LIBRARY iiEQBGEQWN CQUim MBiQflltf' SMA^i DRAWER D First Of The Week t (Ceorgcf cHtm f&imt* Edition ESTABLISHED 1797 IN COUNTY $7.00 INSTATE 18.00 Georgetown, S.C. 29440 OUT OF STATE 18.00 Tuesday April 1, 1975 Vol.179 No. 34 y% Ferreduction Begins $lo5 Million Expansion $1.5 million expansion program is getting under way this week at Georgetown Ferreduction Corporation. The expansion , which will increase the capacity of the plant by 25 per cent, will be completed about April 11. Georgetown Ferreduction, a subsidiary of Korf Industries, will be shut down 10 days for the large expansion project. "The significant difference between this and other shut­ downs you have read about recently is that this does not mean a layoff and the company will be increasing its capacity," a company spokesman said. Employment during the shutdown will be tripled, with about 300 construction workers BEGINNING ANEW-The Pawleys Island- the re-organized Midway Fire Department. These hired. Litchfield Beach area is in line for continuation of are, from left, Henry G. Deer, president, B.L. The capacity of the plant will adequate fire-fighting protection of the past sev­ Marlow, Sr., vice-president, Col. R.S. Dingle, Jr., be increased 25 per cent by eral years. A new full-time and salaried chief has secretary-treasurer and Marvin Thompson, fire adding 40 reformer tubes to the been named to work with a new slate of officers for existing 160-tube gas generator, chief. additional combustion capacity, and a second stage process gas compression with 40,000 standard cubic feet per minute capacity. Midway Fire Department The $1.5 million program will also include 35 major tasks such as relining the plant's 60-ton per hour capacity shaft furnace, cleaning two 80,000 standard cubic feet per minute capacity gas scrubbers, and inspecting Upgrading Services and repairing the dust collec­ tion equipment. By ETHLVN MISSROON former Pawleys Island The firefighting installation ment and living quarters for the Some 85 per cent of magistrate. representing more than $50,000 chief, a building constructed, Georgetown Ferreduction One of the most valiant little Other officers of the Midway in equipment and considerably the president said, with Corporation's product, fire departments of the Grand Fire Department, now un­ more in community cooperation tremendous community metalized pellets, was pur­ Strand coastal region has come dergoing re-organization are and good will, was organized for assistance and volunteer labor. chased by Georgetown Steel of age and in a manner of B.L. Marlow Sr., vice- the purpose of protecting The fire department has filled Corporation in 1974. speaking, is approaching a new president and Col. R.S. Dingle, property owners in a fast- a vital role in combatting fire in A sponge iron passivation progressive and professional Jr., secretary-treasurer. expanding resort area. the neighborhood when process, which has been plateau. The Midway Fire Department It has achieved two 750-gallon volunteer firemen have rolled patented by Midrex Cor­ II AMMOCKING'S FINE-Little Michelle and Angela Baugh, Chattanooga, That is to say that Midway fire officials were outspoken in pumper trucks and a tanker- out at all hours of the day and poration, a sister company, great-nieces of the Joe Delzells are here visiting with Mamie and Joe. They Volunteer Department located citing the volunteer leadership truck which is being readied for night he added. permitted the sale and trans­ are swinging at Hammock Shop and are staying at the Delzell's house at on Highway 17 north of Pawleys rendered by the late Chief operations. Perhaps the most destructive portation of 37,667 tons of Litchfield Beach. Island has obtained its first Archer, who, they said "was a The fire department normally fire to have engaged the metallized pellets to various salaried and full-time fire-chief. dedicated fire-figher in serves the commnity from firemen took place on Pawlevs domestic and foreign customers Marvin Thompson of response to calls for Brookgreen Gardens to Arcadia Island in 1973 when three in Greece, The United Tallahassee, Florida, has been assistance". Plantation. closely adjoining houses were Kingdom, Italy, and Japan. named to assume responsibility Midway Volunteer Fire But, Col. Dingle remarked, destroyed. After the present shutdown, 6.2 Miles Of City Streets of the department post vacated Department had its beginning "we'll go where we are called; Mrs. C.W. Archer, widow of the company will sell its upon the recent demise of Fire in 1962 with Wallace F. Pate as we have lent assistance in a the late Fire Chief Pat Archer, product to Georgetown Steel Chief C.W. (Pat) Archer, late its founder. mutually supportive program to continues to give invaluable Corporation, other domestic volunteer head. Through the Litchfield Beach other communities when assistance, Mr. Deer said, in customers, foreign customers, His selection was announced Development Corporation, Pate needed". mailing out notices, fire and Georgetown Steel Cor­ this week by the Midway Fire was instrumental is securing The trucks are housed within placards and in helping with poration's new plant in Scheduled For Resurfacing Department organization's the land upon which the present a two-story masonry building appeals for financial con- Beaumont, Texas, when it president, Henry G. Deer, A total of 15 roads in Counties and a total of 6.2 miles scheduled for resurfacing this building now stands. that combines the fire depart­ CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 becomes operational in 1976. (ieorgetown and Williamsburg of (ieorgetown city streets are year under the terms of a $.'{24,860 contract awarded to Smith Grading and Paving, Inc., by the State Highway Work Begins On Sampit Waterfront Park Department. The 6.2 miles of resurfacing specified for the City of By ROGER COLLINS Building so that the area can be the area behind the Rice (ieorgetown will be divided used and enjoyed. Museum, the Kaminski among 25 streets. Plans for developing a second Among the activities for Building, and a commercial park area on Front Street are which this area could be used building owned by Mrs. Norma City streets specified for now underway giving a boost to are art shows, band concerts, Roy. resurfacing include Front, efforts to enhance the downtown and square dances. ' 'Mrs. Roy has been a big help Congdon, South Congdon, business district. by agreeing to lease the area Kaminski, East Bay, Church, The Georgetown County The first task in developing the area will be to remove the behind her store for develop­ and King Streets. Historical Commission has ment," Lawson said. recently approved the blueprint power wires attached to the Rice Museum's clock tower. Lawson noted that Mrs. Also included are Cleland, plans for a park area behind the Palm, Moss, Shade Avenue, Rice Museum. , "We are going to remove the Nimmer Joseph, owner of the four power poles from the building east of the Rice Oak, Gilbert, Memorial, State, The plans call for a large property. Electrical service to Museum, has also been Hill, Glenwood, South Bay, variety of flowers, shrubs, and the Rice Museum will be un­ cooperative with the Myrtle, Brinkley, Whitton, trees to augment the Rice derground," Lawson explained. development. Simms, and Hampton Streets. Museum landscape and a She has agreed to allow the concrete drive to provide access The City of Georgetown has Secondary roads in given its complete cooperation drive between her building and to the rear of the building. the Rice Museum to be closed. (ieorgetown County specified in undertaking this aspect of the for retreatment are Secondary The park development will plans, Lawson said. This was necessary jn order to also provide a pedestrian area relocate the power poles and Koads 18 (South Island Road), along the west side and behind The County is also providing 2.,, 30, 127, 306, and 307. assistance in developing the remove the power lines at­ the Rice Museum. The area tached to the tower. behind the Rice Museum will be park. Secondary roads in about 130 feet wide by 60 feet The area for the park includes The total cost of the project Williamsburg County specified deep extending to the Sampit will be about $11,000. The for retreatment are Secondary River's edge. Historical Commission is Roads 30, 35, 44, 48,113,142, 248, seeking a matching grant from 361, and 40. Plans for the Rice Museum Dredging the State Department of Parks, park follows action by the City Recreation, and Tourism. The Georgetown County of Georgetown to develop a Secondary Road 18 is known as mini-park at the foot of Broad "We have every expectation Street. of getting the grant," Lawson South Island Road; Secondary Bids Sought said. "But it will necessitate our Koad 23 connects South Island "When the city decided to friends in the community Koad with U.S. 17 in the Belle develop the foot of Broad Street Bids for the dredging of helping us match the grant." Isle area; Secondary Road 30 into,* park, we thought why not Georgetown Harbor will be let connects South Island Road and do our area," said Dennis Lawson also explained, "we by the U.S. Army Corps of have planned nothing that U.S. 17 in the Cat Island Ferry Lawson, curator of the Rice Engineers, Charleston District, area. Museum. would interfere in any way with on April 8. the future development of the Secondary Road 127 will be The simultaneous develop­ The work up for bidding waterfront." ment of the two Front Street retreated from Carvers Bay consists of dredging ap­ "We have been in constant south one mile to Secondary parks will hopefully spark proximately 1.2 million cubic further development and touch with Henningson, Road 306; Secondary Road 306 yards of material from upper Durham, and Richardson about will be retreated from that point renovation of the Front Street Winyah Bay and the Sampit business area, Lawson said.