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■ ■ TRENTON, N. 0, Thursday, September 3, 1963 Number 17 1882, In Pitt County, i legaUy in his manlu age ot 21 when he Kinston on October 1 over the county on a bicycle. "Which was some Job, with the mud and sand that made most or the county's roads hi that day. Finally, Phillips recalls that Spear asked him it he couldn’t do a better Job with, a motor e. He admitted that he |d ptobably cover more ter ry than wth the bicycle, oh next morning a brand new sbrcycle was on hand tor him Uni;” and he was tossed for a loss several times In sand beds but he stuck with it-And learn ing to ride the gas-powered two wheeler led to his being employ ed as the first motorcycle offi cer of the City of Kinston in’ 1920. , ... j . At that time Kinston had. only five other policemen. Chief Frank Bursell, Tom Stroud, Charlie Moore, George Canady and Willie Leggett. ^ * Kinston and police work both have grown a lot since that day 33 years ago but Phillips, as Constable of Kinston Township, is still yery much on the Job and he says he has every intention qf staying on that job for some little time to coipe. m 0 m Sgt. John I*%s, icommahder ol District ft ei Troop, T to- stricter enforcement traffic laws on the books ' " hla argument he " on his Kinston which tends to ®,'V, .. in the first six months of 1952 the local patroi iinlt made 1212 arrests and lnfMtigated 116 accidents that Involved as much as $25 damage. ' In contrast to that, during the first six months of 1053 Laws’ chart shows 1506 arrests but the number of reportable accidents was only 128. " IBbere were more accidents reported, Laws admits, but he points out that there was far more traffic and a great many more vehicles registered to the county than In the previous War- ■ 1 Laws says the pressing need In Lenoir County at present, so far as his department is concern ed, is one more man. At present he has five men in Lenoir Coun ty. Arthur Fields, stationed at LaGrange, Lloyd Pate, Wesley Parrish, Walter Taylor and H. H. Stokes stationed at Kinston. The major, problems in Lenoir County are US 70, US 258—the Marine Corps’ private speed way—and NC 11—the du Pont Boulevard. Efficient patrol would require at least dawn to midnight patrol of these three major arteries but five men cannot possibly do the job. Es pecially when two men have to work all night Sunday night to half way keep the flying Marines on the ground as they head back to their landing fields at Camp Lejeune. Jones County Fair To Be Held In October, 26th Through 31st At a meeting-of the Board of Directors of the Jones County Agricultural Fair Association held Monday night In the ag building in Trenton it was an nounced that the annual Jones County Fair will be held the last vweek In October — the 26th through the 31st. Fair Superintendent Nelson Banks reported that a much more advantageous contract had been secured with the “All Am erica Shows” this year than has been enjoyed in the past. This contract guarantees $1,500 to the fair association plus all of the gate receipts for entrance to the fair grounds and 20 per cent of the gross receipts of all rides in the fair grounds. Association President John Hughes Pollock announced com mittee heads to serve for the coming event, including Director Nick Noblas, Advertising and Publicity Chairman Mrs. Rom Mallard, Program Director Wil liam Shackelford and Beauty Queen Contest Chairman, Mrs. Wilma Mallard. Association Attorney John Larkins reported that in order to secure a waiver on the fed eral amusement tax of 20 per cent pn all admissions it will be necessary for the fair assof elation and the Trenton Ameri can Legion Post to reverse their In the past the Fair Associ ation has received 10 per cent of the net profits of the fair and the Legion 90 per cent, but the federal tax man has ruled that this small percentage for the non-profit fair group is too small to qualify it for an amuse ment tax waiver. It was agreed that the proper resolutions would be drawn up by the two coperating groups as qqickly as possible in order that application might be made for this tax waiver in time for this year’s fair. Hidden .8 Acres Tobacco' » Found On Herbert Jones Farm In Beaver Creek Jones County Production and Marketing Administration offi cials report this week that an other .8 acre of tobacco has been found ' on the Herbert Jones Farm in Beaver Creek Township. This additional .8 ac re brings the total overplanting for the year by the Kinston auto dealer up to 31.1 acres in Jones County and another 8.1 acres in Lenoir County for a total of 39.2 acres. e hame have tf total penalty for his 1953 overplanting of $10, 036.50. The last small tract to be found on the “Webb Farm” was hidden in a corn field, so PMA officials report, and it was un coered after PMA officials were tod that they “still hadn’t found all of the over planting” on Jones’ farms. Jones, the largest tobacco grower in Jones County, had earlier agreed to pay a $255-per acre penalty on his Jones Coun ty overage of 30.3 acres for a total of $7,726.50 and the find ing of this small hidden tract brings his Jones County penalty up to $7,930.50. •' On, the 8.1 acre Overplanting In- Lenoir County Jones agreed - -200-per V which, in addition to this dollars-and cents penalty Jones cannot sell any of the crop from these farms on a white marekting card, which automatically de nies him the protection of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabiliza tion Corporation and its parity price suport for tobacco. The Jones County PMA offi cial also points that the 1954 allocation of Jones in that coun ty will be cut by .8 of an acre, since hidden fields may be sub tracted from the succeeding Baysden Case Nearing End? The State Bureau of Investi gation is hopeful of a break soon in a 16-months-old unsolved murder mystery. The SBI has announced plans to give lie detectors Jtests to all persons giving information about the mysterious Strang ling of Oorinne Baysden at Carolina Beach. SBI Director James F. Powell says in Raleigh there is an “excellent chance” that the Baysden murder case will be broken soon. He says most of the persons asked already have agreed to take lie detectors 'tests. SBI agents have been working on the case since the garrotted body of Mrs. Baysden was found in her car at Carolina Beach May 18th, 1952. William Earl Baysdien, hus band of the slain woman, said he believed she was subducted *' asleep in another year’s allotment to the offend ing landowenr. The official had no comment, at this time, on the possibility of the Jones allocation for 190.5 acre which was found to be over 4.8 acres when first meas ured early in the spring, but a late-summer check round the overplanting to be 30.3 acres ■even after the 4.8 acres had been cut down. A similar re check in Lenoir County which followed this finding in Jones County uncovered a discrepancy of 8.1 acres, in Jones’ favor. Lt. Haraett Takes Reserve Trainina Working with Marine Corps tanks was not a new experience tor Lieutenant Harold B. Hargett Jr., USMCR, of Trenton, N. C. The Lieutenant saw the highly specialized Marine tank-infantry teams in action on the Korean battlefronts as an officer in the famed First Marine Division. Recently undergoing two weeks training here, Lieutenant Hargett/ was assigned to the Second Marine Division’s Sec ond Tank Battalion. This type oi “on-thejob” training as out lined by Headquarters Marine Corps, is designed to bring Re servists up to date on the lat est Marine Corps activities per tinent to the trainee’s partic ular field of military specialty. The lieutenant's wife, Dor othy, and daughter, Ann, reside in Trenton. Hargett, a graduate of Prince ton University, is ehiployed in - civilian life is a general store merchant. , - North Carolina cotton farm ers estimate, this year’s total production at 460,000 bales (500 pound gross; weight), or 1912 per cent less than their 1952 pro duction.
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