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T-';" r T'-' 1^ Camden Chronicle VOLUftlE 56 CAMDEN, 90UTH tANOUNA, I^DAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1945 NUMBER 49 Kennedy Wants Santee Rided By die Legislature Kershaw Solon Will Submit Amendment To His Prev ious Bill. “The sUteowned but relatirely in- depeadeat $57,000,000 Santee<}ooper hydroelectric project would be brought directly under lesdslatiTe control by an amendm^t that Rep- resentatlre R. M. Kennedy of Ker shaw, said yesterday he would offer to hla glU, to reduce management saU ariee ofthe power authority and pro hibit legls^tdrs from being asthorlty employes. \ ► “Kennedy's Si^ildment also would put the authority: under the regu latory proTlslons oP'ihe state public Berries authority 'as arV^her electric utilities.’ \ "The Santee-Cooper annutil budget would hare bo be submitted tOk the state budget commission and Itemised appropriation would hare t^ be made by the legislators for ad ministration of the power project. “This would subject all Santee- Cooper salaries to annual leglslatire rerlew. At present, the. salaries are set by the authority board of dlrec tors. "The Kennetly bill aa now on the house calendar with a majority un- farorable house judiciary committee report would set a $(,000 ceiling on Santee<k>oper salaries. Two engi neers get $7,200 each, and General Manager R. M. Jefferies receiree $10,- OOO at present "The hfll also makes legislators ineligible for employment by the Santee-Cooper. This would make Jefferies In^igible for employment as be is now state senator from Colleton county, or it would prevent him from continuing as state senator. ."The original bill aa it is now in the house was discussed for almost two hours in an szecutive session of the house judiciary committee several days ago, with Kennedy insisting the bill was offered 'for the good of Santee-Cooper, which is dear to my heart* and with Chairman James H. Hammond of the authority asserting that Kennedy was a ‘disgruntled’ former employe. "Kennedy was assistant to the gen eral manager, at a salary of $6,000 a year, until a year and a half ago.”— Columbia State. City Purchases Street Sweeper; To Arrive Swn Commissioner James Raley Ez- plains Handicap Dept. Has Suffered. With the arrival here within the next week or ten days of a modern street sweeper, recently purchased by the city, Street Commissioner Jamos Raley will be prepared to' put Cam den paved atre^ into a spic and span condition. For several months the street de-- partment has been obliged to rely upon a broom brigade to sweep tbe streets and according to Commissioner Raley, this was tar from satisfactory. The new sweepef is of the latest type and the refuse and dirt that M swept up is deposited In a large cylin der receptacle attached to the sweep er. Regarding the presence ot broken glass on tbe pavements, Mr. Raley sUted that anyone seeing fragments ofl broken glass upon the streets will cohfer a favor upon the public works deurtment by reporting same to the office,. Phone €4, and a truck with Workers will be dispatched to the scene to sweep up the glass. Kershaw County Not In List To Be Given Shock Eleven Areas Where Malaria la Prevalent To Be Attacked. All Lights 0u| Order To'Result From New Curfew Night Cluha, Dancing Partiea, Etc7, Must Shutdovm At Midniyht. Added to the brownout restrictions Young People Mourn Passing Of Chris Vaughan Memorial la Held At the Baptist Church of Cam den Sunday. Ehcquistle floral expressions of love already in effect in Camden and all affection, symbolic of the feeling the office of War Mobilization Direc tor James F. Byrnes proclaiming a midnight curfew on night clubs W)d other places of entertainment rach''a8 I dance halls, etc. EHeven counties in South Carolina,! ,7^® “®^ ** to where the highest incidence of ma- ®®““®"®“t centers and down^n larla has been found will be given the faui shock of their lives April 1, J graveyard, after over the nation comes an order from evidenced toward the late Lieut. Chris Vaughan, who death in a plane crash January 27, 1944, were in evl- when the state board of health and the United States public health serv ice launch their carefully planned spray blitz. The eleven counties where malaria has been found to be particularly pro. lific are Calbourn, Orangeburg, Berke ley, Williamsburg, Georgetown, Char- le^n, Sumter, Colleton, Hampton, Beufprt and Clarendon. TheNweapon which will be em ployed a^atost the little but highly dangerous is the relatively new and much publk^sed DDT, a chemical compound whickX^tually shocks a moaqoito to death. xDDT la a con venient nickname for Uw^wbreaking chemical term, dloblof^Upbenyl-trl- chloroethane. In every langtiage it is a stable, almost colorless an< tically odorless crystalline solid. Pli^ disclosed last week by Gk BL McDaniel, director of the state board of health’s division of prevent able diseases, and in charge of all malaria control work in the state, show the attack will begin during Uie first week in April when well trained two-man crews armed with modern, high-powered spray guns and riding (Plaaaa turn as pags algMt) the midnight hour Through the efforts of Leon Tobtaa superintendent of the Municipal,.utUJ ties here in Camden, the bfownout re strictions are already being enforced here. Downtown Camden him become sombre to an extreme after dark. The signs in front of restaurants have all been turned off. while at the two theaters, marquees and outside illumi nation has been curtailed to a sstail mum. Under tbe new order of the Wkr Mobilization director the midnight closing order means that patrons ot night clubs and dancing events mist leave the premisss In time to WiWt full closing at the midnight hohr. Gov. Ransome Williams has suggMt- ed that South Carolin give imasadMa acceptance to the 9yraes edect ifk Columbia State on Wednesday says: "How fine a thing H ‘would ba |br General Eisenhower Asks Boy Scouts To Collect All Paper Convicted of * Statutory Crime; Gets 25 Years mmm Sohtji Carolina voluntarily to put iMo dance in the First Baptist church Sunday, Jan. 28, piacSd there by the members of, the Baptist 'Training Mayor Will Cut Light and Water From Offenders Midnight Cufew Rifulatioiia Will Be Enforced To The Letter Here. eftect>immediataly a mid night enrllw on nlgbtN^ba. road houses, thae^N and other ph^es of entertainment, and not wait UBtu'^^b. 26, Goremor Ban- some J. WilllamlKMid yesterday. "He had reference, to the action it War Mobilization Jamas T. Byrnes in requesting nlkkt placaa af entertainment to shut dovniT at odd- night, beginning Feb. 26, in orto to save coal consumed in beating a^ in providing electricity. 'X " 'Our own Jimmy Byrnes has aakad for a midnight curfew ty^ginning 26.’ Gov. Willlamq continued. "'He ia of our own state, and a big man in national affairs too. Hsnr .it would hearten him to have hia own state go right ahead. Immediately, ami » behind htt up the #9 voluntarily put on the curfew. Ha' know then wa really were behind and his moves to spaed effort " 'He may not need any heartening, bqt it certainly would gratify him to have South Carolina 'jump the gun’ in a way, and go on a midnight shut down of entertainment placee right away,' tbe governor said.” Special Rations May Be Secured By Job Seekers The ration board will issue special wsolhie rations to returning war vet erans and displaced civilian workon seeking re-employment, according to Bunooncement made by the OPA -in Washington. The agency states that effective Feb. 17 these rations will be authoriz- *<1 In cases where it ia necessary to use aa antomobUe to travel to a Job interview. 'Thiz interview however must be •JTanged by the United States em ployment senica, the railroad retlra- ®®nt board employment service, a county agricultural agent, an agrieul- extension labor office or a union nuthorlxed by the war man power commission to raeniU labor. Qualified applteente wljl be allowed a^Itne for » maximum of 400 milaa Of driving in any S44ay period. Gaither Named To Ration Unit Ofiltfcnr baa been appointed loeal Mtitn bood. aueoeedlng J! <4—Hfcd MIA tbe Mayor McCorkle Is appealing to all Camden people to comply with the recent order of Jam4a Bynies regard ing midnight curfew regulations, which become officially effective on February 26. In a statement issued to the preee Wednesday the mayor stated he would like to have Immediate compliance on r?l •.ffV the part of tbe public to the orders of S vflllCc Mr. Byrnee, but that he would notli- J J T A 1 exact any penalty for violations until LiRllUBO ill AllllllSIl February 26. "The regulation of midnight closing as applied to night clubs, honky tonks, dances, etc., will be rigidly enforced In Camden on and after February 26," said the mayor. ~ ''Violators will not have a second chance,” he continued. "My ordm will be to have their light and water service shutoff. This is a war effort and 1 hope that the regulations will be lived up to.” of silent prayer. Thanks were ottered for the .fine inspiration that Mr. Vaughan had been to the Union. Trib ute was also paid to his mother. Charles Stoker, chorister, led the Union group in singing sevei^ of the favorite hymns of Mr. Vaughan. 'Then Mr. and Mrs. Stogner sang a duet Aj^her, a hjrmn beloved 6y the late awtor. Mr. StoAibr then spoke brief ly about Mr. Vaughan, extolling his fine character and personality, bit Christian spirit and the outstanding example he had been to young people. In connection with tbe unfortunate tragedy that robbed Camden of such a sterling character, Mrs. C. C. Vaughan, his mother, received a presi dential citation from Franklin Delano Roosevelt whldi reads: "In grateful memory of Christopher Vaughan, who died in tbe service of (Fleaae turn to pace alAht) Grand Jury Report Junior League Begs For Excess Fnmture, Etc. PUiu To Equip Recroutioiud Cmter Aa Soon. As Possiblo *1116 Junior League is about to com plete negotiations for the rent of a building suitable for recreational por- poaca, according to Mrs. J. R. Mont gomery, prealdeot of that organlsS' tion. Mrs. Montgomery is making an ap peal for old discarded faraitnr*, cur tains, etc., with which to equip the recreation^ oentar. Already the Lestgoe has received an offer of a stove and ping pong set, as well as books, play ground equipment, etc. Mrs. Montgomsry states that broken chairs, etc., will be accepted as It is plann^ to have the children repair these items themselves. They will also paint them. People having an excess or dam aged piece of furniture are asked to call Mrs. Ann Clarkson Bates at Phona Na 122. Red Cross War Fund Drive Begins Mar. 1 This year tke quota for the Red Cross War Fnnd Drive is niurii larger than ever before aa the need to help oar soldiers at the battlefront Is greater. *111# Bed Cross War Fund Drive wfll begin March 1. with tha followtag worksrs: Mrs. Leon Sehloeburg, general chairman; Mrs. Lee Little, publicity: Mrs. Hughey Tlndal, eoesty chairman; Miss Bcsalie Block. orgaalMttioiis; Ctvfliaa D^sneexWurkoa. hinac eye- Tbs Kershaw County Grand Jury offered the following presentment to Hon. T. S. Setae, presiding judge of the Fifth Judicial district at the sea- slon of court Monday. "We have passed on all bills of in dictments presented to us by Ae Solicitor. "We are submitting herewith copy of the annual report by the Sheriff, J. H. McLeod, of his ao^Uea for the year 1944: "22 liycit liquor atllla were seSed and destroyed, together with 75 gal lons of white liqumr and 5,600 gallons of mash. "17 persons were arrested, charged with violation of the liquor law, while 4S8 were arrested upon other charges. "During tbe year the Sheriff and the officers under him, collected tbe sum of Six Thousand, Five Handled and Fifty Nine ($6,559.00) Dollars In fines. "All sections of the county have been regularty patrolled, especially at night, and one or more officers have been in attendance upon all public gatherings to preserve order and In sure the observanoe of the law. "We commend the Sheriff and tbe officers supervised by him for their excellent work in maintaining order and preserving a healthy respect for law obeervance throughout the coun ty. ahd we especially commend them for their even handeid enforcement of the law add their efforts for equal justice among all the people. "Committees have been appointed and assigned to inquire into the vari ous branches of county government and their findings will be reported to the next zeaalon of the Court. "Respectfully submitted, "Geo. A. Creed, "Forman of Grand Jury.” Union, of which the late flyer was a member and director. A silent tribute s(aa paid to Mr. Vaughan by the Union In General Former Paratrooper Is Found Guilty of Criminal Attack On Camden Girl. Winning Scouts and Troops To R^eive Hands<»ne Awards For Efforts. Willard Campbell, 27-year-old Min nesota man, former paratrooper and garage mechanic, was found guilty of a statutory offense against a 22-year- old Camden girl by a Jury in criminal court here this week. The Jury, in fetumtng the verdict, found the de fendant guilty of rape but recom mended mercy. Judge T. S. Sense of Spartanburg, who presided at tbe February court term, sentenced Camp bell to 25 years in prison. The trial attracted a capacity crowd of spectators, white and colored. So licitor J. D. Griffith of Saluda, prose cuted tbe case, being assisted by At torney M. M. Johnson of this city, who was appointed bis assistant. At torney M. M. Levy of Bisbopvjlle, ap peared for the defense. The offense charged agaidst Camp bell occured Jan. 29. Tb« complaint charging that he made a criminal at tack upon tke young woman who bad attend^ a picture show with him. Campbell’s wife, who joined him in Camden shortly after his arrest sat close to him throughout the trial The.state called as witnesses during the trial, the plaintiff, her sister, Deputy Sheriff J. H; McLeod, Chief of Assembly when all stood for SMUnutu Police Alva Rush. Rural Officer Henry Many Kershaw Youths Are Sent Out For Training Local Draft Boards Have Sent Heavy Quota to Trainiaf Camps. Sixty-eight Camden and Kershaw youths. 56 being white and 12 colored, were Inducted into hte service durng December. January and up to the mid dle of February. Local board No. 46. Inducted the following Into the'army: Willie Clyde Catoe, Jack Ssger, Tbomaa Malcolm Corbett, Jr., James Woodrow Dixon, Thomas CHyde Massabeau, Master Willard Rodgers, John Ransom Al- redge, Elmer James Nolan, and Into the navy: Morris Louis Bradley, Ed ward Burn Cunningham, John Corbett Boykin, Jr., 'Tbomaa Osborne Boykin. Jr., Allan Gliston Huggins, U, Wil liam Bryan Jennings and Ernest West To the Marine corps went Douglas Clarence Lynch. (Colored men sent Into the army by Boiu^ 46 were Abraham Fletcher, Henry Wilson, Howard Lee, Aaron Whitaker, Jr., George Boyd a^ Jesse Carlos. Local board 47 sent the following to tke army: Frank Gregory, W^e Burrell Oatoe, Clyde Mendtf Catoe, Slmtm Weaver Humphrey, Wallacs Mendell Stokes, Paul Howard Wast Ralph Tally MeCaaklll. Frank Taylor, (Please taro to pagu sight) Hears Jap Radio Ten of Snikiitf Of^ Own Miip How wopld you like to bo aboard a transport ship and haar a Jap radio that TM7 ship? That la Just what hmtpened to 8gt Harold E. Brisbaaa of Fargo, N. D.. who was Is OUBdas Sanday on Uberty Itwnaamt fhaitng lor tha aoldlsrs an tba'trasa- to ksir Aa.fUAo hroadenat from Aa staking «< mm os inaw shMt Aa ttna ha snML Aag hnd hmn at na lat flf» Lee Mays WiO Join the Staff of Commercial Bank Horton and a taxi driver named Pop, The defense put the defendant on the stand and also called the defendant's wifa for a brief interrogation Attorney Levy put up a strong tight to save hia client from the chair and hta appeal to the jury was one of the longest and moat impassioned heard la the local court room in years. ^Itcltor Griffith’s presentation of the state’s case was strong and much in detail. Boy Scouts in America have receiv ed an assignment that ia going to tax their ability. They have the mission of collecting three million pounds of waste paper in a March-April drive that. has been endorsed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. General Elsenhower has notified the Scouts that waste paper is needed now more than ever before, to be converted into containers to carry munitions, food and military soppliee. Bach Scout or Cub who collects 1,000 pounds of paper will be awarded medal bearing Eiaenbower'a like ness and each troop or Cub pack aver aging 1,000 pounds a member, will receive a shell case, a paper container returned from the European battle front, carrying a citation signed by the Allied commander. , 'The drive, originally named the General Eliaenhower-Boy Sebut waste paper program, was arranged by the American Newspaper Publishers asso ciation and it is tbe only civilian pro gram sponsored personally by General EJlsenbower. _ - The school children’s salvagu cam paign, which was announced In last week’s Chronicle, will take a raeess for the month of March in order that will not. conflict with tbe Boy Scout's Salvage campaign sponsored by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Paper collected so far in the cam paign and up to the first of March will be received and weighed at the school, and as soon as the Boy Scouts campaign la over, the school children will immediately start again, under the superviaion of Professor Richards. All paper collected will be counted, and all war bonda will be awarded, as previously announced. McArn Named Local Representative To Anti'Pagan Unit Excess Clothing Program In Charge Of ^n. G- H. Franke Bneomna Part of Mobilisation For Spiritual IdoaU Group. The Rev. A. D. McArn, pastor ot Bethesda Presbyterian church, baa been newly appointed to serve aa a representative in Camden for the Mobilization for Spiritual Ideals, it was announced last week by Dr. James W. Fifleld, Jr., national dlrec tor of the moTensent. With headquarters in Los Angeles, Calif., upd with mpre than 1000 repre- sentativez throughout the United States, the movement Is one through which clergymen of all denominations have organized to oppose the statelzm trend which is considered to be pagan and anti-Christian. A governing board oonalating oi such men aa Will Durant, (Thannlng Pollock, Alfred Noyes, Upton Close Ely Culberteon, Senator Albert W. Hawkec, Roger Babeon and other lead ing figures serve in an advisor way. It ie reportad that more than two million American cltlsena have eub- scribed to Che Ideals of the Mobilizar tion alnce Its inception in 1914. Wood Is Charged mth Receiving Stolen Proper^ Wm B* TrM In F«d«r«l Court In Columbia In March. Rotiraa From Wmtom Unkm After 18 Yean of Senrice M. Lee Mays, tor Ae past fifteen yean local manager for Western Union, and affiliated with that eom- mnnlcatlona syetem for 18 yean, has reeigned and wm become aftOlatetf wlA Ae Commercial Bank of Camden la an exeentive capacity. Mr. Maya came to Camden A 1928 atfl daring that Interval has won Ae aanonneer tallhig ef Aa afaddag of Wspeot and aateam ot a wide foUow- lag 'x)! frieade and acqualntaacea as {MM as Ae geaaral pohlle. b Ae past 15 yean Mr. Msy* has bAp offered laerative traaefOn to Imger and more paying poeitlons wfA Ae Western Uatoa.,hDt his stfeettoa for CsaUiea kept kim ss s locsl rssMeat, eoaMthlng all of Csmdea eaa feqt grstsfai for. Sr. Mays takas ovar hia aav work ak Aa OMuasmlAl Baak oa April L Walter Wood, colored, of Aia city was arraigned before United States Commizsioner ArAur Wilder at Sum- ter last week on chargee of receiving stdan government property. Bom was set at |600 and tbe case la ex pected to go on trial during Ae March term of federal court in Columbia. Wood’s arrest followed closely that ot Charles K. Dudley, Sumter reel dent, apprehended In connection wRh alleged llle'gal transferring of tires wlA certificate.. I2gdley had hit bon< of $1,500 on one count and $18,600 on a second one, reduced to $5,000 on recommendation of Assistant District Attorney Henry Edens of Colvmbla. Navy Bans The New Postal Note Rotary latamational To Spoc^ aor Effort Horn amd All . Ow«r Nation. Rotary International will sponsor Ae campaign to t«cnre all azeeos . cloAing to • be sent to the suffering people of the liberated countries over seas, to be held April 1 to 29, inclu sive. Tbe Camden Rotary club will take an active part In Ae campaign. Ae special committee appointed by Ae local organization being headlined by General G. H. Franke. The American Legion, Kiwanls club and Ae churdi- ea of the city, togeAer wlA all oAer organlzationa and groups will be In vited to participate in this worAy affair. Tbe plan of GenMwl Franke oontam- platea Ae completion of all details for Ae Kershaw country driva beftwe April i: It is pertinent at this time.., to request Ae general public to go through Aeif doAing and lay aside anyexces s that may beo u hand. This should be carefully gone over, cleaned, mended and property packaged eo Aat when Ae campaign gets underway. Ae collection will be quick and enre. General Franke will in later nawa releases outline just what his pro gram of collection will cover. The excess dothlng program quota for Ae nation la 150,(KK),000 pounds. General Franke beUevea Aat Cam den and Kershaw county will do Ks Aare in this praise-worAy effort Taylor Named Solicitor By Gov. Ransome J. Williams Got. Ransome J. Williams Monday appotntsd T. Pou Taylor, (kdumbla city recorder ' and former Richland county legislator, aoUcltor for Ae 5A Judicial circuit Taylor will fill Ae nnezpfred term of Ae late A. Fletcher Splgner, who died a week ago aa reeult of Injuriee received In aa automobile accldant The governor will send Ae Taylor appointment to Ae Senate tomorrow for action. 'WllUama also commisaloned two special judges to bold oourt to the absence of circuit judges who are UI. J. Arthur Knight of Chesterfield, was named to replace Judge C. C. Featheratone of Ae BaghA ctfeutt at Ae next seeslon of Ae Lancaster county court, and T. B. Grenekar of Edgefield, was commissioned to» pre- side over Ae Saluda county court to the abaenea of Judge J. Robert Mar lon, Jr.,, of tbe Itth drei^ Persons writing to service men and women oversaas are bring nrged to tend poatal aotaa, simplified money order f(wms, to Aeir hnsbeadt, sons and swestbearts in Aa smilca over- AlAoogh Aa poatal notes weat on sale Feb. 1, navy poet offioee afloat and at overaeae baaas are not anAor- Mad to eaali Ae aoCea. They may oaly be eaebed to Ae Ualtei Stalaa aad are good far enijr .tvo moktbs from Ae dite eC Stan Llewellyn Is The. Speaker Stanley Llewellyn, textile mill exe* cutive, of Inman. Spartanburg couaty, will address Ae Psclnc MiUe men’s club at 7:20 Thursday night at Aa Jefferson hotel. This wil! be "Guest Night,” eaA member brtagtag _one gueat Mr. Llewrilya, formerity of tCamdea, will talk <m "Teaterday, TM- day aad Toi ■ O '■■■