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CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, OCTOBEE SZ. IMS
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roximately' Eighte^b
Required To Build
Activities—
Plant.
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near
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ras ann
iblished
aetic
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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
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will rover an area of 20
C. J. Shannon, IV
iNamed President
National
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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
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ime Managers
Of Election In .
Kershaw Comity
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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]
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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
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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.
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ROTARY LADIES NIGHT
The Camdgn Rotary Chib will
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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
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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
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