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, , ‘ ,v',;r - • "V ■mm mm* THE JONES COUNTY hurt . I t :i} >' ■* ' • V*v 39 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957 VOLUME VIII Course Above at right, Garland Smith, cashier of the Maysvllle Branch of The First Citixem Bank* Trust Company, is seen handing a $50 check to Kideheen Dixon of Poi iodksville, which covered the cost of Dixon's attendance February 11-22 for a short course at State College on modem farming. Banks throughout North Carolina spon sor&yeunb men for this annual couflb. The Branch Banking A Trust Compiny Of Tfentpn this year is sportaering Carlton Par ker Jr. for the same course., lENOl#_ com,,, H£Al.TH CENTER Above District Health Officer Dr. It. J. Jones and Public Health Nurse Mrs. Ralph Shell wait for Department began the big job of moving' from' its scattered offices on- Court House Square into this new course, if any of services of the department are reeded they are available too. Jones-Onslow RCA Co-op Planning Extensive Work ' With $500,000 61 Loan Approval in Washington of a $590,000 loan to the Jones-Onslow Eiectric Membership Corporation has ■cleared the waiy for an exten sive “'beefing up” ,of this REA system which serves six Eastern Carolina Counties. Trenton Attorney George Hughes, counsel for the co-op, said Tues day that the buillk of the loan would vp£ used to install heavier lines %ver the llOO-taRe system, which iterves rural areas of Jones, On slow, Pender, Lenoir, Duplin and Craven counties. The'co-op is currently involved, Hu^ies also reports, in negotiar tions with the Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Company for reci procal use of utility poles through out the system. ' » Hushes says a. small portion of the $500,000 loan will be used, of course, to extend electrical ser vice to some of toe very few places in lits sawijw-area that how' have no electrical connection. The counties included in toe area •esved hy the Jones-Onslew Co op’ are among the most electri fied in the nation. All powdr dis tributed by the Jacksonville REA Is ,meks«d frnjm toe'Carolina Power t Light Company. Tbe major needs of the system, and upon which the recently ap* proved loan'was based, are heav- j ier Lines capable of carrying a j steady flow of electricity to every part of the system. The multipli cation of electrical uses on the farm are responsible for tips in creased need, Hughes pointed out. ' 111118 RjEA Co-op presently is serving just over 7,000 customers in these six counties, which are broken down as follows: Qnslqw 4,125, Jones 2,000, Duplin 369, Pen der 200, Craven 193 arid Lenoir 125. Five Men, 12 Jars and Three Lawmen Add up To Trouble in Trenton Five men in a 1950 Plymouth, accompanied by 12 jars of stump hole whisky when aided to three law enforcement officers added up to trouble Friday night just east of Trenton: Sheriff Brown Yates, Deputy Roy Mallard and Highway Patrol man B.. Oi Mercer' were the law who caught Simon Quinn, Willie Lee Bryant, Leroy Grady, Ed and Albert Brown with the i2 jars of “Jones Joy Juice” a half mile east of Trenton Friday night, The car which belonged to Quinn was being driven by Bryant; each of wboun p changed with trtms pcrting the "wreanp water”. The Southern Railway Purchase fl&EC Finally Approved by ICC Bureaucrats umciais as wen as private citi zens in the'area that would pri marily benefit from development of the Port of iMorehead City last week unanimously, exploded in an ger and surprise at the budget asked for the next two years for the State Ports Authority, which would allocated $3,100,000 for work on the Wilmington port facility and not set up a penny for the Car teret County harbor and ship handling facility. The basis referred to for this desertion of the Morebead City was a survey made by a New York consultant who had recommended Wilmington for the major port ef fort, of North Carolina, and as part of his proposal had suggested expenditures totalling $12,646,172 at the New Hanover port and had tossed an exceedingly barren $1,154,738 bone to the Morehead City port expansion effort. The Advisory Budget Commis sion more than accepted this ev pert view of the Tar Heel port situation and even went the New York group one better by com pletely eliminating Morehead City from the 1957-59 budget. The State Ports Authority had not publicly denied its parentage of Morehead However, the State Ports Au thority had pulled the rug from beneath the Morehead City re quest by informing the Advisory Budgfet Commission that the Car teret County facility was not us ing all the warehouse and wharf age space it had at present. Mayor George Dill of Morehead City and State Senator Luther Hamilton, another Carteret Coun tian, blew their collective top when the Advisory Budget Commission’s notions, were revealed, and at latest report they have not cooled off in the slightest. The Washington news this week from the Interstate Commerce Commission which finally grant ed permission to the Southern Railway Company to buy. the At lantic & East Carolina Railroad threw more fat into an already warm fire, since this will bring to Morehead City a Class I railroad service; the lack of which was one of the excuses of the New York consultant turning his back on the Morehead City port. other three men are charged with possessing same. Hie Quinn car has been impounded pending con fiscation. Sheriff Yates says in addition to the 12 jars there was a piece of pint of the sarnie flavor' that the quintet was “working on” .... ----,-• — --T Urge Your Frieiids To To ’.v The Journal ■ ' ' Editorial After more than two years of procrastination the red-tape rid den Interstate Commerce Com mission Monday reversed a pre vious minority report of its mem bership and granted the Southern Railway Company permission to purchase the stock of Atlantic & East Carolina Railroad. This long-delayed action gives North Carolina for the first time in its history a major, Class I rail connection from the Atlantic Oceaif to its Western Borders, and of course, on to the Mississippi River. Under the1, permission belatedly given Monday by the ICC, South ern will acquire the stock of the A & EC and its lease on the track age and other facilities between1 Goldsboro and Morehead City. At present Southern operates from Goldsboro to Greensboro over State of North Carolina. The track age between Goldsboro and More head City is owned by the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, whose majority stock holder is the State of North Carolina. Morehead City officials immedi ately called for a re-evaluation of the state Port* Authority recommendations which were ex posed last weekend in budget re quests to the General Assembly. This report had used as its basis a so-called engineering study which favored the spending of more than $12 million dollars for develop ment of the Port of Wilmington and slightly less than $2 million dollars for expanding the Port of Morehead City facilities. For the 1957-59 bierkiium the ad visory Budget Commission had asked the General Assembly for just over $3 million for Wilming ton and not one single red cent for Morehead City. One of the reasons (?) held forth for this grossly biased abuse of Morehead City was its lack of adequate rail service, which is hardly support able now that Morehead City is an ocean terminus of the South's largest and most progressive rail road system. We believe the General Assembly will be far more intelligent and far less biased in its approach to this vitally important affair than the State Ports Authority and the Budget Commission have been. 'Hurricane Hazel’ Suit Longest In Recent Lenoir Court History AiKer more than a week of testi mony the suit Drought by Mrs. J. F. Britt and Mrs. W. P. Hardy of La Grange against four insur ance companies today (Wednes day) was nearing the jury. The suit grew out of differences between the La Grange women j and their insurance companies over damage to their Wrightsvilie Beach cottage on October 15, 1954 when Hurricane Hazel ripped up the North Carolina seacoast. Both sides have offered lengthy and numerous testimonies to sup port their contentions. The La Maysville Negro Gone Another Cut, Sheriff Promising Arrest Soon' Sheriff Brown Yates says he in- 1 tends to find Hezekiah Harper Jr. 1 of Maysville who fled the bounty j last week after slashing Cleveland t Mattocks across the face with a razor. Mattocks also a Maysvillian suf fered a cut that Sheriff Yates says needed 29 stitches in a New Bern Hospital, and came dangerously near the jugular vein. The cutting took place in a bar bershop operated by Harper’s fa ther in Maysville and according to reports Mattocks walked in and asked the young Harper if he ‘‘could dfoave”, to which Harper replied, “No, but I can cut meat”; and forthwith picked tip one of his fa ther’s razor and gave a demon stration. Yates says he’s sometimes glad to get rid of a bootlegger by hav ing him leave the county, but when a “fellow uses a knife or a razor or a gun I like to go get him and bring him back”. Yates says he doesn’t feel that Harper has gone too far from Maysville. Grange women are attempting to prove to the jury’s satisfaction that the damage resulted from wind rather than tidal or overflow wa ters, while tihe insurance compan ies are trying to prove that the damage resulted from the tidal or overflow waters, rather than the wind. Under terms of the in surance carried on the cottage such water damage is not covered. Testimony has revealed that the major damage to the Britt-Hardy cottage came when a neighboring cottage fell against it, ar.d, na turally the nub of the argument is whether the neighboring cottage was airborne, or waterborn. Court officials accept as a fore gone conclusion that the case will go to the supreme court no matter which way the Lenoir County jury decides. Charlotte Attorney Fred Helms and Kinston Attorney Fitzhugh Wallace Jr. are representing the insurance companies. Kinston At torneys Guy Elliott, Jesse Jones and Marion Parrott are represent ing Mesdames Hardy and Britt. Court Clerk John S. Davis says this case winch was begun last Wednesday, February 13, has last ed longer than any case to come before the court in the more than 18 years he has held the clerkship. Tuckahoe Township is Minus One More Still Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports the destruction of a small copper still in Tuckahoe Township in the western fringe of Jones County last Friday. There wwe three barrels of mash ready for the kettle and a 50-gallon still located near Old Pink HS3 in Lenoir County, Yates says.
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