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CAMDEN EXECUtm WOULD PROVIDE GOMMUNHY BUILDING AS A WORLD WAR MEMORIAL
The Camden Chronicle
VOLUMES
CAMDEN, SOUTll CA1I0U>ML FWDMY AUGUST 4» 1M4
NUMBER 20
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^uthern Aviation School
Qoses; Loss To Be Fdt
Newest wJT Poeter
t, Fine*t Prii^ 0^ la ^Q^geF BssebaR
Natiofi, Hie After This
Week.
.A, souUiem ATiation school, ons
> ihe ranking primaiT arlation units
lie Army Air morcos, whkh has
In operalisn in CamdMi for the
three years and more* ‘vUl be-
hlstory Saturday.
I last class of cadets gnduated
this , week. Torrential rain
_ put a damper on the .**open
e" program that had be^ arrang-
tr Monday afternoon. A sootre or
j of planes from Shaw Field came
the airport late in the afternoon,
were unable to stage any air ma-
rers because of the rain squalls,
"iandreds of Camden people were at
airport to witness tfie propsm
had been planned as part of the
house.” There was keen dis-
itBsent that the weather was
to prerent it being carried
as
Henry
Savage, Jr., secretary and
irer of the Southern Aviation
, hi a statement Taeeday, de-
the school officially ceased to
on Monday, when the gradua-
of the last class tedk place. The
hall win be in operation xmtil
evening.
Savage stated sis yet his com*
does not know of any plan
•hy the faoQHies at the tSmaii
be utilised hy any tmmOk of the
lent service or any
_ jillon. '
The operaU<m of the Sonfiiem Avia,
•obool provided Camden with
three years of peak ivosperlty,
I a hueinees viewpoint The school
and landscaped area rasks
the most substantial and attracttve
[ or in the nation. It represents sa
vestment of weU over a million dol-
Only recently aew runways
eonstrocted at S cost of some
1,000 extra.
liyor F. N. McCorkle^ Senator Bed-
r-officers of tb* Hn^taarw k:
\ Mkool and others have been mak'
tfeiy effort to Intereat the war
It in utilising the local plant
•oae purpose in the war effort
ui| to Washington by Ifesers. Mo*
,lidfeam and R. M. Kennedy,
in some contacts being
: St yet nothing ctmcrete has
School Attracts
Scores of Boys
EmlMye Baseball Stars Come
From Ewery Section of
tbo State. .
The Brooklyn Dodger baseball
school, which started Tuesday at the
Camden hall park has attract^ much
attention throughout the state and in
Camden. The registration of boys
was carried out early Tuesday mom.
ing and preliminary practice was in
order until a downpour of rain stop
ped proceedings.
W^nesday Wld Matthews, George
Slsler and others on the school staff,
put the youngsters through their paces
and also staged a game between two
picked teams. Jiggs Parker and Carol
Cox are the only ^onden players who
are taking the school program.
Boys from practically every seo-
tion of the Palmetto State are in aU
tendance at the school. The regie,
tratkm Tnesday was tf and this was
Increased on Wednesday qalte
terlally. By Wednesday nlifbt quite a
nnmber of thp boys had been weeded
out and thoee reaudnlag were really
getting a woFkont by the sconta of
the BfOcdSyn dub.
Hex Bowen, who was the first of
file BrooUyii <joiitIiiB8iit ' riach
Camden last wedk sni who after com*
plettag an arrangements^ for the
school polled out Motsday tor Borne,
Oa^ where the next school win be
held (he coming week. Clyde Soke*
fortk, another eoont, left Tueoday for
New ToUk after amhig that every*
thing was sat and the school in opera*
tlon here.'
Many Camden baeehall tana gather^
McCorkle Favors Project to
.. Be Financed by City and U.S.
Gymnasium To Be
Opened For Dances
For the Young Folks
Sugfehta Structure Provide
Facilities ‘For All Ac-
tivitiea.
Recrontion Program Arranged
For Boya and Girin
.14 to 17.
One of the few ansolidted war pfMtrs aver aeecptcd by (he Unttod
States Government Is the <me shown above, submitted by Wadey Hay.
man, X8-year-old New York City ar^^
More than BXMXIO hava batai prysd and ifiitilhitad by nflrrBisa^
100,000 Boy Scoots fiiroaghoat tha aisAixy.
Bdeetad for military ssrvke, TfunnNp, ArnMaat Art Director of
House Beautiful auigastna, felt he oaali eontribute to tbs war
•Sort with bU paster Mp.
X.
Airteen guafks wIB W mnldtaiiibd
; a* airport to protect the property,
Ikmid.
;ord Crowd Sees
)IamhiaTipCaniden
jOne Killed, Five
^ to ^ graadatand at the ban park Hurt hn Highway
Wednaaday and Thursday 'mornings
'First Natkmal Bank
Pays Hig^ Honor
to «ui. th. Ka»lunv To BrNrStannon
and aim the Rgaai fbllbwed:
Oongraasman J. P. Rldiarda of
Lanoaster, wboaa son heads tha Laa.
castar dalegation of baseball boys,
was an intMwated spectator at tha
school Wednesday. Congressman
(Please tara ta page tow)
Beach Driven
To L^ Coupon
Books Says U. S.
Car and IVadc
CoUiakm At
Oaak Bridgg.
InFaMl
otto pitman. If. of
dead, Allen B. Wllaoa, residing
Shaw oounty a dmrt dlstanoa from tba
town of Kershaw, la in the Camdea
Aativu Vieg Praaidant
—To Ghro Up Cotton
Due to the polio scare, the Recrea*
tion committee of the Kershaw Coua*
ty Civiv council has re.arrsnged the
schedule of receration and entertain,
ment at tha various centers. It is
alto announced that -attendance of
children at the recreattonl areas is
entirely up to the parents.
Tha naw tcbedole in Hampton
Park provldaa for suparvised activity
A community canter, housed in ^
subatantial and well designed stmo*
ture, to, be deecribed as a memorial
to the soldiers who made the supreme
sacrifice In World Wars No. 1 and S,
is the objective of Mayor P. N. Me>-
(}orkle.
The Camden executive has learned
from the experience of the past aev*
eral years, or since the war started,
that Camden and Kershaw oounty has
need of a community building, to
which civic and socUi gat-togetbers
may be bald, .pith quarters for various
civic groups provided for, also offer
ing facilitias for tha serving of ban.
quota.
After the war, such a structure aa
between 10 and It a, m. Mrs. Allan envisaged by the Camden mayor, wlU
being in charge. Swings have bean coat some $60,000 to $60,000. In many
set up and croquet, horte shoee and communiUes, a majority of them
tennis eaa be enjoyed. As yet UA.aaMller than Camdea, tb^ commoaS*
volley ball games are being played jty buildings have been provided and
due to the fact that it has been Im* ,!^^* proven much needed facilltleo
poesible to secure the volley balls.
In the afternoons the tnpervised per*
lod is from S to 4:S0 o’clock.
At the grammar echoed grounds
baseball la the order of play from t
a. m. to It noon. Three baseball
teaaie have already been organised.
Next Monday the high school gym*
naslnm will be open from $ to 4:t0
for the children who wish to jday
At Hermitage lake the awlmmliic
and bathing faelUtlea will be supers
viced from 6 to t p. m. On Memday
nest there will be a water melon site*
tag for an children who re In ewim*
sstog at the ttom.
The High adiool gymnaMim Is to
be open every Friday evMdng from t
until 11 o’clock sad a program of
dances and other forms of amusemsat
and entartatoment carried out Bays
and girls 14 to 17 years of mgs may
attend these Frl^ night programs.
If this veature proves a suooasa, it is
planned to have another night pro.
for community growth and batter,
oisnt Such a project would be ft*
aanced by local funds end govern*
mwat oo-opwative poat-war ftauuMliif*
What Mayor M^rkle would Um
to see would be aa artlstlo atmotare
having aa auditorium with a ssuHag
capacity of at least 1,000 peopla, n
oompletaiy equipped stage of cif5*
cicDt slsa to aecoasatodate theatilsal
prodaetions, oi Oe fMrt fhrar
with a basament seetlom (hat
be so arranged aa to otfar a baaquat
room, kltchaa faeiUtlaa and anta-
rooms wbarain tha Boy Scout dkrae*
tors, ths Ameriesn Lsglon, Lsgloa
Auxiliary, D. A. B., U. D. Cham,
bar of Commerce directors, and gov-
sralag units of other elvlo organlsa*
tions could havu a place to luM
hfil fHeato had
buAueas acquaintsnsse is tbs sa*
nooneemaat by Balyh N. Shannon
that he has closed his oottpn business
hospital and four others, J. O. Rob- in order to go with ths First Nstlonal
gram for boya and girla of the 11*14
age-
Miss Righton Richards, who is rso*
rbatlon supervisor, states that it is
advisable for all small ohildren to go
to Bampten park tor ^iay, as super,
'rislea at tha OMHatodF^ ashsal *
varlec with the baseball sdisduls
ths three junior teams.
of
Condb Slants oi Cam
den Soathpawg for 15
Safe HitaT
I The largest crowd to witness a
eball game in Camden' In history,
reen 2500 and 3000 people, saw
ibla down Camden If to I in a
that was replete with every*
in the baseball handbook from
base knocks through briUisnt
flag down to bom
uTTvory colored pattern.
[Colambla proceeded to pat the game
fee In thfl> initial Inning when
Ae hits, two walla, two errors, a
ice hU and a wild pitch put six
the invaders over the oonnttot
All nine playurs on the Go-
>bla team trotted to. the plato,
Lattimore getting two trips. Six
the ten efforts scored.
[labe Wilson, six foot southpaw cl
' Camden team, on whose portaide
‘F-lhe hopes of the Cuadan toaa
banging, lasted only oae taming,
(jerked at the start of the aeo-
> when he walked the first man up.
kids made 14 emwa dortaig the
m, which isn’t good baseball
maa’a land. The youngsters
I keyed up by the big mob of tons
the importance ef the ganm' sad
o( them were on the edge of
Jtttery.
LWIiaon led the Gaatosm
tbres out of Has srtth
two out of i, emo letof a
^ Bulco poi^ a triple to the
but bis mates left htaa etnmd*
Undrum with two doublee and
[■^e and 'WtUluaui with three
led the Colambla betting orgy,
imm, with the aid of his peppy
Ly grandstend maeaged to weather
Cunden miUee Leadrwm
nnculty in the ftaet tamtog
“tors, a walk and two hib
tPltose turn to pete eight)
’off Wranaii b
foor Star Mother
Qieck Ig Made At Cgrolhsa
BeecliM To FiiH ChiaolmR
Motorista.
Motorlata who have baan ualng gaso*
lipe for non-essential pnrpoeaa, par*
ticalarly those who have been ditr.
ing to lake and beach resorts for
vacation purposes have reason to feel
qualms of worry.
The action of the OPA in a drive
against the use of gasoline and tirea
for tton-eaeential purposes is expseted
to prove somewhat of a bombshOU In
^th Carolina resort areas. Accord-
or the OPA
names and. Uccnae nnmbers of mo*
toriaU at beaeh resorts last Sunday
asw-to the hands of the beard and
will be certified to local boards with
a recommendation that aetton be
taken to revoke the ration coupons of
the offenders.
Tile OPA ta u utsteamnt declares
that the riiortage of tires and gasoline
Makes It vitally tpiptartam to ths war
effort, and to the movsotoat to ke^p
transport
erts, Walter Snipes, Bill Moseley and
J. B. Boone, all of Kershaw, were
mere or less painfully injured in un
accident at the Lynches Creek bridge
on Highway 167 two mUee east of
KmEiaw T^nreday morning.
Pitman was steering a truck that
was being towed to this city for re
pairs. behind a car that was driven
by h Georgs TwUty of Kershaw.
At the Lynches creek bridge, Twitty
had crossed the bridge and bad swung
to ths right to pass a car driven by
J. O. Roberta, and traveling in the op
posite direetkm. Twitty’s car passed
the Robert's car but the truck that
was being towed did not and ear and
truck met in a collision that pushed
the Roberta car through the river
ruiltaMf nad sent it plunging to the
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essential elviliaa
wDMaBEIIIk TaKa WtwUrr
essential driving be eOmtaated. Ya-
eatlon trlpa or trips to utatage homsa
at Inland lakes are
essential durtag the war pmlod'hy the
government
Must Vote .^[fiin
In West Wateree
At a meeting of the oounty Demo-
erutic committee ut the court house
Thursday morning to eaavaa the elec
tion returns, it was decided to hold
another election tal the Upper West
of iKta^Witoree toWnshtP for ataglstrate m
Taeeday, August St.
This ran-ovnr was due to irrego.
larttlee at the Logoff box according
to flDieriff J. H. McLeod, county Cba^^
Uncle Sam Warns
Delinquents lliat
r nif
WOiM
Meettam $or civjc ypomotlanal pur*
pee. ^ral
rubaw County farm Biruan.
political meOtlngu, ta toot. aQ ktoin
of prtherinca cooliil be heMt-ln tbe am
dtt^nm which would be eonatraetei
bank aa active vice preeident
Mr. Shannon bus been in the cotton
bualnees in Camden and Kershaw
tr^”.^‘'U;i':('‘;S^'%‘^eMeans^Bu8ine8s
with Springs and Shannon tor soma
time and later was ta bnainess for
htanself. He has always parehssed a
large pentantage of tha cotton mark,
eted on tha Cimden market.
The fact that he finds it necessary
to closo his business will bs a grsat
loss to thia market and to hia many
customers among the farmert of this
and adjoining counties.
on the plan of a modara tkeetar wMh
■If^lag floor. In some of the oom*
mnnity oenters, file banquet room op
the beaement or first floor would hs
assd tor dancing parties, sither of p
public Of prlvato nature.
Mayor MoCorkla stately bsUsvgp
that Cataidgta and Kendtaw Cdkiity eat
well undertake the oonstruetlon of u
building of this character aa a mo-
mortal to the war dead. Snltablo
tableta eamrlng the names of all who
made the supreme aaerifiee would bo
placed in the buOdlng.
(Pleooe tom to pogo Ivo)
nator Redfearn
Fwkrij UMd cmt tm MiutlMakes Statement
+
Mr.
Shannon has been aseoeiated
the First Nstlonsl bank for
years so * director and bis sleetlon as
aettvs vice president wtti be ur
of marked satisfaction and
tion to toe leciem of customers of
this Institution, and his many friends.
~ Mr. Shannon win also act in toe
capacity as aaslstaot to the president
His father, C. J. fflumnon. Jr., who has
been president of the Bank for the
Jan. 27. 1106.
Rolph Shannon io a member ci the
Rotary club, the Amertcon Ipglon ond
orM Wor
ban oerved ta the first W<
muMv pr6Mllt (lOOMt COPTHBw
Ho WOO born end rsirad ta Comdon,
is o groduato at the Camden midi
sdiool, Woodbony Foroot aehool In
Ytrgtaiia and tbo University of the
South at Sewanoe, Tsnn.
Paid BWofW Next
Monday.
This county's primary aleotlon la
over, so, I wish to correct some of the
unfounded nimors as to my partloipp-
Motorttu ot C«>d.p .nd
d-kaia mm kwam I ^a®®®*** I wantcd to plscs ths
‘^"^Itru. facta before the people of this
For nexl Monday t&e atata PoUoa f
will begin to check on the Federally* iiiSS
-tar dansdidhli. Unlass ybutJS^’S™!^
pay up BOW there con and wi»l* or^J
peMiiy. uncio nam maana ousmeoa attacked by o candldoto ta the
too toUtag off of the motor
tax payments was to be expected be-l^^**^
caose of the putting up or hreoktaii ^22
down of many ears and their oubse-J
71- M .liaM .M mndAvUd. Who!^^ ^ BCBatOr SS WCU.
ways, there are many motoriats ..
A check on Broad street betweenl*^ eopfuslon, and frankly, I am o$' u
ItaKoIh and RaOodgo ooveral doyoliJliSJftS!!
ago ahowod that over half of tba earal
tmeaSaKf tot nmeri aa to
naiked tkare wera wltboat the However, my record ta'tila
SS? to '^llegtatatura aa a mambar of tba
Dmy War
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tain erlticiam aa to laglalatioo aftoet-
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ta Karsbsw. Upon my urrivsl at thia
meeting I was advitsd by mmo of
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that tha ebairmau of too maattog had
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time, thtaktof tha oaadidata who
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aouM laglglatoni who apouaorad a bOl
ta couuaefion with lagfadaUon aftaet*
tag dda projaet, and tartoar, hnowlng
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