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Tabor City tribune All The News - Without Fear Or Favor Volunue Three Number Three Tabor City Tsfarth Carolina-Friday, July 30, 1948 $2.00 altar Tabor City Is Facing Severe Water Shortage Tabor City is facing a critical water shortage unless some thing is done to correct the sit uation. The something—the only thing—that can be done is the drilling of another well and in stallation of additional water lines. The only way {that can be financed is through the issuance of bonds as the regular expenses and payrolls of the town are eating up the funds coming in from usual items like taxes and water rents. Town officials plan calling an election soon on whether or not the people of the town want to issue bonds for improve ment of the water system. It is estimated that $50,000 will be needed. Paul Garrell Opens Grocery Paul Garrell recently opened a grocery market at the corner of Railroad and 8th streets a cross from Garrell's warehouse. The new store carries a com plete line of groceries, candies and soft drinks and has a mod ern meat counter. New Transformers Installed Here Tide Water Pjower Company replaced its three; 150 kva trans formers in Tabor City with 200 kva transformers. The move was part of an over all program the company has started to provide better power service for this area. New regulators are on order now and service will be im proved greatly as soon as they are installed, officials of the company say. Oscar Μ. Hewett Killed In Maine By Falling Tree Oscar M. Hewett oi Tabor City route one was killed last week by a falling tree at Ban gor, Maine, where he was a pulpwood worker. The funeral was held Tues day afternoon at 3 o'clock from the home of a brother, Homer Hewett, with Rev. Gaston Hes ter officiating. Burial was in Coleman Cemetery. Surviving are two brothers, Homer and Ralph, and one sis ter, Mrs. C. D. Harrelson, jr. Conservative estimates are that the additional well and water system would pay for it/jeli from additional water rents. Present water rents run around $1,100 a month and it is believed these will easily reach $1,500 a month if the town haft enough water to furnish everyone wanting it. The capacity of the town's present wells is slightly under 100 gallons per minute. Well drillers who have been contacted offer a guarantee of 200 gallons a minute from any well they drill, which would more than take care of the town's present needs—regular and emergency*. The present pumps are having to run 18 and 20 hours daily to Twelve Columbus Men Join Army And Air Force Twelve applicants from Col umbus county were accepted last week for Army and Air Force service. They were: Whiteville: Mack 1. Todd, Air Force; Charles R. Torrence, Regular Army. Chadbourn: Goodman Grims ley, Army Ground Forces; Gene T. Burns, and William F. Hin <on, Air Force. . Tabor City: Charles E. Ander son, Elbert Strickland, Air Force Jimmy A. Stanley, Burnice Η Duncan, Medical Department. Ground Forces. Hallsboro: William P. Pace, Regular Army. Search for "Typical Yank··" Ends; Winner It From Boston BOSTON.—Accompanied by an artist, George White, an advertis ing man, toured northern New England by automobile for three weeks, seeking a "typical Yankee." Finally, in a remote Maine coastal hamlet, they eame upon an oldster who was mending a lobster pot and who wae Just the man they were looking for. "I suppose you were born and have lived all your life right here in this little village," White ob served. "No," the "typical Yankee" re torted. "1 moved down here from Boston just four months ago." furnish the water necessaiy for normal consumption in Tabor City—some 100,000 gallons daily. On especially hot days, when a lot of water was being used this summer, the pumps were unable to keep up with the de· mand. Last Thursday, July 22, the pumps were turned on at 3 a.m. because the water in the tank was low. At 5 p.m.—.after the pumps had run continuously since 3 a.m.—there was a foot less water in the storage tank than there had been to start wih. This when there wu only normal consumption. There was no fire. The fire truck can pump 500 gallons · of water a minute or almost half the capacity of the 75«· 000 gallon water tank in an hour's time. There was no potato wash· ing. The two local potato houses, during the season, use a total of approximately 35. 000 gallons of water daily washing potatoes. Two more potato houses will be in operation this fall. More water needed. The potato washing season extends from the last of Oc· tober to May. The present pumps and wells are in pitiful shape. The newest well is 12 years old and produces only 40 gal lons of water a minute. The oldest is 20 years old. It is gradually pumping less and less —something under 60 gal lons a minute—and has been pumping sand for more than a year—a sure indication that the well may give away at any time. iJIC «Villi VI Wim· wmw Board of Health has consider· ed the town's water supply in a state of emergency since Ma y, 1947—more than a year. That statement was contained in a. letter of that date from 'Sanitary Engineer W. S. Mc Kimmon of the Board of Health to the town. The Tribune printed that let ter in full February 13 of this year. McKimmon said in part: , "My investigation of the pres ent two wells brought that the wells originally tested at 60 and 40 gallons respectively. This capacity has a tendency to de crease over a period of time which means that the two wells in all probability fail to test within several gallons of the or iginal capacities. "The town of Tabor City probably has near 2,500 people at the present time and is con tinuing to grow. The present water supply even at full cap acity is inadequate to take care of the town in all emergencies and if the town was completely watered and sewered would not furnish enough water in any event. "In conjunction with the aboreu the present 69-gmllon well is pumping sand indicat ing that the screen has deter· . iorated to such an extent that i is beginning to give away in places allowing the sand to pass through. ι When a screen gets in this con dition, it is liable to give away overnight which would make the well useless to the town until a new screen could be in stalled. "If this styould happen it would mean tnat the town would have to depend on the 40 g.p.m. well for its entire water sup ply which would phrce it in a very precarious condition. Due to the above conditions, this de partment considers the town in a state of emergency as to its water supply and urges that im mediate steps be taken to rem edy the situation. "It is recommended that the town immediately install a new well and when this well is J>ut into operation that the town in stall a new screen on the pres ent 60 g.p.m. well." VISIT WARDS Mr. and Mrs. Leo Thompkins and daughter, Frances Keith, of Crescent Beach, .were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Ward. Coleman To Operate Ν e wfcFar mer s-Ca r olina Roscoe C. Coleman, operator of tobacco warehouses in three! North Carolina towns, will again manage the New Farmers and Carolina Warehouses in Tabor City this year. Coleman, who also runs warehouses in Mebane and Boone, will have as his assist ant manager Mrs. Harriet L. Sikes and associates will include his two sons, R. C. Coleman jr and Joe Coleman, and his bro ther, O. L. Coleman, who last year was one of the operators of the Dixie Warehouse in Fair Bluff. Harry Nunn will be back as auctioneer and C. V. Edwards will serve as head bookkeeper. The New Farmers and Caro lina Warehouses has a combin ed floor space of approximately 100,000 square feet and are i deally situated in the center of town, the New Farmers being nn 4th street and the Carolina between 4th and 5tn. The two warehouses and their operators have always had a reputation for managing to get the top dollar for the tobacco grower and they declare that this year will be no exception. Operating under the slogan, "We Have Your Interests at Heart", the operators have pledg ed themselves to obtaining the best price and rendering the best ROSCOE C. COLEMAN service possible to their farmei customers. In addition to other improve ments at the warehouses, the New Farmers and Carolina hav< recently installed electric watei coolers for the benefit of theii patrons. Iabor Awaits ggitixtff Sales ^°rv Η ■ ΛΛ'.'λ mark Sai« ■' Ρ waiting ex tor the op : . 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Initial lie·. >e..iur>i g . ., irut picture ι the >iruai;or.. lie says, and iiien the ··:' comes after t - - the price -e :»"..§··.■ ■■·· changed con t rabl>. irick figt tl at the state's : "■· - · iviU produce it J4 pc·. .er.· iess tobacco ' - ' tan 1947. Last c".,·. Ρ■ mounted to Ρ >·· Is, while the est.iiiates place this vear's JP at a. iand 682.050.000 ftuad\i: predict ns of a 34 . £ΐη: · si in prices hold •-e. g:.<v.,-.x a. * ..aiiv will see •nc.'ea.-· η · cash income :n ^aacto uesplte the 27.52 ·'· ·' acreage which r-i 'fi'o e'tr · 'his year. Mile Imagination Leads Way to Missing Mai! Sack ENTERPRISE. Κ AS — A friend * '.β ιψ v..-.'u v-.e Elution to Keith Ka> P.viu =. rinUri*ssing prob -· pipe:' n\ which they were • r.g hwrr.e some letters from the • "toft r vtis blown away by a Mt c Aind Aaicr ü.e letters was a S100 gov Γ · **·=·' : ' . their ex-soldier ft- ·Γλτ OtviUe. »5 ui.j»:*: ι .de worried sick |v ·· s ieärv.':. fatiefl to find the lr ;«n; «CK I v- w:> Postmaster C. Κ ji· j- H« j.tifested loosinj II t Life? at tne same spot. T'r.s . λΑ whippec I;5 >^«3 :3 -- flight follov/ec *·' j vouths. to rail 1 »i tri « t": ct a ..-i. tfcs mail sack iu< " ··«£ Li; ^'Abua νΐϋΐ ιυύϋ •u; a:tic·. .Wuhck und child 1 "· i ι KiuftceS, ΰΠΙ ν1'·' j· Ku: -.r visiting Mrs μαιν:.' Ml uiid Mfi iu- ttv:a ι .. ·ει t,.i u shor • »»UC Rotarians To Eat At Beach Next Monday Night Tabor City Rotarians, meet ing at the City Cafe Monday night heard President Al Will liams outline the seriousness of the water supply situation in Tabor City. Mayor Williams told that a bond election will be called soon for the purpose of obtaining funds to improve the water system. The club voted to eat at Crescent Beach next Monday night. ligaret Butts Prove That Times Are Good Salesman Judges Nation's Economy by Stubs LEXINGTON, ILL. — You don't have to look any farther than the nearest gutter to a«e that times are as good as they were in th· late 1920 s, a tobacco salesman declared. Morris (Casey) Jones, 44, said he had made a study of the public's smoking habits over the last 25 years. "You can pretty much judge the times by the length of cigaret butts people throw away," he said. He said the average length of the butt today was about one and one half inches long. "That's every bit as long as the boom days of the 20's," Jones said, During the depression years, the streets were pretty well clear of cigaret butts, he said. "A lot of smokers saved their cigaret butts and rolled them into new clgarets," he said, "Some even smoked them in their pipes. "A great many people who were rolling their own during the lean years now have cigars in their vest pockets." Although he makes his living sell ing tobacco. Jones said he disap proved cf women smokers. Cigaret l 'is with lipstick on them are much lunger that the others, he said, "probably because someone else paid for them." AT CRESCENT BEACH Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Thompson are visiting Miss Ethel Boone and other relatives at Crescent Beach. The Boone are from Greenville, S. C. VISIT GORDONS Rev. and Mrs. Billie Gordon of Wake Forest visited Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gordon last week. AT BEACH Mr. and Mrs. Alton Garrell and children and Miss Genola Woodard are spending this week at the Bell cottage at Crescent Beach. PATROLMAN UBGES AUTO INSPECTION Highway Patrolman W. S. Al len suggested this week that motorists of the Tabor City area have their automobiles inspect ed and approved by the state as early as possible and avoid last minute rushes as deadlines for examination fall due. Allen declared that patrolmen have received instructions to en force laws against automobiles not having approved stickers once the deadlines are passed. Inspector! deadlines include: August 31—All models up to and including 1936, plus 1947 and 1948 models. September 31—Models of 1937 and 1947. October 31—Models of 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1945. November 30—Models of 1940, and 1942. December 31—Models of 1941 and 1949. WEED BRINGS HIGH PRICES IN GEORGIA Average prices by grades on Georgia-Florida flue-cured to bacco markets s t ir engthened Wednesday in a majority of in stances over Tuesday's levels. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the greatest gains were for some lower quality grades and ranged up to $6 per hundred. .A fairly large number of grades picked up $2 and $3. The grades that were affected by sharpest increases were principally the ones that had suffered major losses the previous day. Better qualities were generally steady to slightly higher. Nondescript lost around 50 cents per hundred. While the practical top remained around $62, some markets re ported that buyers were moving up to $64 on best grades. ATTEND FUNERAL Among the out-of-town people who attended the funeral of Mrs. Cricket Butler last week were Mrs. Fred Townsend and Mrs. Frank Manahan of Delaware, Dr. Jack Richardson and Dr. and Mrs. George Richardson of Flo rence, Mrs. Vick Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Black of Chapel Hill, Mrs. Joe Butler and child ren of Bladenboro. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Smith and children of Bethel, and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wynne of Bethel. Civitans Meet At Little River; Eat Fish, Shrimp Tabor City Civitans ate fish and shrimp at their bi-weekly meeting Monday night at Mrs. Piatt's at Little River. About 21 members, attended and were entertained by Civitan Happy Sam Fowler. Navy Fireproofs Airplanes With New Hydrolubes Non-inflammable Finds in Hydraulic Systems Check Causes sf Fires WASHINGTON.—Development of the first successful fireproof hy draulic fluid for aircraft use was announced by scientists of the naval research laboratory after four years' study and grueling servloe testing. They expect it not only to elim nate one ef the most fruitful sources of crash and in-flight fires but possibly to serve also as a val uable extinguishing agent for blazes starting from other causes. Paradoxically, the new agent— specificlally designed to replace petroleum-base fluids now em ployed in airplane hydvaulie sys tems—already has been adopted en thusiastically by other industries on a scale vastly exceeding even its maximum potential use in avffc· tion. Foundries, machine shops and other plants utiliaäbig hydraulically operated equipment near molten metal, open fires or other ignition sources, navy sources said, have been quick to see the advantage of the new fluid, at least three grades of which are now being marketed commercially for various uses. Have Water Base These fluids are called "hydro lubes" by the naval researchers who compounded them, because of their water base. Their noninflam-1 inability, the experts say, simply stems from "the common knowl edge that water will not burn." In addition to this basio ingre dient, the new hydraulic fluid con tains ethylene glycol to keep it from freezing; a brand-new "polymer" or thickening compound-viscosity stabilizer; lubricating agents, cor rosion inhibitors and "an organic chemical to make soluble all the in gredients." The antifreeze agent is the same as that used in many automobile radiators and the new aircraft hydraulic fluid is proof against freezing to 50 degrees be low zero Fahrenheit. Approved for Um The navy announcement said that the hydrolube fluids had been ap proved for future use in its aircraft and "are currently being tested by the civil aeronautics administration for commercial airline use" while aditional tests to improve them still further ara being conducted on an accelerated-service basis at the Naval Research laboratory in an airplane mock-up provided with a complete hydraulic system. It pointed out that use of the fire proof fluid in landing gear retrac tion, flap control and brake as semblies on military aircraft would increase their combat efficiency by preventing fires resulting from the rupture of high-pressure lines by enemy fire. A. S. Koch, assistant civil areo· nauties administrator in charge ol the aviation safety division, said exhaustive tests of new fluids would be iftade by the C. A. A. at Okla homa City in a standard airlin« Douglas DC-4. Mandatory use ol them by the industry has not yei been ordered, Koch addid. VISITING HERE Miss Mardell Campbell o! Chattannooga, Tenn., 'is spend ing several days this week witf her brother, Lawrence Campbel jr and family. Garrell Warehouses Set For Sales Season Garrell's warehouses in Tabor City, operated by three tobac conists with a lifetime of ex perience in the tobacco business, are in readiness for the open ing of the Border Belt Tuesday and the operators have indicated their aim to get the highest mar ket prices for their farmer cus tomers. B. A. Garrell, prominent Tabox City tobacco produce man, is pro prietor of the houses along with Ρ D. McMichael and D. Η Huffines of Reidsville. The owners will operate th( houses themselves, with Huf f»nes as auctioneer. J E. Bell will again serve ai office manager for the two ware houses. Mrs. Janie Bell will b< bookkeeper and clerks will in . ciudfc MiS£ Elsie Elliott, Mrs Marvin Joyner, Mrs. Doris Gar fell, Mrs. Betty Faye Averitl : James Garrell* and Winstoi Shelley. O. D Garrell, M. G. Fowlei Hubert Νorris, E. P. Murreli am Μ A. Byrd will be floor man - agers and weighmen will be C 1 £ Springs and Mace Jordan. All the staff is experienced ii . tobacco warehouse operatior t thereby offering the growers th «βπιίηο a\;ailaV»l< Β. Α. GARRELL 1 The warehouses, which have a • total of 100,000 square feet of } floor space, are well lighted and have high ceilings built pur s' posely to make the houses . cooler. SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN TABOR CITY - ·
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