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Newspaper
Tabor City Tribune
Location
Tabor City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1951
Page
1
The town board outlined plans for a street survey funded by Powell Bill money. They expect about 489 to be available and aim to use 800 for projects, noting current state road mileage within the city and private firm input. The process will map streets, with cars provided by the municipality and municipal maps produced for procurement use.
Kinchen Clyde Council 65 longtime Waccamaw Bank leader and president of Council Tool Co died at his Wananish home after a heart attack. Funeral services were held June 26 at his home with Rev. C. W. Worth officiating. Burial followed at Lake Waccamaw Cemetery. He had guided Council Tool Co and served 25 years as Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co board chair.
The IRS team edged Fair Bluff 5-4 as a seventh inning surge tied the game and a wild stretch in the eighth produced the decisive run. Tommy Lewis and Kris expanded the winning push while Reeves pitched solidly, earning the win.
Work began this week on the interior of the Presbyterian Sunday School building by the congregation’s men. Student pastor Shep Russell announced the project and stated the work should be completed soon.
Boy Scouts will start a scrap paper drive on Wednesday afternoon July 11 to raise funds for scout equipment. Don Jernigan, Scout Master, urged local residents to place newspapers and scrap paper on porches that afternoon. no doorbell ringing. Mrs. Ellis Roach of Sweetwater, Texas, visited the Brices last week.
Tabor City High and Elementary welcome a larger faculty for 1951 52 led by Bill Ratteree former Legion coach and UNC master’s graduate to teach social studies and physical education and assist in football and basketball He joins S W Caruso and the expanded staff as the district notes 42 teachers total with two vacancies remaining and new hires including Beulah Yates Worth Dalton and George Prestwood among others.
Pirway Bridge over the Waccamaw River at Pireway begins. Piramid Construction of Wilmington laid pilings halfway across the river and unloaded reinforcement steel. The bridge will link Columbus and Brunswick counties, shortening travel between Tabor City and Wilmington and offering Bruns wick County buyers a paved route into town.
Iron Hill Baptist Church invites the public to the inaugural service in its new building on Sunday morning July 1. The brick structure, valued at about 50 000 dollars, features a baptistry six Sunday school rooms and modern rest rooms. Built after the old church burned, land was donated by Mrs S W Garrell and family of Tabor City with groundbreaking by John W Jordan, the church’s oldest member.
The rainout contest between Fair Bluff and Tabor City American Legion Junior baseball teams will be played at Civitan Field tonight at 8. This marks their third meeting with Tabor City leading 2-1 in the first game and 5-4 in the second after a protest. Tomorrow night Tabor City hosts Wilmington, then Friday they meet Laurinburg for the fourth clash, with Whiteville looming Monday.
The Columbus County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs elected 1952 53 officers with Mrs Elwood Thompson of Mishop Springs as president and delegate to the 1949 Colorado International Convention. Other officers include Mrs Elwyn Harris as vice president Mrs Willie Nance as secretary Mrs Clayton Baldwin as treasurer and Mrs J W Bullock as historian. The council set August 24 for the Lake Waccamaw county wide picnic and clubs reported mailbox improvements with Sandy Plains leading at 61.
The Sodalitan class of Mount Tabor Baptist Sunday School met at Mrs. Clarence Willoughby’s home this month. Conrad Fecher and Linda Carter led the program “What Little Boys and Girls Are Made Of.” The group voted to furnish two screen doors for a needy home and refreshments were served by the hostess.
Becker orchestra will provide music for the Fourth Annual Carolinas Yam Ball in town on Friday evening October 12. The Queen contest with 1951 Yam Queen hopes and a platform for queens are planned. The Woman's Club sponsors the event with Edwards announcing a three day festival October 11 to 13 and enhanced seating in the warehouse for spectators and dancing couples.
A junior choir for children over five is being organized at the local Presbyterian church. Members will sing for the first time at the 11 o'clock Sunday worship. New members are welcomed to join.
In Columbus County, a long running fight over about 90000 dollars of school bond funds from Old Dock Nakina and Guideway districts to a central Nakina high school ends with a consent judgment. Judge R Hunt Parker notes both sides will accept the Board of Education decision, which may occur after July 1 1951.
The Green Sea Cannery reopens for its 1951 season at 8 a m on Tuesdays and Thursdays after a summer closure for remodeling at Green Sea High School. New equipment allows canning in glass jars and cans with prices 7 to 9 cents for tins and 3 to 4 cents for glass. patrons supply jars, standard Mason jars and dome lids required.
The Presbyterian church names What Think Ye Of Jesus as the sermon subject for the 11 o clock worship hour Sunday. Student pastor Shep Russell announced. Sunday School starts at 10 with classes for all ages. public invited to attend all services.
Three Columbus county teenagers died when their car plunged into a canal near the joining of Lake Waccamaw. Driver Gorge Inman 16 Whiteville survived as did others. Jeanette Hughes, Brentice Worthington, and Leon Russ perished in the wreck.
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