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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES __ ' . TRENTON, M. C.. THPBBDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1991 ~ JMew Beauty Queen to be Chosen Saturday Nite - T This was the scene Iastyear of the winner and * two runners-up as the . annual Jones County Beauty contest came to an end. From left to tight are Barbara Mallard who was second - runner up, Betty Harden who was crowned Miss Jones County of 1930 and Betty toy, first > place runner up. In the picture purely and obviously for contrast was Senator John D. tarkins of Trenton who was master of cere monies at the 1950 contest(and will do a repeat performance in the same roll again this year on Saturday night when Miss Jones County of 1951 Will be selected. Recreation Program of Kinston Stacks Up Well Beside Sister Cities Statistical Study Shows Just over-a year ago when Top Brass of the Du Pont Company made formal announcement of ” sir decision to .'bring a huge ,to ;the' Kinston vicinity i the things they credit ed for this final move after studying some 150 towns in every part of the nation was the well balanced recreation program of the community. A comparison of the work done in this impor tant field by the government of Kinston is available in the cur rent yearbook of the National Recreation Association. All of the 2,175 towns and cities of the nation with organ ised recreation programs are studied in this issue and al though it is impossible to boil down all of this tremendous vol ume of interesting information ’Nutf’s Enough Luby Hardison of upper Jones County was on a hunt-, tag trip to Great Lakes over the past weekend with Fted I. Sutton, Kinston attorney, and several others. Hardison was patiently waiting at his fa vorite shooting spot for a deer to put in his appearance and Sitting with his back against a tree when suddenly he was struck a Sharp slap across the f face. Hardison jumped up and saw _ a large raccoon running back up the tree. At Camp Bryan where the hunt was in progresc it is customary not to shoOt anything but- deer and bear while a hunt is in pro gress so Hardison let the sassy ' ’coon go buck unmolested and s»t back down for more wait ing. Not too long after the Slapping incident a light sprin kle Of rain began and Hardi son backed a little closer to the tree and glanced up to in one story it is possible to get some very clear notion of this Du Pont Company attitude from comparison of Kinston’^ recrea tion program with that of three neighboring cities of approxi mately the same size: Golds boro, New Bern and Greenville. Of first. importance, natural ly, is the recreation budgets of each: Goldsboro’s total expendi ture,for the past year was $5, 000, Greenville’s was $10,000, New Bern’s was $34,895 and Kin ston’s was $56,427. Ten times that of Goldsboro, five times that of Greenville and not quite twice the budget of New Bern which had a tailor made recrea tion program handed to it by the government because of the Cherry Point Marine Air Base. Goldsboro employs a total of two people on a year-round ba sis and a total of seven fpr the entire yea/. Greenville works no full time persons according to this report and uses 10 on a part time basis. New Bern had four working on a year-round basis and six who were working on a part-time schedule. Kinston, the report reveals, has seven full time recreation workers and 20 part time workers in the city’s overall program. Goldsboro has only one play-: ground under supervision thro-* ughout the year; Greenville has eight; New Bern has three and Kinston hag six. Goldsboro has one recreation building; Green ville has none; Kinston has five and New Bern has two. . Goldsboro is listed as owning no parks, Greenville has 30 acres. New Bern has no city; owned acreage listed and Kin ston has 60 acres ol^pa^c belong Jng.to its recreation commission. . Kington, as a reflection of its expenditures for recreation, has the lowest juvenile delinquency rate in Eastern North Carolina and has one of the. beat high school: athletic programs in t£e state; two facts that derive on the yrhole from a well balanced recreation program. . ; , ■ -- "— Weighing Station Bcfing Built Near v Kinston City Limits State Highway and Public Works Commission workers have begun clearing land and making preparations for the construc tion of a permanent weighing station at the intersection of US 258 and US 70 just south of Kin ston. Drive-ways leading into the weighing station from either highway will make it possible to quickly and easily weigh a great volume of heavily loaded trucks without slowing down passenger car traffic on these two main arteries which carry nearly 10, 000 cars per day in and put of Kinston. Big Increase In Cotton Ginning In Lenoir County According to a report made this week by the census bureau of the Commerce Department cotton ginning this year has shown a considerable increase over the same period last year. Through .October 1, 1951, Le noir County gins have baled 686 bales of cotton while for the same period last year only 94 bales were reported. Pvt. Dail Attends Army Signal School At Fort Monmouth - Private Kenneth A. Dail of 112 South Tiffany Street, Kinston, a member of Headquarters Section 2118th Afea Service Unit at Fort Campbell, is attending the Signal School at Fort Jdonmouth. The1 course in which Private Dail is enrolled “Teletypewriter Equipment Maintenance” con-, tinues for 18 weeks. * Private Dail is assigned to the post signal office at Fort Camp y. Jones Fair Still Going Strong; Plenty To See The fifth annual Jones Coun ty Agricultural Pair is moving along toward its end but still three big days remain on the agenda and two of the high lights of the entire week remain for Friday and Saturday nights of the show. Friday night the big style show goes oh at 8 and Saturday night Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice will visit Trenton to crown the winner of the beau ty contest which will select Miss Jones County of 1951. Fair Director Bruce Johnson and Chairman County Agent Wayland J. Reams reported Wednesday morning the biggest display of cattle, home work and general exhibits in the five year history of the Jones County Ag ricultural Fair. In the livestock division there are 85 exhibits including 34 beef type animals, 16 dairy type and 31 swine. There are also one horse, one mule arid two ponies on exhibition. In the poultry di vision there is approximately 4»0 exhibitions principally made up by 10 pens,of 12 hens teach which will be judged and sold in the annual 4-H poultry con test Friday afternoon. Home Agent Madge Jarvis says there are more than a thousand items on display from the gar den, kitchen, and sewing ma chine of Jones County home makers. In the exhibit halls there are 20 displays made up by school, civic and professional groups In the - county. These include a Wildlife exhibit by the 8th grade of ^ollocksville school, an art exhibit by the Trenton Element ary school, an artificial breeding display by the Jones County Ex tension Department, a forestry display by the Department of Conservation and Development, a vocational agricultural exhibit from Jones Central High, a soil conservation display by the Jones County Soil Conservatidh ists. three 4-H exhibits which in clude a mailbox display, a home improvement exhibit and an in dividual Church display b y 4-H’er. Daphrie Smith, Jones Central High’s veteran’s farm training class offers a tobacco rotation display, a farm loan dis play by the Jones County FHA branch and the following Home Demonstration clubs have ex hibits as noted: Maple Grove, Health; Oak Grove, use of feed sacks in the home; Mallard town, gracious living; Boy Scout Troop 109 has a soil erosion con trol display, the local PMA of fice has a Green Acres exhibit, the industrial arts department of Jones Central High has a dis play on a general phase of ed ucation and the Future Home Makers of Jones County Chap ter has a display on “The Wheel of Good Eating.” Thursday is Farm Machinery Day and on Friday the 4-H Poul try Show and Sale will be held along with the pie-eating con test, the bubble gum blowing contest and the milking contest which decides who has the most appealing handshake in the county. Can The Champ Win Again? Thi* Is Wesley Mallard the champion pie eater of Jones Coun ty who has defended that championship against all comers for the past two years in one of the contests sponsored during the Jones County Agricultural Fair. Young Mallard is re portedly in fine condltioq for the contest again this year and will have his teeth sharpened and his belt loosened to defend his title at 2:30 Friday afternoon when a battle-royal in which a dozen or more ybung Jones Countiana will fight chocolate and lemon meringue pies gets underway. Wesley has been champ for two years and Is rated at this time as a fairly good possibility of winning the coveted title for the third consecutive year. J
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