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IMPROVED FARM PRACTft
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tholomew of Wilson. North Carolina's Grand
Ch»f-d«-Gaye. Seated'in the foreground is Stale
Commander H. C. Godwin of the North Carolina
Department of the Legion. ’ Commander Godwin
of New Bern ie-a member of the tri-county Forly
(Whitaker-Leffew Photo) . ,
C. Godwin OiH)
re on the art of
-artins Jrw (cen
idous concoction
idaj night of W.
Wtarahip, in fhf^pastutr o|
C. Flowers, Sr., tow*
<* pine trees at 01ive«?*;©ross
is w«s the order of dtp eve
S in Jones County on Thurs
i - Thfe menuof die evening
i chicken stew, heavily ac
ted with chicken, followed by
cold Bogue Sound watermel
• _v Si
he occasion was the installa
i of the host as Chef de Gate
89. .. Others were B.
>f Raleigh, Legion
ry for North . and
na and former state
of Arkansas; Nash
Raleigh, state adju
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4-ti ciuo snortcourse at State
College. - ’
The principals in the group
Will be the Jones County clubs’?
1949 health royalty, Queen Kath
leen Stilley of Trenton and King
Virgil Mallard of Mallardtown'
Others to enter state contests
-will be Sybil and Alta Ann Mal
lard of Mallardtown, senior and
junior winners respectively in
the 1949 Dress Revue of Jones
County clubs.
Other Jones County youths to
make up the attendance at the
week of the short course at State
College are Jackie Pollock, Jean
Gray, Peggy Howard, Agnes
Faye Mallard, Audrey Phillips,
Warren Mallard, Roger Wilson,
Braxton Howard, Kenneth Pol
lock and James William Hender
son.
Ministerial Student
At Bethel Church
Supply minister for the sum
mer months at Bethel Baptist
Church on the Richlands High
way is Charles Wellons of Kins
ton, a ministerial student at
Wake Forest College. He will
conduct the services there each
second and fourth Sunday at 11
.a, m. "-••• - i
Twenty-Six Out Of 35
Petitioners Get Tax
Relief From Board
JONES VOTES “YES’
Only five tobacco farmer* In
Jones County voted against
continuation of acreage con
trols on their crop in the refer
endum held Saturday to decide
whether the controls would be
held over for three or one year
periods or done away with
completely. Voting for three
full years of acreage controls
were 133$ turners and four
persons voted for a one yeu
period of continued controls.
This Jones County vote Was in
step With the, voting all over
; the flue-cured tobacco growing
area since there was a 43 to 1
majority in the overall vote in
a preliminary unofficial return
of the voting as listed by the
Associated Press.
LEE MERCER HOST
ON 70TH BIRTHDAY
ANNIVERSARY 24TH
More than 100 friends' and
relatives gathered Sunday, July
24th, to help Lee Mercer cele
brate his 70th birthday anniver
sary. Mercer has spent practic
ally all of his life in Jones Coun
ty and is one of the county’s best
known citizens.
Barbecue and Brunswick stew
were the main attractions of the
CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN
BY TRENTON YOUTHS
Last week Luther Tyson and
his Young People’s class of the
Trenton Methodist Church gath
ered" one afternoon and did 'a
fine job of cleaning up the
grounds around the church, trim
ming the shrubs and mowing the
lawn. When they finished with
the church “prettying up detail”
they adjourned to the home of
Mrs. W. W. Pollock and enjoyed
a “cooling off” spell'assisted with
home-made ice cream and cake.
NEW RADIO STATION
This section will have another
radio voice, and Kinston will
again have two, as soon as the
application filed with 'the Feder
al Communications Commission
by the Commonwealth Broad
casting Company is approved.
Company President E. L. Scott of
Kinston said the new station
could be established within 60
days of the approval. A change
in the operation of the company’s
Station WLOW in Norfolk, Va.,
would allow them to move its
.equipment to Kinston. The new
station* if approved, would take
the place of the 1010 kilocycle
frequency vacated by Station
WKNS in the consolidation of
that station with WFTC by the
Kinston Broadcasting Company
on June 1st The 1,090 Watt,
daytime operation (Opposed by
the new station, Scott said, will
give* Lenoir County and the en
tire section the second radio out
let which is justified* _
North Carolina fan a lower in
fection rate of Bang’s disease in
cattle'than any other State in the
Union..
President Truman has
.state '
pro
jLwejiiy-six petitioners for re
lief from a too-high property val
uation for tax purposes got an
okay from Jones County com
missioners at the second of two
meetings on last Wednesday. A
total of 35 citizens had applied,
and two of those had their valua
tions “equalized” upward. Pres
ent at the meeting beside Com
missioners G. O. Mallard, P. W.
Westbrook, J. W. Creagh, Jr.,
and Cephus Foscue were County
Attorney George Hughes, Regis
ter of Deeds George Noble and
tax assessors Grover Mallard, T.
N.' Wooten and Carl Gray.
Most of the valuations scaled
downward by the commissioners
were for "wastelands” which
had-been cut-over in lumbering
operations or which had been de
valued for other reasons. None
of the valuations were' cut back
past the 1948 mark.
Ope petitioner pointed out
/that "two of his five tobacco barns
were valued at |150 each, while
three were rated at only $100.
He claimed that aU should be
the same. The commissioners
made them all of - equal value—
$150 each. The second valuation
raise was the $30 per acre listing
of farmland to $35.
Petitioners getting relief from
the board of commissioners were
Mrs. J. K, Brock, £ E. Bell, W.
H. Banks, F. F. Banks, Mrs.JjSu
nice Foy, A. Me. Bradley, F. W.
Pollock, Aaron Mallard, R. E.
***‘M~“* foter_
Phillips, J, JE. Warren Estate,
Lois Brock et al, George Mea
dows, Fred Jones and W. F. Mor
ton- - k& -
Documents Recorded
There have been seven trans
fers of land in Jones County
since July 14, Register of Deeds
George Noble reported this week.
None of them involved any con
siderable transfer of real estate,
he said. During the same period
three deeds of trust were placed
on record as loan securities.
Acuon ror raving
Action has been started by a
group of Trenton citizens to
install curb and gutters on the
main street of the town from
Jones Street to the town lim
its. If the movement is suc
cessful it is expected that the
State Highway Department
will widen the narrow roadway
in that part of town.