LUME 61
CAMDEN. SOUTH CAKOUNA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 13. 1950
_
optists Break Ground For Educational Building
To Hm* Now $100,000
Amalgamations Are Urged
Changes In County School
O' ’''
Set-Up Recommended
tesent for the breaking of ground for the new educational building of the jPMt
it Church on Tuesday morning were, reading from left to right, T. C. Gladden,
Ross, S. P. West, Alvin Christmas, A. W. West, John Laney, DaCosta Brown, J.
awford, Miss Margaret Cox, Gerald Garnett, Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs. 121-
Williams, Jewell Garnett, M. E. Forte, and Rev. Q. F. Montgomery.
Standing in the center of
a tight semi-circle of offici-
|Ab of the First Baptist
thurplfc J. D. Crawford,
chairman of the building
committee, formally turned
earth Tuesday, Jan.
1 beginning the con-
the Church’f
Educational
j
or Relates His Own
periences Here As A
inter Visitor
s
amden: Fashionable
er Resort for Jumpers,”
i way the bold-lettered
ing reads that intro-
a lengthy discussion
description of this Ba
dly famous center of
activity in the recent-
iblished “Steeplechas-
by Bert Clark Thayer.
:hor - Photographer Thayer
a special nod of approval
mden. Recalling his own via-
ire, he goes off the record a
nd tells his readers of
experiences here as
ne of the winter ct
mden will alwayt
«red by me with not a 11'
amed sentiment, for I was
Heavy Vote Is Cast
OTerwhelmmg Majority
Run Up«For Plan No. 1
To Save City Hall Tower
By an overwhelming majority the citizens of Camden
have voted to keep the city hall tower ah it is by replac
ing the necessary timbers to make it sound and refinishing
the exterior. The vote was so decisive as to leave no
doubt as to how the people feel, 193^out of a total of 224
this
scripture
the pastor,
votes having been for
to tear the tower down.
plan. There were two votes
Town and
County....
•Returns To Duty
Seaman Jim Team returasd to
duty at the Brooklyn Naval Base
C Team/
• Bank
magazine’s expense and
back a few pictures. The
us Southern hospitality and
full days of being a part
horse activity there did the
activity tt
>rief visit
This brief
winters there will always
ease turn to page eight)
the First National Bank of Cam
den. Mr. Woodcock, a member of
local bar, is a member of the
of Gottys, Shannon and
firm
is during a few days visit in
winter of 1935, Thayer
“Peter Vischer, editor of
had seen some foal photo-
I’d done for my own
iment on busman's holidays
my commercial studio and -
me if I wouldn’t like to •'-' hora *
few days vacation in $ The regular Monday night pne-
ful town m South Carolina ytice of the Camden Choral So
ciety will be held this week in
the Lyttleton Street Methodist
Church Educational Building. Aft
er a brief practice, scheduled to
begin at T p. m., the members will
The balloting created wide in
terest as is indicated by the total
vote cast. A total of 224 votes
was cast but ten votes were set
aside by the tellers as irregular.
The vote by plans follows:
Plan No. 1. which caUsd for
kaaping iha towar as ii is
now bul making li safa, ra-
caivad 193 voias.
Plan No. t, which callad
far dacraasing iha towar in
stea and sUghily raatyUng ii
to moi
strung.
. .Plan No.
ceremony,
by deacons
consisted of a
and pray-
a Ftoyd
of definite
<he construction of the
Educational Building came at the
cloae of the recent three-week re
vival staged at the church. Esti
mates ware made on plans drawn
by Architect Ralph Little, and
the construction contract was
awardad the Atlantic Building
Corporation of Columbia for their
low bid of $92,993.
The forced hot water heating
system to be used in the new
building win be installed by W.
B. Guimarin and Co., of Colum
bia for an estimated $6,886.
The large, two-story building,
which will be located in the rear
church will extend from
tayette almost to Walnut street
b to he constructed of brick
and structural tile, and will in
clude steel bar Joists and con
crete floors.
Six aaaemhly rooms, one large
recreation room, a kitchen and 20
chnroome will be contained in
the new building. Architect Lit
tle’s proposed plans included a
wing to be bcdlt en the north side
of the tnilding, hut present build-
sas do not include it The
will be added,
■ Interest in the voting u
dicated by the feet that
of the
In Report Of Committee
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bivision of the county into seven high school districts I Director^ To
from the approximately $6 school districts, amalgamation
of th« Antioch High School with the Mitkwmy High School
an A the taking over of the school buses by. the county
among the recommendatipns which will fee contained
the report'of the school district reorganization committee 1
to the Kershaw county legislative delegation.
The committee proposes that
county-wide taxes be equally dis
tributed in all districts, m a suf-
Annual Heeling
Otnoral It C. Richardson
WM it Speaker At
Annual Meeting
Lieutenant GeneraKR. C.
Richardson, retired, will be
the principal speaker at the
annual meeting of the Ker
shaw County Chapter, Amer
ican Red Cross, to be held
at 8 o'clock Monday night,
Jan 16, at the Lyttleton
Street Methodist church,
A program of music, a report
of the county Rad Cross’s pro
gress and plans, and the instal
lation of new officers will also
be included on the program.
The complete program, as plan
ned, will be as follows:
Call to order, Andrew B. Mar
ion, chairman.
Invocation, Rev. Herbert Spe
Solo, ‘Thi Lord Is My Shep
hard, 1 ' Mrs. William J. Hoffman,
Mrs. James M. Gandy, accom-
iiBtin Sheheen, well
known young business man
of the efty, has been elected
prekklent of the Supreme
Products Company of Cam-
fleient amount to insura a high I den,, several new directors
standard of education for every | have been added to the
child in Kershaw county.
The committee has planned a
series of meeting^ at which the
recommendations to the delega
tion will be-explained:
The schedule of these meetings I ***
follows:
ML Piageh High School.
Jan. 18. 7:30 p. m.
Bethune High School Jan.
IT. 7130 p. Is.
Baron DeKalb High School
Jan. 18. 7t30 p. m.
Midway High School Jan.
19. 7:30 p. m.
Antioch High School Jan.
23. 7:30 p. m.
Camden Grammar School
Jan. 24. 7:30 p. m.
Pina Grove Grammar
School Jan. 25. 7:30 p. m.
Blaney High School Jan.
28. 7:30 p. m.
The report of the reorganization
committee contains a tentative di
vision of the county
high school districts
beard and plans are bei
made for a vigorous c<
paign to popularize
products of the company.
H. A Rabon has been named
president of the company,
toga W. Haiglar, who re
cently assumed the position of
general manager, will continue in
that
part
Directors of the corpora
named
ation are
the three above named officers
and Henry Savage, Jr n J. C. Gil-
lia, E- T. Bowen, La than Gettys,
Joe M. Upchurch and R. M. Ken
nedy, HI.
In preparation for the increased
business, the company has fin
ished inirtallation of a rendering
plant which will enable it to
slaughter as frequently as the oc
casion demands and has installed
a new electric meat saw.
The company it offering to the
livestock nrowers of the Camden
area a dally livestock market,
five days a week. Growers can
into seven I luring their livestock to the com-
from ap- pany at any time and sell at mar-
proxlmately 36 existing school ket prices, thus eliminating the
districts. One of the high school | necessity of carrying same else-
paying commission
to be n
products
made to
of the
and subaa . join the annual meeting of the
American Red Cross
church auditorium.
in the
Records Broken
iden's 86 Postal Receipts
lere Highest In City's History
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amden postal receipts in 1949 were the highest in
listory of the local postoffice, even exceeding the war
i when the aviation cadets were located here and
i maneuvers were being conducted in this section, aje-
ing to figures compiled by Acting Postmaster Benton
rn. —
receipts last year totaled
6.51, as compared with $44,-
the previbus year, a sub-
Thefeighest the re-
had ever been in a single
«or to last year was In 1P44
they soared to $49,263.11,
o war conditions.
'to $41,426.30.
comparison of
is and quarters for 1
ollows:
1948
lr V —4 3,900.08
pry _ 3,616.70
4,048.13
further
by
and
$ 4,137.46
3,745.41
4,362.11
$11,564.49
$ 8,654.62
2,448.66
3,388.60
$12^44.98
f 4,316.27
3,960.91
4,077.27
f 9,491.88
$ 3,078.61
3,118.76
- 3,121.40
_ $ 9,318.77
2L —♦ 3,123.03
SSf - 4,099.24
F 1 ** - 8,627.28
$13,849.55
$12,353.55
$ 3,35944
3,570.63
3,735.00
$10,684.87
$ 4.374.03
4,123.48
8,055.60
"18,551.11
28.529.75
26,532.83
28,010.03
28,356.13
34.667.76
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Parallel Parking
On DeKalb Street
May Be Instituted
The State Highway Department
has written the dty a letter in
which it very strongly urges that
parallel parking be instituted in
the business sections of DeKalb
and Broad street.
City Council will take up the
matter at its meeting on Friday
afternoon. It la said that Coun
cil members may be disposed to
adopt the suggestion for DeKalb
street but it la not thought that
they will look favorably upon the
suggestion for Broad street.
The highway department has
vetoed the “no left turn" restric
tions at the intersection of Broad
and DeKalb streets and the city
has abandoned them.
The “no left turn’’ restrictions
were put on by the city in an ef
fort to speed up traffic in the
afternoons when the Du Pont
workers are turned loose. There
has been a heavy congestion of
traffic in the afternoons when
the flow of traffic from the plant
bits the dty and It was felt that
the “no left turn” restrictions
were aiding in the solution of the
roblem. But the highway de-
disapproved.. ^ " * ;
la
ther*
in this
election than In the bond issue
election, when only 200 votes
were cast
A. C. McKain, president of the
Chamber, of Commerce and Jim
Darby, president of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, opened
the ballot box In The Camden
Chronicle office promptly at 6
o’clock Wednesday evening and
proceeded to count the ballots. _
City Council had announced
that it would abide by die result
of the referendum and it is ex
pected that it will ptocaed now
to solicit bids on the job of pre
serving the tower which evident
ly is so dear to the people of the
city and which is one of its land
marks.
Ballots came not only from the
dty itself but from property own
ers in the city who reside else
where. Ballots came from New
York, Connecticut, Massachu
setts, Georgia and other states.
McDwain Will
Manage Camden
Builders Supply
Robert McDwain, of Lancaster,
has become manager of the Cam
den Builders Supply Company,
succeeding the late R. E. Perry.
Mr. McDwain has been in the
builders' supply business for the
past twenty-five years, having
been connected with the Builders
Supply Co„ of Lancaster.
He has been actively identified
with the civic and religious life
of Lancaster. He has been an eld
er in the Presbyterian church and
is a member of the Lancaster
Civitan Club.
Mr. McDwain announced that
his Company would start work at
once on a modern office and sales
room at their plant on West De
Kalb street. ..
Just as soon as he cin locate
a house in which to live, hertmd
Mrs. McDwain plan to move to
Camden with their four children.
Members of the board- of
cons whp attended the ground
breaking ceremonies were: T. C.
Gladden. J. E. Boss, Sidney West
and Alvin Christmas.
Citizens In Area
East of Camden
Talk Incorporation
AD of the people
area east of
the dty limits of
the airport have
to attend a
be
la
from
m to
which
night Jan. 19 at tha Pina
) Hill a
—to ^EE****— the
incorporation ox mo aroa inxo
a town. Tha masting will be
gin at 8 o'clock. '
In announdag meeting,
J. Clater Arrants, attorney,
said that aD raddsats fat the
area are ashed to attend aa
there will be a fell discus
sion of tha proposition to
Fund To Improve
Beulah Cemetery
Funds are being solicited for
the construction of a fence around
the cemetery of Beulah Methodist
church.
A considerable sum has already
been raised and members of the
congregation are anxious that all
who would like to assist in the
construction of this fence send in
their contributions.
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Pledge to flag. Boy Soouts.
, “Star Spangled Banner," Audi
ence, Mrs. Jamas M. -Gandy, ac
companist.
Welcome, Mayer Henry Sav-
^Report of 1849 Annual Meeting
Mrs. E. C. vonTresckow, record-
rt
districts formed includes that sec- where and
lion of the county in the neigh- prices,
borhood of Kershaw and Heath An effort is
Springs, whkh fringes on the j popularize the _
Kershaw-Lancaster county bor- company locally. The company
der. Children in this district will insists that its products will com-
attend schools in Lancaster coun- pare moat favorably with those
ty under special contract agree- of any ottfer company and local
ments, it was announced. This people will be urged to use them
-1 because in doing so they will be
assisting a home industry.
Officers and directors
Charles Salmond, accompanist.
Reports of chairman.
Home service, Mrs. F, Ik Good-
alg 7~
Volunteer services c—nril, Col
E. C. vonTresckow.
Disaster relief, Lam Woodcock.
First Aid, pr. A W. Humphries,
i Accident prevention, Arthur
Red Cross, Miss Ada
City Schools. Mrs. The-
Beu, County Schools.
resa
Solo, The Rose Of No Man's
Land” Mrs. William J. Hoffman,
Mrs. James M. Gandy, accompan
ist
Introduction of speaker, An
drew B. Marion, chairman.
Address, General R. C. Rich
ardson. '
Introduction of 1950 Fund Cam
paign chairman.
Report on nominating commit
tee, Allison Du Bose, chairman.
Installation of officers.
Recognition of county chair
man.
“America The Beautiful” Mrs.
James M. Gandy, accompanist
Benediction, Rev. Stiles B.
lines. i
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McConaughy Talks
To Civitan Club
' John B. McConaughy, associate
professor of political science at
the University of South Caroline,
told the Camden Civitan Club at
their regular semi-monthly meet
ing in the Hunt room of the Sen-
field hotel Monday that the Mar
shall Plan was tills country's most
powerful weapon against com
munism in Europe.
Shaw district
ft! other high school
will be mad* up by
present districts wi
school that
The
is the amalagamation of the An
tioch school district 6 with Mid
way.
The groupings recommended
are as fallows:
Kershaw district wiU contain
school districts 40, 47,46 and 10.
Mt Piagah district is to contain
districts 2, 31 and 7.
Bethune district will include
23 and 5.
School district is
Camden
4. 6, 25, 42 and 15.
district includes
1. 2,
the latter two
and Pine Grove,
district includes
43, 29, 16, with
being Lugoff and
Baron DeKalb
18, 27, 8, 9, 41, 19, 33, 28,17, 80.
For Blaney, the grouping will
include districts 11,12, 39 and 38.
The committee direcU attention
to the feet that it has no authority
to locate schools or to promote
schools in any arte, and that the
trustees of any district may make
arrangements to send children in
their districts to neighborhood
districts if the situationwarranto
The reorganization committee
in proposing that county-wide
taxes be distributed in aiu dis
tricts asked that tha bounty board
of education supervise the educa
tional functions of the county
with the county superintendent of
education acting as executive of
ficer. The board would be com
posed of the chairmen of the high
school districts boards of trusteee
while the high school du
boards of trustees would be
posed of the local school district
boards. The committee is said to
have felt that such a plan would
g ve a grass-roots foundation to
* educational functions of
county.
the
New Officers Loco! Pocking: Compony
Collectors dub
The Camden
wiU hold its first 1889 meet
Wednesday evening. Jan. It
Hunt room of the Sarsfi
The Junior division of
will meet at 7:30 with tha
lar or Senior division
8:15.
AD members of the club
urged to be preeent at this
ing as several important hi
matters are to be discussed.
meeting
regular meeting will be
with, a stamp exchange stunt The
club wiU also «
Theodore
1
Grand Opening
Bus Terminal
i's
will bo formally
on Saturday afternoon
2 o'clock. The program for
the opening and other infor
mation regarding tha terminal
will be found on the first
fourth, fifth and eighth
D.HJUHA0T SINGS SUNDAY
At the 11:15 morning wrvice at
church on
be guert soloist.
. , m
a mint
_ rxmnci --—i ^ 0$ C. Z.
stamp to aU members in attend-
angv Details of tba > Swap stunt
in ^‘*
General Assembly >
Convened Tuesday < :
Tbs 1959 Oeaeral Assembly got
off Tucsilft y to a b*sy start. Initial
tfesefea* were trammed with activ
ity.
In the bouse, tha ways and means
committee introduced a $105,844,-
948 appropriations bill for 1950-51.
Gov, J. gtrom Thnrmond sent np
the state government reorganisa
tion cemnatssions’ “reorganization
plan No. 2”. Aa predicted in Tha
State Sunday morning, the plan
calls for sweeping changes in state
financial administration.
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Interruption In
Power Fri.
L. H. Hardin,
icipal Utilities,
there will be a total
of power supply
day, Jan. 13 fog
night to 2 a. m.
to permit cutting^h
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lines occasioned by die growing
load, he said. v ^
DATE BQY MAMED
i tame of The
found * story
to have been
* officials say
data hjp not yet been chosen.
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