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TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1957 VOLUME VIII aysville Methodists to Evangelistic Services; Pastor from Beaufort Evangelistic services will be held in the Maysville Methodist Church on April 8-12 with the Reverend D. Yopng, pastor of the Ann Street Methodist Church of Beau fort, as visiting evangels*. \ , Young is beginning his 20th year of service in the North Carolina conference and is rated as one of the outstanding • clergymen in this conference. Las* year Young was responsible > for the addition of over 50 m«m 'V • tfers to the Ann Street Church. IS 1 The pastor, Rev. JL F. Moore, J ,4: antounced several special services. Si; ' , for the week, starting with a 23 hour Bible-reading observance in 'r< ;|he church, beginning at 9 P. M. on Sunday evening and continuing vuntfl 8 P. M. on Monday. even County Rabies Next Week will be, held for the vac of dogs against rabies in with the North Caro Law requiring all dogs months of age to be Clinics will be held ac to the following schedule. night will be the to recognize by awards, and the youngest per and the person re the most people pre evening a team of men a teaon of women will con a ‘-FILL-A-PiBW’' service, being assigned to these TUESDAY, APRIL 9 . Wayne Haskins Store . Leslie White’s Store 10:3C Copland Farm (Jasper Hill) . Hood’s Store (Wise Fork) .Sasser’s Mill .... Willie Westbrook’s Farm Z. A Koonce’s Home Trenton (Courthouse) WEDNESDAY, APRIL lb Considerable Land is Transferred in Jones County During Week Records in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds reveal a large number of real estate trans fers in the past week, represent ing change in ownership of several hundred acres of land. The largest transfer recorded was from R. A. Whitaker and others M> Neva Whitaker Wallace of 530 acres in Cypress Creek Township. The next largest transfers were W. H. DuVai in PoHockswille Town ship with 36.62 acres going'to Mil dred DuVai Waller, 45.64 acres to G. El Duval, 46.60 acres to M. B. DuVai, 36.37 acre® to Julia DuVai Barbee and one tract to Sallie Du Vai Boyette. The next largest transfer was of 148 acres in Tuckahoe Township from L. H. Taylor to Edward S. Greer. Other transfers included two lots in Trenton from Elisha Strayhorn to Tommy Brown, 11 acres in Cy Creek from W. S. Banks to Banks, 11.5 acres in Cypress to W. S. Jones Board Asks for Footbridge Over River Following 'the recommendation of Jones County Grand Jury at the March Term of Superior Court the board of county commissioners Monday passed a resolution ask ing the State Highway and Public Works Commission to build a foot bridge across Trent River at the eastern edge of Trenton. In its report, the grand jury had pointed out that a Large number of school children use this bridge at present going to gnd from Jones County High School which is lo cated a few hundred yards east of the bridge. The bridge is hardly wide enough for two cars and when pedestrian traffic is added at the same tim the bridge is quite hazardous, the grand jury felt and the. commis sioners readily- agreed in asking the highway commission to give the matter its earliest attention possible. / Car Looting at Motel Oh Ift-solved Lift Jones Commissioners Boost Welfare Head’s* Salary to $4,140 In action Monday in regular April session the Jones County Board of Commissioners voted a retroactive pay raise to Mrs. Zeta Burt, Superintendent of the JOnes County Department of Public Wel fare. Making the pay boost effective March 1st, the 'board hiked Mrs. Burt’s salary by $420 per year* from $3,720 to $4,140 per year. Olher salaries of county officials included $2,640 for the clerk of court, plus $600 per year for tra vel expenses. The sheriff’s salary is $3,000 per year plus fees and $1,350 per year for travel. The register of deeds is paid $2,640 per year. The county accountant is paid $2,640 per year. Members of the board of county commissioners are paid $5 per day for each meet ing they attend plus five cent per mile travel costs. The tax collector is paid $2,640 per year and the county attorney is paid $1,800 per year. Jones County’s health officer is paid $1,980 per year on a part-time ba sis since he also serves in Le noir County where he is paid $10,320 per year. The county super intendent of schools is paid $6,804 per year. The Home Agent is paid $4,251 per year and the farm agent is paid $5,715 per year. The assistant clerk of court is Other salaries of welfare super intendents from counties of rela tively low population such as Jones include Allegheny $3,960, Avery $3,360, Cherokee $3,960, Clay $4,320, Camden $3,480, Currituck $4,320, Pamlico $3,960, 9wain $3,960 and Washington $3,720. Salaries paid in counties join ing Jones to the Superintendents of Public Welfare include Onslow $5,520, Lenoir $4,860, Craven $4,860, Duplin $4,500 and Carteret $4,500. All salaries listed above are from the April 1956 report of the Insti tute of Government, as compiled by Donald B.. Hayman, assistant director of the Institute. 4-H Notes By Carolyn Price The 4-H Clover Club met March 29 in the chinquapin Chapel Chureh. Patricia Humphrey presided and Walter Ives Jr. led the devotional and the entire group said the Lord’s Prayer. Don Phillips, Fletcher Smith, and Walter Ives Jr. reported on the steps they had taken so far on the Roadside Beautification project. Announcements were made that at the next meeting new officer® would be elected and a movie on Safety would be shown. The groups noted that girls and boys would give project reports at each meeting from now on. This will give different ones a chance to take part and help each one in teadonshfe training. Shirley Brown Heath and Walter Urea Jr. wiH be the .first to glve reporte. Mrs. Walter Ives ierved refresh ments, and the meeting adjourned w^^rmatjon $!§;;» *5n. The Via-Mrs. This is the addition currently be ing made to the Jones County Ag ricultural Building in Trenton. Monday the board of commis sioners approved certain minor changes in the addition not to ex ceed $40, which were to be done with the permission of the archi tect. Completion of this addition will make possible the housing of all Jones County agricultural work ers under one roof, a long-time goal of farm and county officials. Completion is not expected before late summer or early fall. Water Resources Study in 45 Eastern Carolina Counties; 3rd District Meet in Trenton Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners named Lee Ford ham as the comity's representa tive in the study of this area's wa ter resouces and authorized Ford ham to spend up to $200 in collect- ! ing ar.d distributing the informa tion asked in this study. Forty-ifave Piedmont and Coastal I Plain Counties will begin conduct ing inventories of their water prob- ! lems during April. Under the program, supervised I by the State Board of Water Com missioners all counties in the First, (Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Congressional Districts will form tamimittees to begin work on the main and {anticipated problems. According to W. H. Riley, ex ecutive secretary of the Board, the inventory will begin on April 3 jwhen representatives of the seven counties in the Fourth District ga ther for an orientation meeting in Raleigh. These representatives will return to their counties to organ ize committees to carry out the inventory program. On April 8, representativt s of the 14 counties in the First Dis trict will meet in Plymouth to hear details of the program and to re ceive material that has been pre pared to assist them with the in ventory in their counties. Second District county represen tatives will gather in Tanboro on | April 15. Representatives of the Third District counties will meet with 'members of the Board of Water ; Commissioners* staff in Trenton on April 22. The inventory will be launched in the Fifth District on April 29 with a meeting in Reid-sville. Each county is being a Noted ap proximately one month to com plete its work. Much of that time will be devoted to familiarizing the public with the purpose of the study and with the types of prob lems to be reported. The climax of the inventory in each county will be a public meeting at which water users will be asked to list their problems. Alter completing the inventory, each countiy committee will for ward the results to the Bound of Water Oommissionersfor catalog uing and appraisal. Ike reports fhom throughout the state will re veal which problems are strictly focal, which’ are sectional laid which ■ are. twite-wide. ^' vi By comparing toe prauepis witn existing water laws,; the Boadd «SU he aM* to determine wUefa prob lems are adequately covered and which are not. This knowledge, Pre-School Clinics The Jones County Health De partment was busy this week con ducting pre-school clinics in all county schools for those children who will enroll ne»t fall. All im munizations are being given at the deparlmer.t offices on the ground floor of the court house. Children must have smallpox, whooping cough and diptheria immunizations before entering school, and the de partment reminds that it is gen erally better to give these treat ments to children before the wea ther gets hot. The shots may be obtained free any weekday from > to S in the clinic at the court he—,' ■ Per tons desiring to - may have their children treated by their family physician. Correction lr. last week's paper an article on the livestock listed for taxttion in Jones County had an error in the listing by township of the num ber of hogs. The county total of 6,731 was correct, but the numbers of hogs in Pollocksville and Tren ton townships was wrong by exact ly 1,000 hogs — which is a lot of pork. Listed were 811 hogs for Pol locksville when the correct figure was 1,811 and listed for Trenton township were 189 hogs and the correct figure was 1,189. Zelle Pol lock will tell you how the paper made the mistake if you're that Interested. Second Appeal Denied 'n Child Beating Case The North Carolina Supreme Count has upheld the conviction of Mrs. Dorothy Hoffman Cauley who was sentenced in the fall to serve two years in prison for her part in the brutal beating of her three year-odd daughter in the summer Of 1956. In an earlier trial, both Mrs. Cauley and her husband, W. D. “Rock” Cauley, were convicted of the assault upon her child by a former marriage. He was sen tenced at that tame to 8 to 10 she to a term appeal to the Court a technical of Presiding to a see the sec to
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