A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON. N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1951
NUMBER 34
Story With Moral
liien to one young nun in
Jones County who has learned
aa expensive lesson daring the
Christmas Holidays. He had
procured some contraband
ttrp erashen far tome manner
and his sister found oat about
the noise-makers being in his
possession. It seems that he
was in debt to said Sister far
the sum of25 cents, payment
upon said 25 cents was some
what in arrears and sifter
threatened to -confiscate the
{jjtegfl materials unless pay
The young man proposed to
have his bake and eat It too.
He stowed the firecrackers in
his radio. After seeing a thrill
ing movie one nigfat1jpst be
fore Christinas the young man
returned home, to bed and
went off to dreamland^ with
the radio still playing soft and
low. Not too much bterma.
family was awakened by a cdn
M^able explosion from this
yoflng man's bed room. Ntf
firecrackers for Christmas, no
radio by the bed and sister is
still reminding this sad young
man : that the 25 cent debt is
due and' drawing interest.
Hospital Note
Another step in the direc
tion ot renovation and expan
sion of Memorial General Hos
pital was made Monday by the
county board of commissioners
in Lenoir County when they
appointed a five man commit
tee to supervise the task.
Named to the committee were
Kersey Smith, Leo Harvey,
JSjgse Oglesby and Hiding
ft to a 125 bed capaci
been ready for con
in bid upon m more
Foscue Home Built Just After
War Between The States Still
One of County’s Most Beautiful
The home pictured here is one
of the most beautiful in this
part of the state. It is located
about five miles from Trenton on
the New Bern Road and is in
it was built some 75 years ago
for Edgar Macon Foscue by the
late James .Prescott Tucker, who
wgs the father 6f a well knowh
Klnstonian, Miss Myrtle Tucker.
Today the home is owned by
E. M. Pose# of Raleigh and
Trenton, a grandson of the man
who had it built iust after the
War Between the States.
When Foaeue, aw builder of
a;of the
r the#aol#
borhood. *
Six generations of Foscues
have owned and lived upon the
land where the old home is lo
cated.
Of the children born to' the
hnUdOf of this . home, and
citizens of this part of the state.
They were the late Fred Wooten
and Macon Wayne Foscue and
the only surviving child, Mrs.
Jfurnifold (Myrtle) Brock, who
Still lives in Trenton.
Condition of Polio
Sufferer Improved
Ann. Hughes, 14 year-old
daughter of Jones County Attor"
ney and Mrs. George Hughes,
who is being treated for infantile
paralysis in a Greensboro center,
continues to improve, her father
said this week.
This week for the first time
since she was admitted to the
polio treatment center the high
school student was able to get
about in a wheel chair. Hughes
said she told him in a telephone
onversation Saturday night that
conversation Saturday night
that she fully believes that she
will recover the use of her legs,
which were at one time com
pletely paralyzed by the dread
disease which still baffles medi
cal science.
Holidays Over
Kinston schools reopened
today (Thursday) after the
Christmas Holidays. Lenoir
and J ones County’s rural
schools reopened Monday af
ter taking a shorter period to
celebrate. In lower Jones
County scattered cases of
measles caused a small drop in
post holiday enrollments but
aside from that the “readin,
writin and rithmetic” business
was back in high gear.
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Invitation Extended
The following invitation has
been extended through the Jones
Journal: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Vance
Scott request the honor of your
presence at the marriage of their
ton Harper Banks on Saturday
the Sixth of January at six
o’clock in Oak Grove Methodist
Church, Pollocksville, and after
wards at #ie reception which,
will be held in the home 6f Mr.
and Mrs. .ggp, KilHiigsworth.
e in History
■Bp on the first audit Jones
ISoupy’s official books have had
fn the past fdiir years was read
Tuesday to the board of county
commissioners by Accountant Ej
g. Franck. At the time of the
last audit which covered a per
iod ending June 30, 1946 the
county had a deficit of just oVer
$22,000, Franck said and the cur
rent audit Which ends with June
30,1950 the county had $44,062.16
of cash on hand.
, Franck credited the $86,000
plus, change in the county’s fi
nancial conditioifS to.the gen
erally better times find to a
much more efficient System of
conducting the affaire of the
county. He was high in his praise
of the commissioners during the
past four yearn and also.pointed,
out that eaclrdepartm&it head
in the county government., was
Cooperating with the bookkeep
ing system that he had install
ed when he first began? super
vising the?flscg.l affairs lot the
county under the directions of
the board; of commissioners.
Franck mad# several yecom
jestiing tfiat the
and Trust Com
o add $59,000 to
ond it now has
. County ^fubds.
status of the county’s financial
fffairs, Franck said he felt the
higher bond was necessary and
reasonable, he asserted.
Franck also recommended that
all taxes more than 10 years old,
in which suits had not been in
stituted, be charged off under
provision of a special statute of
limitations that had been pass
ed by the General Assembly for
Jones Couhty. He also recom
mended that a charge of $1,293.54
against the estate of the late
Sheriff John S. Hargett be can
celled as uncollectable and an
other of $1,398 against the estate
of former Superior Court Clerk
A. E. Hammond be studied' with
a view toward cancellation, since
nothing had been paid on it
since 1932. Ha did point out, how
ever, that there were notes
against the Hammond estate in
the hands of County Attorney
George Hughes.
| Franck also suggested to the
commissioners that some final
fttlement should be made of
e $4,921.08 that is owed: to the
tate of Jules K. Warren, form
ed county attorney. The auditor
reminded the board that a set
tjtement had been reacted last
Star between the countoand the
Warren estate in which altar
much study, and debateAe
Copies o:
tor North C
1948 by a s
able for distribution',
The 44-page illustrated publi
cation contains a brief analysis
of Tar Heel agriculture, a sug
gested program for the future,
and practical ideas on how the
program should be carried out.
The first few pages contain a
summary of the most important
facts presented, for ready refer
ence. Supplemental charts show.;
the State’s rank in farm popula
tion, cash farm receipts from
various sources, and cash farm
income per capita.
The farm program-was pre
pared by a committee of spec
ialists headed by Dr. James H.
Hilton, dean pf agriculture at
N. C. State College. Their as
signment was to diagnose the
ailments of North Carolina’s ag
riculture and recommend a long
term corrective program;
Persons desiring a copy of the
publication should write to the
Agricultural Editor, State Col
lege Station, Raleigh, and ask
for»“A Farm Program for North
Carolina.”-Ttiere Is no charge.
'notes assigned to the
1 the, receivership of
t. Bank of Jones, be
uncollectable.
reeommend
accounts
as
Ohs
After a one-day delay due to
New Years Day the Jones County
Board of Commissioners held a
rather lengthy session during
which it heard a report on the
audit recently completed by E.
E. Franck reached an agree
ment for settlement of tax liens
against the estate of Nancy
Whaley and heard reports from
County Superintendent of Wel
fare Joe Koonce. The Franck re
port is given in greater detail in
another story in this issue.
In settling the tax charges
against the Whaley estate :he
board voted to accept the prin
cipal due from 1923 until. 1940
plus $100 to cover expenses the
county might have incurred in
trying to collect the taxes from
1940 until present the principal,
interest and penalties were
charged against the estate.
Superintendent Koonce re
ported that some 240 persons
were drawing Old Age Assistance
through his department, over
pendent Children and that at
present those receiving general
assistance has dropped to the
lowest point since he ha^ been
connected with the department
With only three regular recipi
ent^ among these between 16 and
65 years of age. Koonce remind
ed that this general relief list
had at one time run as high as
98j»ersons in the county. "
' was informed that
be ■ unable
lor Tucka
Alva B.'JIow
ilace him
fi
board, composed of Harold Mal
lard and Thomas Stilley, was
named to meet with all tax list
ers and Tax Collector Zelle Pol
lock later this week in order that
a uninform policy for listing in
every part of the county might
be outlined.
Other listers in the county in
clude J. P. Davenport, Beaver
Creek; E. L. Mattocks, White
Oak; John Booth, Polloeksville,
J. C. B. Koonce, Cypress Creek;
Miss Pollock in Trenton, and
Ralph Scott in Chinquapin
Township.
Briefs of Interest
The increasing use of various
forms of fertilizers in the United
States has caused fertilizer
equipment to become the most
diversified of any type of farm
machinery now on the market,
says the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
A study of the production and
marketing of tobacco and tobac
co products in southern and
southeastern Asia has been
started by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture under the Re
search and Marketing Act.
Two North Carolina turkey
producers — John Lockhart,
Route 1, Durham, and Lane
Price, Route 2, Monroe—will at
tend the annual convention of
th$ National Turkey Federation
at Long Beach, Calif., in Janu
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