Daniel Worth and P D.
n of Atmanw Gonnty
8,000, a price that Is^ilight
wt of line with present day
* ter food farm land In
tied the one third
itate from Daniel
H and .tour years
81, l*8t, William
Ird of this fine plantation
D. Swain tor $3,000. V
William Worth, like some
^Aay Almance Countlans
* " * .» Carolina
ned State
y part of
gend, and
. the state
f considerable sum
lies' and was
igurer in the
aotti eentury.
since Worth was
the affairs and
his. office he set
hese stolen funds
own private es~
rt from J. B. and
id, who puiefcased
e on this planta
182 acres on Jan
from Worth to#
Building Like Old Gray
t What Shelf
ui
r'.vaif’.i-1-; in-...
and that Is
nwn tildtin
how moving into an even mgner
gear than eyer before has seen
totae considerable changes In
the trades that are active in this
Wvrt.
The high cost of labor has
caused a continual movement
A practice long familiar to the
larger cities came to Kinston
when Barms Construction. Com
pany brought to this area a
ready - mixed concrete service
which has practically made the
Old concrete mixers-on-every job
obsolete, since it is much easier
to pick up the telephone and or
der a glyen amount of concrete
than to own the equipment and
hire the men necessary to do the
biggest evolution
< Perhaps
Jn the pal;
place in i
among the
tors of the
cently pal
itlng trade has taken
he past fejw months
painters and decora
community. Until re
ltlng was a fly-by
iticm that had little
n and operated rath
rdly from ohe Jqb to
nates many of the labor costs la
t^okUteick-veneer type ofcoo^
Some of the home-builders of
the town, including Wo of the
largest, o. L. Shackelford and
George DUBose, hive applied the
principles of mass-production to
the home-building business by
building a number of houses in
the same area, which riiakes
possible ,a more profitable use of
labor, materials and machinery.
John Stanley,'a newcomer to the
building business, has also work
ed this principle of group build
ing to great advantage.
In plumbing the biggest
change has been in the use of
faster and cheaper materials.
Not so many years ago every ma
jor sewer connection in the city
had to be a "wiped Joint” a. deli
cate operation that could not foe
done by every man that carried
a stillson wrench and had oak
um behind his ears. Today a can
of putty and a cast Win connec
tion have taken the place of this
old and artistic bit of work by
the plumber.
Roofing today remains little
changed and the fine roof is still
a work of skill that cannot be
picked up overnight. Cheaper
roofs can be put on by less skill
ed labor but even here a begin
ner can mess up thingB in a hur
ry if he is not watched over by
a export.'7 >;• ^
The biggest change in the
electrical trades has been in the
type materials used and as in
all of the other trades men
tioned there, has been a. coa
siderable alteration over the
prices of former years.
ters Failing to
y Visit* to
in BFBL
Contest Are Made
Tuesday morning 18 members
xjhe Jones County Better
Fanning for Better Living Coun
eil> met with tidewater Power
Company Agriculture Agent Nell
Bolton to map out visits that
were made Tuesday afternoon to
the homes of the 23 Jones Coun
tian$ who are entered In this
annual program which is spon
sored by local merchants under
the supervision of the Tidewater
Power Company.
Principal purpose of the visit
to the homes of those entered
In the program was to encourage
these contestants to take full ad
vantage of the many beneficial
aspects of the program and to
see and talk with each entrant
over plans for the coming year-.
Entrants in the BFBL contest
for 19*1 Include the following^.
Mr- and Mrs. Robert Lee, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Wooten, Mr. and
Mrs. Teddy Reynolds, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Small, Mr. and Mrs.
Linwood Buchner,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Batts, Mr.
and Mrs, Julian Waller, Mr. and
Mr. M. B. DuVal, Mr. and Mrs.
Dewey JenHnk, Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Banks, Mr.
and Mrs W- B. Phillips, Mr. and
-djjggiknc
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mallard
Mr. and MK. James Barbee, Mr
and Mrs. Guy ML Jones, Mr. and
Mrs. Z. A. Koonce, Mr. and Mrs
J. B. Warren,
Mr- and Mrs. Wesley Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Orvis Whaley, Mr!
and Mrs. Arthur Jones.
DDT and many of the othe:
new Insecticides require chlorini
and benzene In their manufac
ture.
North Carolina Secretary of
State Thad Eure Friday night
told a ladies’ night audience at
the Pink Hill Community \CMc
Club’s regular monthly meeting
that there is toss political inter
est among North Carolinians to
day than, there was 111 years
ago when the State Capitol was
completed.
Eure painted out that in 1840
one out of six people in the state
took the time and effort to vote
in the governor’s election but
that in 1949 when the people of
the state were asked to vote on
the biggest issue ever offered
to them, whether or not to issue
225 million dollars in school and
road bonds, only one person out
of ten had the time to vote.
Eure .pointed out the great
danger of having only 10 per
cent of the voters taking an in
terest In the affairs of their gov
ernment by saying that it would
be relatively easy for a selfish
individual or selfish group of in
dividuals to sway enough of that
non-voting bloc of voters to take
over'the government.
Eure congratulated Pink Hill
and its civic club for NOT being
an over-organized town when he
pointed out that a great many
communities get too many civic
groups all bent on doing good
but frequently stumbling over
themselves in their effort.
He said it was particularly
good' that every watt of life In
the JPlnk Hill communty was
IjjpresenUai ^n^thls civic club,
other and in so doing make a
better citizen, neighbor and,wor
ker.
Eure was introduced by Toih
Davis, dub President Johnny
Johnson presided over the ses
sion and at the close of the
meeting named a nomination
committee to select a slate of
officers which will be elected at
the next meeting of the club to
conduct the affairs of the or
ganization during the next year.
School Bond Election in
Jones not Causing Much
Excitement Either Way
The complicated machinery
for holding bond issue elections
has been checked and checked
again by Jones County Attorney
George Hughes and he. says that
he feels everything is ready for
the election which is to toe held
May 22nd. Registration books for
those who would like to .vote but
have not yet, registered will toe
open through Saturday, May 11.
Registrars will be at the various
polling places on the next two
Saturdays and registrations may
toe made at their home at any
time between now and May 11th.
Saturday, May 18th, will be
Challenge Day at which time
any qualified voter can question
the right of any other voter to
be registered.
There has been little outward
activity one way or another, on
the school bond election and,un
'* Interest is
and e
it is
•* vgte
Now no special registration is
necessary, since the regular
county registration is used and
in order to vote against the issue
a person-must go to the polls. Of
course, it is also necessary to go
to the polls in order to vote for
the issue.
sed their
are act
ese three
i Parker,
r John Booth,
sction will be
shmj;
Election Tuesday.
Names Mayor, Board
For Pollocksville
Although a great deal of gos
sip has attached itself to the
biennial town election in Pol
locksville . there has not been a '
great deal of outward activity
at,this point. Incumbent Mayor
James Simmons is unopposed for
teelection but thare are six men
seekink the three posts in the