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The Camden Chronicle | VOLUME 53 v CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, TRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941 NUMBER 5 Merchants Agree I On Closing Hours A oempletely organized merchants association with a definite program I involving an appeal t<? the municipal authorities for legislation destined to give relief from itinerant salesmen, peddlers and solicitors, and the I promiscuous operation of beggars on It ho streets of the city, is the objective | of Camden business as evidenced at a | meeting hold Monday evening at I Amcrclan l^egion hall. The meeting was featured by genluino enthusiasm on the part of those present. M$ny matters of interest to the group vtare discussed and a com mittoo consisting of "Messrs. Neeso, Bichel, Oeorge Sheheen and Frank H. |Heath was named to prepare a conIstltution and by-laws, to be submitted at the next regular meetin?g of the association on May 5. Since the Initial get-to-gether meetling held a week ago the membership drive has resulted in a listed memberIship of forty with a prospective roll of [between sixty-flvo and seventy mem hers. Tbe committee named last week to consult with grocers regarding the starting of the Thursday closing pro gnun announced that with the oxcep tion of one grocer, all hhd agreed to close their stores on w Thursdays, beIgiiining in May, and continuing through June, July and August. ' The |committee also reported that the |giocery stores would open at 7 a. m. land close at 7 p. m. dally, with the exception of Saturday when the closing hour would he 10 o'clock In the evening. Other stores will open at E:30 and close at 5:30 daily, with the |saturday exception, when the closing hour will be 9:00 p. m. | There is one exception oil the Mhursday afternoon closing, that coming cm July 3, when, with July 4, coining on Friday, the Thursday closing Ivill be cancelled for that week. All It ores of the city will close all day Htn July 4, also Thanksgiving and rhristmas. An appeal is to be made to the city |iuthorltles to have legislation enacted |whereby all solicitors, peddlers and ^ he like must have a license to operlite in the city. Legislation will also |)o asked that will -provide that hucksters selling fruits, vegetables and |>ther merchandise from trucks be |)arred from the business area of the |city. The suggestion was made that Irucks owned by county or state grow rs be restricted to certain zones Ivhile those from out of the state be |*o(|uired to park at least a mile from |Uie business district. Attention was |called to the fact that several months go trucks loaded with Florida fruit l>arked on DeKalb street In front of Presbyterian church and sold mer^ handise. It was stated that this is a violation of the federal and state hlgh svay regulations. But even were it |ci:al. the association believes it in fringcH on the rights of local mer than ts. I A C. McKain, manager of the J. C. (Please turn to page three) Knitted Garments 1 Are Needed I Camden and Kershaw county reai|jent8 who have the idea that knitted Btarments are not needed in England ml consequently none are being ship >ed there by Bundles for Britain, Inc., ^fr'lll be interested in a letter received |>y Miss Jane N. Swords, president of ^ahe local chapter of the Bundles for ^ iritain program. Mrs. Paul White, executive director >f the Bundles for Britain Inc. has ^P-rltten to Miss Swords and she says it part: "I am so glad that you -wrote me ^kbout the doubt expressed toy some >eople in Camden that knitted gar nenta are still needed and being hipped to England. We are shpping >nce, twice and sometimes three imes a week, but what we send does tot begin to fill the increasing demand or these garments. I "New classes are being called into he services at frequent intervals and he Lindsay committee reports that ?0,000 knitted garments for the orces are urgently needed In the next ^Pix months. I "Thank you for the nice things you *>* about our organization. We are ? glad to have your splendid cooperar ion In Camden, we realise that youra Is a small community and I assure you hat among branches of the same slse he Camden branch ranks high and our enthusiasm and fine help are a |rf'at encouragement to ns here In W York." I - Essex Troop To Play On Sunday It looks liko the Essex riders uguinst the Camden talent next Sunday at the No. 1 polo held hero. According to Coach Cyril Harrison of the Camden polo club tho big Sunday aftomoon sport classic will prtv vide lota of Jlne riding and clever maneuvers. With Joe llates on the shelf with an Injury sustained when his pony skidded and rolled over in the game played for the benefit of the state bar association convention last week and with Charley Robertson hanging up hiB spurs for the season, Harrison is hard put to gather enough of the mallet wielders to put a team into the field and have a player who can work with the three polo stars from the Essex group. However he announced Wednesday that the lineups of the teams indicate some good hard and fast play. The Camden team will line up with Burns at No. 1, DuBose at No. 2, Harrison at No .3 and Tupper at the back or 4 position. The Essex warriors will have Brauchli at No. 1, Bdgerton at No. 2, McOrath at No. 3 and Carl Lightfoot a great favorite with soldier fans playing the No. 4 position. The game is to be played at 3:30 o'olock and will probably mark tho last appearance of Harrison in the 1940-41 program as the coach plans on leaving for Ixmg Island next week where ho will engage in polo competition during the summer months. It will be good news to all of the thousands of fans who have followed Camden polo this past season to know that Harrison is definitely planning on being back next fall to again manage and coach the Camden talent. As to whether the game Sunday will mark the end of the polo program j for the season is not known. It will bo recalled that last season the games continued beyond the middle of May. The extremely hot weather of tho past week has been hard on the ponies but with the change which came Wednesday there is a prospect that several more games will be played. The rain of the midweek helped to soften the surface of the polo field and this also will be received with genuine approval by the riders. The past season has been the most succsesful in the history of the sport in Camden. From a mere group of a (Please turn to page six) Camden Schools Had Many Winners The Camden high school placed winners In sixteen of eighteen District Five mental tests. This district consists of Kershaw, Lee, Sumter, Clarendon and Darlington counties. This school led in the number of winners to be sent to Columbia for tho finals beginning April 30 and ending May 2. A total of thirty-nine places were won by local high school studemts. This is the highest number ever won by the Camden high school. The following is a list of the winners: General Science?Julia Arrants. Senior Algebra?Wallace Rector. Junior Algebra?Baynard Boykin, Briant Cox, Margaret Carolyn Pitts, Hughey Tindal, William Thomas Waters. Typing?Ethel Jordan. Bookkeeping?Dorothy Owens, Gladys iM. Walker., Junior Latin?Pat Thompson, Betty Huckabee, John Thompson. History?Wallace Rector, Charles Boineau, Cary Guthrie, Patsy Trantham. Senior Spelling?Patsy Trantham, Ethel Ann Mauldin, Dorothy Marshall. Geometry?Betty Jane Sarratt, Billy Smith, Pat Thompson, Ethel Ann Mauldin. Blolgoy?Baynard Boykiji. Shorthand?Patsy Trantham, Edna Moseley, Cary Guthrie, Ethel Jordan. Arithmetic?Julia Arrants, Leroy Davis. Junior English?Wiley Sheorn, Frances West. Senior English?Wallace Rector, Charles McCasklll, Mary Pitts, Cary Guthrie. Patsy Trantham. General Scholarship?Wallace Rector. Softball Teams Play Here This Afternoon The Wateree Mills Softball team, city champions last year, will play the Kershaw Mills team at the Laurens street diamond thia afternoon at 5 n'oiork. la a gams played at Kershaw last Monday the Wateree lads won 1 to 0 la a tight battle. Expansion Begins At Army School The Southern Aviation school, operating a primary truining base for flyers at the Woodward airport here, has'' Just signed a contract with the war department whereby 66 flying cadots will report? to the baso every (lve weeks. The original contract called for 66 cadets. 'Work upon the construction of a new barracks to be located Just east of the present barracks is to bo started soon and" when completed will enable the school to handle classes of 100 cadets every Ave weeks. This means a total enrollment at all times of 200 or over. The airport commission acquiring addltonal property along United States Highway No. 1 extending north from the present east and west connecting link from the main road to the air school*. Work has already been started at grading a portion of this new area. The old county road which adjoined the airport area on the east is to be closed and the whole territory will become a part of the j landing field, thus providing a new and long east and west runway. A number of negroes occupying cottages located on the old county road are to be removed. Along U. S. No. 1 an area will be graded and surfacod to form a parking area. When this program of expansion has been completed the present east and west road will he used only by officials and others affiliated with the air school. J us t east of the present steel hangar an operations building will be constructed. This building will bo equipped with lockers, desks, blackboards, tables and a dispatcher's office. The building is to take care of the instructors and students on the flying line. i (Please turn to page two) Harrisburg Senators Return to Home Lot The Harrisburg Senators, InterState league team, In training In Camden since the latter part of (March, pulled up stakes Sunday and boarded the rattler fon Harrisburg, prepared to open tho season this week against the Hagerstown entry In the Interstate loop. The baseball players were loud In their praise of Camden as a training headquarters and the older members of the squad declared (hat the weather hero was the finest they have ever experienced in spring training. The Harrisburg group proved a quiet gentlemanly roster of baseball players and they won many friends In Camden. Ditty Cochlln, coach of the squad and a detective in Harrisburg when not with the ball team made "many friendships. The Senators played 14 games on their training schedule and won 8 of them. They wound up their program by giving the Columbia Reds a nice toVi trimming in Dreyfuss dell at Columbia Saturday. The Senators, with two of tho outer gardens well cared for found a third hard-hitting man in Wesley Cox, sent by Pie Traynor, head coach of the Pitt Pirates to Harrisburg from the Albany farm team,. The Senators also needed a first class catcher and Traynor promised that one would be secured. It is believed that one of the catchers on the Albany roster would Join the Senators. New Flour And Feed Store on South Broad The Birdsey Flour Mills, of Atlanta, Ga., with some 27 retail outlets in South Carolina will occupy the former location of the McCaskill grocery store on South Broad street with a modern retailing establishment. Work on remodeling and renovating the property has been In progress for several weeks and is rapidly nearlng completion. The structure has almost entirely toeen rebuilt and with the front, attractive in new paint, will add greatly to that part of the business district. The store will handle all flour mill products. The I*ady Mac Shop, Just south of the new Birdsey establishment owned and managed by Mm. Robert McCaskill , is to have a new front and also be renovated throughout. i> For Canada's wartime pilot training schools approximately 10,000,000 square yards of highway runway surface, equal to 800 miles of standard highways, are being paved in the airports. In the Falkland Islands, mutton is ceUed "H6". Other meets ere very ?? in these sheep-raising islands, mo mutton Is seten every day in tho year. : ? f - - ^ - r _ : . A I Greenville Lawyer Selected President In addition to tho election of Proctor A. Ikmham of Greenville* ft** president, Yancy A. Method of Columbia a? foorotary and Attorneys llonry H. Woodward, Paul A Cooper and Samuel K. Preston, all of Columbia ua members of tho executive committee, the South Carolina State Par association also elected tho following circuit officials, at the convention held here the later part of last week: First Circuit?-Andrew Berry of Orangeburg, vice president; P. L. | Folder of Orangeburg, general council and S; I). Parker and L. Marian of I Dorchester as local council. Second Circuit?Lonnle Garvin as vice president, J. Wesley Crum as general council and A. H. Nlnesteln and T. M. Boulware as local council. Third Circuit?A. S. Merriman as yIco president; Henry C. Jennings ^s general council and J. A. O'Bryan and Claude M. Epps as local council. Fourth Circuit?J. B. Gibson as vice president; B. C. Dennis, Jr. as general council and L. l^wson and Robert W. Shand as local council. Fifth Circuit?R. Beverly Herbert as vico president; John K. deLoach as general council and Henry Savage, Jr. and A. Augustus Black as local counjcil. Sixth Circuit?J. N. Sarratt as vico 'president; Ned Gregory as general I council and A. T. Henry and H. N. Q'Jiear as local council. Seventh Circuit?L?. W. Perrln ?8 vice president; Sam M. Wolfe as general council and Bruce W. White and Joe C. Wrights ton as local council. Eighth Circuit?Rudolph N. Grlor as vice prosldont; Thomas H. Tape as general council and Steve Griffith and Jas H. Sullivan as local council. (Please turn to page nine) Boy Scout Circus At Melton Field 1 The most spectacular Boy Scout clrciSs to toe brought before the friends of scouting, will be given at Melton Field, University of South Carolina, May 9 In the capital city, Columbia, 8. C. Participating in this gigantic circus will be our own scouts, and also any other troops in the county. Scout leaders with their scouts will be pleased to see both old and young at the circus. What will you see there? If you arrive anywhere along Main Street In Columbia before 5 p. m. on Friday the 9th, you will see the forerunnor, in a mammoth parade, showing only part of what you will see fat Melton field. Gates will open at 7:00 p. m., a fine band concert up to 8:00 when one after another surprises will be before your eyes, cubs In their Indian lore, Scouts in educational features, knot tying, communications, archery, fire and their purposes, camping. the sea scouts, in sea adventure, the blare of bugles from the drum and bugle corps, but not to bo left out the funny antics of many clowns, all summed up to make you and yours have an enjoyable evening. Our Scout executive, #wlth his staff of leaders will be on hand to welcome you to the Boy Scout circus. Remember the date and reserve Friday evening May 9th. Tickets can be secured from any Scout or Scout leader or upon your arrival at Melton Field. Adults 25c; children 10c. Cars Crash atDeKalb And Lyttleton Sts. A' car drtven by Attorney Bert Shumate, of Willlamson. West Virginia crashed into a car owned and driven by Ralph Waldo Chase, prominent winter resident here Sunday evening at the corner of Bast DeKalb and Lyttleton streets. The West Virginia driver admitted his error In going through a red stop light, explaining that he did not note the light Both cars were damaged. Fortunately none of the occupants were Injured. Local Highs Beaten By Sumter 15 to 1 The Camden high school baseball team dropped a 16 to 1 decision to a Sumter high powerhouse at the city park Wednesday afternoon. A feature of the game was a home run over the center Held fence by Farmer of the invaders. It was the longest drive to be registered at the local PfrJOn Tuesday Camden invaded Sumter and took a 17 to 5 larroping at the bands of the Gamecocks. Hunter Named As Head of Rotarians J Hiram T. ("Ty") Hunter of the Sylva Rotary club. Sylva, N. <\ was Monday afternoon nominated president of the 100th district of Rotary International. Mr. Hunter's nomination was unanimous and ho was tendered a great ovation. Ho will bo ; formally elected at the International |convention In Denver the coming * summer. I Horn at Mars Hill. N. March 26. .1883, Mr. Hunter was educated in the I public schools of Madison county. | Mars Hill college, Wako Forest col* logo. Columbia university and Harvard university. As an educator ho has been president of Western Carolina Teachers college at Cullowhee. N. C., since 1923. He Joined the Sylva Rotary club In 1928. and was its president in 1932 and 1933. Tito club under his leadership won 'tho governor's golden goblet in 1933. A. Sam Koresh, chairman of tho 190th district conference, Rotary""TTF ternational, called tho 1941 convention to order at 10 o'clock Monday with practically all of the clubs of the district represented. While tho Rotarians and Rotary Anns began to register Sunday noon, tho first day and evening was given over to Informal and social evonts featuring golf, polo, skeOt and the like. Monday tho registrations wero still coming In and the 600 mark had been passed. Tho midnight dance which started exactly one minute after 12 midnight Sunday continued for sovoral hours but the actual business of tho conference got under way Monday. Mayor Francis N. McCorkle, Camdon executivo, and llenry Savage. Jr., president of the Camdon Rotary club, both offered addresses of welcome, with llotarlan W. K. Caatine of the Hatesburg-I?esvlllo club presiding. In turn came the routine announcements of the conference by Secretary John K. deLoach and the report of tho district governor Joo Timborlake. Many of the past governors of the district were 'present and were proj son ted to the gathering. The address I of the morning session was given by iDr. James C. Kmard, president of, Newberry college, who spoke on "Community Service." Another address of the morning sosslon was given by Frank Hamblen, president of tho Greenville Rotary club, who spoke on "Fellowship In Rotary." The mammoth dining salon of the Klrkwood was filled to capacity for the luncheon that was given at 1 o'clock. Invocation was made by Father Ed Burke of Camden and the main address of the post prandial was given by Jeff H. Williams, Chickasha, Okla., director of Rotary International. Presiding at the post prandial was former Governor Carroll H. Jones of Columbia. Tho entertainment program for the afternoon called for a golf tournament at 2:30 and a gymkhana at 2:46 at the (Please turn to page four ) Tarheel Is Winner Of Golf Tourney The Sylva, N. C., Rotary club not only boasts of having "Ty" Hunter, , former president, named as district I governor 190th district, but C. F. ' Godson of the same club went out to j win tho low gross honors in the annual golf tournament of Rotarians held on tho Klrkwood course during tho convention period. Dodson finishled with a gross 82 with Rotarian, D. Stouder of Columbia, a close second with an 83. In the Kicker handicap tournament, W. P. Andrews, of Waynesville, N. C., was the winner with a 78. The best score on par three holes went to J. L. Campbell, of Spartanburg, and J. A. Provost, of Florence, each" Mating 16 strokes. Joe Sylvan of Columbia turned in the best score on 12 holes, with a 49. Sylva Rotary again scored when Charles Melicher, of that club, took consolation honors with a 118. Gymkhana la Big 8ucceaa The Gymkhana offered at the No. 1 field featured eight events and was witnessed by a crowd of a thousand spectators, a majority being Rotarians and Rotary Anns. The Gymkhana was one of the beat arranged and supervised seen on the local field in many years. All credit for the success of the affair is due to E. Clarkson Rhame and the cooperation extended to him by members of the Camden polo club and others. Spartanburg Shot Wins Shoot Rotarian Foster, of Spartanburg, won the skeet shoot with high gun honors. In the Class C group Rotarian Phackston. of Spartanburg was the winner; v in the B event, McWillie Boykin, Of Sumter, was first and In the Competition, Charles Foster, of Columbia, 'was winner. The woman's shoot was won by Mrs. Milton C. Smith, of Camden. 'New Boarding House Opens ? i m I A new rooming and ooardlng house to be known as "Shady Rest" has | been opened on Mill street by Mrs. H. H. Hyman. N The building has been entirely renovated and painted inside and Out and, the rooms are ell equipped with new furniture and meUreeeee, I - Hyman will operate the place a a boarding house. ? New Dairy Plant Is Finest In The State One of the finest, If not (lie finest pasteurizing plant In the state is now in operation on Broad street and is ywneU and managed by Ixmls I. Onion, an outstanding dairyman of the state. Mr. Ouion has Invested over $12,000 in equipping the new plant and the pasteurizing equipment represents (lie very latest In design and opera* Hon. It was brought to Camden directly from the York refrigerating equipment company and was Installed by the T. Ixmls Murray company, of Columbia. The equipment Is of stainless steel j and represents the extreme in cleanliness and sanitation. The pasteurizing procedure Involves two machines, one for the cooling storage and the other the breaking down of the pnstourlzed milk to 24 degrees temperature. In the process of pasteurization of milk, by which milk Is raised to a temperature of from J 40 to 144 degrees, all dangerous bacteria which may be therein Is destroyed. Tito safety of pasteurized milk Is so certain that all United States Army naval and air bases require its use. Since tho opening of tho Southern Aviation school hero In Camden tho cadets and school personnel have been receiving pasteurized milk. Tho Camden Dairies has the contract to provide tho school with this typo of milk. The plant of tho Camden Dairies Is a model of its kind. To provide the proper kind of quarters it was necessary to completely dismantle the former building and rebuild from the floor up. Every move was predicated upon the sanitary requisites of the dairy. An entiie new cement floor was put in, new brick and concrete partitions, all properly insulated installed. The sales room at the Broad street end of tho plant Is finished in white with chrome and leather equipment. Here one may obtain all kinds of milk drinks, ice cream and sandwiches. The Camden dairies will maintain a retail department at the plant and will also operate a delivery service throughout the city and community. The pasteurization of milk resulted from research by the famous Louis Pasteur, who has contributed greatly to medical and sanitary scientific research. Camden can /well be proud of:Tho~ fine new Camden Dairies and to the enterprise of Mr. Ouion.- Needless to ' state that in this day of sanitation requirements "and the ability of the Camden Dairies to provide clean pure milk, absolutely free of any dangerous bacteria, the success of the dairy venture is assured. * DuBose Is Star Of Rotary Game I^ed by Bubba DuBose, No. 2 on tho Rambler foursome, the blue-silk gentry trotted off the No. 1 polo field late Sunday afternoon carrying sterling silver plates, individual trophies won in the Rotary match with the Yellow Jackets. The score was 6 to 4 with DuBose posting four of the goals made by his team. It was a game that kept the big crowd of spectators on edge as the score was tied at the end of each of the first four chukkers. Giving DuBose a real fight for top scoring honors was Carl Lightfoot of the Rambler team. LJghtfoot posted the first counter of the game In the opening chukker when he roared down the field to tuck over a sizzling drive. Harrison, playing No. 3 for the Ramblers, turned in a pretty shot from beneath the neck of his pony in the middle of the period. In the second chukker the Ramblers took a lead In Harrison's goal, in the third tho Yellow Jackets staged a rally that witnessed the caging of two beautiful goals by Lightfoot and a lone counter by ISdgerton. Tho Ramblers remained In the running on DuBose's angle shot that went between the posts. Starting the second half the Ramblers really tightened up and their perfect defense broke up fully a dozen offensive thrusts on the part of an ambitious yellow silk foursome. The blueclads scored a goal in the fourth, - ~ fifth and sixth periods while the yellowsilks were whitewashed. At the conclusion of the game the Ramblers were presented the silver trophies by Jeff H. Williams of Chfcaska, Ok]a., a director of Rotary international, who wee assisted in the ^ presentation by Joe EL Ttmberlake, JIlaAwSad ^ n v m ? m ^ ^ distrtet governor from Columbia*