A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
Number 11
Officials Believe
Neuse River Watershed Group
To Meet Friday In Goldsboro
Members of the Neuse River
Watershed Authority, which was
created by act of the 1953 Gen
Assembly as the first such
of its kind ever named to
^ a jrtver problemin North
Carolina, are slated to hold their
first meeting in Goldsboro on
Friday, July 24, at 2 p. in.
E. J. Wellons of Smlthfield,
president Of the Neuse Valley
Development Association, today
advised Director George R.
Ross of the Department of Con
servation and Development that
he is asking members of the
NRWA and of his association to
npeet jointly at Goldsboro, on
July 24.
The law creating the NRWA
provides that members of the
eight-county authority jmeet
within 00 days after boards of
commissioners in each of the
eight counties had named two
voting members of the author
ity from each county.
Ross and Wellons were advis
ed this week that Craven
County commissioners had nam
ed that county’s two voting
members of the NRWA. They
are: W. R. Newell, Dover, RFD
1, and George R. Scott, New
was the last of
-name its
Jones; A. C. Edwards and M&rk
C. Lassiter, Greene, and Dr. D.
J. Rose and Frank Phillips,
Wayne.
Wellons said that the NRWA
is “a direct result of the efforts
of George Ross, the Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment, Dr. D. J. Rose of Golds
boro, and other members of the
Neuse Valley Development As
sociation, and we of the asso
ciation intend to give the au
thority members our full sup
port.”
The Smlthfield attorney said
he is inviting Ross, who retires
next Monday as >C. & D. direct
or, and his successor, Ben E.
Douglas of Charlotte, to attend
the joint meeting of the NRWA
and the NVDA at GFoldsboro.
“I am sure I all of us will want
the continued advice and sup
port of the Department of Con
servation and Development and
I feel sure we will get it,” Well
ons said.
Ten Jones 4-H’ers
At Raleigh Meeting
A total of 10 Jones County
4-H Club members attended all
or part of the annual 4-H week
that was held on the campus
of State Colege this week in Ra
leigh. Graham Mallard, Betty
Taylor, Durwood Koonce and
Hazel Ann Bender spent the en
tire week.
Jeter Taylor, Daphne Smith,
Hayes Koonce, Anthony Mal
lard and Amelia Harker went
Wednesday and with some of
those already there took part in
the folk dance festival and Lu
cille Banks went Wednesday to
compete for 4-H Health Queen
honors. Graham Mallard also
represented Jones County in
the State Health King compe
Hazel Ann Bender
i County in the
er by August X
All Jones County 4-H club
members who want to attend
the annual summer encampment
which this year will be held at
Camp Millstone near Rocking
ham are urged to contact the
Assistant Farm Agent William
Shackelford op the Home Agent
Mary Olive Owens before Aug
ust 1st. -
The usual week of fun and
frolic is promised again this
year and this is the first year
that Jones County club mem
bers have had a chance to go
to Camp Millstone which is rated
as one of the finest in the
state.
Ford Flew Fast, Flipped, Fell Flat
Kinston Dacron Plant Aims Both'
Barrels At Highway Safety With
Program Reaching 1,600 Workers
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Backed up by the best in
plant safety program in Ameri
Company have through*
out this month turned their
full, considerable safety artill
ery in the direction of the bloody
battlefields of Eastern Caro
lina’s highways.
Particularly aiming their safe
ty slogan “Courtesy Is Contagi
ous” at the 1,600 workers in the
Kinston plant but hoping and
believing that some of this will
lap over into the areas from
which these men and women
come, Du Pont with its custom
ary attention to detail is “go
ing first class” for safer high
ways.
Since practically all of the
plant’s 1,600 workers come
from the six-county area which
includes Lenoir, Pitt, Craven,
Jones, and Wayne, Greene
Counties, the safety pro
gram has during the
month of July and will further
in the future bring the brutal,
tragic and expensive facts to
highway life in these counties
to the attention of each of
these workers.
A special moving picture, “A
Day In Court,” has been view
ed by each worker in the plant.
A lecture by a member of the
Safety Division of the North
Carolina Motor Vehicles Depart
ment, cartoons on all plant bul
letin boards, pictures of wrecks,
on bulletin boards, are parts of
the program.
Illustrated (booklets, eye
catching pamphlets, stickers for
car bumpers that glow on into
the night “Courtesy Is Contagi
ous” ’are now and will continue
to be through the years a part
of this first private approach to
the staggering problem of high
way accidents.
Among the bulletin board
items that has caused every
worker to pause and ponder is
a map of' the six-county area
with red crosses painted In
where! each of the 93 people was
killed in the 18 month period
ending July 1st in these six
counties. ’
This extremely undesirable
“honor” is divided Lenoir and
each 21, Craven, SO, Pitt
Du Pont worker has been plead
ed with in many different
way s\ to “not become another
S%I^Crdss)’ atfa further hot to
cause anybody else to wind - up
as a statistic.
Bach Du Pont workerd has
been reminded that last year
alone over 38,000 men, women
and children were KILLED on
the highways of the United
States and that more than a
BILLION dollars property dam
age accumulated in accidents
which injured another two mil
lion people.
Looming large on the horizon
as a leading proponent of safe
ty is nothing new to Du Pont
folks. For over 150 years since
Irenee du Pont de Nemours set
up his first black powder plants
on the banks of the Brandywine
near Wilmington, Delaware, this
industry has placed emphasis
upon safety, has invested mil
lions of dollars in safety and
has received dividends far be
yond that huge investment in
preventing loss of life, damage
to machinery, morale and pro
duction.
“Most machines can be built
i'na short while,” one Du Pont
official said, “But it takes about
20 years to grow a man.”
The investment in safety is
not entirely based on hard cash
as one worker pointed out after
eleven months with Du Pont.
“When’ I first went to work with
this crowd I thought all of this
hollering about safety was Just
another way to spend untaxed
dollars but now I really believe
the Du Pont folks are interest
ed in me, and the rest of us, as
individuals.”
This venture ‘‘off the reserva
tion,” so to speak, Is something
new for Du Pont’s safety-mind
ed top brass. Notoriously afraid
of off-color publicity which
wealthy companies frequently
fall heir to if they meddle or
even hint.of meddling in “out
side” affairs, Du Pont policy
tends to stick pretty close to
“it’s own knitting
And in tbje highway safety
program Du Pont is not hitting
the Chautauqua circuit with a
brass band and a case of snake
oil. It merely “hopes” that some
Of that it is preaching and
praying, and testifying to with
its workers will spread into the
surrounding community and
even into the nation. “If we
can help In any way, we’ll be
glad to,” is their attitude.
t)u Ponters take a view that
traffic, safety is a matter for the
individual and not for the po
liceman or highway patrolman.
This is, indeed, a new approach
that comes like a breath of fresh
air into the arena that has
largely heard, in the past, noth
ing but shouts of “make it
against the law.”
Local Du Pont officials in
bringing this highway safety ef
fort to the attention of newsmen
wondered “if this has any news
worthiness?” They also left no
doubt that they were NOT try
ing to take over, but were mere
ly doing their best to help gov
ernmental groups and civic safe
ty efforts cope with the most
pressing problem in the nation
today.
They feel, rather like the old
lady, that every little bit helps.
Two Vance Homes
Lost on Tuesday
Two fires both of undeterm
ined origin, Tuesday destroyed
Vance Township homes and
practically ail of the furnish
ings of the two homes.
At 11 Tuesday morning a pilot
from Stallings Air Base saw the
burning home of Katie Hollo
way and called the base fire
truck by radio but by the time
the truck arrived the house was
all but completely destroyed. It
was directly back of the air base.
At about 3:15 Tuesday after
noon the home of Albert Ward
at Dawson’s station went up in
smoke but a few pieces of fur
niture were saved. Ward, who
runs a filling station at Mew
born’s Crossroads, was not home
when the fire broke out and his
family was away putting tobac
co. The ward home was owned
by Mrs. Lillie Taylor.
Kinston firemen who an
swered this second call for help
stood by and saved an old fill
ing station building and other
out houses that were being
threatened by the Ward home
as it burned to the ground.