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CAMDEN, SOUTH CA
DAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1849
Number 43
New City Bus Put In Operation
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Above is shown the new bus which has been put in
operation by the City Transit Company between the Air
port and the Du Pont plant.
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City Transit Co. Extends
Lines To Du Pont Plant
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A handsome new 30-passenger capacity bus has been
bought by the City Transit Company and will bn pftt in
operation on Tuesday or Wednesday of Iftila week on the
ron from the Airport to Logoff, it was announced by Jake
Smith, the manager. The bus was purchased from the
Superior Coach Corporation of Lima, Ohio.
The bus is of steel and aluminum
construction. Aluminum has been
incorporated in all exterior and
interior panels. The stepwells
have two steps, each 8 inches
gh, covered with rubber safety
ead. The first step is appeoxi-
ately 15 indies from the ground.
The interior trim, including the
inside panels, .is aluminum, at
tractively finished in two colors.
The windshield is safety piste
glass and is the divided type set
an angle to minimize glaze.
-.r,
lack
rubber fabric
The bus haa
doors, all
nife type
safety edge.
The buzzer system is Essco sig
nal chime type with eer* runaing
through brackets full length of
life and Time .magazines
are taken severely to task by
Senatbr R. M. Kennedy for
what he terms ^|fce scurril
ous and unfair particles in
each with refereiice to any
thing Southern" in a letter
wttrich he has wtitten to D.
Lyon Smith, editorial sec
tion, life M
Mr. Smith had
Kennedy an
Life entitled ‘The New
in which the Senator thought
there was criticism of the “Old
exit South.” It was this that brought
trill Open Next Fall
Preparatory School To
Be Located At Airport
Is Now Thought Assured
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A semi-military preparatory school, to be located on
the site of the former Southern Aviation school, adjacent
to the Camden airport, now seems to be assured as suffi
cient money has been subscribed to finance the proposi
tion, it was announced tfais week by the committee in
charge of the school. Title is expected to be taken to
the property soon and a corporation organised to own
and conduct the school. A charter will be applied for
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immediately.
to Senator
section of
South
coach wit
length
of all
The new bus will operate as far
as Lugoff furnishing service for
the Du Pont pleat Inis is an ex-
tensien of the run which hereto
fore has been only to the Sea
board depot *
Forestry Heads
WillMeetHere
Dntrict Rong.re Will Visit
Several Points In This
County
i'SeVen district foreetry
are scheduled
Educaiien Week
To Be Observed
and wornout
prejudice
people have
School. Of Camden An* ^
<' been as deliberat
forth his spirited
The letter from
Smith follows:
“Please accept
tending to me
titled The New
I would not he
longer subscribe
Time. The
articles in each
to anything Sou
me that I want
in my home.
“Your letter
from me on the
me, it is in line
sneering and pa
toward the sound
earners.
"You refer to ^ _
tired and eroded land mat .vas
guilty of non-support of its tireC
your
t this
by
Senator to
I thanks for
^■section
h otherwise
■it, as I no
■■Life or
end unfair
comment
eo disgusted
of them.
Miss Ross Traaadsla. who will
, - bo ciowood official prtacan from
Camden, foe the Charlotie Chriat-
»aa Festival parade, whan
South 6 1 cwl* cR Tneeday.
The property which the school
will take over, including mess
halls, kitchens, class rooms, ad
ministrative buildings, s fine
recreation building and swimming
pool, is expected to provide
facilities far caring for as many
as 400 students. The school is
expected to open next fall.
The list of subscribers to the
school includes the following:
•John K. deLoach, William L.
Good ale, Prank Montgomery, Sam
Karesh, Henry E: Beard. John T.
Laney, David R. Williams, J.
Cooley Gillis, John F. Wall, Ken
nedy Insurance Agency, Sarsfield
Hotel, C. Granger Kornegay,
Henry Savage, Jr., Dr. R. E. Stev
enson, Mrs. Louise C. Proctor,
Julian H. Burns, Mr. end Mrs. U.
M. Myers, Mr. and Mrs.
Mills, N. R. Goodale, Jr., E<
G. Grant, Dr. A. w. Humphries,
Dr. C. P. Sowell, John Carl West,
Dr. D. C. Hinson, M. LWeil, M.
B. Burns, Dr. Carl A. West, C. J.
Shannon, IV, John Whitaker, Jr.,
Jamas D. Zemp, E. D. Drakeford,
Mrs. J. R. Belk, C. H. Pointer,
DeCosta Brown, Dr. G. S. Rhame,
T. Bowen, Reuben Pitta, Jr.
Hurt When Car
Leaves Highway
Four Footba II Meyers
In Cor Forced Off Of
Highway
Five Camden youths, four
of them members or the
Camden High sdhool foot
ball team and the other a
star player on the 1947 and
1948 Bulldog teams, were
injured in an auto wreck on
Highway No. 1, west of
Blaney Saturday at mid
night.
The ibjured were:
Charley Boan, student
of the football
pacifc.'fi of
Kershaw County Plan
Number Of Events
iney
in Ca
part of an extensive three-
day mobile training course
hr forestry and fire preven-
I tion.
In accordance with their slogan
[“Leadership plus, hard work
means success, 1 ’ the rangers will
fas the rt- visit several points in the county,
he Orchid receive instruction in telephone
the Safe and radio communication, movie
the jn-wentetion,^ and newspaper re-
1W of the Among the rangers present for
lent made the leadership training program
will be George Bigby frpm Cam-
e Sheheen den. Reeves Grubbs from Kings-
iras chosen | tree, C. Ray Anderson from Plor-
her driv- ence, J. B. Potter from Walter
ses and boro, Adrian Purdue from Aiken.
Laney I Melton Wall from Newberry and
signals Paul Bowie from Spartanburg.
1 at all At the close of the Kershaw
Sheheen I county phase of the program the
foresters will return to Columbia
! for a brief recap of the program.
| Funds Available
^ I From FH A Now
ieXrliFor Farm Loans
(about the. supervisor J. E. Stuc-
i are mint-1 key of the Fanners Home Ad-
to strictly I ministration says that the FHA
kainst lav- employes of the Kershaw county
r w office will attend a meeting at
Florence on Nov.. 22 at which
The -aohools of Camden
and Kershaw County are ob-
I is the 29th observance of
American Education Week,
and the theme for this year
is "Making Demo e r a £ y
Work."
Organization* which sponsor
the observance are the National
was the South as
invasion by the F<
The Confederal
turned to a home
ground, his li
killed, his
since the
has ever
devastated as
result of the
to the
‘stolen or
stolen
th
■ the Federals to leave nothing
that could be used to restore or
maintain even the most
JayCee
delayed
.1, housing aid for farmers and the
rnaiTt | part ^ local farmers committees
will
have in administering it will
discussed. —• ^
Congress -has made available
J approximately $27 million for
(62, long an loans to farmer*, of which $935,-
Ixm, died 400 has been tentatively allotted
e Camden to South Carolina for the con-
of several 1 gtruction and repair of farm
. | buildings before next June 30.
be held Ifc i* estimated that this amount
from the] will permit the making of an av-
uirch at 31 erage of seven loans per county.
.The meetings are being held to
with acquaint county supervisors with
hotels handling of loan applications,
many To give local guidance to the
IcJ&Jta SmS?’ to
Mr. Tich-1 make recommendations ns to the
of aoplicants. and the
to hisItyeaMTamount >f assistance for
which the applicant is qualified.
Hill Loans will be made for the con-
among|gtruction and. 'repair of Farm
and other buildings to
fanners who cannot obtain loans
TLv for construction and repair of
ihomee, occupied by their tenant*
Here I h^^SS*
improvement to their homes, and
stat«"'*'**i tb* MW coortrvetion will
for
Education Association, the Ameri
can Legion and the United States
Office of Education and the Na
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
On Thursday, Nov. 16 at 3 p. m,
there will be window demonstra
tions of actual classroom work.
These demonstrations are to be
the windows of the Out-
Home Furniture Store
Furniture Store.
There will be regular window
displays in other store windows
in the business district.
Pupils of the Junior High
School are planning on using the
radio to bring to the public in
formation about the schools.
Friday. Nov. 11 at 9:30 a.
the pupils of the first four gradea
are having a chapel program. At
10 o'clock pupils of the Junior
High School are having a pro
gram. Both of these programs will
be in the grammar school audi
torium. The public is urged to be
present.
All this week there will be an
exhibit of classroom work in the
main hall of the
. Friday, Nov, k 1
aside as “Open House" at the
Camden Grammar School. Noth
ing would please the pupils,
teachers or administrators better
ban to 1
son visit the grammar sc
that day.
no
“With no food or
implements, no seed
but only with their
and a God-given courage,
people, of the South (wSch you
to as the Old
South) aet to work to rebuild their
homeland. The ‘New
Motorcade To
Charlotte Group Will
Arrive Here Tuesday
At Ifclfe A. M.
you call it ia the result of their
mastarwork. They had na Marsh
all plan to aid them, but were
subjected to a regime of vindic
tive treatment never equalled in
the history of civilized people.
“In this progress, our
been selected to represent
Camden in the Carolines
Christmas Festival aa the
official princess. Miss Tniasr
dale is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. L. Truesdale of
Camden. She has brown
Harold Funderburke, Mrs. Kath
leen Watts, M. L. Mays, John M.
Villepigue, Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Boykin and Blake ahd Ford.
am 11, so
Light Boi
son of Mr. and Mn. J.
Circle
Boan, Kirkwood
_ an. age IS. sen of
Mr.’ and Mrs. J. Li
a member of the IMS
school team.
Tommy Haynaa. li, son of
Mr. and Mrs. JhkslBaynas.
Dain^riShb «m 17. son
of Mrs. Bornia Hinson. N.
IS.
of last yaw and
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Is th*
J. W.
Parker was th* more seriously
injureed, a ruptured spleen re
quiring an operation. His condi
tion is r
reported improved Monday
The fiVe boys were on their
way home after attending the
jykln .nd Blake akd Ford. . footbaU.n™ «t Orangebur; be-
The buildings to be purchased £ veen . S i m .Vf r an ^ Orangeburg.
> u*Vw-u->l nrnffram mrm ur*lt Forced Off the road b,
for the school program are well
built and saw several years ser
vice in the training of thousands
of flyers for the last world war.
Some of the flyers came from
England and received their prim
ary training at the Camdfh
school.
The Camden airport, which ad- ...
joins th* school, is one of the
finest in South Carolina, hat
,v a pickup
truck, the car, owned by J. Light
Boan and driven by Charles Boan,
went into the ditch at the left
and turned over twice.
A car driven by John
while
Mullen,
came upon the wreck
~ rim
while
located' law
m the heart of
as district and
but
after John,_
Companions reached
* tha youths wei* UL |.
foe only one to
• large well equipped
and features a fine
pooL
In addition to the
swimming
its of tha pickup
than three miles from
the Camden business
is a well landscaped grove of pine
TO, ration buildinji, ^
*1 • trurtur » truck, dMcribjy,
rolet, ‘ ware after * a the
wreck. State police, notified of
i/amaen. one nas urowu previous mentioned, there la th< ■ccjdwrt, made a search but
turfr and is five feet three ,3*0 a structure that was bupt' PP,.* 0 M? nd f y morning had ^
for hospital purposes when the 10ca ** d tl1 * two 10 »•
people have shared
though the tax burden
borne by the white property
er. Any thinking negro I
that the improvement of
inches tall.
A 1
from
8 am
10:30 a. ol, at which officials at
the event will crown Miss Trues
dale, official princess from Cam
den. It ia expected that a large
crowd will gather to see the of
ficial ceremony.
Mias Truesdale will go to Char
lotte for the bfg event on Nov. 16
and will be one of the celebrities
toSS SSmlh. ‘ ^|md on tb. 1M7 aod U« t*
school say
the business
the ctiy will
airport
landing fftHnhaa
Parker, a b
amden High
Prmnoters of the
that its impact on
and cultural life of
,lng | end on* the 1
star
an
er factor. Just as the
white man appreciates the
i of his colored
ty and help
bor.
To the Northern - conceived
program of Reconstruction is al
most entirely due the friction be
tween the races in the South, ag
gravated today by such maga
zines as Time and Life, and oth
er loud-mouthed agitators. This
psqudo Liberalism may pay off
“7 1 in profits, but it is doing more
k the dmy tet £«*° A'X “ y K “
“You refer to ‘the erosion of
•oils and souls’ of the South; also
to the old philosophy of
to take part. Ted Malone
Fulton Lewis, Jr., will re
the radio stars at the even
Statement Made
By Stallings Is
Refuted Locally
and
Publication in
Observer Sunday
the Charlotte
morning of a
be very greet. From the buineu y lffiy*to*^m arm in the
STiffiSS , 0U VS ^‘h
mt senooI is expected to brinf ’ a^vmw***
K>1 is expected to bring
hundred boys to Camden
for about nine months of the year
and they will naturally spend lots
of money here. In addiuon their
parents and other relatives will
be continually visiting them, and
this will mean more money
brought to Camden.
Boan received a should-
injury.
Danny Wri|ht
Boan were
and Charley
shaken up.
Workers
for himself as typical of the I situation v at the
I ‘Old South.’ Of necessity,
mar school onl^ Confederate Wa? every
Jurors For Second
Week Civil Court
statement from Cedric Stallings,
manager of Charlotte office of the
American Federation of Hosiery
g the union
adyn Hosiery
both white
to cooperate with his
^ his merchant and with
other contacts. In such devasta
tion, this was the only hope of
survival This necessity imbued
the Southerner, white end col-
The following jurors have beenjored, with a spirit of kindly co
drawn to serve during the second operation, which I believe is un
reek of the court of common equalled anywhere. It is one of
•leas and instructed to report on the things that makes th* South
lov. 14 at 10 a. m.: *, so attractive a place i» which to
G. F. MtiSyftjI.
James M.
Mills of Camden brought prompt
responses from this city.
In the article it was stated that
Mr. Stalling had “charged that re
cently an attempt had been made
to organize a so-called independ
ent organization among em
ployees of the Jadyn Hosiery
Mflk, Inc* by the mayor of Cam
den. He said
known as the
Knitting
Town and
County....
Methodist Bazaar
Wednesday Expect
To Attract Crowds
•RmmLI* Paved
The
low
Knitting and Finish!
tion. does not have
of the overwhelming
the employees in the
iSrJS: <££&
paving program from Gal
loway Hill, five miles east of
Camden to Marshall’s church,
which on the Lee-Kershaw coun
ty Jine, has been completed.
There remains a gap from Mar
shall’s church to near Hall’s Min,
The annual Methodist bazaar,
featuring eight attractive booths,
; will be held at the Farm Home
Market next to the Agricultural
Building op DeKalb street on
Wednesday fran 10 a. m. to 10
p. m' and it IT expected that the
building will be thronged with
visitors all of the day.
^The bazaar is sponsored by the
WOm “‘ theeSES
Service of
Methodist
of the society have
to be completed, which will ““
nect up with the paved road at!** 2 *" 111 * ba,ton * ** h€ld -
that point which leads to Luck-
and Bishopville. It if the!
jwn,
H. If.'
Beard, J. B
Cope-
w’e
Wade T. Stokes, Joe T. Pate, J<
J; Rabon, James Jeffors,
Watts and J. B. Cantey.
South is working
most unsolvable
not the
mouthings
, The Norte*
mobsters, we hai
diminishing
play down the
employees _
Mayor Savage .said kc
tied the organ)zati<
instigated the m-ganjzation of the
Kershaw County Knitting end
Association but that he
one yet h
Lunch win be served at
azaar beginning at noon and in
ia evening a chicken barbecue
t«mf ggiu be served beginning
U4 --a ^ it8p. m. The price for tililudS
& « !‘“k nCmU ^ tm
'Finishing
A cordial Invitation is
ed to the public to
visit
the had been retained by a group of J. L. Guy is planting permanent
M* plant
necessary
tion and
to organize the asaoda- herd of white faced cattle. He will
ons employees of the mill to steer pastures on his plantation near Tlota HoII Ciania
•ing them through the fegaUntriopdes Ancrum’s Ferry, and has a fine l/wlt Ju&U oIHilS
Camden-Columbia
Piclrap Service
Knitting and lileishing
... Kanhew «
sociation said that approximately possibilities for cattle raising. He
' is planting white Dutch elm
county, and
WV
What we need now is a sane, re-
and decent weekly
that we will
in our
in
to mon
publications. M
three-fourths of the employas of xs^lanting
the mill had already joined th#
association.
To
(ere
clover and
ing big
red
police JMS
Dan Hall has
daily
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Olin D. Johnston
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