The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 22, 1935, Page PAGE NINE, Image 9
' " Copy of a lotter from
Federal Home Loan Bank of Winston-Salem.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
to
First Federal Savings and I^oan Association,
Camden, S. C.
December 10, 15134.
"Gentlemen:
Wo are glad to see from your statement us of November
30, that you are now acquiring mortgage loans and we will be
glad to assist you in handling additional calls upon the Secretary
of the Treasury just as rapidly as the local investments in your
share# will justify." * (Signed) Jos. W. Holt,
Federal Savings and Loan Division.
This puts it squarely up to you, thrifty citizens of
Camden. If you can do one fourth of your part in saving and
helping your community, your Uncle Sam is ready to do the other
three fourths. First Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n.
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NOTICE
On and after February 1, 19,15 (he
office of the
I IRtfT FEDERAL SAVINGS &
LOAN ASSOCIATION
Mill be located in the office adjoining
thftt of Henry Savage, Jr.,
i>n DeKalb Street, in the Crocker
building* :
IVhere Safety of your Investment
s InHured up to $5,000.00 in The
Kederal Savings & Loan Insurance
Corporation, Washington, 1). C.
ODD ACCIDENTS
.Loss of a wheel meant only delay
r repairs to a clergyman driving
ong a Michigan road but to William
ender it meant a sojourn in a hostal.
As the car was passing, a
heel came off, bounded up and
ruck Bender in the head as he sat
i his front porch.
It was a case of the hunted becomg
the hunter when two Ontario
en, Messrs. Gravelle and Burke, set
it to kill a moose. An unusually
le specimen leaped into the road
id attacked them. After a futile
tempt to demolish their car the anial
rushed back into the woods with
e radiator shell and a fender clingg
to y^antjers.
Itr-tvould be hard to convince a
iung Marylander, John Wood, that
ere is no such thing as luck. When
f car was sideswiped by a truck
<! knocked through a bridge abuter.t
it was saved from plunging
v n an embankment when it lodged
Dp a telephone pole. ,
A young man in Monterey, Calif.,
is forced to take to crutches beiiso
his feet failed to awaken with
i rest of his body. Stepping from
i bed his right foot turned under
using a severe sprain. The same
ng occurred when he shifted his
ight to the other foot.
But when a West Virginia coal
nor, A. McHaffey, got out of his
1 to investigate a noise he found
dead man sitting upright at the
>t of the stairs. He had fallen
km his car as it rounded a curve
d had plunged through the door
lo the house.
When Eskil Karl son of Sweden enavored
to prove to his wife that he
,s the better dishwasher of the two
i foot slipped causing him to fall
on a breadknife he was holding,
ter he returned from the hospital
decided to let her do the dishes.
Package Of Gold
Traveled Afar
And speaking of good stories, here i
| is one for ltipley. One of the venCMable
citizens ot Lancaster, Judge
Eugene Sec-rest tells one that would
strain the Imagination if it were not
for the fact that one knows him to
be 1 a truthful gentleman. 'Several
years before his mother died the
judge gave her two hundred dollars
in gold with which to take a trip.
Through some change in plans she
never took the trip. After her death
her son broke up housekeeping. He
let various persons have the use of
what of his furniture was suited to
their needs. A sewing machine was
a very papular piece of his house-1
hold goods. It travelled around considerably.
Finally after several years
it rested once more in Judge .Secrest's
room. He was looking for
needle and thread one morning to
sew on a button. He opened the machine
drawer. Ho found no needle
but there was a small package wrapped
in dingey paper yellow with age.
Curiosity prompted Judge Secrest to
open the parcel. And there fell out
into his hand the two hundred dollars
in gold that he had given his
mother, years no telling how many,
before. The sewing machine had been
doing service in various families fur
years and no one had thought to look
in that little package that had been
collecting dust in that machine
drawer. Dot did not get the story
direct from Judge Secrest, but a very
reputable person told it to her so!
she passes it on as an astonishing
proof that truth is stranger than fiction.?Lancaster
News.
BANANA FEELINGS
Ever see a fellow who had no conception
of the danger, peel a banana
and throw the peelings on the pavement?
We have. This causes us
to quote the. following from the editorial
columns of the Columbia State
with the hope that it might be read
by some who are so thoughtless:
"It was hard for the lad to move
under his own power at all. He walked
on two crutches, and his poor
crooked legs made your heart turn
over in your breast to look at him.
But with that cheerfulness of the
crippled that is a fresh marvel every
time you meet it, he smiled as he
swung along down on the side streets.
A paved walk, and his crutches made
a slow click-clack as he moved. Suddenly,
one of those crutches slipped
and slid on the walk. He tottered,
balanced a moment and fell against
a passerby who rushed to his aid.
Still smiling, in spite of his narrow
escape from what might have
been a cruel fall, the boy looked at
the sidewalk:
"A darned banana peeling," he sai,d.
"I get along all right on everything
but ice and* banana peelings."
"Ice and snow we can't do very
much about, but fortunately we don't
have ? great deal of them here. But
banana peelings, that's anobher matter.
You would think by now people
would be careful not to add this extra
hazard to streets, dangerous to all,
but perhaps actually fatal to the
physically handicapped, the old and
the lame."
A British seaplane, traveling from
London to the naval base at Singapore,
crashed in Sicily against a hillside,
and the nine persons aboard
] were burned almost beyond recognition.
A Bladder Lax
ie Juniper Oil, Buchu Leaves, etc.
This 25c test free if it fails. If
regularity wakes you up, flush out
ipurities and excess acids. Get
ichu leaves, juniper oil, etc., in liti
green tablets called Bukets, the
adder lax. Works on the bladder
nilar to. castor oil on the bowels,
orly acting bladder can cause disirbed
sleep, frequent desire, scanty
>w, burning or backache. In four
ty.s, if not pleased any druggist will
fund your 25c. Get your regular
fop and feel "full of pep."
DeKALB PHARMACY
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Money to Loan
From Private Funds on improved
Homes and to responsible
persons only. Interest
and Terms by agreement.
Kirkland & deLoach
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EAGLKS usually nest lit out-ofthe-way
places. IUit recently
two American eagles were discovered
. housekeeping only MO
miles from Bultlinore. Accustomed to
| living in the vicinity of water, they
selected a tall pine tree near the
Magot'hy river as the site for an Immense
nest.
Huildlng u huge structure of sticks
at considerable height from the
ground, several large white eggs were
laid, and the two birds took turns remaining
on the nest tor the month's
period of incubation. An enthusiastic
ornithologist who scaled the tree
numerous times was fortunate enough
to observe the two young eaglets from
the time they were hatched until they
flew away eleven weeks later.
Fugles and their many relatives
among the hawks and vultures are distributed
throughout the world, except
over the open seas, the barren Antarctic
continent, and the smallest and
| most isolated of oceanic islands.
Wherever found, they appeal even to
the novice in knowledge of things outdoors
because of (heir manner of life
and predatory habits, liohust of form
ami strong in tlilt!11. they are remarked
at every appoaranee.
The emblem of the Suntertan city
of l.aga?h. in the third millennium hefore
the Christian Km. was an eagle,
which was engraved on the tablets and
seals of the leaders and was carried
as a military standard by the army.
An eagle also appeared on the seal of
the King of Ur, and continued In
double-headed form in Ilitt'lte art, on
certain coins of the Mohammedans, on
the flags of Turkoman princes, and so
on Into modern times.
The eagle symbol is probably derived
from forms similar to our golden
eagles or closely allied to that species,
as several species of that type are
found In the regions mentioned.
Messenger of Zeus.
To early Qreeks the eagle was the
messenger of Zeus and the only bird
that dwelt* In heaven? a fancy based,
perhaps, on the high-flying powers of
these birds. A silver eagle standing
on a spear was placed on the military
.standards of the legions of Rome, and
this emblem has been used widely as
a conventional badge of military power.
Today it Is a common decoration
on flagstaffs In many countries.
An American species of this group,
the bald eagle, Is found In the design
of the coat of arms of the United
States, which appears on the Grent
Seal. A representation of it Is
blazoned on many of our coins and
decorations. It also appears on the
President's flag, and on the President's
Seal In the bronze plate on the
floor of the vestibule of the White
House.
The fierce harpy eagle, a bird of
dauntless courage, called by the Aztecs
"the winged wolf," Is engraved on the
official coat of arms and senl of Mexico
and appears on the flag of that
country. It Is distinguishable from
our species by Its prominently crested
head.
The eagles and their kin form the
group of birds of the order of Falconlformes,
which Inpludes about 288
distinct specie*, with many additional
geographic races, so that In all there
are recognized somewhat more than
700 living forms. The order Is divided
Into four principal families.
The eagles, hawks, kites, and their
relatives, forming the family Acclpltrldae,
Include the largest numDer of
forms. They are mainly birds of
medium to large size, with broad
wings, stroqg legs, feet armed with
sharp claws, and strongly hooked
hills. Many possess light-colored eyes,
which, with their active Interest in
any movement1 that might Indicate possible
prey, give them a tierce and aggressive
appearance.
Their Methods of Flight.
Flight tn the hawklike birds varies
gtnslderably. according to the kind,
ngles, the lnrge hnvrks, and the vultures.
both of the New and Old Worlds,
have broad wings which they flap slowly.
Frequently they soar with set
wings, utilizing air currents rising
from the heated surface of the earth
or currents generated by winds. These
birds frequently soar for hours with
scarcely a wing beat, turning and
wheeling In the sky, often at such
altitudes that they appear as mers
specks aguir.st the blue.
I
The turkey vulture is ti \scll known
species that is pariiculhrly adept In
this art. In tact, It finds this method
of progression so adapted to its needs
thnt frequently it remains in its roost
through the day when the air Is heavy
and still.
The falcons have longer, more poluted
wings that enable them to My with
Kreut speed, and, though they may
enjoy souring, they do not practice
this so constantly as the other hawks.
The larger species cap capture the
swiftest Dying sandpipers and ducks
on the wing without the slightest difficulty.
The food of birds of the hawk group
is highly varied, though It Is taken
entirely from the animal kingdom.
The larger species of falcons subsist
mulnly on various kinds of birds and
small mammals, hut the smaller kinds,
such as sparrow hawks and falconets,
eat llzzards, grasshoppers and other
Inserts, and mice. The bearded vultures
of the (Hi) World are said to
carry - turtles and large bones from
the carcasses of dead animals to a i
great height, in order to drop them on
rocks, where tlicv break open so that
the bird can eat the marrow
i
' Some species of hawks, particularly
certain forms that range In the i
j Tropics, eat snakes as their principal
I fond. There Is one group of species
found in India and adjacent regions
in which tills habit Is so constant that
tlie birds are known as "serpent
eagles." The osproy and seme of the
sen eagles confine their attention
limlnly to fish, which they capture
alive by plunging after thorn as they
approach the surface of the water.
The powerful harpy eagle feeds regularly
on monkeys.
The golden eagle, one of the most
powerful of American birds of prey,
has a varied menu. Where prairie
dogs are present In large numbers,
these are favored food; a pair of
eagles will destroy several hundred in
the course of a season. At times they
turn to sharp-tailed grouse when these
are abundant, proving a scourge to the
flocks. Jack rabbits, cottontails, marmots,
and ground squirrels are killed
In large numbers. In winter, when
other food Is scarce, they may come to
dead carcasses, being sometimes hard
put in severe weather when the meat
is frozen, even with the great strength
that they possess In bill and feet.
They also attack lambs and fawns
on occasion, and one observer records
that three golden eagles* working together
pulled down and killed a prongj
horn antelope during severe winter
{ weather when other food was scarce,
j They will kill and ont coyotes caught
i In traps, and will also steal the halt
j when wolf traps are halted with meat.
] Snakes and wild ducks, and an occa|
slonnl goose, also may figure in their
I diet.
Hawk Tribe Always Hurted.
The hand of civilized mnn lins been
, raised universally against ttie hawk
; tribe, and birds of this group are shot
. or otherwise destroyed at every oi>portunity.
It Is rare, Indeed, for hawks
I to come within gun range of n hunter
J without receiving a charge of shot,
j and they are killed in many localities
by setting steel traps on the tops of
posts or poles thnt the birds utilize
. as perches.
! The mujestlc bald eagle, our national
! bird, has fallen under the displeasure
of some farmers and has been rather
! relentlessly hunted.
Bird lovers have taken up the fight
on behalf of this great bird of froe:
(lorn, declaring that he has been mls'
represented and that his occasional
fhefts of poultry are more than offset
by services In keeping our beaches
clean of dead fish.
The flight and appearance of hawks
i and other birds, ami certain of their
anatomical features, were nsod by the
| augurs of ancient Itome in their
j prophecies of the future. A more
| practical use of those birds was found
among the North American Indians,
particularly of the Plains and Pueblo
groups, when beautiful headdresses
were made from the large feathers of
the golden eagle, and otlwr ornaments
and decorations were fashioned
from the smaller feathers of this hirj]
i and from the feathers of hawks. Ttfe
j downy bases of the eagle feathers
j sometimes were twisted In strands thnt
j were woven Into feather blankets of a
peculiar and Interesting type. Hawks
. and eagle claws were used to make
necklaces ,and other decorations.
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| BOULDER DAM
Bigfte.sf NNutiw J'owcr Dcvclopnu'iit
Ji? the \\ ?>rIcJ a( I're.seiiC.
Within <?IH' week fioit) ihia ilalc.
, (Jumiury 21. J ) water will begin
U) '' ^c "> the j^-ami,.- reservoir t?I*
Moulder Dam Every Amcri!
ran .should Ik- proud of Moulder Dam
and ially .Mr. F. p. Crowe, the
tall Aim ru an engineer who ha a sup
er intended the job.
Six Anit-ruan contracting corporations
combined lo complete the one I
I hundred and sixty-five million dollar
J job. l'he contractors agreed to finish
the job by January 7, 1 and fail i')K
to so complete it they would be
required to forfeit $11,001) "damages"
for every day's delay.' The job will
be completed by the last of July, this
year, two and ? half years before the
! contract calls for delivery of the job
| to the government. This will he a
I lot of time saved, hut the contractors
, will not receive a "bonus" to oil' set
i.the "damage" clause in the contract.
I - It is promised that the burdened
taxpayer will greatly benefit by the
I early completion of this dam, as the
current thut will be created will be
sold at such prices and in such quantities,
that the entire cost and the interest
will be pauj off within fifty
years. The city of Los Angeles and
power companies of southern California
have already contracted with the
government to consume the 1,800,000
horse power of elecCVic energy that
will be generated.
"lhe dam structure rises more than
720 feet from bed rock. The case of
the dam is 000 feet thick and tapers
off to 45 feet in width at the top.
Water pressure is greater at the bottom
of the dam on account of the
water above it.
In the wall and the power plant
there have been used 4,200,000 cubic
yards of concrete, and contractors
will want to know that pebbles as
large as nine inches in diameter are
used in the mixture.
Just above the dam, on government
land, an inexhaustible bed of beautifully
polished pebbles, was found
ready for the work.
Water will cover that deposit when
the dam is filled, hut it might be
dredged for future work, when other
dams are built higher up the river
to use power generated above the
Moulder level.
The amount of concrete in that job
according to the department of the
interior would build a monument one
hundred feet square, two and one
eighth miles in height.
Secretary of the Interior Ickcs informs
the public that the concrete
used at Moulder dam job would build
"a standard sixteen foot wide paved
highway reaching from Miami in
Florida to Seattle in Washington."
Across the top of the dam 45 feet
wide, a paved highway for automobiles
will carry travellers from Nevada
to Arizona. On the Arizona
side a winding road will lead to the
top of the canyon.
The dam forms an arch, like a section
of a circle, reaching from wall to
wall of the canyon, the outer curve
turned up stream, the arch holding
the weight of the accumulated waters,
in a reservoir "lake" reaching upstream
110 miles.
It is the height of the water back
of the dam, not the volume accumulated
upstream that creates pressure
on the dam. You might put the whole
Atlantic_ocean upstream back of that
dam, at the same height, as planned
for the reservoir, and the dam' would
hold it.
Kind hearted ladies and "sportsmen"
that like to kill things, will bo
, glad to hear that the reservoir lake
| and all that Colorado river region
\ belonging to Uncle Sam has been
made a bird sanctuary. You may fish
in the reservoir, but may not kill wild
ducks or other birds that are expected
to breed there. In millions, from
Boulder dam they will fly in all directions,
and sportsmen will have the
j pleasure of killing them.
Boulder dam is the highest dam in
| the world towering 726 feet above
bed rock, 130 feet below the river bed.
On both sides of the canyon the
wall of the dam is anchored in the
canyon rock walls to a depth of 60
feet.
Across the canyon, from wall to
wall, are stretched numerous cables,
over which engineers, workmen and
materials travel .back and forth. Suspended
below these cables are open
swinging platforms, on which you
stand as you cross tl>e canyon four
times with Mr. Cjrowe. The platforms
are strong enough to hold 20 tons but
carrying you from one side to the
other, 600 feet above the canyon floor,
swaying and dipping, they seem a little
insecure, traveling 1,200 feet a
minute across the Arizona side, and
back.
Another trip leads to the bottom of
the river bed, where you enter
round tunnel fifty feet in diameter
cut in the rock to bring the. water!
under 600 feet of pressure to turbines
that will produce electric power
horses ^ ^259!i ^'1,300,000
! ^ ** ih* alone c?ntalns
more cubic yaYda masonl^^n1
would be seeded Uf fe,
grreat pyramids of xLiT
w.u.d Ulc?
IIK WAS A STOIC'
The parsing of the late George Little
of ('anulin, brings a note of xjuij
hok to u few York county folks who
| knew that jfentIpmnn. Mr. Little was
a good sportsinan. lie loved horses
j and he loved fox chase. One of his
York county friends tells this one
about Mr. Little:
^^"Wlicn he got hurt last year he was
i out on a foxhunt with oue of his old
friends. They had gone out some
distance from Camden, in a ear with
a trailei attached in which were the
dogs. The car was stopped on an incline,
and Mr. Little failed to apply
the brakes. When he got out und
walked arotlnd to tho front of the car
after the dogs had been released, tho
car started tolling, knocked Mr. Little
down and ran over him, breaking
his legs and otherwise injuring him.
"His friend didn't have strength
enough to aid Mr. Little much and he
could not drive a car. So he walked
three miles to the nearest telephone
to get help. When he came back, of
course he found Mr. Little light
where he had left him on the ground,
j suffering terribly fiom his injuries,
and about the first thing Mr. Little
said when assistance arrived was:
" 'Do you know for the last three
hours I have been listening to the
finest fox race 1 ever listened at in
my life? The dogs caught the fox
and you will find him right over there
(indicating), if you will go look for
him.'
"He was certainly a fine gentleman
and a real fox hunter," concluded his
York county friend.?Yorkville Knquirer.
Mrs. Frances A. Robinson, wife of
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., alleged kidnaper
of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll,
I^ouisvillo, Ky., society woman, has
been released from jail after being
held for four months on a bond of
$5,000. Mrs. Robinson's trial for aiding
the kidnaping, is set for March
18th. Her husband is yet to be arrested.
employed on the "dam, working with
old Egyptians methods, at least 1,000
years to finish the concrete wall of
the dam alone, to say nothing of double
tunnels through the solid rock on
either side of the canyoh, and all tho
steel and machinery that ancient
methods could not have produced at
all.
The wall of the dam weighs 6,600,000
tons, and pressure of the water
against the cement wall at the base
of the dam will he 4,500 pounds to
the square foot. The concrete wall
more than 600 feet thick will hold
that easily.
Chemical action caused by the "setting"
of the cement, plus intense
pressure, raises the wall to a temperature
of 150 degrees. This is overcome
by circulating water just above
the freezing point through the cement
in 575, miles of one inch steel tuibing.
The water is artificially cooled, andit
takes the cement about two years
to cool off.
The wall of the dam is not reinforced?but
3,500,000 pounds of reinforced
bars and rails will be used,
all supplied by "United States Steel"
which for this job has provided materials
of unusually strong quality.
The "Bureau of Standards" inspect
everything.
The dam which goes from 110 to
180 feet Into the rock below the river
bed will raise the level of the river
back of the dam 485 feet, and will be
1,184 feet wide at the top. The government
purchases all materials, contractors
supplying the labor and me-;. .
chanical equipment, including trucks
that carry 50 tons.
The reservoir back of the dam wilL
hold 30,500,000 acre feet of water,
enough to cover 30,500,000 acres one
foot deep. That amount of water
would cover the state of New York to a
depth of one foot, which means ten
trillion gallons of water, 80,000 gallons
for each person in the United
States, 5,000 gallons fqr every inhabitant
of the earth. The average flow
of the river would fill the reservoir
in two years, and water for power,
irrigation can be used before the reservoir
is full.
Gigantic emergency spillways on
both sides of the canyon in addition
to the huge diversion tunnels through
the canyon rock walls, will provide
for any possible flood or sudden rise
in the river. The spillways are arranged
to take care of 526,000 cubic
feet of water per second.
The Colorado river is now control 1;
ed, and docile. There will be no more
floods in the Imperial valley, but instead
regular supplies of water and
power as may be needed. Spillways
and other outlets with their capacity
of 526,000 cubic feet of water per
second, would carry water enough to
develop 25,000,000 horse power. Any
one of the numerous spillways would
take care of all the water that flows
over Niagara falls and the power-developing
drop would be three times
as great as at Niagara.
All other water powers on earth
are small - compared with thi* fiant
power producing dam. The next
gWatest power plant in the. World,
the Dnieprostroy, Russian plant/ develops.
750,000 horsepower- against
toottdtHfanfc 1,885,000 horsepower.That
en erg}' means 4,330 miiH?llrill