The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 21, 1945, Image 4
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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
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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
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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
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(on kiglvway No. 1-^Next «loor to H. O. fiunul
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We give quick service at low prices,
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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