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? Crmsmg JuOUUU , with ?SWpp.r" 7 > Sort of burus me up when I thtuk ..r how we started the Palmetto baseI bull loop right here tu Camden a year alCo and this year we are going to sit H on the ldellnee and watoh six other I teams enjoy the j e I But the tan* have only themselves to blame. They refused to support lUe Camden entry In the loop a year I rt?o and ? wu only because such t;ood sportsmen as Dr. T*. B. Druce, H a Small, Jack. Nettles, refused to ?utl that the toum "finished the league .season. All three lost money on the I This year Camden and Chester have been replaced by Orangeburg and Flo* ence. Fred Rlphey, a ewell chap at Hartsvllle, Is president of the ieague: dood luck and best wishes. j I The weather man exercised his I jinx again last Friday and the after noon and evening ball games we had counted on never did materialize, ju3t because old Jup Pluv cried all over the lots during the day. Wonder why It always rains on Fridays during the baseball season and onI Saturday whenever the Carolina Cup I is scheduled? lxxjks as If Brother Leon Tobln has H found the static bug, for the air has I been quite free of noise for about a week now. , It is reported that the Lockheed plane that made a forced landing In I a corn held near Westvllle recently was damaged to the extent of $20, ooo. Whew! i*h0 plane was dismantled, trucked to the Camden airport where it was still farther taken apart, placed H in box cars and shipped to Burbauk, Cal.. where it will be rebuilt at the liockheed plant. * Pilots Barbln 2nd Jones, whp have been Camden visitors off and on all reason made a lot of friends In Cam den and all are hoping they will be back next "season. ; Getting back to baseball?mebbe we're all wet, but right now we can not see the Columbia Reds as a ball ' team to get chefcty about. Not but what we'd like to see the Reds right I up at the tpp In the Sally league race I ?but, well, we just can't see It. One of the Columbia gazettes had I a story recently of the episide that I occurred at the Camden feftll park last spring whefr Umpire Montjoy, an Alj bany c&tchar, { Chiof of JWlilco Alva I Rush and Police Com ml as loner Shan n>n~ resented the gve-MinuVe ptaylet . "Eleven bucks or?before fhe^ grandstand. The polo laddiee pulled a fast one I ,.n the fans last Sunday. When the. regular period of play, six chukkers, had expired, it was announced that I despite .the tie score, the game/vas over.' About. 90 per cent of t^e fans left the field. \? ? ^ v\; Then the players decided to play a I sudden death chukker and finish the scheduled game. " And so they played an extra chukker, but it wasn't a sud den death affair because no one died ?or rather scored. if Charles DuBoee decides to give up the real estate and insurance business he should Join a circus. The tumbling act he staged when his mount fell would have done credit to the greatest of the Nelson troupe. . * < By the way, Charlie Little was back after beltjg away from the sport for about a month and Charlie sure played a nice brand of polo. Charlie can always be depended upon to give his best to the g*me. * ; r . DuBose, Bates and Llgbtfoot contributed some dare-devil riding. - - * " 1? * Jim Young, that pl&islng man of the mike f*om WIS in Colombia, with a nice young chap named Zuckerman, who handles the publicity-for South j i ii iimiiii??i????rrar~ "fcYCLONE ALLY" WILL BE AT| TRACTION KERSHAW TONIGHT Ou Friday, April 26, 6. p. m., In the Kershaw high school auditorium, the senior class will preseut a poular comedy by Eugene Hafpr, entitled "Cyfclone Sally." Jack Webster, owner of the Webster estate, returns home after a long absence for the purpoao of marrylug Sue Baacom. Immediately upon his arrival he encounters open defiance at the hands of some "human whirlwind" |who is known as 'Cyclone Sally," but who la really a very charming girl. A fierce antagonism develops and the battles rage furiously. Thrills ,laughs and roars pile upon one another until finally the big climax arrives and Jack finds, to his dismay, that Instead of courting Sue Hascom, he has been courting his mortal enemy, "Cyclone Sally." I The cast of characters is as foillows: Jack Webster, Everette Oroxton; Keggle Manners, un Englishman. Harold Baxley; Jim Jenkins, oourted for twenty years but not yet dlacouri aged, Bill Jones; Willie Clump, Sue Bascora's beau and 'the world's eighth wonder, Gene ^CookT Sally Graham. "Cyclone Sally," Caroline Bell; Jenny Thatcher, forty, and the object of Jim's persistence, Grace Watkins; Huth Thatcher, a peach Reggie would like to i>iGk?Tyther Shaw; Effle Varden, a cute little neighbor, Myra Reeves; Vivian Vernon, the belle of Cedai Point, Jean MoPherson. The admission charge will be 15 cents for.-school children and 25 cents for adults. 8CHOOLS TO 8END PUPILS TO WASHINGTON SAFETY PATROL The following children, boys and girls, from the Baron DeKalb schools, near Westville, will Join the Safety Patrolmen when they make their annual trip to Washington, Sponsored by the State Highway Department; Roy Gaskln, Brvln Boone, Laura Ruth Wattes, Helen Faulkenberry, BUI Young, Sam Truesdale, Jr.", Forest SJUrley, Henry Fletcher. ;_.Thla group will leave for Washington by rail on May 10, and return on May 12, after art Interesting vlsit(JJ0. the city and other points. This 1# trip that Is greatly enjoyed by those participating and each and every one will getfqulte a deal from the experience.. The BlanbX school will send the following group to Columbia and here they wUl Join the state patrol: Ellerbe Hornsby. Reuben Humphries, Ralph McLeod, Harold Vinson Abbott. Carolina state University, came over f5r the palo game. * * \ Jim met Major McMurtry * and Charles C. Knight, of Cool 8prtnga. Jim says he want# to date the; major up for a chat over the air next fall. Jim tells me he has watched polo at .Camden and Aiken and "give me the Camden brand every time," he added. ~ * ". Jack Nettles made a hurried trip to Cleveland early this week. By the way Jack, i never did hear how that game at Cincy came out. You tell me. ?! Postmaster C. P. DuBosO. Sr., Is to he ^omuaended fer refuaing to- ax^ prove the landscaping Job on the postofflce lot. Of all the sorry exhibitions of shrubbery and trees we have ever seen, that is the worst. The postmaster tells us ; that the outfit that put in the plants and trees will have to replace those^ th4t have died or are suffering a lingering Illness. ""Congratulations to an enthusiastic group of Blshopville students who accompanied their ball teajji to Camden Tuesday Where were the Camden student rooters?. * ?r We can name a lot of high schools, given a pnappy little team like the Bulldogs, that would have hundreds of rooting students, la-the stands forevery game. ~ * Truly, King Baseball is a y?ry sick man in Camden. Rlgglns got bis third consecutive victory' in the Blshopville game. Nurse the kid carefully Lin, he'll be a mighty valuable man for Camden in the next few yfars. . o Hugh Cox had a busy hfternoon? and very successful. We give the blonde boy credit for his offensive play Tuesday, but he messed up things a bit on the defense. Seems to me that pop fly In tbo eighth which Cox chased almost to the first sack might Just as well have been left to Taylor to take. And In the third when the visitors scored three runs, Hugh was a wee bit remiss. Motor sits Can Trevel Far South By Auto Washington, April 20.-r4f you were planning to run the family oar from the United States down to Kio or Buenos Aires this summer, take a long nap and dream of something else. There are some 718 miles of fbdlan tralia down through Central America, an unaiirveyed jungle in the Darlen peninsula east of Panama and plenty of other reasons why you wonH make it this year. This does not mean, however, that you can't swap a lane cruise through channels marked by hot dog and hamburger stands for a Jaunt into the terrain of Tortillas, Enohllladea and Bpanish lace. The trav?U division of the Pan American Union says you can take the old bus down Mexico way as far as Mexico City and 80 miles beyond. Paved roads show on the map from Nuevo livedo, Texas, clear down to Jonacatepec, some 850 miles south of the border. Prom there unpaved allweather roads will insure fair travel down to Iiuajoapan, and so-called dry weather roads will enable you to reach Oaxaca and Mltla. There the traveler will run Into the first 350-mile stretch of Indian trails. The travel division says an effort to put an automobile, or even a motorcycle, over them would be "In the nature of an expeditlop, not a tour." These conditions apply In portions of the Central American republics. Quatemala has 304 miles of all weather Pan American highway from border to border. El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua have some paved ( ?some all weather, and some dry weather roads, and a minimum of trails only, along the route. They offer great scenic delights, but theke portions of the highway are cut ofT by trails In Mexico to the north and still Impassable juugle routes in Costa Rica and Panama to the sou-th. But these are motoring disappointments fn no wise discouraging to the builders of the inter-American road. During the past ten years nations south of the difficult Central American isthmus have been winding a road structure northward, and in many cases latitudainally, for eventual tie-up with the route running south from the United States. . Pan American Union travel experts say it is now possible to ship a car J llil .I., I.. .l.mj'BJB.l?l1 ,, I1 . II??WW from the United States to La Uuaira, Vcnesuela, and drive through Ceracan to Bogota and Quito, the capitals, respectively, of Colombia and Peru. Paved, all weather, and dry weather surfaces then lead v southward to the border of Peru. The route from Peru to Chile and Argentina l? open except from the Andes pas* between Chile dtnd Argentina. That Is open only for three months of Andes "summer," from mtd-December to about mid March. You cau't make It during a North American summer vacation. The union travel bureau declares that facilities for motor travel are he lug pushed In every one of the l<atln American republics. But the completed hook-up between United States highways and those of the southern neighbors Is not expected for some years. The national road-building programs In the various republics cannot be pushed past certain limits of national economy. As to the enthusiasm of the Ijatin Americas for pie project, a Pan Amcrcln official said* "It,is one thing those nations agree upott without Quibble." M. T. Cfxtwford Kershaw, 9. C? April 20.-?M. T. Crawford, 70, died at his home here Piiday night, he had been 111 for the last few weeks. Funeral services wore conducted at the residence at 4:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, and Internum was In the Kershaw qemetery. Ho Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mat tie Davenport Crawford; three sons and a daughter, Clarence Crawi ford of Atlanta, Ga., Lynn Crawford of Burlington, N. C.. Lewis Crawford and Mrs. O. M. Gay of Kershaw; two brothers and two sisters, It. C. Crawford of Cummlngs, Ga., J. P. Crawford of MoCallen, Texas. Mrs. JSL S. Stone of Anderson and Mrs. Ani\Je I mollis of Belton. CAMDEN BOY NAMED EDITOR . i % Douglas Wboten-,r- youngest son of Mrs. F. M. Wooten has been honored by the students at Furman University. They eleoted him editor of the Hornet and Bonhomie, campus paper. Young Wooten Is a rising junior and his many friends In Camden will be glad to hear of Doug's popularity and the honor bestowed upon hint by his fellow students. mmmmmsss?i 11 , uwwmwmmmmmmmm DISCOVERY QF TWO TYPES OF LIGHTNING ANNOUNCED Shenactftdy, N. Y., Feb 10?Discovery that there are two distinct type* of lightning, one the explosive, smash* in# stroke familiar to everyone, and the other unrecognised slow and burniuH stroke, was announced ' today in the Electrical World. One kind blows a tree apt}rt, the other sets it attro. The slow light nlng was discovered by Dr. K, B. McEacheru, who has spent many years studying lightning for the Oenerul Electric company. The explosive stroke masses a huge flow, sometimes 5,000 amperes, In a gingle peak ajul shoots it quickly. This peak passes like a wave %.long .the path of the lightning stroke. A single flash may have several of these wuves, one after the other. Between waves the llghtnlug current continues to flow, at a weak amperage. Dr. McEacheru said that some lightning strokes combine both explosive and burning effects. The burning strokes were found with protagraphlo instruments which for two years have been watching strike the Empire State building lu Now York City. This tallest skyscraper Is a lightning rod for a considerable area. I The studies revealed also that human engineering has added greatly to the explosive dangers in lightning. A flash usually forms In a negatively charged cloud. Directly underneath In the earth a positive charge builds up. The flash from the cloud strikes this positive point, and the power of, the Btroke depends partly on how big a positive charge is waiting in the earth. This earth charge is made by electricity flowing in from all directions In the ground. Construction some-, times acts like grouud wires to con-( duct earth electricity from miles away. Modern Gabriel "Mah bredren," said a nogro preacher, "when yo' hears Gabriel sound his horn, yo' wants to bo ready to Jump." "Mah goodness!" excitedly exclaim-, ed one of the congregation, "am he cpmln' in an automobile?" / . "Tempest and 8unshlne" It is with pardonable pride and ,? pleasure that the Junior class offer for your approval Ned Albert's stirritiK and successful play, "Tempest and Sunshine," based on the famous novel by Mary J. Holmes, at Jackson ^ high school auditorium on May SO. The general admission' is 16o. The director of this production is Ruth Whltaker. The parte of "Tempest" and "Sunshine" will be played by Alt* M. Boykin and Thomaslna Williams respectively. There are several Negro servants who are excruciatingly funny. Those who wish to see a worth-while play will be heartened to know that their opportunity Is close . at hand. Remember the date, May 30. "\ . STATE THEATRE KERSHAW, 3. C. To 1 phone 98 | FRIDAY, APRIL 26 "CONGO MAISIE" With Ami Hot her a John Carroll SATURDAY, APRIL 27 "THE MAN FROM^' SUNDOWN" With Charles' Starrett Iris Merldlth - , 0 Late Show 10:30 P. M.' "CITY OF CHANCE" With Lynn liar I Donald Woods ?? MONDAY end TUESDAY APRIL 29?30 "THE FIGHTING 69TH" With James iCagney. Pat O'Brien WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 "WOLF OF NEW YORK" With Edmund Lowe THURSDAY and FRIDAY MAY 2?3 "THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER" With Muuroon O'Hulllvau Jumoa Stewart . i ADMI8810N: Matinee, 80o; Night, 8Bo. Children 10c any time. FOR RENT FOR 1940-41 SEASON COMFORTABLE COUNTRY HOME Located in beautiful Oak Grove just outside of Sumter. 4 BEDROOMS ? 2 BATHS ? CENTRAL HEAT ? ->* ... . lV" Phone or Write? F. M. 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