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■■ i i 111 i i 1,1.1 ————- —————— TRENTON, W. C, THURSDAY 9UNE 14,19W VOLUME Vti j Two of Jones County’s Best Known m MRS. OTIS M. BANKS ma—mm ilpppli When the schools of Jones County closed for the summer two of the county’s best known and best loved 'teachers entered a weM-deserved retirement. Mrs. C.. L. Foy of Pol. lodcsville and Mr$. Otis M. Banks jot Oom<Mt;most affectionately known as “Miss Luk” and “Miss Fanny”., , ?f'g ‘Miss, Fanny” is a native Jones couotian, daughter of two more natives af Jdifies: the late Benja min M. and Annie Dwval Koonce Brown. She still lives today in the home where she was bom two and a half miles west of Comfort. “Miss Lula” is not a native of 'Stones but she' has lived .in her adapted county much longer than its average citizen, so she is no stranger. She is the daughter of the late David Freeman and Su san Mandeuel Wallace of Yeates ville in Beaufort County. .Mrs. FoyV«toeinent ended a 45-year period of service to the schools of her native and adopted ‘counties. She first taught in the public schools in 1909 at the Pungo River School near her home and she remained there for three years.! After that she returned to her , home for two years and then taught in a rural school near Washington lot a one-jrear period. j In 1916 she came to Jones County 4o teach tor the first time and but for a one-year interruption she has remained a teacher 'to either the PoHocksviHe or Mfcysvflle schools^ p<£ Mrs. McRay (Sue) Robinson of Vanceboro has presented them with their three grandchildren — two girls and one boy. their other daubster is Mrs. Lloyd (Mary Wallace) Bray of Ahoskie. - For the past 21 years Mrs. Foy has taught the first grade in the Alex H. White School at Pollocks ville. Mrs. Banks, or if you prefer,' “Miss Fanny” began her teaching career in lflll, not far from her home. After a year she went to the, teacher’s college at Greenville and then returned to the Hargett’s Crossroad School for a two year stints After that she taught in the Comfort school for a four - year period'. ;■* Following that period in her home community “Miss Fanny” deserted her native county for five years, teaching in jtearby pink Hill in the Lenoir County School Sys tem, from which she says she still has many cherished memories to day. She returned /to the Comfort School in 1930 and except'for a one. year absence caused-by sickness there’s where she remained until her retirement last month, . Each has contributed a- great deal to the communities in which (hey chose to use their gift of teach, and (he peaceful good hupior they both possess todhy is the happiest reflection of the contribution that the communtiy bas^paade to them. Th® hw* -that during haT last year of teaching at Ph* “Miss twv* married Otis M. Banks of her home neighborhood might haVe had something to do with herxe County Superintendent of Schools W. B. Moore this week re ports (the resignation of two more members of tie Jones Central High School faculty. The.latest resignations came from Hr. and Mrs. George T. Tate, who are leaving Jones County to accept positions in the faculty of the Ruth erfordton Schools. Tate has taught physical educa tion and coached the various teams of Jones Central while Mrs. Tate w«s librarian and English teacher. Last week Moore announced the resignation .of Jones Central Prin cipal and Mrs. R. M. Durham. Nei ther of 'these vacancies has been filled,yet. Moore says.. Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds Geonge Noble reports issuing only one marriage license during the past week and that went to James Edward Maready, 21, of Beaula ville and Peggy Ann Andrews, 18, of Trenton route two and was is. sued June 7. * Jones Milling Co. Gets Certificate Following, laboratory tests that showed the high efficiency of their 'grinding and mixing equipment, Jones county Feed Mill of Trenton has been issued a Certificate of Mixing Accuracy by the Ralston company to mix ftirina Micro Mixed supplements and concen trates with farmers’’ locally grown grains under approved for mulas, thus enabling the farmer to make the best feeding use of his grains. Serv-Air Gets One Year Contract Again Serv-Air Aviation Corporation was again awarded the-contract to operate the Stallings Air Bqse pri Pollocksville Pair Held Under $1,000Bond After Arrest on Charge of Kape James Tootle, 25, and Robert Hall, 21, both of PoHockavdlle have been releudd under $1,000 bond after their arrest last week on di««e of .rape. Sheriff Brown Yates says the pair was named in a warrant signed by a young PoUacksviile girl, who swears that' both men attacked her on the night of June 2nd near Pol locfcsvflle where they had driven in a car belonging'to Tootle. The\ men deny fording their affections on the young woman-. . Other arrests-in the past week in Jones County included that of Harvey Foster of Comfort who is changed with drunken driving and driving, Without a license and Rob ert Randall Howard of Pollocks ville who is changed with drunken driving. • Sheriff Yates reports-picking up Ruby Lee Scott from the prison de partment last week where she had completed serving a prison term for Assault with a deadly weapon in a Kinston brawl. She was want ed in Jones County to face a charge of possessing stumphole whisky. She is free tin bond, pending trial. Freddie Lee Heath of Polloeks ■vdHe was indicted for possession of stumphole whisky for the purpose of sale in a raid last week that netted the officers just two pints and a pickle jar full of that potent Interest Slight in Jones' 2nd Primary Hm same feck of interest that marked the first primary on May 2«h seems to have been passed on to the pending June 23rd runoff be. tween Mrs. Dorothy Noble Kooace and James B. Simmons fin: the job of Jones County Register of Deeds. Mrs. Koonce, the present assis tant to Register of Deeds George Noble, who is retiring after 28 years in that office, was just nine votes short of a majority over Sim mons and Milan La Roque in the first primary. She polled 854 votes to Simmons’ 580 and LaRoque’s 279. Simmons, who is at present Justice of Peace of Pollocksville Township, exercised his right to c^H for the second primary on the deadline day for giving such notice and since then .(June 5) quiet has reigned, which, of course, doesn’t mean that there isn’t plenty of acti vity under cover fropi both sides. brew. Yate» says Heath broke two Jars of (he same liquid dynamite before officers could reach it. Austin Smith of Foliocksville was indicted for buying and receiving tractor parts stolen from the New Bern Tractor & Equipment Com pany. WASHINGTON REPORT by Bill Whitley TRADE). Some encouraging news for tobacco growers 'has just come out of the State Department. Last, week the State department made public a long Mst of trade 3. Many erf the agree, mentis should have long - range favorable effects oh tobacco grow- j ers. Among other things, the United States agreed to reduce tariffs on msary pilot school, Corporation President Truman W. Miller an nounced last Friday. Miller and other base officials had just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where the contract was awarded! at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Oriental leaf tobacco by 15 per cent. , This along with other tariff con cessions' should, in the opinion of Sen. W. Kerr Scott, heQip gain more markets for U. S. grown tobacco in the Middle East and certain parts pfc reduced, he said, are not compe titive with American made tobacco products. In many cases, foreign countries have felt that quite a few U. S. duties were unfair. By reducing some of them, Scott said, it should mean more markets for American tobacco where they are sorely needed. _ PIGEON. Here’s one for Sher lock Holmes, and if he can solve it, Sen. Scott will be grateful. Monday morning the Tar Heel Senator walked into his office in See Washington Report Page 12 Last Week’s Mystery Farm Owned by Wilmer Mallard - 1 /' 1 Last WMk't MYSTERY FARM in tho JOURNAL was quickly and --*1-- _■ lm ' ’ » l-rn. MVTVCTiy NNHIVVVpppi PT • *■*»• number of JOURNAL readers f* that of Mf. and Mrs. WHmar Mai. lard, in Mallardtovm of court*. On* or mv cowwy s nvwcr nrm ihiiiioO/ ■* vs ifCfliVQ sviwivfi i imiwi vrai' Now Bom on lit* lft.mil* Fork Rood. Toko a took at Hiio wook't MYSTERY FARM and if Yew cer. reoMy identify it Yew will win a free subscript iori le the JOURNAL, that ie> tf yew are one of the first five to de so. ,
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