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Barnwell Coltontots Are Paid $45,307.07 Seen and Heard Here . During the Past Week A Little Sen*e and Nonsense A boat People Too Know end Others Ton Don’t Know. One ^thousand two hundred thirty Terie Richardson saying thaUa well Unde Sam Plays Santa Claus to 1,238 Farmers.—Additional Payment . Comes Soon. in ell Couiilii fttfiSefg signed agreements with the agricul tural adjustment administration to take a portion of their acreage out of cotton production have received checks totaling $45,307.07, which is only a part of the money that they will re ceive for doing what commonsense oh a hill overflowed and washed away part of the hillside. . . A bicycle with a- trailer attached. .—. “Bud” Haford industriously engaged in whit tling a piece of red cedar. . .- . t . Showers and cloudy weather giving a respite from the extreme heat, bift arousing fears of boll weevil damage atone should have dictated. Charles- if too long continued. A*ailr ton County received the smallest amount of any county in the State, 75 farmers being paid $1,252.22, with Georgetown County a close second. Neither county plants a large cotton acreage; The total number of checks sent to farmers in South Carolina is 69,188, valued at $2,408,418.94. Spartanburg County led with $211,631.61. These checks represent the first payment un der the contracts. The second pay ment is to be made as soon as a com pliance with the acreage adjustment contracts is certified properly. The total -first payment to the cot- ton farmers of the nation is $34,691,- 288.87, up to August 1, which, accord ing to the administration, is a part ^tainted Model T, the color scheme be ing red, white and green, embelished with stars. . . An item in The Williston Way to the effect that Anne, the little daughter of Dalton Jones, of Elko, won the South Caro- of the $50,000,000 to be paid as the istalt- ment will take a like amount. First rental payment for South Carolina cotton farmers up to August 1 followai. J. Abbeville 1,701 $ 54,442.72 Aiken 1,730— 63,146.64 Allendale 559 15,760.92 Anderson 3,775 190,979.76 Bamberg 988 34^54.57 "Barnwell 1,238 45,307.07 Beaufort 209 1,334.55 Berkeley —-- 460 5,776.90 Calhoun 788 49,092.04 Charleston — 75 1,252.22 Cherokee 2,012 74,584.10 Chester 1,317 59,874.35 Chesterfield 2,298 79,747.41 \ Clarendon — 1,611 44,291.17 ^Colleton 957 20,743.99 Darlington __ 1,593 46,414.65 DilWi ... 797 51,174.06 Gdgefiel Fairfield Florence Georget' vui lina award in the “Beautiful Baby contest sponsored by a national mail order house and that she is eligible to compete for a prize of $5,000 at the World’s Fair, where her photo graph will be on display along with the other winners. . . More inter est being shown in golf since the Sfweetwater course has been repaired following the damage caused bv the heavy rains of several weeks ago. . . More suggested items for this column, which are declined without thanks. . . The welcome sound of put in order for the coming crop, and B. S. Moore, proprietor of the Farmers Ginnery, stating that he will have the necessay Bankhead Act tags tn ample time for the first bate. New Chevrolet Plant. Barnwell Two Towns to Get Fi County r&l Funds ,000 for High School, Blackville $45,000 for Waterworks. List of Winners in the Water Carnival Results of Various Events Held at Fuller Park Swimming Pool on August 2nd. Unopposed This . Year Mayor, Sis Aldermen and Commis sioner of Public Works to Be Elected Sept. 4. Fulmer, Paschal and Sturlde Speak Here SbmII Bat Representative Audience Hears Congressional Candidates - Make Appeals. Washington, August 12.—Non-fed- = eral public works projects in South Carolina had been allotted sa total of $8,064,050 through August 1st, the PWA administration reported today, with $2,767,000 of that amount beipg set aside for the Greenwood County hydro-electric ^development. In ^ddition to these allocations, whicfi were scattered in every section of the Palmetto State, South Carolina has been granted $5,542,300 for fed- eral-financed highway construction, it was revealed. Thus millions of federal dollars are going to work there to build roads, schools, waterworks, municipal build ings and other public developments. Of this amount, Barnwell has been allotted $50,000 for the construction of a high school builOTng, while Black ville will get’$45,000 for a waterworks system. Hampton will receive $40,000 tot waterworks and Aiken $168,000 for a hospital. winners in the water carnival held at the Fuller Park swimming pool in 3amwell on August 2nd: Boys and girls under 8 years— (across pool)—1st, Wade Peeples; 2nd, Ada Christie. Boys, 11 to 14 years—(50 yards, free style)—1st, Harry Dewey; 2nd, Arden Lemon; 3rd, J. B. Cook. Boys, 8 to 10 years—(25 yards free style)—1st, Lawrence Stevens; 2nd, Herbert Black. Girls, 11 to 14 years—(25 yards, free style)—^st, Elizabeth Fletcher; 2nd, Millie Mahaffey; 3rd, Ann Brown Boys, 15 years and up—(100 yards, free style)—1st, Jack Harley. Girls, 15 years and up—(45 yards, medley)—1st Julia Lemon; 2nd, Mar tha F. Grubbs. Boys, 11 to 14 years—(50 yards)— 1st, Harry Dewey; 2nd, John B. Cook; 3rd, Billy Manning. Girls, 7 to 10 years—(25 yards, free styls)—1st-Jeotr - Christie; 2nd, This State’s Ginners Are Slow to Qualify to Greenville — a at it a a qy itT.znO.Tu Greenwood .. iSsj • 43,754.00 Hampton .’ 53K 14,519.38 Horry 166 \ 3,615.95 Jasper 300 \ 2.830.74 Lancaster — 1,560 >43,524.19 Laurens 2,382 9^36.14 Lee - 1,386 7oi325.28 Lexington — 1,306 33,29^9 McCormick — 787 19,987.9A. Marion 769 25,469.70 ’ Marlboro 1,029 92,470.21 Newberry — 1,514 49,566.87 Oconee - 2,669 59,332.56 Orangeburg .. 3,444 140,732.70 Ptcfcens 2,620 63,673.87 Richland 1,054 20,047.80 Saluda 1,291 36,048.28 Spartanburg _ 6,551 211,631.61 Sumter 1,896 60,579.17 Union 1,000 47,929.27 Williamsburg- 1,357 31,698.62 York 2,297 90.400.72 Totals 69,188 $2,408,418.94 In addition to the $100,000,000 rental payments, cotton farmers are to—receive between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 in December in parity payments. FARMER SHOOTS SELF RATHER THAN PLOW UP COTTON ACRES Few Pceting Bond ms Required Operate Gins This Fall, Says Collector Cooper Robert M. Cooper, collector of in ternal revenue for South Carolina, an nouhced Saturday that unless cotton ginners qualify quickly under the Detroit, August 14. —Chevrolet Bankhead act South-Carolina farmers will find it “almost impossible to have their 1934 crop ginned.” Of the 1,200 gins which must fur nish bond to operate under the Bank- head act, only some 150 have qualified *o far, Collector Cooper said. The federal act requires ginners to post bond with the collector to insure proper tagging of cotton handled through their gins, as some of it probably will not come under farmers allotment and will be subject to the 50 per cent. tax. “Unless the ginners show more in terest in this matter,"* Mr. Cooper commented, “the gin season will be on jfi full blast with thousands oTTarm- ers ready to gin and the ginners un able to operate.” - • The collector said he had at his of fice gin* tags and certificates of tag ging for the entire State quota of ap proximately 600,000 bales which can net be sent to the ginners until they have qualified. One of the chief causes of delay, Mr. Cooper explained, is that many ginners are attempting to furnish per sonal surety bonds. In such cases, he said one of the ten deputies assigned to the State under the Bankhead act must investigate personally ancT the number of deputies is insufficient to handle widespread investigations rapidly. “It is readily seen that unless the ginners use another method of bond ing, it may be the middle of Septem ber or the first of October before many gins will be qualified to run,” Mr. Coopfer said. He wrote aTT gin- ners recently suggesting that they procure a corporate surety bond da- steaji of seeking personal surety. The amount of bond is based upon the number of bales ginned last year and averages about /fl,000. Mr. oper said a corporate bond at that fif&re would cost about $10. Motor Company announced today that a site had been selected in Baltimore on Broening Highway, directly across from Camp Holabird, for the erection of a new assembly plant. All agree ments for the erection of the new plant have been reached, including the paving of a strip of ground from Holabird avenue, which the mayor and the city council have agreed to pave and maintain as a city street. Construction will proceed at once on the new project, according to a i ^tatUmert; issued by M. E. Coyle, 40,821.-3 j p rea jj en ^ Chevrolet. 29,505.34 new pi„ n t will have an annual 30,011.(5 capacity of approximately 80,000 cars 2,329.94 am i trucks an d w fll be similgr in.. type of operation to the nine assem bly plants now owned by Chevrolet. It is proposed to erect a Fisher Body plant adjacent to the Chevrolet as sembly plant where closed bodies will be built and conveyed to the assem bly line in the main plant. The proposed plants will employ ap proximately 1,500 men and will sup plement the present factories of the arrytown, N. Y., Buffalo, N. Y., Norwood, Ohio, and Atlanta, Ga., as sembly plants. The ^demand for Chevrolet cars and trucks insthe densely populated areas along the Atlantic seaboard makes it necessary foh the company to provide additional assembly facilities Plans are noV being prepared by Albert Kahn, architect, who has de signed many buildings for Chevrolet as well as*the Generarv Motors build ing in Detroit and the General Motors exhibit building at the Chicago Cen tury of Progress exposition. Civil Service Examinations. Greenvflle, Aug. 13.—Rather than plow up three acres of cotton he had 1 laborously cultivated, B. B. Medlock, 48, tenant farmer of lower Green ville County, shot and killed himself today. Federal inspectors measured Med- lock’s cotton field and found he had three acres more that he was allowed under a reduction contract he signed with the government. They ordered him to destroy the cotton on the ex tra acreage. Congressman H. P. Fulmer a nounces that Civil Service examina tions will be he!*! to fill the position of Special Investigator at $2,900 a year and Investigator at $2,600 a year with the Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury De partment. Applications must be on file with the United States Civil Ser vice Commission at Washington, D. C., not later than August 20, 1934. Application blanks may be secured from post offices or direct from the Civil Service Commission in Wash ington. ^ . Annual Settlement. When the time for qualifying for the various municipal offices closed A small but representative and at tentive audience heard the three can- at 12 o’clock noon Tuesday, the Can^i-l didates for Congress present their dates were unopposed and the same city fathers, with one exception, will continue to direct the affairs of the City of Barnwell for the ensuing two years, the only change in the adminis tration being that german I. Mazurs- ky, Esq., will replace his Mordecai M. Mazursky, as alderman. The complete ticket is as follows and their formal announcements will be claims to the voters of Barnwell County in the Court House here Wed nesday night of tost week. No mark ed preference was shown for any par ticular candidate, the applause be ing evenly divided. ter was tha Marguerite Owens Boys, 8 to 10 years—(35 yards, free style)—1st, Lawrence Stevens; 2nd, Herbert Black; 3rd, Wade Pee- first speaker of the evening and de voted his time to a review of his ef- . ..... fort* in the House of Representatives, found in this issue of The People-Sen-1 ctoiming > part of the credit for TT „ „ t what ha * been don ® *® r the formers. Mayor—C. G. Fuller. • 4 , both before and since the advent of Aldermen-4. Buist Grubbs, W. J. the New Deal. He maintained that Lemon, H. L. O’Bannon, J. E. Harley, he has lived op to his promises of Jr.jrHerman I. Mazursky and B. Wil- two years ago to give the people a son Walker. business-like administration and Commissioner of Public Works—C. ficient service. He pointed but F. Molair. j he had labored for 12 years It was rumqred that another candi- Republican administration and/ under date for alderman would enter the Coolidge, whose philiaophy was to race, but this opposition failed to j look out fwM-big bust materialize. would take care of the Httle farmer The city election will be held on and laborer, in apite of which handi- ples. ^ Girls, 11 to 14 years—(25 yards)— 1st, Millie Mahaffey; 2nd, Ann Brown; 3rd, Elizabeth Fletcher. Boy a, 15 years and up—(220 yards, free Style)—1st, Paul Bolen; 2nd Lawson Holland; 3rd, McTyre Cal houn. Boys and girls under 8 years—(un derwater swim)—let,-Wade PeepfiFET Boys, 11 to 14 years—(diving)— 1st, Billie Bronson; 2nd, L. M. Mace; 3rd, Arden Lemon. Boys 8 to 10 years—(underwater swim)—1st, Frank Peeples; 2nd, Herbert Black; 3rd Lawrence Stevens. Girls, 7 to 10 years—(25 yards)— tat, Margaret Owens. Girls, 15 years and up—(diving)— 1st, JuHa Lemon. Boys, 15 years and up—(diving)— 1st, Jack Harley; 2nd, Paul Bolen; 3rd, McTyre Calhoun. - * Girls, 15 years and up—(25 yards, free style)—1st, Martha F Grubbs; 2ad, Julia Lemon. Girls, 11 to 14 years—(45 yards, J medley) —Ist, ElizibeTfi r letcHer ; 2nd, Millie Mahaffey; 3rd, A'.va Stevens. Boys, 11 to 14 years—(75 yard*, free style)—1st, John B. Cook; 2nd, Hairy Dewey; 3rd, Arden Lemon. Boys, 15 years and up—(75 yards, medley)—1st, McTyre Calhoun; 2nd, Paul Bolen. Girls, 11 to 14 years—(diving)—1st, Elizabeth Fletcher; 2nd A ' v a Stevens. Girls, 15 years and up—(50 yards, free style)—1st, Martha F. Grubbs. Tuesday, September 3rd, pnd notice I cap he was not tied down but had thereof i s published in this issue. jcomplished much in spite of being ia Ford Leads tlie Way. the minority^ Mr. Fuhner listed the cotton stand ard grading act, the Veterans’ Hoepi- Ford led *11 passenger cars in do-1 tal at Columbia, the first teed loon for mestic sales for the first six months] the Southeast and vmriou$i offices of 1934, according to registration | and bureaus located ia the State as figures from R. L. Polk and Company, some of hia accomplishments under New passenger cars sold totaled 295,-1 the Republicans. He also stressed 114 units. | the importance of seniority and urged Ford al!*o led in total sales of pas- J the voters to return him to Congress senger cars and commercial units with a large vote, thereby adding to combined, according to announcements | his prestige and power in thet body, in Automotive Daily Newt. He made no reference to hia two ap* Ford World production totaled 1 ponents. 536,637 units during the firtt six Gory Paschal, months of 1934 and showed an in-1 Gary Paschal, Esq., pictured him- crease of 135 per cent, over the same I self as an average man who la seek- period for 1938, reflecting the 1m- ing to serve the forgotten man, claim- provement of business conditions in | log that he is endowed with certain the Southeast. Ford branch officials | talents that will redound to the credit pointed out that recent Ford price re-1 of the Second District and that ho ductions had provided a stimulus of understands the problems of the labor- sales in thia territory.‘-“Ford did not | ing desses because of his back- raise prices during 1934 and the re- ground. He reviewed his youth in a ductions were real cuts,” said branch mill village an<i his struggle to obtain executives who pointed out that the | an education. He doctored that he ie Ford V-8 is made in only ohe size- 118-inch wheel base and all are power ed by the same V-type 8-cylinder] 'i motor. jtfme Closes August T8th. WILLISTON POULTRY CLUB MEMBER IS HIGH FOR MONTH The July report of the eighth egg laying contest held at Winthrop Col lege Poultry Farm each year shows a good record for the pen of Barred Rock hens entered by Annie Rebecca Shuler, of Williston, 4-H Poultry club member. To her pen gees the high honor for the month. Her five hens laid 74 eggs, an average of 14.8 per hen, whereas the average per hen in the contest was 8.9 egtfS. This pen is also high to date-with a record of 754 eggs. y ■.—- Another 4-H/member, Louise Hart- zcg, baa a good poultry record to her credit. She started in 1931 with 200 baby chicks, a modern type brooder house and brick brooder and a supply of home grown feed. To date she _ has paid for all equipment and feed, Notice%as been received by County jj ag a 0 f several hundred hens Wallace Has Warned. The prosperity of the farmers of South Carolina will not turn finally upon the price of cotton, though k go to fiftteen centt a pound. It will turn upon their production of corn, hogs, poultry, cattle, vegetables, fruits, | tority scores of things which they can pro duce and upon which they can live. The prices of other products will rise with cotton, they always do, and the farmers will pay these prices for meat and everything they need that they do not raise for themselves. not looking for s job but a broader field in which to serve humanity, as proof of which he submitted the fact that he had voluntarily reduced his salary as a Columbia city couacilman from $4,000 to $2,000 a year. Criticis ing the expenditure of huge sums in an effort to restore prosperity, the speaker advanced the theory that the road to recovery is to subsidise the farmers. He expressed the opinion that ability ia worth more than ttn- Dr. D. R. Stnrkie. Dr. D. .R. Stnrkie made his usual attack on Mr.‘Fulmer’s record and paid but little attention to hia other opponent. He laid four indictment* at the present Congressman's doer and offered to withdraw from race if t/! E. C. Rhodes, of the comptroller general's office, made the annual set- Yhe thought of plowing up the cot- j tlement with A di t or W. H. Manning this year, ton, of which there is an unusually i arK j c our rty Treasurer J. J. Bell on good stand, was too much for the j Auguat lgtf and , as usual, found the farmer. With a single barreled shot- J y^Q^s in excellent condition, no gun he went behind the barn. - Then changes whatever being made. Barn- he shot himself through the heart. I we n wag the fifth county in the State Coroner George W. McCoy labeled to make the settlement this year, the shooting as suicide and said he ■.. ♦ would hold no inquest. Another ten- 1 Ike Cohn left last week for Harris- ant will plow up the cotton. burg) Pa. Agent Hargy G. Boylston that appli cations for exemption certificates un der the Bankhead Law will be received by the several committeemen station ed in the various\townships in Barn well County until .midnight August 18. After that time no ^Applications may be made. Consequently, those who have not made their applications prior to that time will not receive any ex emption certificates to be tued in the ginning and selling of cotton, tax free -This is very important to alKfarm ers who are growing some cotton^ this year. Everybody expecting to re ceive any certificates must make an application at the proper- township headquarters. The application must he made by the farmer in the town ship in which he farms.—Prepared by H. G. Boylston, County Agent. and pullets and has made a cash profit of $343.30. Louise and Annie Rebecca will com pete in the poultry judging contest at the State Fair this year. Prof. Price Injured. The many friends of Prof. W. R. (“Monkey”) Price will learn with re gret that he suffered an injury to his back while diving in the local swim ming pool Tuesday afternoon. It is understood that he will be confined to his bed for a wee to or ten days. Martin, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. M. C. Best, underwent a tonsil opera tion in Columbia Tuesday. The friends of the family will be gled to know that the Uttfe felldirtr getting along nicely. Nor will cotton alone, no matter he could not substantiate hia chargee, what its price shall be, make South I at the same time disclaiming any per- Carolina prosperous. Of its popula- sonel dislike for Mr. Fulmer. Hie tlon, 1,738,765, less than ONE I indictments were: “1.—Mr. Fulmer’* THIRD (about 525,000 at most) is|alleged heavy expenditures of money engaged in ~growing cotton. I^ en first elected and hia having ai- The present prices of cotton are legedly resorted to heavy expendi- temporary. There is danger ahead tures since to perpetuate himself In for 'the cotton farmers of the South, j office. 2.—His alleged unfair atti- They are losing the foreign markets. | tude towards the little farmer. 3.— Brazil and other countries are taking ] His allege*! practice of nepotism. 4. them. j —His alleged failure to construct and Secretary Wallace has warned | set up a program to relieve the these farmers. ^ economic distress and poverty of the The South Carolina farmers can people and to cooperate with Presi- save themselves by making their dent Roosevelt in accepting a reduc- farms self-sustaining—and that they tion in salary.” can dq far better than the farmers | AH three of the candidates praiaed of Arkansas and Texas can. They President Roosevelt and the New are within 700 miles of the Eastern | Deal. , The meeting was presided over by Senator Edgar A. Brown, county 1 markets, one third the distance of the Southwest. If they shall neglect their oppor tunity there is likelihood in two or three years of a severe farm crisis and far more real “destitution” than have been hitherto experienced. But why “warn”? It does no good Noah issued a warning, and Secretary chairman. Dove Season Opens Sept. 1. The open season on doves and squir rels begins September 1st and as to the former will remain open for a Wallace will be heeded no more than I period of 30 days, when it will be Noah was.—News and Courier. | closed until November 15th. The deer season opened yesterday (Wednesday.) Church Notice. | Angus Patterson, county ghme war den, said Tuesday that hunting licenses The People-Sentinel has been re-1 «• now on sale at various places quested to announce that Archie Ellis, throughout the county and wane all of Dunbarton, will conduct service* at hunters against hunting until they the Lower Three Runs Church, Sun- ] have bought either a county or day, August 19th, at 4:00 p. m. The Ikenee, as he intends to public is cordially invited to attend, violators of the gaaM