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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C
Thursdoy, Moy V, 1941
SPORTS'CHAnERBOX
TENCH OWENS
Views the Athletic Front
NEW TITLE
I Hard Coal Sirike
IStayerT For Time
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Bobby Riggs won the tennis sin-;
gles championship of the United i
States in 1939. In the same year, he
also won the all-England Wimbledon:
tournament, which is tantamount to
the world amateur championship. For,
several years, Riggs, who is only 23 |
now, has been a ranking player in
This country. There is hardly an im
portant tournament in the country j
which Riggs has not won at some j
time or other.
That, in brief, is the tennis record
ol the man who is expected to arrive!
some time this month on the Pres- *
byterian college campus to begin du- I
ties as field representative and assist- j
ant in publicity at “Tennis Tech.” j
This appointment already has fo- j
cuscd national tennis interest upon j
the college. William P. Jacobs, presi
dent of the college and chairman of
the USLTA tennis clinic committee, i
has made no'explanation of Riggs’i
appointment as far as we know. i
The question in the minds of many,
people is; Can Riggs retain his ama-' . ,
iour standing in such a position? 'he 'xPlfna''”"
Others are delighted at the publicity
which the college has received and
Mines Will Work Until
May 10 While Wage
Parleys Are In Progress.
NEWS FROM BATTERY
"B" AT CAMP STEWART
By JOHN H. CKANFOED. JK.
On Tuesday morning everyone in
can>p, grunting and yawning, rolled
laxdly out of bed—mere la;tily than
usual because of the fact
were to leave for an
which is all very n^w to Uncle Sam’s
Washington, April 29.—An agree- youngest nephews. After we, had
I meat was worked out in New York!breakfast, which was served at 0:10,
I today to keep the Pennsylvania hard we went about preparing to leave at
I coal mines in operation beyond Wed-1 seven o’clock. We a^re all daahii^f!
nesday night’s contract expiration!about trying to think of anything'
jdatev while in Washington arrange-1 we had forgotten and which we were
I ments were made for reopening the j suppo^ to take with us. At seven
j soft coal mines of the eight-state: o’clock sharp a whisle sounded, and
Appalachian area. we fell in ranks with our rifles and
debate ends.
For the time being, however, the
prime minister maintained his stoiidy
silence on details of the war. In
reply to Edgar Lbuis Granville, Lab-
orite who^ demanded to know wish
er the country would get more news
icy of the government in sending
help to Greece uid declares its con
fidence that our operations in the
middle east and all other theaters
of war will be pursued by the gov
ernment with the utmost vigor.!:’
Having stood off impatient de
mands for more information about j of the war situation, ChurchlD said:
the Balkan campaign, which for the Members cheered^ loudly, taking
this as an intimation that a large
f fact that we. allies was a Greek tragedy. Church-
overnight hike, ill thus incited his parliamentary
IT....!. ' critics to find flaws in his war poIt
Icy and called for a verdict when'been saved.
part of the forces’ in
a
Greece
had
packs, which contain one half of a
pup tent, 5 pegs and a rope, a tent
pole, a mosquito net, and a raincoat.
Henry Ford n. now trying to live
down his present title of heir to thfT
Ford miUloBS, and trying to live np
to his Utle at EnsIgn'Henry Ford,
U.S.N.B. is shown «m doty as a math
instmetor at the Great Lakes Naval
Training atatien. Thon^ married
and father of one child he claimed
no draft deferment. He is a grand
son of Henry Ford I.
A contract covering about 100,6bo
hard coal' miners expires atv mid
night tomorrow and three weeks' of
negotiations between the operators We then started on our long journey,
and the C. I. O. United Mirte Work- j Where? We didn’t know. It was Just
ers have failed to produce an agree-1 as if we were in real war moving out
ment. The operators and the C. I. O. I under sealed orders^^e first leg of
United Mine Workers agreed, how-1 our journey carried^is eleven miles,
ever, to continue work until May a distance which our boys took in the
10 while the negotiaticyis continue, most excellent spirit.
The operators agreed to make any About 11:15 we were halted fof
new contract that might be worked dinner. While waiting for mess, we
out retroactive to May 1. | were permitted to lie around on the
The anthricite miners are asking friycr bank, go fishing, go in swim-
a' $1 a day increase for day work- j Juing, or do almost an3rthing we
ers, a 20 per cent increase for con- wished. After we had eaten dinner
For instance, J. P. Allen, writing
in the New York Sun and quoted in
The Blue Stocking, implied
tract workers and two weeks an
nual vacation with pay.
Hard coal is used principally for
IS expecting to receive over this un-li.V'^ that'heating homes,-and has no such
usual situation. Still others fear that i standing was serious-} wide-spread industrial use as soft
who endangered. He said that tennis coal.
officials in
that
New York were “not
Riggs was even faintly
adverse criticism from those
don’t see where Riggs fits in the col
lege program and who are opposed ^^are
10 /-over-emphasis” of tennis will;«>'
outweigh any favorable publicity re- ' To the layman it may appear that
already doubting any argument over amateur standing
The 400,000 soft coal miners are
scheduled to go to work Thursday,
and perhaps earlier ih some cases.
Resumption of operations wiU bring
to an end a stoppage which threat-
we received orders that we wouUd
spend the night where we were, and
for the next few hours we were busy
setting up our tents, digging trench
es around them to keep the water
from coming inside in case it rained.
Then for the rest of the afternoon
we were off duty. Supper was at
5:30.
After eating a hearty (??) meal
we had a ja msession in which all
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BRING rr TO
Chaney’s Dress Shoppe
reived. Some are „ .
the wisdom of Mr. Jacobs’move and is quibbling over a technicality.' ened to stall the national defense j the boys took part. Mose Petty
are awaiting with raised eyebrows 1 However, the USLTA makes’ a spe-j effort and prompted President j sang a few songs, .and then Major
? icial effort to prevent professionalism 1 Roosevelt to urge a week ago thatt Walter A. Johnson gave us 6ne of his
FOR SALE
DESIRABLE HOUSE
AND LOT
ON SOUTH BROAD ST.
If^ interested, apply to
B. H. BOYD
Clinton, S. C.
because “the public interest de
mands it.’’
A basis for reopening the bltum-
was readied late last
from c;:eeping into its ranks,' and 1 the mines be reopened promptly
upon this point may depend tlie suc
cess of Riggs’ new venture.
After all, no adequate comment
can be made on the situation until
all the facts are known. And the
J public will not know all the facts
until President Jacobs deckles to
clarify his action. And that decision
may be postponed purposely, for of
such stuff is excellent publicity
made.
No matter how you look at it,
Bobby Riggs is news and his con
nection with Presbyterian college
will create interest for some time to
night when Southern operators ac-jtery commander, made a talk, the
cepted a suggestion by President theme of which was principally his
I come.
Roosevelt that mining operations jbe
resumed pending a settlement of
wage differehces between them and
the United Mine Workers. The
Southerners also agreed to Increase
the pay of their workers from $5.60
to $6.60 a day and to continue dis
cussions on an
of forty cents a day ask^ by the
union. The Northern opperators and
_ j the union had agreed some time be-
” j fore on a new contract raising wages
SC I from $6 to $7 a day.
inspiring talks. He spoke of his love •' ^
for Battery “B” and the whole 10?th|
Battalloii and what we coulld and
would do if we ever go to war.
Captain Jack H. Davis, Jr., our bat-
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Advice to a Man...
Go Double Tan!
i^Bush
One c4nkle-(fyshi(medQxfiHii
Most Styles:
$7.50 and $8.50
Edgeiion Shoes $5.00
Two-toie tans are the style-tip of the season. These
smart models by Nunn-Bush are favorites by long odd^.
Choose Nunn-Bush Shoes for Anljtle-Fashioning, the ex
tra style mileage feature.
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^ Clinton, S. C.
ABOUND THE TOWN
Incidents, Unusual and
Qrdifioiy, Gathered On
Our Rounds.
WOLFE
AMUSEMENTS
HERE AIL NEXT
RIDING DEVICES
MOTHERS, BRING YOUR CHILDREN
Ride the Merry-Go-Round
OPEN EVERY AFTERNOON
FUN FOR EVERYBODY
MISS MARTHA PHILLIPS,
daughter of Mrs. R. E. Jones of this
city, sailed Thursday from New York
for Trinidad, an Island off the north
eastern coart* of Vmezuela, South
America. Miss Phillips, a govern
ment employee in Washington, D. C.,
will do secretarial work for the
United States engineers In Trinidad.
Her friends here will learn with in
terest of her new work.
MR. and MRS. J. L, DAMERON
are. now occupying their recently
purchased home on Young drive in
the College View residential section
of the city.
MISS MARY McDANIEL, a mem
ber of the Long Branch school fac
ulty, has returned to her home, in the
Hickory ’Tavern section of the county
for the summer months. The term
closed Friday with the aimual school
picnic.
LIEUTENANTS JACK A. WITH
ERSPOON and ALLAN LEVI of the
United States Marine corps, sailed
from Norfolk, Va., for Coco Sola,
Panama Csmal Zone, Friday, April
25. Both yoimg men are well known
In Clinton, being graduates of Pres
byterian college. Lt. Witherspoon, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey With
erspoon of Cross Hill, formerly resid
ed here, while Lt. Levi is from Char
lotte, N. C.
From MRS. J. C. BOUKNIGHT,
the former Miss Mogee Stone of this
city, comes the news that she was the
proud winner of a new G^ieral Elec
tric stove at a cooking school in Con
cord; N. C., where she is now mak
ing her home.
LT. J. A. CHEATHAM, of this
city, now statlcmed at Camp Croft,
Spartanburg, has returned from a
trip to Fort Niagara Falls, on which
journey he was in command of a
troop train transferring three hun
dred and twenty five new men from
Fort Niagara to Camp Croft Lt.
Cheatham'was the only first lieuten
ant to be sent in command of a troop
train.
'Die following story was with
much amtuasment the other day by a
local phyaldaD: “Just aftw coining
to Clinton to practice, another phy
sician asked me to call on several of
his patients while he was out of
town. The following day I drove to
the home of one of the patients, took
my bag, and upcm entering noticed
a number of nrtghbors and friends
in the rooms, but no patimt. Every
one sbo(A han^ with me and seem
ed glad that I nad called. After chat
ting a few minutes, I asked where
was Mrs. , the patient. The re
ply, ’She’s at Tfibbl^s,* rather start
led me but no one else seemed to
think my question unususL I imme
diately hid my bag as bert I could
and iqade a quidk dq^arture.
pride in being a member of the
107th.
• After the speeches were concluded
we had a jam session in which all
our respective batteries. In Battery
“B” we had a square dance with half
. the boys tying a handkerchief on the
addition^l^ increase; sleeve and pretending tO be girls.
The best looking couple was “Miss”
Alvin “Duffy” Stone lynd Mr. Ralph
(Snow) Prater. The dance was call
ed by “Miss’* Ezra Spires, our staff
sergeant. Time for lights out broke
up the frolic, and to bed we went.
Some time during the night Sgt.
Vernon Trammell slid his hand a-
cross Sgt. George Hill’s arm. < Hill,
thinking it was one of the rattle
snakes for which Cir^rgia is famous,
jumped clean through the front of
his i»D$, tearing nuiHw entire..front
as he made his departure.
About ten minutes later someone
heard a call for the Corporal of the
Guard. Upon investigation it was
found that someone had rattled a
match box and scared all the cooks
and KPs. > Practically insane, big
Snow Prater came very near refus
ing to go back to bed. We finally
went to sleep around 10:30.
At 3:30 in the morning, while we
were dreaming of ... . (Well, any
way, we were dreaming), we were
roused out of bed to break camp.
We were supposed to do this witii-
out the aid of lights. In about thirty
minutes time we were well on our
way. We hiked for four miles and
then settled down for breakfast.
Mess' Sgt. Forter had very little
trouble getting it ready, for the boys
were like a bunch of famished wolves
with their appetites whetted after a
four-mile hike before breakfast. Im
mediately after breakfast we piffled
out for another six or eight mile
hike.
Covering this distance in a very
short time, we wound up at our
camp ground, vdiich is about sWen
miles fnnn Ciunp Stewart. We reach
ed the cEunp ground at 10 AM. Sgt
Rozzelle Foster then gave us a lec
ture on the use and care of the gas
masks which have recently been is
sued to us. We were off duty from
then until after the midday mess.
During dinner thb mail was given
out, but this time it didn’t seem to
affect anyone’s appetite. After we
had eaten, we had until 1:30 Yo pre
pare for our walk of sevey miles
back to camp.
We arriv^ at camp about 4:30,
stood retreat at 5:15, and then took a
ver]rrefreshing bath. Most of the'
boys wmt straight to bed after sup
per, but a few hardy souls went frol
icking «s usual. ^
To our readers, if there are any,
we should like to offer one sugges
tion. That is, for your summer va
cation, travel through Clreorgia jwd
the swamp*—on foot.
we
We wish to onnounce to the (Public that
have assumed management of the
Purol Service Station> on East Carolina
Avenue.
We will handle Purol Products, Tires,
Tubes, Batteries and Accessories, and of
fer the complete services of a first-class
service stotion.
, We shall be pleosed to serve our friends.
We invite you to call, assuring you of our
oppreciation of your business.
Purol Service Station
L H. "Ickie" Davidson, Prop.
Clinton, S. C. Phone 59
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Balkan Compai^n Will
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London, April 20.—Prime Minirter
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cmninona today that drt>ata woiil^ ba
held next wa^ on the Greek cam
paign and the conduct tide war,
and he demanded a Vote of confi
dence for bis government. ?
SuggestiEms for creation of a small
suprefaie war cid>iitet end for datmte
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“no.^
The debate will, he fwld on fl
following motion: ^ \
“That thi* hoMie iqppiwws
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