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j*5gtej •V',v’ HE amt bank agreements written in ttiese first two a*y*is sKtfbV very sUgtt- VV: discussion will poigt out the var Iauc fiHififli a! hirfiffinithin W ww iiiwi|uu» or parrtcipaTing tn both the Soil Bank acreage reserve end Jhe Sail Bank conservation reserve. All farmers who tMnk that they might be interested in are espec Annulment Sought By Thelma Bell ' A civil KdttOb has been filed in Jones County Superior Court by Tfaeim* Grey BeM, asking annul ment of her March 23, 1964 mar riage to Linwood Franklin Coombs of Outun. Urn action alleges that the mar tax listing time. ,tor Another'15 days until February 15th. Under the law January is set up as tile month for listing of taxes and un less an extension is granted by the oomnrimionere all those whp list after the end of January most pay a penality for tote Hating. tor corn , or three acres for to bacco. After the deadlines for signing up have passed (March 1 for cot ton and tobacco and March 8 for com) and if there remain ph ased soil banfes''funds tor either of these crops these further re quests beyond these maxim urns may be processed- 1%ese requests $70 per acre maxiimiin; corn. $10, per acre' napumrfij and MS pat acre maximum. Pw«W to in dividual farms are based on the production histories of each firm. Kinston Firm Bids on Ag Building ion in Jones Fred Gardner, general contrac tor of Kinston, was low bidder among four Houston contractors who tendered bids Monday on the 24 by 78 foot addition planned for the Jones County Agriculture building in Trenton. V Gardner’s bid was $14,483; Other &ds included those of Kirby Haw kins at $18,300, 6. L. Shackelford Co. at $16,740 and from J. H. Evans and Saudi »t $16,300. There were acme discrepancies in Jib* exactly what some of the contractors .were bidding upon so Architect John Rowland was ask ed to take the bids under con-, snderation and make a later rec ommendation to the. Jones Cotmty Bbard of Commissioners as to which to accept, or whether a re advertiesment for bids' will be necessary. - : " J*1- 1 Jones Jury List is Oriwn for Next Court Hie following Jp&ee Couotians were selected Mtoinday for jury duty at the March tflhm of " Jones County’s Superior Court: Btona Collins, O. C. Jl¥Mias, El bert Andrews, R. T: Ford ham, George Jahn, Charles Brown, A. K. McDaniel, L. D, Howard, W. H. Duval, Theran B. Humphrey, J. L. Conway, Felix Andrews, L. T. Mal lard, Jack Whaley. Dewey Jenkins,, C. S. Hargett, H. B. Johnson, WdlKam Moore Jr. (Ralph Jenkins, R. F. Huggins, Joe RiUingsworth, Dave Collins, G. O. Ward, J. R. Westbrook, Earl C. Meadows, W. W. Sfchrar. Alva B. Howard, Jim Jarman, C. A. Loftin, Dan Oxley, C. N. Mallard, David Gtvtts, Taft King, Dan Gooding, Solomon Jarman and Wayne Mallard. ' aided, and in addition to that are several thousand polio still tinder treatment in Work Soon On Mftjr»ville-Bogue HighwaySays Work certainly shout/ begin in Pebrjin; JpwsS the wfeather is official of Barms Jcunpany said this week, on the Mays vUle-Bogue Highway contracts which were let^n January. The Kinston i contractor was awarded the‘grading and paving parte of this.'junior revision of a roadway that will ultimately be a major link between Kinston and the ocean Jfpa. between Swans boro and M&refaead City. Considerable re-routing of the highway, eliminating many of the sharp turns and shortening the trip from Maysviile to Bogue by almost five miles will result from this work. Because erf .the difficulty of tihe terrain and fbe uncertainty of the weather, the Barms Company of ficial expressed1 the view that it would be 1988 before this highway begins carrying through traffic. Hunters tDut, Stills In Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates eiid Tuesday that with the end of hunting season the. hun ters, naturally, ware moving out of the' woods of Jonas County and the whisky stills are moving back in, of course, with a little help. Jones County is such a rich area for the hunter that a very Urge pjrt of it is thoroughly hunted 'Deacon Daniel\ Coon Chasing Society Dean Thus is Deacon Dame! Daughety— a Sand Hill Daughety of whom' there is no more doughety Daughety than. Among other things “Deacon Daniel” is the dean of the Coon Hunting Fraternity of his native heath, Lenoir County’s Sand Hill Township. Young men hunt coons, “Dea con Dan”, points out, to catch up with their sleep, but after a fel low passes seventy if he hunts coons it’s just because he loves coon hunting . . “Deacon Dan” is ^Although'he cannot for step $ith hi? young coon hunting companions, Fletcsher and Calvin White, he can much more than keep up with them — word for - word — with coon-hunting yarhs, that are everyone” (he truth, the whole truth and n&thing but the truth”. Dan” doesn’t make bunt this year and stays to watch store for Fletcher, emporium is just behind on the fort Barnwell “•Master Coon hides sell for a dollar a piece and some folks wiU pay a dollar for the coon for eating pur poses . . Which makes a maxi mum possible return of two dol lars per coon, if all are sold, and all are not. When a pair of 5200 coon hounds and their veterinary bills are add ed up along side the income from coon huntitig it doesn’t take long to discover that coon-hunting is much more a sport than an oc cupation, “Deacon Dan” sayis when he passes on he wants to be buried in the NeuSe River lowgrounds where he can hear the coon hounds bay and have the coons scamper across his grave. Those who know him best can’t figure if he’s joking or serious when he says that. mm j'WiNpy which Deicon Danial Dtughety . lit •m»*. fleteher White I it vice-president end . Calvin White It secretary an*. treasurer, hat
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