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VOL
yj Μ MBER 3i)
"Tabor City — The Town With A City Future"
TABOR CITY, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1952
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Floyd Announces Candidacy For House
ft F. t Bill ^ Floyd, present
.... ;man of the Board of County
r^»u:ssioners and a member of
>,0l[y for the past six years.
:o;iaV announced his candidacy
fV'ho State House of Represent
ee ve?·
to now. he is the only aspir
":o: the Democratic nomina*
,"0.. ;·. May 31 primary.
F':.\vii vi he waö announcing
.... ν t1 - · λ full opportunity for
; >·.·:< - « "t of his views regard·
_ slative matters.
Λ : ..; \ν· a Tabor City. Floyd
>w.i to Whiteville in 1036
engaged in the general
buslnesss. Two years
·;,Λ became a partner in the
r Π ■ rk'.ey Agency which en
/ ·. - the ft en?! al insurance
; ·; r. supply business.
Η Veen active ,n the busi
■■'..tieal and civic affairs
ν v. · vi'Ie a:v.i Columbus
a number of years
Λ World War II veteran, he
• t'no Army for 43 months
:· i ·.. :S s parated from the set v
λ · % ite rank of captain. He
hold that rank in the
. Reserves.
7 W.v.teville man is seeking
«eat filled at the 1951
:··.· Homer G. A van'. Sr..
V.r.;rt-vi!le.
IANELL WHITE
NAMED HEAD
OF RAINBOW
"ar>-Ii White· was elected
'•■orhv Advisor of the local
T.-.ar-- !· Order of Rainbow for
a; a meeting held in the
Hall Monday evening.
;>her officers elected were Ro
Simon. Worthy Associate
Asv:sor: Macel Cox. Charity:
··'■■'a Claire Cox, Hope: Patsy
•'•iri Faith: Faye Spivey. Trea
·;·;"Γ Shf?lba Jean Hux. Dri!1
-••ad'-t : Betty Jean Reese. Chap
•i:- Xr-ll Long. Confidential Ob
Monnie Long. Outter Ob
Υ'··γ: Joan Strickland. Pianist:
i'srion Grey Todd. Choir Direct
°·" Ann Horne. Love: Sarah Wil
• i-Ts. Religion: Mable Hodges.
Nvurr·: Dana Soles. Immortali
"V; Darcus Soles. Fidelity: Hilda
?·*■ Wright. Patriotism: and Lo
Long, Service.
^ Protems include Man.' Ellenj
Outter Observer. Maty Jo
P-nn?r pianist.
Nancy Hardee — Choir Di
Mary Lois Garrell —
Barbara Bullock—Religion,
frar.'vs Fowler—Nature, Shirley
Immortality. Susie Wil
Fidelity, Jean Fowler
Patriotism, and Anna Louise
'-'>·< Service. !
Tr.v new officers will be install
η a public program in April
•·Γ" Mat; 3. Young, Mother Ad
•".sor announced.
directors Meeting
All members of the newly-elect·
-O'trd of directors of the Tab
0r r ty Merchants Association
a'f :t u'· <i to attend a meeting at
■*"··'· town hall Thursday after·
r·0 ^- ar ! -.00. . j
•'- SOT. BERNICE Ε. DAVIS ;
Bern ice E. Davis, of the
-Hr r.< Corps, is spending a leave
v-*n his mother. Mrs. Roger
■ Ssrt. Davis hss been in
service about 14 years. He
report to Washington. D. C.j
ΛΡ:"·1 1 for Embassy Duty over
I
and Mrs. Luther Grainger
Miss Vera Graham of Ra
visited friends and rela
tives here during the weekend.
TOWN GETS MOTOR GRADER
Sea'ed atop the new street motor grader which began putting Tabor City's unpavod street:
and alleys in fiist class shape last ween are H. D. Stevens. Jr., street superintendent; and towi
workmen Woodrov; Heath. Van Coleman. John Henry Dugar and Bonnie Brown. The grader is on*
of tlie best of its kind in existance and is expected to be of great value in keeping local streets ir
*ood repair.
EASTERN STAR INSTALLATION
Pictured above are the officers of the Tabor City Chapter, number 240, Order of The Easterr
Star, installed in a public program Thursday evening. On the front row are the mascots, Josephine
Caruso ar.d Darrell Wright.
Second Row. left to right. Mrs. Marie Coli·Dr. Grand Representative who served as Installing
Conductress: Mrs. Reva Butler. District Deputy Grand Matron, Installing Officer for the evening
Mis. Erteile Home. Installing Marshal; Sigmund Butler, District Deputy Grand Patron, the Install
ing Chaplain: Mrs. Dorotha Haxdwick, Installing Organist.
Third Row, Mrs. Alene Long, Adah; Mrs. Mae S. Young. Warder: Mrs. Letha Gore, Conduct
ress; Mrs. Grace Bruton. Associate Conductress; Mrs. Emma W. Smith, Worthy Matron; Milton Η
Wright. Worthy Patron; Mrs. Viola Fowlet. Associate Matx-on; Mrs. Theopbile Frink. Chaplain
Mrs. Ruby Par ham, Flag Bearer; Miss Inez Lewis, Organist.
Fourth Row, Mrs. Inez H. Rogers, Secretary: Mrs. Ida B. James, Treasurer; Mrs. Alma Canady
Sentinel. Μχ-s. Carrie Ward, Flag Bearer; Mrs. Bet.y Faye Averitt, Esther; Mi*s. Doris Dean Gore
Ruth: Mrs. Margaret Soles. Page: Mrs. Gussie Watson. Marshal.
Fifth Row. Mrs. Edith Williams, Electa Protem; and Mrs. Joyce Young, Martha.
Mrs. Clauda Beii King, Electa, and Mrs. Jay G. Soles, Page, not shown in picture.
MKS. EMMA W. SMITJ
WORTHY MATRON C
Mrs. Emma W. Smith and Mil
ton Η. Wright were installed as*
Worthy Matron and Worthy Pat-:
ton respectively of the Tabor'
City Chapter, number 240, Order1
of Eastern Star, in a candlelight!
ceremony held in the Masonic
Hall Thursday evening. Mrs.!
Beulah H. Kelly is the retiring'
Worthy Matron. Mr. Wright serv-1
ed as Worthy Patron for the,'
past two years. j
Other elected officers installed
at the public ceremony were;
Mrs. Viola Fowler. Associate)
Matron; James S. Rogers. Asso·'
coate Patron: Mrs. Let ha Gorej
Conductress; Mrs. Grace Bruton,'
Associate Conductress; Mrs. Inez
H. Rogers, Secretary; and Mrs.'
Ida B. James. Treasurer.
Appointed officeis installed
were Airs. Theopbile Frink. Chap-·
lain: Mrs. Gussie Watson, Mar-1
shal; Miss Inez Lewis. Organist;;
Mrs. Alene Long. Adah; Mrs.
Doris Gore. Ruth; Mrs. Betty
Averitt. Esther; Mrs. Joyce
Young. Martha: Mrs. Clauda Belli
King, Electa: Mrs. Mae S. Young. I
Warder: and Mrs. Alma Canday.:
Sentinel. !
Mrs. Reva Butler. District De
puty Grand Matron, was the In-J
stalling officer. She was assisted (
by Mrs. Estelle Horne. Intalling,
Marshal; Mrs. Marie Collier, In-1
stalling Conductress; Mrs. Dero-j
tha Hardwick, Installing Organ-,
ist; and Sigmund Butler, District(!
Deputy Grand Patron, Install
ing Chaplain.
Hartford Fowler gave the invo
cation for the program which fol-l
1 INSTALLED
>F EASTERN STAR
lowed the preseentation of the
American, Christian and Eastern
Star Flags. Mrs. Margaret Soles
made the welcome address and
A. C. Edwards gave the response.
Following the address of the
retiring Worthy Matron, Mrs.
Kelly's daughter. Mrs. S. W.
Caruso, presented her with the
past Matron's Jewel. Little Dar
rel Wright, son of Milton Wright,
presented him with a past pat
ron's gift, on behalf of the chap
ter.
Mrs. Smith and Mr. Wright
grave acceptance addresses after
which Mrs. Dorotha Hardwick
rendered a vocal solo.
Mrs. Smith recognized the new
protems, flag bearers and pages.
Immediately following installa
tion of officers a program entitl
ed "The Star In The Garden"
was presented by the newly in
stalled Star Points and Mrs. Myr
tle Soles.
Mrs. Smith received a bouquet
of red roses given by the mem
bers of her family "expressing
love" with her brother San
Wright making the presentation
Mrs. Inez H. Rogers presentee
gifts to the installing officers foi
Mrs. Smith.
During the social hour the
hostesses for the evening served
cup cakes, cookies, nuts, minti
and lime ice to about 100 visitors
and members.
LEGION MEETS
THURSDAY
LEGION MEETS
All members of the American
Legion Post 101 in Tabor City
are urged to attend a meeting of
the post at the hut hen? Thurs
day night at 7:00. Plans for thc
baseball season have been made
and committee appointmpnts for
the operating during the season
are expected to be mad^ at this
meeting.
M. C. Pittman. Route 2. Kenly,
has decided to produce hatching
eggs as one of his major farm
enterprises.
Dtfrö υι ιιν.» „ 4 _
Merchants Association Names Directors
One ο: the best attended meet
ings of the Tabor City merchants
association in many years was
held at the school cafeteria here
Monday night as ten directors
were named to direct the group
during the 1952 year.
Named to serve as directors
were S. P. Smith, Dr. H. G. Dam·
oron, Α. C. Edwards. Mrs. Β. Α.
Garreil. S. Τ. Rogers, Ε. W. Fon
vielle, J. P. Dicus, Ben Nesmith
III. Horace Roberts and W. Hör
ace Carter.
Officers for the year are Oliv
er Prince, president; Lewis Gore,
vice president; and A. E. Geld
finch, secretary-treasurer, These
officers were elected and install
ed at a previous meeting and
presided for the first time at the
Monday meeting.
President Prince appointed the
following committee to plan a
big tobacco promotion program
for the local market this year:
S. T. Rogers, Edwin Wright, Joe
Coleman, Β. A. Garrell, and Jack!
McGougan. The group also heard!
Joe Coleman discuss the need for
big-time promotion of the market
and wholesale distribution of the
statistical fact that Tabor City
has led the Border Belt in aver
age price more times in the last
ten years than any other market.
"ΠΝΕΒ CAROLINA" COMMITTEE
OUTLINES PROPOSED PROJECTS
The local "A Finer Carolina" improvement commit
tee, which will compete with other communities in the
Carolina Power and Light company area for $8750 in
prizes, this week presented five projects which will be
the goal for Tabor City this year.
All projects must be completed by October 31 if max
liuum point creun is to De secur
ed in the contest.
All the proposals were outlined
to the combined meeting of civic
clubs at the school cafeteria here
Monday night and a unanimous
vote of approval was give. The
civic clubs also voted to actively
assist in all the projects and
each local club was assigned to
; sponsor various phases of the
program.
The projects along with the
name of the organization which
will sponsor them, is as follows:
Project No. 1—Extensive beaut
ification of school grounds, erec
tion of metal fence to protect
children from traffic hazards,
I hard surfacing of area near gym
jnasium that is currently muddy
and wet, and planting of hun·
5 dreds of azaleas throughout the
{ grounds. This project will be
( sponsored by the Parent Teach
ers Association that is presently
working on it and will be assist
ed bv the Tabor Citv Woman's
Club*
Project No. 2—Completion of
;the St. Paul Methodist Church,
the beginning of construction on
!the $50,000 remodeling enlarging!
project on the Mt. Tabor Baptist
Church, and the building of aj
parsonage by Tabor City Presby
terian church and hiring of first
full time pastor. This project;
will, of course, be in the hands
of the two churches.
Project No. 3—Purchasing of
street motor grader, constant im
provement of non-paved streets,
hard surfacing of at least two
more city streets by October 31
i and procurement of additional
istreet lights in business district.
The street improvement pro
ject is in the hands of the Tabor
City Town Board and any action
must come from them.
Project No. 4—Building of a
city park fully equipped for en
tertainment of small children
with swings, slidding beards,
etc., with picnic facilities for
adults, and also the sponsoring
of summer recreation program
for children with paid supervisor,
a Softball league for adults, and
American Legion Junior baseball
team for youngsters. This pro
ject will be sponsored jointly by
the American Legion Post. The
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the Tabor City Civitan Club.
Project No. 5—Industrial sur
vey on local scale with all such
information to be assembled and
printed in brochure form for ox
tensive distribution to industrial
possibilities. This includes the
encouraging in industry with
aim of proving at least one by
October 31. This project will be
sponsored by the Tabor City Mer
chants Association and Rotaty
club.
Pireway Bridge
Celebration Apr. 24
Approval of highway depart
ment authorities was received
this week ana the long-discussed
Celebration of the Pi re way
bridge will be held at the bridge
on Thursday. April 24 at 2:00,
E. W. Fonvielle, chairman of the
celebration committee, announc
ed today.
The committee is scheduled to
hold a dinner meeting at Mrs.
Todd's here Friday night at 6:30
. with several representatives from
Brunswick county to iron out all
the details of the celebration.
Kenny Jordan, a member of the
committee, will invite the Bruns
wick dignitaries to the Friday
night meeting.
Already the committee has de
cided to serve free soft drinks
at the big celebration to all in
attendance. The Columbus coun
ty band will be sought for the
I program and thousands of bal
loons will be inflated and turned
loose bearing the printing "Wel
come To Tabor City."
Among those being invited to
the celebration are Governor W.
!Kerr Scott. Chairman of the
(Highway Commission, Dr. Henry
I Jordan, W. H. Rogers, chief high
way engineer; Τ. B. Gunner,
highway engineer. Wilburn
Clark, highway commissioner, L.
E. Whitfield, division engineer
from Fayetteville. C. R. Roberts,
|E. L. Green and others.
ι Lewis Gore and Davis Bruton
I were named to a committee to
be in charge of the refreshments:
at the bridge opening.
Willard Wright. Ε. E. Wright
and H. G. Dameron were named j
to the committee to handle the
; details of inflating the welcome
balloons.
"We are holding this celebra-i
tion to show our appreciation to
ι the highway commission for J
making it possible for our Co-!
lumbus county citizens in this
area to travel into Brunswick
county via a much shorter route;
and who have made it possible
for Brunswick county citizens to
travel into our section by the
shorter route," Fonvielle said.
KLAN CASE
TRIAL TODAY
j LUMBERTON — A court test
I of an old State law dusted off as
a weapon against the Ku Klux
Klan began here today in Robe
son County Superior Court.
Solicitor Malcolm B. Seawell,
an old Klan fighter, will prose
cute four men under an 1868
statute which forbids member
ship in secret political societies.
Seawell is using the law on
grounds that Klan circulars and
handbills urge members to use
the ballot box, thus making the
hooded order a secret political
organization which the state con
stitution calls "dangerous."
Violation of the law, attacked
by Klan Imperial Wizard Thomas
L. Hamilton as a "carpetbagger"
statute, is a misdemeanor. ι
The four defendants have de
nied Klan membership. The law
provides that the charge be
dropped if defendants renounce:
ties with the organization and 11 j
of the 16 men rounded up under
Seawell's orders Feb. 27 renoun
ced their Klan ties. Charges!
against another man were
dropped.
The men who were indicted by!
a Robeson Superior Court grand;
jury Monday are Joe Nicholson, I
33, of Lumberton, Joe Byrd, 55, i
of Fairmont, and Pret and Carlj
Stone of Rowland.
If convicted under the law the ι
men face fines up to $200 or im-j
prisonment.
Seawell told the men rounded;
up by officers Feb. 27 that he
was using the law as a "warn-;
ing." "We are not going to toler- i
ate the Klan," he said.
He warned the men that if they j
broke into a person's home for
whipping or flogging a victim.I
"I'll indict and try you for burg-;
lary in the first degree—in this
State that carries the death j
penalty." j
Fifth Annual Carolinas Yam Festival Is Approved
Tabor City's rebounding Mer
chants Association voted unani
mously to sponsor the Carolinas
Yam Festival again in 1952 at a
meeting here Monday night and
for the third time named A. C.
Edwards and Mrs. B. A. Garrell
to head the movement.
Edwards will again be overall
chairman of the Yam Festival
and Mrs. Garrell will head the
all-important booth selling com
mittee. Both have had these jobs
for the past two seasons and re
ceived ovations from the audi
ence Monday when they agreed
jto assume the bnck Vre?"dr.;·; jobs
'again.
ι There had been some specula
tion that the festival might r.ot
be promoted this October but
j when voted upon by secret ballot,
the vote on tiie festival showed
161 ballots in the affirmative to
absolutely none against it.
ι The October event this season
ι will mark the fifth consecutive
season that the celebration hon
oring the sweet notato has been
held in Tabor City. The program
is a two fold one of encouraging
the growth of quality yams and
of entertaining the peoples of the
area.
Annually the program receives
nation wide publicity and at
tracts many thousands of visitors
to Tabor City, that has laid
claim to the title "Yam Capital
Of The World."
PFC. DAVID COX
AT JET SCHOOL
Pfc. David L. Cox son of Mr.
and Mrs. Κ. V. Cox of Route 1
Tabor City, is currently assigned
to Amarillo· Air Forc^ Base. Tex
as, as a iet aircraft mechanics
student, according to a recent
announcement by Colonel Ray H.
Clark. Bas~ Commander.
Amarillo Air Force Base, often
referred to a.-, the Ail Training
Command's "mode! base." is the
only training center in the nation
devoted exclusively to the train
ing of iet fighter and bomber
mechanics.
Pfc. Co:·: was transferred to
Amarillo fro™ Sh^ppard Air
Force Base. Wichita Fall. Texas.
He attended Tabor City high
school.
Reunion Honors
JVimes Tompkins
Λ family reunion was held Sun
day, March 16th. at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Holt honor
ing "Uncle" James Tompkins on
his 83rd birthday anniversary.
About 75 attended the affair
with each family taking a basket
lunch.
Following dinner the group at
tended services at the Ridgefield
chiurch.
Buck Creek Union
To Convene At
Sandy Plain
The Buck Creek Union will
convene at the Sanday Plain
Baptist church on Thursday and
Friday. March 27 and 28 officials
announced. The program is as
follows:
Friday. 10:30 a. m.. Devotional
by Rev. Roland Lee:
Welcome address by the pastor;
Introductory sermon by Rev.
Crance Hardee.
Dinner, 12:30.
Reassemble at 1:30. Roll call of
churches. Topic number 1, Rev.
elations 13-1 discussed by Rev.
S. A. Hatley: topic, number 2,
Revelations 1214, Rev. Anson
Smith, adjournment until night
service.
Friday night at 7:15 p. m. De
votional by Rev. Eugene Evans,
and Sermon by Rev. Burroughs
Carter.
Saturday 10:30 a. m., devotion
al. Brother Davis Gau5;?. Topic,
number 3. Matthew 22-42 "What
think ye of Christ. Whos.? Son Ts
He." by Rev. J. Bob Carter. Topic,
number 4, Revelations 10-14, by
Rev. Otto Edwards.
Dinner, 12 o'clock.
Reassemble. 1 o'clock p. m.
Sermon by Rev. E. D. Oaskirt.
Business and adjunrnment.
Explosion Injuries
W. A. Inman
W. A. Inman sustained corious
injuries Friday by a dynamite ex
plosion on his farm in the Iron
Hill section. He was destroying
roots at the time of the misfor
tune.
Mr. Inman, a patient at Mc
Leod's Infarmary, Florence, is
receiving treatment for wounds
about the face, neck, and head.
His hearing is also imparied at
this time.