IP Jones School Officials Attend Smyrna Meeting Last Thursday n.asi lnursoay tne mire uis-, triot School Boards Association met I at Smyrna, for its annual meeting. | The theme for the meeting was j “What Pattern Education for the Sputnik Age”. Kinston City Schools Superin tendent Jean P. Booth gave the “Kick-Ofif” address followed by grouip meetings. After the meetings the guests were served a clambake dinner in the cafeteria of the school. Then the evening ended with an address by Dr. Leo Jenkins, Dean of East Carolina College. Board members, .principals and their wives Who attended the meet ing from Jones County were: Mr. and Mrs. J. C- West Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Har rison, Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Cox, Mr. and Mrs. J- Manly Foscue, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pippin, J. E. Parker, C. J. Banks, W. B. Moore, Miss Julia Whitty, JSwood McDan iel and Murray Boyette. Three Charges Listed Last Week in County _ Sheriff Yates Reports Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports three -arrests dur Coun 90 miles per hour. Leopard Lee Morton of Pollocks ville was Indicted So? failure to support his wife and several minor ' children. (County NCEA Meets At Jones Central The County NOEA meeting was held Tuesday afternoon at Jones Central High School. Miss Tiny Hammond, president, presided over the meeting, during which there were announcements concerning the election of officers for the coming year. W. B. Moore gave an informa tive talk on “Federal Aid to Edu cation”. After the meeting the teachers were served refreshments by the host, Jones Central. Named Tax Collector Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners .-named Whit field Mallard to Jbe -collector of de linquent taxes, succeeding Hugh Loftin, who recently died. Mallard will collect delinquent taxes in White Oak, Trenton and Pollocks ville townships. . Land Purchase OK’d The Jones County Board of Com-' missioners Monday approved the purchase of am additional two acres ot land adjacent to the site of the neiw negro elementary school which is under construction just back of Jones County High .School. ROAD PETITIONS APPROVED * iilte jbnes County Board of Com missioners Monday approved peti tions'asking improvements to small stretches of roadway in Tuckahoe and Cypress Creak "Townships; the first known as the “Old Wilming ton Boad” and the batter known as the “Banks Road". Heavy Loss in Warehouse Fire This is the gutted warehouse of fDidyette Hardware Company, lo cated between Caswell and Kins streets on the Atlantic & East Carolina Railroad. Fire broke out in the large ^wild ing shortly before midnight Sunday had spread almost the foil of the warehouse by the firemen arrived. was strong evidence of to-fire department to tho owner* of the bnUiog, end investigation is centered arocnd the possibility that a drinking or gambling group might have gotten in the building and caused the fire. Many flammable materials con tributed to the stubbomess of the fire which took over six hours to extinguish completely. Improper storage of materials in the warehouse, blocking door added to the difficulties which further compifxated by sub substantiating Chief confidence in is a pro Palmistry License is Asked Monday; Board Delays Its Decision Larry Johnson of Rocky Mount appeared Monday before the Jones pounty Board of Commissioners seeking a license to operate a “palmistry” joint in the county. Apparently Johnson’s ability to penetrate the fogs that surround the future was numb from the cold since he did not know until he ar rived in Trenton that the license fee for such hustling in Jones Coun ty is $100 per day. Johnson’s plans were for a “fortune telling” joint near Wyse’s Forks where it would be near the suckers in Kinston who are stupid enough to believe their problems can be solved by paying money and having the lines of their palms “read”. Lenoir County does not allow such hustlers at any price. The Jones Commissioners told Johnson they would take his re quest under consideration but they did not hold out much hope that they would cut the $100 per day price tag for “fortune telling” in their bailiwick. One reflected that $100 per day would not be much to pay from a person who could “see into the future”. One hour’s peek into the future at a race track or on the stock market would make a mill ionaire out of any little old fortune teller, it was reasoned. house One court dreamily', a mighty fine way to cut property taxes in the county if about three or four “palmists” could be per suaded to stay in Jones County and pay the $100 per day license fee. Johnson gave as reference foi his character and ability a Ser geant Booker of the Bocky Mount Police Department. He did not of fer to look at the palms of the Jones County Commissioners and find out immediately whether oi not they were going to leit him pitch his tent in their county. Land Transfers Transfers of real estate record ed in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonee during the past week in clude the following: From Minnie to Floyd Houston 67.6 acres of land in Cypress Creek Township. From Benjamin A. DeBruhl to Glennie DeBruhl Johnson 17.1 acres, to James E. DeBruhl 17.3 acres, to Josephine DeBruhl Smith 17.3 acres, to Mary E. DeBruhl 17.3 acres all in Beaver Creek Town ship. From Josephine DeBruhl Smith to Benjamin A. DeBrnhl 17.3 acres in Beaver Creek Township. From James E. DeBruhl to Benjamin A. Detoruhl, Glennie De Bruhl Johnson and Mary E. De Bruhl small tracts upon which farming buildings are located. LARCENY CHARGE WITHDRAWN Mrs. Ruth Kimimer, of no cer tain address, was arrested Tuesday morning by Kinston police, charg ed in a warrant signed by H. H. Grant of Mount Vernon Park with stealing some over $200 from him in a room at the Caswell Hotel Monday night. ‘Wednesday morn ing Grant withdrew the warrant and paid die court costs in the case. : W. '■ , Jones Liquor Stores Gross $11,099 During First Full Month Open A report released this week by County Supervisor Ray Harrison of the Jones County Alcoholic Beverages Control Board shows that in the first full month of operation for the county’s two new legal liquor stores a gross sales of $11,099.25 was experienced. . The first of these two stores was opened December 6th in Trenton and the second was opened Decem ber 20th at Hargett’s Crossroads and through the rest of Decem ber they grossed a total of $9,534.25. January had 26 days in which the stores were opened since they were closed each Sunday and on New Year’s Day and the sales for each were: $6,634.15 for the Tren ton store and $4,465.10 for the Har gett’s Crossroad store. This gives a grand total business ] of $20,633.50 since the county went j into the whisky business Decem ber 6th. Although it is not possible to register a positive prediction on the rate of profit for the stores, i the statewide average for all legal stores is roughly 13 per cent net. Presuming that operating costs of the Jones County ABC system were in line with the others in the state this would indicate a possi ble profit of some $2,600 for the first two months of operation. However, ABC officials caution that the first year’s operation may S enjoy less -than the state-wide j average rate of profit because of ! initial opening up expenses. Officials feel that so long as the \ stores gross as much as $10,000 per month there will be a profit, and they feel that if January sales hit the $U,QOO-