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m < .*• IE <1 . « CAROLINA, JUK Production Of Orion Scheduled To Begin In This Plant Next Year About 600 Employed Now Buildibg Phase At IVlfly Plant of DuPont Here Is Progressing Splendidly “The buildiftB phase of the construction of the main plant at the E. 1. Du Pont de Nemours’ Orion plant is rapidly nearing completion, and present indications con- Tihue to point to start-up of plant operations during the late summer of 3950,” J. D. Wilsoii, Field Project Man ager at the Camden plant stated Friday. !§ ,y^,'y ££<*»■•* Little Boy Gets Warm Clothing Brailsford Fund Mokes Possible Purchase Of Needed Outfit A p.cture taken one year ago from tne same angle that the above picture was taken would hajl shown thty industrial plant, the May plant of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., is being constructedjjn thin oi ling phase of the main plant is nearing completion and before very much longer the roof will on .the liinery will begin. Production is scheduled to start next fall. h—— ————■—-— ■ h" '—"i'— Legion Auxiliary To Give Luncheon For State President iroup to Adminiftor i Programs In This ity Next Year Tho Legion Auxiliary will oniortain al a luncheon in honor of lha staia proaidant oi tho auxiliary, Mrs. Gary PaschaL of Columbia, on Fri day ai 1 o'clock at iha Thom as Tavern. This luncheon will take tho place of tho December meeting of tho auxiliary and all routine business will be dispensed with. This will be the first time that Mrs. Pas chal has addressed the local ere were ehoten by ighbors in 15 com- : last week to serve action end Markets linistration commit^ r or the coming year, inual PMA elections, loose farmer-committee- will be responsible for administration of such arm programs as agn- onservation, price sup- age allotment^ market- L and federal crop in here participated in by nany farmers in the is year as in 1948. The [ 1949 voters totaled npared to the 1948 total ers. • from each v met select the county-' mittee for the coming rtiat proved to be a e of confidence, these '.hose to re-elect intact committee which had 948. •elected members of littee are: Chairman, of Cassatt; Vice Chair- King of Bethune; .’‘vz&iFsi Carlyle Jackson Is of the local auxil- ch of the 15 in Camden county-wide anbers, John Gettys of l W. L. rst alternate, efferson; Second alter- . Baxley of Kershaw, tary-Treasurer, J. D. W Camden. To Sell Bonds On Wednesday City Will Open Bids On Bus Terminal Opening Is Set For Dec. 31 City To Make Or Take Pro Regarding The tion Board of day regarding iha The proposal Post Houso Cofotorio Is To Bo Operated At New Stotion The opening date of the will be that it will over solo control port, if tho county It will turn control W county. A Joint mooting of tho City Council, the Kershaw county ami t|*wy" County Board aft] Wffl be held at propastilon win i out. Id. Toaay ild. The ition of tonarch. —■ bus terminal on Bast DeKalb street has now been defi nitely set for Saturday, Dec. 31. The building will at th*t time be fully completed. The opening of Camden’s new bus Station on Dec. 81 will be jointly celebrated by the opening of the Post House cafeteria, to be operated in connection with the Greyhound station, Miss Anne Young, operator of the cafeteria and manager of the new station. « ~ siumiy ul mu w Will **—Tk^w • can be met in no other way. vviii aracioo wnarner may there developed such WW. Control. To Ap- ply On 1950 Crop announced Monday. ia will The cafeteria will offer 24 hour service to transients and local . a . .40 citiaens, and will make available $550,000 Issut At 12 practically anything that the ap petite demands, from full din- O'Clock Noon nets to ice cream cones. A lar theme which, tion’s design, will be predomi nantly colonial. Tables will pro vide a seating capacity for 64 diners, and the most modem of City Council will open bids on Wednesday at noon on $500,000 in bonds, the proceeds from which art to ^ be used in public improve-1 «>okmg and serving ments. This will be the first all new, sale of bonds authorized in the election held on Sept 13, when qualified electors of the city authorized coun-B _ . , $906,000 for designated im provements. ) The city is expecting to get ig and serving equipment, w, is expected to make the i’s cafeteria one of the station 1 most attractive in the state. Miss Young, employed by Greyhound Post Houses, Inc., boasts of wide experience in cafe- New Location Of Water Tank County production and mariretmg accnunatra tn on committeemen in Kerahaw county were looking toward treek During his lifetime the late Major A. Moultrie Brailsford saw many cases where children suffered mis erably for lack of proper clothing. This one phase of human misery so touched him that he set up a special fund to be used for the spec ific purpose of buying cloth ing for needy children. When the fund was set up, Major Brailsford appointed a committee, each member of which was then working 'with children, and each member of which was au thorized to draw on the fund as he or she saw fit. During the past months, that fund has been tapped sparingly, since it will one (My be exhausted, and since there ia always the pos sibility of an emergency which -- - Last an tergency. Mias Jennie McMas- ter, the school nurse, had made repeated calls ; for clothing. Though some clothes were do nated, they were given out as fast ~ and i “Aided by good fall weather,” he continued, “excellent progress has been made on brick, masonry, roofing, floors and other architec tural items. Every effort is being made by construction crews to close in the various buildings and facilities before the arrival of bad winter weather." \ Commenting ,on the progress made since construction on the orlon plant was begun last April, Mr. Wilson added. “Large quan tities of manufacturing equip ment, pipe, electrical . material and tankage have been received on the site and the mechanism in stalled is beginning to show prog ress.” The recent steel strike caused little or no delay in construction progress, it was stated, since the structural steel requirements had largely been received prior to the of the steel mills. closing down ing Thi tare has been a gradual increasa in the number of construction employee* since iha plant's boginning. At pres ent tho numbae of amployoos, including Du Pont forces and sub-controetont totals ap proximately 100. gun further sixeable Incraass Is expected before tho on—Istton of the Option Tokon On Lot To Roar Form - Homo Morkot Building none came in As the days grew colder, the light of one scantily-cl ad little Dec. 15, this* week gg the plight fellow readied such a state, that something had to be done with- id date for the ari-important!*»*»*• ‘Transmission lines for supr ing electrical power to the by the Carolina Power and Co., are currently tinder construc tion. and this work la showing proneaa. The utility company is pushing this phase at plant con struction to the utmoaO Mr. Wil son continued in Mi progress re port Du Pent without American Association the was held _ that the acrylic fiber tS cotton marketing quota ref- aJiiiSSrd erendum quota approached, farmers in On every growing community Unite datatea will The highly - controversial city water tank, originally slated te be located to the* rear of Bethesda Presbyter ian church, will be built just to the rear of the Farm- Home market, city officials announced this week. Option has been taken on a lot' between DeKalb and • Lafavette streets which will meet mum dimensional req this date, cotton in the united states will go to the polls to decide wheth er or not they prefer gov ernment control of cotton acreage. The state department culture issued a week naming the , for country, state and county. It is on “ ‘ " member of the ■ford committee, consulted Mrs. Kathleen Watts, who is also a member, and it was agreed this child must be warmly clad at once. The little fellow was* taken to a local merchant: and against tbs Brailsford Fund the following ar ticles were purchased: Two suits underwear (he had none of warm bright-colored sweat i’s farmers will cast their mSSionA ~ siss ^ size, the word, but his eyes gave ^ >e .conveniently 11 ^? 65 feet in length and width nation votes. The county Is M referendum is approved South . ^ eia than *£ mr he'had Carolina will be alfotted 1,025,725 bad a warm bath, and had been acres of the nation’s 21 miliion dressed, from the skin out, acres. warm, new clothe J. R. Tyest county PMA com- own - *** w “ ■*** to ■ 1 1 °w-hung • ' • • nurror to “see the little boy in there.” He gazed at the little boy in all his very here.. _ . . ^ .. It has net been announced as y*> ***** •• *• k®°w“ henev just whro the plant will first start up but it is expected that it will start gradually and Iha “stortitut up” ^t^d over a period Recenk development ‘arch, the chemists w< tlantic City, promise with bus stations. She expects to be permanently located in Camden as manager of the new ommitteemen will be satisfactory rate for the Donas to during 1950 for the*be sold Wednesday since they listration of such fed- have been given an excellent rograms as agrictlltur- ing. VTb tion, price su] pports, i lotments, marketing as follows: . the sugar problem. I For extensions and improve- ew committeemen, 21 ments to the waterworks system, o the PMA committee. $199,000. 4 . mg 24 were rejected .For ie $500,000 issue win be spent un in.1949. trical . esful candidates and 000. ’ , • allies they represedt For extensions and xm P^°ve- (ws: K ments to the sewerage system, Chairman, Freer K. $47,000. • lected from last year’s (iW construction and unprove- Vice Chairman, Wade ment of streets, $50,000. Tatar member, D. K. For »tprm dmnS installation and repair, $100,000. :Kalb—Chairman, W. j Dr. Thompson Is sSSSHeard By Urge Chairman, Morrision Crowds On Sunday Stdar member, Har- d (r ►mi ta r « e congregations b^d Dr. Howard M. Thompson B. Srvictm Sunday at BetheaSM .CUS ■—; . - ^ (re-elected ^mmittee). hairman, Henry ! Chairman, Reward m-psovicirai. ^ - ^ar members, Les- . wee i c 0 f special services, in co- ; I *_LV t i 0 n with the nation-wide station and cafeteria. Two Injured hi Traffic Accident Mr. and Mrs. James C. Wright, Sr., 402 Green street, Cheraw, were painfully but not seriously injured when hurled from their car after a collision with a car driven by Iran McLeod, a colored K it the comer of DeKalb streets Saturday nv - - “ng to Police Sgt and Patrolman I the Wrights were on DeKalb street i _ gone through the street intersection wb going south on Broad llded with them. The two Wrights to the hospital in a police where examination disdoaed no bones had been were there any inte Both however were badly up and bruised. the Ipcation of the tank. The con struction contract has not been let to date, but plans are to com plete agreements for construction some time in January. Mayor Henry Savage, describ ing the construction of the tank as one of the most urgent of city improvements necessary, stated that the tank must be completed by the summer of 1950 or the city would be without water. Plans me now for the erection of a tank with a water capacity of 250,000 gallons. Finances for this con struction will come through city’s recent bond issue Vitiee chKi, ttS o« ^Jeach^of ft eZTnlWrn <uU-v!ewthen cocked on. onVj af .ISf the county which will be easily « d * a Long look side, view.! ingg amiltogSie ® n - accessible to every farmer wish- Twisting about, he peered around) 7. 0r a 1 ‘‘°„ u “* ei l«' . -l , its in • re- . - -j —-.—— — were told et Atlantic Ctoy, promise to yield the solution to some of the prob- lems^f coloring the new fiber by modification of existing dyeing “•thod* it was disdoeed Ui e MP«r presented by Dr. Paul L. Meunier, of the technical labora- tiwy of the organic chemicals de- r y rt sr , M^i^ p fn d T« p « associatea, Dr. Robert J. Thomas. Dr. Meunier declared develop ment of commercially successful dy®}**, Procedures for coloring Orion * now being developed in the laboratory will mean that some day the fiber may be used accessible to every farmer wish- Twisting about, he peered around i Sq-W ing to participate. to the other side, then turned to The farmers ot the county will »* nurse. Though he stiU; county will receive their individual ments before the voting date, county agricultural omciais an The f has physically proper- uu i4 make it a natural for allot! maintained an awed silence, hisl * t ? t o n 2 | 0- broad smile and happy eyes spoke Esr a ^ d . ev ® n industrial fil- roting . officials an- volumes, tremendous job of “Isn’t that a pretty little bov?” the . Arbor Day Is Observed Here nounced S thering i formation before could be determined ty has been completed and county’s allotment divided cordingly. Tho 15 communities to iha county to which voting places will bo sot up include: An- the ac- piness, were ail the than parted benefactor could, or would, have v * ‘ * wished. lioch. Baron DeKalb, Bo- ihune, Blanoy. Boykin. Cam* • Thompson, La- Garden Club and bt Gkrdtn Club Arbor Day last Friday ^* tr GLd«. aub tree, a cedar, to front ■ Junior High School, to ceremonies were L. E. Smith of the fores- ent spoke. Haiglar Garden Club tree on the grounds Tree Hill school and here Vern Cutler of the forestry Char lotto Thom; Liberty Hill optt Midway. Ml. Pisgah. Oakland, Pine Grove and Throe Cs. Specific polling placet will be announced next week, according to tho county ACA Marketing quotas for the 1950 cotton crop were proclaimed by Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan pn Oct. 13 when it became apparent that cotton sup plies for the current marketing year would exceed the normal supply by a wide margin. To be come effective, however, quotas must be approved by at least two- thirds of the growers voting in the ter cloths. It feels like silk. But it also resists sunlight and weath- enng—better than any known fiber—and dilute mineral acids, solvents, oils and greases. Some of these properties, plus IMteVS# Meunier disclosed that it has been' possible in the laboratory to make j ‘the fiber absorb colors with out- The A & P and Colonial food standing fastness to washing, shops will dose on Wednesday “This property, coupled with afternoons, according to an- that of the silk-llke hand of the nouncement from the managers, continuous filament should help Other stores in the city are keep- popularize the fiber fOT use in ing open on Wednesday afternoon lingerie fabrics,’’ Dr. Meunier pnor to Christmas. said. •Close Oil Wednesday Moss Of Concrete And Steel country <- P - Vice Chairman, J. B. ^ L_ Mon jg one of the most ^ c - jTas« Kiwanis Club luncheon, homas Tavern. 1p.m. Thursday. Dec. I tary Chib luncJ 1*% Thompson-- (red. nnuttee)- j r .