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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.