The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 26, 1944, Image 7
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TMt CAMDEN CHWOHICLl, CAMDKW. tOUTH CAHOtiNA, WtlPAY, MAY 2%, 1t#4
PAQI tKVIN
SPORTS
From th« DmIc
Hina and pitching fMtc In^ major
? Lleball ao far thip aaaaon
JJIrtratea tho low callbor of tha
i c
.vinK orer the leading bottero
rt wwk Thurman Tucker
* White Sox, leading th^'Amerl-
iP»xue with .408, whereas last
he hit .235. Swift of Detroit, is
,, 342 and In 1848 the best he
do was .271. Dixie Walker Is
at a .424 gait this year and a
Feather, Johnny KUbano, 41.87; Ban-
tarn, Terry McQoTem, 80.08; Fly
weight, Jimmy WUde, 88.08.
« • •
What la It that iittia Joe Barry,
with Milwaukee laat year, and now
with Connie Mack, got that haa made
him the relief pitching aenaation of
the aeaaon to daU? ,AII Little Joe
haa done thia seaaon hae been retief
work, but he haa won four ^mea
and ioat only one. Joe throws a little
of everything and not much of any
thing. He haa a fast ball which ia
sneaky rather than speedy. We havo
seen the midget pitch in Milwaukee
several times and we believe hie suo-
ie
ito h© was .81L
* • • •
t ove^att class of pHchlng these
face is lower than the majors
ever had before. Veterai^ like eeea la due probably in part to the
of them, just do nrt find th^r fact that hie stuff is strange to major
ig eyes so late In their career*, league batters and they do not see
),e other hand, the go^ pitchers enough of him to get used t olL
Battle For Equal
Rates Being Won
By the Railroads
• ———
Actkm of Camden Chamber of
Commerce In line With
Profresaiwe More.
Pause a Minute^ '
Folks—Our Walter
IMes In His Sleep
Old Colored Man With the
Smile and Tin Cup la
No More.
Members of fhe 1948-44 Chamber
of Commerce are gratified to leam
that efforts put forth some four to
five months ago to insure passage In
Washington of' a bill to end com
pletely the*-preferential rates enjoyed
by the govemmeent on land gre&tjfound dead at the city house Monday
have eacapad tha draft ara hav-
lings pretty much their own way.
4y with the season over a
h old. two no.hlt games have
pitched and there have been a
of one-hlttera.
• • • •
the latest Esquire magaxine
I poll the greatest boxers of all
were selected as follows, with
stage of total vote each got
fweight: Jack Dempsey, 49.78;
Heavy, Bob Pltasimmona, 40.17;
lewelght, Mickey Walker, 80.87;
*r, Henry Armstrong, 48.69;
weight, Benny Leonard, 64.14;
BELK’S DEFT. STORE
Kingstree Highs handed Sumter a
terrific beating laat week. Chester
lambasted Great Falls. When we
read about these - games about the
state and note the many high school
games being played In North Caro
lina, Georgia, etc., we sort of feel
chagrined that Camden, styled as a
sport center, does not have a high
school baseball team. Things sure
have changed In the past few years.
• • •
We are looking forward to the
opening of the Junior Legion baeeball
program and we believe that the
Camden team is going to ba good.
Wa haven’t eeen the lade in action
as yet and theiwfore cannot paaa ac.
curate judgment Here’e hoping.
BRYANT A. COX
TRAINING AT CAMP LEJEUNE
Marine Rrlvate Bryant A. Cox is
now undergoing training in the school
for radio Instmction at Camp Lejenne,
N. C. Cox Is the son of James C. Oox,
1211 Mill street, Camden. Hia broth,
er, James H. (Shot) Oox. ia also a
Marine. He is In officer candidates
class at Qnantleo, Va.
railroads have bees realixed and the
bill is expected to be passed with
little opposition. It already has re
ceived the approval of the House In
terstate Commerce committee.
To the unitiated, land grant con
cessions were concessions made to
the government by the railroads as
the result of land grants. In a 20
year period from 1860 to 1871 the
government donated some 160,000,000
acres of land tb help western and
some southern railroads finance rail
road construction. In some cases the
contemplated construction was not
undertaken and the grants were re-
voked. Some 116,000,000 seres how
ever did find constmetioD projects
carried out. The land In nearly every
instance was along the construction
route to be followed, usually In alter
nate strips on either side.
The, railroads getting the land
grants had to agree to transport gov
ernmental material and troops with
out toils over the length of the road
so constructed. Later the courts ruled
this phrase to cover only the actnal
transportation costs. As a result the
concession worked out to about 60
per cent of the usual freight charge
or 80 per cent of the usual charge
for transporting the maDs
To get their share of government
business, the non-grant roads had to
make similar concessions under the
so-called agreements. Up to 1987 the
government fignres show thst rate
reductions amounting to 1166,000,001)
had been received. In 1940 most of
the redactions were abolished. The
single exception was that of actual
military tra^ and in this connection
the railroads are now eontrlbatlng
6260,000,000 a year or $140,000,000
more than the actual value of the
land granted.
The Chamber of Commerce in CTam-
den, acting in concert with other
Chambers of Commerce slong the Sea
board railroad, petitioned Sectors
Maybank and Smith and Congressman
Richards to use their efforts to have
the bill to end preferentia Irates abol
ished.
morning. He had evidently passed
away in his sleep early Sunday even
ing for rigor mortis had set in when
the’ body was discovered.
Walter usually wore a sm
military cap and the most
collection of clothes human
might devise. He always carried a
little tin cup,,and begged his friends
to drop their Dickies, dimes and. pen
nies ' in it
Walter 'a’ls a fixture in Camden and
while many cltlxens did not like the
idea of beggers parading the streets,
good-natured and harmless Walter
was an exception. He always wore a
toothless smile.
Take a tip from the boys in
the servicejidme front filt
ers... when there’s not time
«
for a meal, drink milk.
^uick ehei^gy that slays with yoST^
The beat milk doesn’t come from cowt—^it cornea from
Camden Dairies
Phone 666 For Your Milkman
en the matter came before the
Interstate Commerce commission that
body recommended the abolishment
of the rates. Later the House Inter
state Commerce committee joined in
the recommendation.
The attitude taken by the Camden
Chamber was that the railroads have
long since paid back all they ever
got and the government should now
pay the rates charged other ship
pers.
Pine Grove School
Exercises Yesterday
The Pine Grove school had com
mOncement exercises Thursday, May
26, at
Baptist Will
Conduct Vacation
Kble Schools
South Carolina Baptists are plan-
ning the greatest program of Bible
teaching for children freed' from pub
lic school for the vacation time ever
staged by that denomination. The
work will be done in hundreds of va-
One of the fixtures of downtownBible schools In churches
Camden for many years has joined *1*™“***®***^ *he «^te.
the ranks of the dead. summer there were 358 such
Walter McCall, age 60, colored, who **^_^®°*^*' Carolina Baptist
Is known to every Camdenlle and win- Thi* Increase of
ter visitor here for many years, was P®*' cent over tho year before. Due
to war conditions many states of the
Southern Baptist Convention suffered
a set back in vacation Bible schools.
For the whole convention there was
a loss of IS per cent In the number of
schools. ’This makes the South Caro
lina gain all the more significant and
prompts the leaders to believe that
the vacation Bible school is well on
its way to becoming a permanent part
of the educational ministry In every
Baptist church. ’ —
In each of the 88 Baptist associa
tions of the state there is an elected
leader of vacation Bible schools. Ret.
J .B. Caston serves in that capacity
for the'Kershaw Baptist association.
He is leading In the effort to get
good vacation Bible schools estabuiih-
ed In every church in this associa
tion. Churches which need help In
beginning or In Improving a vacation
Bible schools have been asked to
consnlt him. The aim for the state
Is 60Q vacation Bible schools In 1944.
For the association a goal of 18
schools has been set
^ FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hweby given that one
month from this date, on June 19,
1944, Selma Pearce will make to U95
Pf^bate Court of Kershaw County her
final return as Administratrix of the
estate of William Ben „ Pearce, de
ceased, and on the same date she will
apply to the said Court for a final
discharge as said Administratrix.
N. C. ARNETT,
Judge of Probate
Camden, S. C., May 18, 1944, 1|
Colored Youth Is
Drowned In Pond
A second drowning^ within a week
occured Sunday afternoon at 4:30
o’clock when Willie Roberson, 17-
year-old colored boy, who was In the
Wateree Lake near the beach used
by the colored people, went down,
presumably from a cramp.
Roberson was reported to have been
an excellent swimmer. His body was
located and_taken from the lake one
half hour after he had gone down.
Police worked over him for some
time with a pulmoter.
Anna Johnson, 17-year-<rfd, and a
resident of the Hermitage village, was
drowned earlier In the we^ in the
Hermitage pond.
CITATION
state of South Carolina,
County of Kerahaw.
.By N. C. AmetL Probate Judge:
Wherestf, Mrs. Alma P. Rabon made
suit to me to grant her Letters of
Admlnlstratloa of the Estate and
effects of Henry Clepient Ralwn.
These are, therefore, to cite and
admonish all and tlngnlar the Kin
dred and Creditors of the said Henry
daments Rabon, deceased, that they
be and appear before me, in the Court
of Probate, to be held at (Camden, S.
C., on June 6th, next, after publication
hereof, at 11 o’clock In the forenoon,
to show cause. If any they have, why
the said Admlnltsartiott should not
be granted.
dlven under my hand this 22nd day
of May, Anno Domini, 1944. 10
N. C. Arnett,
Judge of Probate,
For Kerahaw County.
It is a great ability to be able to
conceal one’s ability.—La Rochefou
cauld, 1666.
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ed lollenlng 9e«rd.
DIXIE CRYSTALS
Tax Notice
Beginning June Ist, a 15 per
cent Penalty wiU be added to
all unpaid 1943 Oty Taxes.
LOUISE W. BOYKIN,
City Clerk
I took part in the program which pre-
-sented in words and song the place
of ev^eryday performance of duties In
{the upkeeping of our nation during
j It’s critical period. Willie Mae Bar-
V field took the paft of Miss America.
The following received certificates
I
1024 Broad Street
— — Camden, S. C.
!§,of award for perfect attendance: Pa
tricia Rabon, 2nd grade; .Myrtle- Ra
bon, 4th grade; Doris Branham, 6th
grade; Willie Mae Barfield, 7th frade;
Betty Rabon, 7th grade; Katie I>ee
Rabon, 7th grade.
J Members of the 7th grade receiving
Y--certlficatf« of gradnatlWwpre: WtF
' lie Mae Barfield, Sue Branham, Bessie
'Lee Ford, B>tty Rabon, Katie Lee
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Uabon and Paul Rabou.
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soils of the^outh are Ixelpiog to susuia
pr of a V. < Je vaHcty of farm crops,
ia : a-a-yln^ r-^uLry t.ii-ing, livestock and
our nation fighting for its way of life. In in tlio growing of fruits and vegetables.
this rich area agricultural products ran,:c
from sub-tropic fruits and v^etablcs in
Florida to the grain ficjds and apple orchards
of Virginia.
The Seaboard Railway through its Agri
cultural Development Department has
contributed substantially to the growth of
the South’s agriculture. In coming days.
Where once the principal crop was cot- the Seaboard will actively assist in the
ton, diversification is now the order of the further development of the rich farming
day and the South takes high rank in the resources of its territory.
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