Aiken Standard du lieu suivant : Aiken, South Carolina • Page 2

Page 2 AIKEN STANDARD-. ND The Only Newspaper Published In Aiken County- FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1942 Campaign To Get More Travel Through Aikqn On U. S. 1 Money Needed To Carry On Winter Traffic Drive Tourist Travel Over Federal Highway No. 1 Expected To Be Heavy Despite War Emergency.

New Cutoff Highway to Florida West Coast a Factor Launching this week a renewed drive raise $2,500 to continue its work after February 1, the TJ. S. Highway Council, announced today the completion of the first phase of its 1941-42 campaign to increase traffic on S. 1 highway. This initial effort of the new and growing- organization- marks the resumption of group promotional work, -dormant since the demise in 1D37 of the former U.

S. 1 Highway Association, to recap ture the North South tourist trade. With its opening efforts timed accurately.to coincide with the ending of troop movements from the Carolina war maneuvers, the "Council, according to Vincent Butler, president and executive secretary, been functioning all fall an(U winter at its main office in Newark. N. girding itself wjth-facts and protographs about the highway, assembling data on construction and detours, and preparing its advertising, publicity, and literature.

Scheduled to start "December'1, the Coun- 'cil's-program was held under wraps until the mid-December end of troop movements cleared U. S. 1 of Ml abnormal traffic conges- Lion. Spring Campaign Needed Most important now, states Butler, is an immediate campaign to influence the thousands of G. Vincent president and executive secretary of the U.

1 Highway Council, jiew group-active-in working- to increase tourist travel on U. S. 1. tourists in Florida this winter to return north via U. S.

1 this spring, along with continued northern promotion for tourists yet to depart southward. Tlhe call for new funds, lie explains, is directed to U. 1 cities and towns PROTECT YOUR CAR EVERY 1000 MILES With 50-point GULFLEX REGISTERED-LUBRICATION We have the knowledge, the experience and the right equipment. YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED. JOHNSON SERVICE STATION Richland and York St.

which 'have not yet contributed their annual quotas. A detailed budget covering proposed activities 'has been submitted this week to all committee chairmen and key persons along U. S. 1, he reports. iWbrk contemplated includes Florida newspaper and radio newspaper articles, distribution -of special strip maps ftftd- folders, and -personal contacting around Florida.

Special items listed ftr St. Petersburg embrace the Council's own touring bureau, highway billboard.and special poster displays. In Aiken, which has contributed $175 against a quota after a drive last the call is merely -for the completion of the $75 balance. Funds for the TJ. i work have been raised under the capable chairmanship of L.

R. Holley, assisted by Albert S. Willcox. Special praise 'is due to Aiken, the. Council states, since it, was among the Very first U.

S. 1 cities to subscribe to the 1941 fund. T-he pro-gram has. operated on a total budget of $2,417.50, Butler reports, contributed so far from twelve cities between Petersburg, and Wa.vcross, plus Lake City, Georgia heads list with contributions of $828 from Waycross, Baxley, Lyons and Alma. North Carolina is next, its total of $77!) coming- from Sanford, -Pinehurst, Aberdeen and Wake Forest.

Third in line is Virginia, with $435.50 remitted from South Hill and Petersburg. Trailing- is Soubh Carolina with 3175, where Aiken has been the only city so. far to subscribe. Lake City, Florida, contributed $200. In seven of the twelve U.

1 cities, Butler comments, contributions were from to of their -suggested the other five have averaged Forecasts Traffic Riie. A rise in tourist travel on TJ. S. is predicated by Butler, despite the war, due to three current factors. These are the end of the war maneuvers, the normal increase as southbound migration reaches its winter peak, and the new cutoff Highway direct from Waycross, to the Florida West Coast.

The Council's ive fall and winter program has revolved around the resumption of normal traffic con- KREISLER PLAYS engineers in Philadelphia Academy of Music recorded familiar melodies as Fritz Kreisler played professionally for first time since serious injury in New York. He was hit by truck, in Hear Bizet's "CARMEN You Got A Date At 2 P. SATURDAY January 24th To hear "Carmen" broadcast direct from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. WGAC, Blue Network Station in Augusta, plus 162' other Blue stations throughout the country carry the opera in its entirity every Saturday. Lily Djanel sings the title role, and makes her American debut Charles Kullman is Jose, Licia Albanese, Micaela.

Sir Thomas Beecham, eminent British composer makes his first appearance as Conductor on the 10 Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts. During intermission, the vast radio audience will hear the Opera Forum Quiz and At Home With The Metropolitan Opera Guild. WGAC AUGUSTA yours for the tuning every Saturday at the saute Jtmr ditions after the r.iaweuvers advertising: the new West Coast, Trail, new artery from to the St. Petersburg which has placed U. S.

1 in of sud-denly becoming W-c most direct route between the New York-New England area and the Folrida Went Coast resort cities. All motorists from the northwestern and central spates, declares Butler, -heading this new -highway to the Gulf resorts, must of necessity keep on U. S. 1 all the way to and arc thus prevented from dherting via Savannah, at the ninny possible points en route. The Council 'head, after a long study of traffic diversion, predicted in highway meetings this past summer that if the new artery were properly promoted it would result in gains in through tourist traffic along U.

S. 1 of from 10 to 400 News Bits Picked Up Over The State Byrnef Stundt Ready Washington, Jan. Justice Byrnes of the supreme White House said today, haa offered to take on any task, even that of messenger boy, which the President might assign him during the current emergency. For More P.canut* Charleston, Jan. Agent W.

Can-away said that Charleston county farmers were being asked to plant a larger peanut acreage and a variety of cotton with a staple length of at least one and one-eighth inches. Cattle Show Abbeville, Jan first of the South Carolina spring cattle shows will be held here March 17. Similar shows will be held at March 18, Florence, April 7-8, Watterboro, April 15 1G, and Orangeburg, April 21. Newlxsrrjr Brotherhood (Newberry, Jan. 50 men of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer met at the parsonage and organized a Lutheran Brotherhood.

Dr. George W. Smith was elected president, Professor Erickson, president, C. A. Dufford secretary and D.

L. Nance treasurer. Metro Auxiliary Police Greenville, Jan. Chief J. K.

Smith announced plans for organizing and training: more than 100 Negroes' as auxiliary po- lice during air raids and the The auxiliary officers would be used in the 11 city districts with purely Negro pipulation, he said. DAYLIGHT TIME TAKES EFFECT FEBRUARYS America will go on Daylight Saving time February to conserve electricity for the titanic war effort. President Roosevelt signed a Daylight Saving bill Tuesday and nt 2 time) on February 0 the clocks will be turned ahead an hour for the duration of the war. Although the 'bill applies only to interstate commerce activities and the federal government, it is expected to be observed by most of the nation. Mr.

Roosevelt advised congress last July that the federal power commission figured there would be a saving of 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of energy annually by putting the nation on year- around Daylight Savins time. The bill signed Tuesday was similar to that enacted during the first World war and Presidential "Secretary Stephen Early said it had the same objective of "greater efficiency in our industrial war effort." The new act will become ineffective six months after the war ends unless senate and house adopt a resolution to terminate it at an earlier date. The President signed it with a steel pen in a holder and then had the pen sent to Robert Garland of Pitteburjs, head of the national committee which had advocated enactment of the legislation. In the last World war, Early said, "Garland had -urged that the Country be put on-Daylight Saving time and asked the pen which President Woodrow Wilson used in signing the necessary legislation. Likewise, Garland received the quill used by Speaker Champ Clark and the stub pen -which Vice President Marshall signed the MADAM MELBA LIFE READER GIVES FACTS I GETS RESULTS1 She telli all, the you wish to know- concerning yourself and those you are interested in.

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