toned. A few I've
ie category which
public print, with
one’s mailing per
snffin of the blue
Marvin RocheBe says this is the gospel
truth. Marvin is both a real estate broker
and a Rochelle so you can pay your money
and take your choice. 1 bejiev'e trim. Marvin
was quietly sitting in his office, reading the
funny paper ■»- some folks call li the News
He was a little short lor cadi and told
me ‘Mr. Fitzgerald down at the Commercial
Bank told me he’d laid me ,$250 if you’d
sign niy note”.
“To winch Marvin says he pdlitely re
sided, “Now son, l’U be just as good to you
as Mr. Fitzgerald. H he’ll sign your note,
I’ll lend you $250". ; ; '
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Marvin says the last thing he saw of the
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lat all I have or tape for a couple more
years belong to “Mr. Fitzgerald, and the
Commercial Bank” so I hope Brother Frank
sees the humor, of this because I don’t*,
want him foreclosing on this here enterprise.
That joke hah probably been kicking around
in baidang circles since before Bob Hanes
had more than one pair of drawers, but it
was new to me and funny, I think.
Another man who is the very soul Of fidel
ity, and wit told me another last week which
is, in some senses, a little rougher than
Bochelle’s banking story, but is still the
kind of story you could tell your maiden
aunt without too much blushing. It goes
like this: Junior Cram, sometimes called
O. H. Cram, whose wit, cuts as sharply as
his son’s scalpel swears and affirms to the
truth and the Whole truth to the Mowing:
Junior, or Fisherman Cranz went to At
lantic Beach to spend a week, or most at
a week with Surgeon Cranz, who left few
stones unturned in Ms effort to give “Jun
ior” a good time. “Junior”, as all who
know him will agree, tried to eniter into the
spirit at things.
When the visit came to its end Son Cranz
asked Father Cram, “Well, faqw’d you like
it? Which was a mistake, as you soonaee.
W Junior, replied,
“BvenrtMag was fine, just fine. I have only
one suggestion to make. Since I’ve been
here, I’ve eaten sand, breathed sand, slept
in sand, sat in sand, walked in sand » to
make everything 100 per cent agreeable
you ought to take that ‘Scott 1588116’ out of
the toilet and put ini some Ho. 4 sandpaper!”
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinions Of One Man,
And He May Be Wrong,
F.
the social security program was of first
impdrtance: Pensions to wpmen at the age
of 62, pensions for totally disabled men at
SC, plus another boost in the social security
tax which didn’t draw quite the attention
of the “giving”. Another penny on the dol
lar after next year is the boost to both em
ployee and employer, making it a lull six
cm, lntfte surplus problem
was implemented too early in
’56 to nave much control over this crop
year. Sociological as well as economic prob
lems are wrapped up in this farm bill, and
they will become most apparent this win
ter as tenant contracts come upjfor renewal.
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Pressing Jones County Highway Needs
Rarrus Oonstruction Company is current
ly resurfacing the widened sectton of NC
between Kinston- and Trenton that Hes in
Jones County. Which is' good, so far as it
goes. ' I. fyfV'x
The only thing wrong is that it accents
the equally pressing need for the .same
kind of treatment for the section of NC 12
that connects Trenton and Pollocksvilie. Two
narrow bridges, several too-sharp curves
and the,bumpy worn-out condition of this
stretch nominate it as Jones County’s No; 1
highway need.. '
Number two is the widening of the Trent
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River Bridge at Pollooksville and re-surfac
ing of all^of US 17 in Jones County.
We are sure Highway Commissioner May
nard Hicks agrees with this and is restricted
only by the shortage of money in having
(them put on the drawing boards immedi
ately. ' ^ / .
Ail users of these important segments of
the state road system hi Jones County Who
share this view may speed these projects
up a great eal by sending a copy of this
editorial, along with, their own comment to
Mt. Hicks, hy simply addressing it to him at
Snow Hill. ^
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Federal Highway Program Goes West
We‘.trust you win indulge u one minute
of selfishness.
The much-heralded Federal Highway Bill
which was put into law by the now ad1
journed session of Congress sounds very
good and in the first year under this bill
North Carolina will reclewe $25,498,157. from
this source. How much North Carolinians
will have to pay in federal taxes in order
to get back this amount has not been clearly
established? We trust no one will be foolish
enough to presume that it will not cost the
state considerably more than ft gets bade?
But there is another side to this new
federal highway bill. The vast bulk of* the
money to"be collected from ah.additional
eut of the total of 164 million dollars that
North Carolina is to gei from this fund
over 119 million dollaaa is ,to be spent just
op that 717 miles of road. To whifch the
state must add another ten per emit as 'its
matching part.
Which makes that a pretty pampered 747
miles of roadway. But here in
North Carolina things
one single solitary
Nations®
do about this: Give each'ached board the
authority to setup ‘‘Local Option Districts”.
It may make their entire achool district
into one "Local Option District” or as many
“Local Option Districts” as It feels neces
sary. Tien when an ‘JdtoleraMe aituatieo”
presents itself in any of these “Local Op
tion Districts” the board of education has
the authority to call an'election on the dos
ing of all or part of the schools in said
district Either all high schools may be
closed, or all'elementary, or both may be
closed. If the. board of education refuses to
call an election it may be forced to by
petition of 15 per cent’ of the qualified
voters in the district. When the election is
held the simple majority will be decisive
in closing or keeping open the schools, if
the vote is to keep the Schools open* any
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if 'the vote is to. close the schools all the
children in that district automatically be
come eligible for the. tuition .grants.
It is complicated,' unwieldy and at best
merely a big legal dub to wave- at the
negro, which says, in the finaly analysis,
“Segregated schools or no schools!”
No one believes .or has suggested that
enough private non-sectarian schools exist'
now or could be opened within the span of
several years to accomodate the children
at even one small “Local -Option District”.
So the people must elect which they will
hove; schools with mixed white and negro
dasses or no schools. It may surprise some
of themeatty-anouthed so-called liberals
to learn that about 96 per cent of the peo
ple in our area' will quickly vote for No
Schools if this choice is forced upon them.
tax and a great many will never ride five
yards /m that extravagant National High
way System. This is another fine example
of federal help.
Those who favor the federal program
quickly point out that this federal* money
will free state funds so they may he spent
on other roads, inducting those in the vast'
“Lost Colony” of Bast Carolina. They db
not attempt to explain away, however, the
burdensome red tape and additional bests
that ever go band in hand with federal
JONES JOURNAL 1
JACK RIDER, Publisher
ihed Every Thursday by The Lenoir
y News Company. Inc., 408 West
at u,® Bn® .. '
at the post Office at Trenton,
Carolina, under the Act of Atoich