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• THURSDAY, JULY IfTH,' 1931. A . THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, 80l)TH CAROLINA HALFWAY HOUSE FOR LUNAR TRIP PLANNED Has No T. B. Patients at the State Hospital Barnwell In One of Fve Such Counties, According to Records at the Institution. Barnwell i s one of five counties in the State which had no patients at the- State Sanatorium ^on June 11th when the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association made a study of the records of the Sanatorium to find out which counties were successfully lining up early case 9 for treatment. At the time of the study there were 24 empty beds for ambulant patients at the sanatorium. In the five coun ties having no respresentation at the sanatorium there were estimated to be nearly 600 active cases of tuber culosis. The estimate was based upon the 1930 death records which showed that 64 persons in these counties had died from tuberculosis. None of the five counties has a county nurs e or any organized fight against disease. No tuberculosis clinics have been held in them this year. These counties are a part of the territory of 31 counties having no tuberculosis association in which the South Carolina Tuberculsosis * Asso ciation conducts nursing demonstra tions and holds clinicsJn cooperation with the State Sanatorium fo r the purpose of finding early cases of tuberculosis and getting them under medical treatment. One of such cases recently found by Miss Jennie Mc- Master, the Association’s field nurse, wa* a boy of nineteen whose father and older brother had died of tuber culosis the year before. Further .work in the home resulted in the dis covery of another active case, a young man, and on e suspect, a sister ten years old. Three smaller children were exposed to the disease. Thi s is one of several hundred homes reache4 by the Association’s visiting nursing service in the last six months. Due to the shortage of fund s from tthe Christmas seal sale the Asso ciation’s nursing service has been temporarily suspended. This month the Association is putting out a let ter appealing for members in the counties needing this service. Since postage funds are short, the Associa tion states that it will be greatly ap preciated if the limited number who ar r receiving the letter will respond -prompily and generously, and if those who have not been solicited will show their rnterst and desire to help by joining or contributing through this appeal in the newspapers. Gifts should be sent to the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association, 1218 Sen ate Street, 'Columbia. Highest Cora Yield Made by Dixie Fanner Setting new. records is getting to be a habit with W. Y. Thrash, well known farmer of Walnut Grove, Miss. Two years ago he averaged on a three - acre field 181 bushels of ■helled corn an acre. Last year he increased the yield to 193 bu shels. As far as Is known, these records were tbs highest y i etd s made in the coun- try during the la*, two y$ers. ” * ’ Stand farm iMfetityges account for Mr. Tbraeh’a spectacular yields. An Iqppprtant (0atute Af.his pregram ba* been two side-dressings with Cbileen nitrate of soda, the first when the cora is knee-hig^i and tbe second abort three weeks later, depending on the aeeaon. Both of 4110 records were completed in the Mtestesippl Better Corn Pro duction Contest. , Heavy Cotton Yields . Mesa Low-Unit Costs The rock bottom cost of producing a pound of seed cotton last year was probably cents. At least, that is what it cost the winners of cotton growing contests in nine Southern States. An inspection of their records shows I that every one of the winners, 22 in all, side-dressed their crop. The aver age application was 200 pounds of Chilean nitrate per a.cre, applied about 45 days after planting. It is sometimes said that while the winners of crop-growing contests make high acre yields, their cost of unit production is abnormally high. This is far from being the case. In fact, as shown by these records, the cost of growing a pound of cotton was .reduced^as the yield was Increased. Idea Is to Pick Up Rockets on Way to Moon. Berlin.—Proposing to give the earth a tribe of new moons, or at least, of moonlets, to serve as sort of halfway houses for a lunar rocket expedition, no less an authority then Engineer Rudolf Nebei, head of Ber- Hn’s one and only “rocket .Dying field’’ has outlined a jaunt that would make Jules Verne seem almost un imaginative. Though rockets are just beginning to be developed to tbe point of suc cess, brave spirits such as Nebei vis ion them already as realizing the dream of the great French scientific romancer in his book. “From the * Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon.” True, Verne’s trio of heroes were shot out of a great gun aimed st the earth’s satellite, but that was in all likelihood only because rockets in Jules Verne’s time were still only a form of fireworks. Hire's the Idea. Nebel’s Idea is that: Before the start of the passenger carrying lunar rockets, a number of unmanned rock ets will be fired into the air, with just the right speed so that after the ex haustion of their main supply of fuel, they will have attained a height of about TTO miles above the earth’s sur face. Then will follow the rockets in which ride the hardy souls who are to be the first men on the moon. Quite casually and as a matter of course, they will “pick up” the whole flock of previously sent rockets, all of which will bV this time be gravitating around tbe earth, just like the moon itself. Well, why not? Polar explorers have their halfway stations and their emergency camps for supplies, and the Interplanetary spaces are much, much colder than the polar regions can ever hope to be. says' Herr Nebei. After the extra -rocket* are picked up and clamped together like pieces of worm uniting to form one big long worm, they will then prbceed with the Journey moonward. Herr Ne!>el did not outline his scheme in a spirit of jest, nor on the first of April. It Is Interesting to note, however, that his name means “fog” in German. He has, though, a number of In teresting comments to make, - Impor tant to the problems of rocket flight, entirely apart from trips to any heavenly body. He visions the proba ble development of a new means of transportation. The.rocket system of propulsion Is aide to produce high rates of accelera tion. Doubt has been expressed whet tier the hnmso frame is able to withstand the pressures which would be produced in starting and stopping. Researches have been made which tend to prove that the average ixwson is aide to survive a push equal to about four times the normaTpull of gravity on his body. Nebei claims that already with high speed airplanes making landings with the brakes on, the rate of slowing down has pro duced pressures equal to five and six times the normal drag of gravity. He says it will not he necessary to ex ceed this with rockets. Tokyo Doctors Join to Oppose Birth Control Tokyo.—Tokyo physicians, members of the Association of Graduate Medi cal Practitioners, have decided to op pose the birth control movement and shortly present a memorial to the government to that effect, according to the vernacular press. Before any national policy with re gard to the birth* rate—which in creases to such an extent that many ■ observers believe the cunpire within a few years will be unctle to support Its Increasing population—is adopted, the physicians believe the question should be studied carefully and staUs tics collected showing the influence of birth control on eugenics and social conditions. t Birth control clinics already are op erated by social welfare bureaus In the larger cities of Japan. Petrified Saake Feaad Westfield, Mass.—Evidence of what may have been a prehistoric rattle snake has been found on Mount Teko. The apparently petrified reptile ap pears on the face of a cliff a sore of feet from the nearest footpath. Scientists who have viewed it esti mate that it was about 7 feet long and 4 inches in diameter. larable Fqoa " We once put a n railroad lunch-counter sandwich mu found it thefe two years later. It ho ' been newly half-soledl but it was tl same sandwich.—Woman's Home Go), panion. . Is Doubly Bullbeaded Palo Alto, Calif.—'The old adage that two heads are better than one was discredited here at the dairy farm of Sequeira A Phillips when a Guernsey cow gave birth to a two- headed bull calf/ . Idaho Plans to Hunt - for Big Lost River Boise, Idaho.—It may be nec essary to “find” Big Lost river to relieve the water shortage" north .of Areo, Idaho, in tlrS^ soutHern part Ot the state. In this district Big Lest, river dis- —— Authorities are considering the.feasibility of bringing the. water from the undergroqH 1 river to the surface. , ♦** ANTIQUE RACKET SPRINGS NEW ONE Furniture Aged by Exposure to Elements. New York.—Another trick of the an tique racketeers has just come to light in New York^city. -Nothing yet has been discovered to equal the beautifying effect of time upon all hard cabinet woods, but the racketeer has no time to wait He . hurries new furniture into the rain, the sun, the wind and the snow. He leaves It on the roof of a tall metro politan building throughout all the sea sons, where the elements beat upon the wood textures and leave their stain. He places an expensive cabinet back of a barn, in the open, where cattle knock against its sides. The racketeer smiles to himself—every knock is a dollar gained, dull knocks not so easily detected as those made with Instruments, crushed glass or ra zor blades. “In countless New York back yards,* says a Collier’s Weekly investigator, “furniture is ageing for the racketeers, and when It Is ripe enough to be taken Into a shop for the final rubbing and polishing, enough of the storm-ravaged wood will he left to indicate an old. If not too honest, past. The sale of this type of furniture has been so brisk at times that one racketeer was kncfwn to be nnahle to cope with his trade without • outside help. It wa* impossible for his small finishing-stwff to do over enough furniture to keep up with orders. American Negro Gets Rich in Foreign Legion Sidl-Bel-Abl>e*. Morocco.—The only American negro in the hard living, hard fighting French Foreign Legion Is Jackie Walker from San Francisco, and Jackie would not leave the Le gion for anything. He is making a small fortune as a private under the French tricolor Jackie Walker is the leader of the Legion's own jazz band. Eleven years ago. when he was eighteen, he came over In n cattle boat ar d enlisted in the Second r«giment. At first lie had too much fighting to do to think of increasing Ids-meager pay of five sous (one cent) i»er day. but since the war wi»h the Riff ended be decided to form bis own Jazz hand and. with readily given permission, to play in the cafes for money after his dally duty was done. At night, under the twinkling stars on the edge of the desert. Europeans, desert chieftains, sheiks from the Sa hara gather in the brightly lighted cafes and listen to Jackie Walker's Jazz hand play a languorous roeiody'or a snappy jazz tune. There are six members of the band, two ether Amer icans. one Scotch boy from Glasgow, an Englishman and a Parisian. Keeler-Crofhan. End Terrorism of Night Riders in New Mexico Santa Fe. N. M.—A band of outlaws, mysterious masked riders of tbe night, who for six years left terror, arson.' and death-In their trail across New Mexico, has been broken up by the ar rest and conviction of five of the aeevn killers. Felix Lovato. leader of tbe night rid ers. was sentenced to IS years in the penitentiary. The two remaining mem bers of tbe hand are still being sought. Like outlaw bands of the old West, the men. spurred and tioofed. rode their horses down on isolated ranches in the Arriba district, burned, pillaged, and sometimes killed, v For six years they terrorized the entire countryside, although the iden tity of^ the riders appeared to be an open secret. Finally H. C. Martin, a private de tective, rounded up the gang and ob tained evidence which resulted in their convictions. mm ut ft Ijpjjj [ 1 1: ~ Martin, at Seiglingville Mineral Product* dedine Washington.—An” 18 per cent de cline in the estimated total value of mineral products in the l’nited States in 1%30, as compared with 1926, has been reported by tbe bureau of mines of the Commerce department The es timated value of mineral products in this country In 1990 was aproximateiy $4,795,000. 000. the boreau reported. The decline was said to be the result of the depression prevailing during the year. ■ — Brain Tests Worthless, Says College President Buffalo, w. Y.—Frederick c. Ferry, president of Hamilton *Hlege, in an address at the UriRtersiry club here, said intelligence contests are worth less. Hamilton does net have them. “I am glad that we let the other col leges sxperim« n L" Ferry said: • “We have ,always Believed‘them a waste of time, and I understand those institu tions which favored them most a short time ago are now discarding them.” Blackville,^ JSly 11.—Miss Mathilda Jourina Keeler, <xf Blackville_$pd Leo Michael Croghan, of Charleston, were married Tuesday morning at 8:30 o’> clock in the Sacred Heart Church with a Nuptial Mass., The ceremony was performed by the Rev. T. A. Croin, cf Orangeburg, assisted by the Rev. J. D. Quinn, of Sumter. Th e church was decorated with white and pink oleanders* with dais ies and ferns. Masters Arthur Whiteside, Jr., of Savannah, Ga., and Joseph I. Keeler, of Columbia served at the altar. The bride, in a pink silk lace dress with accessories to match and carrying a shower bouquet of Joanna. Hill roses and valley lilies entered with her brother, Ignatius Keeler, who gave her in marriage. Her only attendant was her sister, Miss Anna M. Keeler. The wedding march was played by Mrs, Margaret Jeivey.’iijnt of th e bridegroom. Nup tial solos were sung by Mrs. William Croghan. The bridegroom entered from the sacristy with his best man, his brother, Thomas Croghan. Ushers were the brothers of the bride and bridegroom, respectively^ Joseph Keeler and William Croghan. After thei ceremony, a wedding breakfast was served fo r the bridal party and the immediate families of the bride and bridegroom at the country home of her mother, Mrs. I. Keeler. Throughout the day, punch and cake g were served to those call ing. ’ Immediately after the breakfast the couple left by motoj- for Montreal. CamTda, and other northern points. They will make their home in Char leston, where Mr. Croghan ia .em ployed by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad company. ^ Aahleigh News. OF Ashleigh, July 13.—The extremely hot weather of the past several weeks has *ent many peoule each day to the “ole swimming hole” in Tuikey fcreek at Cow Ford crossing. Of course, this place cannot compare with Barnwell’s "beach,” a s we have no electric lights and other conven iences, but we are far above our neighboring town in one respect—we are much farther up strem. Boy* and girls go there to swim almost every day and visitors also Come from as far away a 8 Williston and Elko. Among those from Elko last week was former superintendent of educa tion, Horace J. Crouch. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Creech, of Augusta, spent the past week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Odom. Mr. and Mrs.' Leon Carroll and baby, Marjorie, of Augusta, returned home Saturday after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Owen?/ Mrs. Owens and children accompanied them home. Miss Pretto 'Ross, of Augusta, spent Saturday with her father, W. A. Ross. Miss Catherine Owens spent the past week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Teetum Collins. Mrs. Gladys Knotts, of Barnwell, is spending a fqw days this week with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Halford and family. Mr. and Mr*. McCoy Miles, W. A. Ross and son, Archie Ross, spent Sunday at the home qf Mr. and Mrs. D. 1. Ross. Miss Myrtle Halford is spending this week with her cousin, Mi S g Mary Auk’s Egg Sold for $1,300 London.—A great auk s egg was sold at Covent garden for $1,300. There are abotft <0 specimens of this egg in jsxrftence. The egg was one of ten found in the Museum of the Royal Collegf of Surgeons in 1861. One of these eggs brought as high as $1,600 sotne years ago. " ’ i ' ifiii ^~* ■ Prolific Tulips Greenland, N. H.—Tulips with four blossoms on a single stalk are borti cultural oddities which may be seen in the garden of Udruce W. Cannon. 1 . ... r Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dyclfes and baby, Ruth, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jo e Rosier. Mrs. Lessie Holly and children have been spending the past few week s with relatives in Olar. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Halford, of Barnwell, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and ‘Mrs. J. M. Halford. W. F. Odom, of Asheville, N. C.; spent Sunday at the home of his parents, l^Ir und Mrs. H. F. Odom. My. and Mrs. W. P. Floyd and chil dren, of St. George, are spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Porter. ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel $7.00 SPECIAL EXCURSION — t8 — asheviiSe, N. C. $7.00 SATURDAY, JULY 18TH, 1931 GOOD 8 DAYS *.• . Proportionate fares to other Western North Carolina destination^ Visit the cool Mountains in mj^-summer. For fare s ,to ^ther points and other * Consult Ticket Agents SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM QUARTERLY REPORT • • ' Ti> ' - r ' ' Vi’- ^ v _ THE BOARD OF COUNTY DIRECTORS FOR THE QUA ENDING JUNE $•, 1911. \ ~ | PERRY B. BUSH, CM* 4 Board of County V 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 406 400 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 . 415 416 416 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 , 437 438 439 440 441 ; 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 463 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505, 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 L. S. Still, county director ^ W. D. Black, county director ... Idis Brabham, county director : ' . . . R. R. Moore, county director G. C. Beck, jail H. G. Boylston, demonstration expense R. L. Bryan Co., printing John K. Snelling, stamp* Sou. SUtea Printing Co., stationery ■ .#1. Jennie P. Greene, rest room F. ,S. Brown, jail, court house, etc. S. C. Power Co., court house and jail J. R. Harrison, demonstration expense r Carlisle. Courtney Home, special .-.tj.- : Cassels Wholesale Grocery Cq-. chain gang Robt. S. Hightower, public buildings W. H. Manning, salary ; D. P. Lancaster, salary George James, janitor A. B. Patterson, salary A. M. Anderson, salary, chain gang Bernice Still, chain gang Joe Baxley, chain gang T. D. Creighton, Jr., chain gang, etc. Henry Haitzog, chain gang W. S. Grubbs, magistrate G. R. Peeples, magistrate 1 D. W. Glover, constable /. Margaret McAllister, salary Florence Sanders, contingent expense.. ... .... Estate of R. D. Reid, jail J. L. Buist’g Sons, chain gang C. F. Molair, chain gang Mazursky’s, jail 7. J. W. Sanders, magistrate .F. E. Sanders, constable -G. O.-Johnson, chain gang and constable Galion Iron Works, chain gang 187J W. P. Sander?, magistrate * - J. S, Still, conatabl e *1 H. B. Sandeis, constable . 26JBO J. M. Hill, magistrate 14 W. C. Tarrance, constable -. 14 Charlie Hiers, constable .... .... W. K. Black, magistrate 1. W. S. Creech, equalization 12JK> Victor Lewis, equalization A. M. Sanders, equalization J. W. Sanders, equalization — ... J. F. Swett, equalization * I. W. Rountree, equalization P. W. Pnce, equalization ... J. S. Creech, equalization — T. M. Willis, equalization — - r - II F. O. Black, equalization H. Jeff Hair, equalization C. M. Turner, equalization J. E. Lain, equalization J. M. Weather?bee, equalization R. R. Johnston, equalization B. H. Dychea, salary, jail, etc. ’ Weiner Bros., chain gang AlO G. S. Harley, chain gang L. T. Claytor, salary, county home Perry Be Bush, chain gang SUpdird Oil Co., chain gang BT L. Bronson, postage -* —- — ^he People-Sentinel, stationery and adv. B. H. Dychea, dieting prisoners $4LSD' C. S. Anderson, magistrate — H. 'J. Crouch, salary 'll E. F. Woodward, chain* gang — M. Holland, chain gang John K. Snelling, special J. J. Bell, salary, treasurer Sarah C. Armstrong, salary — J. J. Bell, printing E. E. Crowson, printing E. G. Birt, equalization C. C. Mitchell, equalization . —^ — W. H. Manning, contingent L. F. Randall, jail W. H. Manning, clerical help B. H. Dyches, contingent W. P. Walah, chain gang - 7 Irene H. Lemon, board of regents Lemon Bros., county home — --— Lemon Bios., chain gang - — J. C. Baxley, county home R. A. Dea«on, chain gang and co. home C. F. Molair, county home - A. J. Owens, county hom* Cornelia Btuler, county home — Preston Allen, county^ home Sarah Ray, county home — J? W. Cook, county home —y * J. J. Bell, county note - 26,31kJ4 • J. J. Bell, interest on bonds 7JPn^5> ' J. J. Bell, interest on bonds - h W. C. Kennedy, constable and chain gang Grubbs Chevrolet Co. chain gang R. A. Gyles, lunacy --- Howard Machine Shops, chain gang —.— •It. R. Moore, equalization Vickery Bros.* chain gang, etc. ---- ‘M. C. Kitchings, magistrate : * E. O.. Moore, county home. - Fruitland Nursery, special John K. Snelling, salary, clerk, etc. W. I# Dychea, county home Perry B. Bush, salary ------ - J. Wade Grubbs, deputy sheriff E. W. Black, chain gang *. — J. W. Patterson, salary, supervisor ... - 118.75- 25J9 IODjOP 50JKP C. B. Lazar, chain gang — -- G. M. Hogg, chain gang — - Miss Elizabeth' McNab, agent, short course - W. D. Black, salary, co. director -._- T ._-- r -. R. R. Moore, salary, co.'director S. Still, salary, co. director 5.10 535 flWBr (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.)- * -