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The World'8 Smallei*^aily Newspaper
Seth M. Vining, Editor
Vol. 26—No. 99 A YON, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 5, 1953

Weather Wednesday: High 75,
low 62, Rel. Hum. 47. . . President
Eisenhower says he is not disturb
ed by loss in elections Tuesday.
Said hev has lost skirmihes before.
Democrats hope to regain control
of Congress next year. Consider
able gains were made in New Jer
sey and New York. In New Jersey
they elected a governor and added,
a congressman. Approximately
100 Congregational Christian Lead
ers from all over North Carolina
and Southwestern Virginia will
come to Tryon Tuesday and Wed
nesday for their annual confer
ence. College educators, mission
aries, ministers, teachers and gen- ,
eral lay leaders will make up the
conference . . . Duplicate bridge
tournament Fridav night at 7:45
pt Oak Hall . . . M'niature forest
display will be on Trade Street
Friday near A&P Store. Hours
have not been designated but we
p re sure it will be there at 1:30.
Fveryone should see this portable
museum of how trees are made into
paper products . . . This section
needs rain very much. J3ome
showers promised , today or" this
weekend . DeWitt Smith has
been elected chairman of the
American Legion Membership
Comnr’ttee and plans are mder- '
way to distribute toys at Christ
mas to underprivileged childrdft.
They gave away 256 baskets l%irt
Christmas. . . . ,r
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People Brutally Beaten;
And Others Threatened
Editor Horace Carter of the
Tabor Tribune addressed a packed
house of Lanier Club members
and friends at the Congregational
Church House Wednesday after
noon at 3:30. He told of some
of his experiences in fighting the
Klu Klux Klan in his town and
’section.
I ne speaker saia the Klan had
a membership of several thousand
people, some of them church offi
cers, and officers of the law who
did their dirty work under cover
of mask and sheet. They took the
law into their own ’ hands, beat
their victims unmercifully, cut
off ears, left some people stranded
miles from their home and sent
threatening letters and notes to
manv others including Editor
Carter. He-was threatened with
loss of advertising and subscrip
tions. But continued the fight until
most of the leaders were arrested,
and put into prison and over
, $4*v000 in fines paid.
Thomas Hamilton, the leader,
was given a four year sentence.
Over -200 persons were sentenced;
.20 want to the penitentiary. Six
or eight are now in federal prison.
Mr. Carter thought the cause
the rapid rise of the Klu Klux
Klan was the result of pubMc d;s
closure of various scandals in
government offices* neople lost re
spect for - government and decid
ed to take law into their own
hands. Manv had b°en taught the
virtues of the old Klu Klux Klan
that existed during the period
fnffowino- the' Civil War; some
joined for the glamour of it;
movies, radio Rnd television por
trav vigilantes who rise un
against crooked sheriffs and judg
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