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"Tabor City — The Town With A City Future99
ΤΛΒΟΗ C ITY. NORTH C.IKoT.INA WEDNESDAY, JULY 12. 1961 '
STATES
People Shop From
The Pages Of Their
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10c PER COPY—S3.M A YEA·
&sr Insurance &tite
Increase Possible
F@r Accident-Prone
λ: st North Carolina drivers
·. llt'lit 1 al.llll:iI\ fr«.m
9 '·■■ s ι driver insur.iiice plan,
i;·. u .«iici· industry spokes
: ii lest lie:i yestc-ulay at a
l-ui/'it hi aring called by Insur
. Comou..- inner Charles F. .
Gold.
i'aul Μ i/o, r.ssist int manag-'
ι ι tin- .\<>rth Carolina Auto
iiio iit· r..t· At.ministratiee
< ο lie;·. «':s.-Ussed in deta.l the
·.·;. i.invr )·1 .η recently sub
mitted to Commissioner (' ·Ιί
t:.< ate aumin!strati\e οί
i' « i: Loi.aii ol tin.· eompan
I». · :»ing ai:t. :nt>b le iiub.l
ity in*ur. nee in tin· state.
>a»s 78* ··»· ' "00 Would
Qualify
IV. \e SJ.V. jut of 1,000
liiv.it·· passenger car «»wiuis.
w-.uld qtiali'v for a III per- ,
ci ι·' sate driver discount of;'
tiit'ir premiums because ol !
tlu.ii· r<i· ii driving record fori
^ tu«- previous throe years."
But. if Mr. and Mrs. Co- j
Ηιΐιΐίηι County dented a find
er costing $5(1 or more to re- 1
pair, iie or she would he a
inong the number required to
pay higher premiums.
"In North Carolina. 195 out
ol 1.000 motorists will have to
pay In; her premiums. These
accident-prone drivers will be
φ assign·*.! points on in»· oasis ol
thiii" <!i ivιιΐ'ή ι ecoros and their
premiums will be adjusted ac
cordingly."
The results of a survey made
in Tal» r Ci'.v Tuesday suggest
that one third of the area's
drivers would be required to
p^sy higher premiums if thy
safe driver plan is accepted.
\ v. he . ens two ,- thirds woiV%
' ha ν ■ t' a pre^ärrA r».ou<p-l
^ oy a 11» percent discunfT
"iii wly licensed drivers who
h »ν·.· not completed three years
of driving experience and have
not ihvI! . iiyie! any points
will n.ty the basic premiums,"
Μi/i i. \pla in < 1 to the commis
sion··:;. aiiii nij, "Twenty out
i f tvery l.oon motorists will
pay the basic premiums."
Gives Details of l'lan
Mr. Mi/.e explained in detail
ζ'λ how the safe driver plan
works.
Under the safe driver insur
((Vntinued On Page 2)
Lay Conducts
Ag Teachers'
Workshop Here
Λιι electrical workshop was
conducted in Tabor City Fri
day for vocational agriculture
teachers of Columbus, Bladen
and Robeson counties.
Fred Lay Jr. of the Tabor
City faculty in;ti ucted the 15
persons who atended the course.
Lay graduated from Coyne
Electrical School, Chicago, in
194« previous to enrollment in
V State College.
Attending were S. L. Jack
son. Tabor City; V. F. Teal.
Fairmont lligl) school; John
T. Mills. Fairgrovc: Billy Gore.
It. V. Cart rette, Nakina: Wis
ter O. Jackson Jr.. Williams
Township; B. J. Brady. Ever
green; Frank Goss. Joe Sellers,
Whiteville.
John B. Waddell. Acme-Del
co; W. H. McClure, Clarktoir
J. M. Taylor. Ellerby; J W.
Wilson. Littlefield; Earl R.
Sheppard and J· D. Jacobs.
Pembroke.
Ν. B. Chesnutt. district su
pervisor of vo-ag teachers, was j
also present.
>ENCland Meet
In Wilmington
' The quarterly meeting <ji tne j
SENCland Development Asso
ciation has been s'-heduled for
Thursday, July J3 in Wilm
ington.
Directors of Columbus Co-1
•inty asked to attend are Mrs. |
Earl Cartrette, Tabor City Rl;
W. Horace Carter, Tabor City;
George Goi. 1. Whiteville; Mar
vin Worrell, Whiteville R2;
Billy II».'ks. Whiteville HI;
ind Charies Council, H:ills
boro.
T he meeting, slated to begin
at 3 p. in., will be held in the
conference room of Coopera
tive Savings and Loan Associ
ation, Second and Market
streets.
Two Cf Town ieeeive Degrees
In Meredith College Ceremony
I ^ Mary Margaret Fowler and
\ C.a>k· Kelly graduated from
Mi n t'ilh College at com·
»n I i··, ment. each receiving
bachelor of aits degrees.
B· i t Miss Ki-lly and Miss
Fowler are 1ί»57 graduates of
Tabor City iii;4h School.
At Meredith Miss Fowler
majoivd in religion, arid serv
ed on the Greater Council of
H the Baptist Student Union for
two years, ami on the execu
tive board of the Sociology
Club. She also held member
ships in the Astrokenton so
ei· tv. the Freeman Region
elub, and served on the execu
tive committee of the annual
f;il! home-coming plays in her
junior year.
Miss Kelly carried a major
in Ms»< ry and pursued an ac
' %· eelerated program which al
low I her to finish her work
for her degree in January. She
returned to the college for the
June omtTK'i'C'-'rvR'nt program,
having taught the spring se
mester in the Roanoke Rapids
hool system.
She served on the campus
is president of the Interna
tional Relations club, on the
executive board nf the annual
I tall homecoming plays, and as
a member of the Student Lea
gue of Women Voters.
Mi'-s Keliy attended the
Mode! U. N. Assembly as a
delegate her junior year, and
>n the campus held member
ships in the Barber Science
cltib, the Astrotekton Society
tnd the cc liege chapter of the
American Cuild of Organists.
Too. she was chosen for mem
bership in Meredith College
Chorus.
Miss Fowler is now on the
staff of the Columbus County
Department of Welfare Miss
Kelly will be married July 22
to Ens. Charles Holt Garrison,
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GAYLF. QELLY
MARY MARGARET FOWLER
ELECTRICAL WORKSHOP hehl in Tabor City school agriculture de
partment's buiWiiiiK Friday, had representatives from three counties in
attendance. I'Yeil Lav Jr. supervised the workshop, which included wiring
projects and test-equipment construction.
T€ Merchant's Association
Reports 1961 Favorable;
Second Half Still To Go
Λη optimistic look was taken
at Tabor City's growth and at·-,
compiishment record for the
first half of iiHil at the Μ er- ι
chant's Association Mid-Year
Banquet Monday night.
Reporting to a large turnout j
of civic club members, their·
wives and special guests, Ken
Lovell, executive secretary of
the Merchant's Association, cit
ed the following achieveitints
as major ones for the associa
tion so far this year.
<—A successful membership
drfve which was begun in .Ian
uary, resulting in u 37 per cent
increase in membership thus
far. There are now 89 members
in good standing.
—Dues from members
amounting to $8,467 through
the end of the year, creating a
situation whereby there is no
indiC£',t>n of a need to uk
memt '.s for additional funds
·<» i.Jfry 'on association pro
jects.
—A successful drive to in
the Employment Security Com
inision to set up an office here
making it no longer necessary
for applicants to travel to
Whiteville to file.
—A successful effort to get
automobile license plates avail
able for purchase locally by
19K2.
—A successful effort to make
crease local participation in the
Blue Cross-Blue Shield hos
pital and medical insurance
program, resulting in an in
crease from 12 to 49 group
members.
W. Horace Carter president
of the Merchant's Association
expressed appreciation to the
membership for the construct
ive accomplishments, but sound
ed a word of warning about
any lack of continued effort if
the second half ol 1961 is to
match the standard set in the
first six months.
Of particular concern is the
nil too apparent lack of en
thusiasm among local and area
farmers for growing sweet po
tatoes. a crop which added a
million dollars to the local
economy in 1953. but which has
fallen steadily since.
The importance of making
Tabor City a desirable loca -
(Continued On Page 2)
Nathan Wilson holds Ihr Diamondback
Rattlesnake (now dead) that he encountered
last week on highway 76 out of Fair Bluff.
Five-Fool Diamondback Rattler
Killed By Tabor City Merchant
Nülhnn Wilsoji, owner of fhe
Wilson Produce Co. here,
wasn't out looking for trouble
last Thursday afternoon, hut
he found it anyway—In the
form of a five-foot diamonrl
back rattlesnake.
"I was driving south on
highway 76 about three miles
out of Fair Bluff." Wilson
said, "when I saw him come
out of the weeds alongside the
road. He started to jump back,
hut I cut over and tried to run
over him."
Wilson nudged the dead
snake with his shoe, indicating
where the tire had crossed.
"I thought ι killed him and
I stopped my car and got out.
Then I saw that I hadn't even
slowed him up. He was raising
up about three feet of the
(Continued On Pag# 2)
Waller Farmer
ί Is New Deputy
Wolter Funner. a Western
North Carolinen who has
called Ransom Township home
tor the past 20 years, has been
named us a deputy on the staff
of Columbus County Sherifl Α
Ι.. (Ben) Duke .
Sheriff Duke, who announc
ed the appointment of Farmer
Monday, said that the new de
I puty comes to the county law
1 force highly recommended.
; both bv his neighbors and oth
l ers in the county.
I Farmer will replace A. J.
• (All Fa son. who resigned re
cently to return to pipe-fitting
work as a construction fore
man . .
Farmer has been a civil
service employee for the pa.st
six and a half years, working
as a painter in government
construction work from South
Carolina to Maryland. Prior to
that he had been employed
with Dupont in construction
work at Aiken, S. C.
Though this will be his first
civilian law-enforcement duty.
Farmer will not come on the
sheriff's force as an entirely
"green" hand. He was a milit
ary policeman during his 22
I months of service with the
Marine Corps, which was serv
ed mainly in the South Pacific,
beginning in 1943.
A native of Sparta in Alle
gheny County, he moved to
Ransom Township in 1940. He
is married to the former Miss
Ruby Reaves of Delco and
they have two children. Walt
er Earl. 18. and Leii Tilda. 13
yeari old.
LueTabor Race
Set For Jnly 23
Roats and boatmen from
I No'th and South Carolina will
I take to Lake Tfbor Sunday af
ternoon. .Ttilν 23. to compete
in a total or four races.
Three of the races will be
in soecified classes and the
fourth will be a free-for-all.
Pr:7es be siven are S10 for
! each f:·-«* Dlace and S5 for
«aeh second.
AHnvssion to the races,
«nonsore'· bv tho Columbus
I rvtintv Wildlife Club, will be
fiftw cert« All nrofits will W
1 «ο «be Tnhor City Recreation
r"V»~<r,"|j«sion.
T^e r»re scheduled to
ι Wf."jn "t ?:30 n. m.. and W'll he
I ri>n a marked course. Tn
j fnrivnti· η repardin«» entrv on
ι hi. («h'n'ned from Rill or Ed
«·ϊη H'"Umnn. Raeers will not
I *<e charged an entrv fee.
ΓΑΝΝΕΡ V CT.OSED
Because of the limited use
to which it was put last year
after several years of declin
ing use. the cannery was
abandoned wheji the build
ing; program befran at I.orls
High School. The building it
formerly occupied is now an
Ac shop.
Charleston Police Holding
Tabor Man On Murder Rap
Waller Levonne Grainier, a 20-vear-old Tabor
City man, was ordered held on a murder charge by
a Charleston County coroner's jury Thursday.
Killed in a King street scuffle early Saturday,
July 1. was Lestei Drivers, :>o, a Charleston roof
repairman. Driggers was pronounced dead on arrival
at the County Emergency Room by Coroner Jennings
Cauthen. A three-inch incision had penetrated the
man's heart, the coroner disclosed.
ί\ wirmsi u> im· slaving saia
that the stabbing apparently
resulted from an argument in
volving Diggers. three other
men and a woman.
The witness said the group
came cut of the Uptown Cafe
oil King street and they ap
peared to be intoxicated. The
group then started walking
north and after a short dist
ance one of the men pulled a
knife with a curved blade a
bout six inches long, the wit
ness continued.
Another man in the group,
the witness said, pulled a
whiskey bottle from his pock
et and smashed the bottom off
on a nearby water hydrant.
Grasping the bottle neck the
man then shoved the jagged
end near the face of the man
with the knife, the witness
said.
In a short time the man with
the broken bottle seemed to be
cut on the right leg and start
ed running south, the witness
said.
The knife-weilding man was
reported to have followed him
for a short distance and stop
ped when he was quickly out
1 distanced.
During the scuffle, the wit
! n,ss said Diggers and the oth
er man and woman moved
: further north on the street and
were standing in front of a
p.rking jo«. After the man
V'ith th«· kii'fp l.T:'.-d to catch
the ι»»et with a h< tile, he dash
ed bfc< If at th·· >ther members
•f the with th. knife
j held high above his li.-iJ, ti·..
witness said.
I hi· witness said Diggers
; turned to run across the street
when he spotted the attacker
but sprawled face first in the
middle of the pavement when
one of his shoes slipped off.
Diggers rolled over and rais
i ed his right arm in an attempt
to ward off the attack but fail
ed and the knifc-wciider leap·
ed on him and plunged the
knife into his chest, the wit
ness said.
Severn! cars had to swerve
! to avoid running over the two
men. the witness said.
Although wounded. Diggers
was reported to have freed
himself and ran atross the
street where he collapsed be
hind a service station.
The witness said that the
man who attacked Diggers re
turned to the sidewalk and
started pacing back and forth.
At the sight of police cruis
tis he ran through a parking
lot. jumped through a hole in
the rear wall and disappeared.
The assailant was later
t identified as "Larry" Graing
er. a name hv which he is
known in Charleston.
^ Civainger was captured later
1 ^atur a> in Orangeburg and
iek' for the Chariest' η offic
ers. Returned to Charleston
Ke was lodged in jail without
ι privilege of bonH
Picked up as material wit
ni'srs wort· I hi· othci members
of the drink ηκ party, Edwin
C. Pack. Frank Norris and
Ruth Moore, but each was dis
charged under $500 bond fol
lowing the coroner's hearing.
The coroner's jury ordered
that Grainger be hel I for
Grand Jury action. September
t.-rm of general sessions court.
H.D. Club Schedule
Released By Agent
The s hedule of meetings for
the following Home Demon
stration Clubs. July 14-18, was
released by Mrs. Elaine N.
Blake. County Home Econom
ics Agent.
July 14. North Tatum at 8
p. m. with Mrs. I. W West;
Western Prong on the 18th
at the clubhouse at 8 ρ m.;
Sandy Plains. Mrs. Worth
Fowler hostess, on the 18th at
8 p. m.; Cerro Gordo, on the
19th, with Mrs. Bernard Wil
liamson at 3:15 p. m.; White
Marsh at !he Clubhouse on the
20th at 8 p. m.; Lake Wacca
maw on the 20th at 1 p. m.
with Mr». W. Β Best.
NEW FACE IN TOWN is that
of Charles F. Young who has
accepted a position with the
Tabor City Tribune as associ
ate editor. Mr. Young was
was previously a public rcla·
tions officer of United Funds
in Charlotte. Added to his
news-writing duties, he will
assist in advertising and man
agerial responsibilities.
Tobacco Tonr
Set Wed., July 19
The Columbus County an
nual tobacco demonstration
will be held Wednesday, Julv
19. The tour will leave Whitf
ville at 9:00 a.m. and will com
plete the tour aiound
p.m., according to County
Agent Charles Raper.
The tour this year will in
clude a rotation demonstration
that has been in progress for
five years, a fertilizer rate
demonstration, two fertilizer
placement demonstrations. a
demonstration including Cokcr
316 and NC 95 showing these
two varieties under fumigated
and non-fumigated conditions,
and a special nematode control
demonstration
The tour will depart from
the Agricultural Building in
Whiteville at 8:00 a.m. and will
follow this course: 8:20. ar
rive Forrest Callihan—fertil
izer rate demonstration: 8:4(>:
leave Forrest Callihan and ar
rive Junior Fisher at 8:45 for
rotation demonstration: 9:10:
leave Junior Fisher and arrive
Richard Bowen at 9:30 for fer
tilizer placement demonstra
tion: 9:50: leave Richard Bow
en and arrive John Mcpherson
at 10:15 for variety and fumi
gation demonstration: 10:45·
leave John McPherson and ar
rive Tate Soles at 11:00 for
fertilizer placement demonstra
tion: 11:20: leave Tate Sole*
and arrive Earl Norris for spe
cial nematode demonstration:
12:15: leave Earl Norris and
adjourn.
S.C. Leaf Mart Opens Aug. 3;
Tabor City Date Not Yet Set
The opening date for the
South Carolina flue-cured to
bacco auction markets has
been set as August 3 by the
S. C. Tobacco Warehouse As
sociation.
The date, which was approv
ed by the directors of the as
sociation Monday, is a week
earlier than last year's August
fi.
Tabor City warehousemen
said today that the opening
date for the local market has
not as yet boen set. A meeting
to d'scuss and set the date for
the opening here is expected
to be held the first part of
next week.
Tuesday's forecast by the
State Crop Reporting Service
indicates a North Carolina
flue-cured tobacco crop ■
mounting to 810,600,000 pound,
The United States flui—curcd
»•p»p is estimated at 1.233.020.
000 pounds, for a decrcas'.· of
one ρ«τ cent from the 1,250,
635.000 pounds proditced 1 ii>t
year.
Green Sea Home Ec
Department Open
The Home Economic* De
partment of Green Sea High
School will be open Wed
nesday* from 8:30 a. m. to
4 p. m. durinc the months '
of July and ΛακυκΙ, It «an ;
announced today.
Anyone Interested in new
Ιηκ or any other phase of
Home Economic» la Invited
to use the department at
this time, Mr·. McQueen
»aid. addlnf: "I shall be
(lad to aaaist la every way."
for 1961.
Based on reports from grow
ers as of July 1. the agency
said it looks for a yield of
1,774 pounds per acre from
462.000 acres.
This would be an acreage
increase of 4,500 over last
year, and the yield would In
only 62 punds less than the
I960 figure, which was i»n all—
ι time high.
If the forecast holds true,
j the total crop would be 2.4
; per cent below 1960, and 3.4
' per cent short of the 1950-59
ι average.
Yield and production fore
casts for the Border Belt are
103.600.000 pounds, 56.000
acres, 1.850 yield, compared
with the I960 production of j
106,5oG.uw pounds ana a yield |
of 1.930 pound· per acre.