Carter's
Column
By—W. Horace Carter
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PROJECT: Directors of the Tabor City Merchants Associatio:
have discussed at great length the possibilities of setting up ί
medical clinic in Tabor City. Obviously this would have to star
small but most local folks express the firm belief that then
is a definite need for such a facility here now. Directors know
that this would cost money, not only to build but t omaintair.
They welcome any suggestions from the general public. In thi
meantime, the association continues to work tor addition:«!
doctors here. Office space is available an-.l the public believer
that the need is great. Many folks have voiced the complaint
that they cannot f.nd a lo.al dcctor often when thev have rea
emergencies and need medical assistance immediately. We an
fortunate to have the growing Loris Community Hospital si
clo^e at hand but folks feel that the local clinic is very nine
neede«. Perhaps if this sn« uld become a reality, rioct >rs couk
work out some practical schedule so that at least one med tea ί
man would be available at all times. This is sorely needed now
EASTER: The Golden Easter Egg Hunt for adults that is sche
duled in Tabor City for Friday proceeding East«_r is the most
novel promotion yet undertaken m Tabor City. The 1000 ping
pong balls, all bearing free gifts to those lucky enough to u·
trieve them will be dropped from an airplane, "weather per
mitting, along the main streets of the business distri.t. There'.»
no obligation on any body's part in this promotion. You smplv
have to get one of the "Easter eggs" and carry it t>> the merch
ant whose name will appear on the pinu pong ball. The promo
tion has met with great acceptance on the part of merchant*
and the 1000 prizes have almost been secured already. Κ- r
Lovell has made the rounds and report.; th· t merchants have
b«en enthusiastic in their acceptance or the promot on. Remem
ber the date! March 31. at 2:00 1'. M. and pian now to be i:i
Tabor City.
BASKETBALL: While there is η great deal <·( friendly rivalry
among ex-students of Wake Fores. Carolina. State and Duke
who live in this area, when one of the Big Four gets t > meet
ing outside competition in any sport, they all suddenly find
themselves pulling for that team. The typical example was last
week when Wake Forest was in the NCAA Eastern Regional
phiyoffs in Charlotte and lost to St. Josephs of Philadelphia. A'i
the local sports-minded were down and out following the Wake
loss. But the Deacons were a credit to the ACC and everyone
is right proud of the job they dii.
WEATHER: We had spring vveathc: during Hie .«'-called vv.nl
er months and now that spring is really here. . ·ffi inlly on Men
day. it appears that winter has arrived. Tins weather business
has simply been mixed up for the past eoupW ..f ye ns and not
exactly according to the schedule.
Armed Forces
ARMY M-SGT. THOMAS
AI AMBIS. win im· wife. Ma.y.
lives on Route 2. Tabor City,
is participating with other per
sonnel from the 3rd Arm«-red
Division's- ;>6th Infantry in a
sjx-week field training exer
cise in Grafenwohr, Germany.
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Iii*· ι.Iii·.'-. i'h.iM- " I tin· tr;nn
«iiu is .sch'iiuli··! ;.· t ikI M.iivii
1 :,(i.
Tho t xrrrisi» i> \>
iirov iii' iiai'tiüi; umicr c· !·ι
wv.sMht c. «Uni»« y
,M<I mi:ht mnuruvoi-. Τ
JraN'invnhr tijmi ,ium
.lu· largest li.iiniti»! site avail-·
iblo to NATO to.eis in Ku:- \
pe. Tin· 3rd :.·> «»in· ol fi\r l*.
>. divisions in NATO's "Ppra
lltll of Ι'ιΛνι Γ."
Al.unbis. a platoon sergeant
η tht· mlaiiii'y's Company c|
ti Kirch lions. entered tin :
\rinv in Du'vmlut 1941 and |
1 irrived overseas on this tour!
• I duty, in July 1S»5S).
Tht· sergeant is a graduate
if iYiusoi. City Hin'.i Schitol.
RIM Υ Β < KIHB. HMSA.
- ■η ι>1 Mr a·!·; Mrs. Stephen
\V. C'rii.b 't Koutc I. Oitren
οΐι. :> presently at hoinc on
15 days li-aw after graduatii·,· j
ι ο:η Κ ldninan School in
I Bambrid'.·«·. Μ iryland.
Hilly \\ !i: rejiert to tin· Guid
ed Missilt- I'l'uiM·! t'SS Boston,
'I'AG :n Boston. Ma.-sarlui·—I
its upon completion of ♦!!»·]
leave Billy's brother. Bobby, is
jii'i'M n'l) assigned to tin· sain«,·
.-.»tii» .iiui they an· rrturiurp1
from .■ .mis«· tu tin· I'.irtibcan
area.
Bobbi enlisted in the Na>. ι
η .ι tu ι :»»;·» and Billy mliitcd I
in Μ «> . Ι!·ιΐίΐ Both an· cradti- i
ate·» ■ : Williams Township I
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ARMY NATIONAL Gl'ARl»!
ι·λ r. i;i n··· Aid·
hi of Mr. and Mrs. George
Mcea'skoy, Route I, Evergreen,
: rorfiviuii the final phase of !
t'ii s;x months active duty
military training under the R*·-'
■**rvi* Forces Act program at
'Πιο Air Doicn.se School, Fori
Bliss. Tex. The training i;
scheduled to bo cone hide»
Atarch 2~.
Inirniu this final phase. Me
C;*lskey is οι mt; trained in tlu
duties of an artillery gui
crewman.
The Air Defense School, tiic
largest in 111 tit ι y school in the
nation. tra ns personnel to mar
.«nd maiiitain the unified mis
sile systems employed in th·
>ir defense of the U. S., by «nil
armies overseas and by oui
.«Ilies of the NATO and SEATO
nations.
Tlu· l!l-ycar-old soldier com
pleted b.isie training at Fort
Jackson. S. C.
He w is graduated from Ev
ergreen High S.hool in 1960.
ARMY PVT. KAMI· STFV
KNS. JR.. soiι of Mrs. Mayblc
Stevens. W. Second st.,
l'.ilx.r City, recently partioi
i>ated with other personnel
ίι·:η th·· 3rd Armored Divi
sion's -ttith Infantry m a field
it.lining · xeroise in Grafen
ivohr. Germany.
The exorcise was designeil to
>rov '·· irainim: tinde·· cot«·'
ιν. ι c* illdlt ι ι It;,
in ni^ht in iiioiivi-i's. Tht
^tiMionwohr tr.umiig oroa is
ihe largest training site avail
ible to NATO forces in Eur
ope. The 3rd is one of five U.
S. fiiv sions in NATO's "Pyra
mid of Power "
A rifleman in the,infantry's
Company D' in Kirch Göns.
Steven» entered the Army >n
April I960, completer! b;t ic j
training at Fort Jackson. S. .
nifI arrived overseas lust Oc
tober.
The 19-year-old soldier at
tended Douglass High School
.iiid was employed by Perry's:
Upholstering Company in Hiuh
Point before entering thej
Army.
Μι . I'ink h?is licoii
ι piitk'iit in Ι,·'Γΐ'·. Coinrrturrly
Hospital.
Till·; GOVERNOR IS SOLD — Pretty little
Miss Jane Yates of kings Mountain sells
Governor Terry San ford the first sheet of 1%1
Easier Seals. Jane is the 1 .Η» 1 Tar lleel Easter
i-eal C'iiilii. San fori! has proclaimed March as
Laster Seal month in the State ami urged support
of the drive which is in progress.
Vie Are
reducing
• Reducing Our Inventory Oi
Good Used Cars
'57
'59
'56
'55
TREMENDOUS TRUCK BARGAINS
1952 Studcbaker Half-Ton Pickup
1956 Ford Half-Ton Pickup
19 56 Dodge Half-Ton Pickup
1949 Ford Half-Ton Pickup
DE SOTO CONVERTIBLE —
push - button drive, radio, m laU ^
heater — SHE HAS TO GO 4#·
FORD V-8 — Tudor, radio, A Bi A
heater, straight drive—WE'VE 1 Μ ^11
SEEN THIS CAR TOO LONG I /S4#V·
FORD Fairlane, 4-door, radio,
heater, automatic transmission, ■■
TAKE HER HOME WITH (1 I U_
YOU, PLEASE W ■ W·
FORD Victora, radio, heater, ·ρΑ
straight drive — GOOD Μ ^11
BUGGY # 4# V·
See "Cha", Wade, Peter lowlcr and Vernon Cartrette,
"The Poor Boys With Tbc Big Hearts At
Tabor City Motor Sales
Μ—:
I SENSE &
NONSENSE
BV WRAY THOMPSON
THE BIG CATCH
Ezra Smith had plenty of reasons to l»o proud
Saturday afternoon as he displayed his βό-pound
fish, a sturgeon caught early that morning in Black
! River's brackish water.
Smith, a Whiteville fish dealer, described the
I "catch" as follows:
"Around J I :·Ί0 Friday night I was pulling in my
shad nets when I diseover
...I ·»...♦ 1 U...I 1--· ^
- - ··«« ·· .···*»··*.» "ΐμ
fish eaugh in them. I pull
ed the net up tt» tile side
of the boat, high enough
that I could grab hohl of
the devil's tail."
"When I grabbed him,
I he flipped so hard that he
lifted me off the boat seat
and I almost followed him
i as he headed down."
"Then he took the net
and s w a y round - and ·
around tin· propeller until
he had loused up my
i motor but good." ,
Smith said that he had
: to take the motor off to
unwind the mesh from it.
"I was finally able to
get a nylon rope around
him ami I started out of
tin· river. Hut that fish
had other ideas!" lie said
that every time the boat
would be headed around
I a bend, the fish would
' start the other way, forc
, injr the boat to be pulled
' off its course.
B\ 1 Saturday morn
ing — two hours after the
sturgeon had been dis
• covered — Smith finally
reached a landing and
' dragged the fish up the
hill. Someone brought him
a ."S pistol which was
r : t ' i'.j the fish.
While talking to us
about his experience S.it
; unlay Smith said that he
tiitd airt»;»uy i>een ouerett one dollar per pound lor
the sturgeon, but that he felt as if he deserved to
eat at least a pound of it.
Incidentally, some interesting facta were learned
from Smith's neighbor. Tommy Kritt* atout that
specie of fish:
■ A female sturgeon was caught in the same part
if Black River two year.-·, ago and she weighed Too
pounds. It is from tin· female that ca\iar (the roe)
is extracted anil sold at sky-high prices. .
There is — according to Britt — still another use
for the sturgeon; the air-bladders are made into
isinglass.
K/.ra Smith concluded his story by recalling that
, a fellow-fisherman came along iust as the l>ijr one
; was being pulled to the hill Saturday morning. "I
1 sure am glad you caught tliat bugger," said tin
man to Ezra. "He had already ruined two of my shad
nets and two for another man. How much do 1
[ι »we you?"
I So came the end of "the devil of Black River."
CRIMINAL LAW
Anyone planning to steal goods valued be
tween $100 and $200 would be well advised to wait
until July 1, 19H1. On that date, under a N. C. Senate
bill ratified this week, larceny of personal property
' of this value will drop from a felony to a misde
i meanor. Concern for the crowded superior courts,
! rather than a tenderness toward thieves motivated
i ihe sponsos of the bill.
' Felonies must be tried in a superior court, but
ι nisdemeanors can go into recorder's courts in most
i counties.
Another larceny bill is less comforting to the
offender; it makes the flim-flam game or other
ι larceny by trick a felony, no matter how small the
I value of property taken.
MENTAL IMAGE
It is amusing to note the mental-images children
have of the men behind the voices heard on radio.
This was pointed out recently when Marty, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Cartrette. remarked to her
"Look there at the 'Sharecropper'."
Mrs. Cartrette looked through the window but
•aw nobody that even slightly resembled Ken "Share
ropper" Lovell.
"Where is he'.'" she asked tin· .'»-year old.
"There!' ' exclaimed the child, pointing to a
scarecrow in a nearby field.
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Minor Burns, Cuts
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minor burn*, cute, bruises. Family I
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rauhe*, ecaema, teen-axe nimplcm,
athlete'· foot Stops «rratchine, er»
•Ida faster healing. For stubborn
caaes, get Extra Strength Zemo.
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For
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