Church Nearing Completion
1 TW* »• Ht# M#yav«l* Memorlrl
9*pHst Church which to now un
eoiMtrwctfan. Outride work an
•Mt* MWNt Maysville house of wor
,*Wp to axpected t» be finished in
about «* day*. after' which a "«**»
period'' to te.be taken by the cert
prepeHon before moving onto com
pletion of the" Interior. The Sun*
:»ii'. . ___
' day School room* built .t a* .p
proximal* coot of 125,000 was first
usad Easter Sunday 1053. Th*
church was organ!sad in 1952. Th*
contract forth* c ha pal artioutds to
$41,000 and upon com piat ion It
will comfortably soat 300 worship
pers. Th* pro said pastor Is M. J.
Hicks Jr. ■ ' I . ^ V
Contractors’ Spokesman Says
Federal Highway Bill Will ^
Disrupt Local Wage Levels ;;J|
The spokesman for the construe,
tion industry in.North and South
Carolina warned today the new
Federal Highway Act contains a
“hidden danger” that could easily
upset wage scales and “steal money
right out of the public purse."<
Robert Patten of Charlotte,
managing director of Carolina s
Branch, Associated General Con
tractors of America, pointed to the
Davig-Bacon Wage-fixing provi
fixing provision is a tool of power
htattgry union officials fient on Utile
mass organization of workers, their
organizing attempts so far have
been largely unsuccessful in the
South so they have persuaded the
government to do the organizing
for them.
“in other words,’^Patteh said,
“toe union.influenced U. S. Depart
ment of Labor now tats the so
called ‘prevailing wage sate' and
aavo> the union officials the trou
ble of even making a gesture to
ward directly looking after the in
terests of the workers through ho.
nest bargaining with the employ
ers.”
■x patten said the effect of Davfe.
Bacon on toe local economy “wffl
grow and spread like a cancer.”
He noted that high wages paid on
federal'road projects will certainly
have their effects on other, types
of construction projects.
Communities will find that their
school bonds i aren’t Mg enough
to pay toe increased labor costs.
Home builders will also feel toe
ment squeeze play for 25 years,
ever since Davis-Bacon became
law. However, this is the first time
Davis-Bacon has 'been applied to
federal highway construction,” he
said. “Urn construction of federal
aid buildings has been covered for
25 yean.
“The construction industry is at
the mercy of the U, S. Department
of tabor, and so is the public. H
the department sets a wage rate
that is out of line, there is nothing
anyone can do. You cap’t even
struetion industry’s long experience
ence with the clause ‘due regard’
has proved the words mean no*
tiring/’
Patten said the public interest is
vitally concerned because “it is
the public who will pay the bill.
However, if wages increase after
rite general contractor signs the
contract, the contractor will have
to absoib the loss.”
The construction spokesman said
higher construction cost “is only
a- part,of the overall cost to the
public. Government control and
bureaucratic red tape cost mtmey
and in most cases the delay caused
by government meddling is also
expensive.”
John Holden, MaysvHle auto
dealer, reported the death last week
of Iris K-9 Corp veteran) war deg
"Marita". This World War II
veteran who served for two years
in the K-9 Corp of the 4th Infantry
Division in Europe was brought
back to the states in 1945 by Hol
den, who asserts'that .the dog un
derstood three languages; German,
French and ErigKsh. Causa of
death was called heart trouble. Ha
was interned with partial military
county
TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY JULY 19 1966 VOLUME VIII
Aimed§Af
egated Or No Public Schools
ton Probationer Is
On Larceny Charge
;.i. /
LNuion uewey orocs ymas Siam)
is held without privilege of bond
in the Jones County jail changed
with breaking and entering W. F.
Hitt’s filling station on the night
of July 1 and stealing eight new
tires.
Sheriff Brown Yates, who ar
i rested Brock, reports that none of
the tires has been recovered. Brock
says somebody stole the tires from
him after hie went to the trouble of
stealing them from ..Hill, Yates re
ports; 1
Sheriff Yates also reports that
Brock is under five years proba
tion on a three to five year prison
term given him nearly three years
ago for breaking , into the Colonial
Oil Company in Trenton. He is be
ing held for action by probation of
ficials, as well as trial' for the
latest charge to be placed against
Other indictments of the past
week reported by Yates included*
that of Tom Berry of Trenton who
was booked last Thursday on
charge of beating his wife; William
Henry Foy of Beaver Creek Town
ship charged with driving without
I
^ over 55 miles per hour
fo|t less than TO miles per hour.
Eight Jones 4-H’ers
To Attend Meeting
July 23 - 28th
A
Jones County will be well repre
sented at the annual 4-H Club week
meeting to be held July 23-28th at
State College with eight of the top
club members in the county sche
duled to go.
Patricia^ Parker, Jane Pollock
and ' Kay Mallard will represent
the feminine side of 4-H’dam, with
Miss Mallard participating in the
dress revue.
'Linwood Hill, H. L. Adams Jr.,
Bobby Barbre, James Simpson and
Sammy Davis will represent the
male type activities. Hill and
Adams will present a vegetable
production demonstration an d
Adams will take part in the tractor
maintenance and operation com
petition while Simpson will compete
for statewide honors in the cotton
production program.
ROTARY GOVERNOR VISITS
Club last Wednesday night for the
club’s regular session. ?
Jones County Farmers Put
Only 600.34 Acres Into
Soil Bank Program For *56
Only three tobacco farmers put
acreage in the soil bank and their
total acreage amounted to just 7.74
acres for which they will receive
$1,881.76.
Barker says checks in payment
for these, soil bank participations
will be mailed out in September.
Hie checks will total $15,091^9 and
will be divided between 39 farm
Most of the com put into the soli
bank came for the 18 per cent in
crease given com planters in June
above the February com acreage
allocation. '
Thd cOtton w^S largely unplanted.
Five kcrgs W acres, of to
and now Bankei
Wishes he had p
he rest of U> t
It hart by this
Cotton totalling only 17.6 acres
was put into the bank by eight
farmers while payments will to
tal $804.63.
Jones county ASC Secretary Nel
son Barker said on Tuesday that
so far Only 500.34 acres of land
had been, put into the soil bank
program by Jones County farmers.
The, vast majority of this (475
acres! was for com which was put
into the soil bank by 28 farmers,
who will receive $12,405 for either
not planting or cutting down part
of their , com crop.
Marriage License
Jones County Register of Deeds
George Noble reports the isuue of
two marriage license during the
past week.
On July 13 to James Jones, 22,
and Ethel McDaniel, 20, both of
Trenton.
On July 14th to Carl Wilson Shi
yar, 17 of Cypress Creek Town
ship to Rose Marie Walker, 15, of
Alabama.
saniraay tne tentative legisla
tive program to be presented to
the special session of the General
Assembly which will be convened
July 23rd was unveiled to' the pu
blic at meetings in Raleigh and
Asheville. <
Five printed bills were released
to the press by Governor Luther
Hodges and were summarized by
Tttorney -General William Rod
man in the Raleigh session
while Thomas Pearsall, chairmen
of «the Advisory Committee on Ed
ucation, presided over the Ashe
ville session. . ,
In a nutshell the proposed legis
lation would amend the North
Carolina Constitution and add such
necessary general statutes needed
to permit the people of the state to
vote on a plan under which local
districts could vote to dose public
schools if the racial situation be
came intolerable. And if the local
district, voted to close its schools
then all students in that district
of both races would become eli
gible for expense grants for private
tuition.
Boards of education in each dis
trict are empowered in this pro
posed legislation to call such elec.,
tions, but if they refuse to call an
election then petition by 15 per cent
at dis
maridatoiy?
If in that election the majority
of the people vote for integrated
schools, any individual who ob
jects to having his _ children sent
to a mixed school may apply to the
hoard of education for relief. If
the child cannot be re-assigned to
another school where the situation
does not exist then that child be
comes eligible for the same ex
pense grant for private tuition.
Governor HoRdges emphasized
1 that this effort is something that
has been forced upon the people
of North Carolina by outside
sources. He invited criticism; of
the proposed legislation bus asked
critics “to be good enough to sug
gest an alternative plan”.
Hodges and Rodman expressed
the hope that the legislation would
See Schools Page 12
Pictured here men end equip
ment of the Barrus Construction
Company are at work re-surfacing,
the Kinston-Trapton highway. This
latest improvement extends from!
Leslie White's Store to the Trenton
city limits. Other surfacing wetic
*i» be done in the near future m
Jones County includes the con
necting road from HC 41 to NC 12
which passes Mark Smith', farm,
Mow Maytviil* and a rural read
extending front near Stanley Ro
binson's station to the Sasser Mill
paved toad. In Lenoir County the
road from Sandy Bottom to South
west Creek which crosses the K In
Won-Pink Hill road at Albritton's
Crossroads and the old.
Plant road near .Kinston
connects thp Richland* and
Hill highways are also to be g
M this same group of contracts. {
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