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. i«. •• ■ “ i:-. The V. E S5 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943 NUMBER ^ jmber Seeks To atect The Hotel lerests of City : Committee To Analyze ,joD—Legi»l»tivc Body ,.ifaii€onsly with th« naming of fcjwar planning committee, the ■-r of Commerce, at a meeting a evening alao took action to- ife-guardlng the hotel poasl- o( Camden by naming a eommiftftfi to. fnnoUon In all It Named. pertaining to hotrta and ac- ttlons in Camden, to committee la headed by Joe rl. a member of the city council county airport oommiaaion. r members are Henry SaTage, Jr., Beard, Arthur Slade, C!^ CL [«r. Sr.,, \ Goodale and Dr. w^t. ^ ChaiBber alao named e leglala' joBinlttee headed by John Net* Itod consisting,of P; N. McCorkle, T Redfeam, A. C. McKaln, Henry and Robin Zemp. This corn- will function for the first time it attends a meeting to be held ^Inmbia next Tuesday afternoon 1:15 o’clock at the Wade Hamp- liiid. to meeting la a Joint aeaalon of ^toBIatlve committees of all the tobers of Commerce of Hie state ptrpoee is to glre consldera*. iiggeated leglslatire needs and iKertain which of these suggee- ■ay meet with the nnanlmcus 1 of the representatlTes attend- the m^ng. iltlmate objectire of the meet* a to bare each group of repre* iTca take home with them from ■Mting a apeeific program of « aeeda and through the Chamber contact the msmbsra he cooaty legtslaUre delegation ■Ike known their specific 4»> which they bare lor 4helr ae> ■Ke when the Oeneral AsassabRy Id in January. Ihe Chamber directors anthprlsed aecutlve secretory to write to stoti Maybank and Smith and IrtBh&air Rlchaida iirtfns and emphaticelly that the tuaurance tax remain at one rent This la of rttal interest to ■cement and workers. ESach now S ne per cent. Unlees this cne (Please turn to page eleven) rasscr President of Chamber Takes Important Step ! Toward Post-War Plans Tribute Is Paid To Women Volunteers Tribute was paid today by Mrs. Marie Tladal, prealdent of the Ker»t.r^ ahaw County Tuberculosis Associa* A. C. McKain Names Commit* tee To Formulate Pro gram. BOT EAGLE GEORGE STUART, III, is shown the fine points of model by Capt Charles Leighton, navigator of the famous Toung Master Clyburn sod bis dog look on. __ _ a Ktyrng rurtieos “Memphis Belle.^ George BanihiU Becomes Captmn Oe<Kge Dswey Barnhill, son of Mrs. Z. Z. Barfisld. Bntiedge street, thU dty, has beta promoted to the rank of capuin, acording to announcement from Washington this week. Captain Bandiill, who la an in structor at Barksdale Field, Louisiana, recently returned from the southwest whero he was hi the midat of the fighting acUvtty for the peet IS months. Barnhill was a recent visitor m Camden, stopping in to see his mother and sister, the latter being Mrs. David Melton, Jr., while on leave ot absence. *olo Wilk Come Back As ^ The Leading Winter Sport Mtenant Jack Brown Sayn Camden Sport Will Return. R. Brown, former well-known hemxn and trainer, now a lieuten- Court Inn Is Rising From Fire Ruins, Will Be Better Than Ever ^ the 29th Cavalry at Fort Riley, pHu, believes that as soon as believes that as soon as the h U concluded, Camden ■kill return Mhe pre-war winter sport activity, Frilarly polo. lihotenant Brown, who is here on The Old Mansion Unit Be Restored To Old To Beauty. „ big crew of carpenters, electri- 1*0 weeks leave of absence, declar- gjung and painters are doing a heroic **‘“ *■ ■ ■ * burned unit of list he was in the same command iFhrt Riley as David Williams of »dty and tha^ th©y had frequently ■•Med the future of equestrian in Camden and that both plan- ■ to return and take up the polo Job at -restoring the the Court Inn and according to an nouncement this week, the the new roof, lobby and first ttoor rooms will be fully completed by January 1. v i » Tha fOaturo of the Job now neing ^tenant Brown plays. regularly j doM^ls* the fact that It Ukes on the P the 29th Cavalry polo team,' ^rspective of a rdstorsUon'of the old I ■ -.AAllInflra (to fa the post champion. I^Sausseur mansion. "Wie ceilings Jhen 1 reported for duty at Fort:^^ what will be two finely appointed *nld Lt. Brown, ‘T almost drop-; suites on the second floor of the unit h amazement when I saw ' that commanding officer was none fthan John Van H. Davis,'famed skill as a steeplechase Jockey Vinner of many races at the wale course here In the Caro- Cop program," , unit had entries In all, “0 horse sbuws ,at Port Riley, | 0^ there being as many as 25' from'the 29th. I rode one Place winner, also a third placer lM)ntlnued from page two) are being raised to the old 14 foot *'^6 work on the new roof vrill ^ completed this week according to the (Please turn to page twelve) ICKIE SAYS— "^ISm/SMPEIt IS 'lOUR FkieUD^IT toid ^yOUR BlRTHfTtUS ' OPHOUR DO/MSF, AUO '^lU-PRIUTASWEU- - WUEi/WU P^SSOfJ^IF WEKHJ ^WmilUQ-t=ORHDV ^yVMEjLETUSkUaH Mobile X-ray Clinic Will Be In Camden One of the points of the Kershsw County Taberchlosls 1944 Program Is more intensified case flndlw, and this means more On Wednesday and ^ cember 16th and l«th, tb© 9^*?^ bile X-Ray Clinic will be In Camden, at the Ciounty Health Department from 9 to 12 A. M. If an x-^y Is sired an appointment may ^ secur- 5d by calling 6294 or 240. TOe price examination Is |1.60 of this .each. x-ray While this Clinic was scheduled to x-ray the positive reactors to the tuberculin tests given »nnntv In the dhst month, there are still a few openings left for appoint ments. Chronicle Adds New Member To Its Staff The Chronicle la ^pleased to an nounce that the service <>'“"• Cameron McLaren Refore coming to Camden, iot. tom. to NT'Crr^where she had experience wlOi be aoHcTllng rontine work cwmected with the edit ing of a weekly paper. Mrs. RcIdLr©« Mr^ ■ta Structor at Southern Aviation WooTtthTM to ilx o elock. Soldiers Center Will Formally.^Open With An Impresnve Ceremonial Social and ^iritual Frogram Is Being Formulated For Sunday. Formal dedication of Camden’s at tractive Soldiers’ center, located in the Rutledge street armory building, scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 12, will be postponed one week, according to Mrs. Frank Bean, tlirector. The postpone ment is due to failure of some’of the equipment and furniture to arrive. In the interval, however, Mrt. Bean expects to have completed her com mittee appointments and have all ac tivities programmed for the dedica tion as well as for the dally opera tion of the center. A dance committee, beaded by Mrs. Granger Gaither as chairman, and list ing Miss Sarah Steadman, Miss Lillian Yates, Mrs. John Whitaker, Jr., Mrs. Cyril Harrison, Miss Rhetta Blakeney and Mrs. Lois Cox as active members is contacting Camden girls who are 17 years of' age and -over. Inviting them to register with the committee for the social events which will be given on Saturday evenings during the winter and spring and probably tend into the summer months. The dande committee requests all interested young ladies to stop at the Center and sign- their registration blanks. The committee members wish to remind the young ladies seeking to become hostesses at the dances and other social events that they must list several references on their application blank. The committee will check all refer ences and will then notify the appll- ca&t as to h©r kUitus: Army Career of Youth Is Halted -By An OUJtajiiQL WyHe Hogue, Jr., Gnrea Hon* (treble Ditherge From SenrSce. tion, to the women volunteers who are working hard and faithfully to make the. Christmas Seal Sale a success. Since Thursday .December 9, is the ‘birthday’ ot the American Christmas Seal Sale,-Which--waa-orgaalxed by a. woman, Miss 'Emily Blssell, of Wil mington, Del., H is a fitting day to pay tribute to the women in Kershaw Uoumy who are making possible the tuberculosis control work of the asso ciation for the coming year," she said. Mrs. Tlndal told the story of the first Se^ Sale in this country. “Miss Blssell, back In 1907, needed $309 to keep open a small Delaware tuberculosis hospital. She decided to try out In her community a plan that had been successful In Denmark since 1904. She quickly found that the American people responded as quick ly as the Danish people to the power ful appeal of the small tuberculosis jseal. Instead of the $200 she bad (hoped to raise for the hoepitsl the jitetums of the first Christmas Seal jSale brought In $8090. -“Surii instantoneons response prov* ed that the right means had been found to finance the American anti* tuberculoeis campaign, which had been started a few years before with the organisation of the National Tu berculosis Association,” she said. ‘^Dur ing an the years since—this Is the 87th aaniul Christmas Seal Ssle— women volunteers have made the sale eo sucoeesful that tuberculssis «con- trol has steadily and rapidly increas ed. 'There would be no anti-tubercu losis campaign in Kershaw County were it not fOr the splendid coopera Jion -ot-thw%oineiL**_ _ — This next week the “reminder cards" go out to all His people who have forgotten to buy the Seals they, received on Monday. November 22d. It is easy to forget—particularly at this ,tlme of the year—that th© re- C. McKain, preeideRt- of- 4ho- Camden and Kershaw County Cham ber of Commerce, in announcing the appointment of a post-war planning committee to the directors of the Chamber at a regular mee'ttng Tues day evening, declared that the Cham ber of Commerc.e holds^ a keY posi tion in a movement of this kind. “In planning for post-war actlvi. ties,” said Mr. McKaIn, ‘‘we should cqoperate with the municipal govern-^ ment, toe county ..goverjament and the state itovernment in bringing post war development into the picture. Our Chamber of Commerce Is the logi- cal agency through which cooperation of post-war planning of private busi ness and of public bodies may be ao compliabed. Business men with faith in the private enterprise system recognise that they cannot do the Job alone. Public works, under the cities end counties, as well as the states and national government, have a vitol_ place In our economy. We want to avoid leaf-raking projects as much M posalblo and also do not wish to In fringe upon the fields ^f private tn^ terprise. Nevertheless, we reidlte that many desirable public works proj ects have been held back during thu war and that an expansion of activi ties of toil nature In the period of demobilisation will help to reduce toe amount of threatened unemployment. If private business through the logical chamber can have a voice in the de termination of the plans, much will be gained in keying them on a prop, er plane and in harmony wUh its own efforts. “A program for eooperstion with mnnioipf^ govmmments Is, of course, secohdaiy To the primary efforti of the local chamber to stimulate em ployment through private enterprise. As an actively fnnctlonl^ organUa. tion compoeed of all elements.of business and industry in toe com-- Wylie Hogue, Jr., who went Into the armed service last June, has been bonorably ^Hscharged by the war do* partment, doe to disability growing out of injuries received when struck by an auto four years ago. The young roan has been with a medical detachment at Camp Barclay, Texas. When be volunteered for serv ice last June, the examining board at Fort Jackson refused to accept him, but on his plea for a reconsideration of his case, be was finally passed. CamAen people will recall the tragic BccldeBt which tor a time caf- ried a threat that the young man would lose his leg, it being so badly mangled in the collision on DeKalb treat. After being laid up for a long period of time Mr. Hogue recovered and entered Clemspn college. He was active in the engineering branch and also in the ROTC. Mr. Hogue plans on resuming his studies in engineering at Clemson. minder car^ are, si i ruts, welcom- hiunity, the Chamber It best able to If accepted she will receive a regular admission ticket, which must be presented at every event. ' The committee has formulated a set (Please turn to page flvs) Twenty Pennies And Screw Driver Extent of the Loot Radfeium Garage'Entered Lait Week By A^Sneak Thief. Ul«s WOleum-I ^^•Misrwyi •• »wav w ed, and immediatsly our returns take I direct the planning -and ss a medium (Please turn to page two) J (Plesse tsm to page two) Boy Eagles Launch Member$liip Drive Next Tuesday, December 14 Thousands Visit Kirkwood Hotel To Seek Bargains Twenty pennies and a screw driver constituted the extent of the loot taken by a sne^ thief who broke Into people came from all . parts of toe Probably never before in the history of the Kirkwood hotel did this bos* telery boast of so many visitors, nor did the highways and byways ever witness such a gathering ot auto mobiles as was in evidence Wednes day when the public auction of the furnishings of the big structure took place. — The only periods in Camden history when greater crowds or more cars were in evidence in the history of the hotel were a few years ago when the sport of polo as presented by such sterling teams as toe Ramblers, Yel- lowjackets. Mulberry, Efaisex 'Troop, and Town and Country attracted ss many as 6,000 people to the polo arena. At the suction ssle Wednesday Redfekm Motor toe garage of the company last week. Entrance to the garage was obtain ed by breaking a pane ot glass of a window of toe west side, and through the opening thus made, releasing bar and then raising the window. midsouth and Judging by toe buytpg activity, those making purchases evi dently were imbued with Che Idea that they were, getting rato bargains; . Instances were witnessed when sec- *.ond hand articles went over the suc tion block at prices greater than what could be purchased new. (Please turn to page six) Discovery of the night invasion was made by D. M. Davis, head of the j — Service department The cash reg ister. located in the Parts department,' ^ Is always left unlocked at night Tw«n-, H ArfillSI'W I JlHYITV ty pennies that were in this register AAClOIIaW VAlUIliJ were taken with the screw driver. So far as could b© ascertained by Mr. Davis, that constituted the extent of the robbery. . Christmas Tea and Sale Next Wednesday Lodge 29 A.F.kL Elects Officers The Kershaw County Lodge 28, A.F.M.. met on last Tuesday night Dec. 7to. with a good attendance^ and the following officers were elected Tor toe year 1944: Worshipful Master.Hoffman: On Wednesday, Dec. at Mr.)Senior Warden L. H. Jones; Junior Harry p. Klricover’s houses there will Warden, George Mickle; The Treas- be a tea and sale, the proceeds,of urer, J. C. Outlaw; The Secretary. J. which will be used, to furnish recriMt-jB. Rose; Senior Deacon, L, K. Ora tion rooms for the men nt Fort Jack- ham; Junior Deacon. A. C. McKain; son. Come one, come all and bring Senior Steward, J. A. Hagins; Jon- your friends! The hours wHI bs from .lor Steward, Donald Morrison; Tiler, 0:H:~LowtBlit Midnight Blaze At Lumber Plant; Damage Is $1,000 Wateree Company Logos Boiler And Shaving Shed In Fire. Fire caused damage to the amount of $1,000 at the Wateree I^umber com pany plant on DeKalb street Wednee* day shortly beforq midnight. ^ ' A boiler shed and a unit described as a shaving shed were nartlally de stroyed by flames believed to nave started from sparks from a chimney. The glare of. the fire reflected in the sky attracted many spectators to the scene. The fire deiwrtment had the blaze under control within a short time. The loss is said to be fully covered by insurance. Cadet Martin Karant Presides At Banquet Boy Eaglei Become A Reality For Camden Youth Next Week. Aviation Cimet Martin Karant. group Uommander, and member of the graduating class 44D, served as the toastmaster at. the graduation ban quet, held at Southern Aviation School last Friday night Karant in his opening remarks thanked the various departments: maintenance, flying, ground school, physical training and the tactical of ficers for the training received dur ing class 44D'8 stay at 64th. Mr. Tom Mott, school manager. In speaking said that each man in each department was working toward the creating of the' “end-product” of the training program—that Is, a flyer. The interest of each man is maintain ed, Mr. Mott said, because they see too aviation cadet as a fine product of good training they have received when they leave. Major Leonard Hauprich congratu lated the group upon their graduation from primary training, reminding them that their training was the beet U was possible to receive anywhere. He told toe graduating class that training here bad added to their de velopment, that they should hive ma tured to a certain degree. In closing his remarks to the grad uating class. Major Hauprich streeaed toe respbnslbility of the gnmp to their country, to themselves, to the Southern Aviation School. He em phasised that the people of toe «o«&- The Boy Ekigles, an organisation for boys 7 to 12 yeara of age, will be formally launched In Camden next week when the charter group will be formed at a meeting to be held Tues day evening at 7:20 o’clock at the Grammar school auditorium. All boys Interested in the new org anization and all parents of boys in this age group are invited and urged to attend, the special organisation meeting ki The school auditorium next Tuesday, at which time The Boy Elaglee will be thoroughly explained by founders of the organisation, and the Camden chapter will be formally In- stitnted. Seeing a need for a constructive, in spiring and educational organisation for bo3ni in toe age group of 7 to 12 years, with one finger on the pulse of toe tempo of aviation. Its present and Its future, and the Interest of youth in aviation. Southern Airways is de voting its wholehearted support to the young organization. The Boy lilies in addition has been given too en dorsement of^ many of the nation’s leading officials In aviation. - The Boy Elagles is the first organba- tion of its kind in Amdrica, and waa founded light hera in Camden by men who hare a keen insight Into the future of aviation and what aviation (Plaoso turn tb page right) Knapp Dwdfing Is Sold To Prominent Resident of City Jhck Whitakar, BusinoM Man And Banker, Acquires Pifoperty. John WhHaker, Jr., business man and banker, has purchased the Knapp home oh Mill street and plans on re- modelOig the structure for residential porpoaea. This is the dwelling which was re cently announced as having been pur chased by Simon Faust of Columbia, who planned on rebuilding it into an apartment building. ^ Tt^is deal fell through, however. The Knapp borne has - the unlgne distinction ri having been occupied by George Washington, upon the oc casion of the first president’s visit to Camden slKMtly after the Revolutioiv> VI ^ P»t on toemlary^war. (the Aviation Cadets), and thnil the Mr. I^ltaker and TamRy may oc- peoptr-ari-pgmi Tor TfiaT paif^ “ MWTeidddTled \ -