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The Camden Chronicle VOLUME 63 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1941 NUMBER 20 Drastic Regulations to Prevail During War Games This Fall T ^ Drastic regulations, known only in an emergency period and particularly applicable to an area wherein war maneuvers are held, will prevail Jn Canulen and Kershaw county as well a8 in the other counties of North and South Carolina wherein the first army will stage a gigantic war game in October and November. Cities and counties in the area will have the enforcement of these regulations put squarely into their hands, according to army officials. At a meeting of civilian defense agencies represented by city, county, civic and other groups of officials in the state house at Columbia last Thursday the sanitation and law enforcement problems of no small proportions to be dealt wiHi during the v fall maneuvers were outuined by state army and war departmW/"officials. The mayors, sheriffs, police heads, health officers, Chambers of Commerce officials and other civic representatives from Kershaw, Richland, York. Chester, Lancaster, Chesterfield, Marlboro and Fairfield counties at* tended the meeting. From Kershaw county wero Dr. A. W. Humphries, J. Team Gettys. Getygo Mickle, Miss Sarah Crawford, Mrfc. Kathleen Watts, Mrs. Julia Russell, Mrs. R. B. Pitts, Acting Mayor Joe McKain, Police Chief Alva Rush, President C. P. DuRone, Jr., and Executive Secretary Frank H. Heath of the Chamber Of Commerce. Among some of the regulations which will prevail will be the curbing o: 'he activities of undesirable wornsuppression of the liquor and gambling activity, requirement of pernios for food handling, licensing of ta.\: lines operating outside of cities, '..fiction of trailers to licensed vamps, placarding of all stores and shops handling food, milk and other su; Tdios. At fairs, carnivals and sot ials onlv packaged food from first ?? class stores will bo permitted to be sold ... Cafes, hotels, restaurants, markets dairies and pasteurization plants, tourist camps all will be thoroughly decked and marked. Those failing t" come tip to the standard required by the government will be labeled and will be "off limits". . Colonel Lewis A. Page, First Corps provost marshal struck the keynote of the conference when he stated that the civilian population in the maneuver area need not fear the army, that the army was doing everything possible to see that the soldiers ai\ what they should be. !' stressed the fact that liquor, women and gambling would have to be t urbod in the maneuver area. ' T:. > ~ communities which do not (i:.', those things will be responsible . for nv atrocities which occur", he Matvd. A; proximately 500,000 troops will t?r- ; art in the maneuvers, Governor I -. t Maybank declared In his openit. marks to the conference. In cm:' n. he said, there would be r camp followers" and "thous; ; people not connected with the i vers" to coq)Plicate the proid : i. . x pressed a hope that "our peo! M ill not run prices up and take adv jace" of the army. "I do belt " ho said, however, "that milli"-. 'J dollars will be left in South Carolina" since the maneuvers "will J>rr,b..l?ly cost $80,000,000." Chiefly outlining maneuver plans, Col T. R. Goethals, First Army modical advisor, said they would bo op the "la re est scale" ever attempted and that "extra military sanitation" wonld he necessary because the army "will have no direct control over the environment" of the, troops. Civilian agencies, he explained, must be responsible .for pure water supplies, sewage disposal and control of proatltution and venereal disease. Dr. L. L. Williams. Jr., Fourth Corps Area liason > officer, told of health and sanitation problems found in o?her maneuver areas. He explain*d that health officers would be called upon to inspect and placard water "upply sources, examine food stores , *nd effect "a rather rigid suppression . of prostitution." The eels of Maoo* *ouid also have to be restricted considerably, he said.Williams declared that only "peek* *ced food" from tret dees . stores abort* be sold at "eSreivale and He expressed the opinion that a general co-ordinating office for the entire are*,. would be get up "where all trouble can be reported and all In* formation given out." Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer followed Williams and outlined plans of the health department to be put Into effect "as soon after August 1 as possible." These plans called for the grading and placarding of cafes, hotels; restaurants, markets, dairies, pasteurisation plants; the inspection and placarding of tourist camps; posting of watershed areas. The boards of health In the eight counties, Hayne said, will be asked to require permits for food handling, trailer camps, taxi cab operation outside city limits; to adopt standard milk ordinances and Regulations governing carnivals. In connection with venereal disease control, Hayne said the state board of health suggested the closing of houses of prostitution, the restriction !of trailers to licensed camps, the licensing of taxis operating In rural nreas and the co-operation of hotel managements. Sanitary officers would be made deputy sheriffs , or state constables. He explained that similar regulations would be in effect in North Carolina. , - t , Hayne also spoke of 0 central office "to co-ordinate all* civilian defense actlvitjes." It would operate on a 24-hour basis and would be supplied with telephone, telegraph and radio connections. There would pronbly be a North Carolina representative in the South Carolina office and a South Carolinian in the North Carolina office for liason relationships, he said. Traffic problems in the maneuver aren were also discussed, John K. Cauthen, secretary of the state highway maneuvers committee, reportipg that the highway department was "well up" with its plans. He said there would be a 35-mile-an-hour speed limit in areas in which troops were moving. Captain Floming Mason of the state highway patrol assured the meeting that his men were prepared to handlo all troop movements. From 80 to 100 patrolmen will be needed, he said, since plans called for the assignment of several patrolmen to each military unit on the march. "We hope to detour very few people," he said. "We hope to move as many people as possible through the areas with as littl^ discomfort as possible." Attorney General John M. Daniel said Jie could not become "unduly alarmed that we are going to have a rough house" and expressed the opinion that magistrates would bo of "the most service" in law enforcement. Dr. R. E. Fox. director of the division of county health departments in North Carolina, saw the coming maneuvers as " a distinct challenge to us, both as health officers and civilians" to curb prostitution and other vice. He said Governor Broughton of North Carolina would cooperate "In every respect" with South Carolina officials and added a belief that "we can learn some important lessons through cooperation with army officials." Col. Lewis A. Page, First Corps provost marshal,, asked for the co-operation of mayors, sheriffs and other law enforcement officers and offered an assurance that no one need "fear the military." He said the army was do- t ing everything possible to see "that the soldiers are what you desire them to be." "Liquor, women and gambling" must be curbed in the maneuver areas or else those communities which, do not will be' responsible "for any atrocity tbat occurs", he said. Page estimated that there would be , 60,000 or 70,000 "government vehicle" in the maneuver area with possibly "100,000 civilian vehicles moving in ( and out." He said a military police- ; man would be assigned to work with each highway patrplman. ^"Keep out of tbdse areas where troops are concahtrated", he warned, "because they will be dangerous/' Mrs. Herbert W. Oundaker Isft Sua- i day zaorniag for hsr boms in Rah way, Maw Jsrssy. She was accompaafsd j home by hsr sister. Miss Dora Robin_ M DaKIhsai Mrs, William iwomioiL ' w County Fair To | Open October 13! Provision has been made by the ad- ^ vlsory committee of the Kershaw county fair association for the addition of beef type cattle a yd horses and mules to the entry list of the an'nual agricultural classic which this! year will be staged for one week, beginning Monday October 13th.? In the beef type cattle exhibit there will be prises of $10, $5 and $3 for first second and third place winners of bull entries three years or over. The same awards will be given for bulls two years up to three, $6, $3 and $2 I for entries in the senior yearling bull and in tl\e junior yearling bull classes. Dulls six months or under will stand to win $4, $3 and $2 awards; cows three years and $5, $3 and $2; I cows or heifers two and under 3, the same; senior yearling neifers and Junior yearlings heifers $4. $3 and $2. (heifers 6 months and under 12 | months $4, $3 and $2 and exhibitors herd $12, $5 and $3. An exhibitor's herd shall consist of one bull, two years or over, oqe cow three years or over, one heifer twc and under three years, one heifer one and under two years, one heifer one year, and to be owned by one exhibitor. In the horses and mules division awards of $5, $3 and $2 will be given to mule colts, 6 to 12 months old; aljjo ti* mule colts 12 to 24 months old; mple colts two years and under three while awards of $7.50, $5 and $3 are provided for the best pair of mules of any age. In the horse division awards of f 5. $3 anc^ $2 will be given to best brood mares and the same the betjt brood mare with suckling mule colt.. All horses or mules shown in the class are to brought to the fair grounds on the Wednesday morning of fair week tor judging during the day. They can be carried home in the afternoon. The members of the committee acting in an advisory capacity to the Red j Fez dlub and the American Legion, promoters of the annual county fair event, are as follows: Buffalo township:?Mrs. Charlie Ilolley, Jefferson, Mrs. Ira Ellis, Kershaw; Mrs. H. B. McCasklll, Bethune; W. T. Holley, Jefferson; M. G. King, Bethune and H. B. Taylor, Kershaw. Flat Rock township?Mrs. T. H. Young. Kershaw; Mrs. Shelby Truesdale, Westville; Henry Higgins, Liberty Hill and K. C. Etters, Kershaw. I West Wateree ' township:?Mrs. Viola Brannon, Lugoff; Mrs. Team j Gettys, Lugoff- L. P. Rose, Blaney and R. S. Kirk, Lugoff. DeKalb township: Mrs. J. E. Wilson, Camden; Mrs. W. J. Denton, i Camden; E. T. Pearce, Camden and J. B. McCoy, Camden. Honorary members of the committee are Mrs. A. C. McKain and Mrs. Oscar Smyrl. Mrs. Maddox | Dies at Blaney! . Mrs. Isabell Edwards, Maddox, 72.' widow of the late T. M. Maddox of' Blaney, died at 7 o'clock Sunday morning at her home near Blaney after an illness of ten weeks. She has been a lifelong resident of the community where she was a member of Harmony Baptist church. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. M. B. Brissie of Rock Hill .and Mrs. M. E. Forte of Camden; four sons, Russei A. Maddox, Irby Maddox, both of Blaney, Herbert Maddox of j Camden, Edward Maddox of Fort Mill, and also 15 grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at 5:30 (Daylight Saving time) Monday afternoon from Harmony Baptist church, by the Rev. A. L. Willis, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Dennis Anderson of Camden, the Rev. Oswald Smith of Fort Mill and the Rev. Mr. Moore of Columbia. Interment was In the churchyard. Active pallbearers were: W. F. Paschal, O. A. Dowey, Alfred Mattox, Roth well McCaeklll, Von McCaskill and William Maddox. Honorary pallbearers were: Dr. F. C. Dobson^ Dr. W. D. Origsby, Dr. 0. S. Rbame, D. W. Atkinson, J. M. Butler, J. L. Paschal, E. H. Ross and Newton Kelly. . Lieutenaid^uid~ Mrs. - A. 8. Heyward, 6t Pehsacola, Fla., spent Satur day night here with Mrs. Nicholson's mother, Mrs. J. C. Nicholson. Mr. and Mrs. Heyward's daughter, Sandrfc, who baa been spending the summer with her grandmother in Cam* den, returned to Phasacota with (ham. - JY. ? -.V / ' "j ' - ~ Plan Fine Locker Plant For Camden Plans for the building of a refrigerated looker storage plant in Kershaw oounty are progressing slowly but those who are active in the matter believe that definite action will be taken toward the construction of a suitable plant in Camden within the year. A delegation of those interested went to Aiken laat week to Inspect the Aiken plant and returned with plenty of enthusiasm to transmit to those o were unable to make the trip. It is hoped to have the storago plant be erectod as a unit of a structure which would house a modern abbatolre, something Camden has been planning for some time. In addition to meats a storage plant can be utilized for the storage of fruits, vegetables butter and eggs. Lockers rent for from $10 to $15 a year but the renter will save from $25 to $75 a year depending on how efficiently he operates his locker. Meats and vegetables, if not raised by himself can be purchased at a quantity discount which will more than pay for the locker. The process of preparation in a quick freeze locker storage plant starts with the slaughtering of an nnfmal, after which the carcasses are properly dressed and hung in the chill room for 24 to 48 hours. They ur^ then taken into the processing roonj where they are cut up and wrapped in family size packages which are properly labeled. These packages are placed Jn the proper! locker where they remain at a zero! temperature until taken out to be1 used. The locker renter has a key! add .he attendant has a pass key. i Lockers usually have a storage! capacity of six cubic feet and are cap-' abl?? of holding approximately 3od; pounds of the average typo of pro- i duct. j The advantage of quick frozen. foods is that the removal of heat from a product and the freezing of (thai product preserves the food in almost its original fresh form. In some! I Instances the quick freezing actually! improves it. In the cas? of meats 90 ' per cent of the germs are killed by quick freezing. [ South Carolina has but two locker : plants at the present time, tho one at Aiken which is cooperatively own- ] ed and one at Greenville which is pri vately owned. Filling Stations All Close Early Evening . I Did you call at your favorite filling 'station Sunday evening to /ill up with! gas for an evening drive? j And were you chagrined, angered and astonished when you found the llilling station closed? And you remember how mad you were when ns you drove from station to station, even to several In the rural area, to find them all closed / Well folks, it all resulted from an. order from Secretary of tho Interior J Harold Ickes, and tlie order in question requires that all filling stations; < lose at 7 p. m. and remain closed until* 7 a. m. Tho curfew on gasolene' sales was ushered in on Sunday even-j ing and it caught a lot of people nap-!' ping. ' vSecretnry Ickes has intimated that if this blackout of gas sales for 12 ( hours daily does not work, more dras-1 tic action will be forthcoming to conserve motor fuel supplies. Ickes believes that if..the Ailing station opera- ' tors and the public cooperate In the < present orde?, that more severe measures will not be necessary. However 1 if the request order falls, Ickes will * immediately take steps to force 1 motorists to secure their gas by * means of rationing cards. 1 " ? Peace Named To 8enate Columbia, Aug. 6?Roger C. Peace, j 42-year-old publisher of the Greenville News-Piedmont, was appointed United States senator from South Carolina by Governor Burnet R. Maybank today to serve until October 16 j. when the elected successor will take f over to serve the remainder of the term of Supreme Court Justice James j F. Byrnes, expiring In 1948. t Peace succeeds Alva Lumpkin, who died laat Friday, in Washington, ( shortly after ha'had relinquished n j federal judgeship to take the appointment July 10 from Maybenk. ^ f Mr*. Bernle Du&lap and her two 1 sona are netting Mr. and Mrs. W. P. i DuBoee at their cottage la Little i S wHxerland, N. C. 1 T. ' g... f ? ajpExr-y "* " " * " , * ' ~ - Z Football Fans Pray For Cool Weather For First Big Game Announcement has been made hero that tl\o annual all-etar football game, scheduled to bo played under the lights of Zemp stadium here Friday, August 16. will feature the appearance of gridiron talent from Camden and Kershaw. I^ast year the classic featured a tilt between former greats of the football ranks of these two cities and the battle was full of exciting situations. Camden won but the visitors from tho county line community made the evening an Interesting affair for the locals. It was originally planned to have tho all-star game this year be played between two teams of Camden talent. In as much as every Camden youth who played football acquired his skill and technique under tbe masterful jwizurdy of Coach John Vllleplgue. A clash between two teams made up of Villepigue coached boys would have been a football natural so far as Interest is concerned. It was found however that the i ; draft has hit the football ranks here J ' a real blow and efforts to secure i (enough players to put two teams in j action had to be abandoned. Hence i I the game against the Kershaw talent.) The game will have all the thrills j |of mid-season football in that tho gay(y uniformed Camden schools baud | will be out and there wltl bo a bevy of. female pulchritude when the cheer' loaders go through their routine in front of the grandstand. In as much as the game is scheduled to start at S o'clock, the fa us will lmve the unique spectacle offered of seeing a football game start in daylight and conclude under the lights, The proceeds of the game will go toward delraying expense of sending j the football squad to the training camp in North Carolina mountains. I This training camp period has become a religion with tho football youngsters and the money raised by; the all-star game goes a long way of 'providing an outing for some or the lads who otherwise would be unable to go. McLeod Brings New Ideas to Local Office The latest arid most up-to-date equipment for the finger-printing of criminals and suspects and the es-1 tablishment of a permanent finger | print file are recent acquisitions to J the sheriffs's headquarters at the county Jail. This new and efficient routine will be in charge of Deputy Sheriff J. H. McLeod. Jr., who graduated from the F. II. I. National Police Academy at;. Washington June 28th and who is a member of the Natloqal Police Acad* j tmy association. The twelve weeks of concentrated, training received by Mr. McLeod at the Police Academy came from the;: same group of specialized instructors who train the regular Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. There twelve graduates of the J schooi in South Carolina and some SSI in the nation. Data of a scientific nature secured at the police station is being utilized by Deputy Shorlff McLeod in building up the efficiency ' of the sheriffs staff of officers in Kerihaw county. The' national association of which ' Vfr. McLeod is affiliated was organ-I zed by police school graduates for. he purpose of maintaining contact, vlth one another, the exchange of 1 deas and in the scientific detection ind prevention of crime. British Cadets ; Act as Pallbearers) l Foster Nalsby died at tbe Camden lospttal Friday after an illnees of a ( ew days. * He was born in London, England, J fuly 20, 1001, and had been employed 1 >y The Kirkwood hotel In Camden- 1 He Is survived by 'one sister In < Canada and other relatives, all la 1 England. * Funeral services were held at 7:10 Saturday evening from the grave side, 1 n Quaker cemetery, Camden, with 1 English students from the air detach- 1 neat Camden, serving as pallbearers, < ind Father Bd Burke ot Saint Mary's ~ Jaiksiie churck, officiating. , T~- "T~~" t- ^ ~ J"'." > ; , Camden Swelters In RecordHeatWeather Last week and part of the present week will go down in Camden history as a period featuring a genuine "hot time in the town". For Old Sol certainly poured on tfia heat and gave Camden folks a tough time day and night for many many days. To be in the height of stylo during the hot days, Camden males found that by donning a sport Bhtrt and cotton slacks and then having gome one turn a hose on them for a few minutes, enabled them to appear for business correctly attired. The application of the stream of water from the hose simply anticipated what would occur anyhow when the temperature and humidity combined to cause excessive perspiring. We know of one executive who came to his office dally with at least two extra shirts and as fast as one became saturated, he replaced it ami hung tho dripping specimen on a hangar to dry out. For a faet, old residents admit they know of no period in their long residence in the community when there has been such a period of sustained heat. Friday night there was a bit oTTelUT hTTereil when a sTorm swept" the area. Hut Old Sol was Iwiok on the job again Saturday morning and kept the population gasping and fretting. Senator Lumpkin Dies in Washington Washington. Aug. 2?Senator Alva M. Lumpkin of South Carolina died last night, the second senator to die in recent weeks shortly after assuming office. Tho 54 year old Democrat was sworn In less than two wees ago to succeed James F. Byrnes, who was appointed to tho supreme court. Senator Andrew Jackson Houston, 87?year-old-Texan, died June 26 after taking office June 2 to succeed the late Senator Morris Sheppard, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi also died this year. Lumpkin was stricken with a gastric hemmorrhago Wednesday niglit and was unconscious almost constantly until his death. Mrs. Lumpkin and a son, Alva, Jr., were at the hospital bedside, as was Justice Byrnes. Tho South Carolinian was widely known over the nation in fraternal and legal circles. Motorists Face Bar To Motoring Trips A genuine threat faces tho tourist communities of tho nation if the plan of Harold Ickes. secretary of the Interior is carried out. The threat Is in the form of a gasolene rationing program which will allow a car owner but 5 gallons per week. Judging from newspaper reports with Washington date lines and also from radio broadcasts emanating from tho nation's captiol Ickes is not too well pleased with the manner in which his gas curfew has been greeted. Oil companies and filling station owners have given splendid cooperaion but iI is the motorists who have 'ailed, according to the Washlngttn itatementa. Ickes asserts that the Ailing of extra cans la not in line with the iplrit of economy as he sees It. In ether words, nothing In the line of >il conservation Is being accomplished through the medium of the* 7 CO 7 ' :urfew on gas sales if the motorists oad up tanks and extra receptacles. The the secretary will crack down >n the motoring public for this lack >f cooperation Is * believed certain, ind the Crackdown will be in the uiture of a rationing card. Reports 'rom Washington on Tuesday Indicated that a maximum ofdr# gallons >er week for pleasure cars was being considered. If that is true it is going to parage the tourist business because the iverage ear will travel bat 79 to * niles on five gallons of gas and that effectively bars any long trtpa. - , ' - ?Wttbsat water Ufe cannot last nor# than a few days.