The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 30, 1942, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
HOT Oil THE KEY!
JyVNL SKIPPER.
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Who's the guy who started that
NV ,i,i fantastic yam about a Nasi plana j
howrlng over Camden a few nights
The yarn spread like, wildfire
brought a veritable epidemic of
phone calls to this writer's home dur- j
, lie wee small hours of the morn !
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Wow! What an imagination some
persons did have. One lady said that
the home guard had been called out'
anil another said that the training
planes at the air sehool had been suddenly
taken from the hangars and
placed at points about the air field.
We commenced to smell the. animal
in i he woodpile vfhen we heard the
story about the planes as we recalled
distinctly that about four weeks ago
the airport started the practice of removing
the planes 'from the hangars.
Well, It was a good yarn anyhow,
and it sure caused a wild wave of excitement
In this man's town. But it
was purely fantastic and we mean
how! _ |
By the way, we believe. that the
action of the mayor in establishing
the hours between 2 and 5 p. m. for
the use of the roller rink at Broad
and Laurens streets by little children
exclusively Is a mighty fine idea. We
watched the skaters for an hour the j
other afternoon and some twenty tiny
tots were taking a real beating by a
gang of older boys who were playing
hockey. It's a miracle that some of
the little people were not hurt by the
reckless skaters and stick-swinging
boys.
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The mayor is having a sign made to
he installed at this rink. We believe
it would be a mighty good idea to
have a rink established in Hampton
park where the boys could play hockey.
With suitable lights above at
such a rink would be .a. popular place
to have hockey games evenings,
see*
A good Irish friend of ours called
up last Friday afterdoon to tell us
what he thought about our comments
on the Irish and fheir cowardly attitude
in not permitting Britain and the
United States to establish bases in,
Ireland. This good friend said wej
were one hundred per cent right and'
he hoped that the darned English and J
Americans would take the needed j
bases and tell old deValera to gOj
jump into the Irish sea.
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W e have a rather warm spot in our
ln-art for the Irish. Out in Wisconsin
where We held down the desk of j
litv editor for many years, we had
thirteen members on tho nev^s staff!
and believe it or not, every darn one
wa-; Irish, Ood rest their-.souls. In
th- pages of memory I can look thru
the spectacles of time and see Kitty,'
Mikm Pat, Betty and the whole caboodle
of fine upright men and' wo-1
nit-n who never flinched at tackling j
the hardest and toughest kind of a
I news paper assignment.
Several of them are now out on
fth-- last big story and have turaedin
heir copy with a big "10", scrib- (
hi- ! 'hereon. Their Job is over, but
i* a job well done. , - {
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"... thumbing those pages, I recall (
itnmer when ur.111 the old homej
drifting into the city-room of
od old paper, and hearing Kit's
I yelp of joy when she saw me. j~
V. with his hair gray but still j
i twinkle'in his eyes coming h
' nd putting an aridh around;, me'
fat-J grunting, "Hollo.feller, glad to see j
And Carl, now city editor,),
fuinning like a, Cheshire cat as his \
g.iv.. rne a handshake that made me,;
m " f. a mi yet. dear litoe ,
' l''sta. we used to ciall her Cal, whoj
once helped.me drag a drowning victim
oi^t 9f the water .in order to
search fot^ndentillcatlon marks?yes,
they were there and It made tue feel
sort of choked up at the welcome they
gave me.
.
"Oh gee, I'd give the world to see
that old gang of mine."
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Well, folks, shutting up the album
of memories, let's talk of present day
things. For Instance?we are getting
j fed up with the complaints that have
be^n coming in Regarding exhorbltqnt
taxi fares being imposed in this man's
town. It's about tirtie Camden went
modern and adopted a taxi ordinance
; like some of the other cities have.
Rock Hill, for instance. Such an orordlnance
will eliminate the present
system of gouging which Is being
practiced by some taxi drivers, if reports
are to be cj^dited.
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Reports from Berlin that high German
army officials are seriously 111
should corroborate worldwide suspicions
that the Naeis must be pretty
sick of the whole Russian venture.
|- When we have to quit J6y-rlding in
cars, when we can no longer buy radios,
refrigerators and washing machines
and we become a bit depressed
as a consequence, It ought to help
us shake the gloom'to remember those
boys who are performing the dangerous
jobs of manning our ships, our
submarines and our planes and those
who face the enemy on the fighting
lines. That the richest prosperity we
have known won't be worth having
unless we finish this Job successfully.
?
In some cities and towns campaigns
are being conducted to raise funds
to purchase bombers for the army air
corps'and many persons have responded
with their dimes, quarters and dollars
to the appeal of "Remember Pearl
Harbor," and help avenge the Japa-'
nese assault. As between buying a
bomber for the army?a bomber which
the army will get anyway?and giving
money for a purpose which could not
otherwise be served, w;e leave it to
our readers to determine which is the
more beneficial act and the more patriotic
gesture, l/et's *%et'B Remember
Pearl Harbor" inr' the best way,
which is not necessarily the most
spectacular way. Buy defense bonds
?Donate to the Red Cross!
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There is really no need ,to give a
married man advice for he invariably
gets more at home than he can use.
Old Dobbin couldn't travel seventy
miles an hour but still, when his
shoes wore smooth, all you had to do ,
was to take him around to a blacksmith
shop for fantails and have him
reshod. ,
. - * --- A
University of Wisconsin student ;
has confessed to stealing forty dol- }
lars worth pf orchids from the univer- {
sify botany department, thereby nul- '
lifylng several years of experiment.
What's your guess abont that chap: Did
he like. the girl or did he bate
botany.
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Sport Potpourri
BY THE SKIPPER
Nice letter from Lee McPhail of the
Toronto Maple Leafs telling Of his
plana for the training period dowp
here in Camden. Sending us list of
players, exhibition game schedule and
asking us have " Joe McKaIn_ and /
Don Morrison check up on slme things
necessary. At the bXgebnU, plank
f'jr* ~-*X% e. *
" Largest crowd of the season out for
the polo game Sunday. * And what a
fame it was. Carl Llghtfoot seemed
to be the star, so far as the crowd r.
rras concerned, but we want to pass ;
I blg bunch of posies to Charley Rob
art sou. the M|e of Kutawvllte. for
OHO of tilt boat tlblMUou over ofIwod.
The crowd groaned when they ww
Light foot ltd his pony tangle on the
ground In the first chukker, but when
Carl got up, took his potty from the
arena and then came back mounted
on another to continue in the game,
the crowd applauded vigorously.
Right hpre and now we want td go
on record as advocating admitting of
soldiers in uniform free of charge at
all polo games. The Yanks do not
get a lot of money?they are gearing
our colors aud prepared to fight for
us. The least we can do Is to admit
them to all sports .free of charge.
What say yet' Legionnaires and polb
club members?
Well, King Basketball Is with us
this week?thanks for an alert Klwanis
club. The Camden trade area
tournament Is toeing held in the high
Bchqpl gymnasium with sixteen teams
taking part. The least you and und
you and you can do is to patronise
some of these games.
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As the days and weeks roll by, the
Carolina Cup day draws nearer and
nearer. It is still too- early to make
any predictions as to what kind of a
program will be offered?but we venture
to say It should be interesting.
Carolina Cup races always are.
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The big topic of conversation at
the polo game Sunday nfternoon concerned
the sermou by Rev, Michael
Coleman, English vicar, at Grabe Episcopal
church in the morning. Bv^jyr
body agreed It was one of the most
inspiring, the most interesting and
outstanding preachments ever heard
In Grace church. This one was so
Inspiring, so dynamic, and offered
such a real picture of London in the
grasp of the demon??K>f. jtar, that I
could-have listened for another hour.
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And we might add that the muslchlpart
of the church program was very
outstanding. A large choir did a masterful
Job.
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And speaking of foreign countries
and the like, we Would like to say
that our suggestion to Lee MacPhall
that he bring with him a Canadian
flag to be flown In the ball park during
the stay here of the Maple Leafs
was enthusiastically received.
.
Tuned In on the Wisconsin-Indiana
basketball clash at Madison Saturday
night and heard a thrilling game.
Wisconsin won 41 to 36 and it looks
as if the Badgers are again headed
for a national title.
By the way, don't forget the polo
game next Sunday when the Camden
boys take on the EJssgg troopers. And'
on February 22nd We have a Pinehurst
team coming down for the afternoon.
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Some- of pur pet peeves: Seeing
Ill-bred kids barge into the theatre
carrying cups of pop and sucking
from a straw. Or perhaps munching
on a candy bar or some other sweet.
Seeing girls we thought had manners,
slide down into a seat, put their knees
almost on the back of the seat In
front end and from that" almost inverted
position, watch the picture. We
don't give A particular , darn about
these things, only It gripes us to have
Camden girls and boys branded as
l^eing guilty of 111 - manners.,
When planes of the R. A/ F. Coastal 1
Command blast at a U-boat, cripple It,
then run out of bombs, they drop a i
light metal cylinder filled with powdered
aluminum. Impact of the fall ,
drives aluminum through the top,
forming a big, bright disc on the wi- '
ter. Bomber then goes home for another
load, returns, and finishes the j
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Relief At Last
For Year Cough
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Burleigh Grimes
Colorful Character
(By Frank H. Heath)
"iiatH'ball fans of South Carolina,
moot Burleigh Grimes, manager of the
Toronto Mapel l*eafs of Jhe Interna-*
tlonal league, to train in Camden during
March and early April. *
When the Toronto manager arrives
with his squad of athletes In Camdeu
early in March, he will find an old
TTlOOif awaiting him. None other than
Frank H, Heath, Camden public relations
director and publicist, who hails
from the same state as the Toronto
leader and who as. a sport writer back
in 1913 watched the famous Crimea
make his debut iu pro ball iu the old
Wisconsin-Illinois league. .
Crimes, now in his 49th year, will
ever be fatuous for his sensational
pitching In the J981 world series. Remember
it, fans y That was the time
Crimes pitched agatnst a sensational
team lod by Connie Muck, who was
seetfug his third straight world series
triumph with his famouH Athletic
power house.
Grimes is the terror of the umpire
fraternity. Jt is safe to say that Burleigh
steps into the spotlight in nearly
every game with some form of a
protest against some decision by the
umpiring staff and It is very certain
that what' h.e has to say to the arbiters
will be quite colorful and expressive.
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Burleigh comes from Emerald, Wisconsin,
where he saw*tbe light of day
away back in 1893. Today he is a
man of 49, scales 180 pounds and has
a height of 5 feet 10 Inches. Ho is
married and his home Is at New Haven,
Mo. - /
Burleigh broke into the baseball
game with one of the Wisconsin-Illinois
league teams and. later went to
Ottumwa of the Three-Eye loop. In
1913 and through to 1910 he was with
Chattanooga and Birmingham of the
Southern association. In J1916 he won
2D and lost 11 and earned a chance to
try out with the Pittsburg Pirates of
the National league. That year he
won 2 and loBt 3 games. In 1917 hie*
efforts met with disaster as he won
but three games and lost sixteen. That
ended his car.eer with the PirateB and
he went to Brooklyn, pitching for t?e
Dodgers from 1918 to i926 Inclusive.
In 1918 his record was 19 won and 9
lost. In 1919 he won 10 and lost 11.
In 1920 he pitched 23 wins and 11 defeats.
In 1921, 22 wins and 13 de*
feats. In 1922 his record was 17 wins
and 14 defeats. In 192S It was 21 wins
and 18 losses. In 1924 he won 22 and
lost 13. In 1926 he won 12 and lost
19. Ih 1926 he won 12 and lost 13.
In 1927 Grimes was sold to the.
New York Giants and in that year he
won 19 and lost 8 games. He went
back to Pittsburgh in 1928 where he
won 26 and lost 14. In 1927 as a Pirate
pitcher he won 17 and lost 7.
In 1980 he started with the Boston
Braves hut finished with the St. Louis
Cardinals, his record for the year
with both these teams being 16 wins
as against 11 defeats. 1989 his record
was 17 wins and but 9 defeats. In
1932 he wnet to Chicago Cuba where
be pitched'6 wins and 11 losses.
Grimes took part in four world series.
In 1920 as a member of the.
Brooklyn Dodgerw his record was one
victory and two defeats. * In 1930 he
pitched two games for St. Louis and
lost both. In 1931 he reached the j
peak of hisv sensational career by ,
pitching two. games In the world ae- 1
rles and winning both. In 1982 he ,
pitched two games for tfcie Chicago J
Cubs in the world series. 1
He started his managing career ,
with a farm team of the St. Louis
Cardinals and has also managed
Louisville, Brooklyn, Montreal, Grand
Rapids and Milwaukee.
City-Wide Project
Approved By WPA
;Wa8hlngton. Jan. 24?Congressman i
Richards. Fifth District of South I
Carolina, has ^ been . notified by the I
Federal Works Agency, Work Projects I
Administration, Washington, that
Project No. 265-1-33-104, In the J
uhount of $91,448-has been approved *
[or Kershaw county. City ofx Camden, i
This is a city-wide project and is
:o improve strata and sidewalks, i
iurtaclhf, grading: draining and per- 1
forming appurtenant. end incidental i
work. ? '
Thhf-to publicly- owned property
ffijp.jhe project j* sposdred br the j
City of Caqglen. 1
* This project is eligible for operation i
It the discretion of the 8UU . Work i
Projects Administrator, I* U. Plnck- i
ley, Columbia, S. C. ~^ 1
FINAL DISCHARGE 1
Notice to hereby, given that one 1
month from this date, on February
81. mi. 1 will m?k. to the FrohotoTSi:SJSA
>f Baayon R. Trueedell, deceased, and ,
?a the date I wBI apply to M _
laid Court for a final discharge as
Ctd Administratrix.
ALETHIA H. THUBSDHLL
Administratrix
Camden. S. C.. Jan. 20. J942.
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On The Home Front
Washington, Jan. Iff,?This Is the
job: to mould our whole country into
a single weapon'of attack, as the separate
fingers of the handsuttlte to form
a clenched, fighting fist And now, under
the new War Production Hoard,
we're really hammering at that Job.
WI'B'h chairman, Donald M. Morrison.
Intends that every ounce of material
not required absolutely essential civil.
Ian needs, every machine and every
plaut which c*n be spared from Chilian
production and converted to military
uses, shall work for war. That's
going to bring this struggle to the
home front as It hasn't been brought
before. As time goes on it's goiug to
teat the inettle'of every one of us, in (
one way or another.
For some while now the trends have
Indicated that the American consumer
facea increasing deprivation, %ust be
prepared for increasing sacrifice and
last woek was 110 exception. All this
underlines the fuct that the civilian
in this fight for democracy must practice
two soldierly virtues; he must bo
cheerful and unafraid. What the
President said about fear, that, the
only thing we have to fear is fear itself,
Is particularly true on the consumer
front. ^
Hoarding is fear operating in the
sphere of the consumer. You can't
boat shortages by, hoarding.* Hoarding,
where potential scarcities exist,
simply hastens the day of rationing?
and hoarding may actually create artificial
shortages of goods of commodities
which actually*are plentiful.
Sugar we may have to ration, because
of the tremendous quantities required
for production of alcohol used
in making high explosives and fpr
other military purposes. But there
are many energy-giving substitutes
for sugar, so far as that goes. It Is
with Bugar as Mfjth the Bpices we may
not be getting |n quantity because the
Jap stands athwart our Far Easterb
trade routes?we certainly can get
along with less pepper, if we hare to.
The point is that fundamentally we
have plenty of food. Even under the
most unlikely conditions our standard
of nutrition still will seem extravagantly
high to the Japanese ^ith his
35 handfulls of rice each month, or
the German living on a diet of potatoes
and erzats.
* But suppose?and this isn't theory,
the Office of Price Administration
and the Department of Agriculture are
jointly concerned about It?suppose
some people, motivated by unreasontug
fear, begin to hoard staple groceries.
If enough people are moved
by the contagion of example and do
likewise, retire great quantities of staples
to what amounts to dead storage,
you have the rudiments for a serious
situation. Prices pyramid In response
to suddenly stimulated demand, the
time comes when retailers1 stocks
really are depleted, when warehouses
and processing plants stagger under
a rush of orders, when the whole economy
of food supply Is upset.
OPA has received reports that at
least one grocery distributor has been
encouraging hoarding in handbills
given out to housewives with their
purchases at the store. Anyone urging
housewives to stock "emergency
pantry shelves" at this time Is seeking
temporary profit at the expense of
truth, and Is doing himself and his
fellow citizens and his country a disservice.
Don't have any Of it, buy
your foodstuffs as you need them, be
prepared ot make adjustments if and
when they become necessary?there'll
be enough to eat for everyone.
Keep your head, and don't be afraid.
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- Here are new developments on the
war production front, developments
which will eventually?As present
stocks are exhausted?be reflected Jn
the lives of many consumers. They
stem from a variety of secondary
causes, everything which happens on
any sector of-every front in the,world
battle affects us all, but their primary
purpose' is. to? speed qur victory over
the Axis:; ' ? ,
1. The WPB slapped further drastic
controls on rubber which will reluce
the amount available for a wide
range ,of civilian products by about
75 per cent. And many products, vtfph
is garden hose, toys, Erasers, sporting
goods and rubber heels.may be
made only from 'reclaimed rubber Iq
the future.\
2. 'WPB moved to meet tremendous
army and navy demands on the radio _
Industry by ordering heavy cuts In
production of receiving sets for civilians,
also ordered reduced output of
phonograph and radlo-phonogntph
combinations. Cut for the next' ninety
la/s Is 40 per cent below output for
the nine-month period ended September
SO. 1*41% ' Most of the big com pa
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nies are converting 100 per cent (or
military production. We now hare an
|estimated 60,000.000 radios in 97 per
cent of United States homee.
3. Couaumers in 16 Eastern and
Southern states will pay more for gasoline
as the result of a three-tenths of
a cent per gallon Inorease granted by
OPA and Petroleum Coordinator tfar-,
for higher transportation costs incurred
by oil companies using tank ears
and other methods to relieve the
shortage of ocean-going tankers.
4. Representatives of the mens*
and boys' clothing industry handed up
a report to WPB on style simplifications
to conserve wool and this report
feoommended?as had been e<pected-?
abolition of tho two-troueer
suit. A breakdown on tho "two pauts"
suit; forty por cent of 25.000,000 sulfa
made in tho United Stutes Inst year
had two pairs of trousers. Each pair
nveruged one-and-a-half yards 4of
cloth. Hesultant 16,000,000 yards *av-,
ing by ellminattng one pair would
equal 17 per cent more suits. Forty- v'
three per cent of last year's suits <7
were douhlo-breastod, the ludustry
men would olimlnato vests with this
type of suit ?
5. KestrlcTTQhs designed to - plug
loopholes in coutrol of nickel are going
to make many articles of common
use loHs decorative, if Just as serviceable.
The list runs a gamut from
musical instruments to Baddlery and
harness hardware.
Salvage, Simplify, Substitute?these
are the "Three 8's" of wartime economy.
Even the army is using substitutes
where it can, conserving scarce
metals for work In which they're absolutely
essentials. The nationwide Salvage
Campaign?to collect scrap metal,
old rubber, used paper?moves forward
apace. OPA's Consumer Divla-te
ion suggests you carry your bundles
home from the store, save tires, truck,
paper. Printers and publishers are
studying ways of conserving colored
inks, salvaging metals.
WPB has ordered Texas and Arlsona
cotton seed mills not to crush Amer-'
ican-Egyptlan cotton in their possession?the
seed is needed for planting,
the cotton?"long staple":?71s used for
balloon cloth and other aviation 'equipment.
Production of passenger autos
and light trucks for any purpose at
all will be stopped Fbbrifary 1 as the
Industry begins conversion to full war
production. Parts producers may'
turn out 60 per cent as many replacement
parts during.^ this year's first
quarter as they sold in the last half
of 1941. Sidney Hill man, WPB's Labor
Division chief, says A. F. L. and
C. I. O. leaders will meet for the first
'time In years at regional conferences
on war production next month. American
canners will have to get along
with less tin plate, less sugar. But WPB
will help them maintain production,
increase along aome lines.
- - NOTICE ~ i \
Due to Increased operating cost such
as taxes, stationary and payment of
overtime, we find It necessary to place
our service chafge at 75 cents per p
month instead of 60 cents, this to apply
to all checking1 accounts with a
balance less than fSO.00 on any one
day during the month oh which three
or more checks have been'given.
The First National Bank of Camden, The
Commercial Banlrof Camden.
Daw. an Englishman, Introduced the
hammerless gun into England In 1392.
The actual Invention of this gun Improvement,
however, is obscure.
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