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Scenes taken at the official breaking of dirt for the construction of the new
Du Pont plant are dhowm here. In picture *t left, J. D. Wilson, in charge of construc
tion as project manager, is shown examining 1 a blue print with James McCook, as
sistant project manager. Looking on from left to right are City Commissioner A.
Sam Kai'esh, A. D. McCoy of the Boyle Conatruction Co., A. Stanley Llewellyn,
chairman of the state planning, research and development board, Governor Thur
mond, Mrs Thurmond, Mayor Henry Savage, Jr., Senator R. M. Kennedy, Louis W.
Bishop, director state planning, research and development board, and City Commis
sioner Joe E. McKain. In the second picture Governor Thurmond is shown mov
ing the first shovelful of dirt. In the third picture the Governor is handing the
shovel to Mayor Savage, who moved the second shovelful of dirt. In picture at bot
tom left Governor Thurmond is seen shaking hands with Mr. Wilson — Photos by
Monarch Studio. , r ^- T '
Red Doss Drive
Will Begin In
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Chairman, Lists
The annual
fuesjjay,
1 Announcement
The Chronicle has
been sold to a corporation
chartered as The Camden
Chronicle, the sale havtag
been effective as of Monday.
Feb. 14. I
of the new
DaCosta
Har
old Bookar and Maury 8av-
rsTST
The
SarsTield Hotel
Springdale Race
Meet Announced
For March 12
Turns
First Shovelful Of
Dirt In Ceremony
The honor of moving the first dirt in the construction
of the plant to be built here by E. I. du Pont de Nemouss
& Company, Inc., was given to Governor J. Strom Thur
mond of South Cacolina on Monday afternoon wfoen James
D. Wilson, in charge of construction as project manager,
handed the shovel to the Governor for that purpose hs
movie and still cameras clicked.
Large Number Of Entries
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For 2nd. Annual Moat
ing It Expected
Contract Is Let
Tendum On Sunday
ies Asked *By Four
listers Of Camden
-V ~ ~
iferendum bn the question, of legalizing Sunday
Kershaw county is asked by four ministers of
i a statement given to The Camden Chronicle for
)n. The ministers signing the statement are Rev.
ill, pastor of the Lyttleton Street Methodist
lev. Floyd Montgomery, pastor of the First Bap-
h; Rev. Stiles B. Lines, rector of Grace Episcopal
Jnd Rev. A. Douglas McAm, pastor of Bethesda
ian church.
atement the ministers
>ey had requested of
legislative delega
te bill pending be
failing that, our peo-
fcn the opportunity to
tselves in a
manner on the issue,
en advised that hear-
held but will make
tee. The bill has al-
the Senate bat is
1e House.
that our
Town and
County....
•Spoke To RoUTT
James D.
construction at the
as project manager,
at the regular
in charge of
man of the 1949 fund cam
paign in Kershaw county an
nounced this week the names
oi the various chairmen who
will assist in the campaign.
The chairmen follow: Mrs. R.
E. Stevenson, residential -area;
Northern \ Colony, Mrs. Arden
Lowndto'Shd Mrs. Nettlea Lind
say; William M. Wilson, business
area; Mrs. Theresa Bell, county;
Mrs. John Mullen, dubs and or
ganizations; Bates ’Littlejohn,
WatereeMill: Reuben Pitts, Her
mitage hWl; V. W. Wrape, Jadyn
Hosiery Mm; Miss PrtecUla Buck-
ley and Harold Booker, publicity;
Mrs. Leon Schlosburg, window
displays; George Stuart, treas
urer; Jf G. Richards, city schools;
A. R. Collins. Rev/J. W. Boykin
and Dr. J. P. Pickett, colored area.
In« preparation for the nation
wide campaign Saturday, Feb. 28,
and Sunday, Feb. 27 have been
designated as Red Cross Sabbath
and Red Cross Sunday. This per
iod has been concurred in by the
Federal Council of Church of
in America, the executive
of the Synagogue Council
the National Catholic Wd-
fare Conference.,
Mr. Wilson, in commenting on
the campaign, called attentiofi to
the charter obligations of the
American Red Cross which state
the pUfcpo** of the corporation
to be: ' .tV'i’v''
’ "To furnish volunteer aid to
the sick and wounded of armies
in time of war.
‘To perform all the duties de
veloped upon a national society
by each nation which has acceded
to any of the said treaties (toe
Thirty-Two Rooms Will
A*M With ft**
On Ground Floor
Work ia scheduled to
start next week on the con
struction of an addition to
the Sarefield Hotel, which
will increase its capacity to
50 rooms. The addition will
be of steel, concrete and
brick and will be fireproof,
It Was announced.
The addition will provide for
additional store room on the
ground floor. The store room will
be 25x85 feet and has already
been leased for occupancy on4
June 15.
The addition 4o Ifre hotel will
be built over Am store room now
occupied by Sports Equipment,
Inc., and the new store room and
Official announcement
?hur&d*y tlvAfc th*
annual Springdale
Race meeting will take place
on Saturday, March 12 on
the hiatork Springdale
course in Camden. The an
nouncement was received
with pleasure not only in
Camden but over a wide area
as the first meeting last year
proved a very interesting
event
Mi are here from various
of the country in training
and these as well as -some now
at Aiken, Southern
„ . Tryon are expected to
pertkinate.
there will be five races as fol
lows:
The King Haiglar: Steeplechase
for 4-year-olds and upwards,
about two and a quarter miles
rer timber.
The Mulberry: Steeplechase for
4-year-olds angx upwards, about
two miles over brush. . I
The Holly Hedge: For 5-year-
olds and upwards, about one and
one-half miles over hurdles*
the Bloomsbury: For 3-year-
olds and upwards, six furlongs on
the flat
The Kamschatka: For 3-year-
olds and upwards, one mile on the
flat ' .X
Horses will go to the poet in the
first race ail sharp. ^
anted privileg^of^a. „
by which it will be'luncheon of ifee Camden Rotary
the people of the en- Club last Friday,
make known their
s important matter,
ily request that the
jation arrange such a
before taking upon
act further in this
statement by the
lows:
it to be the duty of
[to throw every safe-
the institutions tra-
with the re-
OurR
country to
■ of worship and
time in
ob-
Pnnt nlanti treaties of Geneva).
Pont plant ^ ^ ^ matters of
relief and in accord with the
tary and naval authorities as a
medium of communication be
tween the people of the United
States of
and Navy.
"To continue and •carry on a
Chronicle, wi
at the Ladies’
editor of The
ML be the
will conform to the remainder of
the building and will be of enamel
glass finished in black and alum
Inum. The addition will be two
stories high.
The 32 rooms will be outfitted
by the Simmons Company, of
Racine, Wls., and will be equip-
with the most modern hotel
t., AD rooms
will be outside rooms and there
will be a tiled bath room for
each room. AD will have wall-to-
waD carpeting.
It is also announced that .the
contract has been let for aircon-
ditioning the Hunt room and the Dr-
gjmtina airanflement will be °* the
changed so that 110 guests may }° tte
be accommodated at one time. • Tjojw*
The contract has bean let iqr a °« the _ ,
new 88 000 stainless steel kitchen church on next Sunday
new spn^smei^ *8 o’dodt
Goorgg A. Ct—4 An* Son
Low Bidders And Will
Feeling that the event was oaa
of importance sot only to Cafe-
den but to all of S
The Psmrisn
ttcials of the Du Pont
to cooperate wifife it in
‘ _ the op* tf
the construction work.
The compshy very kindly con
sented and Governor Thurmond,
Mrs. Thurmond, A. Stanley
Llewellyn, chairman of the Sflfc
Planning and Develop
end
Dr. Thomas Burton
To Speak On Way |
To Peace Sunday
president
Institute of Char
on “The Way to
in the auditorium
Contract for th« erection
of the new Camden Junior
High School was let by the
board of trustees on Wed
nesday afternoon to George
A. Creed A Son, of Camden
and Columbia, wftio were the
low bidders. The contract
calls for the completion of
the building In 190 days and
the contract price ia $18,575.
Eighteen bids were submitted
as follows: Mobley Construction
Co., Auguste. Ga., $152,781; Man
or Construction 'Co., Columbia,
$146,000; Craig Construction Co.,
Columbia, $142,500; Spong Con
struction Co., Columbia, $146,852;
C. J. Shocklsy Construction Co.,
Columbia, $151000; Southern
States Construction Co., Colum
bia, $148,880: Crosland Construc
tion Co., Columbia, $150,181;
Also, George A Creed 8c Son,
and Columbia, 188,575;
$142,000;
Charles
ton. 162^94; W. M. Fine, Spar
tanburg, $169,400: M. B. Kahn
Constniction Co., Columbia, $152,-
950; Southeastern Cons
Co., Columbia, $164,584; J.
lep 8e Co., Columbia, 8151,286;
Dawson Engineering,{Co., Charles
ton $151,000; Dotterer Engineer-
inr^CoTChSiBStoA $168,500;
Boyle Construction Co., Sumter,
$154,000^ ^Builders, Inc., Colum-
The new building is to be con
structed on the south side of the
Cwnden Grammar School on
Lyttletoo street and wiU be con
nected with the Grammar 8
building by a covered
It wiD contain a cafetei
Work is expected to start on
fee building at a very early date.
Coming Events
Karesh and Joe E. McKain and
Senator Robert M. Kennedy were
invited by The Chronicle to par
ticipate in the ceremony along
with Mr. Wilson of the Du Pont
Company, James McCook nf the
Du Pont Company and A. D. Mk-
Coy, superintendent for the Boyle
Company, grading contracts
News of the ceremony 1*
out and quite a crowd gat
to witness it
After Mr. Wilson had
the shovel to the Governor,
moved the first shovel full of di
end then passed the s
Savage
Dr.
state .
World
has tom.
len Deaen hotel.
Motor
driverYUmdias.A
of the highway de
ar
todal order in
Sunday
our
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protec-
will be thei
he applications for
of national and
elief In time of peace and
tie same to mitigating the
imd by pestilence
famine, lira, floods and other
great national pud to
devise and carry on measures for
preventing the same."
Mr. Wflson said that the Red
Cross is always first to the
iteri
the
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and
unit
r*'...
oeen oraere<
the hotel to
ties, weddings, banquets, etc.
In announcing the addition the on
Schlosburg Brothers, owners of,
the hotel, said they were prepar-1
tog to keep abreast
of Camden.
. i4
is a ww—wfrwr of the
a council of United
Rfle to North Caro-
fue of Nation Union
1827 and in 1937 he
i of the round table
and Cure of War in
a bachelor of science
Huckle h
TofLi
degree from Columbia University,
and doctor of education from Har-
i&jorea in nwvory ana
t at Columbia. In 1917
international laws at
of Vermont
To
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to Mavor
who moved
:ond shovel Of dirt
"This is a great *y for
taa** stod fiaim
md. The begin
ning of construction en the
multi-million Du Pont plant
le a source of deep satisfae-
tion to ma a* to all those
to the in-
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living tor
fortunate
the y**—* fse
plants
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