Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1951-04-18
First Ballot Decision
|Startles Voters;New
Board ToMeet Soon
Throughout Town and Countryside
Situation Still Main Conversation

A crowd of TAI persons damned
the Loris high school auditorium
Friday night and elected on the
first ballot the complete slate of
school trustees generally con-
coded to be the Pro-Deery candi-
dates for the posts.
Results of the election on the
first ballot fell as a bombshell
into the ranks of those in attend
ance. Particularly was this true
in light of the way it was con-
Quoted. There were no nomina-
lions, no speeches. The TAI per-
sons simply wrote down names
of the persons whom they want
ed on the board. A long and diff
ficult counting of ballots was ex-
pected but the pro-Deery slate
was practically unchallenged by
the vote.
The issue in recent weeks had
| boiled down to those persons fav-
oring Superintendent S. j. Deery
and those favoring the ousted Ii
high school teachers and the cleo
tion campaigners were lined up
in this manner.
Elected as high school trustees
were Coe Allsbrook 400, DR.. ]. D.
Thomas, Sr. 499, Sam Hickman
495, Roscoe Bryant 478, and
Lundy Vaught SAT. On the oppo-
site ticket the only persons re-
ceiving any appreciate vote
were Alton King 241, Joe Blount
1856, E. E. Prince 179, ]. R. Suggs
173 and S. F. Horton 1853. A total
of IS names appeared on the bal
lots.
Grammar school trustees cleo
ted were Allen HARRISON 2Ol
Henry Nelson I'll and Harvey
Fowler 221. Only these men re-
ceived any vote of consequence
in the grammar school vote.
Loris Member of the County
Board of Education, Harvey Ora
ham, said yesterday that the
candidates as elected were off,
cially accepted as the new trus-
tees at a meeting of the county
officials in Conway Saturday
morning. This was the under
standing prior to the election
that is, it was understood that
the election would actually make
recommendations, but that they
would be accepted by the county
board of education.
It was expected that conversa-
ton on the controversial issue
would subside after Friday and
the election. But this week there
was still plenty of talk. Among
those things being discussed was
the fact that the Ku KluX klar
had apparently taken a hand IN
the trustee election. There was
no doubt that some persons IN
T,oris found xxx stickers bear
ing the caption: xxx, Yester-
day, Today and Forever. on
their doors.
Even during the actual ballot
ing, sheriff's deputies were IN
vestigating a report that rooeo
and masked men were gathering
on a roadside in the Lake Swamp
section, some 20 miles from Lorls
Furthermore, it was known
that Ku Klux Klan Grand ORA
con Thomas L. Hamilton was in
the area last week although there
! was no evidence to connect nm
with the actual election.
Workers throughout the coun'
tryside as we'll as those in town
called house to house with their
list of candidates and were ask
ing for votes. This seemed to
have been a factor in securing
the record attendance and both
sides" were active in this cam
paign.
Various types of mail carrying
the names of proposed candi'
dates was also sent to voters lr
the district by persons from both
sides.
The Charleston News ano
Courier on Sunday said "the size
of the majority left no doubt as
to the popular will. Yet the sup
porters of the supposedly mis-
treated teachers probably always