THE JONES COUNTY Meet Asked About US 17 wiy »sa uouiwy* ojBciaia tram Greene, Pitt, Craven, Jones, Dup fln, Wayne aiel Lenoir Counties gathered In Kinston last Friday afternoon to hear the program oi die renovated highway commis sion explained and to tell the as sorted highway officials at the meeting what roadway problems were in their respective bailiwicks. Mayor Guy Elliott, speaking for Kinston, Hated four problems for hi* oomanhnity: 1. Re-location of NC 35 and NC U around die city. 2. Connecting noadways for two new schools just outside the city limits. 3. Improvement of the awk ward intersection of US £58 with the Airport and Old Snow Hi! Roads just north of the city limits. 4. Resurfacing of Vernon Avenue for its full length through Kinston. Comfy Commissioner Bruce Simmons did the griping for the Jones County delegation, and High way Director William Babcock agreed that Jobes County did have a specific and logical complaint , and told Simmons that the kind of complaint made about US 17 was a general gripe all over the state and was to be the principal topic of discussion at the neat meeting of the Highway commission. <■ .Simmons’ complaints were two; and both were about that portion of Highway US 17 in Jones Coun ty. Firstly, Simmons insisted and highway officials agreed that this heavily traveled roadway was badly in need of resurfacing. Dis trict Engineer Romulus Markham told Simmons that US IT in Jones fact from the -New limits to the -Onslow already scheduled would be as available. Land Transfers -Beal estate transfers recorded in tiie office of Jones County Reg ister of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce during the (past week include the following; Seventy one acres from Leonard J. Overbee to Jasper Lee Hall. From P. J. West to J. D. West 52.4 acres n Pollocksville Town ship. From J. D. West to E. O. West 30.5 acres in Pollocks voile Town ship. From J. D. Dest to Mrs. Lula West 52.4 acres in Pollocfcsville Township. Marriage License The only marriage license is sued during the past week by Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce went to Willie R. Har rell, 23, of Trenton route one and Mavis Carol Griffin, 16, of Tren ton route two. Jones County in a most uncertain frame of mind about development of their property. Babcock says this is a state wide problem and agreed that property owners have a right to know at the earliest possible mo ment what will be done in this re spect and he said further that recommendations along this line were to be made to the February meeting of the commission. These recommendations might extend for a long time ipto the future, but at least if a property owner wanted to build a motel, filling station, cafe or home he would have a Let for New Swift & Co. Wilson Plant Contract tor construction at Swift & Company’s modern meat packing plant at Wilson has been awarded. F. N. Thompson, Inc. oi Char lotte was successful bidder on the general construction contract. Construction is scheduled to be gin at once, with the plant to be completed by the end of this year. Site of the plant will be a 59 acre tract just south of the city limits. It is situated adjacent to the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, near highway 301. Main building of the new plant will be basically a one-story struc tuce, but parts of it will have two additional stories. The plant 'will process cattle, calves and hogs. Besides a full line of fresh meat products from those types of live stock, the plant wiM process smok ed meats, sliced bacon, and table ready meats. There also will be an office and utility building, garage and me chanical shop, boiler and engine room and livestock buying facili ties. A daily cash market for live stock will be maintained at the plant. The new Swift plant, which will be operated under Federal inspec Compromise Judgment in Jones Court Awards Kinstonians Farm Settles Lenoir Litigation Also A iengtmy compromise agree ment reached last week in Jones County Superior Court cleared four cases from that court’s civil calendar, settled another civil suit pending in Lenoir County Superior Court and awarded a 147-acre Jones county farm to Mr. and Mrs. J. Carlton Bynum of Kinston, and another farm to Mrs. Blanche King tion, will incorporate the latest developments in meat packing plant layout and equipment. Faci lities will be streamlined to pro mote efficient processing opera tions and to provide the best possi ble service to livestock producers and consumers. E. D. FletehaU, Swift vice presi dent, said construction of this plant represents the company’s vote of confidence that the livestock pro duction area to be served by the plant will continue to develop. “Wilson is the hub of an im portant agricultural community, with' abundant grain supplies,” FletehaU pointed out. “In becom ing a business citizen of the com munity, we look forward to growth and expansion in a healthy econo mic climate, with livestock sup Mm? & the ; pocking unit in North Carolina. Swift or associated meat packing plants closest to the Wilson area are at Baltimore, Md., NashviEe, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and Moaltrie, Ga. Although this is Swift’s first meat packing operation in the state, the company is no stranger t0 North Carolina. The company’s first establishment in the state was a sales unit, built at Wilmington in 1906. A 9wift plant food factory .was established at Wilmington in 1906, and another at Greensboro in 1918. Today, Swift also has a re finery and {i district office at Charlotte, and a dairy and poul try plant at Greensboro. There are sales units at Wilmington, Char lotte, Greensboro, Asheville, Dur ham, Fayetteville, Gastonia, Hen derson, Raleigh, Rocky Mount. Winsiton-Salem and Kinston. Bail. The first farm, originally owned by the lath John M. Dixon had been willed by him to his wife, the late Glennie King Dixon. Mrs. Dixon had deeded the farm, to the By nums prior to her death. Mrs. By num is a niece of Mr. Dixon. The other farm, owned by the late Mrs. Dixon had been willed by her to her sister, Mrs. Dail. Rom Dixon, a brother of the original farm owner, and num erous nieces and nephews had brought two suits in the courts of Jones County; one attacking the will from Dixon to his wife, and another attacking Mrs. Dixon’s right to give the farm to her niece, Mrs. Bynum and her husband. A third suit had been brought by relatives of Mrs. Dail attacking the validity of the will under which' she had received the farm from Mrs. Dixon. The Lenoir County suit brought by nieces and nephews of the Dix on couple sought to set aside the will in which Mrs. Dixon disposed of her personal property. After securing a jury to hear the case a lengthily conference be tween attorneys representing all partigkjBVtdved.itt tbe Suits reach ed a compromise under which: 1. The farm goes in fee simple, unencumbered to the Bynums. 2. The Bynums pay $3,000 in cash t0 Rom Dixon. 3. Bom Dixon execute an agree ment relieving the Bynums of a $1,500 funeral expense item be queated by the Late Mrs. John Dixon for Rom Dixon, her brother in-law. 4. The Bynums pay $100 of the court costs. 5. All other court costs to be paid by those who brought the numerous suits. JONES DIVORCE GRANTED Only one divorce was granted last week in the civil term of Jones Counity Superior Court and it went to Columbus Flowers from Irmie H. Flowers on grounds of two years separation. Two Civil Suits Are Filed in Jones Court During the past week two civil suits were filed in Jones County Superior Court; one for a divorce and another for damages alleged from an automobile accident. The damage suit was brought by Furney Wilder against Mrs. Verna Brinkley and he seeks $300 dam ages from losses incurred accord ing to his allegations in a wreck between Trenton and Pollocksville on June 2, 1957. The divorce is sought on grounds of two years separation by Ger trude Loftin Nelson from Christo pher Nelson. Sheriff’s New Number Sheriff Brown Yates asks this week that all Journal readers take note of the fact that he now has a new telephone number which is Pollocksville 63281. This change Sheriff Yates says came as the result of long effort on his part to get a private line, which was re cently installed by the telephone company. Hearing February 6 In Thanksgiving Auto IQeaths Near Kinston A $1,000 bond has been posted for Car lion Hood of La Grange calling for his appearance in Re corder’s Court in Kinston Febru ary 6th for preliminary hearing in the auto accident last Thanksgiv ing morning that killed tiwo La Grange men and hospitalized the defendant and two others tram La Grange. Patrolman B. A. Baker turned in the warrants Tuesday which name Hood as the driver of the car which went out of control in a curve on US 70 west of Kinston at 2:30 a. m. Thanksgiving day, in stantly killing Willie Norman Gra ham and Herman Newbern and hospitalizing Hood, his brother Willie Hood and Christine Graham, wife of one of the dead men. Hood has insisted that one of the dead men was driver of the car, but the Highway Patrol investiga tion tends to indicate otherwise. Spring Political Possibilities Offer Voters Much Variety me win ox January is aooui as deep in the middle of winter as one can get, so it may be rather pre mature tp start talk of politics which will blossom into full bloom May 27th when the biennial coun ty, state and national primaries are held. Officmls whose jobs will be on