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:THE JONES COUNTY
R 3« TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1959 VOLUME X
Kinston Yorkshire -Show and Sale Big Success;
S&le Grosses $34,069 for 152 Animals as
Grand Champion is Sold for $2400
Tine biggest ana nrostsuocess
:Jul sale ever hda”, is tire de
scription given the'type confer
ence and sale in "Kinston this
week by the America* Yorkshire
Breeders’ Association.
An average of $284:14 .each was
• paid for thp 152 animals entered
in the show' and an aH-time Ihigh
; price for a Yorkshire was paid by
- Kinston Chamber oif JComumeiase
President Kersey Smith, whose
hid of $2,400 for the grand cham
pion boar set that record. The.boar
v.was shown by C. i.. Cooper and
son of Hartley, Iowa.
Officials said the $34,066.50 gross
was a reword, insofar ns Average
-price was concerned, and they
were highly gratified to see so
Aiany Yorkshires movingiintoaaom
mercial swine nerds. Of course,
the majority of the 152 animals
•were phndhased by purebred York -
.shire breeders, hut a goodly ;per
i cent age went to commercial hog
'growers.. •
?Ebe (previous record price far a
Yorkshire was set . in Austin,,
Minnesota, where a grand cham
pion,boar was sold for $2800.
Smith, who is president of the
■Smith Concrete Products Com
j>any,; is not a farmer but he has
sold half interest in this champion
•to3).:H. Taylor of the Lee® Feed
Mills .and they plan to keep this
prize porker on the Ben Scar
borough Farm in Vaoce Town
ship where it will be
. at a
a® hog for advertising of Kinston
and North Carolina but he was
convinced shortly after Ins pur
chase that .the animal should stay
in Eastern Carolina to build up
the breed.
Scarborough, who is the owner
of one of the section’s finest pure
bred Hereford herds and past
president of the Lenoir County
- Livestock Development Associa
tion, offered to help build up the
hog breed, top, if no swine grower
could be found te take care of the
animal.
Smith and Taylor say they will
not attempt to make a profit off
the animal, but their principal de
sire is to encourage the expansion
of meat-type hog production in
Eastern Carolina.
Auto Theft Epidemic
Last week an epidemic of car
stealing hit Hie ICirtaton area.
First a Camp Lejewne Marine,
Mack Young, stole the *SS Cadillac
.of Carl Bell and was captured less
dhan two hours later in Scotland
Black. That same Wednesday ew
rikig a car stolen at Camp La
leone was recovered in Kinston,
the thief ran a red light and
is found not only to be driving
stefan car, but driving *t wHh
t license. He was Marina Joe
ides. Thursday at about
,_i_ . --u— die.
lor of
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Stanley
Shorn C. J.. Cooper and Ms son
of Hartley, Iowa are mb with the
Grand Champion Boor of the York
shire Type Conference in Kinston
this week that was purchased by
^Chamber of Commerce President
Kersey Smith for .the .all-time
record price of $2,400.
This is a dose up of the high
priced papa pig that O. H. Taylor |
of Kinco and Loco Feed Mills has
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acquired half-interest in along
with the purchaser. Kersey Smith.j
The Sierd sire will be kept at the
Ben Scarborough Farm in Vance1
Township and will be available for
service to swine herds in this area,
whose owners are seeking to
strengthen the meat-type quali
ties' of their herds. The prize
package porker will be supervised
on a ‘non-profit basis by Smith,
Taylor, Scarborough, Dr. C. B.
Randall, Farms Agents Joe Koonce
and Henry Ramseur.
Mexican Student at ECC is
Guest of Children’s Group
In Trenton Methodist Church
By Mrs. Frad Pippin
Kay Samba Rodriques of Mex
ico City and East Carolina College
was a guest of the Children’s De
partment of the Trenton Methodist
Church Sunday morning. The
children have been studying Mexi
co as their Mission Study and
having Miss Rodriques as their
guest was a fitting climax.
After the Sunday School session
at whch she spoke, and church
service, the Woman’s Society of
Christian Service served a picnic
luncheon.
During .the month’s study course
the children enjoyed the study
through slides, two movies: MEX
ICAN CHILDREN and ARTS AND
CRAFTS OF MEXICO, books from
the library and a Spanish Supper.
Mrs. Ellis Moore was chairman
of the supper and was ably as
sisted by the mothers of the child
ren •participating in the course.
The menu consisted of the fol
lowing:
Tacos (iM'eat sandwich)
Enchilladas (meat and cheese)
Ensalada De Combinacion (toss
ed salad)
Olives (black and green)
iCalabaga Tarts (pumpkin)
Banana Milk
The texts used were: OUR
MEXICAN NEIGHBORS — Lula
Doyle Baird and. SFB<EIAI>1NG
IKE GOSPEL. IN MEXICO — Ida
Birager Huibbard.
The Junior Class was taught by
Mrs. Marvin Thomas assisted by
Mrs. Marvin Hardy, and the Pri
mary Class was taught by Miss
Tiny Haimmond assisted by two in
termediate girls, Sue Noble and
Elaine Croom.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Holland and
their son Bernard brought Miss
Rodriques to Trenton and were
luncheon guests of the etyireh. As
. outgrowth qf the M ^ion
Sltuay Course the Primary Class
had a Pinta Party Wednesday
afternoon in the churchyard.
The Primary children taking
the course were: Jobie and Tom
mie Arthur, Selma Rouse, Sylvia
Hargett, Margie Shepard, Gene
Dillman, Jeffrey Pippin, Rich
Franck, Tony Parker, Patsy Con
way, Marsha Hardy, Judy Hardy,
Warren Moore, Teresa and Ron
nie Pollock, and Eva and John
Pollock.
The Junior children were: Philip
West, Charles Pollock, Jimmy
Pollock, Billy Parker, 'Linda
i Moore, Jerry and Roger Conway,
Donna Parker and Sallie Pollock.
'Wealth Ain’t Necessarily in a Pay Check?
Not many Jones Countians are
developing ulcers worrying about
what other fades think 'about them,
or their county.
But, musing on a cold winter’s
evening some Jones Countians may
casually flick at this notion one*
in a while; particularly when tih
read some of the things that
going on around them.
For years Governor Hodges has
been watering bis carnation with
tears shed over the “poor coun
ties” that have no smokestacks,
industrial payrolls and factories of
one kind or another.
Every crossroads village big
enough to support two filling sta
tions and a barber shop generally
has a chamber of commerce, and
a half \dozen civic clubs that are
“busy” trying to bring a “pay
roll to town”.
High among Jones County’s
noblest virtues is that no where,
between Tuokahoe and' Hunter’s!
Creek is it blessed (?) with such
intended organisations.
§ Bern. Jackson
But Jones County ain’t shop
ping, indicating that its citizens
are fairly well satisfied with the
county as it is. What a happy is
land in a sea of selfishness.
Somebody said a long time ago
that Jones County is something
more than several thousand acres
of fertile farmland, timber re
serves, swamp and meandering
creeks. Jones county is a state of
mind.
Occasionally a stranger will
wander into the midst of Jones
County and suddenly start “mak
ing plans’’, but if he stays long
enough he will be infected by this
“state of mind” and will soon lose
his desire to “remake” Jones
County in the image of Chicago or
Pittsburg.
It is not so much that Jones
Countdans are “against” progress
as. it simply is that they like their
county as it is.
Someday, an industry may come
to Jones County; stranger things
have happened. When a company
wants to come of its own voli
tion, put its roots down and be
come a part of the county, but
N.
The steady progress of Jones
County is in the almost un-noticed
change in its, farming. A new gen
eration of energetic young men is
changing the face of Jones County.
Pastures, drainage, new homes,
new churches, new farming pro
grams are part of this slow but
steady change from one end of
: JoriBs to the other.
Each page tom from the calen
dar sees Jones County a little less
completely dependent upon tobac
co. More hogs, more beef animals,
more poultry, more live-at-home
farming are part of the pattern.
When Governor Hodges and the
Sociologist begin to bleed for the
“poor backward counties*’ that
have no “payrolls” they ought to
ask themselves: Who lives the
best, contributes the most to our
state: Hie mill band in Burling
ton, the cigarette maker in Dur
ham or the farmer in one of these
“.poor counties”.
Not simply from the cold, cash,
dollars jand-cents point of view
but from the entire spectrum of
better hying.
Small wonder Jones Gountians
are happy with their county.
Three Arrests Made
Past Week in Jones
Sheriff Brown Yates reports
three arrests during the past week
in Jones county; two by the high
way patrol and the other by him
self.
Harold E. Gaston of Camp Le
jeune and Olden Wayne Riffe of
Kokomo, Indiana were booked by
the Highway Patrol, and each was
charged with drunken and reck
less driving. Each is free on bond.
Jesse Lee Williams of Pollocks
vilie was arrested Saturday and
is charged with attempted rob
bery.
Trenton PTA Meeting
Trenton School PTA will meet
February 4th at 7:30 in the audi
torium. Nick Noble will give the
program on the history of the
North Carolina PTA and a film will
be shown. This night will be a
special one, since the fathers will
be particularly invited and will be
counted twice to raise the room
count. So, fathers, please attend
and support your child and school.
Leroy Parker
Funeral services were held at
3:30 last Thursday from the cha
pel of Garner Funeral Home for
64 year-old Leroy Parker of the
Chinquapin section of Jones Coun
ty who died earlier in the week
after a hrief illness.
Kinston Boy Finalist
^Competition for
Morehead Scholarship
Six eastern North Carolina high
school seniors have been chosen
to participate in final interviews
during February for coveted More
head Scholarships at the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
Selected Wednesday, Jan. 21, at
a district committee meeting in
Williamston, from among 24 nom
inees from 19 counties were these
six: Theodore Joseph Collier Jr.,
Bayboro; Charles Allen Bure,
Gates County; William Patton
McDowell, Elizabeth City; Henry
Emanuel Mayer, Kinston; Robert
Duane Powell, Wilson and Richard
Wildon Smith, Havelock. One al
ternate nominee also was named:
William Beverly Tucker III, Hert
ford.
The six nominees from District I
will join 36 other North Carolina
schoolboys who will come to Cha
pel Hill the last week in February
for interviewing by the Central
Committee of the John Motley
Morehead Foundation.
Those who qualify will receive
$5,000 scholarships which provide
$1,250 per year to cover tuition,
books, room and board, plus more
than $200 for spending money.
Established in 1951 by UNC
alumnus John Motley Morehead,
industrialist-philanthropist - for
mer diplomat.from Bye, N. Y., the
scholarship foundation has award
ed more than $800,000 to 179 stu
dents. At present there are 117
Morehead Scholars studying at the
University.
CONCERT SATURDAY NIGHT
The Grainger High Singegrs and
Dancers are presenting “Stars in
Review” at 8 Saturday night in
the school auditorium under the
sponsorship of the Kiwanis Club.
The concert is being given to raise
funds for a summer tour of the
choral group which is a lso bong
sponsored by the Kiwanians.