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J ones CountyBudgetOut Over $7000 for 1936 be vbted Mt bjr tbe «esple4C4he county. Last yearSbebuagettoMl was $441,379. Of that total ,%pptOved fpt the various operations' all counter functions the county will seek to supply $181,095 from taxes, secur ing the <£her $445,993 ftom sources, other than taxation such as state and federal «raats, couH fiBes and teg* says this was made possible because the school fund ended the year with a surplus which resulted hen wn revenues coining from some sources than had been an ticipated in last year’s budget, par ticularly from fines in the Courts ot ill®- county. ‘ The general fund allocation for ’55-56 was, $56,092 and for the com ing year it was increased slightly tO $Sft,980; MX*M - For a glance at the comparative allocations consult the accompany AW to Blind $ 2,280 Welfare AW 4,450 AWWA^ 82,368 AM to Children 79,200 Aid to Disabled 19.200 Welfare Admit. 11,010 County Agents 4,242 County Account 3,182 ***** Fir. Work 2.425 HoaHh Department 13^32 Ntto F«W 34*45 Schoel Operation 108,513 School Copt. Outlay 10,700 General Fund 54,892 158,258 58,938 Total $ 441,379 $ 584,188 From County toxos 104,879 138,187 Other Sources 334,500 445,993 tax R4to $280 $2J0 Mays ville Boy Graduates From • Hit PV Training School vvunry • nww jmuif Demonstration Agent, Faytie Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Cox of Meyock in Currituck Courtly. She succeeds Mrs. Marvin 1 Thomas, who filled the’ pest *#m-j porarily after the merriaiie of Hil da Lee ef Fink Hill, thelast holder | ef the post. | V . Miss Cox. Is a 1956 graduate of the Woman's College of the Uni versity. of North Carolina 0t| Greensboro. | bf ",.- Although this Jones County as sigment is her first formal connec tion with the Extension Service she has worked three summers as cm i wpfHCHn w inv mum «yvnr 01 h®r native coonty. She is atso no stranger to farm work, .-since aha If from a Master Farmer family and is an lifoner 4-;H Chib membar. . At *WC" she oms a membar al the "Horn* Ec" ctub and a member of the "Masqueraders", an honor ary campus society. She isf member of the Methodist Church and guarantees that ihs will riot get married for at least tore years. This promise results from the high rate of loss suffered in Jones County by Home* Agents who desert one phase of home work for another. Amy Pvt. Bmy >. Cannon, 21, son of George L. Cannon, Mayeville, N. C;, (recently was graduated from the Military Police Training Center at Fort Gordoh, Ga. Can. non entered the Amy last January and received basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C. He is a 1953 gradu ate of White Oak High School. His wife, Betty Jatoe, also lives in Maysville. Cannon is a former em ployee of the E. I. Dupont de Ne mours & Co. Inc. in Kinston. Board-Bill Fuss Leads to Owen’s Second Murder lew Tuasday night. Owm was ra laasad Sapfamfcar 6,1955 tram ,111* laeat prison camp aftor aarvlng 10 yadra ol a, 15 tail yaar farm ter murdar eommittod in 1H4 in Lum barton, Ha frosty admittad tha Willie OWens has been indicted on an open change of murder fol lowing the Tuesday night shotgun slaying of Arlena Walker of 126 Broadway Street. - ; Investigating officers say the 50 year-old woman was shot directly through the heart with a 12 gauge shotgun allegedly in the hands of Owens, Who fled the scene., y Police say it appeared from (he physical appearance of the home in Southeast Kinston that a fight had been in progress between the pair. The dead woman was indicted last week and was under braid for, her appearance in federal count ™ » limmr law violation chance. JOSEPHE.fRETJ Joseph E. Peterson, vdce-presi. dent .of the First Citizens Bank & Trust Company, committed suicide at about 6:30 Monday afternoon in his office in the downtown branch of that bank at Queen and Gordon streets. i Peterson, whose home address Was 1206 ; Virginia Avenue,- was officer in charge of both banks operated by his company in Kin. and supervised the credit ation released by Investi gating Officer Wheeler Kennedy reveals that Peterson had spent the .major pant of Monday afternoon reading in a local club, where anj attendant later felt him to be in a “depressed mood”. ! He returned to the bank at around 6 o’clock, spoke to the janitor and William R. Cross, a bank employee, who was still at work. He went into has private of. fice at the front of the bank build ing and dosed the door. Cross told Detective Kennedy that he heard a noise but since it was during the heavy electrical storm he did not pay the noise any particular attention. Wien Cross started to leave he saw Peterson slumped across his desk. Peterson had shot himself direct, ly through the heart with a .38 caliber revolver. The bullet had completely passed through Peter, son and the chair in which he was seated and was found on the floor back of. the chair. He wias rushed to Parrott Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Kennedy said sealed notes ad. dressed to Mrs. Peterson and to Robert Holding, president s the jEnM* dent Holding released the following statement to the Press: "In a lot* tor written by Peterson to mo, president of' the hank, and deliver ed after Peterson's death, he ad mitted a shortage and assumed full responsibility for the same, saying it was incurred without tho knowledge of his associates. The shortage is fully covered by surety bond and the bank will not sustain any loss. Further details will' bo available as soon as they can bo verified". they were delivered unopened to the addressees. Peterson, a native of Smithfield in Johnson county, had been mana ger of the bank’s local operation since early in 1934. Cholera Outbreak Costs Jones Countians Plenty . An outbreak of hog cholera in Jones County has cost Jones County | farmers thousands of dollars, Farm Agent Jimmy Frandk. reports. -Franck and veterinarians are' urging all farmers in the county to vaccinate their hogs against cholera to stop the spread of this G. B. Foy of Cypress Creek and Franck carried five sick hogs from four farms, to the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Raleigh. I These hags were autopsied and found to have cholera. This con firmed the earlier dia gnosis of This outbreak started about the firstaf May inthe Pleasant Hill — Comfort area. Since then, the his . spread through Cy Tuckahoe and Bever now mov i. Accord. Randall, the di disease. He suggests that farmers whose hogs are not vaccinated against cholera get it done right away. “This costs but the loss of one 200 pound hog can cost the farmer as much as the cost of vaccinat ing 15 to 30 hogs depending on their size,” the County Agent reminded. Farmers wko lose hogs should bury the hogs deep or burn them, Franck state®. He says that the practice of throwing the hogs in tire river or into the. woorjs, as in many cases is being done, Just spreads the disease.' The agent stated that outbreaks of this kind can jbe stopped if all farmers would follow a sound vac. dnation program. MAYSVH.LS RA'S WIN The Royal Ambassadors Softball team of the Fiirst Baptist Church played Sipring Garden Church last Saturday, and won 16-13, which their fourth straight win. June 30, they will play Hi
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