THE JONES COUNTY
VOLUME FIVE YrENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 48,19S4-NUMBER 34
Court Slowed by Three Mistrials
Still Removes 17 Docketed Cases
Yield Down, Price Up But Net Is
Still Off For Jones Tobacco Crop
me extremely ary summer
dropped the per-acre yield of
Jones County tobacco in 1953
by 26 pounds to the acre, but
an increase In average price re
ceived from 50 to 60 cents per
pound caused the gross tobacco
receipts in the county to be only
$94,830.06 less in ’53 than In ’52.
The entire 1953 crops grown
in Jones County sold for $6,179,
234.02 against $6,274,064.68 the
year before.
In, 1952 the per acre yield was
1387 pounds over the county.
Last year it dropped to 1311
pounds per acre.
Last year 10,270,534 pounds
were produced against 11,196,158
in 1952.
Cypress Creek Township led
the other six townships of the
county by a considerable margin
in the per-acre yield last year
and was also one of the tftitee
townships in the county to
average the top 61-eent-per
pound-average. it had a per acre
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26 at the high 61 cent average.
Beaver Creek Township came
in next with a 1336-pound-per.
acre yield which sold for a 60
cent average, yielding $943,092.98
lor me i,k>h,3$*u pounds grown
in the entire townsnip.
Chinquapin Township came
in fourth with a yield of 1323
pounds to the acre, selling at a
61 cent average and bringing
$968,191.24 lor the 1,584,273
pounds produced.
As usual the western half of
the eounty out-produced the
eastern half.
a yield of 1246 pouiids per acre.
Pollocksyille Township came
in sixth with a 1232-pound-per.
acre yield which brought $1,095,
had'smallest per-acre yield
of 1221 pounds which grossed
694,818 pounds and selling at
a 60 cent average th s brought
in $417,162.94.
The three townships in the
eastern part of the comity
brought up the rear with the
per-acre yield, although Trenton
and Pollocksville were ahead in
the dollars and. cents received
because they have more acres
planted to tobacco: /
Trenton^ Township, in fifth
spot, sold its 1,854,175 pounds
for .$1,106,183.86 at - an average
of 60 cents per pound and had
4-H Salesman Views Main Proiect
Here Jones Central High
School 4-H Club Project Chair,
man Hay Durham Is seen beside
a “sample” of the type rural
mailbox trhieh is being offered
to Jones Countians as part of
the overall beautification effort
by l-ffers in the county. An
all-out effort, spiced by prises
to too mailbox salesmen, has
month of January. Orders for
these attractive and substantial
mailboxes are still accepted and
everybody who has not yet plac
ed an order Ss urged to contact
iasssjaste.r
prise for top sales. (Polaroid
Photc-ln-a-mlnute ^hy Jttk
Although “production” was
cut considerably In last week’s
term of Superior Court in Le
noir County by three mistrials
Judge Paul Frlzzelle of Snow
Hill and Solicitor Waller Britt
of Turkey, managed /to wade
through a good many cases on
the court’s calendar. Seven
ten cases were cleared from the
docket in spite of nearly half of
the court’s week being' consum
ed by three cases that result-1
ed in mistrials.
A jury "hung” at eight for
conviction and four for acquit
tal in the case charging Re
tired Kinston Businessman Otis
Faschall with shooting a pet
Boxer dog of Milan Muzinich.
Another eight-for-conviction
and four-for-acquittal jury re
sulted in a mlstrail of the man
slaughter charge aaginst Ruth
Elizabeth Thompson who was
indicted following the highway
death Of 14-year-old - Bdbby
Gene Sandlin, on October 23,
1953. -
The third mistrial came with
the final case of! the week when
Solicitor Britt made an objec
(Burton is now in Korea with
the Marine Corps and this
judgment permits the case to be
reopened if he returns to Le
noir County); Evans Pickett
Boney, drunken driving, $100
fine and coart costs; Gordon
Lee, drunken driving, $100 and
court costs; Nathan Nobles,
driving after license revoca
tion, not guilty; Quincy dark,
speeding and reckless driving,
12 months (Clark was freed)
under a $1,000 bond for 30 days
to wind up his business affairs
before beginning his prison
term.
Sam Faulkner, speeding, not
guilty; Warren L. Kilpatrick,
drunken driving $100 and costs;
Harold Hawkins, assault nolle
prossed with leaes (Hawkins is
in State Prison); Nelson How
ard, violating the liquor laws,
12 months; Lynwood C. Dail,
forgery, pay Carrow Buiqk Com
pany $12 and surrender driv
er’s license for, five years;
Mary Phillips, assault with
deadly weapon, not guilty.
Fletus J. Collier, assault with
a deadly weapon, not guilty;
Herbert' Arnold,, John Andrew
Jarman, Steve Clark and Well
ing Copies all charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon
were ordered to pay $130 hospi
tal bill of Jim Powell and re
main on 'probation for five
years—a 90 day road sentence
was suspended for each on ac
ceptance of this verdict.
Roland Kornegay was convict
ed of manslaughter in the pis
tol death of Ediward Butler but
due to what Judge Frizzelle
termed “many extenuating cir
cumstances” Kornegay was giv
en a 2 to 3 year jail term which
was suspended oh payment of
$700 to Butler’s widow and a
five year tej^of, jpr«i|#an- -
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Mrs. R. W. Horton, Dean of Beauticians
Mrs. R. W. Hhrton, who is a lot
better known as “Ollie,” has had
her Lenoir Beauty Parlor shin
gle hanging out at 107 East Cas
well Street since 1929 which
rank her as the Dean of Kin
ston’s beauticians — certainly
among women. Beautician Her
bert Leary may have started
‘‘beautifying” the Eastern Caro
lina female a little ahead of
Mrs. Horton but she has been
regularly at this work, and in the
same location now for
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Was hot until 1929 that khestart
ed the career that has made her
dean of the local beauty par
lor operators.
Mrs. Horton recalls that her
first efforts along this, beautify
ing line were made with Mrs. J.
P. Godwin with whom the initial
shop was set up in one room
Of Mrs. Godwin’s home at 607
East Gordon Street.
Mrs. Horton recalls that aft
er a few months in this loca
tion they moved to 107 East
Caswell and not too long after
that Mrs. Qodwin withdrew
from the venture and left it to
Mrs. Horton alone.
Thirty years is too much for
Mrs. Horton’s memory to en
compass and (She cannot re
member the name of the first
woman who got a “perma
nent wave” at her hands. She
says, “I was too nervous and
my knees .^ere knocking too
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metttber is ,h
Mrs. Alton Pittman (Mildred
Fulcher at that time) was the
f rst operator to work with
Mrs. Horton in the 107 East
Caswell location. Mrs. Bill
Daws then Wera Stubbs, a
niece) also started at an early
age helping Mrs. Horton.
When Mrs. Horton began her
work as a beautician the work
largely consisted of putting
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'He Floats Through the Air’ for C T & T
“Floating Through The Air
With the Greatest of Ease” above
is Carolina Telephone and Tele
graph Company Linesman J. E.
Johnson seen as he -was putting
some of the finishing touches on
a large new cable that wOl serve
the western section of Kinston
beyond College Street. This csu
hie which carries over #00 lines
is part of the eurrcui hatf-m*
lion dollar expansion program
of this company in Kinston,
which upcki completion is ex
pected to greatly improve local
telephone service as well as make
available more private lines in
those areas where at present
only party-line service is avail.
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