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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 1111 THE COLUMBIA RECORD FIVE EDGEFIELD A HAS FIRST MEETING OF YEAR Conquering Contract COUNTY RETURNS -By HAL SIMS- ed than In the first primary HUFF DEFEATED LAURENS SepL Laurens elected a new house delegation by nominating George Cook Rex Lanford and Witherspoon Phil Huff member of LaurenF delegation for last six years was defeated along with John Bolt Culbertson and Walter Nash Cook and Lanford are farmers while Witherspoon -is a traveling Duncan led 4928 Bush 4225 They defeated Dorcey Lxhrand 9994 and Herbert E- (Lies 9J55 Johk stansfield vw elected 'two weeas ago in the superintendent of race JL 2 Epps Lyuranu was eleotsu 5299 to 4J91 for xl Selgler Tne incumbent lx Smith eliminated In tfie first primary qr county commissioner in District bio LAE Xaun was reelected over 1 Keenan Jfr Stmt tom answer all ingniriet on contract that inclose a self- addressed stamped envelope (1M I Tfe Hmri) EDGEFIELD SepL The Edgefield Parent-Teachers' association held Its first fan meeting In the auditorium of the high school Monday afternoon with Mrs Holland presiding as temporary chairman Short talks were made by Prof Nelson superintendent of the (9) Falling No 3 sufficient side strength plus a long solid suit to render probable the success of a slam contracL Here Is a typical Jump takeout response: Officers for the coming year were lected as foUows: Mrs A- DO NOT FORCE UNTHINKINGLY It la blindly agreed by perhaps the majority of players that whenever partner has opened the bidding and they hold a hand with which they would have bid if partner and opponent had passed a forcing response must automatically be given Some tlm when you right in forcing you will get to a game that through duplication of values you are unable to iqake For instance your partner deals and opens soundly with one spade on HNrt-e A IS qb-e to which you equally soundly give the forcing response of three hearts with a Blid I Misfortune however awaits you as you will Be set one trick in either four hearts or four spades This Is downright bad luck ninety-five times out of 100 game will be made with these values The hands need only a slight rearrangement of the very same cards for gome (at least) to be there I merely want to Illustrate how primary values alone can disappoint one as the basis of a forcing response Essentials for a Forcing Takeout Since responder guarantees game opener is entitled to feel optimistic regarding slam prospects If his hand holds reserve values Therefore we are cautious in making forcing takeouts Three factors are vital: (1) Since game is guaranteed not more than three or four apparent losers in conjunction with normal visualisation of partner's opening bid (2) Normal support for the opening that Is four small ones or three headed by the queen or higher This would have Insured game in spades In tbe example given above After a rebid of his suit by opener king becomes norma support Announcement was made that the A will hold Its regular meetings on the Monday following each school month throughout the session Major League Leaders THI ASSOCIATES MISS (ImMIi fMm aM) NATIONAL LEAS I Omad Ddn 174 Xhfe 7XQ- 11m 117 saii: 'km pxmiML X4ii cram Mm its Hit: EMb non Mi OVme Ddr au Batted bl Bant rxiIUea 114 nmiM in dmuns vwil rfaxa ssi Cxk 4a XMe rxilUM Ml oil Gim 14 XMx rXUUM Mdb Ordlulk ritrXIx: Wnek Cdx M-4 SmtmSx Tint 11-K ANERICAN LEAIUE Bat tin: A mute Bad In JB lex AIHMInl MS Bea: tax Atkladex IMS OiMtx XU- ur UUi: Hindi Nuawi aad Odui Tbe AN HU Bttd bl In AiXMk Ml Chari VutM 141 adulate Dm SLl -TattM bp CMetx Euutwx lit 10a Omi- tax AtMdha Ml hath Tu-n 40 BMln Bum! Cluteu Tuba St I WUbr tumx rUcMn: Alba YakMX ll-ll fcNx H-a 7 TAYLOR LOSES LEXINGTON SepL Dr I re her was nominated senator from Lexington county over Charles Taylor IncumbenL in complete but unofficial returns The vote was Dreher 4574 and Taylor 9471 For the house vacancies Carl Eptlng Jack Hall and Smith were elected Cromer Oswald succeeds himself as sheriff polling a vote of 4247 as against 2918 for his opponent A Roof O'Dell Harmon was elected superintendent of education The race for auditor was won by Clyde 8- Addy Morgan Caughman won out for -coroner and Lonnie Bundrick was named game warden ORANGEBURG ORANGEBURG SepL Henry glms was apparently returned to the state senate In the second primary over A Hutson another attorney by a majority of 170 votes Final tabulations of the 45 boxes gave Sims 2899 and Hutson 2828 vote In the city's five wards Sims received 1181 and Hutson 528 netting Sims a majority over his opponent In the city of 922 Sims served as a house member several years ago and In 1910 defeated Hutson In a special election as senator to 7111 out the unexplred term of the late senator Claude Martini In the run-off for the fifth place on the legislative delegation Dr A Connor was elected over 8 Knotts Jr by a vote of 4095 to 9529V Halgfer defeated Dr Nelson for highway commissioner of the northern district by a vote of 995 to 957 Gray and BonnetL two new men defeated Griffith and Miller for cot' ton weigher for this city CHEROKEE GAFFNEY SepL Dr Gunter former dentlsL now engaged In textile manufacturing and Representative Parris were nominated by1 Cherokee county Democrats for the house of repre-e natives Tuesday Gunter headed the ticket with' 8718 while Parris received 8049 Raymond Dobson totaled 2889 and 8 Taylor 8181 Supervisor Clary was nominated over Right Jolly a former supervisor by 9472 to 3528 Roland Clary game warden was renominated over Forest Byars 2901 to 9890 Jamie Upton barter defeated Magistrate Floyd Baker The vote was Upton 3772 Baker 8882 Former Senator Blease carried primary votes here yesterday EL Sloan stormy politician who promised tbs voters that Greenville would be well represented In the eenate coasted through to victory ousting Joseph Bryson incumbent by L448 votes according to complete' but unofficial returns The final tabulation gave Sloan 11080- votes Bryson 9982 Today's election saw Ben Leppard John McDaniel Robertson Y'Thackston and A McQueen Martin named to the house of representatives In that order Beam Farr and Hubert Nolln were elected In the first primary -two weeks ago These eight will make up the house body Smith Greenville lumber dealer was elected sheriff over Noe former Greenville police sergeant who resigned to make the race Smith's majority was more than 9000 Ed Means was named county supervisor over Ashmore Ira A Gresham was re-elected over Bearden as registrar of mesne conveyance 1 James Whatley won the super Intendent of education's post over Richardson George McKoy nearly doubled the vote of Joe Wooten Incumbent In the race for coroner The voting In the second primary was slightly lighter than that In the first Approximately 20750 cast ballots today In the county out of 84900 enrolled voters GREENWOOD GREENWOOD' Sept IL Nicholson was nominated to the state senate over Hart on by a majority of 209 votes In 'the second primary yesterday The vote was Nicholson 8845 and Harrison 2840 Nicholson will succeed 8 Hodgee who did not offer for re-election Paul EUIs' Henderson and I Daniel were nominated to the house defeating Walter Nlckles Joseph Shealy and Whitaker the latter- a member the past session The vote was Ellis 8887 Henderson 8894 and Daniel 8591- Ellis Is an Insurance man Henderson a farmer and Daniel an attorney were renominated i Bowles who has served 18 months by appointment to flu the unexplred term of the late Joe Lake defeated Ralph Andrews for auditor by a majority of 114 votes The totals were: Bowles 9580 and Andrews 8448 gam A Aenew an insurance man defeated George Burnett Incumbent for treasurer by a majority of 824 The totals were: Agnew 9879 and Burnett 8255 Lomlnlck defeated Murry Wharton for superintendent of education by 1208 the totals being Lomlnlck 4058 and Wharton 2847 loyce McCarthy defeated George Lomax Incumbent for game warden by a majority of 281L FLORENCE -FLORENCE Sept Complete returns in today's primary assure the nomination of Baker of Florence BO Eaddy'of Johnson-vllle McElveen of Sardis and Troy -Stokes of Tlmmons-vllis to the house of representatives The vote was as follows: Baker 5898 Eaddy 5221 Stokes 5105 McElveen 4999 Evans 4599 Huggins 4491 Eller be 4285 Whitlock 9899 Three former members Huggins Cannon and li'G Whitlock were defeated in the two primaries Eltlng Chapman of Timmons-villa was elected treasurer over the Incumbent Haynle who has held office fbr 24 years Harris delinquent tax collector was re-elected over McLaurln Burch Wall was elected sheriff over Isham McLaughlin Jamea Johnson defeated Marvin Smith for the office of magistrate AIKEN AIKEN Sept John Dun can and Bush were elected to the house Mr Duncan was a member nf the present delegation member of county board of directors from Wateree township SPARTANBURG SPARTANBURG Sept Burnett Spartanburg farmer and business man was nominated over Senator Gray Incumbent -for the state senate yesterday by a majority of over 1-900 on the face of unofficial returns from 99 out of the county's 94 precincts The vote stood: Burnett 10499 Gray 9997 Sheriff Sam Henry holding offlce'by appointment following the death of the late Sheriff Leonard Bennett was nominated over Sam Hiller by a vote of 11487 to 9909 James Wolfe Crbw Otis E' Bruce Claude A Taylor Incumbent -Hendrix and Herbert Groce appeared nominated for the- six unfilled seats in the house of representatives Belton Jackon 'and Wright Cox won two of the eight seats In "is first primary -The vote- In the house race follows: Wolfe 19721 Crow 19299 Bruce 11 JOB: Taylor 10997 Hendrix 10229 Groce 9791 The other candidates ran as follows: Rowland Dean 9929 Easterns 9999 Fowler 9999 Allen Lambrlghf 9297 Andrew Wells 7991 David Garvin 7052 MARION MARION Sept iin the runoff primary-here today L'M Gas-que' former solicitor wa elected to the- legislature -by a vote of 1-955 and M-Watson was elected with 1470 votes Norton' Incumbent' got 1185 and Burney Smith got 1189 BARNWELL BARNWELL' SepL The total of 17 precincts in Barnwell county give: For sheriff Grubbs 919 Morris 1954 For coroner A Nlnesteln Jr 180 James Still 877 Templeeton 557 Ussery 975 A second race must be run between Still and Ussery 'Hammond was elected magistrate at Blackvllle by majority of 12 votes and Sanders wa re-elected magistrate for Great Cypress township- by majority of 18 votes ANDERSON ANDERSON SepL With one exception Anderson county will have an entirely new legislative delegation unofficial tabulations from the second primary Tuesday Indicated Martin Crenshaw member of the delegation and Paul Earle were elected on the first ballot and to day's election Indicated the election of Nathan A Coward Press Ashley Tate and Joe Weiborn none of whom had ever before served In the house Coward received 10072' probably the largest vote' ever given a house candidate In this qounty In the 'race sheriff W' A Clamp Incumbent won over his opponent William' Johnston member of the house for the past two years George Sanders defeated Clyde Pruitt for county auditor Bogue Young Won from A Stone for clerk of court leading by around 9500 votes Spearman was re-elected county supervisor over John Sherard Holler principal of the Pen die ton schools was elected superintendent of education with a lead of around 800 votes A recount in the game race may develop A Tribble led the Incumbent Ray Fisher by less than 100 vote BRYSON DEFEATED GREENVILLE SepL Greenville county will be represented by an entire new delegation In the legislature as the result of second The bidding: Until Kwt 1 (1) Pu I III Pm 4 ill Pu Pm Pu (1) A strong defensive hand Contains sufficient strength to rabid no-trumps if his partner makes a response (2) The Jack ten of spades will enable South to set up the spade suit in hand in the event that he will be the declarer Although it Is not normal spade sup port the likelihood of setting up this suit at a very early stage causes South to taka an optimistic view (2) Not containing a club honor the minimum response is mad If the spades were a flve-sulter a rebid of three spades would be correct (4) Denoting at least a six-card suit with the top honors (5) Still no club support but fine playing hand (8) bid showed excess values over an original bid so that the slam bid should be tried Seven was made by virtue of East opening the diamond two A squeese play was developed At trick eleven North led the spade queen and also held heart queen' ten East had to discard from heart king five diamond queen and South held heart ace-slx diamond ten defeating Coroner Smith 2995 to 1812 County board of directors W-Hopper of Great Falls and J- Shannon of near Blacks took were elected over the Incumbents James Caldwell and 8 A McWatters The votes were: Shannon 2888 Hopper 2281 McWatters 2107 Caldwell L858 Holmes Harden incumbent chairman was re-elected in the first primary Game warden Alvin Byars of Lowry defeated McDaniel 2848 to 219L Lanford magistrate Aber- Mr Stine is universally acclaimed fke greatest living contract end auction player He is captain' of the renowned Horsemen team of four and hoe toon eighteen national ehamptonehipe since Ml CHEAPER BY AIR WASHINGTON According to the 6 post office departmenL the government now spends 824-000000 a year for transporting first class mall by train and 115000000 for moving of air malL This makes a total of $89000000 a year Tbe department believes this total could be reduced If all first class mall' were carried by air the county 2798 to 2195 for senator Smith CHESTER CHESTER SepL 14 Cheater county voters In the second primary cast 4524 votes as against 5895 In the first primary The total of 29 boxes give Blease 2224 Smith 2288 for United States sedate House of representatives Jordan won defeating Wilbur GranL 2428 to 2105 COL Arthur Gaston IncumbenL won In the first primary For ooroner Caldwell won nathy IncumbenL defeated 8 Garrison 181 to 1SL Baton Rouge magistrate Wilkes defeated Halle 929 to 199 JASPER RIDGELAND Sept H-WO-Mre Mary Ellis South Carolina's first and only woman senator was retired to private life by the voters of Jasper county in yesterday's primary and H- Klugh Purdy veteran polltlclal leader nominated for her Mrs Ellis polled CBS rotes to 111 for Purdy They were thrown Into a second primary when no one received a majority In the three-cornered race two weeks ago ''Mrs Ellis Started into politics in 1914 when she was elected superintendent of education for Jasper eounty She quit that office In 1928 to be come the' first woman member of the general assembly Purdy former member of the house and former senator Is an attorney at Ridge land Ha Is a nephew of two former circuit Judges the lata Judge Purdy and the late Judge Klugh He Is chairman of the Jasper county Democratic executive committee Mrs Ellis was a member of eight senate committees and held the chairmanship of the' natural re-" sources committee In the senate she was chiefly Interested In educational measures She is married to Junius EH 11s and they live on a farm II miles from Rldgeland MARLBORO BENNETT8VH LE Sept In the run-off primary yesterday the following were elected: Sheriff Gibson won by a majority of 17 vote He received 9959 votes and Rogers present sheriff received 9199 vote was ejected superintendent of education He received 9499 votes and Campbell received 1914 votes Paul Covington was elected cor-- oner He received 9494 votes and Boyd Miller received 1999 vote Clyde Quick 'received 1999 votes and F-M Stanton wa re-elected game warden He received 9799-' Cole Blease received 9097 votes and Smith received 9907 votes NEWBERRY NEWBERRY Sept Dr John Dominick of Prosperity a former i member of the- house" and James Setxler of Pomarla were elected to the house of representatives In yesterday's primary Bchump-ert easily defeated A Ruff for cornnfssloner from District I The vote was Bchumpert 4492 1 Ruff 8949 Fnsler Evans won In the gam warden's race over John Livingstone Incumbent The vot) Evan 4000 Livingstone 545 Cannon Incumbent won ovr 8 Brooks for treasurer by a bng majority For auditor Her-Mn Halfacre won over Herbert Lmlnlck the vote Halfacre 4957 Dminlck 9075 Setsler re- (lived 4959 and Dominick 9949 Jhn Riser was elected magls-rate at Whitmire over John atts and Bowers of Prosperity was elected magistrate there over Claud Wilson' SALUDA SALUDA Sept Joe Griffith wpn Saluda's seat in the senate In yesterday's run-off over George Wlghtman the vote being 1918 to 1789 Zimmerman was re-elected to the house over John Koon The vote was Zimmerman 8075 against Koon 1922 YORK ROCK HILL Sept Wingate was elected In the second race here yesterday to the house of representatives over Ar-' dry by a vote- of 4497 to 8255 This was for York's fourth seat A Moss was elected sheriff over I McFadden For supervisor A Stewart defeated Darby Smith The present game warden Ben Farris defeated Hope Spencer won over Dunlap for Catawba township commissioner Dunlap wa re-elected over Carl Hovls for magistrate 1 DARLINGTON DARLINGTON sepL hut unofficial returns for Darlington eounty give Blease 2280 smith 4914 Huff appears to have beaten the Incumbent Mrs Hitto for superintendent of educe of the vote a recount will probably be held In spite of keen in terest In the several races the elec tlon was quiet and orderly SUMTER boxes unreported Manning and Dr Eppe were nominated for 1 house In the first primary Neltl Britten nor Williams secured sary KERSHAW 5 1 7 3 Is the Number to Call 3 9 4 or 5 pasaengere to sama destination in city 25c Open day and nlghL TAXI Inc Prompt and Courteous Service FAJRFIELD WINKSBOKU SepL Lewis was tiecteu cierx of court in the ruu-oif primary heie yes-leruuy his vote' being L8s as ugausi i4'i9 For staeriif A easier Wax elected with 170 votes over John xiaclie U91 The results in the game warden's race wre Biair L579 and A Criwford 1509- HAMPTON HAMPTON-' SepL'- IL Causey with 1724 votes was reelected county treasurer In run-off primary over Herman Llghtsey who received 1J44 votes Other results: Supervisor: Gooding- 1510 Tuten 1959 County commlseioney: Rivers 1810 Terry 1247' Magistrate: Fred Hay 959 John Dowling 57l HARVEY WINS' BEAUFORT SepL State Senator Brantley Harvey was re-elected in yesterday's runoff primary receiving 1020 votes to 522 for Sanders his op ponent- -C Martin of Bluffton with 989 votes was elected over Andrew Peeples with 892 votes for the second seat in the state house of representatives Calhoun Thomas was re-elected to the other seat In the first primary Other results: Coroner 'Herbert Attaway 975 Harvey 991 Magistrate of Beaufort Jones 492 Barker 410 CHESTERFIELD CHESTERFIELD SepL A Brown defeated Mrs Millie Sanders lit the run-off for superintendent of education by 114 votes Mrs Sanders has been the only women ever to hold office In this county A Spruill former senator defeated I Guys In the run-off for the house of representatives Leppard was elected as the other member of the house In the first race Redfearn defeated Hunt in the run-off for coroner Watson IncumbenL defeated Baker for treasurer LANCASTER LANCASTER 8ett Clerk of Court James porter won over Ik Roy Blackmon by a vote of 9081 to L999 In the second primary here today For sheriff F' Dabney' IncumbenL defeated XL A Blackmon by a vote of 9211 to 1880 For 1 coroner Zan Header received 9799 and Ik Baker 2254 Six hundred less votes were poll- GimloMItNlMTHnCL ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS Music in the air bewitching music or ballads sad songs glad songs old favorites or latest bits Girl of Song sings them all Hear 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