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NUMBER 33 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958 VOLUME IX Monday Commission County Board of s enjoyed an un _„ quiet session Monday as they thok up 1968 business in their first meeting of the New Year. the session was spent largely considering annual reports Bled by the Jaiuh and home agents and hearing a monthly report from Welfare Superintendent Mrs. J. R. Burt. A petition ashing improvement of the “Riggs Road” in pollocks— wiile Township was approved and referred to the Highway Commis An application for the job of con stable in Tuckahoe Township was taken under consideration and a beer license application from Ed ward Lee Gray in Pollocksville Township was vetoed since the board was informed that Gray had moved his business from the place originally applied for. Land Transfers Transfers of Jones Country land reported in the office of Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce dur ing the past three weeks includes the following: From Lynwood Pollock to E. H. Pollock 225 acres in Beaver Creek Township. From Yvonne Shaimbley to A. L. Andrews 99.7 acres in Trenton Township. From Estelle J. Batchelor to J. E. Turner two tracts in Tuckahoe Township. From Barvey M. Small to Den nis Loftin one tract in Chinquapin Township. From Amos Jones to Lloyd Byrd 35 acres in Tuckahoe Township. From E. H. Andrews to Elbert Andrews 72.06 acres in Tuckahoe Township. From Luther Philyaw to C. C and X R. Jones 150 acres in Cy Henderson three lots in WhiteOak Township. From David C. Smith to F. H. "Pruitt two acres in White Oak Township. From Ci E. -and J. W. Willie to John Daniel "Randolph White two lots in PolloCksville Township. From Jdhn Daniel Randolph ■White to Lila D. Simmons two lots in ToHocksv'ille Township. C. B. Toy “to Ethlyn and Either Frost three h)ts in White Oak Towndhip. Joe Collins to Aliena Parsons on* tract in White (Dak Township. J. T. Parsons to Lydia Collins one tract in "White COak Township. From W. B. Humphrey to Alton Jones County’s ABC Stores Gross $9,534.25 in 1957 After opening the first legal whisky stores in more than 40 years in Jones County on December 6th at Trenton and December 21st at Hargetts Crossroads the County ABC board was able to report gross sales of $0,534.25 for that period. In the first 21 days of the Tren ton store gross sales amounted to $7,706.15 and in nine days of opera tion during 1957 the Hargett Cross road Store had gross sales of $l,82SJh. The New Year has begun with sales average approximately $200 per day at the Trenton Store and around $100 per day at the No. 2 store in the western part of the comity. These sales racked up in De camber, which is generally con sidered to be the No. 1 month for legal whisky sales reveal an aver age daily sale of $350.25 for the Trenton store and $207.20 for the No. 12 store. ABC officials have no way of knowing what 1958 holds for any business but they have expressed the view that if sales will average even half the daily averages that were made in December that a reasonably nice profit will be realized. Presuming upon a 300-day opera tion per year this would result in a gross of $83,610. Last year the wet revenue to the county or city general funds ranged from a high of l5.3e per cent dn' 'Aa4ievllle to a low of 9.17 per cent in Greene County. The statewide average was 13.45 per cent net profits. This net pro fit figure does not include the set aside for law enforcement. These are extremely conserva tive estimates of the possible gross and net returns from the Jones County venture into the legal whis ky business. Pamlico County with only 9,993 JU. and Theron D. Humphrey two tracts inPollocksviUe Township. From James Gray to Nick F. Conrie 581.2 acres in Tuckahoe Township and from Nick F. Courie to Elisha ID. Robinson 81.2 acres in Tuckahoe Township. Free Testing of Cattle for Bangs Disease Available Now During tne non two oor three ■nionths Jones County farmers can get their cattle tested for Bangs Disease and TB free of' charge, farm agent J. R. Franck says. Dr. P. E. Trainer, of the De partment of Agriculture, in co operation with the Jones County Board of Commissioners is now in the process of testing about 20 per cent of the cattle in the county for these two diseases. This testing is done every three years. Bangs Disease, cr contagious J abortion as it is sometimes called, j affects cattle, hogs, humans and other animals. It can be transmitted to humans by drinking milk from a cow with the disease (the same it true for TB). people having milk cow tested for Those people 'Who want their cows tested shoitld notify the Farm Agent’s, office. population and no major highways to carry tourist trade and with only one store in the county had gross sales last year of $111,036.42 and paid $14,304.65 into the county treasury in addition to paying $709.56 into the law enforcement fund paying the state treasury $10,892 and paying $6,774.78 in salaries and rents in the county. MOSS HILL INDUSTRY HIT Two small “family size” whisky stills were found during the past week in the Moss Hill end of Le noir County. One found near Stra bane had not yet gone into produc tion and the other had been used and was apparently being moved from one site to another when Ifound. Three jars of stumphole whisky were found with one, anti freeze, no doubt, for the operators of the still who were not appre hended. Carrol Price Badly Hurt in Accident Saturday Afternoon Seventeen year-old Carrol Clark Price of La Grange route three suffered critical injuries at about 4:15 p. m. Saturday 12 miles west of Kinston on NC 55 when the car he w'as driving was rammed in the side by the car driven off a rural paved road by Mrs. Loriia Darlne Hill of Kinston route four. Young Price, driving west on NC 55, suffered a broken back and other serious internal injuries and Harold M. Smith, a passenger in his car, suffered a broken pelvis. Price was transferred immediately to the University Hospital at Cha pel Hill and Smith is under treat ment at Parrott Memorial Hos pital in Kinston. Investigating Patrolman J. A. Grumpier indicted Mrs. Hill on charges of failure to yield the right of way. Damage was estimated at $900 to the Price car and $200 to the Hill car. Auto Accidents Can't Be Talked Away, Speed Says Traffic accidents can’t be “talk ed away,” says Major Charles A. Speed of the State Highway Pa trol, but preventive measures can certainly be “talked up,” as some 300 members of the speakers divi sion of the Governor’s Traffic Safety Council proved last year. The hardworking police execu tive is In 8f Hie "patrol's ] traffic safety division and coordina tor of the •exclusive orator’s club. “Based ®n our best estimates re ported to the National Safety Coun cil, our volunteer speakers and other safety officials made ap proximately 10,000 talks during 1957 on the single subject of traf fic accident prevention,” Major Speed declared. “iFew other states can match this outstanding record of public spirited cooperation in the attack on needless highway deaths and in juries. We are extremely proud of this achievement,” he said. The Speakers’ Bureau is an out growth of the Governor’s Traffic Safety Council which was organized four years ago by Gov. Luther Hodges. It numbers approximately 300 charter speakers who each carry a specially designed ID card . signed by Gov. Hodges and Motor Vehicles Commissioner Edward Seheidit, chairman of the GTSC. In reviewing the speakers pro gram during last year, Major Speed revealed plans for an extensive ex pansion of the bureau’s efforts in 1958. He said that special invita tions had been made to influential speakers in every section of the state to enlist in the Speakers’ Bureau. Acceptances were coming in encouragingly, he added. “Plans are now complete which will enable our offic^ t'o ^function as a clearing house for speaker requests,’’ he said. “That is, we will accept all such requests, co ordinate them with available vol unteer speakers, and make as signments from a central office.” The major said that for the bene fit of program chairmen, com munity safety leaders, and the like, his office would furnish a volun teer safety speaker, on reasonable notice, to any group desiring such a program. BOTH DRIVERS LAWED Highway Patrolman Lloyd George Pate decided to let the judge decide who was right in an accident that took place at 9:30 p. m. Saturday at the intersection of US 70 and US 258 just south of Kinston. Malcolm H. Hill of Kin ston route two and James Henry Turner of Kinston route three were drivers of the cars involved and Pate indicted each of them for failure to yield the right of way. j One Native, One GI Arrested This Week By Jones County Law The only two arrests reported by Jones County law enforcement of ficers in the past week included a native son and a Camp Lejeune Marine. Theh native son, Charles Duffy White of Pollocksvilie, was ar rested Sunday night and charged with having in his possession one pint of stumpbole whisky. The Marine was Lewis Thomas and he was arrested by Patrolman Bert Mercer last Tuesday night and accused of drunken driving, reck less driving and speeding 75 miles per hour. Annual Reports Shows Plenty Activity by Kinston Policemen The annual report filed this week Kinston Police Chief Marion Haskins with the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a busy year for the local department. There were 2,292 persons arrested and 6,406 more summoned to ap pear in court, making a total of 8,698 persons charged with some infraction of the law. 7,317 of that number .were found guilty as charged and 60 others were found guilty of a lesser charge. In the Class I crimes there were three charges of murder, four charges of rape, five charges of robbery, four charges of aggra vated assault, 37 indictments for burglary, 84 for theft and 21 for auto theft. In the Class II crimes of less gravity parking violations topped the list and accounted for the vast .majority of citations with 5,321 falling victim to the “parking tic ket”. In all 10,120 were given park ing tickets but all except 5,321 were excused upon presentation of the, ticket at the police station. 0:her violations included 944 traf ; fic charges, 623 public drunkeness, 389 motor vehicle regulation viola tions, 206 liquor law charges, 252 simple assaults 179 disorderly con duct and an assortment of lesser charges. DESERTER ARRESTED William Harold Hamm of 301 Warren Avenue in Kinston was ar rested last week by FBI agents on charges of deserting the army. He was held in the city jail until picked up on Saturday by Military Police from Fort Bragg. Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonee reports the is sue of one marriage license in the past week and it went to Robert L. Murrell, 22, and Etta Mae Bruen ton, 18, both of Trentcn. SUBSCRIBE TO AND READ 'THE JONES JOURNAL' Your Home Newspaper These tyo pictures show part of the sarious-looidrtg accident which made a total loss of two vehicles lest Friday afternoon hut fortunate ly resulted In only personal In fury/ ■ king-sized goose ogg on the forehead of Charles Hines, manager of Hines Brothers Lum ber Company, who was driy(i|0 the tikiek. Hines, driving westwardty on Bright Stroot, had his truck rammed in the right side by the north bound Ford seen1 in the mid dle of the street. George A. Millin der.of 211 West Spruce Street in Wilson, was driving the car, which belonged to Edward R. Randolph of Kinston route four4, who was a passenger* MHIInder was indicted for speeding •ndnmtfat«red light
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