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-- .4^. ^ ^ QtyrWide Motor Bofl Passenger 'IVaniijlktatimi To Begin Here On September 6 VOLUME §7 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1945 NUMBER 24 USS Missouri To Be Scene of Historic Jap Surrenfler ler Camden Imit Weds »vely English Miss IKc. aaawMxl a omhw Talk Of Ufa b *lMa(Tia* EimIuuI’’ Tka United States Nstt*! mlahty liiNHon battleship, the U88 Mis- |!S>U1 end her World War I trwr In e blase ot glory. Aug. 81, * 4t In Tokyo Bay, when she senres tka iccne of the historic ancondl. Ml tarrender of Japan to the Unit- j Nations. Proudly bearing the name ' tka borne state of President Harry TrsBsn, the fighting USB Missouri keen named by General of the Douglas MacAithur, supreme . commander, as the locale of formal ending of the war in the Fleet Admiral Chester W. commander-ln'«hJef of the d Sutee Pacific Tleet and Pa- Ocean Areas, wBl sign for the States, General ot the Army ir, for the AlHed , forM lovght in the Paettle. Hie mernsri was la—rtsd laa. SI, OoutructioB van ordered Jaae IMO. Her heel was laid on Jai "iMl. St the New Tork Nary Yard. Walks Along Road Christ Trod On Way To the Cross Woman In Peril As BuUet Grazes Scalp In Flight CpL Ja DBM Walters See Maiic> Also Burial Plaea of Jaeoa The Heitht of a Shoe Heel Sa—d life of Mrs. W. a If you could walk orer the cobble stonea upon whidi the feet of Jssas tr^ if yon ooali ttarsl the same roadway that Chrlat tra—h 1 to hn Dam Wanted Big CM iter Meet it Sumter PrbteM la Made Againsl Piroject k erard of about l.StO articulate oM vtnt to Sumter Tueaday and thair disapprorml of the pro. 0,000 4mi . lost below tha Congaree ai .tha the ednfla- Id Waterce meeting waa a clinic on the mighty hydro-electric proJ> .coBdneted by the engineers of tbe department, who were represent- I hr Col. Carl R. Shaw of CSiarleston, et engineer, to hear the whys wherefores and proa and cona, tha cons were emphatically ab. : er In pitiful minority. About the at times was the aura of an fashioned political barbecue, with I ewtomary hand primary or **atand and ihow how you feel** blood »0T» test. in the rattle aad roar of la and arguments offered In a truck load.of petitions and na, all thoae . who were op- ware asked to a^d. Almoat ~iit tbe crowd uprose and and applauded with some- of the sharp staccato,of tbe reaponas of baseball fans some hefty slugger slams the birsehide orer the fence for the home run. Only here and could one be obssrred remain. Muted.' Some claimed that only M not get up, another laaisted *** two, while seTeral estimated it might hare been six or eight 12. At any rate, It waa a •iide decision. (BhMe tara to paga sofM) Twice wHkin a period of three yean ^ Mrs. W. S. Gaskin, 7tt Wal. nut strsst, misssd death by the frac- tioB of an inch, each tiiae becaaas of the careless handling et a rifle by small boys. The last near tragedy occarred Wednesday night of last week at f :S0 ofdock and bat for the tact that Mrs- laskia had jakt rsmorsd a pair of high he^ shoea from her test as she came into the Utchen ef her home, 22 caliber bullet would hare pene trated her hraia, as it waa. It went over her head, grasing her skull, penetrated a metal sugar bowl on a shelf end smsahed sereral idass tumb. a. The bullet waa latar found oil the floor aear an huide walL ”If I had had my shoes on, but bead woald haak basa at a hsIglU Id kara heda hitby the hallet.* said Mrs. Geskia. Three years ago. when in the yard back of ber home, Mrs. Qaakln had • narrow escape from death when a bullet passed through her hat The shooting last Wednesday night was traced to a boy whose parents reside in the neighborhood. The youth, about 15 ysiF* of age, accompanied )y a companion, came to the Gaskin home later fax the erening and con fessed that the tmUet had come from his 22 calibsr rifle. If £ Bus Stops Are To Be Designated By the Qty Police Paridaf Rpfalatioas In PrcH hibitod Aite WUl B« Eo- fo—ad To Lattpr Issues Order, iing Dumping issued from the offlos c works Thursday morning property owners to stop *P yard Takings in the gutters, stated that the city is now, ^ a general street dOMiag and the dumping of rahblah I A —uutufpaii^ ut raoki hampers the work of ■•^nical sweeper. All rubbish 9® *be lawn near the ttd wai be picked up by city atated that car owners from parking their cars •tTMU all night. Thk ia a *^^p to street clsanlug. - i^t it win not be aeoessary ■ay formal order to curb the ins Must Keep uktion Books Signs designating bus stops In the business district are to be installed as soon as the new city bus line starts operating, according to Mayor F. N. McCorkle. These bus stops wfll be at the street intersections - in the wraa s ready listed as prohibited parking zones. Motor oar owners who hare been relyteg upon the good nature of the traffic officers not to atUch traffic Tiolation tags to their ears by reason of parkiag their cars in pro hibited zones win find that when the buses begin operating that this Isuleii' cy win Tanlsh. '• The police hare shut their eyes to parking of cars in the no-parking tone at corners and in water hydrant areas; but in as much as the corner tones will be required Xor the bw stops, the order agslnst parklug in prohibited zones will be enforced at all locatlonB. Mayor McCorkle states that propsr has stop signs hkre been ordered and win be put la place Just as soon as they,,are arallaMe. fy Hf muck M tb# tniMf will op^rat# on a time schedule the pracUce pf p number of local motorlsta of park^ double oa Broad and DeKalb ia the bnainess datrict wlU as this would seriously iUtorfere with the hut schedale. ed from the ttaae of his betrayal burial, if you could hare stood upon the spot where He zras cructftotf, yon could hare touched the rack waa rolled against the mouth tomb, you probably would hare saffl clent smotkmal sue to last yon your Ufetims. That la the Inspiring opportuaite that waa offsred to Jamas D. Waltsrs. SOB of Mr. aad Mrs. W. Y. Waltsrs of romte i, Laacaatar. wall- haowa to hnadrads ef Ksrshaw oeua* ty trlenda and rslattrsa. CpL Walters, a graduate of Fn; nalrsnity. In a lettsr to his par—ts. giraa a rlrid aad boart.thro—lag ac- ctamt of his trip and speaka ot tW profound Imprasalon U mad# sk hlaL Be had the prtrllsca of Ibeiag iMa to Ineel la prayer at tho Vary spot Where the Chriri was buried. Through the medlaaz ot* Isare ef absence from hla coauuad to the Holy Land, Cpt Walters wi able to secure a^eommodatloiis af i Bed Cross camP aaar the town of Tel.Arlr, a town that Is moderu to srery respect and which was built by the Jews who had returned to Pales- tlnsw On tbe morning foUowing arriral at Tel-Jkrlr, Walters and sereral com- panfcmt got up earty and headed for Jeruaalem. which waa reached after an hour and a half riding orer rough and mountanlous roads. “Our first stop," hs said, “was at King Solomon’s quarry, where the rocks were cut under ground to build his temple abore. Then we west to the Mount of Oliree and the place where Christ saccuded into Hearsn. It is Just s short way from old Jeru salem but on a high eminence so that you can see all the surrounding coun try, Including Jsrusaiem. “Next we went to the Garden of Oetheemane and the Church pf Agony built on the place where Judas be trayed our Lord. The old olire tree still stands there. The church has seme of the most beautiful paintings of tbe betrayal and one of Christ lift- lag up his hands in prayer to God. “After learing there we wept to old JerusalMD and followed the exact fPleasa tan to page ato) There hat p great deal ot differ- e bet—en this country and Eng- d,.—Ft Pte. Ql—o4 H. Outlaw, of W. R. Outlaw of this ty and a atudeot at the Camden school at the time he was to I Iglo the sCrtice. WbUe to BuglaBd Pfc. Outalw met oulea Josephlue Page, a charm- BngUik girt, aad married her to I of this year. Six w—ka after VM4tog Me*. Outlaw was — hla way Nik to the States. LesTing his •fide with some 25,000 other Britieh Brides, awalttog traasportatlon to the •■Sds of their husbands. I^^e SOB of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Outlaw of Columbia, was a student at dis CaiMsa High school lii IMS. It Ysa la^JiNary of that year that he Vas Inductod aad In March, 1M4, he Yes — route for RagUnd. Upon ar~ Ural thsra he was attached to a gen- —al hoepItaL “■Most of tha houses there la be made of brick aad they are rly all heated by gas. Frequentto y combine the gas with coka. pet coke to a wire rack orer the gas er ip the tire place so that the ^ may be turned down low aa the sake burns slowly > “Oamp was shoot 18 miles from Ipwa. a small toYn rery much like Wty small town near — army camp Aaceriea. We had morisa sqgretal week, USO shows cams occasionally, and we could tsh a rids into town wb— we had Jj—a mrate Outlaw —ptatos that a **ttaema“ was locatei to the town, tte "elBsma" rapMty beeomlag kaowu Mi tra 'Vnerlea,** while the local “pob“ toed a **—b,“ psohably bacause to tho O.I.’s. He a pub aa the e«ulralmt of Amertcak boor gardsa. Chilled beer seeam to bo aakaowa tbsra^ the warmth ot the beer •p— the tsnperature of Mlf weather.* toe to. Aaceri Aasa a City Grants Franchise To Rock Hill Bus Line Unit Deas Boykin In lliick of°F1ght Against the Dam Tells CoL Shaw About Flood Waters ci 1906 and 1916 Asked If toe Amsrfeoa doughboys aigseted to warm hear, Pitrata OuV 1— Isughad — ho saM, “^ey driak H ka awful lot. aayway.“ ' One grant lack to the pab la Darfug the —Uro 1 oMF bae JaSeltex aad thki wad in the' Amstican Red OPom center. Of course,' there were plenty ot wirelessss,** he added, explaining, thoM are radios, you know.” Tea time in Bnglank has continued deeplte the raragee and shortages produced by wsr. Promptly at 4 each Reference to the dlsasterous floods of 1208 and Iglf is made to a letter tent to Col. Cart R. itoarw. district eoglnesr at Char|ea|on by Lynch Deas Boykin of BoyV(n.Jn proteat against the conatructloii of a dam at Buck ingham Landing. Mr. Boykin telle of a flood crest of 48 feet being la evidence in the 1208 flood and of 47 feet in the flood that poured over the banks of the Wsteree rlrar in 121A Upon the occasion of the 1216 flood Mr. Boykin states that be operated a motor boat along Highway 581 from a point six mUee south of Camden to a point in Camden known as Magasine hlU. "Should the Buckingham Landing dam project go through," aays Mr. Boykin, “where would a flood of this kind go, with s normsl stand of 14 feet as propossd by tbs projsctT Put a 10 fOM flood in top of a 14 foot stand and a most dtassterous flood would result Who is golug to pay for the damage that would ratuKt^ Mr. Boykin points out that from tbs latest tnformaUon avallabie from Uie report of the United States srmy englnsers, the construction of s dam at Buckingham landing would coot 157,000,000. “And they admit that the plant would operate at a ooa- sMerable loos." hs stalso. Mr. Boykin further points out that he is not interosted In rlTtr irana- portatioii, but he Is Intsreated to railroad transportatkw. Should the dam be built It would mean that thu people llTlng at Boykin aad over a large aroa adjacent thereto, would lose the only rallroed they aow hara^ as the tracks of this raflroud. the Sontbsrn, would be eorersd by watsr for many mllsa. Mr. Boykin urges that aa aecrsdltad cruiser be sent over this —tiro gr and prepare a report that would be compared with the report made by Greyhound Bus Line To Build A New Terminal Here (Please turn to page Six) Mayor INrects Arresi of Boys Shooting Guns Sf* Polio* wni RifiM of AU the Of- raflon currency aad war ^ wiu moat likely be need Joining ratioB comaioditiee. . ‘ «> — anno—cem—t from Kindergarten To Open On M—day con- .««rlct office of OPA at Char- wd C gaaoBka rati— ,^<1 reuia the— hooks - rsfuasto The Msguolto Ktiidei^en ducted by Miss Sara WoMe on LytUe- ton street, wfll op— tor the sea-u M—day morning. Sept 1. Mtaa WoUe wiU teve gMu setlririy i—ovatoi Mayor F. N. Mcf^kle’s Scotch temper flared hist w—k. Friday, and — a result the police department re- ceiTed peremptory orders to arrest sll offenders ag^nst the city ordi nance which prohibits the u— ef fire arms within the city HmRa. Further, the mayor directed the police to con fiscate the rifle or g— ot any of fender. iMe action of the meyor followed the narrow sacape of a Walnut str—t bou—wife, who by the grace ot God —4 the absea— of high hasled slip- —n from her feet, ee—ped having a bullet In her brain. Rad this woman gone into the kRchsn of her homo with her slippers on, the buUsC from a .22 caliber rifle to the hands of a Highest Honor Fhid To Soldier FVom Hagood Pr—kluat IViiiiiMi B—to—a th* CoiM^ruamnaB Medial On Lt CoL Mabry In tbs historic Ehst room of the White House, Pr—id—t Truman be stowed the natlott's highest honor, tbs Congressional Medal of Honor, on Lt. CoL George L. Mabry, Jr^ of Hagood. Lt Col. Mabry wu the hipest ranking officer among the 18 fighting m— of the ground fore— compoeing the llrat large group of kero— to be deeorated by the Chief Executive at one time. 4 aotable company of cabinet offl- eetu and high ranking Army and Navy ehleftians aasembled with mem ben of the famili— of the medal.win- nsra to witn—s the colorful eereraony. Mabry's wife w— among tb—e praasnt — ware his pareoits, Mr. and Miu. Oeorga L. Mabry, Sr., who came thsir\< Markiaf Thna UntB Materials Ara Ralaasad for Coo- atmctioii Two Main Rovtea aad Loop WiU Offer Transportation Wide In Scope Tbe Camd— City Motor bus line, the first transportation line in the hlatory of the City, will begin to funetioD September 6, according to announcement from the office of Mayor F. N. McCorkle Thursday af ternoon. Tbe announcem—t followed a q—et- Ing of the (Mty ConneU at wht— a franchise to operate bus— over pre scribed rout— In the city was granted to T. W. Huey, Sr., and T. W. Huey. Jr., of Rock HUl, who will begin eervl— with six modern buses sta tioned here. Initial routes which are considered part ofi tbe ordinance granting the franchise are aa follows: Route 1—Dusty Bend, a subnrb a short distance north of Camden, —nth to the corner of Cheennt and Broad streets, thence —st to ^esnut aad LytUeton str—ts, thence to the cor ner of LytUeton and Laurens str—ta, th— w—t to Broad atr—t and thence south to the Fair grounds snd entrance to Quaker cemetery. Route 8—Commenc— at the en- tran— to the Woodward Air Port and go— w—t through the city to the Sea board Air Line passenger statl—. The third route is a belt Hne route which begins at Rutisdgs aad Broad streeta, then— to the corner Broad and King streets, th— to tbs cor ner of Fair aad York'streets, th—ce tb Hermitafe Cotipa Mill offl—. then— through the Hermitage Mill Tillage to U. 8. Highway No. 1, then— to the corner of U. 8. No. 1 and Gardner road, thence to tbe Water— Baptist church corner, th— te the Nattonal highway and down to 4th At—, th— to the corner of Kendall^ str—t and 4th Avenue, thsn— to K—dall street and 2nd Ave- DM, thence to the oornsr of Bast Hampton aad Mill strseta, thea— to Mill aad Uaton atrdkta comer, then— to the corner of Uni— and Fair Sts., thsn—' to the cornar cf Fair —d Ora— sir—ta, thsnee — Fair st—Ms to ths corn— ot Ore— sad OordN strssts, then— to the oorner of Oor. don and C!h—nut streets, thsn— to the —rner of Cheaaut and CamphsR streets, thence to tbe oornsr of Ctop- isniruwsas.**' The bus— to be operated n toe City Une are eomparatiwsly new. They will be manned by r—ponaflile drivers and all bns— will be pro. t—ted by Uabillty Insuran— tor (Pl< tara to pafu tn) The p—t-war program of ths At lantic Orsyhoand corporation includ— Camden — one of its firsts on its list for a new and adequate bm terminal. Just — soon M materials are released for construction, the company wfll begin the construction of tha new station hera. This information was announced in Camd— by ths Heath News Bur— The Bur—u h— b—n in corraepond- —ce with officials of ths Greyhound corporation tor —me time and re cently cited tbe g—eral complaint against the confusion — U. 8. High, wsy No. 1 in ths heart of the City by the bus—'being obliged to angle park to discharge and take on pas- —ngers at the bus terminal on E—t DeKalb street Officials of the Greyhound corpora tion have a—ured the News Bur—a Monoxide FWies At Well Bottoni'^ Costs Two lives 15 year old boy. womid have p—etrat- ed her head. Aa It w— the Iead«w pellet grased h— scalp. Chief of Poll— Rush on Monday suted that hs had b—n to coutsran— with thd mayor regarding the near tragedy aad that poll— officers will airs— an psrio— shooting guna with in tos city'lliaita. The chief atotod that toe w—pon of — tbe mayur had fispetod. / Boy* who have Mny hundreds of hi—tog nt street airosted and from tosfr home for the event Orlglnaliy planned for the south lawn of toa White House, where summer flowers are Uooming at their beat toe ev—t w— moved to the East room becan— of ratey weather. The 28 oClkera and —llatnd m— whe had traveled from 12 stat— were s—ted te the B—t room dlrocUy am—a from the Amy aad Navy offi ciate ftegm mare placed betwe— the north windows aad toe flags of the United Stat— aad the Pr—Id—t’a per—nal flag aerved — a-backgr—ad for toe pi—tatkm. Individual citations were read by an offl—r of tte Amy g—eral staft When Lt OoL Mabry’s tom came tor the award, he approeched the oom- manBsr to dilef with a snappy salats, th— there w— a friendly handahakei Lt CoL Mabry. 28-year-old infantry offleer, won the nation’s high—t sward for heroic lead—lp in guM* ing his battalion through a bullet- •prayed nitoe ftsid ud th— single hanioily d—tog with entrenched Oer- uisM M the outskirts of Scheven- Germany, 1—t Nov. 24, and oaptertog them at bay—et point. At that time he w— commanding of toa So—nd battaUon. Sth regte—t 4th Infantry di- that they will be in Cmden in the Im- niedtote future at which time they wfll discuss Just what the company h— in mind. There are —veral sit— bdng sug gested for a boa terminal and it is probable that the Qrayh—ud oorpora- tiqn may —I—t —e of them. It is —rtato that If the osftfpany local— on either U. 8. No. 1 or 521 that the terminal will be — arrsinged that the bns— wfll be off.the streets entirely. Cotton Driqii Disaster Is Nagrona Eagngad In Clanning WnU At DnlinlL Din At Bottom! cf Sl—ft J— Drayton, 22, and T. S. Spencer, U. colored, died SatnrSiy afternoon, wh]^ dBjto^ in ctoauiug out a well oiilhe C. D. (Jubbage farm near Dal- sen. Drayton had gone down into toe welt but had —ty b—n down a short time wh— he called to tho— at the top to pull him up, that he w— fe^ng aiek. He had b—n draggad about half wajr np when he sudd—JF lost his hold — the- rope add toll back and down into tre depths of the wslL Spencer w—t down to rescue his companion but he too w— overcome by carbon monoxids gas, which la usually prsvalsnt, tn d—th-dealing strenito at the lower level of walls of tola type. ’The two m— were dragged out’ through toe medium of grappling ir—s later but both were dead.. An Inq—St h— be— called by the coroner of Sumter county wherein toe accid—t oceured. Fadng Grc J. M. Pnnaar, <)% Yaughs tmteai to th to FNaMent it tho '—Cati— w— CMeluded. Yaugh—i handed the medaL At- the tradltimml blue ribbour TrauMU and he fastsnal CaL Mabry's necR. a firm hand d—p aad rfowers After Sunray, Saya Thin Snclioa b Hit Hard J. M. Eleaser, well-known Clema— college sgrlcultursl expert sad Sum ter county tara ag—t, after a survey of cotton fields about the state, as serts that “a cott— crop dts—ter ts threat—ed in this section." Almost eowtaat dally ratoa, —e of them of torrential preporUoua over the put eight weeks, have served to turn good proep—ts into a very short crop at toe h—t. C—tiaoed rain according to Mr. Elea—r, wfll make the 1246 crop the worst in a kmg period of ysars. Many cotton growea ara trying to save —me of their bsRs by defolist- tag the —tton wRR using tractor d—ten dPd airptonsa. T^e ru, hay ami 'jnimo crop ip^t to geed, aei—4tec — Mr. but raai 'to with September 30 Set. For Fbal Hi^way Plans wm Romlimg of Podoml High* ways At TIuit Tiun A final decision — toe routing of tho proposed systom of super high ways through South CaroHna will be •nnouneed — Bepiember M by toe State Highway eommtoaion. accordhig to a Charleston dlspatcb. Repre—ntathr— from Charlsston, Beaufort, Lea, Dilloa, York, Sumter, Berkeley and other oounttoo-antoared before the commissi— to the — of the national highway routtogs. Hi^way OonuBisatoaer J. 8. Wtl> lias— announced that before a final dectotott to r—chad by the oonuato- •lon, aD parsoM latsr—tod w«nl4 lav* an oppmUiiiHy to te hoard. Souto OarellM will gri some 7te mil— of rood under a tontatlve pfam already sahmtttnd to — Ha -skan of a fpoprosi Mtioaal system of wayg. ■Ai.