The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 12, 1936, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
Cool Summers
Until 1940 Seen
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Ues Moines, Iowa.?Farmers of Iowa
never have experienced a real drouth,
according to Charles D. Heed, U. 8.
meteorologist.
Even the famous drouth which damage^
crops in much of the tall corn
state during the summer of 1934, was
a period of "too much heat" rather
than "too little rain," Heed's weather
charts reveal. During June, July and
August of 1934 Iowa received u total
of 10.18 inches of precipitation, or 80
per cent of normal. *There
were seventeen other summers
out of sixty-two on record In
which precipitation was less than for
1934 and two years produced only five
Inches of rain during the growing season.
Only one of (fie latter, Heed
said, produced a smaller yield of corn
than has produced in 1934.
"Hut Iowu'h 1934 summer was the J
hottest on record," Heed said, "and
therein was the cause of the damage 1
to crops."
It lie the J 931 prccipiLuliou was
only slightly under normal, It was
unable to compensate for the temperature
whicii averaged 7?>.H degrees,'
|LKood explained. The water needs of,
life are often doubled when
temperuturcH rise live degrees above!
the usual summer scale.
The meteorologist believes that the
temperature curve which produced
unusual heat during the past several
years Is due to move downward during
the next several growing seasons.
Hoth professional and amateur, long
range forecasters agree should average
below normal In temperature,
Heed said.
Notations in weuther bureau records
as far back as 1932 disclose that
Heed then predicted a cycle of cooler
Hummers that by 1939 or 1940 would
shorten the growing season to u point
Where a large portion of the Iowa
corn crop'wfll he damagod by frost.
Heed Is confident that temperatures
rather than the quantity of rainfall
is the most Important factor in crop
development.
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To .substantiate this belief. Hoed
points to the fact that in 1933 only
X.I inches of rain fell In Iowa, as
< oiupared to 10.18 in the drouth season
Of 1934 Vet 1933 produced a
bumper corn crop while 1934 was
s.-ven-ly damaging to corn, particularly
in the Southern sections.
Tli?' summer of 1935. while avorng
ing nearly a whole degree abovo nor- I
male, was the coolest since 1929. Heed
said.
n 'biting the past eighteen months.
Heed pointed out, Iowa has experienc"d
all tipm extremes of heat and cold.
LOOKING FOR CORMORANT NEST
New York, May 30.- The National
Association of Audubon Societies Indulged
in a hit of wistful wishful
thinking today and announced that it
hoped for the discovery this summer
of the first neat of a European cOrtnoruut
ever to tie found Jn the United
States.
1 he European cormorants are like
"e* birds that the Chinese use even
now to catch fish. Rings around their
necks prevent them ^from swallowing
he larger ones they capture. They
get the smaller ones for food.
'he bird is extremely rare on this
Side Of the Atlantic. Hut the association
-reported that a pair had been
seen flying about Hog Island, in Mus-j
gougus bay. near Hath. Maine.
I he nest, if they have one. has not
been spotted.
I lit- tirst Audubon nature camp will I
be established on Hug Island. Maine. |
'his summer and a force of natural j
ists and student campers will be nilIt's
shed on the quest for the nest
lb.' association said the island giv"
,(> " '*y hf M 111 leant Todd Uinghnut
arid the surrounding bay region
w. r, one of the places richest In tor
'st bird life in the United States
lb.- forest growth there is in the:
prim.'xal condition of the original I
spruce forest.
Ford Builds Another
"Village Industry"
i Dearborn, Mich., .June 3.?Welding
electrodes used in departments of the
Rouge |>lant of the jfprd Motor Com
puny are now being produced in u
rehabilitated grist mill at Dundee,
Mich., adding another to the Hat of
I Ford "village Industries," It wan announced
today ut the company's offices
here.
A force of forty men is employed.
Carrying out the Ford village industry
theory, most of them live in the
neighborhood of the mill and are enabled
to supplement their factory employment
with farm work on off days
and in spure time.
A portion of the required power will
be taken from the Raisin River on
which the mill, known several decades
ago as th?* Davis (Jjisi Mill, is loeat gj.
A dam, head works and draft tube
are being rebuilt, and the completed
hydro-electric system will have a capacity
<>r I'd) horsepower. Hqual power
will he supplied by a steam system.
Machinery is now being run on^eiectric
utility power which, when the
hydro and steam systems are completed,
will be used as standby.
A power bouse has been built adJoining
tin- rear of the mill building..
It is of masonry construction, and tinstone
used wus taken from the tail
race which was enlarged to handle increased
quantities of water. The mill
rehabilitation project also entailed
the excavation of a basement and the,
straightening of the Raisin - River in
the adjacent territory, to care for the
excess spill. A seven foot head of
water will he carried.
With the placing in operation of the
Dundee mill, thy Ford Motor Company
lias ten villuge industries* in production.
One other is on the tyalsln River?at
'fecumseh. The others are at
Nankin Mills, Newbergh, Plymouth,
Phoenix, Waterford and Northville, on
the Rouge River, and at Flat Rock
and Ypslluuti on the Duron River. All
are conveniently located to the Ford
Rouge plant.
Criminally Insane
% Men Break Asy lum
St. Peter, Minn., June 8.?Sixteen
inmates of the St. Peter State Hospital
for the insane overpowered their
guards last night and escaped. They
were led by I^awrpnce Devof. convicted
hunk robber, and former KarpisIhirker
gangster, recently transferred
here.
Cowing the guards, the men rushed
through the gales and fled into tho
St. Peter business district shortly after
7 p. in. (Central standard time).
All the fugitives we're inmates of the
criminally insane ward.
Officials declined to discuss the
break Sheriffs of surrounding counties
and Twin Cities authorities were
notified, all roads were guarded. Some
time later two of ttic escaped men
were recaptured.
The two were taken near Kaston.
The other fourteen were believed to
be. roaming the Minnesota river bottom
attempting to reach Mankato.
When a man at Miami, Fla., started
to vote in the primary last Tuesday,
an election manager halted him with
the explanation that the street number
from which the would-be voter
registered was a vacant lot. The voter
explained that ho slept in an automobile
trailer at night and took his
"home" with him when lie went to
work. He voted while the election
manager continued to mutter.
Two of the Diontte children at Callender.
Out . have measles, but it happens
to be two older children of the
family. S and years of age. There is
little danger of the quintuplets catchilig
the disease as they are kept iti a
separate building. 100 yards away.
A baby girl horn to Mr. and Mrs.
Jeff Dodds at Salem, Ark , weighed
ounces at birth. It is being fed with
a medicine dropper and is reported as
doing well."
General News Notes
Alex Hill, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Hill of Oaffney, drowned in
Gilkey creek, nine miles south of
there. The body was recovered a few
hours later.
I hree Columbia boys were drowned
in the Congaree river, in an olft
boat they found, which leaked badly
and finally sunk. A fourth boy In It
managed to swim to shore.
Assessors at Columbia found 357
hops, five cows and a inule feeding entirely
on the city dump, the hogs being
fattened fast. Ho they assessed
the hogs at $1,000 against tbelr
owner,
Henry Ford has presented a 61-inch
telescope to David Wetherhorn, aged
15, a Hoy Hcout, who lives near Mr.
Ford's Hryun county, Georgia estate
The hoy talked with Mr. Ford Iuh(
winter about the stars, but thought
no more about the conversation until
the telescope arrived.
Greal Britain's newest transatlantic
liner, the Quoon Mary, arrived in New
York liurhor on Mouda$\ after u voyage
averaging 20.133 knots per hour:
but tailed to breuk the crossing time
record sei up by (he Norma.irdio, huge
French liner it required 12 tugboats
to ease the Queen Mary into her pier.
New York* Republicans will go to
the Republican convention at Cleveland,
Ohio, the last of tills month,
without having chosen a candidate for
the presidency. The delegation will
be open to back the candidate who
,'promises best in ability to solidify
tiie Republican strength in the midwest
and far west.
Davis R. Lpe. Washington Herald
reporter, has begun serving a 90-day
sentence in the county jail at Rockville,
Md., on u charge of contempt
of court, l^ee was credited with the
authorship of a story purpoTedly giving
a decision of the circuit court
prior to announcement of the decision
by tiie court.
John C. Williams, Spartanburg attorney
anil law partner of Governor
Olin D. Johnston, bus announced his
candidacy for solicitor of the seventh
judicial circuit in the Democratic primaries
tills summer, the present solicitor
having quit, to run for congress.
John J. Cor mack, 81 years old, died
last week after working on The State
newspaper from the day it was founded
in 1891, ending as foreman emeritus
of the composing room, having
been retired on full pay some years
ago. He was around until his sudden
death from heart disease.
W omen of France, campaigning for
the right to vote, on Tuesday threw'
hundreds of pairs of stocks at the
heads of senators in the French parliament
from the galleries. The socks
bore a card stating: "Even if you
give us the right to vote, your socks
will be darned." Courteous guards
ousted the women.
I lie home office authorities at Bucharest.
Rumania, has forbidden the
appearance In theatres of Bucharest
of Anna Sago, the woman who gave
the tip that ended the career of John
Dillinger in Chicago, where she was
to receive $2f> per night for her appearances.
The woman was recently
deported from the United States.
Robert S. James, five times married,
a barber, was convicted at Los Angeles,
Cal., on a charge of immorality
involving his niece. 21. and was given
a sentence of three to 150 years. June
22 ho faces trial for the murder of his
firth wire. He 1h alleged to have held
his \vifos foot in a box of rattlessnakes
that they might irtTtson her;
hut that failing, drowded her in a
hath tub.
William l\ Jacobs, an advertising
ageiu-y man for years, was installed,
last week as the twelfth president of
Presbyterian college, at Clinton, during
the commencement exercises, lie
is 42 years old and the youngest college
president in South Carolina
In the address to the graduating
< lass of Presbyterian college, numbering
TP;, this week. Senator James F.
Byrnes told them the world offers
them greater opportunity than ever before.
"You are not a lost gen- ration."
he said, "but rather you are
a generation that Is entering a world
that offers you greater opportunity
than ever before The world is waiting
for men of ability. You have
your place in it. Go out and fill it"
The town of Maryville, near Charleston.
has lost its- charter as a municipality.
because white people moved
into the formerly negro town its
white citizens, living there now, found
themselves ruled by the negroes, with
tin- county police having no right to
act there, so they had the legislature
pass an act abolishing the town and
thus plating it under county control
entirely. it was chartered all wars
ago.
When admitting to the South Carolina
bar another young woman, last
week. Chief Justice Stabler told her
to demand the rights of men. In
courts, but not to try at the same
time to gain the traditional privilege?
of a woman, and told of one feminine
lawyer who got married in the middle
of a trial. The chief justice said he
supposed she thought she could get
a Judgment any time, but a husband
only once.
Charlotte Thompeon Yearly Report
Perfect attendance,, pupil* neither
absent nor tardy:
Grade 5 Frank M< Luod.
Grade 6?'Lillian Hhlvar.
Grade 9? Margie Shiver.
Grade 10- -Carrie Maker, I,in wood
Ross.
Grade 11 -<^urle* Smith, Doris
Workman.
Yearly honor roll, pupil* averaging
D (>!uh or better for the nine month*:
Grade 1?Betty Kelly, Carrie Bell
Ncal (until leaving ut end 8 mouth*).
Grade 2?Julia Arrant*.
Grade 3?Howard Young,
Grade 4?Baynard Boykin, Margaret
Pearco.
Grade r??Martha Dentil*.
Grade 6 -Lillian Shiver.
Grade 7?Lila Baker,
tirade 10 -'Carrie Baker,
tirade 11?Iva Lou Arrunts, Naomi
Walker, Doris Workman.
Grade leader*:
tirade 1?Began j)ee*, McRady
Shiver, Arnold Trupp, Bargain Dixon.
tirade 2. Julia Arrant*, Thelma
Sinclair, Kvelyn Branham.
Grade 3-?Howard Young, Betty
Sowe|], .J. W. McMuiiuk.
Grade 4?Murgaret I'earce and Baynard
Boykin tied.
Grade f> Martha Dennis. Jimmle
Black^vell,
tirade 0 -Lillian Shiver, Sarah
Thompson. J s
Grade 7?Lila Baker, Catherine
Bradley.
tirade 8?Deas Boykin, Helena Holloman,
Annie Ixdze Ross.
Grade 9?Margie Shiver, Lol* Dixon.
Grade 10?Carrie Baker, Lila,Dixon,
Mary Moseley.
Grade 11?Dori* Workman, Naomi
Walker,
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Chester C. Davis, administrator of
the agricultural adjustment act administration,
and not so popular with
some of the higher-ups in the government,
has been appointed the "farm
member" of the^ Federal Reserve
board of governors for fourteen years,
at a salary of $15,000 per year.
>he government of Peru has warned
the United States in an amicable
spirit against intervention in Nicaragua,
following the overthrow of the
government by a rebellion. Secretary
of State Hull has announced that the
United States will have no part In
the affairs of Nicaragua.
The run-off primary election of
Florida for the governorship, will be
between Judge W. Raleigh Patsy,
West Palm Beach, and Fred P. Cone,
Lake City banker.
Oscar Johnston, manager of the
1933 cotton producer's pool, has announced
that 172,004 of the total of
212,793 bales of actual cotton in the
pool will be offered to the trade under
a sales program, which will invite
weekly bids beginning June 17 and
continuing through July.
The state of Arkansas will tomorrow
begin the celebration of its century
of statehopd, June 15, 1835, when
the state had a population of 51,809.
The state was named for its first Indian
inhabitants. President and Mrs.
Roosevelt are to be guests of the
state on Wednesday.
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| unpaid business licenses.
I J. C. BOYKIN, I
Kg City Clerk of Camden, S. C. \
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On and after June 15th all unpaid
paving assessment* will
1 bear interest at the rate of 6%
annually.
J. C. BOYKIN,
City Clerk of Camden, S. C.
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I To Delinquent Taxpayers I
I June 30th has been set by the I
I Comptroller General of the State of I
I South Carolina as the final date of I
I settlement by me of all delinquent I
I taxes on town property of Kershaw I
I County. Pay these taxes now and I
I avoid any further penalty. ?\
I J. H.%cLEOD, > rV
I Sheriff of Kershaw County M
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