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TRENTON, W. C, THURSDAY 9UNE 14,19W VOLUME Vti j
Two of Jones County’s Best
Known
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MRS. OTIS M.
BANKS
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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
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