S COUNTY
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY MAY 10, 1956
VOLUME VII
resulted in NezrBern winning na
tional recognition and the , look
magazine award' as having the
nations most outstanding safety
check - *
Tenative plans for the week are
as follows:
efieck lanes win be open at 8
a. m. Monday marnfcig.M.ay 14th.
Governor Luther Hodges is sche
duled' to arrive to the city Mon.
days* 2:30 at the local airport
and fffl be met by tocM,officials:
Mayor u»<*7 L, Ughn, County
cfaMhtmn Geo. W. Ipockaad Stutts.
S^ate Highway patrolmen will
escort the Governor and his party
to New Bern where he will be
Committee officials* CHy officials
sod invited «u(S#.<
Safety Parade wffl begin at if. “It
and be led by the Governor ns far
as the reviewing stand. At 4 P. M.
Governor Bodges will address the
citizens of New Bern on the Mb.
ject of Safety.
Plans call for the continuation
ot, operation of the check lanes
during the parade and related ac
tivities. Chedt Ianea will dose at
• P.- M. each day for tabulation of
results, lit is planned to entertain
the Governor and gueSte by a
yacht tftpnd the Neuse and Trent
rivers following the Parade and
Governors speech.
Tuesday has been set aside as
“Industrial Day” honoring work
ers from all industries large or
small in the surrounding area.
Wednesday will feature a. Water
Ski Show on the waters of Neuse
and Trent Rivers id the vieinity
of' the Womans Club at Union
Point.
Thursday wall be “Farmers
. Day” and wiQ honor local farm
people A special Rar-B-Que and
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JAMES A. STUTTS
related activities is being planned.
Tenative plans call for US Sena
tor Kerr Scott to attend.
Friday has been designated as
“Karine Corps Say” in honor of
the nearby Karine Corps Air Sta
tion at Cherry Point and in grate
lid recognition of the aid apd
help given the personnel of* the
Air Station to the Safety Check
Program.
Flans call for the Air Station to
furnish 100 uniformed Military Po
lice to aid in the operation of the
Cheek lanes during the week.
Sadbday will wind up the activi
ties and will be dim a red by an
'appreciation Banquet honoring all
workers of the lanes. Representa
tives of LOOK magazine and the
National Safety CoupcR are ex
A portrait of de* Newton Smith
namesake of American Legion
Post No 154, Trenton, will be un
veiled in th^ Legion Hut at 8
Saturday. ' ■} ' f '
Smith was the first Jones Count
ian killed during World War H.
Jft died on the destroyer USS
Seirwnes during the'Battle of the
Gbrai Sea. He joined the Navy
October 9, 1941, and died May 8,
■'1842. ' "'v
He was a son of the late Mrs.
Beadde Collins Smith and Alev
Dewitt Smith. In addition to his
father, he is survived by tour sis
ters and four brothers, only one
of Whom, Clifton D. Smith, now
eside in the area.
, Jonh Larkins is scheduled to
deliver the main speech at the
unveiling ceremony.
Commissioners
The Board of Commissioners of
!Jones County started investiga
tions preliminary to construction
Of two short roads in the county.
Monday the commissioners or
dered a survey On j road one half
mile long branching off from North
Carolina 41, known as Community
Lane, at Ragles Nest Farm.
The second road woujd serve 21
Emilies Uving on the outskirts of
MaysvMle. They now have a foot
path and cannot, operate motor
vehicles to their romes.
A report from John Yates, soil
conservationist, concerning th^
progress of work to dear storm
damages ffom the county’s rivers
and streams was received.
, The commissioners authorized
G. C. Herritage, county account
ant; to evecute papers on behalf
.of the comity in connection witr
Civil Defense Administration or
State of North Carolina efforts to
correct ' damage done by last
year’s' hurricanes.
Jones Sheriffs Get
Another Distillery
Sheriff Brown Bates and Deputy
Roy Mallard last week' destroyed
another ‘backwoods distillery ini
Chinquapin Township with an 800_
gallon mash capacity and a 100
gallon still.
The mash barrels wore empty,
; Cither indictments reported for
the-past wee* in Jones County
included that of Camp Lejeune
Marine Prince A. Harper who was
arrested Saturday by Patrolman
Marvin Thomas on charge of driv
ing after his license had been
$fn?fepd. speeding and reckless
driving. Also Patrolman L. S.
Heiggs booked Francis Dixon of
Maysville- on charge of public
drunkenness, disorderly conduct
and possession of stumphole
whisky.
Judge Bundy to Preside
Over Jones Court Next
Week in Civil Session
judge w. j. eunay ot ureenvilie
will convene a one . week civil
term of County's Superior
Court ot Monday morn
ing With a lamge numiier of un
contested divorces and other civil
causes scheduled for hearing dur
ring the week. "
Judge Bundy served for many
yean as solicitor of tfie district
which indtfdes Jones-County and
It no stranger to the Jones County
Court Hohge, but this will be his
second agperance in Trenton in
the role of Judge.
Earlier this year he presided
I over a criminal term and during
that week shipped a $4,000 fine
oh a big shot Waype County boot
legger, who had managed to get
himself nabbed whHe visiting one
of his stills to> Jones County. This
w the Mggest line ever levied in
the Jad^ County court. ,
docket are well over 20 years old
and In many instances both the
plaintiff and the defendant are
dead or moused away (tom this
area. «' xiu4L.
through non-suit after efforts to
,get an answer from any of die in
volved parties are unsuccessful.
Marriage License
Jones dounty Register of Deeds
George Noble reports the issue of
two marriage licenses in tile past
a strenuous enam is oemg maae
to clear some of the old cases from
the county's civil calender and , a
big hole IS expected to be cut
hito this backlog of cases next
week. Some of the cases still bn
week:
-' To George Walker Jr.,' 20 of
Kinston route three and Frances
Jean Roberts, .19, of Tuckahoe
Township on May 9th. And also
On May 5tr to Robert George Cook,
/Comfort School Is
Tops in Field Day
Meet Jones Central
■Ehe first Jones County Field
Day was held fit Jones Central
High School last Friday with four
elementary schools participating.
A total of 126 ribtoits Were pre
sented to students from Trenton,
Comfort, PollocksVilte 'apd Mays
ville.
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First place winners from Tren
ton were Martha Sasser, Annie
■tones, Pat Huffman, Susan Vas
sey, Faye Haifcett, Larry Swm
son, Edgan Mills, Douglas Scott,
Glenn Spivey, Wellyn Dawson,
Freddie Spence and Johnny Boy
ette.
Comfort Winners:
Dorothy Webb, Lou Jarmon, Peg
gy Craft, Patricia Jenkins, Ruth
Miller, Anne Brown, Nola Bonner,
Zeldsa Westbrook, Patricia Jen
kins, Edan Faye Jones, and Doro
thy Philyaw, Gene Philyaw, Wil
liam Eubanks, Ronald Metts, Lin
wood Kennedy and Earl Brown.
Kenneth Foy, Earl Britt, Don
Cannon, and Amy Wotherington
were topribbon winners for Mays.
■Hs&me
led the four
schools in the number of contests
Events in the boys’ division
were basketball, 50-yard dash,
sack race, baseball throw, run
ning broad jump, high jump, foot
ball throw and football kick.
The girls contested in basket
ball, 50-yard dash, sack race,
softball throw, running' broad
jump and high jump.
22, of Bristol, Tenn. and Eunice
Burkett, 23, of Kinston.
Everybody Drinking Own Liquor;
Eating Own Fish Stew in Jones;
Politics are Desperately Quiet
Voters in Jones County are faced
with what many term an intoler
able situation for an election year.
One disgruntled qualified voter
puts it -this way: “Some election!
Nobody’s doing nothing! We’re
haying to buy our own whisky and:
cook our own fish stews! Now, I
ask you what kind of an election
time is that?"
The answer to that question is
generally'pretty well agreed won;
that jt “ain’t much of sip election’’.
_ Even those -few who are out
campaigning admit this is true.
, About the only race before the
Voters of the county that is being
given even a second glance is that
lor the job of Register of Deeds
which if being vacated by the re
tirement of Incumbent George
Milan LaRoque.
“few and far between”. Seven men
are seeding the-five posts on the
county’ board of commissioners.
Aiming these are four incumbents,
9hamas StiUey, -Harold Mallard,
Bruce Simmons and D. A. Jones.
The other incumbent dgar Philyaw
has dropped out and is not seek
ing re-election. Others in the race
are Paul Gilbert, Charlie Davis
and Wayne Jarman.
The incumbent board of educa
tion is unopposed; which makes it
smooth sailing for J. C. West Jr.,
J, C. Wooten, W. . “Mike” Phil
lips, John Hughes Pollock and C.
J. Banks. It would appear that
the . segregation bugaboo has
scared competition awajy from this
offietC,1 -
Representa tiy e John
another two
Ggneral .Assem
for tt;
who
his way to his
Trenton Township "has competi
tion lal of its own in a,.-, race be
tween Jason /Arthur and Dewey
Smtih for constable, a post va
cated over a year ago when Con
stable Roy Mallard resigned to
accept a deputy sheriff job.
Cypress Creek Constable Qy Grif
fin in unopposed ,93d W. J- Metts
has no opposition fat.the job of
county coroner. .
In the senatorial scrap" in the
7th district which includes Greene,
Craven, Lenoir, Carteret, Opslow
and Jones counties the story is
the same. The incumbents, Ed
Sd Summer sill of Onslow and Carl
Hicks of Greene, stepped aside
to let two. veteran politicians re
turn to the legislative halls after
tong' absences.' John Dawson of
Lenoir and Lu&er Hamilton of
Carteret '
Of course, at the state level
there’s plenty of competition but
folks in Jones County aren’t too
interested, an attitude felt in most
counties where there is no pressing
local fights to create Merest.
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