Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-15
SO County Students
Get Safety Awards

W oSAohboo SoohIy otuututS IOE
excellent safety records as school
bus drivers during 1888.
Announcement of the awards
was made by the N. C. State Auto
mobile Association. This state
wide motor club and the Highway
Safety Division Of the North Caro-
lima Department of Motor Vehicles
jointly-sponsored the safety pro-
gram which eliminated in the
awarding of certificates.
John G. Frazier Jr., president of
the Automobile Association, con-
graduated the winners for being
among the best out of some 10000
students who were trained last
year as school bus drivers in North
Carolina.
"These young people deserve
thanks and praise from the entire
community" Mr.. Frazier said.
"Day after day, in all kinds of
weather, they consistently drove
carefully, kept their buses in
clean condition and had no acct
dents.
Transporting students to and
from school is a large responsible
ity, yet these drivers carried out
their duties without mishap.'
Out of the 10000 trained in the
state last year, less than half are
certified to handle the 1000
school buses.
The qualified drivers travel
100000 miles daily to haul $4,000
school children.
The winners abided by a set of
rules prepared by the Highway
Safety Division. They had to
drive a minimum of 120 days with
out accident. They had to keep
their buses clean, be punctual,
show a good attitude and DISPOSE
ton. Drivers were disqualified If
their principals received any veri-
fled reports OF c.rcleSx .srivins. or
if the youngsters were Involved in
accidents while driving private
cars.
The Columbus County winners
Bug Hill School Norman
Smith and Thelbert Greggs;
Guideway School - Sammy STAN
Icy, Queenie F.. Reaves and Ken
meth Gore; Nakina School-James
r. Ross, Fred Suggs, Hilda Ward,
Tommie Ray, Joe Blackmon, Katie
Geneva McKeithan and Dale
Chestnut; Chadbourn School -
Gene Hinson, Tommy Cartrette,
James Richard Norris, Joel Ever
cite Bullock, Billy Ray Gilmore,
Harold Hughes, Billy luton and
Huston Devon White.
Chadbourn Colored School -
John Lacewell and Tilman Jen-
kins; Acme Delco School-Mike
Rawls, John Matthew Morris III,
Bobby Lee Babson, Victor Madi-
son Larkins Jr. and Samuel Kin
chen Gaines Jr.; Williams Town.
ship - Margaret Day Long, Mar
gle Levonia Norris, Jack Mickey
Anderson, Linnie Elroy Dew,
Otis Fisher, Bobby Stanley,
Phillip Eugene Tarte, Hazel S.
Walker, Mona Faye Mcpherson,
Shirley Cox and Marjorie Ann
Ward; Armour School Earl
Thomas Bryant, Marshall Lee Nc
Koy and Alfonzo Erwin Shaw.
Wide Awake School - Clayton
Moore: Evergreen School 60 Will
ton Edwards, Marcus Kenneth
Britt, Bonnie J. Merritt, Pat Barn.
hill, Harvey Gene Thompson.
Laurin Patterson Mangum Jr.,
Lloyd Billiard and Edgar Buffkin /;
Tabor City (white) - Glen Lovet:s,
Patricia Ann Careterette and
Bobby Lee Norris: Tabor City
(colored) Zilla Mae Stevenson,
David Smith, Amos Stevens and
Dewey Farmer; Fair Bluff--Don-
aid Strickland Jr., George Craw-
ford Enzor, Ralph Meares and
Donald Wade Todd; Fair Bluff
(colored) William King.
Mt. Olive - Harold d. Williams.
Henry Owens Bellamy, Booker
Taliaferro Williamson, Benjamin
Andrews and Henry Lennon;
Whiteville Roy Allen Jolly,
Margaret Ellen Tuton, Taylor
Adams Jr., Peggy Ann Edwards;
. Mitchell Stephens, Charles Nor.
ton, Garland Williamson, and
Richard Smith Jr.
Central School - Henry Thomp-
son Cutler, William Earl Dukes,
Thomas Gaes and Justus Leach;
Cerro Gordo - Wilton Barfield,
Rudolph Greene, Davii Kenneth
Greene, Charles Brinson Knight
and Ralph Harrelson; Artesia
School Jimmie Mitchell, Reid
vile McKoy, William Henry
George, Roy James Freeman and
Joe Louis Stephens.
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