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VOLUME H CAMDEN, SOUTH CAIMHJNA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944 Camden Faces A Milk Shortage Unless AcQiistments Are Made Many Dairies May Be Fore* ced Out ol Business Soon. Unless thsce U so adjustment on le price Ql.inllk la eomnwten Cam- len lice and Kershaw coontjr maj face a erious milk shortafe-^md the shut- own of s majority of the leading alrles. ^ ^ Dairymen of the county hare ad- reesed a commnnlcatlon to the Of- of Price Admlnlstratkm at AUan- requestlng that the celling on milk Id to consumers be raised to SO ^nts s quart The cost of milk pro- luctlon has soared to such a figure, It said dairies cannot operate under e present retail price. It is pointed out by the dairymen a cent price would hot permit of any (it, but it Is belieTed the dairies Juldi be able to get by. The OPA ifflce Is Informed that Kershaw milk iroducers feel a price of 22 cents a uart retail would be Justified, but are illing to continue operations if the cent figure Is gyanted them. The dairy group Indicate plainly In etr letter to Atlanta that unless the iling is raised to the 20 cent figure at Camden and Kershaw county Will jse some of Its milk supply by pro- ucers going out of business. Brailsf ord WUl Lead Red Cross For Coining Year EnUtuuaam Features Anskual Meeting of Kershaw County Chapter. om The Statej- “It seems that the OPA plans to ve no relief whataoeTer to the dairy- en,” said L. I. Oulon of Logoff Moh- y, “unless it Is forced, ahd the dairy men of the state plan to .take the tion necessary to get relief." Speaking Tor publlciBRaTTBrrXfuI^ producer and dlstribntor who sup- ies milk for Camden, Sumter and aw Field, challenged the OPA to me a sl^le food that had not risen price since milk celllnga were tabliahed. Rising coats of feeds and other tie- ssities for the prodnctlon of mSk ve wiped .««t the daWte^ saargitts profit, h* And dairymsn srs g tw ceiltags ha raised se that •sn stay In business. He pointed out that his own dairy I was operating at a loss ail a month and cltsd the case of Taylor, anolheOrSSioer deny ing to Camden, whp, he said, had ady sold 90 per edni of his osam, ow operatli>g,ai.ia. loss of a fflNul^tlose Of thd^TbSt herd In order to STOld oontbin- losses. (Please turn to paga four) ^illiam A. Boykin, 'tsntan'Citizeir, Called By Death (ion of Fritohda Mourn Paas> ing of Belowed Character Major Moultrie Brallsford was re. rieeted chairman of the Kershaw County Red Cross chapter at the an nual meeting held at the Red Chross headquarters Monday. » Mrs. Egmont C. Ton Tresekow was re-elected vice chairman; Mrs. J. R. Belk, treasurer, and Rev. A. Douglas McArn, secretary. The meeting was one of the moat enthusiastic that the chapter has ex perienced In years. Oxer 125 persons crowded the chapter headquartwi to participate in the affair. A grammar school cboms of 20 young people, un der- the direction of Mrs. Charles Salmond, offered national anthems of the four allied nations after which invocation was offered by Rev. A. Douglas McAm. Mayor P. N. McCorkle gare a abort address in which be extolled the fine achievements of tbs various Red Cross units. The Finance committee consists of Attorney Oliver Rice, Henry G. Gar rison and Nettles Undsay reported the finances of the chapter to be In good condition and took eccasion to com pliment Mrs. J. R. Belk upon her splendid recording and bookkeeping. The repofTof Mn. BdIK was read by Misa Virginia Green, who Is staff as- (Please turn to^page thrae) Fourth War Loan Drive Gets Under Way In Most Satisfactory Manner Here Historic Kirkwood WUl FaU Under the Attack of Wreckers But Peal Pca^mg^ To Preierva Fifty Room So<;tkm As Hotri. According to information given to a reporter this week, following what was described as -the final auction at the Kirkwood, the famous and his toric hotel will soon disappear from Kirkwood Heights. Failure to dispose of the building at public auction taas, it Is said, re- sulteMn a determination pn the part of SinHin Faust, owner, to eliminate kklQg kslne b; now hie Sheheen Doing Fine Job h Cqlection (H Fate Hooeewives Fallniff Down Patriotic Effort Frank Shebeen of the l^ebeen grocery and mearhtt la doing a aplen- dld Job at coUmtlng fats and greases, Mcflnrdti^lA I the county defense cDaocB jMsd^sriers. Last week Mr. Sheheea secured 60d poundB\«from Southern Aviation and with what had been turned In by markets of the city, was able to take a large quantity to Columbia and tom It over to the state body. _ _ - - Aoeordlng --to defBnse~1rB&aqnarreTg the fat drive In the city is not as suc cessful as it should be. Several hun dred pounds are collected twice each month at the various restaurants and hotels, but the citizen response to the request for fats is far below par. . “Housewives are Just not taming their waste fat in,” said a defense council official. ‘Tf they realized the IWilliam Ancrum Boykin, outstand- dire need of this waste fat In supply ing vital needs of the fighting forces, they would.awaken to their own re- home, Wannah plantation, at Boy-Isponsibility.' Enough cannot be said II Sunday morning. He was $5 years' In praise of the very worthy work that atte. Mr. Boykin passed away daring his >^P. members of bis family finding lifeless body when one went to I .him Sunday moiTrtxxg. 'News of passing plunged the entire _9om- nity into grief. "Anc,” as he' was dly and affectionately called by legion Of friends and acquaint- enjoyed the esteem and re el of all who knew him. or many years he has been promi- t as a sportsman. He was an ar- hunter and has held the presi- y, of tbo Wateree Swamp 'HtthOhg ior sotoa thne. His genUd^uiH) HE’S CONVINCED—Among the many soale Marines who have expressed their complete approval of the Maiige Corpe Women’s Reserve la Second Lieutenant Tyrone Power, shown here with Sergeant Mattie Osment. The former movie sUr described Jolblng the Marines as "the finest way a young woman can serve her counttj, to free a trained Marine to fighf* Camden Hoqnbd Is Now Open For Cadet Nurses Sargeon General of United States Notifies of Paeor- al>le Action- illiam Ancrum Boykin, outstand- Bportsman, agriculturist. , civic der and citizen, died suddenly at The problem otoasloned by the lack of trained nurses at the Cam den hospital will. It is believed, be BOlTfid now that the hospital-'has- been approved by the War Depart ment for training of Cadet Nursea. Announcement that the Camden HqppUal had been placed on tha Cadet Nursing Corpa approred list was recelvad from the Surgeon Gen- eral last waek. Under the provisions of the Cadet Nursing (kirps, nurses will receive their Indoor and outdoor uniforms. Home Furnishing Company Store te Among the Finest Eartensive Ronoralmf and Dec- oratiBg on Exterior and * Interior. Chainnan Heyman Believes County Will Reach Quota Without Trouble. The “Fourth War Loan Bon'd” cam* palgn was Initiated In Sooth Carolina last Tuesday. January IS, and accord ing to latest reports'there is every evidence that tbe Palmetto State will go over the top by a wide margin. In Kershaw County the drive start ed with a rush and midweek Chair man Marlon Heyman was in an opti mistic frame of mind regufding the result! of the three week effort. Ht. believes that the enthaetaam of the public Is such that tbe county quota will be attained. In connection with the drive pro- gram. Mr. Heyman addressed a meet ing of Kershaw county farmers at tha Court House Tuesday while the pro gram of the Rotary Club Thursday the structure by rasing It However h was Intimated that this | was devoted to the bond effort rasing process might extend only to' Oovemor Olln D. Johnston the east and west wings, that a deal and was pending whereby the central unit Chainnan of tha War Finance com- of tha. building was being souj^t by outside partlee who would construct ^ fifty room hotel on the site. If this Is done tbe present golf club house would be used as a hotel annex with tbe probable construction of an 18 room addition. In view of the many conflicting re ports wbkb have, come from Kirkwood Heights during’ the past several - moQthSr-tiiadfe&eral pubttc In C^aBdOD is disposed to stick a tongna in a cheak and muttar, "Oh Yaah,” when (Please turn to page aix) Screening Test Is Scheduled At ffigfa School Next Monday Ciwfl Air Patrol Squadroa WiU Conduct An ProfTam. Chriatie Benet of Columbia, Bute I^ihng the past .few weekatf the large store of the Home Pnralahlng company has been In the bands of painters and decorators, and with tbe work about ^completed, this leading textbooks^^MOiOgAdaLxenamaratioa al^the rate of $16 a month lor the as well as Interior. house furnishing establishment 1», . . . —:r- . . spick and-epan, both-~og~tllB~~gxlerIbr oOys of the Camden, Anti . A screening test offered by the Rock Hill Squadron of the ClvU Air Patrol to give youths an opi^anity to see If they possess quanBeatlons which might later fit them for duty with the United States Army Air corps will be conducted at the Camden High school next Monday morning at 10. January- och and Blaney high schools who are over 16 and not yet 18 years of age will be eligible to take the test. The AAP Is asking—not ordering— (Please turn to page nine) -I . I ..I. ■ AC Recniite May [sk For Sp^iHc tation Assignments paptain Dewey W. Court, AAF- IC Recruitment Director of the Mern Plying Trailing Command headquarters at Maxwell Field, Ibama, was enthusiastic over proe- p for AAF Wac enlistments for Porcea Stations In the geographi- [ limits of the Fourth Serviea nd upon «information today that C8 can now be recruited for speel- [ initial station aselgnmeats. Noting tha Eastern Flying Training land alone has twenty-five maj- itatlona all anxions for tha assign at of mors and more of the effte- skirted soldiers, Gaptain Gouri ited out that dosens of other Air cea 8tatlon% in the Fourth Servloa imaad "will B4»ife upon this oppor. ty of brteqCUMi the complement of Wacs up to normal strength. Bpeettve lucmlta wlH be glad o| opportnnlte^ to serve their Initial gnmenta in placet of 'their own CO." ' i L reporting : the War Department lorlaation^for anllstment of women specific initial station assignment, >Qel Ovata Cnlp Hobby, DfrMtor he Woman*! Army Gor^ made ft r tha rtsm mamM dat a ra- t mty.s^Mf tha ^ ur^airft^ «r ffnx aaripuMat aia is being done by Mr. Sheheen. He gives of his time to transport the waste fats to Columbia. He also looks after- the paymtat of the cash fee for this fat and also the distribution of the meat points.” It is interesting to note that the 600 pounds of waste fat turned in by Southern Avlattoa school netted the school |24 and 1200 meat points. X-Ray Clinic At fliglLScMFeb^ Hurses Corps operates./ Our Fighting Men Are Better Trained I ■ '■ ■ All of Uncle Sam’s fighting men of today are -better trained than those jot World War 1, and this is partlcular- ly true of the jQung firing nfflcam. »- On February 2. there will be a chest X-Ray Clinic In Camden at the City High school, fr<Mn 9 a. m, to 2 p. m. This clinic le especially schedul^ as a part of the Better Health for the o today wear the Navy Wings of jQold. Taking off i;rom the de^k of an air. craft carrier and roaring 4way to com bat over trackless wastes of qcean is stay healthy and well In order to do, our part in tbe hard months to come. ’The price of this X-Ray is 75c. This Is a good opportunity for every- one to check 016% longs and see If they are free from any contagkma disease. Your public food handlers are required to be free of any eomr monlcable dteeases sad fiow is tba chance to see If the food aandlefu fx tbe private bemM are as traa. No appointment la neoeasary, tha hours are f a. m. to 2 p. m. Cqnnty Over Top Hi SealjCampaign Kershaw County went over tha top in the tuberenhMls seal campaign which started on Thanksgiring day and closed on New Year's day. The Gonnty quota was set at $2,200 and up to data treasurer Oliver Rice re ports a total of $2,554 already re. oelvod. * The volunteer Vortcers did an ex- oeUect Job In this casspalgn and found ready eooperation and tetorsat OB the put of the g«Mral puttie. Special thnaka is due to tha Port Ofidse, tha CSuuutltta, to Mrs. Goto (Mover. Aab—» oC the (brtrs^ a|il first year, $20 a month for the second The Interior of the store, both en year, and $S0 a month for the third the first floor as well as the mez- year, zalne has been entirely renovated, . , c ^ Through affiliation with the Charity kreatly lightening the store and *“«!*'* Hospital In New Orleans, nurses train. Ing H a most attracUve appearance.;**® Ing at the Camden Hospital will The show windows have not been:|®**^- compulsory to take spend the last nine months of their neglected and offer a most attractive; doing so youths can three-year period at the Charity back^ound for the public display ^ ^ HordIIaL i n6C68SHry InforinAtloo End Et tli6 seise Inquiry at the hospital elicited the! The exterior, or Broad Street frontiJJ*®® vlLi- informatlon that approval of the bos- of the building, haa been entirely gone S! pital for Cadet Nurses training will over by painters, and the bright red if? unquestionably aid greatly in solving background is highlighted with *, [J® ^®^ obligate pX 8,u.dro„ ..oa. o.,r occupied, CouHuou,., muneratlon which is provided through |»hing company is one o< the leadlng^der^^^m^nd^ of Llwt. the. Bolton Fund uaifiT whi^h tluL-houBa-TumlshliMt yeatabllshinemg. Pilgrim, wUl be Flight Officer, Sheffield displayed courage, coolness ron. I only in Camden and Kershaw county, but In tbe state. The members of the company are: President and treasurer, r>. n, ^ iGus Lee. Beleos; vice president and the_Rpck Hill I secretary. Chris G, Beleos. Store N««^ron will conduct screening tests I personnel: Collectors, Oscar HortOn:*^ Kershaw High school for the land W. C. Smith; secretary, Mlssi^?^? Kershaw and Baron De^ 'Lola H. HUton. Heyman-Karesh H^ Demo. Club Kalb schools. (k> At a meeting of local Democrats ^ Tuesday evening, the Camden Deipo^ ^child’s pikT TherTfore. Unde^foifffi*® »>y the el^ pays particular attention to the train- Ing ofhlB nephews who fly with the,®**' t cf'*^*’* people of kfershaw County. We murt> «avy. Evidence of this fact Is the 1“^"’ Lawrence Jones as secre- -«.4 «-ii 1.. ♦/» '««»^nipresslve list of vlctorfes Navy fliers, are rolling, up over Jap airmen to the PM-ifie First Ward, David L. Melton; Second To train pUota evwi more thorough. I ly for the big Job ahead, the Navy V^^bigham; Fourth Wart, la now <^fering enllstaes In tha V-5 Naval Aviation Cktoei program an (Hi-li; O®'?****®* Sixth Ward, H. Wy- poTtunity for eight mouths of col- lege training prior to tha start of actual flight instruction. (PlMss tom to pugs two) Muds Excitement Eiq;sected; “Processors” Win Lest Two Gemesi “PfoJesaftra” Play—» w- i*— Cadete Friday At War Magaane. Camden (gymnasium mittee. Issued a Joint statement urging. the people to do their uttermost la adding additional bonds to their ex isting portfolios and the Oovemor, In his proclamation, called upon tbe schools, homes and places of buslnesa to display the Stars and Stripes on that day. Tbe quota tor Kershaw County la $614,800 and for tha atata aa a whole la $54,000,000. The campaign In this county will be onder the leadership (Please turn to page three) Air Medal and Oak Leaf Ouster „ For Camden Boy Award Is Gnrvn To Fathor of In^risoBod Sofs. - william L. Sheffield, ronte 1, Cam. den. has received the Air Medal with two oak Leaf Clusters, awarded his son T. Sgt. Charles A. Sheffield, who is a prisoner of war of ^ Owxpan government. ' ' Sgt Sheffield went lato tbe armed services In January, 1942, and went into the combat zone the following He--wae -on Ttrmbanr “duly from January 1 to July 29, 1948, when the War department reported him as missing in action. Later tbe govern- meut announced that he was a prison er of the* Germans, being captured following a raid over Kell. The air medal together with offi cial copies of the citation was sent by the War department to the father of the young roan, ha received them last week. The citations record the award of Youths I ^be air medal and oak leaf cluster as • being the result of meritorious achievement , while participating in five separate bomber Combat mis- CUarles H. Stogner of this city, who skill which reflected great credit, is affiliated with the Columbia Squad-,<tbt only upon himself but upon the armed forces of the United States. The Award was made upon the order of Major General Eaker. Corpord Wyiiams A Globe-TYotter Camden Youth Has Been All Over the World. WrOakman Hay, Sr. Died December 23 Another meeting of the committee will be held Monday evening. tjfe Anay ft Job. Gmad pastldpidefi Is (be W.'Oakstan Hay. Sr., a Ufa lo^ resident of Cmradea, died Deosmbar 2$. 1942, tel the (3amdea hoaplUl. fol- lowing a brief lUnwa asl a smglcal apwatitaa.; He was ot age. Hfa trlsada ramamber Mm aa a owa of usqndsUoualia honor and Jatagnty. The stmdldRF of bla , tsetea and modes was aa ontataiidtng qaaUty; howavar, be wm a paraap o( daw sad abldJag .ifffofltlsas gad toyaklM. IliB salad was <kHala0us aad the typa of mcatslftr Mteb weald uitfeld tato fibs blglbMl limn liag Oil I _ _ Be was j trwpte fld laefrbe lar sat Columbus, Miss., Ca^rt Is Awarded Mraal At Southern Cwl«t Hath V. WWmM I OntstendiBf Member ot Oat 44-E. Excitement of tha highest type will reign In tha Camden high gym at 8 o’clock tonight, Friday, January 21, when the "Flying, Professors,” after two straight victories, win tangle with a datenniapd Cadet team that is be- fog whipped Into shape hy Athletic Dfreetor Maurice Clay. Ldent Clay Is snsidelousljr tadt on tha progress of Cadets and George Stimrt, ntaeagar of the *l*rofoasort", dedarea that ha dataets a gUnt of eonfldenoa In Clay’s eyes whsa ha speaks of the team. At any rMe. It wUl be a game that Is not to be dtlss- ed, for the Cadets will ba on equal footing with their Instructors. In top shape, the Southara Airways’ aggregation reaped sweat vengeaaca on the Wfoasboro Royal Oirds at tha (Please turn to page tea) For- s to AH AvfoGon OAet Hugh V. Wingfield. Jr., ana of Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Wtag-l^ field of Columbus, Miss., was dioaem to ramlva the gold medal awarded to the outstaadteg jpamber of eadt Southern Avl*- iBoa _ Is s mmabeg tot^^ Mto iiaasafolinn was m M. Baaicteh. o f4th AAFFTD. on fkt- dfrtho Dr. Carl West Is Country Gob Head Charters granted Monday by W. F. BfoOkwall, secretary of state, ware as foUowg: epmdoa ^Sountrr Club Realty «or- to deal fo real athlede elub; West. Vigo WlOfom F. Cart Corporal Edward O. WUllams, of the United States Marines, a son of * Mrs. Maud Williams, Mill street, who has been spending , a I0.day furiough at bis'home h4re, leaves Sunday to return overseas and thS front lino Corporal Williams has been In tbe Marines for three years, having Joined prior to Pearl Harbor. WiUlams de- scribes himself as a "sea-gofog Ma rine.” ^ A recent Issue o( the Start aad Stripes carries an intaresUng story of Williams aad a compand do- scribed to. the story aa "globe trot- ti».” The article follows: “They^re been huddles sad on tbo same ship for the past two years. Martoe Corporal Edward C. WUllams, Gamilan, S. C., and OM l-c John J. Brown, Detroit, Mich., started their globe trotttog wHh a trip to Cuba. Their next Jaunt was with the first . contingent of American troops to air- rive St BidEsat. Irslsnd. "They saOsd hack fo the Sfotca and after a short stopK>ver pushed out for the Pac^. One ot their stops was . at TentetabU. a Pacific lalaad where native girls wear genufoa Bs- nm and where native boys say, ‘Iffio lairt, tahtol,’ maaalag, ’haOo Thejr ifiMcsd up navivOTs of whieh had battle—a baidlsi to San 'I. V. hsX' 't’.' ArKi 'S ■i. 'ili iUi 5^7-1 -^11 k; ■v*f J *'X ’M- V m ^'4. ■4 •'A. 5 Si