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THE JONES COUNTY VOLUE SIX TRENTON. N. C, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER !«. I»54 NUMBER U Wife-Murderer This Is Danny Webb Chadwick, tenant farm youth, who will face trial on chaise of murder at next week’s term of Jones County Superior Court. Young Chad wick Is charged with beating hlo pregnant wife to death with a shotgun banel after a family squabble last spring. Judge Joseph J. Parker of Windsor will preside over this term of court which will include an extremely heavy docket of 112 man than first de ((Polaroid photo by Jack Rider.) Tt takes approximately 240 pounds of r ubber built Into your car to remove the vlUeratlon, bumping, jolting, chilling, soak ing and the like encountered In ordinary driving. Z. A. Koonce Named To Head Jones Farm Bureau Annual Drive H. C: Mallard of R-l, Tren ton, president of the Janes Farm Bureau, announced today that Z. A. Koonce of R-2, Trenton, has been elected chairman of this year’s county membership campaign by the organization’s toad of directors. Present Mallard said the board has accepted the county quota at 700 members this year which will go to make up the state Farm Bureau quota Of 70,000. Other members of the oounty membership committee who were elected by the board are: J. J. Conway of M&ysvllle; R. P. Ben der of Follocksrllle; Mrs. Ram Mallard of R-l, Trenton; Mrs. Lee Fordham at R-3, Kinston; J. C. B. Koonce at R-2, Trenton and J. P. Davenport of R-2 Dover. Mallard said the board Is mak ing plans to conduct a aneweek membership drive this year In the county. “We plan to leave no stone unturned In carrying our Farm Bureau program to the people and going over our coun ty quota.” he said. The Farm Bureau leader urged the women of the organization to accept a greeted responsibility in this year's membership drive. “In the past the Farm Bureau Women of our county have been of untold value in membership work and we will have to rely heavily upon them again this year " President Mallard said. He pointed out that the North Carolina Farm Bureau has a good chance of leading the South in membership this year if all coun ty quotas are reached. Kinston Pool Attendance Goes Up at One and Down at Another The year-end. report on at tendance at Kinston’s two city owned SWEMMING POOLS re veals a considerable Increase In tthe use o f t h e Emma Webb Park Pool and an amazingly large decrease in the use of the The previous record.-year at tendance at Emma. Webb Park pool, 1953, saw 33,739 persons use the pool. The season which ended last week saw an increase of 5367 since 39,106 swimmers passed through the pool en trance. In its second year of opera tion, the Holloway Park Pool re gistered a difficult-to-account for drop of 4,510 over the first year’s attendance; from 17,099 last year down to 12,589 this year. Emma Webb Park Pool had 6072 paid adult admissions, 23, 422 paid children admissions, ff305free admissions to children -and 2230 "frte aiimUBWtoS for swimming classes. Holloway Park Pool had only 470 paid adult admissions dur ing the 80 (lay swimming sea son, 8036 paid children admlss ionp, 3583 free admissions to children and 500 free admissions to swimming classes. Revenues turned into the city’s general fund from Emma Webb Pool totalled $4535.10 and from the Holloway Pool $968.10. i ' . Pollocksville Church Expanding *—*— —— — - — ..a' .... This is a recent view ot the new Pollocksville Methodist Church which is now nearing* completion. Work on the hand some new house of worship has been underway for some Me» and tbe congregation hopes to complete this expansion and im provement within another few weeks. (Polaroid photo-in-a minute by Jack Rider) CP&L is Asking$40,000 For $18,363 Property in Kinston; Aldermen Balk Hidden not too carefully be hind a considerable amount of words and figures the asking price of the Carolina Power and Light Company for its holdings within the city limits of Kinston was finally arrived at as $40,000 in a Tuesday morning confer ence between GP&L and Kinston Officials. Counsel Charles Rouse said ithat OP&L had used three met hods of computing the value of the Kinston holdings. Method/ one had come to $80,600. Method No. 2 was $84,700 and Method No. 3 was $85,023. But after explaining these computations Rouse explained that CP&L did not expect Kin ston to pay any such price and it (CP&L) had decided that a “fair figure” was $40,000. Then Alderman Ed. Johnson asked the “$64 Question”, “How much is the value of your pro perty in Kinston?” Rouse very quickly replied, “Eighteen thousand three hun dred and eighty three dollars”. City officials had earlier been advised by their own utilities department that approximately $18,000 was a fair value of the physical inventory of CP&L’s properties inside Kinston. The four aldermen present— Joihnlson, John Rider, Charlie Sanders and Prank LaRoque, were unanimous In the view that the $40,000 asking price of CP&L was “too much”. Now it is up to the city t o make a price that i t considers fair to CP&L and as soon as this figure can be agreed upon a nother meeting is planned, so Mayor Guy Elliott pointed out in adjourning this Tuesday session. Jones Negro Farm Bureau Drive To Start The 1954 Farm Bureau Mem be: ship drive will officially be gin for all Negro farmers in Jones County 7.45 p. m. September 24th At that time there will be a bar-b-cue supper served at Jones High School free to all Jones countyr famers whether a farm1 budeau member or not. The membership is only $4 per family SeedmanN. B. Johnson Producing Satisfied Customers For most tobacco farmers the season is all over but the shout ling. For N. B. Johnson, largest producer of certified tobacco seeds in Lenoir County, the work is just beginning. For the past several years Johnson has done an outstand ing job of seed production and the two fields, pictured here at the peak of the growing season wtere produced from seed sold by Johnson. I At left Johnson is seen with Fred Heath of Vance Township looking over some of this John son-bred tobacco and at right Lenoir County Agient Joe Koonce Jr. is seen on the farm of Quin cy Cunningham afco of Vance Township where more Johnson bred tobacco is growing much to the satisfaction of both. Johnson personally supervises every step of the seed produc tion: selecting the stalks, watch ing over them during the grow ing season, harvesting the seed, cleaning them after they have dried for a period and finally packaging them for the market. Johnson is mot the largest producer of seed in this area, but he does nyUntain, and his eastomeirs agree, that he pro duces seed equal to any produced anywhere.. .
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