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Protest Is Looked For Against Project The Ca^en age Dam At Backingham Landing. •> i VOLUME M CAifDEN, dOUTH CAROUNA, FRdkAY, OCTOBER SO, 1944 NUMBER 31 hrangeburg Highs Here, 0 Elattle BuUdogs Tonight itor* Hoping To Catch Cam* den Suffarilit Fr<mi Letdown. tile the Camden Balhlogs are icted to find Oranfebnrg an easy im in the clash tonight at Zemp d, reports from the opponent city cate that the rlsltors anticipate blog the Camden team In a let* B after the streanoas hattle ut Charleeien last fViday, and e BO npset win. le game ffhQidd-he-a good, one it is to be hoped that the fans not regard it as an aiiti«llinax ucle after the Soniter and ■leiton scraps, and decide to re- I by the family heirth rather than ter to the. gridiron fl^. lit writer urges erer^^ fan to be ent tonight and let the team hare mcouragesMBt that is lent by fall Is. It shoars the boys that the e gang Is for them one hundred cent will be game No. 6 on the Cam- schedule and so far all tire M played hare been Tictorles. »rce plans on starting his regn- llneup tonight and If the dope s good, tba swmnd stringers may t real workoat before the eren* Is orer. Local Greeks Appeal For Aid For War Victims Gas Boleos Asks Donations of Clothing For Destitate People. twAGasdine— ition Books To ipear On Nov. 9 . ^ Bcatioms Mnst Includo Bia Badi Pago of Old 0ns Beleos, chairman of the Cam den and Kershaw oonntT unit of the Greek War BMlef assoclhtlon, an nounced this Oeek that the Assccla- tlon Is making a renewed appeal for clothing. A special effort must be made to collect as much as possible this fall, said Mr. Etoleos, in view of the situa- tlon in Greece. If the country Is lib erated soon, the Greek War Reliefs entire stockpile of clothing can be sent without delay. The larger the stockpile is, the more relief it will provide for the people of Greece. If, however, the' Greeks are obliged to face a fourth winter under Nasi occu pation. millions of garments mnst be sent to them before the bitter cold takes its toll In lives and saflerbtg. This fall marks the first annirer. tary of the national drive for 20 mil-, lipn garments b^g conducted by the Qiwek Way RsHeP asaociatloB. a m«m. bar agency or tlw Mattoiaat Whr PvndT DarOit the past year orer 6 million articMi have been aent to the New Toik warMionse where they have been proosaaed and baled for shipment Yanks Amused By applications tor the new A* gaso- ration book, which becomes valid bnrsday, Nov. 9, mast be accom- d by the back cover of the cur- A book. e applicant who has lost or 'n away the corer of his A book lave to prore to the ration board he has a car which entitles him iply for an A ration; that the Ih currently register^ and in ind that renewal basis A ration too, oani new A book is being Issned lore tbe differential which now between tbe Bast Coast and malnder of the country on valid* tes for A gas rations. The first 118 in the new book, A-*18. will lid on Nov. 9. tiuse of tbe validation of the stamp on Nov. 9, there will be rd to Tiee-the last strip eottpdns, in the present book. This step, Gomidete clothing outfits and shoes tor 100,900 children and for 60,000 adults have been forwarded to Greece, in the coarse of the Greek relief pro* gra^i. 4nd these gannents have been dteirfbnted to the inhabitants of the homed and bombed villages, whose people were left homeless and utter ly destitute by Natl reprisals for guerrilla activities- To meet the desperate need for clothing In Greece. Mr.ABeleos asks that whatever clothing me people of Camden and Kershaw county can spare, be sent at once to any of the following places: Home ^ralture Store, M ft K Coffee Shop, Seven Seas Cafe, Roxy Cafe or Kandy Kitchen. Would Inundate All Lowland Between Camden and Columbia Camden-Kershaw County Lagging In Conunnnity C^pa’n Other Counties Have Already Reported On Their Ad- wance Gtfts. SOMEWHERE IN INDIA (Passed b/Army Onsors)-» These members of the U. 8. Armed Forses sre amusedly looking on as an Indian dhobie (pnblk laundrmiaB) nuaintly dmba a garment on hto primitive *Srash boasd." This is a far cry from the hygienic and scientifle methodi need ky laundriee in the good eld U. S. A. Note ^ serions wbOe •UMV aaewwaew eawes Mvaswa vw mi KWtft «tu O. Bs cxmessioti of the suarthy linen beater’s’* deughter (center) theY^eknddeL Camden Cotton Maiicet Soars To Near A Million Westville Man IsKflledWhen ^ck By Train Cdtumbas Hsnal Horton, Ship Yard Worker, Meets Doatih. lot been iasued for it and no ap- £2. T Iaaxx IEabsaU too. loE^ xeMwat is peediflr atftIto'Ai JCPCB 0VWw1 Lack of Dandng Area At the Center Tiny Quarters Does Not Permit The light Fantastic. do we dance 7” was ibe **Where~ do frequent Inquiry made by hundreds iition to bringing the same AI of Q. I. Joes who visited the Service n into use throughout the coun-'Center in its new quarters on DpKalb ill have the additional advant- street Saturday and Sunday. I removing ft-om circulation thej The cigar-box site of the new quart- number of counterfeit A-12 ers is in startling contrast to tbe large Q8 which bare been pmited. I airy quarters which have prevailed orists are advised that applica-jin the Rutledge street armory for the for the new A book may be made pest year or more. The lotiir rauon bosra at any time are neat and clean, have shower beth. (reading, writing and comfortable pons In the new A gasoline book ‘ lounging facilities, but it is so tiny •e valued at 4 gallons of gaso-,that there Is no opportunity tor tbe ach, an Increase one gallon doughboys to danew^nd dancing is the present A coupon value of callons, saihe renewal datee apply to ' type of coupon books which aued to owners of motorcycles, < explained. llcation forms on which mutor- »d motorcycle owners will app^ >e new ration books are nbw distribnted to the«vajrlo«w retiea irice control panels throughout m North CaroUna. npt^ action in obtaining the ap* Ion forms ind filing thsm wRh Ition boards ^Ul facilitate ban* of the new registration, and en- he applicants to get their.new hooks in time for the beginning new period, tt VM mM. new A books contain 27 cou* and the number It coupon la ne which becomes valid No* ■r 9 The present tire intpectloa Is which formerly w#e sub* I ^ith applijAtiopa for renewal Boiine ratlom should be disra* I entirely in the preaant regls- 1- The new abdication has a4{ Continued from first page)^ i>sier Wasp b led In Crash Flyer From Muiw FmM 'raskaa N ^ Higkwny. • _GeannelL NOTbeck. age tl. a Sr Women's Amiy Senr- better known es the killed instantly in the Plahe near tka Camden* *0 tollea from Jjj®^y dorinir a^tam flight rjwtock, who was stetloMd was on a regular flight fronble rtrriWihi •'■■(I crashed, her MW A Who reeliu In whet they crave more than anything dee. One of-the Intereetlag features of the Service Center is a largs map that has been placed on the west wall This map is stod(M with silver stars, each star denoting jthe home town of some soldier who has visited the Center. While this map has been In dace on|y -a week, H is covered ^wtth silver stars. Every section of tbe country carries a cluster of stars, in dioatlng how far-reaching the army personnel Is in territory. Considerable annoyance was in evidence over the last week-end be cause of the absence M a screen door on the ' DaKalb street entrance. Thousands of flies were attracted by the bridtt lights in the Center and swarmed throughout the place. A request is to be maae for the dftcing -of an iron or steel flag pole a front at thd Oealhr. The*bamboo pole that was in nse last weak sagged In s most unbecoming manner. Coach Williaiiig Seeks Games With Good Grid Teams Q0. k Ptomnii at Johnny Williams, coadi of the Ifsther Academy grid team, wants games. So far this season the Mather eleven has played but one game, that with a Florence team which resulted in s t to • tla. Johnny Williams says he cannot find any teams that will battle his Tigers. He particularly would Ifte to schedule s game at Zemp tidd sad five tbe beam fdks a real football ppeetacle. '*Ncim at the teams seem to want to amet my toam." aaM WUUasM. *1 have ti|sd to auke eoataet wiCh sev eral of the leeding colored teams ef the state but without aay renlt I sgre wonlft-like to get eas tor And OuadM football frum bege that daeh WBBW e«a UM ap a m mL tor te fa wMeh me 1 An inquest wss ordered in the dedh of Columbus Hssel Hortoa, tt- yeais)ld resident' of Westville, who was instantly killed when struck by s Southern train at Westville Thursday afternoon: Bo tar as eaa be learned Hor mumnfsr^ ciaptoitfi ai dbs track and evidently hid dosed off anff did not know tbe train was dae It is said that a step of the loco, motive struck him In the head, fnu>> taring his skull and killing him in stantly. The accident occurred about 2 p. m. Horton was a native of Westville but for tbe past year has been em ployed in a shipyard at Tampa, Fla Jotul ol tjOOO BuIm Reported Ak Emd ai The Camden eottau ssarkef will, within another two weeks, soer past the millkm dollar mart: la bales s<Hd here -in ten weeks time Listen folks, this is Q. L Joe speak ing:" Not^tor' myself sJone huT for many thousands of my buddlea I want to talk to you abont the oom* munity cheat and national war fund drive that is now being conducted in Gamdei/ and Kerehaw county. Did you know that Kershaw county lacks quite an amount of going over the top as many other counties in South Carolina already have done. Lee, Charleston, Barnwell, Colleton and others, to name a few. Thanks to the many who havs al ready contributed to the fund. It looks Lumber InterestiT Expected To Wage Fight Against Plsm. Construction of im 80 foot dam at Buckingham Landing may be pro tested on the ground that such a proj ect, planned by the federal govern ment. would result in all of the low land In the Santee watershed and course from Wilson’s Landing to Camden being inundated. Tbe bill providing tor a powor axis extending from the mountains to tbe sea is now b^re congress and calls for an Initial expenditure of 126.000,- 000. • Lumbermen in the Congaree and Wateree sectors are expected to make a vigorous fight against the Bucking ham dam on the basis that the flood ing of a vast area by the backing up of the waters of the Congaree and Wataree rivers would destroy one of the finest fotoat growing areas in the southeast. Tbe lowland forests, they contend are storm sheltered by the as If there are a lot of Camden and K.nl... cou», ..opl. who .r. w.U ? “LIT" J; aware of the need of attaining the 17,600 guota. They are to be com mended for t^elr responsibility in meeting it. l>o you know there ate quite sTew people Whn, wtuwi —Sif claimed that the lumber is now be- iug cut scieutifically, and with thu rapid drainage in evidence constantly is reproducing another growth of timber in the cutover areas. Tbe lambermen also clslm, it Is to the fund declare "Bare, I’ll send yon my check." Seme of them do “*<k*ate tormt srea would result In and some of them don’t. I like to of^ thfi>a ffiit do not woodworking, and -tnmbwr-;- mose-tnatoo-not have jw ^aw material for which. Is forgotten their promise. If you Mr. Reader are one of them, mail your cheek today. Don’t wait because the supplied from this forest regimt The Buckingham Landing dam will time draws short and we cannot ford to have our dty and our county between Columbia and fall under the assigned amount. . Those who support thU drive show I ^ that they realise the neoeeeity of the™tr*1: ‘f ^ affair and their generosity is to be commended. It Indioatas a measnre !.», T«w.r, omcul .ftM C.15S: that the market has progreesed at the rats of a thousand bales per week. In ett^ wedES the total had mounted to 1,009 bales, which represents some $991,000 in cold cash. "Ourlag the past several weeks,’* said Mr. Turner, “we have had sumy loads of eottoB come In from Swansea, Bt. Charles, Lamar, BiMiopTllle and Bimtes^" u|*ntoa_hMM et the reoord market is market here, also to the* fact that wa have one of the finest scales money can bay which assures the grower perfect weight on his otSton. Thirdly, the fine pubHclty given the Camden market has resulted In many growers who never brought their cotton here before, coming to Camden to dispose of it” ' Last week, spectators at the big cotton platform on Rutledge street. He came to mstvnib 5® l watching relatlvee only recently. Hia wife, who ^«lgblng of the cotton wora amaxed remained in Tampa, was notified of •«« ‘horse standing on the ecalee. hia death and hurried to Westville reading was 729 ^unds It wm for tha fnneral. ‘ amall horse, juat five and a halt Horton la survived by kia widow, I belongs to C. P. daughtera, Mrs. MUton Catoe, and* "Shucks,** declared Weigher Turner, Miss Mary Evelyn Horton of Kershaw, a aistar, Mrs. Eddta R-Pi ‘*that*a nothing. We get cows, mules and horaea vary fraqi vllle, andfttwo brothers, WHllsm P-l^ - u wa a Horton of this city, and Walter R.|V|ahghdhl KllOdha Avkh Horton, who is with the Beabees In AJUPCO .fRAC the Admiralty Islands. Foiids S6ught For ^ Democratic Pai:ty Sheriff J. H. McLeod, dhalrman of Kershaw County Denaocratle Party, states that funds sre being solicited thll wgar-fisr the DemomsUc Tarty. If there are those in this county who wish to oontribute and are not con tacted, they are mrged to send their contributions to Mr, McLeod’s office. The qnota assigned Kershaw County is $900.00. It is reported that some ooontiee hsvs already orersnbscrfbed. COTTON QINNINQ REPORT Jiist That, Gan’t Use For Fair 'Trip T. Hsadquarturs Rufusus - ^ Pmrit To Tftko Kids To Fair. by the bnilding ot six or more huge water power dams ftom Santee-Coop- er north of Columbia. So tar tbs affair is etrlcUy a federal matter and crwllted.wlth. Camden and Kerehawl^jj]; ^ psosto on the whole are well sways! hs devtloped for navigatiou, of ths need of ths campaign and^ "hoj powsr..El^ their responsibility in meeting this need. The advance gift campaign is still on and It is hoped that by 4hs sod of the week a report can be made to state headquarters as to the amount collscted. Block leaders and workers ars aanvaastng tbe reeideatisl sue- lions of ths city and hope to bs able to report s go^y sum to bsadquarb era. Sam Karesh, one ot the co-chairmen of the drive, in a statement Monday said that every housewife should real ise that she should contribute toward trlcity sales would be handled by the secretary of the interior. R. M. Jeffries, chairman of ths Santes-Coopsr Public Servies authori ty, is reported to havs-openiy declared himself to be in fator of a project which he states wtU develop the vust resources of the.jmtkw river. The plan is said to have been under coneideratldH for several years and explains at 'this day the surveying sctivlllee which have been reported from time to time along the Wateree river from this city downstream. *rhe survey has been completed and tha this campaign. So many, when proached by the block workers de- prospecU of the termination Clare “Oh, my husband .gives at bia'°^ European war unusually briiht. there haa bees a decided revival of Interest in this big dam project With (Please turn to page eight) office, or hia atore." That- according to Mr. Karesh is not the proper at titude. Camden people should bear in mind that portions of the fund eolleeted go toward local agencies, such se the Boy Scouts and the DSO. Let us analyse what your dollars do toward Ch I. Joe’s fsinlly. Ton win If#—helping hands, kind words and good advice when she has a difficult problMn, when she’s learn ing how to handle a war job along with her home job. Family service, hospital and ettnical facllltieef pre natal aad poet-uatal care. f -TonTI give Joe an easy chair, music, companionship in the Smvloe Center. Mebbe these are little things to you, but to Joe they are big thinge. Toull give his dsoghter good whole some sctivltlee under wise leaderihip —recreation—a chance to help the war effort Bohobl'^busee may imt be used to trsnsport diildrM to tlto Carolina State fair, held this weA in Columbia. Several 8<mth Carolina commnnitlee sent requests to the regional Offlee of Deiense Transportation at Atlanta, asklBE for pension to nee the buses to transport children to the fair. The O. D. T, headquarters In reply stated that while It tally tealised the edneatlonal value’of state fairs, the Census report ihows that 7,199 bales' extressely critical shortage of tires, of oottOB were ginned In Kershaw ’ gsseline and itow equipment makes it Countj;, from the crop ot 1944 srlor le imperative that school, buses be need Octobw let. ue compared wltt 5,611 only for the purpose of transporting bulss tor the crop of 1941. papfls to and from schooL Woman Is Found Dead; Skull Was (^hed By Blow Gmwrsome Diacomry la Mndn In Wood Nour Rnml^pri. Sumter county anthorltlee are in vestigating the alleged slaying ot Mrs. Mamie Maria Turner, fifty year old woman, in a wood near her home near Rambert Monday. —- Tbe woman, who lived alono. her husband having died several years ago, was found with crashed and TouTi five l%Jitgft^.sfin^aiMft JUtd4M<^7 liiiA ciiiiftiLkr blows hfillexad hdppy limy while his mother Is at work—necessary hospital care—serv ices to keeip a boy healthy^ brave wd strong until his daddy comes home. Winter Arrives In Camden, Temp. Hits 40 Rradhif oid lp-*ora hava pnt 1 aMghty aad aB have -L FINAL NOTICE Under a revlaed' order ef tbe War Freductlen Bwrd, weekly newspapers have been limited In tbeir nee Of newsprint to tbe tonnage need bi tbe first tbree qnarlere ef 1944 or tbe first tbree Uttsrters ef 194$, "wbtehever is tbe greater." In effeel, M the highly teohnieal order Je eenctrued eerreetly, weekly newspaper lists sre • "frexen" to the present elM or less, aoeerdlng to whether or not tbo list is smeller or larger than K was in the three uusrtere eg* tested. __ tinoe THE CHRONKLrt Met Is larger new than It was In 194A the Uhwo quartors of 1944 have bson solseted. Wnoo th* list m largor than It was the first at tbo yaar tt OMy have te be though this Is not elear right new. This means that ear eaboeriptlen Hot wMI be held as at eat and no new eabeeriptlene reeehmd astE elherwtee adviesdk ■ These whd dsMrs t» esatinw sbadlng^the paper awet keep their anbeerlptleaie paM in advafkia. - We asR iw anbeeiWsrs to Bbsbfc the label .on their pi$wiP‘Ue to iraplrstlen dale and If they are In arrsankApleaee rensw yvlthia fhe next three weekm After tills dais lfl^BSMmra*eitll bs msWsd'JlMd ars in arrsawb Owm a is tahsn fbaoi tha^skfta will be eenaldwadae K b9 akafca te fSHM. TMf CHVIONICk,* bbdM «f Mi Me Madhr or - - ^ to IBave been inflicted by a blont in strument. The offlee of. the Sumter county sheriff has uncovered some clues, it is said, that should lead to the airoet of the gnllty party. Fnneral services were held Wednes- day' aftornoen from the Betheeda church at Rembert . She laaeee her mother, Mrs. Mattie C. Ocvbett a sister, Mrs. Leon Dyson of near itam- roertoh; two hrothem Fat Bryant of _ George, and B. T, Bryant of Sum- Boruns BrauQu An.merton. and a half brother. Mood Corbett, and an adopted dan^ter. Mile Ethel Torner, who is a etadent at the HlUcrest Hifh echooL There wss no indications that the woman had been criminally attacked. ky Brputh Om City. winter arrived in C!amden Monday morning when a temperature reading of 40 degrees sent real shiven to chattering humanity. Sunday morning a reading of 4$ was ri^Kirtod sml on Tuesday SBorntag the mercury was again at the 49 mark. The temperature was some six de- trees below the figure a. year ago on the same date. The 49 degree reaft- Ing is not a record however as s low of $9 was record^ in 1894. *rhe weather man does not hold out mneh promise to a return of more moderate weather. In tact, he fore casts steadily increasing cold. Tl^ cold snap sent many people with hurried caUs for wood aad aooL Refimml E 'L U. Meeting At Chester Tbe Central R^dnal.B. T. D. meet ing Is to he held St the First Baptist diurch of Chester on Wednesday, No- Tombar 1, from t:l9 p. WL to i:lf m. Tbe theme fm tbo.jregnuu is “Back Chnrch DevMsHni Ito Mem- bert." tbo good- liM 94 Cbeetm fb trio tMiBi supper ter aS Hovejr Promoted • To Bng. General; < Is Now In France Ponuor Muiw nnid Commnud* dr In Charge ai New Air Command. Burton M. Hovey, Wbam FloU's fbat commanding officer, well known in Camden, where he wae a frequent visitor, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier QeneraL When the officer cssm to Shew Field he held the rank of Major. He has now been in Europe for eeverni aam servtaif to Friaoe tojesponslble tsr 2*. we^ dad awoHnmm of Wbnm Field. R wag bb ittoe 4kwtotM to the enrty of «« jiwMle .tbf.'W Jir