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The Camden Chronicle VOLUME M ' ' ' CAMDEN, SOUTH CAKOUg^JgjPAY. JULY 30. 1943 1 ' NUMBER 19 ' Army Schedules Stiff Program In Softball League Want* To Battlto Merchants In A Double Bill Tonight. i If die Army obtains its objective this wejek, , Frank Bean's galaxy ? lO/tball tulent will be right on Chi nil of the unbeaten Instructors' team ?i sunset tonight. The Army hAd a game scheduled with the Maintenance team last Wed oesdny night and Bean was negottat Inn with the management of the Merchants' team for a doubleheadei tonight. Because of activities at th? Southern Aviation Post which prevents the Army baseball talent from playing on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the only way a postponed game can be played off is to Tstage" -a doubleheader. The Army/jws a regular icheduled game wjth the Merchants tonight, and it's Manager Bean's wish to stafl playing at 6:30 and get In two seven Inning battles. The game last Monday between the Kendalls and the Merchants was called off because of rain. This game was scheduled to be . played off last sight. In the event of the Kendalls winning last night, it would give them a standing of three games woni and two lost for a percentage of .600* If the Army listed a victory on Wed* sesday and ?an take two games from the Merchants tonight, it will give them a standing of five games won tod one loaf, a percentage of ?40. The Instructors, through a freak lltUAtion growing out of * five-team schedule, did not have any gamee listed this week. However they spring into action next Monday against the Maintenance team and then again on Wednesday they bdttlet the Instructors. This Wednesday** game should he a natural for should the Army win.! ill the mmea this week and defeat] the Instructors, they would take the lead in the league. The other gamea scheduled for next week and played Friday will find the Kendalls plsyihg the Maintenance group. REVIVAL SERVICES TO BEGIN AT PROVIDENCE CHURCH A series of revival services will begin Sunday, August 1 at Providence Baptist church and continue through the week. Services each morning at *11:80 o'clock and night at 8:80. Bible school each morning at 9:80. Rev. Fred Dabney of Charlotte, N. C., will bring the messages. The people of the surrounding ooimnunlty are Invited to attend these services. -? ; .njLwy - ' >??: r "^y*" f < Southern Aviation Cadet > - V? i i - \4 !b Seaman Finds Damsels "Cramp" His Sty{e. ould you rather run a mile against oup of women *or the full maradistance of 26 miles, 386 yards? sounds slightly ridiculous, but idet Robert P. Seaman, currently viation Cadet in primary training 1th AAFFTD, Camden, S. C., a run may not only be tiring, it be disastrous. iman hails from San^a Rosa, Calli. and holds the .record time for thon runs west of the .Mississippi . His record of two hours, fiftyminutes for the distance was at Petaluna. California, ire is a lot to be said of long ice runs, humorous and informar l. but here is what Seaman has y in his own words: the layman a .runner's sense] ning is almost Uncanny?fine ? requires much practice, but is one thing marathon runners its of. Time yourself past a ed mile marker each week, and n't be long before you oau call imes without using your stop* . In cross country running, and rathon races, my pre-race est!* seldom vary more than one 1 for each mile, run.*' If I cant within 10 seconds how long it ake me to run ten miles, I get id. I've often ran a two-mile i college within one*half seconds y predicted time. Murnl, the Finnish ruhner, wore a stopstrapped to his wrist whenever n. Cunningham, Rice, Haegg, all the record ' breakers, ran races according to timing plan ated to bent use their Individual litles. Today even high school "R are trained to judge time end their races. It is smuming to er what accurate judges some m become the markers Please turn to psgS KM) imber Appeals More listings ?* Hilda Owens, assistant secref the Chamber of Commerce, *s charge of the rental accoraoprogram, is appealing to Oamsople who have honses, apart* or rooms for ffcnt to list them er at once. $ the new dsns coming to the there is the usual heavy de,r accommodations on the part At nff,C r" J16 wives of of apartments and houses w*s ie exhausUon point I1? th? doehwd accommo either In kooses, fumlmenls sra requested to call Kim " <7 and list their unite with ' ?? . Flying Instructor Proves a Hawkshaw; Captain Was Bogus Peter DeRose Did Not Think That He Looked Right. Peter Joseph DeRose of West Haven, Connecticut, an Instructor at the Southern Aviation school here, has well defined ideas of how a captain should look and act. And because one, ' Ernest McKee Watts, did not act like a captain, even tho attired In the uniform of one, L&Rose, who saw him on the street July 1, promptly contacted the Intelligence headquarters of the Southern post and voiced his suspicion that the man in a captain's garb sure looked like a ''phoney" to him. Whereupon Intelligence got buiy and Mr. Brneet McKee Watts was trailed until takert into custody In a Broad street business honse. Mr. ; Watts, who. it developed, had been confined in the state hospital because ' of an alleged mental trouble, had 1 sought to purchase a quantity of joy ! water to be used "at a party at the J Officer's club at Shaw Field." . Intelligence of the local air post 1 turned- Mr. Watts over to the Shaw 1 Field authorities where tile pseudo 1 captain enjoyed the comforts of an j army hospital for some two weeks be- 1 fore he war returned to the stSte institution. W ' i Investigation showed that Watts " was a private In the Infantry in 1940 1 I but was discharged and placed In a J hospital. He is said to havs escaped [from the. hospital three times. The moral or this story is that In- > telllgence department officials tug- j gest to the general public that they A be careful- There are so many 1m- j posters abroad In these days that j there Is need of careful scrutiny when ] .approaches are made. For Instance, watts had sewed two first lieutenant bam together to provide himself with j thd "Insignia of s captain. \ ' 1 GET YOUR SACK READY 1 The first open cotton boll of the season was left at The Chronicle of* flee by jTk. Richburg of Camden. 1 route 1. v. He also was the first Ker- ^ snaw county fanner to leave a square i with the paper. Mr. Richburg Is one of the county's best fanners, and reports his crops this year am the beet c * The British high commissioner to a Canada announces that we now have f a P-boat tor breakfast every morning. Kippered, we preeame. Queen IHsabeth, daaghUr of Henry ft Vffl, sometimes bathed in wtoo.^ .? ~ - . 'v.** [" '* V' - -i w v 4ic i iBK. _, p fa*-". v*'., ->9t J : ji ,pjii i i.i ,, u [ OPENING OP FRESH DRY POODS, INC. Id the above picture are some Of thfripeakers, officials and outstanding guests at the open house of Fresh Dry Foods, Inc. They are (left to r|?l|t) Col. James N. Palmer, Southeastern Director, Food Distribution Administration, Atlanta; Dr. ft. P. Poole/President Qlemaon College; Governor Olln D. Johnston; R. E. Fulmer, General Manager, Fresh Dry Foods, lac.,^ttambte; Mayor F. N. McCorkle; Earle Mauldin, Southern Editor, Food Industrieskfagaclne, Atlanta; Col. 1. lb. Jiilp, Industrial Development Committee, Defense Council, Washington, D. George W. Speer; AfHhM|Mr|l Specialist* Defense Council, Anderson, S. C. ' : ' *' ^ \. ? ' > " Camden Dairies Outstanding Inds. Of Kind In State Model of Neatness and Cleanliness. Daily <Xitput 650 Gallons. The Camden Dairies, practically an Infant organisation but now serving the finest type of pasteurized mil*] to Shaw Field at Sumter, and tlMt Southern Aviation Field here, has become one of the outstanding dairies of the .Palmetto State.. , . i The daily milk output of thfft industry totals approximately 650 gallons of lactal fluid. This knocked down into quarts represents a total of 2,600 quarts. Of this amount, more than 350 gallons are delivered dally to the flying posts at Shaw Field and this city. All of the pasteurizing and bottling is done in the Broad Street plant of the Camden Dairies. This plant was recently entirely repainted and a new rotary filler and capper with a capacity of 3,000 gallons of milk per day was Installed. The Broad Street plant is the acme of cleanliness. The walls and ceilings are all done in a white enaihel finish. The floors are kept scrupulously emaculate from the retall section right through to the loading department. In addition to tbe recent Installation of the new filler and capper, a second pasteurizing unit has been Installed. This equipment is similar to the one already in '< use. . i The industry operates from three to four trucks. These trucks are used for bringing the milk from the model | dairy farm in Lugoff to the pasteurizing plant in this city and later in trucking the bottled product to Shaw Field and the Southern Aviation Field. The growth of the Camden Dairies has been most phenomenal and was made possible by the progressive < principles and aotivities of Louis L Gulon, Jr. The dairy farm located on i the Ouion property in Lugoff is one < of the most modern in South Caro- j Una. The management of the Camden < Dairies takes a great deal of pride t in the dairy farm and also in tfc# ] pasteurizing plant, and courteous employees are ready to escort visitors >n an interesting todr of the dairy (arm and the pasteurising blagrt *i < 54th Routs Grease 1 Boys By 19-4 Score I1 CITY LEAGUE 8TANDING Team Wop Lost Pet. netructors 4 0 1000 trmy * 3 1 750 tendalls ............. 2 2 500 , Esintenance 1 ' 4 200 e Merchants 0 4 000 Games This Week- < tfonday, Merchants-Kendalls?rained f 'out ' i Wednesday, Army 19, Maintenance 4. t rhuraday, Kendalls va. Merchants. j Prtduy, Army vs. Merchants. _. J Games Next Week . .. j ifonday, Instructors vs. Maintenance, t Wednesday, Army vs. Instructors. . ? rriday, Kendalls vs. Maintenance. Frank Bean's 94th Army, under the ommand of Generalissimo John | tehnelL launched a terrific air attack ? gainst the forces of A via Kelly Wed- a tesday evening on the eoftbaO battle- j rout and won a hectic scrap by a a core of 19 to 4. c The 94th staged a ten-run attack 4 n the fourth iaafeg oa ? hits, oas a (Please tang 9a page tve) j ' ' ' , New Regulations fin Price Formula Effective Sept 1st Merchant* Wilt Be Interested In the New Principle*. Much Interest Is in evidence in the mercantile circles in Camden relative to the new regulations providing a simplified pricing formula for IS [kinds of used consumers' goods which fcas been set to become effective ^ep^rnber 1. The 15 kinds of goods Tfe in greater demand * than ever before because production of many new lines is prohibited or greatly restricted by needs of the war effort. The articles covered by this regulation are: used furniture, bedding, stoves, floor coverings, portable lamps and lamp shades, miscellaneous houseware items, handtools, and hardware items such as shovels, wheelbarrows, hatchets and carpenter's tools. It also applies to used baby carriages, musical instruments except pianos, commercial kitchen equipment, beauty and . barber shop furniture, store and offlbe . fixtures, and coin operated vending machines.. The pricing formula is based on the ' principle of comparing the used ar- | tide for re-sale with the cost of a new article of the same kind. If the ( used article is in good condition (no I part missing which is necessary to make the article fully useful and the 4 article is In good working conditio*, cab be used by the consumer for the purpose Intended without further re. pair, and the article is clean and It's appearance Is good) It falls (nto Class 1 and the seller may set Its price at 76 per cent of the selling t price of the article when new. If the i used article Is In poor condition it < falls into Class 2 and the seller may t take 81.9 per cent of the original new t price for his celling. An article is a j Class 8 article If It Is not In Class 1. c If. for'the purposes of comparison, t the seller does not have new articles of the same kind In stock, tie may <] price his used Item upon the basis t of the same percentages of the retail t jelling prjce of the most closely slml- a Ear gvw item he has in stock, provld- c ' (Please tarn to page seres) ' t By Just 25 Pounds But Anyhow ft Sore Was A ] Swell Looking 1 1 Melon. >. Speaking of watermelons?Patrol- i< nan Joe McManus likes them big & ind juicy. a So when a kind friend from out in d he watermelon area of Kershaw tl bounty came to town with a load of i| ine-looklng specimens of the waternelon family, Joe expressed his ad- tl titration and lo and behold, he was * >resented with a humdinger. tl When a press scribe chanced by, r roe proudly opened the door of the K>Uce coop and said, "Take a look at e hat." ! "That" was the watermelon a md |t sure was a beauty. a "It weighs about 75 pounds," quoth p roe. And noting a sort of.look of dls- ti >eMef in the scribe's eyes, Joe picked tl ip the big. melon, toted It across the a treet to the DeKalb Pharmacy and g tlsced it upon the penny scale. The tl cribe inserted the penny, the ma- 1 bine clicked and the needle showed 1 . n "Well, anyway, it looked like 75ounds," said Joe. B -r - v., -: v V" . v . .. Camden Boy Wounded In Action; 1, Of 3 Fighting Bros. Mayor McCorkle In War Declaration Against Mosquito ."War has been declared on the mosqultos and every cltlaen of Camden la being asked to Join in the tight," said Mayor F. N. McCorkle Wednesday. In his appeal for civic cooperation against the pest, the mayor said that we hoped every cttlsen would inspect his or her home and locate the places where the mosquitos might breed. Screens should be checked to see that they keep the insects out of the house. Stop up chimneys when possible and be sure and have them cleaned regularly. If there are low places in your yard where water may accumulate, be sure and fill them up. , The mayor went on to state that the county health department is ready and anxious to help every citieen in the fight against the mosquito. w * ?r James Cooley Hinson Was In Thick of Fighting At Savo Island. Charleston, 8. C., July 28.?Wound, ed by s'hrupnal, Jamee Cooley Hinson, 19-year-old Seaman first class, U.S.N., i who saw l)oollttle and hia Intrepid airmen take off from the Hornet to bomb Tokyo, lived to fight another day by rolling himself into the sea off the burning deck of the torpedoshuttered cruiser, Vincennes. Unable to move, Hinson calmly waited. ? until the warship listed far to port, then lifted himself ou his elbow and twisted himself off into the water as the sea came up even wltlvAhe deck. His brother, Pfe. Harohr jSinson, 28, of the Marines, who kuew that his younger brother was aboard the Vincennes in the savage battle of Savo Island, hunched In his jungle foxhole oh Tulagl Island off Guadalcanal, with other Devil Dogs of his detachment, and watched the terrlfylng scene in the light of blinding flashes front the big guns of tl>? American, Australian and Japanese ships engaged in the struggle. Leatherneck Hlnaon never knew until three or four months later that. his younger brother, whose ship he had watched battle It out wKh the Jape and sink, had escaped alive, but wounded, by rolj^ng off the burning cra|t Into the *ea?~ v- ? Both boya ate the aon of Mr. and Mra. J. H. Hinson of Camden. Another brother, Maater Sergeant Claude > Hinson, 88, hgs been with the l?th Air Corps since It first opened up the bitter campaign In North Africa. Hod-heeded, freckled-faced Seaman Hinson, for the. past few months a patient at the Naval Hospital In the Charleston Navy Yard recovered from * his wounds?five pieces of shrapnel which pierced his left leg?Is going back to duty shortlyEligible for a honorable medical discharge from the Navy, the 19-year-old veteran of the Battle of Midway, of scouting duty in Aleutian waters, of screening force duty for Jimmy Doollttle's airmen aboard the Hornet, of the landing at Guadalcanal and of the Battle of Savo Island, begged off and pleaded to* be allowed to rem*ln on active (Please turn to page two) JAME8 COOLEY HIN80N McKain Elected Presidents Of Chamber Of Commerce i 6 ~ *-Vl Must Mail Soldier Gifts For Foreign Shore By Oct. 15 Chriitmu Package Regula- ,J tiona Announced by Government. Camden i people who are planning to tend Christmas gifts to Army personlei overseas are reminded by The post>ffice department that September 15 o October 16. has been designated ts the period for the mailing of all parcels. Gifts for Naval personnel overseas should be mailed by Septem>er 15 and'November 15. Postal officials point out that unler War Department regulatlons4 gifts lent by parcel post overseas must be nailed during the period fixed. To issure delivery on time, Christmas :ards also should be mailed during he same period. The difference in this regulation rom the one in effect last year lb hat early mgUlwg to Army men last ear were on a voluntary bgglg.. (Please turn to page eight) iellymen Trounce Merchants With fjase ' f _ The Maintenance gang, nnder the sadershlp of Bobo Kelly, shoved the ferchants Into the cellar of the oftball loop Wednesday evening by 1 efeating them It to 5 In a hectic bab I le in which thirteen bonners were : sted. ; ' J The Grease boys had one big inning, * tie third, when they registered 8 bits, rhich combined with four errors by J he opposition netted them ntne uns, - TryIt was a weird game with the form- l r Crack Merchant, aggregation falling r part at the seams and putting np ] burlesque on their usual brilliant 1 toy. In only one taming did the 'Nolan j amlly show any spunk, that being j tie seventh whsathey started a rally < rhich fell short by several miles of ( etting anywhere. They poshed over t iree runs on fonr hits. he score R. H. B. < latntenaace /..It 18 8 a terohants f 7 7 Batteries: Kslly end Jennings; a iowell end Hancock. , * * ** i' -1 ' V " ' ^ \ -S "V ,v r* ' .. ---- ?> ' Usher Myers Is Vice President; S. C. Clyburn, Trees., end Heath, Secretary. A. G. MoKftln, jnnnager of the J. C. Penny Company Store In Camden, was >n Monday elected president of the Camden and Kershaw County Cham>er of Commerce. The dlreotors named Usher Myers, Atlantic Oil Distributor, as vice preal- ' lent; Captain 8. C. Clyburn, of the Carolina Motor company, M treasur- * it; while Frank H. Heath was elected o his eighth term as executive secret ary. Miss Hilda Owens was named is assistant secretary. The meeting Monday was featured it the reading of the secretary's re* >ort, also the report of the treasurer, 1. W. Van Landingham, and by the adoption of the budget for the fiscal 'ear. The board directed the secretary to avtstlgste the possibility of having k camp of war prisoners located In Cershaw County, it being the Idea of he board members that there will be k serloUs scarcity of farm labor avahkble for the cotton harvest and this rould be one meang of meeting the mergency. . u,> . The nest meeting of the dlreotors rill be held Tnssdsy sfternoon, Aug. 0, when President McKain will antonne# his committee assignments. It wss'interesting to note that the eport of the secretary and! the treaeirer showed the Chamber to be at an 11-ttme peak membership at this (Please turn to page two) t Budge Shatters Swimming Record it Southern Post Lieut. W. W. Budge, a native of lonohihi. haw broken (he swimming . "'Z ecord of 105 lengths set by Corporal. fall of the 64th with a new mark of IT lengths in 45 minutes. Budge,' a student' officer taking >rfmary flight training at Southern Aviation, formerly swam for a beach dub in Honolulu. In .breaking the Southern record he swam the entire Itstance back stroke. Budge's work high lighted a successful marathon run off by the phyilcal train lug department. rA" eguadron of CHm ^Kwtth - ^