Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r<h r m ^ACE THREE P°getj 61 Th« Trade Bindery Humber 58 lies Monog® r York Spea^ 5 Fiber Ipfill Sing Here L X -1- ' V • |n people will be in- |ift a story in the Wear Daily> a iWication of New ing of, a speech H. C. Froehling, fles manager of fhich he said that the new acrylic _ plant now being e by E. I. du Pont & Co., Inc., was lo start on Sept. 1- |[ng to Mr. Froehling the cpected to ready capa* ,ction of 6,000,000 pounds >y the end of the year, in Woman’s Wear Lwsi ion acrylic fiber plant *ont de Nemours & [construction at Cam- t! is expected to start :pt. 1, 1050, and lucton of 0 million thould be reach- rfthe year, it was iy by H. C. id sales manager h \roehling spoke lesection of the of Trade, at lurters. ie new plant ontinue fila- lial and some Froehling ie company production lat experi- ie for use in rred much the yarn in • iynesboro, I he laid. prfcd- it cannot conven- (UTH CAROLIHA. r6PAY, JANUARY 6, 1950 Morning T | Balloting Vert Brisk On Type City Hall Tower Many Expressing Their Preferences On Plans For Remodeling Speeder Says Was Trying To Catc \ Man To Borrow $50 A state highway patrolman “ urt . "o! being tried lor near Mul- to inside Balloting has been rather brisk this week as citizens lave expressed the ^ r pr t e h fe ee t • es regarding the thue rested plans for the re- ing of the Camden had who was speeding, from r Y city Pl W- Ha said the San was tiaraling 60 . mlle J* hour and was running dan- oarously dose beh’nd an- car that was in front of ^Tudge Allison DuBo ‘ e . as £' _j *h# defendant what he meant by driving so fast and S, dose behind the other Ca The defendant that h , ... ttrina “ S, Ceremonies To Mark Opening Oi Bus Station Plans Arc Complete For Exercises To Be Held Saturday, Jon. 14 a a n n v ner - - ,, > UI f, rintr his 1 a >' Day will lessa^R Da v Sr>~.'3s 101,8 i[1 Vokohama car to borrow $50 driver. The 40-voiced choir of Presbyterian College will present a program of ffccre music at Bethesda Presbyterian church Sunday morning under the direction*pf D «r at be anno next Not o: Edouard Patte. Sing On Sunday Forty - Voiced Choir To Present Program At Bethesda Church Presbyterian College's 40- voiced robed choir will pre- ent a program of sacred music andwprthip al church, Sunday morning. The all-malt glee club, con ducted by- Dr. Edouard Patte, has rouped a series of motets, an- tems and chorales around the ‘jostles’ Creed for the purpose of presenting agnifteant pieces of cient and modern sacred music it ben to ' the Camden cburch audience. The singing will take the place of the regular sermon by the Rev. A. Douglas McArn. Conductor Patte leads his choir through a program which in dudes such selections as: ft Which the 1 It Bve ye Camden Hospital Is Given Full Approval By College Surgeons The Camden hospital has been fully approved by the American College of Surgeons as of Dec. 31, 1949. The approval is given year ly and the Camden hospital is one of Z1 in South Caro lina given general approval for the coming year. Full approval means that a hospital meets all of the re quirements sat up by the American College of Sur geons. Provisional approval, another rating given by the College of Surgeons, means that a hospital accepts the re quirements and will try to meat thorn. The rating Town and County.... *To God on High” by Decius “O My People’ all by Pi Blessed Be the Day” by oan Coifictioj ors for city’s sH action 1 outfall [announc ork is tc action plant rank Kl [Companj ent inc |eill hav« ately across [rtreet to] work« ' past s« const being and se\ .Posiible | . throuj |«ond issi the cit . at car "on invest res , . that thJ 1?** not line, ..been stre to repl !■«» the .leg 'iWrt flhis c “O Bone Jesu, and ‘‘Adoramu* Te, trim; Handel. “All Praise to God the Ghost” by Rimsky-Korsa- ”A Saviour Who Art the ay by Gluck; and “Come Sweetest Rest” by Bach. The Prebyterian glee club staged a whirlwind tour of Geor ge early in December, singing nine times in eight days. On three occasions the program was broad - cast o ver radio for a full hour, sund the robed choir made a spec ial radio appearance in Atlanta. Conductor Patte said his or ganization is now booked up un til June, 1950, and that requests already are coming in for the 1950-51 season. The Presbyterian College glee club lineup. First tenors — Wilson Dowling of Columbia, Douglas Arnette of (Continued on Page Seven) Annual Meeting of ted Cross Chapter in Monday, Jan. 16 ^ ai “jual meeting of the E>b| w County Chapter of the —i Red Cross will be held i~J n - at 8 o'clock at deton Street Methodist . ann °unced this Mrs. Sadie K. vonTTesc- Ibhc information chair- ^members and interested invited to attend, program for the meet- announced in. next - The Camden te chapter chairman, ^wion, will preside, ’id chairmen are re present and bring 0 n their year’s • B. and P. W. Club The Camden Business and Pro fessional Womens Club will meet next Monday night at 7:15 o’clock at the Thomas Tavern. Inquest Called Into Death Of Perry Amerson - - Peter Bradley Is Held lit County Jail Following Death Of Farmer Peter Brgdley is being •held at the county jgil, pend ing the result Pli'ns have born complet ed for the official opening date of Camden's new bus terminal and th opening date has detim < been set fur Saturdav. J ; ; • 14, Greyhound offienG an nounced Tuesday. r0 . ! Following approval of posed opening daU * . Xr(hl ( e , t fee'STrowm S^U-nlattve Plans (.a an^open- ling ceremony which . to J S Xf'* To Address Chomber ^ic.mden. » 5SS“i u S|..v,.r s.v- Commeree At Annual ^ c f ( ".?ji, r 7 P up udfamc Meeting Jan. 26 a nd the offumi s 0P The new station, which is to be T YoOth^f such .Greyhound^Post A. L. M. Wiggins To Be Speaker tower. box has been placed in Chronicle office and •ned until Jan. IT ( t en the votes will ,e result wail he the city eiAl C hronlcle ° f in their ball^, le in have come in W ^ ^aiipd ter residents who now live elsK,^ 3 " 0 ,;- say they are UxpaJL^ ens Another baUot in this issue of The their ballot in last Meeek^CI ... ’ UQirrrtnn of the board tho i nDera uon in the As stated in last week’s alyille, cha A^^°V " st Line ? oU8 SiU iS^Sder the manage- icle three plans were drawI^W the Atlantic j nf Miss Anne Young, a vet- Camden Architect Ralph Litfl^lroad, former undersec ship G houn{ i employee who for the remodeling of the towe^Vnf treasury of the Unlt ' f r ha( { much experience in be- A. L. M. Wiggins of H arts ‘ called to Plan No. 1 would leave the tower as it is now but would call for replacing the necessary .im- bers to make it sound and refin ish the exterior. The estimated cost for this plan is $15,000. Plan No. 2 calls for decreasing the tower in size and slightly restyling it to more of a mission- type styling. The estimated cost of this plan is $11,000. Plan No. 3 cidls for decreasing the size considerably, a simpli fied styllhg and a spired roof. The estimated cost of this plan is $7,500. All three plans call for the re tention of the town clock and the King Haiglar weathervane. Tfia ballot today win bo found at iho top of Pago 3 and all who have not yet voted aze urged to •end in their IrTtllirfi before •To Aid With Returns Deputy collectors of internal revenue will be at the court house in Camden on Jan. 11 to assist with the preparation of in dividual income tax returns. death of Perry/U. Amexxon, 42, a farmer living in the Antioch section near the Lee county line, which oc- cured Sunday mite mb on mt 4 o’clock while being taken to the Camden hospital. According to the physician who was called in the case, Amerson was dead upon arrival at the hosr pital and investigation disclosed that he had suffered a brain hemorrhage resulting from a heavy blow on his head. The coroner and sheriff are in vestigating an alleged fight that occurred in a home on the Bish- jville road during which, it is on • It Was Warn And so you thought it was warm on Wednesday, eh? Well it was. According to the government weather man, H. A. Brown, the reading was 76 degrees, 'probably a record for January. • Mrs. Smith Resigns Mrs. Sydney Smith, who ha’s been director of case work of the Children’s Bureau of South Caro lina for lO^ years, has resigned and has gone to Greenville where she and Mr. Smith are making their home. Mr. Smith is manager of the Greenville office of the South Carolina Employment Ser vice. • Choral Society Practice Camden’s 50-voiced choral so ciety, fresh from a brief resting period following their Christmas concert, will renew regular prac tice sessions Monday night at 7:30 in the educational building of Bethesda Presbyterian church. The society, under the direction of Guy Hutchins, will begin work on music to presented in the an nual spring concert. New Pine Grove Baptist Church To Be Dedicated ;fled, Bradley struck Amerson the head. Amerson is reported to have gone home and to bed later. When members of his family were unable to arouse him from a coma he was placed in a car and rushed to the hospital. When ex amined upon arrival there it was found that he had expired. The attending physician is re ported to have found that some sharp instrument had inflicted a deep cut on the scalp of the dead man. Bradley was taken into cus tody later and will be held pend ing the result of the inquest to be held shortly. Bradley was em ployed by the water and light de partment of the city and is a line man. . Amerson was a native of Lee county, having been born at St Charles. His parents were M. M. Amerson and Leila Player Amer son. He leaves his wife, a son, Shelton; two daughters, Rosemary and Barbara, and his mother, Mrs Leila Player Amerson, the latter living in Charleston. Also five brothers and five sis ters. The funeral was held Tues day morning at 11 o’clock from the Antioch Baptist church with burial in the church cemetery Ited Of inf Is Held itlook Clemson and ~ ision Ser- people of 10 discuss outlook, plans and “srs to •rise The new Pine Grove Baptist church will be dedicated at an all-day service to be held Sun day. The church is located seven miles from Lugoff and is on a cross-road running from High way 213 to Highway 34. Rev. W. M. Whiteside, superin tendent of the Baptist Hospital in Columbia, will preach at the 99 degrt morning service which will begin on July 26 ** *?*.'% at 11 o’clock A picnic dinner it was 104, on July 28 it will be served at dinner and there on July 29 it was 100 am July 27 Hottest Day of Year In City of Camden The maximum temperature in Camden in 1949 was 104 degrees on July 27, according to the rec ords of H. A. Brown, local weath er man. The lowest reading reach ed this winter has been 23 de- S ees, the thememometer having opped to that reading on Nov. 22, Dec. 3 and Dec. 5. The week of July 24-30 was one of the hottest that has been experienced in Camden in a long in »r'» l££«8a Lrecvomj --- has had murn ; ,tn- tes and long one of g.nning the ooeration ot new ^ ^Carolina's most ou .\. lions. Part of Mu« 8 cCTncd De Xbusineas men. wil ervisory w€ ,i-e<,uippe<t meet!*, t lhe annual with theattraa^ whirh ,s to Chamblr’ , a he Camden £ St "?a£i tofthe' convenience which wSho m m e r c e, J a , a „d '[X^X'^ope- day evemlfceid Thura-I The new stahon ^P', r w a lfannounee5° Adequate ticket. P’^Ss^^JanahTe °The S openhtg date annotmeement ^iSe‘ n n- 8 Sho°n4 pr0 :!y5^ Greyhound officials in Tuesday. The visitors C W Spratlin, supervisor e Atlantic Greyhound Cor- — from Columbia. R D. Letter From Mr. Start of Interest To Camden Friends Friends of E. T. Start, veteran photographer, who was for many decades Dfficial photographer at the former Kirkwood hotel, will be pleased to learn that he is im proving after a serious a t the Bickford home at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Recently The Chronicle carried a'story concerning Mr. Start’s Al ness and telling how he could be addressed. In a letter to The Chronicle, Mr. Start says: "Wall wishts cam* from California. Canada, Ohio. Massachusetts, Michigan. Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, Florida. North Carolina. New Jersey. New York. Vermont end Illinois. I did not know that The Chronicle had such a large circulation. “I take great interest in your paper and Camden friends, and they are many so with the help of our good Lord hope to be able to be with you another winter. So may the Lord be with us and help us always is my prayer. ‘my operation was a success but the cold weather makes my arthritis worse. I need some of your good sunshine. '‘A host of folks who sent me cards I had not heard from since T. E. Krumbholtz ran the Kirk wood from 1903 until 1926. I put in 40 winters at the Kirkwood." _ e ld cording to an^, 26, ac-1 by George StuaVncement Further announe<T^ e tary. place and the exact nfo_ s t 0 meeting will be made The announcement principal address of the m will be made by Mr. Wiggi sures a large attendance on as Mr. Wiggins is recognized an authority in the world finance and it is expected that he will touch upon business condi tions in his speech here. ortxays that tt l* will be a record attend ance on the meeting this year. yisiting mden of Simpson Hardware Co. Buys McLean Hardware Co. The McLean Hardware Com pany has been purchased by Carl Simpson, of Charlotte, who took over the business on Wednesday afternoon. The name of the com pany has been changed to the Simpson Hardware Company and Mr. Simpson will manage the store himself. Mr. Simpson, a hardware man of many years experience, has for the past six years been a traveling representative of the Allison-Er- win Company, hardware concern, of Charlotte. Mr. Simpson is married and he and Mrs. Simpson have three chil dren. He plans to move his family to Camden just as soon as he can secure a home. In announcing his decision to locate at Camden, Mr. Simpson said he had looked over a num ber at cities and that Camden ap pealed to him more than any he had visited. “It is such a pretty town and appears to offer more from a residential standpoint as well as a business standpoint than any city I loked over,” he said. Arthur McLean, who was the owner of the McLean Hardware Company, has been in ill health for some time and decided to re tire from business because of his health. He is well known in Cam den and his friends regret that his health has been such as to cause him to retire. Columbia Grey- companyofficials lied to attend the Among who are the Southern K^iorf^ ^ vtce president of the GreylwCrj c or _ poration from Winston-gRi-. r C. Myers, division mar Winston-Salem, and Cheadle, advertising i live from Charleston, W. VtJ Doctor Humphries Is Installed As Kiwanis President Dr. A. W. Hum County Health aphries, Officer, Kershaw was of- For Equal School Facilities Stokes Says He Hasn’t Heard Of Any Suit Here i • Although a news dispatch sent out from Columbia quotes the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as stating that formal legal action has been begun in school districts located in Kershaw, Lee, Clarendon, Dar lington, Marlboro and Orangeburg counties for equal school facilities. County Superintendent of Education, Ar thur Stokes, said this week that he had heard nothing of such action in Kershaw county. boards, contend 1 pupils have time. The reading on July 24 was . on July rees, will be services in the afternoon. Rev. J. D. Atkerson is pastor of the church. The Pine church is over this is the “ “ UbrS has four Sunday in the rear, is invited to the it dropped to 91. rhe highest readm^in on July 30 The was 96 on Aug. in September was 94 on In October the ’ ’ November and The reading on this week wfi 70 August heaviest ■rain 25 it was 100, on July 27 was 100, and on July was 86, in of the The story from Columbia said: "The demand of negroes for equal school facilities has spread into at least six South Carolina counties. "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple has announced formal action in school districts located in Lee, Clarendon, D “ ‘ Marlboro and the In Lynchburi the with local school that white school better school bui _ health facilities, better tation and generally better equip ment than negro pupils. CP indicate pupils have ildings, better letter transpor- Sy “The NAACP indicated its titions would be filed to lay groundwork for possible suits in federal court should its demands be denied. “Similar suits in Virginia re- *Red_ in faderal court orders to authorities to or to give fo p—-safer, uh choice 1 IV heel- 'purpose of load rail^are. 'Cr drive 'AGOkS Eng in# * Engjn# * Engin# *o»t — ficially installed as Kiwanis Club president for 1950 Wednesday night at the club’s annual Ladies’ Night Banquet at the airport recreational hall. The new president, elected to succeed Julian Bums, the 1949 Kiwanis head, was inaugurated into office by Division Lieut. Governor Frank Nolan from Flor ence. “Kiwanis is not a luncheon club; it is not a charity brganiza- tion; Kiwanis is a service club,” Lieut. Gov. Nolan told the group in installing the new president. “Often Kiwanis is called upon to assist and cooperate with charity organizations, but primarily it is a service club.” Advising the new officers, Mr. Nolan continued, “We have often been reminded of the responsi bility of being a Kiwanian, and especially an officer in Kiwanis. We should remember again and again, however, that being a Kiwanian offers a wonderful op portunity as well as a responsi bility, for service. Kiwanis gives to its members the opportunity to live up to its motto—’‘We build.” A program of entertainment. e installation of the new president. Two readings, “What the Little Girl Said” and "Mrs. Rastus Jones on the Tele phone,” were given by Mrs. J. C. Team and met with the enthusias tic applause of the Kiwenians and their guests. Two piano selections by Rab Braddy introduced the musical portion of the program. Guy Hutchins, band director at Cam den High School, followed by in troducing M. C. Senders, fcora Greenville, an oboeist, who ww visiting with the Hutchins while m route,to Atlanta to join the Atlanta Symphony. Mr. Banders, one of the Camden director’s fo£ joined his former tation of in the nunw The by Mrs/JL horn-oboe duet 'the tratd oark- •t Iona I pHc#t H fMp.