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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
Mrs. G. w. Crutcbtield
Installed President
OF WOnzan's Club

Mrs. G. w. Crutchfield was in
stalled as president of the Tabor
City Woman's club at the general
meeting held at the clubhouse this
month. Mrs. r. B. Mallard was
installed as, vice president; Miss
Kate Jones, secretary; Mrs. Evelyn
Leonard, treasurer, and Mrs. Fred
M. Jernigan, assistant treasurer.
Mrs. Crutchfield named the fol-
lowing committees to serve the
1952-l953 year: Ways and Means,
Mrs. Evelyn Leonard, Mrs. Fred
M. Jernigan, and Mrs. Ralph w.
Spivey; Program, Mrs. Horace
Roberts, Mrs. J. C. Singletary, and
Mrs. H. B. Bell; Hostess, Mrs.
David Kelley; Scrap Book, Miss
Anne Brooks McGougan; Govern
mend Bonds, Miss Flora Bell Gore;
Building and Grounds, Mrs. Eve
Ign Leonard; Kitchen, Mrs. S. T.
Rogers and Mrs. Doc Bruton.
Mrs. J. c. Singletary made the
official report of the North Caro-
lima convention of Woman's clubs
held in Winston Salem earlier in
the month.
Prior to turning the gavel over
to Mrs. Crutchfield Miss Anne
Brooks McGougan, retiring presi-
dent told of the clubs accomplish
ments during the year.
The district 10 president and
the woman of the year and county
cancer heads are members of the
local club.
The club sponsored the emer-
gency flood Red Cross drive last
summer and the Yam Festival ball,
queen contest and entered a float
in the festival parade.
The club won the attendance
gavel at the District 10 meeting
and a scrap book ribbon at the
North Carolina State convention.
A Care for Korea package was
sent and the Oscar Merit World
Peace contest wa sponsored by
the club. a.
Many improvements were made
to the clubhouse and grounds and
the club served the Rotary club
suppers for nine weeks. p.
Glasses in parliamentary proceed
ure we-e held. -. 49,.
A plus rating was awarded the
club by the North Carolina FEEDER
alton of Women's club with the
club chalking up 112 points for
the years work.
Hostesses for the installation
meeting were Mrs. Horace Roberts,
Mrs. Fred M. Jernigan, Mrs. w.
H. Shelley, Jr., and Mrs. Bob
White.
New members accepted were
were Mrs. Walter Leonard and
Mrs. Claude Higgins.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
lack FIPPS
STRICKEN
IN TRUCK

Jack Fipps is a patient in the
Columbus County hospital, White
vile, following a CONFUSION re-
sulting from a diabetic condition
Monday morning.
Fipps was driving the Yam
City Oil company service truck
on the Whiteville-Tabor City
highway at the time he was
stricken.
He apparently was uninjured.
The truck was ditched and
slightly damaged.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
Finklea Student
Has Three Year
Attendance Record

Margaret Tompkins, nine-year-
old daughter of MIR. and MRS.
Liston Tompkins, has a. perfect
attendance record for three years
in the Finklea School. She is a
fourth grade student and has not
missed a day of school during
the past three years.
Each year she has received a
certificate and silver dollar and
has attended the annual picnic
given at Myrtle Beach honorlng
the students with perfect attend
ance records.
Margaret says "she is going 10
try to make it again next year.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
GU1F0RD COLLEGE PRESIDENT
TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT

Featered speakers of the 1852
Tabor City High School COM
mencement exercises will be DR..
Clyde A. Miller, president of Gull
ford College, and DR.. B. Frank
Hall, pastor of Pearsau Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Whining
ton.
Plans for the finals at the local
school were announced here
Thursday by c. H. Primer, prin-
cipal Of Tabor City Schools.
DR.. Miller will be heard in the
baccalaureate sermon to the grad
yates here On the night of Sunday,
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
Beans Coming
To Local Market

The first beans of the season,
16 hampers, were sold on the
Tabor City market Monday for
$500 per hamper, c. E. Walden,
Marketing company secretary, re-
ported.
At the close of Tuesdays sales
1857 crates of strawberries had
been sold on the market aver
aging $8.72 per crate. Total
money paid to growers amounts
to $43,233.S8.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
Mrs. r. C.. Soles
Circle Hostess

The Dula. McGougan circle OF
the Mount Tabor Baptist W.M.U.
met with Mrs. R. c. Soles at her
home Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. A. P. Rogers presiding. Mrs.
Rosa Carroll gave the devotional.
Definite community commiss-
ion service was planned by the
circle at which time members de-
cided to supply a sick patient
with fruit juice.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess to eleven members
and one visitor.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
Assistant Pastor
Of Catholic Church
Is Transferred

The Rev. James Randolph
Jones, who has served as assistant
pastor of St. Frances Xavier Cath
Ole Church here since January,
has been appointed by Bishop
Waters of Raleigh to join the staff
of the Diocesan Missionary Faith
ers at North Wilksboro, N. c. Their
work is to conduct outdoor preach
ing services through the use OF
a trailer chapel car in remote Sec
tons of the State.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
BULLETIN

Rubert Prince, %, has been ar
rested and charged with secret
assault with a deadly weapon In
the shooting Of Ernest Strickland,
of Tabor City, on the morning OF
February 10, it was learned TO-
day. Strickland was shot about
800 a. m. as he lay in bed. Also
arrested and charged with aid
ing and abetting in the assault
were Gladys Prince Strickland,
wife Of the victim, and her son,
Earl Prince, II.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
Grand Dragon Thomas

Grand Dragon Thomas L
Hamilton once denied in a letter
to The Tabor City Tribune that
the Fair Bluff Klavern had had
anything to do with the Column
bus county floggings but his tale
was disproved in no uncertain
terms this week as both State and
Federal courts found members Of
that infamous group guilty Of law
violations.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
Business Women Meet
With Miss McGongan

The Business Woman's circle OF
the Mount Tabor Baptist W.M.U'
met with Miss Anne Brooks Nc
Cougar at her. home Thursday
evening. Miss Kate Jones, chair
man, presided and Mrs. W. A.
Williams gave the program en-
titled "The Christian Home"
The circle decided to mall
cards to the shut-in's for com
munity service. -
Punch and crackers were ser
we'd by the hostess to nine mem
berS.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Sarvis, Jr. OF
Burlington, Mr.. and Mrs. Carol
Hooks and daughter of Whitevllle
and Mrs. Emma Roberts OF Ra-
leigh spent the weekend with MIR.
and, Mrs. S. G.. Sarvis, Sr. and
Mrs. Frances Cox.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14

George Miller, was found innocent
and discharged. He explained to
the court that he had been mis-
taken by the other floggers for his
brother, and after the mistake was
discovered he was forced to join
the Khan because he "knew too
much"
The other sentences were:
Three years on each charge,
sentences to run concurrently -
Horace Strickland, 29-year old
former fee deputy sheriff; James
Robert Hayes, 38, whose car was
used to carry the victims to the
flogging site; Ross Enzor, 48B and
Pittman Strickland, 20.
Two years on each count, SEN
fences to run concurrently - Carl
Richardson, 90, oldest of the de-
PENDANTS.
L. c. Worley.. rs, former Klav-
ern secretary who turned states
evidence, two years on each count,
suspended and placed on proba-
ton.
Sherwood Miller, rs and Bobby
Brooks, 19-year-old son of the
kingpin, IL months suspended on
each count and placed on proba-
ton for three years.
Steve Edmunds, rs, two years
on each count suspended, placed
on probation for two years.
The men, most of them in shirt
sleeves and open collars, received
their sentences without motion,
but later several broke down and
wept. %
In passing sentences, Judge Gil
liam bore down severely. Conced-
ing that the floggers had beeen
misguided" he declared that
they, nevertheless, must pay for
their mistakes.
The Khan, he said, "is a COM
bination Of a lot Of people who
take the law into their own hands
. condition that would under
mine our society if left uncheck-
3D."
their sentences without emotion,
barpoon at Tom Hamilton, the
South Carolina "Grand Dragon"
Of the Khan. He said that Hamil-
ton had sold the guillible clay
road farmers of Columbus County
"bin of goods" and was interest
ed in the Fair Bluff K1avern only
for the money he could extroct
from it.
The witnesses, ranging all he
way from sheriff Hugh Nance
down to gaunt tobacco farmers,
gave monosyllabic testimony to
the good character of the masked
goons who carted Ben Granger
and Dorothy billiard Martin across
the state line last October. The
blood flowed. Miss Martin had
testified earlier that each blow Of
the strap had knowcked her to
the ground.
In the aftermath of the sentence
ing, seven Of the convicted fog
gers filed notice of appeal. They
were Brooks and his son, the
Strickland brothers, Hayes and
Enzor, and Richardson. Bond was
set at $500 for Brooks; $4,000 for
the others.
Meanwhile the U. S. Dist. Atty.
Charles P. Green of Rsleigh, who
had led the prosecution, served
notice that he may draw a Fed
eral indictment against Hamilton,
the Imperial Wizard. He would
not disclose the nature Of the
charge which he is contemplating
levelling against Hamilton.
In the course of the two trials,
in Wilmington and at Whiteville,
it was brought out in the evidence
that Hamilton had pocketed sub
stantial sum from the sale Of mem
berships and robes to Columbus
Klansmen.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
IN HOSPITAL

Herbert Fowler, Tabor CITY
Is a patient in the Veterans hospl-
tai, Fayetteville where he IS re-
ceiving treatment for a broken
leg and other injuries sustained in
an accident Sunday night.
The jeep Fowler was driving
overturned on a curve between
Tabor City and Loris when Lights
from an approaching car blurred
his vision.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14

Mrs. Grant Stewart of Canton
arrived Wednesday to spend a
month with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Leon Mills. Mr.. Stewart
will join them June 1 for a vaca'
ton here during the fishing
season.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
ATTENDING BAPTIST
CONVENTION

MIR. and Mrs. c. c. Leggette and
sons left Saturday for Miami, Fla.
where they are attending the
Southern Baptist convention.
Rev. and Mrs. P. G. CAN'T and
sons left Monday for the conven-
ton.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-05-14
ATTEND CONVENTION

Mr.. snd Mrs. Ralph Imam o.
Tho Inman Funeral Home attend
Cd the Funeral directors Conven,
tion in Charlotte Wednesday an"
Thursday. ..
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18

giving them the license number Of
the car.
In a short time information was
received by telegram that they
were wanted for car theft. Muir
ply was asked to notify the FBI.
Meanwhile, Police Lieutenant
Jimmy James and Officer Perez
were alerted and they rushed to
a local hotel where the quartet
had been registered. They were
told by the desk clerk that the
"tycoons" had checked out and
were due to leave for Havana on
the 400 p. m. plane.
The police sped to the airport
where they found that Lo Piccolo
and Miss Milan had already
boarded the airliner.
Smith and Miss Lingebach, evi
IDENTITY Spotting the arrival of the
police, sped off in their auto
mobile.
The chase led up the keys when
the State Highway patrol was
alerted. Jack CasteI, radio opera
tor at the Marathon highway patrol
station conducted the search by
radio. He observed the car passing
through Marathon at 500 p. m.
and he alerted State Highway
Patrolman S. r. Walker who took
up a position in Craig, Florida,
% miles north of Marathon.
A hastily improvised road block
at TaVenier under the direction
of State Conservation agent Jack
Watson failed to stop the speed
ing car with Walker in hot pur-
suit. Watson fired one shot at the
car as il passed his post. The
bullet entered the rear door of
fhe vehicle but failed to Stop the
fUgitiVes. 1t was the only shot
fired in the chase.
Walker finally captured fhe
pair at Jewish Creek, some los
miles north Of Key West when
the bridgefender at that point
raised the drawhridge as the
speeding car approached. Walk
ker said that at one point the
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18
SICK AND BROKE
CONTINUED from Page One)

front for aid. Here are some of the
contributors who made up the
$3.50 collected. Rachel Sanchez,
Mrs. J. J. McManus, Carlos Cal,
LEILA, Suncoast Seafoods, Key West
Shrimp Company, Henry Cruz,
Jack and Bonnie, Duffy'S Tavern,
]. Tyson, N. Cebello, B. R. Tynes,
Collins Mems Shop, A. L. Null
berg, r. M. Wylk, Capt. Rod, Sam
Horowitz, Gomez Furniture, Ce-
cil'S Bar, Raul Garcia, Tropical
Package and Liquor Store, Mario
Garcia, Two Sisters Bar, Emil AL
len, Jungle Bar, Overseas Music
shop.
The shrimpers took the money to
Skipper Sims at the Monroe Gen
eral hospital, where his tired and
salt-worn eyes filled once more
with tears at the generosity of
friends and strangers alike.
The Citizen will convey any con-
tributions to Sims at the hospital.
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18

voices and the magnificent acting
of some of the finest players.
Today unless the theater goer
has seven or eight dollars for a
ticket and pull at a ticket agency
off Broadway, he cannot even get
near the hit of the year.
Blum said that the theater IN
England is healthier than ours, be-
cause of the lower admission price
which enables the civil service
worker as well as the baronet to
sit in the orchestra. Blum, him.
self, paid two and one half dollars
to see the great Lawrence Olivier
perform. On Broadway he would
have been lucky to get in for
eight dollars.
Some European countries have
maintained the vigor of their legl-
innate theater through national
subsidies. The French have honor
ed their stage to the extent of
providing funds to maintain it.
And this year the government of
France sent to Broadway two Of
its finest players. Jean-LouiS Bar
rault, and his wife Madeline Rey-
maud in repetoire which has kept
the critics and the French speak
ing audiences of New York agog
for weeks.
Blum, a relaxed and happy man
who is reSearching the arena he
loves best, the American stage,
is not a pessimist about the fu-
ture of the fabulous invalid" the
theater. He has studied the his
tory of our theater too well to be
dismayed by radio, televiSion, the
screen.
People will always want to see
real live actors. The theater will
never die. We have a shortage of
productions now, because of pro-
hibitive COSTS. but the younger
playwrights such as Tennessee Viii
liams, Arthur Miller and William
Inge offer hope for the future,
and the younger stars are making
their way. The theater may have
shrunk in national audiences, but
theater will live as long as people
live"
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18

Continued from Page One)
and down the Citizen newsroonl
before the staff who sat en-
traneed by the pure artistry Of
his line, ~ am going TO inher-
emf fhe entire Fletcher Company
when am 35." At this
point the Citizen editor promised
to have . reporter in court
when the case came up.
However, the ambitious tale
that the quartet had woven, and
which had led at least fwo Key
West merchants TO accept WORTH
less checks from them, proved
TO be their Undoing and they
found themselves sitting in Jail
cells instead Of the lap Of luxury.
Their downfall came when re
porter Murphy, noting the New
Hampshire license on a car driven
by Smith, wired to the motor
department il that state
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18
speed Of HE vehicle reached

speed Of HE vehicle reached
los miles per hour.
When the getaway ear failed to
negotiate a curve at the bridge.
and ran off the road, Smith and
Miss Lengebach leaped from the
car and dove into the ocean, ap-
parently hoping to escape detec-
ton behind a pile of rocks at the
waters edge.
Walker nailed the pair at gun
point moments later. He hand
cuffed them and they awaited the
arrival of aid.
They were returned to Key West
to join their accomplices later in
the evening.
Smith admitted to the stolen car
charge. FBI agents say that the
four confidence artists are
wanted in Honolulu, San Francisco,
Canada, Los Angeles, and Albany,
New York. They are being held
on a federal "hold order" pend
ing the arrival of warrants for their
extradition.
They will be arraigned before
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18
r GREAT STARS OF
(Continued from Page One)

NNVhtMA84V0 ANVIL \ oBO OhGH
some Of the stars moved into
cottages not far from my fathers
summer cottage, so they could be
near him. A playwright and editor
Of q Dramatic magazine, he con-
sidered himself in exile from the
Broadway he loved. Broadway
came to Bethlehem, Pa. and to
the little village of RaubSville
where we summered near there.
Our black sand beach on the
Delaware river was studded with
golden stars who took their morn
ing dips before coming up to our
house for mothers hot cakes.
ALI these memories of the light
hearted, generous people Of the
theater crowded my mind as /
looked at Blum's well-selected pic
lures and text on the stars.
This new book of his starts with
the "Divine Sarah" and winds up
with current youngsters on Broad
way such as Margaret Phillips,
Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wal
ZACH, who all reached fame in
plays by Tennessee Williams
Pictures of by-gone comedians
w. C. Fields, Francis Wilson, and
Of the great ladies of the stage
Helen Hayes, Judith Anderson,
Katherine Cornell, in their cradles
and pigtails as we'll as in their
full dress for the footlights shine
forth.
Blum moves on to a pictorial
history of the screen and then of
grand opera next. For now, how
ever, I could spend weeks going
over his "Great Stars of the
American Stage" Selection was
difficult for him, particularly
among the current stars. The old
timers have already become i'm
mortal, most of them, and were
automatic choices. The living stars
are more difficult to chose for
such a pictorial anthology.
The future of the theater if
Judged by last season on Broad
way is not too bright, said Blum.
The leading hits of last year were
revivals "Pal Joey" and "The
Male Animal" by James Thurber
and Elliott Nugent. No new plays
met the response of those oldies.
The problem today is that there
is no happy medium in the thea
ter. To keep going on Broadway
q play has to be a smash hit.
Otherwise it is a flop. There is
no place today with costs of pro-
duction for the pleasant, quiet
little comedy or esoteric drama.
The road, which used to nourish
audiences who loved theater, the
length and breath of our land, has
pathways only to the major cities
today. The rest of the nation
Btarves for legitimate theater and
must content itself with second
rate, film offerings minus any
flesh and blood actors.
Time was when 67 road COM
panies for one producer were not
Unusual. Then the little towns,
such as my home town Easton,
Pa. resounded with the beautiful
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18
IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMoRIAM
There are stars that 60 out in the
darkness
But whose silvery light shineth
There are roses whose perfume
still fingers
When the blossoms are faded
and gone.
There are hearts full of light and
sweetness
When no longer their life cur
rent flows
But their goodness lives on with
the living
Like the souls of the star and
the rose.
In memory of Mr.. Victor Rus
sell who passed from this life on
December II, 1850.
MRS. RAYMONDE RUSSELL
and FOSTER CHILDREN.
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18
TITO'S BREAK
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difficulties. He has repeatedly
made clear he is a doctrinaire
Communist with no interest in
adopting democratic ways or poll
cieS. Moreover, he has had long
feud with the Roman Catholic
church, eliminated yesterday by
the diplomatic break.
A particularly thorny problem is
posed by the rival claims of Yugo-
slavia and Italy to Trieste, lying
between them at the head of the
Adriatic Sea. Repeated U. S. ef-
forts to work out settlement have
come to nothing. The dramatic ma
ture of Tito's break with the Vati.
can, with its probable repercus-
Sions in Italian politics, now make
the problem far more difficult.
The word priest is a con-
tracted form of the word "pres-
byter."
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18

United States Commissioner VIII
liam V. Albury soon. They still
face the possibility that they will
be prosecuted by Monroe County
authorities on bad check passing
charges in Key West, however.
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18
VISHINSKY TO MOSCOW

MOSCOW Up - Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Vishinsky has re-
turned to Moscow from the Uni
ted Nations General Assembly
meeting in New York, it was an
nounced today.
The Key West citizen., 1952-12-18
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against my own name when |
really was ready to use it," His
intuition, as always, proved sound.
BLACK Mask" sent the story back,
labelling it ''puerile. It's literally
the last rejection he ever suf-
fered. Soon he had stepped zap
his output to an incredible
235.OOO words a month.
II darn near killed myself" ad-
mits Gardner. With taxes at their
current rate, he feels he might as
well relax a bit. His monthly word
age now seldom exceeds 100000.
JOKER. Gardner is not above
an occasional practical joke.
When Joseph Henry jackson. the
Alexander Woollcott of the West
Coast. booked him for a radio
interview, and demanded that he
show for dinner two hours before
they went on the air, Gardner sus-
pected that Jackson was worried
lest he appear in state of inebria-
ton. Other writers had apparently
given Jackson cause to be wary on
this score.
Gardner arrived in fine shape.
but ostentatiously excused himself
several times during the course of
the meal. Every time he reap
peared, his speech was fllzzier,
his movements more uncOn-
trolled. Jackson jostled against
him in a vain effort to locate the
hidden flask, and finally let him
stagger to the nlicrophone in un-
concealed panic.
The moment he was on the air,
of course. Gardner stopped clown
ing and gave his usual crisp, con-
Evening star., 1952-07-13

fident performance. The two are
close friends today.
ON THE CUFF. Most of Erie
Gardner's current legal activities
are strictly on the cuff, devoted to
an organization called 'The Court
of Last Resort" sponsored by
''Argosy Magazine" 1t works to
win pardons for prisoners without
means who can convince Gardner
and his associates that they have
been unjustly convicted of major
crimes. Once sold on a mans
innocence. Gardner will charge
forth from his luxurious. 400
acre California ranch at the
drop of a hat and battle for his
vindicatiOn.
We've sprung ten lifers to
date" he boasts, with more in
prospect. But don't think I'm a
patsy. I know that most jail in
mates really belong there. Real
life detectives have a tough job.
They're no glamour boys like my
Perry Mason"
THE LAST STRAW. Gardner
visited one prisoner in Oregon who
failed to appreciate his efforts. He
was so surly and unco-operative,
in fact. that the guard reminded
him, Hey, that's Erie Stanley
Gardner you're talking to-"
II know" said the prisoner,
''but who cares? All he writes is
escape fiction"
''The part that riles me-"
admits Gardner, ''is that this
bird was in for life"
BENNETT CERT
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1952-12-11
God ID Tolerant

HAS not God borne with you
these Laany years? Be ye tolerant
to others. Hosea Ballou.