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HE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 7 TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY, 10, 1958 VOLUME X iscal Year Closes With »nes Legal Liquor Sales Topping $80,000-mark old legal liquor County dosed its to begin its first year on July 1st with of $80,363.05. June sales were a record young ABC system which in by the Jones County in October of 1957 after wait between whisky by an election June 28th in County, which farced the of all ABC stares in that county and abetted by •ected success of the new in the system at Wyse on US .70 east of Kinston, the sales of Jones County’s three set a record of $45,528.80 in The first store was opened in at Trenton, three weeks second was opened at Crossroads on US 258 Kinston and Richland s. third store, was opened June at. Wyse Forks. ' Seashore traffic on US 70 and el action-(boosted business from Le _poir County saw this newest store get off to a flying start in com petition with the other two stores in the Jones ABC system, with sales of $4,996.85. r S. - S The Sfo? 1 Store in Trenton had •e it i&argefct Crossroads yirsit close behind with gross sales Of $5,218.15 fear June. Supporters of the referendum which saw legal whisky sales ap pended for Jones County had esti mated that such a system would operate profitably at a gross monthly business of $10,000 and in the six and a fraction months the stores have been open they have been consistently above that fig ure. Saturday as electioneering Le noir Gountians had to seek legal grog outside their borders the single biggest day in the history Of Joies County AiBC stores waS logged. The store closest to Kin ston at Wyse Fork grossed $1,572. 75, the Hargett Crossroad Store dose to Pink Hill grossed $786.90 and the Trenton Store had average Saturday sales of $474.75. Jordan Discusses . Tobacco Picture WASHINGTON — Senator B. Everett Jordan says continuing increases in domestic consumption of cigarettes “offer new hopes for farmers," but calls for long-range planning to reverse a trend of de clining toaeco exports during re cent years. The Senator made his statement shortly after the Department of Agriculture announced that cig arette production during the past year totaled about 446 billion, al most three per cent over the pre vious year and a new record high. In the same report, a compre hensive review of all areas of the tobacco industry during the past year, it was pointed out that do mestic use of flue-cured tobacco increased about 10 million pounds last year in spite of wider uses of filter tips and reconstituted to bacco. Jordan called this the most significant part of the report. “Since 1855, cigarette consump tion has increased each year, but until this year, the displacement of tobacco has dropped off a little each year. From all indications, it appears the decline in the ggiao of tobacco as a result of reconstituted sheet tobacco and filter tips has been stopped,” Jordan said. The North Carolina Senator ex pressed the hope that during the coming year “any additional in creases in cigarette consumption will be accompanied by correspond ing increases in total tobacco use.” Jordan said the steady increases in domestic cigarette consumption offers new hope for farmers at a time when fine-cured tobacco is bucking stronger competition in world trade. He said that in spite of the fact the overall report is encouraging, the export picture is not bright. “During the past year, exports of flue-cured tobacco were five per cent below those of the pre vious year, which is distressing,” he said. The report said last year’s flue truck it not on fir* and it "•r» oil burner". W is >ved gadget of Hi* J Health Department, to control flivver, (tfay afternoon as It mod* frit With Hi* extremely wet spring in Eastern Carolina this year with out this kind of special attention to the mosquitos the county would have been in plenty of trouble. Jones Counts*ns are like every body else,; they don't like paying taxes but no complaints hate been the appropriated fliii UMit v ■u" vhs Marriage License Marriage license issued in the past week by Jones County Regis ter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce included the following: John Flowers, 20, to Lessde Lorene Jones, 17, both of Trenton. Jean Earl Worthington, 19, to Ellen Meehans, 16, both of New Bern. Land Transfers Real estate transfers listed in the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce included the following: John M. Hargett to Halifax Tim ber Company one tract in White Oak. Limwood Pollock to Lawrence Pollock .8 acre in Beaver Creek Township. Iraac Franks to Ray Franks one tract in White Oak Township. Ray Franks to Isaac Franks two tracts in White Oak Township. cured exports were about 440 mil lion pounds. Jordan said the decline in last year’s exports is small percent agewise, “but it represents a lot of tobacco sales we are losing to foreign competition. I think the trend in flue-cured exprots in re cent years merits serious study and reflects a very real need for some long-range planning in the entire export field.” Jordan said with the exception of declining exports, the report in dicates that “things may be set tling down a’ little” for tobacco, which he said has been “plagued with one crisis after another dur ing the past five years.” The most pleasant addition to the Trenton area in recent years is this riverside park just east of Trenton which has been landscap ed and equipped for family and group picnics and recreation. Even a "kiddy pen" has been provided for the small tots that might wan der too close and get an unsche uu.aJ ducking in the cool waters of Trent River which embrace this shady nook. Swings, slides, ben ches, picnic tables, a hand-powered pump for water and roadways make this a spot that will be used and enjoyed by a lot of Jones Coun'ians, and quite likely by many from out of the county. Jones Education Board Has Federal Aid Fund Approved Third District Congressman Graham Barden advised local of ficials last Thursday (July 3rd) that the application filed this year :by the Jiones County Board of Education for federal school funds I has been approved. This is a “no strings attached” fund set up by the federal govern ment for distribution in school systems where a considerable per centage of the enrollment consists of children of federal employees or military personnel. Immediate payment of $13,346 is approved in this action reported toy Barden last week and for the fiscal period 1958-59 a total of j $17,795.38 will be paid to the I county school fund. The allocation is based on the actual count of such pupils in the Jones County system which was made last spring. The funds are for operational and instruction purposes. Administrative Cruelty Is Blamed for Abandonment Case In February 1957 Annie Mitchell of 1315 Lincoln Street in Kinston lost her husband, but he did not leave her without something to re member him by: Eight children ranging from one to eleven years of age and another that would not arrive until six months after its father’s death. Last week after repeated com plaints from neighbors the widow ed mother of nine was indicted on charge of abandonment of her piti ful flock. mmmm Friday her case came before Recorder’s Court Judge Emmett Wooten. A report from a welfare department case worker outlined the tragic collapse of their mo ther, as a mother. After the father’s death the only place for her to turn was to the welfare department, which com pleted processing her case in April of ’57. A psychological examination re vealed that Annie had a mental age of six years and three months. Her intelligence quotient, was 42. State laiw permits sterilization of persons whose IQ’s are less than 60. This operation was performed, in what was perhaps the only chari table and intelligent effort to help this orphanned flock. Flying full in the face of Annie’s complete lack of sufficient intelli gence to shoulder the responsi bilities Of a family the rule book said she was eligible for a welfare monthly grant of $1/67. That began in April of ’57, too. It ended this month, 14 months and millions of "''Mk ne^eeted the absence of the five children m | the family of school age. Neighbors | were irritated by the undisciplined ! ramhlings of the children. Welfare j Department caseworkers and po , lice who came to call were ap I palled at the filth, the lack of j clothing, furniture and food, j But the combined troubles of all these were a fragment of damage I suffered by the children, i This month an 11 year-old girl from Annie’s flock came to the welfare department and asked to i be sent with her oldest brother who 1 ■ is scheduled on July 3rd to be ad | mitted to the school for retarded j children at the state hospital for I negroes near Goldsboro. In short, the tiny, frightened; Kenly Man Charged After Wreck that Injured His Friend An accident near Foss Dairy west of Kinston Wednesday after noon at about 4 has hospitalized Wilbert Glenn Vick and caused the indictment of Alfred Bass, driver of the car in which Vick was riding. Both men are from Kenly. Patrolman Billy Baker says Bass, operating with a driver’s license which restricted him to not more than 45 miles per hour, drove his car into the rear of a truck driven by James Herman Graham of La Grange, which was being turned left into the Foss Dairy farm. Both vehicles were headed west. Dr. Glenn Tyndall who gave emergency treatment to Vick says he had numerous head and facial injuries, the most serious being a depressed skull fracture over the left eye. Vick was transferred to Duke Hospital for specialized treatment of that fracture. Patrolman Baker indicted Bass for drunken and reckless driving. Bass admitted that the truck’s turn signal was blinking but said, “I couldn’t do nothing but hit it.” He told Baker that he had been pre viously tried for drunken driving and for manslaughter after an accident in which two persons were killed. Baker says witnesses told him that Bass was exceeding the speed limit and was weaving his car all over the highway. child wanted to go anywhere with anybody to get away from the an guish and misery of the "home” her mother was keeping. She told the caseworker that her mother spent the vast majority of Continued on page 8 The biggest, and many say ‘mart beautiful church to be built in Kin ston in a mighty iortg time is how under construction at the corner of Rhem and Rountree streets in normwMr ivinsron. ivintrafi cpii* WsL Sss&'AM copalians expect to begin holding worship services in their new edi fice in Hie spring of 1959. King Hunter Construction Company of Greensboro is building this new •''■ ■ • ■
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