FARM PRACTICES”
NUMBER 3
Hera is the even dozen students who
in the Maysville-Pollocksville High
■ night with their Mascot Georgia Ann
.from left to ri^ht tl^graduaies are:
Saunders, Claire’Allen Thomas, A^sis
Thomas, Dorothy Jean Banks, Frances
Ball Williams, and Mary Elizabeth Gerock. In
the back row standing are: Malcolm Franklin
Bender, Zearl Warren Mallard, Albert Nelson
Yates, Doris Marie Armstrong and Ada Pearl Fer
rell.
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Dr. Samuel Holton Finals Speaker
Maysville-Pollocksville Graduation
By Mary Belle Stoll
v. Dr. Samuel M. Holton, presi
, dent of Lottisburg College, deliv
ered |Jie commencement address
to the graduating, class of Mays
ville-Pollocksville High School
the school auditorium last
He Used very
- ... ——.aiitins' to shew the
Importance of integrity, loyalty,
perserverence, and calmness. .
Dr. Holton summarized his ad
dress somewhat <as follows: H
you have learned to speak tad)
act so that people Can depend
upon what you say and da—if
you have learned to be loyal to
v the best when such loyalty may
be lacking in others—if you have
i mastered the. knack of sticking
to any task until it is finished,
even when the task become dif
ficult and discouraging—if you
- have learned to keep yourself
calm when tension and strain
get into your pathway—then you
have learned to live and help
other people to live welL
Immediately, after Dr. Holton’s
address, Arthur W. Calloway
presented the eighth grade cer-‘
tificates to the following stu
Marie Collins, Clara JPel
letifer, Doris Conway, Bobby
Foy, Robert Taylor, Peggy Thom
. as, Frances Godwin, Billy Can
s' non, Horace Taylor, K. Q. Riggs,
Barbara Mattocks, Shirley Mor
gan^ Annie Mae Smith, Henry
Gerock, Jr,, and Walter Gerock.
. Next, Principal M. R. Bonner
presented the following four
teen awards:
Mary Gerock: Girl’s Athletics,
. Perfect Attendance for 12 years,
Typing, Salutatorian.
Malcolm Render, American Le
gion Citizenship Award.
Warren Mallard, Boy’s Activi
ty. . « r
v Doris Armstrong, Girl’s Activ
■ ity- . .. .v ■
Agnes Thomas, Senior Dram
. atics. ’
Everette Collins, Junior Dram
,atics.
Theodore Conway, First Year
Typing.
Alice Moore; American Le
gion Speaking Contest Award. ?
Melba Banks, Soil Conserva
tion County Winner. *
■;.. Mary Belie Statt, Second
Prize in school Soil Conserva
tion Contest.
The diplomas were presented
to the Seniors by Rpbert L. Mat
tocks, secretary of the School
Board. Those > receiving diplo
mas were; Mary Gerock, Agnes
Thomas, Claire Thomas, Frances
Glorie Phillips, and
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Malcolm Bender.
W. C. Flowers presented the
American Legion j Award for
Good Citizenship to Malcolm
Bender.
.-Mary Gerock was the Saluta
toripn and Doris Armstrong was
Valedictorian. ^
Mascots of the Senior Class
were Georgia Ann C6Hins and
Jimmy Deaton.
Mary Belle _gtott served as
Chief Marshall. Retta Parker
served as Second Marshall, and
the other marshalls were Alice
Moore, Martha Ann Barrow, and
Theo Thomas.
HOMECOMING DAY
SUNDAY AT JOY’S
METHODIST CHURCH
On Sunday the third annual
Homecoming Day program will
be held at Foy’s Methodist
Church here in Jones County.
One of the biggest events of its
kind is expected and planned by
those in charge of the day.
To hundreds of ■'people in
Jones County and many more
outside Jones County the First
Sunday in June means Home
coming Day at Foy’s. This year
the program will include Dr.
Zeno Spence as the principal
speaker and special music for
the day will be provided by the
Kinston Male Chorus.
A special part of the program
will be dedicated to the boys
from Foy’s that served in the
past war and a wreath will be
placed at the grave of' Elton E.
Davenport, 5 only .one of these
hoys who whs killed in action.
Those in charge -of the j>ro
gram urge every member to be’
on han4 with a “bulging bas
ket”, so the “multitudes” may
be fed. Hugh Pollock, -superin
tendent of the Sunday School at
is planning8the*Ml*”* ^
sus. Jones
ralary
that ei
Alabama’s farm population
has decreased by about 10 per
cent in the past 18 years.
Cotton, still far in the lead
among textile fibers, supplied
57.4 per cent of the nation’s tex
tile needs in 1948, compared to
58.4 per cent in 1947, 65.8 per
cent from 1940 to 1944, and 60.6
per cent during the period 1935
39.
Jones County’s First
Typhoid Clinics Will
Begin Monday A.M.
The recently organized Jones
County Health Department will
begin on June sixth the first of
a series of Typhoid Fever immu
nization clinics. This is the first
time in the history of the county
that such a program has been
available to the people of the
county.
Following here is a schedule
of the clinics for the first week;
they will be held at the same
time at the same places one
week later until the series of
shots is given to all who desire
them:
Monday
10 a. m. Phillips’ Crossroads.
11:30 a. m. Shady Grove
Church.
1:30 p. m. Cypress Creek
Church.
3 p. m. Friendship Church.
Tuesday
10 a. m. Comfort School.
11:30 a. m. Taylor’s Corner.
1 p. m. Pleasant Hill Church.
2:30 p. m. Hargett’s Stoic.
Wednesday
' 1 p. m. Wyse’s Forks.
2:30 p. m. Sasser’s Mill.
Thursday
10 a. m. Maysville.
11:30 a. m. Hopewell Church.
1:30 p. m. White Oak Church.
3 p. m. Lee’s Chapel Church.
Friday
9:30 a. m. Oliver’s Crossroads.
10:30 a. m. Alex H. White
School.
11:30 a. m. Pollocksville Train
ing School.
1 p. m. Bruce Simmons Sta
tion.
2:30 p. m. Ten Mile Forks.
3:30 p. m. Oak Grove Church.
Saturday Election Day;
Voters To Answer Road,
School Bond Question
On Saturday the voters of |
North Carolina go to the polls I
to decide whether or not they
will issue 200 million dollars
worth of road bonds and 25 mil
lion dollars worth of school
bonds. No bond issue in the
history of the State has evoked
such a heated campaign and
nearly everyone is taking sides
nor Kerr Scott, who cans the
issue of these bonds a corner
stone of his “Go Forward” pro
gram, nearly every member of
the State’s official family has
been stumping the State in fa
vor of the issue. Those few who
do not see eye-to-eye with the
Governor, naturally, have held
their peace. Opposition to the
issue of the school bonds has
been practically nil No one has
spoken out loudly against the
25 million in this issue that
would be spent for schools. It
is possible for the voter to casf
a ballot either for or against the
road bond issue or for or against
the school bond issue.
Opposition to the road bond
issue is loud and lusty and the
brunt of it is being carried by
men who are forced to remain
silent because of the fear of
business boycott that has been
hinted by rural sections. t A big
rift in the state has been caused
by the effort to set the town folks
against the country folks and
Merchants and pro
of this
threat to their business.
The Scott forces claim that
the debt incurred by issuing
these bonds would be paid off by
an additional one cent tax on
gasoline without any further in
creases in the tax burden of the
people as a whole. The Scott
forces maintain that the bonds
can be sold at two per cent in
terest or less. Opposition claims
that a more realistic interest rate
to expect would be in the neigh
borhood of three and one-half to
four per cent. They also main
tain that an additional one-cent
tax on gasoline would hardly
pay the interest on such a huge
bonded indebtedness.
This begowned group graduatedFrida^iigh^ift
•r at least-12 years at intensive study at Trenton
High School. The 17 students here pictured rep
resent one of the biggest graduating classes in
the history of the school. Seated frogs left to
eight are! Betty Spence. Beatrice Scott Iris Ervin,
■ SpBiSHlF „■»' jf38Spg^£ V<4^*»»*** <*
Koonce. and Lillie Mae Ervin. In the back row
standing are: Gerald Heath. William Faulkner,
Cleveland Meadow*, Doris McDaniel, Emma Sue
Larkins, Dalton Loftin. G. T. Koonce, Jr., Horace
Phillips and. Dennis Parrish. *