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FEBRUARY 12,1959 VOLUME X rn: f^%mB |B% ~lB: I j.RW |p-/'iBLJ 1 wi*#* |r a report tins week from super visor Ray Harrison shows Out the three stores of the Jones County ABC system grossed $20, 284.95 during the month of Jan uuty., .• • •• •' ;• Hep the first time since the stores sfere opened Store No. X in Tren'on failed to lead in grins volume o( business, being knock ed into second place by Store No. • 2 at Hargett 'Crossroads. The gnus lor each store was as follows: Store No. i in Trenton •fa/aung, atnr« No 2 At MuJgott Crossroads $7,708.46 and store No. 3 at Wyse Fork $6,015.55. Harrison says Store No. 2 is Atm leading in sales volumn for the -first 00 days of February. W. L. Babkins to Riegel Paper Company 239.5 acres in Trenton Township. ®. P. Bender to Pollaeksville Baptist Church 13 lots in Pollocks Suit Filed Asking $10,927 as Result Jones County Wreck Last week a suit was filed in the Jones County Superior Court by Durant Eubanks against Pha noah West Jr. and his wile, Evelyn X. West (EUbanks in seeking $972.50 actual | damage and $10,000 punitive dam ages for injuries he suffered in a wreck on November 10, 1968 at Ifce intersection of 1WC 59 with the Davie’s Field road between Tren ton and PoltackaviUe. Hie complaint Qlwt by saws he suffered a broken leg, cuts, bruises and lacerations about the face and body when a car driven by lira. West failed to stop before coning onto Me 58. 'He says his leg remained in a cast for eight weeks and he stay ed in the hospital for two weeks, j (Eubanks further complains that his leg has not yet regained fufl usefulness and be alleges Hut this injuries to the leg are of a permanent natare. ^ Pollodksville Man Caught with Whisky A 1947 Ford, 24 Jars of stvmp hola whisky and J. D. Dawson, the car ownor of PoUocksvillo root# ono, war# caught bt Lowor Lo noir County last waok by ABC and ATU officers, but a ffaetfbotod nagro "riding shotgun" hit tho , huekloborry bushos and outran tho officers. irt v. Lenoir Hog Weighs 828 Pounds «*rvtc** «• • h*rd»lr«b* mMto available at a ftisonablt orki to W9 f*vwor» if nit niK nm w ««». Boyatt* Mid Ip* CMftjtaft h«w Trenton PTAHas Monthly Session ' The Ttenton School PTA met last Wednesday night, to the audi torium with a large number attend ing. Nelson Conway gave the de votional followed by the regular meeting, presided over by J. R. Franck. Mi*.' Jim Allen read the minutes and Mrs. D. A. Killings worth gave the treasurers report. A report from the library com mittee showed that many books are being repaired,'new cards put to and a .general qlean-up of the library is being made. Franck announced that a study wiH be held at, the next PTA meet ing, at which time a picnic supper will be served. The meeting will be^n at 5 and those who cannot attend the afternoon session may came for the night session. Four speakers will be present. Every one la invited and urged to attend so that the Ifc^nton PTA will.be come an accredited one. Following the business, Nick Noble gave a review on “Found ers’Day”. During ream count, which was doubled tor each father present, since that night was “Fathers Night”; Miss Eliza Hammonds second grade won first count with Mrs. Hazel Tumag^’s fourth grade coming in second. 'aim Agent Jim urges a large turnout of timber land owners Monday for a tour of projects in different parte of the county. Since such a large part of Jones County is in wood lands, Franck says this meeting could mean a lot of additional dollars to a ma jority of the landlowners in the county. At 10 a. m. the tour will be at Nelson Banks place to see hard wood poisoning results. At 11 William Griffin’s place will show off a stand of 15 year old pines recently thinned out. The pulprwood cut here will still be on the lot to be seen. At noon a free barbecue lunch will be served. * Ait 1 p. m.*at the ag building de tailed facts will be given on fores try funds and practices. Mescal Society Urges Revielw of Text Books Dr. Jaimes Peele, spokesman fop the Lenoir-Jones-Greene and the North Carolina Medical So cieties, asked the membership of Joseph Dixon Rountree Post 43 of the American Legion last week to "review the, material we have on text books in use in our schools.”i Peele, among others, objects to currently used sociology text books,* insisting they are slanted in favor of socialism and against capitalism. Vice Commander A1 Hurt, Rodolph Nunn and Pete Herring were named a committee 'Mi Racial Agitation Moves Into Eastern Black Belt rms wee* racial agitation moved ipto an area losg left to its own device*, the “Black Belt” of east ern North Carolina, where the population ratio between the races runs heavfly to negroes. A strike by 32 of the 34 negro student bus drivers in the Greene County School System closed all sik schools of the negro System and handed the county’s school board an extremely awkward problem. the school board has known for some time that agitation was afoot for greatly increased facilities at the county’s consolidated negro high school, Greene County Train-' ing School. Along with the county board of commissioners the educa tion officiate are currently in the midst of studies on the possibility of a bond issue election to secure funds for at least part of this work. After an all-day session on Tuesday the board of education voted to close the schools on its order again for Wednesday. An other meeting for Wednesday was called to “hear any and alt citi zens that might want to be beard the vkte was $15,862,790. On tile tax rate of $1.40 on the $100 valuation this indicates that the entire ne gro citizenry of Greene County last year had a county tax bill of $12,045.15. on this problem”. At the end of this day of meet ing the board pointed out through School Superintendent B. L. Davis that in the past 10 years Greene County’s taxpayers have spent $622,172.76 £or construction of ne gro school, while spending only $543,447.73 for white schools. This in the face of the fact that negroes pay 5.4 per cent of the county’s taxes, while the white people pay 94.6 per cent of the county’s taxes, negroes comprise 47 per cent of Greene County’s population and make up 54 per cent of its school Superintendent Davis painted to the unique position of Greene County insofar as emergency funds are concerned. Under North Carolina law counties and cities may borrow without a vote of the people an amount not exceeding two-thirds the amount of bonds retired in the preceding year. Since Greene County owes no money, it naturally hap retired no bonds and, hence, has no bor rowing capacity in this special category. Any other bond issues must be approved by the voters of the county. •'' '*=. last fall by a 2-to-l majority the voters did, approve a bond is The bus driver strike bad been expected for several days and one of the closed school principals said Tuesday that he had “talked the drivers out of striking last Friday.” School Board Chairman Maynard Hicks said the first he knew of the pending strike came on Monday night when one of the drivers went home andi told his father that he couldn’t pick up students Tuesday morning.1 This information was relayed1 to Hicks. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been active for the past sev eral years in Greene County but this week no spokesman for this group was available. The school board was left in the awkward position of having “no complaints from nobody a bout nothing”. They had no one to negotiate with, and nothing to ne gotiate about. That was the prob lem Which led to the call for citi zens to step forward at the Wed nesday meeting to register com Jones ^Directors at National Conference REA Cooperatives The annual conference of elec tric membership cooperatives was held this week in Washington, where among others they heard 'President Eisenhower on the speakers’ platform. The president has recently asked that REA co operatives be forced to borrow their operating and expansion funds from private sources rather than from the government. Attending the conference from Jones County were Carl Gray, Manly Mallard and Edgar Phil yaw, directors of the Jones-Ons low Electric, Membership _ Cor poration, George Hughes, general counsel of the corporation, and Fred Hanmon of Jacksonville, who is manager of the'co-op. Safe Cracksmen Hit Fort Barnwell Saturday night on^ more safe and two more burglaries were added to the growing list in East ern North Carolina for the past several weeks. Leslie Sermons’ store and the* Fort Barnwell Supply Company were broken into. A large safe was hauled away from Sermons’ place to be found late Sunday near Jonestown, beaten open and minus about $1,000 in cash. Happily, charge account records also in the safe and including be tween $36,000 and $40,000 in ac counts were left unharmed at the place where the safe was beaten open \ About $55 in cash and a num ber of other items were stolen from the other Fort Barnwell es tablishment and other items were hauled off from the Sermons’ place, too. Joe Casey Named Young Farmer of Year Joe Casey Tuesday night was a warded the outstanding young farmer trophy of Kinston Jaycees at a banquet for this special oc casion. Casey lives in Southwest Township and practices' truck farming in addition to the usual tobacco-corn farming that occupy < the activities of a majority of the farmers in Lenoir County. body in official capacity said' so in Snow Hill Tuesday it was the definite, feeling that the negroes were provoked by the fact that their requests for a gymnasium, library, larger cafeteria, labora tories, more classrooms and an auditorium at their consolidated high school were not included in the 1958 bond issue election. iLast first-‘Monday the educa tion board and board of commis sioners discussed at some length a bond issue that would provide funds to build another modem negro elementary school in the southern part of the county, which would permit closing of the last three wood-frame negro schools, also take classroom pressure off Greene County Training School— a “union school” that now includes grades one through 12. In the past 10 years 15 of 18 woodframe negro schools have been dosed by con struction of modem facilities at East Greene and North Greene Elementary schools. One blunt speaking Greene Oountian said Tuesday, “Give the run their own $12,045j15 would schools for to de it would
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