The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 15, 1941, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
HOT Oil IKE KYI
^rTHE SKIPPER.
lla?a ye driven over the newly
P^l struct* -yet? Over aud
hHlf miles of smooth-surfaced highways
added to Camden's paved street
system. And what a fine Job. Wish
that my own avenue, namely Hampton
IflUtt Pr?*d 10 MtttotflB street
had received the same kind of a job.
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Well, that paving program is but
another of the many fine things the
present administration has done for
Camden. We subscribe 100 per cent
to the editorial comment in last
weeks Chronicle anent the administrative
processes of the past several
years.
What. Oh, What, will Camden do to
take care of the anticipated demand
for houses and apartments the coming
fall and winter when right now,
there isn't a place available in the
city. What a fine thing it woud be
if the owners of some of the old fashioned
dwellings in the city would remodel
and modernize them. It is true
there are vacant dwellings in Camdeu
and as long as they continue in
the present out-moded and out of date
condition, they will always be vacant.
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Well, don't say we did not warn
you. Ca mden ja?. the
We time lo really build up, but bow
are we going to do it when we
have 110 places to offer new residents
la.lire la. ?? - -t J
It's a dad-busted shame that some
of the gazaboos with money to spare
do not put up homes or apartments
as a civic gesture.
By the way speaking of new com- j
#rs in the city, we wish to give spectat
mention and a very cordial welcome
to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Newcom*
ier, who have taken up residence on
Lyttleton street. For' a fact, the
Newcomers are new comerB.
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The intention of the city to paint
;he electric light standards in dark
jreen rather than aluminum is but
mother step toward up-to-datenefts. i
5Ve noted on our trip north this sumner
that the aluminum colored stanJards
are a thing of the past.
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And we also noted that street
aarkings are in the lemon yellow
hat Camden started to use until compiled
to change by the state highway
lepartment, as white is the color
idopt"d by the state office. The yellow
has good body and lasts almost
six months without having to be done
aver. The white used here is not
lasting. ,
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Now for a few words on baseball.
Spartanburg won the state legion
title defeating a weak Sumter team
In three straight games. The playing
of both the Spartanburg and Sumter
teams lacked state title polish. In
fact, it was, to use a slang expression,
lousy.
?
To our way of thinking the Legion
baseball program in South Carolina
*as just as uninteresting and un?.P9r..
ui-iniikd tble -eeeeen?Mr-to past"
years. The appeal of Chairman Carl
West for sportsmanship failed completely.
We wonder why a state
chairman Is named if his findings in
disputed cases are to be flouted.
If the Legion baseball program Is
to succeed, there should be a complete
face about on the part of all
concerned.
By the way, have you made your
date for tonight. Remember, it's the
all-star game at Zemp stadium, the
first football event of the 1941 season
in the nation. The proceeds of this
game go td the football camp fund.
We hope that every football fan in
Camden and Kershaw.county who has
the welfare of the gridiron future of
the Camden Bulldogs in mind, will
make It a point to cough up for<this
classic.
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Dropped in on the aviation base at
Woodward field last Thursday afternoon
and chinned with some of the
English sailors who were over to visit
their British cousins on the flying
detachment. Fine bunch of lads and
it did my heart /gbod to see sailors
and flyers from merrie old England
walking about, their faces all lit UP
with happiness. Some of the sailors
Knew ioms of the flyer* back in the
home land and believe me, the reunions
were tear-jerking.
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~ Observing the alley hack ' of the
Crocker building and wondering how
long before it will be impassable,
what with the debris and Junk that
litters it at the present time. Which
makes us wonder why not a community
clean up week.
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Hearing from jthe Clarkes up on
the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin
and noting that the weather
up there is cool and bracing and that
the good rector and his son Mike are
getting in some interesting golfing
action. Lucky folks, that's all I can
say.
Chatting with Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
McKain Just as the? pulled in from
a ten day visit in Florida. And admiring
the wire-haired terrier that
Cliff and Selma annexed down in Orlando.
Finding that a combination of ginger
ale, grape Juice and a dash of lemon^
dumped into a pitcher of ice water, to
which ice cubes are added makes about
the swelleBt drink we have partaken
of during the hot weather.
' Giving three cheers and a banza
when told that Hoot Mon Donald is
on the road to recovery.
The Italian press has gone haywire
in paying tribute to Bruno Mussolini,
son of the dictator, who met his death
when a plane he was testing, crashed.
"Glorious death at the post of duty"
as the Facists say. Rats?any one
who would fit Bruno Into a setting of
any sort of glory, either in life or
death, must have a depraved mind.
Bruno, the killer, died as he lived,
without glory, with guns and weapons
of cruelly mid death Big pisytninga.
The killer Is no more worthy of the
name of hero than the beast of the
forest who has filled his greedy maw
witb the blood and flesh of Innocent
lambs.
Speaking o\ the far east situation
has it over occurred to any of you
folks that if it Were not for the sale
by this nation of oil, gas, jron, steel,
machines, tools, copper, autos and
planes there would be no war scare
involving Japan. ,
The politicians ip Washington declare
we mast save China. On the
other hand our business men have
6oYS"6ne~Hnd a half billion dollars
worth of ^a^ir materials and finished
products necessary for war to Japan
since the Jap* invaded China.
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Flash?Mil?? Clarke travels Riverview
course i^ear Sheboygan with a
neat 39. Loo>t out you Camden golfers?the
minister's son looms up
rather dangerous.
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Excitement:?Colored girl does a
broaie on the sidewalk in front of
our office. Twenty men gather
around, rntr -r their schnozzles and
scratch their heads as they eye the
recumbent girl. Norse from the
county office bustles up and goes about
the business of reviving the girl
with a skill that was refreshingly effective.
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I To Our Patrogns: |
I Saturday, the 16th of August, |
| being the last day for discount, |
| the Water and Light office will s
ibe open from 9 a. m. to .4 p. m. I
and from 2 p. m. to 5. p. m. ?
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LEMOCO
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Camdan IhrdwiM^
y.-'itk Supply Coii>|ii?y
Concentration Points
Aluminum Named
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Cltmson. Aug. It. The three aluminum
collection concentration point*
of Spartanburg. Columbia, and Charleston
*will be ready to receive aluminum
from the different counties as
scheduled, and couuty chairmen of
the collection campaign are asked to
have their aluminum forwarded to the
concentration t>oint most convenient
for delivery,, says Extension Director
L). W. {Watklna. state chairman of the
Aluminum Collection Campaign.
"It will be necoBsary for us to
know which of the three concentration
points Is to receive delivery from
each county", Director Watk'ne
states, "and 1 am aBking the active
working committees to advise me as
state chairman when and where they
deliver aluminum and how inauy
pounds are delivered! also that they
get receipts for all delivery made."
Places of delivery ami persons In
charge of receiving aluminum at the
three concentration points are:
Spartanburg: lot at rear, of main
I flre station on Broad Street. Contact
I the city Purchasing Agent at City
| Hall nearby. *
I ' Columbia: the 2000 block of Blanding
Street. Contact City Euglneer
; W. S. Tomllnson, City Hall.
1 Charleston: the Politle Station,
Vandertiorst and St. Phillips Street.
Contact Major Henry F. Church,
Office of Port Development, 92 East
Bay Street, or hlB representative at
the Police Department.
| "In many cases", says Director
J Watkins, "local county chairmen are
arranging io have the assembled
I aluminum laid out on hard pavement
and rolled flat with a road machine.
This may be of value in compressing
the load for transportation to the
concentration point and may develop
considerable Interest In connection
with the program."
57-YEAR-OLD SENATOR
TO WED 20-YEAR-OLD HEIRESS
Washington, Aug.11?Senator Robert
E. fieynolds of North Carolina,
w&ose red'bait shows^no gray at &7,
disclosed plans today to take 20-yearold
Evalyn W. McLean as fifth wife.
Miss MVLean, a tall, willowy blonde,
is the daughter of-Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
McLean, owner of the celebrated
Hope Diamond, and the late Edward B.
McLean, former Washington newspaper
publisher who died in a Maryland
sanitarium last month. She is
a close friend- of one of the senator's
two daughters.
. "I consider myself a very fortunate
man", Reynolds said, as he confirmed
reports of the forthcoming marriage.
The bride-to-be was reported to be In
8tockbridge, Mass.
As chairman of the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, Reynolds plans to
go to Iceland late this week for a visit
of three or four weeks. He said
the wedding would take_pUce_soon
after~hlfl return.
Asked To Clean Cemetery
All those who have loved ones
buried at Shiloh churchyard and cemetery
In the Gates Ford community
are asked-to meet at the ohurch,
Tuesday, August 19 In the morning
and clean up their plots.
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
(liy Spectator \
$ . ^7
Any farmer witthiug to profit
through a sli|o crop might think of
the unusual opportunity to market
peanuts which may be enjoyed next
year. Today wo have three candidates
in the tteld during a short cam
paign; but next summer there will ho
a campaign not ouly for the United
States senate, but for representatives
in congress, for the governorship of
the state and other state elective officials,
for representatives in the state
legislature and half the state senate.
It might be a propitious time to suggest
to our friouda of the "Triple A"
that, suitable bonutlts be allowed for
peanut crop.
There are men among us who are
never so happy uu when delving in
figures?our frieud, James M. Smith,
the State Auditor, for example. 1
have run into another gentleman who
delights in interpreting figures?Mr.
W. Iloyden Watkius, Chief Examiner
of the State Board of Bank Control.
We are all familiar with the type of
businessman who thnlks with a pom
cil, whose mind will not work unless
ho is making figures. Just hb some
men may rejoice in a delicately attuned
hit of poetry, or the supreme
masterpiece of an Illustrious composer;
so there be brethren among us
whose souls are aflame with the joy
of numbers. One such has made a
study of our counties, our friend,
Watkins, and from his devoted labors
I cull some facts of interest.
Let us look at a fow counties at
rftndom: AbbevlUe, Allendale, Anderson,
Bamberg, Chesterfield, Darlington,
Florence, Greenville, Horry,
Marlboro, Newberry, Orangeburg,
Richland and York. Here we have
small counties and large counties;
counties of the low country and counties
of the Piedmont; counties of the
Pee Dee and counties of the center.
Some of the counties have lost population
between 1920 and 1940, as example,
Abbeville which had 27,139 In
1920 and 22,931 in 1940. The assessed
Valuation of all property like wise decroused
from f3,867,000 to $8,692,000,
but the tax rate seems to have climbed,
for it rose from $24 on every
< thousand dollars of value in 1937 to
$36 per thousand in 1939. It had outstanding
in unpaid taxes $132,971. The
ratio of debt to Assessed Value is 9.4
per cent. The ratio of Interest requirements
to total receipts is 21 per
cent.
Here is something which we find in
many counties and which the public
ahot^d reckon with: The High Cost
of Debts. We see In Abbeville that
21 per cent of the total receipts must
be devoted to the payment of Interest
charges on the public debts.
We turn from Abbeville In the upcountry
to Allendale In the lowcountry.
Allendale lost in population
between 1920 and 1940. The assessed
valuation of property fell off about
fBOGtffid. The delinquent Taxes
amounted to $140,700 and the ratio of
net debt to Assessed value was 12.9
per cent, with the ratio of Interest requirements
to total receipts 15 per
cent. Now let us take Anderson
County, which Is a great agricultural
and industrial county: It's population
Increased from 1920 to 1940 and
its property valuation increased
slightly. Its tax rate remained about
the same In 1937, 1938, 1939. Its delinquent
taxes totalled $79,898. The
ratio of net debt to assessed value
was 6.7 per cent and its ratio of interest
requirements total receipts was
7 per cent In 1939. *
All these figures are through 1939,
in matters of dollars and cents.
Speaking of the heavy cost of debt,
the good county qf Suinter payd 23 per
cent of Its total receipts for interest
on the public debt. Richland county
pays 7 per cent of Its recipts for Interest;
Orangeburg County . 16 per
cent; Newberry/ County 19 per cent;
McCormick County 20 per cent;
Marlboro County 20 per cent; Marion
County 3 per cent; Lexington County,
1 per cent;. Laurens 11 per cent; Lancaster
19 per cent; Kershaw 6 per
cent jasper 9 per cent; fciorry 8 per
cent; Hqmpton 10 per cent; Greenwood
12 per cent; Greenville 12 per
cent; Georgetown 10 per cent; Florence
11 per cent; Fairfield 10 per
cent; Edgefield 14 per cent; Dorchester
19 per cent; Dillon 7 per cent;
Darlington 5.6 per cent; Colleton 23
per cent; Clarendon 10 per cent;
Chesterfield 22 per .cent; Chester 18
per cent; Cherokee 7 per cent; Calhoun
4.5 per cent; Beaufort 17 per
cent;'. Barnwell 11 per cent; Bamberg
0 per cent; Anderson 7 per cent; Aiken
5 per cent.
Just think of a man obligated to
pay 20 per cent of his income as interest
on debts! Would you call that
sound financing? Would It be sound,
even If he paid 20 per cent of his income
on the principal of the debt?
But. to let Interest charges devour
oneV Income like Thai would not impress
any one as sound business.
I must, of course. wHct the
source of my Information, Bankers
may be poor politicians end guess
wildjr about political trends; but
when It comes to figures, they hit the
null on the head, and of all figures a
hanker excolls In the calculation of
interest! You know t lie uncanny
habit bankers have or proving everything
by dollars and cents. You may
think your hank balance is wrong and!
go down to the bank with blood in
your eye. But the bookkeeper will
pull out two or three checks thqi you'1
gave over the counter, or in expatisive'
momenta, and leave you dangling In '
the air. " I
When I read these figures I thought
I might traoo certain nationalistic'
tendencies. The sturdy Scotch of
Marion hold down their debt to 2
per cent of assessed valuation, with
interest requirements of 3 per cent of
the county's income. The unpaid
taxes don't amount to much; the population
has steadily grown; the assessed
valuation has remained about i
the same, but the tax rato has fallen
from $18.BO per thousand dollars of
assessed valuation to $10. Just offhand,
Marlon Justifies the tribute of
being Scotch.
I was about to say that Lexington,
with only 1 per cent of its revenue for
interest, was an example of Dutch
thrift and management, but Orangeburg
and Newberry are Dutch, too,
ancl the Orangeburgors have to pay
16 per cent of their revenue for Interest
and the Newberry citizens pay
19 per cent. Calhoun is Dutch and
and backs up Loxington by paying only
4.6 per cent of Its receipts for Inter-1
est. Calhoun saves the day for the'
cause by owing virtually nothing In
back taxos. One must yiold the pulm j
to little llamherg which -owed noth-j
lag, though it carries some unpaid
taxes. Is there a wee bit of Scandinavian
influence in Bamberg? Before
the voracious maw of Hitler gobbled'
them, the Scandinavians were among
the best governed nations of the
world.
Over In the Welsh neck, land of
the thrifty Welsh, Darlington paid 6.6
per cent of her income for interest on
debt, while the ratio of debt to assessed
valuation was 6.6 per cent In
spite of $185,697 of delinquent taxes.
There is no Justice i.u blaming our
representatives for bad conditions,
!'ten these conditions are due to pub-j
services demanded by a very vocal j
d persistent group ot citizens. Those <
10 favor sound business in county
d state affairs must learn to be as
i:al as the plungers. Those are all
d, unemotional figures, I know; but
er what the weatherman has done
us in recent weeks we can stand
nothing cold and dry, ^
Jreat business enterprlBees are
ping heavily of their earnings to
j Government. As we have noted
tore frequently a much greater vole
of output results in much less
ct profit, because of higher wages
I taxes. Republic steel, for exple
reports a decline in net inae
due to higher taxes. The
Ited States Steel Corporation proed
5,101,606 tons of finished steel
lng the second quarter of this
XT" operating at 102.4 per cent of
theoretical capacity. This was 8
cent above the production of the
t quarter. Taxes for the second
rter, not including Income and
ass profits, were $20,168,300 for the
>nd quarter, against $10,803,400 for
first quarter. Three per cent
e production virtuallly doubled
taxes in some items and trebled,
n in others. Incomes and Excess I
[Its taxes for the second quarter
0 $32,800,000, against $11,800,000
the first quarter. Total provision
taxes for the second quarter was
500.000, compared with $27,600,000
the first quarter,
large motor manufacturer res
sales of $700,000,000 for the
nd quarter, or $60,000,000 more
for the first quarter. Its tax bill
$93,000,000 for the second quaragainst
75 1-2 millions for the
quarter. $60,000,000 more of
aess added $17,600,000 to the
r the week ending July 26, railfreight
loadings were 897,399
25 per cent above the same per>f
last year.
NOTICE
In Ho: Docket No. 1931?The application
of Checker Transportation
ami Storage Company, Inc. for a modfled
Class 1) Certificate or Public CiA\vonlenco
and Necessity to render a
limted oommon carrier motor freight
service in the unloading of pool cars
at Columbia, South Carolina, and the
distributing of the contents thereof to
points and places In the following
counties lie South Carolina:
Aiken, Allendale, llatuherg, llurn*
well, Calhoun. Cheater, Clarendon,
Darlington, Edgefield. Fairfield, Florence,
Georgetown. Horry, Kershaw,
Lancaster, Lee, Lexington, Marion,
Newberry, .. Orangeburg, Richland,
Saluda, Sumter, and Williamsburg.,
under continuing by-laterals contructa
to bo entered into with the applicant's
shippers,
. The Commission will hold a public
hearing in tho above entitled matter
Ip Its .offices In tho Wade Hampton
State Office lhiilding at 10:00 o'clock
In the forenoon, Thursday, September
4. 1941, for the purpose of determining
the requirements of publio
convenience and necessity in tho
premises.
W. W. GOODMAN, Director
Motor Transport Division.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on September
6, 1941, I will mako to tho Probate
Court of Kershaw County my final return
as Administrator, de bonis non
of the estate of M. L. Smith, deceased,
and on tho same date I will apply
to tho said Court for a final discharge
as said Administrator, de bonis non.
WILLIAM W. BATES,
Administrator, d. b. n.
Camden. S. C., August 6th, 1941.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on September
13, 1941, wo will make to the Probate
Court of Kershaw County our final return
as Executors ot the estate of
John B. Onskln, deceased, and on the
same dute we wJJi apply to tho moid
Court Tot a final discharge as said
Executors.
THOMAS P. GASKIN,
GROVER C. OASKIN,
, Executors.
Camden, S. C.. August 13, 1941.
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice Is hereby given that one
month from this date, on September
8, 1941, we will make to the Probate
Court of Kershaw County our final
return as Administrator of the estate
of W. R. Clyburn, deceased, and on
the same date we will apply to the
said Court for a final discharge as
said Administrators, ?
a LEWIS L. CLYBURN.
W. R. CLYBURN, JR.
_ Administrators.
Camden, 8. C? August 8, 1941.
notice of shareholders
meeting
To the shareholders of Chancefleld
Plantation, Camden, 8. 0.:
Notice is hereby given of a meeting
of the shareholders ot Chancefleld
Plantation, Camden, S. C., that a
meeting of the shareholders of said
corporation will be held in iSfce law
ofTlces of Henry Savage, Jr., Esq.; In
| Camden, S. C., on the 8th day of
September at 10 A. M., for the purpose
of considering resolutions for
the dissolution of said corporation and
the surrender of Its corporate charter.
WALTON FERGUSON, 3rd,
President.
Camden, S. C., August 8, 1941.
Food worth $25,000,000 annually,
equal to seven-tenths of the nation's
needs, Is produced by Englahd's poultry
Industry.
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'SUNSET IN WYOMING*
-Paving Assessments
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By order of City Council all unpaid
paving assessments on prop
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erty will be levied upon and sold.
Mrs. Louise Boykin,
City Clerk and Treasurer.