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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
Nickels Fight
Enemies, Aid
Allies OF Weed

-Four powerful enemies {
the tobacco farmer are undo
attack by research forces fin
anced by Tar Heel farmer
And two potent allies of IN,
tobacco grower are bencfittinc
from these same funds.
Inc foes are black shank
"lrewormS, weeds and nemo.
todeS. The friends: Bulk cur
ing and irrigation.
Research at n. c. State Col.
lege on these tremendous fat
orS in production and harvest
lng of the golden leaf is SUD.
ported wholly by the Nickel
Tor know-How program.
Take that needle-nosed vii
lain, the nematode. Nickel
funds paid for an educationa
program that saved flue-curer
tobacco farmers in North Car
DINA more than SIT million in
the years 1855 through 1853
Farmers were taught how 10
plow out the nematode after
harvest, how to rotate tobacco
WIN nematode-reSistant CROPS
ana how to fumigate away the
invisible "eels."
Weeds in tobacco cost tbo
growers millions of dollars
each year i'll time spent hoeinp
or cultivating, in lower yields
ana poorer quality. It's esti-
mated that the cost of deciding
an acre of tobacco is about s14
al 10 cents an hour for labor.
In the labs at State College.
NickelS-paid research is under
way on herbicides that NAV
curb weeds completely in TO-
oacco. Several chemicals are
ready for testing in the fields.
Blank shank and wireworms
are putting up tougher fights.
Tobacco varieties resistant
to the dread black shank have
been bred: but quality of the
'caf hasn't proved satisfactory.
There's strong hope that a
marriage of a tobacco variety
o descendant Of a wild rcla-
tive may produce an offspring
on high quality, too healthy
even for black shank TO hurt.
Black shank can sweep like
tornado through fields of to-
bacco. Each year this deadly
fungus whose hungry ZOOS
pores ravagc wounds in tobac-
% plants costs Tar Heel grow
ars from eight 20 II million
collars.
Entomologists at the college
backed by Nickels, are probing
Continued On Page 81
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
Ira W. Shooter
Dies AT Age 81

Ira Wilton Shooter, automo-
bile salesman of Loris, died al
his home in Loris unexpected
~ at 4 p. m. Wednesday, Aug.
81.
Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon at 4:3O %.
M, at the Loris Methodist
Church with his pastor, Rev.
Dan Montgomery, officiating
Burial followed in the Patter-
son Cemetery.
Hardwick Funeral Home had
charge of services. Mr.. Shooter
was born in Fairmont, N. c.,
Oct. %, 1905; son of John
Melton and Tenny Williams
Shooter. He moved from Row
land, N. c., to Loris in 1887.
Since that time he has been an
automobile salesman. He was
a member of Loris Methods;
Church, Good Cheer Bible
Glass and the Methodist Mems
Club
Surviving are his widow, the
ioimer Miss Florene Todd Of
Loris; and brothers, George
shooter of Rowland. N. c..
Troy Shooter and Sam Shoot
er, both Of Lumberton. N. c.,
and j. c. Shooter of Dillon and
Evander Shooter of Fairmont:
two sisters, Mrs. LLOYD K. Hin
rant of Columbia and Mrs.
Luther Williams of Durham.
N. c.
A son, Ira Wilton Shooter
DR., was killed in an automobile
accident Sept. 5, 1859.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
SPONSORS NIGHT
SET FOR SEPT. 20

Sept. 20 has been officially
set as the night for the thru
annual Sponsors Night dinner
for the Community Develop
ment program.
II will be held at the Tabor
City school cafeteria.
The Sponsors Night event f.
one OF two general meetings
held each year in connection
with the growing community
development program for
white communities.
At Sponsors Night, the fin
ancial hackers of the program
the merchants who contribute
unds for prizes and incentive
wares. have a chance TO hea,
what the communities are do.
ing.
The other annual event 4,
the awards nj ght at which tn,
actual awards are made.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07

used on September 10, when
the awards are passed out.
These master tickets will be
placed on huge board and
some one will throw a dart at
the board. The tickets that are
hit by the dart will be the
winners. The $1,000 silver dol
lars will be divided into num-
erouS prizes rather than one
large prize as lin the past.
Up to the drawing time.
merchants will be offering
special Silver Dollar Day
items at sacrifice prices. These
items are top quality merchan-
disc and not shop worn or old
merchandise that they want TO
dispose of.
The following individual
merchants will also be giving
away the additional prizes
listed:
Duncan's Garage. automobile
end ALIGNMENT and balance:
Damcron's Drugs. $3.50 trade
certificate; Cliff Sarvis Farm
Supply. three $1,000 trade
certificates: Davis jewelers..
diamond necklace: Cricket
Stop, pair of living room. pict-
urcs; Old Dime Store. table
lamp.
Sinon's $3.50 trade ccrtifi-
0'i'. Ices So o. rin " cases.
.,.il : one $1,000 and three
500 trace certificates; Woods
5 & 10, bed spread; Ruey's
Continued on Page 81
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
Annual Baf-b-q
Saturday Noon
AT Williams

The Ruritan Annual Barbe-
cue, sponsored by the Williams
Township Ruritan Club, will
be held on Saturday. Sept. 10.
II the Williams Township High
School cafeteria.
Serving will begin promptly
at - o'clock noon and will
-ontlnuc into the very late
evening. Plates of barbecue.
Saw and hush puppies will be
erved al reasonable price.
one free drink. either a soft
rink or coffee, will be furn-
lShed with each plate purci.-
aScd. Plates ordered from nci-
'rb"rlng communities and
towns will be delivered in the
ate Afternoon.
Tickets for this event may
DC secured at the door or in
aovance from any member of
the Williams Township Ruri-
tan Club.
Proceeds from the event will
be used TO help dcfray the
expense Of all current club
projects. These include the
establishment of a scholarship
fund for needy and deserving
students in the Williams Town
ship school, a contribution 20
the Williams Township school
Covered Walk fund of the 5000
remaining to be paid. the furn
lshing of lunches at school for
needy children. and the cstab-
liShmcnt of writing and
speaking contest among hIcn
school juniors and seniors at
Williams Township High
School.
Everyone everywhere is cor
daily invited to contribute to
this important and very worth
while fund raising event.
Eugene. SaSSer. Reporter
WINS. TWP. Rurital Club
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07

Rev. ]. c. Jones, a native of
Rocky Mount, has been APP
pointed pastor Of Carolina
Baptist Church. Rev. Jones
preached his initial service at
= he church last Sunday morn
ing.
He replaces Rev. Floyd Enzor
who resigned the pastorate To
enter Campbell College.
Rev. Jones came to Carolina
Baptist Church from Second
Baptist Church in Dunn. He is
married to the former IIettie
Belle Joyner OF, Rocky Mounty.
They are the parent. Of }thrG
children, John Calvin, 10; Ply
Oils Rae, II; and Wayne 5.
The new pastor Is a gradu-
ate of Campbell College.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07

yard line, and their on threat
died. Whiteville took over and
the Tabor line seemed to gain
momentum as tney had their
TRIP at the offensive. Three
yards were made in the first
three plays.
1t was not until the third
quarter that Whiteville racked
up their six points for a I'd.
but Tabor City reciprocated in
the final quarter, finishing the
game up with a tie.
Highlights of the game were
the touchdown by Bobby Soles:
Douglas Soles and Wayne
Stevens defense for Tabor
City; Roger Small and Leon
Small's offensive efforts for
the Devils.
Outstanding among White
ville's offense and defense was
Sherman Inman.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
Tabor Ties WhifeviIIe E Too.
Wilmington b Here Friday

Tabor City's Red Devils ap-
parently had the breaks against
them Friday night as they
opened their football season in
Whiteville against the Wolf
pack. Injuries and penalties
seemed to be coming their way
all night.
Tabor City's Ronald Foley
took the opening kick and ran
Ii back TO the forty. On the
first play Roger Small threw
pass to his brother (Jack)
for IL; at that point it seemed
that the Devils were on their
way to paydirt.
On a series of plays Tabor
City drove to the five-yard
line with d LIST and goal. On
the first play a personal fowl
moved the ball back to the 20
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
Home Destroyed
Here ByFire Friday

A Tabor City resident and
mother with six or eight small
Children were left homeless
Friday afternoon when the
Tabor City Fire Department
was unable to extinguish their
flaming home on west Sixth
Street.
A fire department spokes-
man reported that the mother,
Zenia Long, was away from
the home when il was ignited
Flremen reached the scene a.
round p. m, even though no
alarm was sounded on the
town siren. The warning sys-
TEN was out of order at that
time, according to Make Watts,
secretary treasurer of the
department; its wiring had
been Shorted as new light
poles were being installed in
TGbor City.
Faulty wiring was suspected
as cause of the Friday fire.
All contents of the home, in
Guiding the occupants clothing
ono a televiSion set, were de-
Sloyed by the fire.
Years Activity
The fire department has an
swered % calls since January
/. according To Chief Bruce
Watts. Eleven were for fires in
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
ATTEND RACES

Among the area folk at
tending the Southern 500 Races
IN Darlington on Labor Dav
were Claude Higgins. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bright Higgins. Mr.. and
Mrs. Clayton Higgins. Ken,
stephens. Johnny Harrelson. ]
b. Prince. Bcccy Prince. Tom
Lupo. Ted Lupo, Milton Glenn
cnS. Art Huffard, Bryant Hug
gins and Gail Hammond.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
School Bus, Auto
Involved In Crash

A Loris School Area school
bus was involved in an auto
mobile accident on the Tabor
City highway Friday. No one
was injured but an old auto
mobile was damaged consider
ably.
Police said the driver of the
automobile attempted to pass
the school bug % nc be turn.
&C left TO leave 'hc highway
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
Burleson Pleads For
Support Fri. Game

I'D like to see the biggest
crowd appear for the ball game
Friday night in the schools
history!' said Principal Rand
all Burleson today.
mot only will it be gratify-
ing to the members of the team
tc know that they have the
towns support, but the school
needs the extra revenue" Mr..
Burleson explained that great
effort has been made to i'm
prove the field recently, and
that other expenses have been
incure during the installation
OF new transformer and
much needed light bulbs.
Tabor City will be playing
against Wilmington's B Team
Friday.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07

Rev. j. p. Jones, president
OF the Columbus County Camp
Meeting, wishes to announce
the annual Camp Meeting, to
be held Sept. Is through Sept.
rs.
The Rev. George D. Voorhis,
a converted Roman Catholic,
will preach each night. He is
presently pastor of The Church
of God, Morganton.
Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Dawsey,
Jr. Of Whiteville, will have
charge of song services. Rev.
Dawsey: is pastor of the Penta-
costal Free viii Baptist Chur-
CHI, Dublin.
Services will begin each
night at 1880 The public is
invited IN attend
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07

age for the days sales.
Of the four selling days since
last Tuesday, Tabor City has
attained the highest average in
the belt for three of the days;
Friday, LoriS proved S63.I6
average compared to Tabor
City's S62.5O.
Averages by days have been
as follows in Tabor:
Wednesday-S62.73.
ThurSday-S63.43.
Friday-S62 so.
Tuesday-S63 80.
Yesterday Fair Bluff came
up with a 5000 average on
337,l20 pounds for a two-ycar
high. Falrmont. Whiteville,
Lumberton, Clarkton, Chad
bourn, and LorlS also joined
Tabor City and Fair Bluff in
setting new season average
records.
Through the season. buyers
in Tabor City have purchased
4,499,5l4 pounds of weed for
a total of $2,8l0.462.ll.
Markets in this area have
produced the following aver
ages for the four selling days
since Tuesday, Aug. 80.
Tabor City, S63.82: Chad
bourn, S62.76; Whiteville. $685.
81; Fair Bluff, S6l.33; and
LoriS, S63.35.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
TEXAS VISITORS

Mr. and Mrs. Bright Hug
rims and son. Edwin, Of Lonc-
view, Texas are visiting reIa-
uives in the area. In Tabor City
they are visiting his brother.
Claude Higgins.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
Loea | Mart Leaps To Historic
High With $66.60 AVERAGE

One week Tabor leadership Of tobac-
co averages in Columbus COunys four
Tabor Cys buyers forced the local
the entire Border Belt.
CmaXing the weeks record yesterday
the markets with
dredweight For the day Tabor pounds
Tor S2s59929 Ken "SharecOpper" Lowell supervisor
said Tabor City warehouse S6S34
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07
DR.. GENE COOK

- DR.. Gene Cook is a patient
In the Baptist Hospital, Wins
ton Salem, receiving treatment
for a leg condition. He is ex-
pected home within the next
several days.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07

homes. 10 were woods fires,
and two were for automobiles.
The only total loss reported
was the burned home of Fri
day.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-09-07

We never deceive for a good
purpose, knavery adds malace
TO falsehood.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

fathers story of the Red Men
who lived along the Potomac.
After the Piscataways leave
the stage, Revolutionary War
soldiers fill Hungerford Tavern
and Lafayette visits Rockville.
A Civil War battle complete
with horses fills the ampi-
theater and then Rockville be-
comes peaceful.
Gibson Girls and Keystone
Cops show Rockville at the
turn Of the century.
White cemetery crosses COM
memorate World War I and
the Marines raise the American
flag on Two Jima to bring
Rockville to the l940s.
Finale of the show features
a mock atomic bomb with
mushroom cloud and a missile
sailing skyward.
The pageant and fireworks
will be staged every evening
through Saturday at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Marine Sergeant
Apparent Suicide

A 3O-year-old Marine staff
sergeant was found shot to
death outside the main post
chapel at Quantico Marine Base
yesterday.
Staff Sergt. Edward Denny.
assigned to Headquarters
Company. Headquarters Battal-
ion, were found by civilian
workmen on the ground out
side the side door of the chapel.
A .45-caliber pistol was at his
feet.
A base spokesman said a note
was found in Sergt. Denny's Of
flee but that it only said what
should be done with his person.
al effects. The sergeant was in
chaee of the post theater.
A bachelor, Sergt. Denny had
been in the Marines since 1943.
In 1855. at the time of his last
re-enlistment, he gave Accord,
N. Y, as his home address.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Four MPs Held
On Theft Counts

-Four young military police
men with excellent records
were arrested in Arlington yes
terday and accused of stealing
automobile mirrors.
Charges of petty larceny
were filed against Lewis Byron
Chatellier. 20; Paul Robert
Kudlaty, 81; Harvey Dennis
Buskin, jr.. l8. and Darrell
Eugene Wiltse, 10.
All four are stationed at Ar
lington Hall, a sensitive security
installation.
Arlington Detective 1t. w.
Lynn Smith said police Pvt.
Kenneth P. Starnes, making a
routine check, stopped the
soldiers at South Trop and
Twenty seventh streets and
found three mirrors under the
front seat of their car.
County Court Judge Wesley
Cooper continued their cases
until September 26 and placed
the military policemen in Gus
tody of their commanding of.
flcer.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Pupil Board
Denies Pleas
Of11Neqroes

RICHMOND. Aug. 80 (AP)-
The State Pupil Placement
Board has turned down the re-
quests Of IL Negroes to attend
white schools in Prince Will
liam and Roanoke Counties
next month because the appli-
cations were filed too late.
The board said yesterday the
children's parents did not COM
ply with q regulation requiring
the applications for transfers
be filed so days before any
school session.
A spokesman said the appli-
cations Of four children seeking
transfers to Occoquan Elemen-
tary School in Prince William
County were filed last week.
However, the board adopted
a new regulation clarifying the
old one on the time limit for
the submission of transfer ap-
plications. The board said the
denials would not prejudice the
rights Of the Negroes to apply
Tor admission to white schools
in the 1872 session.
Under the new regulation,
the board says it will not con-
slider applications for original
placement or transfer filed with
1t or local superintendent of
schools after July l for the
coming session unless a change
OF the applicants residence
after July makes a new place
ment necessary.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

10000 pupils will attend classes
when schools in the county
open next Tuesday. The coun-
tvs annual 5.000-student in
crease would mean, he said,
that more than 10000 pupils
would be enrolled by 1870.
The superintendent said work
under way by the curriculum
study committee is "one Of the
most significant projects Of the
current school year"
Ludwig Camanita, jr., COM
mittee chairman, said the citi-
zens, assisted by a professional
curriculum consuitant a n d
school personnel, have ap-
preached their task without
preconceived opinions. There
will be no change in the cur
riculum merely for the sake
OF change, he said.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

Water Pollution Control Com
mission.
A sub-department would be
created to be called the once
of Saline Water Conversion
which. would have Jurisdiction
over conversion of salt and
brackish water to fresh.
aside from the discovery
and development Of water re-
sources. the major function Of
this department will be the
establishment and maintenance
of uniform water quality stand
ards throughout the State Of
Maryland and In those waters
now subject to interstate COM
pact" his proposal said.
The proposal specified that
the director of the Water Pol
luton Conrtol Commission
serve as head Of the new agency.
Will Pick Chairman
The board yesterday ap-
proved proposed legislation
which would allow it to choose
its own chairman, but disagreed
over how far to go in trying
to coordinate efforts Of vari-
Gus member conservation de-
partments.
The agency is planning to
submit q reorganization bill to
the 1860 session Of the Mary
land Legislature and took its
first formal steps yesterday to-
ward drafting legislation.
The head Of the board is
presently designated by law as
the director of the Tidewater
Fisheries Department, one of
six member agencies of the
board.
DR.. H. C. Byrd, TIC chair
man who as acting director of
his department also serves as
chairman OF the resources
board. agreed with other men,
bers that the situation SHOULD
be changed.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Rockville Crowd Endures Heat
To See 900 in Historical Poqeont

Montgomery County" and Pa
mela Mills, aged 6, Little Miss
Rockville" The horse drawing
the little queens coach pune
tuated each crowning with a
Whinny.
The council members were
clad in their centennial pag-
cant costumes. Mayor Alexan-
der Greene was dressed as Lord
Calvert and Councilman Ralph
Williams as a priest.
Councilmen Glen Koepenick
and Achilles Tuchtan were in
Colonial dress as important
men of the province.
The opening scene of the
pageant takes place in 1860
when the newly-incorporated
town is emotionally torn by
the secession of South Caro-
lima from the Union.
The script shifts to a lone
some Confederate camp where
a young boy recalls his grand
Evening star., 1960-08-30
ALMOND PREFERS
SILENCE ON
BYRD'S SPEECH

RICHMOND (AP).-Gov.
Almond said yesterday:
Silence is golden at times"
when asked for comment
on Senator Harry F. Byrd's
apple picnic speech Of Sat-
urday.
The silence is golden"
phrase was used by Sena-
ator Byrd in explaining
why he didn't choose to an
nounce whether he would
support the Democratic ma
tional ticket of Senator
John F. Kennedy for Presi-
dent and Senator Lyndon
B. johnson for Vice Presi-
dent.
So Gov. Almond borrow
ed the Byrd language and
with tongue in cheek used
the phrase as another
means Of saying mo COM
ment."
Evening star., 1960-08-30

Indian warriors. Confederate
and Union troops and Marines
lured several hundred Rock
vile citizens from their air
conditioners, fans and iced
drinks to view the opening of
the towns centennial pageant
last night.
A cast Of 800 presented the
first showing of The Thin Gray
Line" a spectacular document
ing Rockville history from Co.
lonial times to the present, on
the stage at Broome Junior
High School athletic field.
The cast often formed un-
usual family groups. Father
was dressed as a Keystone Cop,
mother as a Civil War belle
and the children in Indian and
pioneer garb.
Prior to the pageant, the
city council assembled on stage
to crown Sue Edmonston Miss
Rockville, Marilyn Jones Miss
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Whittier Says Schools
Must Adapt to Change

Montgomery County School
Supt. c. Taylor Whittier says
educators must be ready to
adopt new and sound ideas to
keep pace with the worlds
changing needs.
He spoke to more than 5000
teachers and county school ad-
miniStrative personnel at a gen.
eral convocation yesterday at
the University of Maryland.
"Long-term planning must
become habitual with U.S." DR..
Whittier said. THE daring, the
courageous. the imaginative So
lutions will take us forward.
I'VE must resolve to make
any sound adaptation-within
reaSon-to keep pace with the
accentuated tempo and the
changing needs of the country
and the world we live in"
6S Year-Round Teachers
DR.. Whittier said Montgom-
cry already had adopted the
idea of placing teachers on a
12-month basis. SiXty-eight are
now in the year-round pro-
gram, he said, and others are
expected to join.
This program, he said, has
the advantages of permitting
greater use of school facilities
and providing a student an op-
portunity to complete his edu-
cation at an earlier age land
not wait so long as now to
begin contributing to the world
which sorely needs his talents"
DR.. Whittier also cited a
school board proposal to con-
struct a high school with large
areas within the building which
will have movable walls.
He noted that Montgomery
has grown rapidly during the
last decade and predicted the
next will bring continuing
growth.
Predicts Tax Rise
Even as the tax burden has
risen in the last 10 years, so will
it rise in the next 10 years." he
said.
DR.. Whittier said more than
Evening star., 1960-08-30
ROCKVILLE TROVER
Sky Diver Sleeveless;
Cops Hot on 7 rail

Jim Arender, the world cham
pion. lost his parachute sleeve.
He made a perfect drop from
10000 feet. falling free for 5000
feet before opening his para
chute, and landing on the tar
get, which was an ordinary
sized bed sheet.
The sleeve, which is about II
feet long and colored red. white
and blue, fell into a nearby
cornf1eld. Boys rushed in to get
it, but they did not come out
with it.
Someone thought it was a
souvenir.
Jim Arender is out $40. That's
what it cost and this sleeve
was borrowed from a friend.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
ObermeyerTdke
Basin Command

Capt. j. A. Obermeyer became
commanding ofiicer and direc-
tor Of the David Taylor Model
Basin today. He replaces Rear
Admiral E. A. Wright, who is
being assigned to Charleston,
S. c., after four years as head
Of the basin.
Capt. Obermeyer comes to
the model basin after four
years with the Navy Bureau of
Ships. where he was director of
the Ship Design Division.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

10. There was no discussion
of the proposal.
Mr.. Hume, who has long con-
tended that there are too many
agencies dealing with problems
Of water pollution and quality
standards. recommended that
the new agency be called the
Department Of Water Resources
and Conservation.
Water Conversion Unit
1t would take over certain
functions now performed by
the Health Department, the De-
partment Of Geology, Mines
and Water Resources and the