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CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1950
Number 70
Across Country On A Horse
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h«s To Uoito,
I Program On]
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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
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.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....
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•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
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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-