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LAYOUT AT STATE SCHOOL s program of expansion of the School, the date's institution handicapped near Kinston, is s«lf-sustainnig supply of utility facilities, ured here is the consaitclion of those facili - At rear the smoke stack can be seen tod* g from the electric plabt which will house m generation, equipment and turbines, shown 1 .'A J- 1 11 .. in the inset. The plant equipment, when com pleMy installed, will furnish electricity, steam and hot water to more than double the present 800-patient , capacity of the institution. In the foreground is the drilling rig which is sinking a hew well for additional water supply guaranteed at 350 gallons per minute. (Whitaker-Leftew Photo) BICOLOR AND SERICEA IOTEDEA FOR AID IN QUAIL PROGRAM <Last Friday Soil Conservation ists Mack Griffin and Carl Flowers had a busy afternoon receiving and properly storing Some 186,000 bicolor lespedeza seedlings and several bags of se jicea lespedeza seeds which will be issued to cooperating farmers in Jones County in conjunction ^with the North Carolina Wild life Resources Commission. A combination belt of these Jwb pereopials around the wood ed edge ogfiSeldg is nfte of. the proven beisr means of increasing food and cover for quail., The plants and seeds received Friday in Trenton are sufficient to plant about 23 acres of border and. each acre of the plant is rated capable of supplying food for eight cov eys of quail ; At the monthly meetings of 4-1} Clubs throughout Jones County in the past week the members have been getting the very best information on-safety,, particularly-on the highway part of it, Assistant County Agent George Wiggins has reported. The guest speaker at the meet ings. has been Guy. I*hgston of JONEL SATISFIED? Very few Jones County tax payers showed up Monday to protest tax valuations when the Board of County Commis sioners sat as a board of Equal ization and Review. The board had expected a big turnout and was pleasantly surprised to have so little business on hand at the mmlo*.,-,. A , ...... , REHEW YOUR* SUBSCHIPTIOH Tobacco Test Check-up The test demonstrations of the 1950 tobacco crop in Jones Coun ty will get a check-up Wednes day from R. R. Bennett, tobac co specialist of the State Exten sion Service, County Agent A. V. Thomas has reported. The ar rangements for the test plots for seed types and fertilizer will be completed during Bennett’s vis it, Thomas said, and the results will be ready for observation in the summer. SAFETY SCHOOL Gcocg* Towkcabury. safety engineer with the Farm Bu reau Insurance Company, will at lilS Thursday give a lacture and (how a movie to the pub lic in tha Pollocks villa High School auditorium. Following this Towkasbury will give a demonstration of tha distances required to stop an auto at va rious speeds with local people at the' controls of a specially built car. Measles Season Begins The measles season has begun in Jones County, according to the observation of Mrs. Alma Vassey, Health Department nurse. Two five-year-old young sters, Becky Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harper Gray, and Walter Ives, Jr., are convalescing at their homes near Trenton. Health Department officials ex pect the usual spread of child hood’s traditional ailment with the coming of warm weather. HOME CLUB NOTES Three home demonstration club meetings will be held in the coming week in Jones County, it has been announced by Home Agent Mary Helen Loftin. At 2:30 in the afternoons the Lee’s Chapel Club will meet on Thurs day at the home of Mrs. Denford Eubanks, and the Pleasant Hill Club will meet on Friday at the home of Mrs. T. L. Reynolds. At 7:30 p. m. Tuesday the Foy’s Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Ed Davenport. ■ / V , < Flue-cured tobacco prices last year avenged 47.2 cents a pound, 2.4 cents per pound less than in 1948. Burley prices av eraged nearly 45 cents a pound, down a cent from those of the previous season. Reports from farmers and dai rymen in North Carolina during 1949 indicate that there was an average of $359,000 cows (not in cluding heifers 2 years old and over kept for milk but not yet freshened) on farms during the year. North Carolina now has 25 organized soil conservation dis tricts which include 28,032,400 acres of land. Three new dis tricts were set up during 1949. YOUTHS SURRENDER TO SHERIFF TAYLOR AFTER STORE THEFTS Two 17-year-old Jones County youths, James E. Miller and Lin wood Lee Carter, face charges of breaking, entering and larceny from their alleged activities ear ly last Friday morning. Sheriff Jeter Taylor apprehended them after the robbery of the Mary Jones service station and store in Tuckahoe Township of the county, when merchandise val ued at $25 was taken. The sheriff him&elf tracked the thieves from the scene of the robbery to a house two and one half miles away with the com ing of dawn, and found discard ed tins which held canned food eaten by them in a barn a short distance from the store. The tracking of the sheriff was con firmed by bloodhounds brought from the prison camp at Kenans ville later. Fingerprints were also found at the scene, Sheriff Taylor said. The accused pair surrendered themselves to Sheriff Taylor on Friday morning when they found out the results of the tracking. Bonds of $250 have been set for their appearance in the April term of Jones County Superior Court. Entry was made into the store by the forcing of the front door of the premises, Sheriff Taylor reported. Included in the mer chandise taken was smoking to bacco, chewing gum, candy and canned goods. my, who died in Japan February 19 from a heart- 'attack, was re interred in a fathily cemetery near Pink Hill last Sunday at 3. MRS. JOHNNIE WILLIAMSON 60-year-old wife of J. D. Wil liamson of Pink Hill, died at her home in Pink Hill last Thursday after a heart attack. Funeral services were held at 2 Friday and burial followed in the Max well Cemetery near Pink Hill. CHARLIE TAYLOR 75-year-old retired farmer, died at his home early Friday after a long period of ill health. Funer al services were held at 3 Satur day and burial followed in West view Cemetery. RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION HIGHWAY GUARDIANS GATHER AT NEW HEADQUARTERS
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