The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 29, 1949, Image 1
Number 20
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! The Chronicle Gets To Hungary
Several Receive Letters
Saying Their Names Had
Been Gotten From Paper
In This County
fisofl*
Hasp* 011
About
Although Hungary is one of the countries behind the ? onrt, 5*ti on P r ®9 r O m ,s
An Editorial
, S** 4
jT^Tcapit* cost
Hospital is
^average dailyP^
0 f seven hos-
fjlv »“ d
' “wording to » sur-
i e by the Duke En-
t the duly p«-“P-
t y, e Camden Hos-
n $9.85 while the
hr the entire seven
° hospitals included in
fee M
ton Memonal hospital,
Tbeds; Lowrance hos-
78 beds; Martin
Stal Mount Airy,
JemS General hos-
75 beds; Rock
B" ck ., , f 0 J5h
i Camden hospital with
02 the results of the
? the local hospital,
Unkin, director of the
wment, wrote:
Ihed tabulation gives
1 analysis of the cost
day at your hospital
i as compared with the
■a group of seven hos-
schools of nursing,
jeh averaged between
atientsper day (new-
ded). The cost per
• by departments in
oared with 1947 is also
Iher with a statistical
of certain other
be activities of your
Age daily per capita
group of seven hos-
* was $10.88 as com-
an average cost of
I, an average increase
patient day over the
s."
ns be seen that the
wt day at the Cam-
l was lower in 19481
■ge par patient day
was in 1941
that!
owed j
pr capita cost in 1948
spital showed a de- [
rti per capita cost in
been $10.12 as com-1
8.85 hi 1948.
iterating feature of
that it reveals that
hospital gave 3,628
! care in 1948 com-1
range of 1,838 days
hospitals. The local]
mber of days of free
1535 over 1947.
Iron Curtain, a copy of The Camden Chronicle made its*
way into it in some way and as result letters begging for
help have come to a number of people. In each of the let
ters it is stated that the name of the person to whom the
letter was addressed was seen in a copy of The Camden
Chronicle. One of the letters was received by a young lady
in Columbia, who is a native of Decatur, Ga.
Several weeks ago The Chron
icle published a letter received by
Bill Sheom, of Camden, from a
Hungarian woman, who described
herself as the mother of five chil
dren, making a pitiful plea for as
sistance of any kind. In her let
ter the woman stated that she had
seen Mr. Sheorn's name in a copy
of The Camden Chronicle.
The following week Mrs. W. H.
Stokes, of Westville, brought a let
ter to The Chronicle office from
another Hungarian woman beg
ging for help. This woman said in
her letter: ‘1 read your address in
The Camden Chronicle in which
turkeys for sale were answered.”
Her plea for help was also pitiful.
Lml week, the DeKalb New
Era. published at Decatur,
Ga* carried a story telling of
a letter received by a De
catur girL now studying nurs
ing in Columbia, from a wom
an in Hungary telling of hav
ing seen her name in The
Camden Chronicle. This
young lady, it seems, had
visited in Camden end her
name was in the personal col
umn of The Chronicle's so
ciety page.
The story in The Decatur paper
follows:
‘T beg your pardon for my
du
Town and
County....
Revised And New Roods
Added To System
Senator Kennedy and Rep
resentatives Gettys and Kel
ly have been advised by the
State Highway Department
that at its meeting on July
121 the Highway Commission
itook action on several road
projecjts affecting Kershaw
county. t f -
Construction program A-l was
revised so as to reduce the ap-
Mai \ TOO £ ,K ! Kv to 0 a N d°i;T (
?n e 'Y ave has tl ? e 8.5 miles from $87,000 to $71,800;
™mdeSi s week°bu V «“ hS ?-" d ^ ^
been able to do anything about
it.
.►propr
Nos. 47 and 50, from Blaney to
Route 26, a distance of 7.5 miles,
request, but the
-i *
letter anc
misery forced me to beg help
from America, which shows a
great benevolence against our
war-racaged county ...”
That was the beginning of
a letter Mary Alice Hardman
received recently from Mary
Uifeherto, Hungary,
for “help with all kind
shoes, dresses, under-
•Or&ngeburg Coming
Local baseball fans are looking
forward to the game Friday night
with the Orangeburg Braves and
a very large crowd is expected to
turn out—possibly one of the larg
est of the season. It is understood
that a great many Orangeburg
fans are coming over for the
game. , «
•At Air Show
William Mullen, 24, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Mullen of this city,
and Thomas Taylor, 14, of Lex
ington, put their planes through
their paces at the ten hour model
airplane show at Owens Field in
Columbia on Saturday to win
trips to the international model
competition in Detroit, August
fe
[ary Alice, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hardman,
wondered why she had been
selected by the writer of the
letter for aid.
on
[BALL
ekU Carter, who can
n necessary, pulled
i Pete Sch iro. Fort
n»ger Wednesday
I the Camden-Fort
i and when Shiro
I oil forleiled the]
den.
o«ured in the low-
nghih inning with
t in Iront 6 to 2 by
[ J™ n iplurge in the
The argument be-
u>d Shiro, in which
n of the Tisiiing
resulted from the
> arbiter to call a
Seif.
*•* featured by a|
dby Joe Socey to
Camden just a half
togitree for fourth
*« games behind
resting i n third]
a* in the Palmetto
ft? ni 9 hl * Jin®
“. in* Sonocos in
> innings and man-
Jt a 5 to 2 win.
Kings-
° 2 hohind the tix-
‘Jaie Andrews.
Camden-Fort
game:
NM 002 00—2 4 3
080 080 Ox—6 4 4
*** Hall; Sell
•ad Scarborough.
* °f the teams, in-
night games:
W.
44
,^jAen. she read __ Hi ,
remembered. Recently she
had visited her roommate, a
native of Camden, S. C., and
news of this had appeared in
the newspaper. Somehow a
copy of this Southern weekly
had crossed the ocean and
two continents, and had been
seen by Mary Finta. L
So Mary Finta sat down
and wrote, from the depths of
her heart, of conditions in
war-battered Hungary.
*T am orphan, my mother
is died, only my father is in
alive, and I have two sisters
and two brothers ... the
’.claim of my letter is help with
all kind of old dresses, shoes,
underwear. Please collect in
your home the old useless
things, I can wear and use
everything . . . one old piece
can give everybody clothes
. . . used clothes are duty
free.”
Mjary Alice, who is study
ing nursing at Columbia uni
versity, sent the letter home
to her mother, at 124 Harold
Byrd Drive. , J . .
Finta concluded her
plea with, “God may bless
you and all who area ready to
help us. Let us soon hear from
the help after getting my let-
• ter to your hands what is
possible to make in our in-
. lerest. I repeat my pardon and
thanks hoping my letter is
writtep with success.
♦If any New Era readers
would like to send old clothes
to Miss Finta, the address is:
Miss Mary Finta, 1083 Kis-
retoldal street. Department
Seabolls, Uifeherto, Hungary.
The Camden Chronicle has no
paper on its mailing list going
direct to Hungary but it is prob
able that one or more of the Pap
ers going to public officials to
their designated postoffice for
foreign mailing is being sent there
and one of the copies of the P a P®r
may have gotten into the hands
of the Hungarians m this way.
Nearly all of the letters have
been written in similar vein. They
indicate that conditions m Hun
gary must be very desparate.
Some surprise has t>ec *L j® 3 ?'
pressed that Hungarian
would let the letters t*™*
telling of conditions in that coun
try.
V ” t'
Polio Chapter To
Meet On Aug. 4
•Gave Him Confidence
Bates Littlejohn, president of
the Camden Lions. Club, was on
his first visit to New York City
ast week. He was walking down
he street a little uncertain as to
how he appeared in the big city.
A taxicab screamed to a stop.
syrmister,” the taxi driver
shouted, lean you tell me how
to get to <Momingside Heights?”
Mr. Littlejohn threw his chest
back as he walked on down the
street
'.x_^
• Buys
* C. M. Shivar, Jr* has purchased
the Sevenson Implement Com
pany from Dr. R. E. Stevenson
and will operate the business in
the future under the name of the
Shivar Implement Company. Mr.
Shivar graduated from the Uni
versity of South Carolina with
the degree of B. S. in commerce
ftion has en-
general
from $77,000 to $62,900. Road No
37 from Road No. $ to the Duke
Power Dam. 3.5 miles was added
to the construction program and
$29,300 appropriated for it
The followed roads were added
to Construction Program “C", the
farm-to-market roam:
Road No. 35—From U. S. Rotate
521 north of Camden to north
western terminus, 3 miles, $30,000
Road No. 31—Prom Route 341
northeasterly to Route 157,
miles, $40,000.
Road No. 94—From U. S. Route
521 northeasterly to Road No. 93,
2.7 miles, $27,000.
Road No. 100—From U. S
Route. 1 east of Camden northerly
to Road No. 71, 0.6 mile. $$,000.
Pursuant to Act No. 827, acts of
1948, the commission also addec
to the State Highway System th*
following roads:
A section of road from the junc
tion of Roads Nos. 21 and 49 in
Blaney north weatefly to the
Richland county line—epproxi
mately 5.3 miles. *
A section of road from a twin
near the junction of Bead No. 47
and U. S. Route 1 in Blaney south
erly to a point near the Blaney
town limits, thence southeasterly
to the Richland county line—ap
proximately 4.0 miles.
Section of road
U. S. Route 521 just
Kershaw town limits
ly across the Soul
and vinthe
fltoad 74 to Road
While Others Beg For Work
The State, The Charlotte Observer, The News and
Courier and other morning papers Wednesday carried
a story from Boston saying that two New England Gover
nors had warned that unemployment in their states is
“critical.’*
.Governors Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts and Chester
Bowles of Connecticut told Secretary of Commerce Sawyer
in Washington that one out of every eight workers in
their states is out of a job.
Governor Dever tagged the situation in Massachusetts
as “most critical” and predicted that there might be an
other 92,000 jobless in his state bv September 30.
Governor Bowles said that unless the earnings slump
in Connecticut is checked it “must eventually have a
very serious and paralyzing effect on purchasing power
and retail sales not only regionally but nationally.”
Governor Dever says thgt there are 258,000 now un
employed in Massachusetts. There are nearly five times
as many jobless in the textile cities of New Bedford and
awrence as there were a year ago.
There is increasing unemployment in every state.
There are many people in South Carolina now out of
work and there are many textile employees who are
working only part time.
In the face of this steadily mounting number of un
employed, people who Tiave jobs had better cherish them
and do everything in their power to make themselves
laborers worthy of their hire.
It i* unthinkable that on fche very morning the news
papers brought the story of the critical situation in the
New England states, several hundred people should
absent themselves from gainful employment in this vicin
ity. Instead, they should have been thankful that they
bad good jobs to which they could go.
Crafts Back At
Work At DuPont
^cktt Ling Put Around
Plant By AFL Union Of
Common Laborers
Slashes Wrist
In CHy Prison
' ■ «
Part Of Aspirin Box Is
Used fn An Attempt To
Commit Suicide
Coats
Mendel L. Payne, 23-year-
old man, made an unsuccess
ful attempt to commit sui
cide by slashing his left wrist
with s piece of sharp tin
taken from an aspirin box
in s cell st the city guard
house Tuesday afternoon.
It was only through the Iran
tic efforts at « deaf and dumb
ris«Mf”fc»«o.%d$ai
approximately 4.2
A
and since his graduation
gaged in farming and
businaaa.
mmmmmmmmmmmrn
•To Go On Vacation
Rev. and Mrs. Herbert L. Spell
and Betty will leave Monday for
a months vacation. During Rev.
Spell’s absence the pulpit will be
filled by visiting ministers. Rev.
Edward B. Whitson, student at
Columbia Theological Seminary,
Decatur, Ga., will preach August
7 at the morning hour.
Two Escapees
Back On Gang
. -s
Sammy Ballard and Danny Boy
Wesley who escaped from the
Kershaw county chain gang Sun
day afternoon, July 17, are again
in custody, having been captured
Sunday, July 24.
Ballard was taken into custody
by Cpl. 'Bennett and Patrolmen
Roundtree and Martin of the state
highway patrol near the Kershaw-
Lee counties line in the ML Zion
section. Late in the afternoon
Wesley was captured eight miles
below Bishopville by Drouty
Sheriff Hilton and Rural Officer
Leo Rose, with the assistance of
Rural Police Officer Hopkins of
Lee county.
Ballard and Wesley were serv
ing life and ten-year tgrms, re
spectively, on murder charges.
Ballard killed his wife and daugh
ter, Ella Nora, by shooting them
with a shotgun in January, 1948.
The jury that tried him found
him guilty of first degree murder
but recommended mercy. Wesley
was convicted of killing lues
Thompson at Boykin, March 6,
1948, and> drew ten years on the
Ch SheSTf>eBruhl, in relating the
capture of the two felons, stated
that he wanted to extend thanks
for the state highway patrol of
ficers for their splendid coopera
tion, also to the state constabu
lary, who gave valuable assist
ance in trailing the two convicts.
Crossroads
miles.
Section of road extending from
U. S. Route 521 approximately
0.7 mile south of the Kershaw
town limits, easterly via St John
church to Route 341—approxi
mately 1.7 miles.
Section of road extending from
Road 85 at or near St John
church, northeasterly across Route
241 to Route 157 appi
2.0 miles east of /Kershaw—ap
proximately 11 miles.
Section of road extending from
Road 63 in Bethune, southwester
ly along Chestnut street and ex
tension, thence westerly and
northwesterly via Mill . Creek
church and across Road 42 to
Road 20 — approximately 11.0
prisonarweMaadjotni
banged on the ban
ca^e that the discovery of Jhe sui-
Mercury Climbs
To IM Degrees
City And County Swelter
In Worst Hoot Wove
In Many Yean *
The mercury skyrocketed
to 104 degrees In Camden
Wednesday — the highest
reading of the current heat
wave and perhaps the high
est reading in a good many
years.
The weather has gotten progres-
•ively warmer in Camden this
Refusal of the Du Pont
Company to recognize a
Common Laborers Union led
to picket lines being thrown
around the plant site and as
skilled craftsmen refused to
crosvs the picket lines opera
tions were practically halted
on Wednesday and Thurs
day.
The following statement was is
sued Thursday morning to The
Camden Chronicle by J. D. Wil
son, field project manager, in
charge of the construction of the
plant:
*Tt it th* policy of th* du
Pont Company to conform to
local customs in its construc
tion operations on plant sit**.
Sine* a chock of contractors
and construction people in th*
Camden area revealed that
the Common Laborers Union.
A. F. of L. has no! been
recognised. Du Pont decided
that it would govern itself
accordingly.
"Because of this daciaion
Union officials Wednesday
put a picket line on the plant
site, while operations were
hampered yesterday due to
tha refusal of members of
some of the other unions in
volved in construction to
crocs th* picket line, all skill-
ad craft are expected back a!
work momenlarilv."
The Common Laborers Union
represented about 200 of the 800
workers st the plant site. Some
600 skilled tradesmen refused to
cross the picket lines.
g s greater part of Wed-
twO negroes of the Com
mon Laborers Union carried ban-
attempt was made. Chief of
Police Alva Rush, who was in his
office at police headquarters,
heard the racket in the guard
house and investigated.
Payna
by Sgt. Lewis Clyburn and Pa
man Buford Hancock after he had
successfully passed two allegedly
worthless checks, one for $10 at
the J. C. Penney Company store,
and the other for $25 at the Elec-
Applia
trie Service and
pany.
At the
purchased
Lppliance Corn-
store
for $2 and
PPHHH . mat at
electric end appliance shop
a fan ■
ceived $8 in change, wl
appliance
miles.
Section of road extending from
Road 20 just north of Refuge
church, southerly to Road 42 ap
proximately 1.5 miles north o’*
U. S. Route 1—approximately 5.i
miles.
Section of rogd extending from
Road 42 approximately 1.0 mile
north of U. S. Route 1, southeast
erly to U. S. Route 1 near the
SAL railroad underpass — ap
proximately 0.7 mile. latter Pavne
Section of roqd extending from shirt and fan and most of the cash
Road 34 approximately 5.0 miles was recovered. The check cashed
east of Camden, southeasterly to at the Penney store was signed
the Lee county line —r approxi- with the name Bill C. Billings
mately 4.1 miles. while the one cashed at the elec-
Section of road extending from trie shop was signed Sam E. Dol-
‘ r 0.9 ‘ -
Penney
a shirt tor gz and re-
the
ha
purchased s fan for $12 and re
ceived $13 in change. The check
at the Penney store was mad* out
on a blank from the Commercial
National Bank, but Payna had
scratched out the name of the
Camden bank and written below
it the name “Bank of Lancaster.”
Joe Machado, according to the
report from Chief Rush, was sus
picious and contacted the Lan
caster institution and found Payne
did not have an account there. He
notified the police and shortly
after Payne was picked up. The
ners vrt the road leading to the
plant site but late Wedensday aft
ernoon they were not at the road.
It is understood that the picket
line was re-established Thursday
morning, however.
weather obeervti, HT A° Sown.
On Tuesday it reached a high
of 102 degrees.
On Wednesday it bolted up to
104 degrees.
Thursday tha people of the ’eity
had their fingers crossed not
knowing what to expect.
Even old timers admit that this
has been one of the longest hottest
spells in many, many years, if not
avar before.
Most dealers in electric fans
have done a rushing business and
one man who said he eras 65 years
old bought what he said was the
first electric fan he had ever
owned, never having felt the need
of one before in his country home.
There have been a great many
cases of upset stomach reported as
a result of the heat wave.
The use of water in the city
has been greatly increased by the
hot weather, the officials report
la Columbia a water shortage is
threatened.
People are urged to see that
their pets and livestock have
plenty of good water to drink dur
mg this heat wave as they suffer
from thirst the same at humans.
The heat wave is reported to
be doing some damage to crops,
Fair Od. 111-15
The Kershaw County Fair wilh
be held this year Oct 10-15, ac
cording to J. D. Crawford, the sec
retary.
PreU’s Broadway Shows have
icn contracted with to furnish
he midway and they are expected
to bring some very high class
shows. This company played the
Greenwood, Greenville and Lee
county fairs last year and made
at all of
especially com. Some areas o
county are suffering dreadfully
for rain, the showers which fell
last week having been spotted
relief in ‘ *
wvices
b Church
kptUt
church ,1s
^ There will
wenin* <
L* J:* 0 ’ on
3? be both
Z5 •Prices.
will 'be
pastor
rch in 8«
cordially _
r* t .
day afternoon, Aug. 4 a. 4 o'clock
at the county court house for the
purpose of electing officers for
the ensuing year-
A full attendance is urged'*
this meeting. .
First Divorce Is
Granted In County
The first divorce to be granted
in Kershaw county m over 54
to records at the
Road 12 approximately 0.9 milelbert , _ ^ -y ..
northwest of the terminus of Road When Chief Rush saw what had
18, northeasterly via Cleveland | happened to Payne when he en-
School Monument to Road 90 <— tered the cell block he immediate-
approximately 3.1 miles. . ly summoned a doctor, who after
Section of road extending from emergency treatment, had Payne
U. S. Route 521 approximately removed to the hospital. Later he
2.0 miles of Boykins Mill Pond, was tokm to the State hospital in
northeasterly and easterly via Columbia.
Charlotte Thompson School to Payne gave his sddress to the
Road 12—approximately 3.9 miles. | police as being on Oakland Ave-
Section of road extending from nue in Lancaster and said he was
Road 12 just southeast of the 22 years of age. Later it was
terminus of Road 91, southerly to | learned he was 23 years of age
Road 92, near the County Library and had been in the State hospital
—approximately 1.5 miles. in Columbia before. It is. also
Section of road extending from stated that there is no Oakland
U. S. Route 521 approximteely 1.0 Avenue in Lancaster,
mile north of the terminps of -■■ i —
w RotanansHear
^Interesting Talk!
STy th to’the RichiMd'iS^^ Regarding Drugs
Swy?3^. CMm,) ~ WroXi 'k2 r g Comp^fWI^rw^
Section of road «te„du* from ^
Rotary Club last Thursday at the
| Thomas Tavern.
He made a most interesting talk
There is no
ein 1
bureau officials state.
sight as yet
from the intense heat, the weather
Let Contract For
Gym and Cafeteria
At Baron DeKalb
) t. -u * ><ay. .•
a good
fafra
Mr. (
impression
theee
AT MALVERN HILL
w -
years, accordmg to records at tl
office of theKershaw Coun
Clerk of Court was
.ted
mty
this
of tha
Twrw
The General Engineering Com-
C y of Florence submitted the
bid for the construction of
the gymnasium and cafeteria for
the Baron DeKalb School at De
Kalb when the proposals were
opened last Tuesday.
There were 13 bidders and sec
ond lowest was the Martin Con
struction Company of Kershaw
with $52,500, While the B. and H.
Construction Company of this cit
was third lowest with $52,997.
The Camden Construction Com
pany had the lowest figure on the
cafeteria with $15,274.
(Continued on, Page 12)
Boy Scouts Will
Get Instructions
Boy Scouts of Camden will be
given instruction leadi '
Life Saving and St
zes to be
i drugs, giving some
formation •
at 9
regarding some
them. Many members of the club
learned for the first time that the
to the balm in Gilead was a drug, the
it oldest known drug, it haring been
referred to in the BiWe. Dr.
CFBear brought some of this old
drug along with him. 1
He also explained the origin of
x drugs, s
many other
well known.
some of which
vas in ciijm
Crawford said work would
begin this week enlarging the fair
grounds so as to provide more
midway room.
J. R. West is president of the
fair and Mr. Crawford, secretary.
Clean-Up Program
Being Carried
Out lit Camden
The Kershaw county health de
partment, which was recently
merged with the city health de
partment, has begun a drive, to
clean up Camden.
Many property owners have
been notified to clean up their
premises and many have volun
tarily agreed to do so. Weeds and
grass are being cut and old au
tomobile tires, tin cans, and other
receptacles whkh make ideal
breeding places for mosquitos are
being removed.
Owners of houses which are
adjacent to sewerage connections
have been ordered to connect
them up at onc^ and many have
already been connected.
Householders are being urged
to get sanitary garbage cans,
which close at the top to keep
down the breeding of mosquitoes
and other insects.
Owners of barns or lots in
which animals are kept are being
notified by the health department
to clean up same and the city
will then spray same with DDT.
Every effort is being made by
the health department to protect
the health of the city during the
intense heat wave.
I
CURTIS IS SIGNED
Whiteca;
Camden
uled to
pitch Thursday night
against the Hartsville Sonocos.
Curtis is a Duke University pitch
er and local fans were impressed
he White-
ft
his showing with the
PROTRACTED MEETINGS
August is usually the month for
Coming Events
Friday. July 29
Baseball: Orangeburg vt
Camden. 8:15 p. m.
——— Bunofty* Juir ,
Services ini
of the city at 11*15 a. m.
2
Kiwanis luncheon. Thomas
Tavern, I p. nu
Baseball: , City vs
Camden. t:15 p. m.
* r. Aug.
in rural churches
to hold
.are