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MAURI ROM, Ca-Wlnrtar WHh Navtl Davit In tha DOO-MMa InAanapaM Rata May RO?h, Avara?aal 1 lt.117 MR a a par Haar an Ptraafana Dan DIppaD Tlraa WMiaat a Ttra RKan?a * ar Ura TrawMa af Any Mat FLASHING down the straightaways at speeds as high as 160 miles an hour, Mauri Rose streaked to victory in the 194, Indianapolis Sweepstakes without a tire change. 500 miles of grinding, pounding, torturing speed ? and not one tire failed! Here's proof of safety ? proof of blowout protection ? proof of endurance ? proof of tire superiority backed not merely by claims, but by PERFORMANCE! For 22 consecutive years all the winning drivers in this great classic of speed and endurance have driven to victory on Firestone Tires. Why! Because race drivers know that their very lives depend upon the safety of their tires. They have made it their business to know how tires are built. And they know from experience that the patented ' and exclusive construction features found only in Firestone Tires provide the extra strength and durability necessary to and victory! 2 " -AlN. ( I Every Firestone Tire Carries a k Lifetime Guarantee Ill LIBERAL I , ALLOWANCE r: ON YOUR OLD TIRES h Come In TODAY I 41' ? The same super-safety and dependability that are built into Firestone Tires for the speedway are also built into the new Safti'Sured Firestone DeLuxe Champion Tires for the highway. Both are Safti'Sured against blowouts by the patented Safety-Lock Gum-Dipped cord bodv. Both are Safti'Sured for longer wear by the exclusive new Vitamic rubber compound. Profit by the experience of famous race drivers. Equip your car today "with a set of these new Firestone DeLuxe Champion Tires ? the world's first and only tires that are Safti'Sured. 1 Firestone HIGH SPEED TIRES First Quality ? longer mileage ? greaterhlowout protection?greater non-skid safety?less cost per mile. 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Red Network CITY FILLING STATION DAVIS SERVICE STATION MARION'S SERVICE STATION |; c 1 Five oot of every 100 American Army primary flying training con- ' school children need glasses, accord- tracts have gone to 11 additional air lng to a survey. schools to make a total of 28. ? r Mauri Kosfc, co-winner with Floyd Davis of the 1941 Indianapolis 500-mile race, is pictured above in the American-built car which he drovo to his first speedway victory. His car forced out of the race at the 156-mile mark, Rose took the wheel of the car which was being driven by Floyd Davis, and took it from 15th place to first, averaging 115.117 miles per hour on the same set of Firestone Tires that wero on tho car when the race began. THE NILE DELTA Description of Coutnry In Egypt Where British Fight Washington, D. C.?"We ere lying back of our fertile delta, which Incidentally la the worst ground In the world for armored vehicles." said Winston Churchill In a recent speech. The Prime Minister was referring to the rich, water-laced delta of the Nile, whose fanlike expanse extends from beyond Alexandria on the west to the Suez canal on the east, points out a bulletin from the National Geographic. I Society. | Between this area and the Axis i forces, now reported stalled pear the ' Liblan border, lies another difficult ! stretch of ground, the vast Western | Desert of Egypt. A formidable land i of few Inhabitants and little water, ita chief characteristics are heat, sand and rock. The lower Nile river region?in striking contrast to the barren^ desert that frames It on either side?-to a i narrow, green ribbon of fertility winding thru the whole of eastern Egypt, the bulletin continues. Beginning at the delta head, at Cairo about 100 air miles south of ^Mediterranean. it spreads out into a triangle of productive land nearly 150 miles across at its coastal base. The Nile country?both upper and lower?is known to Mr. Churchill from personal experience there with the British army during the Sudan campaign of 1898 agalnBt the Dervishes. In his two-volume work, The River War," he writes: "There is life only by the Nile. If a man were to leave the river, he might Journey westward and find lonely tent of a Kabbadlsh Arab or the encamp-1 ment of a trader s caravan Or he might go east and find nothing but sand and sea and sun until Bombay rose nbove the horizon..It (the river) is the means by which we fight.. It glitters between the palm-trees during the action...." the deUe. ?.??.. wwta channels cut the soft, fertile soil?the Rosetta. flowing northeast' to a point) near Alexandria, and the Damieta, following a northeast coura^ to meet the sea about 30 airline miles west of Port Said at the entrance to the Suez canal. In addition to the major river branches, other channels also flow | thru the alluvial plain. Once these streams were part of a system of many mouths thru while the Nile joined the Mediterranean. Today, due to their use In local Irrigation, as well as to flood control measures upstream,- they Tiave become 'false mouths", sometimes stagnant, that no longer reach the sea even at flood time. Because of these waterways, and their extensions thru addltonal irrigation ditches, it would appear that the delta region might ofTer a considerable problem to any mechanized army attempting directly to cross it. Another physical circumstance which might tend to affect transit is the fact that the land is cut up Into innumerable tiny farms. About 60 per cent of Egypt's agricultural population has holdings of less than one acre. . The Nile river la now approaching the beginning of its flood season, felt j in the lower river reaches sometime ^ in July. It gains its maximum force ^ at Cairo In October. Now regulated ^ and channelized by dams and other ^ works, this annual flood tide?which Has its origin far to the south in the j Ethiopian highlands?has been the lifeblood of Egypt since people began ; o live by the river banks. . More than 40 years' ago. Churchill, n the "River War", wrote of the j i treat potential value of modern irrl- I tation works, since put into effect: 1 The wealth of Egypt depends on T vater.... There is a mighty volume o >f water and a vast expanse of desert, e To Join the two In fruitful union to t he function of the dams; the greater A he acale of Irrigation, the greater the t ocrease of wealth." I* Practically all of Egypt's 16,000,000 >eople live by the side of the Nile, n the delta, population density is .500 persons to each square mile. < rhere some of the world's best types >f cotton, the major crop, are producd. Cereals, sugar cane, dates, vege- , ables, and rice also grow abundantly, ls a result of the perennial Irrigation, wo sometimes, three crops are hares ted. - - | Fight Weevil Now Advises Lipscomb Are there in your community any cotton farmers who can afford to loBO, unnecessarily, one or two of every ten bales, and from 10 to 20 percent of their cotton seed? Can South Carolina's cotton farmers as a whole afford to lose, unnecessarily, five or ten or fifteen million dollars? The answers are so obvious they need not be givbn, says D. M. Lipscomb, secretary of the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers Association. But cotton farmers in your community will 1686 one or two or more bales in every ten, and the cotton farmers as a group will lode,, many millions of dollars if they are not careful. Boll weevils, if farmers are not diligent in fighting them, will cost as much as I have suggested, and perI haps much more. The time to make ; that fight is now. , Boll weevil damage in South Carolina has been as high as 40 percent of [the lint and seed crop; and In two years the damage has been up to 27 percent. Such losses would be disastrous now, more disastrous than they were in the years they occurred, because taxes and the cost of living in general are higher now. It will be tragic, and also inexcusable, if we let weevils thrive this year. We know how to kill them, and we know something else: the emergence of weevils thiB spring is seriously alarming. At the Pee Dee Experiment. Station the boll weevil emergence in early May of this year was more than 200 times as great as in the same period last year. The winter of 1940-41 was perfect for weevil preservation. Therefore the cotton farmers face the possibility of weevil damage such as they have not suffered in several years. The hot, dry May has not killed the old weevils. Last year the weevil damage was only 4 percent. In 1939 it was 8 per cent. In 1938 it was 16 percent. Over a period of ten years, the average has been about 10 percent, plus. But there is no reuson why it should be that high, and certainly no reason why it should rise to 20 percent, or higher. It can be held close to the 1940 figures of only 4 percent. How? By a proper and diligent ubo of the 1-1-1 Mixture. Every farmer may get full directions from his county agent, or-directly from Clemson College, or from his nearest cottonseed oil mill. Also he can learn from any of these sources how to obtain the molasses and calcium arsenate necessary for the mixture. The third ingredient Is water. At a cost of about 70 cents in outof-hand money (for 3 application*), an acre of cotton may be protected from excessive weevil damage. And that investment of 70 cents, plus a few hours labor, easily may be worth from five to ten dollars in additional income from cotton lint and cotton seed. You can't beat that return even if you pick a long shot winner at the races. Last year the total value of South Carolina's lint and seed was close to $54,000,000. Last year the yield per acre was the highest ever known in this State?375 pounds. The use by thousands of farmers or the 1-1-1 Mixture is part of the explanation of that < taluo and of that yield. What will the figures be for 1941? one knows. We cannot control veather. But we can control weevils If we begin fighting them now; and unless we do, we can be certain that cotton figures for 1941 will be dlacouragingly If not disastrously low. South Carolina is a cotton state, and must remain a cotton state. . It can do that, and become more and more prosperous. But, to do so, It must win the annual battles with boll weevils, those fifth columnists of the ) cotton fields. Ship Barely Escapes Fire Jacksonville, Fla., Juno 9?With smoke pouring across hor decks, the $1,600,000 liner Seminole barely escaped from her pier as a rapidlyBpreading blaze swept the ,ClydeMallory terminals here yesterday and caused damage of approximately $800,000. Mayor George C. Blume, Detective Inspector E. L. Acosta, company officials and federal agents said the possibility of sabotage would be investigated. Police recently placed an extra guard over the entire waterfront area after receiving a tip that a sabotage attempt would be made during the Memorial Day weekend, but only the regular patrol and company guards had been maintained since then. c,Today, however, Mayor Blume cancelled police vacations and posted extra officers along the waterfront and at city utility plants as a precautionary measure. 1 Flames scorched the port side of the Seminole and Bet two of her lifeboats afire before she could be pulled away with the aid of tugs. The ship had arrived from New York and Charleston and discharged her passengers a short time before the Are started. Two of the three Clyde-Mallory terminals, containing expensive refrigerating equipment, a large number of autombolles, lumber and miscellaneous merchandise, were destroyed and a third badly damaged before the flames were checked. Ten firemen, three soldiers and two sailors were taken to hospitals from the fire-fighting operations, mostly suffering from heat prostration. The $800,000 damage estimate was made in New York, by L. D. Parmalee, executive vice president of the Clyde-Mallory Lines. MORE WHEAT ON FARMS FOR GOOD HOME LIVING Clemson, June 9.?Stories of more wheat on South Carolina farms to aid in better living at home come from all corners of the state, says A. B. Bryan, agricultural editor. Typical are these brief statements from farm agents. "There will evidently be no shortage of wheat bread on many farms in Colleton county this year", says L. W. Alford, farm agent. "The wheat acreage is far more than double that of any previous year. Many fields will yield more than 20 bushels per acre and some even 30 or more. Forty farmers entered the county's one-acre wheat contest and eight of these were also in the state threeacre contest." From Florence, County Agent J. W. McLendon reports: "The wheat for home use program was one of the most successful campaigns ever launched in Florence county. Hundreds of farms now have small wheat patches where wheat was only known in the form of a 12 or 24 pound sack of patent flour loaded down with starch and absolutely lacking in some of the main vitamins and In Pr0'^H "Two-thirds of the 'farmers in endon are growing Wheat this a result of the better farm living gram", says County Agent F. M. "We set up a wheat hantfmtD office and hold daily demonstr^^B in Ith use with low-income farfflrt^B who are showing much inters* B these mills and ordering the* ^^B "We had more wheat planted year for home use in Marion coflV^B than ever before and indication!iij that we will make a fine crop, dry weather", County Agent I Wells reports. Other bits of similar good S(^H Pickens, T. A. Bowen.?"As a re??| of the better farm living campfM more wheat is being harvested the county this year." Laurens, C. B. Canon.?"The crop will be better than we antkil** ed regardless of dry weather." Dillon, S. W. Bpps.?"Our while not as good as last yenhjjM above the average. This, togs?*? with enormous increase 1? age, should give us wheat e?0?**^ supply our oalMft?-needs." Barnwell, D. Austin Shelley-'1^? wheat crop is the best yet. few farmers are making yioW * w or more buahels per acre." the Army's i ox the movsm Army maneuvers on a scale vastly 1 greater than ever attempted in thia 9 country are under way and will coo- I tinue for several months. The sceo* | of these maneuvers is the nine south- I ern states sefved by Southern Belt j It will be both a test and training for the army as well as for the cirft I jan population which provides the vital means of communication 1 transportation and supply. j Essential to the success of these 9 maneuvers is an adequate, depend ? able system of telephone common 1 cation. This the Southern BellCo*. pany is providing whenever, when. 1 ever and in whatever amount th|? Cast shifting armies require. This ]fl means that the Telephone Compaoj, like the army, is keeping its looms 1 of supply, transportation fading ^9 and man power ready day and nijh I so it can act on (he moment m years of training and experience fcfl meeting emergencies have alrts^ fl prepared our army of telepboiis workers for this big task. It is the Telephone Compi^a plan to take care of die army's oe?b fl with little, if any, serious interf* kfl ence with the pnbiic's iccuM^a use of the service. During these a?9 neuvers, however, there may befofl c*s\on? when foe short time our facilities will be mtiaiyW required to meet the army's suddts and unexpected needs. Should tNs:l happen in your community, yovB wholehearted cooperation will bea vl helpful contribution to the snccos I ful advancement of preparedness. | Southern Bell Telephone I and Telegraph Comptay I Heavy Fine For Old "Bo-Bo"B Detroit, June 7?The Detroit )fafl said today that Louis Norman (Btfa Newaom, 1940 World Series pitchlfB hero of the Detroit Tigers, had fined 16,000 by. owner W*MJ Briggs for "failure to get Into proflB condition." Newaom was notified of the 1*9 several days ago, the paper afiaertij? T\fro days ago the big rlghthsaaB waa demoted from starting horil? and assigned to bullpen duty. The News Baid the flpe equals I^B highest ever assessed in baset49 Babe Ruth having paid the amountiH 1925 when suspended by the N*W York Yankees for "general misc*B To relieve nAT T\ CJ Misery of lj Vf \j gj ^ ^ ^ LIQUID ^ S TABLETS nnn salve l/vlv/ NOSE DROPS 7, ""7? COUGH DROPS Try "Ri^Wiy-Tliin"-# WonOrfiH * + _ * rToF^ERSPIRING FEtl U UA-DRi&J "