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 a very large crowd is expected to i Camden hospital with Ga* carried a story telling of to Construction Program “C", the absent themselves from gainful employment in this vicin the Common Laborers Union. a letter received by a De turn out—possibly one of the larg 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." oared with 1947 is also misery forced me to beg help competition in Detroit, August to the State Highway System th* The Common Laborers Union Iher with a statistical from America, which shows a following roads: 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 $10.88 as com--i * Uifeherto, Hungary, ast week. He was walking down A section of road from a twin old man, made an unsuccess to 104 degrees In Camden mon Laborers Union carried ban- an average cost of for “help with all kind he street a little uncertain as to near the junction of Bead No. 47 ful attempt to commit sui Wednesday — the highest ners vrt the road leading to the shoes, dresses, under- and U. S. Route 1 in Blaney south plant site but late Wedensday aft I, an average increase how he appeared in the big city. erly to a point near the Blaney cide by slashing his left wrist reading of the current heat ernoon they were not at the road. patient day over the A taxicab screamed to a stop. town limits, thence southeasterly with s piece of sharp tin It is understood that the picket s." fe[ary Alice, daughter of syrmister,” the taxi driver wave and perhaps the high Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hardman, to the Richland county line—ap taken from an aspirin box line was re-established Thursday ns be seen that the shouted, lean you tell me how proximately 4.0 miles. est reading in a good many morning, however. wt day at the Cam- wondered why she had been to get to Iran •ively warmer in Camden this street ly across the Soul tic efforts at « deaf and dumb that! '.x_^ and vinthe_____ prisonarweMaadjotniris«Mf”fc»«o.%d$ai ------owed j • Buys remembered. Recently she fltoad 74 to Road Coats banged on the ban weather obeervti, HT A° Sown. pr capita cost in 1948 * C. M. Shivar, Jr* has purchased Crossroads approximately 4.2 ca^e that the discovery of Jhe sui- spital showed a de- [ had visited her roommate, a the Sevenson Implement Com miles. attempt was made. Chief of On Tuesday it reached a high rti per capita cost in native of Camden, S. C., and pany from Dr. R. E. Stevenson Police Alva Rush, who was in his of 102 degrees. been $10.12 as com-1 news of this had appeared in Section of road extending from Fair Od. 111-15 the newspaper. Somehow a and will operate the business in U. S. Route 521 approximately office at police headquarters, On Wednesday it bolted up to 8.85 hi 1948. the future under the name of the 0.7 mile south of the Kershaw heard the racket in the guard 104 degrees. iterating feature of copy of this Southern weekly Shivar Implement Company. Mr. town limits, easterly via St John house and investigated. Thursday tha people of the ’eity The Kershaw County Fair wilh that it reveals that had crossed the ocean and Shivar graduated from the Uni church to Route 341—approxi Payna had their fingers crossed not be held this year Oct 10-15, ac hospital gave 3,628 two continents, and had been versity of South Carolina with mately 1.7 miles. by Sgt. Lewis Clyburn and Pa knowing what to expect. cording to J. D. Crawford, the sec ! care in 1948 com-1 seen by Mary Finta. ___ L the degree of B. S. in commerce Section of road extending from man Buford Hancock after he had Even old timers admit that this retary. range of 1,838 days So Mary Finta sat down and since his graduationftion has en- Road 85 at or near St John successfully passed two allegedly has been one of the longest hottest PreU’s Broadway Shows have hospitals. The local] and wrote, from the depths of gaged in farming and general church, northeasterly across Route worthless checks, one for $10 at spells in many, many years, if not icn contracted with to furnish mber of days of free her heart, of conditions in the J. C. Penney Company store, avar before. he midway and they are expected war-battered Hungary. businaaa. 241 to Route 157 appi to bring some very high class 1535 over 1947. mmmmmmmmmmmrn 2.0 miles east of /Kershaw—ap and the other for $25 at the Elec- Most dealers in electric fans *T am orphan, my mother •To Go On Vacation proximately 11 miles. trie Service and AppliaLppliance Corn- have done a rushing business and shows. This company played the is died, only my father is in pany. one man who said he eras 65 years Greenwood, Greenville and Lee alive, and I have two sisters Rev. and Mrs. Herbert L. Spell Section of road extending from county fairs last year and made and Betty will leave Monday for Road 63 in Bethune, southwester At the Penney store old bought what he said was the and two brothers ... the purchased a shirt fortor $2gz and re- first electric fan he had ever a good impression at all of theee ’.claim of my letter is help with a months vacation. During Rev. ly along Chestnut street and ex fafra [BALL Spell’s absence the pulpit will be tension, thence westerly and ceivedPPHHH $8 in change, . matwl at the owned, never having felt the need all kind of old dresses, shoes, electric end appliance__ shop ha of one before in his country home. Mr. Crawford( said work would underwear. Please collect in filled by visiting ministers. Rev. northwesterly via Mill . Creek begin this week enlarging the fair Edward B. Whitson, student at church and across Road 42 to purchased sa fan for■ $12 and re There have been a great many your home the old useless ceived $13 in change. The check cases of upset stomach reported as grounds so as to provide more ekU Carter, who can things, I can wear and use Columbia Theological Seminary, Road 20 — approximately 11.0 midway room. n necessary, pulled Decatur, Ga., will preach August miles. at the Penney store was mad* out a result of the heat wave. everything . . . one old piece The use of water in the city J. R. West is president of the i Pete Sch iro. Fort 7 at the morning hour. Section of road extending from on a blank from the Commercial fair and Mr. Crawford, secretary. n»ger Wednesday can give everybody clothes Road 20 just north of Refuge National Bank, but Payna had has been greatly increased by the I the Camden-Fort . . . used clothes are duty church, southerly to Road 42 ap scratched out the name of the hot weather, the officials report i and when Shiro free.” proximately 1.5 miles north o’* Camden bank and written below la Columbia a water shortage is Clean-Up Program I oil forleiled the] Mjary Alice, who is study U. S. Route 1—approximately 5.i it the name “Bank of Lancaster.” threatened. den. ing nursing at Columbia uni Two Escapees miles. Joe Machado, according to the People are urged to see that o«ured in the low- versity, sent the letter home Section of rogd extending from report from Chief Rush, was sus their pets and livestock have Being Carried nghih inning with to her mother, at 124 Harold Road 42 approximately 1.0 mile picious and contacted the Lan plenty of good water to drink dur t in Iront 6 to 2 by Byrd Drive. , J . . north of U. S. Route 1, southeast caster institution and found Payne mg this heat wave as they suffer Out lit Camden Finta concluded her erly to U. S. Route 1 near the did not have an account there. He from thirst the same at humans. [J™n iplurge in the plea with, “God may bless Back. On Gang-s The argument be- SAL railroad underpass — ap notified the police and shortly The heat wave is reported to The Kershaw county health de u>d Shiro, in which you and all who area ready to Sammy Ballard and Danny Boy proximately 0.7 mile. latterafter PavnePayne was picked up. The be doing some damage to crops, partment, which was recently help us. Let us soon hear from Wesley who escaped from the Section of roqd extending from shirt and fan and most of the cash especially com. Some areas o n of the Tisiiing the help after getting my let- Kershaw county chain gang Sun county are suffering dreadfully merged with the city health de resulted from the Road 34 approximately 5.0 miles was recovered. The check cashed partment, has begun a drive, to > arbiter to call a • ter to your hands what is day afternoon, July 17, are again east of Camden, southeasterly to at the Penney store was signed for rain, the showers which fell clean up Camden. Seif. possible to make in our in- in custody, having been captured the Lee county line —r approxi- with the name Bill C. Billings last week having been spotted Many property owners have *•* featured by a| . lerest. I repeat my pardon and Sunday, July 24. mately 4.1 miles. while the one cashed at the elec- There is no relief__ insight ‘ * as yet been notified to clean up their dby Joe Socey to thanks hoping my letter is Ballard was taken into custody Section of road extending from trie shop was signed Sam E. Dol- from theein intense1 heat, the weather premises and many have volun writtep with success. by Cpl. 'Bennett and Patrolmen Road 12 approximately‘ r 0.9 milelbert‘ - , _ ^ -y .. bureau officials state. tarily agreed to do so. Weeds and Camden just a half ♦If any New Era readers Roundtree and Martin of the state northwest of the terminus of Road When Chief Rush saw what had grass are being cut and old au togitree for fourth would like to send old clothes highway patrol near the Kershaw- 18, northeasterly via Cleveland | happened to Payne when he en- tomobile tires, tin cans, and other *« games behind to Miss Finta, the address is: Lee counties line in the ML Zion School Monument to Road 90 <— tered the cell block he immediate- receptacles whkh make ideal resting in third] Miss Mary Finta, 1083 Kis- section. Late in the afternoon approximately 3.1 miles. . ly summoned a doctor, who after Let Contract For breeding places for mosquitos are retoldal street. Department Wesley was captured eight miles Section of road extending from emergency treatment, had Payne being removed. a* in the Palmetto Seabolls, Uifeherto, Hungary. below Bishopville by Drouty U. S. Route 521 approximately removed to the hospital. Later he Owners of houses which are ft? ni9hl* Jin® The Camden Chronicle has no Sheriff Hilton and Rural Officer 2.0 miles of Boykins Mill Pond, was tokm to the State hospital in Gym and Cafeteria adjacent to sewerage connections “. in* Sonocos in paper on its mailing list going Leo Rose, with the assistance of northeasterly and easterly via Columbia. have been ordered to connect > innings and man- direct to Hungary but it is prob Rural Police Officer Hopkins of Charlotte Thompson School to Payne gave his sddress to the them up at onc^ and many have able that one or more of the Pap Lee county. Road 12—approximately 3.9 miles. | police as being on Oakland Ave- At Baron DeKalb already been connected. Jt a 5 to 2 win. ers going to public officials to Ballard and Wesley were serv ) t. -u * >Road 91, southerly to | learned he was 23 years of age The General Engineering Com- which close at the top to keep Camden-Fort and one of the copies of the PaP®r Ballard killed his wife and daugh Road 92, near the County Library and had been in the State hospital y of Florence submitted the down the breeding of mosquitoes game: may have gotten into the hands ter, Ella Nora, by shooting them —approximately 1.5 miles. in Columbia before. It is. also C bid for the construction of and other insects. NM 002 00—2 4 3 of the Hungarians m this way. with a shotgun in January, 1948. Section of road extending from stated that there is no Oakland the gymnasium and cafeteria forOwners of barns or lots in 080 080 Ox—6 4 4 Nearly all of the letters have The jury that tried him found U. S. Route 521 approximteely 1.0 Avenue in Lancaster, the Baron DeKalb School at De which animals are kept are being been written in similar vein. They him guilty of first degree murder mile north of the terminps of __ -■■i —------Kalb when the proposals were *** Hall; Sell but recommended mercy. Wesley notified by the health department •ad Scarborough. indicate that conditions m Hun opened last Tuesday. to clean up same and the city gary must be very desparate. was convicted of killing lues w RotanansHear There were 13 bidders and sec will then spray same with DDT. * °f the teams, in- Thompson at Boykin, March 6, ond lowest was the Martin Con night games: Some surprise has t>ec*L j®3?' Every effort is being made by pressed that Hungarian 1948, and> drew ten years on the ^Interesting Talk! struction Company of Kershaw the health department to protect W. would let the letters t*™* ChSheSTf>eBruhl, in relating the with $52,500, While the B. and H. the health of the city during the 44 telling of conditions in that coun STythto’the RichiMd'iS^^ Regarding Drugs Construction Company of this cit intense heat wave. try. capture of the two felons, stated was third lowest with $52,997. I V ” t' ______that he wanted to extend thanks Swy?3^.CMm,)~WroXi'k2rg Comp^fWI^rw^ The Camden Construction Com for the state highway patrol of pany had the lowest figure on the Coming Events Polio Chapter To ficers for their splendid coopera Section of road «te„du* from ^ cafeteria with $15,274. tion, also to the state constabu Friday. July 29 Meet On Aug. 4 A lary, who gave valuable assist (Continued on, Page 12) Rotary Club last Thursday at the CURTIS IS SIGNED Baseball: Orangeburg vt ance in trailing the two convicts. | Thomas Tavern. Camden. 8:15 p. m. He made a most interesting talk ——— Bunofty* Juir , wvices Boy Scouts Will i drugs, giving some Whiteca; Services ini b Church First Divorce Is Get Instructions ______formation_ • regarding some Camden of the city at 11*15 a. m. day afternoon, Aug. 4 a. 4 o'clock them. Many members of the club uled to pitch Thursday night 2 at the county court house for the __ learned for the first time that the against the Hartsville Sonocos. kptUt purpose of electing officers for Granted In County Boy Scouts of Camden will be Kiwanis luncheon. Thomas church ,1s given instruction leadi ' to the balm in Gilead was a drug, the Curtis is a Duke University pitch Tavern, I p. nu the ensuing year- The first divorce to be granted it oldest known drug, it haring been er and local fans were impressed A full attendance is urged'* in Kershaw county m over 54 Life Saving and St he White- Baseball: , City vs ^ There will zes to be referred to in the BiWe. Dr. ft his showing with the Camden. t:15 p. m. wenin* < this meeting. . years, accordmg to records at thetl CFBear brought some of this old office of theKershaw Counmty * r. Aug. L* J:*0’ on at 9 drug along with him. 1 3? be both AT MALVERN HILL Clerk of Court was .ted this He also explained the origin of PROTRACTED MEETINGS Z5 •Prices. many otherx drugs, ssome of which w- of tha August is usually the month for will 'be well known. in rural churches pastor vas in ciijm .are rch in 8« Twrw cordially _ to hold r*t.