con
sumer, but I feel ceHain that city peo
ple won’t tolerate niuch higher prices.
Salaries and wages for the general
run of txty dwellers have not increas
ed in anything like that ratio, many
not ar all.
If government would turn its atten
tion to the cost of distribuion of food
products the cost of living might not'
rise so fast.
Clemson College leaped to an early
lead in the varsity finals to pile up
71 5-6 points and easily outdistance
Presbyterian, runner-up with 39
points, in the eleventh South Carolina
inter-collegiate track and field meet
held here Saturday.*"' ^
The Tigers captured 6 first places,
broke £wo of the four state records
which toppled, and broke the record
held by P. C. for the highest Clumber
of points amassed in a state meet.
Carter, Clemson hurdle and high jump
ace, was high scorer with 13 points.
King, Furman, was second with 10
1-3, and Clark, P. C., and Ford, Clem
son, tied for third honors with 10
points each.
The remaining teams entered trail
ed in the scoring list in the following
order: Furman, 17 1-3; Carolina, 15;
Newberry, 7; Wofford, 6; and Citadel,
4 5-6.
In the trials Friday, Presbyterian’s
Clark sprinted the 440-yard dash in
50.2 seconds to better his own record
set last year by .3 of a second. Then
in the^finals Saturday Clark easily
Won the quarter in 50.9 seconds and
out-ran Green, Clemson, on the home
stretch of the 880 for a time of 2
minutes flat.
The phenomenal last lap sprint of
Neal Robertson of Woffoiyd proved too
much for Blue Hose Colin .jludson in
one of the most spectacular races of
tl^e afternoon, the gruelling two mile.
Robertson allowed Hudson to set the
pace for seven laps and then ran the
last 300 yards in one of the finest
bursts of speed ever seen on the local
track. The time for the event, 10
minutes, 27 second's, wasj however,
far shbrt of a state record.
Blackwell, of Clemson, heaved the
javelin j84|feet, 9Vi inches, to smash
the old I record held by Freeman, of
PresbyUrian, by ^ inches. Another
Clemson! man. Carter, covered the 120
yard flight of high hurdles ih .1 of a
second under the state mark. King, of
Furman, threw the discus 1-16 of an
inch over the state record, for the
fourth record-toppling p^ormance of
the meet. /
. Ford, of Clemson, won both the
100- and 220-yard dashes, barely nos
ing out Bradley in the former and
Yearout in the latter. Ford’s time of
9.8 seconds is within .1 of a second
of the record set last year by Bryan
Hutt, of Carolina, for the century dis
tance.
The most disappointing event of fhe
afternoon, from the P. C. standpoint,
was the mile relay. As neither Year-
out nor Clark, numbers two and four
of the state record team, were in the
running, only Bradley and Winget of
the 3 minutes, 27 seconds team were
in the competition.
Bradley passed Herlong, of Clemson,
on the stretch and gave Forehand a
substantial lead over Green, which he
increased on the liack stretch. Winget
took the baton and led Wall all,the
way around, although the lead was
slightly diminished. Bill -Thompson,
Hose anchor man, had a four to five-
yard edge over Robinson, of Clemsbn,
for the final lap, hut was unable to
hold the place. Robinson spurted the
last stretch to contribute his bit to the
third defeat of a P. C. relay team in
the past seven years.
ENCOURAGEMENT—To' Capital
1 think the most encouraging n«ws
of the past fortnight has been the an
nouncement that two great corpor
ations, Swift 4 Company and the Pa
cific Gas 4 Electric Company, are
about to offer to inv^tors more than
$100,000,000 of new Purities, to pro
vide additional capital and retire
higher-cost bond issues.
This is a clear sign that some, at
least,of the big industrialists have got
over some of their fear of the future.
If these new issues are readily sold, it
will indicate that capital is beginning
to come oiit of hiding. If that sets in
motion a general movement of capi
tal into industry, then it will be safe
to say that the backbone of the de
pression has been broKen.
It takes more money than the gov
ernment can raise to set the wheels
of industry running and keep them
oiled. Once money is assured of a
chance of fair profits, It will go to
work.
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The farmer.. the merchant.. Ae banker ..
the manufacturer... and EVERYONE is vital
ly interested in Cotton.. directely or indirectly.
Too, we are interested in the growth and pros
perity of our coimty, South Carolina, and our
nation. One way to achieve that cum is to_use
more COTTON. - i
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Cotton is the backbone of the welfare of
South Carolina the year ctfound.. you enjoy
greater returns from your expenditures whm
you WEAR COTTON.. you’re surer of redp;
rocaUon.
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