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CAMDEN, SOUTH
iY, OCTOBER 21, 1949
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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
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Peace and Contentment At Leut
Two Displaced Families
urope Find Happy
Kershaw County Homes
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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
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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
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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
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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. ■
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