Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?* ^ ^ ^* | 5 ^ Cruising ii 1 Around : s; S i wtth !;'] . ':l "Skipper" K??a i? pay?r the olhwr day -bout a guy who has luvented a atop d KO signal contrapt;lou which can be used for the control of public speakers. Not a bad hlea, eh what? Hv the way motorists, hero's a valuable tip- U?de?' the 8tat0 law a drl" vt., of a car Is required to signal with his band when ho Is going to make H iefi or right turn, slow down or il0p And the law requires that these signals shall be given continuously for one hundred feet before change of direction. If you do not know the signals here they are: Deft turn, hold left arm out of car wiudow extended straight out; right turn, left arm extended out of wludow, bent at elbow so hand Is pointing upward; stop or slow, left arm and hand pointing downward. Wish we could meet and thank every person who cooperated with us in the putting on of the state's greatest cotton festival. But there were so many It would be a hopeless task, so we are taking this means of saying to you that we did appreciate everything you did and when we say you. we really mean you. The yearlings did not do so bad against a scrappy and heavy Mount Holly team last Friday night. With Cox. Merrill, McCasklll and other regulars sitting In the bleachers in civilian clothes the youngsters took the held and managed to eke out two touchdowns and one conversion, as against two touchdowns and two extra points made by the boys from Hie mountains. The score was 14 to 13. Many of the youngster's who saw action had been in the game at Newberry the night before, but they played heads-up football every minute In spite of the fact that they were attempting an iron-man stunt. Coach John Villepigue was not present on the mourners bench being away on a scouting Junket. The crowd was not as large as wft- expected, due to the fact that entrance to the held called for an outlay of six bits, which many of the faus vlid not care to lay down because of the game being more or less of a practice affair. | t t c Talked with a number of rooters who came down from" Mount Holly with the team. They declined to accept my statement that Camden was using second and third team talent. In-as-much as the boys from the hills were leading at the time 7 to 6, they concluded I was Just putting over the old home-town alibi. We did learn that Mt. Holly is about 12 miles from Charlotte, boaBts a DuPont plant, and has a population of about 2,700. The high school enrollment runs about 247. We will say that the boys from up ibat way had a nice team, packing a lot of power on the offensive and offering a fairly effective defense. The uniforms, new this season, were itstanding and having the effect of nuking the boys look like human zeas. . Those line lads over in Sumter who had prepared for a six thousand turnit for the SQUth Carolina-Davidson - tme as a feature of the Sumter I' nihty fair sure took It on the chin. . he attendance at the game was arcely three thousand, lower by veral hundred than the turnout for :h - Camden-Sumter high school game. * South Carolina won the game and irankly. we believe It will be the on, v same to be won by the Gamecock am this season. I"he Duke bubble exploded at Pltts:rgh last Saturday when an under,i Pitt Panther team nosed out the Hlue Devils in a game that saw the Panthers outplay the famed Wade ut fit. ? Southern Methodist came close to > > ing the Notre Dame team, the Texts lads losing by but one point. The M U. outfit takes on another Cath '.ie squad tomorrow when the/ battle Paddy Driscoll's Marquette Hill oppers. The Camden Highs take on Brookland-Cayce tonight and should win without trouble. Next week the Bulldogs will find some tough opposition when a scrappy Chester g*ug invades the l<ft:al grldlro^. !>- * -, The festival parade, pronounced by . - . - . | young hikI old. us the mostbeautl ful over to travel over the streets of Camden, would have been far more effective If the at reels had been clear of automobiles. The original plan of Keeping the car# from the few blocks of the downtown district through which the parade moved was one that all communities adopt, but because of the wail that wopt up from the business {houses, the no-parking regulation was I cancelled. As a result the streuts were parked deusely with cars, forcing the parade to move in the narrow lane between the parked autos. in other communities of the Caro Unas where festivals of a similar nature as the Camden cotton festival are held, the business districts are roped off and carl are not even permitted to travel over the streets. We recall last year, coming down via bus from Fayottevllle, having to circle one of the tobacco festival cities. Well, we had to stoke up the old boiler Sunday to get the chill out of tho house. And a lot of others did the same. Suppose It will mean some hustling for the ttro laddies, as sooty chimneys, cracks In bricks, etc., always mean fire calls In the fall of the year. ? After mapy weeks of Inactivity, the fire trucks roared over the pavements Sunday. One call, in the iuorniug, came when a garage at the Yates home on Broad street was destroyed by flames. In the afternoon the flromon were called to a grass fire out on Broad street. Joe Bates continues to win honors las Sir Lancelot. Over in Sumter Saturday Joe won the lancing tournament while Kirby Tupper took first honors In a hoss race. And so these Camden polo gladiators continue to bring honor and glory to their alma mater. In high school grid circles last week Sumter showed a lot of power In trimming Hartsvllle 27 to 0, Anderson downed Chester 13 to 12 while Florence defeated Darlington 26 to 7. Speaking of that Darlington game the adding machine In the ticket office ran amuck with a news story attendance of five thousand. Happening to drive through Darlipgton Sunday we stopped for a soft drink and while visiting with a lad at the filling station we complimented Darlington upon such a flue turnout. The boy, who said he was a member of the football squad, laughed and said that the attendance figure was slightly exaggerated, that the gate was nearer one thousand, if that. ? ? Ward Cuff, the versatile Ail-American who went to the New York Giants from the Marquette university team of Rose Bowl caliber, is doing the major part of the scoring for the world champions. In a recent protitle game Cuff scored all of the touchdowns and kicked all of the exi tra points. LOU GEHRIG NAMED PAROLE COMMISSIONER IN NEW YORK New York, Oct. 11.?Mayor La-| Guardia today appointed Lou Gehrig, former New York Yankee star first baseman incapacitated by a subtle form of paralysis, a city parole commissioner. The appointment for a term of slightly more than 10 years, carries a salary 01 $6,000. less a current 6 per cent pay cut. The commission is a five-man board headed by the police and corregion commissioners, ex officio, 'with three members appointed by the mayor. "The matter has been under advisement for over four months," the mayor said in making the announcement at the summer city hall in Queens. "In the meantime, Mr. Gehrig has read about all the reports on parole fhat have been published and several conferences with him, and the final decision was made a few days ago. I "i believe he will not only be an able. Intelligent commissioner, but: {that he hlmseTTwlll be an inspiration and a hope to many of the younger boys who have gotten Into trouble." Cemetery Thieves Convicted I Chester. Oct; 7.?Lock Johnson, 49, j Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 45, and Alder Mae I Hartsell, 19, all of Rock Hill, were I found guilty in general sessions today of stealing shrubbery in Zlon cemetery at Lowrys, Chester county. Circuit Judge G. Duncan Bellinger sentenced them to be confined in the, Cheater county Jail or the state penitentiary, at what labor they may be ablerto perrorm. for two years. Upon completion of nine months, rest of the sentence will be suspended. Ruth Williams, fourth defendant, was ordered by the court to spend 30 days under observation at the State Hospital, Columbia. 1 Solicitor W. Olat Tlnley said tha defendants were arrested recently In York county on similar charges. Thumb Riding Is Typically American Tho extended thumb and the effusive cry, "(Join" my way, Mister?" are ' as typically American aa corn on tbo J cob, baseball guinea or patchwork j quilts. ( No village ia too amull or metropo- ' lis too largo to huvo its quota of hitchhikers on strategic corners. This j nomadic fraternity may be roughly dl- < vided into three grounds. The first builds no good will for j the profession. They are the "bums" i whose clothing and appearance belie J any aspiration they might have to- t ward gentility. Usually middle-aged 1 aged or approaching senility, they are the vagabonds or derelicts who sel- ' dom expect motorists to pick them up and do their signaling on the wing. * instead of their rootB, as it were, on some corner until a ride came along, ' they plod down the road with the ' vague hope that some truck driver, caring more for companionship than ' outward appearance, will give them a j lift and possibly a free meal. They are tho ne'er-do-wells of the 1 hitch hiking fraternity. Dapper col- \ legians may feel compassion for , these outcasts, but ceytalnly no sense of comradeship in tho fact that both J seek rides gratis. The second group is responsible j more than any other for developing . hitchhiking Into a fine art. They are the collegiate and prep-school flu- ( esse and acquaintances to And them ] rides?with apearance counting an easy 76 per cent. Fuly award that hair-raising tales have crept into newspaper columns appropos hitchhikers robbing if not scalping their Samaritans, these young adventurers seem to flaunt tho fact they've reduced risk to an absolute mlmimum. Look at my smart now clothes, my smiling countenance,, the stickers on my baggage. Surely no one would have any qualms about sharing their travel with such a noble, upstanding young man. There are certainly unwritten rules that hitch-hikers of the first water are prone to follow. Seldom if ever do they hail a woman driver when she is alone. It Just isn't according to Hoyle. Putting themselves in her place, they wouldn't take the risk either. They've discovered that an expansive smile Is a decided asset. Even when a plutocrat in'a shiny limousine splatters mud on their new suit, stepping on the accelerator at the sign of the thumb, a manor-born hitch-hiker will emit that I-knowyou're-rushing-to-see-your-sick - grand mother sort of smile. The rule of seniority goes In hitchhiking. If you reach a certain corner only to discover that other persons with the same purpose have established themselves at three-yard Intervals for several blocks, all the rules of thumbing etiquette compel you to take the hindmost position. This is not always unfortunate, however. since motorists have known to pass brazenly the thumbing brigade only to succumb and pick up the last person in line. Perhaps the procedure has something to do with "underdog" psychology. Such mass exhibition of hitchhikers are often staged when colleges dismiss classes for holidays. In some Instances this mode of travel approaches a necessity, the paid means of transportation being unable to cope with the sudden overflow of students. In most instances, however. the motive is purely financial as students apparently recall the timeproven statement that a "penny saved is a penny earned". The collegiate and prep-school | hitch-hikers are the more polished of the thumbing family. They do not condescend to cry, "Ooln' my way, Mister?" Many utter no requests but muster a quiet dignity while extending stnile and thumb. Others simply inquire?Raleigh? Chapel Hill? Durham? The road between Chapel Hill and Durham has long been a happy hunting ground for hitch-hikers. An annual occurrence, however, is the corral at the beglnlng of every school year, of a dozen or more youths who have violated the thumbing rule In .Chapel Hill. This rule Is that one must stand on the curb or sidewalk and not In the street while soliciting rides. These youths are tried In city court, fined and the matter duly publicized In the Daily Tar Heel. Although this doesn't mitigate the number of hitch-hikers it puts a definite quietus on the would-be violators of tho city statute. The third group of hitch-hikers are the more numerous of the species. They are the fledglings whose itinerary is brief and the distance to be covered usually between 5 and 50 miles. Youths In streamlined, multicolored shirts, slacks and saddle shoes thrumbtng to a nearby town to see a show or ball game. With neither baggage nor Incumbrance, they offer little threat to the motorist concerned for his safety. This group Is less Inclined to spout fellowship and appreciation than the collegiate type and If two or more are given a lift together they're apt to entirely Ignore the driver in their free-flowing banter about baseball, shows and heart ' interests. Upon reaching their destination, however,, they usually strike a momentary pose of gratitude and mumble a "Thanksa-lot-for-th'-lift." There Is nothing seasonal about this group, although they flourish particularly during the summer months and In football season. By day or night these youthful thumbers may be seen at vantage points in Aaheboro, Sanford, Clinton. Ml Airy and other towns and cities stretching from Murphy to the Lost Colony pageant. Obviously they feel little need for Major Hoople's luminous thumb for hitchhiking by night. , The wee hours of the morning will often find these thumbera ajraitfng ridea under itreet lights?and their wait la usually of short duration. 7 These are the fellows who have made, "Goin' my way lfiater ?** a -household phrase . Motorists ofter I prefer members of this group to the collegiate Dale Carnegles. iuthough said motorists can not expect to stir up a conversation on the Russian economic situation, they are free to hear enthusiastic and uninhibited remarks by youths who would not know or care that they're being analyzed by their .audience. Ambitious youths seldom refrain from pouring out their aspirations to become aviators, war correspondents, movie actors, mining engineers or other thrill-packed careers. Often they receive sympathetic and helpful advice from motorists. Although some states, Virginia, for InstanQp, frown upon hitch-hikers, It has become on Institution In North Carolina and other states tolerant In this respect'. No less a personage than Governor Hoey has been known to commute between various Raleigh points In this manner and former Governor Ehringhans once- caught an enjoyable ride with a Negro In a model T when his .(Erlnghaus') car broke down on a lonely stretch of road. Hitch-hikers who have carried the practice to England have met with surprising and amusing results. In most cases the tlrst motorist who chanced by stopped and fcave them a lift, but Immediately peppered them with questions about "Where was the terrible accident?" . . . "What grave emergency has befallen you?" Java is the world's most heavily, populated Island. Its population Is. estimated to exceed 36,000,000, altho the island has an area of only 48,604 square miles. Fight Screw worm* Protect Livestock ? -- - ?? Recent outbreaks of screw worms in different parts of the state anil the I experiences of the last five years In- I cheat e that screwworms may be lather serious fall pests of livestock, especially in the costal section of South Carolina, says County Agent K W. Cannon, reminding animal owners that certain practices are effective in reducing screwworm losses to a minimum. ' Since they first appeared in 1934 jcrewworms have been more or less abundant in tills state each fall, the indications being that they do not iurvive the winters here but spread from more southern points. For prevention and control of jcrewworms the agent suggests: 1. Treat all injuries with pine tar oil. 2. Delay all operations such as dehorning and castrating wherever possible until cold weather. 3. Keep a careful watch on all animals for screwworm infestations and apply benzol as maggots are found. Wounds found to be infested with maggots should be swabbed out with clean cotton, benzol applied, the wound plugged so that the vapors from the chemical will kill the magsots. and the area around the wound treated with pine tar oil. Benzol and pine tar oil are now generally available. Two cases of screw worms were treated last week. Scientists qf the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Mr. Cannon states, have recently ifound that diphenylamine is very effective for treating wounds of livestock to prevent infestation and for treating wounds already infested with maggots. As this material becomes available doubtless South Carolina farmers will use it. . NOTICE Notice is hereby given that la accordance with the terms and provisions of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, I In the case of Margaret P. Shannon, plaintiff, vs James A. Rosoborough I and Carolina Power and Ught Com pany, defendants, 1 will sell to the highest bidder, for cash, before the ' Court House door at Camden, S. C., during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in November, 1989, being the 6th day thereof, the following described real estate: All that piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being situated in Watereo Township, Kershaw County, State of South Carolina, on what Is known as the Old Columbia or Two/ ' Notch Head, containing five anil three-fourths (atfc) acres, more or less, with dwelling and bulldtugR thereon, as shown by a plat of saiil premises, dated May 14th. 1927, by T. Howell Jones, Surveyor, and bounded North by premises of 1C. H. Watts, East by premises of 10. H. Watts, South by the Columbia road aforesaid, and West by premises of J. T. McCaa. A!m?f All that piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being situated in Wateree Township, Kershaw County, State of South Carolina, containing forty (40) acres, more or less, as shown by plat of J. Team Oettys, Jr., Surveyor, dated March 2nd. 1935 and , to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County, i and bounded North by the old Columbia road, Wast by premises of P. M. Jordan, South by promises of Victor Ward and Mrs. J. T. Cameron, and West by premises of Victor Ward and the old Columbia road. Terms of Sale: For cash, the Master to roqulre of the successful bidder, other than the plaintiff or defendants herein, a deposit of five (5) per cent of his bid, same to be forfeited in case of non-compliance; no personal or deficiency judgment Is demanded and the bidding will not remain open after the sale but compliance with the bid may be made Immediately. W. I,. DePASS. JR., Master for Kershaw County. KIRKLAND and DeLOACH, Plaintiff's Attorneys. SUMMONS Phtt State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In The Probate Court) in He: Estate of H. T. Hasty, deceased Fx Parte: J. \V McLaln, administrator, Petitioner. against Tom Haaty. Frank Haaty, Josoph William Haaty, a lunatic, Lizzie Walta, Ida Marahall, Ruth Mcl>aln. Kate Clement a, LaWrne Cony era. Ella Haaty, Men Huneycutt, Thelina Hlnaou,, and James Calvin Waters, Mary Jo Waters. Jncqutdyn Waters, Jerr.v Waters, minors, and W. A. Marshall, committee for Joseph William Hasty, Respondents. To Above Named Respondents: Wberas J. W. McLaln, administrator of the estate of 11. T. Hasty, has tiled in this Court bis petition, praying for tin* sale of certain real estate in aid of assets In the above entitled estate, and It appearing to the satisfaction of this Court that sald( petition affects real estato of the skid B. T. Hahty. petitioner's lntestato, In which heirs of said B. T. Hasty have, or may have, an Interest. You are, therefore, hereby summoned and required to answer the petition In this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said petition on Harold W. Fundferburk, petitioner's attorney, at his office In Camden, South Carolina, and to file the original with the Judge of Probate for the County and State aforesaid, within twenty (20) days from the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fall to answer tho petition within the time aforesaid, the petitioner in the action will apply to tho Court for the relief demanded in said petition. N. C. ARNBTT Judge of Probate, Kershaw County. HAROLD W. FUNDBRBURK Petitioner's Attorney. NOTICE To The Defendants Above Named: Notice is hereby given that tho original summons of which the foregoing la a copy and the original petition In the abovej entitled case was duly filed in tlKV^offlce of the Probate Judge for Kershaw County on the 26th day of August, 1939. HAROLD W. 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