The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 27, 1945, Image 1
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VOLUME 57
funior League Makes
appeal For Equipment
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945
NUMBER 6
(k To Complete Equipment
For Teen-Age PUy
Center.
awer
The Junior Lmsuo n«ed» your help,
Are you »ny surplos or unused play
ound equipment? Especially are
„ in need of baseball equipment,
r semes or materials which chil-
eo could use, will he greatfuily ac-
epted.
Recently the Leafue opened its
eeo Age Play Center, located on
Mill street As an added at-
jtlon at the opening soda pop,
iking and chewing sunr were arall-
^ble for everyone.
Each afternoon since the opening
,embers of the League hare met with
e children of different age groups,
doing this they have found there
kre many things needed. So won't
lU look and see If you have a ball,
t. glove or anything that will help
make thla a real Play Center for
ete children?
Call or get in touch with Mrs. Bill
tes, 1516 MUl St Phone 52t.
itounding Loss
Hearing Is
iven In Test
Camden Scliool Pupils
Show Deficiency As High
As 52 Per Cent
Aa the result of s hearing test
6D through the medium of a pure
audlometSF, IS CMbdetT school
^pils were found to have heuing
of from 18 to 82 per cent
iThia was the astounding informar
n given at a meeting of "Children
ider Special Disadvantages" of
Ich Rev. A, D. McAm is chairman,
^th a group of members of the Co-
bis society for Hard of Hearing
members of the Junior League of
ilumbia here laat week, Thursday.
[The hearing teats were made at a
Ic held at the Pim, Tree school
March 29. At this clinic the hear-
of 194 cbUdren was tasted and
this nnml^ 81 were found to have
bearing loss of from t,per cent to
per cent. Fifteen children showing
definite hearing lossa were given
audiometer test vrlth the result
announced in the opening para
ph.
e Children Under Special Disad
tage committee is a unit of the
haw County Civic Council and
conference with the ColumbiA
up took place at the BpiscopAl
' h house April 12.
visitors from Columbia were
L. W. Brown, secretary of the
lly Welfare group, Mrs. T, B.
kbouse, chairman of the Legisla-
committee, and Miaa Beta Fergu-
executlve aecretary of the South
rollna Society for the Hard of
larlng.
tvernment Is
^king Quarters
»r Office Here
[ai Be Use;! For O.P.A. War
|Prioe and Raiiomiig Board
Uuita.
le Federal Wmka Agency of the
hllc Buildings Administration at
[umbia is asking for bids for office
ce in Camden for the OPA, War
ce and Rationing board.
?lds must be for 1,800 usable square
of office space to be u««d by
government for the period b^
July 1, 1945, and ending Jane
1946. The building moat be oon-
iiMtly located and must have heat
heating facOitlea, electric current,
«r, cooled drinking water, separate
»t facilities for male and female,
*tor service for dally ctoMiing, wln-
«j*'**‘*** or VenetHui Minds.
Ids must be on file with the Fed-
works Agency In Cohtmbla by
the 1st,
'Hiiaii Escapee
►light In Hie
BendAi^
®®®®ty and state police com-
.,7*® ••‘•A near the Jnh^on of U.
^ ai^ State Highway 97 Sunday
After a colored farmer had
war prhMoer stop-
« hia shack and appealing for
P*‘J*oner, according to the au-
. was one ot two to escape
P'^AOAAr stockade et
Jackson. One of them wae cap*
??**’ the Kerehaw-Rlehland
eeoond managed
Rlehlnad ooi9ty ofHesre
—~ seeroh near Doecir bsm
Budd Andrews
Loses Life As
Plane Crashes
Stays With Shq> In Order To
Sawea Lhrea of Chriliana.
Budd Andrews, York, Pa., who was
chosen the outstanding (^et in his
class at the Southern Aviation school,
and who numbers his friends legion
here is dead, killed when a fighter
plane he was piloting crashed near
Morris Field, Charlotte, N. C., re
cently.
Andrews, who sang in the Presby
terian choir whwi at the Southern
Aviation school, gave up his life in
order that the lives of people in a
densely populated area were not
^pardised. Fire, which broke out
in the wing of his A-20 attack bomber
while over Charlotte, was the cause
ot the crash. The burning wing snap
ped in midair when the plane was
over the city and one of the engines
dropiied off. Andrews could have
parachuted to safety but had be dons
so his plane would have crashed into
homes and probably cost many lives.
Andrews stock by the plane and re
mained at his post until he was over
a golf course when the-coudi came.
Andrews’ act was Jost as much
heroic as bad he been in actual com
bat for he wasn’t thinking of hia own
life when he sought to get his plane
away from the residential area before
it crashed.
After laaving the Southern Aviation
school, Andrews went to Shaw Field
and there he became a member of
tlie Shaw Field oreheatra wnd fre-
quMitly played with' thal gronp at
dances in the Camden Service Center
on Rutledge street
He was well-liked by all who knew
him and i^la death will occasion much
sorrow here.
"Les” Robinson Attached To Bomber
County Quota For 7th
War Loan Drive Is Fixed
Just An Envelope
But It Bore the
Name of A Hero
Proud Ueutenuit Shows Enve
lope With Ernie Pyle
Signature
Major Michener
lack In the States
Huaheud of Conner Kaduryn
Myers Was With Marines
Major James A. Michner,* USMCR,
veteran of many campaigns in the
Pacific, arrived in Camden Monday
night with his wife, the former Kath
ryn Myers, from BMufort, where the
Major met his wife after two and one-
half years service overseas. Mrs
Michener had been working at the
Naval Air station and residing in
Beaufort when the Major returned un
announced.
The couple will spend a short vaca
tion at the home of Mrs. Michener’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Usher N. Myers
and later the Major’s family In Sayre,
Pennsylvania. While overseas Major
Michener’s division, the veteran Third
Marine division, trained for a short
time in a rear area, moved later to
forward area before capturing a
beachhead at Bmpreas Augusta Bay
on Bougainville Island in the Solo
mons which furnished the ground for
the Sesbess to construct in "blits
fashion tbs necessary air strips that
were later inatrumental In knocking
out Ramanl.
In July, 1944, the Major’s division
ajong with the First MarinA Provis
ional brigade captured Guam in the
Marianas, thus liberating the first
American Nationals in the Paciflq,
war—^the native Chamorros of Guam.
More recently Major Michener,saw
action on Iwo Jima in the volcano
Mands where the stellar Third di
vision was instmmental in "power-
housing" thw well dug in Japanese and
later splitting the island in two.
The Major says he-is happy to be
back in the Uunted States, but says
he thinks he will need a "native" to
show him around for awhile.
Dairy Survey Being
Made In This County
Kershaw County is embraced in the
scope of the survey being made un
der the auapicea ot the South Carolina
Dairy aaeociation in an effort to get
a complete pictnre of the dairy in-
dnitiT in the state.
The SouSi Carolina Dairy associa
tion, recently organised, was created
Or the purpose of bringing producer,
manufacturer and distributor into
closer harmony. Producers are being
urged to become members of the as
sociation at their earliest oppomnity.
Within the next few weeks Blenneth
R. Daugherty, assistant to Mr. Salley,
will canvas every farm la this area
farmers are beteg asked to co
operate by giving him all the infoma-
tlon he seAs on milk production on
their fArms. FArmers will AlAO be
solicited At thp SAiae time for mem-
M^p in the dAlry asAodatlon.
^It is the gOAl of the assooletlon to
hmve orery fArmer. regnrdhMd of «be
aasonnt ot milk he produceo, become
r c< (be AseedAtUm. to aetlAt
la the South Caroltee Oedry
hers ot the
Preekkat L. O. Funderburk. Return
cards are attached and it is the wish
of the president that all members
who plan to attend tiie supper, sign
and return the cards, addressing them
to C. P. DuBose, Jr. Members must
make note on their cards how many
guests they will bring, this being
necessary in order that the commit
tee in charge will know how many to
prepare for.'
It ia hoped to have a speaker from
either North Carolina or Georgia, ad
dress the meeting. Tliis speaker will
come from a Farm Bnrean that has
-be^ an ootatanding success and wiH
therefore be In a position to give the
local bureau group some excellent
suggestions.
You folks who have watched the
Camden baseball program, also the
footbsll games in past years will re
member Lester Robinson. "Les," who
is one of the several Robinson boys
and a brother of Benny and Art, was
one of the sweetest inflelders that
Camden has ever presented to the
baseball world. He was also eut-
auading on the gridiron.
Now Let is a sergsant in the United
9(atM Marine Corps and is attached
to the Fourth Marine Air Wing, com
manded by General Louis R. Woods
sad serving aa a radio gunner on a
Mitchell medium bomber somewhere
in the Marshall Islands.
Les Is with an outfit patrolling Cen
tral Pacific supply l^es and hitting
by-iMtssed enemy bases in the neigh
borhood. The picture shown in the
Chronicle this week is that of Sgt.
Lester Robinson on the right and bis
buddy, Billy E Chastain of 'Greenville,
a meebanic attAched to the squadron
Farm Bureau To '
Have Fish Fiy
At Lake ShauMAm
Mumbura Urgud To
' ComMctkoo By Rutortt
Closing iS'ogram
Starts Next We<^
Camdun Storm mad Off iouu All
Od Midwook Shutdown
The Kershaw County Penn Barsan
announces a fiah supper for aB ngm-
hers to be held Friday. Ma^H, at
the 4-H club house at Lsike Shamokhi,
five miles north of Camden. The
All stores and otficw In Camden
will go on a midweek Wednesday af
ternoon closing schedule beginning
next Wednesday. May 2.
Stores and ofrices will close at 1
p. m. This program is to prevail dur
ing the months of May, June. July and
August
Garages and auto service stations
affair is announced for 9:80 o'clock.'!*? City have bMn on the mldwe^
C«U W bMa miUled to oU ^ ^ ""
Pnn^AUIOdiis ’Win not close on
Wednesdays, but as her agreement
amRsmir^ ^ * *
This Soldier
Will Not Forget
Camden Kindness
SoldW WiU N«v«r
Forget the HoH>itality
Hero.
^ eiuodatloo ihs larguet orgapisatlon of
Itr^g to the Boeth.
E K- e fAraser 1
K l his IHh
-Ihe »«At
M. MSer. U.
Beeet TAOMtly
The Service Center is always good
for a human Interest story. Hers on
a Saturday or Sunday ond meets serv
ice men from practically every state
in the union. Many of them make it
a point to come to Camden every week
aa long as they are stationed In this
area,
' Ihe reason is perhaps best exempli
fied In the story of a letter that came
to Mrs. John Lindsay, center hostess.
It wss from a Bridgeport, Cann., youth
who first visited the Center just be^
fore Christmas last year. His fliot
visit wss followed by others. At the
thne he wrote the letter to Mrs. Lind
say, whom he addressed aa ‘‘Dear
Mosn," he was on a ahip In a convey
going overseas. The letter said in
part:
*‘And ni never forget Qimden.
That it without a doubt the finest
little town I have ever been in end
I have been ip a lot of tlem,
“And ril never forget that little
Catholic chor^ Juet like something
you read shoot in books.
"Ton aee where I come from peo
ple are in sudi a kurry they never
notice any&ne. But when I walked
down the streets in Camden, people
jnsL said ’Good umming,’ as if they
had kpown me all their lives. Ton
don’t know 4iow I appreciated aU that
"It there le any way let the people
ia Camden know how I feeL Fm sore
1 am speaking for any soldier who has
•vsr stopped theru.
"And U^nk the colored man (Rob-
«i^) fdr Am. ReTs a fine paruMt"
Mini s II II II Pi -
Memorial Seiyicie
trr OiL Rny
eeff prevloairy, win be closed
aU day Sundays.
Reduction In
Old Age Group
Prediction For Kershaw County
Made By Richards
Slight but gradual reduction in the
number of peruona eligible for old
age assistance In the coarse of the
next ton or twelve years was predict
ed by Chairman Norman S. Richards
of the Kershaw County Board ^ Pub
lic Welfare at the regular monthly
meeting of the board this week.
"Hundreds of persons who will
reach the age of 45 in the noxt few
years have,paid social security taxes
and will be entitled to old age fn-
surance.” the dialrman said. "Most
of these will not be in need of old
age assistance though it may be
needed in some oaaes to sapplement
the small amount they will receive as
old age insurance.
"However since farm workers, self-
employed persons, and many others
are not Inclnded in the old age in-
aurance group, there will still be
many in the county becoming 95 years
old with no benefits available to them
from the social security program, and
4heae will be entitled to old age as
sistance if in need.
"Any reduction in the number of
persons receiving old age assistance
in South Carolina should rseult in
more adequate average awards, those
our State now being among the
lewoet in the United Statee," the
diaJufMa added.
tkoWiUBe
The Lucky Person
To Have Giurse
Local Rad Groaa Chapter To
To
ftraward
What girl or boy, 18 years of sge,
in Camden would like to attend a
course in First Aid and Water Acci
dent Prevention at Brevard, N. C.,
Angust 19 to 29?
Any boy or girl of that age inter
ested in this opportunity may make
spptlcatlon at the headquarters of the
Kmuhaw County Red Cross chapter
on Broad eiraet .
Tha local ASMrieaa Red Crosa is
sfoaeortiig the seBihig of one psnan
to the ffrst atd ani aeeldent prevaa-
tlAB achotS^to be held on the dAsa
And will appreciate those
Intarqqtfd to eraitaet the headqqartcva
at uiMa. From the list Uias aecured
tha #»ptor will aaleot one to go to
(jOiifW Wfli po a tan term of
~ ‘ valMhlo tnforma>
bo
, ^ *
Wilbur C. Hyde,-a lieutenant in the
United States Army, had a lot of nice
things to say about Camden—not from
his own personal observation—but
from what several of his war buddies
told him—and that was directly re
sponsible for Lt. Hyde coming to
Camden laat Sunday.
"When some of my buddies In out
command In France heard I was
homeward bound, and that I would
be located near Camden they told me
not to miss going there If the oppor-
tnnlty offered. So hare h am." he
said.
"I stopped in at the Service Cen
ter today and I’m telling you frankly
that I don’t blame the boys a bit
when they tell of ’Mom’ Lindsay.
She’s, my ideal of a mother."
But what Interested the writer was
the envelope that Lt Hyde carefnlly
drew from hia wallet. It waa an en
velope addressed to Lt Hyde from
his mother and on the back in
scrawled letters were two words:
"Ernie Pyle."
Hyde declared that Pyle autograph
ed the envelope in Africa when Pyle
waa on assignment with the American
forces there.
"Wbea I Aeard that he bad been
shot I Just blabbered like a whipped
kid." said Hyde. "He was one of the
moet human persons I sver met He
was Just like one of our G. I. Jom—
Just a plain homely American guy and
1 tell you frankly, he waa lov^ by
all .of us. I can Just imsgine what
his' death did to tlu>se Marines who
were on that same Island wtlh him.
I’ll bet they took revenge In no
gentle measure on thoee Nips, hoping
and praying, each and every one of
them, that they would get the yellow
boy who killed Pyle."
Statistics of
fiiterest fii tiie
Hospital Routine
Nearly 8|000 Maala Served A
Month In Camden In
stitution.
The Camden hoepital may be a
small Institution in comparison with
the hospitals In ths larger communi
ties, but on a comparative baeie there
is Just as much detail in the kftalrs
of the smaller unit as in a larger
one.
Even In an establishment of the
sixe of the local institution there are
some intwestlng statistics availsbls.
For instance the monthly average of
meals served ranges from 7,000 to
8,000. The weekly consumption of
eggs averages from 50 to 90 dosen, of
milk, 260 quarts, and of chicken,. 110
ponnda. All of these products are
bought locally.
Then of coutm thnre are potatoea.
For Instance aome three bushels of
sweet potatoes, purchased from local
farmers, ars consumed weekly.
Eggs, fruits APd vegetablse are kept
in a walk-ln-refrlgerator which was
installed last year.
The hospital la looking forwanl to
the renovatloo of the kitchen in the
near futnre. More room is essentlaL
It is also planned to purohaae an
electrically heated food conveyor. The
Women’s Auxiliary haa $200 on hand
that is to .be placed toward the pur
chase of this conveyor.
Must Apply For
Sugar By Mafy 15
AU persons desiring to apply for
canning sugar for 1946 must do ao
before May 15. Call or write Kershaw
board for application blanka.
Doe to shortage of sugar ittM>Hce
and in order that our fighting men
may have the necesaary sugar tor
their xmo, aU applicants are Mked to
apply for as little sogar as pomIMc.
The quota for civilian use baa been
lowered greatly, and in order for epch
person to get his Just aHowance,
pleaae don’t apply for more than you
need for canning.—Kershaw Ration
ing Board. 49-28J. „
Manpower Office
Opened biQundeh
W. Rhett Harley, State Manpower
Arector has announced thnt a fnU-
tOM USES oCflee been opened
in Cemi^n. Tbie County wne' former-
l^Mired by the Colnnible t^ee on
YrClay of such week. Temporary
qnnrters are being need nntll a si^
able office space can be located. Al-
bwt DerreU Bsonett, formerly asslet.
ant mrnl indnstry snpervieor to the
Stete office hae been naamid nmnsmf
Mr. Bennett bae baen wcotei with
the esrvlee elaoe Mareb. 1M4.
Chairman Marion Heynuoi An
nounces Objoctive At
$406,000
The quota for Kershaw county in
the approaching Seveoith War Loan
campaign will be $406,000, It was'bn-
nounoed this week by Marion H. Hey-
man, chairman of the county war
finance committee. The campaign
will opeh on May 14.
Strong emphasis will be placed on
the sale of B bonds, the chairman an
nounced. South Carolina will be
asked to sell $25,000,000 in B bonds,
as against $16,000,000 in the Sixth
War Loan campaign. This means, the
county chairmen said, that in every
county there must be an Intensive
campaign to sell E bonds.
South Carollns's overall qnota for
the campaign, for the sale of all types
of bonds is $63,000,000.
Declaring that this Is s vital war
loan campaign, ^Christie Benet of Go-
lumbia, state lK>od chairman, said:
“We face in the Seventh War Loan
the biggest Job yet in selling bondet^
Never before have we been assigned
an B bond quota of as much as $26,-
000,000. That will be our assignment
in this Job. I sm confident South
Carolina can meet this goal, but 1
know (hat it will require bond buying
by more people, and in greater
smounts than ever before. |
"South Carolina has never failed in
a war bond campaign, no matter how
high the goal. Thia time, let aU of
us buy bonds to the limit ot our
ability and buy tllem early in the
drive. The peace for which we aU
pray may be near, but the enormous
Job of financing this war isn't over—
and that is an obligation resting on all
citisens.”
Chairman Heyman attended the
meeting of State War Loan leaders in
Columbia last Tuesday.
Postoffice Take '
Higher fii First
Period of the Y«ur '
Gnin of 8 Per Cmnt Noted
Ovnr Hlfk Marti of
Yaar Afo
The Camden postofflce hM made
another nice gain in receipts during
the first quarter of this year, acrard-
Ing to Charlee P. DuBoee, Sr., post-
mastM'. the increase being about i
per cent over the same months of
1944. Comparative receipts- follows:
1945 1944
January $4,216.64 $2,492.40
February $4,026.94 $4,470.01
M»«‘ch $4,972.97 $4,904.11
• ••••••• •••»••••
$18,016.28112,599.64
The Camden postofflce will become
A first class office July 1. Post oflleo
receipts have more than doubled in
the past ten years at the local office.
In 1916 the receipte for the fliut
quarter amounted to $7,007.26. In
1930 the receipts for the year amount
ed to $22,168.79 while tamt yeer the
total receipts were $49,293.
The latter figures are of much in
terest, for they refute completely the
glorified claims qf by-goos years whsa
the Kirkwood hiMrt catered to capaci
ty resenratlotts. as did the Hobklrk
and Court Inn. Postal receipts are
regarded as ths most accurate barom
eter of community growth and suc
ceed
DalzeU Girl h
Killed In Crash .i
Of Small Ptone
Sally Warran, Damchter of H.
D. Warrma, VIcHi of
Trai^
Mias Sara Warren, daoghter of H.
D. Warren of Dalsell, well known In
Camden, was killed when a plane
she was riding in at Georgetown
crashed. The pilot, Chartee E Buck,
of aaorgetown» was Imo killed.
Miss Warren, a Western Union op
erator at Georgetown, was on a
(light with Buck, millwright foreman,
when the accident occurred.
The two met deato when the light
plane earthed near the Georgetoum
airport Witnesses said the plue had
risen sbont 360 feet when in a
it got out of -controL It was oom-
plstely demolished. Back waa fo-
sUntly killed and Miss Warron died
16 minutes after tha crash.
Mias Warren was 27 yean of ago
and has been in Georgetown as Wsa-
tarn Union operator about a-year.
Gean Cmnetery Lots
Tha Oematery association reopaats
penoim ownlag or la duerge of lots
to have them cleaned as sooa as
poMlhla fuB Mauaorial Day, May 10.
Owfag to IsBor diortage K vHU ba dtf-
fkmlt to have it dona In tha laat days.
This also bolds good tor hanllag oM
of leaves and trash from