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Evening star., 1953-07-19
Mrs. T.J. Downey Will Head
Fund Drive in Montgomery

Mrs. Theodore j. Downey Of
Bethesda will serve as chairman
Of the Montgomery County Unit
in the 1854 Community Chest
Federation United Defense Fund
(USO) campaign to open Octd
ber IL.
Mrs. Downey announced that
Mrs. Donald Senseman, of 1900
Carroll avenue, Takoma Park.
has accepted the Residential
Unit Craftsmanship for Mont
gomery County, and that the fol-
lowing area chairmanships have
been accepted:
Mrs. jerome Cowden, Chevy
Chase: Mrs. Fred H. Miller. Be-
thesda; Mrs. J. Douglas Brad
| shaw, Silver Spring: Mrs. Fred
erick Pratt, Takoma Park; Mrs.
Pat Grady. Kensington; Mrs.
Morton A. Simmons, Wheaton;
Mrs. Howard Ennis, Rockville:
Mrs. E. Brooke Lee, eastern up
county, and Mrs. Herbert Angel,
western up county.
Active in Many Clubs.
Mrs. Downey served as Mont
gomery residential chairman last
year. She is second vice presi-
dent of the Bethesda Womans s
Club and has been active in Boy
Scout, Girl Scout, Parent Teach
er Association, League of Women
Voters, Red Cross and Fedora
ton of Music Clubs work. She
lives at 5210 Hampden lane.
Bethesda.
Mrs. Sensemar was chairman
in last years Montgomery Coun-
ty campaign for the Silver
Spring -Takoma Park residential
area.
Meanwhile Mrs. Ezekiel q.
Stoddard has begun her third
year as recruitment chairman
for the residential unit Of the
Chest Federation.
Mrs. Donald c. Beatty, unit
chairman, also announced that
Mrs. A.. L. Spencer is working
with Mrs. Stoddard for the third
consecutive year as recruitment
co-chairman.
The co-chairmen will continue
to seek volunteers until the Red
Feather campaign opens in Oc-
tober. Mrs. Stoddard hopes .or
enough volunteers so that every
woman can work in her block.
She. urged any one interested
in working in the fall campaign
to call Decatur 2-7330.
Holds Other Posts.
Mrs. Stoddard recently was
named to the Budget Committee
Of United Community Services
and Washington member of the
National Capital Area Commu-
nifty Chest Federation. During
the war she served two years as
! a case work aide for the American
Evening star., 1953-07-19

Red Cross home service. She
has also served two terms as CO.
chairman Of residential area A.
She lives at 4420 Hadfield place
NV.
Mrs. Spencer is a member Of
the Board Of Family and Child
Services Of Washington, q Red
Feather agency, and Of the
board Of Bakers Dozen Youth
Center. She was chairman of
residential area e before being
named co-chairman of recruit
ment. She lives at $500 Thir-
teenth street NE.
Mrs. Jacques Reinstein Is vice
chairman to Mrs. Beatty, Mrs.
Harold Hitz is program chair
man and Mrs. Theodore Wedel is
training chairman.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
German POWs Report
Better Red Treatment

BONN, Germany (CDN.-O1
1icials Of the Evangelical Churcl
in Western Germany say tht
living conditions Of German wal
prisoners still in the Soviet I'm.
ion have improved recently.
More than 10000 now write
regularly to families or friends
In West Germany. OF these, 214
in the last year. were persons
who previously had been listed
as missing since 1914.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Students From 3 Schools
To Probe Arizona Life
By the A,scelcsed Pres,

TUCSON, Aria new chap
ter In the slowly unfolding story
Of an ancient civilization In the
White Mountains Of Northern
Arizona will be studied this sum-
mer.
Archaeological students from
eight schools will probe the
Point Pines ruins for infor-
nation on life that fiouriShed
there from 500 to 1000 AID. The
ancient city is believed to have
been abandoned in the early
1400S.
Students will come from Uni
versitieS Of Arizona, Chicago, Ok
lahoma, Michigan and New Mex
leo and Bryn Mawr. Hunter Col
lege and Asis Institute.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Marfinsburg Soldier
Is. Wounded in Korea
speeioI pI.poieh io Ihe slar

SPecIuI UISpoIeh 20 Iho SIuT
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July
18.-Pfc. Thomas N. Wall. jr.,
was wounded in action in Korea
on July 8, according to word re-
ceived by his wife. Mrs. Helen
Wall, from the Defense Depart
ment.
Pvt. Wall entered service in
August. 1852, and was sent over
seas in March, 1853. Since ar
rival in Korea he has been almost
continually at the front line.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Athlete Eots 80 Row EGGS

Emile Czaja, Hungarian wrest-
Ter. eats 80 raw eggs for break
fast while training for important
bouts.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
Liquor Imports Increase

Increased import duties on gin
and whisky have been announced
by the Gold Coasts Minister Of
Finance.
Evening star., 1953-07-19
More Telephone Service

Libya has placed additional
automatic telephone facilities in
operation in Tripoli and in
Benghazi.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
MERCHANT
DIRECTORS
HOLD MEET

Directors of the Tabor City Mer-
chants Association met last Fri
day morning and discussed the
operation of the organization for
the coming year.
Dues for 1853 have not been
collected yet and the directors
voted TO place card in the hands
OF each merchant showing how
much he had contributed last year
and asking for his 1853 dues. The
cards will be presented to the
various merchants by the member
OF the board of directors from each
business category.
The board also appointed a COM
mlttee of r. r. Rogers, E. w. Fon-
vlelle and Lewis Gore to assist
IN collecting funds pledged to the
shirt and pajama factory that is
as yet unpaid. The board commit
tee VIII also seek to raise some
additional money for this project
that will be needed before it is
completed. Any person who has
not bought stock in the corporation
that owns the building and who
would like to participate, is asked
to contact either of the three MEM
bers on this committee.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
Waccamaw To Start
New Building Soon

Ben l.. Nesmith, vice-president
of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company here, announced today
that the contract on the new build
ing on railroad street would be
let in the next two weeks and
that it would be completed some
time in July.
We expect to have our new
building ready by tobacco season."
he said.
The new bank home will be a
modern structure "a feet by 70
feet located on the vacant lot
next to Hollis Auto Service. It
will have a roman brick front
with IL foot opening of glass
inset four feet with all-glass
double doors. A 16 foot lane will
be left on the North side of the
lot and a drive-in window will be
located there. A parking area will
be located in the rear of the bank.
Plans and specifications of the
building are being drawn now and
fixtures have been purchased. An
order has been placed for mod
ern, burglar proof safe that in
cludes electric ventilation in the
vault. Additional safety deposit
boxes have also been ordered.
There will also be fire proof
safe for storage and for important
records in addition to the money
vault
Fixtures will be of PHILIPPINE
mahogany and marble and the en-
tire building will be modernly air
conditioned.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
OIL. Coleman, WE. Allen Lease Warehouse

.. l.. Coleman, of Tabor City,
and w. E. (Dub) Allen, of the
Bayboro section of Horny county,
this week leased Garrell's Ware
house here from B. Alton Carroll
and will operate it during the 1853
tobacco season.
Coleman, in making the an
nouncement today, declined to say
how long the lease had been taken
on the house but it was understood
1t was definitely more than a one
year arrangement.
GarrelPs Warehouse here was
operated last year by Carroll, c.
E. Walden and George Walden.
Neither of these operators will be
associated with the management
this season. All have been in the
tobacco business in Tabor City
for many years. Carroll has oper-
ated warehouse here every sea-
son since 1886.
The new operators are no
strangers to Tabor City tobacco
growers. Coleman has been asso-
ciated with his brother Roscoe
Coleman and Harriet Skies here,
on the Greensboro market and in
Boone and Mountain City, Tenn.
All his adult life he has been
growing tobacco and taking part
in warehouse operations. He is a
native of this section and has sew
eral large farms, located in CO.
lumbuS county. He lives just off
the Tabor City-Chadbourn high
way about three miles from town.
Allen is no stranger to tobacco
warehousing here either. For the
past several years he has served
as floor manager for the New
Farmers-Carolina Warehouse COM
pany in Tabor City. He, too, is a
tobacco grower and a popular fig
ure in central Horny county where
he lives.
we are happy to have leased
Garrell's Warehouse and will
make every effort to be an asset
to the Tabor City tobacco market
and to the town ITSELF" Coleman
said. I'VE hope to sell a lot of
tobacco for farmers in this area
this season and will do our very
best for them when they put to-
bacco on our floor"
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
YAM CITY OIL COMPANY OPENS
AT NEW LOCATION ON FOL

The Yam City Oil Company,
one of the largest Tabor City bus
inesSeS from standpoint of gross
sales, this week reopened with an
all-new modern plant on highway
701 just East of the town limits.
Jack Strickland, manager of the
company, said that he felt the
plant is one of the most modern
in Eastern North Carolina. Storage
space is now available for 100000
gallons of fuel oil and gasoline
and five trucks are kept busy dis
tributing petroleum products in
this area.
In addition to fuel oil and gaso-
line, the company also WHOLESALERS
motor oil, greases, tires and bat
terieS.
The company was organized in
April 1949 and located on the Loris
road inside the city limits where
it has operated until this weeks
move was completed. In 1850,
Strickland purchased an interest
in the concern and has been its
active manager ever since. Last
year Yam City bought out the
Prince Oil Company and merged
the two.
Yam City began its operation
with two trucks but today five
are being used to service its Gus
toners.
The new plant, in addition to
ample storage space, has garages
for its trucks and modern, we'll
equipped offices for the transac-
ton of business.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
ORDINATION
SERVICE SET

Wade Fowler. ministerial stu
dent at Wake Forest college and
present pastor OF the Brunswick
Baptist Church, will be ordained
at the Mt. Tabor Church here
Sunday afternoon at 2:3C. Rev. p.
c. CAN'T has announced.
Rev. Fowler. native of Tabor
City, Is believed to be the first
person ordained by the local
church during its l13 year history.
AT least that is true in so far as
church records are concerned.
Those taking part in the ordin-
alton service include Rev. CAN'T.
moderator; A. p. Rogers, clerk
Ordination sermon, DR.. Earl Brad
ley, promotion secretary of the
Baptist State Convention; Charge
to the church, Rev B. c.. Bass.
pastor Fair Bluff Baptist church:
Charge to the candidate, Rev. F..
c. Foster, pastor Whiteville Bap-
SiSt church: Presentation of the
Bible, Rev. JOnn LANDER. pastor
of the Cnadoourn Baptist church:
and Ordination prayer. Rev. John
t. B!ddle. Columbus County AS
Sociational missionary.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
TABOR CITY
GIRL WINS
SPELLING BEE

Validity" was the straw that
broke the camel's back and a Ia
Dor City girl won the county SPELL
ing championship in the Spelling
Bee in Whiteville Thursday night.
Linda Huffaker, representative
of Tabor City Elementary School
and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
5. Huffaker, won the title and a
SIS Defense Bond by spelling
demonstration"
Laundry" Oxygen" "artifici-
al and validity" tripped Miss
Huffaker's opponents in the final
round, which brought together the
five county grade champions.
On the stage as grade champ
ions; when the final round started,
were:
Miss Huffaker, eighth grade,
Tabor City.
Phyllis Williams, seventh grade,
Whiteville, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman c. Williams.
Betty Lou Edwards, sixth grade,
Fair Bluff, daughter of Mrs.
Gladys Edwards.
Ellis Heustess, fifth grade.
Whiteville, son of Mr.. and Mrs. ].
Howard HeusteSs.
Charlotte Wyche, fourth grade,
Hallsboro, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. J. T. Wyche.
Each of the five grade champ
ions received five silver dollars,
donated by G. Garland Fowler of
Tabor City, Frank P. Yates of
Lake Waccamaw, Derrick's Phar-
macy of Chadbourn, Frank S.
Love of Evergreen and Belk-
HenSdale Department Store OF
Whiteville.
Miss Huffaker and the other
four winners Travelled a long and
difficult road to their champion
ship. They emerged from a total
OF 90 contestants, all of whom
gave an excellent account OF
themselves.
Approximately 500 persons wit
messed the Spelling Bee and APP
plauded the winners enthusiastic
ally.
Mrs. Otis L. Washam, under
whose direction the contest was
staged, opened the program with
greetings from the sponsoring or
ganizatiol, the Whiteville Bust
ness and Professional Woman's
Club.
Mrs.. Gayle Wells Powell. as
s!siart home demonstration agent
was Gale. The judges were At
torney Frank McGougan of Tabor
City, Willard G. Cole of Whiteville
and Rev. Charles Penick of White
vile.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
LILY PARADE
SLATED HERE
SATURDAY

Mrs. Mae Young, sponsor of
the Tabor City Assembly No. 81
of the Rainbow Girls, will be re-
sponsible for the Lily Parade to
raise funds for the N. c. Society
for Crippled Children and Adults
here Saturday.
Mrs. Ben Ward, Chadbourn,
Mrs. B. A. Powell, Fair Bluff and
Mrs. j. Aubrey Early, will have
the responsibility in their respec-
tive communities.
Attractive girls will be pinning
on Easter lilies throughout the
business district. These lilies are
made by handicapped persons and
contributions received by the girls
during the campaign will be used
for helping this crippled group.
The drive for funds for this
organization is the Goth Annual
Campaign. Mrs. S. w. Carroll, Jr.
is local chairman of the drive
here.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
FISHING BILL

representatives w. r. Floyd
of Columbus and OdeII William
son 90 Brunswick. have intro
duced fishing bill in the N. G.
legislature designed to increase
the fish population in the Wac
caraw River.
Persons have said for some
time that the fish is diminishing
IN the Waccamaw because fish
ing is permitted during the
spawning season and because
motor boats destroy the beds
where the fish are laying eggs.
The bill that has been intro
duced would make IL illegal for
motor boats of any description
to be used in the river between
Lake Waccamaw and the S. C..
line during the months Of May,
June and July. II would also
prohibit fishing during these
months between the New Brit
ian Bridge and the Pireway
bridge.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
Mullins Antique
Show Shaping-Up

MULL1NS-"The quickest and
Surcst way TO anyones heart is
through the dining room" say the
members of the Mullins Choral
Club. referring. of course. the
dining room to be set up at the
sixth annual antiques show in
Mullins on April %. 30 and 30.
Local church and civic groups
Will serve luncheon. tea and sup
Per for three days. Buyers visitors
and dealers may take advantage
OF the dining rooms superior serv-
ice. EntiCing menus featuring
Sn'ithfield ham and turkey, cakes
and pics with all the trimmings
will bN the order Of the day.
Make your plans to cat at the
show. You will enjoy meeting old
friends, talking over your pur-
chascs. and just plain resting after
hours spent walking among the
booths.
To make reservations call or
write Miss Louise Hardwick,
Smith Street, Mullins, S. c. -
phone 1881 or 8488. Hours for
meals will be:
Luncheon 1900 until 80
Tea 4:30 until $50
Supper $50 until 800
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25

be expected to pitch in with their
wholehearted support as they have
in past seasons.
Official dates were also set for
the 1858 festival. This years event
is slated for October Is, l6 and II.
The group discussed various
phases of advertising materials
that may be used in FRONTING the
festival this season. A recipe book
let that could be kept permantly
was discussed and some definite
steps taken toward printing such
a book this year. If carried thro-
ugh to completion, the booklet
would be larger and more sub
stantial than the leaflets used in
the past and would contain several
short articles regarding the Yam
Festival and Tabor City in addi-
ton to a wide selection of sweet
potato recipes.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
1858 Yam Festival
Committee Named

S. T. Rogers president of the
Tabor City Merchants Association
and as such chairman of the 1858
Yam Festival committee, last week
named six additional members to
the steering group that will direct
this years event.
Named to the committee by
Rogers are r. p. Counts, A. C..
Edwards, A. E. Goldfinch, Billy
Dorman, Oliver Prince and Mrs.
B. A. Carroll.
Rogers emphasized that as in
past years. every civic group in
Tabor City would again have re-
sponsibilities and would be in
charge of various features of the
three day event. He also stated
that other members of the board
of directors Of the merchants as
ISOLATION would be expected to
help in staging the festival and
that the whole community would
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
Fire Kills Negro;
Destroys 2 Homes

A flash fire destroyed two homes,
near the Tabor City Lumber Com
pany office here Saturday morn
ing, killing Raymond Williams, 40
year old Negro, and seriously in
juring Bonnie Williamson, another
Negro about so years old.
The fire was discovered about
4:30 Saturday morning by the
nightWatchman at the lumber
company. He said he saw a sudden
burst of flames almost completely
envelope the Williamson house.
He jumped in a pickup truck and
hurried into town to spread the
alarm.
When firemen arrived at the
scene, the Williamson house was
already too far gone to try to save
and the next house was practically
solid flame also. Firemen concen-
trated on wetting down a tobacco
barn that was close by and which
had already caught fire.
Lewis Gore, fire chief, said that
the wetting down of this barn
perhaps saved the entire area a.
round the lumber plant, and that
had the barn got out of control,
he doubted that the lumber COM
pany office or anything else near
by could have been Salvaged.
In addition to the two houses,
the fire also damaged at least one
stack of lumber that was near the
Williamson home. The blaze also
caused electric light lines to short
out and great balls OF fire rolled
off them cracked like rifle shots.
Mary Williamson, wife of Bon
ME, and Mary Wood, a boarder.
were also in the house when it
caught fire. Williamson's wife said
she awoke and saw flames all over
the room. She dashed out with
the Wood woman through the
back Coor. .tfter ga;.ii, { e,a-'de,
she didn't see either her husband
or Williams and made vain at
tempt to get back inside to rescue
them. In doing so she was slightly
burned but unable to get inside.
Williamson meantime awoke and
climbed out window His cloth
ing was afire, and he suffered
severe burns over a great portion
OF his limbs and body.
Williams apparently never woke
up. He was found, after the fire
had died down, completely char
red. Both arms and both legs had
burned off when he was dug out
of the ashes by Policeman Ted
Watts Saturday.
In view of the report of the
night Waterman that the flame
was similar to an explosion when
he first sighted it, it was believed
that either Williams or William
son, both of whom were sleeping
in the room with the heater. had
dashed kerosene or gasoline in
the stove and that the explosion
resulted.
Reports from persons who had
seen the two men Friday after
noon indicated that they had been
drinking.
The coroner said that'there was
no evidence of foul play and that
no inquest would be held.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
Farmer Evening
Classes Organized

The Vocational Agriculture De-
partment of the Tabor City High
School has organized evening
classes for farmers of the Guide
way and Pireway Communities
officials of the department an
nounced.
Classes are being held presently
IN the recreation room of the
Pireway Methodist Church.
The discussions include soil
fumigation to control Nematode
OF tobacco and other crops. corn
varieties, fertilizers. dipping sweet
potatoes, diseases. bedding, tobac-
co sucker control and many other
problems.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25
Strawberries In Full Bloom On A. /. Wright Farm

"1f / had to give UP one of my
cash crops, either tobacco or
Strawberries, / would give up the
tobacco" A. l.. Wright, outstand-
ing farmer of the Vinegar Hill
section said last week as he show
ed his reporter around his bios
soming berry fiends.
Wright has slightly over three
acres Of strawberries this year and
even with il only the middle of
March, the berry fields are white
with blossoms and loaded with
young berries big as bird eggs.
Barring some winter weather that
hasn't been in evidence so far,
Wright expects to start picking
and marketing the table delicacies.
about April 20.
Three years ago the North Car
DINA Expei iment station brought
Mr.. Wright five varieties of straw
berries to test on his farm. Of the
five varieties, only one proved
successful and passed the tests.
That berry was the "Albritton"
and today Mr.. Wright is making
every effort TO convert all his
strawberry acreage to that species.
THE day of the Klondike berry
is gone. The Massey is a good
berry, but this one beats them all"
he said.
From that humble start with so
plants three years ago, Wright was
convinced that this Is the kind
OF berry best suited for Columbus
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25

county, and last year bought 5000
plants at $4,000 thousand. From
this start, he dug $4,000 plants
last November and has sold them
throughout North Carolina and
some of them have gone into South
Carolina.
He has one field with a little
less than an acre of Albritton
plants and has another acre and a
half of the same stock in which he
set out 10000 plants last Deem
Der. Even the new berries that
were set just before Christmas are
loaded with blooms and he ex-
poets fair crop off them.
The rest of his acreage is in
Massey berries which he has
grown for years.
This Albritton berry is the
variety that we farmers should all
be growing in this section. 1t is
similar to the Massey but il grows
out from under the leaves. is a
big fine berry that tastes good
and in general is the best on the
market. Some farmers don't seem
to want TO change 10 another var
iety after growing more common
types for many years, but I am
convinced that this is the berry
Of the future and that farmers
will benefit by putting out more
of this kind of plant" Wright said.
The Albritton strawberry is so
large that ordinarily the average
number in a pound is 20 and good
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-03-25

berries fill The top of a quart cup
with just three rows, with three
in each row. Nine berries of the
better picking cover the top of
the cup.
Another reason l prefer straw
berry farming to tobacco is that
you get through with your pick
ing and marketing before the
weather gets so terribly hot. To-
bacco work is right in the middle
of the hottest weather but such is
not the case with Strawberries"
Wright said.
Mr.. Wright is a native of the
section which he lives, the old
Wright homestead having been
located only a short distance from
highway 701 near Vinegar Hill.
He is an all around farmer with
more than four acres of tobacco.
fairly large corn grower and
he has quite a number Of bee
hives.
He has long been noted for his
berries, however. and with new
variety showing much promise.
there is every reason TO believe
that his progressive farming is
paying off. He is eager to test new
varieties and to grasp noteworthy
suggestions handed down from
agricultural research specialists
who make a profession out of
learning ways to better the lot of
the farmer.