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Journal A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES NUMBER 5 To Speak Sunday .-.-------.—i 1 . ; 1 - — ■ i ■■ ■ ■ C. BVliVbith GREEK •» Dr. Syhcattr Green, executive director of the North Carolina Medical Care Foundation in Chapel Hill, oner of the South’s most prominent Baptist lay men and former editor of the Durham- Herald, will be the principal speaker Sunday at It when the Kinston Federa tion of Sunday School men meets In the court house. The public has been invited to hear - Dr. Green. Commander For Air Cadet |Base To Arrive 16th Colonel William R. Morgan, who last month retired after more than 20 years in the Air Force, is scheduled to arrive In Kinston Saturday to take com —of the cadet trahflpg Truman Miller, president of the Raleigh corporation which last month signed the contract to train pilots at the local field, has urgently requested every Air Force veteran who'has training that would qualify him for a joh at this school to- make applica tion to this address: Servair, Inc., Kinston, N. C. Former pilots Who have had Air Force or commercial pilot training are eligible for the well paying Jobs of flight instructor that will be open for 134 men when the school begins full-time operation on November 19th. All qualified pilots who are accept ed for this type work must at tend an Air (Force refresher school for Instructors for 80 hours flying time. Former airplane mechanics, tower control men, high frequen cy radio operators and mechan ics, propeller specialists, sheet metal workers, airplane electri cal specialists and general main tenance workers will all be need ed and Miller says it is the hope ' (Oontlnued on Back Page) Will be Ready by Fall, County to Return Students from Dover Hi The picture looks gpod for the immediate future of Jones Coun ty’s public school system, since, in spite of war-caused shortages, Third District' Congressman Graham Barden has been suc cessful in securing a top steel priority for- completion of tie trtvo schools now under construc t on in the county. Durham Contractors Crain and Denbo, who are building the two schools, say that this priori ty will make it possible to com plete the - t<wo consolidated high’ schools by August 25th of this year, which will be in time for the opening of school. County Superintendent W.' B. Moore says the roster of teachers is not yet complete for the two schools but the principal and a majority, of the teachers have been named for the white school. R. M. Durham, a veteran school man, who has for the past two years been principal of the Richlands School in Onslow County and for the two years prior to that principal of the Swansboro school, has been named principal of this new white high school. Eight of the 10 teachers allo cated to this white high school (have been named from the teaching staffs of the present high schools in the county. These include: English Teacher Mrs. Maybelle Harriett of Pol locksville, who taught last year in the Comfort School; Home Economics and Science Teacher Mrs. Nellie 8. Wells of Trenton, who also'taught In the Comfort High-School; Librarian Mrs. An nie L. Chapman from the M&ys ville-Pollocksville High School; English and French Teacher Ed Vause of Kinston, who taught in the Trenton School; Math Teacher Nimrod D. Carrol of Willow Springs, who taught In the Trenton school; Science and Social Studies Teacher Mrs. Ethel G. Stroble of the Mays ville-Pollocksville faculty last year; Home Economics Teacher Mrs. Alma T. Phillips of the Trenton faculty; Social Studies Teacher Miss Myrtle Brock of the Trenton faculty. Not Included In the state al location of teachers set original ly at 10 for the white school Is Vocational .Agriculture Teacher John Hughes Pollock of the Trenton faculty, who was also retailed. Superinttndent Moore also says it Is his hope that one of the present Home Economics teachers can be reclassified as a Vocational Home Be teacher in order that more jnoney will be available for employing another teacher. v Moore says there has been a strong committment frog? the State Board that two more teachers will be allocated to the white high school shortly after it is opened. There lsstill an opening for a business education te&cher and. an industrial arts instructor in the white school, Moore said. With the opening of the two 'new schools, for the first time in the history of the county all male students will be able to take v ocational agricultural training in high school. This applies to both the white and negro schools. Moore says an anticipated en rollment of 375 is being planned for at the white school opening and something near 400 for the Negro school. Moore says that the School Board at its most recent meeting has also voted to return all Jones County students to the Jones County school system. At present approximately 60 stu dents from the northern tip of the county are going to the Dover School but plans are be ing made to transfer these to the Trenton schools with the open ing of the new school year in late August. This has been made more nec essary because of Craven Coun ty’s decision to ultimately move the high school from Dover to a centrally located school that would serve Dover, Fort Barn well ana Jasper, leaving the present schools in these three communities for service as ele mentary grade schools. Carolina Power and Light Company Public Relations Direc tor Bill Sharpe mended a not too-badly-worn fence in Kinston Monday when he heaped a con siderable portion of flattery on the shoulders of Newspaperman Galt Braxton “who labored long and lovingly to help consumate the du Pont deal.” The by-lined story from the typewriter of the Utilities hired-hand explained to local officials, at least partially, the recent pro-Carolina Power attitude assumed by the Kinston newspaperman, who has direct ed a number of sharp editorials in opposition to government con struction and operation of feed er power lines Into Eastern Carolina from the Buggs Island project. Coincidentally, the same attitude is shared by the Caro lina Power and Light Company. A story two weeks ago in this paper caused a state official of the National Production Au thority to visit Kinston last week and do a little detective work. The story mentioned a new theater that is being built across from the swimming pool in North Kinston. Some one (wonder who?) reported this construction to the state office of the NPA and a few days later the investigation was on. A clean bill of health was given to the theater con struction by the investigator, since the building was under construction long before a lid was clamped on recreational type buildings. Lenoir County’s second appar ent hit-and-run death in less than two months is now being investigated by Highway Patrol Sergeant Bill Nail and Patrol man R. H. Dillard following the death at 4:30 Monday afternoon of James Fields of Kinston Route Two. Fields died in Memorial General Hospital where he had been under treatment since 7 that morning for a severe skull fracturfe. Fields was founci at about 6:30 Monday morning be side the road not more than a half mile from his home on the John Alexander farm. > ' ■ _>'■ , ' - Monday morning Clyde Blackman was brought down to the police station at 5:55 and booked on a charge of as saulting his wife, Etta. After being duly registered and in an apparent good humor the police released Blackman on a summons to return to court. Just a few hours later Black man was in. Memorial General Hospital suffering from a punctured lung. He had re turned to his home and the ar gument between him and his wife was picked uq where it was earlier interrupted. Black man was loser in this second tangle since his wife was re leased from Parott Memorial Hospital after receiving emer gency treatment for several minor cuts. Seven new graduate nurses were added to the number now serving this area when gradua tion ceremonies were held Wed nesday njght at Memorial Gen-r eral Hospital. Those who have entered this new profession af ter completing their training are New AMA Head Dr. John W. Cline, President American Medical Association With the installation of offi cers of the American Medical Association for the coming year, headed by Dr. John W. Cline, outgoing AMA President Dr. Elmer L. Henderson said in his farewell address that the Truman administration’s com pulsory health insurance pro gram had been thoroughly and completely killed. The annual meeting of the House of Dele gates of the AMA was held this week in Atlantic City, N. J. It’s Dr. Rose Pully After Thursday, 14th The University of Pennsyl vania awarded degrees to nearly 2,400 men and women at its 195th Commencement Exercises in the Philadelphia Municipal Audi torium at 1:15 Thursday. , . President.Halrold E.^Stassen of the University presided at the exercises, and the address to the graduates was delivered by Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, upon whom the honorary degree of doctor of laws will be conferred. Included in a list of candidates for degrees in course and certi ficates is the following from North Carolina: Doctor of medicine, Rose Pully of 311 College Street, Kinston. Cypress Creek Revival The Revival Meeting will be gin at Cypress Creek Church Sunday night at 8, June 17th, and will run through the week at 8 each evening. Hie public is cordially invited to attend and help make this meeting a spiri tual blessing to the Cypress Creek community. Services will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. C. B. Long. Marjorie Creech, Thelma Ed mundson, Prances Ann Gordon, Dorothy Davis, Geneva Tyndall, Rachel V. Rouse and Edith Whaley. m Jones and Lenoir Although far too man» figures are included in the Vt&TCensus of Ag&culture in Jones and Le noir counties to repeat and un . derstand, a great many of these figures are interesting to one who is interested in the farm program in either or tooth of the adjoining counties. Lenoir has a population of 45,913 people. Jones’ i960 popu lation was 11,012. | The farm population ot Jonas County for the past year 1950 there were 93,033 acres of this under cultivation, which in> dicates that there is more than twice as many acres under cul tivation in Lenoir as in Jones, in spite of the tact that .Jones is 48,000 acres larger. This is caus ed by the large acreage in Jones in timber and poeosin land. The average farm in Jones County last year was 80.3 acres while in Lenoir the average farm was 60.9 aeres. Last year there tnm only nine farms listed for Jones County with more / than IjOOO aeres. while Lenoir listed 14 farms of more than 1,000 County there were 148 terms with telephones—an increase' of 49 over the 1945 figure of 99 telephones. Jones had electricity in 1,174 of its 1,604 farm home» Lenoir County had a slightly poorer showing in. this respect yith ohiy JMWfc put of 5,741 fi homes reporting use of elecl ty. . - , .Jones County, reported-. 338 funds with water pumps, 168 with- electric water heaters, with home freezers, 600 with, washing machines and Iff! with electric Qhiek brooders. Lenoir County reported; 96B faan watnri W.afeaWc water beat ’s home, freesen, 1,386 g machines and 408 elec tric chick brooders. w, Jones had 255 farm trucks, Le noir had 571; Jones had 490 tractors and Lenoir had 916 of these “mechanicaf mules.” Five years earlier Jones had only 159 tractors and Lenoir had Just 322. Jones had 831 automobiles, Le noir had 2,108. Five years earlier Jones had 779 flivvers and in IMS Lenoir County had more cars than in 1950—on the farm that is—with 2,240 for that year reported. Jones reports that last year It only had six farms that sold more than $10,000 worth of farm produce and in Lenoir 56 farms admitting more than $10,000 sales were reported. Jones re ported no farms selling more than $25,000 in farm produce and Lenoir reported only Ox with sales above $26,000. (These records are not open to the In ternal Revenue Department, but they read as if they were being made to the Collector of Internal Revenue.—Editor’s note.) Jones reported a total sale of all farm products during the past year of $4,136,114 and Le noir reported a total for all farm products sold of $11,942,216. Jones reported a hog popula tion of 13,130 which is consid erably better than a hog per per son for the entire county, "Le noir reported 26,533 hogs at the end of the oast year. It takes a “heap of farming” to keep this nation in cigarettes and porkchops and from these figures it is dear that Lenoir and Jones counties are doing thelrshare.
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