Time capsule

As reported 49 years ago in the pages of The Columbia News, Thursday, July 28, 1960:

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Bids sought for new Harlem post office

Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield announced that a post office has been authorized for Harlem. The Post Office Department is asking for competitive bids to lease a facility.

"The successful bidder," Postmaster Willie P. Phillips said, "will provide the facility to the Department specifications, and will rent it to the Post Office Department under a long-term lease."

Harlem sewer plant will be expanded

Harlem Mayor Francis Tracy announced that the Harlem City Council has agreed to proceed with plans to enlarge and improve the Harlem Sewerage Disposal Plant.

The State Department of Public Health recognized the fact that the Harlem Sewerage Disposal Plant has been inadequate for the past 12 years due to an increase in population. Consulting engineers Jones and Cleckley submitted a report on what should be done to improve the plant to the Department of Public Health three months ago. The Department has approved the plans with some minor changes.

The plans call for the addition of one Imhoff tank to the present one. The sewerage will then go to sludge-drying beds and into a trickling filter to facilitate a secondary treatment. The purified liquid waste will reach its final destination in Euchee Creek.

This sewerage plan should accommodate estimated population growth for the next 20 years. The project cost is expected to fall around $86,000.

New Episcopal priest assigned

The Rev. Robert Henri Manning will become vicar of Holy Cross Church of Thomson, and Trinity Church of Harlem, on Aug. 1.

Father Manning comes to this new assignment from the Church of St. Edward the Martyr in Manhattan. He will succeed the Rev. Joseph L. Peacock, who recently became rector of St. Paul's Church in Savannah.