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THE JONES COUNTY FIVE TRENTON, N. g, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY .4, 1«4-NUMBER 39 News Wins Award For Features _ V _ _ In Annual State-wide Competition For the third time In its six year history The Mews has been .. judged a winner in annual com petlon among North Carolina newspapers. When the annual awards were passed out last Friday nlfeht at the annual Press Institute Din ner at Duke University News Editor Jack Rider was handed a scroll announcing that bis ef forts during 1853 had been judg ed in Second Place for the Best News Features in Weekly news papers in North Carolina last year. The annual contest was judg ed by the faculty of the Florida State University School of Jour nalism and of the News the judges, in their criticism, said: “The Lenoir County News is one of the few weeklies which at times appears to publish too much feature material in proportion to the straight news. Local news features oa poUce work, ten ant farming, tobacco curing and, the like have consider able merit. Some of these ipe made, more effective wdth photographs.” And although the News did not win any prizes for photog did say: is •otiiiBrskathe.' of photos run, but it Is near the top in the quality of those run. It doth some nice work in this respect. Reproduc tion is good. Out lines are ample. Pictures well handled, ht its 5-column format. Nice work.” The News won a third place award in 1950 for Its feature sto ries and in 1952 It was award ed first place for Its editorial page. *■ News Editor Rider says he is going to try in 1954 to get back into the first place class, If his wife will push him hard enough. Lenoir Board Turns Down Fred Sutton’s Plea For Diana Shop In an otherwise quiet session Monday the Denoir County Board of Commissioners said, “No” to Kinston Attorney Fred I. Sutton’s plea for a reduction In the Inventory listings of the Di ana Shop. Sutton in a lengthy, and at times heated statement on the issue, pointed out that the Di ana Shop had listed a $10,000 inventory which had been arbi trarily boosted to $19,000 by the commissioners on recommenda tion of the tax authorities. After pondering on button’s request dining a noon-time re cess the commissioners voted to take no action in the matter. Other actions of the board Monday included an agreement with the Walter and Gurley Auc tion Company which was auth orized to subdivide and sell the remainder of the old county Home Property Just south of Kin ston in Neuse Township. The’ couniy boardAgred to foot up to $150 of the cost of a survey that will be needed in order to sell 4.- ***-**•*$ ? i SHU Temporary Layoff at Dacron Plant A temporary reduction in the work force at the local Du Pont plant was announced Tuesday by R. W. Peterson, assistant plant manager. Of the 1700 people now on the payroll, only about 150 relative ly short-service employees will be affected, Dr. Peterson said. The temporary reduction, Dr. Peterson explained, is a direct result of the weak textile mar ket which has been rather un stable since mid-1953 and which has affected many other textile fibers as well as “Dacron” Poly ester' Fiber. Jesse G. Brown, Dean o£ Wholesalers I jesse (Jr. Brown, though still young looking, Is by a considera ble margin the Dean of Kinston’s Wholesale Grocers. He was let ting the buying public around Kinston “have groceries” since before 1900, when as a youth he started to work with his father, the Late Thomas Bradley Brown at “Brad Brown’s Comer”, now the location of J. C. Penny’s store at North and Queen Streets. (After several years assisting his father with the operation of that business along with another retail- and jtime supply store where Stroud Mothers' Grocery Is located now on the 100 block of South Queen Street Young Jesse Granville took over full time management of the “Brad Brown Corner”. His father gave him that build ing and gave his brother, Albert the Stroud Grocery location. There “Jesse G.” remained until just after World War 1 when he moved back a few doors on West North Street in the “Copeland Building” which is now occupied by Pate’s Furniture Store and there remained until 1925 when Haddock Evans, well known lo cal contractor built the present home of Jesse G. Brown, Whole sale Grocer”. Brown remembers the moving into the new building with par ticular reason, since he says that his company tr ade enough money to pay for. the building while it was under contsruction. In fact, Brown recalls today, that he had a l.ttle more money in the bank when he moved into that building in 1925 than he had when the building was started. —* In the early beginning of his spread out into the wholesale busness, Brown employed his first salesman, “JunObug” Stall ings, who made the rounds in a Model “T” Ford out in the country and his brother-in-law, Noel Hobbs, who began with him ih July 1921, made the city calls on a bicycle. Brown admits “We’ve made money every year since we start ed in business—even during the worst of the depression. He says, profit-wise, 1948 was his best year although he may have See DEAN Prge 5 One Killed, Five Injured In This Car Sunday Pictured nere is tne almost to tally demolished car ol Kinston Policeman Sam Ies, Jr., as it ap peared soon after lit averred into a house trailer being towed north on US 258 at about 10 a. m. Sun day. Mrs. Sain B. Ives, mother of Policeman Ives, was killed in stantly in the crash and all of the six riding in the Ives’ car were seriously hurt. All' were thrown from the car except Ives who was found pinned in the car and! had to be removed when ambulance attendants arrived. Ives and Natalie Fordham, a sister-in-law, wore taken to Duke Hospital Sfinflay afternoon for emergency treatment. He was suffering .from a compound frac ture of the left leg, both jaws were broken and attending physi cians at Parrott Memorial Hos pital feared that he also had se vere internal chest injuries. Miss Fordham had both legs broken in the knee area. Three-year-old Kenneth, son of Policeman Ives, suffered severe a broken i Sam m eats and braises and other possible in ternal injuries. Policeman Ives’ wife escaped with the least severe injuries. At first it was feared that she had a broken leg but later hear injuries were diagnosed as e^ts and brais es and possible internal injuries. Edward Allen Jefrey of Adrian,, M chigan, who was driving the car that was pulling the trailer which Ives’ car struck, been discharged Saturday from the Marine Corps and was On his way home when the accident, hap pened. Witnesses said that Ives ap peared to have looked in the back seat for something: as he proceeded south on a straight section of road; this caused hi* car to swerve to the left. (Pola roid Photo-in-a-minute by Jack Rider).
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