Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cruising Around - with "Skipper" The city hall tower cure looms up 1n an effective manner since belug given sever*! emits of -paint, As soon as the new flood light* are installed King Haiglar will buret forth In a blase of glory against the night eky. , * * lielieve 11 or not, eome one Is going to start a parking area In downtown Camden one of these days and find himself running a profitable business. If there was a crying need for a modern parking station anywhere in the U. S. A., It is right here in Camden. ? i Such a station, patterned after parking areas In larger cities, will be a boon to business and professional men, who will be glad to pay a few dollars a month for a place to place their car where it will be safe from being scraped or scratched. ......... . , The invasion of the show-me state people has been on in earnest in this man's town for over a week now. Simultaneously with the arrival of army units from Sedalla, Mo.; some eight or more families with which this corner has been corresponding, made their appearance In Camden. And after considerable fussing around we managed to get them all nicely located In apartments and cottages. Our biggest headache Is visloning what will be happening when officials attached to the army pilot training school, which opens on February 1st at the airport, and also a score of families of officials and laborers connected with the new bridge building project, want to find homes. - ? ? * * Only a person conversant with the routine of the Chamber of Commerce office can understand just the time and effort the office has been giving to finding accommodations for people who wish to make their homes here. * Camden might just as well face the facts?more houses and apartments must be provided If r? are to take advantage of#tho present unprecdented demand for homes by people who want to become citizens. Property owners and owners of dwellings with obsolete equipment must dig down into their jeans and build and remodel. The future of Camden depends on It. Camden Is now beginning to reap the results of the continuous barrage of publicity that has gone forth from this department. We are getting the dividends now and it looks as if we haven't the facilities to take advantage of them to the utmost. _r_.. ? ? How much does It cost to start a radio broadcasting station and why can't one be started here? This was an inquiry given ue a few days ago. Ah a matter of fact the minimum of expeuse Involved in starting a broad* casting station la 115,000. If anybody I has fifteen thousand amackera they ' are not using, call on us. Away front sports ami the mundane affairs of Camden life to offer a tribute of re?i>ect and affection to one of the finest chape I have had the pleasure of knowing in wy four years in Camdeu, J, Murray Smith, whoso untimely death Saturday threw a pall of grief over the entire community. Murray was a real friend, a cheery fellow who alwaya had a hourly handclasp and a "howdy tk1pper*V With thousands of other* in our community I'm going to miss Murray a lot. ' " 4 ' " v *? -- - - Murray was interested In everything that was good and constructive. 1 recall sitting with him at the Future Farmers dinners and how proud he was of his son. My lad, live up to your dad's pride, hhnulate the principles and Ideals of him, my boy, and you'll always bo respected. tee God speed you Murray Smith. We miss a tine man and a true friend * That Baron DoKalb boys cage team isn't any slouoh of an outfit. Cyril Busbee, who can do a lot Af things better than most folks can do one thing is coach of the team and he has sure workod up a nice qulntfe't. Tho boys took tho measure of Calndeu last Thursday 16 to 12. .We all of us make mistakes, but when the carefully edited syndicate, news such as Paul Mallon's "News Behind Tho News" breaks out with a boner, it is very uncommon. Last Tuesday "News Behind The News" solemnly chronicles the followlug: . ''Many a Jap has been found wan-' dering naked or dead in dark alleys and outside the city walls". # * Now that Benito Mussolini hae replaced everybody else, It is to be hoped that he will not stop until he has reached himself. Seen on a parking lot nearby "Oar Warsh". Thank goodness the man has finally been found with courage enough to spell "wash" in tho way we everyday folk enjoy mispronouncing It. You hear a lot these days about the national defense program , bogging down. An event of last Saturday hereabouts gives cause forv real alarm. Several Camden men went on a hunting expedition and one of them had been doing some speolal stunts In army maneuvers. After the party had trudged for miles without spotting a target a bunny suddenly leaped out. The young man in question leveled his gun, took ami and pulled the trigger. Only a click was heard. He did not know the gun wasn't loaded. The cotton tall got away. Story Strictly For Bird Dogs Piggott. Ark., Dec. 11?The moral of this story is strictly for bird dogs. Ralph Williams and Raymond Birchett, farmers, were quail hunting when their dog made a point in tall grass near a stump. When the hunters walked into flush the game, the dog made a vicious lunge forward end a rabbit ran out. The dog just sat down. The hunters, disgusted at such bad form booted the pup. He continued to sit. When one finally reached down, grabbed the dog's tall to puW him out of the grass, the dog toppled over dead. Inveslgatlon showed the animal, in his lunge for the rabbit, had hit his head on the stump and broken his neck. There are more than 3,000 species of ants in the world. i i " SPOTLIGHTING WINTER /CTVITIES The Klrkwood Hotel opened Its doors yesterday with every ind lost too for it fttll season; Many ftociai events ore scheduled. startiug with a dance to tho *:i hi Hoom tomorrow night. A large chlldreu's Christmas party is In preparation for Tuesday afternoon In tho huge lobby, also a gay and colorful New Year's Kve dance In the Grill. Among those already registered at the hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey T. Humes, of North Bgremont, Massachusetts, ttiul Mrs. James N. Worcester, of New York City with her son James, a student at Yale Unlvarslty. who wiu eppnd ft few d?ys withL.!iJft<. mother before joining friends in Miami Beach, Flordia, over the holidays. Mrs. Worcester will spend the winter at The Kirkwood. McKee G. Boykln has returned from Bradenton, Florida, to spend two weeks with his family. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Richardson and Mlas Caroline Richardson, of Uryn Mawr, Pa., uro spending the holdiays with their mother, Mr a. Robert Ma rye. V Ambrose rjbrko and J. T*. Codley, of West bury. Long Island, wore guests of (}ranger Ouither for two days laat week. Fay Ingalls and W. B. Cox, of Hot Springs, Virginia, were at the Court Inn last week, for two days' shooting. They will return with Mrs. Ingalls and Mrs. Co* early in January for the season. Mrs, Virginia 11. Waok, of UuriinK?mo, California. have arrived at i Horsobrauch lluil to apuud the hull, days with their parents Mr, and Mrs. Ward C. llelcher. Mrs. Wad will remain throughout the winter. Miss Welhlmpia Ktrby, of Bedford lliils. New York, arrived last week to occupy her home MSalubrla" for the season. Rodney S. Jajvls, of Great Harrington, Mass., returned laat Sunday front a week's shooting in Kingstree district, South Carolina. Mr. Jarvis left after a few days stay, to spend Christmas at his home. MORE AID FOR GREEKS; BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN The Greek fund took another substantial rise this week and la now just a few dollars short of the thousund dollar mark?and this compares roost favorably with funds belli# raised In towns larger by far than CamdemNeedless to say that the Greek colony 111. Camden feel very grateful to the poople of Camden add Kershaw county and those from other towns who huve contributed fo this fund. And a group of Camden ladles have organized a "Bundles for Britain" club here. They also need your help ?-In their endeavor to help those sturdy Britons who are waging a gallunt tight against the hordes of Hitler. The list of contributors for the Greek fund since our last publication/ is as follows: Previously reported $872 00 H. S. Higgles 2.00 Mrs. C. C. Whitaker. Sr. 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. T. McKee Graham 20.00 Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Petros, of Sumter 2.00 H. B. West 1.00 J. E. Hegler 1.00 D. A. Boykln .1.00 Mr. Booker 1.00 W. L. Stokes. Sr 1.00 Mrs. Lucy D. Pomeroy .... ..10.00 Charles Shannon. 4th 5.00 L. W. Vickery, Sumter ...... .. 5:00 Melton Goodstein 1.00 Mr. Blackwell .. 3.00 R. H. DeTreville 1.00 Friend of Greeks 25 Loring Davis .. 1.00 G. H. Hoorew 25 W. G. W. Mullen .... 1.00 L. J. Graham 1.00 E. N. Workman 1.00 Friend of Greeks ... 7 "; 25 Jlminie DeLoacho . 50 S. W. Hogue 1.00 W. Sheorn 1.00 J. E. Moncreif 50 Herman Truesdale, Westvillo 1.00 E. B. Pearce 1.00 J. K. Drakeford .... 1.00 T. H. Walker, Rledsvllle, Ga 1.00 L. E. Smith 2.00 J. W. C. Boykln,. ...... 1 00 Ernest Woolen 3.00 Charlie Kirkland 1.00 Grover C. Rush . ..... .1.00 Total ' $945.75 To Meet at Mizpah L. A. Moore, president of the Lee County singing convention, announce? Its one hundred and elghty.fourth session on Sunday,- December 23,- ftt 2:15 p. m., at Mizpah Baptist Church, situated about, twelve miles west of Biehopvilte, one mile off Highway 34. Turn to the left at Corbett's Store. MESSAGE TO THE NATION FROM 80ME WHO KNOW (By Sadie VonTresckow) General John J. Pershing sends this eall through the Red Call Courier. "At a time when we hear so much of preparedness It fa well to consider the resources of human sympathy. I speak of the AinericanHRed Cross and the vital part it plays in the well-being of our nation in time of emergency. It is necessary for every patriotic American la give his support by becoming a member. When 1 think of the Amerioau Red Cross, i think of the great army of nurses who went with us to Prance in 1918 to care for the battlo wounded?the Rod Cross workers maintaining the high morale of our troops?'lighting epidemics of influenza. The army has called four thousand , nurses to active service by next July. The need for increasing the number of trainees in Pirst Aid and for strengthening its other services has l>ointed to the significance of Red Cross training as a defense measure." ( And from President Roosevelt: "The maintenance and expansion of these national services which should be coordinated through the Rod Cross, America's officially recognized voluntary relief agency, will have, I am sure, the generous support of every patriotic American." "Highly trained Red Cross representatives are the only civilians who will be with combat units in the theater of operations?no other agency?public or private is authorized or able to assume it." Prom the London Star wo learn: "America is helping London." Thero are no flags flying to point the way to the American Red Cross quarters in Great Britain. There is nothing Pretentious about the sixth floor offices In a building not far from the heart fot London to suggest that It is the focal point from which a vast contributory supply to the relief of war victims emanates. One million pounds sterling have * been made available in Great Britain through the American Red Cross, no large staff, with expensive overhead? five persons only?two of whom are full time volunteers?only three administrative salaries to be paid. Cooperation with existing organizations in Great Britain rather than a large number of workers from the United States. There is close and intimate working with the British Red CroM and St. John War Organization. Rare drugs unobtainable there and surgical Instruments and x-Ray apparatus are given a very urgent need of the n?o- ment is being met by the provision of mobile canteens to provide supplies to flre-flghters and others on duty all night. Twenty^flve station wagons wero given the Women's Voluntary Services for mobile csnteen units. Thousands of articles of clothing made by American women, homes provided for children under five years of age who have suffered under air raids and the like. Clothing stocks are handled by the Personal ' Service league and tho W. V. S. which know how and where to meet public needs. Hero as with nil the American Hod Cross work Jn Groat Britain, the. aim Is to decentralize supi>iles as quickly ah possible after arrival In this country so that no risks are run of having heavy and valuable stocks destroyed j by bombing. Our production rooms over Belk's store Invite you, ono ami all," to come and help. Wealthy Germans have been removed from the ltuhr and other industrial seotlons of Germany to, southern France along the Riviera. The re-; moval apparently followed upon tho RAF's bombing of industrial Germany. J WRIGHT BROTHER8 HONORED BY NATION I. Man too, N. (\, Dec. 17?Army, ? marine corps ami coast guard airplanes dipped^ their wings in salute Unlay as they roared ovor tho slender plyon atop windswept Kill Devil Hill, alto of the first sustained flight of heavior-than air craft 117 years ago. Oapt. \V. J. Tate of Manteo. who let roonia. to Wilbur and Orvllle Wright while they oxperlmentel with a flying ship, told visitors at an anniversary observance that December 17, 1903, was "Just, such a day as this?clear and cold" when tho Dayton, O., bicycle makers' motor-driven contraption fluttered aloft and soared for 120 feet. After Tate's address, wreaths were laid at tho basu of the monument, a memorial to tho Wrights, and the vis-, itors wore takon to. Maneto's telegraph office to boo the message which announced to the world tho successful flight. It Is preserved by Alpheua W. Drlnkwater, vetoran telegrapher who sont It. i H4ii M RazooflCs lifts IMPORTERS, Ino. 1936 NORTH BROAD 8T. CAMDEN, 8. C, -11 - 1 ..... J . . . 1 Ij ^ The : SARSHELD CLUB Will Open : Saturday Night, Dec. 21 Steaks And Chicken Dinners ;; ? !| ?> . . . . Sandwiches r * r r r r r r s r r r r r ([ Minimum Charge $1.50 Person n Reservations Call 622 Gala New Year's Eve Dance r Drive It! Come in and Get the Feel B fyot this.Great New FORD V You'll say its soft, new, big-car RIDE is a f revelation ?fher ride surprise of the year, ' You'll agree it's the most sweepingly improved Ford car ever built.-. .New bigness and beauty ?new flash pick-up and getaway?all teamed with thrifty Ford V-8 power. Don't consider any trade until you see it. .. and see us! - Compare it with cars of any Price/ Make or Size ... .. the 1941 fOPD ??? ? - r Redfearn Motor Co. ~ **-*-* t- r - tlXif .**?? 4*** - / Camden, South Carolina Watt DaKalb St. Phona 140