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rwo STRIKES ON HIM BEFORE HE GOES TO BAT ^rrer up/ strike j v r?? U, WATCH 8EA TURTLE MAKE ITS NEST ON EDI8TO ISLAND Edlsto Island, Muy 27.?It takes a turtle twenty live minutes to dig its nest, twonty-flve minutes to lay Its eggs and twenty-five minutes to cover up the hole, a group of Edisto Island' era discovered Thursday \nlght while on a visit to a local boacn. Sitting only three feet away from the sea monster, the five people watched the whole operation from the beginning to the end and learned many things about the habits of a turtle that surprised them. Nothing would deter the creature from carrying out Its set purpose. The low hum of voices, the barking of a little dog and the movement among the members of the group evidently did not register with the turtle at all. About y o'clock three children almost stumbled on the turtle when It was crawling from the wet strand to higher ground. By the dim light of a quarter moon. It was seen crawling ponderously toward Its goal. A little l&ter the grown pooplo were summoned. One of the children said: "You have plenty of time. No use to run ao hard. It's Just getting ready to lay Its eggs." Arriving at the scene, the woman of the party conceived the Idea of timing th? oDerations. The turtle was making sand fly with Its flippers, digging deeper and deeper Into the earth. A few feet away the creature looked like a pile of marsh sedge so perfectly had it camouflaged itself by throw Ing damp sand over its shell. The shadow of the low bluff also helped to conceal It from plain view. When the hole was dug to the turtle's complete satisfaction, it begun laying eggs. Apparently an egg was dropped every time it moved Its hind flippers. The movements came in regular rhythm, a pause for rest after every sixteenth lifting and lowering of the flippers. Then came the business of coveting up the hole. Fifty minutes had elapsed, divided equally between the nest fixing and the egg laying- With amazing dexterity the sand was thrown into the hole and leveled off and packed down by a sweeping motion of the turtle's appendages. The hind flippers, hinged like hands, did most of the work. Sand hit the faces of the spectators, crouched low on the bank. The dog. held tightly by the leash, harked nervously and the hair rose- on its back. By crawling closer, the group noted t hut the turtle was at least four feet across, the approximate dimensions of an ox-cart wheel. The shell was crusted In spots with barnacles. The hole filled, the turtle shifted her position every few minutes, moving in a quarter arch, agitating the ground to conceal as nearly as possible the exact location of the nest. It gave a lurch and started for the ocean. Another twenty-five minutes had passed. The people and the little dog followed its progress to the water. The turtle seemed in no great hurry. It would crawl along for about four feet, then stop and rest a minute or Uti. Once or twice a child mounted to its back but still it did not quicken i--s p.*ft*. Iho tir>; wav washed over the monster, it remained inoiiom?-.-s until tho fourth wave came. It ciawled .mother four t<-e- and soon was afloat. With u mighty backward pu.->h of its 111jipets. tic turtle passed through the breakers; lifted its head and looked around oner. then disappeared from ,-ight. 1 tie three children and the two grown-ups immediately went to work covering up the turtle tracks. They knew that certain people often patrol the beach in the early morning, search for turtle eggs. They hoped that this ,u-st might not be unearthed. To them who had watched the sea creature at its labors, tbe discovery of the nest would seem a near tragedy. I _ Klre severelv damaged Hhe sub-station of the Duke Power company, at Islington. N. 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C. ^ I Sanitary Plumbing and Heating I TELEPHONE 433-J j Estimates Furnished on Short Notice j ELECTROL OIL BURNERS ( / Germany s Colonial Bring Tanganyika FJetvc 0 A humhlv, peace/ut pennant home in Czechoslovakia, seemIngly far removed from the agonies of tear. Prepare J t>> N?. llonal upiiic Socioij. W.mhiiigtoii. U. C.?WNU Service. In the terrific shake-up which has been rocking Czechoslovakia to its foundations, one adjustment has taken place with relatively little destruction. It is the promotion of Slovakia to autonomy. F'or the big eastern fraction of the Czechoslovak republic, this means an administration of its own for the first time in more than a thousand years. The new government gives Slovakia complete control over its own affairs, except matters which also concern the Czechs, such as foreign policy, finances obtained by joint debts, and national defense. The farthest eastern tip of the nation, Ruthenia?adjacent to Slovakia on the east?has governed itself under a similar autonomous arrangement since the formation of the republic. Slovak Spelling Book. The green valleys of Slovakia shelter a people who have been ruled from capitals outside the province since about 835 A. D., when Prince Mojmir began enlarging the powerful little Moravian empire, to the west, at Slovakia's expense. (The adjacent western province of Moravia today is a relic of this regime.) Within a century, Slovakia was snatched back into the realm of an eastern capital by invading Magyars, and for the succeeding thousand years until 1918 it was part of Hungary. Yet, through centuries of foreign domination, the Slovaks have doggedly preserved their talents and traditions, and now they emerge as a small but distinct group of people with a culture of their own. Until the formation of the Czech- j oslovak 'republic, education in their own language was rare among the Slovaks. Taking stock in 1918 at the end of the Hungarian regime, they found that the former govern ment had provided about 135 Slovak schools per million of Slovak population?none of them of high school rank. Books in Slovak achieved a circulation of hardly more than 500 copies before the republic was formed. The native language, cherished in the home, was not to be used in such semi-official places as post offices and railway stations and cemeteries. The republic formed in 1918, however, made Slovak an official tongue of the same legal status as Czech. Immediately thereafter, a simple Slovak spelling book be came as popular for adults as for school children, and an edition of 50,000 was promptly sold out. The language of the Slovaks differs from that of the Czechs much as English differs in England and the United States. Czech and Slovak can understand each other's speech without the use of a dictionary. Bratislava Is Leading Port. Many of the differences between the two are due to the westernizing influence of Germanic Austria on the former, and the eastern influence of Magyar Hungary?and occasional contacts with the Turks?on the latter. An important factor, however, is the fact that threefourths of Slovakia is mountarnous, ~ from the Little Carpathians in the west to the lofty peaks of the High Tatras on the northeast. Mountainsides bear a large part of the virgin forests which give the Czechoslovak republic the advantage of being wooded over one-third C of its surface. Logs are floated down the River Vah, Slovakia's chief waterway, and smaller streams to less wooded plains in the south. Flocks and herds high on the mountainsides give Slovakia a supply of leather, wool, and foodstuffs, including sheep's-milk cheese and the quaint Miss Muffet fare, curds and whey. Chinese Junk Still Controls River Traffic ?And Oni* Even Crossed Pacific to Establish New Record! Prepared bv National Gp-vjranblr Society. W.isblnRton I) C ?WNL' Scr\iee. If it's news when a small hut mod ern motorboat conquers an ocean, then the same accomplishment by a 36-foot sailing vessel designed 2,000 years ago comes under the l ead of maritime drama Such a story recently made the headlines when a man. his wife, and two crew members arrived in California from Ja pan in a Chinese junk. While modern steamers ate be coming more numerous ir. Chinese waters, the old-fashioned junk, with its oblong sails, low. square bow. and high, decorated stern, continues to hold an important place in the economic Hfe of old Cathay. Behind it is a checkered career as trader, fisherman, pirate, and manof-war; yet this vessel still hauls much of China's vast domesac trade along coastal lanes and inland river roads. Bobbing up and down in the harbors of big cities, it Offers the only home that millions of families have ever known. Carried Early Compass. The Chinese junk, though sometimes described as topheavy. slow, and lumbering, is. nevertheless, uuth adaptable and efficient in the hands of an expert sailor. Varying types have been evolved through centuries of use to meet current conditions and shipping needs of in dividual ports Plat bottoms mini mize injury when vessels gc aground in the numerous shallows and sandbars that menace Chinese river traffic. Sails of cotton cioth or matting are so cut and balanced as to be quickly adjusted in fre qucnt coast squalls. Certain shipping improvements nnaLly adopted in Europe originated long ago with this craft. Trading between Canton and the Persian guW in the Third century, Chinese junka carried early, if not the very first, crude compasses of magnetic iron needles."Riding in junks in his travels a thousand years later, Marco Pole found them larger and more sea worthy than Venetian 6hips of the time. He was especially impressed with their airtight compartments which, preventing a leak in one sec tion of a craft from swamping the entire vessel, made it practically ur.sir.kable On the intricate network ot ca nals, creeks and rivers that sub stitute in China for motor roads and railways, junks carry much of the nation's enormous water-borne commerce. In all sizes, shapes and colors. they ply the three great river systems that cross the land from west to east?the Yangtze, the Yellow river, and the Sikiang, or West river. One meets them sailing smoothly in open waters or struggling through narrow, rocky gorges where treacherous rapids swirl. In size they may range from a tiny, single-sail craft to a five-mast ed trader carrying up to 400 tons of freight. Hardly recognizable as a junk at all is one Chinese native ship which more nearly resembles a "floating packing case." Here is the Chinese fishing junk, Mummel Hummel, in tchich Dr. E. Allen Petersen and a crew of three, including his icifey sailed from Yokohama to ! Lot Angeles in 85 days. A NEW PLASTIC COMPOUND ''FROM SUGARCANE BAGA88?. A plastic compound madp from the llgnln and cellulose of sufercsne bagasse. oue of the country* Important agricultural waste products, has been manufactured by chemists of the United Stutea Department of Agriculture at the Agricultural By-products laboratory, Ames. Iowa. The chemists estimate that this new compound can b? manufactured for less thau half the cost of the cheapeat synthetic plastic oompound now on the market. In recent years, they point out, production of synthetic plastic compounds has expanded rapidly. Hut the comparatively high cost of molding powders, mostly alkyd and phenobformaldehyde resins, contines plastic manufacture largely to small articles. It seems unlikely that the price o these raw materials can be reduced materlhlly. With a low-cost molding compound made with only a small amount of expensive chemicals, the plastic ludustry could branch out Into broader fields, such as the manufacture of furniture, building materials, and parts for automobiles. Too, where certain qualities of costlier phenolformaldehyde resins are not required the cheaper product could be substltUThe department chemists found that molding compounds may be made from the bagasse by thr^e methods. The first, and cheapest, Is hydrolysis with acid. Counting the cost of bagassee at $8 a ton, baled and delivered at the factory, the chemists estimate that a plastic compound can be made by this method, la which the cost of material will be slightly more than two cents a pound. Plastics made from the compound, while not bo strong as some synthetic products now in use, are quite moisture resistant and would be suitable for molding bath-room tile for both floors and walls. They apparently have the wearing ability of wood and may be sanded and repollshed through the entire The second method is hydioljsls In the presence of aniline, a coal tar derivative. The material cost of plastics from this process will be more about 4 1:2 cents a pound but the> are as strong as plastics now in use. In testa it has resisted bending pressures uo to 9.000 pounds per suqare inch They are slightly less waterresistant than plastics made by the first method, but do not warp and ma) be sawed, drl dadellntaohrdluaordaaa be sawed, drilled and, with care, nal ed These properties suggest uses as card table tops, desk tops and building panels. ,, _ Treating the bagasse with sodium hydroxide and furfural Is the third process. In duality plasties from this method are .about midway between the other two. They flow better and mold at 2.500 pounds per square Inch compared with 3,500 for the second treatment. They may be put to the same uses as the plastic from second treatment. Either of the plastics made trom ttwr-fast two processes do not shatter easily In fact, neither breaks when struck hard enough with a hammer to cause a dent. It la possible that other farm waste materials, such as cornstalks and atraw from small grains, may be used m making plastics by same processes, the chemists report. All have ?i < mon a composition of llgnln and cellulose, basis. In flight, the canvasback duck avaverages 145 feet per second. Garlic-Parsley an Aid In high blood pressure riUonot waate matter in the bowel*. * ?? 0*0*01 hish Wood sssrttrs g Sold In Camden by DeKalb Pharmacy If B r;# r v T^^H|T?|J Inaui* Safety. Avoid Hlghw*. 1 Haaarda. Tiaval By T??in. Ah! 1 Conditioned Coachai oil Through Train*. 81.209 Mak] Cases reported In the U. s. in uB DON'T DELAY! A ?* Start Today with O Qfl 668 Cheoka Malaria In seven da J FINAL DISCHAKGFM Notice is hereby given thatfl mouth from this date, on JumB 1939, I will make to the Probate J of Kershaw County my final r<3 as administrator of the estate otB H. McCaskill deceased, and on fl same date I will apply to the B Court for a final discharge u 1 administrator. J. C. McCASKHA 1 AdmlnUtntofl Gamden, 8. C., May 19, 1939 m \> J^B FINAL DISCHARGT] Notice is hereby given that B month from this date, on JomB 1939, I will make to the ProtB Court of Kershaw County my |* return as Administratrix c. t. a. o[* estate of B. G. Team, deceased, B on the same date I will apply toB said Court for a final discharge B said Administratrix c. t. a. j M. A. TEAM Administratrix c. tB Camden, S. C., May 4, 1939 B SUMMONS FOR RELIEF g State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In the Court of Common Plea^B L. I. Guion, P. E. Stevenson B J. Team Gettys as the County ^B ing Fund Commission for Keri^B County, Plaintiffs, against i Katherlne B. Ross/re, now Kitheifl R. Hamilton, Defendant To the Defendant above named'. I You are hereby summoned quired to answer the complaiot^B this action, of which a copy is * with served you, and to serve ifl of your answer to the said coraplM on the subscribers at their olllfl tho city of Camden, South Cu* within twenty days after the m hereof, exclusive of the day 0! i^H service, and if you fail to ans?B complaint within the time the plaintiff in the above actio!* apply to the Court for the relhl^H manded in the complaint. GETTYS & SHANNON,* Plaintiff's AttongM Camden, S. C., May 24, 1931 NOTICE To the Defendant Katharine il^H aire, now Katharine B. Han* Please take notice that ft* mbns In the above stated actio* which the foregoing is a copy, er with the complaint in said* were filed In the office oftbt* of Court for Kershaw County* Carolina, on the 24th day 0* GETTYS & SHANNO* Plaintiff's AttO(l^^| $30 AUTO loans STANDARD RATES j* Quick, Confidential 8ervldH See GENERAL FINANCE* Sumter, S. C. D. G. Love C. E. Br?* 2 N. Main St. PhonetJ^J NOTICa A fifteen per cent penalty vfl be added to all unpaid lfw CITY LICENSES if not paidM June 15, 1939. (Mrs.) LOUISE W. JBOYKIN CITY CLERK AND TREASURER Cimdnif Sooth C>n^ii r '. *' ' V ^-r - f r.. -%.t .", IV.tr'vSV ,i Z+*- .