Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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XAMDEN GREETS END OF' WORLD CONIUCT WITH PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING fOLUliE 87 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, lany Groups Are Opposed 0 Buckingham Dam Landing rsoce, puiuhcn of IsMM Protest %• Oxambei* ol OommM’ce In Zgr Or»ii«»ter* Mid IlorMioe, lo- the LjMlMS Blmar SoO I^tUon dWrlet, (ke West Wst- rrtininlttee and the Stmthera L Forest rtaTM eosneissloB hare Toa record aa o»poatBS the iro- !i^)eet oC hBlldlsC a dan at e watert at the ateree and Con- Bs^nsha: HieDce ol the n rlrere. ^ . ^ organisations ha^ iHnMd •» Mting pamphlet. Oondeaintaf the jMBjbam Landtos Prelect, request- ^immediate abandonment of the M This pamphlet will be Intro- ad at the pobUr hearing that la to keld at the Sumter county court ae br the United States District Hneerlng office on Angnst *8. ordered preUmlnary ex- ^on and sorreys of the Bnck- han Landing project back last and since that fact became aa. there has been a general np> » an orer the area that would be cted br the backwaters resulting I the project tn in Camden and Kershaw conn- suggestion of a dam at the t described has met with praeti- r one hundred per cent opposition g was the morement launched in vaa that reenlted In a stoppage be program last winter. it extmt of the exposition can liued through a surrey of the big alt7 that hara openly come <mt Ht it The bearing at Columbia d be a spirited affair as propoa- and opponents 10 Uta BUh win he and to plead their cause. Nariga- tatereeta ntilitlee, goreFnlng agen- landowners, drle and prirate aitatioDa, all will hs glren sn rtanlty to express tliatr rlswe. rmer Baptist r Here, Takes ap Prisoner Qty Agog Over Surrender Yam Over NBC Network FUah At U Folkmd By Denanl A Four Mi MJqUST 17, IMS NUMBER 22 pity In Joyous Mood ****"®®**® Ci\ie» Up in Arms Oyer Change of Route Bssldeats of Qaaidmi aad thousands el other cities aad tothu of the nation were ready ts stape a victory dUe braOoa Baaday alght, following a t:t4 p. BL radio flaeh that Jixan had accepted the surrender terms of the United Kadoas. • When the sireni failed tb start the victory clamor, people rushed to the teleidione aad made contacts which they felt saight explala the delay *4n the victory oheervaaee. The Nstkaul Broadeestlag *ni»p*"y gave the flash, credMag the report to the United Press. The repert wee to the effect that Preoident Truman had announ^ the acceptance of the peace terms by the Jape. Less than two minutes after the flash the United Press issued a second bulletin asking that the first report be disregarded. At 9:40 the third bnlletln stated that the United Press Waahington burean bed denied issuing the aurreuder flash. The United Press and the federal anthoritiee are now making an in. veetigation ms to who had issued the flash and it la reported that wire tap. plug assy have flgafud hi tha affair. H wHl be recalled ^hift In World War No. 1, a false report of the sign, ing of the armistice wte broailcast a taw days before the actual signing had taken place. The entire nation went wild with Joy When the actual aad truthful report came a fow days later, the eelehratiou was la the as- ture of an anticlimax. As Shrilling Sirens Jell Of Surrender Of Japs Spirit of Revehy fe In Evidence As The BlooAest ’Conflict In . History Rpds. By Um 8k>ppw Wham Mujror F. N. McCorUh praaaud a button on a poat in front'd tho dty polipa baadquartora at 7tl0 Tuaaday mgbt, it atartod tbo firs ited air raid airana thronghout tha city ahrilling tha wolcome intelHgamea to tho citisona that tha bloodiaat aad cnialieat wa* in tha hialory of mankind waa now hiatory. It markad tha final acoaplaaco af tka snnraodar torma of tbo United Nations In a badly whippod Nippooaaa ampiro. It followed by aooM tfcmn tha abjact capitolation of Adolpk Hitlar'a Nasi furtraia. It pPiclainiad to ih» walM thift too forona of good eonid friimiph oaar tka foroaa of awdl Thn stern mandate of tha Potsdam roiifnrmmo, too dammihting hanoe canaad by tka atomic hnmhd Afappod by Aamriaan flyam and toa m antry of Soaiat Rnasia kite too Nfkt agafciat Japan, all hkmd to cemrinoo toa fanalfaal Japa toal dan alarad tham in tha faoa. Hanry fu Glad Not A D. Waa from Mindanao Island in Doth Pacific tells of how an nn- Army chaplain captured a Jap by making him dog trot be- (bit Jmp, wondering all the while a sinister-looking package in sp's band contained TNT. I chaplain was Captain' Henry D. on, former associate pastor of It Baptist church here, and a ^-law of Rev. J. B. Caaton, pastor same church. ^plain Anderson was traveling in driven by hia asaistant, Cor. I Leonard Piothe of Bayne. Wash- when a Jap, branlshing a ^ioug-Iooking package. Jumped a thicket. Chaplain Anderson and Cpl. were nnarpied. Expecting the burl a ^ine or grenade th^r I ibe Cpl. swerved around the ’ and roared past him. Chaplain on glanced back over his shoal- saw the Jap in hot pursuit, a dirty white flag on s stick, bis other hand, the Jap stiU ' the sinlster-lookmg package, dfol of Jap treechsry, the motioned the Jap to fol- Jsep drove on. the Jap along in its wake and oUt de-throwIng raagA Am truck roared ap ftrsas the Jap, caught hstwsm ^ ‘iclee, halted. .The ehaikda'a opped and ihe trash stsmod^ driver res chad for a rale. Anderson glagoxty appro as! aad retisfrsd hlai o< the J^haga Opsufog It hs fookd a pair of sciaaori ai ' of loot Tha Jap. ai hMpM iato the Jeep, aad captivity. Removes ’ersonsFtmii Ag(ft Records WaWSTS U Dwi^ T«w ki CooBty The The Henry Savage IMscussm Veteran Advisory Prognun Appaan Bafoam toa Esacuthra Boar^ af toa RaJ Croaa ChapCar Henry Savage. Jr., gave aa laterest- ing tafk to tha eaecutiva board of the Kershaw chapter of the Red Cross Monday in which he stated he had >een appointed by Judge Read as county chairman of the state veteran’s advisory assisUnce program, whose, primary concern la to fit the discharg ed veteran for civilian life. Hia organisation Includes a group of thirty men versed In various civilian activities. Mr. Savage touch ed upon the difficulty of getting to. gether an organisation of this kind, for, as he aakl. if one particular per. sou was in the real estate business, hs knew real estate, but his jndg. meats could not be entirely unbiased, and the rmd problem of the organisa tion was to find responsible cttlsens with the necessary knowledge about different husineeseB. who would “not have an ax to'lrlnd.’* A copy of a letter yhlch has been oompllod, listing these vurious sdvls-" ors, is being given to each rstnmed vetsrnn. Thia letter has also aih paaied in Mie Kershaw County News. Mr. Savage said that all Tetenms will not need advice, as a great many have pnrsnta to whom ths^ suy turn for thM kind of aasistanos, but it is esti- iwwvii tiiat about oue-thlM of all vstsraas returning wlU ha'vs to look for aid. These ars the men mt advisory board wtB hstp. ■r. Shvsgs said iqi had had a num' ^ vetsrans ask him for inferina.- tioB OM O. L loans, which are to be made in order to help establish a re turned service men in husfnese, hut an to the present there is no apprnissr m Keinhaw county for this kind of assistance. Mr. Savage continued on this subject by saying that U w^ probably be about two moutha before •neb an orgnnlxatlon would be torr ei. , . It M eeClmnted that about six hun dred men In Kershaw county would M«d thk flnaaelal assiatance. at i •Mroxteated total of $1,900,000 la He aald that this doss net that n service man could apply for a loan immediately npoo bln re- turn la order to go into some teatnu^ in the dhn fntnre. There M (fisnse tarn to page eight) ismovod 47 pereoM fram the Jp^ty old ege aaslsUnee ^ the flacal year ^94S. it is learata^om the ot the eoBBty board of Norama 8. Bicharte. ^Istaaoe trigj dtoeonttsa- year t» H ellMr paneas ^mie mat from olhar kclu^ estploymsnt, aBei- l^tfowaaoas from fOrees. ste. tod hsfore it for the yaar IW a||lM .<to ywr. Of them CHrara ^ s«t iacrsaae of 18 radpl- daitog 11^ ymy, mat mmned by I Vto. —■ to tto mmtp the Itolfare. |tto tstol V-J Day High lighto Mayor McCorkle pressed the button of the shea switch at exactly 10 mla. ntes pest 7 o’clock. The mayor was at home at 7 when the radio flashed the words of Prime Mlalstsr Attlee of ajngtwws, and also the offlclal notifl* cation from Waahiaglon. The mayor hurried to the city hall aad soon the air raid and police sbens were shiilltag the vletory news ovsr ths aotlrs community. In lass than half an hour the busl- nsss district was a sesthing mass of cheering peopla Hundreds of cars roared back and forth, all leaded with cheering jmsaengers and with horns wide open. The din was terrific. Overhead planes darted through the air. discharging paper streamers and confetti. After the excitement had subsided down town district looked tike a section of New Orleans after the mardl gras. Beck Russell, former traffic officer, managed to get hold of a motorcycle and with airen wide open, proceeded to show what an expert can do. A member of the fire department appeared with an American flag and Xiroudly carried it dosm the street, getting a big cheer and hand from the asob. The fan was fast aad forioos, but it was all good-natured and cleaa. Daring the early erenlag hours there was no evidence of undue exhOarathm due to spirits frumenti. ’The polios report thsrs ware no acts of vandalism. It was a-grest big famSy psrtp with evsryone knowing svsrybody sad all rejoiefog in a great common draas. Haged wHh ths gaysty and joy. dnsneis was a spirit of regrst tor many boys of OsBMlen and KSrtoaw county wbo bavs paid with (heir Uves this vletory wee possible. >lso regret for the ecorss who are hope- Icesly crippled as the result of battle (Vlsaas tara to page sighi) Wife Talks With Husband Who Was In London, England K C AjiiMi Hm a* TMO «f HMfiiw Voie* Ahm t T n We Earned A Vacation Tho Chrofiiele staff, frees ths pubtlshsr doem ta the erlatar*s devil, will take e weli-eerned, although eomewhat brief vsea. lion thie week-end. The efflee wiil be oloeed today and Saturday, which, with tun. day, will give us a three day rest period. While the nation, profltlno by the precleiBBtion of Pieefdent Trumea, partook of a two-dey vaeetlen Wedneedey and Thure- day, the staff of Tho Chronlelo, mindful of tho feet that the newe. paper muet eeme out an time, were on tho job both thoeo days. But today and letardey ete our days. Wo will bo on tho job ea uauel Monday morning The newe staff while vaeatlontng win be eubjeet te eall 14 heuro ef the day, on any day. Service Officer Now Prepared To Meet the Veterans M. M. RMtaomorar Im Charf* o# HaadquBitora fai_Ndw Ldfioa Boildiiif The final days before the sairsadsr e( the Japa was msrksd by fsTsrlsh aaalety throughout mat inns tavolved. Ths stalllag taotics of the little yMknr brought strenuous protest from ^ United Nations. Attacks by adr and by naval power were resumed with reaewed fury and fsroclty. ’Tuesday mornl^ the people of i araee early and eagerly dial, ed Ibsir radios, expecting that the oairsnder would be announced. At 7:M a. m. the news oommentators Madto- that the fatal anaounoemeat oeuld he expected by t a. m. Bat the t o’clock hour arrived and sUU BO ‘TUah.’* The mmning paaee Noon came and then the hours of afteraooa bsgan to tick asray. Mayor MeCorkle went into confer, ence with several of the leading merchants mid revised his prevloasly annoonced dosing schednla ’This time H waa decided that if the sur render flash came before noon, that storee would doea iiamediately and remain closed for the'balance of the day. If the flash came In the after, noon the stores would close and re main dosed the following day. Camden took the ending of the war in stride. The public had been ex pecting it for weeks. It’did not come with the auden finish of the first world war. There was much hilarity and riotous celebrating. The public ap peared to regard the ocoaeion aa being deeply serious as well,' end at several diurcbes. worshippers gathered to of fer up prayers of thanksgiving. Much can be said of the war, of the long years of aaxlety aad sas prase, of the aching hearts canaed to maay psrepts, brothers, slstras, swest- hesits, of those who made the su preme secrlflce. Bat at this moment, the dominant thooght was “it’s sU over." To paraphraee Uie sitnation. one needs eady to toll of the tiny who on a Shopping expedltiea with her mother, wife of a soldier overseas, sad whs laqairsd as to tbs canse of the wafllBg of ths sirsas, when told said. ' "OB goody, then daddy wRl be com lag htnas wra’t hs mamma t" Marvin M. Reesonover, county ice officer, is now eetUed In the lee office quarters in the American Legion building on Pritchard Square and is in dally eoaanlfation with re- tarnlag war vetarana. Mr. ReasanoTeris offlee is at the west sad of ths bnildiag aad is larga aad oommodloae, well lighted ac^ arranged. There is a private offloe in connection. A doable archway troas the eervloe office gives ratrance to the audi torium ef the Legion balldlag. This has bssa wtirely reaovatad and re- modsled and the floor sanded and Taralahed. At the east end of the building and ia a aaw additioa that waa ereeted this saanaer la a shower roeat, kiteh- enette aB<h a ladies powder room. Tbs Lsglon purchaMd tbe building shortly after it was vacated by the George Stewart printing plant Preri- ons to that It had housed the Eleetrlc Maid bakery. ’The name Pritchard Square was established as a mark of respect for Cadet Pritchard, the Ehgliah youth, wbo met death in an sccldrat at the Southern Aviation ecbool here and whose remains rset in TJttle Arling ton** at the Qaaker cemetery. The Legion auditoriam wtU become soldiers center immediately. The present service center on DeKslb St will be vacated. All of tbe equipment that was in use in the flrgL canter on Rutledge street, thence old armory, la being lastalM igl^e Legion aodl- tortum. Hartawille, BiahoipYiUe, Other atira Left Off Su^ Hifhway At a recent meeting of the South Carolina state highway commiasioD, according to a report from Columbia, the matter of the proponed interstate highway which the cities along U. S. Highway 16 are urging so strongly, but which appears to have met with some setback due to tbe action taken by the North Carolina state highway body, haa been poatponed for thirty days in order that the members of tbe highway body nmy gjve cloeer study to the situation. It appears that the North Carolina group, according to a report from Blshopvllle, want to have the inter state highway enter South Carolina near Mulllas, which wonld bring the route through Marion, norence, Sum ter and thence south on U. 8. No. 16. Rartsville, Biahopville and other cities on No. 16 above Sumter are ex cited over the proposed change and are determined to fight H. What effect this routing would have on a proposed highway through Camden is not known. Under the original plan and one that waa given on a map printed in all of the papers of tbe area several weeks ago. Ckua. den waa on a bnuudi highway from Biahopville. The change that waa made necessary by the action of North Oarollna highway oommlsaion. era adds much mileage and ellmlnatea many former cltlee entir^y. North Carolina apeeifled that Highway Idl would be the hlghwix ^ through tto Tarheel itatai That highway §om from Florence all the way north to Waahington and beyond. At Petera> burg. Va., it joins with U. 8. No. 1 but again at Rkhmqnd it leecee and isaae eeat of Whehtagton toward Baltimore. According tp the Columbia report the Bpath Ctotglna state highway body ^ SHh* toi itoort to tbe federal bureau Of roaia after a careful study has been made of the altuation In thin states Camden School Camery Chwed The atoool oaaaary, leeafed at the la the Msar fhtare. The «teaer>jrahera.aa the toly ^ ly eaahltog the latoto to to tha totototy to koep ^ *• nraearalag ob Iho Mat gay tho after the Thin !• to operatiraag^ Mra H. C. Amlek. who before meirkge to Major B. C. Aiatok waa Miaa HearietU ITby. gaughtar of Mra. Eva O. Irby of this etty, aad wbo ia a aleoe of the r Edgar Oardaer, heard her haabaaila voice for the flint ttoe u twe y< OB Friday, Aag. 19 The feat was xaade feaaftle by long dlatajioe telophaaa te where Major Aaifch was at thd Uara He la atatlonad at firaakfort.-aer^ mmmr aad l» with tha ftoaaee dlviakai of toe eriay aad wortca direetir OcMial Dwight ■orahewL Boiora ewMtM the aaraiao to a hank iiamtow aad wathid 9m alade emoMtoar at ibm. Aayak wfl be aftoetoloJi U te toe dtafc ef General Kenney Laids Camden Boy For ffis Courage So«lh WMt Padne or Writes Mra. S Ahmtk Hot Som Mrs. R. B. Stevenson. Sr., have re ceived a letter from Qeueral George C. Kewaey, ooipmander of the Army headquarters of the Allied Air Foroes tn the aeathweat Pacific area ia which he tells of toe reeeat award of toe air Modal to her son. Staff 8gt Ralph E Stevenson. Jr. The award, as stated by General Kenney, waa In raoogaitloa of his conragaoas sorvlee to his combat nrgaBiaathai and meritorious achieve asant %hfle particlpattng la aerial fll^W la the sonthweet Pacific area from Bae. U. 1944, to March 19, 1946. t every hoar of the day your eon, MM the eons ef other American Bsothitak, are doing Just such things aa that,” wrltaa General Keaaey. "Thelr’a la a vary reel aad taaglhle coatrtba- tlaa te vletary aad to peace. I weoM like to toR ptai tow graulaely prcod I aai on have mra aaeh aa your la my wMMamad, and how gratified I am toknaw toat youag AaMrtcaas with battle Mayor McCorkle Attends Session Of Giyr Mayors Ara Diacmaiad At Mayor F. N. MeOorlde attended the special aesaioo ot toe Santh OaiMCto Mnnietpal aasoeiatlon heM at Oolam bla laat weaE Wrdaasday, tto aaei* ing betag called by Mayor Edwin cuotton of'Rock Rm, tmasident the group, to diacaM various munlet- pal proMaata with apedal rsfnranee tn taxation. The pnrpoee ef the masting was to •valve a riaa by whjeh more effoetlve diatrlbntlen ef taxee between sta oouaty and moaielpallty might ba mads M erdar to aompanaats lor tto kMB Of raveaae by tto eltiN aad towa dae to *^»g*»r eooBomie oooditioBa. Varloaa ptoses of the tax prablam PnbBc Warned To ^tain llira Ratirni Coupons Ratloiiing Will Ba Contfaraad. Daatmyod Material WiH Not Be Replaced The district office of the Office of Price Administretlra ia asking that the public be warned that price con trol and ratioalng will not end with the defeat of Japan. “Thongh the war may be over, rationing will oontinue, at least for the present," said a local OPA offi cial. "The public should hold on to their ration currency, for they will be using it for some time to qome." "The OPA urges ,tho public to bear with the rationing and price control. We have had no notice of relazatkm of say rattoB or price control immedi ately or even in the near future. If the program woe abandoued now, Ia- flatkm would result, all that has bean gained through wartime control would be lost *111# OPA ie anxious to de control jnst aa soon as possible bat U la goiag to take time to get beek on a normal baaia. "Deetroyed ration material will not be reptaoed." Cainden Program Tdb Post-War Plans Over Air Radio Btendoat Gima MmoII To FaBMd made 9or a study by a committee ap- polBtad by tee prasMeat Naatad an this eoBUBlttee were Mayor E E WbhBMa of Chariaatoa, Itayor J. Sherrard of Aadaraon. and Maiwr D. M. McLanrln of McCoO. The fladlags of the eoauoittee wHl CpL numipson On Way To the Ppdfic CpL Edward T. Ttompeoa, this oity. who is a tradt driver fit tto 497te Troop Oarrier group of the Ninth Air Fores, la haitaward bound und wH to at home on a farlough badare betag deployed to the Paeffle thuater of war. CpL Ttompaon has aevan battle stars aad a, preeideatlal nMarina te hia eledlt for hia long aarvhis at teO front Cpl. Thompara was la tea anlt teal dto la Sapt 1944, participated borne lavaaloa af HoBand. af France aad last D ground 9sroaa at teat helped to thwart tto tee alA It to ^nPoebwar Oamdea" poured from thoaaaada of load speakers of radio seta la the South Garollaa area laat Friday aftaraooa aad evening. Through the agency of thuiHeath News Bureau, Radio station teuluw riad three bruadeoels of tnfonaation deeaiblng the Iratatlve outlook for Oamdra after tee war. Emphsals waa plaoad upon the re- tara of tee wtete* pvagram of ateivl- tiee which had years bedaw the oathreek of the war made •^’initra the otttstaailag sports aai resort esM- ter of tee mte-eouth. la addition to the Camden angle, other eoatarealflta who aahmttted data were Oolamhia, Samtar, Whiae' hero, eta. The Newe Bareaa raript was ap proved hy Mayor MdOerkln thIa fast betag asentfonai la with tee Whonm* A Hixper itekya toh Akbama Johaaoa was flahing la Lake when he heehed a big one whkh pat ap a tarrlfle but deeMedly eiratie fight Afle#* a apMted taaale he brought Mo mah" to aat It .out te he a glaat buBtiog, foultooked by tee Mt hM tog.