THE JONES COUNTY
VOLUME FIVE TRENTON N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2S, 1954
NUMBER 42
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Major Matthew Hicks Allen
says he hates to admit it, but
he is Dean of the Denolr County
Bar, but he hastens to point out
that his .toother lawyers, John
G. Dawson, khd J. Frank Wooten,
are both his seniors In years.
He accounts , for the fact that
his law license is one yefir ahead
of Dawson’s and two years ahead
of Wooteg& by POihting out that
he had .tW'ffiw professor Rich
ard H. Lewis to push him along
“Matt” Allen, as he Is best and
almost universally known, is one
of a great family of lawyers and
nothing he has done In his
48 years at the bar has detracted
from the high honor and general
esteem that the Allen Family of
lawyers has won In the courts
of North Carolina. .
'<• His father, the late Oliver
Hicks Allen, served for '33 years
, on the Superior Court Bench of
North Carolina, and was a mem
ber of that powerful group until
his death In 1925.
His grandfather Colonel Will
Ilam A. Allen, who moved from
Wake County to Duplin County
just prior to the War Between
The States, not only earned him
self a great name as a leader In
War but also covered himself
with distinction as a lawyer and
legislator in some of the most
trying hours of North Carolina
history. \
Bom in KenansvllJe on Novem
ber 29, 1864 Major’Allen" now
approaches bis 70th birthday
varied Rwrprafctlce
and still much-concerned and
participating in the general civic
life of the community to which
he moved at the age of two,
when his family moved to Kin
ston from Kenansville.
At that time, ’in 1886, Judge
Allen was solicitor for the sixth
judicial district and moved to
Kinston in order to better serve
the district’s largest town. His
father served in that capcity
until the “Fusionist” managed
to evict him in their brief stand
on the Tar Heel political scene.
Then in 1892 Governor Elias
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Incumbents in Jones Are Keeping
Quiet Except Sheriff Taylor, Who
Has His Hat in Ring for Re-election
So far as official announcing
Is concerned Sheriff Jeter Tay
lor has the arena all to himself
in Jones County political circles,
since he is the only one of the
many county officials to be
elected who hare announced
itheir willingness to serve an
other term.
Other Jones County officials
to be nominated in the May
29th Democratic Primary in
clude the Board of County Com
missioners, the County Board of
Education (which is nominated
in the voting but later ap
pointed by the General Assem
bly which may, as it has in the
past, ignore the vote of the
people and elect any group se
lected by the county represen
tative), the Clerk of Superior
Court, the township constables,
magistrates and the county rep
resentative in the General As
sembly.
Other voting to be done by
Jones Countians will include se
lection of a United States Sen
ator (The Scott-Lennon race)
election of a United States Rep
resentative (Crttahhm Barden,
likely unopposed) and District
Senators (Carl Hicks of
Walstonfourg in Greene Coun
ton are., the incumbents to this'
office). ,
The incumbent Board of Ed
ucation in Jones County in
cludes Edgar M. Philyaw of
Comfort, Clyde Banks of Pol
locksville, J. C. West, Jr., of
Trenton Township, Herbert
Tyndall of Chinquapin Town
ship and Eugene T. Simpson of
White Oak Township. This
board was unopposed for elec
tion in the 1952 Democratic
Primary.
The incumbent of board of
county commissioners include
eludes Chairman John W.
Creagh, Jr., Pollocksville and
Extension Possible On Any ASC
Practice If Request Is In Before
Deadline Day; Barker Reminds
Polio Benefit Games
Two basketball games, guar
anteed to be exciting aind en
tertaining, are on tap for Fri
day night in the Jones Central
High School gym with all pro
ceeds of the two games going to
the annuhl March of Dimes
drive in Jones County. The first
game will be 'between an' All
Star girls’ team and the Jones
Celntral girl sextet and this gets
underway at 7:30. The final
game of the evening will be be
tween an All-Star boys’ team
and the Jones Central Var
sity five.
Paul Westbrook of Chinquapin
Township who are in their two
year term on the board and
Jimmy Barbee of White Oak
Township, Harold Mallard of
Trenton Township and Thomas
fitiljey ahfo of 'Trenton Twon
ship who are to their second
two-year term on the board. As
competition for this board in
1952’s election F. P. Nobles ran
sixth, R. Y. Banks ran seventh
and D. A. Jones ran eighth.
John M. Hargett of Tuckahoe
Township is the incumbent
State Representative. He col
lected 1118 votes in the ’52 elec
tion while G. Osborne Mallard
got 462 and Levie C. Mallard got
200 ballots.
In the only other contested
post in the ’52 election of Jones
Countians Roy Mallard got 218
votes aaglnst 99 votes for Dew
ey Smith for Constable of
Trenton Township.
Jones County A6C Secretary
Nelson Barker (the same Nel
son Barker who was PMA Sec
retary—the Republicans chang
ed the name from PMA to ASC)
announced this week that any
farmer who Is signed up for
participation In any ASC soil
Improvement practice >nay foe
granted extension, IF they ap
ply for exltenslons before the
time they are allocated has ex
pired.
Barker reminds that any ASC
soil practice may be carried
out at any time during the
year of 1954, but that a 30-day
performance period is given
after prior approval has been
given to a specific project.
His Tuesday announcement
was aimed primarily at inform
ing those whose 30-day periods
are about to run out that they
can get extensions BUT THEY
MUST APPLY FOR THESE EX
TENSIONS BEFORE THEIR
PRESENT EXPIRATION DATE:
HAS PASSED.
Barker says a good many prior
approvals expire on February
28th and some farmers have
found it impossible to complete
the project by that time. Any
farmer caught in such a pinch
for time will be granted an ex
tension if he asks for it before
February 28th, but not if he waits
until after that date.
The 1954 United States soybean
crop will be supported at a na
tional average price of $2.22 per
bushel, 80 per cent of the mid
December soybean parity.
First Fatal ’54 Jones Road Accident Kills Three Instantly
last Saturday manning whin
the two cars ptctumdhem i#b
med head-on about one mile
north of Hargett’* Crossroads on
US ZM. Killed instantly wen
Mrs.. Fred Wilson and her
three-months old infant who
were riding in the car on the
and two other Marines riding in
the Stone car also suffered mul
tiple serious injuries. < Patrol
man B. H. Nutt of Bichlands
who investigated the accident
says the marks on the high,
way indicated that PFC Stone
wds.driving on the wrong side of
the road when this tragedy
took plwa Sgt. Wilson’s car
skidded 57 feet before the death
dealing. impact came bat there
was'no evidence that the Stone
car ever had its brakes applied.
(Polaroid Photo-in-a-minute by
Jack Rider).