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1 Ml m'' : ,v a £ n-: Mi*; ' I III .?■ /|i't kt^’ V ^f*> -Tt^ u»i I: .U' . PAM FOUN TNt CAMOSH CAii»uHA> pmmM, mmmmtam'W'mmmmm MtW « tMr (^indrn dUfranifU { 1109 North Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY .DaCOSTA BROWN Pu^liahei SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: / ; All Subseriptions Payable In Advance One Year J... $2^50 Six Months 1.50 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C. ' Alj^ articles submitted for publication must be signed by the'author ^ FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1947 LETS GO The chronicle understands that the Junior Chamb er of Commerce may adopt as one of its 1947-48 ob jectives, the building of a public swimming bool in Hampton park. ' The Chronicle wants to go on record with an em phatic endorsement of this idea. The sooner Camden awakens to the idea that it is fftr better to grow sturdy healthv children than mere grass and flowers, the bet ter off will be the eommunity. Not that we are critical of the efforts to landscape our parks into areas of beauty, but we believe that now is the time for Camden to wake up and emulate the example of other progressive cities and Build a model swimming pool. And perhaps in another few years, build another in Monument park on Broad street. These swimming pools, properly built after modern plans, and set in an area which is attractively land scaped, will do much to advertise Camden as out standingly progressive. And it means so much to the youth of the city. The Chronicle would supplement a swimming pool with, a wading pool for children of jtender years. This writer knaws what these pools mean to the young people of a community. The Chronicle feels so deeply on these matters that we are going to ask for an expression of public ap proval or disapproval of our ideas and the worth while project of that energetic group of young men making up the personnel of our Junior Chamber of Commerce. Write out your reaction to the suggestion and send it to us. We will be glad to print it. Don’t wait on this—do it now—so we can ge*t back of the Junidr Chamber in what we believe-is one of the most advanced ideas to be suggested in years. A NATIONAL HIGHWAY SAFETY CAMPAIGN Through ,the combined efforts of thousands of daily and weekly new.spapera throughout the United States, a National Highway Safety Program was launched Monday, this week, throughout the nation. Because of its purpose alone, the campaign is one of the most praiseworthy and beneficial public services in recent years. . Any effort to reduce or eliminate the tragic toll of traffic accidents which annually account for thou-- sdnds of needless deaths is worthy of wholehearted support. Last year 33,500 persons were accidentally killed on our streets and highways. The staggering tdal of 1,160,000 were injured and an economic loss of over two billion dollars resulted. What makes those lost lives, the pain and suffer ing, and the economic loss more tragic is the realiza tion that, with proper care and precaution, they co>uld have been avoided. Now, as a result of the President’s Highway Safety Conference last year and the second meeting of the Conference last week, an intensive effort is be-^ ing made to prevent traffic accidents in the future. Much has already been accomplished in the way of traffic enforcement and engineering. The National Highway Safety Program is the newspapers’ contri bution to the educational phase of accident pl^even- tion. Rut it has been significantly pointed out by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, general chairman pf the President’s Highway Safety Conference,'that brief, spasmodic campaigns will not bring lasting results. There is need for intensive effort on the part of every man, woman and child. “Each vne of us, as driver or pedestrian,’’ says General Fleming, “must accept in good faith our own individual responf^ibility. Each man, woman and child must accept in his own conscience, as before the law, the responsibility for the consequences of his own acts.” - That can mean only one thing. We'must all, by our own individual efforts, strive constantly for the improvement of the public attitude toward safety. The result will be the sparing of our own lives or those of the ones near and dear to us. irs A HEALTHY SIGN Some motor dealers in cities of South Carolina have finally awakened to the fact that a gullible pub lic is paying excessive prices for automobiles aom other than authorized dealers, and have run advertise ments in which they give the authorized delivery prices of cars. We suggest that each franchised dealer follow this plan and in that way help to smash the' black market * FUNERAL HOME PHONL 103 ‘^•CAMOEN St ‘That’s the Fhneral flome Unde Jim Spoke Of ” I ' ^ * Familitfj includinf newcomers, have told ua &ey called ns becanee of Use omUidence othera h^ ea- preesed in oar service. Oar qoiet locatioa oatside the traffic sooe makM an especial ap- peallo oMAy fMcUiM* - 0 ' Bait TradftSM and Bonk JnCamden CItAZCD PARENT-- (CoDtlaaed from page <me) SUICIDE ATTEMPT PAILS ^Riuteirs attempt to commit sui' cide failed vben be pointed a ro' rolrer at bis temple .and pulled the trigger on an emptjr chamber. Police charge that after shooting the Wolfes Russell also fired a shot into the. home of another neighbor bnt his bullet went wild. < Rusabirs ^ as told to Ser geant Deas Is as'foUows: ‘•Tlie ^Tenlle officers were going to* take m7 children away and put them in a home. I knew I would rather be dead than hare them leare me. I talked It orer with the children last nlj^t and they agreed they would rather die than have to leave mp: 41iey told me 'Daddy, you have been double«roased eflou^ TPUP are going .to _takh us away Wf want to die. We don’t want to leave Ton'. After they went to sleep I looked for my gun but couldn’t find it ’Tben I found Johnny's haaebali bat. I picked it up and hit them, Johnny first, and then Peggy, "fhey didn’t move. Then I held their beads, kissed and hugged them. I At down beside toeir bodleu and cried until I fell asleep. . PIPES UPON WOLFES "This morning I opened op my place. The Wolfe’s cisUed me ‘a dirty Greek’ and said they would ^’Uke care of me’. I ran aft«r my gun and from the street shot Into th'ulr plaes 1 don’t- Esovr wkat I hte. ."Tkim I tried to kill myaelf wltk the gun IrsV ballets wore aU gone. I don't want to live Any more. I want to be buried beside my children. Please hang me right away, rnn better off dead.” Dm said that neighbors of Rus sell had been worried for aome time about the conditions under which the children were fmreed to lire and had finally signed a pe tition declaring RusscAl was not fit to bare the care of the children. Teachers in the schools which the children attended described them ss being ’lovely children” and “exceptionally good students”. Peggy Mares was IJL years old and JtAnaj Cfcrlirto was 1 'Mrs. Rnassll's MetAt., _— lie Oky, wmf aeeomgsnltd to MIsmi by bar sen, itorry Hsstf Is employed as a mail clerit on ths Sonthsrn railwny. a joD his-fatlifr sy,' Rt Ona atatad ^ T*«*r4sjr thatS!L- »»ndisothur, - .r- of KsShhitir held for many yennt jrlor to his , Mrs. Rnas3i,2®^ •death recently. ^'in the Marlon The Seaboard train from Miami ' was -running nearly af hoar Into and It was Just about 6 p. oa, whm it came into the station, vheru scores of people/’ Indoding the mother of the two victims of the Club slaying had waited since k;S0 p. m. ' ' The manner in wblcli Russell secured possession of the two chil dren, vtoom he later was to klU, has been more or less of a uouroe « wu Marlon StoT lAncaater and j«*. wiK^r.r'u* hA vs followed theito,. late she has Norwalk, Conn. ^ VlrtnaHy •Jtoe'UlL tag teals breSi SfcOeorg*tethr£^*^^ • % y .<1 m h7. The President of the United States: "The problem of lowering the highway death rate remains one, of the nation’s most serious problems. It is an appaUin^fact that 33,^ American ritizens were killed in automobile accidents in 194^ Ttherefore ddl ni^n every State and every community in the land to work unceasingly through. 1947 to promote highway a^ety. ' -s "Laws and regulations will be of little avail unless the individual driver holds himself strictly accountableto his own consdence.” ♦ That call is.to you personally to cooperate as a citizen of the United States in helping reduce highway accidents. It is a shameful record when in one year 33^ lives are sacrificed; persons are injured and 9750,000,000 in properly desteoyed, resulting in an economic cost to the nation of $2,000,000,000 be^nse of carele8|s,Veckles8 di^ng. * * It is a national problem, but essentially the solution is fai yonr handsl Drive safely-^live and let live! Thin ig the 6nt of m Mriet of adverllgemciitR pretented In the public interest by the Presidents Highway Safety Coo- ference end the daily and weekly newspapeys o;f the nation throof h their Press and PnhUsher Assodatidr MYERS MOTXm COMPANY Sales ^1^ PHONE 47 i- CAMDEN MOTOR COMPANY * » Salas Buiek Servioa Wracks Rebuilt — PHONE 769-W REDFEARN MOTOR COMPANI * • Salas % ■( PHONE 140 BOYKIN PONTIAC COMPANY • ' * ^ Salas Pontiae Shrvlca PHdNE 009-W^ \ , r A ■ LANGSTON MOTOR COMPANY SalM Salas PHONE tSS DRAKEFORiyS GARAGE Salas Hud^ PHONE 42 PHONES: Dap Sli —Nlilit SSS-W SERVICE MOTOR CWANi • Salaa " l^vfaa* ' * ‘ '"»r. »n Imad Sliaal w. mOHE lte,