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Newspaper
Tabor City Tribune
Location
Tabor City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1954
Page
2
A humorous collage from Barney Glazer's column features quirky lines about restaurants, family names, jokes about barbers and spelling, and light social jabs. It includes wry anecdotes on celebrities, politics, and daily life with playful asides on culture and modern habits.
An editorial urges the Merchants Association of Tabor City to recruit an executive secretary to boost active participation and promote local business. It criticizes lax attendance, calls for sustained promotional effort beyond the Yam Festival, and warns that rival towns’ campaigns attract shoppers while the association remains idle.
Local youths near Tabor City ache to join the U S track team with near world record times though lack of formal facilities hinders training. Official sources note several boys are within tenths of a second of a world mark and have initiated moves toward Olympic potential despite poor testing grounds near a deserted shack.
In a rural joke a shotgun wielding husband chases lovers through tobacco fields after a prank. Witnesses inside the shack cheer as pairs flee deep into the woods. Victims describe sprinting and falling as they try to outpace the blast and reach safety. Some suspect mischief might fuel future track meet fame.
A historic church directory lists weekly schedules for many congregations including Mt Tabor Baptist under Rev th with morning services at 10:00 A M and evening services at 7:00 P M. Other entries name churches such as St Francis Catholic Mt Herman Baptist and Carolina Baptist with varied Sunday School times and midweek meetings.
Carter recalls identifying Tabor City from an airplane as it flew between Fair Bluff and Green Sea. He notes lumber yards, a dam, factories and warehouses visible from the air, and compares air sickness to sea sickness while preparing for a trip to Little Rock, Arkansas.
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