H ttlPRO'
S$|i which fa to be held la Kin
ston on Wednesday and Thurs
day fidf this week. -' %;•' ?
Graham Mallard, son of Mr.
ana Mn, Rom Mallard, was the
only Jones Countian who had
entered a beef anlnr.al and he fa
hoping to bring home a blue rib
bon for his Hereiord steer.
Members of 4-H cliibs who
hash swine entered in the show
include the following: Frederick
KllUngsworth, Clenwood Spivey,
Virgil Mallard, Kayes Koonce,
Sylvia Mallard, Nancy Carol
Mallard and Alva Mallard. Assis
tant County Agent George Wig
gins said that mere might be
other last minute entrants from
4-H dub members.
Adults with entrants include:
J. M. Foscue, Jr., H. C. Mallard,
W. E. Mcllar- and Bom Mallard.
Friendship Benefit
The Auxiliary of Friendship
Free Will Baptist Church is
holding a benefit supper at 6
Saturday afternoon in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Maflard'. the principal item on
the menu will be chicken salad
but a number of other tasty
including lemon
trill he served.
util go
tspasury
horti
t of State College’s ex
service, will conduct a
class for Home Beautification
leaders from Jones County’s
Home Demonstration Clubs at
Si:3Q In the Agriculture Building
in Trenton. Every club In the
county Is urged to have repre
sentation at this session since
Harris has chosen as his sub
ject. “Know Your Shrubs.”
MASONIC MEETINGS
There are stated communica
tions of Zion Lodge No. 81, A. F.
& A. M. in Trenton on the first
and third Thursday nights of
each month at 7:30. Master H. B.
Johnson invites all Master Ma
sons to attend these meetings.
Public A A Meeting
Next Friday night, April 20,
at 0 o’clock in 'the Lenoir
^W|ty court house in Kinston
ttpn will bo a public meeting
of Alcoholics Anonymous
Which every person who has
an individual drinking prob
lem is urged to attend. The
Kinston chapter of Alcoholics
Anonymous has progressed
rapidly since it was organized
S||fp>pa a year ago and its
MHpim wish to pass onto
•them the benefits of this or
jpudtation that has experi
enced such a remarkable suc
ms in coping with the excess
Prinking habits of the in
HjL.* panel of out-of
ON‘‘SALEMITE’ STAFF
Jane Watson of Clearwater,
Fla., who was recently named
editor of The Salemite, campus
newspaper of Salem College in
Winston-Salem has named Em
ma Sue Larkins, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John D. Larkins of
Trenton as one of her editorial
assistants for the coming year.
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Did you ever play tug-of-war
when suddenly the other side let
go the rope and you jarringly
wound up sitting on the ground?
That's exactly the situation that
presented itself last Tuesday
morning when the 18 ton crane
of the Bowers Construction Com
pany flipped backwards into the
chill, muddy waters of Neuse
River.
The crane was lifting into
place one of the 6,000 pound
steel beams that the new bridge
across the river is partially made
of. Something happened that
caused the girder to slip loose
from the cable holding it. The
long, 6,000 pound arm of the
crane tensed by the heavy load
it was bearing jerked backwards
causing the crane to roll into
the river.
In a few minutes1 a larger
crowd than usual gathered on
the river bank to contemplate
the situation. An, unofficial In
quiry was immediately begun to
determine which one of the
“sidewalk superintendents” on
the job had been derelict in his
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fluty.
Police Chief Marion Haskins
reporter to City Manager Bill
Heard that two firemen and two
policemen had beep dragged in
to the river when the crane fell
off its temporary work bridge.
This crack was occasioned by a
general feeling that a consider
able part of the “sidewalk super
intending” had been done by
these two departments. Fire
Captain Joe Hailey and Detective
Wheeler Kennedy bore the brunt
of this attack.
From another source “Skinny”
Croom, general superintendent
of all “sidewalk bossing” in the.
vicinity, voiced the opinion that
either his partner, Emmett Har
riss, or his business neighbor,
“Nooky” Hayes was the “super
intendent” who was supposed to
be in charge.
While this “official” inquiry
was going on the hired hands on
the bridge, after whispering a
few soft, silent syllables on the
general state of affairs, went
about the job »l retrieving the
crane and later the girder.
From Barrus Construction
Company a king-sized bulldozer
came to drag the crane out on
the Happersville bank of the
creek. In three days a new en
gine had been installed and the
crane, minus its cab, crawled
back onto the bridge and in a
few minutes lifted out the miss
ing girder.
Hailey supervised the overall
repair job on the crane and
Tuesday afternoon of this week,
reven days after the sudden
plunge into the creek, things
were about back to normal on
the job.
The Fire Department under
the supervision of Hailey and
Assistant Chief Rudolph Nobles
Friday afternoon cooked a fish
'tew for the bridge construction
crew which helped settle a lot of
things, including matters of fu
ture policy on the handling of
tha‘ Baptist crane.
Oh yes! The fellow running
the crane at the time it decided
to go swimming got out with
out getting his feet wet and he
needed no superintending in
that maneuver.
Trenton Mayor,
Board are to Be
Elected May 1st
The biennial city election in
Trenton which will select a ma
yor and three aldermen to con
duct the official affairs of the
community for the next two
years is to be held on May First,
Mayor C. C. Jones announced
this week.
At present Trenton has only
two aldermen, Elijah Smith and
Roger Pollock. The third aider
man was Thomas Stilley but
when he became city tax collec
tor and later a member of the
county board of commissioners
his post on the board was left
vaeant.
Note On Sheriff
Jones County Sheriff Jeter
Taylor, who was scheduled to
come home train Watts Hospi
tal in Durham was delayed for
about a week due to a tem
porary set-back he suffered
over the past weekend. While
being visited Saturday by Sen
ator John Larkins and Repre
sentative Robert Bender at
tending physicians found that
Taylor had developed a slight
temperature, so he was return
ed to bed and is not now ex
pected to return home until
the last of this week or pos
sibly the first of next. Taylor
underwent a kidney operation
in the Durham hospital two
James Barbee Jr.
Gets Dairy Chain
Jersey Heifer
James Barbee Jr., of the Hope
well Community has been given
the newest heifer in the Jones
County Dairy Chain by the
Maysville Rotary Club with the
assistance of the dairy chain.
The registered Jersey heifer
which young Barbee now has in
his care was purchased recently
at a sale held in Goldsboro.
H. S. Waller of Follocksville
Township and Hayes Koonce,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. A. Koonce
have also recently purchased
registered Jersey heifers, Assis
tant County Agent George Wig
gins has reported.
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Pre-School Climes
Dr. R. J. Jones, Jones Coun
ty health officer, has an
nounced the following sched
ule for pre-school clinics. Chil
dren who start school next fall
must be examined in one of
these clinics before entering
school. Parents are urged1 to
make note of the time and lo
cation of these clinics and are
reminded to have their chil
ren there on time:
Friday, April 13, at 9:30
Maysville white school.
Friday, April 13, at 11 Mays
ville Negro school.
Tuesday, April 17, at 9:30
Trenton white school.
Tuesday, April 17, at 11
Trenton Negro school.
Friday, April 30, at 9:30
Pollocksville White school.
Friday, April 20, at 11 Pol
locksville Negro school.
Take Nurse Course
The Airy Grove Home Demon
stration Club has completed a
course in home nursing under
the irection of Mrs. Chester For
rest, who had earlier taken a
course under the direction of the
Kinston chapter of the Red
Cross. The last work on this
course was given last Saturday
afternoon.
Jones Board Hears
Request For More
Office Space
After a lengthy discussion was
held Monday afternoon in the
Agriculture Building In Trenton
ott -the -request-that has been
made by the Secretary of Agri
culture that all Department of
Agriculture workers be housed
under the same roof the Jones
County Board of Commissioners
voted to “take the matter under
consideration and study what
possibly could be done about the
request.’’
County Commission Chairman
John Creagh of Pollocksville
summed up the situation fairly
well when he admitted that the
problem was not the will to do
what had been requested but was
principally to find the necessary
money to do the work that would
have to be done on the Ag
Building.
It was the feeling of the group
that some additions to the build
ing would have to be made to
allow space enough for all the
agencies.
Attending the meeting were
Board Chairman Creagh, Com
missioners Paul Westbrook, H. C.
Mallard, James Barbee and
Thomas Stilley; Soil Conserva
tionists Mack Griffin and W. C.
Flowers; Soil Conservation
Board Member Charlie Davis,
Production and Marketing Ad
ministration County Chairman J.
J. Conway and PMA committee
members Clyde Loftin and John
Hargett; State PMA Representa
tive John Bryan, County Attor
ney George Hughes, County FHA
Manager Vernon Woodard,
County Agent Wayland Reams
and Vocational Agriculture
Teacher John Hughes Pollock.
One Still Nabbed
Jones County officers Satur
day afternoon landed a one
barrel still in Tuckahoe Town
ship before its owners and
would-be operators had com
pleted setting it up for opera
tion. Deputy Sheriff C. M.
Griffin was in charge of the
party that got the still before
It got hot. A quantity of ma
terials, including barrels and
other parts of the still were
confiscated and destroyed. No
arrests were made since the
owners were absent when the
still was found.