tare* have flatfootedly said they
do not want,
; Second, is the disposition of one
(man’s tobacco crop. He is William
Hubert Jones, better known as
“Herbert” Jones, who is the na
tion’s No. 1 grower of flue-cured
controversial figure in the tobAceo
growing end ofthfc industry.
Pnnvri are jihmtiftii but itucts
; *re few in every- segment of tie
industry on Jnst what "Old Hcib’.’
is going to do with ad ISSsfc dia
' .counted tobacco. \K f i
No.1 among the rumors is that
* he. guaranteed his ftf-odd tenants
parity price ii they would go along
last winter aigl go “whole hag with
138”. How, however, this part of
./the rumor has been iltered to the
$ tenant receiving, as hi* share of
the crop the discounted parity, in
:,m aadne category Of the rumor
: department others said “Herb” had
agreed to give his tenants full
;gBj$tta^:1IIS#e for grade for the to
bacco on the day they were siting
takes exceptionally good care of
l>is tenants. They livehigh and en
joy more luxuties than the average
• tobacco-farm tenant. They have
fered well with “Old. Herb” and
the feeling is that most of his ten
Y ants will" stick With him until “the
' deal eoes down”;
On tfee other side of the tobacco
lecture from the deliberate plant
ers of the discounted tobacco are
-those, buffering hhe “mixed seed
disease” who have brought the
suit and se$k to toss the parity
program into the nearest ash tray.
1 They are represented by Kinston
Attorney Jesse Jones and Green
' yille Ajttomey M. E. Cavendish and
^although they represent less than
? one tenth of one per cent of the
flue-cured tobaoeo ^owers in the
nation they have stirred1 up suf
. ficiedt noise to cause considerable
among the tobaoco pro
gram officials jn generpL
Uifoer ithelon ASC dfllcials are
unanipous in tfapir feeling that «
this suit now in the federal courts
is won by the niixed tip seed boy*.
iH mean an end to ■flie entire
dco program. Jones say*'it
not, but Agriculture Dep3rt
t officials don’t share his view.
NTY
>Y, AUGUST », 1897 VOLUME IX
..... ehMged r* nflnd in the.
past Week and decided to act. on
a petition calMng for a whisky
referendum in the county on the
question of establishing legal coun
ty-owned and- operated whisky
stores. . ' - -
The voting Will take place on
OdtebetJMh under the notice is
sue! this week by the board chair
man, W. F. Hill and its ody other
member at present, Wardell W.
Mallard. n >
last week Util add} no action
iwouJd be taken on'the petition
signed by til voters until a tided
member of the board could be
named to succeed Jeff Conway of
MaysviHe wM had resigned from
the election to take a seat on the
county board of education. >
dates oouqtisns had an oppor
tunity to vote on county whisky
stores in July of 193? anl at that
time the vote went against legal
whisky by 579 to 454. a margin of
against legal whisky.
At that time the county had a
registration of roughly 3,000 vot
ers, indicating that only about one
third of the eligible voters went
to
necessary for the October JOtii
voting but for the benefit of those
who have became -eligible to regis
ter since the last election in Nb
vemtoer of 1956 the registration
books ip all precincts will be open
September 21, 28, October 5th and
Challenge Day will be October 12th.
Voting against the county opera
tion df whisky stores 20, years ago
were the following precincts with
their vote:. White Oak 162 against
42 for. Polloctosville' 145 against 67
for; Cypress Creek 68 against 48
for, Piney Grove 25 agains£;24 for,
Chinquapin 55 against 35 for.
Voting fdr legal stores were
Trenton with 114 for and 69 against,
iBeaver Creek with 73f tdr and 21
against and Tuckahoe cast a tie
vote of 34 to 34.
Trenton Firemen Do
Good Work on Their
Finer Carolina Project
■ • ■ • . ‘ ■
lie Trenton Fire Department is
really doing some W»r& on its
(Finer Carolina project, On Satur
day afternoon, July, 37, approxi
mately 40 men met at the dew
picnic area with axes, pewer saws
and band tools, llong with five
tractors, three $4k up trucks and
one jeep and trader to dear up
<the underbrush. A plot of two and
one-half acres wag cleared that
afternodn.
In addition to that, two now
picnic todies have been made to
Is Open With
Monday
The white schools enrollment
gures for opening day were a»
flows; Trenton Elements ry3#»,
First-day enrollment in Jones
County’s 10 schoolswas 2,932 and
the students were divided exactly
between white and colored with
1,486 of each. \
Superintendent W. B. Moore
Says that this opening-day student
Joad is within a very few of the
figure for last year, but in the
bustle of opening tveek activity
he did not have the companion fig
ure for last year. ",~
The Trenton Negro Elementary
School, soon to receive a badly
needed modern 20-room addition,
is by far the county’s largest
school numerically with, an en
rollment of 609 pupils for opening
day. .
The white Trenton Elementary
School ranks second with 390
“eager” students on band for
g§
.... .. . tins:
Tredton Segmentary 609, Pollocks
ville 306. Maysville 107, Phillips’
Crossroads 40 . and Jones High
School 914:
Moore says work cn the 30 new
roams for the negro eltmeatary
School system should begin late
this month or early in September,
with 20 rooms for the ’ Trenton
Elementary School and 10 rooms
for Maysville. A $150,000 county
bond issue and state school build
ing flmds made possible the con
struction of these long and much
needed additions. * Moore says be
does nit anticipate using any of
this new space before the 1958-59
school year.
Fourteen Charges for
Nine' Defendants from
Undercover Agents
A ' six-month investigation of
stumphole whisky sales' primarily
aimdd at tfie traffic of, “White
Whisky” in Lenoir County resulted
in. 14 charges of selling non-tax
paid whisky a%ainst nine Jones
lOminty defendants.
Three of the nine defendants re
ported by Sheriff Brown Yates have
iftotetfaan one charge against them
and all others are indicted on one
count for selling stumphole whis
ky- -
Theodore Simmons of'Pollocks
viHe topped the indictment parade
.with four charges brought against
him. Essie McDaniel of Trentpn
' - Vetia Mitchell of Miaysvdle
two charges against them.
5^ street
Public Health Nurse Mr*. Alma
Vassey reports a doubling of the
adult Jones County courage dur
ing the past week, last week
Nurse Vassey reported that only
13 Jones County adults, had taken
advantage of the opportunity to
get'he Salk Vaccine and its proven
protection against infantile para
lysis. This in spite of the fact that
over 11,000/shots have been given
to the children of the county.
Under a plan suggested by PoKo
Chapter Chairman George Hughes
the health department in coopera
tion with the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis bad made
the Salk Vaccine available FREE
to Jones Countians of all ages 'fef
years
if age and to all expectant mo
thers. * ' ■
3Last week only 13 adults run the
gauntlet of Mrs. Vassey’s needle
department but in the past an
other 13 of the braver grown folks
shewed up, and that out of an es
timated 6,000 adults eligible. Nurse
Vassey agrees that the adult Jones
Countian is apparently more scared
of a needle than of polio.
Adult Jones Courage
Picks Up SHglttly as
13 More Get Vaccine
Land Transfers
Real estate transfers recorded in
the office of Jones County Register
of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce djur
ing) (the past week indude the
following; ,
Luther Philyaw to Alton Nobles
two acres in Trenton Township.
Clayton Jones to Jasper Hall one
tract in Cypress Creek Township.
- \y. H. DuVal to M. B. DuVal
one, acre in Pollocksville Town
ship.
M. B. DuVal to M. B. and Peggy
DuVal one acre iw Pollocksville
Township.
Luther Philyaw to Mary Elsie
Nobles two tracts in Cypress Creek
Township.
, Luthop Philyaw to Ruth Jen
kins Huffman one tract ii^ cypress
Creek Township.^.
Paul GFrizzelle.. Green has also
Heart indicted by Ben Brewington,
a tenant on the Council Wooten
farm, who accuses Green of shoot
ing at him two Saturdays ago.
Last week Green hajl indicted
iBrewiniton for hitting him over
the head with a pop bottle.
Others in less trouble than those
listed above, who are each charged
with one said of hon-taxpald whis
ky to the undercover agents in
clude Robert 'Biewn of Maysville,
Chess Roberts and Desnos Wett ed
Poltoctavflle and Jdmes and “Feet"
Lottin of Kinston route sin. AQ
Two life Term* Given
JVfurderer Two Women
Jacob Brewer Jr. of 1115 Lin
coln' Street in Kinston last Thurs
day afternoon pled guilty in Lenoir
County Superior Court to two
charges of first degree murder and
drew the mandatory sentence of
life imprisonment on each count.
Brewer through counsel and in
writing, as prescribed by law in
guilty pleas to crimes punishable
by death, admitted the shotgun
slaying of Gladys Collins and Alta
Sessions on August 14thin the home
of Leonza Sutton at 1100 Reed
Street in Southeast Kinston.
Brewer faced death in the gas
chamber if he had pled not quilty
and had been convicted. After con
siderable lengthy discussion with
his counsel he decided not to run
| the risk of the gas, chamber and
take the double life sentences, hop
ing for a chance at parole.
Court officials express the yiew
that parole is most unlikely, but
all agreed that release from the
twin life terms is much more like
ly than parole from the penalty
Jarman who fives be
tween Trenton and Comfort last
Friday suffered the loss of his
packbam and practically his en
tire tobacco crop from a five of
undetermined origin, J. B. Ham,
Kinston Radio Executive and bro
ther-in-law of Jarman also lost
his entire tobatco crop id the same
fire. Jarman was treated for shock
in a Kir.ston hospital after he had
i faulted on learning of the loss. It
was not reported if the loss was
covered by insurance or rot.
Marriage License
Jones County Register of Deeds
Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the
issue of two marriage license in
the past week. They went to the
following:
Jeter P. Taylor. 21, of Chin
quapin Township and Nancy Scott,
21, of Pollocksville Township and
Clayton Whitt Turner, 22, of Pink
Hill and Mamie Gray Taylor, 17,
of Kinstrn.
Jones-Lenoir Voters
Favor ‘Know How’ by
Wide Margins Friday
Only a small percentage of the
eligible voters cast their ballot in
Friday’s referendum on the con
tinuation of the “Nickels lor Know
How” program, tout it was still
passed by an overwhelming ma
jority. • _
Lenoir County voters said “Yes”
788 times and “No" only 22 times to
the program winch permits collec
tion of five cents extra on each ton
of feed or fertilizer, for use in
agricultural .research. On a spe
cial cotton vote which would collect
10 cents, in each hale of cotton the
Vote was 329 for and 11 against.
In Jones County the vote was
correspondingly light but equally
strong ih favor of this-self-help ef
fort of North Carolina, farmers.
Die 'was 252 for and
origins! “Know How”
program and 19 to 2 in favor of the
" ' yeseaqph program.
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