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Jones County, and the steer was a fall brother to the grand champion of the 19M show. The champion steerbelonging to Mbs Foy was purchased at the aele following the show by the Frosty Morn Packing Cbmpany for M cents a pound. ( Polaroid photos. Iw.a-mlnute by Jack Rider.) ro High School in Trenton The Guidance Committee of Jones County ttwmihated Its program for the year hy spon soring its second Career Day Clinic at Jones High School last Friday. Some of the hlsfrllghtg prior itsr,MSJ3 ESE School at North Oaroiffia Col lege at Durham who was tafao dnced by A. a Bryant, Principal of Trenton Elementary School. C. C. Frarite, Principal of the boot school, extended weteom lng remarks to the vtaltlng con sutbants and-guests.;Greetings from Jones County Board of Education were given hy yf'. B. Moor, Superintendent of Jones County Schools.' p. m. with Howard Smith, Prin cipal of Jones County Elemen tary School at Polloc&sville, pre attfag was given over to reports from the various vocational STOOD*. Raymond Brown — Agricul ture; Rosalind JMurreU -- Busi ness Education; Doiphua W1L v Earns — Health and Physical • Education; Wattle Brown _ Marriage and Pamlly Life; DriUi - Brown _ Nutelng; Sallle Stray layette Parker; Shaw University at Raleigh, Dr. Grady Davis. In addition to' the college representatives the following consultants participated in the activities — Dr. R. L. Bailey, Professor of Poultry Husbandry, A. & T. oUegeandR. G. Watkins, Jones Central High School Agri culture; William A. Haynes, At. abates Recruiting T. Kyle, North Carolina College it Durham — Marriage and Family life; D. J. Leuhardt, Kin ston — Recreation; Mildred Mc Tyre and nr. Grady Davis, Shaw University— Religion; Janies L. Jenkins, A. St.T. College — Trades; Mrs. Melba Skinner, Supervisor of Nurses, Good Shep herd Hospital, New . Beta —• Nursing; Mn. Daisy Walker Rob. son, State Supervisor of Momen tary Schools, Raleigh — Baneo tary Education. ^ l A mall collection box, with an extension for receiving mail 1ms been placed at the curb on Queen Street in front of the Post Office for the convenience of patrons to deposit for mailing, letters and Jtaitge size envelopes irom veni The particular bills referred w> give me counqy poara oc com. misaloners authority to levy up to 16 cento on the hundred dol lar valuation for support of the home agent and farm agent of fices, and Ole other permits a 10 cent levy for support of forest fire controls in the county. The present limits for those two operations are 10 cento for tiie farm and home agents of fices and five cents for the fores try work. Presuming that the commissioners did see fit to use tax Increase ** view of aHspe dal Jones legislation would be five cents, and there is no indi cation at this joint as to whe ther or not ttie commissioners •will use the pldfttr to make such increases. 4 ) The official also pointed out that both of these permissive pieces of legislation were re quested by large groups of people in the county who felt the need for additional support for the extension offices and for fores try nod. Jones County Taxpayers Forgot Their Flivvers at jbisting Time .limes unuwgi itu wuccwi Zelle Pollock says her office has bailed out 700 totters to residents of Jones County who “forgot” to list their cars and trucks dur ing the ,annual tax listing. Many of these letters went to people dress who possibly lived in an other county. Miss Pollock still felt that a great many dollars would be added to the overall personal property listings in the county. The tax collector’s office had wijwj uitu to usi, more than one vehicle, Miss Pollock pointed out. I Admitting .that the master Hat from the State Department of Motor Vehicles Included some people with a Jones County ad been furnished with the master list from the Motor Vehicles De. parturient for cross-checking, and although It was a tedious task to check the Vehicles listing In | the county, It will be profitable to the county. Crimes of Perverkion Dominate Lenoir Court Docket Next Week Solicitor Walter Britt has scheduled 29 persons lor trial during the April 2oth term of Lenoir County’s Superior Court add four of that number are facing charges involving various kinds «of sexual perversion. Welsey Mervin, a Goldsboro carpenter, faces 10 separate charges of assault and indecent exposure in cases that involved small girls attending Harvey Of committing a crime against nature. Perhaps the most lengthy docketing in the history of the court was recorded against Nurse Ruby Ipock of New Bern who faces 55 separate charges of nar See Court Pace Fire Jones Merchant Beaten, Robbed Tuesday Night inn is uesue none, Jones County fanner and merchant, as he appeared Wednesday morn. ing,9 hours after he mthrnU. ly assaulted and robbed by an unknown assailant who eaaeped with about ISO* In cash and |800 In cheeks. White suffered a compound fracture of the lower right leg, a mutilated Index fin. gar on his right hand and a bad. ly damaged left eye, plus many other. brutoes and minor outs about the head and body. . • White said he had Just closed hlsstore in te Dm Grove oom muhity at 'about U>15 and wss walking to his home whioh Is dwoi M feet north of the store. As he neared, the oar port of his home *he unknown Negro assailant spoke; before Witte bar were taken and while the thief was picking the bar tv White said he slipped Us pocket, book iwlth about $400 h aqd $800 in cheeks out threw it up under a car. The thief returned, however, and got the .money from under the ear. . ' ppfg Daritf the assault, White call, ed to Us wife who was inside. Mrs White ran out and tried to pull the thief off her husband and suffered the loss of a fin. to and a finger nail by the biting ' she was knocked to the ground * in the brutal and premeditated White sayagllfee can say about the man la that It was a Negro, about six feet tall and he be lieves that he was wearing over alls with a bib. Lenoir and Jones County officers and Highway Patrolmen obtained a blood hound and tracked the assail ant for a short r*** but lost the trail at a nearby road where it apparent he completed his
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