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t&e most practical
t present is not hifc
A program but Is
s landlords of the
rd blow—principally
*hen a trailer load
to pU««tt1nto aware
i exceedingly difficult
se ifarm lt was grown
remedy for this loot-;
eternal arid' intern
noe -Of the landlord
ipMA-official admitt
ner the section is rid
store farmer* the
There may have been busier
people in Lenoir County last
year than the obstetricians but
it would be difficult to tod fig
ures to back up the claim. Fi
nal figures now in the hands of
District Health Officer Dr. Ik J.
Jones reveals that the past year
Was the aH-time high year for
hew babies in Lenoir County
with 1,951 neW arrivals in the
866 days wf last year.
This ama&ng population
Jump is all the more amazing
when set betide the 1951 figure
of Just -1,498, which, to percent
ages, means that the baby croc
hi 1952 was 80.1 per cent above
that of Hfl.
The net population gain ac
counted for in this vital statis
tics summary is 1,453 since dur
ing the past year 498 Lenoir
Countians died.
There has been a lot of fun
and joking on the subject of
which month has the most
babies born in it and last No
vember can claim that distinc
tion in Lenoir County with 218
births and only two months had
fewer deaths than November ’52
with its 33 passing away.
The most unfertile month was
October in which only 130 births
were logged and here peculiarly
enough was also logged the
greatest single month of deaths
in Lenoir County last year with
54.
JFMAMJJ,ASOND 1952
Births 149 142 149 139 141 187 157 199 2M 139 219 174 1,951
Pftta 333851274451^84929543359 499
Sgt.Larws Reports
On Patrol Activity
SgL John Laws, commander
fo DWirJct 5 of Troop A of the
State Highway Patrol, has made
January report in which it
is_rey«ated that his district
JONES COUNTS' ARRESTS
Jones County Sheriff Jeter
TKjfler reports the Jailing of two
men during the past week. Both
were arrested by highway pa
trolmen and charged with
drmfloeh driving. They were
Wiliam Randolph Jones of Mays
vllle and Edward Bail Shiver of
SheaScm monte itwo.
landlord looting continuing
P®att?y (expanding, it goes
without saying .that some of
them will have jto find new
Improved aaeans of living if they
want ' ~ to continue hanging
around the drug store and talfc>
tog about VWitf “Weire doing out
on the ftout*
wStefr
PFC James Daniels
Returning to States
With the 1st Cavalry Dlv. in
Japfui.—JTC James E. Daniels,
son pi Mr, and Mrs. Utah Dan
iel*, 3« & Tiffany SL, Kinston,
M C* Is returning ttMpis
Marriage License
Janefe County Register ©f
Deeds George Robles has re
ported the Issue of one marri
age license dating the past
week to Thomas Ham, 24, and
Joyne Dell Cobb, 18, both of
fflncton route three.
Lenoir Welfare Aid
Totalled $39,666
During Piatt Month
Otnrtks issued during the past
mouth by the Lenoir Gounty
Department of PubUe Welfare
totalled $39,666 for the catego
ries WBled “public assistance,”
srtrirh includes aid to the aged,
aid to dependent children and
aid to the permanent and to
tally disabled.
The .largest group of checks
went to the children's group
with $17,924 going to the 1,178
persons In that category at an
average check of $1522 per per
son.
The aid to the aged group got
a total of $17,774 which was an
average of $30.02 each to the 592
persons on this relief listing.
To those disabled the total
spent was $4998, an average of
$38.15 for the 131 men and wo
men helped in this category.
The county’s part of this ex
penditure was $4,771.50 and the
remaining $84,804.50 came /from
state and federal funds.
Mot Heading South This Winter
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Stan Spence, pictured above, at his place of basin ess in front of
the Frosty Morn Packing Plant, just vest of Kinston, for the first
toe hi 19 years is’not off to the baseball wars this winter. Stan,
who was good enough daring his li years in the major leagues to
be picked to play four times in the All-Star Game, says he still
might get a little semi-pro ball in this year If it can be lined up.
For the' first time in 19 years
Kinston’s Stan Spence is miss
ing from the sound of the bat
against ball, the slap of horse
hide into a well oiled mitt and
the perverse profanity of the
baselines as an old coach tells
a young rookie how to “hit the
dirt.’
There. Stan decided, to Jutng up
She old spiked shoes and glove
in spite of the fact that he still
has some "good baseball left in
his system.”
Now instead of cleaning up
the bases with a sharp double
or triple, a trick he was noted
for in the Major leagues where
he played 10 seasons, Stan is
now in a different kiiyt of
“cleaning up” business. He and
his partner. Jack Hall, of the
Southern Septic Tank Company
are busy as Mrd dogs making
and instating these most neces
sary pieces of equipment to
homes that are not reached by
urnan sewer lines.
Stan, native of Kentucky, who
becime a North Carolinian by
marriage back in 1936 while
playing with' Rocky Mount of
the Piedmont League, recalls—
now that a little sun is in the
late winter skies—that his first
trip to the baseball wars came
in the spring of 1935 when he
was sent to Eau Claire, Wise.,
a team of the Red Sox chain.
Stan at least thought it was
spring but he began to have
doubts when they had a “ga
losher top”, snow early in May
up In Wisconsin.
After one season with the
Eau Claire lads, Stan was then
moved up a notch to the "B”
Class Rocky Mount nine and
from' there in 1987 he moved on
to “AAA” ball with Minneapolis
where he played for two sea
sons.
In 1989 he was shitted to
Louisville and stayed their un
til June 8, 1940 when he was
called up to Boston and became
a regular member of the Red
Sox squad for the lest of that
year and ah of 1941.
of the winter that pear Stanwas
sold to Clark Griffith of the
he wound up with a .323 bat
ting average and was second
man in the loop for two-baggers.
Until 1946 Stan belonged to
the Senators but then he was
bought back by the Red Sox
who were trying hard tp get
ped to Los Angeles of the Paci
fic Coast League and in 1851:
when he was ordered back out
to the West Coast he objected
and was sent instead to Spring
field, Mass. Then later that
year he was sold to Portsmouth
and that ended the trip around
the baseball world so far as Stan
was concerned.
But now he is limber from*
plenty of work around his sep
tic tank plant and a new spar
kle comes into his eye when
baseball is 'mentioned and he is
thinking about the chance of
getting a little “semi-pro ball in
this summer.”
stan in reply to the question,
Who was the best pitcher he
laced in his 10 years, replies
without hesitation, “Old Spud
Chandler. That rascal struck
me out four times in a game
once.’ And then after a reflec
tion, Spence added, “Old Tommy
Bridges also pulled that trick on
me one day too.”
Asked if there was among the
big name pitchers one that he
had no trouble with, Stan again
replied without hesitation, “Bob
Feller, he was always easy for
me to hit.”
Stan was asked to name the
pick of the players that he play
ed with mid against during his
10-years and here was the line
up he chose:
Ted Williams, Joe Dimaggio
and CSiarle Keller in the out
field. , ■ . v*
Rudy York at First, Bobby
Doerr at second, Vem Stephens
at Shortstop and George Kell
at third base.
Behind the plate he put Yogi
he selected