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CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, ftAY 27, 1949
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Of Form Women Meets
ra
ir
imden Chiefs
H«d Widt Mowogwiol
J . » ’ r . ^ ^ 4 - ’ • f ▼ 4 j p • * .* * « -• , ' , t ^ ^.vj*
I Interesting Discovery
■ / v .‘ . .*. \ •» :•< * . _ 1 • , « .,
Find Water Valve Closed||,. , x
Over Twenty Years Ago |||®1 \ ^
Cause of Low Pressure ® Reunion
To Remo in At Ployor
A valve in one of the main water lines at th4 corner To Gotker Foe. Iipcheon
, of Cheanut and Fair streets, whidh is believed to have been | A ' . ^
|closed for Over twenty years, was found by City Manager!. - A,, ® Attend broduoting
Lott Rogers to have be,en the cause of the low water pres- ■» « rj— m
sure from Green to Chesnut streets. The valve was open- 1 Kx * rc, »« 1 v " °
Rufus Jackson, manager ed by the city manager and water pressure on that street
last year of the Bristol, Va.,|was restored to normalcy,
team of the Appalachian
League, has been named I •■p
teenager of the Camden 1 O W II AII Cl
Chiefs to succeed Roy Alex- I
ander, who asked to be re- I
lieved of managerial duties I V^OUIliy • • • •
with
•Spoke At Ladies Night
Harold Booker was guest spea)
er at the ladies night of the
dub on ,Tues-
years ex- Sumter Exchange
ball, was I day night.
but who will remain
the team as a player. The
change was effective Wed
nesday night *
Jackson, who has IS
~ J m organized
Sumter team
^‘I •Converse Alumni Meeting
port but to cMt hi. lot with
% 'SPSS ^Su on
In ttSnSid. aitoLSSi » nowy tar not Into ttan
h in 1987, he wes with De- Monday, May 80.
im wiS^St BauTSMiTSSe^ •Poatoffiee To Cloee
eso Aasoeiation. In 1989 he got The Camden postoffice will be
a try-out with the Chicago White dosed Monday, May 30 on ac
Sox and remained with that dub count of National Me
smt and remained with that dub count of National Memorial Day.
until the last of May when he was The general deUvery window will
^*5* to St PtUl where he be open from 8 to 9 in the mom-
played in 1939, 1940 sad 1941 nn- fag
tilhe entered die service. i
He was In the Marine Corps | «p
out in
On the twenty-fifth anni-
. ^ . 4 . , . jI versary of thebp graduation,
to have remained closed ?or al-
Ini i Tfaui' * of *1 qo 4
most a quarter of a century with- Ehffh Sdhool cikss Of , 1924
out it having been discovered is will gather in Camden on
not known. It is said that the Wednesday, June 8 for a re
hydrant at the comer of Chesnut nn :_ n tv,-., —ill a +t or .A Q
and Fair streets was knocked ? n, °D* Th ey Will attend a
down some 22 or 23 jFears ago luncheon at the Sar^field
it ia thought the valve was closed Hotel at noon and that eve-
ta. “J?* ’?«^ d 0 f h fhf??Jh
been insistent all along that there exercises of the nigh
was something wrong in that sec-1 school.
tion and when he took the matter Mrs. Martin Roeefidd (Louise
up with Mr. Rogers, who is an en-j Hirsch) took the initiative in
8m«er. the city manager readily 1 calling the reunion and other
agreed with him. Mr. Rogers then members of the class have fallen
took a crew of men to the comer in line enthusiastically for It W.
of Chesnut and Fair and dug F. Nettles, Jr., has agreed to make
down and there found the valve the arrangements for the lunch-
closed. eon and he has requested that Ml
Because of the dosed valve members of the class who will at-
water was coming to that section tend notify him as soon as poa-
from only one line when it should sible.
have hem coming from two lines. Members of the class of 1984
This made the pressure so weak were: Miriam Bruce, Robert
that in the event of a fire pres-
sure would have been ‘
m tl
mond in tile
in IM
Easta
was with Knox
A j-ij-i »ri_n 1 — A —- ^ ^ ^ 4
tiTtoiSTC
th* <r team
Ho Isa
of!
•Penalties Go On
Paul th«tl Beginning June I a 15 per cent
with Rich- P*n*«y will be added to all un-
paid business lirsnsas. it ia an-
nTuncSd at me dSThdl Begin-
* ' ne I ai„g June 1 all unpaid 1948 taxes
will go into execution with an ad
ditional coat
two months of
ly low in the entire
which the hospital is located.
Mr. Rogers m his in
has also made
street he
by a 4-inch line
nects an t-inch
inch
^ OV wvwua. i WCA c. oukihui. Oiuvc;, rvuLtfi i
i fire prea- Chewning, Albertus Clarke, Le-
dangerous- Roy Davidson, Lois Elmore, Mil-
section in dred Gardner, SaRie Hinson,
Louise Hirsch. Theodore *.
Frances Hough, Emily Ji
| Bertha Jones, Vashti Joye,
vestigation
st kitrrast
discoveries. On South Mill I Ledford, Harriett Lipscomb, Wil-
rt he found that a six-inch line liam Lollis, L.nalliS^ Morris
emg fed fro man 8-inch line Mogulescu, Bertha Mooriev.
i 4-inch line con- Louise McCoy, Marie !
Una and «a 10-1 Sara Netties, William
■
McNaron,
■Nettles,
Olantiseirt •Big BMkune Picnic
of The
ed is a native
will alternate
is that
Bethunt this
big Bethunal
-wul year
I As a
f
•I
I Recently the
School band elected
Small Crowi
tend, I
Li-
of tha
mb left to right
Ruth P ‘
sum; »
Ward.
The Camden High School
under the direction of Hal Mi _ r _
^ d «^. ta X«niSaturday To Re
wm tiia same and consisted of an u
fire semi-classical wi
Chief Hammond says that
hydrant in the dtp was recently!
tested and that a vary ‘ 1
bar of them did not «l
writer specifications as got
Water h*fag fed t
♦-inch line into
C L.
Wc
Swratiw
faJuaWlT oTCCCUTMin,
Kiwanians Hear
j ’y
•’!<&!
—‘—lira
n
' 1
Al
StkX^^M
concerts tms
Grammar Sd
appointingly
The progri
to sm-
fact a
pony 1
,J. T4
.ws
Students
CUy Water Tank It
Painted For Firet
Time In 20 Yean
High Proud Off
mt Showing In
Contest
"amden High School
of the record magla
snts of the Camden
thool in the annual
igto School League
up testing held in
fa recently, when the
ign school ranked
I the state in the nuffi-
*°nor contestants,
we students from
" i entered In
held on A
ited that
, v . Satur
[highmt 29 per oriit —
named the
fbat a coat of
jMda applied to
dm* so that it
painted in*
»^
Tta Ink ■
Sl'SSJ'S
while It was bring*
I:
, lt » entered. This Pearl
UrtL^lSJ* ““^Ito In
1948 and 14 inf
rtudents
F. Collins, of
the Ladies Night ffbJ
Ss-SSli’-
' fc JNfc
street
several yea
.follow:
°»
Robert
*iiri
Norrrwm
7W.. mT ,nian
.^P- There i
[this
contest
: Martha Arrants
There were 225
alter
be Stirted
pro-
fol-
the two aadiencas and aB|
Ed that the auditorium
It is
Officers Named
By Farm Women
K ' .'•I
Six M«mb«rt Off KaroHow
County Council Givon
12-Yaor Pint
Six members of the Ker
shaw County Council of
Farm Women were present
ed 12-year pins by Miss Mar
garet B. Fewell,county home
agent, at the annual sprint
meeting of the council held
last Saturday in the Presby
terian Sunday School build
ing. Eight-year gold seals
and diplomas were present
ed to ♦ number of others. t
The six who were
&rsg?iRiu\hrf. ; >fri
T. a Stan*. Jr, rf tt» Jtal Bock
«ta JUlvcm A dubj
Knight, of
. 7
ley
3*^
hoW ""
jfcTjW. Trotter woo tta
st the meeting uri
to capacity.
high school band is rank- ai ~. 7-
one of the bast in Southl^*™*
the concerts this
week would have done credit to I th ®
any high school band in the na
tion. Twaa a pity mora Camden
people did not show their ap-
_ to be aold
will be need in
of eidto
tar <£safied
ia hospitals an over tha
pwwac UAU IlUi 5I1VW Vircii my- I T y »4_j
predation of the tremendous I which
^mountof wnrk.don. 1 JSm -ho wUkt
hold in nSembrance the sao
frees made by the men who fa
up their Uvea that this count
Jeanette Gaffoe Diet
Richard Murray, 85 years dd, will show that we still hon
rominent business man of Bur-1 those who made tbe supreme si
saw, N. C M grandfather of Mrs. rifice for us.
Jeanette Gaffos and great-grand-1 - ■. —
father of Anastasios^aSos, of] Camden LiOM Back
Camden, passed away recent*! V7\
after a short ^ew. From State Meeting
He is survived by his v* J — 1
Flora Jean Bradshaw, of
N. C,
t» uZLB^ta j-*
tan^Mn.atta b{^ j °S “SrtjSg gsr;;
gaw, N. C., Mrs. Eddie Ram-
•S *-
^
F. Bums, oi
tour-year director, Mrs.
- Wi
•nd John
Robert
A D.
_ and
and five
Bond Petitions
Name CoL Tapper UaRfjjSStrdl
mailed to frerivdSSs of the ,
akeedy re
ceived duiv i—■
of Camden,
South Carolina Department of the
Americatir Legion at the district I „
mMtinf tald tart ta.
CoL Tuppsrwas slectedunani- Mayor
moualy, Bob DuRant ct Muming that ib»
having asked that his name be (led to meet wHk Mg HM •«
withdrawn when ,MZ7T
Myron W.
was nominated
CoL
tive in
has bean
Post are delighted that this honor
has come to Urn.
Delighted With
AT BB GARDENi
.4 g««< VMBLQyfa f
vuitea tne ins uaruens m
oeak
crowd
■ were Inst sbo
Sunday Md an
was out te see
Icently
BASEBALL
lost to
of 8 to 1
irii
assii-f 1
rile Beech 18 b
J 7 to 4 ,
I Saw-
For Aid During War : : ■■ 7/
LOCAL RED CROSS CHAPTER
S |1S GIVEN BRmSH CITATION
The Kenbew county chapter of the American
e has received a citation from the British Embaa
n, for the valuable help given ifortef the
it
I Washington, for the valuable help given during th
The citation ia signed by Lord Halifax, the English i
sador to the United Statei.
war.
r ».
It read* as tallows:
-His Majesty*. 1
| the United Kingdom of
and' Northern
n
in
thaaktas
I
the
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