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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Harrisburg Senators
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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*