TRENTON,
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Recent visitors to Air Training
Command Headquarters; Scott
Alt Force Base, Illinois, were Lt.
Colonel Charles i Iinganrfelter,
commander of Stallings Air Base,
Kfciston, N. Cs, and his guest, Mr,
Truman Miller* and Id. Colonel
Uswte Beale, commander oi MaU
dandir Base/ MaMen. Meo and
his guest, ,fc_.Meitttt Andenem
Base commanders and prominent
P* i&mw.. /(•;". f.:
civilians (torn areas surrounding
ATRC bases were invited to the
Illinois base Oin June 29-30 for a
Comnianders’ Conference and
Closer inspection of ATBC (iter
ations. notated left to right
shortly after arrival of Scott are
Colonel Lingamfelfcer, Miller, Asi
dertan, Colonel Beale. and C*p
drawing ot a panel' iof? M
4m Mr th* next * term of . the
county* Sttpertar court, TJiose
drawn were:
F. R. Pollock, Jimmy E. Mal
lard, 3. S. Salter, Q Pelletier,
m mm,
Chris Mercer *sr> B. Phillips, BoB
ert B. Lee.
H. F. Blizzard, Elijah ’ 8L
Smith, Rom E. Mallard, Norman
Eubanks fir,, W, T.*Faulfcner, Taft
King,; Joseph Duval and J. A.
Koonce. ■
Jones County has been selected
along with Washington County
as an area for experimentation
in Extension Department per
sonnel but the Board of County
Commissioners has taken “time
out” to study the proposal, which
would double the present force
in the Farm, and Home Agents’
office in the county.
Officials from the state Ex
tension Department Monday out
lined. the program which would
add two assistant farm agents,
one assistant home agent and
another secretary-stenographer
to the office and field force in
Jones County. The board decid
ed to table the matter until it
could toe explained to the people
of the county as a whole hi
greater detail and then act in the
light of the reaction of the peo
ple oyer the eounty.
The cost to Jpnea^ County
the new workers would be. $600
per year each with the remainr
der of their salaries paid from
state and federal funds.
Other matters acted upon
Monday, Included the passage of
the, 1054-65 budget as earlier
presented, approval ,of ceramic
iljl instead, of rubber tile for
Sourt
.v^Ctofcman, who .
£ the renovation proj
«*tjr^he 1964-35 tax rate was
fixed at $8 on the hundred dol
lar valuation,
Alfred Cheney was employed to
survey a tract of unclaimed land
in Tnckahoe Township and all
court house offices were in
structed to keep a list of long dis
tance telephone calls in order
that the monthly bill might be
better checked upon.
Six Jones Arrests
Jones County Sheriff “Brown”
Tates reports six arrests in the
county for the past week, none of
which was on a very serious
charge. Ed Green of Trenton
was arrested and tried and sen
tenced to 30 days on the roads
for. damaging a car of a neigh
bor with a brick. William Stray
bora was booked for being drank
and disorderly, Ambrose Williams
of Maysville for reckless driv
ing, Thomas Edward Hall of
Comfort for faulty equipment,
CoUcn Frazer Mattocks of Mays
ville for speeding and Tolbert
Young Barber of'Stella was also
booked for speeding.
Finds Long-Lost Ring
Jones County Register of
Deeds George Noble Saturday was
the happy victim of a remark
able stroke of luck.. During July
pf 1928, while transplanting some
«raet potato vines, Noble loot a
gold Woodman of the World ring
and in spite of much looking for
the ring it remained lost. Satur
day, however, while walking
thmugfc the garden Noble saw a
shiny object that had been an
covvrM vf & scraicnmg ooicx^
on. IT wag the ring thai J»ad
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This is Bobbie Blackburn, Kin
ston’s No. 1 swimmer, who will;
again this year star in the an
nual Kinston Water Show which
Miss Black
those who wanted to see the show
to do so. Carl Caudill, local ra
diomam, is again this year di
recting the show which will in
clude ballet, comedy, speed and
“drama.” Special lighting ef
fects and tape recorded music
will supply tin effect that Cau
dill promises to he both plearing
to the eye an&t&r, and since Cau
thm.
(right, too.
photo-in-a-minute by
bukHte.
Kinston and Pink Hill
Clubs Sponsoring Dance
On the night of Monday, July
12th Ted Weems and his orches
tra will be presented in a dance
in Kinston co-sponsored by the
Civitan Clubs of Kinston and
Pink Hill.
Featured with Ted Weems and
his orchestra are a number of
specialty performers, including
the hilarious Red Ingle, record
ing star; Bonnie Ann Shaw, vo
calist, whistler and dancer; Ray
Sullenger, young singer; and the
Ted Weems Trio.
Weems has long been a lead
ing orchestra leader but is per
haps best known in the last few
years for his famous recording
of “Heartaches” that helped him
to make a come-back that is
most unusual in the music busi
ness.
Lately Ted has been recording
tor leading record companies and
appearing in television and radio
on “Beat the Band” and the Fib
ber McGee and Molly Show. He
has also made outstanding en
gagements in the leading ball
rooms across the country.
The Civltan Clubs of Kinston
and Pink Hill are pleased to pre
sent this excellent musical and
specialty group. • The danoe will
be held in the New Carolina
Warehouse, in Kinston apd ad
vance tickets may be. obtained
from any member of the two Cl
vltan Clubs."' V;,''v
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There we five canker-resiartant
teiEbeif^r varieties: Croatia,
^gpla, Wolcott, Murphy and I
ujwlt ^ t i
j Highlights of
The Past Week
Elias “Buck” Coward, 45-year
old Kinston route five resident
was killed at aJbout HI Saturday
night several miles south of Kin
ston on the road connecting the
Pink Hill and Richlands high
ways. Coward, driving an an
cient jaloppy, rammed into the
rear of a car parked on the dirt
road. The impact of the collison
caused Coward’s car to roll over
and explode into flames and be
fore he could be removed from
the burning wreck he was dead.
Coward is the sixth highway fa
tality of 1954:4]} Lenoir County.
At the same date a year ago nine
persons had been killed in high
way accidental
Woodrow Clark of La Grange
is held on an open charge < of
murder following the death at
Willie Tate, also of :La Grange,
from, a .22 pistol wound which
Clark admits having inflicted at
about 8:30 Monday night. Clark
and Tate reportedly had been in
volved in * fracas' earlier firthe
weekend and Clark returned to
the scene aimed with a .22 cali
ber pistol and ended the argn
The pet place of Ideally oper
cam am the Pest weekend and
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