NUMBER 52
This is no ordinary marble contest at Emma Webb Playground in Kinston, bat a battle for glory
sponsored by the City Recreation Department, which originally involved exactly 200 youthful
contestants from the city’s schools. The championship .performance g>f Billy Paderick of Lewis
School hi being watched without much enthusiasm by IshiAael Conway of Harvey School, who was
roinner-up in the finalist play of 35 boys on Saturday. Standing between Recreation Director
Bill Fay, left, and Tracy Hart ,men and boys activities director,. are Linwobd Hartsell, Walter
~ ‘ "ly HollowelL It is the third year of the contest in Kinston, and the two top men
ite marble tournament of the North Carolina Recreation Society at Greensboro
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Elwood Willis of Morehead
City, one of file four candidates
for the two senate seats from the
Seventh North Carolina District,
Monday afternoon withdrew from
the race leaving it a three-way
fight between Walstonburg Busi
nessman-Farmer Carl T. Hicks,
Trenton lawyer John D: Larkins
Jr. and Kinston Lawyer Jesse A.
Jones.
This move came as a surprise
to most local politicians and few
have been willing to express
themselves on what the effect
may be In. the final balloting for
this important post.
Meamjfble all three of the can
didates left in the race have ac
celerated their activity and are
hard at work “shaking the bush
Hicks Is making a tour of
es
the entire district, making new
friends and renewing old ac
quaintances; Jones is speaking on
the Kinston and Jacksonville ra
dio Wednesday night and over
the New Bern radio Thursday
night and Larkins is throwing in
to high gear all of his resources
of personality and acquaintance.
Jones has promised to “discuss
campaign issues” in his radio
talks and much meat for the po
litical table may coined from what
he says or leaves unsaid in these
two appearances,
One o fthe hardest fought and
closest races in the senatorial
district in many years is expect
ed and no one has beer* foolish
plcirTthe twq high
men from this point.
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More Postal Service
Kinston Postmaster E. R.
“Buck” W o o t en announced
Monday that the Post Office
Department had apuroved the
addition of 61 blocks including
282 houses for daily postal ser
vice id Kinston. Wooten says
that service will begin imme
diately but each of the homes
in this 61 block area must have
adequate boxes and house
numbers fixed before they
have daily visits from the post
man. Full information can be
obtained at the post ofice for
all who wish to avail them
selves of this service. Part of
the newly acquired area will be
served by postmen on foot and
the rest by truck delivery.
Those in the area to be served
by truck must have regulation
RFD boxes placed by the curb
in front of their homes. Woot
en says.
it, and the barrel has been fuU
'ery week day since. There are
i candidates for the various
ninty offices, more in number
Now that transplanting time
Is here and the long delayed
rains have gotten the ground in
condition for tobacco planting
the tobacco farmer must begin to
study up on the latest methods
of keeping his crop healthy until
curing season. In the past several
years one of the worst threats
has come from Aphids, or as it
is better known, tobacco lice.
Henry K. Towers, research pro
fessor of entomology for the
State College Experiment Sta
tion, says the job of poisoning
these sucking parasites can be
accomplished with either a one
per cent PARATHION dust of
with a spray made
up of oin pjunu of la per cent
wettable powder to 60 gallons of
water or with a new spray called
TEPP, which calls for one pint
of 20 per cent TEPP to 50 gallons
of water.
The PARATHON dust should
be used at the rate of two pounds
per 100 square yards and the
sprays at the rate of three to
five gallons per 100 square yards.
Professor Towers says that
some farmers have in the past
used 10 per cent DDT but this Is
less effective he asserts.
For as dong as a week after
the use of PARATHION there is
enough poison left to make con
tinuous handling dangerous. If
TEPP is used the plants are safe
to handle the next day.
the host for the day Is tacked on
the wooden barrel on each can
didate’s day, and is later trans
ferred to the wall, of the barber
shop.
The cost of the treat to egjsh
candidate is $£50 for the lemons,
ice, paper cups and sugar. The
labor in mixing is furnished by
the barber shop staff. Huggins is
not worried about having, more
candidates than days for the
lemonade. He believes the heat,
natural And political, will de
mand a little extra. :
Tobacco Violation Case
In Jones County Set For
More Airing Wednesday
On Wednesday the hearing of
the tobacco quota violation of
Paul Gilbert of Tuckahoe Town
ship was scheduled for re-open
ing by the Production and Mar
keting Administration. In a pre
vious county committee hearing
Gilbert had been penalized with
the loss of 10 of his 24.4 acre al
lotment for quota violation in
1949, but so far as could be learn
ed no decision had been handed
down by a special review com
mittee from Lenoir County on an
appeal hearing/
Also expected to be a major
part of the Wednesday hearing
was the case of Milton Gilbert,
resigned chairman of the Jones
County committee, following his
confession of a two-acre 1948
overplanting of his quota. The
accusation of a six-acre over
planting was leveled against Mil
ton Gilbert in the hearing on
Paul Gilbert’s violation, by J. B.
Gilbert, another.cousin. Former
chairman Gilbert paid a penalty
of $584.44 to the PMA foilowing
his admission of the violation of
two acres excess.
Considerable work on the vio
lation problem has been observed
in the county in the past month,
including the work of one stran
ger driving an automobile with
a South Carolina license. It has
been intimated that further in
formation on quota violations
will be turned up at the Wed
nesday hearing.
State Senator John D. Larkins
Jr., attorney for Paul Gilbert
lent was waiving a 15 notice day
client was waiving a 15 day no
tice period aet by PMA regula
tions for the re-opening of a
case, as well as the absence of a
decision from the special re
hac
Iia
ured the tobacco acreage of MU
ton Gilbert during 1948, the yea
of his admitted violation.
Largest Yorkshire hog breeder
in North Carolina, and one of the
largest in the South, la R. s.
Leonard of Black Mountain, Bun
combe County, who now has four
foars, 18 brood sows, and about
175 pigs.
A Columbus County farmer, D.
H. Lennon, Route 1, Boardman
says one good cow bred to a good
bull and placed on an acre of
good pasture will give him more
net return with less work and
worry than an acre of good tob
Murder-Suicide At
Little Hell Monday
Unreasoning jealously, accord
ing to Jones county Sheriff Jeter
Taylor, brought murder-suicide
death by bucashot blasts fiom
a shotgun to a negro couple near
mttle riell branch at 8:15 a. m.
Monday.
Inc wife, Annie Green, 20, re
ceived tne bucashot charges in
the stomach and in tne i,aeK
from the shotgun in the hands
of her hlusband, Hubert Green,
n, wno men snot mmseif thro
ugh the heart. The argument
which led to the tragedy is ie
ported to have begun in - tne
tenant dome on tne Earl Bell
laitii on Sunday.
The dead man was said to have
been excessively jealous and nad
tned to prevent ms wne of aDout
one year irom seeing her family.
Sheriff Taylor said ne found the
house locked from the inside
when he arrived shortly after the
shooting, and found indications
that the wife was attempting to
leave the home. The couple had
no children.
Deputy Brown Yates, serving as
acting-coroner, found that the
cause of the deaths were murder
and suicide without the conven
ing of a jury.
Three Homecomings
In Trenton Charge
Homecoming celebrations have
been planned at three Methodist
churches in the
May 14, at the Shady
Methodist Church. The Rev.
Lee of Durham, a former pastor,
will conduct the 11 a. m. worship
service, and a picnic lunch will
follow the sermon.
Homecoming and a similar
program will be held at the Cy
press Creek Methodist Church on
Sunday, May 21. The event at
Foy’s Methodist Church will also
feature the quarterly meeting of
the Trenton Charge on June 4,
Pastor Long said.
All friends of the churches, as
well as members of the congre
gation, are invited to participate
in the hospitality, the Rev. Long
said.
Everyone who rides between Pink Hill and Kinston is familiar
with the sight pictorM above.' It is the smoke stack on an old,
abandoned saw mill which Mack Quinn used to operkte. It is
hanging now on the rusting strands of two cables, which with
two other* originally held it straight. Beneath this “Leaning
Tower of Pink Hill,” as the picture shorn, are strung the tele
phone wires that connect the tower end of the county with
Kinston and the outside world. Some day, not too far in the
future, those rusting cables are going to turn loose and this
old stack is going to temporarily end telephone communications
in Q>«t part of the pounty. It would assuredly be trag’c for
swh a halt i* telephone service to happen at a time of emer
gmjcy. An ambulance might be needed, a fire truck or police
officer. CfcrUinJyUii^I. an instance in which **A Stitchln