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PAQW, T¥rv THI^^MNMMNICL^^^m^aOUTNOAmU^^PRIDM^OKEMBE^I^M 2--r^: .> ..’-i’r- i -t.. SHl^r (Sambrn (Et^ronirb ll09 North Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBUSHED EVERY FRIDAY DaCOSTA BROWN ...... Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: ~ = All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.00 Six Months 1-00 Entered as Second Olass Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. G. # « - — - - ^ .... All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. I • ■ — ■ Friday, December 21, 1945 The Greatest Gift I hiistmas means more I than mailing presents land opening pack- (ages. Today, as never before in history, it means giving something of our selves to others. For that is the spirit of the Prince of Peace, whose birth'we cele brate. This .]Eear mois families i&^ this community have given die supreme gtft—die offering of sons for dieir country. Stars on some service flags have turned to gold. Each irsok this newspaper has proudly ssoorded the deeds of those who ssrvs^ fight and di^ If need be^ that we may be fnin The families of diess heroes know the true meaning of Christmas. For they, also, bare given a Son. Many of us cannot match sock records of hi^ sacrifioe Bui we can give and We can servf in other ways. We can goodwill and kindness, rhari- ty and understanding not empty words but heart-warming r^ alities in our desk ings with others. We can hdp the boys returning to this community from die wirbblld a bkaye new fa* tare. We can cheer die lonely homes of servicemen still far away. We can speed tiie day of peace on earth,^ fas* tioe and brotheriiood. ‘ In dias giving of ourselves we will an be far ridier. And we wiU add innwr meaning and strength to the .age-old but sveMiew greeUng whiok diis newspaper eodends te yoa and yours— ^ MeWu^ 6{t/U4imaA CEIUNG ON REAL ESTATE Long before Mr. Truman came out with his propq^l that there be a ceiling on residential "property, this news paper opposed any such program. For a long time it has been talked, and some government official (we forget which one) recently advocated, that such a thing be done. Real estate is a basic, permanent commodity. Price ceilings on things transitory such as rent are one thing; on elements such as real property itself, a lifetime investment for most people, it is another. Ceilings on real estate, especially home property, go against the very fundamentals of our philosophy of government, and we hope every South Carolina member of the senate and house will oppose such a plan.—The State MATTER OF LOCAL OPTION The South Carolina Methodist Conferences, recently held, went on record as favoring local option aSr>to the sale of intoxicants. . We cannot see how^ any one who professes to believe in 4^he Democratic process‘of government can offer any op position to local option. Local option is democracy itself. To deny it is dictatoiship. —A I DAY ETINGS Today’s grownups art only yw- terday’s children vdio ones stood before a fireplace on the Christmas Eves of the past, or who, jusL before Christmas, were as good u they could be. The heart of the Christmas ' season is friendship and eternal youth, and we could not ask for finer friends than ours. It makes ns happy to greet all our friends this Christmas season of'^1945 with the best of Yuletida* ^ wishes. Redfeam Motor Co. 6 Killed, 60 Injured In Train Wreck At KoUock Monday Camden Hospital Alerted-~- Engmeer Of Meteor Dies At His Controls Chronicle Announces New Service To Disdiarged Men ym Offer lU Classified Col umns Without Coat To Job Seekers Two of the Seaboard’s crack trains, the Silver Meteor streaking throngh the froien darkness enronte for Flor ida and the Deisel-powered Sun Queen traveling to New York crashed at Kollock, a few miles north of Cheraw early Sunday morning, killing at least six persons and putting more than sixty others in hospitals at Hkmlet. N. C. Bennettsville, S. C. and Max ton, N. C. - News of the wreck reached Qam- den homes in an early morning radio broadcast and throughout the day was the subject of conversation. Re ports that two Camden people bad boarded the Sun Queen when it left here at 2:12 was cause for much spec ulation as to who the parties might be. At the Seaboard station here the report was verified but it was impos Bible to ascertain the names of' the people. Rumors of a fantastic nature gain ed circulation throughout the com munity as to the cause of the col lision between the two streamliners Whether this is unfounded fiction or has any fact will be brought out in the investigation that the Seaboard officials have launched. Mail and express service was many hours later because of the transpor tation tieup due to the wreck. South bound trains, delayed many hours be cause .of being rerouted, reached Cam den in the late afternoon and evening The accident occured when the Sun Queen, pulling into a siding, was struck by the speeding Meteor. The two streamliners had orders to meet at Kollock, with the Sun Queen pull ing to a siding. The Queen train had reached the siding and had cleared the main track with all bnt tour coaches when the crash came. Passengers on the ill-fated Meteor, who were injured and hospitalised de clared the crash came without warn ing. Most of them were alseep and did not awaken unttli,the Impact had burled them belter skelter. One of the injured passengers stat ed that after the impact, there waa a few seconds of absolute stillness and then the air was rent srith the screams of the wounded and hyster- kai. No (me in his coach, he said, was killed. ,Abe Weisman, who gave his ad drees as Cleveland, Ohio; said that the coach he was on was hurled from the track and badly twisted. H« was pinned in the wreckage for over an hour but was not seriously injured. A man who was lying over him was among the dead. The wreck oeenred at 3:46 a.m., less than an honr after the Son Queen had pulled out of Camden. Both trains were Jammed with pass engers, most of them being men in uniform. There were over 400 passen gers aboard each train. According to first arrivals at thh scene of the wreck, the appeal for am bulances was responded ip with speed and dispatch. Afl available nurses in Hamlet. Cheraw, Bennettsville and the Maxton army base were rushed to the scene. A survival of the scene of the wreck showed that the deisel-locomo- tlve one coach and four sleepers on the Silver Meteor were derailed while four coachee and the dining car of the Sun Queen left the track. All of the killed were on the northbound Sun Queen, with exception of.. the Meteor’s engineer. Prom Bennettsville comes a story from a newspaper reporter how an ambnlance. from Cheraw was passing along t'^e highway near where the railroad siding is located and the driver was an eye witness of the crash. The Arlver, realising that one ambulance ‘ would not be sufficient, sped into Cheraw where .he gave the alariA. The news was in turn commun icated to hospitals in nearby towns. The Camden hospital, alerted as to (Please turn to page five) PEACE ON EARTH ••JOWUS” Christmos tban the most predous jewel or rise most cost ly gMt is hi^iliuieae and peace ol ^rit. iCooM we wish more for you this Christinas season than its attainment? For your fine oo- ror your nne oo- operadoQ and loyalty to us'^ 1945 you have ourf ’ JOHN RABON • , A Logoff The Camden Chronicle is glad to announce the beginning of a new ser vice to men discharged^ from any branch of the service and who are reeldeots of Camden and Kershaw countjh To those released this paper wil^ otter its classified columns without cost as an aid to securing suitable employment The readjustment to unregimented life can be difficult and sometimes painful and the (Chronicle wants to do what it can to ease that readjustment. Just bring in the copy of your classified advertisement stating such facts as any employer would want to know, the type of work you want and when yen’ll be available. We’ll pub lish your adv. without charge''and do all In our power to bring you and a Job together. We don’t need to tell yon how glad we are to have you back again. .The lonelinesii of not seeing young faces is vanishing as you come home smil ing, as glad to be home, as we are to have you. You have done so much .... we have done so little. May the Chronicle humbly try to repay in its own way. Blaney Man Badly Injured When Hit By Moving Truck Walks Out In Front Of Vekicle Wkile Crossinf Street Near Roxy Cafe James Livingston, 38, S resident of Blaney, tried a shoit cat across bnsy DeKalb stret Friday evening, walked into the path of a truck belonging to the Erwin Hermitage store and landed In the Camden hospital with a fractured right • leg -and painful lacerations about his face, head and hands. Acordlng to Officer Dallds Mahoney who investigated the accllent. Liv ingston was crossing the street from sonth to north Just east of the Roxy cafe when he -was stmek. Mahoney stated that the driver of the tmek, a man named Stevens, was not to blame for the accident, as he had no warning that anyone was about to step in front of his truck. Livingston was mshed to tiie Cam den hospital in the Komagey ambu lance and when examined he was found to have sustained a fractured right leg and his face, bead and hands were badly cut and lacerated. Drive Carefully—^ve a -IJfeb ANNOUNCING the Opening of BOULWARirS WATCH SHOP (on kiglvway No. 1-^Next «loor to H. O. fiunul DuBom Park Some Parts for all Clpcte ... and •All Parts for Some Clocks and Watches We give quick service at low prices, Abo -^Ring Sizing: We make your rin^ the size you want it. "ALL WORK GVARANTEEW FROM EACH OF US TO ALL OF YOU There’s no jdace Hke home vriica Christmas comes around, and there*! ao time like right now to wish al you Idndly home folks Hie menkit Christmas ever. It has been a prtvikge and a pleas* ore to have served you in 1945, and we look locwtrd to yo« cootinaed iritadship. ' Notice To The Public Due to the decrease of demand for desirable loans and to /' the fact that safe bonds eligible for bank investment yield a very low rate of income and further due to the increase in oper ating expense, the und&signed bank§ are jointly adopting the y ’ * following rules effective January 1,1946. On all accounts (checking and savings) on which the bal ance falls below $10(X).00 but not below ^00.00 during the month, ten free checks will be allowed after which three centf (3c) each for^ any additional checks will be charged. On all \ , accounts whose balance falls l^elowv $100.00 during the month and on which more th«n two checks are written there will be a I * Service Charge of seventy-five cents (76c) plus thiw cents (3c) additional for each check in excess of ten. ” Signed, The National Bank The First National Bank MEMBERS FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Nr MEMBERS FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORFORATIOir