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BtthMda Pratbytarlan Church
A. * Douglaa. McAm, Paator
Church school at 10 a. m.
Morning worship at 11:15.
Lyttlston Street Methodist
Henry P. Collins, Pastor
Church school at 10 a. m.
Morning wors^iip at 11:15 a. m.
Grace Episcopal Church
Maurice Clarke, D.D.. Rector
Holy communion at 8 a. m. a
Church'Se)H)ol at 10 a. m.
11:16 a. m. Morning Worship.
First Baptist Church
J. B. Caston. Pastor.
M. M. Rabon, Associate Pastor
Church school at 10 a. m.
Morning worship at II4IS a. m. -
B. T. U. at 7:16 p. m.
Krening worship at 8:30 p. m.
Prayer serrlce Wednesday, at 8:30
p. m.
The public is extended a cordial in>
▼itatioQ to attend each of the senieea.
War Dept, Still
Seek Alva Rush,
Missing Flyer
la Sgt. Alva Rush, aon of Chief of
Police and Mrs. Alya..^ Rush of this
rlty, alive?
The War department, in a letter
just received by ,Chief Rush, states
Jhat search Is being continued land,
sea and air, in the effort to ascertain
if Sgt. Rush died when his plane
crashed into the sea near enemy-held
territory on the Island of Formosa
February 7, 1945.
Major E. A. Bradunas of the United
States Air corps, in a letetr to Chief
Kereliaw County
Soldier A Hero
ON FARMS tfarooflioat tte Natfas thia aaaM ia beia« repeated daily In
aatfclpatioa ef the hUghte Sevept^ War Leaa aa larmen buy War
with aa eye to fotiire efeemeal devekwmenta
'Wan
eye to ntiire eieetneai devekwmei
TIetory Velimtoer Edward Sehroer, ngbt, o^Colc Com^, MUtoMri, a"
story Vehni , _ . ,
War Bead to Vernon Wade, center, wfaUe Coanty Ext^rica
Brewa casts an appralaing eye oa Wade’s Itae. span eC MIsseiirt
News From Bethune
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. M.
G. King were Mrs. J. G. Richards and
daughter of Florence, and Mrs. Jack
Hatfield and son of Quitman, Ga.
Mrs. G. B. McKinnon and children,
Peggy and Boyd. Jr., of Augusta. Ga.,
spent the we^k-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McDowell.
W, A, McDowell. Jr,. USN. and .Mr.
McDowell of Charleston, spent Friday
Rush slated thal ~Sgt. Hush was an
armorer gunner oh a B.26 Mitchell
that left Luzon on a mission over the
coast of Formosa In the morning of
February 7. During the mission the
planes encountered heavy enemy anti
aircraft fire and the plane with Rush
aboard Was seen to sustain damage.
The major staiea that the plane re
mained under control and was last
seen s>t 2:06 p. m., 10 miles east of
Takoa, Formosa, where it ntade a
landing. Search was made in the
area but no trace of the plane person
nel was found.
Major Bradunas stated that he
would acquaint Chief Rush with any
additional details which the search
now under way might reveal.
CAMDEN SOFTBALL TEAM
1X)0KS LIKE POWERHOUSE
(Ceatfausd from frst page)
Arthur Robinson is manager of the
team and wants to hear from teams
aboht the state with whom games can
be arranged.
The home games of the Camden
All-Stars will be played at the High
school athletic field, which will be
put in shape for the sport at once.
The management will make every ef
fort to have home games played on
Wednesday afternoons.
Ben Stevens
Dies At Kershaw
Ben Stevens, 67, son of the late
Bob Stevens, died at Kershaw Thurs-
day night after an illness of nine
tnonti'i*.
li.- lt< survived by four sons. Lonnie
iiiul Leonard Stevens of the Mt. Pip
gah section, Oscar and Willie Stevens
of Lancaster; one daughter, .Mrs. Lee
Moseley of Lancaster; four brothers,
Johnnie Stevens of Waxhaw, N. C.,
Lewis Stevens and Jim Stevens of
Lancaster, and Willie Stevens of
Nashville. Tenn.
Funeral services were held from the
Pleasant Plains Baptist church at 6
o'clock Saturday afternoon, conducted
by the Rev. James Outen. Interment
was in the churchyard.
FOR THE
ASKING.
this booklet of
six onchanting
smoU homos and
thoir kHchons
Plrasnlnent arehiteets planned
tlM home, sketched above, and
ftva athoa espedally for thia
Kalvinator booklet. Each 1mm
datalled plana for your <b«ani ^
kltdhan. St pagas enunmed
with a boat of
YOUR CORY IS HERE:: i
OCT nr TODAY
Ciroliiia Furniture Co.
Floyd R Boykia
PHONE MO
Around Camden
HeniV Niles is dead. A good frie
a member of the fast vanishing
notebers of the Fourth Estate has
gone to his reward.
3-8gt W. F. Jankowsky. of Com
pany' M, 361 Infantry, sutloned in
lUly, beUevis that the home folkk
should know something about their
boys in service. So he wrote a leUer
to the editor of the Camden Chronicle
In which he described the prowess of
Pfc. Tbofnas F. Catoe, of R.F.D. 2,
Camden, who is a member of the 88th
Division.
In his letter the sergeant says ’X.o™
was highly commended by his Com
mandlng Officer for his outsUndlng
work and the excellent way in which
he performed hte duty throughout the
big push for Rome. Thomas, who Is
a Jeep driver for a heavy weapons
company had the Job of seeing that
the men are kept well supplied with
ammunition, food and water.
“During one attaTik his company
was pinned down by German machine
gun fire in njaed. of. Ammo. and.
supplies. His Jeep was loaded with
Just what the troops needed. Re
ceiving his orders to move out he
seated himself behind the wheel and
drove over heavily mined roads which
were under enemy observation. The
enemy later opened with mortar and
artillery fire on the road on which
he was traveling. He completed his
hiission in getting the supplies
through and for his heroism was
awarded a presidential citation.
“Thomas‘hfcs been in many engage
ments against the enemy and |n each
Instance has proven himself to be a
good soldier.”
Private Catoe is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. S. Catoe.
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NEWS of
. . • />F O0ffiOi£M
Horace M. Brown, 21, of Camdea,^
who te a ward master of the
operatlve surgical ward ’ at a u. -S.
Army station hospiul in England, re
cently was^ promoted to 'sergeant. Be
fore entering the Army in April, 1943,
Sgt. Brown was employed by the
Camden branch of Colonial Storea.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
M. Brown of Camden.
Thomas C. Belton of Kershaw, re-
Wi ■ * '
‘it tr
orn la the son of Mr
Sbeom. Clb Walnut
Before entailing the
1944, he was employe
mechanic at the &
school in Camden.
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This writer had known Henry Niles
since 1936. Both of us being news
paper men, found an affinity of affec
tion for each other. It was a real
pleasure, a real happiness to work
and Saturday here with their parents..with Henry Niles in the offering of
W. A. left Saturday afternoon for New it he news to the- public of Canidea and
News FVom Cassatt
cently Was advanced to ^steward’s
mate, first class, USNR. He is the
son of Mr, and Mrs. Colmon Belton,
route 1, Kershaw.
Sle Gardner. Jr., Camden, has been
advanced to steward’s mate, first
class, USNR. He Is the hon of Mr.
and Bfrs. -Charles Gardner,-route L
Camden, Before Joining Abe Navy In
1943 he was a farmer.
In the list of an
pearing in the press
peered the following
Lowry, son of Robei
Camden. T.-Sgt. Th
mas, SOB of Mrs. E
mas. Camden. Pvt. f
husband of Mrs. EMm
goff. Pvt. Tallma^gt
of Mrs* Janie Dinkit
Promotion of Pfc. Johnle Baker of
Special Training -Unit, to the rank of
Technician Fifth Grade, was announc
ed by Brigadier General John T.
Kennedy, recently. Corporal’ Baker
is the son of Mrs. Mattie Baker, route
1, Boykin.
Pfc. Schenk attends
high school in Camti
Georgia school of T(
lanta, Oa. He was i
service in March 19, 1
Pherson, Ga., taking I
at Jefferson Barraol
tended the A8TP at (
Wyoming. He went
gust, 1944.
John Troy, 26. of 1102 MUl street.
Camden, has heeded the Navy’s urgent
appeal for shipbuilders to construct
ships for the Battle of Japan*, and has
begun work at the Charleston Navy
Yard as a pipefitter.
Capt. W. R. Rosier, who spent a 30-
day leave at home, left Sunday the
13, for El Centro, Calif. Capt. Rosier
spent 18 months in the ^uthwest
Pacific with the Marine Air Corps.
York where he will report for duty.
Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Baker are
visiting in Gastonia. Rev. Baker per
formed the marriage ceremony for
one of his former members in Gas
tonia Sunday afternoon.
A music recital will be given Friday
evening at 8:30 by the pupils of Mrs.
Barr Gardner.
Miss Irene Jones has returned home
for the summer from Coker college.
Misses Bunny Hammond and Eiva
Jo Ratcliff are at home from Win-
throp college.
Mrs. M. S. Parker has returned
from a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Herbert Whitacre, in Indianapolis,
Ind.
Mrs. C. B. Reid, principal of the
High school, has received a cable
from the government stating that her
husband. Capt. Reid, had been releas
ed from prison. The following day
Mrs. Reid received a cable from her
husband, stating that he was alright.
Installation service will be held in
the Presbyterian church Sunday even-
Ing when Rev. W. L. Baker will be
installed as pastor. Rev. Mr.. Beatty
and Rev. D. L. McDonald of Colum
bia will have charge of the services.
John Nicholson of Berkley, Calif.,
visited relatives here during the week
end. John has Just completed his
work St the Baptist Seminary at that
place.
Miss Evelyn Parker entertained the
Senior class Friday evening at her
home with a party.
Miss Sarah Frances Parker, a stu
dent at Lander- college, has returned
to the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Parker, for the summer.
Miss Emily Jones. Lester King and
Ira B. Horton attended the gradi^tion
exercises at Wlnthrop college Sunday
afternoon.
Kershaw county.
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Henry Niles was a real friend. We
shall always cherish the times that
we sat with him, talking the Fourth
Estate.
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Last Monday morning Henry signed
“30”. to h4s earthly career. 'That in
newspaper parlance means “thf end
of the story.” God speed Heory Niies.
• « • •
One of the many exchanges that
comp to our desk every week ckrried
an Interesting bit of comment last
Thursday. It said: “Somebody said
show me your local newspaper and
I'll tell you who is getting the most
business in town. The progressive
business man always advertises be
cause advertising makes business. The
local newspaper and the enterprise
prospers * when advertising space is
used. The codfish lays a million eggs
and nobody knows it The ben lays
one egg and lets the whole world
know by her cackle.”
And then there is Ihe story of the
business man who was alone in his
particular field in the community
and he did not advertise because he
felt It wasn’t necessary. Every town
has one or more of this type of busi
ness man. But what's he or they go.
Ing to do. when after the war is over,
enterprise dealing in the commodi
ties that non-advertiser sells, comes
iiv puts up a fine'new modern store
This corner knows of two chain groups
who after a survey of the local pic
ture, regards Camden as being tops
arid are planning an invasion. Roth
of; these chains built themselves to
their present status by advertising.
Pfc. Geo. Sheheen
Wounded. 5 Times,
Saw Much Action
Pfc. E<tward Joseph Shebeen, who
has been spending a 30-day furlough
at the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Perris Shebeen. Fair street, left
last Monday fpr Richmond, where he
will be hospitalized.
Pfc, Sheheen has been wounded
give times during the years he has
been in the service. He has been in
action in North Africa, Sicily, the
French invasion coast, France. Bel
gium and Holland. He has been in
11 distinct campaigns.
The most bitter fighting he expcrl-
,enced was when the Germatis starts
their drive, known as the Von Rund-
sted push and later became kuown as
practically obliterated
Gre,
by the enemy
Stadium is the Latin form of the
Greek word for" a standard of length.
Palmetto Lads
Iteturn Home To
Recover Health
the German bulge. In this fighting ..
Sheheen was in a command that was' Wiarches, some of them covering hun-
Pvt. Albertus Shirley, Lyttleton St.,
was one of 80 South Carolina soldiers
and officers recently liberated from
German prison samps who have arriv.
ed in the States and are now at their
homes.
Their most vivid impression of the
capacity is the captivity is the starva
tion diet they received from their
Nazi captors. Without American Red
Cross'food, parcels, they declare, they
would not have survived the steady
diet of black, moldy bread and watery
barley soup doled out by the Ger
mans.
They told how they endured, hard
ships as they were marched from one
prison camp to another 'while the
Germans were retreating before ad
vancing Allied armies. The forerd
dreds of miles, were made under con
stant strafing by Allied planes. While
retreating, the Germans, they said,
failed to provide adequate food and
shelter for their prisoners.
Sgt. Delma HcLaughHn arrived here
last Friday for a 80 day furlough, af
ter more than a year in service over
seas.
Pvt Steve William Bowers left Sun
day for Blackstone, Va.. after spend
ing his furlough with his parents and
wife here. Mrs. Bowers accompanied
her husband to Virginia.
Sgt. J. R. Teal, of Camp Butner, N.
C.. is at home for a few weeks leave.
Miss Donsola McLaughlin, of Lan
caster. spent the week-end with her
parents here,
Miss Mary Stuckey, of Hartsvllle.
spent the week-end with Miss Bettf
Jane McCaskill. —^
Mrs. Mary Bowen and« daughter.
Shirley Ann, of Ltigoff, visited her
mother, Mrs. Charlie Granger recent
ly.
Mrs. Alby Bowers and Mrs. Cecil
Bowers, of Sumter, spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Steve Bowers.
Mrs. Barr OardnM', presented her
pupils In a recital at the Midway audi
torium last Friday night to a large
gathering of Interested friends. The
pupils and the teacher deserve the
vary highest praise In the work of
only one term in music, each showing
skill in their i>erformance. There were
solos, trios, duets, readings and sing
Ing in groups which every one pres
ent enjoyed.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Cooper, Mrs.
John Buchan and young son, John
nie, spent the week-end in Spring-
dale, N. C.
Mrs. J. R. West, Sr., of Floyd Dale,
was at home for the weekend.
MM 2-C Kenneth McNeeley, of
Beaufort, S. C., visited his parents,
.Mr. and Mrs. B. L. McNeely, recently.
•Mrs. Harris Oliver and daughter,
Phoebe are visiting their mother, Mrs.
Fleta West.
Mr. and Mrs. William West were
notified by the Word Department that
their son, Nathaniel West, who is in
Ihe Navy, had been seriously wound
ed.
High Honors For
Frances Rhame
Pfc. E. Lee Raley, who hat been in
service for 18 months and who saw
service in Belgium, Holland. Prance
and Germany, was a guest of his
brother. Street Commissioner James
Raley, for several days last week.
Seaman Second Class Gilbert Pow-
ell Rica of Kershaw,, haa reported 40
the Naval Air station. Charleston, for
duty. He is the son of Mrs. M. S.
Rice of Kershaw.
Pfc. Joe S. Banks, route 3, Camden,
la a member of the 14Srd InfantFF
RegimeiM that marked ita second an
niversary of overssaa service with a
drive into Germany through the Sieg
fried line and -to the Rhine river. In
two days time the regiment captured
2.886 prisonm‘8.
Tech. 4th Grade Harvey R Sharpe
of Camden, has arrived at the .Oliver
General hospital, Augusta. Qa.. from
overseaa for further medical treat
ment. Friends of the new arrival are
asked not to phone because of con
gested wire facilities. Mail is wel
corned by every patient and is handled
rapidly.
Stephen E. Sheorn, 19. of Camden,
has ^en promoted from corporal to
sergeant. Sgt. Sheorn la wait gunner
(m a B-17 Flying Fortreaa. Sgt. Sbe-
Leonsrd H. Schei
Phoebe Schenk of C
muted recently w Tri
“Keeping them flyi
Air force assignmMit
Welch, aircraft mech
who services, repair
P-61 Mustang fightei
Kyle L. Dlddle's 679tl
Sgt. Welch Is the son
Will M. Welch, route
wife, Mrs. Louise S.
the same addksas.
Camden High adiool,
employed in civil se
chanlc before enteriz
August, 1942.
Pvt. Jehfi-Fr^icCoy
Mrs. J. B. McCoy, arrl
Wednesday after heiE
the Qermana since G
landed in New York
McCoy was serving
with the Third Army.
Robert TaOi
Buys AfiUer
Henry Savage, Jr.,
Miller dwelling on L
to Robert W, Taller
real estate recording
of deeds offics.
The property front
while on the north
Pitts home, on the ei
erty of Henry Bavai
south the property of
John T. Stevens so
L. W. Boykin, accord
transfer record.
Buy War Boodb
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Miss Prances Rhame, daughter of
Mrs. Bessie O. Rhame of this city,
was salutatorian of the graduating
class of Columbia cOtiege at Columbia.
The college closed on May 21.
During her senior year Miss Rhame
was president of the International
Relations club and also of the Chris
tian Service organization on the
campus.
Mrs. Bessie Rhame attended the
graduaiion exercises- of the college.
Wants—For Sale
Reeehfwl toe late fer regular eetuwiiw
LOST—A and B gas ration books, is
sued to Woodrow Smith, route 2.
Camden, 8. C. lOp
Buy War Boada and dCaaapa
New 1945 Federal Truck
2-3 Ton Tractor Type
It^s Here Now
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128 E. DaKalE Straat
to a CHECK THil
IS THIS yO(//i UNPR0TEC1
MAIL BOX? V IS THAT2D(
UNCUARDED ALLOTMENT CHE(
The Governmeot mails' millions
Army and Navy alloonenc and allc
ance checks to families of Amch<
soldiers and sailors.
Thousands of these chedcs are stoi
and forged every year.
Every unlocked mail box or open m
receptade is an invitation to th^ ch<
^ thief PutaStromgLoekooYottrMailB
A lock may prevent a loss.
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The check thief watches for ]
check to be ddivered. Do Ym? i
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Are Due. Them They Cau’t Be Si
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