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• ■■ rw m . 0. ■ ■ sS I 60 ■;w<h ' v fc* Mil >W ; 'rr v kiA, < CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, OCTOBEE SZ. IMS Number v£k & ■ L’^O •w i»' --. Company Fr _ - ‘ ^ '■A' rAMk, c AJ 7uhkI* I •..4*iSIICUllfeiSMH roximately' Eighte^b Required To Build Activities— Plant. ■rvT^vr * t .vn ; ' .«r (Special'to Tte IINGTON, ; for 1 near re and lau ras ann iblished aetic [ for the mdst looking "said B. M May, nt for which the i with the p« i working closely with is expected la be started to ion work Camden Chronicle) —A multi-million dol- a# “Orion” acrylic * tw — 4 -* 1 commercial production of thi>| “ JriH Jbe built cn to this new pla«i_ of the Camden area March. ApfOoxi “• “ Ji will rover an area of 20 C. J. Shannon, IV iNamed President National i ,* * * Saccoeds Hit Fathtr, Who Bocomot Chairman Of Tha Bo<|i , 1 7 i Charles J. Shannon, Jr., resigned on Tuesday as president of the First Na- Bank of Camden, a n.whidh he had held e the organization of the k in 1905. He was elect-. chairman of the hoard oil Dfs and his son, Charles innon, IV, was sleeted ent W. Van Landtngtiam, who I n cashier of the bank, waa ▼tee president and cashier and the state. l many years ago by president Power To B« Cut Off Two Hours The city water and light da* oartmsni Announced this wook that tha power would bo off Sunday afternoon tram 2:30 to S o'clock to permit tho installation of larpar trans formers In tha DoKalb street on. __ interruption, it Is staled, will all patrons now serred by tho Municipal Utilities and all are asked to make their pl«w accordingly. ^ Tbo Carolina Light and Power Company announced that tha interruption in poor* or hear would e*—* tssyes oioc- trtcal service id Blanev, Lu- gofi Rambert end Boykin. The service points of tbo ‘ “ • Fairfield ■ 1 /j ■ -yft [ > - c • - • i ime Managers Of Election In . Kershaw Comity vu* - >'* design to Bo VoU* Up00 his 85th birth. and reared in Cam^si, mnon was educated at a school due to the fact that ♦£? t A? 0 i* public ■S 11001 * ^— time. At 13 years of ago, be torame a clerk in a mercantile He was bne of the foundm ^Springs and Shannon store] Mm both Federal and state and county elections have been named for Kershaw county for the general election to be held on Tuesday, NovemUerj Du Pont Company, with sub-contracts for such speeial- | conditions warrant ‘7/ '*, ^M 1 -.V * ■»'*' plant will be erected on a site of approximately 800 Wateree river. It is in Kershaw county about three of Camden and sbqut 28 miles northeast of Columbia, [purchase the trap (Aland were exercised last April 1 7 said the company Is into operation as rapidly as already b undaiion to gal tha project under Some preliminary drilled^ do- and tho prop- i erection of this plant, the Du Pont Company will become It part of the community," Be said. “In the construction 1 as well as it# operation we will rely heavily upon local " hire local people to Use fullest possible extent" ' ompleted, this plant will require approximately 500 men Construction of this plant will require an estimated 800 ak of activifiee. i a new synthetic fiber resulting from long research t laboratories. It originated in the Pioneering Research Rayon Department when work was begun on vinyl ids and their possibilities for fibers and films. At pres- ; required for tho development work are being made in tele pilot pUtnt offers properties which Jure considered outstanding to the textile industry. ice to deterioration by sunlight cotnmroSrft for use automobile tops, and other outdoor uses. Its resistance pack, particularly by acids, and its ability to withstand 1 ratures fit it for use in industrial applications. -- 11 -■ 1 ■' "V "■ ROTARY LADIES NIGHT The Camdgn Rotary Chib will ■ A _ a # ' .4 a _ A ML. - JT-*r r > day nigM, The Ion of the finance r hich has approved of the P-fiiMten idle all the finan- the company. | members are active| Walsh, of atives, S. du Pont, i retired stm company cc - -j- a a ureenyklt. is o is fortunate in the Du Pont Company come into this section as It is recognized as one of the greatest industrial organizations in the United States. The Du Pont Company operates 81 manufacturing plants and 38 raaaarch laboratories and employs approximately 78,000 people. Its annual payroll is over $260,000,000 All told Du Pont manufactures about 5.Q00 different chemical | products.. 1 Tho • company’s ownenhi group is mad* up of appro matdy 91,200 holders of common rod preferred - shares. There are Slightly ooer 11,000,000 shares of Va common stock outstanding rod approximately 2^00,000 shares of preferred Stock. About 80 pter cent of the own ers of common stock are indivi duals—people in all walks of life, of whom about 44 per cent are women and a substantial number are employees of the company. The remaining stock is owned by insurance companies, trust funds, estates, banks, and by charitable^ educational fraternal organi zations, through which there la si large collateral distribution of ownership. Du Pont is an organization dedicated to individual initiative, in which new ideas and new de velopments find full expression^. Julian n ilgA'lI* <artVSETLS^uuned JBa xrZFT** ■ W %tete9 bank navinf that time, the bank having be come om of the soundest flnan- cial institutions in file state under Ms guidance. j Charles J. Shannon, IV, the new president of the bank, is o grad uate of the University of North Carolina rod University of North Carolina law school He has bean livenity University *hool. He 32 asa law in He has been , Camden since 11 in the firm to !£?*** whkh era braced something over three yeara He now holdg the rank of lieutenant commander in the Nov i partner Shannon Si Kiwenic president ol the Reserve n He is a member of the * there i* s contest MmJL. te • — ' * ^ m a* i will elect a President to serve for the next four yean. South Carolinians will also ratify tihe nominations made in the Democratic primary in this state this summer. A number of constitutional amendments will be voted upon in this state, only two of them of state-wide interest, oat being to repeal the constitutional inhabi- tion of divorces in this state and tho othte: to limit the pardon pow er of the Governor. As usual mere ore o great many local amend ments. jFor the first time in many years, the Hear Carnegie Named President Outlined Of Kiwanis Club The general public > is in vited to attend a meeting in tihe Hunt room of the Sara- field Hotel on next Monday night at 8 o’clock at which time* Dr. Thomas Burton, president of the Burton In stitute, of Charlotte, will ex plain . the Dale Carnegie course, on how to make friends and influence people iblic speaking. Camden To Go Forward IChai Better tible fornUy high and v-T- "" \ja. wix; ivaval Reserve, is Camden city attorney, and * vestryman in Grace Epis- Julian Burns, w^H known young business man iof the city* was elected president of the Camden Kiwanis Club at the annual election-of of ficers held at the regular weekly luncheon of the club Tueeday. He will assume the office on January 1, succeed ing Usher N. Myers, present president, who automatically keen made vice president and cashier, has been with the First Nationid Bank since 1909. Ha was made cashier In 1920 and has held that position «*»>«*• that time, ami is well known and popular in the city. ^ r Mrs. Louise Weeks Passes Suddenly Mrs. Louise Weeks,* wife of John L. Weeks, Bloomsbury on Lyttle- ton street, and one of the pioneer winter residents of Camden, died at her New York home TUeeday, according to word received here. Mr. and Mrs. William Mrs. Beebe ‘ (1) to men of < policies of it vsrzerSmS Carolina, and Sera lectoral tickets in the field, the regular Democratic ticket, the Trgnan ticket,_the Republican (Wallace) ticket , The tickets of the States Rights smocrats, the Truman Demo crats and the Republican follow: States' wigMa Democratic (Thurmond-Wright) * ff+nstw Burnet R. May bank'. , - Representative In Congress Joseph R. “ T—Mentis! .,^-nnr Eugene S. Blease Charlton Durant Harry M. Arthur Irving M. Fishburne Leon Harris J K. Mayfield I. Clyburn Wilson Burnet R. Maybank Vote Ifarf Fnifey On Annexation Wateree Village Voters Of City And Alta Of Tarrifary Ta Ba A«i- ntxad Must Favor It A special election will be held next Friday, October 29 od the annexation of the Wateree Mill village to the city of Camden, the election having been ordered last weekend by the Commission ers for State and County Elections for Kershaw coun ty. There will be two ballot homo for the election. Voters of the city will cast their ballots at the ritf hall buOding while tH e ‘ v-*-~ the at the . polls will Tho at 8 o’dock in the at 4 o'dock in the afteroero. In etder lb tote to the election Hsnasen of election for 'jjj ^ Ev«y ay Ioto tration certificate. if election at the i at rod as attorney Company gave ' out this statement Wednesday afternoon: “An election has been called for October 29th to determine the question of whether or not an area east of Camden, including —. the Wateree village, shall be an nexed to the city of Camden. From the numerous questions ask ed me on the street I find that many people desire before the election to have more information on the matter. In a series ef meet ings the pros and cons, as far so , . the Wateree village is concerned, were fully discussed with the peo- & residing in that area. In an ef- to give the same information to tha people of Camden, several': weeks ago the matter was dis cussed on tho WACA Forum Hour. However, it appears that there -AMI ~ ai ^4 t ^ e . Progreidv * Party »till ore many people who have nony peopl questiono t I misht tak numerous 1 — I thought I might take advantage of your columns to inform them as to the facts in so far as I can. “First let me review the pro- dure: Annexation procedure calls first for a petition of the landown- A petition was addressed to City Commission bya majority . he landownera in the area ly ing immediately east of tfie city of Camden limits between what is known as Lewisville and the Creek, and extending northward- ' up the city limits and including e Village, included in.this area is also the Pine Tree school and several blocks of undeveloped land between “ — J the county election set 'm m .. . - BH - - ,• ^ '.rrj -