The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 18, 1949, Image 1
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CAMDEN, SDUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1949
Nomb«r 1
m
ntract Let For New Greyhound Terminal
ler Asks
Give
Release
ient A* City
lere Brings A
Council
e city council of
to Camden
fternoon for a
nth the Camden
1 in an effort tq
den Commisaion-
se Lott Rogers,
of Lancaster,
ceptance of the
city manager of
er
All Clashes Are Filled
Almost Record Entry
*
List For Horse Show 1
To Be Held Saturday
■■ in ———
An almost record entry has been received for the Cam-
deii Horse Show which -Will be held Saturday at the Junior
Horse Show ring at Cool Springs and officials of the show
say that inf all or the 35 years of its existence^ the show
has never boasted of greater quantity or quality in entries.
The show, which is being put
on under the auspices of the Cam
den Hunt, as usual, is being spon
sored this year for the first time
by the Camden Junior Chamber
'•<4
.as been offered the
ad accepted. When
decision in Lan-
of protest arose
of that city as
iincil and the coun-
to come to see the
Commissioners in
ive them release Mr.
acceptance.
that 9m
his
[pie
kis accep t
Sentood
that ihtir fixai
to the people
they fsrt that
the right
, manager fas Mr.
that thtgr wartW
came to
years ago and has
excellent record
the second man to
Lancaster for the
delegation
iror K. C. Billings
were Aldermen
E. C.
. Angus
and T.
Commerce, which has done a
thorough Job of publicizing it and
a very large attendance is expect- j
ad*
For the first time this year,
spectators who do not have ring
side parking space, may ait in
'comfortable bleachers and watch
the show. Heretofore they have
had to stand.
All 15 classes of the show
are varn well filled with two
, of leading ■** k1 * m In ♦***
country heading the UaL Both
of South*
r. C- Vernon O.
Cardy and Mrs. Audrey Ken*
Mrs. Kennedy has entered four
of her top hunters in an atempt
to gain another lag on the cham-
irhich must be
for
She won the
championship last year with her
Irish horse, Taugh-A-Baugh.
The Canadian exhibitor, Ver
non Cardy, tends the very best
of his large string of show hunt-
I ung Bis first win of the
Memorial Trophy, em-
■ of the
y and ! _
on the horse show
M l » ,t n»r,.wffl.b»Mw.'Cw-
QjTS represeniauves. <
Mrs. James A. Blackmon, of
ftfon, N. C, ha
4-year-olds. ,
The noted horseman, Arthur
Reynolds, of Tryon Is sending one
grey, horse for the green
New Highway
Postoffice To
Service Camden
Initial Trip Charlotte
To Flortnct Scheduled
For Moreli 31
ED -w-
'
it-j;
Building To Be
Fmished On Or
Before Oct. 1
To Be Colonial le Design
And Total Cost To Be
Around $85,000
This is how the new Greyhound Bus Terminal for Camden, on East DeKalb
Street, will look when completed. The contract for the building was let this week
and work has already started on it. The building w<hen completed
an expenditure of approximately |85,000, not including cost of the
building will be of Colonial design.
Movies
In House
legalize Sunday
en has been pass-
_ by the Houae
third reading.
, Record Thursday
lowing story about
Sunday
would Inh
puse bill up for
• , j
Rees Gettys in-
| measure which is
osed by his col-
ell Kelly, both Kef-
epresentatives.
Gettys said that
Kennedy favored
his point on the
|House Tuesday and
petition with 4,150
ig Sunday movies
linments.
of staging a fil-
the bilL Kdly de-
| stating facts, that's
ig. I don’t tUnk the
lant Sunday movies,
phurches don’t want
iewed the recreation
at had been the out-
war and cited the
zed Sunday antar-
|let the voters in 1950
ler we were right or
queried.
1 gave the bill secohd
ise of a majority of
aber delegation fav-
h>uld prohibit public
at church or pray-
|6S»
Tom
of Flort
Camden will be serviced
by the new highway post of
fice which will begin opera
tions Thursday, March 81,
between Charlotte and Flor-
ence. The first traveling post
office will arrive in Camden
at 10:29 orf the morning of
March 31 and a stop of 15
minutes will be made here
for ceremonies in connection
with the first run of this post
office on wheels, marking a
new development in the poe-
taL service. The post office
Sir
Seek Addition
ToPosloffice
ir Wm' 1
To Stotfy Ngsds
Lorger Quoitars
Building Permits
Since Man 1 Near
Half Million Mark
the city shape May L 1S4I
zjui ngurg qom nc
9m cost of wfaring.
nignl
City Hay Annex
Kendall Houses
reach Ci
m.. on the
;amc
., v U retu
Florence. /
After the first
fice will reach ^
morning from Charlotte
and returning that afternoon will
“ the city at 4:39 p. m.
Wicks will show
winner of two
February Horse
Walter
her Blue Girl,
classe sin the
Show.
Local entries include horses of
C. P. DuBose, Jr n Mulberry Plan
tation, W. F. Buckley, Kent Mil
ler, S. C. Clyburn, Shannon Heath
and Cyril Harrison.
William Boyd, of Camden, and
Joe Bates, of Wateree, and Miss
Penelope Coker,, of Hartsville,
have entries. . ... ...——
The Sheffields, W.
bum, DuBose, Miller and
children will have entries.
The Judges will be J. North
Warrenton, Va^ and
of Unionville,
Pa.;
Cocks,
car
clerks on to who will work the
mail Just as it is worked on rail
wary mail cars.
The post office will leave Char
lotte every morning at 6 a. m., and
will stop at Lancaster, Heath
Springs, Kershaw, WestviHe,
Camden, Bishopville, ‘ “
Hartsville, Darlington and
ence, arriving at Florence at 11:15
a. m.
Returning it will leave Florence
Ipr sa^ and arrive in Charlotte
at 7:15 p. m.
The post office will give Cam
den much better mail service to
HartsviUsL Darlington and Flor-
and the PeeDee j
^ noted steplechase
Ukrifige, the world’s
steeplechase money
“ r Battle, both 1
it Miller, will be
leading
er, and
SHOW
Dog show will be
Wednesday afternoon
pare at 3:30 o’clock.'
Subscription To
Carolina Cup Comes
From Czechoslovakia
Evan fan far away Csecho-
slovalda there b thou^ii of
the Carolina Cup race.
Harry D. Kiraover, chalr-
man^of the^race, recefared Uu»
cup races from Major Edward
B. Whitman, assistant sir at
tache# of the U. 8. Embassy
fas Praguat.
SPOKE TO XIWAM1B
Verd Peterson, state supervisor
of vocational agriculture, was the
guest speaker at the regular
luncheon of the Camden Kiwanb
Club otf Tuesday. Mr. Peterson
spoke on some trends in educa
tion. Hulan A. Small was in
charge of the program and intro
duced the
will have one or two
to who
A postal inspector has
den at 6:03 visited Camden to make a
survey of the need for larger
quarters for the local post-
office, at the request of
Representative J. P. Rich
ards and Poetmaater C. P.
DuBose. f'ix
ro mail the Post Office Department the
irn trip from
day the poet of-
Camden each
Charlotte aft 8*59
The highs
od to
. .. ^pcV^un-
derstood to be about 40 feet long
and is motor-driven.
A large crowd is expected to
er at the post office on March
10:29 to see the arshod of
time
gatha
31 at
post officer for the first
sozife sort of welcoming
mony will be planned
Mail Delivery To
New Section City
The Post Office Department has
promised mail delivery to the citi-
sens of the newly annexed section
of the city hist as soon as it can
be arranged. _
The department-has asked that
the city renumber the housea on
the streets and this will be done
aft once.
Clemson Alumni To
Have Dutch Supper
Clcmsen College alumni an
supporters will have a Dutch sup*
per at Gus Ward's Friday night
at 8 o’clock.
There will be an election of
officers for the coming year and
mafitm pictures of the Clemson-
WakeFarest football game win be
of the
■ mm * * e 14
ID# CUT Wmm Mquiraa XOT lie
Mew residences are balng
built all over the dty.
necessity of mwe
ed out that
was erected
postal receipts at that time in the
office were approximately $12,-
000 to $14,000. For the past few
years they have been between
$41,000 and $48,000.
Mr. DuBose pointed out in his
letter that during the put year a
of new plants had ‘
Baruch Day To
About May!
City Commissions Hove
Assuronco That No'll
Accopt Invitation
number of new plants had located
in Camden and referred to the big
ptont which the Du Pont r
pany was planning to build.
Representative Richards
the matter up with the Post Of
fice Department and was notified
that an inspector Would come to
Camden and make an investiga
tion to determine if additions!
facilities wen needed.
( Bernard M. Baruch ii ex-
^eWg pected tp come to Camden of the,
Com * about the first of May to be
the guest of honor of the city ~
on a day which will be offi
cially set aside aa "Baruch
Day.”
Contracts were executed
Tuesday morning with the
Alcott Construction Com
pany of Sumter for the con
struction of the handsome
new Greyhound Bus Termi
nal building to be erected
on DeKalb street and pre
liminary work got under
way Wednesday afternoon,
amount of the contract
will represent waa not but Grey-
property. The|h ounc j com p an y gtated that
the total investment, exclus
ive of the land, represents
an expenditure by Atlantic
Greyhound Corporation of
approximately $85,000.
The building of Colonial design
will front on DeKalb street and
will be 60 feet wide by 90 feet
long. Buses will enter the proper -
. ty on the left hand side of the
Stockholder. Of Mill. To feL
Veto On Propotol At platform will be
'Mooting Morch 25 ° f ^ building, which'wilTbe 1 ^
■ l '»— roof for the protection of
luggage and
Stockholder, of the K*»-| JX? Ln.
d.ll 1UII. »t a “uLTld^ilk.
meeting to be held on Fri-j sidewalk crossings,
day morning, March 25, - at IA 1 mod « r " tor white
the office of the treMurer
In Boston will consider and way traveler, end load citizen,
act on a proposal to petition A lunch ear has been provided
and authorize the City Com-r^toke care of colored paaseng-
missioners of Camden to ap- SStinTrom USt ° ff ^ color * d
prove the amtoxation to the A modern kitchen with tile
City and incorporation with- Boor and a seven foot high tile
in the city limits of 15 acres p ro^ded and
of land, with bondinn Wih ‘'“ d
thereon. Veery adequate white and col-
The homes on this land are I ored waiting rooms have been
those occupied by the manager provided, together with large men
and otner efficialj of the local sad women’s rest rooms. Public
branch of the Kendall Mills. telephones, parcel lockers end di-
The property is located South red telephones to Western Union
of East Hampton street extending aro being provided,
between the railway and creek. ■' All floors in public spaces will
It will be recalled that moat be asphalt tile, excepting kitchen
ty belonging, to the and real rooms, which will be
was annexed to the j ceramic tile. The building will be
city following an election held <me story in height of cinder
this spring and this property has Mock, ashlar pattern, with inter-
since been sold to the employees tor ceiling* plastered. The color
of the mill. The 15 scree on which | scheme will be white exterior,
FootbaD Schedule
For Camden High
Is Made Public
Ten garnet have been scheduled
And another will probably be
added for the .Camden High
School football team next season.
Local fans will get a good break
as six games are scheduled for
Camden, the teams to appear here
being Dreher, Hartsville, Flor
ence, Darlington, North Chirtes-
fton and Orangeburg. Orangeburg
will be here Thanksgiving Day.
_ The opening game of the season
will be on Sept 16 with Dreher
High of Columbia In Camden.
The complete schedule follows:
16, Dreher here;
r at Sumter
shlar pattern, i
ngs plastered.
- wffl be WhlM
the management houses were tot ivory and beige interior,
cated was not included in the The Greyhound people state
property annexed. * | that “we have efideavored in de-
It is now
Sept
Mr. Baruch at his winter home
near Georgetown, over the week
end and Mr. Baruch told them
that he would let them know the
exact date he could come to' the
city just as soon as wai
Mr. Baruch is expecting a visit
from Winston Churchill during
April and the date of his visit to
Camden determines o nthe length
of time Mr. Churchill win be with
Mr. Baruch.
Mr. Baruch will come to Cam
den after Mr. Churchill’s visit to
him has been concluded.
Jusft as soon as the city learns
inr oat# tnai n# will come plans
will be made tor the observance
of same.
Mr. Baruch has atreasad the
fact that he does not want any
elaborate display which would
coat a lot of money but will wel
come the opportunity of meeting
and speaking to the people of his
old home town.
bU;
cat
in
burg in
l-Cayce in West Coium-
11, Lancaster in Lan-
tov. 18, North Charleston
Nov. 24, Orange-
• Stamp Collectors Club
The suggestion has been made
that a stamp collectors’ dub be
organized in Camden. A request
is made that ail who would fike
to Join such a dub communicate
with the Chamber of
ow proposed to annex this ligning this building to provide
15-acre strip also and this is the a terminal which will more than
proposition the mill stockholders I adequately serve our needs and
will vote on Friday. No election of colonial design, which we fed
would be necessary in order to w necessary to conform to the
annex this additional strip if the area in which It is being construc-
mill stockholders approve and the ed. ,
City Commissioners approve A D. Alcott, Jr n of the Alcott
Construction Company, will be in
Reuben Pitts, Jr.
Named President
Of Rotary Club
| charge of construction
says he
hopes
eted before Od 1.
of the Camden
Rotary Club for the coming year
and will inter upon his duties on
July 1, the beginning of the new
““**’*•
Other officers chosen far the
w.^tTni
new year are
who au
president, and A.
Nettles, Jr,
•comes vice
Mahon, sec-
Dtrectors elected far the en-
are Mr. Pitta, Mr. Net-
Ralph Little,
The club has had an
^esrundsr the presidency of Mr
and Jim Darby. '
i excellent
ing com pi
The building here will be _
exact duplicate of the building
constructed in Wythevilie, Va.
Ik
ivy i
d Cross Drive
Is Extended To
Last Of Month
The Bed Ctees drive
Kershaw county is now p
SSta-riK
fare that dale.
Sketch Of New Du Pont Plant Now In Course Of Construction
and he
to have the build-'
r/
±
.* slce tch of the Du Pont
Now
for
*b new plant at Cam-. for pleasant
% caf<'
This includes working areas, employees
"Orion”
under
uiost modern of
A feet in size, the
1 with jumbo 1
Portions^
will
L A
will be
into the
research
of
w new synthetic
It
developed
of