Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1947-09-05
Power And Telephone Service
Discussed At Town Board Meeting

COUSlQeTdUlc uIoSoooioh az t'e
monthly meeting of the Tabor
City town council Tuesday night.
The matter was brought up
by John w. Barlow, executive
secretary Of the Tabor City
Merchants Association, who es.
tim.ted that $4,000 to $4,000
in trade was lost by merchants
during Saturday nights power
failure.
He suggested that the entire
town see Tide Water Power COM
pany representatives and "strike
while the iron is hot
Barlow painted a vivid word
picture of the merchants losing
trade, the theatre having to re-
fund tickets, meat spelling in
electric refrigerators.
Barlow reported calling the
Whiteville office of the power
company Saturday night and hav-
ing his collect call refused. He
then phoned Commercial Manager
Conant at Wilmington and laid
the situation before him, the ex-
ecutive secretary told the town
board.
Let's Talk Turkey
Barlow suggested that a repre-
sentative group of citizens 60 to
Wilmington, see the 'hish boys
and start talking turkey
President w. B. Webster OF the
Merchants Association also spoke
to the board on the matter, urg-
ing that some joint action be TAX
en- and declared, "the lights are
Pickering up town now while we
are discussing this matter
It was decided to hold a meet
mo of the town connril and othe1
interested parties coon to discuss
the matter fully.
Barlow also had a few WORDS
of comment on the telephone SIT
uation and reported having re-
ceived a letter from a rate anaiy5t
of the North Carolina Ut'iitie
commission aging that the teie-
nhone situation here ''is all right
and that scarcely ever are all the
lines busy at one time"
To which Councilman Horace
poh.rt. commented, IL wish
nd try to call me one time:
In addition to talking n',ht,es.
the board passed a resolution
dropping taxes on lands when
Id baen entered on the tax books
through error. ,,o,,ord
Attorney Raymond B: Mailaro
explained the tech1icalit'es IN
yoived to the commissioners
Rev ]. N. Pope, pastor OF the
Full Gospel Tabernacle, appeared
before the board to request per
NIT to operate his public adore
svstem for "advertieing and street
worship services" The matter
was tabled for future discussion
Fuss In Jail
Commissioner H. D. Steven
brought up the subject OF week
and guests in the city jail ralsine
ca much cain as to disturb tne
peace and quiet OF the nelsn n."ue
hood "Maybe we ought to move
it." he suggested. .;uo
r. was finally decided 70 mr.
a special policeman to stay IN e smt
;a;1 Saturday nights to find S gu.
w 2 is doing all the cursiag' In. Inc
extra policeman will be palo iloin
extra iail fees imposed upon those
e Che are creating the disturbance;
wa" MAYOR AL Williams reportso
that " he had come down to the
;a;i on numerous Sunday morn
;a asr to get things quietened down
he "Thev would be quiet as long
wa. up there" b. :.ia,
abut a. soon a. ! startsd Gown
81. ,,.;r, somebody WOULD ASK
q" hs ,one?' and then it really
would break loes~ -, ,o+
Also brought up was the mas
ter Of enforcing the ordinance Ie-
ouiring dogs and cats 70 oe ,t P
qsd until October l. inStruce'on
w were renewed for the the. P fonnd at at
shoot all dogs and cats 10 fou nnbl ic
large in the town and a tae pu' n
~, requested to cooperate aa ~
n msS a possible mad 90
epidemic by keeping s Psnagtt tnS's a"'m@"
The board heard that At. : KICK h1ock
of merchants in the oank p'o an
had raised q fund to pu l1enss and
alleyway behind d. the 4hs St town ap-
i was voted e t that Of sef ra '"s
pr p, a.. matter of buying the lan'
necessary for the alley. lifted
An audit report was Snnr. =, 10
members of the board a,.o af-
discussed at the next meeting o.