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NUMBER XI TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 21. 195S VOLUME VII i THE JONES COUNTY r»—* -V 1 Inhere flue tobacco growers can cast ballots on referendum, day, - 33, according to Bert Smith, Chairman of the Lenoir Agricul tural stabilization and Conser vation Committee, Tb£ polls will be opened from 8:00 (A. tfi.. to 7:00 P.M. All flue-cured tobacco growers of record have been notified of what their 1966 acreage allot ments will be if marketing quo tas continue In effect and the location of the polling place for their community. Poling places for the county are: Contentnea — D. W. Hamil ton’s Store and P. W. Stokes’ Store; Falling Creek -*■ Roland Dawson, Jr.’s Store and George Smith’s Store; Institute — L. D. Hardy’s Store; Kinston — Agri cultural Building, and Kirby Loftin’s Store (Greenville Hi way); Pink Hill — Roy Taylor’s Store (Rlchlands Highway) and CDU Sspply Co.;' Sand Hill — White’s Service Station; South west — Roger Morris’s Store (near Southwood School); Trent No. 1 — X R. Davenport’s Store (Deeu Run); Trent No. 2 — Moss Hill Service Station; Vance — A. L. Wall’s Store; WoOdlng ton — Harry Waller’s Store and Roscoe Williams’ Store. The vote win determine whe ther the, program whlcA has been in continents operation since 1940, will be in effect for the crops of 1956, 1957, and 1958; for the 1956 erdp only; or dis continued in 1956. If at least two thirds of the growers vot third of the votes are opposed to marketing quotas, price sup port and quotas will not be in effect for the 1958 crop. In a similar referendum In 1952 when a total of 260,16$ flue cured tobacco growers voted, 254,917 pr 97.8 per eent favored quotas for § years, 3,207, or 12 per cent were opposed. The 3 year period of operation result ing from that yote ends with the 1955 crop. up u This is Billy HoUowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. gill HoUowell of 14dl McAdoo Street, who teamed with Marshall Sapper this week to win the Junior Doubles Cham pionship at the annus! Sand hills Invitational Tourney in Southern Pines. (Alter three and a half hours of deliberation Monday the Kin ston City council put its unan imous stamp of approval on the largest budget In the 200-year history of the community. Final total $2,206,082.67, was $154,512.37 greater than the tentative bud get prepared earlier by Mayor Guy Elliott and' City Clerk T. W. Heath. The major share of the addi tion made to the tentative bud get was made to the utilities de partment which got ah extra $125,000; $65,000 of that was for finishing ~«p tie present work being done at the power plant and the other $60,000 was for a power plant sinking fund for future expansion of the facility. The largest addition other than that for the power plant whs for paying one-half of the amount the city is being billed for the widening of South Queen Street. That totalled $14,912.37. Another $7,000 was included for opening up Daniels Street between Independent Street and the Old Snow Hill Road. For cleaning out the Adkin from the northern city limits to Neuse River another. $5,000 was added. And a final $3,000 was added for additions and repairs to Grainger Stadium’s lighting sysi tem. Items not included in the bud get, but set up for funds if fin ances permit during the com Child Not Yet Found Clarence Lee Williams, 'two and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Williams of the Contentnea Neck section of Le noir County, Ms not yet been found. The child wandered away from (the tenant house home of his parents on the Craven Brooks farm at about 4 p. m. last Wednesday„(July 13) and no trace of him has yet been, found. Bloodhounds traded the child to within 50 yards off Contentnea Creek, where the child had been fishing earlier in the same day with is mother. Officers of the sheriffs department and volun teer workers combed a four square mile area and dragged a considerable part of the creek with no success. tag year included a $10,000 sink ing fund tor a community cen ter for Holloway Park, $7,200 for tiling an open ditch between Holman Street and Queens Road and $3,000 for Social Se curity payments if the city em ployees-vote to accept that re tirement system in preference to the present state retirement system. Clyde Ward Killed in Trenton Clifton Coz Held for'Murder rmrty year old Clyde Ward, son of Sam Ward pf the Tren ton section, died enroute to a hospital Saturday night from a knife wound he Is said to have suffered In a fight with Clifton Cox, also of Trenton. According to Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates his infor mation is tmt the men engaged in a brawl In the negro section of Trenton Saturday night and during the fight Cox stabbed Ward in the upper right chest with a pocket knife. The cut apparently severed a main blood vessel and Ward bled to death before he could reach medical aid. Cox fled the scene of the kill ing, Yates said and reportedly spent Saturday night in Kin ston but Sunday morning at about 9 o’clock Cox came to the sheriff’s office in Trenton with a relative, Thomas Barbour, and surrendered. ~ * He is being held on a charge of second degree murder, pend ing trial at the September term of Jones County’s Superior ! Court. Marshall Happer Wins State Junior Tennis Championship ' At right here Marshall Hap per literally towers over pave Pearsall of Charlotte just after KinrfnniMi Hopper hini defeated PeanaU for the Junior Singles Championship of North .Carolina, this week Happer won the Jun ior singles championship at the animal Sandhill Invitational Tourney at Sonthern Pines and th$n teamed with another hto stonian* Billy HoihnreU, to tain the Junior doubles of the tourney. ^ " In the past several years Kin ston has more or less gotten use to having championship athle tes in its midst. In footballs basketball and baseball an im posing array of championship trophies has bfeen collected hy the teams of Grainger and Ad kin High Schools. But a new “flavor” of cham pion has come upon the Kinston scene in the form-of State Jun ior Singles Tennis Champ Mar shall- Happer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mills Happer of East High land Avenue, and by a slightly lesser degree in Billy Hollowell, son of Mr. and Mrs.. Bill Hollo well of MoAdoo Street, who teamed up with Happer this week to take the Junior Boys doubles championship in the annual Sandhill Invitational Tourney at Southern Pines. Hap per also copped the singles crown in this tourney by top ping Billy Weaver of Durham. As one picture in this group indicates Happer has been col lecting tennis trophies for some time. A collection of 18 decora tes the top of the family piano, Last Polio Shot For Kinston and Jones 1st And 2nd Graders Here District Health Officer Dr. R. J. Jones this week urged parents of all first and second graders in the Kinston schools and in Tren ton Elementary School to bring their children in for the second polio immunization shot Dr. Jones said that all rural ohildren' who received the first shat have already gotten their second innoculation and in Jones county all children attending school other than the Trenton Elementary have had their sec ond shot, and there has been no reported instance of ill effects from either the first or second shot, he reminded. The shots are available free at the health department offices at the court house in Trenton or in Kinston. Dr. Jones said the best availa ble information says that the firsft shot which was given in April of this year gives very little protection against polio — some ming less than 10 per cent — but the second shot causes the resistance to polio to jump sharply to 75 per cent or higher. The health department offices are open from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. in both Trenton and Kin ston. INDORSE TOBACCO ASSOCIATES Whitford Hill, Jack Alexander, Forrest Waller, John A. Shackel ford, and Mark Louis Smith, president of Farm Bureau urge all farmers to vote for market ing quotas on Saturday. add another room to their home just to house their son’s mount ing stack of cups. Happer and Hallowell are close friends as well as close neigh bors, living just a half block apart, and each living in less than a block of the Emma Webb Park tennis counts, where they have gotten most of their prac tice which has payed off so well in the past several- months. They’re good and getting bet ter all the time, and Mrs. Happer says it’s begin ning to look like they’ll have to ..This is the impressive army of trophies collected by 17-year old Marshall Happer as he has climbed to the State Junior Sin play. Eighteen trophies ranging from «ity honors all the way up to- the state championship «• w»w the family piano.
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