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' ■ . . s * t % S' * IfcCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 2, *1938 •y f tHi. . SBrf McCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday - Established June 5, IStf EDMOND J. AlcCRACREN, Editor and Owner « J fettered at the Post Office at Mc- Gormlck. S. C., as nr«ail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year SI.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 S. C. Campaign Itineraries Are Announced ! knows for sure, but a great scien tific laboratory for the study of living fish of aU kinds has been established in Florida, and we are on the way toward learning more about the hidden life under water. At Marineland on Florida’s East Coast half a million dollars has been spent to build a miniature ocean. Two great connected tanks holding nearly a million gallons of filtered sea-water have been built. They have windows along the sides and the bottom through which the behavior of marine animals can be studied and pho tographed at close range. When I visited Marineland in April there were dozens of sharks of different kinds and sizes, a big sawfish, innumerable smaller fish, crabs, shrimps and other crusta ceans, seals and porpoises all liv ing together as they do in the sea. LLAL SSkN $ y4ND»tLH BREAD r A DOPE catches fish Catching big fish for an aqua rium is a good deal like catching big animals for a zoo or a circus. In order to bring ’em in alive and in condition to keep on living, they have to be carefully handled after being trapped, else they will injure themselves in the struggle to get free. Big game hunters for zoos use “mercy bullets,” shooting a quick-acting narcotic drug into the animal’s hide. On the same primaries as late as June 13. Following is the itinerary of the senatorial party: Sumter, June 14; Manning, June Kingstree, June 16; George- tcftni, June 17; Conway, June 18; Camden, June 21; Bishopville, June 22; Darlington, June 23; Florence, June 24; Marion, June 25: Lancaster, June 28; Chester field, June 29; Bennettsville, June 30. Dillon, July 4; St. Matthews, July 5; Orangeburg, July 6; Bam berg, July 7; Allendale, July 3; Barnwell, July 9; St. George, July 11; Walterboro, July 12; Hampton, July 13; Ridgeland, July 14, a. m.; Beaufort, July 14, p. m.; Charles ton, July 15; Moncks Corner, July 16; rest period, July 17 to 23; Aiken, July 25; Edgefield, July 26; McCormick, July 27; Saluda, July 28; Lexington, July 29. Winnsboro, August 2; Chester, August 3; York, August 4; Gaff ney, August 6; Spartanburg, Aug ust 9; Union, August 11; Green ville, August 13; Pickens, August 15; Walhalla, August 16; Anderson, Augtist 17; Abbeville, August 18; Greenwood, August 19; Laurens, August 23; Newberry, August 24; Columbia, August 26. Following is the itinerary of the ^tate party: Lexington, June 14; Saluda, June 15; McCormick, June 16; Edgefield, June 17; Aiken, June 18; St. Matthews, June 20; Orangeburg, June 21; Bamberg, J June 22; Allendale, June 23; Barn well, June 24; St. George, June 27; Walterboro, June 28; Hampton, June 29; Ridgeland, June 30, a. m.; Beaufort, June 30, p. m. Charleston, July 1; Monck’s Comer, July 2; Florence, July 5; Marion, July 6; Darlington, July 7; Bishopville, July 8; rest period, July 10 to 16; Camden, July 18; Lancaster, July 19; Chesterfield, July 20; Bennettsville, July 21; Dillon, July 22; Conway, July 23; Georgetown, July 26; Kingstree, July 27; Manning, July 28; Sumter, July 29. Newberry, August 2; Laurens, August 3; Greenwood, August 4; Pickens, August 9; Walhalla, Au gust 10; Anderson, August 12; Ab beville, August 13; Spartanburg, August 15; Union, August 17; Gaffney, August 19; York, August 20; Chester. August 22; Winns boro, August 23; Columbia, August 24. txt TODAY and Columbia, May 26.—The county- to-county speaking tours of can didates for the U. S. senate and state offices this summer will be gin June 14. Lane Bonner, secretary of the Democratic executive committee, made public the itineraries for the two touring groups as worked out by a sub-committee. The senatorial party will open at Sumter while candidates for principle the Marine Studios use governor and other state offices * a “hypodermic harpoon” to con- will speak first at Lexington. jtrol big fish after they have been Candidates may file for the netted or trapped Invented by Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famous Russian novelist, who is in charge of col lecting fish for the Marineland aquarium, the hypodermic harpoon injects an anesthetic drug into a fish. Even the largest sharks turn over and play dead when they get thi& “shot in the arm,” but a few hours later they are lively as ever in the “miniature ocean.” I went out with one of the “bring ’em in alive” expeditions early in April. We set a big net a few miles out in the Atlantic and anchored over night, to haul the net at sunrise, the feeding time for the big ones. But all we got was one five-foot hammerhead shark. • * * * SHARKS soft Wheth:r sharks actually attack living peisons in water is still a matter of dispute. The fish ex perts I talked with in Florida said that some of the large sharks will seize an injured person, attracted by the smell of blood. All agreed that a far more dangerous fish is the barracuda, the “tiger of the sea,” which comes into shallow waters and frequently bites an arm or a leg off a bather. Sharks and the shark family, which includes sawfish and rays, are the most primitive type of fish. Fossil shark teeth estimated to be 100,000 years old are washed up by every storm on the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico. The shark has no bones. His spine is soft cartilage and he has no ribs at all. The shark does not survive rough handling well. One of the workers at Marine Studios found a live shark cast up on the beach. He dragged it half a mile by the tail, stowed it in the back of his car, and drove it to the aquarium. The shark surviv ed long enough to give birth to nine baby sharks, but died shortly afterwards from the effects of the ,ough treatment she had received. * * * DOLPHINS warm blooded E /erybody who has been around the Atlantic seacoast much, from Nova Scotia to Florida, has seen schools of dolphins, which are usually called porpoises, leaping out of water in graceful curves. Most folk take them for fish, but they are warm-blooded mammals, little cousins of the whale. They make their brief excursions to the surface to fill their lungs with air, which they can do in a couple of seconds through the single nostril or “blow-hole” in the tops of their heads. While I was visiting the big aquarium at Marineland word came that porpoises were feeding in a nearby inlet. Half a dozen fishermen in rowboats went out after them. They set four nets across the mouth of the inlet. The first porpoise broke through all four nets, but her baby got for study tangled in the first net and the men have been mother came back to the rescue, little is really Mother and baby now live in the known about their life and habits, aquarium. How do they behave under Water? j I spent an hour or more watch- We can’t see much more than a ing the mother porpoise suckle few inches below the surface of her baby and teach it how to the sea. Who eats who * in the catch fish on its own account, struggle for existence that goes Nobody had ever before had a on iu the ocean's depths? Nobody chance to study the domestic life \ f ^ 9 1 ^ IV’• / -fa j yivlt. UAVbStNS MU ES For soft toast and sand wiches Look for the brown and yellow wrapper. CLAVSSEMS CHILDRENS BREAD * OH I » <• ■jleact \ Sine* 1841 — "For Nearly a C*ntu.-y The South's Finest’’ Y*a — CUIU3S£N'S ME 1D is mad* of chqicb in gredients. Carefully b ended, mixed and baked in -> r—sertjio a man nor that CLAUSSEN'S B.1EAD t<t al- v a”* ONtroPM. "Air Conditioned*' too removed t om ovens, cooled quickly in msdem cooling rooms whe;e the air Is dry pure- washed then wrai> ped IMMEDIATELY to Insure freshness. That is why CLAUSSBN3 BREAD ts always rttcsH at yout grocer's. Order it today! j .J*-/ i « VX For making dain» : ee and « r n toast- — In the trans- pa lent wrapper. U Al SSEN S 11 tiOLE WHEA1 j <7^ • -C>-. * .1 The kiddies love it . . . and it’s good for them Makes marvelous soft toast, too t v LOOli FOR THE BR3Uin ROD YELLOW WRAPPER • RT YOUR GROCER’S RYE...RMSIN BREAD SPLIT ROLLS FOR PARTIES! JESTER’S CASH MARKET Phone No. 25 We Deliver Main Street McCormick, S. C. Open from 6:30 a. m. to 7 p. m. When you are in town be sure and come by our market and let us suggest your meat needs for you. We will give you your choice of meats. Prices are Reasonable, Meats the Best. We carry a full line of Fresh Meats at all times and are always ready to be at your service. Special on Balentine’s Sugar Cured Sliced Break fast Bacon, per pound, 29 cents. Fresh Fish on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We highly appreciate your patronage. Before selling your cattle and hogs, see us. We pay the market price for them. Experience Service Facilities Those are the Important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne In mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERYICB and there Is no additional charge for service oat of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. FISH As long as catching fish, FOR PROMPT, DEPENDABLE DRY CLEANING AND PRESS ING SER VICE, SEND YOUR CLOTHES TO Greenwood Dry Cleaning Co. j “ SPENCER GLASGOW, Representative of the dolphin at close range. MYSTERIES of the sea The sea is full of mysteries which probably never will be solved. Most of the life in the sea is in the upper 500 feet, where sunlight penetrates and vegetable growths nourish the smaller sea ’reatures which in turn are food for the larger fish. Below the 500 foot level is a dark abyss in which Grange monsters, carrying their )wn lights, live a mysterious ex- stence. They die by internal ex plosion when they are brought to; the homes of their ancestors. the upper levels, for they are or ganized to resist the immense pressure from without which the weight of the deep water exerts upon their bodies. One great sea mystery which science hopes to solve is why the eels from all the freshwater rivers and ponds in the world gather every Winter at a certain spot in the middle of the Atlantic, where they breed and return to the places they came from. Or how the young eels, half an inch long when hatched, find the way to J. Roy Jones Announces His # Car.Jkkcy For Reelertlon As Sfetr, Commissioner Of Agriculture j P T FDfrES CONTINED EF FORTS IN BEHALF OF S. C. FARMERS. COLUMBIA, May 30—(Special)— Pledging his continued efforts in' behalf of the development of agri- J culture, commerce and industry in South Carolina. J. Roy Jones, state | • commissioner of agriculture, this week announced his candidacy for | ree’ection to the office in which he ' ! new serves. I The prosperity of the farmer is vital to every sphere of life in i South Carolina, the commissioner • declared. “In promoting the wel fare of the farmer,” he said, “we are building a solid foundation for ! Uxe growth of commerce and indus- ! try, and these three must go for- ( ward, hand-in-hand, for a progres sive, successful state.’' Jones has been connected with the department since 1&0D, first in | i various capacities and for the last six years as commissioner. j economy and efficiency, the service “I believe,” he said, “my long ex- , of the two departments has been so ] perience, first as a member of the | consolidated that today v;e main- ; department's organization and then j tain the many divisions of inspec- , as commissioner, has taught me j i-on, of laboratory testing, of free what are the genuine and pressing ! seed germination, of free cotton- j needs for our farmers.” [classing and the general promotion Commissioner Jones is a native of ( of industry and commerce, as well I J. ROY JONEfc Abbeville county. The text of his statement follows: as the publishing of the Market Bulletin and the supervision of the “I am announcing as a candidate storage oL farm products in more for reelection to the office of com- | missioner of agriculture for South < Carolina. I have served in. the de- « partment since 1909, the last six / years as commissioner, and I be lieve that my experience has taught ! me what are the genuine and press- 1 Inf needs of our farmers. T’our years ago, in return for the , overwhelming vote given me by the I people of South Carolina, I pledged my administration to devote cease lessly its energies to the benefit of agriculture, commerce and indus try. With tlie cooperation of the public, and with the assistance of j efficient administration of rev< one of the finest groups of state [ laws, plus the fact that the employes, I believe we have proved | house division has been placed uf that our department is one that is a paying basis. For a number than 3 DOO state warehouses, serving every home in the state for less cost than the department of agri culture alone was allowed before tb« consolidation. “During the fiscal year of 1938- 1937, more than a quarter of a mil lion dollars in excess of the appro* priation necessary to conduct department was turned into treasury of the state from this 4» partment—and the receipts up July 1, 1938,’will make this year Hi* greatest in the department’s h8o» tory. This has been achieved by q* serving the entire state “Agriculture, commerce and in dustry in South Carolina must fgo forward, hand-in-hand, ever mind ful tliat agriculture is the real foun- i dation. We have, therefore, tried 1 to extend the services of the many ’ divisions of the department with ! the vl:w that the farmer produces > quality p. .ducts, enjoys better mar- • kets a‘*d receives premium prices ? for his t-fforts to raise the standards of his prc 'ucts. I “During the twenty-nine years which have intervened sines I join ed the department. I have mo'eu from one division to anotl »r. mL- j mately to bc:cmj commissio».er of ! the combined ag Ivu’tur-s r si, e L warehouse c 1 i-- • m* n' years prior to the consolidation m the departments, the warehouse 4B» vb&na was losing money. Now on 9 paying basis. ^The recognition that this 48** parunent has brought to the vatam v" a true classification and graiin*^ .* farm products, particularly *on, will **V millions of dol!a** •• th* duoduU Aggregate value* th*** prooMct# to our farmer*- ■*•4 T feftj tiaat program has «Mtar heg.ir. • Ftv *h# father broadeniar* of i>»c»* •erw«*a. f ack continuance ‘tu* *' f>rr , m-.M.o'v r of -‘♦’•.urw p »«y every \iv» -w**»*o*»on of the weK*** of — ’ ulr «r* »:**•* m ’C» and *’ - j •» 0» f > gmooflf' Coo/axo/7/frij VACATIONS To all America in the luxurious GREYHOUND SUPER-COACH Greenville Asheville 2.86 Knoxville __ 4.65 Greenwood .66 Los Angeles , 35.6J Augusta 6 .96 Richmond 6.96 Abingdon 5.25 Washington 7.96 Bristol 4.96 — - » Big EXTRA Saving* on Round Trig Ticket* Strom’s Drug Store Phone 95 McCormick. S. O.