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THE JONES COUNTY URNAL VOLUE SIXTRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY. MAY 13, 1954 NUMBER 1 Dean of Kinston Nurses Alice Hodges This summer Nurse Alice Hodges will begin her 48th year of nursing, which makes her Dean of Kinston’s Nurses, and by a considerable margin. “Miss Alice” as she Is affection ately known to her associates and patients all over North Car olina says that she went to the Robert Bruce McDaniel Memo roal Hospital “with the first bricks’ 'and although she has not spent the majority of her career In that hospital which Is today the parrot* Memorial ^institution. Beginning her training in 1008 as the hospital first opened Its doors, “Miss Alice’ icoinplet ed her first year of training In that hospital and then went to Norfolk, in the Sarah Lee Hos pital, to take her second year of training. After, that year In Norfolk she returned to the Kinston hospital for her third year and nursing di ploma. With her nursing diploma safe ly tucked away she headed for the “Big City’” and worked in the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City for one year. But the “Big City” was not for her and she returned to Kinston. For some over four years she devoted her nursing work to of fice nursing In the office of the late Dr. Jim Parrott. But she was soon to desert the office as Director of NUrses at the Rpcky Mount Sanitarium, a Job that she well remembers since it came during the “Flu Epidemic” which she recalls as the “worst time I’ve ever seen In my years in the nursing profes sion." ' - This work at the Rocky Mount Sanitarium came to an end when "Miss Alice” decided to put aside the whiteuniform of nursing for an eight-year period during which she did general ofifltce work. But she could not stay in an office, doing the regular things of office work for too long and she soon returned to her chosen profession and as she puts it, "nursed all over Eastern North Carolina" In November of 1942 “Miss tAllce” returned to Kinston as Di» of Nursing at Memorial Hospital and remained ‘ for nearly 10 years, s of thatcoun from the job that she had con ducted efficiently for nearly , a decade. Today "Miss Alice’ ’Is nursing In “private practice,’ 'still very much in demand by patients from every direction who knows of her experience and tempera ment. Unlike most “Meet the Dean" articles, this one has very few dates and lor very obvious rea son: No gentleman discusses a lady's age. nolr County tn Which she was bom has long since “moved in side Kinston.” It was known as “Wkverly Hill’ ’and Is the corner at College and Rountree Streets The old home where she was born was located where the Thomas Hewitts now live. “Miss Alice” was one of two daughters bom to the late George Lafayette and Florence Rountree Hodges. The other sister is Mrs. H. F (Marian) Waller, wife of a well known Kinston realtor and with whom "Miss Alice” lives when she is not living with one of her many patients. Jay Bird Grounded, Jay Bird Sparrow (I. J. Spar row Jr.) Tuesday aftemon at about S o'clock was arrested on a warrant from Wilmington charging him with: the purchase of 7b cases of cigarettes from five Wilmington men now held in Jail in New Hanover County in connection with a long series of cigarette thefts over Eastern Carolina. Sparrow has previ ously served time in Federal pri son for sale of narcotics and for participating in counterfeiting and -has been Indicted in state courts for buying and receiving stolen property before. Until his arrest he operated two Kinston “super markets.” One at the corner of Adkin and King Streets and the other on Chestnut Street. North Carolina late spring commercial potato acreage for harvest this year is estimated at lo,000 acres, some. 23 per cent below last year's 19,500 acres. Extra sto: In the space for be bush this year Foreign Brides Given Tea by Jones HDC’ers BY MRS. MARVIN THOMAS Jones County Home Agent Sventy-five Jones County Home Demonstration Clubbers attended a tea at the Agricultur al Buildng in Trenton last Tues day afternoon in observance of Nlatftonal Home Demonstration Club Week. This tea was given in honor of the foreign war brides and other persons from foreign countries who now live in Jones County. Guests pres ent were Mrs. Esther G. Willis, District Home Agent, Mrs. Mack Hill, Cambridge, England; Mrs. Ivey Taylor, Bristol, England; and Mrs. M. B. DuVal, Leicester, England. Other foreign brides not present are Mrs. L. L. Tyn dall and Mrs. Otis Sparrow. The tea table was decorated with a white table cloth, red roses, red, white and blue can dles, red napkins, and red punch. Mrs. Herman Parker and Mrs. Richard Harker presid ed at the punch bowl. On the piano was a centerpiece of red and white flowers with blue candles on each side. The front of the auditorium was decorat ed with the Flag and the Unit ed Nations flag on their staffs with a table between covered a glebe of the world. Mrs. Wilmer Mallard, Chair man of the International Re lations Committee, was in charge of planning the tea and was on hand to see that things ran smoothly in the kitchen. 4-H Club girls who kept the ta ble replenished were Patricia Jones, Nancy Scott, Nancy Carol Mallard, Amelia Harker, Sylvia one son who married a German girl. He is serving in the j armed forces, but at the present time their home is in New Hampshire. Mrs. Taylor’s mother is still living, but they havent’ seen each other since 1930 when Mrs. Taylor and one of her sisters who lives in the states, went to England for a visit. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. DuVal are both • Home Demonstration Clulb members. Mrs. Hill is at tendng club meetings at the present time arid we hope she will soon be a member. Mallard, Daphne Smith and Ruby Lee Gray. Mrs. M. B. DuVal is from Leicester, England. She was married during the war and has been in Jones County 8 years. She is the wife of a farmer, mother of two daughters and is presently employed with the bank in Trenton. Mrs. Mark Hill is from Cam. bridge, England and Is also the mother of two children. She has been in the states two years. Her husband is presently serv ing with the army in Africa. Mrs. Ivey Taylor is from Bristol, England and has been in America 30 years. She came over from England to visit cou sins in Canada, and there she met her husband. They have T-"* *" ■■ -VT. v - ■ r.-«# Senator Larkins Speaker Friday at Trenton Exercises Senator John D. Larkins will be the principal speaker at 10 Friday morning as some 43 Trenton Elementary School stu dents graduate to the ranks of high school students. The program will begin promptly at 10 and will, of course, be held in the elementary school auditorium in Trenton. Senator Lennon to Speak At Jones Central High Senator Alton Lennon of Wil mington will be the principal speaker Friday night at gradua tion exercises of Jones Central High School as the school year comes to an end for Jones Coun ty students. A pre-exercise dinner will be served in the school-cafeteria for members of the county and local school boards with Senator and Mrs. Lennon as guests of honor. An open house period will fol low the dinner and will im mediately precede the gradua-. tion night program. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. William Edward Phillips have announced the coining marriage of their daugh ter, Audrey 'Doris Phillips, to Walter Bray of Pollocksville. An invitation is being extended to friends to attend the ceremony at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon, May 30th, In the Pollocksville Presbyterian Church. Indications point to a total United States corn planting of 81,037,000 acres, 0.4 per cent less than the 1093 acreage, j This is 10th Grader Emma Thompson, daughter of Mrs. A. E. Radford of Pollocksville, route one, who was state winner in 1954 Wildlife Quiz. The first place in this annual contest was earned by an essay by Miss Thompson on “What I Can Do to Conserve the Soils, Forests, Wa ters and Wildlife in My Com munity.” This event is sponsor ed by the North Carolina Wild life Commission. It is open to students in grades seven through 12. Bureau Meet Delayed The regularly scheduled meet ing of the Jones County Farm Bureau has been postponed for .on*.»eek.dne to ^conflict with graduation 1 eexrcises in the county schools. Scheduled for Friday night, May 14, the meet ing has been moved up to May 21 at 7:30 p. m. in the Ag Build ing in Trenton. Ordered to Pay Note Mrs. Edna Flowers, Widow of C. T. Flowers was held respon sible for a note endorsed by herself amd her late husband for Floyd Davis of Wilson. Charles H. Larkins, of Kinston, held the note that had been de faulted by Davis. The jury agreed that Mrs. Flowers must pay $7,000 to Larkins plus inter est from October 29, 1952. Workers are seen here busy1 rushing to completion a custom feed mixing plant just outside of Trenton on the Cove City mad. This plant which is hoped to he ready for production in June (rill be owned and managed by Jimmy Collier who is well known In the Trenton vicinity. At iiie plant the farmer may bring his < Bom and in a few minutes drive iway from a scientifically blend ed and mixed ration for any farm animal. The farmer may pay for this service in cash or by exchanging corn for the other ingredients and the mixing serv ice. Practice tn other common ties of this type feed prepara tion has made the finest pos dble formulas available to farm. *s at roughly half the “store weight” price. (Polaroid photo n-a-mhmte by Jack Rider).
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