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wp SpeaksTo Winnsboro Rotary Club On Plant Here JP* im lof the the B. L duPont de Nemours Inc^ spoke to the Winns* Club recently and which the com- here had made following account of his taken from the Winnsboro and Herald before members and Winnsboro Rotary of at Tuesday's regular meet- d. wr tames p: Wilson, field pro of Du Pont wlon .now under construction at told of the terrific eco- impact the dvent had al- had on the Kesshaw county ding is even though the building 30 “ _ They Canft Understand It Continued Hot Weather , ✓ Has Experts Befuddled per Camden has experienced summer and winter weather tills week, the thermometer having hit a high of 77 on Sunday afternoon and a low of 36 on Tuesday morning. A cold rain began to fall Monday night and Tuesday was a rather wintry day. Weather experts, who rarely register surprise at the elements, admit that they are amazed at the persistent far above normal tem peratures which cloaked the east ern section of the United States since March, 1943. recall Kftf consecutive pees, Asheville, N. 17, York City broke four conse high records. This was the n brought out the Ups m Lancaster, Pa, and spring pepper frogs in New Jersey. The latter usually hiberate until late March or early April smell shaft of cold pierced until cent completed and) As Camden people will n g is not expected to this section haa practically he fall of 1950. Mr. real wintry weather in 1948-1 no . . _ wintry weather in 1943-1949. was presented by W. C. so far there has been little cold chairman. I weather this winter. T- I pointed^out that The weat her experts, according om Wa program Wilaon ■ - I,j5 e vj?n 1 niiH d th^ 40 a di*P*tch from Washington, wages had been paid the ar# jgyjjjg t hat there is a definite wanner <■ ■ £14 '/ trend toward slightly - , the taJk ofifb.:| No « he ^ HemUphere. purchased in local markets. The dispatch from Washington this destroy Other busi-] c °ntip ues: the speaker asked in an! Wilson H. Ahlmann ,a noted alluding to the govern- Swedish glaciologist, says we are present suits to split up »n a penod of “climatic amelio- large establishments into .ration,” with average tempera- units. Is nMs in restraint tur« ^owlv inching upwards. de 7) j One piece of supporting evidence direct result of this he offers is the retreat of many g, coupled with the pros-(glaciers in Scandinavia and Ice- pect of more of the same and a.iand. ’ Q steady payroll, Camden has! In thk countnr, Jerome Nam- muihroomed remarkably in a »as, head of the Weather Bureau’s the warm air last weekend from the Wert, and Washington got one day of “normal tempera ture. That was Sunday. But on Tuesday thermometer] again, bringing more record high readings for the date all over the East. Snow has been practically ab sent from most parts of New England this winter. A fair snow cover resulted from a small storm the end of November. Another fall came on Dec. 3, but the snow ail but disappeared a week later. Thousands of skiers cancelled ristmas and New Year skiing i. No snow. Will it last all winter? “We know there has been an abnormal containment of cold. Polar air over Alaskan Yukon and Northern Canada," Nam las says. “Our reports tell of tem- ft peratures down to 60 degree be- Io\ smi $4 mushroomed remarkably very short time, the speaker con tinued. Many new homes have been built or are a-building (some 200). Du Pont officials have pur chased 16 homes. Bank deposits in Camden have remained con extended forecast section, says, “No man can know for sure whether it will continue getting warmer as it has for the past 50 years.” Excesses of temperature over dropped substantial!; areas. In view Camden has issued stant, in contrast to a decline else- {he East, he agrees, “have been where, and retail sales are up 15 tremendous for the past year, but per cent whereas they have ,***?*>« it’s strictly temporary.” .i.Vv'fantially in other I He “X* two theories have been of this expansion, I fdvanced to support the oonten- ssued $906,000 in tions of those who say it’s get ting hotter: 1. G. S. Callendar, an English nas bonds for city improvements. “Giving a brief in j f M ill T insight into the way the Du Pont organization ticks, the speaker said the com pany comprises ten industrial de partments with seven auxiliary units to aid in operation. It, of course, has a president and a board of directors, but the com- i pany is actually controlled by its 100,000 stockholders. The present giant, begun Feb. 1, 1949/ is now meteorologist, claims a slight increase in carbon per cent complete and sales men expect it to start making or- lon by the fall of 1950. The plant site contains 811 acres, of which only 20 acres ate used for the actual buildings. The main build ing, all under one roof, Is ap proximately 600 feet long by 300 in width. It is air-conditioned .tbioughout and modern in every respect, with the makYfnGifl' 1ft safety equipment. The plant will not contaminate the river,, will _ . there been dioxide in the air. This acta, he aays, to prevent “outgoing radia tion” of the sun’s heat after it haa struck the earth’s surface. Thus the earth retaina more heat in something like the manner a hot house will absorb and retain heat from the sun. 2. Something in the atiftosphere idify-in- has acted to bring steadily-in creasing amounts of “maritime air,” warmer air overlying oceans, into and over the continents. Namias says that possibly the quality of the sun 1 * radiation could provode this. Here are the facta, as produc ed by Namias and Lilburn H. thus offer no threat to game or fish- Pointing up Du Font’s safe- 1, both in .hi if ty record, both in construction and in manufacturing, 700,000 man-hours have thus far been without a single lost-time Seven hundred people en employed in erecting it and 500 will operate it have been the plant and 500 will operate upon completion. The factory’s main product, orlon, is the most “silk-like" of all synthetics, the speaker explained. It already has a multitude of usee and many more possibilities. “In conclusion, Mr. Wilson said that Du Pont had received ex cellent cooperation from city, county and state government and he issued a cordial invitation to his hearers to visit the plant, which is located some 3tt miles south of Camden." life When engineers first began to talk about television they described It aa “visible telephony.” r Vet v STOP, LOOK, LISTEN DIXIE PAINTS IN 1-GALLON BUCKETS M Various Colors - $1.85 per gal. J. PAUL ROSS 932 Broad Si. Phone 724-J ow zero in Central Sweden, cold er than Hell, Norway, where it’s been down to 40 below. “But right now this cold air ia pretty generally trapped by the exceptionally high speed of the prevailing westerly winds. The recent trend suggests < that aa this cold Polar air builds up and up, it will start to break through and bring us a chilly February and March, particularly in the East. It is already breaking through in places, Namias points out California’s citrus crop has suf fered some damage, nut noth ing like the low of January, 1949. And temperatures in Mon tana, the Dakotas and other Mid west and Southwest areas have been well below normal Billboard Battle, Dropped For’War, Soon To Flare Up All-Night Parifr On (Sty Streets Ordered Stopped The old battel feenery lovers vs highway advertising is about to ^he*Ajn^rican AutomobOe As sociation (AAA) with lO-O^ OOO members, has deckled to laundk' once again the campaign it drop- the war started. ped when the war staneo. Out door advertising interests are ral lying to buck it One of the oldest organizations in the anti-billboard scrap, the National Roadside Council, is through highway surveys. It now has 20 cooperating state councils and 82 cooperating organizations, including the Garden Clubs of America and the American Plan ning and Civic Association. Big Appropriation BUI Passes House JOHN T. STEVENS— (Continued From Page One) and soon became trouble shooter for the firm. He handled the saw mill intesests and was a partner n the livery stable and mule business. Later Mr. Stevens or ganized and became president of he oil mills and fertilizer plants. r plants. Still later he bought William Enlistments In Regular Navy Are Increased Enlistments in the Regular Navy have been increased for the Columbia Recruiting district. Ef fective immediately, young men i the ages of 17 and 30 in- between elusive now have a great oppor- tempera- cUnatology section. The entire Northeastern U. S. had its third wannest winter on record last year. The same sec tion sweated its way through the hottest summer ever. New York City set a three-month record from June through August. Port land, Me., had Its hottest June and July since the observation station was moved from town to the airport. Washington came UP with all-time high 1 tures for July. But go back to March, 1943. From March through September thermometers were above nor mal. October they went below, but only for a month. By November they were far above normal and they stayed there all through winter, spring and summer. September, 1949, was below normal By October the thermometer was again above normal and stayed there the rest of 1949. During the year New York City built up 1,550 degrees of tempera ture in excess of normal. This means that, on the # average, each day last year was about 4.3 de grees warmer than 80-year-old records show it should have been. Seamon explains that • “excess temperature” of 4.3 degrees is not surprising for two or three straight days maybe, but for a whole year it is “positively re markable.” The trend toward higher-than- normal temperatures got an even bigger boost during the first 10 days of this month. From Jan. 3 through Jan. 10 Baltimore averaged a daily 21 degrees above normal. Washington 20 de- tunity for joining fht regular Navy due to the increaae in quota. Veterans or young men who have not completed high school and who are not attending school now have an opportunity for enlist- interested in joining the Navy but ‘ led high who had not completed school were not accepted because no quota existed for them. Now, the officer in charge of the Co lumbia Recruiting district is hap- f »y and proud to announce that here is an opening for any one who can meet the physical men tal and moral requirements for enlistment in the United States Navy. Recruiter will be at the port- office, Camden, each Wednesday. Bethune And McBee Split Doubleheader Bethune and McBee split a spi doubleheader here Jap. 17. The girls’ game was really a thriller. The score was tied at several in tervals and then McBee got points toward the end of the fourth quarter and beat Bethune 30-26. Margie Broadaway and Ruth Lyles led Bethune with 10 each, and Holland for McBee with 16. Bethune boys ran away with the score from the beginning of the game. They won 63-13. Billy Mungo was high for Bethune with 19, and Y. Sowell for McBee with 6. The next game is schedulec with Angelus Jan. 20 at 7:30 and will be played there. Chile now has a total of $^5,- 000,000 from the export-import bank to aid its long-range produc tive investment and has repaid $30,000,000. f** SERVICE YOU WILL REMEMBER ♦♦♦♦ • •• • ••' • • • ••i ••• • •• ■! A ■i Goodyear Tires Fuel Oil Batteries All Types of Anti-Freeze (* .Greasing W 1 . •• ^ « Storage •••i I CAROLINA MOTOR COMPANY GASOLINE AND STORAGE .... •••• S. C. Clybum, PHONI 210 CAMDEN, S. C .e v The state house of tives Wednesday passed a 1950-51 general appropriations bill unof- ficially 'a interest in the Kershaw _ and Mercantile Co., and became its president He became vice president of the Kershaw Cotton Mill when it was organized in 1911 and when this was merged into the Springs Cotton Mills he became vice president of that con- By the year of 1912 Mr. Stevens already had a finger in many pies. He was a partner of Col Leroy Springs and was operating the Kershaw Mercantile Co., the Bank of Kershaw, the Kershaw Lumber Co- and the Kershaw Oil Mill At that time there were only few houses and business con cerns in the town of Kershaw, and with cotton selling at only 11 cents a pound Kershaw was having pretty tough sledding. Noting the fact that other towns were overcoming the depression by organizing cotton mills a dis cussion was held among business leaders in Kershaw, and they de cided to do likewise. Since there was not enough money available locally or enough elsewhere, Mr. S noney credit available Stevens went to Lancaster to consult with Col- of the meeting a C AMDEN FOOD tcoraa forth* Kershaw Mill was obtained on May 27, 1912, and the subscrip tion books opened. At the first directors meeting held on June 4, 1912, Mr. Stevens was elected vice president On Jane 19, 1913, Mr. Stevens married Miss Edna Sitgreaves of Laurens, daughter of the late Ed win McBurney and Centellia Mar tin Sitgreaves . Mr. and Mrs. Stev ens spent most of the year at their Kerahaw home on the corner of Matson and Richland streets, bat went to Asheville, N. C., for the hot summer months. Mrs. Stevens, who is active in civic, religious and social life, has been of inestimable help to her husband in his various undertakings and enterprises. The Bat of offices, both of an honorary and official nature, held by Mr. Stevens la a long and im pressive one. He ia the president of mercantile companies, fertilizer companies, oil mills, banks, a for mer member of the state highway commission, former member of the state council of defense daring World War l former member of State Hospital board, on bank board of control, member of Mar ion 81ms Memorial hospital board, was a Colonel on Governor Har ley’s staff, chief highway comtnia- akraer. However, the medium through which he la best known, not only in hia native state nut in others, is that of the cotton seed industry, as he had been very actively aw sodated with it for most of his He organised and has been eht cially totaling $112,000,000, The bill gained a vital second reading on a voice vote after a 55-38 rejection of a motion to table. Rep. Plowden of Clarendon, ways and mean committee chair man, made the unsuccessful mo tion. The bill’s total was up $6,493,- 460 from the $105,844,948 figure when introduced *only a week ago Tuesday by the ways and means committee. On the basis of 1950-51 revenue setimates, the bill is out of bal ance by more than $6,000,000. Who v . - . . . T to their automobiles parked nT street in trout of Iheir ,9 Olid of Pobco Alva Tfrttwk an announcement'Wednesday clared ’feat “them dayVe?: forever. Owners of cars left parked on the street alUi will receive a summons in recorder’s court, where! will be subject to a fine 1 Chief Rush stated that the partment has received comrj. from the street cleaning cm the efferf that eleenirTg * streets after midnight is ban ed in some instances by can are parked all aigfct on then mem. * The duel made it phu* because a street is not paved, not exempt residents the from complying with the i night parking rules. I want the motorists to \ that we are not fooling in matter,” said Mr. Rush “tt tend to see that the street* kept free of parked cars at o I hope that car owners will derstand that this is a final« mg.”* CORRECTION IN AD In the Colonial Stores advertise ment in the meat section Boston Butts should be eliminated and fresh ground beef at 45 cents a pound substituted for it. The cor rection was received too late to place it in the advertisement INTEREST IN MEETING Much interest is being taken in Camden in the Billy Graham evangelistic crusade which is scheduled to begin in Columbia Feb. 19 and many from here are planning to attend. SPOKE TO ROTARY Cpl. Hoyt Bailey of the State Highway Patrol was the guest speaker at the regular weekly luncheon of the Camden Rotary Club last week. His subject was "Highway Safety.” the Lancaster Cotton Oil Mill and the Marion Cotton Oil Co. He served one term as 'president of the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers Association of which he is an active member. He also was vice president of the Inter-State Cotton Seed Crushers Association. Mr. Stevens was an active mem ber 1 of the First Presbyterian church of Katehaw and a few years _ _ the church with % the KSrihlW OH imiftisyHlficeat piworgaa. Antioch Wins Tut From 6aron DeKt Antioch defeated Baron Dc in a doubleheader in their gym at Baron DeKalb 'Wedn night. The girls score was and the boys 42-28. Antioch will meet Mc& the Camden Armory Thu night The game between Ai and Lydia on Monday nigh r da been postponed to a later da Antioch will meet Midway doubleheader at the Ca Armory 'Wednesday night, 25. Additional Want j FOR RENT—5-room unftm apartment with private at 808 Lafayette Ave. ] 681-J FOB BAIT One 9 drawei All drawen on^ plain i inet I ^ rT and wide. Also er to match. Both’ are $121 bat win seft for £ ~ H. " SPECIAL! 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