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S99 arnmeam CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1950 Number 70 Across Country On A Horse f WXS h«s To Uoito, I Program On] m SB J "■ tee of women I Methodist, Bap- al and Presby- ominations in t At Lyttleton dist church this iss and plan for r of Prayer pro- observed in the f 24. ^ which will be simi-l held on the samel es throughout the | held at the Math- Improvements At Are Completed fraparattont For Carolina And Springdale Meets Art Going Akond Seven Chapters, 200 Members Kershaw County Future tarn icrs Will Observe National F.F.A. Week Tree Planting Program Urged ForCHyNow During the week of Feb. 19-25 the Kershaw Federa tion of the Future Farmers of America, along with a quarter million other Future Farmers of America in the National Organization, will be observing National F. F. A. „ . , Week. The F. F. A. is a national organization for boys When the spectators w** studying vocational agriculture in high school, into the Springdale race' Citizens Asked To Join With City In Putting Out New Trees : . , ' ■ i .v. . « r «- fomia. This picture was taken in Camden this week at r, .™ d SiFS*v tor the stables of Mrs. Marion DuPont Scott.—Chronicle photo Richard Thompson, ex-marine from Maine, is shown astride the hone which he is riding from Maine to Cali- open all (day for id’‘come and pray. | by Monarch. denomi- photo ich of the te part in the spec- anned for 4 o’clock lay of Prayer, nt at the meeting servance were Mrs. urns, Mrs. M. X. L. Guy, Mrs. D. D. i Mackey. Mr* V. ss Myrl Hast, Min nd Mrs. Herbert L. ipell presided over To California Former Marine Making I' v •- J t ' .. "* ;,•* X \ Long Trek On Horseback track enclosure on March 11, Springdale Cup race meeting date, and March 25, Carolina Cup race meeting day, they Iwill be astonished and pleased over the many ‘ at have fak ed place in the famous his- »ric coune and surround- ngs since the last igeeting a year ago. The entire Si now encloeed in a dard nine gauge wire ported by sturdy mets and a top turn sole treated. There mately live miles of ncing in place. On the inside of the the split rail When Richard Thompson, a 30-year-old ex-marine bay of Prayer pro-1 swung into Camden Sunday afternoon astride a big bay ied as interdenomi-| h orge named Comet, he (had completed approximately miles of an unbelieveable trek on horseback from "betwmi home and Maine to Arizona. He has been received quite warmly at Ins and are used to I Mrs. Marion duPont Scott’s stables here, and plans to stay pie of toe p ver a f ew days before he renews his travels. iruon with eech otn- 1 ing their and rsss: sss haritable, civic ami to join in the city’s ' 1-wide of the world- ship Called fTfie'Hoiir ates, president of toe Insurance Company, told members of toe Underwriters lay night that toe of this hour is lead- te proceeded to ghfe essentials for good Town and County.... *> •Banks To Closs /| Both banks to toe city will be * », Peb. VLy birthday. * ’ [pT BntPS aSpoka To Kiwamia . A oubii/ reSSons^S^toe ISuth^ The urge to M go west, young man,” that set Thompeon on his way in mid-October, ’4®, w prompted chiefly by a disturbing o^ chronic arthritis which doctors said would fare better in a western climate. Original plans wore to travel by train, but when he found that Comet the hoi could neither be sold nor given (hbrset last aren't In da- Football Team Given Banquet John McLain And Bobby Mahonay Co-Captains For Naxt Ytar The 84 members of Cam den’s 1949 football team were honor guests of the Camden High School Ath- . .lectio Association Wednea- £15, ’SSf ?ddittaS U»y n, *ht rtthe «mu»l post- fencing being put up. The pad- season banquet, held in the dock and lane to toe race course Colonial Room of Thomas' has s new fence, hll of toe famed vp mvern . English type of split rail and ^ tfae highlights of the af P°|ta . .... . I fair was the announcement that Mahoney and John McLain serve ax co-caotains of the team. Traditionally, the an- In observance of National F. F. A. Week the some 200 Future Farmers of Kershaw look back over some of their accomplish ments. Announcement that the (city of Camden would re- | plant, where needed, trees that have been removed on Broad and DeKalb streets led the Park and Tree Com- The Kershaw Federation* is in mission of the city to urge its second year of existance and just as last year the Federation that citizens of the city also sent its president, T. C. Reynolds [join in a tree planting pro of Antioch, to the National C ■Fifteen! ss k ™ the race I lea, kan-1 Cam- Con- gram during the next two or vention so does it plwi to send three weeks. ST Seeg- The city’s planting of trees will 1 ^ limited - b y budget reasons, to j ' Convention. replacing trees that have had to The Federation Magazine was I ^ cuthy the tree surgeons be- very successful last year and the L ause it y wa8 found ^at their pub lsh * rotten condition were making Antioch, 'ilL^UnTto wiJSSS 11 waa Pointed out however, schools, make up the Kershaw by ^ p ar jP, n( i Tree Commission T^tSJoS' DeKalb*chapter of SJ ciS^l. £«°55d unde^thTleaderahto^Wmiam th * t P art ^ ular ly needed in new developments like toe Bowers, president. Jimmy Horns- sarsfield. Kirkwood Circle and by, vice-president; Bobby Davis, I Papt»y Acres developments, reporter; S. J. Bass, secretary; Allproperty ownersof the city Dewey Catoe, treasurer, and J-L~ urgedbo - den Hunt, toe |^itond,'MBfl| nouncement board. 1950 home, hunt dwdling, all been painted a da with attractive dark All of the im renovations have 1 heads are linesmen. Mahoney I ftued the center position for this year's Bulldogs, and McLain lin . “ ed up at right tackle. bes(| . eccomp- j i« 0 ^ ow i n g - * - brief remarks by the delightful feature* apringdEUe events.! Members of the Carolina Cup ^({SSS^J.^JUdwdA «<f B» ball Coach Hulan Small, Rex committee and their workers, together army of stable at CftT* Sum Education Association, was ton guest speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Camden Kiwanis Club Tuesday. was the first speak- ram which the ass ilanned in which it ng to the city the if the insurance com mented by member- ssociation. bers of the Capital , Adrian Hallman, regory Pearce, pian- nied Mr. Bates *nd (htful music program d foUowing toe ad- er, president of the presided and Henry secretary, introduced in enumerating some ies that go to make leadership stressed ng the necessity for uch an hour as thi« was a very exceUent ation had quite a uests for the dinner, ayor Henry Savage, lager Lott Rogers, A. president of the Commerce, and in- from Sumter, Bish- L-ancaster. Spell offered the in- To Speak W Verd C. Frierson, of Columbia, state supervisor of vocational ag riculture and for twenty years teacher of the men’s Bible class of the Shandon Methodist church, will speak to the Men’s Bible ria— of toe Lyttleton Street Methodist Church Sunday morn ing. The class meets at 10 o’clock. AU men of the church are invited. to-dispose-of way to Arizona. » “We, The People,” the network radio program that features un usual personalities, has already contracted with Thompeon to ap pear on one of its broadcasts as •Chrfean Club Speaker Club President Arthur Stokes, County Superintendent of Educa tion, addressed the Camden Civi- tans on the subject, ‘ICenbaw County School District Reorgani zation Committee’s Report” at the club’s regular meeting Monday night, Feb. 13, at Emerson’s Drive- In. The speaker was introduced . Stiles B | by Rev. Stiles B. Lines, who had charge of the evening's program. soon as his trip is completed. The press has written STILL Of HOSPITAL Dr. George 8. Barnes is still confined to toe Veterans Hospital in Columbia where he is conva lescing from a recent illness. Hie doctor would be pleased to hear from his friends. LIGHT FROST A light frost was on the ground Thursday morning and the fore cast called for another Thursday night 5 ^ and AA Teams up his unusual voyage all along the way. the rider calls WaterviUe, Maine, his home, but the trip be gad? from Presque Isle, a Jttp* town only seven miles from the Canadian border. Astride Comet he saunters along at a rata of about four and a halt miles per hour and covex from 20 to 35 miles a day. As night closes in, he reins up st toe closest and most prom ising sign of shelter and, he says that “m nearly every, instance whenever we ask for shelter at night we’re been taken in with the finest hospitality. Comet is usually given a stall or a toed andthe folks let me sleep in a bed in their house. There have been times, though, when a bed Was not to be had and I had to bunk with Comet in the barn.” Comet is 8 yean old and stands something over Seventeen hands. He came into Thompson’s pos session as a gift from a friend. Although Thompson admits he couldn’t sell or give the horse away in Maine he says he has had several offers to buy since he left “I wouldn’t take anything for him now,” Thompson tells. “A fellow can get to be pretty good friends with a horse in 1500 miles.” Head Coach at the Uni ty of South Carolina, gave the principal address. The grostness of football as a came, the training it offered, and „ .the lessons it taught were outlin- 11 led by Coach Enright. His re marks, wars scattered with illus trative anecdotes from his own Another Springdale and meetings will be public address'< be in chargo famed tun Wood will Carolina Cup race on March Of course, the big raca of the nurseries, t_ 1(uo AKrai— nurseryman win plant the In 1M9 Baron DeKalb nad the I trees at a aiiaht additional coat, only America Fanner’s degree in kI£l<?Mb^n nried t3Sh«liutaJS, tafiL or,«iv {SJuSlftikHcom? w’iUUm U JortlS? «I jEfto" 1 * 1 "* *‘ u,e “ wm Uk * active member for five years, at- 1 "™* thfllU n^l ^ Camden Garden Club has fWttli Which to carry *n his f»m-lon them. The tree gets its nour- USC Assistant Coach Hank Bar tos showed a play-by-play film of the Carolina-Wake Forest 1848 game, and gave a running com the showing, identifying and pliys. menu, and invit ed guests were all decided by the 1849 team members themselves, and every Bulldog was present Also present were the cheer leaders from premier of all three miles over (Continued On th p e .r}» a teat that requires spirit and stamnia on the part of toe thor- breds. In view of the big oughbriL . field of fine jumpers in training believed that toe 1950 " ■ "V" '■■■ ^—— . —r—: Polio Foundation WiU Meet Friday here it is running of the famous clasuc will attract a record number of trie* VISITOR TO crrV of the Florence Morning News, was a visitor to the city Thurs day. The Kershaw County Infantile Paralysis Foundation will meet at 5 j>. m. on Friday, Feb. 24, in the Court House for the purpose of electing officers. County Chair man A. D. Montgomery announc es. It is requested that all mem bers be present for the important election, Mr. Montgomery adds, and expresses a hope fon more future interest in the wortowhile polio project along the sidewalk area, the curb and the side- emblem award for the second time from toe national organiza tion. In 1948 the local chapter I w»lV bronze This is the best time of the year jn the s&zne contest. Plus wss ] ni&nt wmh ctatah TTgi nf tir * t w^ a h ,Ue rt ever w w P n = n may be found in the woods and this contest by any chapter to transplanted or they may be pur- South Carolina. Tne contest is chased from local nurseries, 18 years, old. v Ito*^ ^ , mnyo tog operations, fhe farm upward climb is now valued at $21,000. Last year William was Star Fanner of South Carolina. digging, a and killed and e quickly dried led by sun or wind. If toe is small and has no ball of earth, top it jtod^toto a pail wf£ MSSTh. wm ^ tional convention of Future Farm- of America, held in ^ ^ "Dig a hole fe» u r , A?s.. 8 ^ rSSS - <*^»>“ o, ^ S?'b<S2n t rf STSiTi Jordan haa alio aorred 11 «r£S ur« o* ttM atata aaaociation. I Syjg.’iK. ^.jr* v .!*-‘ n j £** Community beautification ia *\ o^HUd shrUi iS r D *5"_ b . c “* pter I dust. This mulch is to keep toe ota cool and moist Unlike d whose head should be ool and his feet dry and Viv* VinmM *— —-r I a tree needs the sun on its Five^homes were beauti-1^ B blanket over its test to keep the sun from drying and part of the program to toe o proved i efforts, done. fied last year. Community service is also a pert of all chapter’s program. (PIma« tom to aagf four/ -Wide Basketball ‘ney Begins On 22nd At Opening Of New Apartments tie Only two mishaps mar Thomp son’s trip thus far—a lost wallet that cost him $24 and a fan from his horse that cost him a broken arm and seven weeks in bed. The fall came when a bottle, thrown from a passing car, struck toe horse and caused him to jump and throw his rider. While tl the broken arm iment, which will at- or nwne teams from srgest schools, is be- ,. by the Kiwanis its state-wide boys* fork. Although held decide the state AA ■nampions, a number j*ams will be invited ttls entered teams to tournament. They ^(Charleston), An- reenwood, Conway as House Leod of the teams WUl remaih den during all throe tournament Mother to I that most h In Cam- the awards that will be presented at toe tournament’s close will be two large trophies for top team and runner-up. 12 all-star basketballs for girls chos en as outstanding players during the tournament, and one all-star basketball for the team manager, As * from all of Lfre followed are indefi; i yet, matching procedures to bllowed sre indefinite, but a “ worked out the Scott stable in Camden, and he was wanmy welcomed by them on his arrival here. Thompson rides along to a large western stock saddle, a type made famous by the old-time famous by the old' cowboys and range-busters. "North or south, ifs all toe same to me so far as hospitality son. “South- goes," said Thompson, emers love horses more than Northerners, but they have all been really wonderful to us. The Maine Yankee is not com- (pietely a newcojner to the South, since he* had his marine boot training at Parris Island, South Carolina. Thompson’s destination is Tuc- Arizona, but he plans to com~ 6 his coast-to-coast crosscpun- by riding on to San Diego, then nvingtog back to Tucson. Thompson planned to stay over in Camden a tew days while Comet nursed a edd, but he set Thursday as the deadline fbrjret- over-heeting them. "Be sure your tree stands erect and that the earth over its roots is tamped solid enough to keep it from swaying in the wind. If it needs a stake temporarily, it to the stake with a slip noose; never tie e rope or a wire tight about a trunk or a branch, that slows the circulation of sap. "Some trees can be set two or three inches deeper than they were in the woods or the nurs- A Camcllto should never be set any deeper. It is a safe plan to let the tree just es deep as it grew before transplanting. Jurors Are Drawn For Civil Court Week of Feb. 27 Jurors for the Court of Com- m<m Pleas which will convene on Feb. 27 were drawn this week. ff%e list fotows: G. F. Marshall, Sr., Camden; C. J. Baker, Kershaw; W. W. 1 Price, Route % Lugoff; J. Light ■pnDrinden; M. L. DuVal, Boy kin; James T. Threatt, Kershaw: Frank Clybum, Camden: Floyd |H. Boykin, Camden; D. £. Ford, Lugoff; F. H. Corbett, “ * T _ , Route 1 JL l I Camden; F. R. Truesdale, Ker- ahaw; D. A. Rabon, Lugoff; P. C. Catoe, Westville; W. C. Wardlaw, Uberty Hill; S. P. Horton; Ker shaw; C. L. Gardner, Hermitage, Camden; L Also, J. B. Bowers, Kershaw; Percy Mays, Camden; Frank Tol- beri Jr, Camden: C. W. Jones, Betoune; ThomasrF. Catoe, Route }’ W - H Smith, Betoune; I Luther Bowers. Kershaw; J. P. B. I; H. shown here con Apartments are Fire Chief A. k onto the trail to . Federal •■Mousing- , pdhurch in the,formal opening of the new Kirkwood by the FHA. Others in the picture, left to right, ! Ch|ef of Police Alva Rush, A. S. Llewellyn, " er* Oh tries Eggl ‘ ~ Savage, Jr.- Ker-