Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1961-06-14

WIS SSs'h out vi the IRON
porch last Saturday evenin
little before shutdown a readi,
the paper when seen ,bi.
pickup truck comm dowr
the road. noticed he starte,
Slowin down as he got near IN,
house but l fingered he wa,
just tryin to be- nice and no,
stir up so much dust as he
wen, by. But he pulled in tho
yard. got out and walked up 10
the porch where l was set,,n
and said to me, 1--WE got YOU,
televiSion set on the truck.
Where would you like for us
to put it,"
Tbout dropped my teeth
Fact is. my upper plate did
slip out of place. So. said 10
him. What is this. some Kind
Of 4 prank you're playin?" All
the time though | could see he.
had 4 big box Of somcthin on
his truck.
Then he told me it wasn't no
mistake that my boy up in
Richmond had called and told
him to bring il out and that hr
would pay the bill. That Was
II took because l knowed Bob
had been threatenin for a long
time TO do jest that but me
and Fannie had been tryin 10
talk him out of il.
Anyhow, he brought il on in
and Fannie told him where to
set 1t. l wanted il in the from,
room but she decided to have
il put back in the room where
We usually set and that's where
1t was put. ! didn't dare try to
argue with her. learned
long time ago that / was lust
4 wastin my breath when !
argued with that woman.
l fingered them fellers would
be in the night a gittin the
thing put in but it couldn't of
been more'n 80 minutes before
they had il hooked up and
goin.
It's a good thing we'd cat
supper before they got there
with the set. else I'm afraid | |
wouldn't of got none unless I'd
fixed ii myself. That Fannie
set there in her rockin chair
and watched ever program that |
come on. The only time she'd |
git up was to turn the sound !
up or down. Seemed like she |
never could be satisfied.
l don't know how we're goin
to git along with it. | enjoy |
looking at it but ] amt gonna
glue myself to it like I'm afraid
Fannie's gonna do. Thcy's one
or two farm programs that
comes on l specially want to
see. I seen one of 'em up at
the fillin station the other day.
They had this Teller John Win
field on and he was tellin all
about the markets division
which he heads up in the State
Department of Agriculture.
He had some sort of DRAWN
that showed jest how the mar
kets division was divided up.
They had one section - be-
lieve he called 'em sections =
on livestock. They was another
one on poultry, and one on
fruits and vegetables. Then he
pointed out one on cotton and
another one on tobacco. I've
forgot the names of all of EN-
all til. Anyhow. they seem 10
have somebody who could help
a farmer market jest about
anything he could raise.
I've been up to Mr.. Win
fields office on the third floor
of the State Agriculture Build
in two or three times. But |
didn't know It'll l seen him
tellin about it on the televi-
sion that they had offices up
in Asheville and Charlotte and
Elizabeth City too. He went on
to tell about twhat the people
in them offices did but while
he was talkin about 1t. some
loud-mouth Teller come in the
fillin station to git new bat
terry for his car and it looked
like he tried to see jest how
much noise he could make. BY
the time he finally got through
runnin his mouth and got out
from between me and the tele-
vision set, the program was
goin off. Course, ] don't rec