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**Tabor City — The Town With A City Future"
vol l Ml·: \V. Μ MUF.K 43
TABOR CITY. XORTII CAROLINA WEDNESDAY. JINI Ϊ. 1»61
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Ν KW TECHNIQUE — The Μ. Γ. Sarvis company is utili/.inir a new
method of transplanting sweet potato plants. The machine which ΑΙ. ('.
Sarvis is shown driving, sets two rows at a time, using four droppers,
and two men following the machine to set hills sometimes missed by
the planter. The planter can set 75,000 plants per day.
COX' CHOI' — Although most tobacco in
the Tabor City area has button out low. the crop
grow ι. by Don Cox on Route 1 averages six feet
in h*-i>rlit. lie attributes the condition ο this field
♦ ti> tiie use <>:' snuuljie-pots in a nearby berry field
which fabricated a fog barrier during the cold
season.
Don Cox Defeats
Tobaccos Enemy
Λιι i f -its·· ii lii'ld <>1 '.til to»
baceo appear*. cvtn altei inort·
• ^an ii month of "Winter π
summer."
This lie! ! of McNair H-2 be
long.* t ι D< η Cox i f Tab« ι
City lit Λ. and averages abgilt
MX feet in height.
Cox has cropped the lugs al
ready.
Plants appear to avciage 16
to IB leaves each late la.-t week
and appeare d in excellent ton·
dition. Leaves wert* Ijrge
'iape!y and of good quality 1.1
the field.
The field was set Mar Ii Ιβ
It had a couple of weeks «>1
warm weather before the cold
April set in, but one of tb<
factors affecting its growth
Cox believes, is smoke.
He built a smu Is·«· to breal<
frost over his strawberry fiele
once or twice earlier in th<
jorum and he believes 'hat tin
^bact'o also benefitted fron
that shelter.
Emmanuel Holiness
Church Revival
A revival will begin on Μon
day niRht June 12 at Kmman
uel Holiness Church located ο
Wall street. Rev. Curtis Jcrni
ean of Laurel Hill will h
■»'reaching each evening.
" Services will begin at 7:3
o'clock. Rev. J. P. Jones, pasl
«•r. extends a hearty welcorr
to everyone to attend the!
services.
Recruiter Cancels
Tabor Office Hours
Tlx· Air Κ >t ο Recruiter. S^t.
Bi'.lv Hovel, Ii;i> uiiiiouhl·.·«!
fruit Iii.· Tabor City itcnarv tuis
bttcn iJisci'iitinuofl for 111«.·
mont'.i of Jiitii*. It will be u
Minie i the· tir.^t oi July, liow
»vrr .
During June hi· will bt- in
Wiliningt· κ Post Gflice Mon
t'.iy tl x iu.li Thrrsdfy, rntl in
• Whitev ill«.· on Frid:iyi>.
OFFICE TO BK C LOSED
The Drivers Licrrsr Exam
iner'!» office will not be »»per
in Tabor City, Tuesday. J tin*
13, due to City Election Day
>1. A. Covington, Columhu·
County examiner, announced
loi'.iy. Offices will be open it
Whltcville on Monday, Wed
nesday and Thursday, and ir
Chaub'itirn, Friday on rcnuMi
-rhedule. The same hour* mil
be resumed here the followim
I ticsilny, June 20. from 8 a. m
' to 5 p. m.
1 MBLE SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
The Vacation Bible School ο
the Tabor City Baptist Churcl
will come to a clone Frida
with the commencement pro
- gram getting underway at 10:
-*">!» m Parents are invited t
ι attend the e*erd*e and plcnl
- lunch at noon »aid school offlc
η als toit;»y. The school ha* bee
in session for two weeks wit
0 successful attendance and orcl
- cr of study, worship, and re«
c rratlon announced Mr*. C. I
e I.cKgette, assistant principe
' and secretary.
Election j
Tuesday ι
Fι>f ih« lust tinh in mudivu
hi story «·;ιι·!ι uf tin· candidates
»<>i oiiuvs in Tahoi City up
«•ι «>1-cti.>n 'l\n .»ι; ν at-«· un
• or: ;«.>.-tc.!. ll«ward ll; ri'i'lsii!i is
ih»· sol«· <. . ui <!..:· ι ι the mav
• i"s p« t; tit«.· ·\\·> cmnmission
j r! 's |«>i>s «>>ιι η !.:.\« only two
iuui κ.- on the ballot. Odus Gar
i« !i and \V \V Wixmy.
F.ar'hi M;t 1;! Ward aii'J
Üh'.uil (S.ippyi Wandt II tik-d
^ :'or ι:.:.«Μ «·ν .a in«· maymorid
·>>·.· i>ii* : ··ι>i ...·,« witndrawn.
Wi id. win·:: ivhi ι«·« l«>i coin
ir.cnt · Μ ill- ι.«.·:· ion today
-ai !. "Λιιόιγ; t:ι» π a.-uns tor
dioppinj! out ι r.t it l ri'iill/.v-t
that such a j· 0 would tak«· lip
mm«· tum 'hau I can safely
(.ι \. a« to it . . Λn«I it ΐ
ι·« uiiin't «ίο lh«· jolj well. i
' woiil .n't hav«· it."
Ihr ι)·.II" v.i I «»pill Tuesday
.it <!:!!(· a. in. and ci«»so at (> ϊΐίΐ
p. nt.
Ac nrding to lleui.trar Frank
Xesmith. no names on tili
town's ivfjistration b«>«>k win
eh.«!I«.'i:u«'<i Saturday.
Scholarships
To Top Drivers
Oi Bus Rodeo
Two mi'iv h<n,ius «Hi heap
,d iiit" Aug« ha Pl.wi lis tr«j
phy ιίΐίΐ· this wwk. The 18
y«. «»ι-··!'« 'CI Williams graduate
was named ;i hus driving
-hainp:<>n Friday aftem ><·!!
ν w < .in*· d Uriel-1 uiiiu-r·
lip κ a sis-cotinty Dairy Ι'ι ·
.( > ι ■::! » tili ·ιι Tuesday l it;!!'
ill I Villi··! · .1
Λΐ '..ι· Di trict 14 school im:
to''"ι Krul.iv in which driver
Ironi Cnhiir.iui . Hrunsw.ck
Pencil r ;ι!κΙ New Hanover wer»
rep esented. Angelus was nam·
cd tin -.νinner in the g'l ;'s di
\ isii-ii wliii·· Irvui BroWii
Whit« vi!l«·. wuri lii«· bin's clas
They will ΐ'ι·|,ι »·>«·ι it the di;·'
»riet ill til«· statt- coinpctitiol
slut« d tin June 15-Hi in Chap·
ι·Ι hill.
Both v. ere awarded a two
year scholarship tu Wilminului
Junior Colli·«.· and a Sim
I scholarship trom the Gtivern
or's trafiic safety council.
Winners «.1 the state contcs
will receive S.'iiKI scholarship
Jaycees Sponsor
Jr. Golf Tourney
Λ junior Rolf tournante:
I will be plaved Thursday iiu
1 Friday on iiu· Carolinas Count
ry Club course. and will L
divided into four flights—I1
12 year-olds. 12-14. 14.1C. an
Hi-18.
Πι»· tournament is sponsor*,
by tin· Junior Chamber ■
Commerce with Joe Colenui
serving as chairman.
I According to Coleman part
cipation was good at a prelin
inarv ·. linic held yesterday.
The winners of the Tab
City tournament will pcobab
: 'be matched against the wii
i in rs of the Loris Jaycee evei
Sarvis Uses Labor - Saving Setter
The Μ. C. Sarvis Company
' has started something now in
: sweet potatn plant inn—a giant ,
! tractor-like vehicle creeps
i through the fit-Ids transplant
; iiift the plants at a rate of 7,500
' per hour.
Tu set the acreage that the
j machine puts out each day.
Wood row Sarvis estimates that
_!() persons would be required
j to set the same amount with
j the old m« thod.
Sarvis' mechanical plan'«·»
j employs a driver, ίου/ drop
pers, and t*o others who toi
1 low the machine in the event a
lull is missed t>y UK· SVIU'I. Ii
sets two mws al a tunc.
T! . w iters s®y thai the itia
chitic ι .hi ea.-i!\ s«-t five a ores
i>.-r «Ι,.v. P. i.- Tin· only such uii<
in the area.
The machine was fashioned
it' in a Silent Flame tobacco
harvester 1·> which two Ivlli<
drag-type setters wen* attach
ed.
The Sarvis firm will cniii
plele si Um« äö aen s of pota
toes i»-xt week, «umprised <·ι
. C· U'er.i.lrtl, G-'ld Ru>h ant
iNi.»({ef. Varieties: .... are ο
'certified seed.
Cartrette Case Τransferred
Tuesday To Superior Court
.1 ιι<1)4«· \V. A. Williams order
wi Williiiin Clastou CurtretU·
onfitied hi jaii with out priv
ilcjji· ·>ι bond yesterday i-fter ..
Hieordei's court hearing on
charges ot Cs»rtrette raping a
teen-age tri« I in his humc May
21 PmüiibU· oiiusi* was foitnvl
unii the case tnmsii'rred tu
Superior court.
Ti.t victim, und un
othui tt iiiuRi-r. were the ori!y
Uvi μι·Γ*οιι> put on the stuli'l.
Both r« -i-.:· Iii t!i< Evergreen
area while Cartrette lives in
the Williams school s«*ction
The girl testified that while
visiting Cartrette's home he
beat her and she escaped from
him b> jumping from .ι wn
down. Latei. she said, she ie
»nteie'.i tin I'ioum ;·:>» was
'then luicetl into .. bedroom arm
1 aped by ?:.< fie:. :numt.
' VVh.k el · s- t xamitied by .1.
Ii. I.· ι· .Jr.. attorney lor tin
' lieft ndant. it was brought out
that the μιιΐ h:.<l beui 111 two
dates oil tile e\ e of the alleged
i ι .pe heloit meeting G1 ad ν
\\ lev who took hi 1 to the
Cartutte huiise. During the
evening she had been to y
Lake Waccan.iw "niu! t -ρ<>ί"
where her tir.-t dati left with
out her Sin· later H"t a :de
tu tin- "Sand Box." a Lumber
:iver dune« hall with a second
coir.panion It was thru, -ho
acknowledged to the attorney,
that she met Nealey who took
liei. the othei girl and .< second
boy to the Cartrette homo
where he supposivelv lived.
They were joined i)v other |>e«>
> pie and at one time the sills
wen· in ttie company «»t seven
men.
1 Cross - examination of ".he
second mil brought to liuht in
formation that the victim did
go into another room u ith
Cartrette but that no outcries
I were heard. The witness relat
ed that she called to her girl
I friend in the bedroom and ask
I ed that they go home to which
1 "I'll be there in a minute" was
the reply. When the siirl made
her appearance, she not a clip
tot coffee and took it to Cart
j J ette.
(Cartrette previously told
; investigators that he was drunk
ι and had no knowledge of any
such incident.)
Accor«."nii to testimony the
I gil ls were '/ken near their
j home and left to make the rest
of the distance on foot.
AN EDITORIAL . . .
Riegel Tax Bill
Representative Arthur Williamson has intro
duced a hill in the General Assembly that would
increase the county taxes of Riegel Paper
C'on.pany at Riegelwood by $ll.*>.O0O a year.
Now there i? no doubt that the county could
ι use this money. Any county or municipality is
almost always in a position ol' needing additional
tax revenue. But in this instance, we do not
believe in trying1 to cook the goose that has laid
I the golden egg.
Riegel Paper Company is the only heavy
industry we have in Columbus County. They pay
ι excellent wages to many, many people and have
indeed raised the standard of living and per
capita income substantially for a large number
of families.
The procurement of this industry was a great
day for Eastern North Carolina. We need many,
many other similar plants to help us pull our
ΐ selves up by the bootstraps to a position of re
spect in industrial payroll.
ι ' Now it may well be that Riepel Paper should
-j pay more taxes than they are now paying. It
! is also very possible that they might willingly
increase their valuation and thus their tax bill.
This we don't know. But we are firm in our
'; belief that this move should lie made between
II Riegel and the Columbus County Commissioners
in a friendly and amiable manner. We do not
'■ believe that bills in the General Assembly is the
answer.
r We want and need other industry. It .Lust
;y doesn't seem r^usonable to u*. that w. shoul '
deliberately antagonize the one heavy industry
it. that we have .
Ernest Stevens' Blueberry Farm Yields Second Harvest
His second blueberry harv
esting time means s«mi I pro
duction unit some return on \<x
investment of several year
standing lor Ernest Stevens <·Ι
Tabor City.
With Stevens are scores ··!
other eastern North Carolin,
farmers who have developed ;
S2 million a year bluebcrrj
crop. It is an expanding cm··)
ind with market promotion ;t.·
potential hasn't been reached
Stevens anct other grower
point ι ait.
Though the actual a reap
is small, only about 2.500, llv
amount of return is great am
the amount of money invest.·«
in that acreage is eiionnou.·
Blueberries ;'re a costly er«>
•ο the potential return mus
•>e high. Actually. Stevens an
ther* point <>tit. blueberries
ptovide ;ι ! 1 iΤ net retlllli p.'t
• it'll than tobacc ·.
Serontl Harvest
Steven.- took his first real
»·.«! ■ ·.·.· t iri-m his plants l ist
pnnj;. This vi.nr lhoyarebear
luaviiv. despi;·· some 11*011
ulv> during the ρ ist year.
Like seoies of other biueber
ly producers Stevens now
pen<'..· l is mornings in the
fieid .-upi rvising the picking
crew. Hi wife and a few other
;>e<.p!" work in a make-shitt
pack shed grading and cov
>in>: tin· pint cups and phu'in·!
them in -ittraetive l'J-pint car
tons. During the afternoons
Suveils carries tvi berries ■<
> ■ in k t a» Burg.'iw
! Wiiii more growers coming
1 -i t p.oiiuetii η in the Loris
Tabor C'itv and Supply areas,
liny hi.jH· tu arrange fi»r a
UtK k picK-tip at Supply during
tlii· »eighth "f tlu· season.
Two Varieties
Stevens has the Murphy ami
\V lent*. varieties. The Murphy
will proftece more. The Wal
cott is mure profitable because
its berries ripen earlier in the
sea>< ill.
The vines, filled with the
dark blue colored ripe berries
and even more green berries
represent some five years *>t
hard Work on the part of Stev
ens and his tamily.
Like numerous other farm
er?·. Stevens has found blue
berries m ike an excellent sup
plementary crop t<> his tobacco,
with the bi (igest part of the
blueberry work coming be
twccn tobacco periods— norm
al !>, that is.
This year he has gone thro
ugh Iiis tobacco almost contin
ually. topping it to torn· strung
growth on suckers after the
original tops started buttoning
too low.
Insert Troubli·
The blueberry farmer said he
was worried fur a time early
in the spring that some insect
wa> cleaning his plants <>ui "f
blooms. Some type ot larvae
gut into some ot the buds and
it took some studying on the
part of phmt experts to figure
out the pest.
A little insecticide took care
of the situation quickly and
easily, once the insect was de
termined and the proper con
trol chemical named
This is one of the problems!
all berry and fruit growers
face, perhaps even mure th.jn
tobacco growers.
It seems, Stevens says, that
»•very sort of Iruit and berry
plant is a tasty lunch to scores
ol insect p«-sts "We have to Lie
«in the wat h ;ill the time and
thfii. during picking, we can't
use many chemicals."
He is wondering if he failed
to prune his vines sharply
enough. Some show indication
of bearing too many berries. It
thi> occurs many berries fail
to make adequate si/.»· and In -
come a waste
Need Γηιηϊηκ
"You have to prune berries
until! a bird can fly through
the vines between the branches
in the wint«·!." he commented.
Stevens added the same is
ι in« · >'t his grapes and peaches.
While chocking blueberries
Stevens mentioned he had
some Marcus peach trees that
have already been harvested.
This variety blossoms at the
legular time. However, its
peaches require only eight
weeks from blossom to matur
ity. thus coming in long before
the normal peach varieties >f
the area.
But for the next touplc of
weeks il will l>< blueberries,
morning, noon and evening ts
he gets his expensive crop o|f
t·· market. Between blueberry
needs he will squeeze in some
tobacco field work this being
\ ne of the years when tobacco
lequiies about double the nor
mal amount of tending.
- Bjt^Y pKoni'CKR _ Although ho*
*> has been working with blueberries some five or
»ix yearn, Ernest Stevens of Tabor City is only
now taking his second full harvest from his
tl field«. Blueberries are a slow and costly crop
to develop.
wwMf mm
PACKING FOR MARKET — Mrs. Stevens is
rapping the pint cups and placing them in 12
pint market cartons ready for the market.
MAID OF ΒΙΛΈ— Auburn-haired Margaret
Callihan of Tabor City docs have blue eyes to
match the blue of the herrief« in the crate she
is carrying into the packing shed on the Ernest
Stevens farm near here.