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Τ HE ONLY PULITZER PRIZE VINNING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE VNiTED STATE More Than 10,000 People Read The Tribune Every Week lAe 7< ^?*U6uhc People Shop From The Pages Of Their Hometown newspaper VOLUME XI. NUMBER 43 "Tabor City — The Tote*» With Λ City Future" I AMOR CITY. NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY. JULY 3.1957 FIRE DESTROYS CAR — This 19>2 Buick was demolished by fire Sunday morning when it collided with another car on the Fair Bluff Road, about four mjles from Tiibor City, n ut the «as tank exploded. The driver, Letha tola Haney, and two children escaped from the burning car. Sunday Horn Wreck Injures Four Two youngsters narrowly ts-'Haney. raped death SunU«y morntr.gj 14 abuut 10 o'clock when the tar in which they were riding over turned and burned about four miles from here on the Fail Bluff Road. 10. I Hatiey of Koute 2, Tabor City. The Buick overturned a-vll and Rusella Haney burned when the gas tank ex-j| ploded. The car wa.: a total lo.;s it wa> Two persons, ike Williams and ι According t·» reports .. — , Florella Flowers, ooth Negr «es the quick action of an unident i-| were treated for head injurie.. fiod passerby that was credi'e.l, Highway Patrolman Jesse R with saving the lives of the two Barker said the wreck occur*·»;«!children. As the cai overturned: Treated at the l.oris Commun- when the 1940 Ford, driven by the doors were flung open per ty Hospital for bum» about the, Williams, collided with a 1902 mitting thi? passeioy to rescu· ~ " Veronica! Buick «lriven by Letha Fol:>the two youngsters. /yt and legs wert S. C. Tax Commission Agents Seize 140 Cases Of Beer, ι Whiskey On Sunday Morning Agents of the Suuth Carolir.a Bovertige Tax Commission swooped down on Horry county Sunday morning and quickl) snared six businesses and charg ed them with illegally selling beer on Sunday. fFour of the places were in the Horis vicinity and a total oi 140 cases of beer was confiscated along with 30 pints of assorted whiskey. Persons making purch ases reveale I that in most in stances there was no particular reluctance on the part of the beer operators to moke the sa'es even though State .aws speciii cally make it illegal to sell toir on Sunday. Among thope raided Sunday morning were A. J. Sugga. Jay's Place route 4, LorU, 28 cases of beer and 30 pints of assorted whiskey; S. D. Sum*. Sucks Grill, route 4. Loris. six rases of beer; Lacy (Shorty) Graham. Shorty's Place, route 1, Loris, 13 cases of beer; Clyde Soles. Clyde's Motel, re town, toute 4, Loris, 26 * ases of beer; Thomas H. Da vis, Mary Λ Mac's Flaee. Myrtle Beach. 54 cases ot beer; and Arnold Ganer, Surf side Restaurant. Surfside Beach. 13 rases of beer. A case was also made against Roy Harrelson, operator of the; Ocean Drive Pavilkn, for oper-! ating an automatic pay-off ira-| i'ine in violation State law*, •te operation of slot machines, and all other gambling devices' is illegal in South Carolina ever» though many have federal He-ί enses. Tax Commission spokesnen said that all the confiscated beer and whiskey would be advei vis ed and sold in accordance with provisions of the law. it They also stated that no crlm "Tial charges woulo be brought against those individuals caught in the raids but that the cases would be brought before the Tax Commission where the question of license rispension would be settled. MERCHANTS MEETING , All Tabor City Merchants "are urged to attend · rally at the Tabor City school agricul tural building Monday night. July 8. at 8:18. Plana for various promotion» will be dis cussed at length at the meeting and director· of the organisa tion hope for 100 per cent at tendance. Several items of bo at so as are argent adri need t« ΙμιπΜ^ιΙ Mnkm 1 I Pinner Terminales 19th Year As Principal Oi Local School C. Η. Pinner, principal of tae Tabor City Schools tor the past 19 years, completec the school term on Monday. In a statement leleascd yest erday, he praised local parents and members of his faculty dur ing the years ho lias served in Tabor City. The following is a copy of t^e statement released b> the school principal. "Today is July 1. and my work is over except for a minor detail or two. For the Hist time in 19 years. It is quite a relief to feel that the continuous demand» and responsibilities are over. This 1 have been looking for ward to for the past two or thre· years. So, now. 1 want to take thlf opportunity to express my many thanks and deepest appreciation to all the fine people of Tabor City and surrounding school area. Since completing college In 1912 I served 4 yrs. aa Supt. if Wake Forest City Schools, 2 yn as principal of Wentworth Con solidated School. 7 >rs. as Supt of the Mt. Olive City Schools and 19 years as principal of the Tabor City School. 32 years In all. I have not worked with a finer «roup of parents and chil dren In my experience that arr to be found In Tabor City. My family and I love dearly the people and children of our school community. It haa given me much joy to watth the boy> and girls develop through the years from the little first grad-j (Continued on Page 4) 1 Rogers Heads Rotary Clnb Rembert R. Rogeis was inaug urated as president of the Tab r City Rotary Club at it· regular Monday night meeting here suc ceeding Don Hughes. Other new officers inaugurated were W. Horace Carter, vicc president; 6illy Dorman. treasurer; and Richard Gordon, secretary. President Rogers named the lirectors of the four depart· •ments of Rotary. They are AI Williams, club service; W. W Woody, international service Randall Burleson, vocation·) service; and Carter, community service. He also presented each Rotui - ian with a gift ballpoint pen and asked (hat Oiey tffle it during the year and to remember each time they (fid um It to think of Rot ary. its principle· and its motto of "Service Above Self." HARRELSON DEATHS Triple Drowning At Beach Greatest Tragedy In Years AN EDITORIAL .... TRAGEDY UNSURPASSED The town ami countryside mourned. A shroud of gloom hung heavy on the hearts of the people. There were few smiles and as though a lliglui* Power were restless, storms brewed, the win J whistled and thunder and lightening rumbled and cracked. Dr. R. C. Harrelson, Jr.. and his two sons* sudden catastrophic death blotted out the normal, almost frivolous, worldly worries. Not in the modern recollection of the popu lace, had such a triple disaster been brought so closely home to the people in and around Tabor City. Everywhere there was remorse, grief and a feeling of disbelief that it had really happened. Perhaps it is not our lot to question why, but there could be no doubt that such a mark clouded the thoughts of man. Here was a man in a moment of relaxation being the understanding, sympathetic parent ex pected of all of us. A man who, for his children's sake, was taking them swimming for just a few moments before the noonday meal. In this happy, gleeful excitement his two sons, perhaps the individuals closest to his heart and the subject of a large portion of his love, floundered on the brink of eternity. With all his fatherly instinct to protect he struggled in a losing cause to snatch his boys from this oceanic monster that was intent upon swallowing them up. For a brief moment it ap peared he had won the battle and perhaps one son and his own life could have been spared. Bui he could not bear to see the other to. perish. Trying desperately to save them all, he lost all. And his troubles in this world were over. A man dedicated to saving lives had lost his while fighting the hardest he knew how in this unfamiliar type of lifesaving. In the prime of life, in the very midst of his professional career, a young doctor who constant ly sacrificed personal pleasures to adminiter to the physical plights of mankind, can do so no more. No longer can he leave the comforts of home to bring comfort to others. His memory will linger in the hearts of men. The people will long remember what he did here and even in passing his life and work will remain as a light upon a hill, a symbol, a goal for other». Life — just a fleeting moment. Man seel::» vainly to hold it in his grasp but it always slips away; sometimes quietly, sometimes violently, but alway reluctantly. FF A TEAM RETURNS fROM STATE CONVENTION — These kre members of the Tabor City F. F. A. chapter who went to Raleigh last week * and came home with a hatful of money and awards. Front row, from left. Melvin Nobles, H. C. Lane. Douglas Spivey. Second row, Fred Lay, teacher: Ronald Wray, Larry Williams, Mitchell Ward and Sam Jackson, teacher They Brought Home The Bacon From The Annual F. F. A. Meet i^/ναι r. r. r\. iiieniucrB rc turned from Raleigh last week with a pocki·tful of money ana a host of honors. The occasion w*s the annual state meeting of F. F. A. chapt ers and it was norm«»l for Tabir City's F F. A. chapter to wi * more than its share of awards IV« place state award In crop improvements went to Tab or City. The local youths ha ' carller Won district honors and the right to compete in staU vents Their prize was $29 f>r district honors and an additional $100 for topping the rast of the clubs in the state. Basis for Um honor was having planted mora »eres, pcrccnxage-wise, Ol ceru fied wed than any other club in North Carolina. Other awards included fou.-th place in the state ihop contest. [Earlier the boys had won feder ation honor* in competition witl clubs from the .lour counties Columbus, Bladen, Brunswick and New Hanovc·. making up the federation. Cash prize was $15. They won the same ho.jof in 1936 but placed inly ninth in the state. Second plai e in parliamentary procedure was awi,tried to the youths in federation competition thia year. Member« of this teim ware Larry William*. Douglas Spivey and Melvm Nobles. Another district fust place wa • v. arded the F. Γ A club for il cooperative activities. This ir ί luded a cash awaid of $75 fc being outstanding in work wit not only F. F. A. but Youm Farmer's Club and the Vetera«· farmer training program. Honors aren't new to the Iocs youths. They have been winnin for a long time and it's undei standable. F. T. A. supervUoi Sam Jackson and Fred Lay, J are constantly on the alert I give an Interested member mi opportunity to furtner his know ledge and participation in tl (Continued on Page 4) Dr Rose Crancc Harretson, !Jr., 3b. and his two sons. Sterl ing 8. and Whitney. 5, of Tabor I City, drowned tofceiner at Myt jtic· Beat.-It about noon last Thurs Iday . The triple drowning was the ! worst single tragedj in tins arc» (in modern times ana jolted the .citizenry over a wioe area who heard the news with disbelief Dr HarroNon and the youny est son, Whitney, were pull"d troin the water in a matter of minutes after the accident a'.d jextensivc effort was made to re vive them to no avail. The body of Sterling has not been recov ered although searchers combed 'the beach area for several days in a vain attempt to find him Witnesses of the urowning re llate the pitiful story of the fath !er. who could not swim, strug gling to rescue the sons fron, a deep hole on the very edge of j the beach in which they stepp«* J and could not rttifat. Dr. Harrelson. tl.e two sons land his daughter Dianne were I taking a 'juick swim be'erp I lunch Dianne led the running youngsters to the beach with Sterling. Whitney and the doct or in that order following. Di ianne was first to step in the deep I hole on the low tide only some i20 to 30 feet from the edge of I the water. She went down but II by being able to swim a lit'le I was able to make her way out ι I of the hole while hollering to |the boys not to come any furth-j Ier· ' Either they didn't hear »nej warning or (ailed to heed and both came on in ine hole. Dr. Harrelson quickly noted tl^eir plight and went to their rescue. Witnesses say thai he at one time had Sterling in his arms but saw Whitney going down again and turned tu get him al so. In the confusion, all three drowned. The drowning occurred a short distance from the Ocean Forest Hotel swimming area and' a life guard from there was quickly summoned. He succeed ed in recovering tht body of Dr. Harrelson in just a lew minutes and another swimmer retrieve! Whitney. Extensive effort to re vive them through artificial res piration failed. Hundreds of persons then combed the water for the body of Sterling, but he was not found. Λη Air Force helicopter taking part in the starch crash ed in the surf but no major ir.-j jury resulted to the three man (crew. The Harrelson family ν as Impending a vacation at the beach Hundreds of compliments j have been paid to the Myrtle , Beach Rescue Squad for the hours of hard work they yil I out In an effort to find the body of Sterling Harrelson. Friend· of the family here who took part In the search I— that the rrwoe squad worked day and nicht tire lessly using every known means available to find the ι body. and had discussed coming on back to Tabör City. The doc or * had closed his off cc and was s not scheduled to come back until - Friday morning, he had taken r the children for the swim at b their insistancc ait« ι there had f been some talk of not going back s in the water before lunch. They hud been s\yimming earlier and i! had returned to the cottage for I ;i drink of water. The accl» ent - occurred immediately after tney • Cot back to the strand. r. The children were said to have ο been enthusiastic about taking y the fa·t swqn before lunch an! - the doctor Had dts^uaaed carry « In* them to the recreation area (Continued oo Pa«· 4) <50 YEARS OF SAFE DRIVING — These three postal workers in Tabor City look over "one of the safe driving cards issued to them by the National Safety Council. All three men are rural mail carriers. Seated is Tom Angle who has 26 years of accident-free motoring. Standing, from left, Carol Watts, IG years of safety; and Clarence Willoughbv, 18 years of safe driving. Postal Workers Get Tribute For 60 Years Safe Driving Rev. Chambers Is New Pastor Ai Methodist Church The Rev. Martin R. Chambtrs has been appointed pastor of trie Saint Paul Methodist Church in Tabor City. He succeeds the Rev. Pau! Carruth who has been elevated to the post of executive director of High Christian Education. Both appointment* were an nounced last week at the annual Methodist conference hold a'j New Bern. The Rev. Chamber s has serv ed as pastor of the Method st Church at Rowland for the pas! four years. Ho is married anij has two sons. .loan and Boh John is a civil engineer wh*. makes his home in Atlanta, Gh.I Bob is a medical student at Dukt| University. The Rev. Cauru<h will proo ably make his home in Durham.! The Rev. Chamber will move to Tabor City on frriday Services were conducted t*is past Sunday at the St. Ppul Methodist· Church by the newly appointed minister. Throe postal workers here were recognized recently for safe driving by tae National Safety Council. A total of 60 yean <>i accident free driving is represented by Tom Λι gle, Carol Watts and ClarenCe Willoughby, all rural mail carriers. Angle, a member of the postal irew since 1944. has a total of 26 years safe-driving. He travels approximately 35,000 miles each year Watts, employed here as a postal worker for over ei^h. years, has a 16-year accider.t free driving record. Willoughby, pos'al employe'· for the past eight years, has :» record of 18 years safe driving. The safety certificates vieie presented to the local work'-rj by Postmaster Richard Gord >n. The organvation oi an Horry County United Fund was con··· plcted Monday night of last week with the election of offic ers at Bob's Grill in Conway. W. Lee Robinson of Conway was elected president of the county-wide agency, propose of which is to coordinate fund raising activities of various charitable and service organiza tions through one single cam paign a year. Tally Eddings Gets Merchants Position Tally Η. Eddings was appoint ed executive-secretary of the Tabor City Merchants Associa tion this morning at a special meeting of the Boa»d of Direct ors. The appointmrnt was announc ed by Ruey Hewett. president of the Association. "We are happy to have a map of Mr Eddings' ability servi <g in the capacity of executive«· se< retary," said Hewett in mak ing the announcement. Eddings, a native of Columbia, S. C., moved to Tabor City four years ago from Knoxville, Tern and entered the >arming busi* neu. Formerly associs**d with L *V er Brothers, he served as divi sion field supervises la mvm states. k While living in Kno*tHW, he was λ nsstnbsr of the Klwsnlt Club, Elks Club, Linns Club uud the Baptist BroUnrhood. Hp held officcs in these various clubs. Since arriving in Tabor Ciijr he has served as president of the Booster's Club and was one of the organizers o' this group. Also, he has served as vice-pres ident of the Tabor City Recrea tion "Commission. He has played an integral jtart in the promotion and develop ment of the golf course uuoef construction between Tabor City and Loris. His experience in promotion al work will be an asset in hi· ne.v capacity as executive-secr· tary. His latest endeavor along this line was with Keep 'em Sealed Waxes produced by M. C. Servls Co. of Tabor City. Id dings served as Mies aana&er (Continued On Pag· S)
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