■*** +■-' ki 61 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1949 Number 49 To Private Business iaster C. P. DuBose i »* j, Retire On Wednesday ter 15 Years of Service p. DuBose, wfoa has served for 15 years in Cam- postmaster, wiil retire from that office on Wed- . Nov. 30. his retirement, A*- postmaster Benton Sheom postmaster’s office he Preside Z the President, wUl be JLn the recommendation ' DuBose announces that he to his former real es- in Camden following t This business has _ by his son, C jr M during his term < inost master. jib. DoBoort Ssrm ib« has soon Camitan 1 r S^doiS?rJHojttaiad S total of DuBose has to postmaster, bm served iass member of the city from 1914 to 1920. In was elected Mayor of sod served 4or tot Installation 01 Police Radio Is Ordered By City 1 Local Scouts Station To Sorvico Fir# And Municipal Utility Departments Also Thirty - Six W#nt From Camden And All Hod A Great T1 » Purchase of a radio unit to service the police, fire* and utility departments of the city was authorized by City Council at its meeting on Friday evening. Appli cation will be made at once for a police station permit and as soon as this is receiv ed the broadcasting unit will be purchased. The broadcasting station will be located in the police head quarters and the police car will be equipped with a two-way radio set as will the crash car of the fire department and the utility trucks. It was felt that the radio equip ment will be valuable in many respects. In many cities it has aided very materially in the de tection of criminals. Just recently (the manager of a department _ „ . * store ia a nearby town hear some w the office from 1926 to one tampering with the back door from Camden imbii Saturday t- bers en- om this guests of m Thur- C. P. DuBOSE, SB. Following DuBose will retirement subsidy for mainder of his life. Thirty-six Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts went .to Colu ahd took part in-a pilgrim age symbolic of t|e estima ed 14,000 new listed into Scoi year. They w Governor J. mond and the University of South Carolina. A total df 2,763 attended from over the state. Climaxing feature of the day long sojourn in the State Capi tal was their wP tory of tiie Ui Carolina over the of Wake Forest at iunu Earlier in the the State ~ Woodrow historic landmarks in the vicinity the vic- of South Deacons stftd- toured the and other penng with the back door of Columbia and were guests of of his store. He phoned the police Governor and Mrs. Thurmond at his retirement, Mr. headquarters, which radioed the the governor’s maasjpn on Rich- receive a government police car and the police drove up land street on the would-be robber while he was still High Du Pont Company « • Here Henry B. duPont (fourth from left), vice president of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., paid his first visit to the Camden (May) plant off the company last Friday. In the picture above reading from left to right are Mayor Henry Savage, Jr., J. D. Wilson, project manager in charge ot the May plant; Dr. George W. Philson, manager of the acetate division of the rayon department; Mr. duPont, Henry G. Garrison, Senator R. M. Kennedy, Jr., W. C. Eberlin and F. K. Dignaigo, the latter two of the rayon department of the DuPont company.—Chronicle photo oy Monarch. H. B. duPont Visits Plant the re- Test Made Here till tampering with the door. The set will also be particularly it To Coordinate CAP WHh Pro Defection Service in the Principal program of sters and their useful to the utility 'trucks and in their visit to CNhmbia were to the fire department . Regional Scout Executive W. A. Council approved the rental of Dobson of' Atlanta, Ga ? John four acres of property from the Hackney, deputy regional Scout Reid estate at Fair and Lyttleton executive, and Roy Liles, also of streets just north of York street .Atlanta. to be developed into a playground A silver statuette was present under the supervision of “ “ the' ed Governor and Mrs. Thurmond recreation commission. All equip- by the group as a token of their ‘ rest and ment will be portable in order appreciation for their interest that it may be moved* if deemed the impetus they have ' given Camden Airport was the scene of an experiment ly that officials say might well prove the decid- in deteygmiing the advisability of future at» i to coordinate the Civil Air Patrol in South Carolina “ of the g. C. State advisable The Council announced the Camden Tractor and ment Company had forest fire d< of equipment to prepare a . site on the city property on purpose of from Bouth past and In grimagt. Hosts to the Cantral cil and Colu in the the pil- horde were coun- with added that this ttrs *— %fir«u [• nnall, ‘ with a I watt receiver-transmitter I, two members of the •quadron of the CAP one one-half hours, eon- three separate fire-spot- and checking the ex- ■ the tiny radio set of* 01, of Austrian Square to improve" the the other of the forestry m White Elephant Says Fine Co-operation Here Truly Appreciated ’The people of Camden have certainly been mag nificent in their desire to co-operate with us in every particular and we sincerely apprecate the wonderful at titude they have shown/’ said Henry B. duPont, vice- president of E. 1. duPont de Nemours A Co., Inc., who made a flying visit to Camden last Friday Utytook over the progreas being made in the construction df the local plant It waa his first visit here and he expressed delight with the city. forester, Relations; Pewh^SSSci torSter Sale Will Be mden district, and L. E. fw i j f\ wx .. the purpose of tine l threefold: (determine the extent and of the CAB, i eommumcitions ive radio set Held On Dec. 8 ' fire control unit * a Air Patrol at th« Cftcndc ing the experiment Pride Ratteree, conn S. C. ol Professor Edward Newberry . College, group telling them he, of them and Town and County .v. * their ac- Scout executive and merit y bade them vugedtl interest tower dur- ,*£****• bargain a^tor Col. •enters of the Camden commum- teUigenee, (2) Eating of an ardent brWly ^- b * dg ' cordial welcome and to re-affirm their Scouting. He suggests to them three com mon goals to keep in mind as part ‘ of the Scout citizenship and char- 1) Ih- “not •School Clothing Noodod There is still an iurg«t naad fw clothing for school children. Miss Jennie McMaster, the-School school are cold come to shivering because of in sufficient clothing. All kinds and ‘-rsawto days for school at. obtain some in , (CAP in fire . determine the maximum (ge of the one-half utter in and coats.’ 1 Mr. *a. acetate was manager of the _ an of the rayon da- and F. K. Signaigo and partment and F. K. Signaigo and with Having the Court Inn were J. project manager in charge of the John T. Nettles Passes Suddenly Funarol Services Monday Afternoon For Wall Known Citizen John Tweed Nettles, 68, prominent reel estate deal er, farmer, civic leader and rtsmaam sportgmanr passed away sud denly at hie Items, 816 Lau- street, Sunday after- Oh 18:15 o’cloek. acquaintances. He had his brsak- fiist Sunday and yras chatting Of his family son and HaroU Mr. duPont Pont company good citizens in w the idasls and work of Scout- Dobbins, AAl Capt Perry Woodward, o/Statocnd sponsored by thi CAP,, and the {y ^ iary of the Camden hospital o flew the test dreU-stocked shelves of _ Elephant” articles, including glass rites, in which Imt fini-awn all^vS wtre » chln *. pastries, and canned Whaley, of Columbia, by krmters an over (oods ^ await victors to the the Goddess of system. outstanding feature of the e Paint Fire Hydrants Boy Scout Bait—* on — -JPE. ling of the fire hydrants of the tion The hydrants we being den ed. They want to become a part den tearn n«rtin^ of the^community and to prove d For ^ Cam- Troop No. 54 has a project the paint- company received finer in Cam- than it had received and in South Carolina. He stve farm - * .nm. ceremony on the mansion grounds evtry °*** bi five in ^ockM ^ o/ -Whi^ w impr«*ive tog with im South arc SSTStotK *“ ^®r of the day, according to Mrs. .yinbol of me new met^bers r^ equipment doing the v ^S.JK2r!5 lv * 9 ana progress of work. STS •to r—UI (•quadron. ! the test on a day when hazard was at a maxi- to foresters as a day, and based on , number of days since wind velocity, etc.), the I observer spotted and re- , ®2 e “fes during the course - The plane was piloted Harry J. Bagley, Jr., officer of the local jn. Lt a D. Btgbge, iwho in also district ranger ^^Camden district, served as ted communicator. *♦”¥**! tag**; Option at eadi of the »» stations from the was flying at a spot from the three sta- ; A check of tub sort was * tech of five altitudes, at 500 feet and pro- MU intervals of 5QQ feet to Two Camden Boys Are Badb Hurt In Auto Wreck City C cleaning Water Main Council has approved the ot 2,000 feet ' George Darden, sale chairman, cruited tor Scouting this year and 'phMe^K toStokfe th l 3 ^ ter ?’ ^ Imain on Kirkwood_Une pful so mem. d en oZrJStJZg 18 jf? ^ yrr, the acetate division of the naron as*NettSi Irfd* oved the department of which Dr. PhUson NettL^ h. is the manager. Dr. Philson has ******* J *be Cam- , toZ?H been a fr^funt viriti? to oT K den during the past 12 months Detach May 21, in Thorn- Holmes hancing the work of the Wom en’s Auxiliary at the hospital, and will provide many worthy im provements for nurses and pat ients. attending council! were Michael Hill of Florence, Pete Yarnell of wUl be off for an estimated period Charleston,* Hugh Orenede of of nine hours in that section while day of this week and the water will be Participating in this ceremonj 1 it improves the flow. The test fen _ - , . . —. represent.tivN