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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TRENTON, N. C. Thursday, May 28, 1953 # Number 3 'Dainty Maid9 Kinston’s Fasting Growing YoungLady north of Kinston on the Snow Hill Highway. The "bainty Maid” business which Just pass ed its 18th birthday anniversary on May 10th, is one of Kin ston’s fastest growing busi ncsses. “Dainty Maid” bakery worker Donnie Ray Lewis is seen above tossing a huge bunk of dough into one of the king-sized mix in; machines which enables the local bakery to turn out more than 200,000 pounds 61 bread per week. • H m “Dainty Maid” bakery worker L E. Robinson, equipped with asbestos gloves, is seen above taking the piping hot loafs of bread fresh from the oven and placing them on a rack where an.^onrfltcpoltogr they go to theslic^^ ^ wraps and Wiis ■Sfcvl mlnnfa IIUHUIC. - ;• v: There are people, and some nonedscrlpt political parties, who would argue that It has been Impossible lor new busi nesses to start, to flourish and to expand under the past years of so-called high Democratic Party taxes, - Although there are many examples of how wrong such an argument actu ally is, one of the most per il' the strictly home PM" ‘ Started with seven men and wwnen on ifotyio, 1841, and how Just palt its 12th birthday anni versary1, “Dainty Maid” bread is now on far more tables and ton gues than ever before in its rapidly lifetime and present plans aim at putting it into far more tummies in the near fu ture. Among that original seven who hung out their bread and rolls shingles at the comer of Gordon and Heritage streets in Kinston 12 years ago are four that still remain with this flour ishing enterprise. President C. R. “Shorty” Long, Vice-Presi dent, Mrs. C. R. (Ella Mae) Long, Secretary-Treasurer Wal ter L. (Sparky) Hood, and Mrs. Mary Dail. Mrs. Long and Hood are children of the late W. A. Hood and were born in the Pol locksville section of Jones Coun ty. President Long is a native Le noir Countian, having first seen the light of day in Trent Town ship. He is the son of the late Levi Nicholas Long. Now under construction less than a mile north of Kiston on the Snow Hill Highway is a large | and modern new home for “Dainty Maid” and the people who keep it dainty and delicious. After 12 years Of rapid, almost phenomenal growth the old group of buildings at the' comer of Gordon and Heritage has proven inadequate and the need of more efficient as well as larger quarters caused the new building to be started last month, Today something over 200,000 i>ounds of bread are baked and delivered each week by the “Dainty Maid” organization which has multiplied from that original, small beginning into an outfit that today boasts 29 “in side workers” apd 18 route Salesmen who chauffeur the 23 trudks belonging to the company. TOast from the “Dainty Maid” ovens.is buttered as far north as Fountain up. in Edgecombe Coun ty and as far south as Wilming Continued on page 4 John Larkins Rumored Headed Back to Raleigh In State Treasurer Job Senator John Larkins of Tren ton who just got out of Raleigh after more than four months of having his head beaten against the exceedingly heavy legislative walls as chairman of’ the Senate Appropriations Com mittee is strongly rmumored as ■heading back to Wake County to take over the $10,000 per year post as State Treasurer which is being vacated on Just 1st by Brandon Hodges who is mov ing up to a more lucrative post in private business. Larkins himself is keeping quiet on the subject, which is unusual for him, since he is recognized as one of the best “freehold talkers and impromp tu speechamakers’’ between Manteo and Murphy, newspapers, particularly the Larkins did admit that some Rallegh News and Observer seem exceedingly anxious to get him out of Jones County since ev erytlme a vacancy of any kind pops up or talk of candidates for any public office is mention ed it is reported in various and sundry "newspapers’ ’that Lar kins is being “prominently mentioned, has the inside track or would not be bashful about such a plum.” . Larkins is, as every crossroads politician already knows, one of ,the key men in the Umstead organization and has played an increasingly important part to state affairs, having served for the past two terms of the Gen eral Assembly as chairman of the senate appropriations com mittee which automatically makes him a member of the Governor’s advisory budget commission. One recent bit of high news paper conjecture had Lairkinsl running for the United States Senate against Willis Smith, but Larkins says this was one bit o fnews that he had to get from newspapers since he knew nothing of any such wild and wooly plans. This paper as may well join the rumor parade by expressing its belief that Larkins may very Mkely accept the post Hodged leaves on June 1st. Juvenile Judge Whitaker Jones County Juvenile Judge Murray Whitaker had a tough case to decide upo nTuesday as a worried grandmother con tested the right of a lonsome mother to take her children away from the home of the grandmother. The argument started Tues day morning when Mrs. Flora Mae Frites Brown came for her two small children who were In the home of their grandmoth er, Mrs. Estelle Brown, in Tren ton. Tha grandmother testi fied in the hearing before Whit [ aker that the mother had been gone for three weeks on a “drunken brawl.’ Henry Brown, son of Mrs. Brown and father of the two children, is on duty with the army In Korea. The mother of the children, a native of Hawaii, came to visit her husband’s people in Jones County in April while he was on leave prior to going overseas. Shortly after the soldier-hus band left for Korea the grand mother testifies that the mother left the two childre nin Kinston and supposedly went to visit her mother in Washington, D. C. The grandmother testified that the trip to Washington by the Hawaian-bom mother was an “out-and-out lie” and that she had actually been staying in and around Kinston. T5SK? children soon after the mother’s alleged departure for Washington had been returned to Trenton to the home of their grandmother. The grand mother asked Judge Whitaker to give her custody of the chil dren until she got a letter from her son in Korea. The mother Wanted immediate custody of the children. She said she was busy finding a place to live in Kinston. Whitaker ordered that the children remain with the grandmother in Trenton until the mother coul destablish a suitable and acceptable resi dence and after such residence and environment had been checked by Jones and Lenoir County Welfare Department of ficials. Jones-Onsldw Co-op Asking for $960,000 Extend Power Lines If federal aproval Is receiv ed as expected some 600 fam ilies in Jones and Onslow coun ties may soon have electric power service that now lack this important factor in modem liv ing. On Monday of this week the State REA office approved an application from the Jones-Ons low Electric Membership Corp oration for $960,000 which in cludes funds for a headquarters building and new lines to 600 rural homes. At present the Jones-Onslow co-op serves farm and suburban dwellings in a four-county area, including several hundred in the southern end of Lenoir County’s Woodington and Pink Hill Townships. Three Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Jeter Taylor reports just three arrests during the past week. Minnie Odessa Turnage of Arapahoe ocer in Pamlico County is un der $250 bond charged with abandoning her six minor chil dren. J. W. Deal, Jr., of Jack sonville was arrested by Patrol man Marvin Thomas on charge of being drunk on the highway and Bennie F. Eubanks of Pol locksville was charged with be ing publicly drunk. Thomas was unable to get witnesses to testify that Deal was driver of the car that had been driven into a ditch along US 17 and in which Deal was found. An estimated 67.5 per cent of all farms purchased in the U. 6. during the fiscal yfear ending March 1953 were bought on credit.
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