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SEI·'· IN Τ abor CITY t\vjr In ^ last >r City ,!.·[· Uolt 7^c 7< IN THIS ISSUE * Pireway Bridge * Market Extension * School Opening * Highway Post Office TABOR CITY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1950 5c A COPY, $2.00 YEAR ITnümrs Cöl I MN < ΛΚΤΚΙί ^ ■·. livinu i 0* '·. " N , ;y IS the pro? jfjpW* " both sil ,-.;:y tP - Kxory spring and :rc" Λ y .»Ii find ". .ίο citizenr; iooi'-y ·' Λ many tist hei"? ,ach and sac! hscy · itteraoon. - .·.. tually catch . ,μ'.ιλ' ther ... - .any poopl . wo ha ν .■■,··> that w |:a*'- _ ,, ι>ΐμ string ju* y at wo wer July am ijjU'ii ther ,.a. "Υοι i; a::: month. . ν >;.α Λ · · ·<■: wait UUli γ ^ .' 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Ho« n:a-;. a.u you catch thi la>t time you w« nt." they alway Üft "Well. ι·-, now. w. 11. that i: we didn'· a «<· 'veil tin· ;a.> tint». I ·λ· at. ui you oiurht 1« ha.v ?·· . that catch a tVIlov made down th*-t.· two week: »go \v> _u:r.v back. How n.-ir.y ciai thev catch? conws the s-ion. 'Se-vi η*y ··λο ο— oae-i." "Una· λ ϊ rf.i we . · thoy?" "I dot ■ kn λ what kind the; wert.' "Did; · y . · · rhern?" "No. itii'lt: - · ttiern," I alway hav· ■ t .· -hey sure di< catch n:.' "Oh. ■ : ί · see them catc) tr.fTi c : : . · >ee the strini :·ν \ί·.. ·: tiny caught Τ l.t on· - 4 .-a laugh. An; My :« fi.-h like that {··;·· want b< fore we so '-u* i: ·! : -·; rm trip. Why. thou j :· 'Mi'iy . . ' .1 i;>n 111 50 mile That's the km< ut lau^n we get. Tn> >i.i; .. time we think ο :pä· · v.. aught 05 over ii La·-'. V.« :..a;aw and bring tha "P· Rig then comes the bij 'jut*:; Λ'· η was :,tat? When ■pon · . n, break down am • was in 1936 whel v' Boy Scouts cam; ;;i.· ··>·.«: , *he lake a week, "ii ''*··*> >"'· \t· a good catch. 1 a;;<l you want to offe *3at a.- inventive to get u ^0;vr *'··.· '·> fishing now. Tha '··<*> ;.-· a once-in-a-lifetim • ■ *s no fish «low 'n'rf. *·<! they make me fei 1 κ·· τ\νυ ι · ri*s auam. An«: v.. .. rtainly couldn't us "· :·!.-· .. ·· experience as an; I'*,:. , , ^ist Saturday alle. ' ·· Mm«· we have ha«l th ,|a|5'·' 'ru.·, year, we went dowi ■> Sr.. .,··(. village p«>int to catcl 1 tew ;· K'fiift) hue ».-«.»yone els "·" ' as been doing lately am ' :' Vl fi»e it was a sad e.iper i-'irst oil. we caught on ,a'l si ii. looked like a wait o: ή«-»! 1 and one little minnov ' uo inches long. We ii·' ·' '■>■·> $1.00 worth of shrinij thing or another $1.0 L ;' <! minnows we bough K" one we caught, lost ar : >' ό0 worth of fishing geai "* 'i $1.50 worth ol' gas an ■"<'■« ν :»»tight $2.00 worth of I'is a «attic Kivor market on th -'H'-k home. Just to top it of "·' miats and mosquitoes wet ' ί,;)·1 that in slapping at then fl;: my glasses. knocked thei 'πι ten feet of water and ha ' pay a youngster $2.00 to div "wn and retrieve them for m • told, we ended up with foi junds of spanish mackeral ί Leaf Market Sales Still Slow; Belt Gets 3-Day Extension Tin» Urignt Bolt Warehouse As - sociatton st t the Eastern and Old ι Inlt toluKvo market openings back thiee days and tacked the t same number of extra selling days on the Border Belt markets ι at a meeting held in Raleigh last ; Saturday night. ! Light sales in the Border Belt ι had made it a dire necessity that v markets operating here have > .-oine extended selling time be .<■ yond the September 7 proposed . .losing date. The additional sell ing days will do a great deal . *oward clearing up sales here but s Uval warehousemen still believe t that two or three additional days would be necessary to throughly , handle the late crop in the Tabor j City area. The tight to get the extended . st i'.ing time in the Border Belt • was a hotly contested one. Local 1 prison^ at the meeting say that ι it was one ot' the hardest fights [ within the organization in its . history, and that nothing short 1 of fast lobbying kept the Border t Belt from sticking with its ori ginal early closing date. , The Georgia-Florida belt will have two or three extra days of t selling time. The warehousemen made pro i vision to take up some of the , slack in the delayed, openings of the Eastern and Old Belts. The - Eastern Brit was originally > scheduled to start sales on Aug· u.-i 18. this Friday. The new open ing has been set for Monday, , August 21. That will mean the belt will lose only one day of , selling time. The Old Belt will open on September 14. To offset tile s-etting back of their sehedul ' id opening, the Old Belt and Eastern Beit will be allowed to . ss.li one hour longer each day , fur tiie first five davs of the 1·; season. G. G. FOWLER QUALIFIES FOR ; CONVENTION I Garland Fowler, regional di 1 rector of sales for the Franklin ' Lifo Insurance company, has qualified for an all-expenses paid trip to the company's "Billion • Dollar Convention" at either 1 Green briar Hotel. White Sulphur Springs. YV. Va.. or Sun Valley Lodge. Sun Valley, Idaho. The convention will be bhed next * July. Mr. Fowler has also quali fied on all expenses paid trip for » Mrs. Fowler. Mr. Fowler qualified for the >, convent ion by selling $500.000 ■ wurth uf insurance in the past », ;'0 days. He now ranks in the top ! 20 out of 1500 agents with the ' company for sales thus far de spit»' the iact that he has had only three months with which • o Jmild up hi:-, sales as compared with six months for all othei -»gents. Air. Fowler's agency pro ■-.iurtion during this same period was more than $1,000,000. Kot the past 17 years Mr. Fowl t !-r has been active in the insur j ι ace field in Tabor City, and he received the following commend at ion form Vice President of the company. Α. V. Mozingto, re .•eiU ly: "In my forty years experience in the life insurance business I have seen many good new agency production records, but j your record tops them all. It would be an unusually good rec ord if it had been made in a large city like Chicago or New York. Having been made in a small town like Tabor City, it fc" super-good. You truly are a mas ter salesman. I extend to you my heartiest congratulations on this Marvelous record. ι cost of $8.50 or more specifical ly $2.12 cents a pound. Asked the fellow in the market they used a lasso or some thing bo corral those niackeral and. as expected, he very do ightt'ul said "Oh no, they arc •asy to catch, we didn't have a (;>it of trouble catching 120 this ι morning." I think he must have found a place where the ocean went dry and jumped in there and snared them with his hands. Despite predictions to the con trary, warehouses in Tabor City this week were not blocked thro ugh Wednesday. The only day thus far this season that local warehouses have had blocked sales was last Friday when 295, 000 pounds of tobacco was sold. Since that time, sales have been heavier than prior to last Fri day but none have been blocked. The same predicament seems to prevail that has been evident all season long—tobacco farm ers have still not had tobacco ready to sell in any great quant ities. Some farmers still haven't sold any tobacco and many have only sold a few pounds. Sales still were good in so far as prices were concerned. The local market thus far has sold 1,512,500 pounds of tobacco for an all-season average to date of $54.18 per hundred pounds. The average, considering some of the poor quality that has been sold, is considered excellent by tobacconists in this area. Although Tabor City tobacco men were far from satisfied with the amount of tobacco that has been sold here thus far this sea son, they have received some sat isfaction in that Tabor City is far ahead of most one buyer markets in the belt on total poundage sold. Plans are being continued for the big tobacco celebration on September 6, when farmers who sell tobacco on the Tabor City market will be given some $1500 worth of gifts that have been donated for the occasion. The Briarhoppers are slated to be present that day also. The general opinion among warehousemen here this week was that any farmer who had to bacco to sell could rest pretty sure that he could find ware house space here in which to sell it. The exception to this seems to be possibly Friday. However, at this writing, it is believed that all the tobacco that comes into the Tabor City market this week will be sold. The U. S. Department of Agri culture report for last week's tobacco sales follows: Higher average prices were paid for most grades of South Carolina and Borde? North Caro lina flue-cured tobacco during the second week of sales. Accord ing to the United States and North Carolina Departments of Agriculture, quality of offerings was not as good and volume of sales was light but heavier than opening week. Increases in average prices by grades ranged from $1.00 to $7.00 per hundred. Most gains, how ever, were from $1.00 to $3.00. The greatest Increases were for green lugs and primings. Some of these grades averaged from $15.00 to $19.00 above their ad vance loan values. Volume of sales was light the first of the week, but deliveries ι began to increase considerably] during the later part. Most ware·. house floors were full Friday. Heavy sales are expected at all points next week. Gross sales for the week ending August 11 totaled 23,641,693 pounds averag ing $56.84 per hundred to estab lish a new record high weekly average. The average was $1.35* above the previous high average of $55.49 set opening week. Sea son sales were brought to 41,· 113,227 pounds for an average of $56.27. For the same period last year 84,034.042 pounds were sold at an average of $50.66. Increased proportions of low and fair qualities lowered the general quality. The percentage of leaf grades was much greater with a corresponding decrease in primings. Sales were comprised chiefly of fair to fine lugs, low and fair primings, fair cutters, and nondescript. Receipts of the Flue-cured Stabilization Corporation, under I the Government loan program this week, Monday, August 7 through Thursday, August 10 were around 2 per cent of gross sales against a little over 3.5 last week. Season deliveries through Thursday were approximately 2.8 per cent of sales. Persons Asked To Address Mail In Proper Way Local post office officials this week asked that persons mailing letters here please put the full address of the addressee on the letter and" avoid a great deal of confusion. They stated that many letters come into the local office mailed here in town bearing only the person's name and the town of Tabor City. These persons who live on a route should carry that route address. Many letters are constantly floating around from one carrier to another and often fail to find their destination be cause of the improper addressing. G. GARLAND FOWLER An Editorial... Roads-We Have Been Blessed Now you knay or may not like Governor W· Kerr Scott. That's everybody's privilege. But regard less of where your love lies in that respect, every man among you owes a "thank you" to the governor and the North Carolina State Highway Commission. Have you stopped to think what has been done to roads in this community since the present admin istration took over? Have you traveled over the county and just taken a look at the vast highway improvements that have been made? The roads have been improved so drastically that a stranger not having observed these parts during the past three or four years would think he was in some industrial county and not Columbus — the county that was forgotten by road builders for a decade. With the coming of the Scott administration and such members of the highway commission as Wilbur H. Clark and Chairman Dr. Henry Jordan, This county suddenly started getting its share of hard surfaced roads. This marked the first tine in history that Tabor City was not overlooked when the road letting projects came up. During Governor Scott's administration the Fair Bluff road has been paved, so has the fine 16 miles to Pireway, now the Iron Hill road. The Wil liams township school to Beaver dam church road has been hard surfaced. Whiteville, Fair Bluff, Chad bourn and Tabor City have some improved streets as a result of the paving projects. And several other dirt roads are destined to be vastly improved before Mr. Scott steps down in Raleigh. Mr. Scott went to Raleigh on the platf >nr\ of better roads for farmers. He was put into orlice by the farmers and fought all the way by inJustrial centers and big towns. Since he was elected, many persons have charged him with extravagance and gross waste of funds. To us, the truth is Mr. Scott j has spent only where the people authorized him to, spend when they voted for the road bond issue, along with the school bond issue. There's no doubt that the cost of all this con struction has been heavy. It has cost considerable amounts of money. But to the people living on the thousands of miles that have been paved already, it was worth every cent of what has been spent- In our community and county, it seems to us that we should have no kick coming. We have got what politicians of past administrations only promised. Whether you agree with Mr. Scott or not, he has done a great ser vice in Columbus county and in Tabor City. IBB IS FHAL INSTALLMENT ON KD KMX KUH ACTIVITIES The Tribune with this short article expects to ring down the curtain on further publicity re garding the Ku Klux Klan. For four weeks there have been de velopments warranting the at tention of the public regarding this group. Unless the KKK takes action among the citizenry of this community, this newspaper has nothing further to say in their regard. Their actions hence forth will govern whether or not The Tribune has anything else to say. Last week The Tribune receiv ed an open letter from John W. Hardee of route 1, Tabor City. Mr. Hardee's letter was printed exactly as he sent it to us. For that letter we offer our thanks. He was as much at liberty to voice his opinions as we. Ev ery point that Mr. Hardee brought out in his letter ,could be shattered by the Tribune staff if we saw fit to pursue this sub ject longer. We in no way agree with anything which he said. ι But our argument with Mr. ! Hardee through the columns of ! this newspaper might tend to discourage letters to the editor. That we do not wish to do. We openly solicit your opinions on any subject at any time and will carry them word for word pro vided you sign them, as Mr. Hardee did, and provided there is no obscene language or libel ous statements therein. It is the sincere hope of The Tribune that the Ku Klux Klan will sec fit to forget that Tabor City is on the face of the earth and that they will carry on their activities elsewhere. ATTENDS SHOW Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hipps of the Davis Jewelry attended and show in Raleigh during the weekend. Some 1,500 boys and girls from practically every county of the State attended 4-H Club Week. Town Officials Push Pireway Bridge Project; Senator Powell Says All Sections To Benefit Dignitaries Speak At Ceremonies Inaugurating Highway Post Office With a motorcade cscort which included the firetruck, town po licemen and highway patrol car. the inaugural run of the Highway Postoffice was ushered into Ta bor City Monday morning at 11:14. The big bus, starting a daiiy mail service from Fayette villi;, N. C. to Florence, *>. C., is destined to be of tremendous ser vice to this community in the dis tribution of parcel post materials. Accompanying the rolling post office here Monday morning were many state and federal dignitar ies including Congressman F. Eitel Carlyle. Mr. Carlyle spoke briefly to a sizeable audience that turned out to welcome the new service and to inspect its facilities. Mr. Carlyle stated that it was a pleasure to have a hand in the installation of this service and said that it was in line with the best service in the nation. He also pointed out that commensurate with the progress of Tabor City come through this area. He point ed out that the service of the post office department here now would be second to none. Mayor W. A. Williams welcom ed the dignatarios and expressed the appreciation of the town for the installation or the service. Post master S. W. Garrell. Jr.. thanked the officials for their part in making mail service in Tabor City the best that it haf been and said he was happy to bo in a position to better serve the public in their mail distri buton. Other visiting officials at the inaugural included: W. H. Coop er, clerk in charge; Henry W. Rice, operator; W. F. Bailey, captain of the highway patrol of Fayetteville; Julian Metz, ex ecutive-secretary of the Fayette ville Chamber of Commerce: Walter H. Brice, president of the Florence branch of the national postal transportation associa tion; R. C. Wells, postofficc in spector of Florence, S. C.; E. D. Adams, goneral superintendent of postal transportation, Atlanta. Ga.: Eugene Atkinson, assistant general superintendent of postal transportation Washington, D". C.; W. M. Shaw, postmaster of Fayetteville; and R. H. O'Kclley, of Charleston, S. C. COLE SPEAKS TO CIVITANS TABOR CITY, Aug. — Willard G. Cole, editor of The News Reporter of Whiteville, declared here Monday night that demo cracy can be saved if the effort begins at home. The American way of life, he told the Tabor City Civitan Club, will survive only so long as the citizenry remembers the basic teaching of "faith, hope and charity." [ "It is too late for our children I to have the fundamentals of de I mocracy taught by our teachers," j he continued. "That must begin ι at home. We need to prevent the I scars of isms and foreign ideo logies from being made upon the very foundation of democracy— the child." The Whiteville editor asserted that saving demorcacy and pre venting juvenile delinquency were one and the same. He ex plained that democracy has a kinship with the Iifinite and that preventing juvenile delinquency is nothing more than teaching by example a higher concept of j God's laws. I The speaker was presented by Troy Bennett, co-chairman of the I program committee for the meet , ing. Oliver Prince, president, pre sided and Joe Simon read the ι Civitan Creed. WILLARD G. COLE COCNTY SCHOOLS OPEN ADC. 30: LOCAL FACULTY COMPLETE MISS DULCIE GARRELL who ! will represent the Tabor City,1 Civitan Club in the Whiteville. Tobacco Festival queen contest in Whiteville on Friday night j )!* this week. She will be a spe-; rial guest at the coronation ball which will feature the music ofi Shep Fields and His Orchestra. Harrelson Child Hit By Auto Janet Harrelson, 8 year old daugher of A. F. Harrelson of [Clarendon, was hit by a car near the New Tabor Theatre last Thursday night about 8 o'clock. The car driven by Lacy James "fowler was going down highway 701 when the child stepped out η front of the car. Witnesses! aid that there was no way that .Vir. Fowler could have prevent .•d the accident. The child was carried to the Columbus county hospital and treated for minor cuts and bru ises. She was not seriously in jured. j The Columbus County Schools will open on Wednesday. August 30, at 8:30 a. m. W. J. Boger, Jr. superintendent, announced this week. Classified principals reported to work today for two weeks of preparation for the opening. Uns drivers are meeting today ίίικί tomorrow for annual classes. Spurgeon Canady district super visor of driver licenese examiners and a representative of the Safe ty Division of the State depart ment of Motor Vehicles are in Whiteville assisting bus drivers in getting ready for the traJs portation work. Superintendent Boger announc ed that Miss Jessie Irene Baxter of Cleveland County had been employed as one of the two white supervisors for tht· coming term. Another supervisor in the white schools and a Supervisor for the colored schools will be employed if acceptable applicants an lound between now and the school opening. Miss Baxter has had 11 years experience in grammar grade and primary work and attended the University of North Carolina this summer to complete work for her Master's degree and graduate certificate. Principal C. H. Pinner announc ed this morning that the Tabor City School faculty is complete. The list includes: First grade — Mrs. Earle Floyd, Tabor City; Miss Audrey Benson, Evergreen; Miss Roberta McCulloch, Clarkton; Miss Jac queline Mishoe, Loris, S. C. Second Grade — Miss Kate Jones, Elizabethtown; Miss Ann Brooks McGouiran, Tabor City; Mrs. C. H. Pinner, Tabor City; Mrs. C. M. Hutcheson, Winston Salem. Third Grade — Miss Myrtle Bailey, Selma; Mrs. Ο. V. Hicks, Tabor City; Mrs. Laura Floyd Sarvis, Tabor City; Mrs. Mar gurette C. Smith, Tabor City. Fourth Grade — Mrs. Gerldine, (Continued on Page Eight) Represents City τηο proposed Driage ιο span the Waccamaw river in the Pire way section and thereby give residents of this community a shorter and more direct route into Wilmington was the subject of a statement submitted to the Department of the Army by offi cials of the Tabor City govern ment this week. Recently the North Carolina St.-.to Highway and Public Works Commission gave notice that it has made application to the Army for approval of plans to construct the bridge. It is understood that this ap proval will not be given until after noon of August 28, the Army department allotting the POWELL APPROVES Senator J. K. Powell stated tociay that he was very much in favor of the Pireway bridge pro ject and that he was writing a statement to the Department of tho Army in Charleston, S. C., favoring the project. "I cannot imagine anyone not being in favor of the bridge," Mr. Powell stated." It is one of those things that will help every community, I think. R. C. Harrel so.i and 1 worked on a similar piujoct 15 years ago and al though I have had nothing to do Wiih this particular bridge pro ject, I am very much in favor of it." "I have heard of no protest or opposition against the bridge and would like to know if there is any," he said. The Department of the Army is holding plans for the bridge for their approvel un til August 28 at noon to receive an protests that might be made. Unless oposition is submitted to the Army by that date, the bridge is almost a sure thing and will be contracted in the near future. intervening time to receive writ ten statements from interested partise expressing their views in regards to the proposed bridge. Town officials here emphasiz ed that it is highly desirable that all local persons who would like to see this project carried through to send statements to the following address just as soon as possible: Corps of Engin eers, U. S. Army Office of the District Engineer, Charleston S. C. Persons wishing to make a statement and not having access to typewriters and not desiring I to write them by hand, are wel come to seek assistance from the office forces of almost every Tabor City business or call by The Tribune office. The plans show the proposed bridge to be of fixed-span con struction, with an overall length of 320 feet. The span over the river channel will provide a hori zontal navigation opening of 40 feet normal to the channel and vertigal navigation openings of 14 feet and 4.5 feet above nor mal high water surface eleva tions, respectively. Commissioners To Oppose Phone Rate Hike The Board of County Commis sioners last week passed orders committing themselves to fight a rate hike sought by the Caro lina Telephone and Telegraph company, operator of the fran chise in Tabor City and through out the county. A hearing on the company's application for higher rates will be held in Raleigh September 6 at 10 A. M. Many persons in Tabor City were discussing this proposed in crease in telephone services this week and it is expected that ac tion will be taken by local citi zenry along with the county wide movement and that of other towns in the county. Demonstrations of Avery Tractor i Being Held Here Demonstrations are being con ducted this week on the New Avery R. Tractor of the Cox White Truck and Tractor com pany here A. A. White announc ed this morning. D. O. Campbell, sales repre sentative of the B. F. Avrey Tractor company, Louisville. Ky. is conducting the demonstrations with the assistance of Walker Spivey, salesman. The tractors are on display at White Motor Sales and demon strations are being held on vari ous farms. MAY WE HELP YOU WITH YOUR PAVING lPROBLEMS, MISS? v—. / SCOTT!
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