The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 02, 1949, Image 1
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I DAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949
umber 50
B Public
Pol On BO Feol
deral Bureau of
ids and the South
highway Depart-
notified the City
a that they will
on their recom-
i for an 80-foot
iy for the widen-
rth Broad ftreet
the city haa an-
hat it is not in-
any project over
ie situation saens
iched an inpaase.
r*. city manage*-, re
td the highway de
al the city wa» not
any widening proje
,St which cjlfed tor
,y of owr W feet The
it,_ in twj
of
i ,
It. Rogers
5. N. Peei
ineer, enclosing a re-
tr. Pearman had re-
N. S. Anderaca, die-
>r of the Berean of
i, to a letter which he
him telling him
tion.
ter to Mr.
n said:
tiat projecta,
i F. *
nds, ah
tt
sed
l should . TIT , ^
of-way in the initial
>w for the ultimate
. Z Jr* . ^ f ik/
l this propoaed urban
traffic lanes should
tandle present ttaffig
raffic of the foresee
There may be sorm
to the need tor con
rking lanes at tM*
the nature
ectii
time,
streets.
Above is shown the architects picture of the new educational b
r ^U or , th ® con8tn ? ction of whfeh Itet Tuesday night. The
The building will be located to the rear of the church and will
Benton Sheom
Asumes Duties
As Postmaster
T" ■
Fillt Position Pondfa?
Permanent Appoint*
ment By The President
The Christmae Flower
for the First Baptist Church, the
Vine will not be constructed at this
d from Walnut almost to Lafayette
Floral Firm Has Many
Thousands of Poinsettias
Ilf every person in Kershaw county were to go by
the Camden Floral Company's wholesale florist shop
tomorrow and come away with a poinsettia, there would
be enough left to supply the largest retail florist in the
state with his Christmas supply. For under seven large
glass greenhouses at the Camden wholesale floral com
pany there are 45,000 potted poinsettias, most of which
are in full bloom.
Benton Sheorn, who has
been connected with th$
Camden postoffice for over
With the Christmas season just
around the corner, orders for
shipments of poinsettias are al-
23 years and who has *becir ready beginning to come in from
assistant postmaster since
1931, became acting post
master on Wednesday when
C. P. DuBose, who bad serv
ed the city as postmaster for
the past 15 years retired
h?r da- WfrSlS 1 *Jl
iat construction of "“to® ?£*£££
s can be deferred at wffl be made on tecommen-
i fed that it is high-
to obtain sufficient ^ iuth coo<res * ion ‘
width to allow for • l ^^ ora ^
postal service on Jan. 1, 1919, but
severed his connection tor a per
iod of time. He re-entered the
ction if
in
service on April 1, 1926, and has
been in the local postoffice since
that time. He became assistant
in 1931.
the
ing a Federal-aid Ur-
for this location, we
an 80-foot rifht-of-
vhich will allow for
improvement of four —. , 1Q - t
^ C«nd«L «j«
S SS5 gn of the tate Ifc. «>d Mix «r y U.
i 80-foot width by Sheorn.
ents to as narrow as
not appear justified ... ,
rttive cot, aDiultt- v*. * ^
The gift carried the following
card: “With appreciation from
Postal Employees.”
Mr. DuBose was hdd in very
high esteem by all of the employ
ees of the office and there was
general regret among them that
had reached the age of retire-
! ment.
During the period that Mr. Du
Bose served as postmaster the^re-
are considered,
nderstood teat i
ds
dth of
et which wftdft
Tide far 40 for
en curbs
k Wa
iit-of-way width to
r inadequate and
i willing to raeom-
that tha City Com
a taken thb
postmaster
an in ccipts of the office more than
transmitting < j^Wed. In 1934 his first year m
Veceiwd^wujr’ letter office the y were $21 ’ 00e
^ 2“ ffioo they "* eipec .
8ht- l ^TO r 0 f«i“f2rt «>>» wiu re””;'*
gnt-of-way of 60 feet g 0vernmen t retirement subsidy
i wcuST’SS'h.l!!'«« »* h “ “Jvl?
L t !"i, resume his connecUon with C. P.
fit* # wun * • thl * DuBose and Son, insurance firm,
ight-of-way of more
..»«««». g ef0n d Meeting
County Education
Association Held
The. second meeting of the Ker
shaw County Education Associa
tion for the year 1949-50 was held
in the Camden Grammar School
auditorium Nov. 17 at 3 p. m.
The guest speakers Drought
interesting suggestions tor
il education in the schocds.
illips. physical education
director from the state <
of education, spoke bri
importance of training
e Department
uata right-of-
ecursd for the
si
-of-way
tha pro-
>t and that tea
itraet to be con-
iould ba sufficient
for tea aatldpeied
wiU use this strati
irtment is
work on this
urther inst.
' officials relative to
m of the d^r toward
ion of this project."
Pressure Is
Increased
ming Main
ig of the water main
i Lane has resulted
usly increasing the
re.
>0 feet of the main
been cleaned. Tests
test spot show that
< has bean increased
ons a minute to 1,000
wte. At. another test
on the
ie child
n'tmkSSVw^MninuUr- He
then introduced Mix Dorothy
Chaining of Winthrop CoUege.
Miss Chaming gave demonstra
tions of introducing new games
to children. Her helpers were
several children of the Camden
Grammar School.
The president, Mrs. Jun Darby,
announced that the next meeting
will be held Dec. 15, 7:30 o. m., at
the Sarsfield Coffee Shop in Cam
den.
Commer
To Pay
A* * mroBttt.ot.O'QdiroctOTjg
the commercial National ssanx
s
the 500 or more retail florists who
are regular customers of the Cam
den floral Company, and in an
other two weeks literally carloads
of the red-blossomed plants will
be shipped daily to points all
over the South where they will
to homos, offices and buti-
aething of the
r that is nennentad
with the flower.
Undbputeflly tee largest poin
settia growers in South Carolina,
the Camden floral Company is
recognised as one of the largest
wholesale florists in the South. It
is today supplying florists in
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Rotanf Enjoys
Mirctrd Show
Members of the Camden
Rotary club, their Rotary-
Anns and invited guests en
joyed an old-fashioned min
strel show on* the occasion
of the club’s annual Ladies
Night Monday night at the
Court Inn.
The minstrel was put on by
seven members of the Chester
Rotary Club, including Rotary
District Governor Herman Hamil
ton, and the dinner assemblage of
over 100 people was kept laughing
for over an hour.
A stage had been erected in the
dining room of the Court Inn and
this enabled the diners in all parts
of the room to see and hear.
Dr. W. R. Wallace, well known
Georgia and Florida regularly
with flowers, and has many cus
tomers in Alabama, Virginia and
Tennessee. W. L. Goodale and N.
R. Goodale, Jr. who own and
operate the wholesale floral com
pany, have spent *7 years in Cam -
v^naa j mm
Ihte poinMitiai
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12)
Grand Concert
Of Christmas
.yivi . . «i' .
Musk Planned
Fifty Voicot To Combi no
WMi Symphonotto In
Program Doc. 18
t4aDaaam*lSNM»
Fifty Camden voices will
combine with a 15-piece sym-
phonette Sunday afternoon,
Dec. 18 at Lyttieton Street
Methodist church in the pre
sentation of a concert of
Christmas music, it was an
nounced this week by Ed M.
Craig, preaident of the Cam
den Choral Society.
Tha all • Christmas
white will be Open
Contract Let
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mA~~
Atlantic Building Corp.
To Build Educational
Building, Baptist Church
To Switch On
Colored Lights
City's Business Section
To Assume Holiday Air
Monday Night
The
lights
Christmas
in Camden
holiday
will be
of
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Audabon Prints
On Exhibition
The Audubon Prints of the
Travelers Insurance Company art
now on exhibit at the Episcopal
Parish House. The health com
mittee of tee Camden Grammar
School is sponsoring this exhibit,
and ladies of tee committee will
be there to raceiveguests at the
following hours: Wednesday of
this week. 3 to 6 p. m., 7:30 to 9
p. m., and on Thursday and Fri
day from 3 to 6 p. m.
The cover picture, which ex
plains the prints, reads: “The
Quadrupeds of America” by John
James Audubon. “Audubon's fame
would have been enduring had it
been based only on the achieve
ment of drawing from life more
than 1,000 specimens of the birds
of America.
“However, having completed
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ofjtvery denomina
and
offering
the expenses of tee concert, but
there win be no admission charge.
la expected to be one
most impressive of its
kind ever to be presented in this
p
The contract was let Tuesday night to the Atlantic
Building Corporation of Columbia, for the construction
of the handsome new educational building for the First
Baptist Church of Camden. The low bid was $92,993.
The contract for the heating system was let to W. B.
Guimarin & Co., of Columbia, who submitted a low bid
of $6,8$6. Construction work on the new building is
expected to begin within the next two or three weeks
and it is estimated that it will take about eight months
to complete the building.
Other bids submitted on the
building were: B. & H. Construc
tion Co„ $99,529; General En
gineering Corn., $96,000; Dawson
Engineering Co., $98,703; Spong
Construction Co., $95,78$; George
A. Creed 4c Son, $94,758: Owens
Construction Co., $101,400; Afl-
Cott Construction Co^ $102,228;
H. L. Eargle Construction Co.,
$93,000; Southern States Constnv*
tion Co., ttTOOO: W. H. Sc
Ik Son. $107,000; Ryscon Coar 4 "*c«
tion Co, $99,990; Avery Lumber
Co., $108,843.
Other bids on the heating sys
tem were Sumter Ice and Fuel
Co.. $7.90$; K. B. HiU Plumbing
and Heating Co, $8,045: J. C. Cox
Plumbing and Heating Co, $7,460.
The plans tor the new building"
were shown to tee congregation
of the church Sunday morning
and the congregation voted to au
thorize the church authorities to
go ahead with the construction of
same. The building committee of
which J. D. Crawford is chair
man met Tuesday night and
awarded the contract.
The large, two-story Sunday
School building, to be located to
tee rear of the Church extending
from Lafayette almost to Walnut
street, will be constructed of brick
and structural tile, and will in,
dude sted bar joists and con
crete floors.
Six assembly rooms, one large
recreation room, a kitchen and 20
large classrooms will be contained
in the $100,000 building. Plans
call for dimensions of 147 feet
on the rear side and 72 feel on
the south or Lafayette street side
WMra-tottl include a projecting
wing. The front of the wing will
measure 89 feat, and the face of
the building to the point of the
protjgtjoB wiU mtuura *» ' '
fewas?*
quale beat from one of the moat
ug-to-date hatting units attain-
Architect Ralph Little's pro
posed plana include a wing en
the north side of the new build-
immediate
turned on Monday nteht, L.
mdent
H. Hardin, superinten
perintendent of
Municipal Utilities, an
nounced this week. Work
men have been engaged all
week in putting up the
lights.
The streamers of many-colored
lights will be strung across tee
streets. The peak of the decora
tions will be the city hall where
streamers are being strung from
the top of the tower.
There will be no ceremonies in
connection with the turning on of
tee lights this year.
Much interest is being taken in
the contest which is being launch
ed this year for the prettiest light
decorations of homes. Prizes are
being offered by the Kiwanis
Club and the JayCees and it is
hoped and expected that there
will be many entries so that Cam
den will be aglow with colored
lights tor the '
son and for tee
STconitag'week as the ho
- £ Srri, ts
to do their shopping, many are
expected to begin actively at it
next week.
All of the local stores are pre
pared for the rush.
Guy Hutchins,
Choral
director of the
Society, announces that he
has secured s group of semi-pro
fessional musicians from Char
lotte, Columbia and Florence to
come to Camden for the Christmas
program. These musicians are to
make up a symphonette which
will accomoanv the sin sen and
give aevenupurdy instrumental South Carolina Outdoor Adver-
arrangementa of Christmas music.: Using Association at the annuel
Indhlded in this group will be I meeting of that organization last
violins, flutes^oboes, bassons, and week in Columbia at tha Wade
cellos which will combine to pro-1 Hampton hotel
vide a rich beckground tor the Wm. Miller, Jr, of Greenville,
Croup’. fotlYM of ro^lwro rirotMjroridrot, rod L It.
and instrumental arrangements of i Bryan, of
many of the moet popular end
fawifltar ~ ‘
Mrs. J. F. Moody
Is Vice President
Mrs. J. F. Moody, of Camden,
wee elected vice president of the
Outdoor-;
the best
Christmas selections. I
lease of
in the
this concert." Di-
M snd we feel teat
credit to
will do
to
The Choral Society has been
busy for several weeks in prepara
tion for its part in the musical
program, and plena to present a
varied program of familiar Christ
mas musk. Among the number to
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New Bookmobile Put In Operation
d president,
Charleston,
Directors include Mrs. Moody,
Mrs. Ruth McMUlen, Gaffney; Mr.
Miller, and Harold Watford, of
Anderson. Willis Cantey of Co
lumbia was elected national di
rector.
In cooperatiork '
wide “Program
sponsored by
sponsored
churches
Pays $14,000 In
Chnstmas Savings
More than $14,000 in checks
were mailed out this week to the
311 depositors in tee First Na
tional Bank’s Christmas Savings
account, according to C. J. Shan
non. bank president
The Christmas Savings account,
designed to help patrons of the
bank to set aside money at inter
vals during tee year to be avail
able for the expensive Christmas
season, has proven highly popu
lar.
White Elephant
Articles Wanted
The Camden Farm-Home mar
ket building will be open from
2 to 4 on Tuesday afternoon and
all day Wednesday td receive sale
articles for the Hospital Auxil
iary’s “White Elephant” side; Mrs.
George Darden, sale chairm
announces. The “White Elepha:
sale, an annual fund-raising af
fair, is to be staged on Dec. 8 at
tee farm-home market
AT LANCASTER FESTIVAL
Miss Doris Emerson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Emerson, Lu-
fott a student at the Camden
High School, who presided at tee
recent homecoming football game
between Camdeniid Oraaaeburg
d anTnvita-,
at the
ing. and, although
piaha do not include this addi-
tion, it will be added at a later
date. The building will be con-
atructad so that a large sanctuary
may soma day ba also added to
the front This addition would
eliminate the need for tha present
church building.
Special Services
At Presbyterian
Church Next Week
with the nation-
of Advance,”
tee Protestant
of our country for tha
period Oct 1, 1949-Dec. 31, 1980,
a week of special services will ba
observed at.Bethesda Presbyterian
church.
The services will begin on Sun
day morning Dec. 4 at 11:18 and
will continu# each evening at 7:30,
through Friday evening, Dec. 9.
Dr. Howard H. Thompson, one
of the most gifted preachers in
the Presbyterian church U. S..
will conduct these services and
will be assisted by the pastor of
tee local church, Rev. A- Douglas
McAm.
A very cordial invitation is ex
tended to everyone in tee com
munity to attend these services.
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John R. McCrae
Pleases Audience
John Richards McCrae, Ker-
V was enthi
tically received bJ9|
ence at the Camden
School auditorium on
shaw county
’ raceived
a large andi-
en Grammar
night when he was presented
concert by the Camden Busin
enteu in
Business
Women's Club.
was very generous
and his audience
and
Mr
with his encores JPVBI
was genuinely pleased. The ar
tist was equally pleased with his
audience. Again and again ha
said what a pleasure it had been
to ring to such enthusiastic
friends.
Mias Margaret Richards, his ac
companist, also pleased the audi
ence with a series of solo numbers
on the piano. She, too, graciously
responckd to akcofag,
Camden lions To
Have Ladies Night
B. T. U. MEETING |
Tha Baptist Training Unions of. _
win ob-jDac.
Bethune
, Tha Camden Lions Chib is
ing rural next
“ » stages its