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j'hc Pilot Covers Brunswick County Thirteen labor Ime-Town Men f Iperate Houses)/ In Tabor City Cto? I" Th? olT?bo,Ci.y'. arehouses This Year g, V MARKET in J belt so honored gi- Warehouses Will i Operated Again This ear And Everything >oints To Successful Season -? 11 Aug. 7.?When ] Ih, now selling season Tl.,,, lay, Tabor City will tho aslinel!'"1 of being the tlu Border Belt a 5 all-local cast of veteran housemen. sti Coleman will operate ad k.,- , rs again this year. in rrell will be back at the H( And Buck Peay, who is te . a local man, will take tw tin Carolina jointly with g formerly of Loris ny Danville. sp . three local operators all m. and wo! k with their cus- bu is here the year-round. And th is v r.erally regarded as one of let:; reasons Tabor City led atl _ . i3. . Rolf in nripp I}'-'- - ?v.v ... X w is? last season. Ga:rell is also one of the q r; buyers and brokers on the (0 rrc :uce markets. Mr. Cole-1 jj . a prominient farmer in 1 as section and also operates laree burley warehouses in ; 12 And Mr. Peay is a part-, _ -versl other thriving busis here. H an 1 Garrell are vet- J I of the tobacco game and ark-1. Both have been be warehouse business here 19J6. and have played a part in the market's recti .-th of recent years. 1 is will be the first season 1 Ptay and Smith have opera warehouse of their own fabor City. But Peay has ted at the other houses. And a has been on the Loris, S. market, where he was well wtiely known. d! Warehouse, which 1 r and Smith are taking over, formerly operated by Sam ier. and Dave Conner from h Boston Va. Mr. Walden retired from the warehouse to bis age and C. - son, Ed Walden, 1 with the Carolina Farmers in the capac- P< ( (Continued on page 2) ftbor City Mart I To Give A Car ? Farmer Selling To- U? Rlacio In Tabor City Will * B A New Car At!*" R.nd Of Selling Season RiBOU CITY. Aug. The da ^B 1 v Tohaeco market, it be B is going ^ lei Ford, with da trimmings, to some farR end of the tobacco er ^B ng Tuesday, August ? Si Br. re induce to our tobacco-growing *? 8| s to come and sec us," M. Sales Supcrvis- bj R^- 1 h'rt today. *** is. no farmer takes a Tt when he sells his crop I City We paid our cua- bt Hf* the highest average in the as B last year." *b j|r Crand prize will be award^B exercises one M' H of the sea- * ^B hag been tentative- 1* fir Friday, Sept. 19, but fl< ^B nged .depending ^b1 s< ison runs. "J ^ tar was purchased from Tt ^B dealers and 111 igh the gen- *b the local warehouse- 'n mj* w ^B to show our r0 B ighbors and g| buying and selling ^b; -- it was said today by 'b R C. Harrelson and G. |W1 r!Tian' President of the w' ^K, " r-'' Commerce. *b R Par Wf gave a big par- w ^B ' but this year w: R 'he cost of a.an* put it into a grand T??ls ?Fn to one and all |08 c ^abor city their marH is: THI Southport, N. C., Cityi -farrelson's Ad Vs Mayor Of T; ipelled Contim Felice He Took Office In ] 1935, The Population Of The Town Has Jumped From Around 1,200 To 1,700 ORN AND REARED NEAR TABOR CITY e Was Recently Elected 7or His Fourth Term Of Office; Many Achievements During His Administration TABOR CITY, Aug. 7.?The sry of Mayor R. C. Harrelson's [ministration of the government j Tabor City is one of progress. ? was elected for his fourth rm last June. Each term is for ro years. Of course, Mr. Harrelson doest claim all the credit for the lendid progress the city has _ ade during his administration in it he is justly proud that la rough the splendid cooperation c< the people of Tabor City such oi onuiahlo ronnrd fhuf io flip I ru wn's is possible. tc During the past 10 years Tabor ai ty has grown from a village hi a bustling little city and since st r. Harrelson first took office w mayor in 1935 the population al ,s jumped from approximately aj 00 to approximately 1700. New rabor City Oft< Best All-Rour abor City To T Have Half Day Sales System t ig 3 Warehouse Gets First Sale On Opening Day And Will Sell Until Noon ?New Farmers House Sells In Afternoon AROLINA SELLS ON WEDNESDAY MORNING cl apular Half Day System a' Df Selling Allows Farm- " ers To Know Exactly " When A Sale Will f" Come To Ware house . hi TABOR CITY, Aug. 7?The w inual "draw for sales", always c big event with tobacco market T wns, came off here Monday 01 ith Alton Garrell picking the Is( st out of the hat for the Big h' Warehouse. ?' Under the popular new half y system of selling which is e' ing put in this season, the Big will sell all morning on Tues-1 sc iy, August 12, the opening day. Jc Roscoe Coleman drew the aft-' noon sale on opening day for! x e New Farmers, while Charlie sl nith and Buck Peay received |ef e morning sale on Wednesday! r the Carolina Warehouse. j The draw was presided over |s! ' M. R. Alexander, of Durham, a] e new Sales Supervisor for the Ie ibor City market. J" Charlie Smith won the match, it his drawing was not so good o: i his matching, and he pulled e third ticket out of the hat. ? Alton Garrell won the second ** aw and promptly pulled out the " ucky number one," leaving num- tl ir two for the New Farmers Sl >or. )11 Under the popular new half-day | stem, the Big 3 will sell all sl iesday morning, the New Far- a ers all Tuesday afternoon, and {l e Carolina all Wednesday morng. The Big 3 will sell again ir ednesday afternoon, and the 11 und-sales robin will start aH n er again. Each warehouse can thus tell B j customers exactly when they P ill get a sale, and by figuring hat row he is on and how fast h ey can sell, they can tell him " ithin 10 or 15 minutes when he 8 ill be sold. a "Are you going to take the is ir out in this rain storm?" n "Certainly, it's a driving rain, b n't it?" ' t STJ A Good Wednesday, August 6 Vlarke [ministration I abor City Has ious Progress ? - r? ft- ^ ^HPfefr , < <' / gr, n IT I w . ._>. I la ?f|p yJB ' 2 fl t4 u ' , ' : I : 'i' ' MB T ^ pi R. C. HARRELSON .dustry has come, including two tc ,rge lumber manufacturing con- V :rns. The mayor and his board commissioners have sought all tc jssible improvements to the al iwn through W. P. A. assist- di ace resulting in a new town di 3.11 and jail, a 2-story brick c< ructure, modern and fire-proof, t: as built in 1938 at a cost of tc bout 510,000. In 1937 a sewer- tc je system costing approximate- m (Continued on page 2.) iri tc tn Called i in id N. C. Mart" ai abor City, In The Heart hi Of Perhaps The Richest w Trucking Section In The H State, Raising Variety Of w Products hi ABOR CITY SELLS u BULK OF PRODUCE ti : is An Old But Highly g Progressive Market, Sel- G ling Tobacco, Berries, a] Beans, Potatoes, Vegetables, Fruits And Poultry -J TABOR CITY, Aug. 7.?The 01 lant of the auctioneer may come ad go with the tobacco season d< i many sections, but this golden tl msic to the farmer's ears is [hi ;ard practically the year-roui\d 01 ' I 5( 1 lauur True, tobacco is the money-crop sl 5re right now, just as it is else- ni here over the Border, South hi arolina, and Georgia belts. But w abor City is also in the heart ir I perhaps the richest trucking ^ iction in the State. The farmers > sreabouts raise tons and tons C F strawberries, beans, Irish poitoes, sweet potatoes, other veg- hi :ables and fruits, and poultry. s( "Hie bulk of these products are s< >ld at auction on the Tabor ity Produce Market. So the auc- f oneer's chant is no tobacco sea- ^ >n novelty here, although it is :ill go'.den music to everyone's irs at this season. Tabor City is an old but high' progressive market. The total V lies of tobacco, produce, fruit, a nd poultry here have grown by aps and bounds the last few ears. So much so, Tabor City is ften referred to as the best C ttle all-round market in the ir tate. And this section is fre- a, uently described as North Caro- di na's Garden of Eden, because y le local farmers can raise and F ill some crop here almost every T lonth of the year. di Anyone who wishes to sub- cl tantiate Tabor City's rank as a market has only to look at the icts and figures for himself. t< Tabor City's total tobacco sales h icreased from 716,000 pounds in a 932 to 5,664,000 in 1940?or al- a lost eight times?and last year h ie local market led the whole U lorder Belt in the average price o; aid farmers per pound. r< The local strawberry market w as grown from 11,000 crates tl i 1925 to the 1941 record of 0,718 crates, sold at an aver- u ge of $2.25 per crate. w Although the crop was mater- b illy cut by the drought, the bean b larket this spring sold 64,681 e askets at an average of $1.25, h (Continued on page 2) HE I News paper , 1941 f HsA Jig 3 House Increases Its Floor Space I. A. Garrell, Proprietor Of The Big 3 Warehouse In Tabor City, Increases Floor Space To About 50,000 Square Ft. ;arrell buys from farmers year round xperienced Warehouse Forje To Assist Mr. Garrell In Sales Of Golden Weed; Good Season Expected Tabor City's tobacco market ghtfully boasts of having local ien to operate its three leaf arehouses but no market can ,y claim to having such a helpil booster and farmer's friend le year round as Tabor City can t its proprietor and operate of he Big 3 warehouse. The prorictor is B. Alton Garrell, born id reared in Tabor City, who is been associated with his home >wn market since he was 14 2ars old, Mr. Garrell is well known as a ibacco warehouseman but he is Iso equally well known as a proice buyer, who really buys proiice. He hardly had time to >mplete his produce market ansactions this year until the ibacco market was almost ready > open. As soon as the tobacco larket closes he begins almost nmediately buying sweet potales, then strawberries, beans, ish potatoes and any other kind ' produce that farmers may ring to buy. Almost 12 months i the year he is carrying on ansactions for his farmer cusimerg. Mr. Garrell is the sole opertor of the Big 3 warehouse but 3 has employed some of the best arehouse help in the business, is auctioneer is Harry Nunn, a idely known tobacco man who 33 auctioned in South Carolina, orth Carolina and Virginia. Betir known to farmers of this seeon however is the Bookkeeper >r The Big 3, Elroy Bell. Mr. ell also keeps books for Mr. arrell on the produce market id comes in contact with thousnds of farmers throughout the ear. He is the man who writes le checks and does the paying t'f for the tobacco and produce. The Big 3 warehouse has unergone an enlargement program lis summer and the fioor space is been increased from some 30,30 square feet to approximately 3,000 square feet. The additional jace assures Mr. Garrell much eeded floor space to take care of Ttl? is growing 1101 \j*. tuovuiiKiw. arehouse roof lights have been nproved in the older sections of le house, making it one of the set lighted houses in the South arolina border belt. All in all. Mr. Garrell feels that e is better prepared this sea>n to render his customers better :rvice than ever before. "oleman Back At Farmers House eteran Tabor City Tobac0 Man Has Been Associated With The Industry There For 20 Years TABOR CITY, Aug. 7.?Roscoe oleman, who has always lived 1 Tabor City, and who has beer ssociated with the tobacco inustry here for the past twenty ears, will again be at the New armers Warehouse this season he house will be completely uner his management and he has tiosen to work with him ar ble, experienced force. Not only can Mr. Coleman give ) the farmers who sell with him is years of experience as a buyer nd warehouseman, but he is alsc farmer. He knows from first and just how many months ol ibor it takes to make a crof f tobacco and fully realizes hi! ssponsibility toward the farmer! 'ho sell writh him to get them le highest price possible. Mr. Coleman is also well-knowr 3 the tobacco trade in the 'estern part of the state on the urley markets. He has recently ought out other interests involvd and will this season operate imself the Mountain Burley (Continued on page 2.) PORT In A Good Com UBLISHED EVERY WEDNESD jTSeT [ MUi Wmmmm HHBRI . Indicative of the progress past decade is this modern, fir years ago, it was built to serve Floor Space At1 T JL/WUUH.U JL *? Market Led The Belt Inii 1940 Average*. And Is Onlv Market Which Has I Added Space ________ j . TABOR CITY, Aug. 7.?An ad- j . dition to the Carolina Warehouse, 1 which more than doubles its I floor space of last year, has just been completed. This warehouse, which was the | first to be built In Tabor City, has, through additions and improvments, kept pace wtih the | growth of the Tabor City Tobac-; co Market. From the original1 structure, which only had some 15,000 feet it has been enlarged { to cover an acre of ground and offers to the farmer between 45,000 and 50,000 feet of floor; space. Special attention was given to every detail of construction of j the new addition and to improvements in the old building. The finest type of non-glare skylights) have been installed and every care taken to assure the farmer of j a place to sell his tobacco to the j best advantage. Entrance on two streets will I facilitate unloading facilities. Of- 0w fice space has also been enlarged. The Carolina will be operated j wl this season by Buck Pcay, local i man, and Charlie Smith, of Dan-<SP' ville ,Va. i Granville Wilt I County Pas Steady Increase In Thejv Number Of Fields Affec- ^ ted By Disease Noted In' Columbus County RAPER ADVISES OF CONTROL METHODS C< Method Of_ Control Of This Disease Lies In Crop_ Rotation And Sanitation, Assistant Agent Says BY. C. D. RAPER Jlc Assistant Farm Agent wf | Granville wilt is a stem and root disease of many agricultural , crops, particularly tobacco. This i,1 destructive disease was first no-1 ticed in tobacco in Granville ' County about 40 years ago. Since ha then the disease has spread to no ' practically all tobacco growing hi! 11 counties including Columbus! ms county. [ ea ! The first symptom of Gran-1 lai t ville wilt to appear on a plant is fu the wilting of one or more leaves, an i usually near the top of the plant, to' ; This is followed by wilting of Q; more leaves and usually contin, ues until the entire stalk is affec- .. , ted and wilted. Dark areas are fto . s be found in the woody tissues of ( infected plants extending from the roots to affected leaves. The ?P presence of these streaks enables 1 you to tell Granville wilt from t0 : practically all other tobacco root w< ' and stem diseases. wl ' A few fields in Columbus coun- re ty were affected in 1938. more ke ! in 1939, still more in 1940, and B< r this year still more farms are po (Continued on page 2) ' PIL munity At For N NIC I PAL BUILDIN V . , j. which has marked the li eproof city hall, jail and i the needs of Tabor City foi Carolina ' 'or This Year E Warehouse Owner .......... ..... j - ? $H| i; j^K JB Wl ^?S| v Hr Mm MM wiiiiwinn .?&j. MS^H g V J. L. Lewis, of Tabor City, is j, rner of the Carolina Warehouse fc \\ lich recently doubled its floor 11 It ace. ! a la "ound In ' r it Four Years I I * ees Need Longer, Selling Season >leman Says Tabor City Market Needs Longer Selling Season "And We Are Going To Continue . To Fight For It" 1 TABOR CITY, Aug, 7?"The ,bor City Market definitely eds a longer selling season and ! are going to continue to fight r it", says R. C. Coleman, local 1 irehouseman and president of c e Tabor City Tobacco Board of N ade. / !1 "A too short selling season ' J ndicaps the farmer as he does t have enough time to market j tobacco and therefore has to ike long, expensive trips to |' stern Carolina markets with a * ge portion of it. We need seven j * II weeks selling . time, and 111 i going to keep on working ' ward securing this", says Mr. < ileman. Shortly after the meeting of ( e Sales Committee held in Vir- 1 riia Beach, Va., in June to set ( e date of the various markets ening, and it was seen that < e onesale markets were likely '< be in the same position they 1 >re last year, Mr. Coleman 1 rote to W. Wesiey Singletary, 1 presentative of the local mar- 1 ts and president of the S. C. ' dt Warehouse Association, inting out to him the grave in- i (Continued on page 2) OT f ew R( : ^ I' "wBk ^ ( ' " - ' - ,; JB 1 fe of Tabor City for the < "irehouse. Constructed two r many years to come. ' }eay And Smith ; At Carolina < Suck Peay, Well Known Local Man And Charlie ! Smith, Tobacconist, Of , Danville, Va., to Operate < Enlarged Carolina j j , TABOR CITY, Aug. 7?Buck , >eay ,of Tabor City, together , vith Charlie Smith, of Danville, ( fa., will operate the Carolina Varehouse in Tabor City this ] 'ear. I Buck, who has been in business , n Tabor City for a number of j 'ears, is well-known to farmers ,nd businessmen throughout this | ection. He has made a study of alesmanship which will prove of | Teat value to the farmers who ] ell tobacco with him. ( Charlie, although a newcomer i o Tabor City, has been associat- i d in the tobacco business in i learby towns for a number of i 'ears. He has had a lifetime of 1 xperience in every phase of the 11 warehouse business and reports 11 rom the houses he has operated 11 how that these houses have conistently closed their seasons 1i rith exceptionally high averages.; I Working with Buck and Char-11 ie at the Carolina this year will ] ie C .E. Walden, of Scottsburg, i fa., as head bookkeeper. Edward j las worked in Tabor City for fifeen years or more. He will have < is his assistants Harriett L. Sikes j md E. H. Cox. I H. C. Hunt, of Clarendon, will i ie the day floor manager at the i Carolina, with Gomez Prince, of i rabor City, taking over the same i >osition at night. Other members ' if the force, including weighmen, i lackers, handlers etc., have all >een chosen with an eye to their i ibility and efficiency. 1 Oil Cnnrorn iijrw w ii vviiwi it Will Distribute Richfield Gas .umberton Concern Changes Line Of Petroleum Products; Sells To 110 . Stations Nye Oil Company, one of the cading independent petroleum j, listributorships in the Carolinas | vill handle products of the Richield Oil Company beginning tolay, it was announced this week >y R. Howard Nye, president of : ,he company. j Serving some 110 service sta;ions in Robeson, Hoke, Scotland md Columbus counties the compiny will operate two bulk plants, j it Lumberton and Tabor City, rom which Richfield gasoline and >ils will be distributed. During the past week crews >f painters have been painting .hese stations the rich cream and lark green colors which are, a ;rade mark of the Richfield con:ern throughout the country, and mother crew of mechanics has seen installing equipment in preparation for the change over from :he Purol products formerly earned by the concern to the Richfield line. The Nye Oil Company was founded by R. H. Nye in 1929 (Continued on page 2) 1 SECTION 3 4 $1.50 PER YEAR ? I ;cords Floor Space About Doubled Town To Give Away Auto To Some Farmer At Close Of Tobacco Season ILL SET FOR OPENING TUESDAY Varehousemen Prepared To Handle Increased Quantity Of Tobacco And Look Forward To Establishing New Record TABOR CITY, Aug. 7.--The inly tobacco market on the Borler to add to its floor space his year, Tabor City, which led :he whole Belt in price averages ast year, is planning and preparng for another banner season ipening Tuesday, August 12. The additions to the Carolina ind Big 3, which almost double ;he capacity of those two warelouse, were completed today ex:ept for a few finishing touches. The New Farmers likewise had ts doors open and the welcome sign out to its customers just is soon as their tobacco is ready, '"d "'I fhrno nnorqfnra ininorl in inu an uuvv ? predicting a good season with 'air-to-good prices. The tobacco on the upper part )f the stalk is curing up some letter than was first expected, iccording to the general opinion imong local warehousemen and planters today. Contrary to the ipinion in some quarters, there s still much good tobacco along with the mixed, and the general ,'iew here was that the planters with a good smoking crop may ;xpect a fairly good price. Tabor City will have an allocal, all-veteran force of wareiou.se operators, which is generally regarded as making for a strong, high-price market. Roscoe Coleman will operate the New Farmers again, while Alton Garrell will be back at the Big 3. Buck Peay, who is likewise a local man, will take iver the Carolina jointly with Charlie Smith, formerly of Loris ind Danville. Sam Walden, who ( . formerly ran the Carolina, has i retired due to his age and health, put his son, Ed., will stay on witlj the same house as bookkeeper. Elroy Bell will keep the nooks for the third house. The addition to the Carolina ind the Big 3 give the local market 155,000 feet of floor space with a capacity of around 750,000 pounds of tobacco and with more ind better facilities to serve the growers than ever before. Tabor City is said to be the Dnly market on the Border to add to its floor space this year, put the additions were necessitated by the last two banner seasons. The local market jumped up to almost seven million pounds in 1939, and last year it led the whole Border Belt in price average. The enlargements to the Big 3 and Carolina will make these [louses approximately uie same size as the New Farmers. All three are expected to have the same selling time, according to present plans, so that growers . who come here can tell within a few minutes the exact time they can get a sale. Tabor City is known as the "fastest growing market in the Border Belt". From the sale of a little more than a million pounds in 1935, it more than doubled in 1936. And it continued to grow by leaps and bounds, reaching a peak of almost seven million pounds on the last big crop. The local warehouses have kept pace with the increasing demands. New floor spice and improvements have been added each year, and the current program of expansion gives Tabor City the best facilities it has yet had. Along with this physical improvement, the all local warehouse firms have done everything possible to improve their sales and a service by engaging large staffs who know their business and are anxious to serve. Supplementing the efforts of warehousemen, the Tabor City Chamber of Commerce is pushing plans and preparations on a series of sendees and feature* for local visifors, which will be announced later. The local merchants are also doing their part by increasing their stocks and arranging a number of special events, so that farmers in this section may make Tabor City their buying as watt as their selling center. ' I