The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 14, 1936, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
I NO INTERRUPTIONS I
j Thanks to the Camclen Volunteer Fire Depart- I
I ment the fire at the Kornegay Funeral Home on Wedj
nesday night did very tittle damage to the Undertak
| ing Department and there will be no interruption in
I the service of this establishment. j j
j Very Respectfully, I
| C. G. KORNEGAY |
General News Notes
Zcnls Prank Mllburn, sk, farmer
and former lown marshal, Is in jail
at Kearney, Mo., charged with the
sluying of the step-father of his estranged
wife, 21.
Senator Will ia it I-.' Ho rah has formally
entered the lists for the Itepubii
r*jt>i nomination for th>> presidency at
t ho (-l'i vi h)nd, () V eiin\ < a(ion. and will
Ilia lie a < a in |?a igu in Ohio tor delegates
to support him
Since tin Now York bureau of missing
persons In-null operatinn 2'? yeyrs
ago., it has handled 4-I!?.2S7 eases,, and
solved all but 101 o| them. The old
est ease on the record is that of Dorothy
Arnold, who disappeared in 11)10
and lias in \ r been found.
William 10. Christian, sou-in-law of
(lenoral Stonewall Jackson, and ti
former North Carolina newspaper
man died at his home in Takoma
Park, M(l., Thursday, aged 80.
The house lias passed and sent to
the senate the combined supply bill
for the treasury and post office departments,
a total of $1)89,673,829 for
the lineal year 1937.
The New York Sun says that Alfred
10. Smith has decided to carry his tight
against the .New Deal to the tloor of1
the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
"The brown derby is back in J
the 1936 campaign to stay until election
day," says the New York paper.
| The ftkIit against vice racketeer# in
| New York, ha# reached down to Palm
1 Heach, Flu.* a^nd resulted in the arlost
there of one man and four women
wanted in connection with ihe
vice racket in New York.
Longing Van Vlack, who kidnaped
his former wife, Mildred Hook, in Ta<
<>ii)ii. Wash , and then ulledgedly
slioi 11? r dcaUi in Idaho, lias been
<(in\icii'?l (if murder at Twin Falls,
Ida, and sentenced to death.
The New York Times, in a dispatch
Norn Philadelphia, says file Itepubli
an ticket this year will be Governor
All' London of Kansas and James \V.
Wads worth, former senator from New
York, now a member of the house of
representatives.
The government of Greece has proposed
to the United States that it will
pay a part of its war debt, if acceptable
to tills government, and continue
to make partial payments twice each
year. The matter is being considered
by the stafe and treasury departments.
The island of Nantucket, 2a miles
off Cape Cod, Mass.. was isolated for
three or four days this week on arcount
of ice and the intense cold and
I there was considerable anxiety as to
whether-food supplies could be gotten
to the people there on account of the
Ice floes, the regular boat making the
| island being unable to make its trips.
! C08T OF MOTORING HERE
It l? Nearly 1160,000,000 In This State
During Last Year
r ?
.l ' Whether of not prosperity ban re*
, turned to Houtti Carolina the people
of t )iIh state apent nearly 145 millions
of dollara In 1935 driving automobiles
hither and yon.
This 1? only the coat of the motoring.
and does not include the other
much money spetyt for new automobiles
lust year, any a. till* Yorkvlll? Kn*
qui re r.
The amount of money apent for motoring,
in thla atate laat year la $144,778,000,
aa ascertained hy simple
arithmetic from a report the other
day from the office of W. G. Query,
chairman of the atate tux commiaaion.
The report la, that 144,778,000 gal*
lona were aold in thia atate iu 1935,
and the atate tax paid on it. The coat
of that guaollne, at an average price
of 21 centa a gallon, waa $30,403,380,
the tux commiaaion flgurea. The atate
collected $8,717,032 tax on that gasoline.
JJut the gasoline la only a fraction
of the coat of mojoripg. There is oil,
of course, (hut everybody thinks of,
but there Is also depreciation taxes
and a number of other items of cost
in motoring.
Costs of motoring are dependent
upon mileage, as the rule, and naturally.
The tlrst and most important investigation
is to translate those hundred
and a half million gallons of
gasoline into mileage.
The number of gallons multiplied by
the miles per gallon gives the mileage
'obtained from the gasoline bought fit
, South Carolina. The average figure
| used to lie 12 or 15 miles to the gallon
{ but 20 miles to the gallon, with lnod'
ern < :As. is probably a better factor
now. It' you disagree, you may take
15 miles, or 25 miles, or any llgurc
you choose and substiutute it in the
arithmetic to follow.
It' each gallon, on the average, propelled
an automobile 20 miles, then
the 144,778,000 gallons used in Soqtli
Carolina lust year, ran the cars 20
times that figure, or 2,895,560,000 miles
I?nearly three billion miles were driven
by Palmetto motorists in the year
of 1935. it sounds like the figures
coming out of Washington these days,
but that three billion miles belongs
in South Carolina alone.
A few years ago the American Automobile
Association conducted tests
for months, all over this country, on
all kinds of grades and roads, long and
short trips, for every make of car In
use.
The result of that actual, careful
and complete test was, that on the
best roads, with the best of driving
of the most efficient cars on level
roads, the total cost of motoring was
five cents per mile travelled. So that
Is the Irreducible minimum of motor|
irtg costs, and few cars reach that low
cost.
Hut taking that bottom figure for
the factor here in South Carolina, with
its hills, winding dirt roads in profusion,
as well as smooth highways,
it Is easy to calculate the cost of the
total mileage achieved In one year
4*y South Carolina motorists.
Jft~Ave cents*a mile, the 2,895,660,*
000 miles traveled by South Carolina
motorists, cost $144,778,000. That fig*
ure is very nearly exact and can be
varied only by the average mileage
per gallon being not near 2p miles per
gallon of gasoline. All the other factors
are Axed and correct, and beyond
any attack or change.
That money was spent simply for
operating automobiles, m motoring,
and how much more was spent for
new cars nobody knows. ?
Of course the more than 144 million
dollars spent for motoring in this
state last year was not all spent for
pleasure riding, and some Qf the cost
was part of the cost of doing business.
Any reader can make his own estt|
mate of how much of the driving was
actually on business, and how much
shore or mountain resort and back, or
qtmply going from the farm to tdwn
Tor pleasure, or froln* the house to the
f offjfie and back, in the towns, or on
Zoning, holiday, or Sunday pleasure
trips to country, or to visit kinfolks.
At any rat?, any considerable part
v of the total <* >st of motoring spent
tor, pleasure Is Important money In
and luxuries.
Hut how much of that $144,778,000
spent for motoring in this one state
in one year was spent by people who
cun not afford luxuries on their Incomes
and ussets? Kcho refuses to
answer.
Incidentally, while nearly $145,000,000
is spent annually for motoring in !
South Carolina, the average, annual |
cotton crop of this state is worth $37.,5O0.OOO
as income to balance part of
that outgo.
Hut a more cheerful item is that
prosperity in South Carolina seems to [
be actually and steadily increasing
South Carolina motorists spent $13,-1
043,000?nearly fourteen million dol-!
lurs?more for motoring in 1935, than J
they did in 1934, the figures of record
in the state tax commission office
show.
Motoring in South Carolina, the
gasoline salefr records show, gradually
increased from 1920 to 1932, which
last was the bottom of the depression
trough and saw least motoring.
Since then there lias been a gradual
increase in motoring in this state, each
year showing a greater mileage and
gasoline consumption, but the increase
in 1935 over 1934 is the largest yet
registered for any one year.
Bill Would Ban
Marriage Of Unfit
Columbia, Feb. 4.?A bill to require
physical examinations to prove that
I "both purlieu are physlcully and mentally
(It to contract matrimony," was
Introduced today by Representative
Nell Trueadale, of Kershaw county.
The measure was referred to the
Judiciary committee. It would make
the Issutmce of marriage llcei^e unlawful
untt! both parties had given
(We daya notice of their intention to
wed and paused the physical examination
by a. physician. Violations
would be penalized by a fine of flOO
or 30, days in jail.
George I^ansbury, 77, laborite member
of the Drills)) house of commons,
declares that today "the danger of
war is nearer today than at any time
In my short life."
HONOR ROLL BKTMUNB SCHOOL?
Grade 11?Grace Horton, Ruchaol
WllllaniH, Marguerite Jones, Price
Bak^r.
Grade 10 Davern Jones, Hobble
Netvton Marlon, Juanltu Nicholson,
lialph Hall.
Grade 9?Margaret McDaurin, Katharine
Foster, Gerry Duvis, ltowena
Holland, Dorothy Horton, Iris McCaskill,
John Nicholson.
Grade 8?Annie Mae Campbell, Dou[tee
Hlnson, Margie Jones, Myrtls
j Muhgo, MeJltft UfckeV, Wwrefice Copeland,
Irene Mangum, Minnie Edna Mcleod.
I Gtade 7?Alva McCasklll, Josle
Horton, Drucilla ltatcliff.
Grade 6?Margaret Eubanks, L. C.
Elliott, Doris Dane, E. W. Tolbert. '
Grade 6?Tressle .Mae Davis, Sara
Gordon, Sara Margaret King, LeRoy
Gainey, I^oirtse Croft, Betty Hammond,
OUn Thompson.
Grade 4?Wayne Illackmon, John
Watts Smith, Eva Josle Ratcllff,
Italph Mcdaskill, Nancy Horton, Violet
Williams.
Grade 3?Wilson Holly, Carolyn Bethune,-Bunny
Hammond, Rosa MeI^eod,
June Williams, Ross Horton,
Tola Gardner, Eugenia Parker, John
Henry Jackson, I. B. Horton, Viola
Horton, Claude Sullivan.
Grade 2?Margaret Braswell, Joyce
Fowler, Boyd Mangum, Georgia Mildred
Squires, Frankie Baker,' Betty
Joe Hilton, John Neil Huekabee, Mary
Deo Jones, Dorothy Catoe, Mildred McCasklll,
Elizabeth Smith.
Grade 1?Junior McDonald, Junior
Eubanks, John Dan Horton, Joy.Blucknioti,
Dexter Mangum, Mary Elizabeth
Martin, Sallle Dee Clyburn, Beth
liailey, Marvin McCasklll, Vivian McDaughlin,
Willie Esther Ratcliff. Ernest
Gilbert Mays, Boyd Mcl...::u n.
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Deputy Dies Of Injuries
Moncks Corner, Feb. 6.?Deputy
Sheriff Clarence D. Woodward, 49, died
last night from injuries suffered in
an automobile wreck a week ago.
Five members of the family of
Dominic Fusco, a tailor, are dead at
Rankin, suburb of Pittsbugh, Pa., the
result of asphyxiation in their home.
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Blackmon Mine Is I
Now In Operation!
Op< rations at the Blu< kipou ^!
which ia ubout fifteen inilew ?agl 0[ ^!
Lancaster are now progressing w^!
as a ball machine which was rc<-?ii^y
installed ia now in operation, a latt |
model machine haa been placed j0^!
operation and considerable other m* I
ehinery haa been erected there. I
Thia mine ia one- of the oftjjn
ml nee lu this vicinity and haw i,jt H
been operated for about thlriy >(Ult ^!
With the gold.mining boom m,w 0fl H
hr -thb OaroHaae -the"operators of gold*^!
inlnea hope to revive the industry u I
theae two atatea. ^!
The lJlackmon mine which is a )u.!
tie more than a mile north of ^!
way No. 9, haa been operated la the!
past aa an underground mine. A shaft
goes almost straight down for over ^!
100 feet and from this shaft drift# ^!
are dug which giant upwards. I
A gentleman by the name of Tho-|
maa from New York in the operator ^!
ot' thr Blackmon mine at present and ^!
I he haa been here oft and on for r,n:. I
eiderable periods of time during the^|
, past few months.
Coroner Van Hegltar, Mr. Ben Har
I ria and others who worked at the ^!
1 Blackmon mine years ago when it was
in operation have stated that tin re
ia considerable gold in this mint'.-!
Lancaster News. I
Seven men lost their lives in what
! is believed to have been an incendiary
fire which destroyed a large dormitory
'at the Parker dam construction camp!
in California on Monday. Of the no
men occupying the dormitory, 21 were l
still unaccounted for on Tuesday af IH
ternoon, with four others near death
from burns and injuries, suffered while
lire ravaged the building in which I
they slept.
Wilhelm ?iUstloff, 40, militant leader
of na/is in Switzerland, was nssassinated
at Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday
by a medical student, who said he
wanted to strike a blow at tne regime
of Hitler, David Frankfurter, a Yif^oI
slav student, shot Oustloff five times
and later surrendered to the police, fl
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America today, the blue ifafeoa ;
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She earns tint prfce with 324 eggs a
year for two consecutive yean ?
averaaa of 70 1 ????
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worth luat^htiut two Mm b rtminrl
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hipping and/or delivery points i! you prsfsr to
make your own drayage arrangements. |
? Oh e Than sact ion
Your goods are promptly collected by truck at . .
your own door-rushed to destination by Seaboard
freight service-delivered by truck at the door you
specify. Just phone-the Seaboard does the rest.
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A receipt is given you .when goods are called
for?they arp carefully handled under expert
guidance while in transit?a receipt taken uptn Railroad
responsibility frp|n dooc 't?.^
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