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sacked # freedom of Expression $ freedom of Ascembly # freedom of The Press Φ freedom From Fear 76.7« TABOR CITY • Built by Farmers • Patronized, by Farmers • Devoted to Farmers • Interested in Farmers ff Tabor City — The Town With A City Future" ftTvi. NUMBER 30 TABOR CITY, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1952 5c A COPY; $2:00 A YEAR Γ RED DEVILS RED HOT IN AA LOOP ;· or City's Rod Devils, winners of five consecutive srames in the fast AA conference, meet a| . , Whiteville basketball team in Whiteville tonight. Coach S. W. Caruso's cagers started1 • wo run over all competition in recent engagementss. They are left to right: Sonny Sanders, :: oughs. Jimmy Jernigan. Jimmy Tompkins, Junior Jordan. Maitland Smith, Sam Waiden, - - Jimmy Garrell and Tommy Rogers. AMERICAN LECION POST HERE b MEET AT HUT THURSDAY I V iv.omh- is οι the American :0>* in Tabor Cit> are r_"; : · * attend a regular busi-i , _ at the Hut Thürs-· z ; ,r 7:30. The committee {\:·,s recently appointed to ?.*?·.-a ν the possibilities or re· rsaniz'.ns the Auxiliary are re ueit .i to be present at the tee: ins alio. The:·:· will be a drawing for r- ·?. kpo" piaze of S10.00 at the teev.r.s and in older to win. the t.vT.s name that is drawn ms: be present. S-veiai iten~s of interest tc .... L·».*· vfiS«. aSSOu <il ulc leeting. ΛΥ- will make a serious effort d hold this meeting to just one eCommander W. Horace fer.t-i· .-aid. "We are now hold is n:·-•'•tings twice a month be· I us·- we feel that the group :uld get together that often, •w-ver. we do not want the -•'.:'.2S to run too long and ev • rfort will be made to limit to just one hour." )airy School or Columbus ο Be Held Thursday County Agent Charles D. Rap-; r announced today that a dairy chool for all farmers and others ι irerested in dairy· cattle will be f-'A or. Thursday February 14th c the Countv Agents office, be dräng at 10 A. M. Jlr. Raper says that farmers J Columbus County are turning lore and more to keeping live cock as a means of supplement - their income and maintain soil fertility. This one-day chool is scheduled to give farm rs practical information on air.* cattle problems. Mastitis 'ontrol. Increased Profits thro ?a Good management Practices, j Economical Feeding, Building | ierd Replacements, are some of he subjects which will be dis·: ^ssed. In addition to the sched-; Η prosram. time will be avail ible for a discussion of local lain.· problems. j 1AR JORIE WARD Ό SPEAK AT ROMAN'S CLUB Miss Marjorie Ward of Claren on a state 4-H club winner who Gently attended the National °ovention in Chicago, will be u?st speaker at the general »eeting of the Tabor City Wo ■an's club Thursday evening at o'clock p. m. Miss Oayle Wells, assistant °tne demonstration agent, will ttend with Miss Ward. Mrs. J • Singletarv, program chairman or the evening, announced. Clubwomen are asked to note change in hour for the meet '?· The scheduled hour was set arlier due to a conflict with th£ Potlighter's play in the school uditorium at 8 o'clock. 'unbeam Band Γο Meet The Sunbeam Band of the lount Tabor Baptist church will Net at the church Monday after Pn, February 18, Mrs. Β. 1» mith, in, leader, announced SPOTLIGHTERS TO GIVE PLAY THURSDAY "Outward Bound" a Broadway run play will be presented in the Tabor City School auditorium Thursday evening at 8 o'clock bv the Spotlighters of the high school. Taking leading roles in the pres entation are Harold Jordan, Alice Ann Home. Tommy Rogers. Sar ah Williams, Mar-" .Τς Pinner and Snannon Spivey. ^VIi*s. Katherine Jackson is the director. W". S .C. S. Slates Monthly Meet The Woman's Sociev of Chris tian Service, Saint Paul Method ist church, will meet in the church auditorium Tuesdav eve ning, February 19. at 7:30 Mrs. Doc Bruton. president, announc ed. Mrs. Α. V. Elliott, Jr. will be in charge of the program entitled "Let Courage Rise With Danger" and Mrs. J. L. Winstead will give the devotional. New Life Club Makes Flowers Members of the New Life Home Demonstration club met at the home of Mrs. Lester Watts recently to study flower making. Several corsages were made from old nylon hose. Attending were Mrs. W. H. Ste phens, Mrs. Worth Mills, Mrs. L B. Cox, Mrs. S. P. Fipps, Mrs. A. D. Fipps, Mrs. Alton Fipps, Mrs. Lewis Watts, Mrs. Stewart Huf faker, Mrs. Murray Fowler, Mrs. Rutherford Norris, Mrs. Ο. Ο Watts, Mrs. Harry Stephens Mrs. James Puckett, little Misses Linda Huffaker and Joann Watts. Hma Hews Notes BAPTIST INSTITUTE An Institute will get underway at the First Baptist church on Monday, February 18, and con tinue each evening through Fri day. Class periods will be held from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock and programs will be given each eve ning after classes on the follow ing schedule: Holy Light Holi ness church. Monday; St. Mat thew Methodist church, Tuesday; Nichols Baptist church with Rev E. P. Vereen, pastor, Wednesday; Mount Olive Holiness church, Thursday; Ever Bee Baptist choir of Simthboro, and Rev. H. P. Billips, guest speaker, Friday night. Rev. V. S. Singletary, pastor of the First Baptist church will direct the institute and the in structors will come from Shaw University, Raleigh. W. W. Η. Y. C. CONFERENCE The W. W. Η. Y. C. will meet at the Hickory Grove-church Thursday for a quarterly confer ence, Rev. V. S. Singltary grand president, announced. The con ference will be in session from 10 o'clock a. m. to 10 o'clock p. m. CI VIT AN CLUB PLANS MINSTREL The local Civitan club hoard Bob Hodges, director, outline! plans for the third annual min strel at the weekly supper meet ing of the club at the City Cafe Monday evening. This year's show, to be given in early spring, will feature many changes giving more laughs, Hodges told the cast composed of Civitan members. Di\ H. G. Dameron, president,] presided and Ben Nesmith, III I conducted a quiz program. NEW MARKET OPENS HERE The Belton Ward Grocery store on Fifth Street is now undergo ing renovation to house a new self-service grocery and meat' market, officials of the company ! announced this week. 1 A part of the building will j house a modern meat market op erated by Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Floyd, local residents, and the remainder of the store will be converted into a newly decorat ed grocery under the ownership of Mr. and Mrs. Belton Ward who have been operating in the same location for some time. The store and market are sche duled to open for business Sat urday. Ο. E. S. Chapter Calls Meeting The Tabor City chapter, Order ι of Eastern Star, will meet in the Masonic Hall Monday at 7:30 p. m. for a special program. All members are urged to attend Mrs. Inez H. Rogers, secretary annoucned. Refreshments will be served during the social period. Miss V. Fipps Attends Meeting Miss Virginia Rose Fipps or the Carolina Beauty Shoppe at tended the three day convention of North Carolina Hairdresserr and Cosmetologist Association, Inc. in High Point last week. The convention, in session for the fifth consecutive year, at the Sheraton hotel was highlighted by new hair styles. GRAINGER NAMED MANAGER Levi (Shorty) Grainger, sales manager of Lewis-Peay Motor Company here for the past two years, this week was named gen eral manager of the business. A native of Tabor City, Graing er is well known by townspeople and farmers throughout the ai^a. "I want to invite my friends to come in and see us whenever they have automotive troubles. We guarantee satisfaction and want to know about anything that isn't completely satisfactory with you," Grainger said. Albert Schild, local merchant, was admitted to the Conway hos· Ipital this morning for treatment. One Killed, Another Shot As Homicide Record Is Shattered For a year and a half Colum bus county set a record of envy to the world as not one single case of homicide occurred but the stillness of burst like a bub ble in the early Sunday morning hours. Elizabeth Taylor, a 25 year old Negro woman was killed instant ly about 4:00 A. M. Sunday with a three foot length of firewood. Eddie Clifford McNair, 44, Ne gro, was arrested by Officers Mack Canady and Ε. B. Gaskin following the killing. An hour before this murder. Ernest Strickland, a farmer who lives about three miles from Ta bor City on the old Fair Bluff road, was mysteriously shot in his bed. His wife, Mrs. Gladys Strickland, and their baby dau ghter Hilda, were at home at the time of the shooting. I Strickland was shot in the right hip and the bullet came out his left groin. However, attaches of a Wilmington hospital in which he is presently confined have declared his condition as satisfactory. Sheriff Hus:h Nance said today that he has been unable to ques tion Strickland about the shoot ing because of his condition but that when doctors permit, he will be questioned as to whether the injury was accidental or work of a prowler. Baptist Women Hold Meeting The Woman's Missionary So ciety of the Mount Tabor Bap tist church met in the young adult department of the church on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. C. G. Westmoreland president, presiding. Announcement was made of the state W. M. U. meeting to be held in Durham at the First Bap tist church, March 11-13, and Mrs. Westmoreland reported on the executive meeting of the W. M. U. Mrs. J. A. Mills, study course chairman, urged members to at tend the study course on Mis sions which will be given at the church on February 25. Mrs. C. C. Leggette will lead the discussion. The program "Ministery of Prayer" was given by Mrs. C. C. Leggette and special music was rendered by Shannon Spivey. Frances Ann Westmoreland, Mar garet Jo Jernigan, Mary Jo Pin ner and Sarah Williams, vocal ists, and Mrs. W. W. Woody pianist. WOODMAN TO MEET AT WILMINGTON BY GEORGE W. WALTER National Woodman of The World President, Farrar New berry, of Omaha, Nebraska, will visit Wilmington on March 14th and 15th. He will address Wood man of Southeastern North Caro lina at a Banquet to be held in his honor at 7:45 o'clock on Fri day, March 14. National, head camp officers and members from over the State will be among those to greet him when he ar rives. Λ tour of the historical spots of New Hanover C^ ity is being arranged for Mr. "lNeWberiy dur ing the course of his visit with the idea of selecting an unmark ed historical site for considera tion in so marking by the Socie ty. The Honorable Addison Hew lett, Chairman of the Board of New Hanover County Commis sioners is Chairman of the local committee on arrangements for this tour and the compiling of historical data on unmarked his torical sites that may be offered for marking by the County, city, Historical Societies, organiza tions. or persons who have a tangible interest in the site pro posed. The tour will include the Aza lia gardens in and around Wil mington; Fort Fisher, Carolina and Wrightsville Beaches. Presi dent Newberry inaugurated So ciety's "Fraternity in action pro gram" and created a "National Service Fund" offering financial aid to local woodmen camps all over the nation for conducting Public Recognition Programs furnishing rooms and equipment for local hospitals, Blood Plasma Banks, new United States flags for presentation t ο schools Churches, Boy and Girl Scouts and other Patriotic Organiza tions. (More than 12,000 flags have been presented during the past five years.) Appreciation programs honoring Scoutmasters with compass awards, placing memorial plaques, and erecting Historic Markers, contributing to cancer, Arthritis, High Blood Pressure, and Infantile Paralysis Foundations, and to the Ameri can Red Cdoss, establishing and maintaining of parks and play grounds for children. He also gives an award of a handsome copper honor plaque with receipi ent's name inscribed thereon, and a citation by local camps to those selected individuals in the community who have rendered a useful and conspicuous service. Mr. Newberry was born in Gurden, Ark., July 30, 1887. When he was seven years old the fam ily moved to the county seat town of Arkodelphia, where he attended the Ρ*"™* gradesι of the Arkodelphia Methodist Col· lege now the Henderson State Teachers College. He also obtain ed his B. A. degree there in 1906. Two years later he received his Master of Arts degree in Vand erbilt University. At Vanderbilt he became a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Follow ing his graduation at Vanderbilt, he taught in the Union City Training School at Umon City Tennesses, in his Alma Mater, at Arkadelphia, and for a year was acting professor of history in the University of Arkansas. He com pleted his law studies in the law GREEN SEA P. Τ. Α. ΓΟ GIVE PLAY A play entitled "Old Maids Club" will be given at the Green Sea High School Tuesday, Feb ruary 19, at 8 o'clock p. m. in the school auditorium officials an nounced this week. The Parent Teachers Association is sponsor ing· the presentation. A small admission charge oi 15 and 35 cents will be charged. w. R. BUTLER AT SHELLEY'S W. R. Butler, local man, has accepted a position with Elberl Shelley's Market and Grocery here. Mr. Butler, an experience meal cutter, will be associated with the meat department of the store. DAVIS JEWELERS ! ERECT CLOCK i Davis Jewelers have erected an ! attractive electric clock in front !of their establishment on Fifth I Street here providing another ■ convenience for Tabor City Pa trons. ι I The new clock, made by Wyler, is a double face neon model. offices of Calloway and Huie at Arkodelphia, and was admitted to the bar. After practicing for a short time and serving in the Arkan sas Legislature, he entered field work in Southern Arkansas for the Woodmen of the World Soci ^ty. He was elected Head Consul of the Jurisdiction of Arkansas in 1915, and in 1918 was appoint ed State Manager for Arkansas, and served in that capacity for 17 years. In 1932 he became a di rector of the Woodmen of the World, and in the fall of 1935 removed to Omaha, Nebraska, ! where he served in various de partments, particularly in field . work, and helped to organize ι several nationwide membership campaigns. He has published three books which are: "A Life of Mr. Gar land of Arkansas," "The Life ol I J. C. Root and the Glories oj Perfected Woodcraft," "James Κ ι Jones, the Plumed Knight of Ark 'ansas," and his contributed num ■erous articles to newspapers anc I magazines. DINES DRIVE REPORTED , A total of $968.15 was contri· ! buted to the annual March of Dimes fund by citizens of the Tabor City area S. T. Rogers local chairman, announced today. Rogers expressed apreciation for the contributions here and !said he would like to thank each 1 person wao assisted in making 'the campaign successful. The Tabor City fund has been sent to Dave Neilson, Whiteville to be applied to the Columbus County Polio treasurer. NEW DE SOTO |T0 BE SHOWN AT WHITE'S The new 160-horsepower De Soto Fire Dome 8. a car that sets a new standard in American au tomobiles, will go on display Fri day, February 15. at White's Mo tor Sales De Soto - Plymouth dealer at Tabor City. j Not only is De Soto introduc ing a brand new car to its line, but it is a car with a revolution ary new V-Eight engine, a new note in functional styling, the Air-Vent Hood, and is available with Power Steering, sensational new Fluid-Torque Drive, power brakes and electric window lifts. The doors of the dealership !will open at 7:30, according to A. A. White, and will remain open until every visitor has seen the new cars. The dealership is being special ly decorated to show this new De Soto and special events are plan ned all day long. An attempt will be made to accommodate every visitor who wishes to try out the car's 160-horsepower en gine, power steering, and other features, A. A. White said. "It's not only the finest car that De Soto ever built, it's the finesst car on the market today," he said. "We anticipate a huge , turn-out to see it and we're ready I for them." I Mrs. L. P. Hardwick of Ocean . Drive spent last week here in the home of her brother, John T. Bell, and Mrs. Bell. Tabor City Yams Head For Canning Factory A. W. Lewis, Chadbourn; Β. Α. Garreil, Charles W. Pritchard and A. C. Edwards pose for the photographer just before a carload of Tabor City yams head for the canning factory. This particular carload of yams were the first to be shipped in quanity to the canning industry, most yams handled here going into the retail grocery stores of the nation. Farmers in the area enjoyed their best price in history last year as the city continues to enjoy its title of "Yam Capital Of the World." Photos by Bill Oakley