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m m IggpS - pi r-v *i CAMDEN, SOUTH iY, OCTOBER 21, 1949 Nvmbtr a Mt; - Th<| Retire At.-iwl flfcTtrm that he would not Be. for - ^ I urmmer. He stated Ju his intentloti t# politics at the JJ of his pnmit& ,the Senate. Senator tad ta» for some tame ttat > retire they *®“ -jje would -»ed him to 7 fi,weverjta^ i he was gettinf not w jH that annonacrcemeat ’ maA* of same. - ar Kennedy ia a former j Camden and before tas *^to the Senate of the Houae i’s«*te he hw been an advocate of R nt and has been term- the taxpayer’s >use of the trader, and can handle the Eng- ush. language pretty weD *! as t)ke upper houae of the h as also been a lupporter of the ^hts movement and is i encroachment of wnment on the jand has made • the South in behalf of [ Thursday that he had of letting up In ' msf* nue ta battle L*5i £ thertT^BlOe fO -fi i.Jr Peace and Contentment At Leut Two Displaced Families urope Find Happy Kershaw County Homes " 1111 1 1 ■ in ni ii i a | Two familnes of displaced persona have found their haired members of the second family, native Latvians, have hved on the Dixie Boykin farm since August 23, ahd are fast becoming well-adjusted American citiiens. Both families have Children in school. Ush language pretty weD studied English in school m He Ger- likes many/’ says Harold, nc ukcs Amencan school better, however, hk« the boys better than the girls (although )ie is willing to actoit that we have some pretty ones), and baa been taught to play foot ball. The small, wide-eyed little girl with her hair platted in pigtails down her bade who enrolled in the fourth grade 'Wednesday, is the only chAd in the Polish family which arrived last week. Nut so fortunate as the Latvian lad, her English wocdbdlary is nfl. Ac cording to her teacher, she learn ed five words her firtt day, bow- aver. By foe universal impromptu sign language system It was found that she was nine yean old. Dixie Boykin got his Latvian family of displaced persons not foe regular channels of seed Persons Bureau, but the Lutheran church, help of Rev. Ham in Co lumbia. He has given them a small white brick house for their own and, with his family, is busy teaching them foe English lan guage and foe customs of this country. *Tm very pleased with their work and with their response to ^MgrTlfr. hold, she is a master of her art She is learning to cook food foe American way, but foe Boykins like her Latvian dishes so well that they ask her to prepare much of their food “continental style.” The daughter in the family. Gaida (whose husband is expected to join foe family some time this month), serves as nurse for the five Boykin children. And, of course, the father, along with Gaida’s hufband when he arrives, will work on foe form. Last week, foe Boykins, with their new family of tenants, took in the county fair. “As long as we used the word ‘fair’ they couldn’t unaersxana wnax xi inf to see,” says Hr. finally 1 thought o ‘carousel’ and they understood. ‘The lights and foe noise and the crowds left foam very much impressed,” Hr. Boykin says, re- rience at the fair, ey have similar affairs in their country, but they are on a much smaller scale T think thej have a merry-go-round, but noth inf like foe variety of rides and foowa wa have tare/’ In 1S37, the Latvian family owned and operated two large farms in their country. In that year, however, their laud was taken oyer by the Communists, and they were sent to B After the war, they found in a displaced persons Germany, and from for the cording to of the Ac- ft they were go- Hr. Boykin, ‘but it of foe word made long trip to . country has bo t to them, they say, it very much. i Senator to be < l as for county Ktor and two i judge, county board iaad coroner. 'Device and Save in Home and a newly-ac- to the city’s fire apparatus afternoon to save i’s seVett- Place from What been complete de- , according- to Fire Chief |h«r new Scott Air-Pack, ibines a mask for foe with a portable com- 1 «r tank and allows the go through the smoke- 1 and locate the flames, a quickly found the the fire and were able i it with no water ftefte rest of foe houae. I aanwork used hi fight- l.* JT** '*•** 1 have “. Fire Chief Hammond 1 have only one of these « devices, but we are jay at least two more L» possible.” done to foe Lahg- . ^mated at $3,(X«. °f the fire was not [ to a report from at. the fire begat ad in the center of tod was being rapid- w two large ventila- l at opposite ends of when the firemen ar water was used until firemen had located Jhh method, as op- usual method of blmdly through the m .u th ? smoke-filled krtylSSF h0me »ond said. another one, I a thousand for foe .Chief Hammond re- the fire. Pups Sumter Flout T« HoM ■L.Wn*klw ftdaeflnna The Camden Collector’s club was orrtnised Monday evening by a group of Stamp and Coin collectors meeting at the Sartfield Hotel. Officers of foe new organisa tion are George Stuart, president; Eichel, vice president; Bill whom with J. all of Nork ahd Mrs. Jones comprise foe board of governors. Mrs. Jim Darby was elected librarian of foe chib. As far as is known, this is the only dub of its kind in Central South Carolina and membership is open to any stamp or coil col- by-weekly for the present, foe next meeting to be held at foe Sarsfield hotel on the evening of Oct Jl> At that time plgns will be made to form a junior division so as to offer helpT instruction and encouragement to all juniors interested in these hobbies. Charter membership jn foe Col lectors Club will be held open un til Dec. 31, and any adult in foe vicinity may join by contacting one of the officers or by attending And Many Haw listings And CKangas In It rnrnmimmmmmmmmm-- A new telephone direc tory, which contains for the first time a classified sec tion, many new and chang ed listings, and other helpful telephone information has just been distributed in Cam den. ' lists al- apprapriate , addrewaa and telephone numbers of busi subscribers in Approximately -lies have bean home* and G. for the Soutine* ompany. The new cover, which tingmshdMe cov Mr. HI ione users wrong number, time well as the new dhec ivered to to that helps _ getting a well at t called in foe The prmioa in guidei "Where vice for listed in as in convenient Rev. Accept* Three Negro Children Who Jumped Were Net Seriously Hurt Three negro children who jumped from a ferns wheel on tiie midway at the Ker shaw County Fair last Satur day when a sudden freak motor fire blazed up have been found not to be seri ously hurt. The three ware Rebecca Wright, 13; Ellen Jones, 14, and Shirley Boy kin. The break blase frightened foe occupants of the fastis wheel, causing many to scamper down its framework and Sven to jump from its suspended seats before the fire was brought under con- trol and foe occupants orderly re- The on the evening of foe last-day of Gounty’i Annual Fair, found ti»e big wheel loaded with mostly colored, who Mating Colored School at the fair. vwitnesaea say that as foe children caught sight of the darn ing motor, they began screaming, from their seats, and f down the steel struc ture to safety. of foe colored children who made the leap to safety re quired medical attention as a re- suK. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca Wright was treated for an ankle sprain, Ellen Jonas, 14, suffered a cut over bar eye, and Shirley Wheels of Industry Turning Camden’s Manufacturing Plants Are Now Running On Full-Time Production - ■ Ss Camden’s two cotton milla—Hermitage and Wateree re now running three shifts a day, six days a week, giving full-time employment to approximately 760 noople. The Wateree Milla which curtailed to four days a week during the summer months has now resumed full time production. The Hermitage Mills, which, dui£ng the past two years, has practically doubled its output, floor space, machinery and number of employees, continued to run iiery an three shift a slump in day, textiles. six days a week, through the recent Revival Heeling Drawing Crowds fNow In Third Wook And Interest Continues To Grow CO to Now in its third week, the evangelistic campaign'at the First Baptist church con tinues to draw very large crowds and with no signs of lessening interest Through Wednesday night approxi mately 400 people had re sponded to invitation! issued by the evangelist Rev. John night the I rtoTo^ si^ In foe course of his sermon he < nuonausni m rwrivmA He referred to foe He fetf that he could get •nu speak'in plati- he could not save for According to mill officials, ap proximately 550 persons are today employed at Hermitage, as com pand to the 345 listed on foe pay roll a year ago and the total of 285 employees of two yean ago. The increase in employees came a direct result of the recent rea story extensions on either end of the old mill building, which made possible the installment of additional machinery. Today the interior of foe mill roan to the combined humming of 805 looms, 40.736 spindles and countless carding machines. Two yean ego there were only 412 looms and 18,688 spidles. The ad ditional equipment has filled to capacity foe 87,000 added square feet of floor At •HU in c. a Pitta Jr, Pitta, Pitts, The the vice BGC3PG^BUry« Wateree MflL ere of foe 11 Mills, makes surgical Cause. During the it curtailedTo U August it L days and since Sfi Judge T. B. GrewdNy^l church, I UfrfhM, T« Ov«r Criminal Tana a callto the the Earle Street in Greenville. —Jure hte University. which heidrt Judge Thomas B. Greiv- Stalwment Of PfiHf mm nf RdmmfimlH will nra. Wl rriVSWffgIVU eker of Edgefield, will ure- side over the Court of Gen eral Sessions which convenes on next Monday, Oct 24. He is the judge of llth cir cuit which comprises Lexing ton, Saluda, Edgefield and McCormick counties. Judge Greneker is (me of foe newer jurists of foe state, having been elected on Feb. 5, 1046, to I succeed Hon. Strom .Thurmond. He was at the time of his election a member of foe ' Ifouee from| School CommiHee Bask Tenets To Sapport Price For Cottonseed To Be Available Here A statement of basic tenets to guide it in its study of plan for the proposed reorganization of costs for tem of Kershaw cc the school adhool com-1 Edgefield county. ounty was adopted fay the mittee appointed Wednesday by the legislative delega- The pride will be school school districts k e native of Edgefield county, a graduate of Wofford College and attended Georgetown University, leaving before com-. pletion of course to enter the)!* 1 ?*®? 1 army in the First World War. He .... senate, politics elected to the House. Jurors for the week follow; I The basic tenements J. W. Bakeer, Bethune; Christy | follow: B. Rodgers, Camden: L. A Raley, Camden; Leroy T. Hough, Cam W. S. Trueadale, L. Goodale, Camden; Sam turn to make recommendations to it The committed has for some i additional focilitiea time bean making a study of foe except those which are hool la wa, ‘set-up ‘ facilities supported by the state or government Officiak of the Production I Marketing Administration said Thursday that plans were being made to secure a building at the county fair grounds *in which to I store whatever seed the Commod ity Credit Corporation may pur- around .i cations! administration system, adopted | ^ the hazard of dk» cord between foe have already here fanned and announcement will be made short ly as to a public philatelic exhibi tion by the dub. « Camden: C. J. Baker, Kershi H. L. imyrl Camden; W. P. Blackmon, Camden; L. C. Cly-I bum, Jr,^ Camden; D. L. Trues- State Reported To Be Very Low | No shipments of coal -are com ing into Camden now because of foe cool strike and reports from all over foe state indicate that foe same situation prevmik every- Wh lTAnd«on i coal dealer was otrt’of coal I doubt U «y y«d as much as 50 tons on hand and that k inferior grade coal bought at Mg* bid from non-union coalmines in Kentucky and Ten- I *With the mine* still tightly dosed by strike, foe outlook re main* dark, and the winter is not off. n Anderson it was said that one J firm repwM^tofjMme i scored from a i a few days ; W. schools awt their communities, the mum of education in a decent, I selection of adminktretors, ‘ M l. Ttat e high standard mini um of education safe, reasonably conveniently lo-1 and other cated building should be supplied I be left to the to every child in the county at trustees the expense of the county andL The' Seed has been foe supDort price in ebunty thus for ao that there has been no reel need for the former .to avail himaelf of the support individual I price, it was said. linktrators, teach-1 ^ « ww . • Good Harvesting ^ Progress Is Made Aiuiexauon israe oualifiad <4a Still School ty attorney for Lee made a study of the situation nu renaerea a repon to XM . to k of study of' ■ten wtil^pcobabty appoint quali- to stitutional limitations such as re duction of the aiae of foe county below the required square miles end the rule concerning neemraa to the county court house would be violated. So far as could be learned Thursday, Governor Thurmond has not yet appointed the commis sion to study foe matter. Camden Enjoying ther 'members of the com- iaw: «. -. P. taker. Jackson, Bethune; state regardless of the geographi- mittee are: J. G. Richards, Jr. w cal location of ttat child end re-1 Camden; Ford B. Stanton, of Cas- __ of foe economic condi-I satt; Mrs Moe DuVal, of Boy- | A on of hk community. Jkin; Ear! Truesdale, of Lugoff;|the cotton crop in Kershaw coun- “2 That foe school system Jen Boas, of Blaney; J. C. Hoff- ty k reported to have been pick- l be efficiently administered man, ofWateree Dam; L. C. Cly-led, goodweather having aided the t Perfect Weal f™’ should be efficiently administered men, of wateree mm; L. c. Cly-led, food weather havinj Uf the beat available personnel burn, of Wntvflle, azxi Tom ^Cor* fanners in fok rnpect IBma, Camden,^*._Ii. Bowen, ceocratrfiicalIbett, of Antioch. \ | “Good progren” was ist week 1 planting, tin of agriculture I representing both geographical bett, areas and population areas tom-1 Jacoftafo [far as poeaude. • ’''yjffiSs? |mayors of camaen. all foe I over foe state last week with har- Ker-Jvesting and fall planting, the U. While r>ifndtn k enjoying al most of eold states Wednesday in winter’s lint big preview. Storms still Atlantic. California was pounded C. B. Croxton, shew; L. P.-Rose, Blaney: H. T. EnOCh IS 3* W week Bethune; wTc. Jones, Bethune; people it k set up to serve, it I ar *• Dallas J. Mahoney, Camden; R. C. should be motected from transient Stokes, Cassatt: CtoT?. Brown, I or petty politics and pressures in- Camden ;B._W. Marshall, Cam-1 sofar as possible. educational V>' School Children Needing Oothing was favorable for outdoor work and crop growth. To make a study of the present!the department’s weekly crop- division of the county into school I weather ‘ districts, with consideration given! “Soil moisture k generally am- to the adequacy of financial re-1 pie,” foe report continued. “Re- ‘ ' ' .... r more interest than and grazing crops .. _ . program, foe degree to which the I and that three time* more ecreeae it clearly appears p regent plan of organization af-|than last year k being seeded m abandonment long font, prope,. educational oppor- j some counties. term economics or clear educa- tunities to pupils in the county. I “A record acreage of the win- tional advantages will result To formulate a plan for the I ter legume, blue lupine, k expect- “5. Ttat considering foe educa-1 consolidation end reorganization |ecd in foe morf southern counties 1 vantages of den; T. O. Watts, Blaney; C. B. I “4. Ttat existing educational gources for proper school support, ports indicate n Pate, Bethel; Grover Faulken- facilities are economic assets JfJlj cmaiity ofthe instructional ever in pastures berry and Sam IMpenberry, which _ should not bedh&rded or pro Jim, foe degree to which the and thatthree ti I that by their With cold clothes of ‘ tional disadvantages schools and herent in 1 very smaniof existing school districts, which ■ plan atau Miss Jen-1 re white end be in-1 plan foal! provide for not more of | school districts than there ere school districts in the coun ty end to submit foe plan so for- CouhSTBc mulated to the ( of the Board of Education of the county and the, _ legislative delegation, to foe end I “About 80 action required to effectuate I ton has be taken prior to tt ] of tiie school year, I the to foe where some plantings are already up. “A email percentage of the oats acrekge has been sown “Coastal truck, hor and pastures are in good condi lobe is still ranged in i. California was wintry wind*. by cold wintry wind}. A large area of Montana wee under four to eight inches of snow. Snow was forecast as far eastward as i and northwest The mercury tumbled to nine degrees at Butte, Montane, 11 at Cut Banj. Montana, and a rec- d-breakin SO at Fresno, Calif. It’s good to live in Camden. EZHXBTT AT FAH} Among the exhibits at foe State Fair is one by foe Southern Trac tor Manufacturing Corporation of Columbia* which is displaying Gardenair tractors manufactured in Camden. ■ * 111 " l ; 1 e ■ ■ i Coming Events at Ftragl a vi IN. 4*