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7« Iti&UKe rrrTj vi SVMBER 52 ν c'1 ■ "Tabor City — The Town 'With A City Future" L· TABOE CITY, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23,1952 Sc A COPY; $2:00 A YEAR Hamilton Enters Guilty Plea TROY BENNETT RESIGNS FRON LOCAL TOWN BOARD C. Η. HARRELSON C. Η. Harrelson, local 'Hotr^ Farmer," retired business man and Justice of the Peace, is celebrat ing bis 83rd birthday inniversary today, Wednesday, July 23. Overcoming a recent illness of low blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, Mr. Harrelson "fee::] thai h2 is a yofitag man of 40," and he is back to his field of tall corn and poultry yard. Besides the corn, he grows must ard, turnips, sweet potatoes, peas, okra, watermelons, and a number of garden vegetables o; two acre spread which he setis locally. He also markets chickens and eggs. A native of Marion County, S. C., Mr. Harrelson and his wife moved to Tabor City about 25 years ago, coming from Clarendon, where he owned a general mer chandise store, operated a saw mill, did produce farming and performed Justice of the Peace duties. He made his Justice of the Peace practice a profession here until about six years ago. A member of the Mount Tabor Baptist Church, he attended Sun day School and morning worship service regularly until this sum · mer. Prior to csl-'rlishing resi dence here he \vn> an active mem ber of the Mount oiani Baptist church. Mr. Harrelson married the for mer Mary Jane Cox who died in 1944. Eight children were born to their union of which six survive. They are G. L. Harrelson of Wil mington, S. S. Harrelson of Lom bard, 111., H. P. Harrelson of Cam den, S. C., Mrs. D. M. Currie of route 3, Whiteville, Mrs. V. C. Ward, and Mrs. G. J. Martin of Tabor City. AUTO DEALERS NAME OFFICERS The Colmubus County Automo bile Dealers Association named the new orficers for the coming year at a meeting at the White ville Hotel bst Thursday after noon Noah Braxton was elected presi dent; A. E. Goldfinch, vice presi dent; and Norman Peal, secretary and treasurer. The group discussed the closing of the license bureau in White ville which makes it necessary for persons desiring automob(ile li cense plates to go to Lumberton, Wilmington or order them out of Raleigh. It is understood that jhe assciaticn will make an effort to have a license burea.i reopened in Whiteviile. Sunday School Meet Changed To August The Columbus Baptist Associa tion Group Sunday School meet ings scheduled to be held Sunday afternoon, July 27, have been postponed until August 24 officials announced this week. No meetings will be beld on the 27th. Announcement was made by Charles Leggotte, Superintendent, and Rev. John T. Biddle, Mission ary. MARTHA ANN NESAOTH Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Nesmith, III, are happy to announce the adoption of a daughter Martha Anne, Tuesday, July 22, three months old. Troy C. Bennett, a member of the Tabor City town board for a little more than a year, resigned from the office at d special called meeting of the group at the town hall Saturday. Although giving no reason for resigning, Bennett presumably elected to resign because of the current unrest of local citizenry ι following the request for the res ignation of Police Cheif L .R. Wat- [ son. Just one week pri-T to his resignation, the town board had voted to ask Watson to resign. A protest meeting of townspeo ple last week indicated that the vast majority of people favored the police chief who has been here for more than five years. Watson had originally handed in his resignation when asked to do so but at the request of the citi zens attending the protest gather ing, he withdrew his resignation. Although under no obligation to do so, some persons voiced the opinion that Bennett may have resigned because of his indictment on Ku Klux Klan charges. He is scheduled to appear in the special term of court now in progress and has entered a plea of no contest With Bennett off the town board, a replacement will be left up to the two remaining commissioners, Willard C. Wright and J. M. IvTc Gougan. Should they fail to agree upon an appointee, the Mayor will be permitted to cast a deciding vote. , No appointment lias been made to date but Mayor W. A. Williams said today that one would be nam ed at the next regular meeting ο the board which is scheduled for August 5. With the change of events, little is known of the future status of the police chief. However, it iu as sumed by most people that the board as it will be constituted al ter August 5, will make some de cision regarding the police matter, NEW ARRESTS ABE HADE j I The State Bureau of Investiga tion and Sheriffs Department J cracked down on additional Co lumbus county citizens this week and charged that they had parti cipated in the night riding vio lence which rocked the county last year. The arrests brought the total number facing court this week on Klan charges to 82 with a few other arrests expected. I The latest arrests includes two former Tabor City residents, Ruö- I sell Hammacher, now of Fayette ville, and Ernest Hardee, also now living in Fayetteville. Other persons facing charges in clude J. F. Callahan, Western Prong; Earl More, Western Prong: Faul Nance, Chadbourn; Kelly :°ί??οη' of Smyrna section; E. W. Williamson and Marion Butler -outh Whiteville; and W. h' "Will" Bullard, Coy Nobles, Os car Nobles, Daniel Leary, Mutt Jolly, Paul Barnes, Floyd But er,! Kinchen Britt, and Edward Yates, all of Chadbourii. J JOHN HENRY NEW SHERIFF OF HORRY John Τ. Henry,, businessman and livestock market operator, swept into the Horry county sheriff's office with comparative easy as a result of yesterday's runoof Democratic primary when he op posed Sheriff C. Ernest Sasser. Ending a dynasty in the sherit'. s office of nearly ten years .Henry licked Sasser in all but seven of the county's 57 precincts rolling up 7,294 votes as compared with 3,860 for Sasser. Henry's margin was 3,434, nearly two to one. Sheriff Sasser conceded defeat early Tuesday evening and con gratulated Henry on his victory Henry in turn thanked the people for their confidence and pledged to fill the office to the best of his ability. He will take office on January 1. Henry's election turned th? tables on the first primary results when Sasser was high man in the eight man race. Apparently Henry received the majority of the votes which went to Woodrow Medlm and Tull Floyd in the first pri mary. Also startling was the fact that more people voted in the second primary than voted in the first one. The count showed that 217 more people voted Tuesday than voted on July 8. A total of 11,116 voted in the second primayr. Other officers elected Tuesday were Fred G. Graham, incumbent clerk q{ court, who sneaked by John H. Atkinson, Jr. by only 256 votes. The vote was 5696 for Gra ham to 5440 for Atkinson. Alton D; Lee upset incumbent Ε. B. Johnson for chairman of the county board, winning with α big majority of 1972. Lee had 6,544 votes to Johnson's 4572. % In the only magistrate's race, C. Ii. Grainger defeated Hobson Smart 2,799 to 1378, a margin of 1421. County Barbers Hear W. G. Cole Willard G. Cole, editor ot The News Reporter, will address the first annual ladies' night meeting of the Columbus County Chapter, American Master Barbers and Beauticians Association, to be held Wednesday this evening, in the tcnquet hall of Hotel Whiteville All barbers, whether members of the association or not, have been invited to attend and bring their wives. A full course turkey dinner will be served. The Whiteville editor will be in troduced by LeRoy Stocks, a Whiteville member of the county chapter. The invocaVon will be spoken by Chaplain R;ll Andrews of Chadbourn αηά l ie welcome will be give α by Ε. M. Cox Tabor City. Members cf the association will he asked to remain for a short business session after the addre«^ of the evening. Delegates to the state and na tional conventions of barbers will be chosen. The AMBBA is the profession il organization of barbers and beai - ticians throughout the count y. Chapter 1001 was organized more tl\an a year a^j t-> bring together t.ie barbers of Columbus. As most people Knew a it-ng time ago, anything that Thomas L. Hamilton says is not to be taken as the truth. Just this becamc publicly evi dent Tuesday when the Grand Dragon of the Association of Car olinas Klans changed his plea to guilty of conspiracy to assault in the case of Evergreen Flowers, Chadbourn Negroess, who was brutally mistreated by the hooded hoodlums last year. Hamilton had entered a plea Üihün fü t0 ,consPiracy charges when the special term of court ™ Whiteville Monday with Judge Clawson Williams presid rhan*Ulh^Fday ^ W3S readJr to toldlη η* e' i".d ex-Klan*men told in no uncertain terms of the way Hamilton directed the floir ^ exalted Grand Wizard's position . a few days ag0 ώ a South hoMi^ ®peakin'' Hamilton had boldly stated that "only God ami me know I'm innocent." But TUes Eiiht became convinced. ^ men who were at the meeting when the flogging of the theiresto^°man W3S Planned told dream of building a North Carolina Klan empire*!? "Ρ in smoke at this term of cou ty*?£ Tted ^ *** Ä ty ui the Flowers case, he proved to one and all that he had b^n the guiding hand behind the^Sf Ä rIence·He ä caws Charges «.ree other Accused Klansmen at court told of Hamilton^ unbiUmf TL. Enzor of Chadbo<unauct«i the grand dragon a. hwta2?if? ÄSX.to C0WroI* Klansmen, no £■",.£?„ convicted." he Horace Strickland, of rv—.» when°'he1 0n Hamiitoa them to V the told Xüni) a ff00d job (on the O-ating) or you will have t« <*Λ bick and do it over." ^ Strickland also cal/i *L » Hamilton who sat the ^L',' waj Picked the emim t Ζ and Flowers » Ä attend to Will fhVu ι ^wers went ^ut the back door when the Klans ^eSdbUtthemob t<Ä ^edh^V"*' torn her slip, ?,?!?* wth * and proceeded to shoot up the house. She crawled rtrthe at at i^t-^ äs» fired at ^ fi»w«' malso tes««ed that the membership in KKK had chipped ω to pay Hamilton's fine when he was fined »1000 last year to Μ eral court for sending defamat^v mwsages through the mail X ihe new grand jurv whi/»h . empaneled Monday ronSSSL^ SS^sris •™s~sTsar iact that most people we» Ä numbS^i 5^®^ · äWäV5 'ugged at his tie or collarS y Only infrequently did he show any emotion when witnesses testi fied against him. He stirred mom entarily when Enzor said that Hamilton had told him that he "wanted to make the klan strong enough to control the state politi cally." Solicitor Clifton Moore then asked Enzor ' v/hat State," and En zor said "Well he told us how pretty South Carolina was work ing and how pretty he could mak·; North Carolina work." Solicitor Moore said of the Hamilton case "The outcome of this case upholds che dignity cf the law and should be a warning to any group which seeks to vio late the statutes." State Senator Junius K. Powell, who is assisting the prosecution, had this to say: "It is my judge ment that the end has come to the movement in this State and that Hamilton's admission of violence conspiracy wil! have a deadly ef fect on the Klan everywhere." CHARLES ANDERSON, JR. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Charles Anderson, announce the birth of a son, Charles, Jr., weighing eight pounds and four ounces, Sunday, July 13, Columbus hospital, Whiteville. PROHOTION or LEAF HABT OTTS UNDEBWAY IN TABOB CITT With the opening of the Tab two weeks away, the local Board o: has put into motion one of the gre been in effect here in several yeai Starting last week, C. H. Pin throughout the area encouraging, them to shop in Tabor City and to sell their crops with local ware housemen. He is fortified with a quantity of gift pencils enscribed with "Sell Your Tobacco In Tabor City." He also, along with man;' others, have been busy for several days distributing automobile bumper stickers with the same wording as the pencils. On Friday August 1, two huge motorcades made up of local busi nessmen will tour the entire coun tryside including most parts cf Brunswick and Horry counti · ·, in addition to Columbus, with gayly bedecked cars also inviting farmers to sell and trade in Tabc. City. Arrangements for most of this tobacco market advertising has been handled by a committee com >r City tobacco market less than : Trade and Merchants Association atest tobacco promotions that has s. aer began calling on farmers posed of Joe Coleman, Jack Mc Gougan, Otis Garrell, S. P. Smith, S. T. Rogers and Ben Nesmith IK. New sales supervisor Don Hughes has also helped in arranging the advertising program. The Tabor City tobacco market has had a steady rise in total poundage sold for the past two seasons to keep the market on the upgrade. However, drought and excep tionally hot weather in this area damaged the crop to some extent and the amount of tobacco that will be sold is a matter of specula tion at the moment. Tabor City will again have four warehouses in operation and so far as is known at the present, the same operators will manage them as in past seasons. I^p-sea fishing is line onthe Grand Strand! These lucky anglers from Tabor City display a hwitir iMti'h made last week aboard Mr. S. P. Gardner s 83-foot deep-sea party boat "CaroUna ^ ^barking from J> ereen s Max.,» at Ocean Drive Beach, the party of three hauled in well over I It» j * black-fish. Shown here with their catch are, left to right: Wade Sales, Capt. Gardner Mr. ind Mrs. L G. Fowler. V ereen s Marina, on Highway 17 one mile north of Ocean Drive Β,** . fast becoming the favorite deep-sea fishing headquarters for angling enthusiasts in and irwiiui Γ ι!η>γ t »ty. especially during the currently heavy run of black-fish some 8 to 10 miles of-shore Phi>·.·» i'Uude Ounnagan). Fifth Yam Festival Planned BW INDUSTRY APPLICANTS WILL TAKE APTITUDE TEST BARTER'S Lolumn By W HORACE CARTER Wrier. businessmen like Albert ic.iiii iuidenly ask "when die' v.r.. .r. '> c back tt Tabor City," ;:» get* i tune to write another Hie oi these columns. You see, ·.<, · f. * moved away but have beer. :»r. *. e go so much in recent r.or.-> :r .· it -night appear we "..i.i ret λ left the country. Now -.-.a: - xr. ilarly disturbing when • £■>·"> i . ivertiser like Mr. Schild ν -taten.ent. He might . i · : ie he didn't want to ;j ar.y . :vertising with me, a •Tir.^er 3.: you get involved with sever..:. ws .papers, and the com rrcrtly publishing five •veek.:·.· . .· becomes quite a prob ier. :> be .it all the places you aer. to >? it the same time. ? r been particularly true -· recent weeks with the rock irr.-socV·—· Democratic Prim at" :r. H^rry county and us witn * »:* newspaper? down Mere •'•e ---> e g>; a ?reat deal of P-^-ure ,f elections this /Mr χηνιν,,ν phe Horry county H *:oÜ ir" al»va>'s worth ones ~ λ ^till have a series of saanp speeches by all candid ates '· t-V and the countryside -Γ!?· Ki"' *° r*oar the politicians '/ " ;n >%r>w the process is hard *··"' «^iates because they " ·" !V \Lr% keep on the go with *.s ' 1 ir%s every night. Some *-"··..· -uv two speeches to •Take ;l hard to be in the *D5i .''aness arid not sin 'Z : Atri' i0rne particular can i:anri,° A lR as "sual our Wlirn" JKJnt COme thr«Ugh, inning ? good close ■ *. .. never side wit« a ■ candidate we didn't honestly ■ vas the man. We would ■ , i individual tt at bekeve«! was dishonest or in I *l®bi it it becomes more and 1; with each election I' ·. 'hat t iis a diffi I *· ' real oo«d mar to I People just naturally ■ η aho makes the I η upon them or the ■ triend says should ■ \ nood honest man ■ enough of a show ■ -nough votes to I 4'' /.id or indifferent, ■ ort.ainty that who Β ι win, will surely ■ ' : back we remem ■ . !a Frank Graham fr-r ■ -Μ'>γ ν, in Smith was elected. ■ β pulled for Joe Tally for the ■ · ,tV'' !> ' "^'ntatives F. Ertel ■22v a:i ''•L'ted. We worked ΚΓIor Ed: ι e. Prince for Sen Hwr; county. Frank A. ■ elected. Tuesday in Hor BTh^|V/ariU?,i >ohn Henry to win. ■life fe**00 results aren't in as ■ lo^ but if we were we would put I ney Ernest Sasser. Apiuuae lesis tor ptrisuius wu^ I have made application for em ployment in the proposed shirt and pajama factory that is con sidering Tabor City for a location, ; will get underway here on July I 28. C. D. Brothers, manager of the Lumberton branch of the U. 3. Empltfcment Service announce.'* today. Mr. Brothers was in Tabor C'ty last Friday and discussed the lab or situation in this area with of ficials of the Merchants Associa tion and said thr.t M in ^ ·: ν and tests would be started as soo ι as his office had had time to check the list of applicants against che present files to determine hew many had been tesfed previously. It was believed that about 30 percent had had aptitude tests previously and would not have to be rechecked. More than 400 ladies from the area have made application for jobs in. the new plant. All will be called in for interviews unless records are already available in the Employment Office files. Mr. Brothers stated that all ap plicants would be notified by mail when they would be expected to appear for the sewing tests. Officials of the Merchants Asso - ciation pointed out that there is still no iron clad guarantee that the industry will Ii.cale here. However, the management of the factory has requested that thio apptitude tests be held and that the information he presented him in detail. The results of the survey and the tests are expected to have a big bearing on whether the plant is located here or rot. Meantime, local persons have set into motion the necessary machinery for forming an indust - rial corporation which will even tually build the building for tue plant should full agreement be reached between the two parties. The proposed building would be 2300 square feet and of brick con struction. Local businessmen are also scheduled to meet with another industrial prospect in Charlotte tomorrow (Thursday) for the pur pose of discussing a textile mill here. District Governor Of Rotary To Visit Here Stanley Woodland, of Morehead City, district Governor of Rotary International, will visit the Taboi ι City Club next Monday night. It will be the new governor's first I visit to the local club. I The Tabor City Rotary Club ! voted Monday night to ask the I secVetary to compile a history of I the organization since its charter j ing 15 years ago. Secretary Don Hughes agreed to gather the in formation and preserve it. CATHYE LAVEE DAVIS Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Davis of Dillon, formerly of Tabor City, announce the birth of a daughter, Cathye LaVee, on Monday, July 14. Dillion hospital. She weighed six pounds. BACK FROM EUROPE Mrs. Harriett L. Sikes and son, Lewis, returned yesterday from a several week tour in Europe. . The Fifth Annual Carolinas Yarn Festival will be held in Tabor ί City this year on October 9, 10, land 11, and Oliver Prince will serve as overall festival chairman, it was announced this week. Prince, local businessman cur rently serving as president of the Merchants Association, was nam ed to succesd A. C. Edwards as overall chairman at a meeting of the directors of the association last Thursday. Prince iiVuiiediately named F i vvards as honorary chairman, and lie will assist as much as his heal th will permit. Edwards has had the overall chairmanship for the past two years and was scheduled to handle the job again. However. Jill health ii rec.°nt r months N>.·. made it inadvisable for him to as sume full responsibility for the festival arrangements. It was also announced that di rectors of the merchants associa tion would serve as committee chairman for the various func tions which the festival presents and that each director when as signed a specific duty would be responsible for appointing his own committee. Mrs. B. A. Garrell, who has handled the important booth sell ing committee for the past two years, has again taken over that task and letters to various pros pects will be mailed out this week. It was also announced that a group of farmers from this area along with County Agent Charles D. Raper and Sam Jackson, lo'-al agriculture teachers, are expected to meet with officials of the N. C. State College Extension Service in the immediate future to outline the educational b?ot'i schedule this year. Prominent sweet potato farmers county agents and agriculture officials will man the booths and participate in the lectures this season. The merchants association has also decided to hire a full time girl «secretary to handle corre spondence for the yam festival and other projects during the re maining summer months. 4-H Club Health Winners Named Miss Gayle Wells, Assistant Home Dem. Agent, announces the County Winners in the 4-H Health Improvement Contest as follows: Patricia Stephens, Rt. 1, Claren don, County Health Queen; Jack Boswell, Whiteville, County Heal th King; and Wilma Jewel Goie, Rt. 1, Nakina, was a runner up for County Health Queen. Miss Wells alro states that Pat ricia Stephens and Jack Bosweli will go to State College, Raleigh the week of July 21-26 to compete in the State Health Improvement Contest and to participate in the State Health Pageant and Corona tion of the State King and Queen. Other 4-H members attending the 4-H Club Week are Shirley Norris, Rt. 3, Whiteville who will comoete in the State Dress Revue Contest; Marjorie Ward, Rt. 1, Clarendon; and Macel Cox, Tabor City. LEGION MEETING The Tabor City American Leg ion Post 101 will hold its regular meeting at the Hut he.e Thursday night at 7:45. New officers who were elected at the last meeting will take office Thursday night. Legion members and other vet erans are urged to attend the meeting.