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TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Eighth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, April 24, 1930 Established June 5, 1902 Number 47 First Long Distance Want Miniature For- Air Race In Carolina ests Near High Schools LARGE NUMBER OF PLANES STATE FORESTRY COMMISSION WILL RACE FR*OM COLUMBIA TO SUMTER SUMTER, S. C., April 23.—The ESTABLISHES DEMONSTRA TION FORESTS A part of the educational pro- first long distance air race ever gram of the State Forestry Corn- held in South Carolina will be mission i§ the creating of minia- staged on Saturday, April .26, when ture “Demonstration Forests” m a large number of planes will race each county of the State. The from - Columbia to Sumter, this Commission proposes to locate one, event having been arranged as the if possible, nekr each agricultural first of a number of events .to be high school, and it f is hoped to have held that day in connection with; at least one demonstration area the dedication of Sumter’s splendid established in each county by the new airport. Other aviation events end of the present year, arranged for the day are a dead | These little show-window for- stick landing, a bomb dropping ests” may cover anywhere from contest and a 15-mile free-for-all' one to ten acres of land. Where a tract of bare land only is available, A tremendous crowd is expected it is planted up with valuable spec- here to witness the finish of the lies of timber trees from the State Columbia-Sumter race and the .Forest Tree Nursery at Camden, other features of the day. An of- It is desirable to secure an area a ficial invitation has been sent by part of which is unfoiested and a Mayor Raffield to Gov. John G. part already well set with trees, Richards, the mayor and city preferably a dense young stand of council of Columbia and members second growth. The latter can be of the airport dedication commit- used for making demonstrations in tee of Columbia, and mayors of thinning and for growth studies, other surrounding cities and A prime requirement is the pro towns. • The' general public is in- viding of adequate protection from Census Figures Are Announced McCORMICK HAS 1,304, A GAIN OF 20 IN 10 YEARS ▼ited to the celebration. Sumter is staging its airport dedication on the day following the conclusion of the great air derby to be held in Columbia April 24-25 in which planes from fire. So far this spring two demon stration areas have been establish ed in Richland County—one on the farm land of the Epworth Orphan age, adjacent to the Sumter High- aU over the country art expected! way near the. Mill Creek School, to participate. The Sumter air- and one on the school grounds at port committee will extend an in vitation to every aviator at the Columbia meet to come over to Sumter for- the events here on Saturday and is already assured that a very large number of the planes will be here. An effort is being made to have the service ships that will partici pate in the Columbia meet come on to Sumter also. Members of the South Carolina congressional delegation have been asked to lend their assistance in securing the presence of these ships. The planes particpating in the Columbia-Sumter race are expect ed to leave Columbia at 11 a. m., on Apr l*. 26. The formal dedica tion ceremonies of the Sumter air port will be held at 12 o’clock Dentsville. Three have been start ed in Kershaw County, all in con nection with agricultural schools; two in Greenwood County, one near the City of Greenwood and one at Ware Shoals; one near St. Matthews, in Calhoun County, one at Springfield, Orangeburg County, one at Williston, Barnwell Coun ty, and one near Anderson. Six teen hundred one-year old pine trees were planted on the camp grounds of the Future Palmetto Farmers in Oconee County by the agricultural students from the Walhalla and Tamassee schools, under the direction of the Assist ant State Forester and their agri cultural teachers. It is planned to make successive plantings of dif ferent species annually for a num- noon and following these there ^ er years. will be three events. Prizes totaling - $750 will be In locating and developing these demonstration areas, the State awarded in the day’s events. Win- Forestry Commission co-operatcs ner of first place in the Columbia- I with the county agents, the schools Sumter race will get $100, second and agricultural teachers, and pri place $75 and third place, $50. The first event after the dedication ex- vfcte owners or institutions who contribute the use of their land excises will be the dead stick land- j for tote educational purpose. Thou- ing for which the first prize will sands of boys and girls throughout be $75, second prize $50 and the th e State are showing a deep in- third prize $25. Next will be a terest x in reforestation, the only bomb-dropping contest, for which way to restore to productivity mil- the first prize will be $75, second lions of acres of cut-over and bad- $50, and third $25. Then will come ly denuded cimberlands that arc the 15-mile free-for-all race, first not growing enough wood to pay prize $100, second $75 and third toe taxes. $50. | E. I. TERRY, Sumter’s airport is located two ’ Assistant State Forester. miles from the city and comprises * 1 ixt 155 acres. It has been pronounc- ! ed by experienced aviators as a Bank Has The Bonds, splendid field in every particular. Its drainage faculties are such State Hag TllC Money that planes may land safely or take off in wet weather. There are no hazards surrounding the field. The airport committee in charge Census figures for several South Carolina towns were announced by enumerators in various parts of the state Friday night. While a number of the smaller towns show decreases in the num ber of inhabitants as compared with 1920, Hodges, a small set tlement in Greenwood county, held its own, reporting 284 persons in 1930 as compared with the same number ten years ago. 1930 1920 Bradley 135 207 Hodges 284 284 Coronaca 191 165 Troy 219 315 Ninety Six 1,377 773 Little Mountain __ 244 399 Prosperity 844 748 Pomaria 263 288 Kinards 209 173 Chappels 174 207 Johnston 1,072 1,101 Due West 620 702 Lowndesville 210 271 X (Kinards) Figures given for that, part of town in Newberry county only. A preliminary report on the 1930 census of Rock Hill shows a total of 11,244, according to A. H. By num, supervisor of census of the Episcopal Young People To Convene At Rock Hill The Town Doctor ,95 DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: 8,809. The new figure represents an increase of 27.6 per cent. McCormick gained 20 inhabit ants from 1920 to 1930, according to preliminary census figures an nounced by W. S. Peterson, super visor of the sixth district. The figures are: 1304 for 1930 and 1284 for 1920. The Church Schools of the Dio cese of Upper South Carolina :neet in Rock Hill, May 2, 3, and 4. Everyone is looking forward to this convention with keen anticipation because the generous hospitality of Rock Hill assures the utmost en joyment of the convention. Beginning Friday night, May 2, there will be a convention of the Young People’s Service League of Upper South Carolina meeting in joint session with the representa tives of the Church Schools of the same Diocese. The Service League convention will begin Friday night at 7:30 with a banquet in the par ish house of the Church of Our Saviour. At this banquet there will be not only the officers of the Service League of Upper South Carolina, but also the officers of the Service Leagues of the neigh boring Carolina dioceses. Those on the list of speakers for that ban quet include Bishop K. G‘. Finlay; Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, executive secretary of the young people’s work; and the Rev. W. H. Pendle ton, former chairman of the De partment of Religious Education. The next day will fee devoted largely to the business of the Y. P. S. L., but the high spot of the whole convention will be the pres- DON’T HAVE A CLEAN UP CAM PAIGN THIS YEAR! fourth South Carolina district Rock Hill 1920 population was station service at 11:30 Saturday morning, May 3. At this service the representatives from the var ious Church Schools of the Diocese will bring their Lenten Offerings and present them there at the al tar. These Lenten Offerings rep resent the work and savings of many Sunday School children and adults for the work of the Church McCormick gained 671 inhabit- j ^ the mission fields. This service ants in the 10 years from 1910 to te always inspirational, and color- 1920, the figures for 1910 having been 613. The Press and Banner says, the city of Abbeville shows a loss of 164 people since the taking of the census in 1920 according to a re port from Mr: Clarence E. Gray, Supervisor of the Census. The census of 1920 showed a popula tion of 4,570 compared to a report of 4,406 this year. Business men of the city, taking into considera tion the movement of the colored people to the north, the removal of twenty families from the rail road shops and other losses were of the opinion that the loss would be greater than the tabulation shows. When the figures were made public yesterday ‘several were heard to say what Abbeville lost in quantity was made up in quality. Gives Permission To Sell Licenses COMMISSION GRANTS FOUR TRANSFER PLEAS ful by reason of the large attend ance of the clergy in their vest ments and the gay banners of the various Sunday Schools brought by the young people. Saturday night at McPherson’s Country Club there will be a camp fire and a “Kanuga Night.” This Kanuga Night will be a replica of some of the happy times the young people have at their camp at Knauga Lake. The Sunday morn ing service will conclude the con vention with the installation of the newly elected officers. The work of the young people has gone forward in the past year. The eagerness with w r hich this con vention is looked forward to is a promise that the work will go for ward even further in the coming year. ' : X Play At Troy School Tomorrow Night COLUMBIA, April 17.—The South Carolina National Bank, purchase] Of the dedication is conposed of of the first $10,000,000 block of R. L. McLebd, chairman; R. B. highway bonds of the $65,000,000 Waters, H. C. Bland, E. B. Boyle, issue, today deposited to the credit F; B. Creech, J. K. McElveen, J. A. of the state treasurer the sum of McKnight, Harold Moise and C. G. $10,255,976, Governor Richards an- Rowland. .nounced this afternoon, following X !the delivery of the bonds to the .bank. Road building will get un der way around May 1. Honor Roll For The \I74rl*vrr»tin The total deposit included the W loeman OC JIOOI $1 0 >0 00,000 par value of the bonds, $235,,976 premium offered by the bank in its bid and $20,000 repre senting ; accrued interest on the bonds as of their date of issue. Paul Edmunds Mattie Spence Blease Edmunds Fred Edmunds Jim Spence Mattie Bowick Robert Edmunds William Bowick Daisy Edmunds Bennie Wideman Betty Findley Janie Lou Spence <1 James Edmunds j Walter Wideman '! Marion Brewer Lucindy Brewer, April 1, 1930. The sale is based on a rate of 4 1-2 per cent per annum, and, in consideration of the premium, at an actual cost to the stat^of 4.31 per cent per year. > The sale to the South Carolina National Bank was awarded on March 21 at which time three oth er bids were received, two by the , Peoples National Bank of Rock Hill and one by the Peoples State Bank. Authority to transfer four first class passenger bus licenses, all now operating in the Augusta- Green ville section to J. L. Gilmer of Winston-Salem, N. C, one of t the owners of the Camel City Bus Company was granted yesterday by the state railroad commission. The lines involved are: Augusta-Greenville Bus line of Augusta, operating between South Carolina-Georgia line and Green ville, Edgefield, Greenwood and Ware Shoals. Greenville-Augusta Coach line of Greenville, operating between Greenville and Augusta, via Princeton, Ware Shoals and Green wood. McCormick Motor line of Green ville, operating between Greenville and the South Carolina-Georgia line via Bradley, McCormick, Parksville and Modoc. Red Top Bus line of Greenville, operating between Greenville and the North Carolina-South Caro lina line toward Hendersonville, N. C., via Travelers’ Rest.—The State | of Tuesday. 1XI Noah was a wise man. He didn’t ! wait for his ship to come in. He i built one. “An Arizona Cowboy” will be staged in Troy school auditorium Friday evening, the 25th. at 3:00 admission, 15 and 25 cents. A full attendance will be aprpeciat- ed. Here is the cast: Farley Gault, the cowboy sheriff Randolph Puckett. Paul Quillian, his partner, Wil ton Browne. Duke Blackshear, a strange: from Frisco, Claude Workman. Hezekiah Bugg, John Bill Brad ley. Yow Nee, a Chinaman, Hermar Tumblin. Big Elk, Navajo Chief, E. L Crawford. Grizzly Gino, a cattle thief Randolph Walker. Margarite Moore, the pretty ranch owner, Leila Bradley. Mrs. Petunico Bugg, from old Indianco, Drake White. Coralee Blackshear,. Dukes’s sis ter, Margaret Harris. Fawn Afraid an Indian girl, Mar garet Puckett. Young ’un not much of anybody, Nan Workman. Cow boys: Bo Bowen, J. B. Young. Edward Baker, Cecil Camp bell, Clarence Hollingsworth. X Some folks are known by the bill collectors they keep knocking at their r ^or. Having a clean-up campaign in the spring of each year is like waiting until Saturday night to take a bath. True, after a long, dreary win ter, the spring is the natural time to throw off our lethargy. Old Mother Nature wakes up in the spring, and as we are her children we do the same; but Nature meas ures her days and weeks and years by an altogether different yard stick. What is a year to Dame Nature is a minute—even—less to us. If she cleans up but once in our year, that should mean to us never to let up. Therefore do not have a clean-up week this year—start now and never quit having it. If you wish to do something to help make McCormick look good, take a walk around your business district and count all of the blaz- en, brazen, screeching, homely wall signs you see on sides of buildings. Stand back and take a good look iat them, and see if you can find anything about them that is at tractive and inviting; anything that gives you a feeling of pleas ure, enjoyment, satisfaction or anything else that would make you feel like you would want to live in McCormick. Take another look at them, and picture how much bet ter the entire business district would appear if they were elimin ated. Then look at all the signs that are hung in front of various stores. Some little, some big; some hung high, some low; many of them un painted and forlorn, others all battered and tom, creating a reg ular crazy conglomeration that is enough to drive a sane person coo coo if he stands and looks at the picture long enough. You are accustomed to it, and being used to it you pay no atten tion to it; but that does not mean that you are not affected by it. It has been proven that a person liv ing, sleeping or working where there is much noise, not only does not work as efficiently, but does not live as long; and in just the safhe way a town that has a mess- ed-up business district does not do as much business nor are it’s peo ple as happy, content or industri ous, as if it were clean and invit ing. Anything you do to help clean up the business district of McCormick you are doing for yourself. If you own residence property, a poor looking, unkept business district directly depreciates the value of your property; but you do not have to be a property owner to feel the effect. If you live in the town, you make your living directly or indi rectly there, and anything that tends to detract or drive business of any kind away from the town, or keeps new business from being attracted, that costs you money. If you are one of those who own business property, it’s plain, every day poor business not to do all in your power to make that property and all other property in the dis trict as inviting, attractive and therefore as valuable as possible. How McCormick looks is import ant; make McCormick look good. The business district is that part of the town where most people congregate, therefore it should be made to look the best possible. Eliminate wall signs, eliminate gaudy billboards, don’t tolerate a cluttering-up of the most valuable and highest priced section of your community. Don’t leave this to the merch ants, for regardless of what you do to make a living, the business district is yours, and if it is cost ing the community business, it’s costing you money. Don't say you can’t do anything to help matters—you are just the fellow who can remedy it; for without YOU there wouldn’t be any merchants, and although it is a part of the business of every ! merchant and business man to do j these things, at the same time it’s Child Health Day To Be May First May 1st is Child Health Day. President Hoover has proclaimed this for the whole United States. McCormick, as usual, is right in line, with this great step for the welfare of her children. . Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock the teachers of the grammar school will present their pupils in a May Day program. This pro gram will feature a health play, songs, drills, May Pole dances and various numbers both beneficial and entertaining to the public. You are cordially invited and urged to attend. This program will be giv en in the McCormick park cn Au gusta Street. This celebration is being sponsored by the mayor and the following organizaztions: P.-T. A., Lions Club, American Legion and Home Demonstration Club. Different show windows down town will have health demonstra tions by the grammar grades. Peer around and see what your child has been learning and doing this year in health education. Every citizen of McCormick County, man, woman and child, is urged to give thought to hi* personal health during this week following May day. That is mat serious thought. Have yourself checked over and see that you are right. You do this for your au tomobile every month or so. T» have your body examined once a year is not an extravagance. It is a necessity. It is hoped that we will be able to offer a free clinic to the school children at i that time. j Don’t forget the May Day Pro- .gram. This is the beginning. x Furey’s Ferry Bridge Will Open Soon AUGUSTA, Ga., April 22.—After having been under construction for several years Furey’s Ferry bridge, located 14 miles up the Sa vannah river from Augusta, will be open for traffic on or about June 1, it was officially announced last, night by R. F. Gamble, supervisor in charge and resident engineer of South Carolina. All work is completed on the structure except pouring the con crete base, laying the asphalt sur face and riveting the steel Wcrk on the last span. The latter is being done now and the remainder is estimated to take six weeks. W. F. Bov/e, of Augusta has contracted to pour the concrete. The bridge is a massive concrete and steel, all weather stmeture, extending 1,881 feet from end end. The steel work runs 606 feet in length and the concrete is 1.275 feet. It stands 20 feet above a nor mal flew of water. X . Mrs, Pipkin Enters Contest Mrs. W. S. Pipkin is one of the candidates in the Chronicle’s | “Everybody Wins Campaign.” and | would appreciate anyone who in tends to subscribe to the Augusta Chronicle to give her their .sub scription which would be groatiy appreciated. your pleasure and desires that the merchant must serve, if he want* your business—and he wants it. | Take a real good look at your business district, and then use jyour influence to make it look ;good—not just for this spring, but ! from now on. (Editor’s Note:—Any reader of McCormick Messenger de- I siring special information on i any jjhase of how to make Mc Cormick “look good”, or any other matter pertaining t« “buHding McCormick,” yon may write the Town Doctor, McCormick Bldg., Chicago. AB that is necessary for a reply is to enclose a 2e stamp, and say you are reader of McCormick Messenger.) (Copyright by Dick-Stone, 193G£