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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES - _ raBHTON, N. C., Thursday, Sljteaiber 27,1951 ~ V Murder Charge Against Robert Ward Nolle Prossed With Leave Following Conference of Jones Court Officials The only capital dharge on the docket of‘the Jones County Su .perlor Court last week which was Convened In one-week session by Judge Q. K. Nimocks of Fayette ville was nolle prossed with leave following a conference between prosecution and defense attor neys and Judge Nimocks. Conditionally free now of a murder charge Is Follocksvllle tenanriarmer Robert Ward who was under Indictment by a coro ner’s jury £or the knife-wound death of Otoerry Thompson, an other laborer of Pollocksvllle. who died in a New Bern hospi tal from a knife wound he suf fered In a fight with Ward. The decision to nolle prosse the charge with leave of the so licitor to again place the case on docket If additional evidence is uncovered came after the available evidence had been re viewed and it was mutually agreed that it would be impos sible to ask a jury for a convic tion upon the evidence available at this time. Longest sentence of the court term went to Carl Westbrook payment of $7.50 per week to his wife. A. P. Deaver, violation of liquor laws, nolle prossed with leave. Joe Harvey, carrying a con cealed weapon and drunken driving, 26 months suspended on payment of costs and condi tion he be of good behavior for five years; Arthur Byrd, drunk en driving, 60 days suspended on payment of $100 fine, cdsts and surrender driving license for one year; Harry Simmons, assault with a deadly weapon, six months suspended on payment of costs and placed on good be havior for five years; James Adolph Pollock, breaking, ^enter ing, and larceny, six to 12 months; Warren Sutton, assault with a deadly weapon, six months; George Burton, assault with a deadly weapon, three months; William Morgan, as sault with a deadly weapon, three months. Wesley Pordham, assault with a deadly weapon, nolle prosser Ben Bruington, violation of li quor laws, six to 12 months aus* pended on payment of $25 fine, court costs and condition of , ivior for three years; .. Jarman, assault with pon, nolle prossed Marson, assault weapon with in six months sus jayment of $50 fine, oh condition of yehrs; three phy, assault with a deadly weap on, four months; Haywood Phil yaw, drunken driving, not guil ty , Lewis Lathan Jones, over loading truck, costs; Enoch Har ris, Jr., assault with a deadly weapon six to 12 months; Clyde Kinsey, assault with a deadlv weapon, costs. Franklin Eugene Parker, reck less driving, 30 days suspended on payment of $50 fine and c°^s; Rudolph Dudley, assault with a deadly weapon, 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs; 4Hiff Humphrey, vio lation of liquor laws, 30 days suspended on payment of $10 and costs; Levi c. Hatehell, vio lation of liqusr laws, six months suspended on payment of $100 fine and costs; Mary Ethel Mor gan, violation of liquor laws, $10 fine and costs. R^tinB 0fames and Theodore Roosevelt Simmons, violation of Jg#*’ iaws, six months each; wlbur A. Metts, assault, court costs; Harry Brown, possession pf Hot machine, nolle prossed' Oeorge Allen Gentry, reckless driving, costs; William Taylor non-support, two years in jail suspended on payment of $6 25 per week for his children, Clen Howard, drunken driving and driving without license, $100 fine, costs and loss of license for one year; Columbus Flowers, violation of liquor laws and vio lation, of terms of probationary sentence imposed last year by ■ris, 12 to 18 Antim%larial drugs can now be derived in part from furfural, a chemical obtained commercially from'corncobs. First Jones Farm Bureau Reports Indicate Big Job Still to be Done The Jones County Farm Bur eau met at the Agriculture Building in Trenton last Friday night to check up on its 1951-52 drive for memebers. Only 70 memberships were turned in at this meeting. Z. A. Koonce, President of the Jones County organizaaion, stressed the need for hard work in the contacting and signing of Firm Bureau members for the new year. Koonce stated that he knew folks were busy with grad ing and marketing of tobacco and with hogmaking and other work. However, he stated the task of getting on with the Farm Bureau business was very im portant and that every farmer and business man in Jones County should be contacted and signed just as soon as practic able. Itoonce pointed out that Jones County had been given a quota of 700 members for the 1951-52 Farm Bureau year. He stressed the need for more volunteer workers to help in the County drive for members. The Farm Bureau has done much to help tobacco growers peanut growers, and cotton growers to solve marketing prob lems. The Farm Bureau has fought for and continues to fight for a fair share of the nation’s income for farmers. The Farm Bureau has provided an outlet for farmer grievences and injustices. Jones County farmers and business men are urged to join the loaal Farm Bureau now and have a hand in the great work now being carried on by this organization, Koonce concluded. Income- ■ frbm the sale of products has moved • upward. In August it was run ning 12 per cent above a year earlier; for the first eight months of 1951, it was 16 per cent above the same period of 1950. Three Jones County Boys Showing Dairy Cattle This Week Elton Batts and Richard Har ker of Pollocksvllle and James Barbee of Maysvllle this week end are exhibiting their dairy type calves at the annual Junior Dairy Show that Is being held In Wilmington. Batts and Barbee are show ing Jersey calves and Harker is exhibiting a Guernsey. County Agent Wyland J. Reams and assistant County Agent Henry G. W. Swiggert are on the trip to Wilmington with the boys and their registered future milk producers. Larkins Heads Drive State Senator John D. Larkins has* been named chairman of the drive for funds for the Cru sade for Freedom in Jones Coun ty which is currently being Jield throughout the nation. Larkins says that the money collected in this drive will be used to keep Radio Free Europe oper ating and will be used to in crease the barrages of propa ganda balloons that have been sent behind the Iron Curtain in an effort to fight communism at its source. Those who would like to help keep this effort going are urged to mail their contributions to Larkins and maye them payable to the Cru sade for Freedom. HDC COUNCIL MEETING The Jones County Home Dem onstration Club County Council will meet next Monday, October cussed and final plans will be made for Fall Achievement Day, Home Agent Madge Jarvis has urged all members of the county council to make every possible effort to attend this meeting. *> .ax *:3U in the Ag Building in .TrentoiC for fall activities -J Plans be dls Du PonfWorkers Don’t Usually Live Next Door to Plant The picture here may at first glance appear to be a remote stranger to this paper and in many instances it is. The five men pictured above are workers in the Arlington Works plant of the Du Pont Company at Arling ton, N. J., which is just a few miles away from New York City. Their names asfe not impor tant to “this part ot/f\e country but the places theare im portant sipce it is most likely that the same living, patterns of this Du Pont plant will follow in 1953 when the Contentnea Neck Du Pont 'plant begins operation in Lenoir County. The men pictured above live in five widely separated places. The 1500 workers in the Arling ton plant live in 100 different communities yet all arrive on time regularly to work in this one plant which works approxi mately the same number of workers that the Dacron plant in Lenoir County is scheduled to employ. ; ' Except for the fact that there is no large city for commuters to live in the Kinston vicinity the choice of living places local ly will largely correspond with this survey made In New Jersey. Some will choose farms, some will like the tidewater" with the sports that go along with the salt water environment. Others, the majority, of course, will choose the larger and nearer cities: Kinston, Orifton, Greenville. Ayden, New Bern, Farmville, Snow Hill, Goldsboro, Trenton This “home pattern” that ex . * gBajpSpP ists today and is continually spreading comes from two prin cipal reasons: Most important is the improved methods of travel now available to the worker and of almost equal important is the. fact that the worker of today does not work the long hours of the worker of a generation ago. There are 168 hours in the week anad the Du Font employee works 40 of these, which means . .-v-' . • ; • • ’ ■/:‘v ■ that less than one fourth of his time is spent at the plant. If the worker likes his sleep and averages seven hours of sack time per night that means 49 iriore hours of his time is allo cated, which leaves him 79 hours for fishing, hunting, whittling or additional "just doing noth ing.” If he lives within an hour’s ride of the plant and works five days to the week that adds up to another 10 hours per week which whittles his free time down to 69 hours for recreation, puttering about the house or at tempting to make money on some hobby such as raising chic kens. The Du Pont Company, like all larger companies which give heavy attention to the happiness of their workers, wants its work ers to live where they’ll be hap piest. If it is on the farm, in an apartment house or in a trailer. The pay scale is sufficient to provide, within reason, what ever home the Du Pont worker likes best. It is logical, to assume that many of the 1400 who will make up the starting work force at the Lenoir County Dacron plant will pitch their tent on the lower Neuse River where year-round fishing, crabbing and the ac companying sports are de rigeur. Another considerable percent age will want a few acres of land to grow chickens, hogs or weeds. Naturally and obviously, the majority will live in the cities and towns. Those communities which of fer the best schools, best recrea tional program and the widest variety of entertainment and shopping facilities will have a top priority on this group in di rect ratio to their distance from the plant which is seven miles from Kinston, three miles from Grifton, 11 miles from Ayden, 20 miles from Greenville, 34 miles from New Bern, 16 miles from Snow Hill, 28 miles from Tren ton. In spite of the fact that Cher ry Point and Camp Lejeune have now been in operation for near ly 10 years workers daily com mute from Kinston to both these camps and in considerable num ber too. The wealth that will flow from the Dacron plant will benefit directly and immediately every community within a 50 mile ra dius.
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