McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 24, 1930, Image 1
TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Twenty-Eighth Year
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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£