THE JONES COUNTY
VOLUE SIX TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1954
Kinstonians At Farmville’s Show
At top is B. W. Croom on his
walking horsa, "Brown Bomber",
who placed third in two classes
Sunday at the annual Farmville
Hone show. Just below Croom is
Jesse Harrell with "Last Chance"
who in the same events placed
fifth and fourth respectively . . .
and in the bottom picture is Diane
Fuller with her mount with which
she placed second in the Equita
tion Class, second in the five-gaited
pleasure horse class, and third in
the onenv pleasure horse .class.
Other ribbon winner* showing Sun
day in Farmville from Lenoir
County included Ruth Bowies, Di
ane Hardy, Pat Lee and Erwin
Parrott in the Juvenile Pleasure
Horse Class.'They took 2nd, 3rd,
4th and 6th honors respectively,
in the Pleasure Pony Class Michele
Hardy and her pony took 4th place
and Ida Walker's "Rusty" wis
judged Sth. In the Ladies Pleasure
Horse class Harriett Davis' mount
was judged third and Louis Land
auer's mount 6th. Helen Foss of(
Stella Students
Wonder Where
Classes Will Be
A community squabble that has
been getting up steam for more
than two years and in which the
Jones County School System has
an important part seems now head
ed in the direction of a solution,
but all concerned admit that it will
probably have to get worse before
it can get better.
In October 1953 the State Board
of Education ruled that some 53
students of the Carteret County
community of Stella should be
moved from the MaysviUe element
ary school and Jones Central high
school and entered into White Oak
School in Onslow County.
The distance of this small group
from any Carteret County school
had many years resulted in its
attendance in the Jones Schools.
But the consolidation of the Jones
High School system and the need
to bolster the school attendance
at White Oak caused this piece of
.educational fat to hit the fire.
After the uprooting last October
a majority of the Stella-area stu-.
dents still went to the Jones Coun
ty schools. An average of 26.1 per
day to Jones against 18.63 per day
at the Onslow School.
On May 7, 1954, the state board
of education changed its ruling aft
er the Jones County Board of Edu
cation and representative citizens
of the Stella Community petitioned
for such relief.
It was pointed out that the Jones
County high, school had a broader
curriculum than the Onslow (50
five
Attorney
behalf of
area parents,
at the Jones school wil
in the White Oak school).’
It was also pointed out that the
round trip for students would be
32 miles for both elementary and
high school students if they at
tend the White Oak school, 30.6
miles for the elementarxjprades if
they attend the school
and 52 miles if the
Jones Central high scht
Last year 30 of
volved were elei
and the other
school.
On August 18
Jesse Jones, ai
some of the Stel
filed an appeal with the state board
of education, asking that the stu
dents be returned to the Onslow
County school.
This move, just on the eve of
school opening, has thrown school
officials of three counties and the
state into a dither.
The Carteret County school board
has requested that the students
go to Jones County’s schools. The
state board, after reversing itself
has so ruled. But now District
Judge Paul FTizzelle has signed a
temporary order which directs the
children to the Onslow County
school.
Meanwhile, it looks like a very
good season for the students to do
a little “hooky playing” while vari
ous teams of lawyers beat their
heads against this educational and
geographical stone wall.
Peculiarly enough, the Onslow
County group has made no move
to grab the Negro students in the
same area in spite of the fact that
LaGrange and her pony placed 2nd
in tha Walk-Trot pony stake. Har
riett Davis apain placed 3rd in the
Walking Horse Pleasure Class. In
the Pleasure Pony class Michele
Hardy was 4th with western type
saddle and Ida Walker was in 4th
spot with English type saddle.
Crown's topwinning five-gaited
"Geritol" with J. H. Crenshaw up
was 3rd in the Five-Gaiteid Stake,
Ihe top event of the day. This was
"Geritol's" eighth showing this sea
son With six firsts, one second,
ami Sunday's third place honor.
Polaroid photo-in-a-minute by Jack
Rider.
Com and Clover Making Pork for Murrell
Here is pictured a group of hogs
on the George Murrell Farm in
.'ones County's Tuckahoe Town
ship, which is being used as an
experiment by Murrell, in coopera
tion with the State College Exten
sion Department. Corn and Ladino
clover are the ingredients in the
Murrell feeding program. Care
fully kept records reveal that his
21 hogs are gaining at the rate of
a pound and a half each or 30
pounds total per day for the entire
group. The hogs are "manufactur
ing" $6.40 worth of pork per day
and using only $2 worth of corn . .
. the clover is doing the rest of
the work.
W. Grover Mallard New
F H A Committeeman
W. Grover Mallard of Route 1,
Trenton, is the new member of
the Jones County Farmers Home
Administration committee, J. E.
Hull, the agency’s county super
visor announced this week. The ap
pointment became effective July 1,
1954.
The other two members of the
3-member committee are Wilton
W. Arthur of Route 1, Pollocks
ville, and G. Bruce Foy of Route
2, Trenton.
Each member is named for a
3-year term, and one appointment
expires each year. Nq mtember
feting a 3-year term can suc
Every agricultural county in the
country has such a committee to
help adapt the agency’s loan poli
cies to local conditions including
farm credit needs.
FHA makes loans to family-type
farm operators to buy, improve,
or operate efficient farms. The
agency also makes emergency loans
in counties or States that have
been designated as areas where
emergency credit is needed. How
ever the agency does not make
loans of any type to any applicant
whose needs can be handled by
other credit sources.
Before money can be borrowed
through the agency, an applicant
must have the approval of the
county committee. In the case of a
'Ownership loan, the farm to
be purchased, enlarged or improv
ed must also be approved by the
committee.
Legal Whisky Sales Drop Off
Sharply in Lenoir During|53-54
Home Club Note
All family life leaders of Home
Clubs in the county are urged to
attend a special discussion to be
conducted by Extension Specialist
Corrine Grimsley at 2:30 Septem
ber 8 in the Ag Building.
The Crooked Pine Cilub will meet
at 2:30 September third with Mrs.
Clifton Philyaw.
Maysville club will meet the
ninth at 2:30 with Mrs. Charles
Smith.
The Chinquapin Club will meet
at 7:30 on the ninth with Mrs. Joe
Becton.
The Dogwood Club will meet at
2:30 on the 10th with Mrs. L. H.
Taylor.
Marriage Licenses
Jones County Register of Deeds
George Noble has issued the fol
lowing marriage licenses during
the past week:
William Henry Murphy, 21, of
Pink Hill to Hannah Frances Grady,
18, of Deep Run.
Robert Lee Gower, 20, of Kins
ton to Arlene Byrd, 19, of Warsaw.
Fred A. Meadows, Jr., 24, to
Sylvia Lee Jones, 22, both of White
Oak.
Franklin Hill, 19, of Trenton to
Susan Junious, 18, of Bladen Coun
ty.
Sighted Sow, Sunk
Jones County Jailer Wajter Bed
dard is nursing a broken leg that
came last week when he got a lit
tle too close to a nervous sow on
Sheriff Brown Yates' place. Bed
dard took off in high gear but the
fence proved a little too high and
he was in top much of a hurry: re
sult, one broken leg.
they have a school much nearer to
the Negro students than to the
white students Jnvolved.
Lenoir County officials are tak
ing a long wistful look at the li
quor sale picture in the county’s
five ABC stores. There is much
head-shaking over the drop in legal
whisky sales, and understandably
so.
The past fiscal year (July 1, 1953
thru June 30, 1954) saw a whop
ping $156,379.50 drop in legal
whisky sales in the county. From
$2,347,461.65 down to $2,191,082.15.
A drop of more than $13,031 per
month or about $3,007 per week.
The cause, or causes for this sud
den large drop in legal whisky
sales are being closely examined
by ABC and other county officials.
The first conclusion is that there
is less money in circulation in this
vicinity and secondly that with less
money people are drinking less or
drinking cheaper, bootleg whisky.
The general consensus is that
few people have quit drinking but
that the sale of stumphole whisky
has climbed greatly; price having
overcome the taste factor.
For a long time distillers have
contended that the federal govern
ment was gradually killing the
goose that lays the golden egg and
that seems to be more apparent
than ever before now. It was diffi
cult to establish so long as legal
whisky sales grew but now that
a general decline has set in the
over-taxed theory seems more logi
cal.
On each gallon of legal whisky
the federal government collects
$10.50 in taxes. The North Carolina
tax man grabs another 8Y2 per cent
of about $1.55 on the average
priced gallon which sells for about
$18 to $20. Adding the federal and
state taxes of about $12 that leaves
$6 to $8 for the distiller and the
county package stores to divide
up in profits.
But if a fellow just has to have
a drink he can buy a gallon of il
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