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CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 30. 194S
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lenate Passes Bill Providing For Election On Commission-Manager Form
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»n Asks
lor Infmniatioii
Gty Manager
[ddresaea Open L«tt«r To
[Mayor McCorkle Seeldnf
jXo Aaoertaiii What HU
DoBea Would Bo*
Henry G. Garrison made
Iblic Wednesday afternoon
open lette r which he ad-
>d to Mayor Francis N.
sCorkle in which he asks
Mayor to publish at an
rly date “just how a city
inager government would
wtion.”
Ir. CarriBon Mka the Mayor to
“where reeponsibflUle* woald
I.. In what way woa)4 the Wat*
land Light Dep-irtment be man*
• in whoTO hands wonid the
powers be placed - - how
vf aldermen elected at targe
their terms of office; alao any
Eer information that ntay hare a
Erins cn the queaHoa before na".
letter from Mr. Oarriaon
Janaary tt, IHt
lorable Francis N. McCorkle.
)ror, City of Gamdoa
Qden, 8. C.
Mr. Mayor:
one of yoor nattre bora reel*
^U, tax payer aad foramr city
il, I am addrcMtaic to yon.
present head of ear dty gor*
lent, an open letter ta wblhli
ition la eort eoacerUliis tba
city manag^ forai of
iment, which Ve are toM le
Toted on in the aot too dlO'
fntare. .
Ion will agree that ttfa Is
it step: that the tan fogr*
are entlUed to detailed Mhir*
ion concerning the aaw farm
ivemment propoeeC aai each
Ition Bnbmttlai In mmpie
that they may oonaMer wfQi
care before recordiag their
Ton and I win agree that
^den is no lonser a naa]
iity whose bndfet ifaa
iced sad whose , teat
yesrr •Std^%lt
On the contrary* proyroaa
[demand^ expaaMon and mod*
lation which in their turn
created mounting cost end
kxnds for clnee soperrlMon end
pUgent orersiidtt.
le following approximate fig*
of the past fiscal' year are of
Bt and would certalnb 1*7
liasiB on the statement made
'Bt *
current property tax ..fCO.OOO
ise fees 16000
re fines lO^OOO
and liquor taxes .... 16,000
into tha city by Water
Urht Dept 61,000
Mng meters t.f00
income 6,000
^gainst these we spent approx*
Bly as follows: i
and interest payment.|12;000
Bt department 01,000
^e department 21,000
department 11,000
pth department ... .... 7,000
»1 and adminlstratlre.. 21,000
these figures we may also
ide^the fact that onr City
pt ^d Light Departman* had
Bs rerenue I am told of |tSS,*
|erefore, today 'tla a fir cry.
Mayor, from our horse snd
days for indeed we, hewe
a corporation of no email dl*
lions which IS time goes on
[grow and expand to' greater
prtlona
U so as to a city marager
of government It seema to
[hat as this questirn has how
pertinent and ere long
must deride for or against,
[ most expedient that you pub*
't an early date Jnet how a
manager goromment would
I'on. Where reeponsibiiitlea
lie—in what way would tha
^ater and Light Dej^rtment
panaged — fn whose bands
powers be plao*
incMe tnm to pegs tsn)
Mrs. P, G. Kearse
Injured As Her Car
Skids On Highway
Mre. P. Q. Kearee, wife of
the Boy 'Scout executive for
Kershaw county, was seriously
Injured last Saturday afternoon
when a car in which she wae
returning to Camden skilled on
the ley pavement about 10
miles from Columbia on the
Camden highway and turned
over. *
Mrs. Kearse was returning
from her home In Hampton
when tha aoeident occurred. ,
She wae taken te the Columbia
hospital and friends will be
glad te know that she is get*
ting along nicely.
Granger Komegay repoKa
that he saw • leap turn over
fiat on Its back itt the over
head bridae end the two occu*
pants eeeeped uninjured.
Town and
County....
Paper Recalls
When Food Was
Cheap In Camden
Copy Of Local Paper Of
1850 Reveals That Prices
Of Food In Those Days
Were Very Low.
In Feb., 1854, beef was
gelling in Camden for 4 to
5 cento a pound, bacon 10 to
12 cento a pound, butter 18
to 25 cento a pound, lard 12
to 14 cento a pound, and sug
ar 6 to 12 cento a pound, ac
cording to the Camden
Dates For Open Negro Held By
€olf TonrnamentCoroner^s Jury
Have Been Named For Killing Two
Second Annual Evenk Will Sammy Ballard Is
Be Held At l^untry Club
On March 2^ — Prizes
Total $1,000.
In JaU
Slaying
The second annual Cam
den open golf tournament
will be held at the Camden
Country Club on March 2
and 3. It will be a 36-hole'Sunday night of his wife,
medal pliw event.
There wifi be a proamateur
tournament on Tuesday, March 2
Charged With
Wife And Stepdaughter
On Saturday Night.
A coroner's jury on Sun
day morning held Sammy
Ballard, 35-year-old,colored
laborer, for the deaths on
Wpolflv Journal tO play with
oo® , F^wuary three amateurs in each grouping.
f Says WiU Rebuild '
Thomaa B. Hair, of Columbia,
owner of the Kirkwood hotel prop
erty. was a Camden visitor Mon
day. Mr. Hair says he atUI plans
to rebuild the Kirkwood hotel hut
that he will wait until thq prices
of ImUdlng materiala go down.
• The New Theatef Bldg.
Lee LitUe says that it Is hoped
that the new theater betiding may
be reedy for occupancy by March
L The sew buHding win be quite
an addlUoB to Camden.
28, 1850
A copy of the Journal of that
date was brought to the office of
the Camden Chronicle this .week
by W. Clinton Moore.. 67, formerly
employed as engineer at the Her
mitage Mill bet now retired.
The aad feature of the pries
aitnatloa at that time, however,
was that cotton' rria Ml^glnr onlr
6 to • ceate a poiind.W^ ,
, The paper •although yellow with
age la fairly well preeerved and
can be read very easily. There wu,
however, a great scarcity of local
ppwa, the paper being made sp
largely of advertMements and gen-
end news.
One local Item of interest was
an announcement by J. B.-Kershaw,
lieutenant coloneL commanding
the lower taattallon of the 2tnd
South Carohtts Regiment, that the
hattmlion had been ordered to drill
•at Camden on Saturday, March 2t.
The following **Fore Sale' ad
was In the paper:
TVir Sale: My resMsMc «B
Lyttleton street fa offered for sale
at a reduced price and on across*
Hester Ballard, 36, and his
ifer,
step-daughter, Ella Nora
Brown,_ 14, having found
_ .^bat the two came to their
The pro-amateurs sdbres will count deaths at his hands. Ballard
In the S6-hoIe play, which will Hat
three scoree, tndfvMual pro-ama
teur plus heat ball ^r pro-amateur
play. The toumameat Is open to
ell pros and ematsurs. If the suc
cess of the first event In 1147 is
repeated this year the Camden
• Meutmg Of JayCuus
▲ special meeting of the Camden
Junior Cumber of Cemmarce has
tor tfeWay erhiriM^et,,
o'clock In tks hunt room of
the SarsfleM hei^.
•Consadar Houaing Problem
The J. Leroy Belk Post of the
American Legion at Its regular
monthly meeting on next Monday
evening will consider the proposi
tion of new «qnarters tor the post
A full attendance is urged.
• ProvidoDoe Clab Sold
The Providence cleb of the New
England league which trained in
Camden last spring has bsen sold
and It Is not expected that the dub
will train In Camden thie yeer. It
is thought probable' that some oth
er clube may train here, however.
annual event
Prlsee tetal |1,006 sufficient to
tntereet practically all of the pro
fessionals in the South snd North
Oarolfna ureas, Angusta, Oa., will
also be listed in the ranks of the
competing,playm tn the 1147
tournament Chgrles Parlow of
Greensboro, was ehqmplon aad will
undoubtedly defendant title this
year.
The Camden dab'is ptsnalug to
make the 1148 tsorMmem an even
greater success than the IMT af
fair which, attractsd a large field
of pros sftd amateurs aad hks plar
is beihg 'held in the Kerehaw
county jail.
There were three eye-witnessee
the killing, Melissa James, of
to
limmonsvllle, a sister of Ballard's;
Eugene Brown, 7-year-old stepson
t’ub will arrange to make It BaUard, and Bert Jones and all
testified at the coroner's Inquest
Chief of Police Alva Rush was
the fourth witness.
The kllllnge occurred at Ballard's
home on York street on Saturday
night. Ballard shot his wife twice,
the first charge entering her stom
ach and the latter blowing off part
of her head. He then shot his step
daughter in the back of the head.
Eugene Brown, the UtUe stopeon
of Ballard. tasUfled that when Bal
lard cam* homa briaglac some
llghtwood his mothsr told him that
be 'had hem steaHag somebody’s
wood, nsllmi Jast lan^sd and
• Aflinitted To Bar
John C. West, ot Camden, was
one of thirty-ons University of
Booto Carolina students, admitted,
to the state bar Thnrsday beforajmodstlon terms. The prsmlses.ara
the State Suprsase Court at toe convenient and ta complete repdir.*^
Possession given,'immediately. Ap
ply to W. M. Shannon, Bsg. J. M.
Cooper.”
There wae an announeentent''
‘ that ^ tte and after Mofif^,
January t, the paeaenuer and
mail train wMI teava Camdsn
at 6 o’clock a. m., and run di
rectly to Columbia until further
notice and retumlna would
leays Columb'a at 12 neon.”
The announcement was signed
by N. D. Baxley, agent. The
train pictured at the head of
the ad waa a quaer looking
contraption.
M. Naudin was clerk of the court
at the time.
The Excelsior Hotel. D. B Sar-
geant, proprietor, had an advcrtlae-
ment
George W. Shaw and Ik A. Ans-
tta had a aotlee of the dlaaolutkm
ot the firm of Shaw and Anstta.
It was aanoaneod that too Camp
bell Mlastrels woald be at Tsm-
prrance Hall for three nights
It was ratalag ta those days,
too. A story In ths paper told of
heavy rains on the preying Sat
urday and Saturday night and said
that the rivsr began rising Snn-
day and continued to rise nntil
Tuesday. The lowlands on both
sides fWsre completely snbmerged.
”We anderstsad”, the etmv said,
-that on the ptantatlon of Mrs.
Hale, the oyerseer’s house, with all
tomitara, the smoke house.
ed nate smiltag
roars# Is in peifset boiadltioa riidit
BOW, bat win be evqd better-whea
tournament tima anrtvas.
Mayor McCoiMe
Says He I^For
Manager Form
sfclea. The golf ^ to set down missed
tho chair aad sat on the floor
Bogeae said he told'him to get
up and sit la the chklr. BaUard
asksd him wtM he waa and he said
he told him "Bagene Browa” pal-
lard hit him la tho cheat. ”I aald.
‘you kasw BagSM' and ho hit tno
in too choet agalB” too 4wy teoti- James M
Pat Orr Resigns;
D, E. Hilton New
Deputy Sheriff
Pat Orr has resigned as
deputy sheriff to return to- hie
old position as manager of the
Orr Transfer and Storaga Com
pany, and he will be succeeded^
by D. E. Hilton, of Kershaw.
Mr. Orr became deputy sher
iff last November and ha stated
that at the time ha accepted
the position hie- fakher had
n/anned to take over Who msn-
aoement of the tranmer and
atorage company but\had de
cided the duties wars too
heavy for him and that ha ac
cordingly had decided ti return
te the management of the eenv
psny.
Mr. Hilton, who Is known to
his friends as ”Foottlds” 's a
praduate of the Kershaw High
School and attended Oglethorpe
* university. He was In tha navy
during the rooent world war
Ladies Night Is
Very Gala Event
Kiwaniaiia EDtortam Wiv«s
And Fiionds And- Iitekstll
TiMir Now Officora At
Big Buffok Diimor.
Expect Measure
To Be RatiHed
First Of Week
House la Scheduled To Gi^
Three Reedinga Promptly
To BHI — Election' To
Be Held April IS.
Officers of the CarAden
Kiwanis Club for 1948 were
formally installed at s led-
iea' night event ataged by
the club on last Thuraday
night at the airport club
house. The event was attend
ed by approximately 80 Ki-
waniani, their wives* and
friends.
The new officers were tatislled
I by District LlentMiant Governor
“ Solgnoas. of Kingstree,
County Mnners In
5-Acr^ Cotton Test
W. A. Boykin was winner of first
place ta the S-acre cotton contest
in Kershaw odonty with a yield of
S.260 pounds of lint cottoa snd
W. L. Miles won second prise wlth.kls
a yield of 2.200' pounds. com house, fodder h'>nze, and three
Peter Wnies, of Ellorre, waa de-|or four negro hodses have beer
dared first prize winner for the swept off snd fears sre enteri.alned
state with a ^eld of 6,120 pounds. * that a negro has been drowned.”
Local News and Gossip
Wandering Reporter
ifwd Ads in Tha
de Wing maulta
WllKr
••■rtc Harris ptn^
«" tiestrie ^ gteya
•ar
.asm
IN COLUMBIA HOSPITAL
Three patients th the Columbia
hospital all having rooms dose by
sre J. H. Osborne, Hunter Lang
snd Dr. Edwin- Kerrison. Mr. Ob-
boms was mayor of Camden for
four years before being transferred
to Colnmbla ss district engineer of
!l9ie Boathssm Cotton Ofl Company.
He has been a patient therj the
pant aeveral weeks, bnt is now
showing Imprevsmeat Mr. Lang
waa for many years treasurer of
the Hermitage Cotton mills before
accepting s responsible position
with Weston-Booker qaarrlea ef
Cayes, near Columbia. Dr.. Kerri
son practiced deaiatry ta pamden
and later moved to Charleston,
snd a tew years ago reWed aad
retnmed to Camden. These,three
men were friends and neighbors ta
Camden years ago.
EAJILY POM> JM CAMPfN-
Wli^-n polo was started in Cam
den 60 years ago one .of the early
Ideal players was W. C. Sahnond.
and he Is perhaps the best posted
man In rsmden on polo from Its
eerUest days to this day^ Among
•he Camden players of the pioneer
(•ays was W. C. Salmond, W. E.
Johnson, Sidney Smith, K. G.
Whis’ler, Oeorga T, Little, Newton
C. Hoykin, Dqltoa Ksane^. Jnmes
team, Bd«ar C. Vaox. The late
J^erile Little tonk UP the game
rtablei, now owned by Mr. Bram-
letL but the coming of the Sea
board Air Line tracks forced the
abandonment of that end of the
field, and the field waa lengthened
on the eastern end to offset the
part lost to the Seaboard tracks.
The side track near the stablea to
now beiag token up. Daring toe
early days ot polo, a^ bafore good
roads aad aatomobOea, special
trains were operated bn the Sea
board to bring the p<do fana from
Columbia, and the special polled
into the side track, right st the
field, to let off toe paseengers. add
after the game, they boarded the
train again st the same location
?nd ta about an hoar wars back
ta Cflambia.
Ua^or VruKls y.VMeOarkle m
Wednesday fMllL
"At the reqaeat'^a df
citizens, I wish to make my poal-
tkm clear on the question of chsng-
ing onr present form, of mnntclp^
government. In the press and ta
public statements I have for the
past several years SBdorse<! the
city manager form of government.
*T have made inquiries ta s num
ber of cities during the past ysar
about how the plan works, aad.
like all other plans, there were ad
vantages and disadvantages, buL
on the whole, there ware mo-e ad
vantages ta the city maaager form.
"The m^ndpal dtoadvaatlge I
found was whare a city la too small, i
the amount of larnass does not
juptlfy hiring too hMh priced an
execntlve.
In oar ease te Csmdsa I beUeve
the plan can be made to work sno-
eeasfnlly and I am la Davor of try
ing It."
' The mayor cited naassroas news
paper clippings to show that he had
bees a pioneer ta adfbeatlng the
new form of goremment for the
city.
♦
E.K.CarrOf
Summerton Will
Have Office Here
Annonneement has bcpn made of
•he appointment of E. K. Carr, now
residing at Summerton, S. C.. to
have charge of the Camdeh office
of the Dixie Security Life Insnr
anre company of Sumter.
Mr. Carr, who is a native o*' the
state will begin bis work here not
later than Febmary 2.
Mrs. Carr is the former May
Elisabeth Hunter of Snmn^erton
and ihe waa married to Mr. Carr
In December, 1945, shortly after
he had received his discharge from
the Army Air Forces. The cmple
have no chioldren.
Mr. Oarr haa beqn with the Dixie
company since April, 1946 as an
fled. "Then him and Heater start
ed argalag and he cureed her. Bhe
cursed him back* Then she told
him te go sad get^to clothes. Me
g(R his shot gun and started OQttcncceedlBv Dewey J. Cr'ssd. who
flui dtoor nad gjis xsaaad Jton
lUMl he said., ’Too case ma again*
and she cursed him and he tcraed
who. charged each newly Mects$
officer as to the datlee of his fo-
•tUon.
U. N. Myers became presidenL
The bill providing for an
election to be held in the
City of Camden on Tuesday,
April 13 on the adoption of
the commission-citf manager
form of government has
passed the state aenate and
has gone to the House of
Representatives where it will
be given three readings as
rapidly as legislative proce
dure will permit’
It la thought that the bflt can
be ratified by the first of next
week and that preparations can
•hen be- made for holding the raf*
erendum.
The bin postpones the regular
election for mayor and aldermen
scheduled to be held ta April. It
provides that the commiiisiott-
clty manager form of government
Is adopted In the elecUoo to be
held on April 12 then there shall
be an election on the second Tnee-
day ta June at which a mayor and
two commtosloaert ahell be elected.
In the event the commlsslon-clty
manager form to not udopud a
mayor and board of aldsnasa
would be eleeted at an eleotlon to
be held on the second Tasoday ta
August. ,
Voters of the dty win be givsa
SB opportunity to chooae hetwaaa
toe commtosion-elty msaatar farm
Of government snd ^e< pres^
sldermanic form of govenUneat
Under the terms of the hill the
mayor under the commission form
of government would he paid a sa^
of 1710 a year and the two
oommisaioners 9600 per annum
Ach. They would be empowsrad to
employ a city manugsr and fix his
•«|My. The said dty manager
-TOuld have such. jix>.wefs and au-
i^round and took his shells out of Mr. Myers then pinn
•• Aro cudomarUy drea
automatically became Mee presto ' ^ ”
deaL Mr. Crssd pinned the presi
dent’s button on Mr. Mjers and
PAINTED FARM BUILDINGS
There are perhape more painted
farm buildings on the. Liberty HiB
road Jtetween Camden'and the^dam
on the river, than on any other
load leading from Camden.
NEW ROAD TO RIDGEWAY
About a year ago a new paved
ix>ad was opened between Camden
and Ridgeway. This road leaves
highway No. 1 In front of th'-
Team's residence at Lnroff, and to
said to be about five miles shofler
than the other peted RldgeWay
load that gtms hroa^ Loagtewu
via Raboa’s X Roads. Not a great
aheat 1910. Of tote group of play* maay Camdu people have trayened
jli^ ealy ttaS wajEir JtrhML Mr.ithte 9am
M MridS I % m
Ms*porket and loaded kto gar. and
shot Hester ta the face and the
waa grunting and drr gged over to
‘Jie bucket and he shot Hester
again while she ws* at the bucket.
My slater waa going uround the
chimney saying ’nesse Mr. Boy.
please* and she went and held her
arms np and hs shot her ta the
back of ths head. We went ont of
thardoor and he. said. "Horry son,
and let’s go up lo polico hoadqoar-
tors*. I put oa my socks aad ohoes ’’
Tho Iwy toatifled that ssi hla
«vay to JalL Ballard. *Weu kill*
od my mama and oloter, why
d'd^t you kill msf** Ho oaid
Ballard Juot ohoek his head.
Melissa James, Ballard’s stotsr.-
testified that Hester told Ballard
the she did not want him snd had
already told him that over a month
ago. Ballard, toe said, went to ths
bed where Hester was, drug her
out of bed snd went over hr the
window and stood op. Ho'then got
(he gun and palled the trlgg”i’ end
then he went over by thb bed snd
shot EHa Hors who had mn back
of tbs bed. When he shot Ella
Nora.-Meltosa said she ran out Of
the house.
Chief Rush said that when he
vent Into hla office sometime be
tween 7 and 7:20 Saturday nlghL
Sammie Ballard and Eugene
Brown, his little stepson, were sit
ting there. Sammy said, ‘Chief, I
have 'played the devil.” Th^ cMef
asked him what he bad done He
replied, "I have killed Hester and
her daughter’*. He said he asked
If they had been having trouble and
he replied "Yes.”
The coroner’s Jury was com
posed of J. M. Thornton, foreman;
D. L. Davis, L. P. McCasklll, Vcrdle
Powell, W. M. Outlaw and W. D.
Mann. Coroner Purdy Lee conduct
ed the inquest
Ballard’s wife waa the widow
of Bob Brown, who conducted s
egcmL Hla transfer to this city
ttada kim with a promotion aa Pool hall on South
supertatendent of ai^nts te this'
and who died last fall. Ballard
worked for Brown several years
and was also employed by the city
itreet department as a track
aiwA
Mr. and Mrs. Carr are affiliated
with the Methodist ebnreh. Mrs..
Oarr haa been teatolng in the!driver,
fourth grade of the Sammerton __ .
city schools. j
The Csnw are tatolng siwad Rattle
for a fomtohad apartment to Cam- *
dea.
iM the past
president’s button on mr. Creed. *
Joe W. Jenkins suceOeded Law
rence H., Jones ss secretary and
Marlon B. Williams succteeded him
relf as treasurer. |
The new directors sjre Frank
Montgomery, Dr. A. W. Humph-
rlee. W. C. MoCarley. Harold Fun
derburk, Edward H. Craig and Eu
gene T. Pearce. •
A delightful bnffet dinner was
served following which there was
‘«n Informal program. Mtoa Otns
'Williams of Baron DeKalh school
tacnlty sang two vory lovely i>olos
'nd later there was group singing,
followed by sa old-fashion^
square dance.
Frank Montgomery waa chalr-
rtan of the committee on anange-
menta and other members were
Dr. A. W. Humphries, Harold Fnn-
derburk. Dsn Hall and Joe Jenkins.
Quests inclnded presidents of
other civic clube ta the qlty.
The dbtrict Itentenant govern
or, J. M. SeignoM paid an official
'’Islt to the clnb TBssday.
Hospital Tag Day
To Be Observed
On February 14
At an enthnslostfc meeting of
the Woman’s Auxiliary* of tho
raipden hospital held on Monday,
January 26, plans were msde for
the annual Tar Day and also the
.'innnal ball. These two annual
*tvents net quite a neat snm of
mouey each year for tho auxiliary-
Mrs. Granger Oelther, president
of the auxiliary, will be the chair
man for the annual Valentine’s
Tag Day-and she announces that
It will ^ held on Saturday, Fehm-
cry 14. In the event that] Is a rainy
day it will be postponed until the
foBowlng Saturday.
The amount raised froth tho Tug
Day has Increased each year and
stf^lary officials are hoping that
this year will show another ta-
ctease.
Week’s Calendar
Bunday, Feto. 4
Serrlces ta all churches at 11:15
a. m.
Polo at Kirkwood field, 8 p. m.
Monday, Feb. 2
J. Leroy Belk Poet,'''American
Lerion.' pi^ts at 8 p. m.
Junior Welfrre Leseue at 6 p. m.
Tuesday. Fsb S
Klwaals Club lunchsoa. Thomas
’Tsvern, 1 p. m.
Mssoale T>od«e, 8 p. m. ’
Thufsdav, iab. •
Rotary 'cash, ThfluiiA Tavam, at
POSTPONE BENEFIT POIX) GAME
UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4
L,
at
The polo gfome which was to have been played Wed
nesday for the benefit of the polio fund was postponed,
becau!>e of the very inclement weather, until next Wednes
day, February 4.
Tickets which were sold for the game this week wil
be good for the gsme on next Wednesday.
Manager Firad Tejan hopes to have one of the very
best games of the season on next Wednesday with the
gtal’8 of the Aiken and Cam^toR teaaf itarticipating and
one of the lairgeat mrowds of the entire jb|E| to expected.
All of Iht proceeds of the game will igo the Netiona!
jPoUo FHmd. . -
0 ndviillt iilt gI
The term* of the mayor under tho
commission form would be fixed
nt four years and that of the com-
mlsaioners at four years except
rhat In the first election one would
be chosen for only two years, the
•:ne receiving the lighter vote. This
would mean that one commisnloner
would hereafter be eleeted every
two years. >
The bill as Introduced by Sen
ator Kennedy follows In full;
Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Bodth Caro-
tins:
Section 1. That chapter 162. voto
nme 4, code of laws of Sonth Caro
lina, 1942, relating to ths commis
sion form of government of certain
cities, be. and the same te hereby,
amended by adding a seatlen M-
lowing section 7682 to be known
as section 7622-1, as followa, to wit:
"Section 7628-1. (1) There shall
'-e a special genwxl eleetloo ta
the city of Camden to he vited '
at by the qaalifled reglsteftol voters
of sold city on the s»cond Tnssday
m April, 1948, st which, nnless
otherwise herein prcvlded, the law
relating to the holding of and vot
ing at general eWtlona ta said
c ty shall be applicable
"(2) There shall be tamtohed
a anltlclent number of halloTs at
sold election to be cast by th.- vob
rs thereat with the following
words plainly printed or written
hereon, to wit:
"Shall the city of Camden adopt
he commission form of govern
ment with a city manager to lieu
of the present aldcrmanlc form?
, Yea No
(Those voting for the adoption
pf. the commlsfllon form of govern
ment will vote *Ye^* and scratch
NO’; those vottaf ngntaet such
'orm of government will vote ‘No’
end sdrateh ’Tes’).
**(2) If a majority of the voters
voting at said election shall vote
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Negro Confesses
Attempted Arson -
Mose MQler, colored, under ar
rest ta the county Jail oa « charge
of having attempts to bam the
Loom of Aaroa Cheatput on the
Black River' road, about «4ght
mflee from (tomden. has oonfeeaed.
Sheriff Gib DeBruhl said Wednea*
dty,
Miner set fire to ChastnaYa
home on the night of Jan. IS.
ChMstsat awolte'-sm4f the fire uteB-
extfngntohrd before the hons^ wea
i^nmad. MlUer wae errested last
Friday.
Sheriff BeBmbl eald Wedn-i*ds#
fie wlsh^ to thank the people of
that neighborhood for the esstst-
Ance they gave him ta apprebepd-
tag MUIsr.
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AUo^e Fuel Oil
To This County
Kershaw eeoaty haa bssn ane- /
rated 7.200 ganons of fpsl ofl from