COUNTY
TRENTON, N,
Number 14
To Annual
Fair May
set at the Fair Grounds by Fan}
Agents James Franck and Bid
Shackelford and Extension Ser
vice officials. ‘ - 1 ; '
Bn order to atomtafi local
fanners to nse correct tenoihf
methods and treated posts on
their turns, Franck, Shackelford,
and Extension experts John
Gray and Howard fills last seek
set posts of aU native timbers
most seen in Jones County, are
...
built with a cross bar running'
parallel to the ground and rein
forced with a number nine wire
brace. According ^to Ellis this
type assembly has proved 35%
stronger than the old type. The
demonstration corner assemblies
are capable of 800 feet of fenc
ing at normal tensile strength.
Ellis estimated that fanners
can pretreat their own fence
posts for as little as 35c a post
by setting up their owta treating
vats. He said that initial coat of
a treating plant would run be
tween $75 and $100. )Polaroid
Photo-in-a-minute by lack
Rider)
A school of Business Adminis
tration was set up at Wake For
est College in 1046.
Shown Above is a
No. i boar recently bought hy
Dare Hussey of Tnckahoe'
ship to help upgrade his ]
swine herd. The Minnesota No.
1 boar is ideal for producing
meat quality pigs. Dave’s hoar,
an offspring of the U.8.D.A. herd
boars in
raised «i the Ray Griffin farm
|p
was
in Hillsboro. In addition to bis
hogs, Dave keeps busy tending
a large herd of cattle, several
fields of corn, and his tobacco
acreages. (Polaroid Kioto-in-a
mlnute by Jack Rider.)
ews Sidelights of Week
Just before introducing Doryn
Smyth, the Irish farm lass whc
is visiting in Jones County, to
the County Commissioners last
week, Home Agent Mrs. Thomas
announced that Doryn thought
tobacco fanning was “just won
derful!” •’Ha!” Laughed Com
missioner Barbee who has prim
ed a hit of tobacco In his time,
“she doesn’t know much about
it does she?"
he was an hour late but out of
curiosity asked how much he
had bid the job. “$28,000", he
replied. He seemed a little less
unhappy about his late arrival
when told that his bid was near
ly $6,000 higher than the low
bidder and that six other firms
would have underbi him anyway.
John D. Larkins Jr. wlien ask
ed by reporters what he was do
ing in Baleigh (after a confer
ence at the Executive Mansion
during which Governor Umstead
appointed him Democratic Chair
man) said "Why I'm driving my
ear.”
The other day we went locking
for Farm Agent Franck and
found him and his assistant, Bill
Shackelford, out at the Fair
Grounds setting fence posts with
officials from State College. »We
stopped Shackelford from his
work—painting signs for the de
posts are going to rot before you
ever get the signs on them.”
Arrests in Jones County dur
ing the past week included the
following: William Prince of
Pollocksville for public drunken
ness; Quincy Moore of Trenton,
driving g. tractor while undert
the, influence of liquor; Charles
L. Clark and Larry D. Wilcox of
MaysviUe for embezzlement; L.
Roosevelt Byrd of Trenton for
speeding; Herman Lee of Tren
ton, drunk and disorderly; and
C. Roosevelt Burge of Trenton
for speeding.
Jones Countians
Who Passed Away
CarlFlowers Sr., 58 Oliver’s
Crossroads fanner died sudden
ly Monday night after a period
of declining health. Funeral
services were to be held Thurs
day afternoon front the late
home and burial was to follow
in the Trenton Cemetery..
Dempsey Wood Harper, 8$ la
thed Oak Grove communityflBX
at the hooM of a
Mrs. Claude ]
New Bern and Kinston
Firms Get Jones Work
Bias wealing $26,949 for the
construction of three new class
rooms at Jones Central High
School were accepted by the Jones
County Board of Education at
Its meeting In the County Court
House Friday afternoon.
O. L. Shackelford, Inc. of Kin
ston submitted lowest of eight
bids for the general construction
contract and the C. J. DeMers
company and J. T Pearson of
Naw Bern entered the lowest bids
for the electrical and heating
work on the new rooms.
Shackelford will build the class
rooms for $22,479; Demers will
do the wiring at a cost of $1,785;
and the Pearson company will in
stall heating for $2,685.
Funds for this work will come
from last year’s state-wide school
bond program. Therefore the
contracts will not be signed until
approved toy the State Board of
Education in Raleigh. Approval
by the State Board Is a legal
formality which Is not expected
to delay the start of construc
tion.
Two of the new rooms will be
used for general classroom space
and the third will be a music
The specifications for the new
rooms as drawn by architect
John J. Rowland do not include
a completion date for the Work,
but Superintendent of Schools
W. B. Moore expressed the hope)
that this badly-needed addition
to Jones Central will be availa
ble to students and teachers at
an early date.
The Board of Education also
approved tentative plans for ap
proximately $1,200 repairs to the
school bus garage. These repairs
will include a new cement floor
In the garage.
In other business brought be
fore the Board by Superintendent
Moore, the Board approved the
I appointment of Mrs. Nellie S.
| Moore to teach at Jones Central,
. Mrs. Mabel P. Harriett at Pol
locksvlll’s Alex White School, and
Annie L. Chapman at the Mays
ville grammar school; voted to
provide accident policies for the
county’s school children from the
Colonial Life and Accident In
surance Company; and approved
the appointment of Mrs. Henry
Swiggett as treasurer of Jones
Central and Mrs. J. H. Croom
as bookeeper for the bus garage.
Daniel Croom’s Descendants to
Gather Sunday at Sandy Bottom
xj-ic; amiuai zcumiuxi ui uiie
Daniel Croom Family will be held
at the Primitive Baptist Church
at Sandy Bottom beginning at
11 Sunday morning, August 15th.
chairman for this
All descendants of this Daniel
Croom who settled in the Sandy
Bottom section early in the 18th
Century are invited to attend
this annual family get-together.
Present officers of the Clan, ta
Taylor
years meeting is Mrs. Robert
Davis, assisted by Mrs. William
Croom and Mrs. J. D. Fisher.
Plans for the compiling of a
book on the Croom Family and
for landscaping the church,
which was founded more than a
hundred years ago by the Daniel
Croom Family, will be discussed
at this Sunday’s session.
Following worship s e r v ices
yii'
tamp
the
church grounds.
District Rotary- Governor Visits
Follocksville Club August 5th
xtubariuu uistnoc uovernor
Ralph D. Wellons of Red Springs
made his annual visit to the Pol
looksville Rotary Cluib last Thurs
day night.
Dr. Wellons, president of Pep
broke College, met in a two hour
business session before the reg
ular suplper meeting with the
Pollocksville club officials: Presi
dent Frank T. Bender, Vice
President John D. Jenkins, Sec
retary K. G. Strawibridge, Treas
urer J. M. Foscue, and Sergeant- J
at-arms J. W. Creagh.
| uiscussion during the business
| session centered on plans for Ro
tary’s Golden Anniversary year.
In his talk to club members,
Dir. Wellons stressed the im
portance of Rotary expansion
and expansion of Rotary services.
The Pollocksville Rotary has un
dertaken projects of building a
playground at the Community
Center, the installation of street
lights and traffic controls to re
gulate traffic on Route 17, and
a general clean-up campaign for
Pollocksville.
Wrong Way to Argue Over Right of Way
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mm® is anouner now of wut
Frequently happens when two
sant “argue” over the, right of
way. Bn an effort to save a frac
tion of a second all of this loss
results on too many oc^rioan
Eh® cornearest the camera of
todr® Teonille of 41* MUcboH
Street was headed west on Waeh
Nfton wfaon it rammed into. thdj
side of the other ear which was
being driven by Delbert Defer
and in Which Mrs. Elsie Deter was
Wding. Mrs Deter and her sen
iMCn sun»ed Dunnu but nos
critical injuries. Xeunilie was in-*
jlkted by Investigating Officer
J- H. Griffin for failure to yield
ths ridit «t way.