The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 24, 1938, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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I S.C.Gaml cJFish Association
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All hunters and fishermen are Interested
In the provisional the new
laws passed and the old Wws am muted
as a result of the last session of
the legislature.
For your information and guidance
we call your attention to several
pieces of constructive legislation, all
of which should tend to make hunting
and fishing by the sportsmeu of
the state more enjoyable.
Act 728 empowers the Chief Game
Warden to deslguate streams of the
state as fish sanctuaries, under certain
conditions. Realizing that game
tlsh thrive most successfully In our
Hue waters If given a reasonable opportunity,
we hope to materially Increase
the fish population* of a stream
by setting apart a section of the
stream as a sanctuary, prohibiting all
fishing of every kind for a period of
a year or more. On the other hand
we do not want to close a stream that
Is furnishing recreation and enjoyment
for a greht many fishermen.
Consequently, the law Is so constructed
that only a limited section?two
miles?of the stream is closed at one
time. This does not seriously affect
anyone or deprive anyone of their
iishing, as the greatest distance one
would have to travel on this account
would be one mile. This two-miles
of protected water?and 1 mean absolutely
protected against all fishing?
will afford wonderful facilities for
tho fish to spawn and grow unmolested,
and It is reasonable to expect better
fishing In the area in two or three
years.
This department will be glad to discuss
with any delegations conditions
of their stream and how the act may
help them.
Zone 1. embracing, the counties of
Pickens, Oconee and Greenville have
adopted a uniform game law throughout
the none.
An act was also passed qualifying
the state of South Carolina for participation
In the federal wildlife bill
providing federal aid to stutes In a
wildlife restoration program. Through
this enactment wo hope to spend
arouud forty thousand dollars annually
In South Carolina for wildlife restoration
projects, the money coming
from the federal government.
While tho federal act does not become
effective until July 1, and It
will take some time for allotments to
be made to the slates on upproved
projects, It Is my hope that soon wo
will see the building of quail farms
In the Htate, as a definite step toward
replenishing tho supply of this fine
game bird in South C&rolluu.
At the time of the purchase of your
hunting license you will be handed uj
booklet describing tho changes in the
shooting season. Any other Informa-.
tion will be gladly furnished by this
department upon request.
Railroad Tragedy
Takes Heavy Toll
Miles City, Mont., June 20.?Custer
Creek, Into which the Milwaukee railroad's
"Olympian" carried nearly forty
persons to their death in the nation's
worst train tragedy in years,
resisted today the efforts of rescuers
to reach one car still holding its dead.
Heavy silt flowing into a submerged
tourist sleeper, in which seventeen
persons had booked space, forced Milwaukee
officials to abandon attempts
to raise it with cranes.
They said they feared the bottom
of the water-lodged sleeper might
drop out, sending the bodies down
stream. N
Sixteen bodies, eleven of them identified,
have been recovered from the
wreckage. Another, that of an unidentified
woman, was taken from the
Yellowstone river, into which Custer
Creek flows, about fifty miles from
the scene of the tragedy.
Porters told of seeing as many as
five or six bodies carried away by the
twenty-foot flood that rolled down the
creek channel.
The flood waters, which had carried
out a 180-foot bridge Just before the
fast, air-conditioned train arrived at
the crossing early yesterday, contin
lied to subside slowly today.
Salvage workers said the receding
water would permit them to dig the
bodies from the submerged sleeper.
As the muddy water fell back from
the windows of the half over-turned
car, witnesses said they could see the
bodies of passengers some still in the
seats. Lights in the sleeper had
burned merrily almost until dawn
yesterday.
A track walker had reported Custer
Creek> 26 miles east iC Miles City.I
almost dry just a few minutes before
the train arrived.
But the flood water was runn'ngj
almost at track level when the racing!
locomotive pitched into the creek.'
Seven of the twelve cars behind Itj
piled up in a Jackstraw heap of rent|
steel.
Milwaukee officials said the train |
carried at least 155 passengers and a!
crew of ten.
With seventeen known dead, 44 in
hospitals, 37 treated for minor injuries,
and -41 others reported unharmed,
rescue workers were hopeful the total
dead would not exceed forty. J. J.
Oslie, assistant general passenger
agent for the Milwaukee railroad at
St. Paul, was at the scene and estimated
the dead would number 36.
Survivors and rescue workers
agreed that many more lives might
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have been lost had not tho more than
cool-headed passengers aud crew
members skillfully aided their fellow*
out of the water-filling cars.
Graphically relating how passengers
escaped from hta car, K. Woltt, a
Chicago business man, declared thut
"everyone was quite calm, there was
no hysteria at all."
"One end of the car next to us
was in water and we hollered to the
people in that car that It was not
sinking and to stay there as they'd
be safe," Woltx said.
The Chicago man said two other
men followed him ou^ through a broken
window.
"We pulled the people in the car
from my window up to the top of the
sleeper. Someone found a ladder and
we put it from the chair car to the
tender and people walked over the
rungs," Welts related.
At the hospital, and at tho Miles.
City morgue where relatives came to
claim their dead, stories of tragedy
and of heroism were told by the survivors.
Ten year old Anno l^allas, whose
mother was dead and whose father
was missing, related how sh$. tried 1
desperately to keep her mother's I
head above the swirling water.
When tho mother, Mrs. Thomas
l^allas, fainted from shock, tho small
girl grabbed her hair and hold her
head above water for several minutes.
Anne's brother, nine yoar old
George, suffered a broken arm. Unable
to comprehend the tragedy, he kept
crying, "I want my mama and daddy."
"Lut you haven't any mama aud]
daddy any more," the boy's sister
tried bravely to explain. The family
was en route home to Bellington,
Wash., from a visit to Greece.
A negro porter on the train, Lew
Williams, was credited by survivors
with possibly saving several lives by
calmly directing passengers out of
his car.
' Seven Milwaukee railroad employees,
who knew Custer Creek as a ravine
that usually carried no more
than "a bucket of water," were riding
the Olympian as passengers. They
joined regular trainmen in helping
out the survivors, and two of them
telephoned first news of the tragedy
to Miles City
Mile Cain and Ed Hamm, brukemen.
crawled over the twisted pile of steel
tars, made their way to Saugus, a
small station, and telephoned for
help.
William Sherer. veteran Milwaukee
engineer, said the railroad men were
"chewing the fat" in the first day
coach when the crash occurred.
Great Falls Defeats Camden
Great Falls, June 21.?Great Fall#!
American Legion team defeated Camden
by the score of 7 to 6. Watts,
McElduff and Ware we're the leading
hitters for Great Falls. Cox led the
Camden team with two Kits.
R H E
Camden <*. 6 7 1
Great Falls 7 11 10
Batteries: Camden, Horton, Williams
and Cox; Great Falls, Roddy
and Cooper.
TEN VEARS OF SERVICE BY
JUNIOR WELFARE LEAGUE
In January of the your 1928, the Ju-i
nlor Welfare League wax organised In I
Camden -Mrs Wlnthrop Palmer, t
then uailoiiHl president of the Junior I
Leagues of America, wax In Camden!
for the winter and while here met |
with several of the girls who discuss |
ed Hflth her the Idea of forming aj
social club to do welfare work In \
Camden.
Ilecause the population of Camden
was too small. It was not possible to
organise a Junior League At a luncheon
meeting In Camden attended by
Mrs. Palmer, the Camden girls, and
several members front the Junior
League In Coluinbiu, the Columbia
League members expressed themselves
as very anxious to have the
I Cautden group organise as a sub chapter
of their League. However, It was
decided not to do this as It was
thought that more good could be done
| by creating an organization whose
[dues and money raised would he used
In Camden and Kershaw county.
After several meetings the group
was definitely organized and chose
for Its name "The Junior Welfare
Workers of Camden." Later this'
name was changed to "Junior Welfare!
League." After consulting with A. S.I
Llewellyn, superintendent of the Wa-j
teree Mills; Mrs. Maytleld, chairman'
jof the Hod Cross, and Mrs. Hrown.j
the community nurse, the League se-,
fleeted as its project "child welfare"
I In Kershaw county.
| The charter members of the League *
consisted of eleven girls'?Mrs. Foncle 4
Hay, prei ideo.t; Mrs. Louis deLoach,
secretary and treasurer, Mrs. John K. '
deLoach, Mrs. J. G. Richards, Jr., Mrs. *
C. C. Whltaker, Jr., Mrs. Watson *
Pomeroy, Mrs. Charles Merrlman, '
Mrs. James AUeu, Mrs. W. L. Goodale,
Mrs. Nettles Lindsay, Mrs. Lam- 1
bert DePaBB. '
1 Since that time the league has '
'grown to an organization whose mem- 1
bcrshlp is limited to thirty girls. "
Kiim the time or Its beginning In 1
| It2S to ihe present time, 1938, the '
Le. -ue lias continued its initial pro- '
joct of child welfare by means of the 1
follow.ug activities, some of which '
Ihuve been temporary and some per- '
nianent Clothes given to needy fain- 1
ilka; baby layettes upon request; 1
bcoks and magazines to ward patients
in hospital; contributions each month
to Children's Home; contribution!
each month to Nursery school; con- t
trlbuUoa each month-of milk to needy families;
baskets at Christmas time; ;
Red Cross bond for tuberculosis fund; t
crippled children's bond at Easter; j
tonsil clinic, annual project since ]
1928; dental clinic begun 1938; story t
hour at Library for children. i
At the present time, June 6, 1938, (
the League consists of twenty-seven <
members. These fire Virginia Halle, <
president; Mary Goodale, vice presl- i
dent; Gertrude Zemp, corresponding i
secretary; Mrs. A. O. Clarkson, j
Jr., Elizabeth Clark, treasurer; <
Sarah Steadman, member-at-law, Mrs. |
F. M. Wooten, Mrs. R. M. Kennedy, !
3rd, Mrs. Beulah Hicks, Mrs. R.* E. ,
dcCarty, Mrs. DeLoache Sheorn,
<'alth deLoach, Mrs. Plorco Cantey.
drs. L. W. Boykln, 2nd, Marie Halle.
Mrs. N. H. Qoodlae, Jr., Mrs. Joseph
'runson, Mrs. Daniel Mackey, Mrs.
lohn Mullen, Mrs. W. M. Coxe, Mrs
I O. Richards, Jr., Mrs W L. Goodile.
Jean Harris, Charlotte DuHose,
Catherine Kennedy, Mrs. C. J. Shanion
4th, Mrs. Robert Breck.
Disbursements of Junior Welfare
eague funds for projects during (is*
ul year of Septomber. 1937, through
Iune 1938: Money raised by ncttvlios.
$725.36; duos $70.70. Paid out
in Welfaro projects: Children's
Home, $120.00; Nursery school, $50;
nilk, $38.40; Ti B. bond. $5; Crfppled
children's bond, $5.00; miscellaneous,
16.65; Kershaw county health department,
T. B. examination, $5.25; denal
clinic, $77.60; tonsil clinic, $300.
Gates Ford Club Met
The Gates Ford Home DemonstraIon
club met at the home of Mrs.
Ft- Bt -Seegers Tuosday, june 14, at
5; 30 o'clock. The president presided
md opened the meeting with the slngng
of "The Battle Hynjn of the Republic."
The devotional wbh read by
the leader, Miss Kate West, and other
members of the club present, followed
by a prayer read by Miss Nell
3eegers. The roll call and minutes
were read by the secretary. A busiieps
session was then held at which
time the Short Course for the women,
jirls and boys Four-H clubs was discussed.
The Woman's Short Course
is to be held at Charleston, June 27JO.
The boys and girls are to be in
Aiken county at Camp Long July 4-8.
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We had not received any other news
concerning the building of our olub ,
house-. All the club members present *
decided to have an ull day quilting
party at the home of Mrs. Lena Mob- I;
ley, July 22. Each club member was
asked to bring lunch. Also, have a
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stunt on that date. Other business
pertaining to the club was discussed
after which the meeting was turned
over to the County Home Demonstration
Agent, Miss Margaret B. Fowell,
who gave the club- members several
booklets, some of the titles were
"Bread Making," "Home Gardening,"
and canning bulletins. Then she gave
out the yearly reports to be filled out
for the year's work to each of the
club members. After those were filled
out, MIhb Fowell lod several songs,
which were sung by the club memera.
After the records had been filled
out and Miss Fewell had finished her
work, the members were led in playing
several interesting games by Miss
Nell Seegers, which were greatly enjoyed.
The hostess, Mrs. T. B. Seegers,
and her daughter, Miss Nell Seegers,
and Dorothy Horton served refreshments.
The Gates Ford Home
Demonstration club has enjoyed thlB
year's work, and enjoyed best of all
working under the county home dem '
onstratlon agent, Miss Margaret B.
Fewell. The meeting adjourned lo"?
meet on July 22, at the home of Mrs, -jgr
I^ena Mobley.?Contributed. .
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| Lightning Kills Child
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Florence, June 20.?'Elliott Gibbs,
seven years old, was hit by lightning
today in the Evergreen section of
Florence county and was killed.
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