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Newspaper
Tabor City Tribune
Location
Tabor City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1963
Page
1
Phope Jaycees plan funding for a new community park using proceeds from a birthday calendar fundraiser. Local volunteers organize printing and sales to support improvements and amenities at the park site. Proceeds will cover equipment, landscaping, and event programming costs.
North Carolina farmer Arce Powell travels to Woodstock Ontario to cure tobacco on Canadian farms. He reports curing time differences, larger kilns, and green harvesting to beat frost, with seven to eight day curing and 1300-stick kilns versus 600-stick barns. Powell notes Canada’s allotments and market contrasts with Eastern North Carolina tobaccos.
Local sewing firms Tabor City expand rapidly with Sportee Corporation increasing workers from 23 to 30 at Fifth Street quarters and Tabor Products Manufacturing Co adding over 25 staff to surpass 90 total. Week payroll at the lingerie plant rises to about 3.00 as more floor space and equipment are installed under Leonard Martin of Atlanta Lingerie.
George Foley, son of Missy Berry, is named recipient of a Lewisburg College scholarship. He plans to pursue a mathematics degree and join a school athletics program, likely basketball. Foley has two brothers Keith and Vondes and two sisters Allee and Savih Ruth.
The Tabor City Civitan Club offers fried fish and corn dodgers Monday night at Lake Tabor from 7 p m until the fish is gone. Proceeds fund Civitan projects including purchasing a movie camera for the high school to aid athletics and school activities. The club also backs the Junior Chamber of Commerce in developing a community park and recreation area.
Adrline Service Sson announces a new twin city passenger service via five twin engine planes based at Tabor City on Turis Road. South Conte Nivlnes Inc and South Central Airline officials say operations could begin tomorrow with service to Twin City airport, pending formal approval and coverage details.
Ray Wicker reports a bleak start to the border tobacco markets for the 196% season. Prices ranged from mid to high teens, with Tabor City selling around 85,000 pounds so far and averaging over 120 cents per hundred. Officials urged federal action while noting no major price shifts across South Carolina and border markets amid overall weak demand.
Town commissioners raised building permit fees from two to six dollars, allocating three dollars to the town, two to the inspector, with the old rate of two dollars yielding equal parts. They approved a bid from Prince Motor Co for a new street maintenance truck. The board expanded permit facilities to residents within half a mile of the city limits for a five dollar fee and to commercial establishments for ten dollars. Fogging with spray would occur only inside city limits. The church at US Toll and Williams Street would provide materials for sidewalks. a portrait of hiring a disabled person for a clerk job was discussed but no vote was taken.
Smith, a 49 year old inmate from Tabor City, died at White Lake Prison Camp on Monday July 30 from heart disease and related conditions. He was serving a three month sentence for non-support and was under medical care with no work assignments due to poor health. Coroner Gordon Kinlaw investigated the death at the request of prison officials and with the prison physician.
Tabor City students will receive certificates Friday night from the Wilmington Institute. Juni Flag! School Students currently being held at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Austin Hutham, son and Mrs. James A. Hut ham, is taking courses in chemistry and biology at the institute. Betty Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cox, is taking a course in History The Lower Cape Fear, and Chip Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cox, is studying marine biology.
Several tobacco growers in the Twin City area face ruin after a hailstorm wipes out nearly all their crop. About 150 farmers express despair over the low tobacco prices and lingering apathy amid recovering conditions.
Jimmy Rogers, son of Mr and Mrs R R Rogers, named production coordinator for a new half million dollar TV production center to be built by WHTV in Charlotte. The expansion allows Channel 3 to boost in house production of shows and commercials, with local talent used when possible and New York models later. Jet travel enables same day return from shoots. An additional division of Jefferson Productions will join the operation.
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