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9 Silver Dollar Days Features $1000 Cash To Be Given Away THE ONLY PU LIT Ζ Β EL PRIZE WINNEN G WEEKLY NEWS I A PER IN THE UNI TED ST'ATB§ More Than 10,000 People Read The Tribune Every Week 74e 7 *7 People Shop From The Pages Of Their Hometown Newspaper VOLUME Χ1Π. NUMBER 52 "Tabor City — The Town With A City Future _ ι Τ ABO· crar. NORTH CAiOUMA WEDNESDAY. JULY 1Γΐ959 rftPT β·*α ανα vsaa Tabor City's Annual Silver Dollar Days list Of Big Prizes a "Silver Dollar" Days, a town wide event that wUI be climax ed or August 25, will begin here tomorrow (Thursday) in con junction with the tobacco market opening. The climax of the bargain bee will be celebrated with the giving away of $1,000 in silver dollars. First psize to the lucky ticket holder will be 500 silver dollars. Second prize will be 100 silver dollars. Third prize will be 100 silver dollars. Then there are 12 lucky ticket holders who will receive 25 silver dollars •»•ch. It marks the second year the Tabor City Merchants Associa tion has tied m its "Silver Dollar" Days with the opening of the leaf market. Last year's big promotion saw the town packed 1 lucky ticket holders on the day of the drawing and merch ants reported a brisk business during the trade event. Individual merchants are also giving away prizes for the event. In addition to the prizes there will be extra special bar gains in every participating store. Tickets for the drawing to be held on August 25 are obtain able through purchases. With every dollar purchase the custom er receives a ticket. When he has received 10 tickets he then d*hanges these for a "master" ticket. Only master tickets will be placed in the box for the drawing. "We are anxiously awaiting the beginning of this promotion »V1 noP° that the people in this area will take advantage of the tremendous bargains to be off.-red during the event." said Tallv H. Endings, executive-secretary of the Merchants Association. ' Only members of the Merchants Association are eligible tol participate. ine iisi of prizes to be given away by individual merchants includes: Dicus Firestone Company . .. $100.00 in Trade Certificates P'lgly Wiggly $25.00 in Trade Certificates Tabor City Dept Store $ 25.00 in Trade Certificates! Prince Bros. Furniture—Princess Blue Ribbon Innerspring Mat-i tress—10 yr. G'tee. ($59.50 Mattress! $25.00 in trade certificates Portable Sewing Machinej $39.95 Record Player; - Säu.iO in trade certitirat.·. $10.00 in trade certificates $10.00 in trade certificates ι • $75.00 in trade certificates A nice blanket; Baker's Super Mkt. Sarvis Farm Supply. Collier Ras Company Davis Jeweler. ' . . Suno-w Dept. iAore Lee 5 and 10 Ruey's Clothing Store Carolina Dept. Stort r^*-Mar Shoe Store—$12.95 pair women or mens shoe: C. M. Fowler Pool Room Τφοι- Hardware and Furniture NT-stern AUTO Store «-your j Choice, ι $2.00 in cash I $25.00 in trade certificate.-! ...... $50.00 in trade certificates Doiinan Furniture Store—$49.95 Vacuum Cleaner—Town and Dorm a η Jeweleis Wood's 5 and Id Strickland Product Schild's Dept. Store C'-C· Soles »V Sin· J.*M. Soles Co. Old Dime Store C^cket Out Shop 5 pound One 18 Country—All at' j *25.00 Trade Certificate Bed Spread ! un lei -crate cold drink« $25.00 Trade C\.iificav lutiy Electric Lawn Muwerl S5.U0 Trade Certificate! 32 Pi· Dinner ware Set 7 Pc China Salad Set Commission Approves Branch Unii For Waccamaw Bank And Trust The State Banking Commis-" siofjpgave its approval to the re-, quest for a branch "walk-up" window unit of the Waccamaw Hank and Trust Company in, TaTOr City. 1, The new branc h bank will be \ located next to C. C. Soles and < Sons on Fifth Street. It will feature a "walk-ap" { window for the convenience of | customers who desire to trans- , act business after the regular ho&*g. j The "walk-up" window feat ure.is one of the first of Its Had in φί3 part of North Carolina. Expansion of bank services ι was considered from the stand point of rendering more service and making it more convenient for everyone to gain access to the bank facilities. Construction is expected to start on the new building in the < immediate future. < . INJTKW ORLEANS Miss Mable Hodges left today for New Orleans, La. where she . will be engaged in nursing. Since graduation from Charlotte Memorial School of Nursing she has been on the nursing staff of Community Hospital . Lo<f% BIO MELON f.vfn Texan ran'l top this J one. 1 On display in The Tribune 1 office this week is a 23 pound 1 cantalope Uiat was brought In by Bedell Powell, of route 3, Tatar City. The giant slse | ■elan was grown by L. B. Poifcr on the route 3. farm 1 and until they csll back for ι It, will be here for the public t<*er. A recent television news- | east showed a 20 pound melon < grown qt.ir Carolina Beseh 1 snd the <<<fnentator express- < ed belief It was a world re cord for else. In that ease. Uie < melon grown by Mr. Porter Is J thqf«ie* world champ and tops the one shown on TV by ι three pounds. * JAYCEE GUESTS Two district coordinators for hp North Carolina Junior hamlier of Commrrrr will at end the local Jaytrr meeting >n Tuesday. August 4. Jay Mills and Jack truss, toth of Elizabethtown, will ex-' »lain different Jayere program·: » the local club. Horace Cox, president, urge·! til members to attend. Work Begins On Green Sea Road Surveyors began work this >11 the widening and curbing of he Green Sea Road, within the rity limits. The project was approved and innounced last month. Actual •on struct ion is expected to be [in immediately. The final results will find the 3reen Sea Road approach tc own with the same modern look tow evident on the Highway 01 entrance to town. Through work of Mayor Har elson and the board of com nissioners this expansion pro· ect will be done without cost ο the town. Prior programs lave found the town footing t portion of the costs. Church Of God In Revival A revival meeting is now in »rogress at the Church of God, in Lewis Street, with the Rev V. C. Cudd of Troy as the guest rvangelist. Services are being held each ivening at 7:30 p. m. with spec ■1 music. The public is invited to at end said the Rev. Floyd A Boger. pastor, today. Grainger, Stevens Arrested Again ! By Fed Agents ; Dud Grainger and Ernest [ Stevens, both of tbe state line | area of Horry County, have been arrested by Federal Alocholic and Tobacco Tax Division offi cers again and charged with vio lations of the prohibition laws. Both men posted bonds last week. Grainger, one of the principals in the long Federal investigation of the illegal liquor traffic in this area, wps already on proba tion for transporting white li quor. He had previously been.' tried in Wilmington. N. C.. fined,1 $5000 and put pn an 18 months1' suspended sentence, based on 1 good behavior, will be put into * action if he is proven guilty of ' the charges now hanging over: him. ; Stevens reportedly has several ' other liquor cases in the courts s also. Just when the cases will be heard in Federal court in i:n- ' known and both men will be 1 free on bond until the cases are ' tried. · Stale Approves j Construction Work In County The State Highway Commis- J sion has approved and set up , funds for retreating four roads , and the construction of an access J road in Columbus County. j, Scheduled for retreatmcnt aro: i 3.1 miles of county road from the intersection of US 701 south of Whiteville. southwest of Peacock , Road: 4 1 miles, from intersec tion US 701 to Mollie: 0.7 mile of streets in T.ake Waceamaw; and 1 4.3 miles of NC 242 from the Bl.if'en Countv line to Board ni.in Houd. Tin· access road is to j be built to the National Spinning. Company at Brunswick. It is the policy of the Highway 1 Commission to build an accessΊ road from the nearest State-main- 1 tained road, to schools, industrial 1 plants, etc.. where a read would serve the publoc interest. Estimated cost of the work is ! $20.845 and completion is expect- 5 ed during the construction season. j Eddings Urges Local Folks Watch Parking "With thousands of farmer? certain to sell tobacco on oui fine market this season, I want to urge all store owners and store clerks to do their best to use off the street parking facil ities during the next few weeks," Tally Eddingh, secretary of the Merchants Association in Tabor City, said today. "We know that we will have! 200 or more parking spaces foij the trading public available close to the trading area avail able if all clerks and locar merchants will keep their vehi-|| cles out of the public parkingi zones. There are at least 200]1 such spaces occupied most of the time by local persons that could park elsewhere," he said ji "I feel that we ought to d< < everything possible to mak« ( shopping convenient and selling , tobacco convenient for those , farmers who come to Taboi City during the auction season . I know that by giving them all , possible consideration with oui parking facilities, we will b< , showing them a consideration | for which they will be appreci- ι ative." Eddings said. 1 Enrollment Open < For Kindergarten Kelly'« Kiddie Kindergarten | will open for classes September | 1 announced Mr*. Nell Buffkin. director. Registration will be open from August Iβ to 25 for children ages · four and one-ahlf yearn old to •I* Student* may be enrolled bv , ratlin« S01I. city. , Classes will be held during the morning at Mm. Buffkin'a home 1 on William« Street, near the Saint Paul Methodist Church OFFICIAL WELCOME Farmers coming to Tabor Cits 'or their tobacco selling will gel in official welcome this rear The local Police Department »111 be handing out cards not ng that the town welcomes Uu 'armer and asking that they call in the policemen if they can be >f service in any way. Town Accepts New Badge! For Fiscal Year Estimates ol the 1959-60 re venue for the Town of Tabor -ity as outlined in the official ludget accepted at a special netting on July 17, calls for 1108,000. This revenue estimate s based on the following prob ible receipts: Tax collections — 146.900.50; License fees — $3, 132.50; Water Dept. $29,649.55; ind miscellaneous — $28,217.45. The budget also specifies the stimated appropriations for the various phases of the city gov ernment during the new fiscal -ear as follows; Administration -$7,465.10; Poolice Dept.—$25, 171.00; Fire Dept. — 2,150.00; )ebt Service — $13.845.00; Mis ellaneous — $18,030.20; Water 5ept. — $19,030.70; and Street ind Sanitation Dept.—$38,335. i0. Town officials fetl that (the own's finaneees are in the 'rtost nndition that they have been η a number of years and are iptimistic over the future. Con liderable municipal improve nents continue to be made each -ear while the dept service is »ein}· slowly reduced. Mrs. Long Dies Saiurday P.N. Mrs M:ittH· I'uekett Long. ."iß. lied at her home 011 Route o, 'abor City. Saturday at 4 p. m. iftur an illness of several nonths. She had recently been letting out and had been con ined to her bed for about four veeks. Funeral services were held iunday at 5 p. in. in the River ide Baptist Church of which he was a member with the Rev. Saymond L. Cumbee officiating, ilirial followed in the Jacob} emetery. Active pallbeare» L-ere Dale Gore. Gail Gore, and )on Larrimore. A native of ColunV.jus County ler parents were the late Rich ird P. Puckett and Mary Griee 'uc-kett. Surviving are her husban·! .acy W. Long; five daughters, /liss Carolyn Long of the home. /Irs. H. Carl Stocks and Mrs talph J. Long of Tabor City /Irs. Billy Jo Price of Ellerbe. /liss Tommi Long of Charlotte: our sons. Har·/ P. Long of Vallace, J. Lawrence Long of 'abor City, Lacy W Long Jr if the U. S. Air Force, Elgin 'ield, Fla., Nealy A. Long ol he U. S. Air Force, Langley :ield. Hampton, Va. and 13 ;randchildren. Choir Members Receive Pens Members of the Carol and Cherub choirs. Tabor City Bap ist Church, with an attendance ecord of not more than seven inexcused absences for 52 veeks received choir pens at he Sunday evening services ecord and rece Carol members attaining thi> ecord and receiving pens were Λ itchell Hay, Richard Hardee (ichard Gontt, Patsy Hardee 'amela t'elmons, Jeanne Oord n, Jodnnnn Horlockcr. Linda "arter and Frances Keith *hompkins. Cherub members were Donnls Iruton. Evan Gordon, Edmond luggins. and Randall Huggin? The Rev. P. C. Gantt, pastor presented the pens as Edgat ,inebcrgcr. Minister of Music innounced the members. Pens will be awarded tc ther members as they meet the equircments. -MOT FOWLER l«eRny fowler is now at home following hospitalization. EXCELLENT CROP—Grover Jolly of Tabor City calls this year*» crop one of his best. His situation is typieal of many around this part of the state and everything points to another bumper leaf rrop for Columlius County farmers. Street Dance Here Thursday Night As Leaf Market Opens Τι-liacco season opening be icomes official tomorrow night with a word of welcome bv1 Mayor Howard Harrelson and) a street dance. Tally Eddings, executive sec retary of the Tabor City Merch ants Association, said today that Ken "Sharecropper" Lovell and his Melody Boys were engaged to play for the round agtd .square street dance beginning at 7 p. m. • A door prize, S25 savin«.· I bond, will go to the lucky tick-i .et holder. There is nothing t< I buy—just register at the d;mc. J In addition to the dance then j will be featured various duet: trios and quartets from th: 'area. G. A.'S TO MEET 1 The Girls Auxiliary, Tabor City Baptist Church, will meet Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. at tht [church. All members are urged to attend and other girls inter ested in G A. work are invited to the meetings. Stores Will Remain Open On Wednesday PN's Merchants and clcrks alikt tunk a long last look today a1 leisure hours tin Wednesday aft ernoon. This will be the fina Wednesday afternoon closing foi local stores for the remaindet of 1959 As customary, the stores be gin to gear all their hours tf the whims of the customer! when tobacco season rolls a round. Tally Eddings. execu tive-secretary of the Tabor Citj Merchants Association, said to day that Wednesday afternoor holidays would be observed a gain beginning with the Firs Wednesday in I960. Fair Bluff Market Ready For Big Sale A small Columbus Count; town that used to see tobacco brought in by boats is expect ing one of its best seasons as the market opens tomorrow. Charles Knzor, beginning hi« fourth year as sales supervisor, called this year's crop "average" but indicated he wouldn't bf surprised if it was a short "poundage" crop Fair Bluff posted a $58.3» av erage last year on the sale ol 6.590.354 pounds. Like most markets the Fan Bluff tobacco warehouse oper ators are expecting a good sak on opening day with the usual lull to follow for several dajr* This is typical tobacco selling procedure in this part of tht Carolinas. But within a week of 10 days after the market open? the farmers begin to have ar abundance of tobacco ready and traffic to market increases con siderably. Knzor, a busy civic workct pointed out that Fair Bluff merchants were anxious and iready to cooperate with tobacco growers. Several new businesses jare in operation in Fair Blufl Ithis year to serve the growers En/.or, one of the better fann ers in Columbus County, serves as sales supervisor. Also, he is I president of the Baptist Broth erhood, president oi the Border Belt Baseball League and presi 'dent of the PTA. I One change has been noted ir the warehouse operation with George Carter and Η. B. Motley ! operating Planters No. i and {No. 2. Norman Love will serve as auctioneer for these two J warehouses. Leaf Sales Open In Tabor City Tomorrow Same Warehouse Firms Here As '58 With the same outstanding varebouse firms operating this "ear as In 1068, the Tabor City obacco market and others hroogbout the Border Belt, open ales of flue-cured tobacco to norrow morning, July 30. with omplet« buying power. Setting the price pace in the (order Belt for seven of the last right years and constantly in reasing the poundage and aver ige price. Tabor City has defln tely been established as the lead ng one buyer market in North ind South Carolina. Every indication points to an· ither good local tobacco crop rith growers generally believed ο have excellent quality and fair leid These factors along with •xperlcnced warehouse personnel md top-notch buying representat ives, is expected to again place he Tabor City market at the top tt the price ladder in 1939. With high level price supports η effect again this season, farm ers are assured of high prices in 959. Prices are expected to top; he all time high of last year igain as tobacco over the past ( lecade has joined most very oth T commodity in the inflation piral. * Operating three warehouses) igain this year will be the R. Ο Coleman Company. This firm hat operates here and on other >elts, is composed of R. C. '.'ole nan. Sr . Mrs. Harriett Sikes. Τ C Coleman. Jr.. Joe Coleman ind Ο. I.. Coleman. This firm will »perate New Farmer. Carolina ind Garrell's Warehouse. The Planters Warehouse here vill again bp under the manage nent of Don Watson. Cliff Steph ens and Donald Watson. .Ir Wat ion. of the Green Sea section, ind Stephens, of Clarendon, vere operators of this warehouse η 1958. Contrary to the situation in ither towns, all tobacco ware houses In Tabor City are operat ed by local people. All ware lousemen on the Tabor City mar ket are also farmers and are' .veil-known throuehout Horry. Columbus and Brunswick Coun !ies. Tiepresentativos of the various warehouse firms here have been lusy contactine tobacco growers inc! soliciting their business over ) wide area during the past few A-eeks and they arc optimistic iver the possible volume that λ ill be sold here this season. The market on the 1959 Crop if Flue-cured tobacco opened itead.v to higher last Thursday in the Georgia- Florida belt than ■>n first sales last year. Averagr prices for lugs and primings iverc up generally SI on to SR.00 |)er hundred pounds. Λ small amount of nondescript gained S400 to SU 00. Prices on leaf and •utters held mostly unchanged. The bulk of sales ranged from s-40 00 to $65.00 Warehouses paid ι high of S69.00 for some indivi dual baskets of top quality of ferings However companies went !o S68.00 on the markets sampled. Some substandard nondescript brought only $6.00. Grades offered in heaviest, volume exceeded their repectivej can allowances by $1.00 to $32.00 The largest spread over the ad vances fell in primings and non lescript. It was estimated that he take today by markets of the Stabilization Corporation was from a few baskets at some points to at others. Receipts under Government loan opening lay last year were 2 percent of «ales. Several representative markets In the belt reported estimated Soneral averages from $56.00 to Ü62 00 per hundred. Gross sales I he first day of the 1958 selling «eason were 10.14R.039 pounds for an average of $56 49 There was a larger proportion nf fair quality tobacco on sale compared with last year's open ing The shift came principally from good cpiallty although the ratio of nondescript was also «maller Better than 50% of the Dfferlngs graded lemon color with the other part mostly on the »range side. Primings and lugsi predominated with low and fair qualities outstanding Estimated Prodocetton Aid Last Tear*· Vdm The outlook for Type 13 μ et July 1, by the United States Cray Reporting Board was for an esti mated production of 228.3SO.OOO pounds. This would exceed last /ear's production by a little owf 2 percent. Total flue-cured pro duction was put at 1,081,046,000 — about the same as for th· 1958 crop. Producers' sale· lad year for South Carolina and Bar* ler North Carolina Fhie-cured tobacco were 235.888,431 pounds For a record high average of (60.17 per hundred. Government Loan Kates An avarage loan rate for the 1959 crop of flue-curcd tobacco has been set at M.5 cents per pound — based on 00 percent of parity as of July 1. The average loan rate last year was 54.8 per pound. Loan rates for around 40 percent of the grades were raised 1 to β cents over last year's levels. Approximately 16 percent was lowered 1 to 5 cents while the remaining grades were un changed. The advance rates for tied tobacco ranged from 20 penis per pound for green node script to 82 cents for choice orange wrappers. Producers Eligible For Price Supports Loans will be made available to eligible producers through the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation. An eli gible producer is one for whom a "within quota" or a "limited support within quota" marketing card has been issued. Rates for tobacco identified on a "limited support" card will be on a basis of 50 percent of the loan levols applicable for a "within-quota" card. Receipts I nder Government Loan Flue cured Stabilization Corpor ation receipts for Type 13 last year were 35.559.000 pounds or 15.1 percent of producers' .«lies. In 1058. the Corporation receiv ed 144.844.000 pounds of the en tire flue-cured crop — 13 4 per cent of producers' sales. Auctions will again be con ducted 5'2 hours per day with a limitation of 400 baskets per hour per set of buyers. Maximum bas ket capacity will continue at 300 pounds. Funeral Set For Mrs. N. Coleman Mrs. Mattic Mao Coleman, 69, died at her home Route 2. Tab r>r City early this morning (Wednesday) after an illness of several years. Funeral sen iees will be held Thursday at 4 p. nj. in the Church of God. Lewis Street, by the Rev. Floyd A Boger. pastor. Burial will be In the Cherry Grove cemetery. Surviving are three sons. Bel Ion Coleman of Tabor City; Tim und Harvey Coleman of Lexing ton; two daughters. Mrs. Pink Durdcn of Route 2, Tabor City ind Mrs. Braxton Cannon of Lexington; one sister. Mrs Blanche Soles of Longs IN RAI.MGII Mrs. Leo Holt left Tuesday for a several day visit in Ra lei«h with her daughter. Kat rina, and her husband. WADE KOWIJiR S The Rev. Wade Fowler an<l his family have returned tc Roxboro where he is pastor of the Providence Baptist Church after a vacation visit here with friends and relatives. ROGERS CHAIRMAN R. R. Roger* wm named chairman of the Tabor City school hoard at an organisa tional meeting held laut Thursday night. Clarence Wll loughhy was named secretary to the hoar. Principal Randall ltarleaon outlined the schools condition In detail to the new hoard and only routine hnaineM waa 41a coaaed. The board tawed an Invitation to the preaa to at tend any of Its meetings.
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