The next Camp meeting will be Thursday, January 8, at 7:00 at the library. The main speaker will be our own Dr Jack Atha. Dr Atha will discuss the Confederate Medical Department.

Among the things to be discussed will be:

• The upcoming Lee-Jackson Dinner

• Election of Camp officers for 2004

• The Confederate Memorial monument

• National SCV Convention this year in Dalton

• Centennial plans for Camp 469

Upcoming Events

    April 16 & 17, 2004 - Charleston, SC. The burial of the crew of the Confederate submarine H L Hunley.

    It should also be noted that 2004 dues of $35 can now be paid. The $3 increase is to help pay for the ante-bellum SCV headquarters house in Forsyth, GA. To date almost half the Camp members have already paid their dues.

A word on our SCV tags:

I read where one member had some difficulty in getting his SCV tag from his tag office; my birthday is in early January so I went today to obtain my new tag.

Guess what, the local tag office informed me that I would have to pay the manufacturing fee. I told the young lady that I had already paid the manufacturing fee. She went to the computer and, after several minutes, told me that I wasn’t on record. I then asked about my wife’s tag. Her name wasn’t "in the computer" either.

Luckily I had a number to call at DMV and talked with the lady there in Atlanta. She faxed me a copy of my paid receipt and I went back to my local tag office and was refunded the fee…

Now, what we all need to do, the tags have been manufactured, they (the DMV) will be mailing your receipt to you individually as they send the tags to the counties. When you receive the receipt, make sure you retain it. When you go to get your new tag, present it and you won’t have to go through the same thing I did. This applies to those 1,200 people who pre-ordered the SCV Tags only.

Apparently, the problem is that the DMV didn’t tie the new tag to your existing account so the local tag office will have some problem locating your paid record (this is only for those of you who helped us get the tag by prepaying your fee). Those of us who have to get our tags early will experience some problems. My receipt was dated August 22, but had not been mailed. They "didn’t want us to have the receipt before the tags were available".

The final note of irony is that they didn’t have my new tag, they are sitting in a warehouse in Atlanta waiting to be sent to the counties, but they were more than willing to take my money.

Jack Bridwell

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