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NUMBER 12 fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14,1958 VOLUME X Kinston’s 12 tobacco sales ware houses are cocked and primed .or what is generally expected to be tbe best year in several years both poundage and price-wise. • The Banner, Central, New Dixie, Fawners’, cooperative, Tbe Olid Knott, Knott’s New, New Central, both Sheppards’ No. 1 and No. 2, both Star No. 1 and Star No. 2 are eagerly awaiting the bustle and bustle of August 21st when the Cry of the auctioneer will ring out and when the 1958 sales season (officially gets underway in the largest tobacco marketing area in the world, the sprawling Eastern Belt, which extends from Ahoskie to Wallace and includes the world’s largest tobacco markets at Wilson and Kinston. Last year, plagued with a huge acreage reduction and scattered unfavorable weather a 27 per cent drop in money paid out hit Kin ston and the other markets of the Eastern Belt a terrific blow. The total poundage of the Kin ston market was 53,326,894, long poundage away from the 80,559, 718 pounds of the 1955 selling sea son and also, many a short-dollar away from the $41,439,918.94 that was paid out in that peak ’55 sea son. Banner Warehouse This warehouse, built seven years ago, is in 1958 beginning its second sales season under the same man agement with Rodney Goodman as president, Bruce Heath, vice presi dent, Frank Coletrain, secretary and treasurer. Ed Dale, Kinston' native, will again this year be auc tioneer. Central Warehouses five Central Warehouse and the New Central Warehouse will again under the manage Her remained idle ’57 selling season. Nnotit's New Warehouse Knott’s New Warehouse is owned and operated by Graham Knott and Billy Brewer, who also serve as co-sales managers. This will toe the 62nd consecutive year that the Knott Fair|ly.has served the tobacco selling public on the Kin ston market Jimmy Riggs and Robert Taylor are the floor man agers, Lionel Garner is auctioneer and the “pay oft” department will be headed l^y Redding Beaman Continued on page 8 Commissioners Vote $699 to Cool New Welfare Offices last Monday after considerable discussion the Jones County Board of Commissioners approved match ing state fund® ;or a $680 air-con ditioning system for the welfare department offices in the ag build ing. Approval of this item forced the commissioners to call a special meeting for this past Tuesday night to hear other ag building occupants and court house office workers ask .or air conditioning also. September Term Jurors are Drawn Jurors for the September 2 mixed term of Superior Court were drawn by the County Board of Commissioners during a special meeting Tuesday night. Adrian Jones, Elliott D. Hill, Charlie Battle, Jr., Roy Ballard, Charlie Brown, Jr. Lynwood Mea dowis, Wayne Jarman, William J. Jones, Walter Ives, L. H. Rey nolds, O.oar Jones, Jr. Garland Brace Foy, Albert Lee Killingsiworth, I. T. Riggs, Teddy Howard, James Stroud, Cecil E. King, D. G. Taylor, C. H. Brown, Richard Harper, James M. Ben derp KKffifeth N. Pollock, Fred erick M. Harrison. Clifton Mills of Pollocks ville, V. A. Bender, Jr. W. L. Moore, Jr., Willie G. Westbrook, F. M. Hughes, George- R. Bull, Gardner Pike, Lynwood Cox, C. B. Arthur, Wayne Stilley, Clarence Eubanks, William McArthur, and Ernest Eubanks. Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the is sue of one marriage license in the past week to Clark D. Williams, 23, and Murial Dean Feaster both of Trenton route one. Jones County ABC Stores End First Fiscal Period With $5,88(X15 Profit in 6 Months Three Jones Arrests Reported by Sheriff ^During the past week three ar rests have been reported in Jones County by Sheriff Brawn Yates. Land Transfers Jon6s County Register of Deeds .Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports Hie flowing real estate transfers in Thomas Ediward Hall of Tucka hoe Township is charged with stealing an automobile tire from Bryan Hargett, Stephen Morgan of POdioctostville is accused of as sault upon a female and-- Willie .Pat Gooding of C linquapin'Town ship was the alleged owner of a small quantity of stum stumphole whis After 23 years of buying their legal liquor in Lenoir, Craven or Onslow County ABC stores Jones Countnans in December of 1957 opened their own legal grog shops and the iirst profit and loss state ment covering business from the opening in December until end of the county fiscal year on June 30th shows a net profit of $5,880.15. After a 20-year wait between whisky referendums the voters of Jones County voted two-to-one in a referendum last October 19th to set up a legal whisky system. Gross sales between the actual opening of the first store on De cember 6th and the end of the fis cal year were $80,233.0$. Store No. 1 at Trenton which opened on December 6th account ed for $43,332.35 of that gross sale. Store No. 2 which opened at Har gett Crossroads on December 20th had gross sales of $31,903.85 and Store No. 3 at Wyae Forks which was not opened until June lot of this year racked up a one-month sale gross of $4,99645. “Goods” purchased.totalled $75, -J Continued on pS$o • ' t *' 'Wt Daylight Car Theft Ends With Midnight Ramble Thru Kinston There was nothing routine about the theft of a 1956 pink and white Ford last Wednesday from the used ear lot of Carrow Buiick Company. Decidedly di.ferent was ’he manner in which the car was stolen. The thief simply walked onto the used car lot at about 3 p. m. while employees watched, started the Ford up and drove it away. The return of ,the car to Kinston was even more unusual than its departure. At around midnight Thursday night Patrolman R. H. Nutt of Riohlands became involved with this wandering Ford in a high speed chase that was broken off by Nutt after repeated efforts to puh along side the car were pre vented by the driver who “fish tailed” the pink and white flivver, chasing Nutt ofi the road. Nutt went home and hit the sack. About an hour and a half later Nutt’s phone rang. Jacksonville .police were calling for help, They were chasing a car north on UIS 258 and asked Nutt to intercept the car at Richlands. Has‘ily dressing, Nutt went back to “work”, and after driving a short distance toward Jackson ville he met the same flivver that had given hilm such a hard time earlier in the night. And away they went! Roaring nor'h toward Kinston. Nutt radioed ahead and asked for a road block at Kinston. Then he suggested a running road block, rather than a stationary block. Nutt said he had decided that the driver of the Ford was going to run over anything that got in his way, and there was no point in jeopardizing life and tearing up public property. Kinston officers went just south of Kinston and had a very few minutes to wait before the Ford zipped by with Nutt in close pur suit. Two police cars and one car from the sheriff’s department joined in the mad race through Kinston at speeds near 100 miles an hour. Finally the Ford quit, going lame The right front tire went flat af ter a retread had been thrown and nothing was left but a tissue-thin fabric. The driver pulled in between the Parkview Drug Store and Super ette, jumped out of the car and fled to a weeded area between the home of Doug Baker and' P. C. Hemby. Officers on foot were nqt able to keep up with the young white man who proved he was good at running as well as driv ing. In the car officers found identi fication papers'of an ex-Marine, who had been driving racing cars in Florida stock car events. They do not know if those papers be longed to the man who escaped into the night after leaving a used Ford behind that was considerably more used than it was 36 hours' earlier when it was driven away from the Carrow Ruick Company used car lot. . ■ - . Pollocksville Men Hurt Near Kinston In Bike-Truck Tangle Durwood McGee Carter, 23, of Pollocksville route one suffered a badly fractured left leg and Bob by Strader of the same address Ivad possdbe left foot injuries ,'rom a wreck at 12:15 Wednesday af- ! ternoon on the US 70 Bypass south- j west of Kinston. Investigating Patrolman Billy Baker said the Jones Countians were hurt in a headon tangle be tween the motorcycle upon which they .were riding and a Highway Commission pickup truck driven by Eugene Norman Sparrow Jr. of 16 E Sfijnon Bright Apartments in Kinston. Sparrow was in the act of pass ing a car as he drove eastwardly, when he met the motorcycle that was headed westwardly. Sparrow was indicted by Baker for im proper passing. Comfort Boy Enlists In US Air Force Malcolm Ray Bonner, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Bonner, Comfort, was recently enlisted in the United States Air Force. According to Sgt. Frank F. Fern lev, local Air Force recuriter, Air man Bonner is presently at Lack land Air Force Base, Texas un dergoing basic military training. A.ter four weeks of training at this ase, Airman Bonner will be reassigned to a technical training school. He will be given additional military training along with the technical subjects. Next Thursday the Eastern Belt w.ll open 1958 sales and the cry of the auctioneer will be the en chanting, perplexing song of good cheer until the Thanksgiving sea on approaches. This year there is good reason for this largest flue-cured toba-cco selling area to be o' good cheer. Kinston and its 12 tobacco ware houses are grooming for the best selling season i» five years, and optimism is the happy order of the day. Only two major changes have taken place in the past year in the tobacco sales system of Kinston, and ore of these was more senti mental than actual. That was the tearing down o. the old Eagle Warehouse to make way for a su per market. Although the Eagle was not operated in the 1957 sell ing season its departure does raise a rote of nostalgia among the older people who buy and sell tobacco, in K.n^ton. The other change was much more tangible. This was the sale of Kis ston’s largest single warehouse to Charles J. Herring & Sons. After buying the Planters’ Warehouse and operating it for the 1957 sales season the Kins’on Cooperative Warehouse Inc. decided to return to a single sales ;loor in the 1958 season and sold this vast sales space to the Herrings, father and sons. The Planters’ Warehouse, which was Kinston Cooperative No. 2 last year is S’ar Warehouse No. 2 this year, giving the Charlie Herring branch of the Herring Family in Kinston a commanding slice of the sales space, and sales time on the Kinston market. The two Star Warehouses are next door neighbors on South Queen Street in Kinston, and the Herrings have been pushing hard to make this first year of their operation of these two sales floors a suc cessful one. There was a change in the owner ship of the next largest Kinston Warehouse group, wi’h the R. E. Sheppard Heirs and Louis Rapier purchasing full control oi the two large Sheppard Warehouses from A. J. Brannan of Georgia. The same warehouses will be in operation ‘his year as last, with the New Carolina, Brooks and Tapps idle as in’57 and the new Banner and New Central operat ing in their second year. Air-Conditoning Battle Breaks Out Salary Feud Among Court House Workers A rash of reques's for air-con ditioning before the Jones County Board of Commissioners Tuesday night got something hot besides the weather. The county’s constitutional of ficers, headed by Court Clerk Mur ray WhTaker, made it quite plain that the absurdly lo\tf salary scale for these officers was far more in need of correction than the air conditioning problem. Clerk Whitaker said, “I’m proud of Jones County but I’m tired of it being called a pauper county!” Whitaker is the lowest paid Su perior Court Clerk in North Caro lina. The Superior Court Clerk salary is $2,880, the Register of Deeds gets $2,760 and the County Ac countant gets $3,000 in Jones County. The clerk also receives $600 travel expenses. The sheriff re ceives $3,600 plus an annual travel allowance of $1,500, plus certain fees for serving papers. The generally tense atmosphere around Oie Jones County Court House has stemmed from the dis porportionate salaries paid to those workers whose salaries are paid entirely by Jones County in comparison with fhose workers whose salaries are paid part by the county, part by the state and part by the federal government. The latest comparative report, from which the above figures were obtained shows the following pay soales for Jones County workers who are lucky enough to have “matching fund" jobs: Welfare Superintendent $4,140, School Su perintendent $7,728, Farm Agent $6,576, Home Demons'ration Agent $4,608, each of whom also gets a travel allowence based on actual miles travelled. The special meeting of the com missioners Tuesday night was called primarily to discuss air conditionimg of some court house offices, but ended up as a serious study of the disproportionate sal ary scale now in use by the coun ty. The air-conditioning squabble developed after the board had voted on August 4th to spend $699 to cool off the new welfare de partment offices, and another $400 was voted to cover the floor of the AiSC offices. Both these im provement® are in the Agricul tural Building and court house workers complained that “ every Continued on page 8
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