12 Jan 1949
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Newspaper
Tabor City Tribune
Location
Tabor City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1949
Page
1
Fragmented OCR text mentions Billy Whitted and Tabor City with references to paving work and an office in an unclear statement. The readable portions imply a local notice involving a name, place, and a questionable spelling or record, but details are garbled.
The Tabor football squad announced captains for the 1949 50 season with [ox and Drew] named co captains in recognition of leadership. City High power and 1949 50 context appear in captions and event notes alongside guests at the HECENT VISITORS Parks Jenkins event.
The Tribune reports a sequence of local items including a Burlington home visit and a senior figure named Mr McGougan. The notes reference a western route through Charlotte City as a notable moment in the week.
Local efforts target paving the Fair Bluff road and Lewis Street to connect with highway commission work. State paving is expected on cross streets to link highways and farm to market roads, with South Carolina work from Green Sea to the Tabor Fair Bluff route near Fronts Strickland's.
Tabor High school's boxing squad will meet Chadbourn Thursday night at the Tabor gym in its first matches of the season. The session will start at 7 30. Led by Norwood Carlisle at 85 pounds and Charles Cox at 125, the team includes Calvin Bennett Don Fowler Wade Duncan Willis Duncan Walden Adams Delbert Larimore Roy Duncan Waymon Ward Jimmy Cox Eldridge Wray and Avery Piver under Coach Kalaf.
Gapway residents hosted relatives and friends including the Faulk and Turbeville families, Buffkins, Enzor, Herring, Strickland and Worley circles. Visitors traveled from Tabor City Mullins Mount Olive Fair Bluff and Bladenboro for meals, shopping trips, illnesses and family time.
Mrs Ottis Cox is now up and about after a several weeks illness. Family and friends report she is recovering and in improving spirits.
R Crange Harrelson, prominent Tabor City resident and former state senator, is reported to be in critical condition after a stroke Saturday. Doctors planned to move him to Duke Hospital on Wednesday for treatment.
Rev. Robert C. Foster of Whiteville spoke to the Tabor City Rotarians at the Supper Club Monday night, noting courtesy confidence character imagination and religion as untaxed assets. He is pastor of First Baptist Church in Whiteville and was introduced by Leslie Thompson editor of the Whiteville News Reporter.
Mr and Mrs J W Peay and their son Jack left Monday for Charlotte to attend a Ford dealers convention scheduled for Tuesday.
The Tabor City Tribune notes a building boom with many new houses and an emerging Sarvis Court subdivision on Green Sea Road. Completed homes include works by C. G. Westmoreland and Horace Roberts, plus businesses remodeled or opened on Pridgea and Fourth to Eighth streets.
Art Huffard reports that Florida fish are biting and critics are wrong about bait. He caught trout at Griffin Lake, Fla., last week, the same spot where four other Tabor fishermen had no luck the prior week.
Tabor high school's boys basketball team heads to Whiteville for Friday's season finale after an eight game win streak. Stanley led the Tuesday scoring with 15 as Loris toppled the girls 27-12 while Grice and Graham paced the girls. Tabor beat Chadbourn, Evergreen, Loris, Elizabethtown, Floyds, Fair Bluff, and Elizabethtown again with scores listed.
Drug store expansion planned by Cameron Drug will begin this week in the space of the former Tabor Shoe Shop. Owner H G Cameron said an arch will connect the buildings and the prescription department will move into the former shoe shop area. Rear seating will aid customers waiting for prescriptions and showcases will be added to enlarge merchandise display. Mrs Tally Blackman of Columbia is staying with her daughter, Mrs Ted Hughes.
Iron Hill residents share visits and family news. A Hat tied to Schild's store in Tabor City appears in a New York jewelry heist probe, drawing detectives to town before the trail runs cold. Joe Simon is linked by police with the suspect, but alibis and a scar on the robber’s cheek complicate the case.
Miss Nell Koons of Wilmington spent several days last week visiting in the home of Mrs. Roland Baldwin. Miss Myrtle Koons of Chadbourn visited in the Baldwin home last Tuesday.
The Tabor City Merchants Association hosts a Ladies Night dinner with Greenwood Thompson of the North Carolina Merchants Association speaking on benefits of local and state outfits. Retiring President A A White presided. guests included Gordon Lewis and Willard Cale. Plans mentioned include restoring the association credit bureau and a larger Carolinas Yam Festival next October.
Joe Watson of Wilmington son of Chief and Mrs L R Watson spent the weekend here with his parents. Mr and Mrs Robin Norris visited relatives in Sanford Sunday.
Edwin Wright of Tabor City led early tax listings for 1949 in South Williams township. Tax Lister Mrs. Clayton Spivey urged residents to file promptly to avoid a last minute rush as listings proceed slowly.
Mr and Mrs Darell Jenkins of Freedom Wyoming visit Mrs Jenkins parent. Mr and Mrs Alton Duncan and other couples make business trips to Whiteville Loris and Tabor City. Lettie Sellers visits Dillon Jacobs in Tabor City.
A jumble of names and social updates mentions Harold, Shirley, Bermey, and families like Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson with daughter Louise. It describes visitations, guests in town, and Sunday gatherings, illustrating community gossip and school life fodder from the era.
Mrs Letha Mae Bozeman of Tabor City Route three died in Columbus County hospital Sunday night after a lingering illness. Funeral was Tuesday at 3 PM from Sandy Plain Baptist church with Rev Clyde Prince officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Survived by her parents Mr and Mrs J J Smith husband Lacy Bozeman four brothers James F Smith Myrtle Beach Samuel R Smith Fort Bragg Thomas Smith at home Harvey Smith US Army in Japan two sisters Mrs Charlie R Simmons Wilmington and Mrs A C Boyd Wilmington.
Glenn Todd of Loris spent the day in Tabor City Monday visiting his sister, Mrs. Hartford Fowler.
Mrs Lizzie Sellers Mrs How ap Fowler and Mr and Mrs G Jacobs returned Friday from a Diets tour of Florida.
Mrs Fred Jernigan and Mrs Miriam Garrell took a Florence trip on Tuesday as part of a local outing.
Mrs IM Hardee Mrs Bob Smith and child from Laurinburg appear in a brief evening note alongside W H Shelley and S as readable in the fragment. The text is incomplete but identifies three named women and a child with two other individuals.
Tabor City will welcome its first displaced person from Europe later this month. Eldred Hickman, a local florist, will employ the orphan from a shipload en route to the United States. The child, ages 13 to 16, will be placed under the guidance of Frank Howard, a Whiteville Catholic priest, with further placements planned.
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