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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-12-24
High School HighIights
Famous Negroes Daughter
Speaks to Peary Students

Achievement Awards competi-
ton, by the National Council OF
Teachers of English. jeff Fook-
son was named a runner up by
the Council. Both are senior
Indians.
In announcing the winners and
runners-up, James R. Squire,
executive secretary Of the
Council said the Council recon-
mends these students for col
lege scholarships in 1864. The
NCTE sends to all winners and
runners-up scrolls Of recogni-
ton, and sends to the English
departments at their schools
certificates Of merit.
The boys names, as well as
all the names Of winners and
runners-up will be sent by the
Council to their congressman
and Governor.
Wheoton:
On Dec. IL, Gene Minton and
SO students visited Washington
Psychological Associates in
connection with their study of
technical and strengthening
drafting.
The Key Club will present
"The Drunkard" in the school
gymnasium on Jan. IL at 8
pm. The play was originally
produced in 1910 as a serious
moral drama for the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
However, the Key Club is pre-
Senting 1t as a satire on the
melodramatic plays character
istic of the 18th and early goth
centuries.
The play will feature all-male
cast although there are several
girls parts, Mr.. W. Draper,
sponsor Of the organization and
director of the show, has refus-
ed to divulge the names of not
too feminine heroines.
This is a major Embarrassing
activity Of the year for the Key
Club. Profits derived from the
play will help to finance its
service projects.
A special assembly on the
American Field Service will be
given on Wednesday, January 8.
Featured speakers will include
Wheaton's foreign exchange
student, voshio Takane, and
two students from Walt Whit
man, Bernd Sonnbickler of Aus
tria and Shashikala Paranipe
of India.
Juniors Karen Rosin, Robert
Peck and John Philo are eligible
to compete for the National Tel
luride Corporation Scholarship
because Of their high scores on
the PsAT. This scholarship en-
ables the winner to receive six
week summer school course In
the humanities or sciences at
Cornell University, Princeton
University, or Colorado
Springs.
Wheaton Alumni will hold a
meeting In the school cafeteria
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-12-24

Mrs. Portia Washington Pitt
man, the daughter ofDr. Booker
T. Washington, recently visited
Robert E. Peary High School.
A former teacher and concert
pianist, Mrs. Pittman spoke to
the U. s. history classes. She
Is 30 years old.
She spoke on the life of her
famous father and of the feel
ings of the American Negro "as
a minority group In a society
where their acceptance is not a
natural process"
Born into a slave family,
Dr.. Washington was freed by
President Abraham Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation at
the age Of IL. Almost self edu-
Gated, he was an avid reader and
walked 500 miles to Hampton
Institute to continue his educa-
ton. Later he taught at Hamp-
ton and founded the famous
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
His granddaughter, who also
taught at Tuskegee, said that
her father believed that the edu-
cation OF the Negro was OF the
utmost Importance. He felt too
that the education should have
its practical aspects so as to
equip him for life.
She spoke of her belief that
the youth Of today will carry
forth the torch of a less pre-
JUDGED society by virtue of their
desire to investigate truth and
examine both sides Of current
issues.
Mrs. Pittman lives in De-
troit.
Walter Johnson:
Spartan alumni representing
many colleges will form three
panels at the annual Alumni
Panel Day Dec. % from 3-5
pm. They will discuss campus
life, the courses offered at their
schools, and will answer ques-
tons about their schools. In
terested students are invited.
Marin Pearson, a senior, has
won a special award in the ma
uonwide Eastman-Kodak Nov
ie-News competition. The con-
test is in two divisions, for Sen
Tor high and junior high, and
accepts films made by students
in 8 nm, 16 nm, sound or silent.
Marin's winning entry was a
single-concep animated film
called concepts of Infinity".
Her film will be reviewed by
CINE Committee on Interna-
tional Non-theatrical Events)
next spring for possible cleo
ton as an entry for competition
abroad. Marin is presi-
dent of the National Thespian
Troupe at WI, and is an active
Of the Drama Club and
Dance Club.
Northwood:
jeff Weintraub has been NAM
ed a winner, one Of nine In
Maryland, in the 1868 National
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

fire from inside the house.
After hearing this, we no long
er need a warrant. We again
callei to Crib and got no an
SWer.
Il crawled up to a window
and Shined n flaShlight into
the house. A burst of gun-fire
broke the window next to my
hand.
1--WE then carefully APP
preached the front door and
broke it down. Crib appear
ed with a rifle. and ] shot him
in the leg. He fell to the flCSr
in a crawling dive for the
door.
I'VE heard nothing.
I'VE had learned that Cribb
had bought a % calibre auto
matte rifle and four boxes of
shells Monday afternoon. and
had threatened to Kill his wife
and children. 1t was also re-
ported that he was bringing
heavy.
I'VE sent out call for help
and were joined by police Of
ficerS Ted Watts and Tim
Coleman of Tabor City; Wade
Wyett and Bill Stoger of
Whiteville; r lph Freeman
and bunker Barficld of Chad
bOurn. Deputies hunt AMI
Coleman hai arrived at the
scene after going to the hoSoi-
tai, and Deputies J. d. Fowler
and Wilson Griffin also an
sWcrcd the call for help.
The house was still quiet
and we did not know whether
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
I wo Red Devil
Gridders; Noned
TVAII-Stors

FLORENCE, S.. C. = Buddy
Fonvielle and Mickey WQfaey
of Tabor City have been nafh-
ed to the Channel 13 Fifth
School All-Star Football Squad
for 1868, selected for WBTW
Sports Editor Dave Rogers by
a board of Is high school
coaches in North and South
Carolina.
The 33-man squad was an-
nounced on Rogers sports
program Friday, Novembet 20,
and included top schoolboy
athletes from throughout the
television stations service area
in the eastern section of the
two CarolinaS.
Other Waccamaw Athletic
Association players named to
the team were Walter Camp
bell, Elizabethtown; Johnny
Formyduval. Hallsboro; John
Andrews, Chadbourn; Mike
Boaz, Fairmont; and Bryant
Powell, Hallsboro.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

over the gun and that the gun
fired by accident with the dis
charge stricking Hilbourn.
Witnesses for the state testi-
fled that an argument deve-
loped in front of the service
station about drag racing. In
volved in the argument, wit
nesses said, were Jimmy Kin
law, Hutto, Hilbourn, Soles
and others. The argument took
place around the Kinlaw auto.
Principal witness for the
State WIS l9-year old Betty
Jean Mccormick, a HallSboro
High School senior and friend
of Hilbourn. She told the court
the same story she had previ-
ously told in the coroner'S in
quest held several weeks ago
She said that Hilbourn left
the group druing the argu-
ment and returned to the Hut
~ car in WHICH she was sit
uEg, ihfly'S'ont Seat, and he
gdt into tf< back seat.
The Mccormick girl said
that Lawson came over to the
Hutto car, put his right arm
around Hilbourn'S neck, and
while holding an open knife
to Hilbourn's throat, told him
I'm going to kill you one
way or another"
Then Lawson, Miss McCor-
mick testified, picked up the
gun from the foot of the back
seat of the car and told Hill
bourn To get out.
Hilbourn got out and was
standing by the car door while
Lawson put the knife back in
to his pocket and shifted the
gun to his shoulder, aiming it
at Hilbourn.
She stated that the gun fired
and Hilbourn dropped to the
ground.
The Mccormick girl further
testified that Lawson and Hut
to helped Hilbourn into the
back seat Of the car and drove
him to Columbus County Hos
pital
Kinlaw told similar story,
teStifying that there was no
scuItle over the gun, and say
ing that Lawson aimed the
gun al Hilbourn and fired.
Lawson did not take the
stand in his own defense.
When arrested for the April
shooting in October following
the death of Hilbourn, Law
son claimed Self-defenSe.
Lawson once served time in
South Carolina after being
convicted following high
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

the children were dead or
alive. Tea rgaS was fired
through d broken door and six
children came out unharmcd.
One If the children told us
that baby was still in the
house.
I'VE entered the house and
found the baby unharmed,
covered with quilts on a bed
in the back OF the house.
Deputy Colcm an found
Cribb in another room.
"Cribb aimee his rifle at
Coleman's chest and pulled the
trigger, but the gun iammed.
IN d Coleman apprchended
Cribb."
Sheriff Duke said that Cribb
was being he'd on warrants
sworn out by his wifc's bro
ther, by Deputy Coleman and
by the sheriff himself.
Il would personally like TO
thank each police Off er who
at the risk of his life, came TO
our aid. They responded 10
our call for help Immediately
and without any reservations"
the sheriff said.
Sheriff Duke said that Off
GERS could have shot and kill
Cd Crib several times during
the gun battle. but That they
GiJ not want to have to kill
him.
Later, officers counted 80
bullet holes inside the Cribb
home.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
Sportee Sets Meeting To Plan Huge Plant

Executives Of Sportee Cor
portion of North Carolina al
vised the Tabor City Mcr-
chants Association yesterday
to set up a conference at the
Wa, camaw Bank for Tues ay,
DeCembCr 10, with buildinG
contractors Tor the purpose OF
.inalizing plans for the huge
new manufacturing plant.
Builders, Il ong with repre-
SCntatives of the Tabor City
Merchants Association, expect
to meet with Max Okin. Nat
Frankol, Alexander Joseph
and Jimmy Fortunate, the
N a n a cement personnel of
Famous Cottons, Inc, to COM
pletg all negotiations for the
new Stru -ture.
Sportee Off ais settled on
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

EDITORS NOte--Tilis is the
second in q series of articles
On schools in the Tabor City
Area written in an attempt
to evaIuaic them. to ascer-
tain what, if any improve
mcnts they need. and how
those improvements can he
obtained.)
BY ROD SPARROW
The potential effective
ness of schools i'm the Tabor
City area---yTilliams Town
ship. Nakina and Taobr City
high schools and Williams
Township. @ d Dock. Guide
way and Tabor City elemen-
tary schools cut in half
at the outset because half
the children who enter the
first grade never finish
school.
Since a fair number of
those who do finish high
school do not seek any fur
ther education and are not
gainfuliy employed on grad
uation, IL seems fair TO as
sumo . that the 80 percent
who crop out without grad
uating are even less well
prepared to live in a world
that grows more complex
each day.
WHY THEY LEAVE?
What causes children to
drop out of school and what
can be done to keep them in
school until they graduate?
Under law they are re-
quired TO attend school until
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
Lawson Gets 1870 Years
I'm MunsIuughter Conviction

Keith Lawson, 29-year cid
RI. 2, Tabor City man, sent
enced to from 1920 years foc
manslaughter in Superior
Court, Whiteville, was report
ed still in Columbus County
Jail Tuesday under S25,000
bonds.
Lawson, convicted in the
shotgun Staying OF 19-year
old Chadbourn youth, is being
held under the $4,000 bond
after his attorneys appealed
the judgement of Superior
Court Judge Raymond NAL
lard of Tabor City Friday.
The jury deliberated less
than 80 minutes Friday and
returned with a guilty verdict
against Lawson in the shoot
Continued From Page y
ing Of Delane Hilbourn of
tChao1ourn.
1 D,a i9-year Did youth, who
FS0ss shot on april 20, died on
October 10 in a Wilmington
hospital from head wounds
without ever regaining full
consciousness.
Lawson admitted in opn
court before being sentenced
that Hilbourn was the third
man he had killed. He was ac-
quilted in two other murder
trials.
The thrcc-timc killer was
convicted Of firing the fatal
.4l0 gauge shotgun blast last
April which caused Hilbourn'S
death.
The shooting took place AT
HallSboro service station
during an argument between
the two about drag racing,
witnesses for the State teSti-
fled.
Hilbourn was shot in the
right eye at almost point
blank range (about five feet
away. and remained in the
hospital almost six months be-
fore dying of the wound.
The gun was taken from
the back seat of the car in
which Hilbourn. Bobby Hutto,
the driver. and Betty Jean
Mccormick had been riding
when they drove up 10 the
Ha lSboro station.
Lawson'S defense attorneys,
Frank McGOugan of Tabor
City and d. Jack Hooks, put
Donald Solcs, who was sitting
in the Lawson car with Law
son before the shooting, on the
stand: and Solcs testimony in
dicated that the two men Hill
bourn and Lawson wrestled
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

speed chase and shooting at a
SLED (South Carolina State
Law Enforcement Division)
auto on the state line between
Tabor City and Green Sea.
Later, on Feb. II, 1868 ac-
cording to Horny County Cor
oner Littlejohn Blanton, Law
son allegeoly shot and killed
Dayton Causey of Tabor City
in a tavern Lawson operated
on the State Line.
Alter Feb. 81 inquest, the
case was tried in higher
court in Conway, S. c. and
Lawson was aquitted after
evidence showed that Causey
fired at Lawson first.
The shooting of Hilbourn
took place one month later.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

Tabor City this week TO meet
with contra ...S except for the
fact that Mr.. Okin and Mr..
Fortunate are both confined
to their home with the flu"
w. Horace Carter said today.
Il had a letter Monday from
Mr. Okin regarding the ar
engagements fur this meeting
this week but a telephone call
on Tuesday regarding the ill
ness of two of the principals in
the conference made il inn
practical to ho.d the meeting
before next Tuesday" Carter
said.
Ben l.. Nesmith. Jr.. pres
ident of the Asso iation, had
contacted a number of pro-
minent builders in the Caro-
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

the Edge property some weeks
ago and all that remains To the
signing OF the contract is pre-
sen,ation To building contract
urS and the submitting of bids
IN the t0,al cost of the bui.G-
ing.
Originally planned as u
10000 square foot building,
SpCrtce officials are now pro-
posing that the new plant CO.
yer 10000 square ieet. II Will
be located On ira / of land
in excess Of seven acres that
will low for even greater
space should the future need
Sportee officials told the as
sociation several weeks ago
that no other problems were
evident and indicated at that
time that the pilot operation III
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

linas who will be present at
the conference and submit
bids as quickly as they have
time to figure the costs.
Jimmy Dicus, Nesmith and
Carter will meet with Sportee
officials and builders and a
contra-t signing is expected to
take place during the visit of
the executives from New
York.
The pilot plant operation
continues &c produce the ladies
sports wear in increasing
quantities with employment
a mixium in the present tenn
porary quarters.
Sportee expects to employ
500 persons or more in the
new plant.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

they reach the age of 16 but
there seems to be some dis
agreement as to how rigidly
this law is enforced.
And even if II were en-
forced 100 percent, there is
strong question as to the
amount of education a child
is going to absorb If he Is
in school under force and
against his strong personal
objections. Such children
frequently become disrup-
tive elements and disciplin-
ary problems, hindering the
efficient operation of the
school.
KEEPING THEM
How then can children be
brought 10 want to stay in
school. to want TO study and
to want to learn?
First, IL would seem, such
children must be given
purpose in life. Education
must be made meaningful to
tn c m, som e h ing worth
working for.
Not t"o long ago we pick
ed up a teen-age hitch-hiker
bound for Tabor City to
hunt a job at an establish
ment that pays vel below
the Sl.25 minium industrial
wage.
When we asked why he
wasn't in school, he replied
that he had quit, and in an
swer to questions about the
wisdom Of such a course Of
action, he replied:
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

the old Carolina Warehouse
had been successful. They also
noted that there was no scar
city OF job applicants and no
thing stood in the way of tn
permanent location of the new
pant in Tabor City.
Wrilv other communities in
North and South Carolina
have consistently tried to lure
SpUrtee away from Tabor City,
promoters Of the Industrial ex-
panSion effort III Tabor have
felt from the first that the pi-
lot operation would be sue
ceSsful and that the perman-
ent plant would be erected
on the Edge property as Ori-
ginally Planned.
The SpOrtee officials il.
New York would have been in
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
What Con They Teach Me?" Dropout
Asks--Do Educators Have An Answer

What would they teach
me in the next year and
half that would help me get
a better jOb?"
In the study Of English,
History, Science, Math etc.
this lad saw nothing that
would enhance his earning
power, though he admitted
that already he had been re-
fused employment at two
places simply because he
was not a high school grad
uate.
The point the lad made.
in tonesrebelliOus against
the world, was that while "a
little piece Of paper" Ga di-
ploma) might help him get 4
better job, II would not in
crease his earning power.
NEED FOR GUIDANCE
Here, II would appear, the
need or guidance programs
in schools Is underlined hea-
Willy. Somewhere this lad
had a hidden talent that
could be developed, If some
one just had eoungh time
and training to hunt out that
talent, show II to him and
persuade him to develop IL.
MANY CAUSES
We've talked to a number
of educators in the Tabor
City area recently about
dropouts and they list many
causes. Some, they say, are
home connected; others are
Continued On Page 81
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
Man Holds Children Captive
During Gun Fight With Police

Eleven Columbus County
law officers risked their lives
against heavy gun-fire Mon
day night in an attempt to res
cue seven children who were
being held captive by their
drunken father after he had
shot and wounded their moth
er.
Ray Cribb, about so. of the
Beaverdam section is being
held in the Columbus County
jail under three warrents
pending the condition of his
wife who is in the Columbus
Coun nty Hospital suffering
from bullet wound in her
leg, County Sheriff Ben Duke
said this morning.
Sheriff Duke gave this ac-
count Of the events leading to
the capture of Cribb:
II received a call about
1890 p. m. Monday night re-
porting that Cribb had shot
hi swife and that she had been
taken tC the hospital.
Deputies John Coleman
and J. r. Hunt were sent TO
the hospital to check on Mrs.
Cribb. Meanwhile, l went to
the Cribb home about four
miles south of Chadbourn on
Hy 4l0 across from Odom
Godwin'S store.
"The house was quiet, and
not having a warrent, we call
ed out to whoever might be
in the house, and identified
ourselves.
Shortly, we heard gun
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
Area Rotorions
P!on Intercity
WhiteviIIe Meet

Ben Switzerland, prominent
Wilmington Rotarian, will be
the principal speaker at the
intercity meeting of nine
iDuthern North Carolina Rot
ary Clubs In Whiteville, Eec.
9, at 7:30 p. m.
Approximately 200 Rotar-
ians from the Wilmington, East
Wilmington, Whiteville, Tabor
City, Fair Bluff, Bladcnboro
and Elizabethtown clubs are
expected to attend.
The dinner meeting, first of
its type to be held in 10 years.
will be in the cafeteria of
Whiteville High School.
Southerland is regional man.
agcr of the Armour Agricult-
ural Chemical Company. He
has been active in Rotary for
many years and has served on
the board of directors of the
Wilmington club.
When he was located in
Cincinnati for several years
he was among the leaders in
the club there.
His topic Monday night will
be For the Rest of Your
I ife"
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
What Next?
BY-MARvIN LEWIS

II was a beautiful night.
The breeze was blowing
the moon was shining-the
spots were biting-my fav-
orite TV programs were on
and there I was nj q meet
Ing, sitting in a chair which
I finally concluded, WAS
made by the Paduke Iron
Works. The speaker droned
on. For the first thirty min
utes he waxed eloquent In
his endorsement Of firesiae
and motherhood. Then he
attacked sin In ALL Of its
ramiffcations. Then he got
down TO business. Taxes
were too high! Roads too
rough! Castro needed Z
shave! Krushchev should re.
duce! He overbauled The
school system. He attacked
and rearranged the tax
structure 10 fit the growing
economy!
How long, Oh how long,
before some Of these speak
ers will remember that the
cerebeIlum and the postef.
ior are attached 70 the Same
nervous systemi
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
National WOW. Officer
To Speak Here FRIDAY

Darlington T. Hill, Wades-
boro attorney and member cf
the national board of directors
of the Woodmen of the World,
will be guest speaker here FRI
day night for the annual Lad
les Night Banquet of Local
Myrtle Camp l39 to be held at
the Red Barn Restaurant at
Z p. m.
About 30 members of the
local camp of the Woodmen
of the World and their wives
are expected to attend the an
nual event.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
College ROard Exams

College entrance eXaminat-
ions will be- given Saturday
morning. December 7, at the
Tabor City School cafeteria.
Principal Randall BurlesOn re-
quests that all students who
nave applied To take this
examination report between
B and $50 am. He reports
that ll2 students from this
have applied.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
Christmas Program

The 80-voice Tabor City
High School Chours will pre-
sent variety program of
Christmas music Thursday,
Dec. IL, in thhe school audi
torium at 7:30 p. m.
Melody Roberts, who starred
in chorus productions last
yc"r. will be a featured soloist.
There will be no admission
charge.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
Tabor PTA

p. r. A. meeting will not
meet on Dec. 5 as scheduled,
but has been changed until
Thursday evening at 7:30 pm,
December u.
Mrs. Woody and Chorus will
have the Christmas Program.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
SauIine Players

ThcSaulire Players. a pro-
.essional play company who
had been presenting plays TO
school cli.dlcn for more than
a quarter century. will pre-
sent "Rebc,Ca of Sunny Brook
Farms" at the local school
auditorium Tuesday, Dec. 10.
Two performances one
at 1890 pm. and the other at
, pm. will be given.
The public is invited 10 at
END.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
HONESTY

Honesty is spiritual power.
Mary Baker Eddy
Honest policy is a good
friend. both to our safety and
TO our usefulness.
Matthew Henry
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
Methodist Fellowship Supper

Methodist Fellowship Supper
The annual Christmas Fell
lowship Supper of the Saint
Paul Methodist Church will be
held Tuesday December 10,
at 1880 pm. in the church fell
lowship hall. This annual COW
ered-dish supper is sponsored
by the Woman's Society of
Christian Service.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04

Bethel Fellowship Supper
The monthly Fellowship
Supper of the Bethel Metho-
dist Church will be held FRI
day, Dec. 6, at the church be-
ginning at 7:30 pm.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
GuidcWay PTA

I n GuidCwayPTA will
meet Monday, December 9, at
7 pm. in the School auditor
ium. The schools Glec Club
and Band will provide a pro-
gram Of Christmas music.
Tabor City tribune., 1963-12-04
News Briefs
Bethel Hid Club

The Bethel Home Demon
'tration Club last week elected
Dlfice-s for the coming year.
Named were: Casper Ganus,
president: Mrs. J. g. Ward. Jr..
vice-prCSiGCnt: and Mrs. Bur-
tca Long was reelected sec
etary.
Evening star., 1963-09-19

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