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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, AP.RIL 10, 1952 NUMBER 48 JLlAM A. ALLEN, A. tired looking young man t picture above, who is r dyer for a closer jlook le election returns being 1 to him by a poll holder, for the next month $nd the key man in a senes ivities that are on ex it vital part of our “way ” He Is William A. Alien, theomeial returps to be os'in his ' hands and then be safely locked away until (■ official &nvas of election urns is held a day or two dlen, one of the younger law a in the county, comes from ong line of lawyers, having > grandfathers who followed > legal profession. His late ndfather Oliver A. 'Allen, was loir ■Oounty’s last Superior irt Judge. His great-grand her Colonel William A. Allen, i a/distinguished soldier of Confederacy and a promin ■ member of the Duplin Cbun His great-uncle Justice Will in R. Allen was a member of 10 North Carolina Supreme >urt and only missed the United tgtes Supreme Court by the argin of one labor decision iat proved unpopular with President Woodrow Wilson who had informed htav that he be named to the nation’s highest tribunal prior to the controver sial labor suit decision. Allen'has five uncles at pres ent who are lawyers and his maternal grandfather, the late A D. Ward of New Bern, was dean of the Craven County Bar for" many years. In addition to being bom into law in spite of his father being the only non-lawyer member of his family, Allen has not rested on the oars and has, along with his law partner, Lenoir County Representative Marlon Parrott, cne of the busiest nractlo.es a mong Kinston attorneys, and certainly the moat active among the younger members of the Le noir County Bar. Allen, aside from his duties as father to one son and a daught er, also finds time to take part in American Legion and 40 and 8 activities and1 when he can slip away from his boss, wife that Is, he fancies himself a fair to middling fisherman. In addition to his civic and legal activities Allen also finds time to keep his rapier like wit sharpened and he Is at his best friends agree, at the pleasant pastime of swapping insults. (I know, Editor’s note) He has been accused by some mean minded friends of being of the Scot'branch of the Allen Family due to his ability to outfumble even the best “fum ble®*.” this, he attributes to the poor muscular - coordination he gal advice to me. (Editors final note.) From now until the end of May Allen will have almost a full time job getting ballots printed, securing registrars, poll holders, election judges, ar ranging for places to place vot ing booths, and ballot boxes, answering the telephone a hund red times a day* to let some worried candidate know if so and-so has filed. 'Allen’s job is one of the most Important' in our election sys tem. His ability to select and supervise men and women who will do an honest and intelligent Job in the conduct of elections is the principal bar to fraud in our government. No one who knows Allen sightly can doubt that he will keep his record in the excellent shape it has been since he first accepted this dif ficult job over two years ago. Board Votes FundstFor k on Dairy Cows Regular April Session The Jones County Board of Commissioners in April session llCoaday voted funds to provide for a tutoercullin test of every dgjry caw in the county. A state fftHr expert will be in charge of this work. The board also approved a pe tition arfriog improvement of a three quarter mile stretch of- road i n Beaver Creek Township known as the Gooding Road. A $10 per month pay boost was voted for Mrs. Zeta Burt, county ■pare superintendent. County Auditor E. E. Francks ifc*»a.iithortzed to transfer bond Interest and bond redemption funds from the Branch Banking IMlErust Company in Trenton convening as a board of equal ization and review heard Kins ton attorney T. J. White ask for a lower valuation on property he. owns on lower Trent River where the timber lands were badly burned by a fire last fall. 'Action on this request .was de ferred until the May meeting. County Attorney George Hughes was authorized to make an investigation of claims for lower valuation that had bee* made by i. L. Taylor for a tract of land. •; The board also heard a report from Soil Conservationist Mack Griffin on proposed additions to agriculture building that Jones and Lenoir Politics Getting Hot As Candidates Pop Up; Twelve Out In Lenoir; Osborne Mallard in Race JONES COUNTY POLITICS Hie first hot breath of com petition blew up Tuesday In Jongs county when Osborne Mallard announced that he would be a candidate for Jones County’s seat In the North Car olina Rouse of Representatives, opposing John M. Hargett, >who announced that he would run for the job two weeks ago. (Incumbent Robert P. Bender of Pollocksville has backed out of the race this year according to the agreement he had -with Hargett two years ago that If Hargett would support hint in 1950 Bender would support him in 1952. So far this Is the only an nounced race for the many jobs that will be before Jones voters on May 31st. It is generally un derstood that the five Incum bent members of the board of county commissioners will stand for reelection and it Is also just about as well understood that there will be at least two and very likely several more seeking seats on the county’s highest board. i The same situation is also ex isting in the school board and although there has been con siderable noise in Jones school circles during practically every day.of the past two years.the fears of further school litiga tion ajong racial lines are caus ing many Who.might like to serve to hesitate on tne school „ ha* been fbr first incumbent to announce that he would like to serve the people of the county for another tour year term. There is considerable backdoor politicking going on In the county commissioner department but this has not broken out into the open yet. A lot of backbiting and counter-backbiting Is being indulged in but so far it hasn’t gotten to the fist fight and shot gun stage—and is not likely to. Mallard, who served on the county board of commissioners for 16 years and for a good part of that time as chairman, says he i3 going to make an all-out campaign for the General As sembly seat and he promises that if Hargett beats him he will know that he has been in a race. Trenton’s John D. Larkins, one of the two senators from the seventh state senatorial dis trict, is still biding his time and being coy about his decision to run or not to run. Larkins, who is at present chairman of the senate appro priations committee and who was also voted the most influential senator in the 1951 session of the assembly, is somewhat awed by, the grumbling heard from several of the other five counties in the district over Jones, the smallest county in the district, having a senator so much more often than larger counties. It is not likely, however, that the district will suddenly turn its back on Larkins, who lead the ticket in 1950 and who since that time has added consider ably to his stature in the legis lative halls of the state. The attitude of many who per haps do have a slight gripe or two in their system over Jones having a senate seat mote fre quently than any other county in the district (Greene, Lenoir, Craven, Carteret, Onslow,/ and Jones) feel that Larkins still is ' | ■(*, go ji fa district r . Carolina more good time than any man that ,i SUNBONNET SPRITES ... In | Dajrtont Bench, Jean Belden and > Peggy Elder wear fetching sun | bonnet# to team np well with i Mr white svrlm suits. Jeter Hill and stated he would toe returned to Raleigh Wednesday by officers from State Prison. mil who was on parole from an assault on a female charge committed In September 1950, was arrested Saturday of this week on a drunken driving charge. He was released on bond after this arrest and shortly after he was released on bond the order came from Raleigh revoking his parole. Other arrests in Jones County during the past week included two others for drunken driving. James Lamar Smith of Pollocks ville and Warren Lee Hawkins of Trenton route one. Both are released until the next term of Superior Court under bond. Jones Farm Bureau Meets Friday, 11th There will be a meeting of the Jones County Farm Bureau at 7:30 Friday night (April 11) in the ag building in Trenton and President J. C. West Jr. has urged every member to attend and hear Extension Engineering Specialist R. M. Ritcliie Jr. speak on “Better Housing.” , Jones County farm women have also been urged to attend this meeting since a local chap ter of the Federated Farm. Wo men of North Carolina is to be chartered under the efforts of Mrs. Rom Mallard who is dist rict representative of this group. might be sent from these six counties. It Is indeed very likely that this sentiment will persuade Larkins to forget the growlings of the malcontents particularly in Onslow and Carteret counties and have his name Ip the pot before the deadline comes at 6 p. in. April 19th. LENOIR COUNTY POLITICS April 19th is the filing dead line for thooe who would like to,take part In the May 31st Democratic Primary and Mon day of this week Indicates that there will be plenty of activity in politics at least in Lenoir County. Ten names were dumped Into the political pot Monday, the five incumbent members of the school 'board, Chairman El mer Wooten, Forrest, Waller, Earl Kinsey, Preston Harper and Melvin Jones. Four of the in cumbent commissioners decided to try the cold waters of the ballott box again and one out sider, Johnnie Davenport of Deep Run, decided to go swim ming with them. Incumbent Mark N. Smith decided to quit an extremely unusual political career by retiring from the board undefeated. The four incumbents who are back in there pitching are Willie Measley, senior member of the board, Ike Whitfield, chairman, Cameron Langston and Harry Sutton. Saturday R. P. “Chick” Ras berry announced that he would be a candidate for the county's seat in the General Assembly, opposing Pink Hill Attorney Harvey Turner who was the first announced candidate of this election year. Rasberry has served as reading Clerk in the State Senate for the past four terms. This Is Turner’s first try At poUttes professionally. of county education and in boards of county commission ers because this issue is an ex tremely hot one and a lot of fpen who might not be allergic to sitting on either of these boards are bashful about getting involved in the kind of bitter litigation that usually results from these racial law suits. In the various constable and justice of peace races that are open in the county the only an nounced candidate is J. L. Kal lam of Vance Township who says that he in going to be a candidate for the constable post in his township. Until now, how ever, he has not put up his money with the election board chairman W. A. Allen Jr. So far the hottest race is in the making for the judgeship of the city-county Recorder’s Court with Incumbent Albert Cowper opposed by Attorney Frank Owens. Both these candidates are doing a goodly bit of bush shaking and an interesting con test is offered in this race al ready, if not in any other an nounced so far. Vicious Looking Display of Arms At Police Station This week Kinston Police Captain Glasco Evans has pre pared an exhibit that is hung on the wall of the local police station which contains a few of the many deadly weapons that have been taken off people ar rested by the local department. An assortment of pistols, brass and iron knicks and other in struments -of danger is dis played. A big percentage of the weapons are just so much junk but good, bad or indifferent all of the pistols have one thing in common: The ability to kill. The police department has in vited everyone to come by and look over their illicit arsenal. ifSvr'ini
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