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' ■>*#- f- wm w.fvr _ ■ » % ■ ) Et.vsT^ 10*1 IME «1 CAMDEN, SOUTH MARCH 17. 1950 -T' Number 78 ling buuww l» id For FotHion ■dmostor jlders of the Carn- [emy, military prep jieduled to open in iext fall, met at the ise Tuesday night told that an addi- 1,000 necessary cap- have to be raised _>ck sales before leps could be taken sing the school, anding educator with experience in co ^®r e work has been aelect- asHeadmaster of the John K. deLoach, the corporation an- f u t his employment i* ith raising the neces- bnal capital.'’ * of the new headmas- be announced until raised. jiounced that T. E. olumbia had been em- ie corporation to man- » to raise the $40,000 tes. Appointed on a i assist the new drive Harold Funderburk, htgomery, Jim Darby [Bums. Also assisting will be the corpdra- . of directors, will begin next weak. Iders at the meeting iastk for establishing " Mr deLoach said "The people of CfUto- given further oppor* purchase stock in the efore it is offered to | he added. jesday nights meet tales of stock were de- all stockholders announced that all lolders who had not beir stock could have it at the office of John | corporation secretary. >nt stockholders in the include; Mrs. L( C^dale^I Guy, Jemt-K. _ a T. Mills, J. Whii- B. Bums, C. G. Kor- J. R. Belk, R. B. Julian H. Bums, Mrs. E. T. Bowen, C. J. A. S. Karesh, Da- M. L. Weil, G. S. . Grant, D. O. Hin- Sheorn W. S. Pitts, athleen B. Watts. Named For trrier Lugoff Democratic Chibs Of City Of Camden Reorganize March 24 oi Iha Democratic Clubs for Camdan Nos. L 2. 3 and 4, will be held Jointty at the Cow* House e» nMky. March 14 a! 10 a. a. the prev- with a Satur- of county will the cell prednets of the wet on Saturday arch 15 as per the state chair- LS lays Red Cross Drive Lagging Hord, Continued Effort Necessory It Quota Raised, Says Haile The annuel Red Cross Fund Campaign m Kershaw County is lagging far behind, Fund Chairman Jack Haile announced this week as the drive reached itie half-way mark. Although a complete report had not yet been received from all the workers, it was evident that contributions would have to in crease if the drive quota of $3,234 was to be reached. Last year's nm Cross quota, although slightly less than 4hat set for this year, was met and exceeded. “It is going to take continued and increased effort on the part of all the workers and more wil lingness to give on the part of all of Kershaw county’s citizens if we make the drive a success,” Mr. Haile said. , \ The Red Cross campaign is conducted annually during the month of March, throughout the nation. Money raised goes for disaster relief, emergencies, re habilitation, home service the National Red Cross Blood Pro gram, training courses, aid to ser vice men and veterans, and other causes. Th« drive in Kershaw county will continue for approxii two more weeks, and it is Concert Series Again Assured Carolina Cup Race But Fair To Be Best Yet # Evary Avoilobl# Rasarvod Parking Spact Already Sold For Evant The 18th annual meeting of the Carolina Cup races, to be held on the local Springdale course on Satur day, March 25, promises to outshine any previous racing session ever 'held in the mid south. The plethora of horses in training here gives every indication of full fields in each of the seven con tests. Inter Ml in the program has rtichti national Droooriions, and Harry D. Klrkovar, chair man of the race committee, announced today that every available reeervad parking space has bean sold. How- ~ ever, the commodious course has ample room general ad mission and parking. Highlighting the program is the Carolina Cup, a gruelling three-mile test over 19 stiff tim ber fences. Rated as one of America’s classic events, the “Cup” will offer plenty of thrills for the anticipated crowd of 25,000. Although the entries de not close until March 25, the race is certain to attract quality and Tiuan^ity. Flare Flight, owned by Alfred W. Hunt, Pittsourgh, Pa* is a pre race favorite, due to his easy victory in last Saturday’s running B.&P. WaS Citizenship It Crying Hood Of Hoar • 4 1 . ■ y “The great need l>an James P. Rich- Fifth District, an- week that the elig- the rural carrier (Lugoff has been es- i is as follows: ». i-j-William Robert- with disabled vet- |o. 2—George Keenan, P veterans preference. 1°. 3—Howard Burnet [veterans preference. * stated that he has Eligible No. 1, Mr. the position, as he the fair thing to do. ated that each of the 1 splendid man and | a Tine rural carrier. feting In of Negro Next Week Irnass-meeting in the Tie new County Lib- Tm on DeKalb street, ™ h 29 in Trinity lurch at 8 o’clock. 0 gue st speakers, ^ w ul be announced iere will be musical readings from sev- pools in the county. J£. groups from St. ter- fty committee is in r Program. I 0 o at tend this J!* n <jed to all tour- . Camden in- « culture d«dop- o Stage l dge Show BadgJ Ml ThvY Sa , tu ^ay. K’SrSS 5 ^ tar *« IS winning Camden's Community Con cert membership drive for 1951 closed Saturday with a concert series assured for the coming year, according to Mrs. •Warren H. Harris, drive chairman. “We have enrolled enough members to guarantee that at least three top-ranking artists will come to Camden next year, and our members can be sure that our standkrd of excellence in the entertainment we here brought in the f>ast two years will be maintained,” Mrs. Harris said. Artists for the 1951 series will be announced as soon as available dates ere received from National Community Concerts headquart ers. Performances to be presented promiae to be varied and appeal ing to every type of musical taste. 'Members of the 1951 series will receive their membership cards early in the fall Mrs. Harris said. The cards will lists the artists and the concert dates. • According to drive workers, there are still some reserved seats available, and any member who does not hold a reserve seat may $2.40 per seat No additional memberships will be accepted for the 1951 series, in accordance with the rules of the Community Concert program. The annual drive lasts only one week, and at the close of the drive the membership books are closed and the budget for the coining year established. "We would like to express our appreciation to the workers who made the drive a success, to the merchants and businessmen who contributed advertising space to lowing us to, make our drive headquarters there,” Mrs. Harris told. • Special Notice To Census Applicants P« r, IP n « who hay* applied or plan to apply for jobs as census ^jmwetors in Kershaw county 2* 1 not vet been interview- ed should come to the American Legion Hall behind the Post of- in Camden at 10 a. m., on ( March 17. Applicants will i a short tesifaMhii any questions work will be Those of the King Haiglar. The latter event is three-quarters of a mile shorter than the Cup contest, and some of the “money” horses in that race will improve with the added distance. Notable in this group is Paul Butler’s Some Gold, who won the King Haiglar in 1949 and finished second to the Smoky City campaigner last Saturday. The Hinsdale, ILL, representative was undefeated on the midwest hunt circuit, with the exception of one outing, when he fell. Other events on the program, th. tne uneroxee oteepiecnase, a z- mile b hurdle' route; the . ^ longs on the flat; the Kershaw, a 1-mile flat race: and the Spring- dale Cup, another 1-mile brush test The Utter will serve ea the secondary attraction and the top flight’s ’chaser* in the lineup will battle for a $1,000 purse. The committee members as sisting Mr. Kirkover in Ida well- rewarded efforts are: Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, of Aiken, and Cooperstown, N. Y.; Paul n, UpperviUe, Vi state and nation ship that thinks,” Clayton, a menu South CaroKaa Commission, told of our citizen- Faith the Industrial members of the Camden Business and Professional Women’s Club and thefr "guests at the first annual banquet of the club held Monday night at the Thomas Tavern. The dinner was attended by ap- guests itself had the presidents other . civic organize town and a representative oress as its guests. Mss Margaret Fewell president of the club, presided, airs. Oscar Smyrlded in repeating the club collect: Mrs. B. O. Boykin made the address of welcome to the guests and the speaker was in troduced by Mrs. Isabelle Blake. A very delectable dinner was on “Our said that Mias Clayton spoke Changing Times* and the outstanding opportunity and challenge that these times bring to women is that of taking full responsibility in public affairs. She said that every citizen should be well informed, rational- acting and courageous. “To be a well-unformed citizen is not a difficult task today,” she said as she spoke of the many different way* in which a citizen can keqp posted. \ A weu informed citizenship, she said, should remit in a rational- acting citizenship. “Our actions,” She said, “should be as unselfish as is humanly pos sible and based on a oorveep of the common good fon tha pres ent and for the ^ture^Thh “The great that cxAiva v*w si w w aij *v • * •* * uswa* Mellon, UpperviUe, .Va.; Mrs. E. duPont WemT Wilmington, Del.: David R. Williams, Camden, and Mrs. Marion duPont Scott. Mont pelier Station, Va^ and Camden. The latter member recently leased the famous training and race course from Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark for a five-year period. POSTPONED The annual Lanten Dog Show, which was scheduled for Thursday afternoon at the Kirkwood polo field, was postponed Friday after- neon at 3:30 o'clock on ac count ol-the weather. In the event of bad weather Friday It will be bald next Thursday, March 23. true conditions of and which dares to act yationally. “A shining example of this courage and character is found in the life of James Louis Pefigru, a statesman of early Carolina. A cemetery may be a strange cold place in which to find words to tut the epitaph on the of James Petigru is ai as the word* first spok Thomas Jefferson and later y Abraham Lincoln ’A gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people.’ “Juriak, • Orator, Statesman, Patriot” read the inscription be low his name on the tombstone of Petigru. He, was all that and more. During the stormiest time hi our state s history, Petigru stood alone for his conception of the right—and yet he retained respect, the admiral the tion and love of the very people who so bit terly opposed his ideas. His strik ing courage seemingly bore no fruit in his own time. But the stone above his grave is the most honored monument in the very city that disagreed with him most —an everlasting testimonial that character'is more lasting than opinion. Pros Praise Camden Golf Course Harpist In Sunday Conceit Many Entries Camden Hone Show Saturday • ♦' $> ■* V-V 4 . Hartt^/Fi V • «sa.» *!®Si Mr*. John E. W. Clark of Charlotte, N. C., one of the ont-of-toWn guest artists in the Pre-Easter Concert which will "be given by the Camden Choral Society under the direction of Guy HutdfQns on Sunday afternoon ih the Lyttleton Street Methodist church. “The Seven Last Words of Christ 9 Plre-Easter Concert of Camden Choral Society Will Be Given Sunday Camden's Choral Society, under the direction of Guy Hutchins, will join with three guest soloists and a £5-piece orchestra Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock in the auditorium of Lyttleton Street Methodist church in fhe presentation of Dubois’ “The Seven Last Words of Ch*fot.' r Earl Chib, who will sing tba baritone solo load is iho prs- thi« time, not be present ^ ^ shorUy - district j Carolinas* Four-Ball '■* - -• ■ Tourney Opens Friday ipi . ii I ^ The first annual four-ball tournament of the Carolinas Golfers Association gets under way Friday on the Camden Country .Club course, termed by pros who played in a tournament here last week as one of the best in the South. This is the first four-ball event ever held by the Carolina associa tion and the committee headed by J. E. Sheffield, of this city, ex pects that it will be a big suc cess, judging by the many en tries received during the past week. On Wednesday and Thursday many of the golfers who are to play in the tournament were on hand playing over file course to become rsmiUar with its many vicissitudes in traps, woods and other hazards. * The tournament continues Sat urday and Sunday, coming to a conclusion on Sunday afternoon. On Saturday evening the Camden Club will be hpst to the visitors at a big dinner event Probably no other golf course in South Carolina has been ac corded such glowing commenda tion from professional and ama teur players than has the Cam- Country Club. beautiful layout of over wall trapped and ' to air in- _ . triguing degree, has earned the its who were admiration of every player who March 7, need has traveled its fairways and putted on its Hi, from the old course of the Kirk wood hotel era with its sand- greens and shallow traps. There is no idea of casting disparage ment upon fixe old course, Which was a creation from the facile golfing brain of the famed Don ald Ross. It was one of the best for-its day and age. But Time marches on and in the past few years, a marvellous transformation has taken place. Today the Camden Countnr Club course stands as one of the fin est in the South. And that is not only a local cooceptive idea, but it is mentioned with enthusiasm le foremost golfers of the the fas the South's golf president of mal (Mi 'll is one of the finest courses end tests of golf in the South. In feet I fid Camden 1 the boat Hall." Aycock’s by Luke B the “ ' : roin Many Town* Compete In 16 -r Classes Will The horse show ring on he property of Mrs. Marion DuPont Scott will be the scene bhia Saturday, March 18, of the 87th Annual Cam den Horse Show. Entries for the show this year lave come from Tryon, Aiken, Southern Pines, St Matthews, lartsville and Wateree. These and many others from Camden will be competing in the 16 classes of the show, the majority of which ' are hunter classes to be shown over the outside course. / Among the Camden entries is :ol. A. AT Friarson's Chatrack, the well known Haute Ecole horse and green hunter. Also entered from Camden is Alsin Untermey- er’s Hippolytus, a recent winner in the Camden Hunter Trials. Other entries from Camden in clude those of Mias Betty Bosley, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. DuBose, Jr., Miss Pat CNbum, Cyril R. Har rison, Mrs. Thomas M. Waller, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Firestone, Mrs. William F. Buckley, Ray mond G. Woolfe, Jr, as well ( as those of Mulberry Plantation and Mt Pleasant Plantation. Included In the out of town entries is Mrs. G. H. McIntosh’s Really Rugged, who is coming to the Camden show from Aiken. Really Rugged took the young hunters champion award at Madi son Square Garden laat fall. From Southern Pines Mrs. Audrey Ken-, nedy's Bright Lights, recent cham pion of the Southern Pines Hunt- er Trials has also been entered. Other out of town entries include those of Mrs. G. H. Bostwick from Aiken, Arthur Reynolds from T^yon, Burke Healey from South ern Pines, Michael Walsh from Southern Pinee, Mias Penelope Coker of HartsviUe, Neil Bates of Wateree, Miss Joy Buyck’s of St Matthew. Mid « nenneay s seven Sou Star Stables in to be one of the all-t ing musical presentations in den, is expected to attract overflow crowd from all parts of the state. It will be the first ap pearance of the choral society since the highly successful Christ mas conceit, which pras presented to a capacity audience of music lovers. Mr. Hutchins, who will conduct the concert, came to Camden in September, 1949, as director of the school band. He is a former director of the Chariotte Sym phony Orchestra. He organized and conducted the Florence Little Symphony, the Spartanburg Sym phony, and the Greenville Sym phony, and served for four years as French horn player of the Symph jfcMk lisiated by Mrs. Gerard ** rj" amrai on judge who classes. Of particular _ H. Bostwick, the race horse interest will be phony, and luct- The executive committee of the South Carolina Press Association will meet in Camden on Saturday, March 25, and following a business session in the morning will attend the Carolina Cup races in the afternoon. The principal matter. of busi ness to come before the committee will be the selection of a place for the summer meeting of the association. Because of the fact that this is election yeer and the Democratic primary this year will be held in July the summer meet ing of the association will be held earlier than n«n*i Grove Park Inn, Asheville; King's Inn, Highlands, and Ocean Forest Hotel at Myrtle Beach are three meeting places being con sidered. Harold Booker, of Camden, is president of the association; Charlie Peace, Greenville, first vice president; W. L. Kinney, Bezmettsville, second vice presi lt; John A Montgomery, Co- secretary, and W. W. Walter boro, treasurer. Other members of the com mittee are: S. L. Latimer, Jr., and J. M. Blalock. Columbia; Hall T. McGee, Jr., Charlaaton; Judson W. Chat O’l "SVi King, L. Platt, famed Southern in 1942 became or of that organizati Singing the baritone solorole in Sunday’s concert will be Earl F. Berg from Da 1 Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Befg, has sung many feature solo roles, studied extensively in New York before coining to Davidson in 1M1 ss instructor of voice. He is now director of the David son College Glee Club, director of the choir of the First Presbyterian church in Charlotte, and is soloist with the Charlotte Symphony or chestra. Miss Marion Burgess, former director of the Camden Choral Society, will return from Ashe- boro, N. C., to sing the soprano solo parts in the performance. Miss Burgess is well known in Pres Group To Hold Heel Here Jr rF} ..•' Exscutiva Committa* Of .1 . „ Hart March 25 anticipating her performance. The important tenor solo role in the contata will be sung by Moody Chisholm, one of Mr. Borg's most outstanding puptys in Charlotte. He has sung the tenor role in the “Seven Last Words” several times previously, and has received high praise for his voice. He has done solo work in many of the Charlotte and Concord, N. C. churches. One of the 25 outstanding musicians making up the orches tra will be Mrs. John E. W. Clark, harpist, from Charlotte. Clark began her stud at National Music Lamp. lochen, Mich. She attended Salem College, Winston-Salem. N. C., where she studied the harp with arlottt. Mrs. dy of the harp Camp, Inter- College with a degree In mental Public School Music, she taught band and orchestra in the Winston-Salem and Charlotte ele mentary schools. She has played solo concerts In Kansas City, Mo- Charlotte and other cities. She is a member of the Charlotte Symphony Orches- tra, under the direction of James Christian PfohL Among the local musicians who will make up the chorus ares Sopranos—Mrs. R. J. Bartels, Mrs. George Darden, Mrs. Allison DuBose, Mrs. J. If. Gandy. Mrs. L. H. Hardin. Mrs. W. J. Hoffman, Mrs. Joe Mickle, Miss Ada Phelps^ Mrs. J: G. Rk* ^ ~ ' Salmond, Mrs. (Continuedf- 1 w the two classes for race horses, Steeplechase Type and Flat Horse Type. Twenty-two of the out standing race horses of the coun fry who are train tog to Camden wfil be shown to -hand in these clessee, to be judged on confor mation at a steeplechaser or flat horse. .The other popular classes to the show are the Lightweight Hunters dess and the Working Hunter class which have over 20 entries each. Among the children’s horse manship classes the youngest di vision will contain 17 ridels be- fcveen the aces of 6 and 11 years. The Camden Horse Show, given inually under the direction of the Camden Hunt committee, has aa its aoiacafftvu committee this year: Miss Kate Williams, chair man; J. Leonard Graham, secra- ' rv; Samuel Boykin, treasurer, id Comdr. W. Shannon Heath. The members of the Horse Show committee are: Miss Pri- cUla Buckley. Mr. and Mrs. PTThiBose, Jr., Mrs. Helen W. Hanley, Cyril R. Harri- •on. Harry D. Kirkover, Mrs. “ d ^ The show will be run off to one day beginning at 10 Saturday morning. In the event of bad x >, ; I f V ' / b ‘ > mm Tells Krwanians Moral Revolution Can Save America I The necessity of spiritual growth along with industrial growth was stressed by Alfred Scarborough, of Sumter, to an was to the Camden Kiwanis Club on Tuesday. “Without spiritual growth,” said Mr. Scarborough, “we are as a ship without a rudder, a plane without a pilot Love is the great dynamic force. Christ was perfect love. He tried to build it into the community of man. Can we do better than emulate him?” Speaking on the subject “De mocracy at the Crossroads,” Mr. Scarborough said that ho matter how powerful a civilization may be to military strength, and no matter how rich it may be to phy sical resources it can go down if other conditions of survival are IgOpM Mr. Scarborough spoke of the dangers of Communism and of its infiltration into our life and he touched on the dangers of this anti-Christ movement. ^ „ He congratulated the rity of Camden on the coming of the Du Pont plant and fold that it should be mutually ad vanf He urged the penile of to cooperate to tb ' “ fob 99