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—You can usually tell a married man—he’s t he’s been told so much. LITTLE ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW Harry HAMPTON’S COLUMN on Matters of WILD LIFE MISSOURI COMMISSION GIVES INCREASED GAME SUPPLIES DESPITE TRIPLED PRESSURE. By Harry Hampton Missouri has set a pattern in game administration that has been used as a model by four other states while 12 more are seeking to take similar action. Missouri put its wildlife con servation laws in its constitu tion. Its commission headed by I. T. Bode, said to be fine of the ablest in the country, consists of four men appointed by the governor under stag gered terms. Request of Mr. Bode for information brought a mass of interesting material. An outstanding fact in Mis souri’s achievement is that de spite a tripled hunting pres sure in the last dozen years practically all species of game has increased, and the “take (kill) per man has been main tained.” The resident state hunting and trapping permit costs $2.50 and the resident state fishing permit $1.50. Following are some figures on the estimated population and kill of game and other statistics for 1935 and 1948. Bob White (number) in 1935, 4,- 358,000; 1948, 4,832,000. Legal harvest 1,521,000 and 2,500,000. Turkey, 4,000 and 6,500. (Heavy timber cutting set the turkeys back.) Deer, 2,240 and 32,000; kill 103 and 1,450. Deer have so increased that there are now some in every county of Mis souri. Raccoons increased from 40,000 to 165,000 and the take from 10,000 to 71,804. Wild life refuges increased from le state parks to 64, co-operative refuges from none to 20 and acreage in refuges from 30,000 to 412,000. Public hunting areas increased from none to 14 with 1,419,194 acres. In 10 years, 50,000 multiple purpose farm ponds were built and are increasing at about 10,000 a year. Fish hatcheries increas ed their output from 2,400,000 to 7,114,523. Law enforcement agents in creased from 31 to 87 and in 1948 the number of sportsmen investigated was 144,567, with 2,973. Licenses sold last year numbered 632,647. These fig ures indicate that about one out of every four hunters was “investigated” by a game war den during the season. In education and information an estimated 40,000 youths par ticipated in conservation edu- catien programs; 2,195 received awards; 1631 schools, with an attendance of 108,181 were vis ited; 423 newspapers were served by weekly releases; cir culation of the monthly maga zine, for which a charge is made, was 38,000. Largely through the research of the Missouri conservation commission the Multiflora rose was developed. It makes a liv ing fence that does not spread or sap the soil and furnishes excellent wildlife habitat. This year, in co-operation with the county agricultural agents Com mission nurseries distributed 2,- 500,000 seedlings at approxi mate cost to landowners. The Commission, with agri cultural agencies was highly instrumental in originating and building up the multiple pur pose farm pond program, which includes only ponds built for both fish and stock watering places. The Commission is constant ly studying methods of how ponds can be improved by the addition of fertilizers and or ganic matter and how unde sirable plants and organisms can be eradicated. A bait minnow rearing pond program has been inaugurated and relieves the constantly in creasing pressure on the bait minnows of the streams. Twenty-seven stream pollu tion investigations were made in 15 counties. The laws are enforced by Conservation Agents who “can not be compared in any way with the old-fashioned ‘Game Wardens.’ In addition to en forcement they assist in edu cation work, youth groups, pond development, forestry and many other phases of the broad program.” There were 87 Con servation agents and seven dis trict supervisors in the field in 1948, and Missouri is over twice as big as South Carolina which has an even 100 game wardens. An interesting sidelight is that the 30 girls who work in ' the Missouri conservation de partment meet once a month for “fun and information,” hostesses being appointed each time, talks being made by tech nical experts on game or fish, with periodic field trips to pro jects. When we see what the Mis souri hunter or fisherman gets for his license dollar through his commission-supervised de partment compared to the re turns in South Carolina com parison really becomes odious. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Stanton, Jr., of Converse college, Spar tanburg, visited a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Sligh on Hunt street. Prof Stanton is an instructor in the english department at Converse. Mr. and (Mrs. J. W. Hicks and small son, Neil, returned to their home in Richmond, Calif., last Saturday by plane from Greenville. The Hicks spent six weeks in South Car olina with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hicks, Sr. in Greenville and with Mr. and Mrs. Hal Kohn, Sr., in New berry. Hal Kohn returned to his home Sunday after spending a week in Columbia where he conducted a Florist School at the Wade Hampton Hotel. Mrs. Hal Kohn, Sr., and daughter, Miss Verna Kohn and Fitzgerald Jones, of the Verna and Hal Kohn Florist Shop, at tended the Florist school in Co lumbia last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Lomi- nack are spending a week’s va cation at Tryon, N. C. (Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Cheat ham, Jr. (Anna Hart), of Co lumbia, spent last weekend in the home of Mrs. Cheatham’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hart on Crenshaw street. Mrs. A. Parr Patrick, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Parr, Sr., Mas ter David Parr, spent last weekend in Asheville, N. C., on business. William Parr has returned to his home from ROTC Camp at Fort George Meade, Maryland. This six weeks of training en titles him to a reserve com mission. Mir. and (Mrs. J. T. McCrackin, Jr.., spent last week in New York with friends, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mendelsohn. Mr. and Mrs. J. Thad Mc Crackin, Sr., and daughter, Miss Eliza McCrackin, New berry, Mr. end Mrs. Phil Brooks and sen, Mac, Holly Hill: and Capt. and Mrs. Jack Workman and daughter, Carol, Warner Robbins, Ga., are spending this week at Myrtle Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vigodsky and two children. Miss Leah June and Freddie, spent last week in New York buying fall 1 merchandise for The Fashion. Mfs. Verona Dominick left Sunday for Greenwood to spend a while with her sister. Miss Dessie Salter who has been ill for some time. NEW WASH ON THE LINE List of babies born at the New berry county hospital during the past month: Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Way baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Smith, baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mitchell, baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Boland, baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Pow baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nichols, baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sheely, baby girl. Mr. and Mts. D. W. Holson- back, baby girl Mr and Mrs R. H_ Enlow, baby boy_ Rev. and Mrs. Z. D. Smith, baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Nobles, baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. J. E., Lawson baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. H. Ml Harmon, baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Long, baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Mills, a baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Simmons baby girl. Mir. and Mrs. J. L. Longshore baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Roton, baby girl. NEW SCHEDULE FOR GARBAGE GATHERING The City Health department announces that garbage in the business district of the city will be collected at 7 o’clock p. m. beginning Monday, August 8th. On Wednesdays it will be col lected at 1 o’clock. It will also be collected on Saturdays at 7 o’clock. All business firms are asked to put garbage in containers if at all possible, and place it near the building to keep it from being scattered before the truck picks it up. POLIO INSURANCE HELD NOT NEEDED Cleveland, Aug. 2. — A local official of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis claims some insurance compan ies are “hitting below the belt” in selling polio insurance. DeForest Mellon, treasurer of the foundation’s Cuyahoga County chapter, spoke at a meeting of the board of di rectors of the Cleveland . Asso ciation of Health and Accident Underwriters. “For years,” Mellon said, “we have been telling the peo ple that we are paying the bills of all polio victims regardless of financial condition and that they do not need to buy polio insurance. The public is not taking charity, as the “pride angle’ of some of the polio in surance ads would have you think.” Later he told a reporter; “We have no objection to the selling of insurance. But when the insurance companies use scare advertising and infer that people who accept help from the National Foundation are charity cases, we believe that is hitting below the belt.” MISS DOROTHY R. MARTIN .Miss Dorothy Rebecca Mar tin, died suddenly Friday af ternoon in Atlanta, Ga. She was the youngest daughter of Horace C. Martin and Mrs. Mary Moore Martin and was born and reared in the Fair- view section of Newberry county. For the past several years she had been connected with the Western Union Tele graph Co., and had made her home in Atlanta. She is survived by her par ents, the following brothers and sisters: Curtis Boyd, Hor ace C., Jr., William E., Robert A., all of Prosperity; Ellis W. Martin of Maryland and Miss Katie Louise Martin of Okla homa City, Okla. WEEVILS MOVING IN 26 COUNTIES Clemson, Aug. 2.—Boll weev il migration has been noted in 26 of the state’s 46 counties. This was reported today by L. M. Sparks, Jr., Clemson col lege Extension Service special ist in cotton insects and di seases. He said Edgefield and Ches terfield Counties marked the up-state limit of the weevil movement reported last week. In 1948, migration did not reach those counties until the first week in August. The average per cent of punc tured cotton squares for fields poisoned against the weevil was 38.6 per cent Sparks said. This compared with 64.1 per cent average in non-posoned fields. “It is only natural that the average cotton farmer will let down 0 n his dusting program when the weevil begins to mi grate,” Sparks stid. “Experiments conducted by our experiment stations showed that late season dusting will definitely pay where cotton is still growing vigorously and fruiting heavily. “Three applications of poison applied during htis time is rec ommended. The applications should be made at four-day in tervals, and if the cotton is rank 12 to 14 pounds of poison should be used per acre per ap plication. “In addition to protection the young bolls until they are too large for the weevil normally go into hibernation in the woods and fields surrounding your cotton.” STATE'S TAX REENUE FOR JULY SHOWS DECLINE Columbia, Aug. 2. — State tax receipts for July, first month of the 1949-50 fiscal year dropped 34,045 from the July 1948 figure. The State Tax Commission reported today that July col lections totaled $5,812,021 com pared with collections of $5,- 846,067 a year ago. Sharp declies were shown in revenue from the alcoholic li quors and business license (to bacco) taxes. They yielded $1,- 029,795 and $41,360 respective ly, against July 1948 collections of $1,430,722 and $565, 955. On the other hand, income and gasoline tax revenue was up. A total of $056,878 was col lected in income taxes com pared with $717,431 for the month last year. Gasoline tax revenue was $2,075,518 against $1,011,596. Beer and wine tax receipts were $344,352 last month. In July 1948 they were $311,989. Miss Eddy Mae Hornsby and Miss Louise Jordan of Colum bia, spent last week in the home of Miss Hornsby’s uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs. Sims Tompkins on Purcell street. VOLUME 12—NO. 12 + NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1949 + ?1.50 PER YEAR PROSPERITY Harmon - Brannon Miss Peggy R. Harmon of Newberry became the bride of Mir. Forrest P. Brannon of Ninety Six, Wednesday eve ning, July 27, at 8:30 at the home of Dr. J. B. Harman, D.D. who officiated, and used the double ring ceremony. The at tendants were Mrs. Dorothy Fulmer, Miss Patsy Harmon and Robert Butler. The bride was attired in white crepe with pastel acces sories and wore a corsage of tuberoses and rosebuds. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Marion Harmon of Newberry and attended the Newberry High School. She was employed at McCrory’s in Newberry. Mr. Brannon is the son of Mir. and Mrs. Robert V. Bran non of Ninety Six and attend ed the Ninety Six High School. He is a veteran of World War II, having served 2 years in the US Army, part of which was spent in the Pacific area. At present he is employed as a turbine operator at Lake Greenwood. The couple will have their residence at Chappells. News Briefs x There will be no Worship Service at Grace Lutheran Church during the month oi August. Sunday School will be held as usual at 10 otlock every Sunday morning. Miss Ethel Counts. Mrs. Gur- don Counts and Miss Martha are counselors from Prosperity attending the 4-H Club Camp at Camp Bob Cooper this week. H. B. Hendrix, Vocational Agriculture teacher of the Pros perity School and a group of FFA members are spending the week at the FFA Camp at Ocean Drive.. Harold Bedenbaugh has been appointed carrier for Route 2, Prosperity. The route has been served by V. A. Bowers, sub stitute, since the retirement of B. T. Young on January, 1948. Mrs. Gus Schattenberg of Columbia spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. W. L. Mathis. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Livingston, Jr. of Johnston were weekend guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Livingston. H. B. Hendrix, Vocation ag riculture teacher of the Pros perity High School received a ten-year service pin at the re cent Vo-Ag conference in Charleston. Joe Spotts of Greenville spent the weekend with Mrs. Spotts and, the children at the home of her mother, Mrs. A. B. Hunt. Mrs. Ezra Counts and Miss Myrtise Lee Counts returned from a two week’s visit with Mrs. Counts sister, Mrs. A. M. Kilpatrick in Atlanta, Ga. J. A. Bowers is a patient in the Newberry hospital. Miss Bessie Taylor of Bates- burg was the weekend guest of Misses Susie and Mlary Lang ford. Mrs. Cora B. Stockman has returned from a two months’ visit in Orchard Park, N. Y. Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wal ter Stockman and her two daughters accompanied her home. Ezra Mayer of Greenville is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Counts. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hamm, Mr. and Mlrs. D. H. Hamm, Jr., and their two children Danny and Susan, spent last week at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. Nellie Shirley of Bre vard, N. C., is spending the week with Mrs. A. B. Hunt. On Sunday Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Shirley and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spotts and their two children, Larry and Frances Ann, spent the day with Mrs. S. C. Spence in Columbia. Mrs. R. E. Carnes, who is at summer school at the Univer sity of S. C., spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. J. D. Luther. Mrs. Wallace ’Harmon and her little daughter, Patricia, of Dallas, Texas, arrived Monday for a visit with Eh-, and Mrs. George W. Harmon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wise and their little daughter, Judy, of Columbia, spent the weekend with (Mrs. Wise’s mother, Mrs. L. J. Fellers. Mrs.. Fellers ac companied them home for a few days visit. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Beden baugh and their two children, of Newberry, were Sunday guests of Mrs. J. R. Beden baugh, Sr. Mrs. C. T. Wyche returned Tuesday from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Maxwell Forbes and Mr. Forbes in Haverford Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Mills attended the Sunday School Su perintendent’s Conference at Lake Junaluska over the week end. Mrs. W. J. Taft visited her MRS. GILBERT IS HALL HOSTESS Announcement is made by the Newberry County Commun ity Hall Commission of the appointment of Mrs. Fred C. Gilbert, as Hostess for the Community Hall. Mrs. Gilbert has assumed the duties at the Hall, and will work under the direction of the Hall Commiss ion. The Hall will open each afternoon on week days from 3:00 P. M. to 6 P. M. during which time the public may en joy the facilities of the hall, unless the hall is being used for some meeting. Reservations for the use of the Hall may be made through Mrs. Gilbert, who will also assist in making arrangements with accredited caterer’s to serve dinners; lunches and aid in making all metings success ful and enjoyable. The telephone at the Hall is No. 1074, and Mrs. Gilbert’s No. 364-J. The facilities of the Hall may be used by organizat ions of various kinds, and may also be obtained by private in dividuals for private parties, under certain conditions, the main ones being that while no fees are being charged at this time for the use of the facilities, those using the hall must agree to clean it properly after using, or make arrangements with the hostess. The facilities will take care of any group not exceeding 200. The Hall is for the benefit of all Newberry County, and other communities in the County other than Newberry are asked to make use of the facilities, of which in an excellent equipped kitchen; tables; chairs; china; silver; piano; record player, and other equipment and furnish ings which makes the hall a place of which we all may be proud. COTTON LOANS NOT PAID OFF Washington, July 31.—About two thirds of all the raw cot ton in the United States will • be -dumped into the govern ment’s lap at midnight tonight. Under its cotton price sup port program, the government is expected to get an estimated 3,750,000 bales ■ of last year’s crop from producers who couldn’t get a better price else where. The Government’s to tal investment: About $550,- 000,000. The Government will “pool” this cotton for the producers. If in years to come it sells it at a profit, the “dividend” will go to the producers. If the cotton is sold at a loss, the tax- payers will pay the bill. The latter is more likely. • Cotton prices are edging downward. The cotton is piled up in commercial warehouses where it was stored months ago as collateral for price support loans. Latest reports showed more than 3,800,000 bales un der loan. Today was the last day for producers to redeem the cotton by paying off the loans. While final reports will not be in for several weeks, few producers were expected to so redeem their cotton. Market prices generally haven’t been high enough recently to make such action profitable. The cotton which the gov ernment takes over represents about one-fourth of the crop which was the largest in 11 years. With all signs pointing to another bumper crop this fall, that would mean even big- ger surpluses. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Newberry T. H. Julian to Mr. and Mrs. E. D. McGraw, 1 lot, $5.00 love and affection, on Glenn street. Newberry Outside The Kendall Company trans ferred the following property last week; To Olin H. Bouknight, 1 lot and 1 building, $1590, 1204 Second street. To Fred Coats, 1 lot and 1 building, $3635, 2805 Hunt Ave. To James H. and Juanita D. Evans, 1 lot and 1 building, $2380, 2701 Fair Ave. To P. E. King, 1 lot and 1 building, $3100, 2811 Hunt Ave. To Raymond Edward Kyzer, 1 lot and 1 building, $3160, 1205 Third street. To Henry Martin, 1 lot and 1 building, $3160, 1205 Second StlTGCt. To John P. Mize, Sr., 1 lot and 1 building, $1540, 2809 Milne Ave. To Alice R. Robinson, 1 lot and 1 building $2850, 7202 Mil ne Ave. To Jeff and Ludie R. Smith, 1 lot and 1 building, $2850, 2706 Milne Ave. To Henry H. Sims, 1 lot and 1 building, $2695, 1209 Third street. To Carolyn L.. Mills, 1 lot and one building $2890, 2704 Milne Ave. Ida Williams to Charlie Wil liams, 1 lot, $100 on Wise St. Johnstone John F. Banks to J. P. Half acre, 8 acres, $700. St. Lukes Narves Stockman Lindler to Claude E. Lindler, 40 acres, $5 love and affection, one half un divided interest in tract. St. Phillips J. Paul Stone, et al to John Coleman Stone, 72.84 acres, $4000. Red Knoll John M. Hall to Vernon N. Corley, 105.20 acres, $5.00 and other considerations. Helena Grace Wilbur Quattlebaum to William E. Reid and Robert Earl Summer, 150 acres, $5.00 and other valuable considera tion. »» Whitmire Wade Hampton Davis to Hope Davis Walker, 1 lot and 1 building, $2160.81 on Duckett street. END TO SERVICE STORES FAVORED Washington, Aug 2. — The House Armed Services Commit tee today overwhelmingly ap proved an agrement with the armed forces to do away with commissaries in big city areas where civilian shopping facili ties are available to service men. The agreement, which must be in full force by January 1, will end tax-free, “bargain pur- _ . chases” for thousands of ser- The Service, 1st and 3rd Sun vice personnel and their rela- days, 11 a.m.; 2nd and 4th NEWS BRIEFS SUMMER SCHOOL FINALS ON CAMPUS TODAY The commencement exercises of the college summer school will begin at six o’clock today (Friday). The program will be held on the campus in front of Derrick Hall. The talk to the graduating class will be given by Thomas H. Pope. The gen eral public is invited to hear Mr. Pope and to witness the summer school finals. ST. "PAUL LUTHERAN PARISH J. Luther Bailentine, Pastor St. Paul Sunday School, 1st and 3rd Sundays, 10 a..m.; 2nd and 4th Sundays, 3:30 p.m. Sundays, 4:30 p.m. Bachman Chapel Sunday School, 1st and 3rd Sundays, 3 pjn.; 2nd and 4th Sundays, 10 a.m. The service, 1st and 3rd Sun days, 4 p.m.; 2nd and 4th Sun days, 11 a.m. WILLIAM D. WILSON TO WED N. J. GIRL tives. It also prohibits sales of cost ly luxury items such as fur coats, diamonds and television sets in army post exchanges and navy ship stores. In ad dition, such stores must in crease prices enough to pay their own overhead, which at present is costing the taxpay ers about $4,400,000 a year. The action, an outgrowth of Mr. and Mrs. Irving H. Rog- an investigation of merchant ere of Westfield, N. J. have complaints that they could not | announced the engagement of compete with the lower prices‘their daughter, Miss Jane Car ol military stores, was approv ed by 22 of the 23 committee members present. Rep. James E. Van Zandt, R, Pa, did not vote. He said that profits from the stores traditionally have been used to buy military athletic and rec reation equipment. Now, he said, such equipment will have to be paid for by the taxpay ers. The Army, Navy and Marine Corps must draft uniform reg ulations putting the agreement into operation. It wil require the services to close all mili tary commissaries in large re tail areas in the United States by January 1. Isolated military posts in this olina Rogers, to Ensign William Drayton Wilson, son of Mrs. Clemson M. Wilson of this city and the late Mr. Wilson. Miss Rodgers attended the Russell Sage College. Mr. Wil- Westfield (N. J.) schools and son, a graduate of Annapolis, 1948, will receive his bachelor of civil engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in September. He is a member of Chi Epsilon, hon orary fraternity. The couple are planning a September wedding. ON DISTINGUISHED LIST AT WINTHROP Five Newberry county girl* . , - . . ... were among the 125 distin- abroad wlU guished students at Winthrop not be affected. College for second semester of the 1948-49 session. MEETING HERE OF EDUCATORS The Executive Committee of the Newberry County Educa tion Association met Monday To be named on the college’s di: tinguished list, a Winthrop girl must have better than a “B” average on all courses of study for the semester. The Newberry county girls afternoon in the office of Mr.' named on the list were: Sheila James D. Brown, County Sup erintendent of Education, to discuss plans for the work of the association. The president, Claire Hardin, Little Mountain; Nelle Harmon, Hatton Lewis, Riser Nance, Newberry granddaughter, Mrs. Williard Camp and Mr. Camp in Green ville last weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Epting, Gurdon Wlright and Dicky Counts were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Voight Epting and other relatives in Estill. Mrs. Sam Beam of Newberry spent Sunday with her mother, (Mrs. O. W. Amick. Rogers (Bo) Taylor spent the weekend in Charlotte. The Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Har man visited their daughter, Mrs. B. F. Hawkins and family in Newberry last Friday. MEETING OF KINGS CREEK WOMAN'S MISSIONARY The Woman’s Missionary Society of Kings Creek will have the August Meeting next Wednesday, August 10th, at 3:30 o’clock in the home of Mrs. Jessis Stone. Mrs. Claude Price, Sec. Mks. George S. Ruff, Pres. Miss Sadie Bowers left last Tuesday by bus for Louisville, Ky. to be with her sister, Mrs. Louis Gray, who underwent a major operation in the Louis ville hospital Friday. Mrs. Gray s home is in Indiana, about 40 miles from Louisville. CANTWELL SAYS STATE OWES HIM Columbia, Aug. 2.—A legis lator sued by the state for $700 illegal extra pay he got in 1947 today counter-claimed $4,100. State Sen. E. W. Cantwell of Williamsburg, a member of the 1947 assembly from whom the state is trying to collect the $700, made the counter claim. A state Supreme Court de clared a year ago that the $700 legislators voted themselves in 1947 was illegal extra pay. Fif ty-one lawmakers then repaid the state. Forty-four had never collected it. Cantwell was one of 75 who had not repaid when Attorney General John M. Daniel wrote all non-payers for repayment four weeks ago. And Cantwell is one against whom suits have been filed for recovery because they either disclaimed the obligation or re fused to accept Daniel’s cal- lection letter. Twenty-three of the 75 out standing bonuses have been re paid, others have been repaid in part or promised, since Dan iel began his collection drive. Cantwell disclaimed any debt to the state in a letter to Dan iel’s original collection request. The Senator said rather the state owed hm for all the ex tra time he had put in listen ing out of legislative hours to people with special requests, and so forth. He renewed this response to day in his formal court answer to the complaint £nd summons served on him by Daniel. He estimated the state’s" debt to him including extra pay and his regular $1,00 salary, at $5,800. He also said the state’s comp troller general, not the attorney general, is the state’s author ized collection officer; aqjl that the supreme court order did not direct Daniel or anyone else to start collection proceed ings. The attorney general’s office had no comment on Cantwell’s answer. The case probably will be heard sometime this fall at a term of state circuit court in Williamsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bailen tine of the Tranwood section, and Mr. and Mrs. T, S. Harmon of the city, spent Sunday tour ing in the North Carolina mountains.. Miss Pearle Stockman of Little | Beatruce Belvin Sease, Little (Mountain, presided. Due to the j Mountain, resignation of the secretary, Lillie W^an^'cS'jULY WEDDINGS. pelts, was elected secretary pro tem. The following committee chairmen were appointed: Legislative—Mr. J. V. Kneece. Public Relations—Mir. B. E. Beck. Membership N. E. A.—Mr. P. K. Harmon. Membership S. C. E. A—Mr. James D. Brown. Program—(Mr. R. H. Amick. Teacher Welfare—Mr. J. G. Long. A building chairman was ap- Albert M. Adams, Prosperity, to Dorothy M. Padgett, New berry. John D. Carpenter, Joanna, to Ora Houser, Clinton. Robert Lee Middleton Turner Strother, to Violet Ruth Kinard, Newberry. William Stanley Rinehart, Newberry, to Margaret Ann Gaines, Joanna. William Francis Shinall, Jr., Savannah, Ga., to Frances Inez Berry, Newberry. Marcellus Smith, Leesville pointed for each school in the, to Carrie Mae Bodie, Newberry, county. The meetings of the i Conely Mack Roller, Whit- association will be held on the mire to Margaret O’Shields, third Thursday of the month at 3:30 o’clock. Officers of the association are Whitmire. Jimmie S. Milstead, New berry to Edith Vivian Berry, president, Miss Pearl Stockman; Newberry. Vise President, Mr. R. H. I Lewis Samuel Snipes, Naval Amick; treasurer, Mr. James I Base, to Edna Lou Hilly, New- D. Brown. berry. OLD TIME BARBECUE FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS Mr. and Mrs. Druie Lovelace of Prosperity, gave an old time barbecue for their family and friends. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Senn, Newberry; Mr. and Mrs. Thos. W. Long, Columbia; Sher iff and Mrs. Tom Fellers and family, Newberry; Mr. and Mi’s. H.. B. Hendrix and family, Prosperity; M!r. and Mrs. M. K. Wicker, Newberry; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Taylor, Newberry; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nicosia, Newberry; Mr. and M!rs. C. B. Schumpert, Prosperity; Jim Pete Cook, Prosperity; Thos. Hawkins, Prosperity; Tom Hawkins, Prosperity; Miss Me- aducise Gilliam, Barnwell; Floy Long, Prosperity; Dennis Bedenbaugh, Prosperity; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lovelace, Pros perity; Joe Lovelace, Steve Lovelace, Fred Lovelace, all of Prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wilson and daughter, Mrs. Furman Sterling spent Sunday in Com merce, Georgia. They attended the Wilson reunion which is held each year at Webb Creek Baptist church, founded by Mr. Wilson’s grandfather and great grandfather, both of whom were named Rev. James Wilson.. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wilson, Mrs. J. M. Chappell, Tommy Chappell and Miss Sadie Frank lin, spent the past Sunday with “Mac” Chappell at Oteen, N. C. (Mr. and Mrs. William Charles Ruff recently spent a week’s vacation in New York and Washington. SHOWERS RELIEVE FOREST FIRE HAZARD Columbia — The extended drought was broken over the weekend by local showers in many parts of the state, reliev ing a forest fire hazard that was growing critical. “In some areas forests in the state are still extremely dry. Even some leaves have begun to turn and fall because of the drought. Grass and little in the woods are highly inflam mable,” Assistant State Fores ter John R. Tiller said today. “The State Commission of Forestry urges everyone to be extremely careful with match es, camp fires, brush fires, and all forms of using: fire in the open,” Mr. Tiller said. PINIC AT MT. BETHEL The Mt. Bethel-Garmany H. D. Club will have its Annual picnic Tuesday evening, August 9th, at 5:30 o’clock at the Government Park. The Com munity is invited. Happy Birthday! IB. O. Long, Mrs.. Wycho Dickert and Mrs. Hugh Senn, August 6; J. W. Swindler, Mrs. H. W. Swindler, Jim Wheeler and Mrs.. Ben Stewart, Aug ust 7; Mrs Olin Lominick,, Aug 8; Mrs. James S. Price (Ruth Clary) tnd twin sister, Mrs. O. D. Glenn, Anne Cook and Reg gie Brooks, August 9; Kather ine Rebecca Traesdale, August 10; Leonide Raegin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Furman Refc> gin, August 11.