Number 20 ! The Chronicle Gets To Hungary An Editorial Several Receive Letters While Others Beg For Work The State, The Charlotte Observer, The News and Crafts Back At Saying Their Names Had Courier and other morning papers Wednesday carried a story from Boston saying that two New England Gover­ In This County nors had warned that unemployment in their states is Work At DuPont i Average Been Gotten From Paper “critical.’* Mod* Wi*fc Although Hungary is one of the countries behind the ?onrt,5*tion Pr®9rOm ,s .Governors Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts and Chester ^cktt Ling Put Around fisofl* Bowles of Connecticut told Secretary of Commerce Sawyer About Iron Curtain, a copy of The Camden Chronicle made its* Revised And New Roods in Washington that one out of every eight workers in Plant By AFL Union Of Hasp*011 way into it in some way and as result letters begging for their states is out of a job. help have come to a number of people. In each of the let­ Added To System Governor Dever tagged the situation in Massachusetts Common Laborers , S**4 ters it is stated that the name of the person to whom the as “most critical” and predicted that there might be an­ jT^Tcapit* cost letter was addressed was seen in a copy of The Camden Senator Kennedy and Rep­ other 92,000 jobless in his state bv September 30. Refusal of the Du Pont Hospital is Chronicle. One of the letters was received by a young lady resentatives Gettys and Kel­ Governor Bowles said that unless the earnings slump Company to recognize a ^average dailyP^ in Columbia, who is a native of Decatur, Ga. ly have been advised by the in Connecticut is checked it “must eventually have a Common Laborers Union led 0f seven hos- Several weeks ago The Chron­ State Highway Department very serious and paralyzing effect on purchasing power to picket lines being thrown fjlv »“d icle published a letter received by that at its meeting on July and retail sales not only regionally but nationally.” around the plant site and as ' “wording to » sur- Bill Sheom, of Camden, from a 121 the Highway Commission Governor Dever says thgt there are 258,000 now un skilled craftsmen refused to Hungarian woman, who described ie by the Duke En- Town and itook action on several road employed in Massachusetts. There are nearly five times crosvs the picket lines opera­ herself as the mother of five chil­ projecjts affecting Kershaw tions were practically halted t the duly p«-“P- dren, making a pitiful plea for as­ as many jobless in the textile cities of New Bedford and sistance of any kind. In her let­ county. t f - awrence as there were a year ago. on Wednesday and Thurs­ ty,e Camden Hos- County.... day. n $9.85 while the ter the woman stated that she had Construction program A-l was There is increasing unemployment in every state. seen Mr. Sheorn's name in a copy ________ revised so as to reduce the ap- There are many people in South Carolina now out of The following statement was is­ hr the entire seven of The Camden Chronicle. Mai\TOO£ ,K ! Kv to0 aNd°i;T( sued Thursday morning to The The following week Mrs. W. H. work and there are many textile employees who are Camden Chronicle by J. D. Wil­ ° hospitals included in Stokes, of Westville, brought a let­ ?ne 'Yave has tl?e 8.5 miles from $87,000 to $71,800; working only part time. son, field project manager, in ter to The Chronicle office from ™mdeSis week°buV«“ hS ?-"d ^ .►propr ^ charge of the construction of the Nos. 47 and 50, from Blaney to In the face of this steadily mounting number of un­ fee M another Hungarian woman beg­ been able to do anything about employed, people who Tiave jobs had better cherish them plant: ton Memonal hospital, ging for help. This woman said in it. Route 26, a distance of 7.5 miles, *Tt it th* policy of th* du Tbeds; Lowrance hos- her letter: ‘1 read your address in from $77,000 to $62,900. Road No and do everything in their power to make themselves Pont Company to conform to 37 from Road No. $ to the Duke 78 beds; Martin The Camden Chronicle in which •Or&ngeburg Coming laborers worthy of their hire. local customs in its construc­ Stal Mount Airy, turkeys for sale were answered.” Power Dam. 3.5 miles was added It i* unthinkable that on fche very morning the news­ tion operations on plant sit**. JemS General hos- Her plea for help was also pitiful. Local baseball fans are looking to the construction program and Sine* a chock of contractors 75 beds; Rock Lml week, the DeKalb New forward to the game Friday night $29,300 appropriated for it papers brought the story of the critical situation in the and construction people in th* Era. published at Decatur, with the Orangeburg Braves and The followed roads were added New England states, several hundred people should Camden area revealed that B"ck.,,f0J5h Ga* carried a story telling of a very large crowd is expected to to Construction Program “C", the the Common Laborers Union. i Camden hospital with turn out—possibly one of the larg­ absent themselves from gainful employment in this vicin­ a letter received by a De­ farm-to-market roam: ity. Instead, they should have been thankful that they A. F. of L. has no! been 02 the results of the catur girL now studying nurs­ est of the season. It is understood Road No. 35—From U. S. Rotate recognised. Du Pont decided ? the local hospital, ing in Columbia, from a wom­ that a great many Orangeburg 521 north of Camden to north­ bad good jobs to which they could go. that it would govern itself Unkin, director of the an in Hungary telling of hav­ fans are coming over for the western terminus, 3 miles, $30,000 accordingly. wment, wrote: ing seen her name in The game. , « Road No. 31—Prom Route 341 "Because of this daciaion Ihed tabulation gives Camden Chronicle. This northeasterly to Route 157, Union officials Wednesday 1 analysis of the cost young lady, it seems, had •At Air Show miles, $40,000. put a picket line on the plant day at your hospital visited in Camden end her William Mullen, 24, son of Mr. Road No. 94—From U. S. Route Slashes Wrist Mercury Climbs site, while operations were i as compared with the name was in the personal col­ and Mrs. John Mullen of this city, 521 northeasterly to Road No. 93, hampered yesterday due to ■a group of seven hos- umn of The Chronicle's so­ and Thomas Taylor, 14, of Lex­ 2.7 miles, $27,000. tha refusal of members of schools of nursing, ciety page. ington, put their planes through Road No. 100—From U. S some of the other unions in­ Route. 1 east of Camden northerly jeh averaged between The story in The Decatur paper their paces at the ten hour model In CHy Prison To IM Degrees volved in construction to atientsper day (new- follows: airplane show at Owens Field in to Road No. 71, 0.6 mile. $$,000. '___ ■ « crocs th* picket line, all skill- ded). The cost per ‘T beg your pardon for my Columbia on Saturday to win Pursuant to Act No. 827, acts of ad craft are expected back a! • by departments in letter ancdu request, but the trips to the international model 1948, the commission also addec Part Of Aspirin Box Is City And County Swelter work momenlarilv." misery forced me to beg help competition in Detroit, August to the State Highway System th* The Common Laborers Union oared with 1947 is also following roads: Iher with a statistical from America, which shows a Used fn An Attempt To In Worst Hoot Wove represented about 200 of the 800 of certain other great benevolence against our A section of road from the junc workers st the plant site. Some be activities of your war-racaged county ...” •Gave Him Confidence tion of Roads Nos. 21 and 49 in 600 skilled tradesmen refused to That was the beginning of Blaney north weatefly to the Commit Suicide In Many Yean * cross the picket lines. Bates Littlejohn, president of Richland county line—epproxi g s greater part of Wed- Age daily per capita a letter Mary Alice Hardman the Camden Lions. Club, was on Mendel L. Payne, 23-year- group of seven hos- received recently from Mary his first visit to New York City mately 5.3 miles. * The mercury skyrocketed twO negroes of the Com­ * was $10.88 as com--i * Uifeherto, Hungary, ast week. He was walking down A section of road from a twin old man, made an unsuccess­ to 104 degrees In Camden mon Laborers Union carried ban- an average cost of for “help with all kind he street a little uncertain as to near the junction of Bead No. 47 ful attempt to commit sui­ Wednesday — the highest ners vrt the road leading to the shoes, dresses, under- and U. S. Route 1 in Blaney south­ plant site but late Wedensday aft­ I, an average increase how he appeared in the big city. erly to a point near the Blaney cide by slashing his left wrist reading of the current heat ernoon they were not at the road. patient day over the A taxicab screamed to a stop.