The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 22, 1932, Image 6
Local Representative of Goodyear Company to Attend Big
District Sales Conference on Tires at Atlanta
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P. W. Sanford, Southern Division Manager, P. W. Litchfield, President, and R. S. Wilson, Vice President and
Sales Manager of the Goodyear Tire & 'Rubber Go., Inc., who will conduct the tire sales meeting.
Mr. Garwood Jaynes, sales representative
for the Goodyear Tire &
f Rubber Company for Camden and
surrounding territory, is leaving
shortly for Atlanta, Gn., where he
will attend one of the largest conferences
of the year in tho automobile
tire industry.
? , The conference will he held at the
Biltmore hotel on January 4Ar>th and
Ufith, and fwillbe signalized by the
presence of President P. W. Litchfield,
who in addition to being an outstanding^
figure in the rubber industry,
is directing the construction of
the ZRiS-6, sister ship of tho U. S. S.
Akron, recently completed for the
Navy.
Mr. Litchfield, who has been connected
with the rubber industry since
his graduation from the Maswachux>
setts Institute of Technology in 181M>
ami who joined Goodyear four years
later as superintendent, is making
first-hand study of dealers' problems
and of car owners' interests.
The conference will last two days
and coyer various phases of merchandising
and distribution. R. S. Wilson,
vice president in charge of sales;
J. E. Mayl, manager of tire sales; I).
; W. Sanford, division manager; H. E.
! Blythe, II-. I .unit to the president,
and other company executives will
attend the
An interesting figure is Litchfield
one of the first technical Pien attracted
to the rubber industry. He set
up a email laboratory and designed
the first Gqodyear automobile tire,
j Going up the ranks as factory manager,
vice president, and president
since ll>2fi, he has in that period directed
the construction of nearly
20(1,000,000 tires, the largest number j
credited to any individual in the J
world: and from his experience as a
production leader won the name in
V y. i
the industry of fch?)tire master.
Within the last few years however
he has come also into the title of the
country's leading builder of lighterthan-air
craft, some 1100 observation
and training balloons and 110 airships
having been built under his direction
prior to the completion of the U. S.
S. Akron. Mr. Litchfield's interest in
aeronautics (bites back to 1911 when
the experiments of the Wright brothers
with airplanes and of Count
Zeppelin with airships had gone far
to convince a skeptical public opin- [
ion in Europe and America.
lie set a little group of engineers
to work, studying this subject, and
in the following year began building
balloons for the army and navy. In
1913 a Goodyear balloon team, Upson
and Preston, won the James Gordon
Bennett international balloon race,
flying out of Paris.
The world war brought the building
of a Kreat hangar of airship dock
atv Wingfoot Lake, the construction
there of hundreds of aircraft and the
training of 600 army and navy officers
for the air service.
in 1036 Litchfield took over for his,
company tbe Zeppelin patents for
North America, bringing to America
Dr. Karl ArnMein, chief engineer of
the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen
along with 12 of his engineering experts,
and set them to work on initial
design of full size military and commercial
air&hips.- ';
The construction dock in which the
Akron was assembled, was started in
1929, being the largest building in
the world without interior supports.
This huge building, 1200 feet long by
325 feet wide and 210 feet high,
streamlined to reduce air disturb
Alices, and having four great orange-, |
peel doors, also streamlined and,
weighing ?00 tons each, has been
culldd almost as interesting an wuti'neering
feat as the^building of the
airship itself. . _
The conference 'which Mr. >Litchfteld
i? attending is one of the aeries
of eleven to be held over the country,
outlining merchandising and advertising
plans for the year.
One new product to be discussed is
the airwheel tire, a great doughnutshaped
tire, int?<odttced earjy last
yeaf^for cars of the 'Ford. Chevrolet,
Plymouth class. The airwheel tire,
originally designed by Goodyeay in
192# for airplanes, and already hav-j
ing largely displaced tthe old high
pressure tires for planes, has been
adapted to automobiles,for car owners
wanting maximum comfort or
those having unusual road conditions
to contend <with.
It is a further extension of the balloon
tire which has displaced the ojd
high pressure tires for automobiles
and is said to be the latest word in
automobile comfort.
Mr. Litchfield Ls a great beliver in
newspaper advertising, a large share^
of the company's annual advertising
appropriation since he (became .president
being diverted to the weekly and
daily papers.:
BEST TIME TO ADVERTISE
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Is When More Business Is Needed?
Spend More and Do More
"My son," ran an editorial in the
Bridgeport, TConn.) Post?an editorial
that should be reprinted by hundreds
of newspapers, for the benefit
o/ themselves and their local merchants?"there's
nothing on earth so
mysteriously funny as an advertisement.
The prime, first, last and all
the time object of tin advertisement
is to draw custom. It js.not, was
not, and . never will be designed for
any other human purpose. So the
merchant w&its till the busy season
comes and his store is so full of customers
that ho can't get his Tuft off,
and then he rushes to his printer and
goes in for advertising.
"When the dull season gets along
and there is' no trade and he wants
to sell goods so bad he can't pay his
rent, he stops his advertising. That
is, some of them do,, but occasionally
a level headed merchant' does more of
it and scoops in all the business,
while his neighbors are making mortgages
to pay the- gas bill. </
"There are times when you couldn't
stop people from buying everything
in the store if you planted a
cannon behind the door, and there s
the time the advertisement is sent
out on its mission. It makes light
work for the advertising, for a chalk
sign on the sidewalk could do all that
was needed and have a half holiday
six days in the week; but who wants
to favor an advertisement? They
are built to do hard work, and should
be sent out in the dull days when a
customer 'has to be knocked down
with hard facts and kicked insensible
with bankrupt reductions and dragged
in with irresistible slaughter of
prices before he will spend a cent.
"That's the aim and end of advertising,
my son, and if you ever open
a store don't try to get them to come
when they are already sticking out
of the windows, but give them your
advertisement right between the eyes
in the dull season and you will wax
rich and own a fast horse and perhaps
be able to smoke a good cigar
once or twice a year.
"Write this down where you'll fall
over it every day. The time to draw
business is when you want business
and not when you have more business
than you can attend to already.''
Cherokee county commissioners
and its delegation agreed upon salary
reductions of $5,000 for county officers
this year, and other reductions in
appropriations amounting to $12,490^
The pay of the probate judge, clerk
of court and sheriff was considered
and decision postponed until the first
Monday in February.
CITATION
The State of South Carolina
. County of Kershaw
In the Probate Court
By L. R. Jones, Esquire, Probate
Judge.
Whereas, Susie G. Woods made
suit ftTTne to grant, her Letters of
Administration of the Estate of and
Effects of IJzzio B. WoodR
These are, therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said Lizzie B. .
Woods, deceased, that they be and
appear before me, in the Court of
Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C.,
on the 30th day of January,""1932,
next after publieaiton thereof, at 11
oVdock in the forenoon,- -to show
cause, if any they have, why the said
Administration should not be granted.
Given under my hand, thia IKth
day of January, Anno Domini 1932.
L. R. JONT5S,
Judge of Probate for Kershaw County
Published on the 22nd and 29th
lays of January, 1932, in the Camden
Chronicle, and posted at the <
Court Howe door for the time pre- j
icrfbed by lew. - |<
Aft Dedicated
To Country Doctor
(By W. W. Anderaon, in Anderson
Independent.) ?-Kaii-view,
8. C? J"an. 'e.-nShtifta
of #on? in thousands of cities commemorate
at* teem en and wan heroes
but this community is the only one
to claim a monument to the "country
doctor"-?the family physician whose
practice leads through#almost the entire
realm of medicine.
The monument was erected by Dr.
Henry B. Stewart, who is typical of
that class of humanitarian to be honored.
Cut on one side of the three-ton
pative granite slab are the words:
"Dedicated to ihe memory of the
family physician." On the other
appears a tribute to the wives of
those public servanda: "In memory
of those who keep the home firee
burning while the doctor is away on
his missions of mercy."
A satchel like that carried by the
country doctor is carved on, one end
of th*e stone while the other bears
the donor's naime.
The 77-year-old physician, who
makes hi a home 'here is just rounding
out his 61st year of. practice,
his 47th year as a Sunday ^school
superintendent and his 40th year as
announcer for the Fairview Stock
Show, a position he fill? on horseback.
For the first 29 years of his practice,
Dr. Stewart rode horseback on
his calls and for the next 12. years
employed a horse and buggy.
During the past 14 years, however,
he has used an automobile but the
mechanical transportation ha? not
dimmed his love for horses nor his
ability to ride. He sits on a horse
in expert fashion and ride? often for
exercise.
"I don't know what coffee or any
other soft drink tastes like," he said
in mentioning his health, which has
always be^n above par. "I've IHiY.gl.
been in a bar room."
Today he is as active on his daily
rounds as he was when he first began
the practice of medicine. During
those 51 year?, he says, he has attended
almost every kind of case and
has delivered 2,750 babies of which
two case? were triplets and only a
few were twins. He said the youngest
mother was 13 years old and the
oldest mother was 49.
Killed 70 Crooks In a Year
During 1931, 70 outlaws were killed
by policemen and citizens in Chicago's
war on crime. Policemen notched
their service revolvers for 39 bandits,
burglars and automobile thieves,
and citizens killed 26 while 5 were
slain by private watchmen. A marked
improvement over Chicago's re^
cord last year. In 1930, 63 bandits
were slain?34 by .policemen and 29
by citizens. In 1931, only 8 Chicago
policemen were slain as against 11
in 1930. The mounting death toll of
"Chicago's enen)ies%has had a wholesome
effect. Today Chicago has fewer
burglaries and robberies in proportion
to its population, say? the
Tribune, than scores of cities.
New Judge Elected
George Dewey Oxner, member of
the house of representatives from
Greenville county, was on Wednesday
last elected by the general assembly
of South Carolina, judge of
the Thirteenth judicial circuit to succeed
Judge Thomas J. Mauldin, Pickens,
who died some months ago. The
Thirteenth Circuit is composed of the
counties of Greenville and Pickens.
The coroner of Chester county
found that Clyde Thompson, John
Hagen and Hawkin Smith were responsible
for the death of Marion
Sapp, a prominent I^ancaster county
farmer, who died in a Chester hospital.
The verdict says that the three
men were operating their automobile
in an unlawful manner when the
wreck occurred in which Sapp was
killed.
Fat Girls! Here's
A Tip For You
All over the world Kruschen Salts
is appealing to girls and women who
strive for an attractive, free from
fat figure that cannot fail to win
admiration.
Here's the recipe that banishes fat
and brings into blossom all "the natural
attractiveness that every woman
possesses and does it SAFELY
ami HARMLESSLY.
In the morning take one half teaspoon
of Kruschen Salts in a glass
of hot water before breakfast?cut
down on pasrtry and fatty meats?
go light on potatoes, butter, cream
and sugnr.^
"It's the little daily dose that takes
off the fat" and "brings that Krus- '!
chen feeling" of energetic health and
activity that i* reflected in bright
eyes, dear akin, cheerful vivacity and
charming figure.
But be sure for your health's sake <
that you get Kruschen. A bottle that <
lasts 4 weeks costs but little. You
can always get Kruschen at all druggista
and money back if not satisfied 1
with results after first bottle. ' <
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Snow-Hound Red
Men Fed From Air I
Winflow, Aria., Jan. l#^&x'army 1
bombing planet swooped low 0vw
Navajo Indian village* yesterday,
dropping life-sustaining provisions to
the snowbound Rod Men.
More than five tons of 'rations^
beans, floor, coffee, sugar, salt pork,
and dried fruitr-cwere dropped iDto
the enow banks, some of them 16 feet 1
thick, surrounding the mud and brush
built Indian bogans.
The plane* ordered here from
March field, Riverside* Oal., covered
between 2,000 and. 2,600 miles on
their mercy miewion. They ranged
from the Arizona-New Mexico line ii
to the east to Southern Utah on the I
Snorth. \ J I
Eager, ha'tf starved Indians rush- i I
ed into the onowbanlos to retrieve ths 1
food. The well padded ' packages
were ravenously torn open. Reser- I
vat ion officials estimate 20,000 In- I
diane are near ataryation.
fJs4eutenapt Charles H. Howard, in I
change of the flight*, reported his '
men flew only five to BO feej^pbove -9
the ground to drop the parcels of I
provisions. "The boys did a wonder?
ful bit of flying," he praised,
(Supplies were dropped at 16 vil-' I
Iages and settlomenta. In some in- I
standee it was necessary to locatlf^M
groups of Indians who had moved I
their cainps from the highlands to
lower mesa8.
. Old men, women and children I
joined \Wth the Able-bodied populace 9
in burrowing into the snow to re- J
cover the food packages.
Throughout the flight the planes 9
were in communication with the department
of commence radio station 9
here. Each pilot carried a map on 9
which was marked the villages he .9
was to succor. I - - 3-JH
Ground arteries of travel on the "9
reservaiton are clogged-. Efforts to 9
batter through them have proved; |
Famous Circus Elephant Dies .... 9
Cincinnati, Okio, Jian. 18.?A long J
career, which' 16d her tnto service in ' V
the liberty bond drives, Red Cross
campaigns and numerous other public jfl
undertakings, was ended with the
death of "Tilly," circus elephant. John ; ::9
G. Robinson, her owner* said she waft 9
120 years- old. v;,
Among her accomplishments, 9
"Tilly" was credited with having 9
tamed "Chief," a bad acting ele- 9
pfoant which killed his trainer and 9
ran wild through the streets of Char- I
lotte, N. C., several years ago. Tilly 9
pursued him, knocked him down and 9
held him under her body while train- J
ers chained him. 0 |
During the war she worked with a jj;
crew that raised more than one mil- ?-^9
lion dollars in Liberty bonds. i
"Stranger Than Fiction"' I
Fred Sherman ofi Battle Creek, l9
Mich., spent most of?a day tracking I
a deer! He ibecame so tired he sat
down under a tree and dozed off, ..9
His companions came upon' him just
in time to see the deer dash away.
It had crept upon him while he slept
and had eaten all of his lunch and . 9
had chewed the hat that had fallen j
from Sherman's head. ^ "
At Big Rapids, Mich., a-gobbler
objected to becoming holiday filler .-.jM
and flew about the butcher .shop and . J
through the plate glass window and .
caused $200 damage before it lost
its head for good.
Twenty-one years ago J. Montgom- 1
ery, of Ashland, Ore., lost $7
positively identifiable purse. The
other day he received $25,- interest?
and principal, from the finder who
used the money to tide him over a J*
rocky financial spot at the time.
A little red hen crashed through
the windshield of an auto driven by J
Ray Mansur near Centralia. Ill, I- 9
not only survived the adventure but
also paid for the ride by depositing
an egg.?The Pathfinder.
Rector, former sheriff of Greenville,
county, and Moore, hfs deputy, ,,
under sentence of 10 ?yearA-idc cxunr.?-9
plfcity in the murder of Sheriff Wil- 9
lis there, were this week, granted
permission by the supreme court to fl
ask the circuit court for a new trial. ^3
A former state constable named Rog- 9
ers turned up a bullet he said he j'j
found in the ground at the scene of._....-9
the Willis murder which contradicts .9
the testimony of the negro now in
the penitentiary who ,said he was I
hired to shoot the sheriff. On thp
ground of this newly discovered evi- -9
dence, the lawyers for Rector and j9
Moore asked for a new trial* and the 9
man Rogers was promptly jailed totperjury,
'later being released on I
$2,000 bond.r ' , , ; A
Richland county, containing
lumbia, will have its six county offi* 9
??* now paid by few placed on a
alary beats on April i, by the edi* ^ -9
af ita delegation to the legislature,
"hfcfa also decided to r*d?ee"tl*>P*7 J
rf .U th.
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