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v ; • - COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED F. •'■£1 ■ M ■i I ' ■mm 'fWwerg in May and “Cousin RraHk” has added much to the iSMT w“*“ After more .than 40 year® be fore the bar there are few court room stratagems that Wooten la not familiar with and it Is likely that he haa invented a great many of them himself. Perhaps the safest shot-inhispuiyers of legal arrows is the knowledge that a happy jury is far more likely to leah in a lawyer’s direc tion than (me that has been nagged and renagged with facts, facts, facte as is the mistaken method of many a younger and less wise counselor at the local bar. T:: ''H&PiSl'W.. "J. Frank,”as he is most af fectionately known, seldom makes long speeches to Juries. But he seldom makes toad pnes, Huixor is thejtey he usee to un nie late Sam Newberry, one of Lenoir County** few Republican lawyers since the turn of the century, on a particular occasion had reason to team a bitter les son at the hands of Wooten. After a lengthy summation of facts and opinions which had the Jury haM asleep Newtoerry sat down and the Jury'braced Itself for what it feared was going to be another monotonous monologue. notions under' his canny noggin. He walked with deliberate stride to the Jury box, cleared his throat and said, “Gentlemen, Mister Newberry has made a fine speech, but it reminds me of my grandnmmimy’s old hoop skirt.” And then pausing lor the ears of each of the jurors to get ready for the coup de grace, Wooten won the hearts, the hu mor and the decision of the jury by concluding, “It covers a great deal of territory but don’t touch -'nothing.” Wooten’s unparalleled sense of humor, however, is not his only .stock to-trade because he has an exceedingly minute knowledge of criminal law and often whis pers a word of advice in a bro ther lawyer’s ear that enables said brethren to. extract himself from a tight legal corner. (En addition to his ability to ^ wring a laugh out of the ^nost desolate situation and his know ledge df the criminal law Woo t*b has another strong point that has stood him to good Pull n#any„a dya as made the mls g up and kicking ..-m J. Frank Wooten , friend” and another lady that she had caught in a rather ex posed situation. Burgwyn, who has a temper like an ill fed cobra, stopped Wooten before Wooten’s address to the Jury had hardly gotten to the first breathing point. “Mister Wooten,” the rude mannered Juror said, “I want you to confine yourself to the facts in this speech to the jury.” Wooten was almost floored by •the rudeness of the peanut country judge. He walked the length of the jury box about twice while he composed himself and let „ his temper percolate. Finally, and with a deliberate ness of manner and tone that spoke eloquently of his senti ments, Wooten said, to the jury, I’Gentleirne^you^^-.you-mone are the sole tryers of this case. Anything that I say, the solici tor says, and then pointing to Burgwyn. he> went oh, “and any thing that the judge says to you have no importance. You are the sole tryers of this and everyother case.” • , When Wooten had finished his plea for his obvioulsy guilty cli ent, Burgwyn called Wooten to the bench and said, “I under stand that you got a reversal from the Supreme Court on a sentence t h a t„ Judge Henry Stevens gave this woman.” Wooten turned so that every one, Including the judge would get the benefit of his answer and replied, “Yes. That’s right, and I’ll get one on you too.” Burgwyn realized that he had been far too arbitrary in his ch&rge to the jury as well as in his rudeness to Wooten and be fore court had adjourned he had reduced the woman’s sentence to the very minimum to avoid Woo ten’s getting another Superior Court judge reversed. Wooten’s courage did not come to him by mistake since his father, Colonel John F. Wooten, had'a superlative record in the Jffar Between the States and after the war he returned to his native county and became, a leading light In the bar as sociation. The North Carolina Supreme Court Issued a contempt cita tion against Colonel Wooten and a number of other members of the state bar . vho had placed an advertisement In the .Raleigh Daily Sentinel on April Iff, 1869 criticizing the count for playing ©artisan -politics. ■ . “J. Frank’s’’ attitude toward Judges and courts 1? not unlike that of his father, who felt that even the highest authority was not above criticism when ithap be wron*^ Judge* Hunt per on Jones County Fgrm Agent Way land J. Resins said Tuesday that a surprisingly good turn out was*on hand Monday toe the morning and afternoon ses sions on farm management that -were conducted toy W. L. Turner and M. S. Williams, farm man agement specialists from State College. Reams said that principal em phasis of the meeting was placed on the overall farm outlook for the. coming year and the need tor more attention on the part of the Individual fanner to the changing population pattern in the United States. The general wave of prosperity and the changes in the eating hatoits of the nation also were discussed at length and their relation to the farm program in. Jones County were brought out clearly, Reams stated. Reams says that great ad vancements in the science of farming have taken place in Jones County in the past gen eration but lagging far behind the ability to produce more crops on less land has been the funda mental appllcatlbn of sound fanm management principles. Few farmers, Reams admits, know where their Income comes from or how that income was spent. One of the purposes of this school Monday, and a stand ing desire of the entire exten sion service, is to Impress on each farmer the importance and profit of applied farm manage ment practices. [ Chain Chides Here Assistant Farm'Agent Henry Swiggett announced this week tint the 4-H poultry chain -HpBsrTffiyetfeBrSd “«HTTiave been distributed to the 10 club members who had been pre viously chosen, to carry on this chain during 1962. The chicks arrived in good condition and Swiggett reports that they are doing extremely well. Not Until Spring Soil Conservationist Mack Griffin said this week that work on the cleaning out of Trent River with funds supplied by the Army and Jones County land owners would probably not be started until the rough winter weather was over and spring ar rived to make work on and in the river less arduous. Marriage License | Jones County Register of Deeds | George Noble reports the issue \ of two marriage license In the past week by his office. Carl Jones, 16, of Cypress Creek! Township and Virginia Albert, 16, of Kinston and F. H. Pierce, 16,'of Seven Springs and' Willa Dean Browder, 18, also of Seven Springs, were the two couples. One Arrest Jones County Sheriff Jeter Taylor reports the arrest of Charles Franklin Bryant of Tren ton Route one by Highway Pa trolman L. S. Meiggs over the past weekend on a charge of drunken driving. Bryant is held under $200 bond until the next term of Jones County Superior Court, following a hearing be fore Magistrate J. K. Dixon. Cpl. Langston With Army’s 7th Division WITH THE TTK INFANTRY DffV. IN KOREA—Cpl. John W. Langston, whose wife, Mary Frances, }ives on Route 1, Dover, recently was awarded the Com bat Infantryman Badge for ex cellent performance of duty in combat with, the 7th Infantry MOVING DAT . . . West Berlin nursery home moves from one dis trict to another—babies and all, without removal from beds. Artificial Breeding Gives Jones Dairymen Chance Greatly Improve Herds By tV. J. BEAMS Artificial breeding service is now available to fanners In 79 of ,the state’s 100 counties. This service is provided by 63 local associations and during 1952 they will artificially breed 43, 500 cows in North Carolina. This .repceafiato an Increase-oC-abnoet 10,000 cows over the number bred during 1951 and brings the total to date since January 1, 1948 to 117,474. The Eastern Artificial Breed ers Association, organized to serve the dairymen and family cow owners of Jones, Craven, Carteret and Pamlico Counties is located in New Bern. Farmers in these counties wishing to use this service are instructed to call Maola Milk anjd Ice Cream Com pany Telephone 4184 in New Bern before 10 a. m. daily in cluding Sunday. Tom Baylis is the artificial inseminator. • Most North Carolina dairymen have been quick to realize that (through a program utilizing nothing but high index, desir ably proved sires they can i.rake rapid and certain progress but a few still do not understand the advantages of using a proved bull. A proved bull is one that has at least five unselected daughters that have each com pleted at least one lactation. The records of these daugh ters are then compared with the graduate of Dover High School and was formerly employed with Wells-Oats Lumber Co. of Cove City. records of their dams to deter mine what level of production the bull is transmitting to his proved that they can consistent offsprings. Only those that have ly sire high producing daughters are purchased by the Southeast ern Artificial Breeding Associa tion to-AsheviSe forusetirmr "• state. The quality of bulls available to farmers In this state is well above the average for the nation. The average butterfat produc tion of the daughters of all the bulls ubed in artificial breeding in the entire United States last year was 432 pounds. Service is available in North Carolina to Guernsey bulls that have sired daughters that aver aged 484 pounds of butterfat or 52 pounds higher that the na tional average. The daughters of the Holstein bulls available in that state averaged 540 pounds of butterfat or 108 pounds above the national average. Jersey men will be interested to know that the Jersey bulls had daughters that averaged 504 pounds of but terfat or 72 pounds higher than the national average. To bring these comparisons closer home the average butterfat production Herd Improvement Associations of cows in North Carolina Dairy is 342 pounds. Farmers realize that with proper feed and management these animals will bg profitable ones. They are raising these hei fers to replace less profitable ones now In the herd. if?
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