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COUNTY W, N. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 19SS •** v /m Wv S - / m i* f ■ l! Kv ' ;y^L. % Dedication Now Community Center Scheduled for 7:30 Thursday Night xjeujraiuiun ui uue uww rmr field Community Center wtil take place Thursday Night, January 27 at 7:90. Featured speaker tor the occasion will be Df. John D. Meesicfc, President of East Caro lina College In Greenville. The program! will open with tbe Invocation by Rev. James H. Miller, President of the Kin ston Ministerial Association. Following this will W a concert by the Grainger High School Band under the baton of Barry G. Shipman. The program wifi then move into the introduction of guests, to be followed by special music by the “Voealords”, a barber shop Quartet group composed of Ray Petty, Jim Del Papa, Dave Poling and Bob Armistead, after which Dr. Mes sidfc will give the. dedicatory ad dress. Following Dr. Messick on tbe program will be the Grainger High School Glee (Rub directed by James R.v Hall. The Kinston Folk Dance Club under the guidance of Sarah K. Davis will give i a demonstration of Folk Dabbing after which teams from the Boys Termite Basketball - League will stage an abbreviated basketball game under the su pervision of Tracy Haft. Shriners Give $20,000 Checks To Orphanage As Ceremonials Of Winter Close In New Bern By Billy Arthur New Bern — The Oxford Or phanage at Oxford and the Methodist Orphanage at Raleigh today were presented checks, for $10,000 each by Sudan Temple Shriners as their, shares of the proceeds of the annual Orphan age Bowl Football Game in Ral eigh last October. Announcement of the presen tations came at the Temple’s annual business meeting fdtfdh saw J. LeRoy Allen of Raleigh elevated to Potentate of shrin ers throughout Eastern < North Carolina. He succeeds J. Ed Following the formal program the building will opened for in spection of the Arts and Crafts exhibit, under the direction of Mary H. Howard. The Arts and Crafts exhibit will be made up of various types of craft work, paintings and other related ob jects created through vartouas phases of the Recreation De partment program. , At left here is James Jones, tenant on the Lovit White Farm near La Grange, who was fonitd guilty of manslaughter by a Lenoir County Jury Wednesday afternoon in the shotgun death of Coy Davis, another tenant farmer of the same section* At press time late Wednesday after noon Presiding Judge Joseph Parker had not passed sentence on Jones. To Jones' left are his attorneys Tom Griffin and Jesse A. Jones. (Polaroid photo-ln-a minute by Jack Rider) Bower, Jr. of Warrenton, who served last year. It was also announced that during 1954 Sudan Shrinera contributed more money to the Greenville milt of the Shrlner’s Crippled Children Hospital than ever before in the history of the New Bern Temple, Part of the activity, participation in the Shrine Bowl Football Game at Charlotte, won for tfie Temple for the second consecutive year the coveted W. H. Palmer tro phy for showing the greatest percentage Increase over prior years. Today's activities dosed the Winter Ceremonial. They Includ ed an initiation of candidates and the Potentate’s Ball. A mam moth parade of a score of high school bands, the Temple’s Uni formed Units and floats was wit nessed by thousands of persons as It moved through the New Bern business district at noon. 'Army Medl Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Sergeant Morgan, who has since returned to his regular duties with the iU. S. Army Hospital at Fort Monroe, Va., re ceived class-room instruction and on-the-jOb training during his 14-week course. Lower retail prices have led to increased butter consumption by United States householders according to estimates published by the Agricultural Marketing Service of the UJS.D.A Commercial slaughter of cat tle, calves, sheep and lambs, and hogs, In North Carolina during October, 1954 was the second highest monthly total or record. This is a duly scene some where on the streets of Kinston, ] and it’s hard to say where the most blame actually lies. Is it with the driver who runs down and kills some kid’s doc, or is the fault with the doc owner who lets the animal ran at large? No matter whose fault it is, it’s still a right unhappy situation. Re cently Ray Jenkins, local furni ture salesman, swerved his car to avoid hitting a dog and wound up with several hundred dollars damage to Ms car and another car he had struck while trying to save the life of a dog that may have not been worth ten cents— except .to the boy that owned hidt. Certainly some responsibi lity rests pith both the dog own er and the driver. But so long as several thousand cars a day flit up and down our streets and several hundred dpgs run at large you will frequently see a scene such as this. (Polaroid nhoto-in - a - minute by Jack Rider.) Bad Weekend on Poles Hwo power line poles were snapped off by men booked for reckless driving over the week end period in Kinston. William E. Williams of 6 E Mitchell Woo ten Courts was first booked on this charge after his car had skidded several hundred feet Powell also faces char and snapped'off a pole at the corner of Adkin and King n^Mwer^n /fl&A OnmAll flOfi ges of leaving the scene of an accident and stealing an auto xoibile. Liquor Charges Made The past weekend saw a covey of Lenoir Countians rounded up on charges of violating the liquor laws, to wit by having varying amounts of “home made” whis ky on. hand when ABC Officers Clarence Bland, Paul Young and Charlie Barwick made un scheduled visits. Those nabbed include the following: Lehman Exum of 511 East Bright, Joe W. Hill of 523 East Bright, Boy Bouie of Kinston route one, Brank Best of 330 1-2 Sonth Queen and Jesse Frank Warren of Hookerton, route one. Each was placed under $100 bond. Presiding Judge This is Judge Joseph Parker of Windsor who is presiding judge in the Sixth Judicial Dis trict until June 30th, and who is conducting his first court in Lenoir County this week. Judge Parker, a native of Bertie Coun ty, is Resident Judge of the Third Judicial District, where he Succeeded Judge Hunt Parker when the Halifax Countian was promoted to the Supreme Court Bench. (Polaroid photo-in-a minute>«by Jack Rider) ■' 1 V 7 Icy Road Results In This Kinston Entanglement On Tuesday This picture dearly reveals what often happens when / a little too much speed anil toy highways are combined. David Best of Kinston youte three, driving the ear at left here, was headed Into Kinston just after S a. m. Monday morning when he lost control of bis car. Skid ding across the four lane road* way, Best’s car slammed side ways into a truck driven by Barry /ones of MB Lincoln Street, which suddenly stopped the track, causing a Coke truck driven by N. B. Evans Jr. to ram, as shown, into the side of the
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