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VOLUME FIVE TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1954. n NUMBER 49 Slam-Bang Weekend on Jones Highways Results in 5 Accidents umy one fatality, ana hap pily that was a mule, resulted from five Jones County high way accidents over the past weekend., according to reports made by Trenton Patrolman Marvin Thomas, The first in this series of ac cidents interrupted Thomas at 1 a. m. Saturday morning when Herbert Hill Willis of 314 Broad Street in New Bern m anaged to wreck two cars. About a mile and a half north of Pollocks vlQe on US 17 Willis lost con trol of the car he was driving, wrecking it and another car he was towing. About $1600 dam age was suffered by the cars but Willis escaped without mater ial bodily injuries. At 8 Saturday morning Thomas was called a half mile south of Pollocksville where William Houston Grissett of Trent Courts in New Bern had rammed into the rear of a pick up truck toeing driven by Walter Willis Scott, also of New Bern. Grissette, a cab driver, and his 11-year-old sister, Shirley, suf fered painfnl but not serious facial cuts and bruises. Gris sett was indicted for following te .closely. Both car# were 3 1-2 miles west of Trenton on the Kinston highway Jerry Ed ward Gooding of Trenton route one was dde-swiped as he started to turn left by Hardy Pittman ILottm vof Kinston route five. About $250 damage was done to the Gooding car and some $125 damage was done to Loftin’s truck. Loftin was Indicted for improper passing. At 8 Sunday morning Pt. L. S. Meiggs of Maysville Investigated a tangle that involved the car of Jason Arthur of Trenton and j another person. Driver of the Jones Home Clubbers Cop Attendance Gavel At District HDC Meet Jones County Home Demon stration Clubs were represent ed by 56 women who brought back the gavel for attendance and travel from the meeting of District 20 of the North Car olina Federation of Home Dem onstration Clubs. This meeting was held in the courthouse in Bayboro on Thursday, April 8. Mrs. Charles Graham, pres other car was indicted for driv ing without a license. At 1 a. m. Monday morning Thomas was routed out of the sacks again when Cherry Point Marine F. N Lutz struck a mule belonging to Paul Taylor in the Wyse Fork section, killing the mule and damaging Lutz’s car about $200 worth. About 15 minutes after Lutz’s car struck and killed the mule another car came upon the scene/ and ram mfed Into tbo mule, (Mattering twer side in a most messy fashion and doing about $300 damage to the car ol Carl Allen Johnson of Mount Gilead. At 1:30 a. m. Tuesday Thom as again was called out to the Black Swamp Road between Maysvilie and Stella where Gerald Meadows of that sec tion had flipped over his fliv yer and suffered considerable personal injuries for which he is under treatment in New Bern’s Good Shepherd Hospital. Meadows was atone in the ear at the time of the accident. ident of the North Carolina Federation of Home Demon stration Clubs was guest speaker for the day. “The Home Demonstration Program,” said Mrs. Graham, “is designed to teach women to serve better. It is a program of service. Service is the price we pay for the space we occupy.” Mrs. Graham also said that club women, by giving their help, are not helping the home agents but are helping them I selves; that the program is the | women’s—their responsibility— ; the home agent’s job is to help the women to carry out the pro ; gram. I “No matter how large or small i the job, that job is important, i When you don’t do the job | you’re supposed to, you miss an I opportunity to grow,” remarked | Mrs. Graham. In her closing ; remarks Mrs. Graham «aicl j "Bomemaking is Jhe nidst im ! pbrtact job in the world. No ! body can do the job in your home as well as you. Anyone can be a housewife, but you are a homemaker.” Mrs. Sam Swindell, presiding officer from Pamlico County, gave a report on the National Council meeting which she at tended in Boston last fall. Mrs. Clyde Banks of Jones County, eastern district delegate to the triennial conference of the As sociated Country Women of the World, which met in Toronto, (Continued On page 3) Meet The Deen Robert B. Dunn, Dean of Kinston Masons Robert Brown Dunn is Dean of Many Things in Lenoir County. There are three that he is most proud of, however: Dean of the Congregation of Gordon Street Church of Christ. Dean of Ma sons of St. John’s Lodge No 4 in Kinston and Dean of Post Mast ers. This is Dunn’s 70th year as a member of his church. In June he celebrates 57 years as a mem ber of the Masonic Lodge. Al though in retirement since 1935 from the Post Master position, he still considers himself “one of the boys,” having served for 14 years as Assistant Kinston Post master and 15 years as Post Master. Dunn was born on the family farm, which he still owns just north of Kinston, on November 17, 1867, which means that his next birthday anniversary will be his 87th. His parents were William Wal ter and Susan Rountree Dunn. His father was a native of Le r oir County and his mother came from Pitt County. He remained with his parents on the family farm until 1882 when his father was named Clerk of the Lenoir County Superior Court. His schooling had begun This Is An Absurd Monthly Kinston Event This is an extremely absurd monthly occurrence in Kinston. This was taken Saturday morn ing in front of the City Clerk’s effice in Kinston as swarms of ,■ people stood in line, waiting to pay their light and water bills. Saturday was the 10-th of April and all bills not paid by closing jfr. time Saturday would automatic ally get a 10 per cent boost. Back, (not so many years, when Kinston was a much small er place than it is today and when the City Utilities depart ment only had a few thousand customers it may have been practical to send all bills out on the same day of the month and have them come due on the same day, but now with nearly 8,000 customers receiving bills-each month that practice is absurd to the point of insanity. ’■■rk No private company with so many accounts would have a omee-a-numth billing and Kin ston ought to change its way of doing in this matter too,! and gufckly. . In addition to the penalty of j Standing in line, in any kfc>d of weather that might he avail-1 able, there are other penalties,! perhaps not as irksome but far more expensive to the city’s taxpayers and utilities users. Because of this once-a-month billing and collecting system the city must employ far larg er staffs |n both the meter reMlng and billing depart ments. This is necessary be cause ft* readinar must , be done in a two week period and. all of the billing: must be done in a two week period. The otyviously intelligent thing: to do, and this we urg ently recommend to the Board of Aldermen is start billing at least three times per month. Then the pressure of reading meters can be distributed over the entire month, the pressures of billing can be distributed ov er the entire month and the pressures of standing in lines such as this pictured here will be cut by at last one third. (Polaroid photo-in-a-minute by jade Rider.) | while still on the farm at a two month-to-the-year school call ed the ‘"Albritton School” which was located on Tower Hill Road on the Bruton Farm. In Kin ston he continued his studies under Joseph Kinsey, Dr. R. H. Lewis and P. P. Claxton, the lat ter he recalls as his ‘‘boyhood ideal.” j After absorbing the educa tion available then in Kinston | Dunn attended Davis’ Mi'iiary 1 School at LaGran.ge and from ; shat went on to Bingham s Mili i/ ary Cchcol at Mebane, where in iJune 1889 he finished his form al education and returned to Kinston. A desire to become a doctor caused Young Dunn to study anatonmy under Dr. Henry Tull for about a year with a view to extending his studies later but on December 3, 1890 other events | changed his plans for the future. On that date he married Carrie i Isler, a member of one of Jones t County’s most prominent fam ilies. | The Isler’s owned a tremendous ! acreage in Beaver Creek Town ship of Jones County and Dunn and his bride took up residence there and they busied them selves with the family which grew into seven children. For 12 years the Dunns remain ed on the Isler Plantation and the first four of their chil aren were born there: Paul W. Dunn, Lillian (Mrs. A. Street Lee of Kinston), Robert I. Dunn and Maude Dunn (The Late Mrs. Henry DeWitt of York, Pa.j Dunn took an active part in the affairs of Jones County, serving on the County Board of Education, serving as a magis trate and also as a member of the County Board of Commission ers for part of one term. He serv ed part of the unexpired term of his brother-in-law, W. B. Isler. In 1902 two things arose that caused him to return to Kin ston. The handsome old 12 | room house they lived in was destroyed by fire and they own ed another home in Kinston. Secondly, the lack of adequate school facilities in that end of Jones County for their children that were then reaching school age. Dunn before moving back to Kinston had resigned from the Board of County Commission ers to accept a civil service ap poitment las “Storekeeper and Gauger.” A job that Dunn says he never bragged much about, but one that proved to be most rewarding to him some 35 years later. That “Storekeeper and Gau ger” job called for him to make See MEAN Page 5
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