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THE REI) CROSS AND CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE IS NOW ON-BOTH ARE FOR MOST WORTHY CAUSES! The Camden chronicle VOLUME 49 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1937 NUMBER 35 I Hotel Men Enjoy I Outing At Court Inn cinent 1" hotel business with meet of the Carollnus enjoy (til* l" * 1 I luc ? record-breaking tourist business I duri?k' l,u' approaching winter season I jus indicated at the meeting of the I goUt|, Carolina division of the SouthI #ro Hotel association at the Court Inn I |ere Saturday and Sunday. ( Hotel men from all over the state many from North Carolina were I here pi attend the convention. The I jeneral opinion expressed by speakI was to the effect that there had I been a pronounced uptrend In the I tourist end of the hotel business with |(jv|t-es from northern resort bureaus I indicating this trend would steadily improve. A heavy increase in travelers using B the highways was indicated, with a I rapidly improving buslneBB promised B for all resort communities ufter the B holidays. A business meeting In the afternoon I was followed by a dinner dance In I the ball room of the Inn. John CaI tor. proprietor of the Fort Sumter Ho| tel at Charleston, was toastmaster at I the pest prandial session. Mr. CaI tor. was introduced by Harry ThomasI son. of Greensboro, secretary of the I Southern hotel association, and In I turn Mr Cat or called on Jack Canter B ami I W. Coyle> new managers of the B Court inn and Moultrie Burns, presiB dent of the Camden Chamber of Com| mercc for short talks. A floor show featuring some splenI did tap dancing by Jimmy Fowler, of I Rock Hill, and ball room dancing specialties by Miss Charlotte DuBose I ami Bixie Boykin, of this city, was of feted before the dancing program was I taken up. I Sunday the visiting hotel men and their wives were taken for drives to i Bpoints of interest In and around CamH den bv representatives of the Cam-] den Chamber of Commerce. B Among the visitors attending the j convention were Mr. and Mrs. Vernon j Allen, of the Colonial hotel at Flor-1 race; Mr. and Mrs. Alton Bland, of [the Charlotte hotel at Charlotte; Mr. Bind Mrs. John Cator, of the Fort Sum ter hotel at Charleston; Mr. and Mrs. Hi. W Coyle, of the Andrew Jackson I Ihot'l at Rock Hill; Mr. and Mrs. H.I Bb Ct>\. of the Imperial hotel at Sum-: Btrr; Mr and Mrs. Dorsett, of Char-1 tone; Mr. and Mrs. W. G Gresham, j of tin- Monroe hotel at Monroe; Mr. Bind Mrs. William G. Hodges, of the i IFranklin hotel at Spartanburg; Mr. j I ind Mrs. L. R. Holley, of the Com-j Bmercial hotel at Aiken; George How- j Bell, of the Rock Hill publishing comBpany; Mr. and Mrs. F. H. McNulty, j I of Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. Santo Sot-! tile, of the Charleston hotel at Charleston, Mr and Mrs. Teague, of Rock B Hill; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomasson, Bcf Gre.msboro, N. C.; Mrs. Cannon, of B Bishopv llle; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of I Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. R. Young, of BHigh Point; Mr. and Mrs. Horn, of Charlotte: Mr. and Mrs. Lambright, I of Roi k Hill; Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, I of Charlotte; Mr. Duke, of the King Cotton hotel, of Greensbord; Mr. Lee, Bof Ral. igh; Mr. Myers, of Concord; B^aniei- Fowler, of Rock Hill, and Mr. <ennii._<. of Georgetown. BNOVEMBER 14th WILL BE I "CLEAN UP AND FIX UP" WEEK B Thi M*ek of November 14th will ^ "Ci-un Cp and Fix Up" week at the Qi;kcemetery. Every lot ownHtr is ? Aj.-oied to see that his property Hi* ma;, neat and attractive to the B ne. I Grar.cj- Kornegay, who has taken B'nart;.. interest in the Improvement B" the "< motery, urgeB all lot owners, toeith'-r personally see that the prop-j H^ty i> f loaned, or arrange with the j exton have the work done. I Mr Kornegay has Just completed j piat 'ing of thirty live oak trees tiong . roads entering the ceme-! *"7 '-sf trees were purchased a , >*r iu, and planted In a swampland ntii .-ral weeks ago when they . H*Wh transplanted to the roadside' B ^ : .i-l leading from the main Ut-Aa. improved a-,year ago, has. r beautified by having the; covered with pine Btraw, W4tnsr L-r.-atly to the beauty of the1 I 1 I R-ding Academy Open* Bib!'* ,irownt Instructor at ( B**J bratrg, N. C., the past summer j*^*lso a rider In several western J**0* the past fall, ha* taken charge Court inn riding academy and B fine riding horse* available ac^0** desiring to enjoy the many I?t bridle paths here. Polo Season Begins Within Few Weeks The polo .season in Camden \s!H ho ushered In within a few weeks, and indications are strong for the most successful season In the history of the sport here. In addition to the Town and Country teams, two rival groups of riders who have provided plenty of thrills for spectators in past seasons, another group of players will be In the spotlight on the local polo fields this year A team of hard-riding and skilled players which has won much praise i from sport writers at Philadelphia.will come to Camden from Hryn Mawr,| Pennsylvania, the latter part of December, and will play Camden teams ! as well as teams from about the southland. j The Bryn Mawr team Is made up of l'arkley Scull and William C. El-j Hott. of Bryn Mawr; John Shelldrake,, of Drexel Hill ; Hardy C. Wlngell and ( Richard Evans, of Amber, Pennsylvania Pat Delaney, also identified with this group, was in Camden with Dick Floyd, Camden's polo ace, this past week, and is elated with the polo fields and equipment here. The Pennsylvania group will bring fifteen polo ponies to Camden with them. The Devine cup play will he staged during the Christinas holidays with Camden's Town and Country teams i competing. Past season the playoff of this cup event was carried into ^ the spring because of postponements.} The cup play calls for the best two ^ out of three games. Planning Map Of Kershaw County Draftsmen in the Highway Planning Survey office are at work on the most complete map ever made of Kershaw county. Information for these maps was gathered in an extensive road inventory of Kershaw county last spring, and aerial photographs are he-1 jng i(l) insure thoir a"*lirapvOne complete base map Is to be made first, Including all natural feat-, ures such as lakes, rivers, all state, county and other boundaries, railroads, bridges, overpasses, reservations, parks, and other physical characteristics. On this map will be placed all cultural features of Kershaw county such as private dwellings, farm units, schools, churches, hospitals, factories, stores, hotels, airports, cemeteries, or other features which would have any relation to the traffic on the roads near which they are local-, ed. ' From this base map, a general highway and transportation map will be ^ made showing the types of roads, the, navigable rivers, commercial air lines, and distances between towns and, roads. Another map will show the routes used by bus and truck lines, another will outline school bus routes, | and another will trace out mail routes. . Similar maps will be drawn up the other counties in South Carolina and all of them will be combined Into a large map' of the state, showing most of the same features as areshown on the county maps. As soon as all of these maps have been completed and checked, they w 1 1 be tied in with other phases of the survey which proposes to use its information as the baBis for future ^ highway planning. Prints of these maps will he sent to the proper of-, flcials of Kershaw county for local. use. K i wan is Helping Future Farmers Tuesday, November 9. at the Jefferson Hotel, in Columbia, the K wants held Future Farmers d y., Those serving on the program were Venl Peterson, state supervisor of ( vocational agriculture in Soul ( olina. and Robert Smith of Camden state executive committee member for the Future Farmers of South Car G1'mr Smith pav* his program of ; work in vocational agriculture in the Camden High School. The Future, Farmers activities in his cha*>^' Jd a record of the State Convention held ( at Clemson June 2 through . fi xtr Pe'ersoo gave an account j the wo* of the 6.000 m.mber, of the Future Farmers for the past fe years?the alma and objects for years t0HCT sm.U. of Camden; J. O. Watson, of Blythewood. and P. B. of Columbia, were agriculture teAch- ( er4 present,?P*ul Jordan, reporter. To Take Census | Of Unemployed! At the direction of congress, the pi ehidciii bus approved u plan for a1 census of all iiueiuployed and partly' unemployed workers. All persons at' | work on emergency work projects of ' I the govonuont are also Included In' ' 1111 h census. j I'he number of the unemployed will be determined from Information 1 cured by a voluntary individual reg-' (stratum A curd to be filled in and I I returned to the poutofflce will be de-,} llvered to every dwelling on November 16, 1937. These cards will then be forwarded by the postofflce to the National Unemployment consus. Completed cards must be mailed be ' fore inldutght, November 20, 1937. No' postage stamps are needed. If you cannot reud or write get some one to 1111 out your card for you. There are fourteen main Questions to be answered and In order for yon to familiarize yourself with them and help you to form your answers The Chronicle Is reproducing them below: Name, address and farm residence. Do you live on u farm? Are you totally unemployed und ' want work? Partly employed and) want more work? Working at WPA, ' NY A, CCC, or other emergency work? j Are you able to work? Age at last birthday. Color or race How many hours did you work last week ? How many weeks did you work In the last 12 months? What Is your occupation or kind of work ? Kind of business or industry in which you did, or are doing, this kind of work? How many other workers are there in your family living In the same! household with you? How many of these workers are: Totally unemployed and want work? Partly employed and want more work? Working at WPA, NYA, CCC, or other emergency work? How many persons are mainly dependent on you for supportT What was your individual total in-' come, cash and other last week? This Information is vital to you and \ as it costs nothing the unemployed \ should render every assistance In fill-' ing out these cards. The time will be; short but the government wants this , information just as early as possible. ! SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RECORDS | FOR KERSHAW COUNTY 8CHOOL8 The following per cents of attend-i ance in the white schools of Kershaw ' county have been derived from the county superintendent's report by J. H. McDaniel, county attendance teacher. Most schools have made a good showing for the first month. Now that the crops are gathered we are expecting a large Increase In the attendance of rural schools says Mr. McDaniel. It Is hoped that several schools will even be rivals for Liberty Hill's place. Per cent of attendance by schools for first month for 1937-1938 Is as follows: Liberty Hill 100, Camden 98, Oak Ridge 97, Midway 96.fi, Baron DeKalb 95.3. Thorn Hill 95.2, Stoneboro 92.8, Blaney 92.2, Ml. Pisgah 92, Charlotte Thompson 91.1, Providence 90.9, Antloch 90.7, Crescent 90. Three C's 90, Wateree 90, Ned's Creek 89.4. Bethune 87.5, Oakland 86.8, LugofT 86.6, dates Ford 83.7, Pine Grove 83.2, Central 80, Pleasant Grove 75. The above per cents are based on the enrollment and average attendance. First Baptist Church 8ervlces The following services are announced for the week beginning November' 14, at the First Baptist church; Sun-1 day school at 10 o'clock. Public wor-1 ship conducted by the pastor, J. B. ( Gaston, at 11:15 a m , and 7:30 p. m. j Morning subject, "The Vocation of the Educated." Evening subject, ! "The Tragedy of Neglect." B. T. U. Sunday evening at 6:30. Prayer ' meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 ' The public is cordially invited to at- 1 tend all services of this church. Forest Fire* Kept Down The Rtate Forestry Commission reports that for the week ending November 4, there was only one forest fire in Kershaw countgr, and that burned only two-tenths of an acre of woodland. Bishop Thomas At 8tateburg 8unday The Rt. Rey. A. 8. Thomas will administer confirmation and preach at the Church of the Holy Cross, Rtateburg, Sunday morning, November 14, at 11:30 o'clock. -L. 1 i. Camden Decisively Defeats Newberry j " H> Frank II Heath) t uiiitlcii h fit.sl Bulldogs unienniined uuleascd ami unbroken at Zemp Fit-Id last Friday. romping rough shod over Newberry la to it A surprise aerial attack that found Nowbt t ry unprepared and badly flus ' toiod lot! to two touchdowns in (ho first quarter, throo in the third and twt) in t he fourth Tho Bulldogs maintained a scoring temp in all i quarters with tho exception of tho| soooud Overmatched and outclassed Nowerry did not have a single brief moment during the game. Fearful of the effects of u devastating pile-driving offensive that the Bulldogs have i gulued fame for, the visitors put eight men on the line In the hopes of throttling It Keen wits switched the Camden attack to the air and found the lanes wide open for a bombardment that developed Into a pigskin parade. 1 nhurrled passes from unhurried pitchers to sticky-fingered catchers told the story and the crowd of loyal rooters who had braved the rain to watch the Bulldogs in what might bo tlie last home game of the Season, were thrilled by the aerial ntzzle-duzzle uncorked. Camden plays at Florence today and with fair weather prevailing a I goodly crowd of fans will accompany ' the Bulldogs to tho enen5~sTTCntlgh^ld. ! In the Newberry game tho six", touchdowns were scored by West and J "Red" Lynch scoring twice and Cox,' Richards and Wooten one each. I Camden has now rolled up 206 points as against S scored by oppos-1 ing teams. This is a record that few i high schools in the entire country can boast of. I THEY STUDY AS WELL AS PLAY ' I Complimentary Letter From Prof. J.' G. Richards About Football Boys Coach John M. Villepigue of the' Camden high school football squad, j has Few|veil The""following "highly' complimentary letter from Prof. J. (}.1 Richards, superintendent of the1 schools. This letter shows that the! boys study as well as play, and the | letter is published without the know-! ledge of Mr. Richards, and The Chron-' icle Is glad that he has seen fit to compliment. these boys In this man-' ner. The letter follows: "Dear John: I wish to congratu-l late you and the boys on the wonder-! ful work you have done on the loot- j ball field this year. Your squad Is a fine, gentlemanly and cooperative group?better perhaps than any that we have had previously?certainly Just as good In every respect. "Here are some facts that you may wish to know about these boys. The following members of your squad did j not fall on anything the first six woeks: Rowell, Oettys, Brown Hendrix, West, Richards. Villepigue, I). ! Lynch, Watts, Marshall, Hough, Og-' burn, McRae, Watts, i^amoy, Boykln I P. and Boykln W. | "The average of the squad is C. j plus, which I am sure must be bet-1 ter than the school average. "I am sure you will Join with me in the hopes that these fine boys will continue to do well both in their sports and in their studies. "With best wishes for continued success." I TRIPLE CELEBRATION ' Grandfather, Granddaughter and Grandson Celebrate Birthday? A triple family celebration in which the eldest of the trio was 80 years of age and the youngest 17, took place at Hendersonville, North Carolina, on Sunday. I wo of the Individuals figuring In the triple celebration were from Camden, and the real guest of honor was the father of Mayor J. H. Osborne of bis city, a resident of Hendersonville, who was eighty years of age last Friday. 'he youngest was Miss Margaret Osborne, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. J H. Osborne, and a student at Converse college, Spartanburg, who was 17 years of ago on Friday. The third party In the triple celebration was Hamilton Ofiborne, son of Mayor and Mrs. Osborne, who was 21 years of age on Saturday. The celebration at Hendersonville might have Included the silver wedding anniversary of Mayor and Mrs Osbprne, as they observed this nuptial Jepoch last week. ( The eighty year old father of Mayor I Osborne is bale and hearty and con jtinueg to be active in the operation of his farm. Less than two years ago i he was awarded a gold medal for be I ing thp master farmer of the county I In which he resides At that time a celebration was held and was attend ed by prominent men In the agrleul tura] world, and of the citizenry ol the community. Five young persons were kllle< when their car was hit by a Quincey Omaha and Kansas City train at i grade crossing at Knox City, Mc Three of the victims belonged to on< family. New Station To He Open November 19 When i nun \u I I i i ,n k Sc.iliu.inl An I.mi' 11 >? i pulls .mi til (In Sea board station on Cliesnut at root born lliuisdav at I d.s p in, none other than his honor. Mayor .) H Osborne, will bo at tho throttle. K M Kennedy. Jr. ihalrinan of (ho commit too in oh a rue of tho program attendant upon tho opening of the new Seaboard station here announced today that arrangements have peon made whereby tho Camden executive | will don engineers togs and climb! Into the cab of tho big locomotive and his hand will open tho throttle that! will pull the Camden Special Into the j new station. The opening of the new depot, orlg- ( Inally planned for Friday, November 19. was changed to Thursday, Novem-1 ber IS, in order that officials of the! Seaboard could be present for the; occasion. The Rotary Club, in session Thurs- ' day, will adjourn to board the truln and make the trip of one mile from the old to the new station. Members? of the Kxchange Club will also be on hand as will city officials, county of , ticials, members of the CJarden Club and all citl/ens Interested In the pro ! gram. The Seaboard will have photograh-1 ers tit the new station and "shots", will be taken of tho train pulling In, the crowd pouring from the Pullmans.' the sale of the first ticket and also of the mayor in tho garb of a Sea-1 board engineer Christmas Seal Sale 1 Big Help in Control I The service sponsored by the Kershaw County Tuberculosis Association protects every home in the community The idea of the Christmas Seal ns a means of raising funds to care for children 111 with tuberculosis was first thought of by Finer Hoi boll, a postal clerk in Copenhagen, Denmark. When the first sale of the Christmas Seals was attempted In the Cnited States thirty years ago7~ It was to keep a modest little shack ' on the Rr&ndywine River, In Wilmington. Delaware, from having to close. The amount needed to keep open this tiny hospital where poor victims were brought back to health was $300. The success of Miss Emily P. Plssell's efforts to raise this sum was in a large; measure due to the purchase of one Beal by a ragged newsboy. This little fellow reached up to a marble counter where Christmas Seals were; being sold, pushed a penny across it; with a grimy hand, saying, "Olmme one, me sister got It." The news of a child who needed every penny for bare necessities buying a Christmas Seal was so impressive and inspiring that returns were much larger than it had ever been dreamed they would. I be. Three thousand dollars, Instead of the $300 asked for. were raised. 1 Today, the Christmas Seal Is still an emblem for protection to children, I as well as young people from tubercu-, losls?the protection of children that; they may not contract tuberculosis from careless aduls?the protection of young people because tuberculosis causes more deaths among them than any other disease. Of the twelve persons who died of 1 tuberculosis In Kershaw county from January first to November first, seven1 were under twenty-five years of age.' Among the thirty-four cases known to the county health department, thirteen are children who have chlldi hood tuberculosis and eight otherB ! are cases of the pulmonary type among young persons between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Will you j protect the youth of this community by buying Christmas Seals? Tuberculosis is a communicable disease? It Is passed from one person to an| other by active cases who have not ! been found and Instructed or by 'cases who. even though they have , been Instructed, continue to be care'less. 8ervice Manager At Court Inn Perry Alexander, formerly manager I of the Pine Forest Inn at Summer (ville, S. C., has taken over the offict of service manager of the Court Inr ' here. The executive management re . mains vested in Jack Canter L| Mr. Alexander was also manager o the Roycroft Inn at East Aurora, Nev iYork. Arrangements have been made b install electrically illuminated sign In front of the Inn and at the corne ' of Mill street and the United State 1 highway. I. a Soviet Russia celebrated its 20t anniversary on Sunday. Veneer Company Begins Operations Billowing i rolitis ol Ma< k smoke and jets of \vhlt? steam from sl;u ks id tlo |io?i'i plant ol tin' I'ntti1 ami Mi I.rod Velio r ioiii puu> plant litis ivci'k marked the beginning of operations at Ctitudi'u'it now Industry and marked another forward step In com inanity pi tigress. In the large building where the main operations of the plant are be lug carried on are scenes of activity. Laborers with cant hooks roll glunt logs to the monster lathe after the hark has been removed. I'lacod in the lathe, this completely motorized unit sheers off an exquisite tllm of veneer of a thickness of an eighth of an Inch. Adjustments make it possible to sheer a film ol wood one twoaty eighth of an Inch to a quarter of an Inch thick. The long thin ribbons of wood roll along an Incline similar to an auto assembly gear to an automatic clip ping device where the ribbon of wood ts cut Into dimensions called for These are then stacked and placed in a dryer after which they are grad ed.and crated to be shipped to furniture manufacturing plants all over the south and east The veneer now being inunufactur ed Is shaved from logs of poplar and gum wood but It 1s proposed to add maple and native oak to the list within a few weeks The company will within a month enlarge the plant to add equipment for the making of plywood panels. These panels will be shipped to furniture plants. The capacity of the plant at this time is two carlouds of veneer per week and when the plywood tnanu fucturing Is started, it will have a similar output. With the advent of the plywood operations the shipping of plain veneer will be abandoned and the activity of the plant directed to plywood manufacture The plant 1h under the direction of .John H. Green, a native of Norwood. N. and an expert In the manufacture of veneer and plywood. W. C. Nornient will be In charge of the saleH department and already has a splendid market for the Camden plant productions. The plant Is now employing about twenty-five men but later will double the size of the working force. Blanks Ready For Accident Reports Blank forms for the making out of compulsory highway accident reports by those Involved were being distributed to all sections of the state by the state highway patrol, It was announced by Wilbur S. Smith, traffic engineer for the state highway department. Every lieutenant of the highway patrol was summoned to Columbia, given a big batch of the new forms, and sent back to his district where other patrolmen helped distribute them among law enforcement officers in every city, town and county of the alafe. Thus have the forms been made available everywhere land the new state law put Into effect. This act requires that those involved in highway accidents make a report of. it ' within 24 hours and either mall It to 1 the state highway department at Columbia or hand it to a patrolman or any other law enforcement officer in the community for forwarding to Columbia. Those who may be involved la aa accident should immediately obtain a form from some enforcement officer I and make out the report. It will be 1 retained as confidential information for the safety bureau of the highway ! department, and that they cannot be ; used in the trial in court of a highway accident. The information is I sought only to aid the highway dolp,;-tment in its fight for more safety 'on the highways. ANOTHER HOG SHIPMENT The Kershaw County Farmers' Exchange will ship hoga Twer.'.uy, November 16. at the loading pens at the Seaboard freight station from 1 to 6 in the afternoon. j We will pay one cent under the " . Richmond market, f o b. Camden,, or 1 you can consign your hogR and get 0 your money later In the week. 8 Please help us advertise this shipr ment because the more hogs we get 8 the c.heaper the freight will be and each farmer will net more for their h hogs says W. C. McCarley, the connty agent. - : . jy.'yafetti;