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fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1958 VOLUME X Jozies ABC Stores Report October Sales $23,552.80 wiooer sales ior tne inree stores in the Jones County ABC System were the largest yet in the 31-month history of the state’s newest legal whisky sales system. Total sales amounted to $23,552. 80. The stores still rank, as they were opened in 1-2-3 fashion; Store N®. 1 at Trenton led October sales with $8,809.60. Store No. 2 at Hargett Crossroads was in second, place with sales of $7,423.50 and Store No. 3 at Wyse Forks ran a close third with sales of $7,319.70. This record business, for Octo ber brings sales in the first four ntonths of the current fiscal year (luly 1, 1958-June 30, 1959) to $*5,578.40. October sales were sharply up from those of September, when gross sales oi the three stores was $20,666.80. August sale were $22, 722.85 and July sales were $18, 635.95. Since the stores began opening December 6, 1955 (No. 1 opened on that date) the gross sales in the Jones ABC system have amounted to $175,812.35 through October 31st Trenton PTA Supper Lifts Curtain Bill The Trenton School PTA last Wednesday night held a supper meeting. Baked chicken was the vegetables, cake finish paying ountalins in the auditorium. . $305.37 was taken in which meant success for the project. Following suipper the Tegular meeting was held with J. R. Franck presiding and Mrs. J. W. Allen acting secretary. Nick Noble, program chairman introduced John Hargett, who told the parents what the legislature is doing and how it is helping schools. Mrs. Elisha Hammond’s second grade won room count with Mrs. Allen’s sixth grade coming in second. Mrs. Allen’s room also won the prize for having the high est percentage of parents joining the PTA during the past month. Senior 4-H Clubbers Meet November 3rd The Senior 4-JH Club held its regular meeting at Trenton School Nov. 3 Mary Curtis read a Bible verse and lead the group in prayer. The minutes were read by Mary Elizabeth West. Joan Jenkins and Sarah Waters led the singing of America and Jacobs Ladder. A committee was named to plan a Christmas party, with the moth ers to be responsible for serving refreshments. Serving on the com mittee are Nancde Davenport, Liz Jones, Gloria Spence and Edward Davenport. Following the meet ing, the group separated for demonstrations. Maysville Memorial’s WMU Host to District Meet Last Thursday By Mrs. Robert Moore The Jones-Onslow Group meet ing of' the Woman’s Missionary Union met Thursday, at the Mays ville Memorial Baptist Church with nearly 90 attending. * The program theme was “And Yet Albideth Hope” with Mrs. J. M. Barrow oi Pollocksville pre siding. The devotional was given toy Mrs. Jack Miles of Swansfooro, and Mrs. Bill Henderson of Mays yiBe gave the ^elctnne.. followed at which time reports from the Com imunity Mission Chairman, Mrs. : Clifton Hicks; Mission Study Chairman, Mrs. Ray Water; Young Peoples’ Leader, Mrs. Jim my Greer; and Stewardship Chairman, Mrs. F. C. Morton was given. Music was provided by Mrs. A. E. Thompson and Mrs. H. L. Humphrey. The Missionary message was brought by Mrs. Orvil W. Reid of Mexico. The group enjoyed a covered dish dinner then recon vened for the afternoon session. The devotional at this meeting was given by Mrs. Floyd Adams. Reports of the committees were given and the remainder of the time was spent in Leadership Con One Still, One Arrest Sheriff Brown Yates reports the destruction of one whisky still and one arrest in the county during the past week. James Jones of Jacksonville was arrested early Sunday and charged with drunken driving. The still was found Satur day and tom up in the Sasser Mill section of Beaver Creek Town ship. No one was at the still at the time it was raided but Yates says several arrests will be made because of the backwoods brewery. The still was a 200-gallon sub marine type with about 200 gallon mash capacity. It was mashed in and just about ready to go, Yates says, and it appeared to have been run two or three times. Memorial RA’s Host To Association RA’s The Memorial Baiptist Church was host to the Royal Ambassador 'CV/rJc^aive of the Atlantic Asso ciation Friday evening with ap proximately 280 boys and coun selors attending. Following a short program in the early evening the group then enjoyed a wiener roast on the church grounds af‘er which they reassembled in the church for a worship program. The Reverend. Julian Morton of Spring Garden conducted the meeting and Orvil W. Reid of Mexico gave a Judo demonstra tion. Marriage License -i MjSrrlage licenses issued in the past week by Jones County Regis ter of Deed® Mrs. D. W. Koonee went to Harold Gray, 22, of Mays ville and Doris Gertrude Jenkins, 19, of Kinston, and to Colie Sher wood Doss, 21, of Camp Lejeune and Nancy Loretta Adums, 17, of Maysville. Farm Bureau Meet Alva B. Howard announces a Fanm Bureau Annual meeting to (be held Nov. 21 at the Legion Hut at 6:30 with a barbeque supper. At this meeting, at which an out standing speaker will be heard, all members and their wives are invited. ferences directed by Mrs. E. L. Davis of Beaufort. Jones County Boosts Rank From 35th to 33rd in State For Value of Farm Produce Aiwougn ary statistics are not so exciting 'as cash in the pocket, and even though the figures in cluded in the most recent release from the £‘.ate Department of Agriculture are not for 1958, in most instances, they do have im portant and good news for Jones County. Principal item in the good news department is the fact that in 1956 Jones County boosted i*g rank from 35th to 33rd place among the 100 counties of the state in value of fa:m produce not including livestock. This climb in rank came despite a drop from $8,061,240 in 1955 to $8,053,200 for 1956 in the total value of Jones County farm production. This came when ofher counties suffered larger drops than Jones. Tobacco, of course, provided the main source of income in both years to the farmers of Jones County. Here was where Jones County, and several others lost ground because of the acreage re duction that ’56 had over ’55 in the tobacco departmen*. Tobacco income for Jones fell from $6, 897,500 in ’55 to $6,338,000 in ’56. Part of that $559,500 drop caused by shrinking tobacco income was recouped from a $309,000 increase in corn income which climbed from $818,000 to $1,127,000 in the two-year period covered in this report. Cotton income dropped from $20,250 to $17,330 for Jones farm ers. Peanut income climbed from $1,660 to $6,300. Irish po'ato income rose from $20,090 to $41,850. Sweet potato income skyrocket ed from $38,500 to $93,000. Wheat, income rose from $7,OOC to «£;380. Oat income dropped slightly from $18,890 to $18,280. Soybeans for beans more than doubled as the third largest crop, dollarwise in the county, jumping from $141,500 to $315,000. Lespedeza seed increased in value from $7,100 to $14,350. All hay value from Jones drop ped from $90,750 to $71,710. Dollar-and-eent figures for live stock income are not avila-ble, but the indication from livestock cen sus tigures for Jones County is that in the “meat department” Jones Countians were even better off, comparatively speaking for the ’51-’58 period than they were in the “vegetable department”. All cattle on farms hit the statis tical peak in ’58 with a total of 4,490. This includes both beef and milk types. In 1951 the county could I boast only 1,670 cattle of all tyipes. i In the milk department, unhap-, pily Jones County was headed in | the wrong direction, falling from , 710 m;lk-type animals in 1951 to 550 for this year. The peak year in this category for Jones County was ' 1953 when their were 820 milk-pro ducing animals in the county. In the ham and pork chop de partment things looked better in the “State of Jones”, with the pig population jumping from 14,870 in 1951 to an estimated 18,000 this year, which is an all-time high in that category. Other interesting farm figures as the 1957 crop year began included: Jones had 43,977 acres of harvest ed cropland. It had 5,629 acres of improved pasture. It had 1,756 sows and gilts for breeding. It had 32,368 hens and pullets of laying age. It had only 85 phones but it had 771 TV sets to serve the 6,909 peo ple who were living on the farms i of the county as of January 1, 1957. I _ _ October Roadwork For Jones and Lenoir Division Engineer R. Markham of the Second Highway Division reported^ today thaf during the month of October, 14.23 miles of road work were completed in the Division. In Jones County, contract forces i applied 18-foot wide sand asphalt wearing surface to 2.8 miles of a 1 country road leading ffrom US 70 to Sasser’s Mill Road. | Contract forces applied 18-.oot wide sand asphalt wearing surface ; to two dounty l*oads in Lenoir County during October. This work involved 1.4 miles of a county road loading from US 258 to the Air i port Road; and 3.2 miles of a 1 county road, frfom a point near | Jenny Lind west to a paved county road. Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded J in the past week in the office of I Jones County Register of Deeds i Mrs. D. W. Koonce included the 1 following. | From Herbert M. Quinn to M. L. Banks .529 acres in Trenton Town ' ship. l From J. K. Brock Jr. to Donald Brock .44 acres in Trenton. From J. C. Wooten to Saul Moore 1.6 acres in Tuckahoe Township. Kinston Assemblymen Briefing Indicates Trouble for Bell Bill V-V Over 50 members of the 1939 General Assembly from 31 East ern North Carolina Counties ga thered Tuesday in Kinston to hear reports from a number of state officials on legislative recommen dations that have resulted from commissions authorized by the 1SS7 session. The question-answer period for the legislators-elect revealed a strong interest in and suspicion of ihany aspects of the recommenda i tions included in a report by Senator Spencer Bell, chairman of , the Courts Study Committee. X legislators from Craven, Martin, Wake and Duplin eounties asked that reflected discontent at least some of the major ibis judicial reform recom Wl ' - '. enor of the questioning in ;X that at least the voaal | of the assemblymen pre not want any part of any lied judges for courts bet Senator Luther Hamilton joined with Senator Arthur Kirkman, whose report for the School Finance Study Com mittee included a recommenda tion that the 38 exemptions from the present sales and use tax be sharply reduced. Budget Director D. S. Coltrane and Revenue Commissioner James Currie outlined briefly the budget ary requests and the income out look. Coltrane pointed oat that the present biennial budget was $777 million and that $983 million is be ing asked for the biennium 1358-61. Coltrane explained that “A” and budgets are prepared with the “A” budge tcontaining what it will cost to maintain pre sent levels of service. The “(A” is $30 million greater thail the pre sent “A” budget. The “B” budget represents re quests froon all departments for funds that will be used to pro vide new or expanded services. TheSe “B” budget requests a mount to $120 million. The ’59 lawmakers, however, expressed far more interest in the court problems, which directly concern a small percentage of the population and asked few ques tions on the matter of taxes and spending which very directly af fect every citizen. Most significant recommenda tions came from the Tax Study Commission and were made by Senator J. C. Eagles, whose re ; port asked legislation to imple ment the following: Changes in State Taxes The Tax Study Commission recommended thirty-seven changes in the State tax schedules. Many of these are detailed and techni cal. Basically, they were designed to accomplish the following ob jectives : 1. To make penalties for viola tions of tax laws uniform. 2. To write into law present administrative practices which have been adopted by the Depart ment of Revenue. 3. ' To adopt eertajn definitions conforming to Federal interpreta tion in order to achieve uniformity. 4. To close certain heretofore und^ected loopholes in the State tax structure. 5. To achieve uniformity of ap plication of certain phases of the \ S'.a'e tax laws. Changes in Local Taxes 1. That, so long as present allo cation of governmental responsi bilities and functions remain as they are, the property tax should remain a local source of taxation and the assessment of property and the rate of taxation should remain local responsibilities. 2. That all statutory exemptions from local property taxes, whe ther by state-wide or local act, be repealed unless these exemptions are authorized by the Constitution. 3. That the Constitution be a mended to provide expressly that exemptions be granted by the Gen eral Assembly on a state-wide basis only and to prohibit the dele gation of the exemption power to local governmental units. 4. That the Constitution be a mended to require classification of property by the General Assembly on a state-wide basis only and to prohibit the delegation of the power of classifies *ion to local governmental units. 5. That the statutory require ment of “valuation at full market value” be repealed. 6. That legislation be adopted to allow each county to determine *he per cent of market value at which property in the county is to be assessed. 7. That all classes of property in a county be assessed at the same per cent of market value. 8. That revaluation by actual appraisal at intervals not to ex ceed 8 years be required by sta tue. 9. That in the fourth year after revaluation a horizontal adjust ment be required to bring values into line with current market values. 10. That legislation be adopted .ixing minimum standards for ap praisal, including actual visits to the property, appraisal by a writ ten schedule of values, and record ing of the method of assessment of each piece of property. 11. That legislation be adopted to provide for the financing of re valuations. 12. That the administration of the intangibles tax remain the re sponsibility of the State and that no local option with regard to the intangibles tax be granted.
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