NUMBER 15 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1958 VOLUME X
Legal Liquor Sales Show
Another Big Gain in Jones
North Carolina’s newest legal
whisky sales system showed a gain
of more than 21 per cent over the
previous month in gross sales for
Angus’. ,
Tiie Jones County Alcoholic
leverages Control Board reports
gross sales in its three stores dur
ing the month of August oi $22,
722.85. This was an increase of
$4,086.90 over the $18,635.95 sales
in July of this year.
Store No. 1 in Trenton continued
to gross the largest sales in this
system which was begun in De
cember of 1957, after approval of
the voters of Jones County on
October 19, 1957. Sales there a
mounted to $8,231.70.
Store No. 2 at Hargett Cross
roads grossed $7,772.85 in August
and the system’s newest store, No.
3 at -Wyse Forks, which opened
June 2nd, had sales of $6,718.30.
The combined July-August sales
amounted to $41,358.70.
From the opening of the first
store on December t, 1957 until
June 30 of this year the Jones
ABC system grossed $80,233.95 with
net profits of $5,880.15, or 7.2 per
cant net profits.
ABC officials are expecting a
gross in the first lull fiscal year
from July 1, 1958 until June 30,
1959 of about $250,000.
On the basis of their operating
Quiet Board Meeting
Tuesday Hie Jones County Board
of Commissioners enjoyed a very
quite September meeting after
several hectic sessions in August.
Aside from hearing reports from
farm and home agents, the wel
fare superintendent and approving
current bills for payment the only
action of the commissioners was
agreeing to buy materials for wa
terproofing the basement of the
Agriculture Building. The work
will be done by Tommy Chase,
custodian of that building and the
court house.
Marriage License
During the past week Jones
Comity Register of Deeds Mrs.
D. W. Koonce issued two marriage
license to the following couples:
Carl Sfaivar, 19, of Trenton j-ou'e
two and Edna Toler, 17, of Mays
ville.
' Larry Pierce, 26, of Clinton and
Dorothy Loufcf: Murrell, 19, of
Trenton route one.
they feel that a 10 per cent net
profit on that volume can be rea
sonably expected.
This would mean a $25,000 con
tribution to the county general
fund, which at the present tax
listed valuation of Jones County
itfould be roughly the same thing
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Jones Central Principal to Try
Major Change This Year in
School’s Sport Policy
Jones central mgn scnooi Prin
cipal J. W. Allen said this week
that he was instituting what he
admits to be a major change in
the sports policy in the county’s
only white high school.
Aden’s change might be termed,
“Not a de-emphasis of sports but
a re-emphasis of scholarship.”
Very simply stated the Allen
alteration will be: No Tuesday
night basketball games.
Allen expresses the hope that
parents of his students will ap
preciate and support this change.
He admits that principals of other
schools in the same athletic con
ference with Jones Central are
taking a “dim view” of this
change.
“I cannot control when they play
at their schools, and when we
play out-of-town games on Tues
day we’ll have to play at what
ever time the host school says, but
we are not going to play Tuesday
night games at Jones Central”,
Allen pointed out.
“When games end after 10 o'
clock on Tuesday night by the
time the students have visited a
drive-in for a milk shake or bottle
of pop and take their dates home
it is frequently well after mid
night before they get into bed and
.then they spend the next day cat
napping in the classroom”, Allen
said.
School officials find themselves
in an awkrward position as a re
sult of this, Allen .points out. “How
"cap we punish a student for be
ing sleepy or at least not alert on
classes Wednesday when the ac
tual reason for this sleepiness or
lack of alertness was a School-*
ed athletic event?” Allen
it were just the members
fapna that would
be one thing, but when a very
large portion of the student body
attends these night games the
problem is too serious to neglect”,
Allen insists.
“Of course, we make a lot of
money on might gaimes and I do
not expect the Tuesday afternoon
games to make anything like the
kind of money a Tuesday night
game would take in, but we are
on the wrong track if we insist
upon running a sports program to
make money rather than to de
velop bodies, team spirit and
chanaeter. We’re going to try to
give the aports program, at least
partly back to the students and if
the grown folks want to come out
on (H\ie^iay aifternoon we’ll be
happy to have them”, Allen as
serted.
Allen admits that Friday night
games are all right so far as he
is concerned since there is no
class scheduled for the student
to meet on Saturday. He also re
minds: that jrom five to six teach
ers have to be on duty at the
school.for night games, and teach
ers need regular hours as much
as students.
Public Supports Allen
A sampling of just a few pa
trons of Jones Central High
School tends to indicate that Allen
will have support for this change
from at least a majority of the
parents. Some of the wild-eyed
sports fanatics are - expected to
complain and the students will
largely appose tihe change, but as
one parent stated it, “It’s about
time the management of. our
schools was taken out of the hands
of the children.”
One parent' also reminded that
when out-of-icounty games were
played the late hours problem was
correspondingly worse l than at
Two Druiiks and One
Supply Source Are
Harrassed by Sheriff
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates says his activities for the
paist week have largely consisted
of serving civil papers of one kind
or another and he reports only
three criminal investigations.
Louis Haddock of Trenton route
one and Walter Foy of Maysville
comprsied two of the three. They
were both booked .on charges of
ipuiblic drunkenness and Foy was
also accused of disorderly conduct.
The third item reported did not
include an arrest but was the de
struction of a> 10-barrel whisky
still in White Oak Township. The
rig included 10 steel drums of mash
and a steel-drum still and Yates
said it had the appearance of hav
ing been in operation for some little
time.
Yates says he knows to a rea
sonable certainty who the still be
longed to but knowing something
and .proving it in court are quite
different matters, so he had to
content himself with the destruc
tion of the backwoods distillery.
Football Friday Night
Kinston and Jones Central High
School fans will get their first long
look at their respective football
hopes for 1958 at 8 Friday night in
Kinston's Grainger Stadium.1 Both
the Kinston and Jones County
schools have a lot of "untried"
material on their squads , for the
1958 gridiron season. Graduation
hit both teams a hard blow last
spring. The superior depth of the
Kinston squad is expected to over
power the much smaller and less
exparienced Jones County eleven,
but fans from both sides of the
rooting fence recall what a tough
battle the Lenoir Countians had
last year when they opened the
season against the Jones Central
squad.
Small Child Injured
Four year-old Jan King, s6n ol
Mr. and Mrs. Hoke King of Kin
ston route six is recuperating at
Parrott Memorial Hospital from
serious injuries he suffered at 5
p. m. Monday. The Ittle boy was
riding on the tow bar of a tractor
being driven by his father when
he supped into the wheel. His right
leg was broken in the hipbone and
the left leg was fractured in the
shin bone.
Land Transfers
During the .past weeik the follow
ing transfers of real estate were
recorded in the office of Jones
County Register of Deeds Mrs.
D. W. Koonee:
One lot in White Oak Town
ship from Lila S. Weeks to Ru
dolph Pelletier.
iNiinety flive acres in Cypress
Creek Township from J. P. Marsh
burn to R. L. Howell.
Three acres in Pollocksville
Township from Joe Thomas Har
vey to Levy Brown.
INSISTS ON DRIVING
Hagood J. Jones of 604 Pollock
Street in Kinston was booked over
the weekend and charged with his
third offense of driving after the
revocation of his drivers’s license.
home games and he expressed the
view that no Tuesday night games
should be placed either at home Or
away from home. Allen says he is
going to do everything he possibly
can to persuade the other schools
in the conference to this same
point.
'Rockets’ Play in Kinston Friday Night
In the rough, tough center of the
lihe the Rocket guards will be
Buddy Mills (137) who alternates
at center, Fenner Morris (142);
standing, left, Don Mattocks (145),
Joe Lee Noble (160) and Howard
Pruitt (175), wtio does a switch
occasionally to the tackle slot.
This is the pass-snatching end
department of the Rockets. Kneel
ing, at left, Donald Barbee (136),
Buddy Bell (140); standing, left,
Donald Mallard (160), John Boy
ette (160) ar.d Virgil Eubanks
(140).
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Here is part of the tackle de
partment of Jones Central High's
Rockets, who will get their first
test of the 1958 season Friday
night against the Red Devils of
Grainger High in Kinston. Left to
! right they are Bobby Heath (182),
Harry Barker (140), Ronald Da
i venport (140) and Walter Hunter
(190,!. Hun'er is also pulled out of
! rhe line *or some fullback duties.
These are the backs that will
see most duty for Jones Central's
Rockets in the 19S8 football wars.
They are: Front row left to right:
Jere Pelletier (136), Freddie
Spence (135), Claude Henderson
[ (138) who also sees duty at cen
I ter; back row, Wellyn Dawson
I (155) No. 1 signal caller, Clifton
Hcod (144) and John Waters (144).