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I Triple Drive For Funds To AidUSO, China and Naval Relief is Now Under Way!
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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
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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
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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.
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Three members of Company "M"
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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?
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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
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.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
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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
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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*
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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.
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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
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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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