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a Twwtog wu *Wdi«
resurfacing of US tfacwws
An official of the cunnany said
Thursday morning iSSSk,could
continued heavy rains aprevnil the
work will get underway within the
next io ttaya.
Some sections of the.iroadway!
between the Ctaven and JQnslow
county lines will not be resurfaced
at this time, including the area'
inside the PolloctaviBe Corporate
limits already resurfaced.
The .-meetings have beta nailed
Igr the Pine-Cured Tobacco :Gd»
operative stabilization corpocaium
and *1* J»ing held for the jwrpoae
of ghdag to growers an sapnr-;
«wto to tear discussed to many!
'problems now facing the awnM
tribaccp program. Among the high
lights af the program will he a'
discussion on to current tobacco
situation from iMth the domestic
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Motel Operator Signs
Three Warrants After'
Family Difficulties
Eunice "Rhodes, operator of the
Beautyrest Motel just cast af
Kinston, signed three warrants
over tise past weekend - against
members df former members of
her hamily.
' in one indictment she charged
her -former husband, R. H, Me
Lowborn, of Ay den with beating
her.and.in another pair of warrants'
she charged her son, Thomas Pig
ott.anid'Ainn dements of Greenville
with prostitution, and fina%
charged her son with public drunk
enness :and disorderly conduct
and'export standpoint and a lust
hand report on the operations of
Stabilization Corporation.
in .addition, each county delega
tion .present will be asked to elect
members of Stabilization’s' Ad
and to select
to aMend flM»hiti»atjnnV»
, Ooiporation,said
the meetings should be of vital in
terest to *11 growers and stated
that every grower of tobacco
should make plans to come and
participate, in ode of the meetings
in-order to get a clearer picture tif
the problems confronting the to
baoco industry and also make sug
gestions.as to .possible solutions to
the problems now facing tobacco
growers.
All 'tobacco growers, business
people, and others interested in
the tobacco industry from Lenoir
and adjoining or near-by counties
sate invited to attend the meeting
to be held in Kinston on February
28 at 2:30 at the Lenoir County
Courthouse.
Sale Friday1 at 10
by Lenoir Countians
The annual spring purebred hog
qgle of the Lenoir County Live
stock Development Association will
tip held at Id Triday morning. Feb
ruary 28, in the Association show
and hales arena two miles south of
Kinston on the PiiJk Hill Highway.
Sales will begin promptly at 10
a. m. and included among the
purebred animals consigned to the
sale will be some of the best stock
ttom moat of Lenoir County's top
twine herds.
K will offer bred gilts,
aqd boars from Duroc,
, Poland China, Tam
Yorkshire swine herds.
who have consigned
r the sale include Bruce
iam B. Pearce, Forrest
yBtoard, Preston Har
Maysville Boys Win
Elementary Schools
Basketball Tourney
On Monday and Tuesday even
ings, tfae boys of the Maysville
Elementary School concluded a
successful basketball season by
defeating Comfort 52-16, and Tren
ton 20-10. & the Jones County
tournament held at Jones Central
school.
The Maysville girls were not so
fortwnatf, finishing second in the
standings, by defeating Trenton on
Monday evening 31-15, and losing
Tuesday evening to Pollocksville,
Barbara Bay was die high scorer
for tae tournament, sedriiig »
points.. Starring in the Maysville
victory were Carolyn Meadows and
Sbixlfy Barbee.
In the losing contest, the de
fensive work sf Martha. Ptpiit,
*• •*. v.* Ssl
Suit for $51,800 is
Filed Against Brodys
A suit was filed Monday in Le
noir Caonty Superior Court against
Brody Brothers Dry Goods Com
pany By Mrs. Margaret C. Wil
liams asking a total of $51,800 dam
age*. •*
Mss. Williams alleges in her suit
tiat aia ^prii 1, 1»55 She caught
herBand in a doorway to the local
ooOit of this firm and suffered
permanent injury to her arm and
dr&hfiierv She asks $50,000 punitive
damkge and $1,800 actual damage.
Three Jones Countians have
their names officially in the pot
for county offices in the May 31st
election and a fourth is still trying
to find a way to get bis name on
the ballot.
Those who have filed and are of
ficially candidates are Incumbent
Sheriff Brown Yates, Incumbent
Superior Court Oerk and Incum
bent School Board Member W. E.
“Mike” Phillips.
The would-be candidate is I^ott'
Henry “Tobe"' Green, negro far
mer of Trenton route two. Before
Green showed up, wanting to file
filing books had been opened
for thfe County; Board of Educa
tion. He was told to come back a
ittte later. v ,
Green came back this week to
Election Board Chairman W. F.
Hill, still desirous Of becoming a
member of the board of education.
This time after HID had look'.d the
records of his office over he was
forced to tell Green that he could
not file for the county board of
education in toe May election, but
that he could run for the office in
1 the General Election In November.
Baseball, not Basketball Was
Starter NewBern-Kinston War
.Seven Kinston boys Tuesday were
found guilty of assaulting several
New. Bern boys after a basketball
game earlier this month. The
newspaper reports say the fight
started at a drive-in cafe near Kin
ston just after the basketball game.
A longer look at history, how
ever, will reveal that' this ain’t
necessarily so. Actually the Wa»
began before the parents of these
Between New Bern and Kinston
the
fans, :as well as
what happened: The diamond was
where Happersville is today, just
across the river from downtown
Kinston.
.TSte. score was tied. New Bern
was at bat with a man on third
and another on first, and only one
out. Top half of the ninth inning.
The perfect setting for a squeeze
Elisha Lewis, father of Colonel
Meriwether Lewis is recorded as
the Kinston catcher. His battery
mate is disputed. Records were
last just .-after the next pitch.
Idle squeeze was on. Kinston
Catcher Lewis made a tremendous
throw for the runner headed for
second. He ithrew 10 feet over the
head of the second baseman. From
third Base the New Bern runner
came ramping in with the. tie
breaking run.
Bat alas, there stood Catcher
Lewis guarding homeplate like
Horatid at the bridge, and with a
very hard baseball. Some say he
Used more force than was neces
sary to “tag” the New Bern run
ner. Some even say he knocked out
the innocent New Bern player
when he “tagged" him.
Lewis, a clever diamond strate
gist, had armed himself in 'ad
vance for the squeeze play. The
object which bad sailed so high
over the second baseman’s nead
into center field was an Irish po
tato.
There was no time for a ruling
by the umpire, no arguments, no
preliminary diplomatic represen
tations; it ’was simply war.
- A train load of New Bermans
had come to Kinston for that July
afternoon game. The battle raged
across the diamond, onto Parrott
Bridge across Neuse River and on
up to the railroad station at Queen
and Blount streets, and the story
Grainger High Boys
Heavily Penalized for
Part in Squabble
Seven Kinston youths Tuesday
received suspended sentences for
their part in a brawl following a
Kinston-New Bern high school
bas'ketbair game February 11th.
They were convicted in Craven
! County Recorder’s Court of wil
lfully entering an affray, assault and
as die New Bern students returned
from the game at Kinston.
A carload of Kinston youths in
cluding some basketball players
followed the New Bern students.
They forced the New Bern students
off the road assaulted them and
damaged their car.
Those convicted are Ken Fitz
gerald, Harold Mozingo, Bill Daw
son, John Stanley, Randy Jones,
Tim Bradley and James Brake.
Each of the seven received two
30-day suspended sentences and
was placed on probation for a year.
As.conditions of the probation they
were forbidden to take part in
high school athletics even as spec
tators.
Each was also ordered to be in
his home by 11 every night and
Brake was ordered to surrender
bis, driver’s license for a year.
Brake was driver of the car in
which the Kinston youths were
traveling.
i of t$*fca4l property,
at wegWB vafOove Qty
stopped seven times between Kin
ston and Dover to stop fights and
throw more Kinstonians off the
train.
And that was how the war began
between New Bern and Kinston.
There is no record of it having
ended, yet.
And John Foster Dulles and
Kruschev think they have prob
lems!
The reason: Great la a registered
Republican and Geajpnl Statute
163tSection 119 says (in part; "Mo
person may file as a candidate for
any political party when he Is
tegistereed as anaffiliate of a dif
ferent political patty."
This same section of the law
says “An unregistered person may
file as a candidate of f political
party primary by signing a writ
ten pledge that he will register be
fore the primary as an affiliate of
the political party in whose primary
he is intending to run as a can
didate."
On the subject of changing poli
tical parties the law is silent, but
as a matter of common practice
at any time the registration books
are open any qualified voter may
change his registration from one
party to another.
In Green’s case this would mean
after the registration books are
opened on May 3rd he could change
his politics and become a -Demo
crat; but unfortunately for him the
filing deadline for county offices
is April 19th, two weeks earlier.
Which means that he either must
run as a Republican in the Novem
ber General Election or wait until
the 1960 May Primary when he
can run as a Democrat, in the
event he decides to change his
registration in May of this year.
District Solicitor Roubert Rouse
of Farm.ville has announced that
he will be in the race for another
four years as prosecuting attorney
in the Superior Courts of Jones,
Greene, Pitt, Pamlico, Craven and
Carteret counties.
District Congressman Graham
Barden of New Bern has announc
ed that he will seek another term
as representative in the United
States House of Representatives
from the Third North Carolina Dis
trict which includes Jones, Pam
lica, Carteret, Onslow, Duplin,
Pender, Wayne and Sampson coun
ties. {
That is the political situation as
of this writing Thursday morning
for the Jones County voter.
The Incumbent Board of County
Commissioners, Thomas Stiliey,
Harold Mallard, Charlie Davis,
Bruce Simmons and D. A. Jones
is expected to run again but none
has paid the filing fee.
Incumbent State Representa
tive John Hargett is also expected
to seek his fourth consecutive term
but he has not filed.
Marriage License
Only one marriage license was
issued in the past week by Jones
County Register of Deeds Mrs. D.
W. Koonce and it went to Dur
wood Reece Swarimger, 19 and
Carolyn Smith, 16, both of Pollocks
ville.
Land Transfers
Only two real estate transfers
were recorded in the office of
Jones County Register of Deeds
Mrs. D. W. Koonce during the past
week and these included:
From Randolph Foy to Elbert
Foy .278 acres in Trenton Town
ship.
From D. W. Koonce, court com
missioner, to David R. Tilghman
217.72 acres in Beaver Creek
Township.
Jones Central Gym Scgne of
Coastal Conference Tourney;
Finals Set for Friday Night
The annual "AA” Coastal Plain
Athletic Basketball Tournament
started Wednesday night in the
Jones Central High School gymna
sium with games between Wallace
and Hpbbton and Morehead City
add Smithfieid.
Pamlico and Jones county team*
drew a bye in the opening round.
Thursday night Pamlico took on
the winner ofjthe Morehead City
Smithtfield tilt and Jones Central
squarred off against the winner of
the Wallace-iHjobibton tangle.
Friday night at 7:30 the losers
of the Thursday night games will
tangle for the consolation trophy of
the tournament and at 9 p. m. the
winners of the Thursday night
games will tangle for the confer
ence