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E JONES COUNTY NUMBER 21 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1957 VOLUME IX iVliiy '"fo»" Verna Belle Lowery Attending National Home Agent Meeting to the National Meeting at Fort Worth Texas in 1952 and in Chicago, Uli Verna Belle Lowery, president of the North Carolina Home Demon stration Agents’ Association, will attend the National Meeting Octo ber 22-25 at Minneapolis, Minne sota. The theme for the convention, '“Frontiers Unlimited”, will be the subject Mias Laura Lane, associate editor of the Farm Journal, will use for her address. Other speakers will be Louise 'Rosenfeld, Assistant Director of Home Economics, Iowa State Col lege; Mrsi Helen D. .Turner, Field Ex nois in 1956. She has served as district chairman, secretary and treasurer. She has served on State committees, as vice president of North Carolina Home Demonstra tion Agents’ Association and is now •state president. Miss Lowery is the daughter of •Mrs. J. R. Lowery and the late Mr. •Lowery of Trenton. Other agents from North Carolina iwiho are attending the National Meeting include Mrs. Elizabeth W. Jones, Snow Hill; Rachel Herring, Goldsboro and Rebecca Colwell, New Bern. Land Transfers Land transfers recorded during the past week in Jones County ^Register of J&eeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce’s office were the follow ing: Nyra Jean Guy to J. A. Scott, two tracts in Cypress Creek Town ship. Wilbur Foy Jones to Wilbur F. and Mary W. Jones 151 acres ia Beaver Creek Township. Edward Hill to Everette V. Eu baks 2S acres in Pollocksville Township. Wilbur F. Jones to John B. Wa ters one, lot in Beaver Creek Tbwnship. John B. and Eula Miller to Rom and lEtfie Noble Harper 97 y2 acres in Tuckahoe Township. Jones Qounty. Renter of Deeds Sirs. D. W. Koonce reports the issue of only one marriage license dating the past Week and that went to Rayford Lee Howard, *, of Newport end Dorothy Faye Hill, &£K: '•* • ■ V* Jones Sales Tax Collections up, Lenoir Collections Drop in July Reports irom the North Carolina Department of Revenue show that Cor the month of July this year hales tax collections in Jones County rose slightly over July 1956 blit in Lenoir County a sharp drop is revealed. In July of this year Jones Coun ty’s sales tax collections were $3,775.73 and July ’56 the Jones (County donation to this “temporary tax” that was put in the law hooks 25 years ago was $3,607.64, an in crease of $168.09 which is slightly •more than a five per cent increase. For the same period Lenoir County’s sales tax collections were $76,980.49 for July 1956 and $71,210.41 for July of this year, a •drop of $6,750.08, a decline of nine percent. Craven County’s contribution to this same tax also took a nose dive for July of this year with $73,909.74 eoOeoted this year against $77,252.52 collected in July ’56, a drop of $3,34(7.78 or just over four per cent decline. IThe total state collection drop ped from $6,377,863.75 to $6,115, 684.11. George Hughes Named Chairman Cerebral Palsy Hospital Board fecently named to the chairman ship of the board of directors of the North Carolina Hospital for Cerebral Palsy. Hughes, whose term expires in 1959, has served for several years on the board which supervises the operation of what is classed as one of the nation’s top hospitals in this field. Other members of the board in addition to Chairman Hughes are W. M. Roberts of Gastonia, Forrest Waller of Kinston, James M. White of Raleigh, Grizzeile Norfleet of Winston Salem, Roy Lindall of Chapel Hill, John Messick of Greenvile and Fleming Wiley of Durham. Federal Court Deals Roughly With Liquor Law Violators Tuesday Among defendants before Judge Don Gilliam Tuesday at the cur rent term of federal court in New Bern were a number of Lenoir Countians, a majority of whom were treated rather severely. Prison terms went to the follow ing, all charged with some infringe ment of the. law pertaining to whisky, its sale or its manufac ture: Ernest Rhodes, 18 months; Mar ion Parrish 18 months; Jesse Pot ter, a year and a day; George Frank Washington, 18 months; John Thelma Smith, 18 months and George Mitchell, a year and a day. Suspended prison terms went to Hilary Smith, who had a year and a day term suspended on payment of a $500 fine and condition of two year probation. Mrs. John Thel mas Smith was given a year and a day term suspended on condition of two year probation. James Dar rell Hill was given a year and a day suspended on payment of a $500 fine and two year probation. Orris Cannon drew a flat $250 fine with no probationary or sus pended prison term provisions. ‘Drys’ Optimistic, ‘Wets’ Hot and Cold as Jones ABC Vote Nears ■The political lines seemed most vaguely drawn in Jones Cbunty tins week as the Saturday refer endum on setting up ABC stores in the county approached. The groups favoring the ABC stores for Jones County were suf fering a bad case of mixed emo tions. On one day they were high ly optimistic about their chance and on the next day were gloomily pessimistic. In only one thing do the legal wets remain constant, and that is in their unanimous fear of their wives and their preachers. “Off the record” is the rule of the day for those who will have a word to say on the side of legal whisky for the county. They offer many excellent rea sons why they do not wish their name to be used in connection with a comment, but the two best rea sons are “mama and the preach er”. The dry side of the argument is less inhibited. Headed, advised and financed to some extent by the Allied Church League of Raleigh the dry side is making the rounds with the standard emotional pleas that ask Jones Countians not to be in league with the distillers, and the devil. Robert Bender, Grover Mallard and Frank Bender are the announc ed leaders of this “keep the coun ty dry” group, but as usual in most cases the women folks are doing most of the work. They have copied the registration books and letters have been sent to all eli gible voters begging them to vote John Larkins Receiving ^ahc'edr: Society1 Honor ' John D. Larkins Jr. of Trenton will receive the Distinguished Ser vice Medal of the American Cancer Society at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Division of the Society in Raleigh next Saturday and Sunday, B. F. Buchan of Char lotte, president, announced today. Larkins will receive the medal at the Awards Banquet on Satur day night. At the same time 50 Volunteers of the organization who have rendered outstanding services to cancer control will be honored. “Larkins has been given this high honor by our National Society for his 12 years of unselfish effort in behalf of the fight against cancer. Hn a very real way he has made a contribution to the growth and ex Mansion of the North Carolina Divi sion”, Buchan said. Larkins is the second North Carolina winner of the Medal. Dr. Ivan Procter of Raleigh received it in 1953 for his role in the estab lishment of the cancer detection centers under the N. C. State Board of Health. Only One Arrest The only arrest reported in the past week in Jones County by Sheriff Brown Yates was that of Charles S. Burton of Maysville route one who was indicted by Pa trolman L. S. Meiggs on a charge of driving after his driving license had been revoked and with an im properly registered car. dry, no matter what their drink ing habits might be. The wet side boys, and gir^s since a few women are bold and honest enough to publicly iavor legal to illegal whisky for the coun ty, are very largely playing on tne economic angle. Which is not too hard to do. Jones County taxes were raised this year by a considerable mar gin while the income of most Jones Oountians was going (town. Even the blindest Jones County "dry” admits that many thousand Jones County dollars are spent each year in ABC stores of adjoining Lenoir, Craven and Onslow counties. Th» wets remind that the On slow county AiBC store has already secured a site at Belgrade, just across the river from Maysville, on which they plan to build a whis ky store to make it even mere easy for Jones County money to flow into Onslow County’s trea sury if the vote on Saturday still keeps Jones County legally dry. A rumor started this week by the “drys” warned that ABC stores in the county would cause the county to lose the money it gets at present from the beer and wine taxes. This, of course, is not true, for example last year Lenoir County, which is one of the ori ginal 19 ABC counties received just over $20,000 rebate from the state beer and wine taxes. A few Jones Countians have ex pressed the fear that Jones Coun ty was not large enough to profit ably operate ABC stores but the wets have “gone to the record” and have shown that in the history of ABC stores in North Carolina none has ever failed to make a profit, and they point to figures from other smalt counties—some smaller than Jonesi—that are get ting substantial parts of their county income from the legal con trol and sale of whisky. The drys say making whisky more easily available will increase public drunkenness. The wets say that the record does not support this contention, and they remind that there has never seemed to be any difficulty for any of the current crop of Jones County drunks to get their grog. Both sides are reluctant to make any predictions but the drys are generally more optimistic for their cause than the wets who fear the power of the “women folks and the preachers”, which they may very fell fear, since these are con siderable powers. Lucky Wilson Couple Survives After Train Does This to Car Last Friday afternoon at about 3:39 Tad Hookar and Dorothy Good man, a negro couple from Wilson, used up a lot of their good luck, as those pictures clearly indicate. They were driving west on Cun ningham Road which connects US' 3S9«nd NC 55 north of Khwtan, and unfortunately at the same Hmo the Atlantic Coast Line freight train was making it* daily return trip to Kinston. The car and train met at the creating at about the tame time, and at it utual in auch intersec tional ditagraententt the train: won, ripping the Hooker car into the tarap iron pictured here. The luck part wat the relatively minor laifrbi suffered by the • ■ ' 1 passengers in the car. Hooker bad a cut above the left eye on the forehead and another cut on the right leg. Miss Goodman had a slightly move severe cut on the heed, multiple bruises and abra sierts and a dislocated shoulder. Hooker was released from Par rott Memorial Hospital alter be ing given emergency treatment •» Wednesday morning, while still in the hospital, Miss Goodman was reportedly "doing fine and up and «round". The good Iwclc was partially due to Hie fact that bath ware thrown from the car at the moment of impact. Observers felt that if they bad stayed In the car their injuries woutd have bean far worse.
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