Fishermen’s Miami voyage yields strong bass catches
A Cocoa Florida fishing party recounts a weeklong trip aboard the Dalton Special with Joe Jacobs, Grover, and E Swois. They report 24 bass weighing 12 pounds each, plus multiple big catches off the St Johns coast. The letters note luck, bites, and praise for the crew and daily paper updates.
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Cocoa
St Riting
Joe Jacobs
Ant & E Swois
Dirie Tire Comte c
Jacobs
Rn Jacobs
St Tohe
Florida
Farmers Day fete planned in Tabor City on Sept 6
A big Farmers Day is planned in Tabor City next Wednesday September 6 with donations totaling over 1900 from local merchants. Fred Kirby and Briarhoppers will entertain all day, Beers Barnes circus to perform in the evening, and tobacco farmers selling on the market will be eligible for gifts.
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Tabor City
Tabor
Fred Kirby
WBT
Charlotte
Briarhoppers
Beers-Barnes
Fonvielle Appeals Baptist Help for New Building Fund
E W Fonvielle told Mr Tabor Baptist that additional funds are needed for the churchs building addition. Donations are requested promptly as the project nears completion, with total costs estimated around 40000 dollars and the building cost not exceeding 35000 dollars.
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Fonvielle
Baptist
E.W. Fonvielle
Mr. Tabor Baptist Church
Mr. Fonviello
Baptist Youth Rally Held Here Friday
A Baptist Youth Rally took place Friday afternoon at Mount Tabor Baptist Church starting at 2 o clock. Delegates attended from Chadbourn Fair Bluff Whiteville and Tabor City with a program including devotional talks by Rev John Biddle and Rev E W Glass and songs and prayers. The time and place committee chaired by Mrs Warren Cook recommended two rallies yearly with the next planned for March 1951 in the Western area.
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Mount Tabor Baptist Church
Cerro Gordo Candbourn
Fair Blatt
Whiteie
Tabor City
Christ
Cc. Gantt
Chadbourn
E. W. Glass
B. W. Fonvielle
Stes
Jd. A. Mills
Warren Conk
Walter Gary Sarvis Claimed By Death
Walter Gary Sarvis, 55, died unexpectedly in a doctors office in Loris on Monday afternoon. A well known farmer, funeral rites were held at Mt. Zion church with Rev. Robert Carter. burial followed in the church cemetery. Survived by his wife Bertha, one son J. W., four daughters, one brother, five sisters.
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Walter Gary Sarvis
Loris
3. C
Mt. Zion
Robert Carter
Bertha Sarvis
J. W
Josephine Fowler
Marie Norris
Jenerue Hous
Vernon
Gladys Sarvis
Samuel Sarvis
Ocean Drive
Lillie Strickland
Beulahre
Mynnie Granger
Ada Mincey
Dell Strickland
L Fipps Honored At Dinner For F L Fipps Sr
A dinner honoring F L Fipps Sr was hosted at his home on Tuesday evening August 22. Family and relatives attended with a white linen tablecloth and mixed flowers as centerpieces. A program committee was formed by Rev P C Gantt with members Mrs R C Foster Mrs R G Bass Mrs E W Glass and Mrs Reece Burroughs, and piano solo by Anita Fonvie lte preceded prayers.
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F. L. Fipps, Sr
No Protests Submitted On Pireway Bridge Project
Local officials report no protests filed by noon Tuesday on the Pireway bridge project. Army engineers in Charleston expect final approval and construction to proceed, with the fixed span bridge crossing the Wac jemaw river at Pireway spanning 320 feet.
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Pireway Bridge
Tinent
Ohio
J. McMcGougan
D. H. Jordan
W. F Cox
J. Elroy Bell
Charleston
Corps of Engineers of the Army
Wacjeamaw
Pireway
Supreme Court Will Hear School Case Transfer of bond funds
The case challenges moving 95 000 in bond money from Old Dock and Guideway to a new central high school. Judge Burgwyn dissolved a temporary restraining order, allowing construction plans to proceed, with an appeal planned by Wilmington lawyers Alton Lennon and Isaac Wright.
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Old Dock
Central High School
State Supreme Court
Alton Lennon
Isaac Wright
Wilmington
W. H. S. Burgwyn
Board of Education
Board of County Commissioners
Ilegal
Guideway
Burgwyn
Rural driving safety urged by extension agent
Charles D. Raper, county agent, cites that nearly 250000 farm residents are hurt in motor vehicle crashes annually. He promotes rural traffic safety with National Safety Council rules including speed adaptation, rightward driving, proper passing, railroad crossing vigilance, load limits, and visible lighting on tractors and implements.
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Charles D. Raper
State College Extension Service
National Safety Council
Luther Mincey Killed in Wreck Near Fair Bluff
Luther Mincey a 59 year old farmer near Fair Bluff was killed when his stalled car on Highway 904 was struck from behind by a 1950 Pontiac convertible driven by Roger Richardson 24. Richardson suffered severe chest injuries. Coroner H Hugh Nance said an inquest would be held. Mincey died en route to Columbus County hospital near his home three miles southeast of Fair Bluff.
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Luther Mincey
Fair Bluff
Roger Richardson
Mincey
Everett Arnaiz
Hatal
Richardson
Tabor City
Arnaiz
H. Hugh Nance
Columbus
Klan Gun Fight Leaves Conway Officer Dead
Details of a Ku Klux Klan confrontation in Myrtle Beach remain sketchy three days after a police officer died. James Daniel Johnson 42 was shot in the back while leaving a dance hall as about 60 robed Klansmen and an unknown number of Black suspects exchanged fire. Authorities say 300 shots were fired in front of the seaside venue and concert hall with several people wounded. Funeral services were held in Conway for Johnson who leaves a wife and three children.
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Myrtle Beach
Conway
Associated Press
James Daniel Johnson
Johnson
State Penitentiary
Columbia
S. C
Charlie Fitzgerald
Myr
Fitzgerald
Ing
Gene Nichols
Charlie Vance
Cynthia Harrell
Jonson W
Figerald
North Carolina
Thomas L. Hamilton
Dragon
KKK
South Carolina
South
Claude R. MacMillan
Ditrolman
Fitz “Place
James Monroe Johnson
Bill Randell Johnson
John Dan Johnson
Korea
Ernestine and
Bila Rae Johnson
R S Group of Motorists Must Replet for Renewals
In Raleigh NC the B S T group of motorists faces license renewal exams as part of a North Carolina DMV program. The group, dominated by common surnames like Smith Roberts Taylor Thomas, has about 185 000 members. Only about 40 000 have been examined so far, with exams opening on July 1 and lasting through December 31.
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Raleigh
N. C
B.S.T
North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles
Smith
Roberts
Bowers
Stephens
Stevens
Stevens), ‘Taylor and
Thomas
Ane
New Minister Rev Lester C Parkes Joins Old Zion Church
Rev Lester C Parkes has taken duties as pastor of Old Zion Wesleyan Methodist church. He previously led First Wesleyan in Washington DC and Central Wesleyan in Charlotte NC. He studied at Wesleyan Methodist College in Marion Indiana and pastored in Rustburg Virginia for two years. He and Mrs Parks have a daughter Grace eight and a son David three and a half.
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Lester C. Parkes
Old Zion Wesleyan Methodist Church
First Wesleyan Methodist Church
Washington, D. C
Central Wesleyan Church
Charlotte
N. C
Wesleyan Methodist College
Marion
Indiana
Rustburg
Parks
Grace
David
Tobacco Prices Rise as Local Market Still Blocks
The Tabor City tobacco market posts rising averages and nears 5 million pounds for the season while block sales persist. Through Tuesday the market sold 4,733,308 pounds at an average of 55.04 per hundred, with some days near 59. Insured losses from a house fire on J P Brown are also noted.
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Tabor City
Tabor
Legion Aims for Record Membership in 1951
The American Legion plans three Area conferences in August and September to map 1951 membership drives ahead of the 32nd National Convention in Los Angeles October 9–12, 1950. Leaders from Department, District and Post levels will outline blitz plans at Lexington, Brevard and Goldsboro events with speakers including Department Commander J Hue Alexander and Executive Vice Commander Wiy Pickens.
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American Legion
Ing
Los Angeles
California
Wayne Post
Goldshoro
North Carolina Legion
Elshhouse
Seymore Johnson Field
Lexington
Brevard
Jenide
Jhueh Alexander
Kanapolis
Wi“iy Pickens
Raleigh
B. A. Brooks
GoGetters Club
Jake Nurkin
Dureuigings We
Clubwomen to Meet In Fairmont
District 10 of the North Carolina Federation of Woman's Clubs will hold its meeting in Fairmont on Saturday. Luncheon reservations close September 4 as the Tabor City Woman's Club president urges all local clubwomen to contact her promptly.
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North Carolina
Mrs. D. C. Hooks Rites Held at Gethsemane Baptist
Mrs. D. C. Hooks 59 of route 3 Nichols died after a two year illness. Funeral services were held today at 10:30 am at Gethsemane Baptist Church conducted by Rev. B. L. Rains. Interment followed at Rehobeth cemetery. She left a husband, five sons including Hoyt and J B Hooks of Conway and J W Hooks of Loris, a U S Army sergeant Lloyd Hooks, Paul of the home, five daughters and numerous siblings and 12 grandchildren.
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D. C. Hooks
Nichols
Gethsemane Baptist Church
B. L. Rains
Methodist Rehobeth
Hoyt
J.B
Conway
J. W
Loris
Lloyd
U. S. Army
Paul
Ethelle Floyd
R. M. Gerald
Gallivants Ferry
B. W. Williams
Brice Hatfield
Mullins
Patty
Gerald
W. W. Gerald
California
J. P Gerald
Carrie Lundy
A. M. Booth
Myrtle Beach
Z. H. Alford
Hobson Hamilton
Bayboro
Tabor City Sets $1050 Quota for Boy Scout Fund Drive
South Central District launches a drive aiming total $5070 for 1950 with Whiteville $2315 Chadbourn $980 Cerro Gordo $175 Fair Bluff $250 Lake Waccamaw $125 Evergreen $175 and Tabor City contributing $1050 toward the council camp near Raeford. The campaign runs all week with Frank Ox Yorris chairing the solicitation committee.
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South Central District
Whiteville
Tabor City
Chadborun
Cerro Gordo
Fair Bluff
Lake Waccamaw
Evergreen
Waywouters
Hatel
S. P. Smith
Coun
Ox *Yorris
J. L. Winstead
UAE Goldfmen
Winston Gore
P. Smith
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