A \*V" . . - - . The Gamden Chronicle ' ? - VOLUME 63 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942 NUMBER 49 !Raid Alarm Is For Wednesday lem will experience Its first ; Biren alert ou Wednesday. 4, at 9 o'clock iu the evening. | i m 04,4 V Ml f- a? "t Generals' Races To Be Held March 14 The third of the "The (lenerala' Races" will bo held Saturday, March ; 14, at 2:30 o'clock In the afternoon at the Mlllway track located southeast of Camden at Boykin, according to an announcement made here this week by Miss Martha Singleton^ secretary of the race committee. The committee In charge of the March 14 program Is headed by Bolivar D. Boykiu, president; Richard B. Hoykin, chairman; Miss Martha Singleton, secretary; with Klrby S. Tupper, Richard S. Kirk, Whit Boykin, W. A. Boykin, Jr., and Charles P. DuHoho, Jr., as members. The Mlllway track Is located on the Mlllway plantation of Bolivar D. Boykin, with the entrance on United States highway 621. A wide concrete highway leading from Camden to Sumter provides access to the are* for motorists. The program as announced this week calls for five races and it was stated by the committee that a sixth race which may be added will feature horses from Fort Jackson. The No. 1 race will be two furlongs on the flat for horses not better than half-breed*. The purse is $60 added,! of which $10 will go to second and *6 to third. The weight is stipulated I at 146 pounds with three-year olds. Ave pourtds, and two year olds Ave pounds additional. Race No. 2 is one-half mile on the flat for three-year olds, with purse of $100 added, of which $26 goes to second and $10 to the third, and $26 to the winning three-year- old sired by horses standing in South Carolina. Weights: 130 pounds; half-breds allowed five pounds. (Please turn to page eight) Urges Farmers Make Repairs Since farm machinery in good repair will be as important as guns and tanks la winning the war, all Ker- * shaw county farmers who have not already done so are'urged by County Agent W. C. McCarley to buy or order needed repairs for their machinery at once. All farm operators in the county have received Information Card No. 61, "Check Your Farm Machinery Now for Needed Repairs.'' The first thing to do is to check over each farm machine and list the needed repair parts on the back of this card. The next step is to order these repair parts from dealers without delay. Because of the unusual demand for iron and steel for war supplies, rew farm machinery is not only scarce, ! but extremely hard to get. This is especially true in connection with, tractor-drawn equipment and other labor-saving machinery. "There are many good hours of service left in old equipment if it is given a chance", says the county agent. "Local farm machinery dealers and repair shops are ready to help farmers put their equipment in condition to get those added hours of service." The local farm machinery repair and maintenance campaign, under the direction of county agent McCarley, Is part of a nation-wide program so that needed food can be produced as an aid in national defense. Chamber Requests New Rental Listing The Chamber of Commerce Is making another appeal to cltlsens of Camden who have houses, apartment* or rooms to rent, to list them at the Chamber office at once. At no time In Camden history has there been such a. demand for accommodations as there Is right now. The expansion of the aviation post has resulted In an unprecedented demand for apartments, houses, and rooms. Last Saturday fifteen couples visited the Chamber of Commerce In an effort to secure quartdip In which .to reside. ?v -gffThe Chamber-of Committee accommodations unit,' in ctutffce of Miss i Margaret KeleUer, has a listing Of accommodations that was compiled early last fall, but many of the places listed hare since been rented without due notice being sent to the Chamber Office. .. -~rr.:r:' In order to bring the record to date the Chamber Is asking aJI peepie having rentals to report same to the office at once. Aa soon es a place la rented the Chamber requeet* that proner check may be made. Brandon Pride Is Tops in Horse Show Brandon Bride. a hi# Chestnut gelding owned and ridden by J. North Fletcher of Camden, walked off with top honors in the .champion hunter class before a record crowd preaeut at the eighth anuual Virginians' horse i show here Saturday. Unserve honors in this clues wer'p won by (leneral Known, an eight-year-old Chestnut from Krnest White's Lyndon Farm stables. Although honors were even- : ly divided throughout the 16 well balanced events, Morton Govern of Port < Chester, N. Y., and Mrs. James C. i Hamilton of Warrenton, Va? who l judged the show, wasted little tune in giving the nod to the Fletcher en- 1 try when they came into the ring for tjjhe conveted championship award. In addition to winning the cham- 1 pion hunter event, Brandon Pride gave several good performances In the i ring and over the difficult outside course to take blues in two other classes, Ladles' Hunters and Middle and Heavyweight hunters, as well as second honors In the Corinthian and Greem Hunter classes. 8urprlsiugly enough, Air Warden, a three-year old son of Hi-Jack, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bryant, of Alexandria, Va.. after annexing Initial honors in four of the nlue events shown during the morning session, as well as the Sarsfleld Club Hunter 1 stake*, lh which he out-performed the seasoned Brandon Pride, failed to place in the championship Hunter class. The youngster performed well, however and will bear watching as a champion prospect on the Southeastern circuit this season. Air Warden began his string of ' victories by taking the blue in the (Please turn to page five) j Government May Seize Junk Yards - i A census of the automobile "grave- , yards" throughput Kershaw county is already under way according to the office of the County War Board; This census is being taken upon orders of Lawrence M. Pinckney, W PA administrator, and is part of a nation-wide census sponsored by the Bureau of Industrial Conservation of ' the War Production Board. The census is being made to find ( scrap metal for war Industries in view of a possible shortage because i of an unprecedented demand for steel i and iron. , Kershaw county has a number of ] these junk graveyards, particularly in , and around Camden. The census now i under way will list every such place ( giving the name of the owner there- < of, and the number of janked cars therein. ( J According to a news story coming * out of Washington, the war produc- ( tion board is finding some of the Junk ( yard owners reluctant to dispose of , their collection of wrecks, with the obvious intention of holding same un- , til they can obtain a higher price for the scrap metal. From the tone of the Washington dispatch, it Is evident ^ that the war department has lost patience with these so-called "chiselers," and plans to slap down on them J and appropriate the metal in the ^ yards at a price derived fair and , equitable. j Heavy Fall of Snow Blankets The City I Starting with the sleet storm early Tuesday afternoon, Camden became < enveloped in a veritable blizzard, during which several Inches of snow of the wet clinging type covered the city and surrounding area like a gigantic * white blanket I Trees and shrubbery were converted! into exquisite creations of shimmering white lace, giving n fairyland perspective to all out of doors.-. sO ] The heavy wet snow created a ser- , ions hazard for motorists aa it cover- , ed windows and windshields of cars, making it difficult to drive. , The snowfall continued from mid- ( afternoon until a late hour of the |, night. The cooling temperature prevailing after dark enabled the white ( covering to remain on pavements 'and 1 walks. .. ??- The basketball game scheduled to be held Tuesd^evenlng between Jthe high' schools at the local gymnasium had to 1? cancelled becatpse of the dangerous traffic conditions caused by the driving snow. (M??*?*?|l|l IHIHJ First Maple Leaf I Reports In Camden ! Dob Lotshaw, strapping six-foot first Backer of the Toronto Maplo Loafs j arrived in Camden from St. Peters- < burg. Florida Thursday and pending | the arrival of the Toronto training < tiquad in two weeks, will be a gen- | tlomau of leisure. ( I/OtHhuw, a nephew of the famouH ] Andy Lotshaw, trainer of tho Chicago Cubs, 1b 24 years of age and haa been f playing in big time huHohall for tho ( puat eight years. He was with In- ( dianapolis of the American asaocla- j tion for five years and with Toronto ^ for three years. The big fellow is married, his wife ( having been Miss Jane Meyors of ( Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, j The past winter Lotshaw spent in ( California, being employed at the , Santa Anita race track until that in- ( stitutipn was closed upon orders of the war department. He then secured , work in the ship yards at Los Angeles ( where he remained until he went east and joined the New York Yankee squad headed for Florida. He remain- 1 ed with the Yanks for a week and j then came on to Camden. Lotshaw Is a likeable chap and if ' the remainder of the Toronto squad i are like him, Camden 1b going to be 1 host to a high type of young man- ' hood during the time the team is ' here. High School To > Make Model Planes ' Plans and specifications for. local , cooperation 1n a national program to , build 600,000 solid scale model air- , planes for the' navy were received , today from the United States office , of Education, superintendent of , schools J. O. Richards, Jr., announc- , ed. Under the program local high school youth will be given an opportunity to contribute directly to the nation's war effort. The local quota is fifty model planes. - Superintendent * niehirds rewr *|J statement made by Secretary of the , Navy- Frank Knox in announcing the program. "The armed, services of the United i States need 10,000 models of each of ; fifty different types of fighting air- \ craft?600,000 In all, and we need < them now," Secretary Knox said. 1 "We need them for purposes of ( aircraft recognition training and gun- , aery sighting practice. 'Beyond that, civilian groups will use the models | for public education in aircraft recognition. We have been able ' to | think of no more certain, fast way of getting them than by asking the youth of America to make them for us." Superintendent Richards also quot- < od United States Commissioner of j Education, John W. Studebaker who i said,' * in accepting for the nation's < schools the commission from Secretary Knox to build models, that "this i is one of the largest calls for national service ever made on Amerl- < can schools." Commissioner Stude- t baker also cited educational -gains j from the model building program. < "While they are making model planes for the use of the navy and the army and civilian defense forces," < he said, "American youth can learn < valuable lessons. . First, they can learn the value of precision. A model that does not conform to exact specifications Is useless. "Secondly, students can learn the value of speed. This project must ? be pushed with the utmost celerity. "Third, youth will learn about air- ; craft of all the major nations. Al- * though it la scarcely necessary to (Please turn to page eight)1 i Greed fa Host ^ * To Contractors - 1 - __ V- 9 i jDewey J. Creed, local pnlpwqod contractor, wag host to twenty-four pulpwood contractors of Nolth and South Carolina at a chicken dinner at The Pines Wednesday, February 18. Included in that guest list were of- fleers of the Southern Craft division of the National Paper Company from Georgetown, South Carolina. Following a Bumptious menu, the evening was given over to informal talks by prominent officials'and eontractors. Mr. Creed proved an ideal host and gave an intere*tfo4 talk* which wag-in the nature of an addrehi at w?lcom?, Introduce li?yor N wb? *" Six Races Listed For Cup Classic Despite a report published in a number of newspapers that a revision ?f the steeplechase race program had listed the running of the Carolina ?up here on April 4, the actual dato lor the classic, steeplechase in Camleu is March 28, according to Harry I). Kirkover of this city. The steeplechase racing program lor the mid-south was originally iclieduled to start with the running )f the Sand Hills card at Southern LMnos on March 14 and followed by he Imperial Cup race program at \ikon on March 21, and the Carolina Jup here on March 28. With the cancelling of the Deep Hun program at Richmond, ' Virginia, the Carolina , events were revised to provide for the^p Sand Hill races on March 21, and Ihe Imperial Cup race to be run at Aiken on April 14. It will be noted l^at there Is no change In the date af the Carolina Cup event. The program of the races at the several events as originally announced provide for the hurdle event, two brush races, one timber, and two riat races, for a total of six eveutB at the Saud Hills meet. This program features the Yadkin steeplechase raOe two miles over brush and the Sand Hills cup race three miles over timber. The Aiken program featuring the Imperial Cup race of two miles over burdlea will have five events: two over hurdles, two over brush, one pn the flat. The Carolina Cup program in the famous Springdale course will have six events:, two over hurdles, two over brush, one over timber, and on the flat. The feature attraction for the afternoon will be the running of the Carolina Cup race three miles over timber. The Cup race this year will be dedicated to the late Thomas Hitchcock. As an added event, for the Camden equestrlal season, a program of |x. flat i|W3es will he given on the Millw&y track at Boykln on Saturday. March 14. This track was dedicated last fall by the General's Race Program, which attracted a crowd of Borne 1,600 spectators. The racing program for March 14, coming at a time when there are so many horsemen and equestrian-minded fans In the mid-south, it Is expected that the event will attract several thousand _ spectators. Choice Polo Menu Offered On Sunday The polo menu to be offered at the No. 1 Field next Sunday un<^ the auspices of the Camden Polo Club will find the old rivals, Palmettos and Ramblers, staging one of their characteristic ding-dong matches. What rivalry exists In the ranks of Camden polo talent attains its peak when the Palmettos and Ramblers mix. In the past several years thess teams have divided honors and from a check over the records they are on even terms In .the matter of games won and lost. This means an intensification of the rivalry when the players ride further to do battle Sunday . afternoon at 8:80 o'clock. Coach Harrison has announced the Palmetto lfnfe-up to include M. B. Burns, president of the Camden Rotary club, at the Ho., 1 position; C. P. DuBoee, Jr., president of the Camden Chamber of Contmerce, at No. . 2; Klrby Topper, of Mulberry Plantation at No. t position; and Joe Bates, ^ the Sage of Wateree, at No. 4. For the Ramblers, Brooks Galllon, of the Merylani polo- club Baltimore. will be ????? ?? .,!*** care of the-No. 1 position, whit Boykln, of Boykln, wIH wear the No. 2, and Carl Ughtfoot of Mulberry , will be Ne. 8, while TJharlie Robertson, of litawTjU*, JslAUNo. d. : Cyril Harrison announced Monday that beginning Sunday; March 18, the Russell Memorial. invitation tourna- . (Please tern to page fionr ) TO APMINIITKR OATH | Sunday afternoon. at 8 o'clock I 'the air raid warddns. auxiliary I firemen and auxiliary police wd I gather at the^court house to re- I C ChWf Charles Shannon prgee an I air md Tirliii iMIlfiif liiimi' officers and aclliaT djdaw