The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 08, 1939, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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"Red" Lynch Is
On The Way Back
(Hy Tho Skipper)
Eric the Ked" (Wallace) Kynch,
sensational Caimlen hl#h school pitcher
In 1U37, who astounded the baseball
fan# hy oatttbllahlnK a 17 strikeout
per game average for the season.
Is definitely on the road back.
"Ked" really had the fans sitting on
the edge of their seats during 1936J7
and 3S when he was the leading
mound artist for the local highs. In
IMG ho led the team to a district
title and Into the playoff for the
lower state championship. In 1?87
the team went through a brilliant
season and was defeated in a close
game for the state title by Olympla
Highs of Columbia. In 11*38 tho firetop
was again In the spot light by
keeping the team up In the riu'? 'or
honors.
This year the boy began to slip.
His work with tho Highs, the Junior
Legion and the Palmetto leaguers was
mediocre and it looked as If the
amazing youngster was due for oblivion
He went to Hock Hill, pitching
for the Bloachery Cuba in the
mill league that prevails up that way.
Because of being out of condition
Lynch failed to stick with the Cubs.
About this time his father stepped Into
tin- picture, took Ked home to
Croat Falls and put him back Into
training. I
When a few days ago the Kock Hill
Cubs came to Great Falls to play they
were amazed when Lynch walked out
on the mound for tho home team.
Their amazement grew In leaps and
bounds as they watched a rejuvenated
pitcher mow them down with clocklike
precision. And when the game
was over Lynch was credited with a
one-hit performance and that lone hit
was a scratch affair. Not a Cub bad
crossed tire ?pluxu,
Big league baseball scouts undeistand
baseball talent and some of the
gentry vlsioned splendid possibilities
In the red headed bov. A New \ ork
Ciant scoi.n offered Lynch a tidy sum
to sign a Ciant contract and offered
to get him on the stall of one of the
Clan* Class 1> latin teams Lynch
however dei lined to sign at present.
-K. ?| |,y tu h was a .sensation as a
high school pitcher, especially in 1Mb
and I7. Perhaps the fact that he
h;(l| ,t lie ids i atrher to handle his offeline
may ha\?* been a factor, for
Kim:; Reeves had an uncanny ability
to w rk the batters And In the inHeld
and outfield tho pitcher had a
well ItulaU1 ed and sweet performing
fcroup back of him We mention such
lads as Doug Lynch. Wilburt Williams.
Ceorg. West. John Hammond. Jack
Marson 11. Kmerson Bratihain and Kdward
Crolley.
It was the baseball of 1M7 and IMS
tliat Lynch his background.
With lus support ( In king beautifully
and guided by the fine judgment of
his coach.,11 A Small. Ked ' really
went to town When the boy left
high si hool and w cut into semi pro
ball on his o\s n. he lost his effeet
i\ t rt? ss
Now that Ho- t. mperutm utal rnb
Jl, ,|i J i ? \\ 11 11 it;- ! .1 t d V .Old k ?' p'. tig
k.io.i hours. .-."ending s'rh tly to the
1 ,||. - of good tug. h. is on the :' a l
b.t, k iiuh -- we a *' ate uus'aken. and
will go a long way :i pt o ba-' oa;?
Whtie speaking >!" ha--bail. C.uub r
in p: o a- : i-'ti n- \t y . a ' Bubb? r'
h.ls .Oi.lthi r pit. he; \\ Jl" W.h be S < '(*11
M,,,, a t:;. I cols' .i- : Jo
I' i! n Co ; .,g ".h! Hi- past
A - :. b "! ., ..'tcra.o bv
r ' .,' ! ( ! i \lici-t. I'll' ?le
' . 'o'-iki. as he he aw.,1 H
x v:p" Camden Pa!
J *; ' .ill at. ' hi ig.t t toil
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Mo.o - pa. '
At. >:h. - Camd-Ii V-r T,:'g.
si a wli - w-il i- nr w.," httig i;
Rich:.rd ID!' s-'. >;. Pr,'sb> c i :ai
colb'-i-e star w ho was wi .. tin t hi. f
this season ImBOSe pitched beii'lti
fnl btil ' a medloc: e ciuli. Had h<
had n team bark of bun 'bat boastm
a few good hitters he would have beet
the sensation of the last month of 'h
league race.
The immediate reaction in Spain t
news of fighting between Polish anGerman
troops was that the natiot
would maintain the strictest neutral
jty Newspapers carried editorial
urging that Spain take all necessar;
steps to remain neutral In the con
fllct.
France Enters
With Full Force
Paris, Sept. 4?Fraiiffc opened land,
sea and ale "operations" today ugalust
Geniumy.
Tho war mlnlHtry announced the
nation's full forces went Into action
In u campaign to relieve German presHure
on France's eastern ally. Poland.
On the western front, It was reported
In corridors of the chamber of
deputies, a French land offensive was
concentrated In tho Belfort region
where the Burgundy gate cuts across
tho Khlne Into the relch, Just north
of the three-cornered border between
France, Switzerland and Germany.
The Burgundy gate Is a valley running
northwest between the Vosges
mountains and tho Alps into Gor
inany's Blac k forest.
Details of any planned attack to
crack Germany's vaunted "westwall
fortifications across from France's
Maglnot line wore withheld.
The alrforce was understood to hi
cooperating with land forces, while
the fleet held battle positions in the
western Mediterranean.
Authorities started emptying hospl
tabs for military use. The first night
of France's state of war with Ger
many had passed without word on the
firing of u shot.
The communique came as the firs
Indication that France's g.UUU.OOU-niar
military machine had gone Into ac
tlon.
Shortly before 11 a. m.. French
heavy bombers flew low over the cap
Ital. heading eastward toward the
German Frontier.
The weather, dismal during Sun
day's final flurry of ultimatums, and
declarations turned favorable to mill
tary operations this morning.
The sun broke through and dried
out the terrain for the movement to
ward the Rhine frontier.
The official Journal published a
short notice which was sent to the
foreign powers" yesterday in con for
mlty with a Hague convention recjuiing
notice of the opening of hostilities.
Following the aggression directed
by Germany against Poland, thy notice
said, in part, "a state ot war exists
bet ween France and Germany from
I September 3. 1039, at 5 p. m '11 a.
j in . K S '1' >"
Britain and France k
| Join With Poland
Loudon. Sepi t ?Great Britain and
France were joined with Poland today
in war against Germany ? a war that
within its first 21 hours saw a British
merchantman sunk at sea.
The British niinstry of intormation
said the ship was torpedoed with 311
Ftiitcd States citizens among the more
than 1.40?> persons aboard her.
Victim of the torpedo was tho
| Donaldson Atlantic liner Athenla
which, sank about 200 miles west of
tile Hebrides, off northern Scotland.
, before daybreak of the second day of
I warfare between Germany and Brit!
a in.
I i:n.in> too. apparently was to feel
fihi' might of Britain's navy as its
'i fit si t.isr.. el warfare with the nation
wlic-'- s<'.ipower was overwhelming in
XVor! I War - > yours ago
I"ho |l:"itlsh home fleet was in full
; i.iii and sis ships at their
1 ; stations, evidently to enforce
a blot kado of Germany
1; Briti-h admiralty for control of < on'
tr.it'.1:1 ! atid s.-arches of -hips indicato,|
|t: train's b;o? kade of Germany was
jjit.) -orce quit k!> following 'he
.i> ? .a; a ion t>f Prime Minister ( hamhefla.n
\'-sterd.?> tha' a state ot war
,x .. rw . ti Britain ami German>
' 1'he -ta'e of war began at 11 a. m
, , ni KST i. w hen a British xi 11i1
inaiutn to Germanx to call her arnr.es
,u- of Poland expired without an ans
' w.r from Berlin
Se\en hours later a similar Frencfc
1 ul>imat um to Germany expired
Thus Biitain and France were join
'* cd again as they were in 11*14. rbh
"'.tunc ill fulfillment of their pledges tc
! help Pol a ml defend her Independence
'l ' Plans, carefully made against th<
' fateful day that Chamberlain sab
J could tie no longer avoided. wen
rushed into force
^ I Bowling greens established It
' Southamton. England, in 1S>29 an
1- still in use.
9. An average of 7.000 people a da;
. have received raise increases In Kng
y I land this year
A Saxon pocket sundial was dug ui
in Canterbury, England.
i
Fire Towerman Is
Winner in Contest
Tim sixty-two men who man South
Carolina forest fire towers do not have
lonely Jobs far away from their fam
Hies a a do the towermen In the high
mountains of the far west. Each of
the South Carolina towermen has a
ten acre area which Is fenced and upon
which he farina during'such portion
of the ,year when he 1b not on
duty on the tower. Each year the i
State Commission of Forestry gives a
prize to the towerman who has done
the most outstanding work In the upkeep
of the tower, the towermau's
residence, the barn and" the tower
grounds.
The winning tower during the past
year was the Corbln tower which Is
located in upper Greenville County
right on the North Carolina liua. It
may be reached by turning off the
Greenville-Brevard Highway and many
visitors drive to this high point to
visit the towerman. The tower Is
3020 feet above soalevel. During one
month there were visitors from 28
states and the greatest number of
| visitors during any one month was
911.
Walter Wfttzl Is the towerman on
duty and he reports fires occurring In
South Carolina to the personnel of
the South Carolina Forest Service, and
j those occurring In North Carolina are
I reported to the North Carolina Division
of Fire Control of the Department
of Conservation. The coldest
weather experienced on the tower was
on December 1, 1.937 when the ternpperature
was one degree below zero.
I'sually 50 per cent of the visitors are
from South Carolina, 25 per cent are
from North Carolina and 25 per cenC
are from other States.
Some of the visitors have been from
China, England, Guatemala, Canada
j.nil Puerto Rico. One of the most
distinguished visitors was the son of
scientist Einstein who visited the
lower during the autumn of 1938. The
towerman records a tremendous
amount of data; number of visitors,
weather conditions, etc., and during
his spare time developed many ingenious
adjuncts to the instrument he
uses to locate woods fires.
Among the activities of the towerman
in addition to his fire detection
duties were the raising of 18 bushels
of Irish potatoes on three-quarters of
an acre. He also raised cabbages,
beans, okra, carrots, beets, peas, corn,
tomatoes, turnip greens and cucumbers.
He canned 30 quarts of vegetables
and set out 30 ever-green trees
and shrubs, principally pines and
cedars. He planted rye in his garden
in order to have winter coverage and
also raised a 300 pound hog. butchered
it and smoked tlit* meat. During
the year he constructed a chicken pen.
fenced the chicken yard and raised
21 chickens.
He built a small shed, hauled earth
and rock to improve the tower grounds
painted the tower and repuitied the
windows.
He (lug a cellar under the house
as a storage place for vegetables.
This cellar was dug by hand, and all
of the dirt was moved from under the
hou>e by hand using buckets and was
spread around the house to improve
I tin- appearance. During the previous
year he wired the houso and being
far removed from a power line he installed
a wind-charger to provide current
for his radio and lights. Naturally
the hog had to have a pen and the
! towerman built a hog pen.
Towerman Watzl was awarded first
j prize for his activities which were
c.it tied on under adverse conditions,
particularly his farming which was
a rocky mountain top, and no livestock
was available to assist him. All
farming labor was done by means of
hand tools. Just between times Mr
t Watzl kept up the twisting mountain
road which connects his home with
the outside world, and also maintain
t ed the telephone system by which he
reports forest Tiros to the fire sup
- presshm forces and landowners in
*1 North Carolina and South Carolina
"5} The Atktns tower n?-ar the town ol
Atkins in 1 c-e County is manned b>
? I Frank Hill and this tower won second
II prize in the (ontest. The towermar
- planted two apple trees, one peat
tree, three grape vines, two dogwoodt
and an abundance of flowers, holly
\ and approximately 100 evergreer
shrubs.
f The towerman maintained the towei
" building, grounds In excellent shape
and on his ten acre subsistence farrr
[>
has one cow, TO chickens, two hog!
a it it two pigs. "e raised 75 bushels
of corn lust year as well ua eubbages,
tomatoes, onlona, beana. peas, okru,
turulps, cucumbers, 20 buabela of
aweel potatoes, Irlab potatoea and
winter turnipa In aufficienl quantity
to feed hia family, which conalats of
bla wife and four email children. In
addition they canned 20 quarts of
vegetables.
Mr. il111 drained a low spot in hie
field by digging a ditch to a nearby
canal and planted many roeebushee
around hie home. Mr. Hill ie to be
complimented on hie excellent work
both on the tower and in the matter
of maintaining hie subsistence farm.
Close competitors In last year's
competition were R. R. McTeer,
Adams Run tower, in Charleston
County; J. M. Gettys, Camden tower
in Kershaw County; J. K. Sml^h,
Scotia tower in Hampton Coupiy;
Abner Gilstrap, Sassafras Mountain
tower at the highest point in South
Carolina In Pickens County; R. M. McDonald
at the Lane tower in Williams
burg County; Clyde Harley at the
Harnwell tower near the town of
Harnwell and Floyd Hucks at the
Rrltton's Neck tower in Marion County.
The competitors foi the present
year will be Judged sometime after
September 1st and at a later date the
prize winners will be announced. The
S. C. Forest Service towerman subsistence
farms are indicative of what
farmers can do on small areas in the
way of providing a living for their
families. In many cases the success
of the towerman's farms can be attributed
to the advice and assistance re|
ceived by them from the county agricultural
agents and District Foresters
of the S. C. Forest Service.
A high official said' in Washington
Thursday, that he believed that the
federal government should not do any
finajicing during^ September beeatrse
of the existing European war.
General News Notes
James Clay, Shelby, N. C., youth,
waa sentenced to serve tlve ?,lays ip
Juil on a charge of violating the quar-'
amine against infantile paralysis. l)r.
Z. P. Mitchell suid he hatj ordered
Clay quarantined for 2 after a
case of the malady developed In a
Patterson Spring* 'home where the
youth had been visiting. On several
occasions, he testified, Clay left his
quarters and possibly exposed other
persons to the disease.
Sheriff Fred Patterson, of Sllverton,
Colo., escorted two CIO union leaders
out of town Tuesday night after 200
men broke up a miners' strike meeting.
After they left, the 118 miners
at the meeting voted to dissolve the
CIO local, set up an independent union
and end the strike, they had waged
against the Shenandoah Dives gold
and silver mine for seven weeks. They
had demanded a reduction in hours.
| Governor Clyde R. Hoey, o{ North
Carolina, says he will proclaitn the
last Thursday in November as
! Thanksgiving day in North Carolina
and added that reasons advanced for
the suggested change to a date a
week earlier "are not impressive."
I "After mature consideration, I have
decided it would be unwise to change
the date for Thanksgiving day," Governor
Hoey said.
Allen Shelton, 22, of Marseilles, 111.,
is being hailed as a hero for his brave
but futile attempt to save two young J
men and two young women trapped
in an automobile which burst into
flames after sideswiping his own car|
on a highway east of Marseilles,'
Thursday. Shelton was seriously
burned while trying to save the four,
occupants of the burning auto and'
was taken to a hospital at Ottawa.'
Burned to death when trapped in the'
flaming machine were Miss Dorothy j
i Brogan, 19; Miss Sue Klmak, 17;
MTChaei Grutka, ?2; -&n?l John Titra,
I Jr., 22, all of Joliet.
? ? .
Dierf In Athens, Ga. 1
R. N. McLeod, formerly of Sumter ^ '
county, died suddenly early Monday
morning, August 28, in Athens, Ga., B
where he had made his home for a B
number of years.
He is survived by his widow, the '
former Miss Mamie Warren, Sumter; I j
one son, Norman; a brother, D. C. j
McLeod, of Tampa, Fla.; and a sister, :
Miss Ethel McLeod, of Wysacky, in fl
Lee county.
Funeral services were conducted at
Athens, Tuesday afternoon, at 5
o'clock.?Bishopville Messenger.
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Camden TheatrP
FRIDAY, SEPT. g
Robert Montgomery a:ul
Ann Sothern In >
"MAISIE"
>oooe?< ?<?opo?^?oop#oidoo<
SATURDAY, SEPT. 9.
Stuart Erwin anil Gloria Stuart iu
"IT COULD
HAPPEN TO YOU"
SATURDAY NIGHT~10;30
Anna Mae Wong and
J. Carrol Naish In
"ISLAND OF LOST MEN"
>?ooooooooooo+oooo+ixnxn
MONDAY find TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 11?12
Robert Donat with the lovely new
Star, Greer Garaon, In
"COODBY MR. CHIPS'*
lODonnflftflNiflftftflfloormiioi,
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13
Preston Poster and Lynn Bar! in
"NEWS IS MADE
AT NIGHT"
)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOO OOOO*
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 14?15
Johnny Weissmuller and
Maureen O'Sullivan In
"TARZAN FINDS
A SON"
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