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Work Begins on Santee-Cooper Project The above is a view of a piece of machinery in operation on the eastern leg M the Pinopoli* dam, which U a part of the $40,000,000 Santee Cooper liydro-clcctric and Navigation Project building near Charleston, South Carolina. R. M. Cooper, General Manager of the South Carolina Public Service Authority, that is building the Project, says that the development is progressing satisfactorily and that the Author ity and it* allied organizations now have working some 1,000 employees. These employees will be augmented rapidly as contracts are let and work starts on the clearing of the basin. There will be two lakes in connection with the Project, one the Pinopolis and the other the Santec, with a coverage of 225 square miles of water. The power house will have an installed capacity of 171,000 horsepower and will generate 700,000,000 kilowatt-hours annually. PALMETTO STATE LEAGUE All tho teams are maintaining tholr positions la the loaguo race, with Sumter Gamecocks aiul Chester Cards keenly battling for second place, while Hartsvllle's Sonocos are two games out in front and strutting like a peacock. W L Pet. Hartsvlllo 11 3 787 Sumter .. .. - y 4 *>93 Chester # 4 Lancaster 7 7 500 Camden 4 ** Kershaw 1 I4 0?7 The Palmetto enters Its ninth week of combat starting Tuesday when Chester trips over to the Lancaster Red Rose garden. Then on Thursday Hartsvlllo gallops over to attempt to tame the Sumter Gamecocks and the lowly but brave Kershaw Rebels trek ^ to the Camden Bulldog's lair. ( Saturday laincaster comes to Chester, Sumter to Hartsvllle and Camden to Kershaw. Thursday results: Hartsvllle 5, Cam- J den 1; Sumter (5, I^ancastor 2. ( Saturday results: Hartsvllle 9, Camden 0; Chester 14. Kershaw 0. ( Errors Costly In Saturday's Game Hartsvllle defeated Camden here last Saturday in a Palmetto league ( game by a score of 9 to 0. |( What promised to be a close game ^ for the tlrst few innings turned out to ( be a runaway for Hartsvllle when the Camden players began to boot the ball around Two runs scored in the first inning on a hit and an error. One in tin- fourth on a hit and error, two in the fifth "U two lilts, one ill the seventh on an error, three in tin- . ighth on a hit and two errors. Marvin allowed only four lilts to Caind- n and kept these well scattered j He was hacked by sensational fie hi-1 ing. ! Stew art. Norwood and Parker se-j cured three hits each for Hartsvllle. ! Tie- Camden ll? Idiufc was just about as ragged as ever wWne.->srd on a lo-j <al diamond, while Hartsvllle pla>edj errorless ball. 11 a r t s v i 1 le s center-1 fielder made .1 most sensational cn:< h of a long drive Tho Koore: R- H. E.i 1 la: tsvllle 9 12 0 Camden * 4 it.It tot io< Hartsvlllo. Ha r v 111 and n, o t' i m !< ti Taylor and Co\ Sonoco Socks Camden Chiefs lt.ifSV ille. .Iul> 2't Sonoco d.'f'Mt j ed Catiul-tt hove toda> iti a w. ;i-pla>, ,) cane , ' to 1 Clifton, pit, htng for SoTltu , kopt hi- hits Moll .-mattered. . stj.% ing on' tit': eon i\|glor. w ::h twu| for four, and Moo:,-. w:th one for t h. foe, led ('.linden a* bat. Cmidson.' wi*h two for hve. and Clifton, witli two for ' nr. led Sonoeo's hitting C.m,T ii 1 9 ft' Sonoco " s b M or,, and Con': Clifton and Parker i UNITED STATES SPENDS $32.00 | TO ABOUT $10.00 PAID IN' Wnshing'on. July 21.?The federal government spent an average of $32,-, 097.99S and took in an average of, $9,738.637 per day in the first half month of the new llseal year, running, up a deficit of $335,390,499. Treasury figures for July 15 showed that both expenditures and income were running close to comparable llgures of a year ago. Income of $146,079,4 71 compared with $148,932,860 a year ago. while expenditures this year, amounting 10 $481,469,973 we-re about $41,000,000 j larger than last year. An Increase of $172,583,255 since the new fiscal year began July 1. ^ brought the public debt to a new high $40,612,115,666. SIX-MONTH TOTAL8 8HOW INCREASE IN TRAFFIC DEATH8 Six-month totals of traffic accident* and deatha in South Carolina for 1939 show an Increase in accidents from 1,506 in 1938, to 1,651 in 1939, In deaths from 206 to 233. according to the regular monthly summary compiled by the state highway depart ment. Increased severity of fatal accidents is also revealed, said Wilbur S. Smith, traffic engineer. Two hundred thl.iythree died In 198 fatal accidents in the first half of 1939, 206 In 192 accidents in the same period In 1938. "More thorough accident reporting Is. no doubt, an important factor in the increase In accident and death figures." said Mr. Smith, "but the added knowledge of the seriousness of our accident situation should make everv driver and pedestrian resolve to help reduco the number of accidents. Drastic increase in deaths made the lune summary notable. A 15 per cent Increase in accidents was reported over the same month laBt year. Thirty-five persons died in 266 accidents reported to the highway department during the month. "Traffic deaths usually drop in June." Mr. Smith stated, "but last month's fatalities not only exceeded those of June, 1938, but also deaths from M&y accidents." Pedestrian accidents killed 16, thirpen males and three females. Ten [lied in non-collision accidents, six in crashes between two or more vehicles, im? each in collisions of vehicles with ;i motorcycle, bicycle and a fixed obM Fourteen hit-and-run accidents werej reported, the largest number recorded] ?inr,. December. 193S. and twice as j ma?v as in June. 193s. Four of these proved fatal, four resulted in personal injuries. All of the hit-and-run accidents occurrred on state highway-. Nine of the thirty-three fatal accidents occurred on Sunday, sixty-two ,,f the total of 266 accidents. "The Sunday figures are significant when contrasted with those for Saturday." pointed out M r Smith Duly thr.e or fifty-five accidents reported ;,s happening on Saturday proved fa t; 11 " I Violations of traffic rules by more ,han ha]f of the di ivers involved in 1 41,,1 a.a blent- were reported. Of these thirt \ nine driers. t-n w.-iv said t--j 1?. driUng too fast for conditions fiv.' on the wrong side of the 10.o. a.i? j e,,ir pas-tug rtiprop" r.> . : Thtrteen drives - we:, a-b-.p a- t:>time of the accidents in whi. h they >v ., ?-d. * wo of w !i uu w ec op . rat ;m: v.-hi. h-s in fatal 1 rashes This .ooi-us-is high number of sleeping driven is over one third of the total reported during all of l', v I-tuiiP's for 193v show thirty-seven drivers asleep, only three in fatal accidents During the comparable period. June | U36. only two drivers were reported , a-h^'P. neither of whom was In a U . o 'don' Na/i ijuarters said tills w-ek that, the Kcv Martin Nieinoeller. evangel: t a I church pastor and World war submarine hero, had been given a physical examination at Snchsenhaus.-n < onceiitrat ion .amp July It Nienioeiler was suffering from a nervous optica! ailment, but was otherwise 'entirely b<-al'by." it was said. He was arrested July 1. 1937. after long vigor1 011 s campaign against nazifiratioti of I the church. ! A 125-rar freight train mn over 10i year-old Robert Robb but he lived to tell his experience Ilobbly dropped ! his bathing suit Tuesday at Pittsburgh I while he and a playmate were walking derven the Pennsylvania railroad tracks toward a swimming hole. He said he stooped to pick 1t up and that's the last I remember" I I Heyday of Valentines Was During 19th Century The heyday of valentines us we know them came during the Nineteenth century During its third dec- , ade printers both here and in England had so perfected their methods of printing, of embossing paper ami of die-cutting it in lacy patterns that they could produce those elaborate and ornate valentines which now interest collectors with a fond- , ness for items of the Victorian period. In fapt, these intricately wrought pieces of paper made for use on a , ingle day in the year, St. Valen- j tine's, bear a distinct relationship in elaborateness of pattern to s contemporary product, lacy sandwich glass, writes Agnes L. Sasscler in "American Collector." Consider the minute details of both the valentines and the glass of the Cape Cod factory and you will And that the spirit was the same. Both were products of the romantic movement which permeated Europe, England and the United States, influencing literature, art, music and architecture. Applied to decoration, it hus come to be known as early Victorian. But the idea behind the custom of sending these decorative missives on February 14, stemmed back to an old pagan practice. Just how the name of a Roman bishop who perished during a persecution of th? Christians in 170 A. D. became associated with this feast is not clear. There is a tradition that the Emperor Claudius, finding married men loath to leave home to wage his wars, decreed that no new marriages were to be performed; but Valentine ignored the mandate and continued secretly to marry the young couples. Whereupon he was beheaded. Whether this is fact or fancy, February 14 became known as St. Valentine's day early In the Christian era. Dresses Made From Corn Suggested by New Patent Women soon may be wearing dresses made from corn. This is suggested by a method for preparing a new, strong, water-resistant artificial silk from corn meal, described in a patent (No. 2,156,929) granted to Lloyd C. Swallen of Terr? Haute, Ind. Corn meal is the source of zein, a protein-like substance, and it is from the zein that the artificial filaments are spun, much like a silkworm spins real silk. The zein is extracted frsm the corn meal by a suitable solvent and while in solution is forced through tiny orifices from which it flows as liquid filaments. These plastic filaments are led into a coagulating bath, a solution containing ordinary formaldehyde. The formaldehyde hardens the filaments so that they can readily be withdrawn from the bath. Now the filament is heated to evaporate the water and to bring about further reaction between the formaldehyde and zein and give the filaments their final tough structure. Zein filaments can be twisted together into yarns and then be woven into all sorts of textile fabrics, it is indicated. The artificial silk made from corn can be dyed to any color". A feature in the use of zein in making artificial silk is that there is no need for "ripening" the zein solution before it is spun, as is necessary in the case of artificial silk made from cellulose and cellulose derivatives. This is said to save time. Silver's History Originally a trading post colony of the Netherlands, New York's first silversmiths were mostly of Holland ! Dutch birth or heritage, and al- ' though by 1660 New York had be- | , come an English colony, the silver j made by its craftsmen retained the Dutch flavor, both in design and or' namentution. Gradually tins was modified by the influx of English I and Huguenot craftsmen. The re: suit was pieces of silver with a dis! tinction all their own. Ir. form and ornamentation they were a mingling ! of both the Dutch and English trad.tions with slight touches of the French, reflecting the presence of a ; tightly knit though small group of . Huguenots. Because of these three influences, New York silver until the | middle of the Eighteenth century ! and, in some cases, almost to the ' outbreak of the American Revolution varied distinctly from that being made ui the other English colonies. Marble Table Tops From Elizabethan England ccme records of marble store table tops j in 1588, although it was not until the early part of the Eighteenth century that marble appeared as an important furnishing feature in England. Its use in Italy most probably predates this, since the natural resources there and the architectural character of the furniture would both encourage the use of marble. Giants' Causeway There is no natural phenomenon anywhere to compare to the Giants' Causeway, on the flnrthern coast of Ireland, with its piled masses of hexagonal rocks, a gigantic and fantastic honeycomb in stone It is one of the wonders of the world. No highway by the sea surpasses in gTandeur the magnificent coast road which leads to it. What, When And Why Are Dog Days? ' 1 H'K Days" tlio term applied to ih.it unpleasant, hot and sultry season ot mid summer occurring in July and August Popular belief has lent credence to numerous superstitions about this season. The most widespread is that It Is the season when dogs are most likely to contract rabies and go mad and that is the reason for iho name There is no foundation of tact lor this belief, and more cases of rabies in dogs occur In the early spring and late fall than during mid-summer. | The name "dog days" originated with the ancient (Jreeks and Unmans, wlio applied it to tlie heliacal rising I of Sirlus, the Dog Star, tho brightest and largest of the stars In the heavens Heliacal rising is the time when tiie star, after being practically in conjunction with tiie sun and Invisible, emerges from the light to be visible in the morning before sunrise. The ancients counted the Dies Caniculures, (dog days), twenty days before and twenty days after the rising of the star. At that time the period was approximately between July 3 and August 11. Greeks, Komuns and Egyptians of ancient times believed that tlie appearance of this star was the cause of extreme heat, drought and pestilence. On account of the procession of the equinoxes, Sirlus, the Dog Star, no longer rises with the sun during this period, and "dog days" are not assigned any definite dates. The term is generally applied now to the forty days of the hottest season of the year. Only by mere accident did the rising of the star coincide with this season of hottest weather In ancient times. The time of rising depends on the latitude, and occurs later every year in all latitudes, owing to precession. Eventually the Dog Star may rise in mid-winter. Another prevalent suporstition is that snakes go blind during dog days. There is some foundation for this belief, as temporarily Impaired vision occurs In snakes when they are Bloughing their skins In summer, but the same Is true when they slough during other seasons. The eyes of snakes acquire a milky appearance shortly before the slough is cast, due to the separation of the outer layer of epl-j dermis from the cornea, and this results in impaired vision. Ordinarily,snaked slough twice In a season; once' after hibernation, and " again about J mid-summer or later. Young and! growing snakes shed their skins more frequently.?The Augusta Chronicle. Funds sufficient to operate the Herty foundation laboratory In Savannah, Ga., for a year on tihe same basis as j during the past year have been arranged for, it was announced this, week by Elliott Reed, secretary-treasurer. The laboratory has made several successful experiments In the manufacture of newsprint and other paper products from Southern woods. $300,000 TO BE PAID CONFEDERATE VETERAN8 AND WIDOW8 Columbia, July 24.?Warrants have been Issued from the Comptroller General's office for Confederate pensions, which are being paid to sixtyseven veterans and 1,397 widows. The total payments approximate $300,000. After planning originally to mail the warrants directly to the pensioners, Comptroller General A. J. Beattie decided to go back to the former method of sending the money to the county probate judges for distribution. This was decided, Beattie said, because of the changed addresses of many pensioners. The total 67 veterans is believed to be approximately the number still alive In the state. There were a few who never applied for pensions. A check of the list of veterans Bhowed that Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun, Hampton, Horry, Newberry and Union counties have no veterans receiving pensions. There are still widows in every county of the state, however, since many of the soldiers married women much younger than themselves. NOTICE The Hermitage Hake commission has asked us to confine the use of our cabin, boat landing and bathing beach to our club members and families. We, therefore, request all who have boats and have been using our landing and beach to discontinue doing so and that all boats other than those belonging to members be removed. We expect to cooperate fully with the commission's request. C. H. YATES, President. RE8OLUTION8 PA88ED BY 8TATE H08PITAL BOARD Columbia, July 17.?The following resolutions were passed by the Board of Regents of the 8outh Carolina State Hospital at Its regular monthly meeting Thursday, July 13, 1939: Whereas, the official reports show that on this day the South Carolina State hospital has 4,459 patients, and that during the year ending June 30, 1939, 1,603 patients were admitted, and Whereas, In spite of the increased facilities at the hospital which have been made possible by acts of the legislature and loans and grants from the federal government, the institution Is now overcrowded, and Whereas, it Is recognized by medical and psychiatric authorities that no single factor militates more against I the recovery of mentally sick patients than overcrowding, now, therefore, be it Resloved by the Board of Regents thAt the upwintendent be and he is hereby directed to limit admissions to the State Hospital so far as possible Further, that he send a copy of this resolution to those agencies in the state concerned with the commitment of patients asking their continued cooperation in meeting the problem which now confronts the hospital. | Be it further resolved, that in order that the citizens of the state be fully acquainted with the situation at the hospital that a copy of these resolutions be furnished the newspapers of the state. Family Mourns Passing of Father The bereaved family of the late Thomas A. Ross wish to thank all for the sympathy rendered during their sorrow. The many deeds of kindness were very consoling. We sincerely ap predate the companionship of our dear friends, who so well understood the grief caused by his departure. HIS CHILDREN. 18 pd. BANK ROBBERS?LITTLE AftO BIG ? By Dln^ OarUn, II I.I' .-? "' 1 ' ' ' ?r _ 1 CHEVROLET Figure gas, oil, upkeep, tires . . .1 and you'll agree v w/fh thousands of Chevrolet owners that . . i ITS THE MOST ECONOMICAL CAR ?VT 1^1|*T IX | And remember this?Chevrolet's 85-h.p. valve-in-head 111 X X U X XUlil/ engine excels in performance as well as economy. THOUSANDS of motorists have subjected 1939 Chevrolets to the Mileage Meter test. In cars with gauges feeding a measured quantity of fuel to the engine, these thousands have seen how the 1939 Chevrolet stretches out each gallon of fuel to make It go farther?extra miles farther. What about oil? 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