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:THE JONES COUjffV ■■■■■ ’ Sues Turner Hem A suit was dud in Jones County Belle Oil Company «f Pink Hill Superior Court last week by the against #ie heiri -of the late C3ay ton Turner of Jobes County! {,4 The aQegations in the suit in dude a claim for"$M6.55, {duo in terest as tiie unpaid balance, fbr a gas and oil biB owed faT the Tur ner heirs toi the Leootfl County pe troleum products distributor. __court in this tenure next week at a criminal tenm that has 45 defendants scheduled for trial. , ' , Principal afciong the changes to be heard a« a manslaughter in dictment against Lewis Roosevelt Anlerson, robbery charges against W. H. Westbrook, James L. Still and Donald Wolfe and 9 charge of iAY, AUGUST IS, 1957 i VOLUME IX in Jones County time in 20 yean may soon have an vote on whether or e tp have county whisky stores. Oh Mon day of this week a petition signed by 721 voters of the county was handed to Election Board Chair man W. F. Hill asking that an election be Called, as prescribed by law, within 00 day? on this ques tion. ’ ¥ ' ” Joe Bacton, > well known farmer of Chinquapin Townstyp, presented the petition to the election official. The last vote on this question of county onhed and operated liquor stores was in July of 1937 and it was defeated by a 125 margin in a very light vote. The total vote 20 years ago was 1,093 and 579 persons voted “No” to legal whisky, for , Jones County and 454 voted “Yes”. Only two of the copnty’s eight pelting places voted in favor of ’the county going in the, whisky business but there was a tie in one other and ati but a tie in a fourth. The vote was as follows; , t Township White Oak Potiocksville Piney Grove Trenton Beider Creek 45* POT *§«; ' At present Jones County is toe only legally dry cdunty in the sev enth senatorial district which in cludes Carteret, Craven, Onslow, Lenoir, Greene and JoneS'Counties. And the wily, legally dry county Joining Jwles is Duplin. concealing a child; birth against Joyce Harris Holloway. Three Factors to Determine Priority for Secondary Roads The North Carom)®. State High* way Commission hah taken the first step in the development of a state wide program for secondary roads which comprise over 56,000 of the -State’s 70,000-mlle public road'sys tem. Thfe tentative plan, presented'to the seven mennber eonumtesion in its second meeting by Highway Director W. F. Babcock and Secon dary Roads Officer Harold ' W. body as a basis for further study leading toward a definite secondary road policy.. • . ' Under the plan, secondary road funds woqld be divided primarily among maintenance, general bet tenmcnts, construction and addi 'tions to OH" State system. Addi tional monies may be used in es tablishment of an equalization fund <3) Tubhc service characteris tics. * Babcock pointed out the traffic count would reflect average road usage ahd not unusua) traffic con ditions. Land-use, characteristics would include the number of oc cupied private residences, schools, churches, industrial and commer cial establishments. Public Service characteristics for each road might include its use as a school bus route, a mail route, or a route to community shopping. Man Charged in July Shooting C&ptufted Odell Hill, Aysfjjn negro, who l»d been sought by Lenoir and Pitt Countyi, police ft»f two : weeks was captured Saturday nigit in Ayden and is now being held in the Le noirCounty jail on (barges of as sault with * deadly weapoaitljjp intent to kill and malicious dash* age to private property.* * l Hffl, is chinged with critiiW' The petitwh includes names from every part of the' cpfinty and has been circulated for several weeks.' Tie election board will fifst have to certify that the signers were voters in the last election for gover nor, and that there are 15 per cent or more of ihe vBters in that elec tion last year whose names are on the petitions. i BlooHmofbale Returns August 19th for More Lenoir Cotonty Blood The second. visit or the area bioodraobile from Norfolk will fee made August 19 and 20th to Le noir County for another mass do nation of blood to the area blood bank. Volunteer demon should call 4528 for appointments. , > Wanted on this trip are. 150 pints of blood as Lenoir County’s part of the blood service which serves a large part of- Tidewater Virginia and Eastern North Carolina. Since July 1st when Lenoir County be came a part of the program 20 pints of Mood have been furnished to Memorial General Hospital; 13 pints to Parrott Memorial Hospi tal, 10 pints to Duke and 16 pints to the University hospital at Chapel Hill for Lenoir Countians in need of transfusions. In addition to this seven more pints were directed for ipse!, btifcsdjand Ni giving- wOl be done August 19th at Stallings Air Base and August 2Cth in the basement of the First Bap tist Church. Jeff Qonway Resigns From Jones County's Board of Elections Jeff Conway, one of the two Democratic Party members of the three-man Jones County Board of Elections, has resigned and. State Democratic Executive Committee Chairman John Larkins bas asked Jones County Democratic Execu tive Committee Chairman R. P. Bender for a list of four qualified Democrats from which Conway’s successor may be chosen. * Other members of the board in clude Chairman W. F. Hill and Republican Member Wardeil Mal lard. . V ■ ' Murder-Suicide Ruled In Tuesday Shooting 1 Lenoir County Coroner Raymond Jarman ruled murder and suicide in the Tuesday afternoon deaths of Kennit ft. Ellis and Estelle Franklin - employees o£ the Cas well Training School at Kinston. The bodies of the pair were found at about 6 Tuesday afternoon in the room of Miss Franklin, a nurse’s aide, and Jarman says they had been dead for about tiwo hours. Ellis, a dormitory attendant at the home for feeble minded, held a .22 caliber pistol in . Ms band. Elach had died from a single shot in the head just back of the left ear. He was a native of Creed moor and she was from Apex. They had both been employed at the training school since May of 1956. Tobacco Fanners File Suit iyi New Bern A group of tobacco fanmers tiled a haltf-anilliora-doUar damage suit in federal court Wednesday in New Bern against the Secretary of Ag riculture and others. Attorney Jesse Jones of Kinston, representing more than 70 farm [ ers in four counties, said he would confer in Raleigh Wednesday with Judge Don Gilliam of Tarboro to on the suit as “pnMnptfy as possible.” Jones said he will seek an in junction ordering Agriculture Sec retary Ezra Benson and other of ficials to “cease and desist” from enforcing a policy which cuts sup port rates on “undesirable” varie | ties of flue-cured tobacco. I The- plaintiffs requested the or der to block the practice which they call “inequitable and unjust.” It could, the suit contended sub ject them to “irreparable injury and damage.” The tobacco grow ers estimated' that the policy will cause them to lose more than two thirds of the value of their crops. . In effect the suit challenges the agriculture department’s authority to discount price supports on Coker 189, Ooker 140 and Dixie Bright 244 varieties as “illegal and not enforceable.” Under the depart ment’s policy of the regular 90 per cent of parity which the “accredit Keith Garner, 36 year-old Kin stonian, apparently idied from drowning in a boating accident last Wednesday afternoon qn Neuse River eight miles east of New Bern. ' ' ■ Garner, of 906 West Vernon Avenue and operator of a tele vision and radio sales and repair service, was riding alone' in his outboard cruiser,' powered by a 60-horsepower motor, when it caught fire and burned. The blazing boat was seen by people on both sides of the river which is four miles wide at that point. An oil tanker conning up the river alerted Coast Guard officials in New Bern who arrived within 10 minutes at the scene and found only floating debris and gas t,anks. Garner’s body was not recovered until Thursday afternoon. Of course, exactly what hap pened can never be known but ex perts in the boat business say the most likely possibility is that .es caping gas fumes collected in tfce forward part of the boat and ex ploded from a spark that could have comfe from lighting 'a ciga rette or other sources. Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded during the past week by Jones County’s Register of Deeds, Mrs. D. W. Koonce were the following: One tract in PollocJfsviHe Town ship from C. B. Foy to Roger H. Parker. ' One lot in Trenton from Myrtle F. Pollock to Lois Brock. Two lots in Maysville from C. B. Foy to E)mma C. and James B. Mattocks. One lot in Trenton from Clifton M. Pollock to James W. Allen. One lot in Trenton from Dollie Jones Howard to L. Douglass How ard. ed” varieties receive. Farmers from' Jones. Lenoir, Duplin and Greene counties are parties to the suit. Jones County Community Wins Finer Farm Contest Winners were announced last week, in the fifth annual' “Finer Farms” soil and water conserva tion contest. vfCash awards totaling $2.800*are being'made to 24. communities, three county boards'of Soil Con servation district supervisors and gerven individual Sod Conservation district sapenyisors who directed the contest on. the local level. Conservation practices on more than half a million •acres of farm land in nearly 100 North and South Carolina comimunities were judged by 'J. Frartk Doggett, hi. C. ex perennial problem of flooded fields and marshy lowlands. They have integrated drainage with other soil and water conservation practices effective oh Eastern Carolina farm land. The community had 19,992 acres in tlje contest. , A second-place award at $250 goes to the Aweary’s Creek com munity in Buncomlie County where 62 fafm families established new practices and improve^ existing ones on 4,430 acres of cropland, pasture and forest. Conservation emphasis in Avefos Creek was on contour farming, drainage, jjrass lamTdevelopment and wikBife co utilization.' This • community en compasses 16,950 acres, of farm and woodland. In the competition among su pervisors the Orange County N. C. board of Soil Conservation district supervisors captured top place to win $250; the Buncombe County board was second tfr win $150; and the: Halifax County board was third to take a $100 prize. Individual supervisors winning $100 cash awards are Thomas A. Bonham of the itfvery’s Creek com munity; ft.' Lee Fordhain of _ the Chinquapin community; and James B> Stanley of. the Jack’s * Creek canungnity,Rt.v 1, Brunsville. Supervisors winning $50 , cadi awards are F. E. Weaver, Sr., ^'^’HL.Hogait Rt. TboAc. Jr., ■ Wilson,
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