The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 26, 1940, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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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
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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been replaced by Orangeburg and Flo*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.
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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.
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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.
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DuBose, Bates and Llgbtfoot contributed
some dare-devil riding.
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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
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"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.
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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
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". 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.
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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?.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?"
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"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
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"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
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