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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH
IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951
NUMBER 3fi
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Over 43 Per Cent
Called From Jones
Flunk Draft Tests
Since the draft board was re
activated in Jones County on
August 15, 1950 a total of 105
young men have been sent to
Fort Bragg for pre-induction
examinations and of that num
ber only 59 have passed and are
now waiting induction into the
armed forces. Biggest reason giv
en for this high percentage of
failures has been failure to pass
the mental part of the armed
forces’ general classification ex
amination.
To date 19 men have been in
ducted from this group of 59
eligibles and another 25 are to
leave next week. Another 35 are
scheduled to go for the pre-in
duction examination on January
30th.
One person with a high school
education was among those who
failed to pass the mental part of
the examination and several who
flunked this IQ portion had
seven to eight years of public
school education.
At present in Jones County
there are 925 young men regis
tered with the draft board. Ev
eryone whose birthday falls be
tween 1922 and through 1932 is
supposed to be registered. Fail
ure to register carries a maxi
mum fine of $10,000 and a jail
sentence of not more than five
years.
Cotton Meeting
A special meeting is to be
held today (Thursday, Janu
ary 18) in the Agricultural
Building in Kinston for discus
sion of ways and means to
get more cotton planted this
ylaaoiy County. County
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meeting and has urged that
everyone who has grown cot
ton in the past several years
to attend this session and hear
what incentives the govern
ment is considering in order
to get enough cotton harvested
to fill the gap caused by the
extremely short cotton crop of
1950. The meeting will be con
vened at 2 in the ag building.
Beautiful Contentnea Neck Place
Still Well Kept After 100 Years
And Several Different Landlords
This handsome old home pic
tured here was built more than
100 years ago on the fertile Con
tentnea Neck soil of Lenoir
County by William H. Rountree,
grandfather or great-grand
father to a great many who still
call Eastern Carolina their home.
For the better part of a cen
tury this home and the fields
about it remained in th«- 'Roun
tree family and still today fifty
years after it passed out of the
family many of the older people
in the county call it “The Roun
tree Place.”
From its builder, William H.
Rountree, the home and 499
acres of Lenoir County’s most
fertile soil passed to a son, R. H.
Rountree, and not under the
most pleasant kind of arrange
ment. The builder of the home
had become indebted to R. M.
Abbott for $300, to W. F. Roun
tree for $363, to F, M. Rountree
for $275 and to R. H. Rountree
for $188.50.
Sheriff W. W. N. Hunter under
court order sold the home and its
fine acres at the court house
door in Kinston at noon on the
seventh of March 1870 and it
was bid in by R. H. Rountree,
grand-father of Kinston’s Rev.
Jack Roundtree.
From R. H. Rountree the plan
tation passed to Susannah C.
Rountree.
On November 25, 1901 Susan
nah C. Rountree sold the farm to
S. W. Ipock of Craven County
for $7,000—$2,000 down and five
$1,000 annual payments plus in
terest.
The farm remained in the
hands of Ipock for 31 years but
like so many other farms it was
lost during the depression of the
1930's when on March 3, 1932 it
was mortgaged by Ipock to the
Joint Stock Land Bank of Dur
ham for $22,000. Ipock was never
able to repay this heavy mort
gage.
On September 15, 1935 H. F.
and Mariza Odham Smith
bought the farm and home from
the Durham bank and it remains
in their hands today. Since mov
ing to the handsome old home
the Smiths have renovated it
and put it into first class condi
of repair and also having a large
tion. Being in an excellent state
front yard surrounded by a white
rail fence the Smith home,
“Ipock Place” or “Rountree
Place,” whichever you prefer to
call it, is one of the most beauti
ful in the county today.
NC 12 Good New*
Reports from Raleigh Wednes
day morning said that the
highway commission has asked
for bids on the resurfacing of
NC 12 between. Kinston and
Trenton from the New Bern
Trenton forks to the Jones
County line. This stretch of
road was one of the first payed
in Lenoir County back in the
early 1920’s and has long been
in need of widening, straight
ening and resurfacing. Other
bids asked at the same time
by the commission included
J>aving of a secondary road
southeast of Pink Hill that ex
tends from Taylor’s Crossroads
to Howard’s crossroads and one
other extending from NC 11
just north of Pink Hill to the
Duplin County line.
Purebred Hog Sale
Next Friday at 1
In Carolina Whse.
The Lenoir County Livestock
Development Association, Inc., is
to hold its first purebred hog
sale of 1951 next Saturday, Jan
uary 26th, at 1 p. m. in the New
Carolina Warehouse in Kinston.
All swine producers who would
like to add some superlative
blood to their herd are remind
ed that this is a golden oppor
tunity to get some of the best
animals available in this area.
Lenoir County Livestock Spe
cialist Raymond Upchurch, who
is also secretary of this associa
tion, says that animals to be of
fered include some of the more
popular breeds and all have ex
cellent "family trees."
There will be eight open gilts,
eight bred gilts and three boars
offered, Upchurch stated. These
include Durocs, Hampshires,
Berkshires and Poland China
purebred stock.
TRACTOR SCHOOL
B. C. Spivey and James Bar
bee Jr. along with Assistant
Jones County Agent George
Wiggins will be among those who
attend the short course in trac
tor maintenance that is to be
given January 22-24 at State
College.
Twenty-Five to Leave
For Army Next Week
As Jones County Quota
Next Thursday, January 25th,
another 25 young men will leave
Jones County for Induction into
the armed forces at Fort Bragg.
This is the second call for induc
tion that has been received by
the Jones County Draft Board
since it was reactivated on Au
gust 15, 1950.
In the first call 19 young men
were inducted. Since the board
was set up again 105 have been
sent to Fort Bragg for pre-in
duction examinations and of
that number only 59 have pass
ed the mental and physical ex
aminations. Another 35 men are
to receive these pre-induction
examinations on January 30th at
Fort Bragg.
Hie young men who leave for
induction next Thursday are
Wayne Gooding, Jr., Lawrence
V. P<pock, B. C. Gray, Cecil E.
Moore, Edward Alva Howard,
William, E. Phillips, Albert Nel
son TSttes, Frank Rudolph How
ard, Henry Milton Mercer, Zach
Amos Koonce Jr., Henry Preston
Todd, Lin wood E. ‘ Yates and
1 Bryan Morton. John H.
! ■Needham Wooten, Au
Hooker, Willie’H. Mur
McCotter, William
sy, George Henry Foy,
ford, and Isaiah Mor
jho leave on January
e-induetion exams
West, Calvin
Lee Turner, Raymond C. Banks,
Cleveland F. Meadows, Robert J.
Taylor, Joseph B. Andrews, Rob
ert Meadows, Benjamin Franklin
Grant, David Alphin, Raymond
B. Battle, Colin B. Moore, Wil
liam Hoover Jarman.
Samuel Whitfield, Arlester R.
Jones, Floyd Murphy, Elbert
Scott, Preston Lee Bryant, Rob
ert T. Howard, Dalton D. Brock,
Ethro Green, George Franks,
Emanual Ward, Percy E. Ollison,
Clarence O. Lawrence, Willie
Crawford, Floyd H. Gooding,
Johnson Chadwick Jr., James
Edward White, Moses Irving,
William Lee Peyton, John Paul
Scott, Willie Roy Russell, James
Henry Williams, William Hoover
Williams, Joe Bell Davis, Roger
Allen Hooker and Hoover Mum
ford.
Leaving to be inducted on the
25th are two transferr-ins from
other boards: Robert Warren
Strong of Texas and Archie
Heath from Craven County.
Canine Anemia
Simple anemia produced by bleed
ins be tolerated by the adult dog
continuously during its entire life,
history. Simple hypoproteinemia can
be maintained in adult dogs for
years. However, double depletion
anemia plus hypoproteinemia—is a
severe strain on the dog and can
be tolerated continuously only for
a few months. ,
Soil Supervisors
From Jones-Lenoir
Attend State Meet
H. M. Mallard, E. M. Philyaw
and Charlie Davis, district soil
supervisors from Jones County
and Jack Alexander, Clifton Sut
ton Jr. and Carroll Casey, soil
supervisors from Lenoir County,
will be among the several hun
dred persons attending the North
Carolina Association of Soil Su
pervisors meeting Wednesday
and Thursday of this week in
Rocky Mount.
Soil Conservationist Mack
Griffin of Trenton is also ac
companying the Jones County
officials.
Cap Eagles of Macclesfield is
president of the association and
the meetings will be held in the
Ricks Hotel.
JOIN htMARCH OF DIMES
Bloody Docket Set For
Trial Before Stevens in
Lenoir Superior Court
Judge Henry Stevens of War
saw is scheduled to convene a
mixed criminal term of Lenoir
County’s Superior Court at 10
Monday morning. One of the
bloodiest dockets in recent his
tory is awaiting the resident
judge of the district. Three mur
der cases, one rape case and
another of manslaughter have
been docketed for trial by So
licitor Walter Britt. In all 28
cases are docketed for this first
week of a two week term.
Perhaps the case that will
draw the biggest attention from
the public is that of J. Con La
nier, prominent Greenville at
torney, who is to be tried on
charges of involuntary man
slaughter and hit and run driv
ing. This case grew out of a high
way patrol investigation of the
highway death of William Henry
Tripp of Grifton on November
25th at Grainger Station.
Woodrow Cato, Nathaniel
Smith and Bessie Mae Dixon are
each charged with murder, but
it is unlikely that the state will
seek a first degree verdict
against these three defendants
and their cases are not expect
ed to take too long for trial. So
licitor Britt has allocated three
days of the ^pssion next week
to the Lanier case, realizing from
the beginning that it is one case
that will assuredly take plenty
of time.
George McCray, confessed
rapist, who was serving a ten
year prison sentence for break
ing, entering and larceny from
Durham County at the prison
camp south of Kinston, faces the
death penalty if he is tried for
the crime that the Sheriffs de
partment says he has confessed.
Maysville Citizens
Now Trying To Get
Bank To Serve Them
Maysville, the largest town in
Jones County, may soon have a
banking facility to serve its sev
eral large businesses and the
farmers of the area, an official
said this week. Negotiations are
at present underway with one of
the larger banks in the state and
it is felt that the community will
soon have a banking facility.
At present citizens of the com
munity either have to drive 16
miles to Jacksonville, 20 miles to
Trenton or 23 miles to New Bern
in order to conduct any banking.
There are three large busi
nesses in Maysville with a com
bined payroll of more than 100
men and in addition to this there
is a score of smaller businesses
that can well use the services of
a bank.