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61 / CAMDEK. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26,1949 Number 24 id To Wofford College Heed For Bond Issued Reviewed By Mayor Savage ■t^V-v * r- chfldhood chair of Dr. James H. Carlisle, for an the beloved president of Wofford College, presented to the College by Miss Martha Isbell en. Chair Is Placed In Relic Of College At Spartanburg Du Pont 100,000th. Stockholder Visits City ■ ■ • r a:. in which Dr. James H. Carlisle, noted South educator and, for many yeafs president of Wof- efe, sat as a child and which has been in the of the Team family of Kershaw County for I century, has been presented-jto Wofford College the bond issue fail of iMartha Isbell. It was taken to the College laat “Fiwt consider the [placed in . relic room, which couUim a collet-,V- Only Alttmotiva Is H19I1 Taxes To Moot Pressing Needs Of City In a statement issued Wednesday, Mayor Henry Savage, Jr., reviews the rea sons which moved the City Council to submit the pro posal for a bond issue to the people of Camden and lists the alternatives if the bond issue should fail of passage. The Mayor states that the Coun cil does not intend to conduct a campaign in behalf of the bond issue. It merely wishes, he says, the people to be accurately in formed as to the problems con fronting the city and what the result will be if the bond issue fails. The statement follows: “While the members of City Council were diligent in their ef forts to get a substantial majority of the freeholders of the city to petition for the forthcoming bond issue election, in order to give the people an opportunity to vote on the proposals we think are a wise solution of our problems, we have no intention of conducting any campaign for a favorable vote on the bona issue. “We do, however, deem it high ly important that the voters have an accurate picture of the situa tion which has convinced the members of Council and the City Manager that it is the only sen sible an4 sound solution to the financial problems of our city faces as a result of its current very rapid expansion. . “While in numerous public meetings and in the press we have previously given in considerable detail these problems, as the elec tion date is drawing near, I should like to briefly reiterate the prob lems and the alternatives should e bond issue fail of passage. “First consider the ci % Ws ^ ***** _ mitik m. . .A*? V " Hearty Welcome Ciric Leaden Of City Great The 100,000th Du Pont Stockholder of Dr. Carlisle. was given to Miss Mrs. Martha | Dr. Carlisle’s mother ile family moved | county after a in Kershaw coun- James H. outgrown it so in mote, Mrs. Carlisle | to Mrs. Team for her [)m been in the pos- i Team family every children in that limit, including J. N. P. Gettys, Sr„ Getty s, Richard Gettys and oth- used by one gen- and three gen- |mwi to mahy people iMe, regarded l>y 9* the greatest men over produced and ‘ t of Wofford, the lives of ®en in South Caro- other man, ever iw county. He is of in connection county, which him, and it is a that he was born parents spent most there, but t time they lived when Dr. Carlisle County .^| School Announcement is made by Mrs. Blakaney Zemp, the principal, that the Calvert school for its nixt session on Oct S. TT - will ooen i Monday, •To Prd||ch Sunday Rev. John Sandlin, editor of the South Carolina Methodist Advo- Moseley, have as them •Liks This Section lir. and Mrs. Bill Camden, Route 1, cueat, T. B. Mueller, of Davenport, Iowa. This is his first trip to the South and he has expressed great interest in this section, its type of farming, etc. •In The Hoepital Friends of Former Mayor Fran- „ cis Nolan McCorkle will regret to y./S p <m i most I learn he ^ con fi ne< iMU) the fS??? Camden hospital as the result of an injury to nis back sustained in a fall. !l father was what to the 1840s i doctor, according who says she was * grandmother. He ha practice and “ that there are on the place when living ated |livm in the same her grandfather nffi. James and I lived. The house is ** °to. Tha chair *t given to Wof- tne house rlpyt 1 toe old chair ’ «nd when U k Who came for it .« 1 was almost . because it u^rided to give 4^S*2: brary. Dr. ^enfVwo? “ ‘ was presi the I 0 * Friday Carndn’s Association The annual meeting of the Ceinetery Association of Camden will be held Friday, Sept 2, at 5:15 p. in the Sunday School room of the Bethesda Presbyter ian church. - '""Tt-'T '/ '' Schedule of Rabies Clinics Announced ‘ Up: V< _ • ’v. ; Rabies vaccination clinics have been scheduled for all section* of the county by the Kershaw coun ty health department beginning in the city of Camden on Aug. 28- 80 at the city lot on Market street. The hours will be from 9:30 to 12:30 and 1:30 to 4:30. *• Other clinics scheduled follow: Hermitage Mill club house, Aug. 31; Wateree Mill club house, Sept. 1; John Waters’ store, U. S- High way No. 1, Sept 2; Cif~ thune, Sept 8; City _ shaw, Sept 7; Blaney ^school house. Sept 8. The hours for all of these clinics will be the same as at Camden. On Sept 9 from 9:30 to 12:30 clinic will be held at Kirkwood, and from 1:30 to 4:30 the samgfeday at Knight’s Hill school house. t ■ ■ LARGE CONGREOAtToNS Rev. Matthew Rabon, former erasing al- | most a new customer a day and there are no sigM that this rate Win decrease. On the average, the mer is added. j The rate of addition of new water customers is almost as great And the dty has to invest $75.00 in labor, meters and other equip ment for each of them. “A little simple arithmetic ap plied to these facts reveals the great big fact which makes, to our minds, the issuance of bonds essential. The big fact is that we are finding ourselves being forced to spend almost as much per year to give service to these new cus tomers as over total real estate tax intake. If we spend this money to supply the new buildings with water and lights on what will we run the other essential dty ser vices? The alternatives are ob vious. We will have to have bond issue money, or drastically raise the annual revenue take of the dty or foil new customers not to expect water and lights from the city without full pre-rata cost of the expansion. < “And even this does not put the whole problem of our expanding utilities. We are rapidly approach ing the point where substantial outlays will have, to be made at the electrical substation and we have passed the point where more filter, pumping and storage capacity are critically needed at the waterworks. The peak water exceeded last rr v m mm * Freight Depots On i-Day Week To U Closed Saturdays Because Of Agreement With Union last year’s citizens know, we are used this year peak by 30 per cent. “As most citizens k now requiring all property owners with sewers In reach of their property to attach to the water and sewer systems. This is sential for the good health of the dty. But even when tfll of these have complied there will be many open toilets left in the city be cause there are no sewers avail able and the soil conditions will not permit the use of septic tanks. If we don’t supply these additional sewers we leave the clean-up job but half done. And then there is that main sewer to the river so heavily overloaded that from time to time it overflows. It would be disgraceful not^to remedy these situations at the earliest possible moment. Matthew pastor of the church, filled the was by Jc*- T think last week’s storms ware a more eloquent argument for at tention to be given our storm ers and dirt streets could say. sewers than anything Insufficient storm 'ers overflowed sanitary sew- manholes, sweeping dirt and Water into the already overtaxed system and created a mess. Re pairing the washed out streets and clearing away the dirt washed onto the psfVed ones needlessly cost the city a lot of money. We are not rich enough to continue to carry the high maintenance costs of theta inadequate facili • I “In the past year the city spent some $70,000 in essential capital expansion of Its facilities, prac tically all in the utilities depart ment. It is difficult fo see where it wait because it was spread so thin. OMhatwe borrowed $45,000 Miss Alice E. Byrnes of N. Y., the 100,- 000th stockholder in the Du Pent company came to Cam den Wednesday and after a tour of the Du Pont plant, now in the course of con struction here, was greeted at. a luncheon at the Court inn, attended by the heads of the various civic, busineaa and professional organiza tions of the City and County. She was officially welcomed on behalf of the citar by Mayor Henry vagej Jr., on behalf of the coun- . by Senator R M. Kennedy, Jr., and on behalf of the state by a! s ; Uewellyn, chairman of the «Ute planning, reaearch and de velopment board. Raaponding to the addresses of “‘“Byrnes expressed an* ESI T ith yarnden and referring to the cordial wel- 8>yen her and the atmos- pn«W of friendship and good humor at the luncheon said she couM now see why this is referred to as the “Sunny South.” Every civic club and all busi- neaa and professional organiza- tions in the city were represented at the luncheon and the official representative of each was intro duced. r °r Savage in welcoming mea told her that “on be- — tha city of Camdan it is a pleasure to express to you and the representatives of the Du Pont xation here Camden’s ^ in being a pert of that world-renowned and world-re spected organisation known as Du Pont. “We are also proud that Cam den was selected to be given to a special member of the Du Pont family. By the Du Pont family, I ^ mean the blood family of organisation 1 resented here Byrnes. Throt»H jwh wciwuiv than to Camden and pledge our support to the end that tfieir in terest hare will be profitable both to them and to us.’ f Ml ; The Southern and Sea board Air Line railroads are/ notifying local customers I that effective Sept. 1 their freight depots will be closed! on Saturdays. The establish ment of a 5-day-40-hour [week was one of the de mands made by the non operating railway < labor! unions on the roads. ■Pointing to the establishment of the shorter hours, the {South ern Railway System this week asked for the “cooperation and {sympathetic understanding*’ of: the public and pledged Itself to make the changeover with the least possible inconvenience ia its patrons. The announcement said that the railroads “necessarily agreed with the non-operating railway labor unions to establish the shorter work week to carry out the find- 1 of an emergency board ap- ted by President Truman un- Ithe National Railway Labor Act’’ This will require the closing on Saturdays and Sundays of many freight stations and offices here tofore open to the public—on the Southern as well as on all other oads throughout the countr that employees generally may be given two consecutive days on each week. Under the settlement the employees will receive for five (Please torn to pass ten) Hold Conference Of School Lunch Room Operators The Kershaw County Profes sional Improvement for lunch unit managers ana raters was held Tuesday, nesday and Thursday of this at Pine Tree Hill School. . All of the white schools of the county were it Blaney and Ga r Pi*! 1*^ that the expressed his Du Pont had their livelihood for li. l Pi Tiawiflin ■ great delight that come to South Carolina and told of how the planning, research and development board had sought to have it come to this state. T thank God that it has come,” he said. Charles H. Rutledge, of ttfe for the warm on whicr and in In charge of the ten of the Du Pont In her remarks Du Pont Company, Pictures taken during the visit Wednesday of Miss been given it in Alice E. Byrnes of Herkimer, N. Y„ 100,000th Du Pont ^ stockholder, to Camden, are shown above. In the top' picture Miss Byrnes is shown at the Du Pont plant site in Camden. Reading 4 from left to right are J. P.* Holt, division engineer; Miss Alice Byrnes; J. E. McCook, as-1 sistant field project manager; Miss Marion Byrnes, and J. M. Ayers, structural steel craft superintendent. In the | Byrnes middle picture left to right are Senator R. M. Kennedy, I Miss Alice Byrnes, A. Sr Llewellyn and J. D. Wilson, field hJJrntoat she was^ tK^Oo!oooth project manager of the Du Pont Co. Ip the bottom picture, | stockholder in the company and Miss Alice Byrnes is being formally welcomed to the City she fad «electea it te by Mayor Henry Savage, Jr., aa Miss Marion Byrnes I offa^i^bSaiST shetooUghth looks on. > i ! was a good American company. Harold Booker, editor ofThl Chronicle, acted as toastmaster, and attending the luncheon were: Mayor Henry Savage, Jr., City Commissioner Joe E. McKain, Senator R. M. Kennedy and Rep resentatives W. R. Gettys and Ezell Kelly. A. S. Llewellyn, chairman, planning, research ana nt board; R B. Pitts, Club; Julian Kfoaais Chib; Bates Littlejohn, president T-inna Grassmyer’s filling station I £ nu ^! Jln } ^*rby, president Jun- ‘he cpyr of Mill ^ East DeKalb Streets was en-1 Commerce-* Mrs. C. E. Watts, vice tered by robbers some time president Business and Profes- Wednesday night or early I Womens Club; Mrs. N. P. Thursday morning and ap-| (Pinssi jwlii Tb F*«a proximately $50 in cash taken. The, robbery was discov when the station was opened Thursday morning. It is not known whether any cigarettes were stolen or not . ykhe robbers got into the station ^^fsorewson tt?tedEto^ die War Declared Upon Speeders •f Recorder Allison DuBose and the Camden police de partment have declared '‘open’’ warfare against speeders in the City. Judge DuBoae frankly In formed j several “speeders” who appeared before him in the Recorder’s Court Monday that if heavy fines would tend to curb the speeding practice that his court would be on the job. The judge proceeded to as sets fines that made even in the police in the court room MaMolOoS fine of $50 was im- and two of $15. witn oriv- Robbers Enter Filling Station Coming Events of dty at Util a. m.