The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 01, 1943, Image 7
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Prom the -Skipper’s Desk
■vS.my
Banjo Smith, columnist of tne Co
lumbia Rec(frd4> would like to tee a
same of football between the Cam
den Bulldoss and the Columbia Hish
team this season. Banjo recalled a
^w years ago when Camden played
we Caps, tome 10,000 people jammed
Melton field to capacity to see the
same. It is said the Caps received
about $6,000 berries ^s a result of the
same. Camden, if we recall correctly,
received a few hundred smackers. And
a Camden school official \(ifho told
II - - , ,«i I**''**’®! hundred 4oliart worth of
eiiile these keys play hidw and tej. I tickets for this attraction was re
ts . « Inn buck. 'warded, with a couple of bucks.
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I.unnrtaiit news to practkal-mlnded
SSual? 18- the fact that more pro-
^fi-are being fired in Washington.
" • • •
i Seattle restaurant hat solved Its
loower problem by letting iU cut-
, wait on themselves, add up
own cchecks, and ring up, their
the cash register, if
is meant by the much
“return to free enterprise,”
sweep the nation.
old lady in our neighborhood de-
that in her girlhood the lassies'
U thought of doing the things
ri« do today, adding fThat’s just the
Mble. we never thought of them. ’
Sei Carl, “Never dreaming I’d need
Main, I threw away my recipe. Does
^ne recah how gin la mddef” -
Don says Frank Sinatra hasn’t got
irthing he hasn’t'got. Women always
IJ,ani when they hear him sing, too.
• • • • ^
Definition of swing band—An aggre-
itioB^of nren with nothing else to
e but beat, pound and blow into In-
miments that produce a nolae cloae>
, ipproximating that of a* hardware
we taking “inventory.
• • • •
f^es don’t lie, and under €gmmi-
itlon some of them won’t stand np,
Ither.
It’s more profitable to know every-
king shout something than somethinf
host -everything.
Some folks wave the American flag
othey can. waive what it stands for.
• ■ «
Saw a man’s wig blow off during a
(rong Broad street gale the other
My. Then there waa hell toupee.’
• • • •
Back in the horse show days th^
Doked terrible in riding breeches, too.
So far as this corner Is concerned,
if a game, should be played be,tween
the . Bulldogs and the Cap's (we don’t
think one will) we hjope there will be
something down in black- and white
from the American -Associaiton’s sub-
cellar, by clinching the pennant. .
Last year Milwaukee finished in sec
ond place, and drew 275,689 fans to
Borchert, Firfd to ahake Veeck’s hand
at the grandstand'gate,, to see Man
ager Grimin play the banjo In a team
q iartet, and to watch the Brewers
play ball. This year the team played
to over 350,000 sjfbctatora,
• • •
Sing Sing's baseball, team has one
of the greatest start in 'Its history.
He -is said to be good at stealing
bases.
- • • • • V.
I .wonder if the rest of you football
fans missed the band as much as we
did? Seems too bad that Camden
should be one of the very few schools
in the state failing to ^ot a high
regarding the sharing of the receipts, b'all!ga,^.*^
• • f.'.—
We haven't seen the Caps in action
this year but basing the ability of the
Columbia team on a comparative rat
ing involving the game with Brook.
land-Cayce-and the manner in which
Camden ate the B.-C. gang up, we
have an idea that history would not
repeat itself should a Camden-Colum-
bia game be arranged.
• • • • ,
Sumter got away to a bad start
with its peasoo’s schedule, dropping
their opening game to Lake View 14
to 6. It wasn’t any fluke defekt
either, for I.ake View had U over the
Gamecocks like a tent.
• • *
With Hugh Cox a star in the foot-
4>all -ranks at North Carolina varsity,
Carol* going at a whirlwind clip for
Dickie strutting his stuff at Georgia,
Camden—there still remains anothec
Cox kid coming up, and who will be
on the Camden Bulldog squad soon.
The Cox family bids, fare to ^take the
place of the .Clary family as South
Carolina’s outstanding football family
> -
Baseball's most colorful combina
tion clicked for the pot of gold last
week. The Milwaukee Brewers ended
their two-year trek over the rainbow
The first thing a man notices when
he passes an attractive girl is whether
his wife is looking.
• - • • • ^
A new skin lotion leaves feminine
hands with the-fashionable, rough east
welder’s look.
• s ^ •
She knew her. husband ha(j. been out
with another woman when slie found
a ptrange rivet in his jpockst.
m m m ^
Over in Columbia I noted a sign
on a garage which read “Only Ex
perienced-’Men Work on Your-Car
Here,’’-while just below It is another
sign which reads “Help Wanted, . Ex
perience Not Necessary.” '
• • ♦ '
Jack Moore stopped me Monday to
inquire wha^ Waiter Wincbell means
when he speaks of a bundle from
Heaven. I told him that to the beat-EXCHANGE
of my krtowledge It’s my laundry com-( STILL BUYING EGGS -.,
ing back. i xhe Kershaw CountJ- Farmers
vide for their dependent
thmf’^leaknig sufflcWnt
funds to * permit higher
much heeded because of
living costs.'
Average awards for old age assist
ance In' South Carolina were for sev
eral years among the lowest In the
United States, but Increased appropri
ations have made It pq^slble for the
State to provide monthly .payment8«
higher than those in any other south
eastern State except Florida and
Tennessee, according to ,the latest
figures for other States published by
the Social Security board. The cur-;
rent average of $12.74, however, is
still only about half the average pay-
me'nT In the United Stajtes, which Is
approximately $24.67.
Say what you will—a band adds a
lot of color to a football game. Our
hopes were at top rahk last year when
the band In our estimation reached
a peak in playing and marching. \\Tiat
a lefddwn.
1
. • • •
The game last Friday brought out
one of the largest “first-game” crowds
we have seen in the pasture for years.
The Brookland^Cayce team had sever
al hundred followers in * the east
bleachers and they certainly cut loose
with all kinds of fire works.
• • •
it’s always
the course
Ex-
Oh well,
before
that
runs
of twa loves never
smooth.
Kershaw Old Age
Help Increases 77 p.c.
The average monthly payment* of
old age assistance In Kershaw County
In August. 1943, was $12.70, an in
crease of 77 per cent from the lowiest
monthly average since the jpepart-
: change Is still buying eggs and i^bip-
weeilv. The present price
Is 45c per doxen or 47c per ^ozen if
the producer furnishes the"^ .* crates.
Since starting the shipping of eggs
In March, 1943, we have shipped 9.590i
dozen which brought the participating
farmers $3,256.90. We will continue
to buy eggs just as long as we have
a surprus.
iment of Public Welfare 'sfas-estab-
Cypil Butbee, former DeKalb high
ofth'e' B*.i?SoolJ <7.19 Ih April, 1941.
the game^—CysH axpreatcd the-4m^ Chairman Norman S^ l^lchards of
that the Bulldogs would* take on the the county board of public welfare
^lumbia Caps this season. He be-! said that the department’s ability to
Rhame ganJ.*"6Tdi‘*we*''* adequate provision for the
• • • • , • county’s needy citizens is dtre chiefly
to the increased amounts appro^iated
by the General ^Assembly fop this
purpose. Funds provided by the Oen.
Assembly are matched by an
Well folks tonight’s the night. From
all we hear Sumter has a good team
and even If It was a mediocre outfit
compared to the powerhouse the,
Gamecocks sported last year, those
boys over yonder rise to supreme equal amount fro mthe Federal Treas
heights When they tackle the Bull- ury.
dog*. ’
* Two
People should npt get lazy, bored and
indifferent too early in life or they
might not live long enough to enjoy
the sufferings that okl age la bound
to bring them.
Between You and Me
other factors contributing* to
the county’s ability to provide higher
Individual awards, it was explained,
were allotments by enlisted men to
their dependents under the Service^
men's Debendents Allowance Act- of
Congress, and improved economic
conditions throughout the State, which
have enabled many families to pro-
Tons of dead fish waBhe<l ashore
rwently at Progreso, Yucatan, are
declared by port experts to be victims
of subterranean volcanic eruptions
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Dr. Maurice Clarke, rector of Grace
ihurcb. is'a well-read individual and
ih^n he noted iff this colugin the
eatement of a return^ American eoI-
iier, which was also ^pressed in the
liitorial pages of two metropolitan
jipers that the British Eighth Army
|u made up of Americans, Canadians
ifi British, he immediately got In
sn with the British Information
totice in New York to secure in-
.ftfiation. This column printed the
hArmatiun in good faith and is glad
s print the results of Dr. Clarke’s
bquiry to the British Information
WTice. It is in effect that the Brit-
M 8th arjiiy is made up of 76 per cent
Inited Kingdom troops, 20 per cent
from .\'ew Zealand and India, the In
dian formation including about 20 per
«ot British personnel, and 4 per cent
French; There are no American units
hr ttra Eighth Array. ,
^'e are happy to agree with Dr.
Garke for we are on the paternal as
»ell ag maternal side of the family
free, 100 per cent English, that *‘glT6
ffedit where credit is due^’ Is a good
tlown,
m m m m
Ltnnie stopped to give me a bit of
•ound piiilosophy the other day. Ask-
N me to pass It along. Here It is.
Do you remember way back when
we ground our coffee in a noisy coffee
mill held between our knees and
turned the crank round and round,
with the ground coffee falling into a
little drawer Inside? .
Have you noticed that Hitler is
really going down in history—down
and down, and down?
• • * •
One of the-kids in, our block wants
to know how come there is a shortage
in every thing except teachers?
• • • ■
Speaking of the Victory gardens—
have you ever stopped to realize that
a Victory garden is something you
can’t live off of without almost living
in It?
• « • •
We-notice that you can still get a
5 cent cigar, but it takes a nickle'a
worth of matches to keep it going.
• • •
Well, the old yelp is on again about
poor radio reception in Camden. This
corner hopes Someday to be able to
explain why radio fans in Sumter, Co
lumbia and hal^ a dozen other cities
we could name can get sweet clear
reception, while here In Camden the
air Is cluttered with the darndest
static you ever listened to. The fact
that this cdndftion is spotted about
the city indicates that something is
wrong with something.
m
Some motorista are wont to cuaa
bicycles, but, did you ever see a cyclist
leave his wheel' double-parked on
Broad street with the door dpen?
OUR FIRS^
CONCp»^lS
ORY - -
until it is
WON “THINGS
CAN»T B^ YHE.
SAME“ *for
ANY OF US—
“Cuttings
wood,
is essential
war work”
says Paul V. McNutt,
Chairman of the -
If’ar Manpower Committion
We remember wheu^^^e used .td be able to
you “same-day'Vdiy cleaning service, ^e
member whe^'^ou had only to phone for pic
or delivdry-'wnrice, and our truck would ^
your a4dfess. Well—many of our
driVerlB and truck tires and gasoline are of o
t>e war. Until they do—we'll do our best for you.
But not until they do, can we'do
like to. - Thank you for your patience—and lor
whatever you do to speetTyictory! ^
We Pick-up oM Deliver
PalmettoJ®,
“P
JujLpWOOD is ah essential war
material, used among other things
for making raymi parachutes ship*
ping oontauiers and tmbkeless
powdar. Ita many wartime uses
nave created a shortage which is
raindiy becoming sente. With these
conditions in mind, the Wsl Man*
power CommissMMi has recently
classified pulpwood cutting and
produetkm of pulp as essential war
occnpaticMU.
"May I urge every man engaged
in this essential work, either part
or fall time, to rive it the best he
has in him. Let him remember he
is wielding his axe and saw in the
same struggle and to the same end
that othor men are wielding bayo
nets and machine guns.
"I know that the men who work
in the'foresta and palp inilla and
the farmers who cat pulpwood
from their ^woodlots are fust aa
patriotic and loyal as any other
group of Americans, Now that
they realize the ipiportance of
jtheir part m the war, 1 Mm tore
they win respond with the extra
hours; extra ^ys and extra effort
that is the only possible answer to
this dangerous Mortage.**
DoKalb StivH.
Phon*. S
I. ' , w
ApprovedJjy
War Manpower Commission
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SPOSSORED BY WEST VIRCIMA PULP AND P.\rr.H COMPANY,
. CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
GEH IN TOUCH WITH OUR DEALERS
Now io th« tbno to
cot or thin your tiiB'.
b«r firhflo prioM aro
Ufli and pulpwood
bwdlyBoadad.
CbT wiaaiy and tha
WBiufinfaRf traaa wffl
gaow laa^ and big •
tar.¥a« foraatar ar
MMiBty agant will
halp yon adaet Oaaa
krenttinc.
EanilATBliow many
coeda you can cul
Than gat in touch
with our local deal-
ar, or tdejdioae, or
write na for prkea
and qMcificatioDA.
L. W. BOYKIN, 2nd
BOYKIN, 8. C.
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JOHNJ. HOOD
RIDaEWAY,8.&