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I Triple Drive For Funds To AidUSO, China and Naval Relief is Now Under Way! I The Camden Chronicle t ? t~r;, ,17)^. .. V ? ? ?r ' yfvOLUME 54 ^ CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 22. 194? NUMBER 9 !earn Offers enate Post Kodfearn, chairman of the cpunty Board of Directors ittt years, a olvlo leader ty and county, has offered fflce of state senator, held j>aHt term by Murdoch M. ?ot be a candidate for reIfearu's announcement Is beved with general approbaughout the county, as his j and organising ability has taudlng In the year# he has leader of the county Board, show that Kershaw county the three counties In the Ich offers an outstanding Aecord. This sound Ananclal has been due . to the acu1 sound Judgment of Mr. and his associates on the his period of office as counan, Kershaw county has witipld progress. A new agribulldlng, new county Jail, jnty road construction, the leree bridge, these are but the high lights of progress 1 during this period. tion to looking after the afthe county in such an outmanner, Mr. Kedfearn has 1 the Ford agency and serIquarters, also been dlstrlbuae Sinclair OU Co., products ea -for some time, dfearn was born aj. Jeffer:hesterAeld county and re-A s education in the schools of and Kershaw. His affiliation Ford company covers a pe3 years. He has been a resilamden for the past 17 years, entering the auto and gas he was engaged In the i lumber business, as married at Kershaw, his lng been Miss Ruth Clyburn city. His family consists of lughters and a son. Denomthe family are affiliated with 1st church, edfearn has held the office ease turn to page seven) orial Day te Schools ial day exercises at the school building this year, >re serious and impressive )re and the attitude /tnd ref the pupils most patriotic, itsic was under the direction Charles Salmond and the seand their rendition by the ) and scholars showed her raining. Patriotic . and old 8 were sung and the taste)rated stage was ablase with Id Glory" towering over all. Introductory remarks as to flcance of the occasion, Mr. the superintendent, read an to selectton from the Bible; re to the Flag was given by a Boy Scout, and the Sate Confederate Flag was led E. C. VonTresckow, preslhe John D. Kennedy Chap. C. 3 of the Chapter were inTwo selections, "The Blue Gray" and Stonewall's Way" llently read by Patricia MadCharles Bruce, respectively, nd "America", heartily sung resent, concluded the exer> s Need Of USO Is Expanding Rapidly That the United States Army, from general to privates, feels It haa a personal stake in the success of the USO'a $32,000,000 War Fund Cam. paign May 11 to July 4, is revealed lu letters to Prescott S. Rush, National Campaign Chairman, from post commanders all over the country.? Brigadier General F. H. Osborn, Chief of the Army's Special Services Branch, writes Mr. Bush that by the end of 1942 the need for USO will be greater than -ev?r. General Oa? born continues: "The War Department considers the work of the USO to be of inestimable worth in helping to maintain a high morale in our rapidly increasing army. The USO program must not only bo continued, it must be extended." USO plans to have more than $00 clubhouses and smaller units, located in continental United States and transI ocean bases, in operation by the end , of 1942 as a result of its War Fund Campaign. Colonel C. M. Dowell, Commanding officer at Fort Dlx, writes: "I have reflected and tried to envision the enviroment at Fort Dix without the four USO clubs. 1 say to you most emphatically that without these facilities we would Hod our task in sustaining morale overwhelming, If not insuperable." In the opinion of the commanding officer of the great Rock Island Arsenal, at Rock Island, 111., Brigadier General N. F. Ramsey, "USO has made our boys here 100 per cent boosters for its program." Major General F. H. Smith describes the situation at Camp Davis, North Carolina: "The USO means much in the life of the men of Camp Davis in a community which has little to offer in the way of recreation except during the brief season when the beaches are open." "Commenting on the f&ct that USO (Please turn to page five) Five Injured In Greyhound Collision Five men were injured, three seriously, when a Greyhound bus and ,an automobile collided at 3 o'clock Saturday morning at the eastern approaches of the new Wateree river bridge. At the Camden hospital, to whtch the injured were rushed, in serious condition were Howard Thrower, 45, and Furman Ray, 26, both with fractured skulls, and Private Charles B. Smith, about 25, suffered several fractured ribs. Thrower and Ray, both from Camden were in the automobile with John T. Ray, of Camden, and Private Floyd Wilson, also about 21, of Fort Jackson. John Ray, not seriously hurt, was still in the hospital tonight. Wilson with a broken leg, had been transferred to the Fort Jackson hospital. Smith, a Camden man who was home pn leave from Camp Shelby, Miss., was a passenger on the bus, which was carrying,. J.1 passengers toward Columbia. HhWas the only passenger badly hurt. It was reported that the bus and the car approached each other headon and that the bus veered sharply to the shoulders of the road to miss the oncoming car hut the car and the bus collided with a glancing blow. The car was telescoped. The bus skidded across the soft shoulders of the highway and partly plunged down a 20-foot embankment. Gets Promotion In Company "M" Fort Jacks to, May 20. ? Promotions of six enlisted men in South Carolina's own 118th Infantry regiment were announced today by Colonel WHJiam H. Hawkins, commanding officer of the regiment. Private John T. Suber, 609 Ott Rpad, Columbia, has been promoted to corporal in Headquarters Company; Sergeant John A. Owens, Walterboro, has been appointed staff sergeant in Company "D", and Corporal Lester A. Hoag, of Baldwin Station, Cheater, has been promoted to sergeant in Headquarters Detachment Third Battalion. ' ' Three members of Company "M" ' 1 11 1 !!l1 . "M. Poppies on Sale Here Tomorrow America's battle dead will be honor, ed here Saturday by the wearing of popples, the memorial flower of the hiHKlish-speaktng world since the first World War. Popples will be distributed on the streets by women of the American Legion Auxiliary, who will at the same time receive contributions for the Legion and Auxiliary work among the war disabled and families left in need by the results of war. The custom of wearing popples in tribute to the dead sprang up span* taneously in the United States, England and the British Dominions at the close of the last war, explained Mrs. Leon Schlosburg, Poppy chairman of the Leroy* Belk Unit of the Auxiliary. The custom was inspired by the poem, "Flanders' Field", which contains the lines: In Flanders' Fields the poppies blow, iietwqpn the crosses, row on row? Poppies were first worn in America in New York City on November 10, 1918, the day before the Armistice. They were adopted as the official l memorial flower of the American Legion in 1920, and one of the first acts of the American Legion Aux* lliary when it was organised in X9XI was to name the poppy as its memorial flower. Poppy Day is observed in the United States on the Saturday before Memorial pay, when more than 13,000,000 of the little red flowers are worn by patriotic cltisens. The poppies are made of crepe paper by disabled war veterans working in government hospitals and in poppy workrooms maintained by the Auxiliary. More than $1,000,000 is contributed annually to the welfare of the war's living victims by the "wearers of the poppy. Freak Tornado Destroys Church Pisgah, May 19.?The dry spell of several weeks was broken last Tuesday by May showers which lasted through Friday. Crops and gardens are growing. Grain cutting has begun. The Woman's Missionary society met at the church on Wednesday afternoon. In the absence of the president, Mrs. K. R. Kenney, the meeting was presided over by Mrs. W. F. Baker, vice president. Leader for the month was Mrs. Marlon Shiver. The following program was given: Piano solo, "Look for the Beautiful", Mrs. Leroy Rogers. Talk. "Whatsoever Things are Lovely"; Youth, "Lovely and Unlovely", by the leader; Duet, "Some Day the Silver Cords4 will Break , Mrs. Leila Robinson and daughter, Mrs. Hayes; Talk, "A Cal) to Lovely Service", Mrs. Robinson; Duet, "The Great Physician", Mrs C. M. Shiver and Mrs. Leroy Rogers; Talk, "Youth Around the World", Mrs. C. M. Shiver; Talk, "Revealing the Heart of Youth", Mrs. Leroy Rog ers; Trio, "Bring Them In," Mrs, Robinson, Mrs. Rogers, and Mrs Hayes; a poem on "Loveliness", by the leader. The meeting closed with praying together the "Lord's Prayer", aftei singing, "Give of Your Best to the Master", by all. Last Friday afternoon about 8 o'clock this section was struck by a tornado The twister first struck the westers side of the estate of the late W. 8 James, uprooting a patch of trees going through the farms of W.. F Baker, J. L. Dennis' and Hiram Jenk Ins (negro) and out by Pfegah Crosi Roads, where the church, that ha4 withstood many storms, was completely destroyed. Some of the timber being carried quite a distance. At th? (Please turn to page tour) J. C Arrants Offers For State Senate 1 r J. Clator Arrants, who made his appearance In the political limelight in Kershaw county two years ago when he was successful in his candidacy as a House Representative for Kershaw county. It was Mr. Arraut's first plunge into the political stream and the ripples spread 'so rapidly that he was elected by a large margin. Now comes the announcement ^that > he is seeking the Senatorial toga ln| the fall election. This will bring him( Into competition with W. T. Redfeam, Chairpian of the Kershaw County Bpard of Directors, who announced hfti candidacy as State Senator a week afo. "Representative Arrants prior to his plunge into the political waters, was a teacher in the Mount Plsgah high school. He did not specify any par. tlcular branch of education but his record indicates that he waa regarded as outstanding in all phases of high school educational work. He graduated from the Berry College at Rome, Georgia, and his first j teaching assignment was at Mt. Pisgah. A year ago he enrolled in the , College of Law at the University of South Carolina. He was a natural speaker and possesses a strong resonant voice and these deliveries make big speeches outstanding. Chamber Softball Starts On Monday . , 1 ^ .The softball fans of Camden and vicinity, who a few years sgo, gathered by the hundreds at the high school athletic field at Laurens and Faf? street to watch the city league teams in action will be interested to know that the Recreation Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will inaugurate a softball league schedule on next Monday afternoon at 6 o'clock > with the Kendall team meeting the high school, and will be followed by A game between the Instructors and Home Guard.. The softball league will be under the supervision of Arthur'Robinson who has been attached to the Chamber of Commerce recreation unit by the state WPA. Robinson is also manager and pitcher of the Kendall team. All questions, of rule in position, team personnel! and the like^will be under the control of the bureau of recreation of which the Chamber of Commerce 'secretary is director. # The league program calls for double headers to be played on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, which will give six games a week, i For Tuesday, tne first game will 1 be between the Maintenance Department of the Southern Aviation school . and the Instructors. The second will be between fhe Kendalls . and the > Home Guard. On Thursday the hlgb ; school team meets the Instructors lz the first game at 6:80 o'clock and ir > the second game the Kendalls meet . the Instructors. DR. CAMPBELL TO PREACH ; SERMON TO BLANEY GRADUATE? ( Commencement exercises of the Blaney high school will begin Sun. , day afternoon. May 24, at 4 p. m ' in the high school auditorium whex ' Dr. R. C. Campbell, pastor of th< 1 First Baptist church of Columbia, ii ' to deliver the commencement rer ' mom. Graduating exercises will be Wed , nesday, May 27, at 8:80 p. m. Namei I of candidates for state high schoo diplomas are: Bemlce Aldrich, Lcii Branham, Memory McCasklll, Dork J Miles, Lindsay Nelson. Mary Hoes and Phul, SloanN 1 1 1111 V . ^ ^ / The City of Camden will pay the sum % ' #' of $50 for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of any one guilty of stealing gasoline from private automobiles. This offer is effective as of Friday, May 22. ' ByYj McCO^ Mayor War Fund Drive 1 Progressing Well While the returns from the opening days of the Kershaw couuty Uul- < ted War Fund Drive have not been < totaled, the members of the commit- I tee in charge of the program are op- i ttmistlc over the results believed to i have been accomplished. Campaign quotas that have been | reported from a number of oomralt- 1 tees indicate a wide public spirit for { the budget. South Carolina was well represented in the state's reporting splendid quotas for the first several days of ? the drive, The County War Fund Committee is headed by .F. McCorkle, as chairman, and with Dr. Carl A. West and Colonel John T. Stevens sb members of the mayor's committee. The Camden campaign oommtttee is headed by A. Sam Karesh, as chairman; Mrs. John Mullen, oo-chairman; Frank H. Heath, publicity, and J. N. Lindsay as treasurer. The Kershaw committee is headed by the Rev. W. S. Porter, chairman; C. R. Blakeney, co-chairman and Miss Nancy Culvern, treasurer. The Bethune committee is headed by Mr* D. M. Mays, chairman; Mrs. Rob Waters,, co-chairman; Mrs. Sle Mitchell, publicity -find Mrs. M. F. Helms, treasurer. In the city of Camden the following a|U, the ward chairmen and their workers: Ward One?Mrs. F. M. Mayer, as (Pleaee turn to gage six) Directors Named at Tuberculosis Meet I At the annual meeting of the board of directors of tha Kershaw county Tuberculosis Association, held at the Presbyterian Sunday school room in Camden on May 16, the following officers were elected for the coming year. Those elected to the Tuberculosis Association board of directors ifor the period of one year are: Mrs. A. C. McKain, Mrs. John Mullen, Mrs. W. J. M&yfleld, Mrs. Dan Murohlson, Mrs. J. Team Qettys, Mrs. W. A. Boykln, Mrs. W. D. Origsby, Mrs. Leon Schlosburg, Mrs. D. M. Mays, Mrs. J. K. Wilson, Mrs. J. C. Hotter, Mrs. L. J. Jordan, Maxey R. King. J. C. Ewing, Edith DuBose, Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts, Mrs. W. R. Bonsall, Mrs. O. J. Smyrl, Miss Margaret Fewell, Mrs. L. W. Fletcher, Mrs. Marie Tindal, Mrs. F, D. Goodale, J. Team Gettys, Mrs. R." B. Pitts, C. D. Cunningham, W. T. Holley, Harvey R. Davis, Bam Karesh, Joe Davis, Mrs. Wade L. Stokes, K. C. fitters, Dr. Maurice Clarke, W. R. Zsmp, J. G. Richards, Jr., W. F. Nettles, Austin ' Sheheen, Rev. A. D. McArn, Dr. John ' W. Corbett, Dr. Carl A. West, Nettles 1 Lindsay, Ralph Chase, Ike Jones. 1 The executive committee chosen for. the 19ft period are Mrs. Marie Tindal, president; Mrs. John Mullen, vice 1 president; Mrs. F. D. Goodale, vice t president; Rev. A. D. McArn, secretary; H. G. Carrlson, treasurer; Mrs. W. J. Mayfleld, Mrs. Leon Schlosburg, Mrs. A. C. McKain, Dr. John l W. Corbett. This group wia meet in the direci.tors room of the Commercial Bank . the first Tuesday in each month, to . aid in carrying on the work of the Tui berculosls Association.. ? Mrs. Marie Tindal tAes the presli dency following S. Team Gettys, who served for two years. Under Mr. Gettys leadership much progress was . made and It ig with regret that the i members of the association relin1 quishet him. His counsel was good i and he wee always willing to give i his time, thought and suggestions for , the interest of the work UWUM tuberculosis. Final Figures on Gasolene Rationing In the gasolene rationing program which took place throughout Kershaw county last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May If, IS and 14, a total number of 8,8S6 rationing cards were Issued to motor vehicle owners. Qf this number 1,068 were "A" cards; D9 were ?-1 cards; 180 were B-2 cards; 1,638 were B-f cards and 416 were X cards. This does not Include a certain number of trucks sad pick-ups that are allowed to operate without a raI tioning card and the rttlonlua Mm Mm ISO* I ' i City Prepares For ? Maneuvers Again Summer maneuvers fur four newly army divisions will bo stag- < ' ed In the Carolina* this summer, Initial movements expected to begin [ lu early Juiie, accordlug to a report from Washington. The maneuver program will not bring the vast number of troops Into this area such as featured the program laBt fall, but there will be sufficient numbers to require the services of USO groups In every community for the week end entertain- , ment of the soldiers who will flock to the populated areas for theaters, restaurants and entertainment In , homes and community buildings. The army field maneuvers will according to the war department provide the most thorough training ever developed for American troops. It will - stress air-ground operations, * desert fighting, jungle fighting, operation of small task forces and night maneuvers. * Instead of the large operations of last fall when hundreds of thousands of troops In two field armies struggled In mimic warfare, the exercises this year will be limited to troops wlthli} the army corps. Four maneuvers areas will be used ?the southwest desert/ training center, the Louisiana ' maneuver area, the North and South Carolina area used last fall and Camp Forrest, Tenn., and vicinity. Mayor F. N. McCorkle, who was chairman of the civilian recreational group, and who is now the county USO chairman stated that Camden would be prepared to take care of Its share of the visiting soldiers for the week ends they are fciven liberty leave. The mayor pointed out that the lessons learned In the first maneuver program will find Camden prepared to offer 100 per cent co operation for the cgmtng program. He said that the shower installation! in the new and old armories and at the ball park club house will again be utilised while there will be prdgr^me for Indoor recreation and letter writing provided. As plans for the maneuver program (Please turn Co pace three) First Week Circuit Court Jurors Jufora were drawn Tuesday morning to serve for the first week of civil court and will report for duty Tuesday, June 9. Judge O. Duncan Bellinger will preside and the namos of the jurors are as follows; C. H. Barrett, J. W. Jenkins, James L. Klrby, Walter D. Slmth, George J A. Creed, Clyburn Gardner, H. W. Bullock. Otis Eubanks, J. . C. Trues- - ^ dale, of Camden; J. T. Welch, John Faulkenberry, R. M. Perry, C. M, Coats, Wallace B. Thompson, Reece Williams, M. P. Farmer, D. H. Coats, L. W. Fletcher, Joe Fletcher, Henry < Stroud, W. B. Faunkenberry, Andrew Faulkenberry, E. M. Roberts, J. J. Taylor, L. J. Truesdale, L. A. McGee, of Kershaw; L. K. Yarborough, W. L. Stokes, of Casaait; E. H. Reece, J. B. Baker, G. C. Joyner, of Bethune; Ben Humphries, A. K. Bowen, D. G. McLeod, of Logoff; James T. McDowell, Willie T. Roberts, of Westville. 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