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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 2, June 1941

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The Telecaster     SOUTHERN STAR     Page 18

[[handwriting]]OUCH![[end handwriting]]

tee Ave., in Columbia. Artists are Hung, Wright, Sayn, Fortier, Fields, Jones, Bush, knight, and Jenkins. We've seen the art work, and it's beautiful; quite the best thing we've ever seen in this line. Do not fail to get a copy of the first issue of the mag or you'll really regret it.
Other well-known Southern fanzines are Milton Rothman's popular Milty's Mag, Jack Speer's equally popular Sustaining Program, and L. R. Chauvenet's Sardonxy, which are obtainable thru the FAPA, and fandom's most popular and consistently excellent magazine, Spaceways. If you don't ready Spaceways you jis ain't eddicated, that's all. It only costs a dime from Harry Warner, Jr. at 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Maryland. Harry also publishes a "Dixie Press" magazine, "Horizons", for the FAPA, and will run for the presidency of that organization this year.
We understand that Alfred Edward Maxwell of Louisiana is also about to become a fanzine publisher, tho no details are available as yet. You'll remember Al for his letters in TWS. Welcome to the fold, suh!
The incredibly versatile and energetic Fred Fischer now has a plan for nation-wide distribution of his radio scripts. Mimeographing will be done on the STAR's mimeo, and having seen the scripts, we are sure that the new Fischer Features will go over with a quite loud bang.
Art Sehnert had a lot of luck, all bad, recently when his hands disputed the right of way of a bit of live steam and the steam won. Art's hands were badly scalded and he was in bed for a while, but fortunately the accident has left no permanent scar, Art's first deep-South local fan group, The Lunarites, a chapter of Super Science's Science Fictioneers, is now doing well for itself.
The second deep-South chapter, The Columbia Camp, is not doing so badly, either. Indeed the contrary. The Camp is composed of Harry Jenkins, Joe Gilbert, Lee B. Eastman, and W. B. McQueen. Harry is the Secretary. The Camp meets every Saturday night at Mac's apartment, pass around the latest fanzines, discuss anything that comes to mind, and formulate plans for future activity. Meetings are completely informal, and no attempt at all is made to stifle the mad urge that comes over Gilbert every Saturday night to roll on the lovely McQueen rug. Which lack of stifling so discourages The Great Gilbert that he mumbles something about "frustrated genius" and refrains from rolling. It had been intended to make a long distance call to some fan each week, but the first call was a double-feature; the first one to Trudy Kuslan; the second to Fred Fischer, and Gilbert couldn't be torn away from the first. When the dust had arisen after a half-hour he still had a glazed look in his eye, and a death clutch on the receiver. Considering the fact that the second call took fifteen minutes, the Camp decided most unaminously, when the phone bill came in; that they wanted to save their money for the Denvention. Hence, no more phone calls!
The South now has itself a fam fan, and very proud of her it is, too. Virginia Allen, DFF member and part of the population of Pelzer South Carolina, is the gal in question. "Jinni" is a stf reader from way back, has poetry coming up in other fanzines soon, and her biography in a future STAR. She came down to see Gilbert a while back, but since he received her card notifying him of the visit only two days before the time she was due to arrive, he was unable to warn her that there were about fifteen Park streets in Columbia. The poor girl spent all morning crusing back and forth across the city won-
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The Telecaster SOUTHERN STAR Page 18 [[handwriting]]OUCH![[end handwriting]] tee Ave., in Columbia. Artists are Hung, Wright, Sayn, Fortier, Fields, Jones, Bush, knight, and Jenkins. We've seen the art work, and it's beautiful; quite the best thing we've ever seen in this line. Do not fail to get a copy of the first issue of the mag or you'll really regret it. Other well-known Southern fanzines are Milton Rothman's popular Milty's Mag, Jack Speer's equally popular Sustaining Program, and L. R. Chauvenet's Sardonxy, which are obtainable thru the FAPA, and fandom's most popular and consistently excellent magazine, Spaceways. If you don't ready Spaceways you jis ain't eddicated, that's all. It only costs a dime from Harry Warner, Jr. at 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Maryland. Harry also publishes a "Dixie Press" magazine, "Horizons", for the FAPA, and will run for the presidency of that organization this year. We understand that Alfred Edward Maxwell of Louisiana is also about to become a fanzine publisher, tho no details are available as yet. You'll remember Al for his letters in TWS. Welcome to the fold, suh! The incredibly versatile and energetic Fred Fischer now has a plan for nation-wide distribution of his radio scripts. Mimeographing will be done on the STAR's mimeo, and having seen the scripts, we are sure that the new Fischer Features will go over with a quite loud bang. Art Sehnert had a lot of luck, all bad, recently when his hands disputed the right of way of a bit of live steam and the steam won. Art's hands were badly scalded and he was in bed for a while, but fortunately the accident has left no permanent scar, Art's first deep-South local fan group, The Lunarites, a chapter of Super Science's Science Fictioneers, is now doing well for itself. The second deep-South chapter, The Columbia Camp, is not doing so badly, either. Indeed the contrary. The Camp is composed of Harry Jenkins, Joe Gilbert, Lee B. Eastman, and W. B. McQueen. Harry is the Secretary. The Camp meets every Saturday night at Mac's apartment, pass around the latest fanzines, discuss anything that comes to mind, and formulate plans for future activity. Meetings are completely informal, and no attempt at all is made to stifle the mad urge that comes over Gilbert every Saturday night to roll on the lovely McQueen rug. Which lack of stifling so discourages The Great Gilbert that he mumbles something about "frustrated genius" and refrains from rolling. It had been intended to make a long distance call to some fan each week, but the first call was a double-feature; the first one to Trudy Kuslan; the second to Fred Fischer, and Gilbert couldn't be torn away from the first. When the dust had arisen after a half-hour he still had a glazed look in his eye, and a death clutch on the receiver. Considering the fact that the second call took fifteen minutes, the Camp decided most unaminously, when the phone bill came in; that they wanted to save their money for the Denvention. Hence, no more phone calls! The South now has itself a fam fan, and very proud of her it is, too. Virginia Allen, DFF member and part of the population of Pelzer South Carolina, is the gal in question. "Jinni" is a stf reader from way back, has poetry coming up in other fanzines soon, and her biography in a future STAR. She came down to see Gilbert a while back, but since he received her card notifying him of the visit only two days before the time she was due to arrive, he was unable to warn her that there were about fifteen Park streets in Columbia. The poor girl spent all morning crusing back and forth across the city won- (Concluded on page 31[[?]])