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Newspaper
Tabor City Tribune
Location
Tabor City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1948
Page
1
A funeral service for Taulk of Naken was held at the Na jyednesdiay County hospital with burial in the local cemetery. The deceased left five daughters Mrs. Curt, Mrs. Mary, Katie, Burt, and akina, all of Na. Further details unavailable due to damaged text.
Fire Marshal decries lack of clues hindering arson investigations. Detective notes point to a 1930 Ohio case where a high heat blaze involved an overheated stove and gasolene. A search unearthed a note from an upstate relative linking a factory fire to a family member, influencing the inquiry as investigators question convicts and examine motives amid weeks of work.
Whiteville Production Credit Association officers R Yoder J C Lockie H Collins and others report from a North Carolina conference at Atlantic Beach June 8 9. The event featured credit policy panels and open talks on legal topics with keynote by Julian Scarborough NCC Production Credit Corp. The group serves farmers in Columbus County with loans totaling 425000 to over 600 borrowers among 95 members.
The report notes farmers in Columbus County using double rows of tobacco to boost yields, spacing them at four feet three inches and six inches apart. A 24 year old white mother and her six week old child were injured in a home incident near Tabor City. Sheriff E C Sasser and deputies arrested Legrand Troy, 22, a Black man, near the home and jailed him in Conway before transferring him to the state penitentiary in Columbia for safekeeping. The mother described a Black attacker who demanded her husband’s location, assaulted her, and fled as her screams drew help from a nearby doctor.
The Security Loan Drive in Tabor City will begin with a workers meeting at Mrs. Mary Todd's Friday. The goal is 30000 dollars with about 6000 in bonds already sold. The drive aims to drain money to curb inflation and aid the Marshall plan, with a June 30 deadline to reach the quota.
Saint Paul Methodist church members will meet after the 11 o'clock service Sunday to discuss plans for a new church building or improvements to the current church plant. The session will address construction scope and potential impacts on the congregation.
Jason Norris of Tabor City won a free trip to the Southern Life Insurance convention at Wrightsville Beach. He placed 12th in the state in a competition among company agents, earning the travel prize.
Wilmington candidate Hargrove Bellamy launches a vigorous push in the seventh district as he seeks the House seat vacated by J Bayard Clark. He pledges focus on farmers and local business interests and notes plans for flood control and regional projects. In Tabor City the softball league opens with the Rippers over Independents 12 to 5 before darkness ends play.
The Firestone store owned by G. Garland Fowler of Tabor City opened in Whiteville in a new South Madison Street building. John Fowler, previously manager of Dicus Fowler in Tabor City, heads the staff with D. P. Brown, ex Cole's manager, H. D. Stanley and Bryant Baker also joining the Firestone team.
Two local men tired of hospital life play poker with inmate cards taken from a nurse's desk. After building a pot they joke about their holdings one claims two care gories and three penicillins the other has four castor oils, ending with a light pot win.
American Legion Post 101 will meet Friday night at 8 o clock at the Legion hut to elect officers for the coming year. Commander Ralph Inman asks all members to be present for this important gathering.
Three Columbus men enlist for service in the Regular Army. One Navy veteran from Whiteville joins, with two others from Tabor City and Erwin Jordan in line for three year assignments to the 1st Infantry Division at Fort.
June 30 is the final deadline for World War II veterans to apply for a free vehicle or conveyance. Eligibility requires loss or loss of use of a leg at or above the ankle, with total vehicle cost capped at 1600 dollars. Applications should be filed promptly to ensure processing time before the deadline.
Quote attributed to George Herbert urges steadfast honesty and integrity. concise maxims reflect timeless moral counsel.
The Tabor City Athletic Council reports funds for lights and bleachers are slow with $5,590 pledged. They seek $7,000 for lights before football season and $3,000 more for bleachers. The plan favors loans of $100 repayable with interest from game gate receipts, not outright gifts.
Commencement exercises will be held at Mount Tabor Baptist church Friday at 7 30 pm closing a 10 day Bible school led by principal Mrs C C Leggette. Certificates for perfect attendance will be awarded and department handwork displayed inviting public attendance. The school enrolled 219 students with strong attendance. Meanwhile Columbus County Commissioners again did not approve a welfare budget pending dismissal or removal of Welfare Superintendent Mrs Johnsie Nunn. They plan a joint session with the welfare board to discuss the impasse and consider reforms to extend benefits under the Aid to Dependent Children and other programs while more federal aid could flow into the county.
Jason Norris Lynwood Wright and Orbin Cox attended the state convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Winston Salem last week.
Dallas Texas pastor Dr Marshall T Steel of Highland Park Methodist Church will speak on This Work Responsibility during the Methodist Hour on the Southern Religious Radio Conference. The 1948 Jurisdiction Conference and 1948 General Conference involvement are noted as context. The broadcast at 8 30 am Sunday will be heard on Station WPTF.
Town clerk Percy Brown announced prepaid 1948 taxes are being received with a 2 percent discount for payments made in June. Two taxpayers had already taken the discount, totaling about 40 dollars.
Lawrence W. Ashby, new executive secretary of the Tabor City Merchants Association, will attend a conference on community peace at Chapel Hill next week and will officially take up his duties this Saturday June 26. Association president A A White announced the move of the office from the city hall to rooms adjoining Dr G B Cox’s office over Meares Department Store.
Frank Weston Sandford, 86, Bates College graduate and former baseball star turned Baptist minister, died amid a wave of controversy surrounding his three million dollar Bhiloh temple. His wrecked evangelist ventures included a World Cruise voyage, yacht disasters, and a murder conviction for man slaughter, though he served as a model prisoner. The temple remained a site of past violence but no charges were filed in a veterans home proposal.
An Abilene Texas man mastered a handwriting course so well that his bank recently honored him as their signatory, recognizing his improved signature and reliability after difficulties with verifying his mark.
On Sunday June 20 Bishop Vincent S Waters of the Raleigh diocese will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation at Delco’s Church of St Elizabeth at 11:00 a.m. and at Whiteville’s Church of the Sacred Heart at 8:00 p.m. Father Frank J Howard presided over months of preparation and led morning classes for two weeks conducted by ten students from the Cell of St Rose in Albany NY.
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