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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
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AcCOKMiCK MESSENGER
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'Published Every Thursday
{Established June 5, 1902
/EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner
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Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of
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ARE YOU ARE A SAFE DRIVER?
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Summer im’t far awa” *vhen the
• streets and highways of the nation
Till be crowded with traffic. Fine
dry weather will bring out thou-
rands of motorists—and reads will
resound again to the roar of mo
tors.
Now is the time to ask yourself
if you are a safe driver—and don’t
answer too hurriedly. You can
give yourself a little quizz that will
help. Are you thoroughly conver
sant with th« driving laws of your
state? Do you adapt the speed at
which you drive, to local conditions
—in other words, are you aware
that 20 miles an hour is dangerous
ly fast at times, and slow at others?
Do you stick to your side of the
road, and make certain that you
can stop, under any circumstances,
in the assured clear distance a-
head? Are you careful not to pass
on hills and curves?
Other questions of that kind will
suggest themselves to you. But
even if such a test, honestly ans
wered, puts you in the safe driving
status, you aren’t through. How
about your car? ‘When were the
tires, the brakes, the steering, the
lights, last inspected by a good
mechanic? A substantial percen
tage of motorists put off repairs
till tomorrow—and sometimes that
tomorrow never comes.
Last year was one of the worst
in the history of the automobile so
far as needless sacrifice of life and
property was concerned. Every
motorist should give himself a safe
driving test now—and if he is un
certain as to how to do it, traffic
departments and safety organiza
tions exist to help him. Bring ac-
cidents down in 1934!
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SPEED IS THE DANGER
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The world’s record for throwing
■the 16-pound shot, one of the reg
ular events at all track and .field
meets, is 53 feet.
The amount of energy possessed
by an average-sized automobile
traveling at 60 miles an hour would
be sufficient to throw that shot
52,800 feet—nearly ten miles.
To use another illustration, a car
traveling at 60 has the same capa
city for inflicting damage as if it
were driven off a twelve-story
building.
Those facts, brought out in a
recent report of the Travelers In
surance Company, give some idea
of the potential menace of speed
on the highway. During recent
years the death and injury rate
per accident has been rising—and
the increase was especially marked
in 1933. The chance of a person
b^fng seriously hurt or killed in an
accident is substantially greater
now than it would have been five
or ten years ago in a similar acci
dent. The reason can be expressed
in one word: Speed.
Today's cars have better brakes,
.better steering, better lights and
stronger bodies than those of the
past. By all engineering standards,
they are safer. What has happen
ed is that the public has exaggerat
ed the increased safety factors—
and actually turned these improve-
ments into dangers.
Watch your speed—adapt it to
local conditions at all times—and
you’ll have taken a long step to-
wc.'-'i becoming a safe driver.
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MANNING FOR GOVERNOR
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fSumter Daily Item)
The resolution of the county
Democratic convention endorsing
Co!. Wyndham M. Manning for
governor meets with our hearty
approval. The convention also paid
him the handsome tribute of elec-
ti:n as a delegate to the state con
vention by acclamation.
Col. Manning’s views on pubnc
service measure up to the stand-
ari that this paper has striven for
during all the years of its effort
to serve the people of this section.
j: ov docs he give mere lip service
ta his principles. His record shows
tl’rt he lives and fights for them.
He was educated at West Point.
As a lieutenant in the regular army
jie bad a certain living guaranteed
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/CHEVROLET^
A group of additional new models
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for the 1934 Chevrolet line-four
full-size cars—100% Chevrolet in
quality and reliability
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R IGHT at the peak of Chevrolet popularity—with
nationwide demand sending production to new
all-time “highs”—Chevrolet dealers are displaying an
additional group of four new models. These cars are
identical in quality with all 1934 Chevrolets. And the
prices have been set at such incredibly low figures that
you can now buy a Chevrolet for $465! “A Chevrolet
for $465!” That’s the world’s lowest price for a six-
cylinder car. And a figure that sounds even more
impressive after you find out what it buys: A great
big, full-size, long-wheelbase car. A cushion-balanced
SIX of surprising smoothness, power, snap and dash.
The most econcmical full-size car that money can buy.
And every closed model has a Body by Fisher. Nobody
interested in motor cars can afford to let another day
slip by, without seeing this “Chevrolet for $465.”
CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICH.
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Visit your nearest Chevrolet dealer
and UP
List price of Stand
ard Six Snort Roads
ter at Flint, Mich.,
$465.00. With bumn-
ers, spare tire and
tire lock, the list
price is $18.00 addi
tional. Prices subject
to change without
notice. Compare
Chevrolet’s low de
livered prices and
easy G. M. A. C.
terms. A general
Motors Value.
Faulkner Chevrolet Company
Dealer Advertisement
McCormick,
South Carolina
him. But in the old peace days be
fore the World war, this did not
appeal to him. He resigned and
entered the teaching profession.
The moment trouble loomed on
the Mexican border, Manning of
fered his trained services to our
great president, Woodrow Wilson,
and took a company of Charleston
volunteers to the Mexican border,
serving during all of that trouble.
No sooner was that over than the
World war started. Manning Was
again among the first to volunteer.
Once more he served throughout
the war, and with distinction,
reaching the rank of Lieut. Col
onel.
When the “piping days of peace”
brought him home from foreign
service, the farm called him. It
was in his blood. His fathers be
fore him had been farmers.
This was just about the time the
post-war prosperity began to fade
out and deflation set in for the
farmers. No one is more familiar
with the struggles and hardships
that have confronted our farmers
for more than a decade. He has
met tlupe problems face to the
front—with the same courage and
determination that he showed on
the field of battle.
His two terms in the legislature
have been characterized by dili
gent attention to his duties, care
ful study cf questions presented
and clear cut, manly decisions on
these questions. His analysis of the
f ax situation has been given in ad
dresses before thoughtful audiences
in various parts of the state; it
:hows unusual diligence in gather
ing data and ability to grasp and
make clear a complicated problem.
It will thus be seen that Col.
Manning has touched the life of
our people at many points. He
knows the problems of the great
calling of a teacher, and as such
has dealt with young people. He
has struggled with the hardships
confronting the farmer. He has
studied, as few have, the Knotty
problems of governmental finance.
And above all, he has played no
petty or mean political game, but
has shown himself a man of sim
ple sincerity and courageous con
victions. His politics are of the
the best debater and declaimer
were won by John Mfttchell Scavens
and Robert Alexander McLarty,
respectively. These cups were pre
sented by the class of 1923 and are
same type as those of Woodrow held by the winners for one year.
it* t~\ Those presented honors and di
plomas were:
1 Gradual*; as of February, 1934:
Jame§ Crtover Bailie, IV, general;
David Byrnes Hair, general; War
ren Frederick Hamilton, general;
John Patrick Jopling, general; Ed
ward Christian Leaphart, general;
Edward Hull Rhodes, Jr., general;
David Silver, science (in 3 1-S
years); Walter Fred Timm, Jr.,
general.
Class of 1934: Graduates with
highest honor (based on entire
four-year course); Leonard Garten,
classical (in three years); gradu
ates with high honor (based on en
tire four-year course): George
Carswell Blanchard, technical (in
three, years); Charlie Calhoun
Coleman, classical; Thomas Zenas
Wilson and *F. D. Roosevelt.
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86 Graduates Are
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At the Academy
The Augusta Herald, May 31.
Freeman C. McClure, president of
the board of education, presented
86 seniors of the Academy of Rich
mond County diplomas at the 151st
graduation exercises held in the
Academy auditorium Wednesday
night. The exercises were presided
over by J. L. Skinner, president of
the Academy and Junior College.
The class marched on to the
stage to mu s ic b y Sprott, Jr., classical; Rufus Llewel-
Rev. R. B. Mayfield led the open- ^ wbnif . nl . Jnmes otto
ing prayer.
S?oond Lieutenant Leonard Gar
ten, valedictorian, was presented
by First Lieutenant Benjamin
Pierce, J£,, president of the senior
class.
Announcement of a $100 me
morial scholarship in honor of the
late George P. Butler, who served
for many years as principal of the
Academy, and organizer of the;
Junior College, was announced by Miss Olive Harlee Branch of Mc-
James M. Hull, Jr. The winner of; Cormick Among the 219 Stu-
of 1897. Dr. Edmund F. Cook,
pastor of the Mulberry Street
Methodist Church, Macon, will
preach the commencement sermon
at 11 oVfiock Sunday morning, June
10. Conferring of the degrees will
take place in the Glenn Memorial
Church at 10:30 o’clock Monday
morning, June 11, following the
baccalaureate address by the Rev.
Edward McLellan, of London, Eng
land, who was fraternal delegate
to the recent general conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Chufch,
South.
Passenger Car
Registrations Place
Chevrolet In Lead
lyn Hutto, technical; James Otto
Hoover, technical; Vernon Rubell
Cawley, classical (in three years).
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Emory University
Commencement Starts
Saturday, June 9th
the award will be determined by j dents Graduating.
the students’ scholarship, character
and the participation in and out of Atlanta, Ga., May 31.—Among the
class activities. The scholarship 219 students graduating from
must be used in the Junior College
cf Richmond County.
Charlie Calhoun Coleman was
announced by Mrs. Robert C. Bailie,
chairman of the high school com
mittee, as the winner of the
scholarship award for this year.
Emory University in June will be
Miss Olive Harlee Branch, of Mc
Cormick. S. C. She will receive the
degree of bachelor of arts in library
science.
Emory’s ninety-fourth com
mencement season will open on
Cadet Samuel Carpenter Waller Saturday, June 9, with the annual
was the winner of the $5 cash prize! meeting of the alumni association,
for the highest mark in American at which the principal address will
history. [be delivered by the Hon. Hinton
The cups presented each year for Booth, Statesboro, Ga., of the class
Passenger car registrations for
April place Chevrolet in the lead
for the second consecutive month,
according to Motor Statistics re
leased by R. L. Polk and Com
pany. Chevrolet registered 63,458
passenger cars during April or 38.2
per cent of price class. This April
figure shows an increase of 12,662
units over the March registration
figure when Chevrolet led the en
tire industry in passenger cars by
registering 50,796 units or 38.3 per
cent of price class.
Chevrolet maintained the lead in
the commercial car and truck field,
making an impressive showing by
registering 15,050 units in April. To
tal registrations of Chevrolet com
mercial cars and trucks for the
year through April were 49,797
units, 47.4 per cent of weight class.
Registration figures for March
and April definitely establish
Chevrolet as America’s fastest sell
ing car and forecast another year
of Chevrolet dominance in the au
tomotive industry. Chevrolet has
led the industry in sales during
five of the last seven years.
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Lake Superior was once fifty feet
lower than its present level, a geo
logist has reported.
Early Summer Notes
About Livestock
Clemson College, June 2.—Proper
attention to livestock in June is
particularly important say Clemson
specialists, giving brief sugges
tions to guide farmers.
Animal Husbandry
Keep hogs on forage, and pro
vide shade and water.
Keep young pigs on territory not
infested with parasites.
Treat sheep for stomach worms
if heavily infested, and change
pastures every two weeks. Market
the fat lambs when they weigh 70
to 80 pounds.
Get beef cows bred for spring
calves.
Mow pastures to destroy weeds,
and repair fences at odd times.
Dairying
Control flies by keeping all
manure spread on the fields.
Cool milk and cream immediately
after milking to control bacteria
and undesirable odors and flavors.
Mow the pasture often enough to
keep down obnoxious weeds.
Sow Sudan grass on a rich plot
close to the barn to cut and feed
green when pastures are dry and
short.
Keep an abundant supply of
fresh water before the cows.
Poultry
Keep pullets on clean range dur
ing summer months.
Do not push pullets into egg pro
duction; feed a low protein ration
made up mostly of grain.
Watch the birds for lice infesta
tion and examine the sleeping
quarters occasionally for mites.
If troubled each fall with chicken
pox or sorehead, vaccinate the pul
lets when three to four months of
age to prevent a fall outbreak.
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The temperature of the ice-cov
ered Polar sea influences the, tem
perature of the whole northern
hemisphere.