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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
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*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
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