Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-01-18
Carriers Column
By-W. Horace Carter

By-w. Horace Carter
Heard another story
wanted to buy him two mongooses and he
was writing letter ordering the animals.
He first started Dear NOM
goose But then he began to think about the plural of mol
goose and thought perhaps he was wrong saying two mon
Thus he started again. Dear Sir: Please
geese"
lie of himself and "mongccsc" ddn'.
sound exactly right He didn't write letter and sound
SO ignorant; so he started u third time.
This time he Dear Sir Please
No. on second thought send me two Thus the man properly
if you arc wondering what in the world mongoose
here's what Websters dictionary "A vverrne mammal
the snakes Except sentence
definition is just as confusion as the mongoose to me-
Now my nanny, University of North Caro-
na has hired Jim Taum to conduct its football classes for the
next five can't help but per bit and wonder what
Tatum Sorts even if he a little older
Matter of fact back when was freshman at UNC in 1889
Taum the freshman baseball COACH tn
only sport big enough play really
big enough for that either
But did manage o Taum's squad even though a
away can well remember one game
with Oak Ridge when the coach pinch hit in the
Carolina behind by a
had warmed the bench long that a simply
scared me to death Now would like to that hit
single and tied the but
fact struck out cold three the
still remember II sweep
ing that must have missed at least feet Thus Taum
has probably been only too glad forget existed
The other two catchrs football players
Indian named "snder"
Both weighed about 200 better argue
about roofing them out of any position.
remember the Duke that year Durham.
got to play so little that to catch batting
delight Coach Taum pointed at and said Go there Cart
and catch batting practice Tatum pitching
practice session. and figured this would
snow how could snag those balls behind the plate But about
the time started for the catching equipment Sndcr
foobaler hollered oh, let CATCH
batting practice" And Taum said 20. X" got
the cold again.
But Sunny Jim Chapel Hill to see if he can
lift the Tar depths of football decline He started
Oklahoma the path to football picked Marylan1
up from mediocrity to a first rate power.
Carolina has had only football teams since the days of
that downward trend We even expect him to have
pretty fair country ball club his first
Taum makes bones business is winning foot
ball games and the life of coach is measured by
loss record Tatm knows will leave no stone un
turned until he brings UNC back football limeight
We do not follow thought that the old homo
school should win feel that you should
have good give up the ghost and
Tatum certainly didn't to Chapel Hill for financial
gam mus ne must have some idea of developing football
point that he and football will be credit to
He has vote confidence
The Jayccc selection Willard Wright as the Tabor Cit
Man of the Year earned handsome good publicity
3r inc local commissioner About all the newspapers pick
co up the story nd the Wilmington and picture
on page one Only thing they foued his
William c. Wright"
Here few sayings that recently found
e way TO our desk from George Keller printing
suppicrs in this he country: 49, Fo
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find ' - 49, ~
Humanity is divided classes those in the swim and
those in the " ~ ~ ~
10 err only human but when you out the eraser
oe1ore you've used up the pencil, you're OVERRIDING it,
whenever an Individual decides that success
has been attained progress stops.
will never "find~ time TO-
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Fear is a dark room where negatives" are developed
beware OF half truh-t may be the wrong half