\ ·,. · , THE ONLY PULITZER PRIZE WINNI NO WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES More Than 10.000 People Read The Tribun· Every Week 74e 7, "Τ«*τ City —- Tkt Town With A City Future» People Shop Fron The Pages Of Their Hometown Newspaper VOLUME XV. NUMBER 33 TABOR CITY, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29. 1961 l«e PER COPY—SS.M A YEAR Tabor City Foods Announces Big Expansion Program Here SAFETY AWARDS were received Monday night by eleven members of the Merita bread truck route in Columbus county. Top award was earned by Earl Edmund, Chadboun, shown re ceiving a $50 savings bond from H. O. Perry, sales manager of Wilmington. Shown looking ^ on (center) is Bryan Lancaster, Tabor City, who received one of the two $25 bonds given. To his right is Finkley Herring, route supervisor. Others winning the coveted safety awards were Joe B. Shelley, Whiteville, $25 bond; Junior McPherson, Lake Waccamaw, gold watch; J. L. Cox, Joe Long, E. G. Hester, R. O. Fowler, diamond rings; J. A. Fipps, W. E. Smith and W. L. Williamson, ruby rings. The awards were given in the company warehouse, located be tween Tabor City and Whiteville b : - ' Easter Sunrise \ Services Sunday The annual Community Wide ρ Easter Sunrise Services will be held on the Tabor City School grounds Sunday at 6:00 in front of the high school build ing . The R^v. James H. Johnson, pastor of the Tabor City Bap tist Church, will deliver the message' ^ The Rev. P. H. Lay field, Jr., pastor of the Saint Paul Meth j odist Church is to give the re sponsive reading and the Rev Henry L. Reaves, pastor of the Tabor City Presbyterian Chur ch will lead the prayer. On the program fur the In vocation and Benediction is the Rev. J. P. Jones, pastor of the Emanuel Holiness Church . Mrs. W. W. Woody and Mrs. J. Furman Fowler are in charge oT· the music with the f High School Chorus and chur ' ch choirs participating. Immediately following the I services a fellowship hour will I be held at the Tabor City Bap- I tist Church at which time coi- | tee and doughnuts will oe served. In the event of rain services will be held in the school aud itorium. Ashley Ward, 63 Dies On Friday Ashley Ward, 63, retired farmer of the Nakina section died in the Loris Community Hospital Friday. A native of Columbus Coun . ty he was a son of the late ' W. H. and Sarah Ward. Funeral services were held Sunday at 3:30 p. m. in the Nakina Free Worship Church by the Rev. Ν. B. Stephens and the Rev. Leavy Ward. Burial was In the Long cemetery. He is survived by his wife, | Mrs. Msndy Ward: one son, Johnnie A. of Nakina; three brothers, O. R. of Milwaukee, Γ Arthur and Marshall of Na kina; two sisters, Mrs. Μ. K. Smith of Chadbourn, and Mrs. Etta Larson of Baltimore. Md.; and five grandchildren. BASTES SEAL· HEAD Hubert Canady has been named chairman of the Easter Seal Sale in Tabor City. Con tainers have been distributed throughout the business area and Canady is now accepting contribution·. , Wildlife Club Fish Tonrney A fishing tournament has been started by members of the Columbus County Wildlife Club with a trophy to.be pre sented to the winners of four classes. > Species to be weighed for entry in the contest are Bass. Red Breast. Goggieeye, and Blue Bream. Weighing will be officially conducted pt the Bus Station and weights recorded L>n a master-chart there. Members may register for the tournament until April 25. According to the club's presi dent. Ted Watts, the fee for registration is one-dollar. The tournament will conclude at the end of the fishing season. Mrs. Wade's Funeral! Held On Thursday Mrs. Betty Frazier Wade, 76, died in the Charlotte Memorial Hospital Tuesday night March 21, after undergoing surgery for a broken hip. She had been in declining health for a long period and suffered a stroak shortly before her death. A native of Asheboro she was a daughter of the late Ruf iis Frazier and Delia Moss Frazier. She was the widow of Fred Wade. Funeral services were held Thursday at 10:30 a. m. in the Inman Funeral Home with her pastor, the Rev. P. H. Lay field, Jr. of the Saint Paul Methodist Church officiating. He was assisted by the Rev. James H. Johnson, pastor of the Tabor City Baptist Church. Burial was in the family plot of the City Cemetery of Ashe boro. She is survived by one niece, Mrs. Roy Harrelson of Tabor City, and three great nieccs. Guideway Clinic Parents of children who inj to enter school next year In 0«ldfw*jr'i first grade are ask ed to Uhe their yovigiten to the school on Wednesday, Apr il ft, at |;N a. at. for the Μ η··! pre-school rHnle. The announcement waa node today by Bill WllllMs. princi pal, who also staled that the deadline for registering "—r of (to dents who pteo to «hi irtnl tost poor la Gntdoway Is (Μ. 1». In keeping with the steady progress m Tabor City. Tabor h oous. Inc.. the new nunnery Here, has announced an expan sion project in the $30,000 to $50,000 neighborhood. Tue big expansion will con siderably lengthen the work season tor the cannery by add ing at lea.U two products to the line preserved by the can ners last season. Jimmy Gar rcll, general manager ol the operation, said that Tabor City Foik.s will can snap beans and Irish potatoes this year in add- . ition to peaches and yams. j In order to handle these two ; other products, considerable new machinery is required and J the canners are now busy in stalling the bean and potato machines. Garrell expects to be through with the installation and ready to begin canning beans about the middle of May. He said that Irish potatoes would follow close behind the beans and that peaches and yarns would take up immedi ately following those products. The four-product combination is expected eventually to keep the operation going six to eight ••■um··» uui <»i me year. Garrell said that beans (or this first season would prob ably have to be bought in other areas in order to procure suffi cient volume for the cannery but that in the future it was hoped a good portion of the beans could be produced in this area. In addition to the bean and potato machinery that is being added. Tabor City Foods is constructing, in cooperation with the town officials, a geries of settling tanks at the plant that is designed to settle gut most of the solids in the plant waste products and relieve fre strain on municibal sewage system that was .escounUttü lasi ikil. The new products will call for beginning the canning op eration several weeks earlier than during the initial season of I960 and thus provide em ployment for 100 or more per sons for a much longer period than last year. Fair Bluff Church Holding Meeting FAIR BLUFF — A revival meeting is in progress at the Fair Bluff Baptist Church with Dr. S. A. Newman and in structor at the Southeastern Seminary as guest speaker. The circles of the W. M. S. met last week in various homes. The Foy Farmer Circle met with Mrs. B. L. Townsend with eight members attending. Mrs. J. C. Rogers gave the de votional. She was assisted by Mrs. Η. N. Rogers and Mrs. Dewey Waddell in presenting the program. The Trixle Yates Circle met in the Assembly Hall of the Educational building with Mrs. Clara Waddell and Mrs. Henry Martin as hostesses. Miss Wad dell presented the program ;is given in the Royal Service . Mrs. Gordon Small, Jr. was hostess Friday night to the Jeanette Circle when fifteen members were present to hear Mrs. Brice Elvington give the program on Safe Guarding Our Youth . The Annie Armstrong offer ing was taken at all meetings. HONOR ROLL The Honor Roll for the Na kina High School, fourth grad ing period, has been announc ed by Μ. M. Jones, principal. On the roater are: Barbara Hard wick, Judith Jones, Pran ces Ray. Betty Williams. Jo anne Arp, Audrey Jean Regis-! ter, Doris Jewell Turner. Dot tie Kay Arp. Rachel Gore. Jeanette Ward and Joanne FormyDuval. PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES A series of meetings are underway this week at the Tabor City Presbyterian Chureh with the Rev. Henry L. Reaves, paator, delivering the mes sages. The services are being held each evening at 7:30 p.m. and all an Invited to attend. Golden Easter Egg Hunt Here Friday FORMER QUEENS — Previous winners of t he annual Miss Columbus County pagjeant have been invited to attend the 1961 event on May 12. They are (1-r) Shelva Jean Fipps (Page), Dixie Cox, Adeline Brady (Turner), and Jean Thompson. j Friday afternoon at 2:00 is the day and time for the first big adult Easter Egg Hunt in Tabor City and 1000 persons can lino an egg worth iroin 10 cents to $10.00 if they are ujlile enough and lucky enougn. I'he eggs in this big hunt are ping pong bulls and every inii* oi the 1U0U u ill have u value written on u. It will state just what store it must be car ■ ieo to in order to ciaitn the prize. Only members of the merchants association are pai (icipating. Tne luOO ping pong bails will be dropped Iroin a low ι lying plane in several differ ent drops along the business district at 2:00 next Friday, and those persons lucky enough to retrieve one of the Golden Easter Eggs will have won himself a prize. All persons getting one or more of the ping pong balls must redeam them for the prize it specifies on Friday after noon before the stores close. Stores that arc* members of the Tabor City Merchants Associa tion have been asked to re main open until 8:00 P. M. Fri day in order to give everyone a chance to claim his free gift and to provide additional shop ping convenience for custom ers. Merchants are requested to take up all ping pong balls as they are redcamed for the free gilts. The association will then collect the balls and perhaps use them for a similar event next Easter. Merchants are also advised to take special note of the fact thai all the ping pong balls are marked with the words, "J. C. Higgins." Only the Hig gins balls have been used in the promotion and any attempt by anyone to counterfeit an "faster egg'' in the contest Mfc- v if some ball other than nie Higgins ball was presented. Other idenfTficaVions are also known by merchants that will reduce the possibility of any cheating in the contest. Should high winds be in evidence on Friday afternoon or any other weather condition that would make it impractical to drop the ping pong balls from an airplane, then other means of scattering them on Tabor City streets would be used. But barring storm condi tions the balls will be poured trom the plane at 2:00 Friday. While old and young are eli gible to try their hands at re trieving the golden Easter eggs, the prizes will not be given to youngsters unless they are ac companied by their parents or other adults when they are brought to the stores for re demption. Ken Lovell, executive secre tary οί the Tabor City Merch ants Association, sponsoring organization for this spring promotion, reports that excell ent cooperation has been had in soliciting the gifts and that a great deal of interest has been shown in the event. "I hope we will have a huge crowd here Friday afternoon tor this event. Wt have a full 1000 free prizes and there's no >bligation on anybody's part in ihis big hunt. You don't have to buy anything, you don't have to register, you don't have to write any jingles. All vou have to do is just be here Friday and get one or more of ihe ping pong balls," Lovell said. STORKS OPEN I'NTIL. 8:00 P. >1. FRIDAY NIGHT In an effort to give every one in the ares a chance to do hin Raster shopping, the director«· of the Tabor City Merchants Association ha« asked all Its member* to keep the doors of their stores open Friday nicht until 8:M. The big Faster Egg Hunt promotion Is scheduled for 2:00 P. M. Friday afternoon and following this event, merchants expect consider able shopping by those in attendance for the Easter holiday. Most local store· close about 5:30 on Friday normally but to allow cm· Vomers additional time for Easter shopping, the merch ant« association has asked Its members to remain open until R:M this Friday. Local stores have rtacked their shelves with Easier merchandise and on* of the but selection seen bore la 1 many yMTS U avallabU to W. Α. Thompson Dies AI Age 64 Funeral services lor W. Avery Thompson, 64. Lake Wacca maw resident, were lield Mon day at - McKenzie Chapyi,' Whiteville at 4 p. m. "♦ Mr. Thompson,' a former member of the State Ports. Au» thority, died late Saturday night at Jam« Walker Memor ial Hospital. Thompson was appointed to the original Ports Aythorty by the late Gov. Kerr Scott and served two terms on the Au thority. He was vice chairman and secretai^r. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1929 and returned in 1933. A former Lake Waccamaw mayor, Thompson was in the lumber business but retired several years ago and had been larming. A graduate of Trinity Col lege he was a member of the Hallsboro School Board, a lay leader in the Wilmington Me thodist District and had pre ached at Wilmington's Grace Methodist Church on several· occasions. He was a former president of Lake Waccamaw Lions Club, a past district gov ernor of Lions International, active in affairs of Lake Wac camaw Methodist Church and on the board of directors of Good Shepherd Home . Mr. Thompson, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James E. Thompson, Ha lis bor υ, served with the Army In World War 1 with the rank of lieutenant and was a charter member of the Whiteville American Legion Post. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Oladys Soles, of the hum·; three suns, Dr. William W. Thompson, Fort Walton. PI·.; James A. Thomp son, Buckner, Ala. and Harold) Britt Thompson, Atlanta, Ga.;l four daughters, Mrs. Howard Herring. Ptnsacola, Fla.; fiÜPV cy Jane, Gladys Ann and Bet·1 ty Jo, all of the home; two brothers. Robert L. and James E. both of Hallsboro; four sist ers, Mrs. Elizabeth Brlnkley.l Lake Waccamaw; Mrs. ftuby Wesse», Hallsboro, Mrs. John M. Habits, Chadbourn, and Mrs. James Wilson, Raleigh, and 13 grandchildren Internment was in Lake Waccamaw Cemetery. The Rev. W. Paul Boon. Rev. Neil (Continued O· h|t I) $750 Ssholurship Going To 1961 Miss Columbus County; glomes 0«lf|/ Officer Seat ly Fvgifyflr Cego Township* William Ellis," Cerro Gordo Township constable, was treat ed i iri the Columbus -County Merhori*l Hospital for wounds received when assaulted early Sunday morning by Ά Negro apii Indian 011 a rural .^oad be tween' Powell's and William son's -crossroads. ! The 34-year old officer sus tained a fractured skull and crushed ribs when* beaten by William Conrad, Negro, with a. stick after Conrad was stop ped on the road after forcing another car to r.un off the road. According to.a spokesman of th«l ,Sheriff's department, the; assault occurred when the con- | stable stepped to the Conrad ι car-π»·which Billy Boy Lock-! lear, ' Indian, wis a passenger.! Both ι were reported to have been drunk. Deputy Spurgeon Nobles ar rested Conrad, who was an employee of the city of Wilm ington, but Locklear had al-! ready fled. · Further investigation by the' deputy proved that Conrad w is wanted for skipping a $200 bond placed on him for anoth er assault several weeks ago, and was also wanted by New Hanover and Robeson county law officers for previous of fenses. While awaiting trial Tues day, Conrad was lodged iu the county jail in lieu of $1,500 bond. From convictions of the two Columbus county incidents, Conrad drew a 30-month road term. The Indian is believed to be a resident of the Bird Cage section near Chadbourn. De puty Nobles said. Second Sandajr Assault James Hunt. 46-year old In dian. was charged with the as sault of his wife Lizzie with a deadly weapon, with the intent to kill, on the same day. Deputy Nobles reported that Hunt alledgedly returned t-j his home, located near Len non's Crossroads, Sunday morning while intoxicated and assaulted his wife with a .12 gauge shotgun. Two shots ent eret! her chest, the officer said. Hunt was released from jail Monday under $1.000 bond. MM. RUDOLPH TODD Mrs. Rudolph Todd Is pro gressing nicety In the Janes Walker Memorial Hospital, Wll mington. where ab« uoderweot •urtarr Monday. Two bills to rename memb ers of the county and White ville school boards, submitted by Rep. Arthur Williamson to j ßWtfe Senate March 15 and p#Aed last Friday, have now tapn turned over to the House education committee for furth er study, it is understood. Rep. Williamson proposed the names of H. G. Dameroii. Tabor City; F. M. Brown, Chadbourn; Charles R. Coun cil, Lake Waccainaw; Walter Hobbs, Delco; Ervin Richard-1 son. Nakina; Carl Stephens, Clarendon; and Lucien P. Stevens. Evergreen, to com-! prise' the Columbus County j Board of Education. While the senate passed the county school board bill as submitted by the Columbus re presentative, the bill relating! to the Whiteville board was amended to provide that vac ancies be filled by the six pre- i clnct Democratic executive j committeemen in that area j embraced by the school area, | and with any tie to be broken by the chairman of the Colum- ' bus County board of educa tion . Williamson's bill recom-1 mended that the following be' named to the Whiteville unit board: Bill Floyd, Bill Gilliam, j Mrs. J. C. Smith, Edward Mot- , tinger, H. J. Watts, Clyde R. Williams and Robert Wooten. Of his bills Rep. Williamson has commented. "It is time when the spotlight and the searching gaze of the public is going to be focused on our schools, and we need the most dedicated type of civic-minded people to administer their af fairs and set their policies." Of the Whiteville board he said "I hope this Whiteville board will unite the people of Whiteville and will make the ι Whiteville school one of the ί best in the state." According to Williamson, in I the Senate last week an argu- ι ment came up over a bill pro- j posed to set up a commission to study the methods of elec tion of county boards of educa tion. The Columbus County representative has earlier stat ed that he has no objection to such a commission. The two bills, if ratified, would fill vacancies on th·.· Boards now held by the fol lowing: County—A. Paul Rogers. Ta- I bor City, chairman; Willard1 Small, Fair Bluff; Ε. M. Orif-j fin, Evergreen; Dr. Robert Yates. Chadbourn; James !3.1 Latta. Bolton; Marshall White.! Delco; and Richardson. Whiteville — Η. H. Collins, chairman; J. Herman Leder; James Collier; Mr». H. £. Blanchard; C. L. Nance; Alton j Edward· and A. Dial Gray. Cash scholarships, the lure that tempts ambitious young women to shoot for the big Miss America jackpot in At lantic City each year, are not limited to that famous resort where beauty queei.s are made, according to Harold Ward, publicity Chairman of the Miss Columbus County Pageant. A $750.04 Educational Schol arship for the winner of the May 12 contest her· hu been set as top prise-alone with the Miss Columbus .County title and a clwart to mmm>iW far the Mise Jwrth Carolin.· mow» in Greenahoro in July. TMs scholarship has been made pea slble by the W. F. Co* Co. The Waccanuw Bank & Trust Co., and the G. Garland Fowler In surance Agency, all of Tabor City. The funds will be admin istered under the direction of the Tabor City Junior Chamb er of Commerce, who are spon sor's of the Pageant. Serving on the entries com mittee are Jimmy Garrell, who is overall chairman of the pag eant; Richard Cox; Roger Mills; and Ward. Entry forms may be obtained from any of these Jaycees. Also, any citizen in Columbus County is eligible to nominate a candidate for the contest. Many outstanding guest will be on hand for the Pageant. Among those who have been invited are Ben McDonald, of WECT-TV, as a judge. Judy Jlipfel, last years Miss North Carolina, Ann Herring. Miss North Carolina. A number of South Carolina beauties in cluding Miss Robin William son, of Conway, S. C.. who will direct the Pageant, Miss Judy Hill. Miss Myrtle Beach, Miss Gloria Penny—Miss Interna tional Tobacco Queen, and Giil Miller, Miss Lake View Each I of these will appear in the pro gram or as guest of the Pag eant. Earlier winners of the Mis» Columbus County pageant ware Sylvia Flpps (Pane), Clären«· don: Jean Thompson, White ville: Adeline Brady (Turner) and the reigning quean, Dixie Cox of Tabor City. Allied Youlh Clnb Chartered An Allied Youth chapter was chartered Tuesday in Tab City High school by the Lorli chapter. The organization, started lo cally In November, has as its purpose the disrmination of factual information about al coholic beverages, but does not approach alcohol from a moral istic standpoint. With 18 members, the Tabor City chapter of Allied Youth have as their officers Brenda Outton. president; Sandra Cox. vice-president; Sue Norrie, sec retary-treasurer Mr. Marcus Turntr la the faculty advisor. The sister-chapter in Lorii I· sponsored by Mr. Jama· Clarey, selenc* instructor.