Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-04-18
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BY PHILLIPS HARRISON

iooaSSo SStthitS 10 6piiiS luii
blast these days with all hands
busy in the fields. We are all
well aware of the economic
status of the plant in this area,
but Webster's Improved Dict
ionary simply has this to say
of tobacco IAN annual plant
of the nightshade family, about
three to six feet high with
white or pink tubular flowers
and lanceolate leaves which
are prepared in various ways
for smoking, chewing. and
snuffing." Just little lax in
description of such a valuable
plant, don't you think?
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Fipps of
Aberdeen, Mr.. Billy Fipps Of
Aberdeen. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Layton Fipps and children Of
Charleston. S. c., were guests
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
N. A. Fipps of Route 8, Tabor
City. on Sunday April 8.
Mrs. B. F. Williams, Miss
Eunice Williams, and Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. F. Williams all of the
Clarendon section visited in
Wilmington the weekend of
the Azalea Festival.
Miss Hilda Grey Williams Of
Wilmington was a recent guest
of Miss Shirley Cox of Claren-
don.
Miss Janice Blount and Miss
jeanette Blount who are stu
dent nurses at Memorial Hos
pital, Charlotte. N. c., and al
SO. Mr.. Keith Blourt who is a
student at Clemson College,
spent the Easter holidays with
their parents Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Blount of Route 2, Loris.
Mr.. Buddy Cooper of the
Gapway section was hospital
lied last week at the Mullins
Hospital with serious burns
suffered while extinguishing a
burning automobile.
The Oak Grove Baptist
Church folks are certainly TO
be commended for a job we'll
done. Their new building will
be completed within the next
two weeks. The new building
is OF brick and is completely
modern in every respect.
Another improvement going
forward is the road work on
the road by the Cypress
Branch Baptist Church. This
road is heavily Travelled and
has needed improving for a
long time. 1t seems the old
Saying-"Another day another
dollar'-is being changed to
Another day another i'm
provcmcnt." ANY way VIC folks
in Columbus had a lot 10 60 TO
work on. didn't we?
Mrs. Smithy Weaver is i'll
at her homo in Fair Bluff.
The cold weather of last
week slowed down tobacco
setting considerably Also
strawberries suffered another
setback. Some foIr., were 90
ing ahead with ,nrlr tobacco
setting and ! saw some with
fires going At the end of tho
rows TO warm their fingers bv.
II was cold and il IS q certain
TACT that they needed n fire
| know those women riding on
those tranSplantcrs were near
~ freezing.
mat colored woman on the
riverbank near Fair Bluff was
cold too. She had a fire Going
and was fishing away. One
advantage she had over most
fishermen was that no matter
II she didn't catch anything she
still had the fire TO cniov
While I was living in Char
lotte l became fast friends
with Chinese Iaundrvman
named John. John has MIRO
little business and cmpIovs
several people. At different
times his business taxes the
capacity Of his plant and there
Tore he has laundry packages
piled all over the pace. H has
very simple and efficient
ns'thod of marking laundry
but II can easily backfirc HE
method is simply a ticket pcr-
toratcd in the center and num-
borcd on each end. When =
customer comes in. John tears
inc ticket and gives ono part
10 the customer and Du's ,bc
othcr with tho laundry. Trie
part stays with tho laundry Ill
the way and is Claimod bv ,bc
customer with his m1trbi,a
number. Now vcral Woke
A"o ! WIS in Charlotte and ii
tied John. He was in the midst
OF an alteration with a wait
reSS who had lost her ticl,c,
and was violently domanIinr
hcr clean uniforms so ero
could report for work. John
would give her that blank orr
entail look ard shrug and that
would st her Off again. Fin