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., :X Launch Move To Secure A South To Interstate Highway To Take In Camden The Camden VOLUME 57 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1945 NUMBER 26 iHamlet Griddera To Tackle ;hainp8 On Home Lot Sept. 21 lOpeoing Home Game of Sched- uie Wai Attract A Great Throof I the Bulldogs on the march f'^^ 1945 cavalcade of high school ^1 the attention of Camden “"k’comen traced on the game to “^nured next Friday night between *^SindoRs and a scrappy outfit StaTame takes the place of the J ori^;inally scheduled between p’d Charlotte, [. latter school oanctlliug the *' ne for some unknown bm suspect- taRon. , . -,]PT If a railroad town and the .ibsll talent la of the rugged type, rnr the place a reputation of turn out pome' winning squads. The ace dope Indicates that the Choo boys will have a decided weight aatage over the Bulldogs. game of games will take place Friday following the Hamlet hat- when Camden invades Sumter for juinual squabble under the lights Edmunds Field. fprom Sumter comes a report that -h Rushe. the new grid mentor of Gamecock squad, has found It fssarv to build a new team. At «t press reports from SurnUr quote i.he as saying that the Gamecock n is Inexperienced.” natural suppobHlon Is that Rushe •hooting a lot of .bears, that the tig do not indicate that Sumter Is I be pictures It. The team lost fewer (of the 1944 team than did Cam- 1 and every football fan knows that Gamecock 1944 machine was a pier bouse. iHowerer. FrlSliy. Sept. .28, will be BTing day In Camden for everybody ho te abl^ to get about will move I Sumter to jam the Camden sectiqn tiu. football arena. Camden and jtar grid scrape have always been ttjtaadlng in South Carolina sport tfWs for decades and the 1945 fracas be no exception. Richards Cites Reason Draft Is Continuing The 5tk Diatrict Congreaaman Says Occupation To Re quire Many Men Representative J. P. Richards of the Fifth district, before leaving his home at Lancaster for the reconven ing of Congress, said that he was astonished and disturbed over state- men:s l)elng made by some senators and 'Congressmen tending to make the people believe that the draft of 18 year olds could or should discontinue at this time. Richards amid that there was no member of Congress who does not long for the ending of the necessity for continuing the draft of IS-year- olds but that unbiased consideration and persual of conditions facing the country should convince any reason able person that IS-yeer-olds will be draft^ for some months to come or until the campaign fot volunteers provides sufficient manpoyer to equip the Navy, Army and Marine corps to essential strength. “It Is true," Richards said. “It is unfortunate to take 18-year-olds away from their home and, education at any time. It is still more unfortun ate that some must be taken after the fighting is over but what about the IS-year-ol^s, the 25-year-old8, the 80- year-olds, the 35-year-old8, and even the 40-year-old8, who have many wives and children, who went to fight for their country two, three and four years ago. These men are entitled to special consideration and should be let out of the armed forces as soon as possible. “There is still a big job to do In Kennedy Calls Meeting of All Cities On September 18 Seventy-Five From Kershaw Gave Up Lives Local Legion Post Keeps Rec ord of Those Making Supreme Sacrifice EARLY DEBUT—This sroungster breaks Into the movies In “Here Corns The Yanks,” an RKO-Psthe short, produced for the National War Fund and local community war funds in co-operation with the War Activitiei Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. Film shows war-related and home-front aervicet. Kennedy Is Assured of Cooperation In the Project The Proposed Highway Would Follow U.S. 521 From Charlotte To Camden Fred E. West Named Head of The Lions Group Healthy Young Organization Enters Field of Service Clubs Here Prfd E. West, owner and manager ^ of the Camden Home Bakery, was i elected president of thp €amden j Lions club at an organization meeting iheld at the Thomas Tavern last Tues- 1 day. caster Seeks [0 Become Peach nter of the State Being Made By Merch ants Association of That City acaster county seeks to become p arh (trowing center of South ’olina. • cDty.fiye landowners attended a ar monthly meeting of the I.ian- r Merchants association last ^Iriesday at v. hlch time the excel- of Lincos'er county soil for rrowln: of peaches was discuss- It evidt nt at the meeting ih- pl;in will .seek to make the . :i rt i peach center. P^nry I), r- ne of Columbia, part of K'n' 's peach orchard near r. and a peach specialist r n:- r college, were the sk^rs at tt'M hu cflng. knf< b 11 pointed out b.v Mr. that t' i red land of Lancaster ■ h f'li-llent peach Idnd and i' cti. u:’ . hnd owners go Into Pf-ach rowing hnslness," large frim big markets Would h-ri ib.riiig the poach season buy ' • pf aches here In Lan- P- 'nicks would also come ci’’ utul thh would become a ):ir> of call foj* them, m re .nt.- as.soclation la in- b fi'. proposilidn. bocauso ktnld give the farmers of the anch. r cash money crop— *'hmg tlis-y sorely m.'ed. i* IV dbl< that If enough grow- l»ould be Interested In the prop- P®n th.it big pacifing and grad- |dipd could be erected for the use ill of the growers. iman In Sudden ight, Leaves * rewell Notes L N. Tobias Disappears, leaking Younger Sister With Her M. M. Rabon was named first wnn president. Herbert E. Maddox. \ am Tint fnvor president; Floyd H Boy- million casualties. I am not in favori, .ui.i n of scrapping our Army or Navy nowlj "* president; John C. or ever We must Up for gome Stover, secretary and treasurer; L.^. time to come at least 400.000 men In Smith, lion tamer, and N. L. Lilly, tail twister. The directors for Europe and many more-than that in directors tor two veers are the Pacific area. We must o<'cupy!. „ J 1 John Henry McDowell and Dr. T. B. new islands and new outposts, to , .l , Wove Rfuce II, while those for one year aro perform those duties, we snoum nave n Mn—u- m.ri i ?!.. memlUr, of tb" clJb Fred bope r the !>o,t Jear .o'J «’*«■ Dj, S.,p' s'l.h” ran get enough volunteers to meet ro-' w ‘ n quirements but army officials do not ’ Mc^well* N I anticipate that within the next six ^lovd c‘ H eight months we will get over 300 000 L‘»>, R' J' Hunt F,oyd Boykin. CH men by the volunteer method. While j’p Moore Hastings Wyman we TO Uklbl! .took and reducla* H Maddox. Allan i Norris. Lindsay Pierce. Alva Hush. Mlllo Allen, John A. llaglns and Savage Plan For Harnessing The Wateree River Is' Favored The South Csrolina Public Service Authority <8sntee-Cooper) will work with' Kershaw * county officials and citizens on some practical plan for the Improvement of the Wateree rlv- er. looking to navigation, flood con trol. irrigation and drainage. This is the declaration of R. M. Jeffries, head of the Authority, to R. M. Kennedy, Jr., Kershaw county World IN ar \o. 2 cbiinifd ibe llvf's of T.*! youngnjen of Korsliaw counly. accordhig*M) th records on file al the office of (be roumy serv ice officer al Aiutrioan Ij<‘Klon bend quarters. Of this nuinler 67 were whit', and 3 colored. There are others sfllj on the miss ing list, some of whom will add to the toll of those who matli' the su preme sacrifice. The James Lfroy Belk Post No. 17. of which A. Sam Kan sh is command er.and M. M. Rcasonoier adjutant and service offti-er, has set a mem bership goal of 2ti0 and Is well on the way to set Ing that figure reached and passed. The post boasts of many distingu ished members on its roll. In the first NVorld war several of the Kir- shaw soldiery, who later became members of the lo<‘al post, received the Congrtsslonal Medal of Honor In the war just concluded Chief War rant Officer Donald Leroy Truesdale, now stationed at Camp Lejeune. N. C.. was given the high honor. He is member of the Post. The local Post already has enrolled In Its membership record the names of many who are still In the service.^ Past Post Commander John Mnllep has three eons who are members, They are Ensign John Mullen. Jr.. Lt Fred Mullen and Idgt. Will Mullen. Other father and son combinations (Please turn to page six) Nation To Return To Regular Time On September BOth Ernest Nutting. The Lions will meet every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 8 p. m. at the Thomas Tavern where a dinner will- be followed by a post prandial. ‘ Charter night, which will bring Lions from Columbia representative, in reply to a letter „ ^ x. » from Representative Kennedy undercommander date of Aug. 31. Mr. Kennedy, In his!®”!) Sniyrl, Jr.; J, E. Campbell letter. calU attention to a letter that'"^'’^ ^ he wrote to the Authority last fall In rtgard to this matter, stating that he felt that lateral dams constructed along the river channel would prove of great benefit to both the prlvath power companies and to Santie-Coop-' er. .At that time the directors of the Santee-Cooper. according to Mr. Ken nedy, offered thdr help In obtaining SBflh a itroject. but tiio matter W8.s ,, ,, delaj’ed. pending a conference with i JJ^ the Duke Power company. Santee-; Cooper and Interested citizens of the ^ Mcrnrkic ureas Involved iCamplkdl. Pfr. Francis N. MrCorkle. Mr K.;nn„lr "Sexer.l r'xr. >■['; « ago the writer w_a« bx the offl- ^ have se.Ved cials of the Duke lower company^ Norris, tlmt plans w^ere being made Branham. Eddie L. Arrants. construction of such lateral dams and ^ Bundrlck. D. Heyward rt-quest was made several weeks ago, to the Duke Pow-r company to furn-j (Please turn to page six) tsh us with sue) plans if they are' available. Colonel Shaw has William H. Clyhurn Brothers who are membern ' of the I*08t arc Elton and Eric Reeves. John Henry and Robert A McI>owell and Henry and Allen Norris. Men In the service who are mem bers of Post 17 are; Sgf. Ralph E, I Stevenson, Jr., Captain H A. Small. Cpl. Charles B Smith .Ir.. Enstyn .Paul A. Wood, Lt. Fred Mullen, Sgl. in A nui-'s nii'i tlni; li qiiijiort of the Jnebistou ill ihi‘ (it* >”• . lonai hlsthwav progiHm of a lonfe ex- t< nding througli Soujb Carolina, front the cro.'ksin.ii; of iltc Sav.Hiinah ri\i ' near Sylvania, (I:! . to Charlotte. N'. C, and Ibeine to niidwe-t |ioris, with fork from M.atthew.'i to Charleston will be held In tlte i lianil'er of th- Uoti- rt Represent at Ivi's at Columbia on TtteKd.ty. Sept, l.s, at 11 ft m. The mai s nt'a-tiiic ha.--' le on called l>y R' prcscutati\«• U M Kcniic,|>. .Ir . of tlii-; city in coppcr.ation wiili lead ers in many of llie (itles .ilonK tie fireiiose<l route Tiie rotde as out lined in a brief prepared iiy Mr Kennedy and rel' n.si'd last week, br- eln.s ;it Cliarliktie itml follows Ronift No .'21 through Plnovlllc, \. C , l«in- cii'-i> r. Ileatit Spritigs. Kershaw. Cam- tl< n then oi\ Route 26 tliiougli East- ov- r. St. Matthews. Orangeburg, Den mark. Barnwell to S\lvania. C.ii One arm will branch off at St. Matthews and go through Holly Hill to Charlos- lon. Northward the route will follow estahllshed routes tq the mldwept Inko ports, Chicago, Cleveland. Cln- cinnatfl. itr. At Charlotte It will lnters<H't Route 29 and pass through the industriul seciiun of North Caro- Mna and the Flasl According to Mr Kennedy the pro posal has outstanding advantages to South Carolina in that It almost bi sects the state, thus offering an arttr- lal trunk easily accessible lo all parts of the state. Mr Kennedy states that for genera- floiUH thinking Raders of South Caro lled havo realized the no4*d for trans- porUitlon outlets to the midwest and most of the earlk'st railroads were promoted for that purpose. That see. tlo». Mr. Kennedy contends, offeib an unlimited field for marketing of prod ucts and for supplying our wants. The route gm's through tlie truck section of the state and l.s * asily ac cessible for this movement. It also traverses an active Industrial section, (Please turn lu page three) Fifth District Is By-Passed By Fatback Grant And CongreMmari Richards Puts Ii) A Strenuous Protest According to promised to advise as to the recom- KCFSllHW Soldl6rS mendations made by the engtmers A PAnfirmn/l TtI for the straightening and dredging of;x\rv VUIHHIlIvCI lH S rater • addressed a lettf r’to Historic Church Carl R. Shaw, district engineer: at Charleston, In which he refers td^u . /'•.♦l-j-.i i, the hearing ht id at Sumter August 28 •'®“*** ^**»®<**^** *• |;ind which developed unalterable op- _ . 'position to (he construction of the' President West came to Camden Landing d.tm, this oppo-l I from Sumter being derived from a feeling' annonnerment fromi^ib'''’ ho pnreh^- d ihf pmden the flo(Mling of a large srotf of ; Will All Be Changed Blshopville and other citbs here to Clocks Will All Be ,n ceipbration will he held on When the Welcome Date Arrives !the Thursday evening of the first jweek in November, Scene Impressive Pontifical Rites of Mickle Attend '“u that thire were a'. 'The Csmdcn Lion aggregation con- the Senate and the House, the Con-i ~~~ ^ ''“'“’"‘jMorrison and This will be welcome news to the public In general. Getting up on n.^sB wasn’t anything t^ write home DDT Conference about People who have been getting ^ up at 7 a. m. when It was actually only 6 a. m. found they had to pre pare breakfast and eat In almost mid night darkness. The matter of daylight saving time will be left entirely up to the In dividual states after Sept 80. One of the real blessings of the return to regular time, (specially In the south, will be the elmlnatlon of the long hot summer evenings. In »e»rch for Mrs. I. N. Tobias, woman, who la reported •t one time been a resident ^®den. ig being extended over state, following her sudden ance from htf home last Tuesday. ''usband who is employed at an itical school, said that when vrned from work In the eveu- ^®«nd a note which read: ‘ have gone. I am taking ^ me. Call mother and tell her some day.** 4. note was found and J *mve gone. I am taking me. Don’t try to find •mm . h»ck to Go- the baby la born.” f®f«iTed to In the notea L ^ter of Mra. Tobiaa. ®“**s mother rsaldea In Co- <• when qaaaCloned aboat iws dlaappearanco aaid ahe 1^ wockad and knaw nothlBff 'Uoihter'a wheraabonta. I«iu whereabottta Notes From Chamber Of ^mmerce -In Introducing this column as a weekly feature of the Chronicle, your Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce nlsea the fact that the responsibility for the progress and any community rests the shoulders of the Indl^ual mem bers of that community. '^1» therefore is to be prewnted purpoae of keeping th® *“*!*!***“, clttaeB aware of his community a ef, forts to stay abreast of the of his own opportunities to co^r®^ In coordinated community “‘l^vore^ It should be borne in Camden and Kershaw bor of Commerce la a non-poHtlml S^.«^tarla. and laatlon and It la requested that sulh •^nent Itema appearing in column •8ould In no way ^ cm- stTuad aa a deviation from thw poiiey. Yoar Chamber of guMeatlons aad eonatiwetlye criu-^ {uaTfrom the people of tta com- (Pleaoc tura to vagt •») Outline Use and Cautions In Spraying With the New • Insecticide t"nb»r held (or Amerir.n troops :o r«el> atfoct Ulo economic .lluollon Calhedral 1135 the first cenmony of Its kind th In Fr.ince. service meu and women, wen according to a In the area Involved. Mr. K*(nn.dy further pointed out recently that the city of Camtb n would be' “ ""Tmwl seriously affected because of the need * of iu sewerage of the 'army. for reconstruct lop fa ell Itles. “However, said Mr. Kennedy," we arc extremely interested In a govern mental project to straighten out and drqdge the river channel to Camden to provide navigation, and we are also particularly Interested In the United States Among the service men confirmed Into the Catholic faith were Staff Sgt. Marvin C. Hasty of Camden and PvL NVIlllam Rogers, Jr., of Dalzell. In an fmpresalve ftfiyminute cere mony, His Excellency, Monslgnor Marmottln, Archbishop of Reims, ad- consDucHon of flood nUnlstered’ the sacrament of confirm- on the Watere- river from Camden.' 'atlon. He was assisted by Msgr, iiurwi a.... lu '..c Ponsln, Vlcar.r,cneral and M PAhbe struction of lateral dams along the north, and to the south. The con- Don Morrison, city health Inspector, and George Mickle, county sanitary officer, attended a meeting of the state board of health al Columbia Tuesday at which the matter of the proper practices and procedures In the home use of DDT, the newly dis covered Insecticide, wm discussed. The fact that DDT U now on the home market has led Messrs. Morri son and Mickle to Issue some perti nent suggestions as to its home use. In the first place they point out that DDT Is a poison and muat be used with caution. It should never be sprayed into the air as has been the practice with common Insecticides. It should never be sprayed on food cooking or eating utensils ,or chil dren’s toys. It should never be stored In kltdien or pantry where It may be mistaken for or mixed with food and should always be kept with a poison label on it DDT can always be safely and effectively used as an Insecticide for mosquitoes, tiles, ahU. bedbugs and other household peaU if applied prop erly in sufficient* amounts. Some of the oautiens advised wheat It la being used are aa follows: Put outfall fires when using, cover all Tamiabed sur faces sad floors, remove pictures mad mirrors froia walls, remove clothes from closeta and walls, take outdoors or<^over all food, dishea. pou. peas, (eentiBued oa page three) river conserving the Inflow from (•reeks and tributaries would result in varied benefits, especially In con serving the waters In flood times to be later fed Into the river streams during dry spells and In lessening the deposit of silt in the main power (Please turn to page three) Blaney School Open^ Sept. 3rd I ■ The Blaney school opened on Mon day, Sept. 8 at S o’clock with an en rollment of 800. Rev. L. D. Hamer conducted the devotional exercises. Talks were made by Rev. L. D. Hamer of the Methodist church. RepreseuU- live E. M, Kennedy. Jr.. County Supt Arthur Stokes, and Dr. W. D. Grigsby of the local board of trustees. The teachers are aa follows: Mrs. Boykin Rose, Ist grade; Miss Margaret Boyd, 2nd grade; Mrs. Hen ry £tone, 3rd grade; Mias Vera the Cathedral. Leading the Catholic chaplains who participated were Major O. P..O’Keefe of the As*- sembly Area command, and Captain John D. Conway of the Xyise Inter mediate section. Most of those confirmed came from the 18th Assembly Area command camps. They Included six officers, three uursts and two negro soldiers. The greatest number from any single state came from Wisconsin. Navy Recruiters Here Thursdays Navy recruiting representative in this area, has received word from Lt. Ward M. Palmer, state navy recruit ing head, that the Bureau of Naval Personnel has authorized the continu ed enlistment of qualified candidates In the V-5, Naval Aviation prepara tory program. Former applicattona for the V-S pro- Representallve J. P. Richards has ahked Secretary of Agriculture C P. Anderson In Washington, to take such steps as will mnko the distribution of fstback for localtlles In South Caro lina more equitable. A Washington story stated that South Carolina had been alotfed nine carloads nd thewe wero being dis tributed as follows: Greenville 5, Charleston 3, Spartanburg, Florence, Orangeburg, Anderson and Columbia, two each, and Sumter, one carload. Mr. Richards said that such dWtribu- tlon was •’very InequMable.”. He pointed out that Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson are close together in the northwestern part of the state and that Florence. Orange- burg, Columbia and Sumter were serving the central section. Then* is no town In tbe northceniral portion selected for distribution of the f.at meat. * This section hw.ludes, counties of Cherokee, York, Chester. Fairfield, laincaster and Camden, all In Mr. Richards fifth district. .Nf> part of the state uses more fatback than this section. Mr. Richards states that too much emphasis has been placed In the dls- tributlrtn of fatback In the state through the larger cities. Over in Sumter the Chamber of Commerce Is rejoicing In having ob tained an allotment of salt meat for distributors In that city. The amount allotted to Sumter was 40.000 pounds of fatback. _ gram who did not attain a qualifying Kne^“4th gradeT Mrs’s Gtsei Alver-jjnerll ^ qualify for nelocUon at th* son, 5th grade; Mrs. Norman Ro*€, €th grade; Mrs. Emma Long, 7th grade; Mrs. J. T, Rose. 7th grade. High school: Mrs. C. E.Young, home Be., library and lunch; Mrs..Emerson Peckbaxn, commercial, science and lanthmatics; Miss Hattie Wood, EMg- Uah and.FVencb; C. E. Toang. voca- tiOKil agricalture; Mrs. Jame* Oandy, nude; J. H. Witherspoon, history. Th* tnMtMB are J. Paul B*«i, Dr W. D. Ofigshy and A M. Porter. Bragging On His Getaway, Escaped Murderer Is Caught Kelly Anderson* Wlko Fled the State Camp Year Ago* Is Ba^ time they applied may now reapply, as the qnallf^ng mark has been low ered. Those young men interested shonld make imfiicdiate application at the nearest navy reemitiag office, located at the Post Offlc* in .Camden on Thursdays, supplying a birth oer- tifleate. high school transcript and persBts’ ooBSsnt If 17 j*mn old. It te believed that thh card game of bridge orfgtnaisd ts Oieoee Kelly Anderson, 48, murderer and escaped llte-tenner from the South Carolina State Farm hk). 1. In Sept, a year ago. talked too mneh while In a saloon at Paterson, N. J. And now he is back in the custody of the South Carolina authorities. Kelly was in the bar room with a group of cronies and under the spell of several shots of red-eye, he became voluble ’and bragged of hie escape from Hie prison camp where be was doing a life time term for murder. A pollM stooge In bar room tipped ths Paterson police officers to what Kelly had said a^ In jig,time Kelly was In eastody. KsRy was a trusty and a c*ok at the time of his ssespe. He hsd servsd ellSit yearn of hte lit* sentenc* at th* thne.