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Television Sets In Homes Aid Test ? .I . ?i . New York.?Television receiving sets spotted in 11)0 homes about the New York metropolitan area began to record linages and data aa the Hadto Corporation of America begun an elaborate program of field tests recently. The television waves were broadcast from the Umpire State Building, 1,260 feet above the ground. While official observers waited to report on the reception and study taethoda by which it might be improved, portable, receivers were moved about Manhattan skyscrappers to ob* tain television Images in various positions of exposure to the waves. Stressing that tbey wished to pursuo the work quietly, engineers said that several months might lapse before results were mudo knownv There was no public exhibition ,of tbe receivers, end the company announced that none would be official until the status of television was more advanced. Perhaps eighteen months or two years would be necessary to perfect the instruments, they said. Meanwhile attemtps were being made to simplify the control of television receivers so they can be handled with greater ease by the average person. Costly apparatus with television sets representing an expenditure of 1600 at present, will bUYO to be reduced before the public can give the sets wide acceptance, It was said. Waves broadcast from the 10-meter transmitter high up In the skyscraper travel only in a direct line and can be received by sets within sight of the Empire State Building, but englneers were dubious about their value to sets located In indirect positions.i Part of their project, it was said, will be to determine how television lineof-slght waves may be bent around to television sets by means of reflectors. Seek Fortune From Pre-War Cotton Sale New Orleans, July 16.?Ben H. J. Scull of Morrllton, Ark., appealed to the New Orleans cotton exchange yesterday for records of a pre-Civll War cotton transaction which may bring a fortune. | Henry Plauche, secretary of the ex-j change, said Scull wrote that his grandfather sold 2,000 bales of cotton before the Civil War and that the payment was deposited in a,European bank. At the rate of 13 cents a pound, at about which price was selling in 1868,! (he sale was for approximately $130,-1 000. Scull said he believed the money I had drawn interest since Its deposit, j He wrote the bank book was sent to his father, but that it was afterwards destroyed, a Are. He said some proof of theTlhthsaction is needed to obtain title to the deposit. | Secretary Plauche replied the cot-, ton exchange was not organized here until after the Civil War. The firm which Scull said handled the transaction, Moses, Greenwood and Comppany, is. out of business. Might As Well The Sunday drivers had picked the farmer's fruit and his flowers, and their car was full of plunder. Pointing to a if unexplored highway they inquired of the farmer: "Shall we take this road back to the city?" "You might as well" replied the fanner, "you've got almost everything else!" War On Nudists Is | Reopened In Jersey j Long VaUeyf NTT7 jMly 20<?Will Hearles opened hie 1936 campaign against the Bchooleyes mountain nudists yesterday. He took photographers to the cnmp to get pictures, told the nudists they should be ashamed of themselves, Interviewed the leaders of th?b cainp (without success) and vowed he'd rent an adjoining held, build a grandstand for spectators and hold weekly clambakes until the nudtsts wished they were In the clam shells. Farmer Will?it's Constable Will this year?warred on the nudists last j year when they were right next to I his farm. He didn't know they were hack this summer until: "My sou was out riding with a girl friend yesterday on a back road and they were stupifled by these people sunning themselves right by the road. "The girl was driving and trying to lopk at them at the same time and the car hit a fence post." Will, Jr., reported the incident to Will, Sr., a^d the war was on. < Kershaw-Bethune Road To Be Paved Among the projects which have been submitted by the State Highway Department for bids on road and bridge construction are the following in which the people of Kershaw and Betbune and all vfho reside alobg Route 341 connecting the two towns will be great|y interested: The bituminous surfacing of 11.170 miles frQin the city limits of Kershaw to a point In the present road approximately 0.4 miles southeast of Little Lynches River; and from approximately 7 miles northwest of Bethune to Intersect with Route 1 in Bethune. The construction of a 250-foot reinforced concrete and structural steel , bridge over little Lynches river between Kershaw and Bethune. The bidB were submitted under date of July 10, 1936, and will be opened at 11:30 a. m. Tuesday, July 28, 1936, In the auditorium of the Jefferson Hotel In Columbia.?Kershaw Era. To Form District Unit Wade H. Qladdenv chairman of the organization committee, of Cheater, announces: "There will be held In Rock Hill, on Friday, July 24, at the [chamber of commerce, at 8 p. m., a | meeting for the purpose of perfecting the organization of the Fifth Congressional Unit of the Wildcat Veterans Association. All former members of this division are urgently request| ed to make special effort to attend I this meeting and bring as many of your buddies as you can." Big Business In Fish Bait ^ A Northhampton, Mass., barber, Herman Douyard, started to. sell worms to fishermen as a sideline. His business grew to a point where It interfered with his barberlng. Now he has set up a slot machine of his own make and all a fisherman has to do to get a can of worms is to drop In a coin and turn a crank. Ten small boys are kept busy digging worms to (ill the cans. Mrs. Grace Howe, widow of Louis McHenry Howe, former secretary to President Roosevelt, has been named acting postmaster at Fall River, Mass., by Postmaster General Farley. The job pays $4,000 a year. The lack of supplies of water for domestic purposes has become one of supreme importance in the drouth stricken states, and the lack of water, it 1h feared, may bring widespread disease. General News Notes) F. M. Kant, county agent of Clarendon county, states that regular ship inenta of hogs are leaving Manning bound for other marketa. Approximately 2,100 National Guardsmen and 175 officera of Tennoaaee and North Carolina arrived tliia week at Camp Jackaon for a two week'a training period. A bold' robbery occurred FViday night at Jordon's filling elation at Hartaville. While the operator was out at the front to wait on a cuatomer, the robber alipped into the building through the back door and stole $26 in money from the unoney box. A coroner's Jury at Cheater lust Friday found that "John Boulware, negro, came to hla death from gunshot I wourida in the handa of hla wife, Mat! tie Lee Boulware." The shooting occurred at Llncolnville, near Cheater. Joae Calvo Sotelo, one pf Spain's moat powerful monarchist leaders,' waa on Monday kidnaped and later killed near Madrid, by assassins garbed in uniforms of Spanish guards. Several of the federal police are being held for investigation. A racing car driven by a Fernch woman, Helle Nice, plunged through a crowd of spectators at a race track at Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday killing four persons and injuring eight. The car driver was thrown twenty feet and had ten ribs broken.?? The P. C. Unit of the Reserve Officers Traing Corps has been awarded second place in the general proficiency competition at Fort McClellan. The P. C. entry has been first, second or third every year except in 1928. George C. Gunter, of Leesville, relinquished office in the state rural carriers' association Friday for the first time in 29 years when he retired as president. Following the arrest of Lt. Qpmmander John 8. Farnsworth, on a charge of being a spy and selling naval secrets, It . was announced in Washington that the arrest was the beginning of what promises to be a big roundup of persons suspected of supplying navy secrets to foreign powers. Arao B. Cammerer, director of the national park service, has announced that the Smoky Mountain National park will need about 430,000 acres more land, and that the park will not be dedicated or formally opened "until all the land and all the roade are obtained." JohnBton county, N. C., officers have Just completed destruction of 128 slot and pin machines seized in a drive against gambling devices in that county. The machines yielded up nearly $1,000, which was turned over to the school funds, and indictments have been returned against 70 operators and owners of the machines. The "Townsend Family," about 15,000 strong, held a reunion In Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, as the followers of Townsend gathered for their second national old age pension organization convention. The convention's big qestion is which way to throw its vote in the November elections. W. E. Germany, a lineman for the Greenville electric company, was killed when his bare hand touched a iive wire carrying only 110 volts, while he was on a pole 17 miles from Greenville, on the road to AugUBta. Artificial respiration was applied a little at the scene, and later for two hours at a Greenville hospital, but the man was dead wh$n he arrived at the hospital. He was 35 years old." The court room at Los Angeles, Cal., where Robert S.James is on trial for the murd.gr of his seventh wife, was thrown into a panic Wednesday, when a large rattlesnake, exhibited as part of the evidence against James, got loose and slithered across the court room floor, lt was captured before it bit any one. When arraigned for trial at St. Paul, Mich., on a charge of kidnaping I William Hamm. St. Paul brewer, and collecting a ransom of $100,000, Alvin Karpis, once the most sought gangster in America, and .one of the handiest killers, entered a plea of gui?ty. Sentence was deferred, pending the trial of two of his pals, one of them a former postmaster at Bensenvtlle, 111. After being in the courts for nearly two years, six members of the Bruno family of Kelayres, Pa., have been convicted of an election-eve "massar ere." Joseph J. Bruno, head of the family, and a former county detective, one-time Republican leader, was given three life-time sentences for the killing of five Democratic^ marchers. A brother, Philip, was also given a life sentence. The other four recelv? ed lighter sentences. , ~*?lyde Hoey of Shelby, reported'tlrti week that he spent $6,808.72 in the second primary campaign for the governorship of North Carolina, which he won. Of the total spent, says the report. $4,950 was contributed. O. Mag Gardner,- brotheMn-law of Mr. Hoey* gave $2,900, and former Senator And Mrs. Morrison gave $1,000 each to help Mr. Hoey become the next governor. ?#- j MOW CAN A FARM ROY OIT 4 FARM OF Hl? OWN7 Ambitious, intelligent young men who love farming and ha^e* every mental and physical requisite fof success but have no land and no money present a human problem to which various federal agencies are at last giving attention. At a recent meeting of Southern leaders of vocational agriculture It was voted to adopt as a direct responsibility a "placement program" for graduates in vocational agriculture. While the program is still on an experimental basis, The Progressive Farmer points out that It has unlimited possibilities, and summarizes J It as follows: The bringing together of promising I young men between 21 and 30 and financial agencies and institutions wijh farms to sell or money to lend on farms on terms that will be mutually advantageous. j Helpiqp students, through their supervisor practice program, to build up cash and croequlties that will ,enable! them to operate and eventually ..to I purchase a farm. ' Increased attention by teachers In the classroom in supervised practice I to the business problems of farming. . Wise supervision and help to the farmers after they are located, to insure every reasonable prospect of I success. I Continuing The Progressive Farmer] says: i "There Is the wide open field of opportunity for a carefully planned placement program.' For despite all other factors, there Is an astonishing-1 ly large number of good farms fori sale and probably a much larger num-1 ber that within a few years will inevitably change hands. A placement I program can bring sellers and poten-1 tlal sellers and young farmers together where individual methods have failed. . That the placement program will I move slowly at first there can be no doubt, nor should young farmers anxious to become owners become unduly I hopeful 9f immediate assistance. Hope J lies In the gradual development and I spread of the program and iu the now elearly recognized fact that the best prospect for a successful farmer I Is the ambitious young man In good! health, well-acquainted with sohnd I farming methods, even though his I capital may be small." I ALCOHOL AND LIFE IN8URANCE J Life Insurance companies are doubt-1 less in the best position of any of 4U8 to answer the question recently asked In a leading magazine, "Is al-j cohollsm increasing?" According to the findings of^lmfl of the mid-western comjjtai^es'^'qi^j}-1 ive use of alcohol showV^^liScftas^ of 13 per cent since a yetfFag0~ as h| cause of unlnsurabllity among people under 30, and an increase cd/l83*per I cent for the same age group slncS 1932." It should be noted that the company does not assert that there has been an increase in the consumption of alcoholic beverages but it does I state unequivbcally that there has been that inorease in unlnsurabllity I because of excessive use of alcohol. I It Is not illogical to deduce that there I has been a marked Increase In drink-1 ing, from these facts. | _ The findings of this company indi-1 cate that the greatest increase in drinking is among people between the I ages of 30 and 45. Too many people I have abused our young people with I respect to the use of liquor, but here I are some figures which conclusively] point out that people In early middle I life are the real offenders. It is also interesting to note that the company flmjs that, "rejections of women for excessive alcoholic indulgence are negligible In number." We I are prone to make mental note when a woman drinks, particularly in a public place, because in other times it was not done. J The consumption of liquorsHs un" questionably on the increase although I liquor distillers have been disappointed over the development of their business since the repeal of the amendment. If the Increase is to be halted it will be the result of an intensive campaign of education against the practice. That, coupled with the requirements of employers who will refuse to employ those who drink, will soon swing the tendency In the other direction.?Exchange. ?-The United States circuit court of appeals for lower New York, has upheld an order of the National Labor Relatione board, which had Issued an order to the Associated Press requiring the reinstatement of a discharged employe." John 8. F&rnsworth, former lieutenant commander in the navy. Is under arrest in Washington on suspicion of selling naval information to an agent of the Imperial Japanese navy. *" "l ' ' ' - 'I " I1 R I Hanover Court Hone, Vg, is this week celebrating the bi-centennial of the birth of* Its most noted citizen. Patrick Henry. ' ' 1 ? , News Of Interest In And ^Near Bethune 1 Hetliune, July 22.?Mrs. M. O. Kins I [entertained with a delightful "prom"! party Monday evening In compliment I tp her niece, Mies Katherlne Terry, of'Quitm?n qa., ,?i mi? Caroline ' ?' Tampa, Fla. Ml.. Met. Randolph, of Lamar, was also an out-1 of-town guest. Dainty refreshments were served during the evening Another pleasant affair for the high school set was a party given last Friday evening at the community hall _c*ub of the recreational Unit. MIbs Eunice Severance, chairman of the unit, was chaperone. Quiet games were played and refreshments were served. About twenty-si* young people were present. Misses Aline Hilton, Ju&nita Pate fi1 w. v?rne Jonea wve a most enSya?^85SrP toI Mrs- 8 B Padgett. Jr., last Friday afternoon at the home Contests wore en-! mJ! a 8Weet course was served. r Mrs. I adgett was th? recipient of many pretty and useful gifts. ' R> was hostess tc| the afternoon contract club Tuesday; High score wag won by Miss Carrie R* ? S!m8? of R<>ck taeetah PY, embe11r? Played with ^ v chicken salad course with * chilled beverage was served.' I Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Hall, of Akr?Sri aW> Yl8lt,n? relatives here, j ??l!!8iJerry-Davl8 and Miss Marga5 w? ? spent ,a8t week ?n<* at mY nUeD ?f Ml88 ,8abel PursleV. Floreno? K r?aan aBd children, of M M?k Ktey|Jeen VMtia" Mr- and Miss Margie Ptfrrott is the guest of Jher sister, Mrs. J. L. King, Jr Mr^and Mrs. J. ?, Severance have In'SB8681 McLaughlin, life/ v ^ l^dspiveiiing, ^re8!* 'tfome. V, haying beetf away aggSSjB&.iaa .peudtoic ' $5??; ha" baen at Fuman h? ?" ??. Miss Mildred "fitoays, of Florence r^rhw ,MI,S Ethol TurbevlUe, of Turbevlile has been vl.itlng friends here recent r>?' *^&2?T??2S? J. A."MacCa8 UM,,r parent?' ">? st^LJ11*31 Mr8, ot Miami, Fla stopped en route to Washington, D Davis V,? C- Pate fam?y- Mrs! Havlg was before marriage a #*??, weeks ago Miss Ruby Gold Pate of Bethune and Columbia ' andMr8ndI M*1',M* Keel8 and Mr. visited ini. n el8' Jr" of Columbia, k?aij the Rev. and Mrs. J. t N *5 8 dw,n8: the weak end. Miss Marguerite Clyburay of Ker chaw, has been visiting W sistel!" Mrs. Loring Davis. sister, Miss Mary Brannon, Columbia hn. been spending some time 1 a' ^ B' w- Btaenons " heu I8 ar&uerlte Gates, of Vance Carrie* YarbroughCen^ *Ue" ? ? tenil88 1',zzle Dav,s. who has been atveraitv isU?lmerf 8Qh?o1 at D?ke Uni Trj ft expected home this week "?? R?ndoIph, of Lanrnris family. me ?' 'be J. E. SeMrs. R. E. Sims, of Rock Hin . here.W ^ "er' 225 j. M. crybum and John Baker have been on a fishing trfp t0 b,a A series of revival services win k?_ ChTheChRsvUnMry church wn? h . 8uJ">,Wn? <or the ciiurcn, will be in charge of the *ZZ awtb'wVh11 ' home '? Nawbarry conny' and the coroner held his wife BO ,rv;d' rm#rda'- ^ ?^t .on aid the pair quarreled M breakfast the man slapped hi. wife, ,Dd ,h. "?.ta "W" M ber R??>brc^ comBlH, meeting in W??blngton. H|,0io.?. wt>m,on control, which ?*mm ot gobuo ^ *r,Tat htchdM to mutafl an mr ?aUd annn.l nm,. 0, UM.Mjtf. AMERICANA A New York policeman receiving only $2,810 a year pay banking I 600 In eight yearn. Three sons of a high ranking Army officer being ln West Point at one I time. 1 on0 A United States Senator, reading Aesop's Fables to the Senate in ,<* i slon. ! ^ i A member of the House of Rears. ! sentatlves trying to quiz the school ! teachers of the District of Columbia on their fitnesB as Instructors , Civil W*r shells still to be found In the battlefield areas near Richmond, ' I Va., being described as "live" and ! dangerous. Women Being barred from jury duty in twenty-seven of the forty-elght states. I The v Hauptmann case being kept alive by publicity seekers. A court of law obliging a father by punishing his son for speeding. The late John Dlllinger's car being i used by a Minnesota. sheriff to war 1 on would-be Dillinger successors. Farmers of a religious sect ln Kansas, afraid they would get rich without laboring to earn It, abandoning their farms to greedy'oil-well drillers. ?The Pathfinder. To Hunt Wolves By Airplane Wolves ln Northern Alaska killed so many reindeer last winter that the number of these useful beasts for Eskimos have been badly decimated. Although multiplying through the short summer season, the number of reindeer next winter will be far short of normal.- To check these depredations, the government will send sev-. eral airplanes to that part of Alaska next winter to hunt down the wolves from the air. Experiences of airmen shooting coyotes on Middle Weet rlft&ins caused ^ go^rnment men to pdopt the sMDne^lan in'cutting down -the J^PuIatlon of the "Northwest JT Death of Ames Lenoir. Ames F. Lenoir died at the Tuomey hospital Saturday afternoon following an illrifess of several weeks. Mr. Lenoir waa the eldest eon of the late 8. 7. Lenoir and Mary Alice Lenoir. He is survived by one brother, J. 1. Lenoir, of Hagood, and two sisters, Mrs. B. W. Moise, 8r., and Mrs. Virginia L. Graham, both of Sumter. Mr. Lenoir had a host of friends throughout the statevwho will regret his death. i Funeral services were held at the High Hills Baptist church at Stateburg Monday.?Sumter Herald. / . NOTICE OF ENROLLMENT The books of enrollment are now open and in the hands of some club members at each precinct. It is not necessary for one to enroll this year If his or her name was on the roll In 1934. Persons becoming of voting age since 1934 will have to add their names to the list and persons moving from one precinct to another since 1934 will have to have their names added. The roll books will remain open until midnight Tuesday July 1936 when they wllll close. J. H. McLEOD, County Chairman. A. W. HUMPHRIES. M. D. Secretary. NOTICE OF MEETING OF STOCKT HOLDERS OF CAMDEN BEEF^; CATTLE FARMS Notice Is hereby given that a meetling of the stockholders of Camden Beef Cattle Farms has been called and will be held at the office of said corporation, Lugoff, South Carolina at 12 o'clock noon, on the 28th day of July, 1936. Said meeting Is called by the undersigned President and the owner of more than twenty per een* of the capital stock of said <*>**<** tlon, for the purpose of considering a resolution that said Camden Bee* Cattle Farms go into liquidation. Wind up its affairs, and dissolve, an* any other matters that may come before said meeting. Dated at Lugoff, S. C? this June 26, 1936. L. I GUIO*. President and Stockholder of Oemd* ? Beef C*tile Parma NOTICE TO DERTORS AND CREDITORS t ^ All parties indebted to the eatatij* William Douglas Young, deceased, : hereby notified to make payment m the undersigned, end all parties, i any, having claims against the jg estate will jsrsaent' them Hkewdg duly attested, within the time OHbed by law. _ ' ? BUBAW M. YOUWg^ Camdan, 8. O, July 22. 1. COMMERCIAL TR A Villi 1.IIOUIAR COMMUTIR I. SUMMIR SCHOOL STUDINT 4. R U I A I IIIIDINT With (*r? u low as lVfcc a mila, service u convenient u driving, comfort unequalled and no traffic train or worry, city terminals right duuuiowa and ovary rural doorstop a station ? Atlantic Or ay hound is t ha ana war t* the travel Mth of thaao and aaaay athar types of pan* pW requiring local transportation. MIMTK I Now is the time | H H I to buy a farm^ I I I HAVE SOME FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN, AND I ! SMALL RATE OF INTEREST. A GOOD WAY TO INVEST YOUR BONUS. j See me at Hotel Camden any Tuesday I H. G. 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