Y THROUGH
>VED FARM PRACTICES1
April rinii <u
are the entire
HURT IN
Luke Couuis, flflijreat-old, res
ident of the Hopewell communi
ty, was seriously injured lest
Monday afternoon! when he was
accidentally struck, by a car
driven by Mrs; Janies Barbee.
Collins is under treatment in
a New Bern hospitil where be is
reported to be suffering from a
broken leg and bruises and cuts
stration For
ty Ordered
Officials
Jones County will have a new
registration of its voters for the
spring primaries, With the books
to be opened for listings April
15, it has beep, announced by
‘Chairman John‘ J). l'^Akins of
FdHocksville County
Board of'Electiprisi
The decision was made by the
board following .the, swearing in
of the three
N. Lowery of
.„ William
lqhSpin, H, M.
Mallard of Trenton and Jenkins,
in the office of .the Clerk of Su
perior Court Murray Whitaker
Saturday. In the meeting follow
ing Jenkins was elected chair
man and Mallard secretary. The
board, under the law enacted by
the 1949 Legislature, had the
choice of transferring the names
of 'all Voters' from the old books
do new ones or the new registra
tion.
Chairman Jenkins said the
registrants and places of regis
! tration will be’ announced in the
near future, and- in accordance
with prescribed procedure the
registration places will be open
for five Saturdays preceding the
.May 27 voting, with May 20 as
challenge day. ' '•
The 'election board chairman
repented that no candidates have
yet filed for contest in the May
27 l^emocrafic'Primary. Howev
er, Sheriff Jeter Taylor has alt
" announced that he will .be
'.date‘ to succeed hinselfi'
others of die incumbent ■
of the
of*
ea, however, that L. It Lowery
of Piney Grove has announced
his candidacy for the county
board of commissioners.
The May Race is an unusual
one in.. Jones County. It is the
first time all of the members of
the board of commissioners and
th4 board of education have
been in the same race. Hereto
fore the terms of the officials
have been staggered. Also, on
ly five of the seven members of
the. board of education can be
re-elected in the primary be
cause of the amendment of the
constitution of the board by
changes put through the 1949
Legislature.
TWO ARRESTS HOLD
LIMELIGHT DURING
LAST WEEK IN JONES
Most of the trouble with the
law in Jones County last week
came from bad check activity of
a few citizens, Sheriff Jeter Tay
lor has reported, with the ma
jor offender being Farnell Wil
lis. Willis is alleged to have
forged a check in the amount of
$15 on Fred Bryant.
The check was passed at a
New Bern loan company and
Willis has been charged with the
crime. He has been required to
post bond ot> $500 for appearance
in the April 3 t^rm of Jones
week was that?oF dr
ing and knife1
■driv
assault brought
against Clifton Lee Jones of
Snow Hill Route 1. Jones was
arrested in Trenton by Constable
Roy Mallard following an alter
f TO*
*H!C SURVEY OF SCHOOL SITE
cation at Elmer Boyette’s filling
station near Friendship Church.
Jones was required to post bond
of $350 for Superior Court ap
pearance.
ONE HUNDRED CASES
ON DOCKET FOR 4TH
APRIL COURT TERM
ine aocKet ot Jones County
Superior Court on April 3 when
it is convened by Judge Walter
Bone of Nashville will have an
even 100 criminal cases for trial,
Clerk of Court Murray Whitaker
has announced. The docket is led
by one charge of murder, against
Eula Jackson, 41-year-old Negro
for the logging camp shooting of
Willie Bragg, 29, at Pollocks
ville on March 5.
The largest number of cases
for trial in a single classifica
tion are those for various de
grees of assault, with drunken
driving and traffic violations in
second place with 15 cases each.
Liquor law violations will have
13 persons before the court, and
those for non-support and other
domestic charges total 12.
There is one manslaughter
charge stemming from a high
way accident death, and one
charge of attempted rape was
carried over from the term of
court passed up in' December.
Tne cases charging larceny
against as many defendants will
he brought before the court.
The docket of the April term of
court is. unusually. , heavy for
Jones County because of the term
of court not held because of the
illness of a judge, Whitaker said.
However, 49 of .the cases to be
it ’Enquire grand
A number of civil
divorce are also ex
i presented for the
tion.
HEAT CONTROL IN TOBACCO CORING
Inventor Sam E. Dixon of Pollocksville is shown here demon
strating the swing of the eight flue arms of his circulator for
the control of heat in tobacco curing barns io Assistani county
Agent George Wiggins in Jones County. Dixon said the device
in barn tests in 1949 proved an oil saving of 35 to 40 per cent in
24 to 30 hours less curing time per bam. And there was no red
tobacco caused by the usual failure of heat to reach some cor
ners of the barns. Several hundred persons have attended
demonstrations of the circulator in the past week. Only 11 of
the circulators have been constructed to dale. (Whitaker-Lef
few Photo)
S. E. Dixon’s Invention
May Solve Distribution
of Heat in Tobacco Barns
riygjhg^ob^e^belt problem of
has been attacked by an eight
armed circulator devised by Sam
E. Dixon of Pollocksville, on
which he says he has patents
pending at the Federal Patent
Office. The largest size circula
tor has had demonstrations be
fore several hundred persons in
Jones County this week.
The cabinet which can be set
over any pot-type oil burner and
connected into the existing flue
system measures 72 by 26 by 30
inches, and from it lead out eight
movable pipes which can direct
the heat into any part of the
barn. The inventor says the ac
tual use of the device last sea
son in six barns proved that the
cool corners of a curing barn
could be “killed” to prevent red
tobacco coming from the barn,
and that a cool wind on one side
ol tne barn could be offset.
Dixon said also that the saving
of curing time and oil was also
surprising in the 1949 tests. He
reported bams cured out 24 to
30 hours quicker with the circu
lator, and an oil saving in burn
ers of 35 to 40 per cent. In some
cases he said the number of
burners could be cut down with
the use of the circulator. He
believes that the oil saving in
75 per cent of the curing barns
in the section would be from 25
to 30 per cent.
There were more than 250
persons attending a demonstra
tion of the circulator on the farm
of H. A. Parker near Trenton
last week, among them a well
known manufacturer of oil burn
ers for curing purposes. Only
eleven of the units have been
constructed to date at a New
Bern tin Shop, but Dixon said
he hopes enough can be put into
use in the coming curing season
to make the unit generally
known through the tobacco belt.
With the circulator Dixon has
originated a saddle-type humidi
fier to fit around the curing flues
with a controlled flow of water
from a metered barrel outside
the barn. He said the complete
aiiit <will sell for $100, and the
;or alone, -large size, for
FOR 4-H CAMPS IN
THE EARLY SUMMER
Plans are being made for sum
mer camps of Jones County 4-H
Clubs, and one major change in
the schedule has already been
made, it has been announced by
Assistant County Agent George
Wiggins. The junior group of
some 50 to 60 campers this year,
as in 1947, will go to Flanner’s
Beach on lower Neuse River in
stead of White Lake as in 1949.
Change in the juniors’ plans
was made because of the ad
vance in cost of the White Lake
resort, Wiggins said. Their
camping date has been set for
May 29.
No date, however, has been
set for the camping trip of the
senior 4-H group to Manteo in
the summer. Wiggins said those
from that group who wish to
make reservations for the sum
mer camp near the site of the
Lost Colony pageant should
make their intention known im
mediately to their clubs. In
1949 some 20 senior 4-H Club
members attended the Manteo
camp.
MINSTREL FRIDAY
AT POLLOCKSVILLE
A local-talent minstrel will be
presented in the auditorium of
Alex H. White High School in
Pollocksville at 8 Friday. The
public has been urged to attend
what is described as one of the
most hilarious events of the
Vear.
There will be a nominal ad
mission charge for benefit of
the Pollocksville Community
Building Fund. Enjoy yourself
and help a worthy cause along
at the same time by attending
the show Friday night.
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