Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TBUI TO OURSELVV8, OUR NK1GHB OR8 ( OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirty-Eighth Y^ar Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 WASHINGTON Washington, July 3. — (Auto caster)—Although there had been intimations that the President had a grand new spending scheme up his . sleeve, it came as a real surprise when he submitted to CoAgress a proposal to authorize the expenditure of $3,860,000,000 as a final attempt to stimulate business recovery. T * . The President’s plan, incor- porated in a letter to Senator Byrnes of South Carolina, who is Ids personal spokesman in the Senate, sets up a system of Gov ernmental agencies each having power to borrow money from pri vate investors by the sale of their bonds or debentures. Thus the money so used would not add to the National Debt, except that money so borrowed would be a- gainst the Government’s guaran tee that the bonds would even tually be repaid. The project is based upon the | ministration would have authority and have had few losses The Farm Tenant program fdr lending money to farm tenants and laborers to buy their own farms has not such a good record of repayment. And American ex perience with foreign loans has not been altogether happy. Having those experiences in mind a considerable proportion of Senators and Representatives were slightly dismayed when the Pres ident’s plan came to them out of an almost clear sky, coupled with a request for immediate action, so that the new spending could be gin at once, for the fiscal year 1940, which started-July 1, 1939. The plan covers six different types of spending the money to be borrowed. >- The Federal Works Agency would be authorized to borrow and lend $350 millions to cites, towns and counties for waterworks, sew age disposal plants, bridges, hos pitals and other municipal proj ects; $750 millions to build toll roads, bridges, highspeed highways and city byways, to be paid for by tolls levied on motorists using them; and $500 millions to buy railroad equipment to be leased to railroads with the option of pur chase. The Rural Electrification Ad- idea of using the funds so raised to finance so-called “self-liquida ting” enterprises, in which several of the New Deal agencies have al ready had considerable experience. The Home Owners Loan Cor poration, for instance, raised close .to three billion dollars by the sale of its bonds, used the proceeds to lend on long terms to distressed home owners, and is getting the money back, with interest. to borrow $460 millions additional, to lend to communities or rural in habitants to finance extension of electric lines to their homes. To Borrow $500 Millions The Farm Security Board would be enabled to borrow an addi tional $500 millions to lend to ten ant farm purchasers, rehabilita tion of run-down farms, minor improvements and repairs, for the establishment of water facilities, Have to Make Good _ , ... , The Government, however, will and resettlement cooperatives have to make good any deficits, The Export-Import Bank would and at present there is more than get authority to raise $500 mil- $500,000,000 of foreclosed home lions for short-term and long- property on the books of the H. O. term loans to foreign governments Entertainment At Plum Branch School Tonight Called Off The Messenger is asked to state that the entertainment, by Byron Parker, The Old Hired Hand and His Mountainers, scheduled to be at the Plum Branch School to night, has been called off until a later date. -xx- Modoc News rain sure L. C., which ha& to be sold at some price. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and P. W. A. have had considerable experience in lending to enable their people to buy American goods. In addition to those new propo sals, the President accompanied money on self-liquidating projects, his letter to Senator Byrnes with THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY July 7th and 8th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. ROY ROGERS SMILEY BURNETTE in BILLY THE KID RETURNS” Also A Walt Disney Cartoon “The Hockey Champ” and A Crime Doesn’t Pay Subject “The Wrong Way Out” MATINEE SATURDAY 3:30 P. M. Adults 20 cents MONDAY and TUESDAY July 10th and 11th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. WALTER PIDGEON VIRGINIA BRUCE LEO CARRILLO Well, we generally have a on every 4th of July, but it didn’t rain Tuesday. Miss Caroline Dukes left Sunday evening for New York City, where she expects to spend two or three months among relatives. Mr. Jim Clem from Greenwood is spending 10 days or two weeks here with his brother, Mr. W. S. Clem. Mrs. Lunett Prince and chil dren from Edgefield were week end visitors here to thS former’s mother, Mrs. Minnie Bussey. Mr. Leo Riser from Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. James Lavender from Greenwood spent the Fourth of July here with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Miss Lucy Bussey spent the past week with relatives at Welford. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hancock from Jefferson, Ga., spent the past week end here with the lat ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. : Dukes. We were very glad * indeed to have Rev. Thad. Persons from McCormick, also the deacons from Plum Branch to worship with us Sunday evening. Mr. Richard Key from Green ville spent the Fourth of July here with his mother, Mrs. Mattie Key. Funeral Services For Will Elton Ramsey Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock for Will Elton Ramsey, 19 year old son of Will T. Ramsey, farmer of the Bethany section of this county, whose lifeless body was found Thursday night near the Hard Labor Bridge on State Highway No. 43. Sheriff W. T. Strom reported the young man was evidently struck by a truck or automobile which didn't stop. Coroner J. L. Strother empanel ed a jury of inquest Friday morn ing and after viewing the body the inquest was postponed until Saturday morning, and then post poned until tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock. The services were conducted at the graveside in Bethany Baptist Church cemetery with the Rev. A. Thad. Persons, the pastor, officia ting. Besides his father he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Joe Ramsey, Leland Ram sey, Irwin Ramsey, Ralph Ramsey and Monroe Ramsey, all of Mc Cormick; Mrs. Curtis Jennings of First Polio Case Reported Here McCormick county reported its first case of infantile paralysis Saturday, a five-year-old white boy within the town of McCor mick. The child had been sick six days but diagnosis was not assured un til Saturday. Dr. T. K. Fairy, health officer for McCormick, Edgefield and Saluda counties, confirmed diagnosis of Dr. C. H. Workman, local physician, and is sued quarantine orders keeping all children under thirteen * away from all public gatherings and forbidding children to -congregate anywhere. xx Leon J. . Williams Dies In Augusta News has been received here of the death of Leon Judson Wil liams, 73, at his home in Augusta, Ga., at 8:45 o’clock Saturday morning following a long illness. Funeral services were conducted at six o’clock Sunday afternoon at the graveside in the Sunset Hills Number 5 refreshing rain which fell here Monday afternoon and night. Vegetation was burning up, sa the rain will help so much. Mrs. W. H. Horton was a busi ness visitor in Calhoun Falls Sat urday. Third Quarterly Conference At Troy Mjgthodist Church Sunday Afternoon The Rev. W. B. Garrett, District Superintendent of the Greenwood District, will preach at Troy Methodist Church Sunday after noon at 4 o’clock. Immediately after preaching Mr. Garrett will hold the Third Quarterly Confer ence for the McCormick charge which is composed of the McCor mick and Troy Methodist churches. The public is cordially invited to attend the services. Sullivan News 1 . Ill SOCIETY LAWYER Also A TraveI Ta,k ‘Cario, The City of Contrast and LATEST NEWS EVENTS 99 ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents; Children 12 to 15, 15 cents a request for the approval of the proposal already pending in Con gress, to increase the borrowing power of the U. S. Housing Admin istration by $800 millions, to be lent on 60-year terms for model homes for the poor, to take them out of city slums. • The Presidential estimate of the amount of money raised by this means which will be spent in the year ending June 30, 1940, if Con gress approves, is $1,680,000,000. This is in addition to the $1,477,- 000,000 in direct appropriations for the W. P. A. and the $1,100,000,000 carried in the Agricultural Appro priation. Behind-scenes manoeuvering on Capitol Hill is mere than hinted at by those on the inside, in connec tion with the Farm Bill and the W. P. A. Bill. The city Represen tatives wanted the W. P. A. appro priation, but couldn’t see the needs of the farmers. The Farm Lobby threatened to kill the W. P. A. Bill, or cut the amount down materially, unless the city mem bers voted for the Farm Bill. Cities and thickly-populated in dustrial states dominate the House l of Representatives; but each state has two Senators, regardless of population, and there are thirty- odd states which are predomi nantly agricultural as against thirteen which are mainly indus trial. If the agricultural states got together in the Senate they could control that branch of Con gress. Deal Discussed It is openly talked in the corri dors and lobbies in the Capitol that the farm interests made a deal with the W. P. A. supporters whereby farm state votes for W. P. A. were swapped for W. P. A. votes or the farm program. Everything that goes on in Washington has political motives, 1 and the President’s latest move is taken as another indication that he is going after a third term. The advantage to the Administra tion of having nearly four billions more of free-spending money in the next year is apparent. The Rehoboth W. M. S. held its study course, “Go Forward,” in the home of Mrs. Evan Morgan Wed- Plum Branch, and Gary and Irene cemetery with the Rev. M. M. nesday afternoon. Those from the Ramsey of Clinton. MacFerrin officiating. community attending, were: Mrs J. S. Strom, funeral director, Mr. Williams was a native of Virginia Bailey, Mrs. J. E Winn" in charge. the Old Edgefield section of Me- Mrs. Susie Winn Mrs T C Wfnn X Cormick county and was a son of Mrs. Janelle Winn, and Mrs. J. B. Mrs T P T^OVpIpSS l e la ^ e Davic * **• Williams and Gilchrist. Mrs. Morgan served de- lYLI-fe. J. r. Mrs Hasseltine Sheppard Williams I licious refreshments Claimed By Death and was prominen tly connected Mr. and ^ J M. Johnson and J | throughout this section. Ramona, and Mrs. J. L. Reames Mrs Margaret Ellen Loveless I L 0 egi * lat “ r * spent Friday in the mountains of xvirs. Margaret, raien ^oveiess, when Senator Ellison D. Smith did North Carolina 74, well known McCormick woman, Mr williams was speaker of the ^ Abrum geialer snent died at her home near here at house for a number of vears He i Seig J er s P €nt . the noon MnnHav fniwin* nouse lor a number or years. He week end in Augusta, where she noon Monday following some W as a congressional candidate attended the funeral of her Ymrie* three years of declining health. from the Edgefield District in w a l S h She was the widow of J. P. Love- 1 1904 h e was a member of the old Mrs> Herbert Ashley and Mrs J South Carolina Dispensary Board D< Bannister visited in the home vine county on March 6, 1865. F^Loltiom a d rM^ y o p“sh?T a r a prosperous “H ““r ^ McCormick early in life and spent I Surv i vors are his widow Mrs argie M 1116 ^ spent Wednesday survivors are ms widow, Mrs. afternoon w it h Miss Thelma M. the greater poiticn of her life in I Kathryn Gorman Williams; three I Gilchrist this section. She had been a de- daughters, Mrs. Charles G. Ben- Those f voted member of the Buffalo Bap- * Rela ’ Md . Mrs George B L f hcf fhr marwr x, 0 orc anH I Keiay ’ AVia ‘’ Jvir5 * '- reor 6 e ^ tending “Achievement Day” in tist church for many years, and Hamilton Easley; and Mrs. Henry Edeefie id Thursdav were- Mrs J actively identified with various D Rhodes Aneusta- two sons L inursday were. Mrs. J- D ' Rncaes ’ Au S usta . two sons > E. Winn, Mrs. G. R. Mayson, Mrs. phases of church activities. j williams, Yemassee, and John j B Gilchrist Miss Minnie Lee* Surviving her are two sons, J. F. Williams Aueusta an d nine L™- ™ If Minnie Lee Loveless of Asheville, N. C., and | ^andSiiWren pme | Winn, Miss Marie Reames, Mrs. 1. James W. Loveless, of McCormick; less, who died 15 years ago. Mrs. Loveless was born in Abbe- one daughter, Mrs. P. M. Miller, of Greenwood, and eight grandchil dren also survive. Funeral services were conducted at the graveside at the Bethany -txi- C. Reames, Mrs. E. P. Winn, Miss Trula Winn, Mrs. Abrum Seigler, Mis. Janelle Winn, Miss Virginia Winn, Mrs. Henry Reynolds, Mrs. J. L. Reames and Mrs. Albert A pleasant social event of the I Seigler. Sullivan won the dis- Mt. Carmel News [ hour. Mrs. Carrie Richardson noon | World’s Fair and oth^r points of interest. of At-1 Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Mayson and in charge. Baptist church cemetery Tuesday^ Pf ‘r ? y r f euP ' 0 | nt ‘" ctk >'' °f presenting the best morning at 10:30 o’clock, with ° f t C “ f ^ at Cal- appearance in the dress review. the Rev. M. E. Derrick conducting houn Ml11 . on ^ ttl * * lveI ;' 1 and wa : s ^ Carrle Mayson has retum - the services Very much en J°y e d by all present, ed to her home after a most en- Pallbearers were Jennings Frank- A b ° untlful U,ncl \ and barbecue jo y a ble trip to the New York lin, John Creswell, J. L. Smith, |meats were at the ~ ’ W. E. Chamberlain, C. R. Edmunds ^G. TMcCa^^funeral director, | i antais '; lsit j ng ber 1 j! Ster ; f ^ | daughter, Vivian, of Belvedere Ida M. Black, and both attended spent several days last week witli the family reunion on the 4th. Mr. Spann Mayson and family, i o i MrS ' Carrie Tarrant has return- Mr. Woodrow Callison is spend- Federal Study De- ed hdme from a visit to her aunt hng the holidays in Jacksonville,, 1 ^ T’ Miss Marie Abney, and sister, Mrs. Ei a velops Sheep r or Gladys Ives, in Edgefield. Friends of Mr. J. J. Mayson will q 11 I Mr. and Airs. J. J. White were I b e sorry to know that he con- omail r ami er visitors in McCormick Monday. tinues to be ill in the Columbia. Miss Harper of Lowndesville was Hospital. Small-farm operators who de- charming guest of Miss Leona Mrs. Virginia Bailey and chil— pend upon a small flock of sheep Clinkscales last week. dren. Miss Thelma M. Gilchrist as a source of cash income need r Mrs. Clara Majette of Pensacola and Miss Virginia Winn visited! sheep that produces a good crop Fla., and lier very attractive Mrs. Susie Winn and Mrs. Robert of wool as well as lambs of good daughter. Miss Virginia Majette, Lyj nn Saturday afternoon, market quality. J are spending the summer in An- j visitors in the home of Mr. and To supply this need, Federa’ dersori. Mrs. Majette spent the Mrs. T. C. Winn Sunday afternoon sheep specialists at the Middle- past week end with her sisters, I were ; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pennal bury, Vfc., station of the Bureau of Misses Lennie and Eliza Covin. and family and Mrs. Kate May- Animal Industry have developed Mu Bradley Morrah of Green- sont 0 f McCormick, the Southdale—a cross betweer ville was a visitor here Friday. Miss Mary Mayson recently the Southdown and Corriedale. Mrs. Hunter McKinney and spent a week end with Miss Willie The Southdown is noted for it r Martha Jean returned home Fri- Mae Jordan, of Kirksey. mutton quality, but produces s day from a pleasant visit to Mr. I Miss Grace Gilchrist, Miss Thel- light-weight, short, staple fleece and Mrs. Inman Griffin in Ameri- ma m. Gilchrist and Mr. Joseph The wool, however, is high in cus. Mr. McKinney met them in Gilchrist visited Mrs. A. A. Wells quality. The Corriedale, while not Atlanta and brought them home. and Mrs. Stanford Lamb Sunday so high in mutton quality, pro- Mr. Howard Black of Philadel- morning, duces a heavy, long, staple fleece phia was a recent visitor of Mr. | — of high quality. (Douglass Black near here. -X- In the crossbreds, or Southdales, the Federal scientists report the wool yield excels that of the South- downs, and mutton quality that of the Corriedales. The Southdale does not equal the Southdown in mutton quality or the Corriedale third-term movement grows stead- j i n WO ol production, but selective ily, however. Three Senators, breeding for eight years, in which Hughes of Delaware, Smathers of rams were chosen carefully for New Jersey and Guffey of Penn- wool and mutton production, has sylvania have come out openly for steadily improved these new dual- Mr. Roosevelt’s renomination. purpose sheep. Mr. Dave Hayes of Newberry was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horton last Wednesday evening. Miss Lilly Miller Cost At Fair New York.—The average visitor spent last • to the New York World’s Fair Thursday with her relatives here. J during its first month remained Mr. Tarrant Scott accompanied on the grounds for seven hours a party of friends to Atlanta Tues- a nd was so busy at the free edu- day. cational exhibits and entertain- Mrs. A. B. Andrews, Mrs. Mollie ments that he only had time to Clinkscales, and Miss Leona spend $1.17. The average per Clinkscales were Abbeville visitors capita expenditure at the Century Monday. of Progress Exposition in Chicago We feel very thankful for the during an entire season was $l.08L