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COUNTY IER L TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY APRIL 26,19U VOLUME HI Branch i wNch it Proitct". TU* A* Hm W Rpad. This picture wit taken at the point just beyond the Trenton. Kinston highway near Leslie White's store. The Vino Swamp part of Hie project extends from the paved road through the Copeland farm up back of the David. Williams farm, across the Cobb Road and some several hundred yard be. yonil Cobb Road. It includes 10,730 fee* of this kind of, cleaning out, deepening and widening that is pictured hare. Chinquapin Community 4-H Club Organized; President iKores Heath; 16 Members William Shackelford, Assistant County Agent, then explained the purpose of the meeting and led a discussion as to what a community 4-H CJub could and should do for its members, leadens, and com munity. Following this discussion, the sixteen 4-H members present voted unanimously to organise a community dub. Officers were elected as follows: president, Delores Heath; vice president, Wilson Lowery Jr.; sec retary-treasurer, Robert Gray; re porter, Carolyn Price; program chairman, Bobby Heath; song leader, Dean Dudley; and recrea tion leaders, Joyce Killingsworth and Weilyn Dawson. After officers were elected, the members discussed different pro jects they would Ike to sponsor. Four members were appointed to select several projects, after in vestigating them, and reporting back to the club at its next meet ing. They are Weilyn Dawson, Bobby Heath, and Rosa Aim Gray and Joyce Killingsworth. T. Bobby Gray then moved that a special committee be appointed to. select a name tor Hie club. Mem Assistant Fire Chief a Hurt Tuesday Night Assistant Kinston Fir* Chief Joe Hailey fall lato Tuesday night White fighting a fir* in Hi* ests. Mishtnont of Robert Johnson a* 913-915 Tower Htir Road and suf. ■» ki* nnl —■-«——; IlllOUl 1 hrmlit • v ‘ r'f’:; 'vM.' ■ s&'Sifa's&z. ^ ben appointed on this committee axe Joyce Jones, Patricia Hum phrey, and Wilson Lowery, Jr. There being no further business, Shackelford showed some slides on 4-HCluto Camp and urged each member to make a special effort to attend camp this summer. , Refreshments were then served: by the leaden, llps TOIteon Wwery, Membert present in addition to the officers were Fletcher Smith, Raymond Price, Rosa Ann Gray, Walter Ives Jr„ Patricia Hum phrey, Franklin Heath, Joyce Jones, and Lillian Nicholson. Eagles Home Games April 27 — Winston-Salem /April 28 — Winston-Salem May 1 — Greensboro May 2 — Greensboro May 5 — Hi-TomS May A — Hi-Toms Sgt. Randall Mallard At Ft. Banning, Ga. Sfirt. Randall G. Mallard of Pol. locksville, recently helped Ui loam win tho Spoelal Troops com. mand volleyball championship at Fort Banning, Ga. Sorgoant Mai. lard playsd for tho command's Headquarters Company foam. Ho is a eferir in tho company. The sergeant entered tho Army in No vember 1953 and among bis decora, tions holds The ON and Korean Service' and Mrs. tovio'; Gfc.Mel .The.toil of Mr; it Sunday after, officers say he iwas trying hand. :»■<■■■ Godette, apparently traveling at above the legal speed limit, slammed into the fence around Maplewood Cemetery at the foot of liincoln Street. He was indicted by investigating officers for reckless driving and damaging city property. His car also suffered considerable dam age. Kinston Brothers Charged in Killing of Jones Tenant Farmer Family Size Still is Destroyed in Jones By Sheriff and Duputy Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports the discovery and destruction of a small “family size” whiskey still Thursday after, noon 'in White Oak Township. Yates says the still consisted of two mash barrels of a tojal ca. parity of 100 gallons and a small steel drum still. Yates admitted that it didn’t look like a vfery commercial apparatus. He was as. sisted by Deputy Boy Mallard in the location and elimination of the stumphole factory. Two theives Paroled One Jones, One Lenoir Among paroles issued in Ral eigh Monday were a pair that went to -a Jones Countian and a Le noir Oountian, both serving time for breaking, entering and lar ceny. ■: John Welsey Miller, 29 year-old Kinstonian, was sentenced in Aug ust of 1954 to a 6 to 10 year term forhis part in the theft of several thousand dollars worth ft cigar f tern in Tren ton to serve 3 to 5 years for break ing in; a Maysville business es tablishment. Johnny Wilson Has Trouble Sunday on East Washington St. Johnny Wilson of 521 Fields Street was driving east on Wash ington Street Sunday when his car for some as yet unexplained rea son rammed into the rear of a parked car belonging to Pauline Patrick of 518 Lincoln Street. In turn the Patrick car slammed Nervy Stallings Cadet Saves Taxpayers Big Hunk of Cash Aviation Cadat Donald L. Ivor, sola; cantor, i* 'bain® coneratidat. ajI. |m. Trmuati W - UUU^ nraal •Q py irumiiv w, Miiitr# prana J“t, Sarv-Afr Avfatlan Corpora. . IkT a |ab wall dona on .«»■ - «Am hi* aircraft'* angina bagan "cutting auft' ovar Aydan anrauta back ta Suiting*. Cadat Evaraol* brought tha “Man {* Stalling* and tandad avan though hi* wind wa* paaara* with Ml and WM UaW atolhlJn —uMIm, Be* Commander L». Cl. Robert A. Clendenin, left, Director Training Hoyt C. McDeria, next Evonoio, arid Director of Flying D: W. Gregg, watch at Hie cadet i'aihaalijaa . jlTo a aa^naatoHaAlaae toA & ! UPaWeWrw(g•' ■TBt®, COwyJe wowiBelCoJ® ®a ® flyfhg eatoty party at Stal. 7 & wane summons of Sto North Davis Street Is cbangM with war der and his brother, David, at 507 South Orion is held as as «* cessory before Che. fact at war der in the Saturday pistol idayhy of James Whitfield, Trenton route one tenant farmer. Captain Giasco Evans, who in vestigated the shooting which took place at 6:45 p. m. in the Palace dub at 2381-2 South Queen Street, says that eye-witness ac counts of the incident state that Willie Simmons shot Whitfield twice, after Whitfield had engaged in an argument with David Sim mons. Dennis Lee Williams, operator of the juke joint, says that Whit field and David Simmons became involved in an argument and that he came over to them and asked Whitfield to leave, since Whitfield had been involved earlier in the evening in a similar argument iwith another person in the chi). Williams has said in a written statement that Whitfield replied, OK”, turned and was starting to walk to the exit. At that point Willie Simmons appeared and shot The wound in to it once more. This second bullet struck the Jones Countian in the arm. The Simmons brothers left the club and were arrested later by Captain Evans and Policeman Leslie Moore. into another parked car belonging to John Wesley Solomon of 406 Azams Street. A total of $300 dam age to the three cars was esti mated by investigating officers and Wilson was charged with reckless driving. N. C. Symphony in Kinston Tuesday The North Carolina Symphony will present a free concert for ap proximately 1,200 school children in the Grainger High School Audi torium at two o’clock next Tues day, May 1. The free children’s concert is made possible by the adults who buy memberships in the North Carolina Symphony Society. Tuesday night, at 8:30 the sym phony will present the adult con cert in Grainger High Auditorium. Soloist will be Miss Rachel Ewing, harpist. The full Symphony of about sixty-five members will take part in both performances, con ducted by Dr. Benjamin Swalin. Tickets are available for the adult concert by calling Rev. J. C. Bradshaw at 5996 or Tom Grif fin at 6169, or they may be pur chased at the box office just be fore the performance. Frank Bell Passes Away in Richlands Funeral services were held , at 3 p. m. April 25 for 75 year-old Frank Bell of Richlands who died Monday afternoon after a lon« 3B mm. Burial was made in the Banka Family Cemetery nearCtom fcxrt.
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