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TAliOK l'lTV , M irk.'t Txmler . lVtatoes, % r h-nvo. Strawberries i,,Vn IVans ami Others Tabor City Tribune TABOR CITY Fastest Growing Market In The Border Belt. Serving North and South Carolina "The Toivn With A City Future" ¡ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 194G, TABOR CITY, N. C. No. 12 \ví. ^ — B, u. HORACE CARTER " c. r.' i"? is a trying task these i-v"".;s e::'u" oí the local mailmen P Seems that everyone .•!" tried to put his mail in the ~xc, :.:y in Tabor City and . . : v . wdeá the pest office r::.: trork. T:".:? •- '•••• season for mail order ;•> ior.d out their catalogue» rr; ■-le of dozen Sears and toe*>ucks a n.-if cozen newspapers -v.- úve . r six hundred ,p, a roa. along -with first class mail, makes .-¿sroic for the carriers a one day. Uu-! : almost all the weekly • •\> ::<-re cut on the routes on • v r w.cld take a pick-up u:;; : :r:t-rs to taltc everything I.-, v beer, so rushed with the past month. :hat The: tv-th other news-¡ a- •> ar.d venodioals. have had to :er Saturday to be delivered r. or -v. Don"* take offense • ?c:r r or your carrier if your : .j a ¿ay late now and then. .« c.lng everything possible to he rr.a:I. -ill of it. :n your hands wrti local routes as large as .•re :: is impossible to take ad mare car? -i the huge volume of rer.-i r.:w going through Tabor r pos: office promptly. . ' T.:e Tribur.e has never been en r?d :r. the post office an hour late, fe xake every effort to see that • ie: me paper cn the right day TV week. If post office facilities • inadequate to take full care of e newspaper after it is in their _incs. we are sorry and they are' (rrv and we both ask for your. _de.-itar.din? and patience. W« ! ive hoped to put this newspaper 1 cr Thursday as soon as our own 1 Buipment arrives. This would take I ■ burden somewhat off local mail i1 r:ers and at the same time, as- ^ :e you of quick receipt of the j1 wspaper to which you have sub-;1 need. j Our desire has been and always I 1 be to serve you and the ad- i risers :n this area to the best of 5 Br ability. Post war conditions are • eííxiencv limited but we are ] every thing possible to J yo». free Theatre Ticket Luther Campbell was the man name was juggled in last fek'» Tabor City Tribune and the nr. win. came by the office and r *rked up hU free theatre ticket J i the I£1theatre. Mr. Camp- s til >a>- he was tipped off by t pt one that the jumbled up let- t rs RHETLl" LABlt'LME spell J out hU name. _ i At lea^t four other persons also ravelled the puzzle and reported 0 11» the Re»<paper. s \nother ticket will b«? given ° - »eek to the »ubscriber, and it 8 i*t be ihe actual subscriber d io>e name appears below, if he t >he «uoreeds in doping out the b 3U. i he name might be yours, tter untangle it: t HEI.hT KCE.MÉ r, lästern Star I Honor c íawr City chapter number C 1 ': the Order of Eastern Star a ; reiv./ed word from headquar- c r> tr.ur -r s recognized as a Gold a v- chap-.er for the year l'J4G. l¡ s '•> the highest honor paid to t lenapter. Mrs. Roland Baldwin e r ,wwthv matron for the past r f -Veai; and Mrs. J. S. Rogers a tge w. rtnv matron for this year. The A. II. Wrijrht's completed one of the finest homes in the city ir March and have set an example of modern building here. The streamlined seven room structure pictured above is located on I'ireway ' street a few hundred yards beyond the Jessun-Inman Funeral Home! ht re. FWA Now Considering Town Proposals -Ray Mayor Jack McGougan received a letter from O. T. Ray. division en gineer with the Federal Works Agen cy. Bureau of Community Facilities, in Atlanta last week saying that ap plication for public utility expansion in Tabor City were now under con sideration by his bureau. "The applications are now being reviewed and you will be advised as soon as a decision is made by the Bureau." Mr. Ray stated. Tiie applications now in hands of :he FW A are proposals for advance planning for the non-Federal Public Works preparation of plans and j specifications for adequate sewage j ind water systems here. If the ap plications are passed by the FWA, ;he project will have made a start oward success with work on the >lans commencing immediately. This rould not assure fulfillment immed ately of the entire work slated but trould start the ball rolling toward hat end. These applications have previously leen approved by the State Plan ting Board in Raleigh and other täte agencies. Mack Canady Clamps Down )n Distilleries Fbllowing up his recent appoint xent as deputy sheriff in this area, lack Canady captured three liquor tills last Thursday and Friday, iiro-wing a n.jnkey wrench into the , ootleggers' machinery. Thursday afternoon, Will Bullard,, !. R .Wayne and Canady, all deputies | ombined to uncover a large copper | till in Welches Creek township. Four allons of mash were found and three j allons of liquor, all of which was j estroyed. The still was in opera on at the time and no arrests have een made. ■ Canady destroyed another still on j ne same day in Lee's Township, "his was a small whiskey making af- i lir and only two gallons of mash ere found. This was destroyed by 'anady at the scene. Friday Bright Stephens, George¡ anady and Mack Canady captured : nother still, just out of Tabor City | n the Fair Bluff road, in the woods ' cross the road from Wade Strick- j ind's home. About 600 gallons of iash was found and the still showed lidence of having been in operation jcently, although no one was present' t the time it was found. ^ Main Stem Flashes ■- L. \\ instead designed and i ' V a stret her to fit Ernest San- ^ car last week and Sonny San- j who has been confined to his ] B *ith a broken leg, was able to t m the rew stretcher with com-11 B to Atlanta and back, where he | j B the cast removed. He also en ■ the races there, thanks to í B* ^ •H-'.ead's stretcher contrap- A 9B ^B Prince is back on his | Bt again and about town after|( several days in the vet-11 hospital in Fayetteville. Hejl \f) ^ 'n the pink again and 11 B1- -ismess. '1 ►"Putt" Prince, elderly farmer j lere, was peddling some choice hot »eppers and okra this week. Mr. *rince ran into a slight tragedy ast Thursday when a black dog ook a sudden dislike for the old nan and bit him on the leg. Bruis d the leg up considerably and nade a nasty wound. Happened W. F. Cox was talking last week bout a fellow grown up now but k'hom he knew when the subject ras just a lad. Mr. Cox said he aw him one day with his face all tainted up and asked him what ie was doing. "Oh, I'm playing the levil," he said. "And how do you :now what the devil looks like," »Ir. Cox questioned. "Why I saw tis picture on a lye can," came he truthful reply. Legion Discusses War Memorial At Friday Meet Deland Leonard. World War II veteran, was named American Le gion Post IUI representative to the coming meeting of all local organizations at which time some agreement will be reached on a permanent war memorial here at last Frid-- -!-ht's Legion gath ering at the hut. Several local groups, including ¡ the Rotary, Women's Club ar.d Civitan have previously named one man committees to represent their] organization at the committee con ference to be called in the near future. The Legion discussed briefly some of the proposals that have ¡ been mentioned in other civic meetings and special interest was shown in the need for a library. Commander R. B. Mallard pre- : sented the facts on a new vet erans school which will begin here < soon. This will be an agricultural < school with 14 members in each ( class, composed of farmers in the i area. The school will meet four ] hours a week in the communities ] where 14 members are enrolled ' and will be held at night. Farm- ] er veterans are accepted in the class who will continue farming i and attend the school» All those ] enrolling and attending class will t be given $100 for tools, and will < receive $(55 a month if single, $90 i a month of married. This school I will be given to the veteran for ( one year if he served less than J three months in the service. I If he served more than three I months, he will be given one year t plus one month for each month of service. This particular point has been questioned but all the infor mation available seems to point toward this fact. It was also decided at the meet-] ing to have a fish fry at the Le gion Hut within two or three weeks at which time all veterans in the area will be invited to at tend. I All of last year's members of the v local post are urged by Command er Mallard to pay their 1U47 dues 1' as soon as nossible in order that ( they may be sent into the state n department immediately as re- t nuested. Revival Services Begin At Zion Sunday Evening Rev. M. C. Henderson, pastor of the West Burlington Methodist t church, will be the visiting minister 1 at the revival meeting which opens v at the Zion Methodist Church, near £ Ouideway, Sunday. Rev. Henderson * conducted a series of services at 8 Bethel last year. Services will be s held each evening at 7:30 through Friday. ' - On the following week, Rev. Hen lerson will conduct services at the lewly organized Pireway Methodist jr íhurch. I Tallie Cox Home Burns Near Loris ^ The home of Tallie Cox. located near Loris, turned to the ground 3aturday night destroying everything \ in it including a sum of money. i The fire staretd from the stove \ Hue and before anything could be.r lone toward fighün it, a head start!i Boy Scout Finance Drive Now Underway Headed by Shay Smith, chair nan, the annual Boy Scout finance Irive opened here this week with he quota for Tabor City set at >600. Other members of the com nittee who are expected to be ac ive in raising the money are Paul Rogers, Ernest Sanders, Buck Peay, Ed Fonvielle, Scot Parham uid Joe Simon. The quota for Columbus county is $3150 and has been divided among Whiteville, Chadbourn, Fair Bluff, Bolton and Tabor City. This quota has been allocated to the county on the basis of more than 300 Scouts now active. The finance drive will end on September 30 and all contributions are expected to be in the hands of the local committee by that date. During 1U-15, 41i'S boys received Scout and Cub training in this council. And IGOo beys became Scouts; 557 became Cub?. Out of every 12 boys, nine want to be come Scouts but according to na tional figures, five of those lack sufficient opportunity. Money is needed to reach some of these boys. Sessionary Union Holds Meeting The Woman's Missionary Union of the Mount Tabor Bapt.st church met Wednesday afternoon at the church. Highlighting the program for the afternoon was a talk by Thelma Graham, Tabor City col ored resident and student at the Shaw University in Raleigh. In her address before the women of the church she brought out the need for Christian leadership among the colored here and in other parts of the world. She plans to go to Africa as a mission ary upon completing her education. During her training she will assist in missionary work in the state. She is working her 7*y througVj. the university and is receiving fin ancial help through the Baptist training program. Members at tending the meeting of the WMS presented a liberal offering to the foung student during the after loon. Mrs. D. Frank McGougan, presi lent, presided over a business ses ¡ion in which the following offi cers were elected to serve Jthe :oming year: President, Mrs. D. ?rank McGougan: vice president, Urs. A. T. Rogers; secretary, Mrs. 3'. (|. Westmoreland; treasurer) Urs. R. B. Mallard; Young Peo nes Director, Mrs. Reece Bui» oughs; Circle leaders, Mrs. D. J. lughes adn Mrs. B. L. Nesmith, i\; Sunbeam leader, Mrs. Robert Soles and Mrs. C. E. Waiden; Jun-1 or G. A., Mrs. C. E. Home and Irs. C. H. Pinner; Intermediate r. A., Miss Lucille Wright and liss Pucket Waiden; Junior R A., liss Anne Brooks McGougan; the ntermediate R. A. leader has not een named. Funeral Rites Held For B. F. Faircloth Funeral services were held Sun av for Benjamin F. Faircloth. go 11, who died here Friday after three-day illness. Young Faircloth attended the icris Grammar school where he /as in the third grade. Services were held from the ome at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. >tto Edwards officiating. Inter íent followed in the Hardy ceme sry. Surviving besides the parents re two sisters, Mary and Martha inn and four brothers, Elbert, ames, Bill and Thomas, Jr., all f the home. TIP-OF-WEEK This week's one year subscription 0 The Tabor City Tribune goes to lev. J. P. Coble for the Information rhich he gave the newspaper In re ard to the revival meetings to be eld at the Zion Methodist church nd at Pireway. Rev. Coble may ?nd the subscription to anyone he 'ants to for one year or renew his wn subscription for that length of me. Remember, The Tribune wants ews tips. Waste no time in giving lem to the .newspaper. Vernon Jacobs' French Bride bornes "Home" Vernon Jacobs, of the Nakina ection, greeted his wife in White ille last Friday upon her arrival [i Columbus county from France /here the couple was married íonths ago while Mr. Jacobs was 1 the service overseas. Leaf Market Sets Poundage Record; Tobacco Witnesses Greatest Season In History Of Crop In This Area Warehouses Here Will Close Down After Next Week < ! ■ -^--í Despite curtailment in selling time. Tabor City's growing tobacco mar ket smashed another record this week when it passed the ten million pound mark in volume of sales. The previous high In pounds was 9,803.903 In 1945 and this was topped Tuesday. Wednesday saw the market pass ten million for the first time in the history of tobacco marketing I here. I Up to Wednesday night, official ! figures released by Sales Supervisor I Willard G. Cole, showed that 10,017, : 704 pounds had been sold for $5,356, i 529 33. The overall season average stood at $53.47 per hundred pounds. Selling time was cut to three hours Monday, thus reducing the dally pound average to slightly less than. 200,000. This action affected all ■ markets in the flue-cured area. I Tabor City faced another reduction in selling time next week when it I operates for the final five days of the season, but warehousemen win be able to take care of all their local tobacco. Sales will last ap proximately two hours next week. Tabor City market not only kept pace in volume of sales but also was among the leaders In price average during the month of August, accord ing to a report released by the Nortfc Carolina department of agriculture. This report showed that °"ly berton and Fairmont topped the lo cal market In average price and the margin was slight In both these In stances. . The average for all markets operat ing in North Carolina during the month of August was J54 04 Tabor City averaged 60 cents per hundred higher, or $54.73. prospects for reaching eleven lion pounds were diiruned by curtailment in selling time, but local tobacconists were still hopeful of surpassing last year's record by one million pounds. ^ However, It was Se?era?ly that It was necessary to shorteIJ*J* hours of sales in order to insu» an orderly flow of leaf to »he re drying plants. Local School Sets Record C H. Pinner, principal of the Tabor City schools, announced the school has made an attendance rec ord of 1,117- This markedenroll ment and atemlance foi the lirst month of school which is the best SSSÄ.ÄuÄ'S ed since the opening of he new rear but the school is still short jne' fifth Kraue t^nerandone iiffh school teacher m the English md math departments Mr. P-|>j ier said it is hoped the state win illot the school two extra teachers is soon as they are available be ■ause of the good attendance iec >rd. Local Students Enrolling At North Carolina Gwen Hughes, A. C. Edwards, fr., Jimmie Roberts, Howard Har alson and Jack Wats are prepar id to enroll at the University of Morth Carolina when the school rear opens next week. Registration for first £ear stu dents is scheduled for Monday, September 23 and all students are jxpected to be matriculated by Friday, September 27. Carolina is crowded more this fear than at any time before in he 151 year history of the school. Hundreds of veterans have re ;urned and have flooded the uni /ersity village far beyond its us jal capacity. Miss Martha Helen Westmoreland, laughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. West noreland, left Wednesday for W.O. J.N.C.. Greensboro. Miss Westmore and Is a member of the Sophomore »1a.« Woman's Club ¡ Holds First Meet of Year The Woman's Club held the first meeting of the 1946-1947 year at the Mount Tabor Baptist church Thursday evening-. Mrs. J. C. Sin gletary was in charge of the pro gram of which the topic was "Home." Members taking part on the program were Mrs. J. S. Rog ers who spoke on The Joy Of Home; Mrs. S. T. Rogers, The Long Journey Home; Mrs. Doc Bruton, Housekeeping Along The Arctic Circle; Mrs. Mae Young, The Home Of Washington; Mrs Paul Garrel!, Goiden Anniversary and Mrs. William Shelley read "Home" by Edgar Guest. P resident, Mrs. J. C. Singletary iw..icled over a brief business ses sion in which Mrs. J. S. Rogers was elected secretary to the club, following the resignation of Mrs. Firman J. Fowler. Mrs. W. W. Woody was named to meet with other local civic organizations as a committee, to decide on a memor ial for those who died in World War II. Mrs. William Shelley and Mrs. Deland Leonard were ap pointed official delegates to attend the district meeting of the Wom an's club which convenes in Chad bourn October 5th. Hostesses Mrs. R. B. Mallard, Mrs. D. F. McGougan, Mrs. B. L. Nesmith, Jr., and Miss Ann Brooks McGougan served a sweet course tc the thirty members in attend ance. Potato Meeting Slated Tonight In Florence, S. C. Several local persons who have taken an interest in the Carolinas Sweet Potato Council and have at tended the first two meetings of the organization, will be present at the third meeting of the group in Flor ence. S. C., tonight at eight o'clock. B. Alton Garrell, president of the organization, E. W .Fonvielle, Leon Fonvielle, M. C .Sarvis and others plan to attend tonight's meeting at which time several subjects perti nent to the local potato farmers will be discussed. The sweet potato season is here now and many farmers are ready to start digging. Some have already done so although the market here, the largest sweet potato market in the world, has not officially opened to date. Reports from Northern markets J which were received this week list ed prices in New York, Cleveland and elsewhere at around $2.50 to $3.50 a bushel for best grade yams. The Lousiana and Maryland mar kets have been operating for some time now. Rev. Waldo Marings, pastor of the Green Sea Baptist church, is a pa tient at the Baptist hospital in Co lumbia where he will receive treat ment for about three weeks. H. H. Roberts Dies Suddenly in Wilmington -•1* » « Henry Hampton Roberts (Hamp) aged 69, retired business man. died suddenly in Wilmington Thurs day, September 10th after he had waited for sometime in the car for his wife and son to return from a physician's office; he held a brief conversation with them and passed suddenly. Funeral rites were held from the residence Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock with Rev. Winfrey Davis, pastor of the Mount Tabor Bap tist church officiating. Interment was made in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Horace Rob erts, Ruey Hewitt, Frank Boswell, Jimmy Roberts, Jack Hyman and Elwood Dormán. Surviving is his wife, the for mer Miss Grace Phillips; two sons, H. H., Jr., and Wade Roberts; one daughter, Bonnie Faye; two broth ers, John Roberts of Green Sea and Jess Roberts of Bennettsville; two sisters, Miss Rhoda Roberts of j Green Sea and Mrs. H. B. Merell of China Grove. All local businesses closed an j hour early in respect to Mr. Rob erts and his former business af ¡ right in town too. I filiations here. Salvation Army Finance Drive Falling Short R. C. Harrelson, chairman of the Salvation Army finance commit tee in Tabor City, had collected $200 of the $450 local goal up to Thursday of this week. The drive will continue until Oc tober 1, and Mr. Harrelson urges all persons who have not contri buted to the drive to do so as soon as possible and to help put the town over the top in this effort to procure needed funds for the or ganization. Methodists Discuss College Advance Members of the Methodist church here held a meeting Tues day afternoon at three o'clock at which time the Methodist College advance was the feature subject. The Methodists over the state are currently driving for $2,075,000 to j advance the four colleges and the ¡ Duke divinity school which are in-¡¡ stitutions of that denomination in I North Carolina. Tuesday's meeting was the first i in a series of rallies to be held in ! Eastern North Carolina and was ; highlighted by speeches by W. A. McGirt, district lay leader of Wil- ; mington district, and Rev. J. A. Russell, pastor of the Grace Meth- ¡ xlist church in Wilmington and a 1 former district superintendent of 1 ;he New Bern district. Loris American Legion Plans $25,000 Home i Ernest Graham, prominent tail or who spends much of his time in Tabor City, has been appointed chairman of the building commit tee for the Loris American Legion Post, the largest post in a town its size in the United States, and has announced that plans are now going forward toward the proposed building of a $25,000 home for the organization. The new building, if it is car ried through, will be located just out of Loris in the first wooded section on the Green Sea road. It would serve as a meeting place for all persons, a playground for children, kitchens, lobby, sound proof room for broadcasting, and a seating capacity for at least 600 persons are among the long range plans now being considered by the ; wilding committee. More than $2,000 have already ieen collected by the post toward , the building of the home and sev- ' ;ral Legionnaires were canvassing ! establishments in Loris this week n an effort to determine to what extent merchants and townspeople • would pledge funds toward the proposed structure. The Loris post now has over 600 members and is setting its 1947 ?oal at 1,000. It had 604 members iuring the last year. Eldred E. Prince is the new com mander of the post and Dallas L. 1 Mackey is adjutant. Both have 1 jeen active in promoting the post. 1 Therman W. Boyd is treasurer 1 jf the building committee. i
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