Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ * FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1*41 THE NEWBERRY SUN FAMOUS HUMORIST LIKES S. C. We are indebted to Mrs. Ford Kurtz lor the following from the New York Sun. It was written by “Hi” Philips, nationally known humorist: Dear Ma— I serpose you read in the papers afbout how the whole state of South Carolina threw open its doors to sol diers in training: there. Everybody had open house for the crumb hunt ers. They served special chow, had dances and lawn parties and every thing, with the prettiest and swellest girls treating each boy as if he was i Clark Gable. They even sent cars out for the boys and not a hitchhiker in uniform got the chill. I always thought them songs about the South land was bunk but no more. As A1 OFFICE NEEDS OF ALL KINDS , Ledger Outfits Account Books File Guides (Letter & Legal) Thin Papers of All Kinds Manila Folders (Letter & Legal) Rubber Bands All Kinds of Inks Paper Clips—Thumb Tacks Typewriter Ribbons Adding Machine Ribbons Adding Machine paper—any size Clip Boards & Arch Boards Manuscript Covers Stapling Machines Carbon Papers Library Paste Clasp Envelopes—any size Expanding Files Mimeograph Paper Columnar Pads Index Tabs Typewriter Erasers, And many other items. We put ribbons on your type writer or adding machine. THE SUN Phone No. 1 You Are RIGHT! Auto Financing Is Our Business. We will finance a new ear for you. We will refinance your present ear so as to reduce your pay ments—or We will make you a loan on the car you now own. Standard Rates-No red Tape. Quick and cour teous Service. A Newberry Finance Company to serve New berry people. Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. E. B. PURCELL, President Phone 197 Exchange Bldg. Jolson used to sing, “Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning.” ♦ ♦ * It was almost two much for us. The civilyun classes treated us as if we wuz their equal. * * * I had spent most of my time in camps up north where the civilyuns just treat soldiers like fellows which got a bad break and what of it. When I first started from camp for Greens boro down here and hardly had my arm up in the regulashun hitchhike signal before I was picked right up. I was so serprised it nearly kayoed me. Up north a jeep has to stand beside the road while a hundred cars pass before somebody pays any at- tenshun to him. t There is nothing that makes a soldier so soar as to be trying to get a lift and see civilyuns fly by him in swell limmersines with out paying no notice to him. \ * * • So this big hearted attertude in South Carolina made a big hit 1 can tell you ma. I aint yet seen no auto- ist pass an American soldier in uni form and give him a look like he was just a hobo down in this country. And can you imagine New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connectikut and Massachewsets holding open house to all draftees and throwing special dinners for ’em! All the time I was in camps up north I never got no invite from civilyuns to dtop in and spend a week end. I even had trou ble borrowing matches from stran gers. A lot of ’em didn’t seem to know there was any war on. They acted like they thought it was dan gerous to get two close to a man in uniform on account of he had small pox. • • * Well a nyhow ma I feel better than at any time since my number came out. I feel more like defending some place and if I had my choice the first place I would defend is South Car olina. But I g^iess all the South is like that. * * • I like the southern girls. They are cute numbers and are more like girls than northern girls are. They do not seam to act from the minit they see a soldier that they are in danger and must concentrate on a sort of defense program all their own like northern girls. I like the wav they talk. They call me honey child and I do not mind it. I like the southern accent two and Ser geant Mooney says I am getting so I talk like a southern kernel. • • * Well, anyhow, all is well and the farther I go the less I mind it. The winter flannels came all right. I will have to close now as the mechanical rats (loud speakers which is used in stead of bugles here) are doing a blitz again. Love, Oscar. ATTENDED PRESBYTERY Dr. E. D. Kerr, Rev. C. A. Calcote, and B. M Scurry attended Presbytery which was held in Owens Tuesday of this week Candidates’ Cards ALDERMAN WARD No. 2 I hereby announce myself a candi date for Alderman from Ward 2, and pledge myself to abide by the rules of the Democratic Primary. RAYMOND BLAIR. 'e/'e ccme4 ^ I For the best in Genuinely Engraved Wedding Stationery Ask For LEE-SOUTHERN [ Invitations, Announcements, Reception ot Home and Colling Cords. Prices ore Most Reasonable In Newberry we are exclusive agent for the LEE SOUTHERN line of Wedding Invitations, An nouncements, Calling Cards, En graved Stationery and Informals. Our Representative will be glad to call at your home with sam ples. Or, if you wish, come by The Sun office and see our com plete line. PHONE ONE Goveraor’s Office Haying Busy Time Columbia, Oct. 18.—Burrlet R. May- bank has only two weeks and two days more to serve as South Caro lina’s governor—and you may be sure that Mr. Maybank isn’t being permit ted to forget it. With his time to-resign and go to Washington as the state’s junior United States senator drawing nearer and nearer, Maybank is being visited by more and more people, and re ceiving more and more mail. Extra stenographic help has been borrowed from state departments to help the governor and his assistants with this closing tide of mail. It had completely swamped the regular staff at the executive offices. There never was a time when the waiting rooms at the executive offices have been more crowded than in the last day or so. Scores and scores of people have been there. As best he could, Maybank has seen them. A veritable parade passes in towards the governor, morning and afternoon. One day this week, it resembled a box office line at a theater, or a hun gry line at a cafeteria. Innumerable matters, many of them small but time-consuming neverthe less, had accumulated, and now they are being handled in a big finishing rush. The accumulation has been more with the public than with the governor. Person after person with matters they themselves have initiat ed, have been swarming into the gov ernor’s offices, eager to see Kim before he goes out on November 4 to begin his tenure as a United States senator. The people come in delegations and they come as individuals. It happens that at this time, a majority of the matters, even though some of them are relatively insignificant, must be taken up by the governor himself. Only he can decide them, either as a matter of law, or as a matter of gen eral gubernatorial authority and judgement. And the mail has suddenly swelled to about 400 incoming letters a day. A member of the office staff ex pressed the hope today that citizens who do not receive replies immediate ly will understand. So many letters cannot be handled with normal dis patch, this official said, but every ef fort is being made to keep up with the corerspondence. About a dozen stenographers, including those bor rowed from state departments, are working together with the secretaries and the governor himself. It is possible that the fortnight be ginning Monday will be the busiest Maybank has had as many duties (due to the defense program and sun dry state-federal partnerships) as perhaps ever in history. He will resign on November 4. On that day, Lieutenant Governor J. E. Harley will become governor. The next day. as planned now, Maybank will be in Washington to take his oath as the state’s junior senator. DEFENSE SAVINGS STAMPS SET UP NEW RECORD SALE Washington, Oct. 15.—.Sales of de fense savings stamps set a record of $4,978,000 in September when they were placed on sale generally, for the first time, in retail stores. The treasury said today the sales were $500,000 more than in August. This represented, in stamps, a* in. crease of 2.942,000 over August, since the bulk of the sales are in 10 and 25-cent demominatiens. As in previous months 25-cent stamps led in sales with 11,840,000 stamps. Dime stamps were next with 3,951,000, 50-cent stamps numb, ered 1,264,000, dollar stamps sold numbered 66,000. Altogether, since the stamps were first placed on sale on May 1, sales through the end of September total ed 61,855,000 costing $18,998,000. ARMY FLIERS “BOMB” DRUM AND THOMPSON Camden, Oct. 15.—The bullets and bombs of the Firslt Army’s war games in the Carolinas are merely simulat ed.—and perhaps no one has more reason to be thankful for that fact than Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, the armys commander, and Maj. Gen. Cbas. F. Thompson, comander of the First corps. During field exercises of the Firslt corps, General Drum and General Thompson were riding in a jeep be hind the lines, observing the action, with the commanding general's three- starred automobile following them. Some unidentified! aviator, probably from an observation sauadron based at Owens Field, Columbia, public re lations headuarters reported, spotted the generals as they rode along the repeatedly embed and straffed sheir ALDERMAN WARD 2 I hereby announce myself a candi- ( late' for Alderman from Ward No. 2, ind agree to abide the results of the Jity Primary Election. TOM GRAHAM. ALDERMAN WARD NO. 5 I hereby announce myself a candi date for Alderman of Ward No. 5 of Newberry, S. C., and pledge myself to abide by the rules of the Demo cratic primary. EUGENE “GENE” SHEALY. For Electrical Jobs Phone 120-J for any Electrical work you want done. I will come promptly and do the job right. Will handle any size job in town or country. CHEVIS I. BOOZER Phone 120-J Newberry, S. C. Navy Day Program On Life of “Captain Paul” “Cavalcade of America” salutes Navy Day, Monday, October 27, with a radio adaption of Commander Edward Ellsberg’s new book, “Cap tain Paul.” The star of the show will be Claude Rains. Supported by the Cavalcade Play ers and with a musical background arranged by Don Voorhees and his or chestra, the .story will portray the life of the burly Scotsman, John Paul Jones, who started his service before the mast at the age of 12 on slavers, privateers, and finally because of his love for a Virginia girl set out to make a name for himself and in so doing made U. S. Naval history. Cavalcade will picture this man who went through life harassed by red tape, but who had such indomitable spirit that he commanded our Navy in its first engagements and finally captured the flagship of the British Baltic Fleet as his own ship was awash under his feet. . Making use of dxaipatic facts told in Commander .Ellsberg’s new novel, Cavalcade will reveal the great dis appointment in John Paul Jones life when his Virginia fiance told this great Naval hero of her plans to mar ry Patrick Henry. One of the most amazing episodes and disillusionments in this man’s career occurred during his service in reorganizing the Russian Fleet for Catherine the Great. The final chap ter in Captain Paul’s turbulent life reveals the reason for his obscure burial in a shabby Parisian cemetery. SERIES OF BROADCASTS BY CHILDREN’S BUREAU Each Monday at 11:30 a. m., through December 22, 1941, the Unit ed States Children’s Bureau is pre senting a series of broadcasts over the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Company under the general title, “Raising a President.” The program deals with urgent problems of child welfare in relation to the national emergency. Each week a letter asking advice is read and dramatized, followed by discus sion by a Children’s Bureau Expert, a comunity leader, educator, or physi cian, and a parent. Titles of broacasts are as follows: October 27, “Keep My Baby Safe.” November 3, “The Doctor Inspects The School.” November 10, “Defense Begins At Home.” November 17, “Home in a Tourist Cabin.” November 24, “Schools for De. fense.” December 1, “Y*lay and Fair Play.” December 8, “Junior Gets a Defense Job.” December 15, “War in a Cottage.” December 22, “Boomtown Boys and Girls.” R. DERRILL SMITH Wholesale Grocer 910 MAIN ST. NEWBERRY, B. C. Headquarters for best Feeds and best Prices— • Bishopville Flour and Pee Dee Feeds Ful-o-Pep Poultry Feeds Waynes Dog Feed Duplex Rabbit Feed Puregrain Pidgeon Feed Full-o-Milk Dairy Feed Peagreen Horse and Mule Feed Candies, Cigarettes, Tobaccos Hav-A-Tampa Cigars. ?ENSE BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS ON SALE ATYOt'R POSIOKUCE OR RANK America ON Guard! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department’s Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of liie original “Minute Man” statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank or post office, are a vital part of America’s defense preparations. Come To Ik Fair/ NEXT WEEK V Clean Amusements Fme Exhibits A Week of Fun lor Everyone Newberry Expects You! Newberry Creamery SERVICE ^ CHEVROLET ^ CHEVROLET AIDS NATIONAL DEFENSE DESIGNED TO LEAD IN STYLING • DESIGNED TO LEAD IN PERFORMANCE • DESIGNED TO LEAD IN ECONOMY Yesterday ... Today... Tomorrow ITS PROVED VALVE-IN-HEAD "VICTORY” ENGINE leads in all-round performance with economy It’s built of quality materials. ... It features the same sturdy cast-iron x pistons which Chevrolet has developed during twenty years of manufacture of millions upon millions of cars. ... It’s designed and built to out-perform, out- save and OUT-LAST its field! 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