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toy or coloring book to oc* jr the small a » fuitther en get restless, the Smith field Herald suggests somerim pie game like seeing which one can 9cream the loudest. . ' HOT CASS _ Tom Secrest, as sistant head oi the Motor Vehicles Department’s Auto Theft Bureau, is the car thief* .worst occupa tional haaard. Hie former high way patrolman turned sleuth uses chemistry, clerking and checking in upsetting file plans of auto and *r«ck Pilferers who find the pjrac of their trade tughSledding forth Carolina. ■>l Tom doesn’t tow rate toe pro fessional auto thief. He relishes matching wits with the pros who, toe most part, are the ones who keen him m business. “Rids who snatch van tempor arily for joy tiding seldom keep more than a few hours,” he “An others, eventually aban stolen cars after lmpulgive, " foolish, journeys, it’s who displays real stealing oars an&- tr^— cash in on them.” ‘sell a stolen vehicle is risky f ‘ seat the the _ a hot car, Tom and his inspectors can spot them Midi frustrating (for the thief) regularity. Grinding off engine numbers is a . standard trick to thwart officials. Tom doesn’t have X-ray eyes tout he can even read jH**MjUbed figures.’ Chemistry \ secret formula dabbed on an obliterated engine number brings it bade with Houdim like myster iousness. Fake engine numbers, often substituted after grinding, are detected with equal facility Kv ktDAoHtfbtoM ! . f if A battery of clerks train sharp eyes on title applications, com paring them telly against ■mimeographed list of stolen cai When they detect a queer trans action, as they, did only recently, Tam detains the applicant for in vestigation. He has peace officer powers as the unhappy applicant learned when FBI men arrived to take him In tosr. " ■ -■ , Tom’s inspectors in the field tplain-eloUiesmen with badges) work hand in glove with other specialists of the National Auto (Theft Bureau. Together they spoil North Carolina com producers ill be able to plant approxicately 50,000 Serbs of N. C. 46 yeHow hy brid com next year, states John Bice/ director of the North Caro lina crop tion. r ' This new, tpid-aeason, yellow hybrid was available only* in li mited quantities during the, 1956 , growing season. Rice reports that this hybrid is adapted Jo most of the- areas of the state. In 1986, says Bicd, there were Only two growers who produced N. C. 46 on 35 acres. ’Ibis year, however, .14. producers grew this hybrid on 381 awn/ 1 ' Rice states that this hybrid has excellent stalk strength, showing only 9 per cent lodging in the N. • : _._'■___ l!___ 27, is being grown on 2*00 acres. Dixie 82% being grown on 2,M» seres; Dixie 18 on 1,800 seres; and N. C. 42 on 1,100 acres. Rice joints' out that each of the above four hybrids is S fifll season corn gU||Bi|||(Mf''’d and good' grain : ■ ' quality. NOTICE TO CREDITORS HAVING qualified as Adminis tratrix of the-estate of Ralph D. Provost late of Jones County, this is to ^notify all persons having claims against his estate to pre sent them to the undersigned on <r before the 27th day of August, 1857, or to her attorneys, other wise this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons andfiMed^to said estate will please mk@ immediate DIAL 3846 AMBULANCE SERVICE KINSTON, N. C. BRINGING YOU the BEST •BRANDS in the LAND s m LONGINES — WTTTN AUER ''World* Most Horiorad Watehas" $M ttw MARINER (W») arid tha STARLET * WITTNAUER. Stunn.... bracelet watch in a dainty ' m i Coldnial Store Save FREEH You Nbw idnial Stc xLj&&3 f$yt s A - Stamps at RAY’S Coimr tf Qvtm and King ft Pham 3318 , Khwton. N. C Trust Mo. MEMBER FE INSURANCE $ V'.W# '' ■■
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
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