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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER Li TRENTON, N, C, THURSDAY May 3,1956 VOLUME VII Th. Maysville T. working ')» mate* part in H» Finar Carolinp It has raconMy bougfcta box, tables, ■ record player, end several semes to use during meet ings on Friday nights. Pictured above at left are Sue ’ ’ t 1 Poseue and Bonnie Meiggs Celling candy1 to Mr*. Jo Thompson and at right a group of teenagers are enjoying a game purchased with rSome of the money made. 1_ML_li_'. Jones Sheriff Reports Trouble With Stumphole Makers, Sellers, Users The past week was strictly a whisky week for Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates. Not that the Sheriff was imbibing himself, but all of hjs department’s activities for ttys past week were caused, in on the Goldsboro Lumber Com pany farm in Tnckahoe Township end although the rig was in operaa tion the men at the stfli got away. Only one road runs into the still area and as the officers came in the still operators toofcoff through tile woods. There were five 400 gallon mash boxes, two 50-gaHon mash barrels and a small steel drum still with copper coil. > Sheriff Yates said he was go ing to question Eddie Murphy, te: nant on the farm where the still was found' and if h$ didn't have T \. | This smiling citixeh it Kinston policeman Jl F. Spence Jr., saw 1 krttb a pairofnice-slmd rack’ll*, netted laat weak wHfc a skim nat < .biNton River severe! rail** above Kinston. Th* larger weighed ha.ak |i pounds end Ilia small fugitive , t dram * fish stew pot weighed six ■ t11 pounds. 1 t 'f? • same pretty good answers be was going to indict him for‘the still’s operation. The still, mash and about a gallon of freshly run “pan. ther juice” were destroyed by Tates and Mallard. the peddling department Ira TiiH Bines of Kinston route- one was booked for drunken driving. Four Teen-agers Held On Armed Robbery Kinston Police and Sheriffs De. partment Tuesday night cooperat ed in' the arrest of four teenagers in connection with an armed rob bery. Private Gerald Chuenaces of Camp.Lejeune, the reported vic tim of the robbery, says that the four picked him up and relieved him of $30 at the point of a dag ger in the hands of Bobby R. Cade of Kinston route two. , ,The other , three teen-agers are charged with aiding and abetting in the robbery assault. They are David D. Dail and William M. Loftin also of Kinston route two and Billy R. Butler of Ayden route one. "■ Officers Report that the quartet first picked up Ernest Tyndall of 313 East Lenoir Street, but dump ed him after finding that he had no money. For Two Kinstonians Joe Hinson of £00 Perry Street and Bruce Rider of till Abbott Street were placed on probation last week in Federal Court in Washington,, - ,v :/ ” , |k Both had pled guilty to em .bezzejmenit, of federal *mds. Han son from the Farmers HOme Adr ministration and Rider from the Kinston poet office. Each had | made full repayment of the funds High Speed Chase is Triple Trouble for Cove City Resident Jesse B. Riggs of Owe City route one wound up under tripple charges Wednesday morning after he tried to outnin ABC. Officers Clarence Bland apd Paul Young. Caught in upper Vance Town, ship, Riggs is charged with speed ing 80 miles per hour, failure to heed to a siren and driving with but a license. k ■ ; ■;*. ■ . c ■ Trenton Fifth Grader Drowns Friday Morning nuneen year-oia tsoooy (jnase, son oi Mr.-and Mrs. Henry Chase of Trenton, was drowned early Friday morning in a freak acci dent at Mussle Shel Creek near Friendship Free Will Baptist Church eafct of Trenton. Thp fifth grade student was -helping his father A about 5 a. riv. bail waiter from the crepk in a deep hole washed out by the floods, that followed last yea’rs hurricanes. • ' 'The young fellow either tripped or lost his balancl and fell in the creek while getting Water for -a tobacco transplanter. His father at. tempted to rescue tile child but almost drowned in the unsucessful attempt. Fuberal services were held from Friendship Free Will Baptist Church Sunday' (April 29) and burial followed jn, the church cemetery. ' ' '■ —... 1" New Projects Chosen By Maysville PTA in Finer Carolina Race ~ The PTA Finer Carolina Com mittee met April 16 at the home of Mrs. Robert Mattocks to decide on a ndw project. The new piano and the^ luoch— room projects are well underway, so the committee decided to im prove and furnish a much needed teachers’ lounge in the school. They will also improve the tea chers’ rest-room and add a first aid kit to the lounge. Those attending the meeting were Mrs. Ed Warren, chairman,. Mrs Mattocks, publicity chairman, Mrs 'Kathryn Holden, Mrs. Kay Jen kins and Mrs. Frances Hay. Jones County 4-H’ers Urged Make Early Application for Summer Camporee June 11-16 Assistant Farm Agent Williams Shackelford this week urged all Jones County 4-H Club members to make an early application to at tend the annual 4-H Camp which is being held this year at Camp Sehaub near Waynesville in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Oarolina. ' Only 33 4-H’ers can attend this year. Each must have' an active 4-H project and must have his re cord book of the project up to date. Application to attend the en I camipment must be accomplished ,--i-' ——— irJEZJas B. W. COLLINS NOW Sup?** AT PBARL HARBOR - pearl Harbor, t h. (fh TNC) — B.. W. Collins, chief quar. termaster, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Collins of Maysville, and husband of the former Miss Margaret Carstensen of Oakland, Or eg., participated in a six hour “Dependents’ Cruise” April 6 while serving aboard the Pacific Fleet escort destroyer USS Ep person, operating out of Pearl Har. The cruises, which were only bor, T. H. recently authorized by the Navy, are designed to acquaint depend ents with how their husbands and fathers live and work at sea. The Eppfrson is flagship of Es cort Division 12. JOHN B. HAWKINS RETURNS FROM CARIBBEAN EXERCISE QUONSET POINT, R. I. (FHTNC) — John B. Hawkins, chief aviation (machinist’s mate, USN, husband of the former Miss Norma Outlaw of .Route 2, Trenton, returned to Quonset Point, R. I., March 30 with Navy Patrol Squadron 8 after completing participation in Opera tion “Springboard” in the Carib bean. - The spring training exercise was designed to coordinate units of th® Atlantic Fleet in amphibious operations. with $13 and the up-to-date pro ject record book, Shackelford em phasized. Total cost of the week will be $25, with the balance payable on the morning of departure from Trenton. The' trip will be made toy chartered bus. • Full information on the trip can be obtained from any member of the extension department or by calling the farm agent’s office in Trenton. held its annual May Day celebra tion, May' first. There was open house from 8 until 10 a. m. dur ing which visitors were invited to all the rooms. The grades had a science ex hibit on display in the library and an adjoining room. From 10 until noon the first six grades performed different games and dances they had learned during the year. Then there was a picnic from 12 until 1 on the school grounds. During the remainder of the afternoon, there were races, high jumps and soft ball games. Child ren and grownups alike enjoyed the day. Wyse Fork Home Clubbers 56 Project Centers in Improving Their Church Interior The Wyse Fork Home Demon stration Club took for its 1956 pro ject improving the ihside of their Church, Pilgrim’s Home Free Will Baptist Church. A Committee including: Mrs. Thomas Hood Jir., Mrs: Robert White, and Mrs. Eugene Hood was appointed toy the (president to check the needs and to have ma terial ready for work by the 14th of February. On that day all the ladies came prepared to work with mops, brushes, dothes buckets and lunch. By the end of the first day one coat of' varnish had been applied to four pine panelled rooms, one coat of paint to two others and walls of the nursery wall papered. The following afternoon the hoc’ers wall papered the beginners room ■and completed the walls of the rooms that were worked on the day before,, also mopped floors so they would be ready for paint the next day. The floors of four rooms were painted and linoleum rugs laid in the nursery and be ginners room. This completed work for the first week. The second week husbands were 'called for help in sanding the floors c£ the rooms that were finished ip pine panelling. After which two coats of varnish were put on the floors to finish up the Sunday School rooms. ■ The thjrd.week the Home Club hers varnished the floor of the auditorium and- vestibule and waped all file floors. The club got lots of praise from its Pastor, neighbors, and visitors for its work. ■ ■ ' __ _
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