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VOLUME ' ' ' CAMPEN, SOUTH CAROUIOiFWPAY, AUCUSA *0. 1943 NUMBER 22
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nont Leave Lfehts
fjrned On InYour
Home When Away
joniA| Warn* Camden Carele?
CitUena, TVwteni
Arrest.
w u Bonsai, chairman of the Kejr*w
County Counoll for National De?S
l?a? issued avr?qm*t to the
S (hat all residents in the city or
??{y* who violate ^the regulations
S?h prohibits vlights being left
irnlna in homes during a blackout
Eri will be summoned into court.
*?? , onaal stated tb*t during the
uSout last week a number of
fmea wire reported as having lights
tSng When the next blackout is
IQucted in this are** auxiliary warJS.
and police will be on the lookJ^for
all violators of this particular
-KTwIU be recorded and turned
.t?r to the control headquarters after
Sch warrants for -the arrest of the
Senders will bo issued from the
border's court.
Tbe recent blackout fiasco was reverted
to the state headquartersi ln Co-,
hnnbla bv Mr. Bonsai. Speclfio inSices
of the lack, of cooperation
wire cited to the state headquarters.
Ilich organisation h*s -ffferolsed to
Snort same to the V. S. Army, under
whose direction the blackouts are
^bat thei# will be considerable f'evMberatiomAfollowing
the n?wt black?t
is certain. Camden, like m*ny
other communities, has a group of
taiivlduals who apparently regard
Snnseives M 'being above the, law.
This was exemplified in the last
lockout when'many of them dlsreurded
regulations necessary to the
access of the blackout. Among some
reported by the various wardens and
axillary police -were:
Smoking of cigarettes, lighting of
erne, with matches or automatic
lighters, walking about- the streets
faring the red signal, driving autoaddles
during the red signal, ond
wring without lights dimmed. These
but a few of the violations but
dere were others of even greater
wtrlousnegB. Failure of the mills to
Mackout and lack of communication
kcllities with the airport were some
g the others cited.
Band and War Hero
5? Attend Meeting
At Court Utilise
The Chronicle has been advised by
H. A. Hawkins, " department quartermister
of the South Carolina department
of the Veterans of Foreign
wars, that if the trairiing schedule of
the Second Cavalry permits, th?_band
from that unit will be in Camden this
evening to play a concert at the Court
House prior to the organisation meeting
of the Veterans of Foreign wars.
In addition, Mr. Hawkins advises
that Private First Class J. W. Cotney,
a veterans of Guadalcanal, New Zealand
and the South Pacific, will be
present as a honorary guest at ths
meeting. . ........
The meeting is called for 8:80
o'clock this evening and will be in
charge of J. A. Bagnall, state commander.
Kid Circus To Be
Week-end Event
A circus will be presented on the
kwis Lee Clybarn lot, next to the
McCarley home on Chesnut street
8aturday at 4 ^ m. Taking part in
the affair will be John Lindsay, Joe
McCarley, Donald Morrison, Jr., Mart
Whitaker, Mortimer Mniler, Jr., and
"Rocky" Bonsai, Jr. The proceeds of
the circus will be donated to the Red
Croeg.
Then- will be all kinds Of entertainment,
including Bingo. games, , ponjr
"dee, fortune telling, magic tricks
*nd refreshments.
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SUSSCRJge 7VA THE ;
OU HOME MUSPA??R
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Supplies *Reach Guadalcanal in Pulpwood Cases ~ '
II U. 8. Marine Corps photo )
FRESH AMERICAN DIVISION, just arrived from
New Caledonia, unloads rations packed in waterproof
container* made froui pnlpwood, as landing
barges are begeMd at Guadalcanal In South FaclAo,
which our troopc captured from Japs. Photo shows
soldiers carrying cases to supply depot. Transports
in backf round* Iafhset, left, containers float ashore
in surfi Vastly Increased quantities of pulpwood
are recded fotW-NQW!
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Kelly Clan Roaring'
Into Stretch In Hot
Race For Gonfalon
Russell Fails to Stem Swat
Attack of the OfHii
Roys.
Traffic Officer Beck Russell; terror
of motorists who violate the traffic
laws of the city, offered np spasms
of fear to a gate Of grease boys on
the softball ^diamond last Friday
evening. A1L Kelly's Maintenance
crew trampling the Merchants with
Russell on the firing top by * score
of 10 to 3.
Rut the defeat cannot be asbribed
to Russell. The . Merchants listed
five errors hack of the traffic cop
and all of them were costly. Russell,
who was one of the stars of "way
back ,when" when he led that old
Sinclaire swatters to many a win,
celebrated his return to the diamond
by clouting out a double in the
second inning, which wo|uld have
gone for a triple or possible homer
had hebeen equipped with skid
chains. As it was Beck literally
skated from first to second, as the
wet diamond offered no foothold to
his footsies which were encased In
tennis shoes.
The Merchants proceeded to score
in the initial inning when Cox crossed
the block on singles by? Sowell and
Boykln. The Merchants came right
back with a three hit attack which
sandwiched in with Jiggs Parker's
error put them to the front by a two
run margin. The Merchants narrowed
the- gap with a one run attack In the
second, hits by Russell, Shirley and
Cox turning (he trick. . j .
L iA scoreless second wa$ followed by
a 'one run register In the third for
the grease monkeys. Tbtf fourth was
scoreless for the fads who tlx broken
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Red Cross and
Legion Are Hosts
The Kershaw County Chapter of
the American Red Cross and the local
American Legion gave a delicious
supper Tuesday night, August 17, for
the men of the Camden Home Guard,
Co B of the South Carolina Defense
Force, after the regular weekly drill.
The food was .prepared and served by
the Canteen corps of the Red Cross
and the Legion furnished the drinks.
The supper was given as a token of
appreciation for the services rendered
by the Home Guard and their excellent
showing st the recent maneuvers
at Fort Jackson.
This company was started by our
local chapter of the Red Cross and
is sponsored'by this Chapter and tha
America^ tLegfrn.
fUddfeficnic
Scheduled Today
The Recreation CommiU^oftha
Kershaw County Service Com^dl is
sponsoring a picnic to h held at
Hermitage Lake Friday, August 37,
at The picnic is for all chUdr^ of8
to 15 years of age Inclusive. C3?fldren
tJkSSRSk to attend the picnic, and
ZTmS** of wttlw to M?
are requested to contact Morrlson,
chairman of the transportation
committee, not later than Wednesday
afternoon, August! fx
m<*?t at Hampton Park at 4:10 o^clock.
The request Is also made tha^io*?
contemplating ^ln*
swimming vK*nm.Mm
own swim suits.
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Maintenance Lads j
To Have Club Home i
On Chesnut Street
Old Mendel Smith Residence
To Re Mode Into Club H
House.
The home of the late Jud
L. Smith, located at the
Chesnut and Broad^U. hj. bg?
a?Hnni and will be renovated thrOttgh-i
school and will oe m
out and used as a ciuu . #
tera of the Maintenance perso>m?L4*
the flying post.
, JaM
?r^rc?^j?rSrj,or
Uiii atrftfit has been in ope*a?^?
S?^3??S?r?
ta uaed Wjg***
cers connected with.the nyis
t The Instructors club, formerly
gSS?:
DrXnt8mi0tha,reTld^ce la a commodlcae
atncwe wi .^r. and
grounde^landhcaped, will add much U>
fessjgssA'aaSeveral
Business
Houses Robbed
Several busiaem. "^ST^eiS
gto&T sometlma JjggJ "nU,n'gbt
S'SMSagSS
Jlken Entrance tweed at
loot w" fore. tb.
^rSarsurJSS
??mp^b. f??>. * 'ho entrants,
through a W door, t !
NewkirkProves
Quite A Hurdler;
Says He's Captain
All of Camden wUl recall in g;
SSed hlmaalf to the armed force, of
?"?^Jf?rtT?t ?? Auduat 7. Mlowlng.hle
r?tnrn
he was Promote
to a Captain, and ^
War Price office, band # i|f
27J? nf Army war contracts, mr.
was ^f^f^VhSSTbe iSJrrod with
Uin will wo OMi familiar
Some amasetneifi
4SVrsS!& 5ST5??**,!?
Newhtrk ujgmsw<??w? ^
Cantata^ m a hnrO.
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Schedule of Student
Jfegistration For
High School Here
i, School will open Tuefeday, September
7, &t 8:80 ft. m.
The grade In which the fctudent
will be placed la determined by, the
number of credit units he has. To
enter the 11th grade he will need 11
Units; 7 for the 10th and 8 for the
9tb. To enter the eighth grade he
tnust hare been promoted from an acceptable
grammar sohool. The High
school has records for all seventh
graders promoted from the Camden
Schools, but if student comes from
Sny other school he should bring his
record. ,
p* To avoid loss of time by students
patting to register this procedure will
Le followed:
^Thursday, 19, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
football tehm.
Tuesday, 24, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m? A
through D, by letter of last name).
Wednesday, 25, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.,
E through J.
Thursday, 26, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.,
K , through N. . v*.
Friday,-27, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., O
through R.
Saturday, 28, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., S
and T.
Tuesday, 31, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.,
U through 2l.
.Wednesday, 1, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.,
Lugoff and West Wateree (Pine
Grove). v .
Thursday, 2, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., Char.
Thomp., Liberty Hill, Truesdale.
Friday, 3, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m? Malvern
HUL
Saturday, -4, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. New
students who have moved to Camden.
These should bring with them a record
of work done in last high school
attended,
-State text books will be rented or
purchased upon opening of school session
Sept. 7.
Merchants Meeting
Has Been Called
Simon Hichel, president of the
Merchant* Association, has announced
that a meeting of the Asoclation
will be held Monday evening, August
IS, at 8:80 p. m., at the Court Inn.
Mr. Blchel calls attention to the
proposed change in the program of ,
the merchants, whereby a bureau affiliated
directly with the Cham beg* of
Commerce office would take the mace
of the present association form of
operation. He urges all merchants
to attend this meeting.
i , ?Vets
of Foreign
Wars To Organize
At Meeting Tonight'
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A meeting for the purpose of organ, i
islng a local unit of the Veterans of
Foreign Wsra is to be held tonight In
the Court room of the Kershaw Coun- .
ty court house at 8:80 o'clock.
This meeting will be presided over
by department commander J. A. Bag.
nal of Columbia, who will be scootm <
panted to . Camden-by other department
officials.
is order to be eligible for membershir
is this organisation on# must.be
an exoervlce man who has been in
foreign, service daring any w*r or insurrection,
and IS possession of a
setviee medal tor same.
Invitations haws been extended to
father and mothers baring sons la the
present war to attend this meeting. If
Mje-merement to perfect a local org.
saltation Is snoeessMl, it la proponed
to fcvnch a woman's auxiliary.
will be for mothers of MpHshSS
ssrrtee v
He M jwt'S mm
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Business Firms To Continue
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Wednesday Afternoon Closing .
Open House* Will
Be Offered Public
At Woodward Field
Elaborate Program Will Feature
Event At Southern
Aviation.
* Woodward Field, air post training
area of the Southern Aviation school
will .go on the air over a network of
itatlons on Wednesday, August 25,
from 4:16 to 6 o'clock, wheu ope of
the most pretentious ''open house"
events In the post's history will be
offered. The outlet station for the
broadcast will be through WIS in Columbia.
In addition to the radio broadcast,
the "open house," depicting actual
scenes In the routine of this famous
primary training school for fighting
men of the air there will be a big
coverage by press and photographers
of nationally famous syndicates.
The program which featured the
open house Bh()W that was given several
months ago will be repeated, but
on a greater scale than before. Men
of national prominence in the army
and air force personnel will be present
and several will be heard during
tho broadcast.
Nationally known combat pilots
who have been in action during the
present war, have been Invited to be
present and demonstrate their air
technique and it Is believed that there
will be an acceptance of the lnvltatlon
by several.
The open house program will get
under way at 2 p. m. and will continue
until 6:30. The public will be
admitted to the confines of the post
after 1: 80 p. m. cAU buildings Will be
open for Inspection and there will. be
something going on every minute of
the three and a naif hours that the
show Is In progress.
In the evening there will be a dance
at he cadet club-for cadets and their
dates1. The dance will be an open air
affair If the weather permits and the
Shaw Field danoe orchestra will furnish
the music.
The Shaw Field band, one ef the
finest In the aviation ranks of tho
nation, will be present at Woodward
Field to provide music for the parades
and during some of, the exercises
that are to take place. Concert
numbers will also be given.
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Mont joy To Umpire
S'day Game Between
Hie League Leaders
The Instructor* and Army Will
Decide Isaue Sunday
At 4 P. M.
CLUB STANDINGS
Won Ix>st Pet.
Instructors 7 1 .875
Army 7 1 .876
Maintenance 5 4 .666
Merchants 2 7 .222
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Games Scheduled
Tonight: Army vs Maintenance.
Monday: Army vs Merchante.
Wednesday: Instructors vs Maintenance.
Friday: Instructors vs Army.
The race> in the City Softball league
is a nose and nose affair with the
Instructors and Army coming down
the home stretch all tied up at thla
writing (Thursday).
In third place and right on the
heels of the leaders Is Alvin Kelly
and his Maintenance gang, who declare
that with an even break they
are going to win the second half honors
and go Into a playoff for the championship
with the Merchants.
One of the best games of ths season
wUl be dished np to the fsns on
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock when
ths Army and Instructors playoff the
extra ? ?<"g tie game of a few weeks
back. This gkme was ended with
darkness made it lmpoiiftble for the
players. to continue. The Sunday
game will be played on the softbeU
field at Laurens and Fair streets and
should attract a big turnout of fans.
Efforts are being mads to , seonre
Monk Mont joy of Columbia, one of
the best known nmpliry In the Pqfr
metto state to handleThe game. .
At a meeting of tSaih captains Wednesday
night, the a<^ion of the Bureau
of Recreation In suspending ths Kendall
team from the lssgne was upheld.
All gamas scheduled with the
Kendall team were ordered forfeited
to the remaining teams in the loop,
yhfirgres the team standings as liatDurlng
the neat two weeks the
Merchants team will have tough sledding
as a majority of thr players are
la the football camp In North Carolina.
However Manager Stater Nolan
will make every effort to have a team
On hand August St and Sept 1, when
the team has games scheduled.
^ Colorado paM ttsbjlhM old age
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Merchant* Bureau of Chamber
Say* the Plan I* Assured.
A majority of tho Camden
bualnoMB men, well satisfied
vMth half-day closing of etores
during the past summer months, are
going to make tho midweek half holiday
a routine affair for tho duration
of the war.
Already all grocery stores nyltli the
exception of one have agreed to the
continuance of the half-holiday plan,
according to announcement from the
Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of
Commorce. All hardware stores;
Jewelry storey insurance offices, real
eBtate offices, doctors and dentists
offices and other units have approved
the movement.
Tho Chamber of Commerce, which
has approved of the Bureau plan,
holds that with conditions as they
are at present, a change back to the
old arrangement would be a mistake,
v W. B. Marshall, manager of the
Newberry store, has written to his
company headquarters suggesting the
local Newberry store be granted perr
mission to join in the program. The
same la true of the Rose store management.
Several filling station operators and
garage owners, declared they are for
the plan one hundred per cent, so It
is possible that the list of establishments
joining in the midweek halfholiday
program will he augmented
by the many filling stations and
garages shout the city.
Added to the above list will he the
city offices. Mayor F. N. McCorkle
declared he was In complete accord
with the Chamber Bureau plan and
the city offices and department*
would cooperate in the program. The
department stores and also the dime
stores will not, it is said, be able to
close for the mid-week half-holiday.
Mayor McCorkle
Declares War
On Carnivals '
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By Frank H. Heath
One 'of the most severe ordinance* ' #
ever passed by a Camden city council, ,
is that which received the 'approval
and action of the city councilman
'Monday evening and whioh reetrlct*
all future carnival exhibitions to the
Kershaw County fair grounds at the
south limits of the city and imposes
a pay-as-you-enter license fee of $200 T
a week. . ^;
The ordinance was passed upon
the request of May6r F. N. McCorkle
and rerflilted from a barrage of complaints
which have flooded the mayor's
department for several months
and which grew out of th4 repeated
showing of cheap carnivals on Rptledgo
street one block off the main
business street and in close proximity ?
to the residential section of that part
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It is stated that there have been
four of the cheap units showing on the
RuHedge-street area In the past sev^.
end months and because of the noise
created, resident* In that part of the
city waxed wrathy and the result wae
i a flood of complaints to the mayor'* r
office. The last carnival to show 1*
reported to have pitched their tent*
and ride* without a* much a* securing
permission of the property owner.
Recently the city council passed an ( ,.
ordinance fixing the weekly ltcens/s
figure at $100., The new ordinance
raises the tariff to $200, which must
be paid in advance* *
Mayor McCorkle believes that the
new high licence fee and the restriction
ae <0 location will free Camden
from the carnival blight, which has
been In evidence with the cheap
shows and undesirable characters
which follow these groups.
? Editor's Note: At least que of the
carnivals showing in this ettjr within
the tact several months was a first
class unit as far ae carnivals go. We
refer to the Bullock Shows who winter
ltt Sumter. We are not familiar with
the others who are refSred to al cheap
and undesirable. ; W1
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Camden Cotton Mart
In last week's Issue we stated that
the.. ffrit hale of twrtton be offered
tar sale of the 1249 cotton crop on the Camden
cotton market was not sold
due to the unattractive price offered.
This la in error. This bale was sold
to otfe of the local buyers, vis. Mr. J.
T. Hay of the JT. T. Hay Cotton Co.
for a price <? 22 cents a poimfl, : T"
This f!r*t bale wa**growu_by Uam^m
Murphy on the farm of Mr. J, o.
Rlchrrds, Jr., located In the Logoff
section oh the Winnsboro road. The
cotton was grown from the Cokey
100 seed and was an Inch and oneslalMBlrf
staple. The bale weighed
525 pounds. It was ginned at the
of salcMta* Augast^Ll, 1949.
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