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Volume 59
CAMDEN» SOUTH CARbUNA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1948
Number 48
Presenting A Very Rare Scent In City Of Camden
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City Registration To
Begin On Feb. 23 For
Vote On Manager Form
City Cotmcil Formally Passes Ordinsuice Providing For
Special Election To Be Held On April 13—Managers
Of Election Named And Polling Place In Each Ward
Designated
He!s Getting His Mid-day Meal
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At a meeting of the Camden, City Council held Mon
day evening a special general election was ordered for
April 13 at Which time the voters of the city will'have tin
opportunity to vote on' the comission-city manager form
of government. Airangements were made for the opening
of the books or registration, polling places were designated
and managers of election appointed.
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This is a picture of a stroot soana in Csmaden'that
%ity to taka often. Tbo picture was taken from the 1
f^dsy amd the scone is looknif south on Broad stroot
rhh two inchos of sloot and snow.
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—^Photo by Monarch.
Bs not have an oppor*
^of the Baptist Church
ground was ooverod
Sleet, Snow And ice
Admmistratwr
fsr Assets
on Is Speaksr Al
on Of
Qdk
Camden Taki
Whipping Fi
Is Worst , In
'errific
Weather;
ly Years
^oeral Rohert-M* iittla*
former War Assets Ad-
istrator, was the guest
Aker at the weekly lunch-
I of the Camden Kiwanis
Tuesday and the native
th Carolinian gave the
anians some highlights
lis work during the war
n he was in' the import*,
quartermaster division
also of his work as the
Assets Administration
Even some of Camden’s old
not recall a worse spell of weal
been viaited upon tb^ city thia '
‘ to flv
general said be took charge
Ihe quartemiMter corps in
1940, and that at the time
sd 17 clerks, no money snOl
lothes. He t^ of his efforts
et clothing for the army of
iOOO men which he was told
to be built up immediately.
development of the Quarter-
fcr division waa tonched on
be General who told of the
erful record made in getting
lies to men dnrjng the Inrs
d1 Europe.
lieral Littlejohn paid high trlb-
the British. He Mid he went
Dgland somewhat anti-British
aid that in the two years he
Ithere he never failed to get
|ponslve chord from the Brit
government and the British
and that he had very great
ct for them.
ae of the early difficulties of
^'ar Assets Administration
^Qinbteed to glvu^it kste, slMt,
vrell havt imaginsd during ..
frozen north—except ^st with ml
i ice that was experienced here the ^
too low.
According to H. A. Brown, the Many
local Weather boreaa man. the low- closed
est reading of the tberemometer sftem
this wSek has been .20 degrecMi on ployeea
Tuesday Wming. The mercury aituatio
dropped as low as 14 degrees here Tnesdi
in Januiry so that the city. > has
experienced colder weather this
yesr than it has had this week hut
nothing like as dlsagreeabls.
Mr. Brown Mys that about
two InohM of stoot and snow
fail horo Monday. It wm mostly
siset, ho Mid, thero boing a
littio snow mixsd with it
The itreets of the city were «or-
ered with the oombinstion of sleet,
snow and frosen rain «o that traf
fic wap hifhiy dangerous and
pedestrians found it dangerons to
negotiate their way mi foot.
The .city schools closed early
Monday and remainded closed
throdSh Thursday. Most through
bases discontlaned operstlons
Shy that they can-
lan that which has
hen thg elements
1e^ Ong cosldl wtii b#
lat he was' In the ^
le snow, sleet and
ture did not drop
The election was ordered in
compliance with the provisicnB of
an act latifled at this session of
the General Assembly of South
'Carolina providing for same. ,
The ordinance psMed by
Council provided that the
books of registration be open
ed by the Supervisor of Regis
tration in the offise of the
City Clerk on February 2S and
remain open each day there
after through March 17.
The polls will open "'at I s. m.,
on April 12 and remals open until
15 p. m., and will bo located as fol-
(lows:
Ward 1—City Recorder’s Court
room.
Ward 2—City FlUiim Station.
Ward I—CarolhM Motor Com*
pany. _
Ward 4—^John Y. Ifsttles resi-
denca
Ward S—Dr. R. K. Steyenson’s
residence.
Ward S—Mrs. C. ^'M. HonghV
reskienca «
“ The toUowlag msMgers of elec
tion were sppolsisd:
Ward 1—Mra. John H. Hendrix
and W. C. Stewart.
Ward f-*MTa. C. R. Lswls and
Mrk. wniism Johnson.
Ward S—Mrs. OWwtS 'W. Wilson
sad Mrs. Qrsce Mng^
Ward 4—Mrs. DIen flottiss and
Mra A. A. Reasgngoor.
Ward 5—Mrs.' R. M.~8tereuon
and Mrs. N. R. Ooodala
Ward f—Mrs. 0. M. AMMh ant
Mrs. T. C. Gladden.
In conneotlen with foglstrs-
jtlon It Is pointnt su| jhat in
ts vots If Mili Mtntlsii H
tented
disconce
first real
had had
The
struggled
condltious
scraping
ueM sectl
ice WM so
dimculty
ting it ott.
Mr. Bro
this had
Camden has
the cold liM
He said that
rain had
ready, or si
in the whole
places of bnsineM
^tbau usnal Monday
ler that their em-
home before the
wocaa
ling the city pre-
if some what
lena It was the
of whito that it
time.
department
to cope with
a force of mmi
of the busi-
Tuesday. The
,t considerable
tiered in get-
'ednesday that
•rerest winter
ears, in that
prtrfonged.
•nr Inches of
'ebrusry al-
uch as fell
January.
Plans Are Going
Ahead For Horse
Show On Feb. 21
. Plans are progressing rap
idly for the informal local
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Kerosenl
For Emel
Of
Sent
Use
Mayor
has been
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rtSBcin Aumimsuwiiu^idiy lof me i Oil
outlined by the Oenerilj Horse ShOW wWch
that these difficulties were ^ 21 at Mrs. Mar-'Camden 'has
Ironed out and the admlnls- neiO on r c • . . emergency R]
in had done a good Job. lon duPont ^Ott 8 WOW X
lerai Littlejohn wm Intro-: beginning at 4 p. ^ v«rosene is on
by Col. John F. Wall, who Thia show
gjiest of the club. Ed. H Uhe Camden Hunt ««
was In charge of the P*’®'
for the day.
sldent Usher Myers presldad.
keral Littlejohn wM told by a
bentative of Tbs Ckroniets
he had been mentioned in te*
papers as a'poMible candMsts
^vemor of South CaroUas.
at’s what I have been told.
be seven claMes for children,
three for adnlts and the fSmily
claM. Ribbons will be given in
all clsases and in addition two
chUdren's horaemaaship troidifss
will be given by Mrs. Tbomss Wsl-
ler sad Hsrry D. Kirkorer.
^ There will be no sdmisskm
'■ ' r .diSTge or entry fee. Post entries
Mplled snd hsd no) wiU be used. There will be s
^^mment to miBke. icbsige for ring side psrktag, r
" ~ ^ ' ervsthms for which esa he msde
St tbs .Comer Book Storsi
irda; WiQ
{Observed As
ipital Tag Day
turday wilt "be obMrved ss
Day for the Camden hoe*
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’<iB event le staged annually
|the Womsn’i Auxiliary of
^hospital snd Quits a nsat
' is rs'ted Moh ysar for ths
of ths/auxiliary In this
of Die auxllTsry
eompistsd all prepars-
i for ths day snd will te en
IstrestS-Mfiy.
] the svsnt ef Inelsmeet
^•r Tag Day will be pest-
^ for ons wssk -md w4tt
Satnrdev. fsbmsry.
sf tis
Criminal Court
To Meet Monday
ted to emerge;
The city bad
distributing this
rangements have
ILsngtord's Bsso
ton sad DeKslb
tt.
AppHcsnts for ths
call tor it sad
gmnon esas.
This kerosene is
to those in special
apMnnt la ttmited
per applIcsBt.
Gorki e
ly the
ly that
en an
if 2.-
This
Hot-
eemethihS bebesdn FbUhisfy 2S
snd March 2y.st the city hell.
Mo ether rsgfstretion oertffl-
eate will sumes. Reglatratien
oertifleatea lesued by the eoun-
ty registration beard at the
court house will not enable a
voter to pertielpate In this
eisetion.
The ballot to be used in the elec
tion srill read;
'‘Shall the city of Camden adopt
the commlMlon form govern
ment with m city manager in lien
of the present aldarmanic form?”
There will be a ’Yes” sad s
”No” on the ballot and the voter
will be aaked to Indicate whether
he voiea •‘Yea” or "No.”
Town and
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• It Sure Is
Now is the winter of our discon
tent
• Spools Closed
The Camden schoola have been
closed every since Monday after
noon because of the weather.
•Wheel C^ir Wanted.
The county department of pub
lic welfare is in need of s wheel
chair for a 60-year-old colored wo
man, who la paralysed from Uis
waiat down. It would appreciate
if any one who hM a chair they
would let it have for her H thagr
would call the department at phone
tlO.
•Easten Star MeeCimf.
The Leslie Zemp Chapter, Ord
er of the BMtern Star, wUl hoM
its regnlsr monthly meeting st the
Masonfo Hsn on Thursday night,
Msh. It. A oeverod dish supper
wn ho served st 7 s’elock.
—Photo by Monarch.
The question of pigs came up again at t^e meet
ing of the Camden Rotary Club last Thursday so Lee
Little had J. P. Jones, local insurance man, hrfaig in
one which he is raising on the bottle and feed it as a
group of amaxed Rotarians looked on. The pig’s moth
er died and Mr. Jones is raising it on the bottle and
it seems to he thriving.
Fow Chafes h
Zone Ordinance
Teen-Age Golf
Toum^ent To
To Be Considered Be Held H«re
Meeting Of Commisnon Will,
Be Held On March 1 Forj
Pnrpoae Of Ceosiderinf]
. PFniytali
State Junior Chiunber Of
Commerce Accepts Local
*lnwitatMMi For Etrent To
BeHeldThls
•Polo Game Sunday.
Wpsther permitting, s combins-
tion Csmdsn-Alken team will meet
Carl Lightfoot's Mulberry Wlur
Hon la whst hMt fair to he si.
exeitlag polo game Seaday after-
lasqa at i o'clock at Klikwood
MIM. Managar Fred Teiaa hopec
to have Lewie Smith snd Johnny
Hossng of Aiken here to play with
hhn and Ekldie Tejan agidnet the
Ughtfoot aggregation of Sabin,
Ramoa, CarU and Llgbtfoot.
o Thw “L Q.” Vary Poor
Marlon Heyman, who wm in
charge of the program at the
Camden Rotary Club’S regular
weekly luncheon Iset Thursday,
took the "1. Q.” of the club mem-,
bera and found it to be 100 perj
cent nil. He propounded s very In-j
tereaUng teet to the clnb and when
he took up hla papera not a mem
ber of the club had answered the
qnection which he Mked correctly.
It waa a very intereeting program
nevertheleM. ■
• Maalmf Postponad
The annual meeting of the Cam
den Civic Council which wm to
have been held Tbun^y afternoon
at 4 o’clock in the rAreatlon room
of the Preebyterian Snnday school
building bM been poetponed until
Thursday afternoon, Febmary It
jat 4 o’clock at the Mme place. The
illness of Chairman A. Stanley
Uewellyn and the very inclement
weather wm the cause of the post
ponement
Funeral Services
Mrs. Wyfie Hogne
This community was deeply
shocked iMt Friday momiug when
It became known that Mrs. Sadie
White Rogue, age 64, beloved wife
of S. Wylie Hogue, had succumbed
to a h^rt attack.
Her Mssing cMt a cioom over
the entire community, but espec
ially In the Betbesda Presbyterlnn
church membership, where she
was held In great a^ection and es
teem. She wssjiS loval worker in
the church and^er Christian spirit
endeared her to alL
She was bom in the Spring Hill
community of Lee county May 18,'
1893. being a daughter of the lat**
T.avrrence A. and Minnie McLeod
White.
She leaves to mourn her passing,
her husband. S. Wylie Hogue, this
city: a son, Wylie Hogue, Jr., of
the Union Theological Seminary.
Richmond. Va.; a daughter, Minnie
Harris Hogue of this city; four
brothers. L. A. White of Daliell.
H. D. Whlfo of Roano^a, Va, J. O.
White of Charlotte end Waiter
White of Caaeatt
Funeral rites, whteh were large
ly attended and which featured a
wealth bf exQulsIte fforsl expree-
siems of sympathy and aftsetion.:
WM held Satarday afternoon frem
the Bethseda Presbyterien church., —««•*
with Rev. Al DouglM McAm, oMthe cltlsen finally got up and went
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Henry SavAge, Jr., chAir*
UAn of the Zoning Commis-I
ilon of the City of Camden,
gnnounced this week that a.
hearing would be the)d be-|
fore the commission at the
office of the city clerk and
tareasiirer on Monday, March,
1 at 7:80 p. m., on four pro
posed changes and amend-1
ments to the zoning ordin
ance of the city.
one eC the prepeeels -io be oon-
|el4aMd wlU be to reiae the per
mitted storage of gMoUne in Zone
A (the fire tone ef the city) from
1400 gallons to AOOO gaiions.
Another proposal is that all cf
the area lying between DeKalb,
Market, Rutledge snd Broad
streets be included in Zone A. ths
firs tone.
A third proposal Is that the
weatem limit of the tire sone in
the block bounded nortb by DeKslb
street, eMt by Broad street, sontb
by Rutledge street and weet by
Church street, be extended to a
line tSOO feet west of Broed street
The fourth proposal Is that the
eastern limit of Zone A, the .fire
sone, in the Mock bounded nortk
by Walnut street, east by LytUe-
ton street, eoath by DeK^ etreet
The annual South Caro
lina teen-age golf tourna
ment sponsored each year
by the South Carolina Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce
will be held in Camden this
snmmer, the board of direc
tors of the state (urgaaiBatioB
having accepted ^e invita
tion extendi by tbe local
chapter of the JayCeea at a
meeting held in Greenville
Saturday. f -
The imrltetion wm extended on
behalf ot the local club by Prill*
den fVairic Rector, Jolly Pitts and
RaniMy Horton, who attended the
Greenville meeting. It is expected
that there will be ever twenty
participants in the tournament
which will be held on the cotirse
ot the Camden Country Club,
which la coopMutlng with the local
chapter of Uie JayCeee in the
event
The tonmament wm held in Co
lumbia last year and wm a two-
dsy affair. Only boys who have not
fMsed thsir Sith birthdays will be
elfgibis te eater.
At tbe Greenville meeting Mr.
Pitts showed s moving picture film
of the natlonsl Jeyffoe teen-ege
' toamssMut held in Peoria Ust yeer
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• Local Fighter Does Well
Ed Hudson, (^mden boy, hss
been going pretty good In the ring
lately. He won a decision in s bout
at (Charlotte bn^ lo«t at Augusta
' Ra turday. Rnteoa did s gop**
bit of boxing in the army and ac
cording to some of the experts be
has the making of a good fighter.
• Miller Back In Jafl
Mose Miller, arrested iMt week
on an arson charge, and who wm
releMed from lail on ball bond,
was returned to the Jail Snnday
when the bondsman withdrew bte
bail. Miller will be tried st the Fsb-
msry term of court.
• Cota wirntto Tan
A loesi cltisen reports that Ms
dog kspt barking one nigbt this
[week. He msde so much noise that
WeHneadau Ol
InWarOnRi
fldsHng. Bnrial took place in the
I family lot of St John’s Methodist
chnrch oessetery st Spring HDl.
out to see what the trou'—
He found that tbe dog’s tall had
frosen to the sleet
Date h Aowroved
The Spring term of Court of
General SeQpions will cmivene on
Monday momAig. Fab. lA with
Judge J. Henry Johnson, of Allen
dale; pcesiding. Jurors for (he
tMm were snnonneed iMt week.
A fkumber of. eesM are scheduled
for trial including the one against
Samuel Ballard, taegrov who Is
charged with the slaying of bis
wife, Hester Brown Ballard, and
bis stepdanghter, Klla Nora Brown
on the night of Jaanary 24.
HAA AlIN mCK
O. R. AMmmtm, of liberty HIU,,
,hM been remfsrsffng. % re-
psaa mas— ah tlm hmto liltl
Wednssdfty, February
D-Day for the war on
Shaw county.
Tbe county agent’s
placed orders for nee
pounds of rat poison and
ers in G>e county have b
to put it out on tbes dam'
that dMUt will be dealt
over the’connty. .
iCarolina Clip Races
To Be Held Marcli 27
Cat0den WUl PI
Bartapltte Frtdai
The Ca^en High School
bsU'QisomQ wlU 1^ the r
High School beateSteU
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Harry D. Kirkover received a telegram 'IJiuTsday
ning stating that the National Steeplechase and Hun'
iciation. had sanctioned the sixteenth annual Carolina
meeting for tlie Springdale Course for Saturday.
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^llr. Kirkover amid that pfeparations had already be-
evaat to draw throngr
M«ew»| ewsuMnwai noiQ IB IBBt
snd west by Broed street be ex-'dad In whJeb tbe two winners of
tended to e Uni running north snd‘"'^ . -
south half wsy between Brosd snd
Lyttleton streets so that sll the
western half of the Mid block will
be removed from Bone D, the reel-
dentisl sons, snd Inclnded la Zone
A, the fire tone.
Bethane Espects
To Do Without
A Liquor Store
A story from Bethune Mys that
,— wmeMwem va
the Sontb CsroUna tonrasment per-
ticipetsd.
The State convention ef the Jay-
Cesa win be held st Myrtle Beech
In April. Mr. Rector Mid that the
iewaid of the most outstanding
young man of the year wm voted
to Congressman Wniiam Jsnnlngs
Bryan Doran ot the Third Sonth
Carolina district
In addition to Representative
Dora, RepTMontatlves J. R. Bryson
and L. M. Rivers ettended the
Greenville meeting, the latter being
the banquet speekey.
A story from Bethune Mys tbstlmw^^ _ i u^
the people of that community who j HdCv/OlKl© I; BvOlS
have been fighting tbe establish-'
ment of a liquor store there appear
to have won their fight
The dispatch Mys:
”Throngh the medium of the
Kershaw county legislative delega
tion, which hM submitted a reso
lution to tho state tax commission.. -
protesting the licensing of s liquor Jy denonneing the
store In Bethune, it is almost ce^
tain that those who like to imbibe
wm have to buy their liquor else
where.
"The Kershaw delsgatioii in a
resolution snbmitted to the stats
tax commlMlon declares that ths
law enforcement facllltlee at Be-
tbnne are inadequate, also that the
eltisenry Is almost 190 per cent
opposed to heving a liquor store
there and farther that the present
liquor dlstrtbnUon outlets in the
country are adequate to the pres
ent demand.
. "The delegation requests the tax
body to refuse to grant a liquor
store license for tbe town of
Bethune.’
Cotton Picking
Machine Beu^
By Local Farmers
Kershaw oeunty wlil have Its
first ectton pieklna machies In
ooerstion next fall. One ef
these machines wm told re-
oently to W. Anerum Beykln
hful sees elates, and It repre-
Mnte a alxeable Inveetmant.
QuHe a few fermere ere tw-
teresfrd In pprehaplna a me*
lad huft thev pra «»
Secession From
National Party
Mayor Francis N. McCorklo ia*
sued a statement this week bitter
ly denouncing tho "civil rights'*
legislation which to beteg advo
cated by Prsstdsot Truman and
Northern Dmnocratle toaders.
"Preetdent Trumaato fhlr prao*
Uca propoaals do not iMka even
e grafa of 00080.” Mid flu Mayor,
who daclarsd that tho South to go-
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dug to maintain Its trmdltlona
"no racial trouble wOl develof .tt
the Northern politldaiia win atop
meddUug in the South to get the
negro votee in tho North.*’
Tho Mayor declared Biat "Bi«re
Is one solutioB and that to to
withdraw from the national partv
and form a Southern party with no
obligations to the national Drau^
cratlc party. The South hM lit
tle or nqthing to gain under tee
preseat set-up.
*1 woold like to see tbe Soothf
Wn states withdraw from tbe DetoW
cratlc party and form a Sontberu
party of its own snd name Hon.
Burnet R. Maybank or somo other
outstmidlng man from below the
Mason and Dixon Una for Presi
dent”
Machinery Break
Hampers ChronMe
The Chronicle wm delayed seu#-
what thto week by the breahdowa
ot an Important piece ot
srv in the nschaatael
r tell ^ vn
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