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The frantic effort of the young lady at left
here Is a common one these days with the
s coming of summer. She is young Phyllis
Jenkins, trying mightily to reach Lifeguard
Paul Bennett in the municipal swimming pool
at Kinston. The youngsters flocking to the
pool now are receiving informal, personal in
straction from Bennett, a pre-med student, and
his fellow lifeguards as they can spare the
time. Next Monday, however, between 100 and
200 boys and girls well be enrolled In the
swimming elapses to be organized (by the
City Recreation Department. (Whitaker-Lef
few Photo.)
Infant Causing Wide Hunt
nity; One Under Bond
«eldT»y Sheriff
lor juvenile court
ty pending the outcome
of the search which has caused
gardens and outhouses to be up
rooted in Maysville.
The search began when Mrs.
Simmons of the Jdnes
County Health Department re
ceived a crudely written, anony
mous letter accusing the unmar
ried girl of getting1 rid of .her
child after birth. The investiga
tion was begun by Sheriff Taylor
and Superintendent of Public
Welfare F. J. Koonce,, Sr.
Under questioning the girl told
conflicting stories, accusing her
grandmother, Laura *Cannady of
disposing of the child while a
Hve, by burning. Sheriff Taylor
•said she later retracted that ac
cusation and leveled it at MHli
cent Moore of Maysville, in whose
house flie said the . child was
bom. The Moore woman has .been
released under 4256 bond as a
material witness.
Sheriff Taylor said also that
the alleged father of her child,
Colon Moore, 17, has not denied
•the paternity, but bad stated
that he had been giving money
for the support of the girt since
March 1948. The sheriff said-the
Moore man asserted he wanted
the child and for that reason had
given the money to the girl Wer
the period.
Nothing has been heard of the
baby since it was reported to
have cried op. the night of its
birth, May ll,The seanS*for the
body will go pn,. Sheriff Taylor
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One-half- of Jones County's
7,308 allotted ^fcres fit tobacco
tor 1950 h»s been measured, and
one-half of the contracts In that
amount have been found over
planted In small quantities,
County Production and Market
ing * Administration Secretary
Nelson Barker has reported.
Lenoir County PMA Secretary
Horace Mewbom said that about
the same situation exists in
Lenoir County with same over
1,000 of the county’s 1,900 allo
cations checked Just over 50 per
cent have been found slightly
over. Most of these are small
overplantings purely Intended to
make certain that the full quota
is obtained, Mewbom pointed
out. / '
' The over-plantings, ranging
from one-tenth acre to one
acre, according to the size of . the
individual contract, are not un
usual, Barker said, except in the
number of them that have shown
up in the current measuring.
Many fanners, he pointed out,
deliberately over-plant to Insure
full allotted acreage and adjust
on the poorest put of their crop.
However* Barker said, the reg
ulations of the quota control de
cree that "representative” tobac
co be plowed under, not the poor
est from row ends and diseased
spots. He added that the control
organisation this year has re
solved thdt any over-planting ad
justments must be made in con
formance with the regulations.
The iheasutement of the Jones
County tobacco crop hy the 32
tf community com'
tteemen and others is expect'
to be completed by June 20.
The 1950 Irish potato crop Is
now available for the feeding, of
Jones and Lenoir County live
stock for as little as one cent per
hundred pounds, it has been an
nounced by Nelson Barker and
Horace Mewborn of the Produc
tion and Marketing Administra
tion. They urged immediate ap
plication for the stock feed this
year.
The potatoes are available for
shipment by rail or truck, in bulk
or sacked,'at 13 potato markets,
and by truck only at three more.
In the first classification are
Belhaven, Bath, Pantego, Aurora,
Beaufort, New Bern, Alliance,
Bayboro, - Columbia, Elizabeth
City, Belcross, Camden ana
Shawbbro. The others are Engle
hard, Oriental and Weeksville.
The one cent per 100 pounds
price is for the bulk loading of
the potatoes by the purchaser at
government point of purchase.
For five cents additional thp bulk
will be loaded. The highest cost
of the potatoes is 26 cents per
huftdredweight, in hew sacks and
leaded for the purchaser. The
potatoes' can be shipped, if de
sired, freight collect to the pur
chaser in care of the county PMA
committee:
No Malaria Found
In Survey of Jones
School-age Children
Jones and Lenoir County
Health Officer announced this
week that completed tests on the
1,711 blood tests taken last Sept
ember all of-Jones County’s
schools revealed that there was,
not one (single* active cake of
malaria among the county’s
school children.
These tests were taken with
the cooperation of the local
Disabled Vets Holding
27 th Annual Convention
This Week At Kinston
Kinston Is getting set for the
biggest Convention ever held
there. This coming Thursday the
Disabled American Veterans
move Into town tor three and a
half days for their 27th Annual
State Convention. The conven
tion will bring men and their
wives from all over the state to
Kinston and the banners, flags
and bunting will be the first
signs of welcome they will see.
Merchants are asked to letter
their windows with “Welcome
DJV.V.” to add to the color of the
convention.
There will be many features
that the public will be interested
In. On the opening day of the
convention there will be a huge
parade that will feature the 82nd
Airborne Division Band and the
band from Camp Lejeune Marine
Base. The Salvation Army will
enter a band and the National
Guard will march. Among other
entries will be the Boy and Girl
Scouts, Civil Air Patrol, Ameri
can Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars and many other groups.
The public is invited to really
turn out to give the welcome to
these marchers and the visiting
This in Sonny Durham, nationally known orchestr leader
and one of the top trumpet and trombone stylists in the
dance band business, who is to bring his band to Kinston
Friday night of this week for the 27th North Carolina State
Convention of the Disabled American Veterans. The dance
will be held in the Old Knott Warehouse from 9 until ....
and the public has been extended a cordial invitation to
turn out for this dance and help the DAV celebrate.
Third Quaker Bridge In
50 Years Soon to Take
Place of Outmoded One
One of Jones County’s land
marks for nearly a half century
will soon depart from the scene,
replaced by a new and much
safer edition of what it takes to
get fast moving vehicles across
rivers and creeks. Quaker Bridge
in the Oak Grove community of
Eastern Jones County is still
carrying traffic but State High
way and Public Works engineers
are going ahead speedily toward
the completion of a new bridge
less than 100 yards north of the
PrTOenpSntQuakerHridge was
the 1908 flood which
awi? the old wooden
that was located at about
— spot that the new
bridge is no wbeing built.
The new structure will not have
a draw span as the old bridge
that is being replaced due to the
ahsence today of the steam boats
that once hauled freight and
people up to Trenton.
The new bridge will be 190
feet long with four 35 foot spans
and a center span of 50 feet. The
old bridge w^s built by the coun
ty und jr the superintendency of
the late J. J. Simmons.
- George II, Duval of the Piney
Grove section recalls crossing the
old wooden bridge When he was
courting his wife. Duval will be
82 years old August 3rd. He mar
ried a daughter of the man who
supervised the construction of
veterans.
Friday night is another big
night in Kinston. Sonny Dunham
and his Orchestra will play for
the public at the Old Knott
Warehouse at 9 p. m. for the big
dance. The dance admission has
been reduced so that everybody
can afford to attend. Admission
will be $1.20 including tax.
Saturday night the DAV will
hold its big banquet at the Air
port Recreation Center and
members only will attend this
affair.
Sunday morning there will De
a Memorial Service at the Lion s
Club monument on the court
house lawn at 9 a. m. The public
is invited to attend.
Friday night the “Trench Rats”
are to initiate their new mem
bers on the streets. They will
work on Queen Street between
the courthouse and the Post Of
fice. Time for that affair is 8
p. m. The public is invited tc at
tend and watch the fun.
The local chapter asks the peo
ple of Lenoir and Jones Counties
to attend the festivities and help
make this one of the biggest
events ever held in this section.