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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-01-10
Merchants Mark Successful
Year With Annual BANQUET

The Annual Banquet of the
Tabor City Merchants Associa-
ton Monday night was marked
by a review OF what was term
I'd an extremely successful
year, and an optimistic outlook
for the continued growth. of
the town.
Outgoing exc usive secretary
Ken Lowell listed seven she
ceSsiul projects FOR the year.
A highly successful cam
paign for new members. rails
ing that number from SIS to 90.
The Golden Easter Egg
Hunt.
brunswick County Apprc-
citation Days.
Silver Dollar Days.
-CarolinaS Yam Festival.
The visits of Santa Claus
during the Christmas season.
Establishment of an EN-
ployment Security Commission
representative here.
On the minus side of the
ledger, Mr.. Lowell expressed
regret that the Association had
been unsuccessful in obtaining
new doctor for the town.
w. Horace Carter, president
of the Association for the past
year, was reelected to that of
flee for another year.
TIC the list of accomplish
ments outlined by Mr.. Lowell,
Mr.. Carter added:
getting a hospital group
insurance plan for employees
of member merchants.
establishment of a Social
Security officer in town.
"a reduction of solicitation
of merchants.
establishment of a uniform
system of closing hours for the
town stores.
expansion of the Credit
Bureau, function Of the AS
sociation.
Mr.. Carter also outl;aed n
proposal for the revival of the
strawberry market in Tabor
City, which has been out Of
opeation for the past two
years.
He said that delegation of
. merchants had met with Jen-
nings Strickland. of StriCk-
lands Produce Market, and re-
quested that he act as manager
of the berry market and at :
tempt to get it running here
again.
Mr.. Strickland informed the
group that he would need a
loan of $50, 900 for a period of
about 10 days If he we're TO un-
dertake the project.
MIR. Strickland offered 10 put
up $1,000 himself, and guar
anteed that lenders Of the ad-
ditional $4,000 needed would
take no risks of loss:
Mr.. Carter expressed his
confidence in the soundness of
the plan, and urged all mem
bers of the Association to take
a Hart in raising the money.
He said that there are only
a few days remaining until Mr..
Stricklsnd's offer would be
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-01-10

The mind of a child is like
a narrow nccked bottle. IL
takes plenty Of learning in lit
tie drops, but any large dose
will spill over and be wasted
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-01-10
LICENSE EXAMINER

NJ. A. CovingtOn. drivers
license examiner. who is ror-
mally in Tabor City each Tues
DAY. said that he will not be-
here on Tuesday, JANUARY 80.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-01-10
EASkETBALI. GAMES

EHNNE TBAI.I. GAMES
Tabor City High School
Principal Randall Burlesop
has announced lathe bask.
etball games oetY cei "a, jce
al teams and Whitevilie, sche-
duled for Friday night at
Whiteville. will instead be
played here in Tabor City,
due tn some work that is be-
ing done on the Whiteville
gym. Game time is ! p. III.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-01-10

tary and Civilian Club. in addi-
ton to tic Merchants. Sixty
eight persons attended.
Evening star., 1962-01-15
BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer

In hope that the money may
become available for it, $12.3
million worth of planned con-
Struction for District General
Hospital was described by the
Commissioners in their report
to Congress today.
First proposed by architects
in 1857, the construction would
join three main buildings into
one structure. At present, an
enclosed bridge and enclosed
hallway link one floor of the
central building to the others.
The $12.3 million would also
include a new wing with emer-
gency and admitting rooms and
a new operating suite.
Construction, the report says,
will take four years, spreading
the expenditure over four fiscal
years.
At present, District General
is spread around in % buildings
on IS acres of Southeast Wash
ington. The Commissioners call
many of the structures exceed
ingly DID,"
Some" the report says, are
dilapidated from use and sew
eral constitute serious safety
and fire hazards. Safe and
Evening star., 1962-01-15
$12.3 Million Souqht
For Hospital Project

proper patient care is extremely
difficult"
The proposed construction
would "in effect create a new
modern hospital of some 1900
beds"
There were other health sta
tiStics-none of them good-in
the Commissioners report:
/. Failure to increase the
staff of maternal and child
health clinics (while children
registered increased from 29, 900
to $4,000 between 1856 and
1861 has forced a reduction
of Is per cent in the average
number of times a child can
be seen each year.
2. Syphilis rates have in
creased here from about 240
cases per 100000 persons in
1856 to about 800 cases per
100000 persons in 1861. This
goes against the national trend,
in which cases declined from
80 to about rs per 100000 over
the same period.
Thus, the Washington rate
now is about four times that of
the Nation.
3. The Districts tuberculosis
death rate was about twice that
of the Nation in several recent
years.
Evening star., 1962-01-15
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

A legacy of jammed schools
and tagging teacher salaries
threaten children in the Capt.
tai, the Commissioners today
warned in their report to Con-
gress.
The report ticks off area
after area in the city where
burgeoning enrolment is leav-
ing authorized or planned
school construction behind.
1t shows that the school sys-
tenn will need more than 1000
new teachers by 1867 to meet
the increase in regular enroll
ment, which is expected to
jump from $4,000 to 146,O00.
But top teacher Salaries-a
prime incentive for teachers to
stay with the system-are the
lowest in the Metropolitan area.
Teacher recruiting efforts are
further hampered by difficulties
Evening star., 1962-01-15
DISTRICT
Continued From Page Al

inequitable by the citizens Of
Immediately adjoining States,
then Congress should, in good
conscience substantially in
crease the Federal payment to
the only Federal City in the
Naticn."
During past years, the an
nual Federal payment to the
District has been less than the
amount authorized by Con-
gress. For example, the au-
thorized level is $32 million, but
the actual appropriations this
year was $50 million, and $25
million during the past three
years.
During the past two sessions
of Congress, city officials failed
to win congressional enactment
Of a revenue bill. The Com
missioners' tax-raising author
ity is limited to the real estate
levy and the personal property
(business inventory tax. The
Commissioners last summer
raised the real estate rate from
$3.50 to $3.50 per $1OO of
assessed valuation.
Today's report said that, be-
cause of steadily increasing
demands for municipal Serv-
ices and limited revenue in
creases: we find our
selves in a most precarious fl
nancial situation"
The Commissioners report to
Congress said Washington'S
business firms prospered last
year and personal income in
the city continued to rise, al
though less rapidly than else
where in the country.
Evening star., 1962-01-15

ed Mr.. Kennedy to have Edlin's
Federal Court mail fruad hear
ing delayed so that publicity
about it would not affect the
Linda City-Leisure City deal.
Dates Shown
Mr.. Boykin says he made the
request about September 20,
1861. On October 6, 1861, the
records show, motions were
filed by the Government
against First Colony, and on
October IT, the Government
issued subpoenas for documents
because of what was de-
scribed as a possible technical
flaw in the governments 1855
indictment, Edlin and other
officers of First Colony were
indicted again on November T.
1861.
Edlin pleaded mo contest"
December 8; the charges
against the association and
three others connected with it
are pending).
Trial or no trial, the sale
of the Linda City and Leisure
City properties was consum-
mated, for $19.3 million, 1t was
announced on December 20 by a
Connecticut real estate corpor-
alton.
1t was also before Congress
adjourned in late September
Mr.. Boykin said, that he called
Gov. TaWes and asked him to
receive Mr.. Robinson and Edlin
He did it at the request OF
Mr.. Robinson, he said. He called
the Governor twice, he said
because the two failed to show
up for an appointment after
his first call. He said he die
not know why.
He thought, said Mr.. Boykin
that they wanted to discuss
with the Governor their plans
for developing Linda City-not
the savings and loan business
IF I knew that they hao
wanted to talk about that
wouldn't have called the Gov
ernor," he said.
Gov. Tawes has said that only
Edlin showed up for the Sum-
day morning conference.
AS for the Leisure City prop
erty sold to the First Continen-
tai Savings firm for SO million
Mr.. Boykin acknowledged that
he had bought it for $201, 900
from interests which failed to
keep up their payments on it
to his Tensaw Land and Tim
ber Co. His firm spent IS years
acquiring the nearly 4,6O0 acres
in Virginia. he said.
He received, he said, $125,-
900 in a certified check from
the Leisure City Land Corp. as
a cJwn payment on the SO mil
'oG property, and held a ST.
$4,000 mortage on the rest.
| Records in Stafford County
show that Leisure City, whose
principal officer was Mr.. Rob-
inson, borrowed $843,750 from
First Continental, which was
also directed by Mr.. Robinson.
Mr.. Boykin said he didn't
know whether the $125,00O
down payment came from First
Continental's Golfers or not.
He did say, however, that "if
get it (the Virginia property
back, I'm going to sell it for
SIS million"
Evening star., 1962-01-15
Jommed Schools Seen
Increasing DC. Threat

of getting men and women to
teach in overcrowded old build
ingS in economically handi-
capped city neighborhoods.
The Commissioners have be-
fore them a proposal to raise
maximum salaries for qualified
teachers with masters degrees
to $9,100. but this would be par
TALLY offset by pay raises by
the Government and other local
school systems which compete
in hiring.
The Com m il S sioners also
noted that the salary of the
superintendent of schools is
the lowest in the Nations 81
largest cities.
$4,000 Excess Seen
While the Conn m issioners
said that overcrowding in ele-
mentary and junior high
schools is Imminent" in many
parts of the city, overcrowding
long since has arrived in cer-
tain areas, according to school
figures.
The report points out that
elementary school enrolment
alone in the next school year
will exceed by $500 pupils the
facilities already authorized.
By 1868. the report adds, this
excess will rise to 10000. This
is the equivalent of about 16
new elementary schools.
Elementary schools and
Junior highs are bearing the
brunt of the soaring school
In some instances
teachers are being forced to
use lunchrooms and audi
toriums for classroom space.
Enrolment next year will
top projections by about 5000,
the report states, eraSing pre-
vious gains in efforts to re-
duce the pupil-teacher ratio to
a desired 80 to l.
Excluding kindergarten and
special classes, the District
ranks next to last in pupil
teacher ratio in the seven sys-
tems in the Washington area,
the report points out,
The District ranks 18th
among 10 of the largest cities
On this count.
To meet the teacher shortage,
;he District system is having
10 rely heavily on temporary
,eachers-too many, the report
says. In the last five years, the
number of temporary teachers
mas risen from 16 to 80 per
,ent of personnel strength.
Most of this rise is at the ele-
nentary school level.
Evening star., 1962-01-15
Negroes LOT
eenInlproved
Rise Is Reported
In Income, Housing

There is a steady improve
ment In the living standards in
Washington's Negro residents,
the Commissioners told Con-
gress today.
This report was based main
ly on income and housing
statistics.
The Commissioners ais o
predicted that the percentage
Of Negro residents would con-
tinue to rise during the next
decade.
In their state of the Ma
tons Capital" message to Con-
gress, the Commissioners re-
ported that:
". the economic status of
non-white residents is sub
stantially improving"
The median income of these
families rose from $2,578 to
$4,000 between 1949 and 1859,
a jump of So per cent, the re-
port said. The comparable
figure for white families was
81 per cent, Congress was told.
In the message the Commis-
sioners said that, according to
census figures, the total num-
ber of housing units in the
District in 1860 was IA per cent
greater than the 1850 figure.
During the same period the
number of substandard units
decreased about II per cent.
The report added:
THE census also showed an
increase of nearly 80 per cent
in Negro housing ownership.
Today owner occupied units
among Negroes are almost
equal in number to owner-oc-
cupied units among whites.
Those trends are encouraging
and in dicate improvements
throughout the city as a
whole"
AS to racial population fig
ures, the report noted that the
percentage of white residents
had dropped from IS per cent
in 1850 to As per cent in 1860.
The predicted figures for
1870 were SO per cent white
and "a per cent non-white.
Evening star., 1962-01-15
Forced Insanity Plea
Hit Before High Court

his client, lends in disaster"
because a person found not
guilty because Of insanity loses
his liberty through indefinite
commitment to a mental hos
pital.
The lawyer argued that while
the trial judge was told Lynch
had been mentally ill when he
wrote the checks, there was no
judicial finding that the former
Air Force officer was mentally
ill or dangerous to society at
the time of his trial.
The lawyer emphasized the
dilemma of a criminal defend
ant who is sent to a mental
hospital after nothing more
than a reasonable doubt" of
sanity is shown at a trial and
then must prove himself re-
covered and no longer dan
gerous to obtain his release.
In answer to a question by
Chief Justice Warren, Mr..
Arens said the trial Judge
would have had to dismiss the
criminal charges to permit a
civil commitment hearing to
be held.
No Transcript Available
Justices of the high court,
who asked Mr.. Arens numerous
questions, were constantly sty-
mied as they sought to ascer-
tain exactly what had happened
at Lynch'S trial in Municipal
Court. The Justices were told
that no transcript of the pro-
ceedings there had been kept.
The Government, in a brief
filed earlier, maintained that
the Municipal Court judges re-
lection of Lynch's guilty plea
was within his discretion and
urged the high court not to in
terfere with the delicate bal
ance in the District that exists
at present between the rights
of the individual and the claims
of society in the handling of
criminal insanity matters.
Evening star., 1962-01-15
Alexandra Womun,
Found in Coma, Dies

A 41-year-old woman died
yesterday in Alexandria Hos
pital of undetermined causes.
A hospital spokesman iden-
titled her as Lula M. Prichett,
1923 Oronoco street, Alexandria.
She was discovered unconscious
in a hallway at 824 Oronoco
street January 7 and admitted
to the hospita! in a coma, the
hospital said. An autopsy was
to be performed today.
Evening star., 1962-01-15

it-even with that background
well, he's paid for it.
Il think if they (the State
of Maryland and the United
States Government would
have let that man alone, he'd
a-done all right.
1T would have been the
darndest development you ever
saw-and it will be, tool" This
was a reference to the stymied
8,000-acre Linda City develop
ment.
Edlin Named
Edlin has been named by the
United States Attorneys office
as the man who directs and
controls" the destiny of First
Colony Savings & Loan Asso-
citation of Prince Frederick,
which is also facing mail fraud
charges, and of First Continen-
tai, now in receivership, with
some So million belonging to
about 1000 savers.
The So year old Miami
Beach promoter denies this,
saying merely he was a Con
sultant."
Mr.. Boykin says there is
nothing unusual about wanting
to give away homes to Amer
ica's heroes or to noteworthy
causes. He has tried to do that
a number of times, he said.
II offered to do the same
thing when Colin Kelly sank
that ship" he said, referring to
the early World War II story
of the sinking of the japanese
battleship, "Haruna.
Two kilograms
Last year. he added, he gave
a home to small college near
Mobile, and he would UP, II
Evening star., 1962-01-15

sioner's program includes these
measures:
l. Home rule for Washington,
with an elected mayor and city
council, plus a non-Voting del
elgate to the House.
2. The city'S revenue bill,
which would raise taxes, in
crease the borrowing authority
and raise the Federal payment
to the District. The city also
would be authorized to increase
water and sewer charges.
Unemployment Compensation
3. A compromise on the pro-
posals for increasing unemploy-
ment compensation payments.
The Commissioners would drop
the specific maximum weekly
benefit, and instead use a for
mula based on one-half of the
average wage of the workers
covered.
4. A package of area rede-
velopment bills. including re-
taxation of present restrictions
on the type of area which may
be redeveloped.
S. Authorize the Commission
ers to use volunteers for active
police duty.
6. Establish a junior college
for District Teachers College.
7. Set up a juvenile division
in the Youth Corrections Gen.
ter.
8. Levy a fee on uninsured
drivers to provide a fund for
accident claims and judg-
ments that these motorists
cannot pay.
9. Authorize the Commits
Sioners to fix and collect rent
for use of public space, such as
for a sidewalk cafe.
Uniform Collection Law
10. Establish the taxpayers
Federal income levy as the base
for the District income and
franchise taxes.
II. Enact a uniform collec-
ton law to provide for more
effective enforcement of Dis
trict tax collections.
II. Eliminate automatic in
grade pay raises for teachers
whose work has been rated un-
satisfactory.
The Commissioners told Con-
gress that the city would favor
a pay raise for teachers and a
reduction in the firemen's work
week from Sc to 48 hours only
if money was provided for the
higher payroll costs.
Included in a second, IS
point program of legislation
either in preparation or under
study was a proposal to make
parents responsible for juve-
nile vandalism damage.
Evening star., 1962-01-15
BOYKIN
Continued From Page Al

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which was then under review
by the State. The Governor said
he cut Edlin's talk short.)
4. Selling to First Continen-
tai for So million 4,567 acres
of wooded Virginia timberland
in Stafford County, 80 miles
south of here. The Congress
man said he had owned the
land, sold it and bought it back
at a foreclosure sale for about
$201 900.
He had asked 81 million for
the land, he said. Actually the
property is worth SIS million,
cause everyone's movin' to
Virginia." said Mr.. Boykin.
Mr.. Boykin gave his version
OF these activities in a week.
end interview conducted in his
crowded House Office Building
headquarters.
Pictures of the great poll
ticianS of the last three decades
cover the wall almost to the
ceiling. with many inscribed
affectionately to Frank Boykin.
MementoeS, statuettes, and
knicknacks cover his huge wal
nut desk.
CredO on Wall
Also, on the wall his credo
is framed for all to read:
"Everything's made for love"
OF a man like Edlin, con-
victed 81 years ago for mail
fraud and facing sentence on
the same charge again in Balti-
more, Mr.. Boykin said:
II never knew it til much
later Qate last year, about
that i never dreamed about
it.
HE (Edlim was a substan-
tial appearing man. I figured
Evening star., 1962-01-15

THE DEDICATION cere-
mony was out of doors and
the weather couldn't have
been better. There was a half
moon to the east as well as
brilliant sunshine from the
west. The principal speaker,
Vice President Johnson, was
at his very best. He recalled
that it was in Alexandria
that John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy and he opened their
campaign for President and
Vice President. He thanked
them for the reception and
for their votes. He made no
mention that all the votes
were lost. Virginia's electors
cast their votes for Richard
MilhouS Nixon.
He told them about his
Sunday schedule, a foreign
delegation (Mexican) at l
and another at 8. II told your
committee that if they could
fit me in between, I would be
glad to come out here and
tell you all about my opera
ton"
That was a standard gag.
The Vice President has had
no operation in recent years.
But he had a heart attack
about 10 years ago.
LBJ then talked about hos
pitals - suggested how many
such hospitals had been made
possible across the Nation
through Federal aid. AS to
Virginia, he had statistics.
Before the last war Virginia
had 1,100 hospital beds. With
the addition Of this hospital
she has $1,000.
Evening star., 1962-01-15
The
Rambler
Attends
Dedication
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

BY GEORGE KENNEDY
Feeling a little guilty about
his civic activities or the
lack of them - the Rambler
walked up Seminary Hill yes
terday to attend the dedica-
tion of the new Alexandria
Hospital.
He has been a resident of
Alexandria for almost 20
years - Is of them as an
apartment dweller. No local
interests, just make that bus
for Washington.
In purely suburban COM
munities like Kensington or
Wheaton or Silver Spring,
this leaves a power vacuum
that leads to matriarchy.
But not Alexandria. Alex
andria does not admit TO be-
ing a suburb of Washington
and let's hope she never will.
She is older than Washing
ton-1749 against 1800-and
descendants of her Scotch
founders, the Alexanders, the
Carlyles and the Ramsays,
are still among her leading
citizens.
And she had a satisfactory
economy Of her own before
all these commuters began
moving in.
King street bankers and
merchants took deposits or
sold feed or furniture to
the surrounding agricultural
community. There have been
bridges since a nte bellum
(Civil War days. But the
true Virginia countryman
wouldn't think of crossing
the Potomac to shop. King
street had what he wanted,
"a Settin' chair, a cookin'
stove and an eatin' table"
While King street banking
did not compare with Wall
Street nor its mercantile es-
tablishments with those on
Herald square, it was salts
factory.
Evening star., 1962-01-15

THAT WAS BEFORE the
war (World War III when
Alexandria was a little OIL
city of $4,000 inhabitants.
1t is now approaching 100,-
900.
The goth Century gives
Virginia communities diff
cult problems, but growth
like this compounds them.
Cities of 100000 should
have institutions. Alexandria
has Just constructed a YWCA.
They should have parks -
pag'Gonl That was a slip -
paris are out.
And they need hospitals.
Alexandria has a 170-bed
hospital constructed before
World War I. At yesterdays
dedication mony the
Rambler encountered Nora
Lamborne, who was preSi-
dent of the hospital 10 years
ago, and Pat Hayes, our con-
cert manager, who was on
the board.
That's when this hospital
had it's BIRTH" Nora said. 1--WE
we're having difficulty OBJ
tanning funds to keep the
old hospital going. So we an
nounced that what Alexan-
dria needed was a new hos
pital. And it did"
It was a matter of the Hill
Burton Act and matching
funds. Alexandria show e d
that it still has integrity. One
million dollars was raised.
The Ford Foundation gave a
grant for the purchase of
land, 26 acres of real estate
that is or soon will be worth
$4,000 an acre. The new hos
pital, which is a branch of
the old, has 100 beds and cost
$3.7 million.