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fRENTON. N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959 VOLUME X Trenton Methodist Church Dedication Set for Sunday sunaay, Maiwn 8, wiu be a great day in the life of the Trenton Me thodist Church, for on that day the church and all its equipment will be ded'cated to the Glory of God and to the Worship of His name. The Trenton Methodist Church started its building program in 1964. The members of the build ing committee at that time were: V, L. Pollock, chairman, R. L. Edwards, W. M. Whittaker, M. E. Hines and J. C. West Jr. The dedication service, to be led by Hr. A. J. Hobbs, Superin tendent of the New Bern District of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, will cul minate a $30,000 building and reno vation program. Individual items to be dedicated will include memorial windows, baptismal font, alter set, pulpit and lectern scarves. The memorial windows depict scenes from the Life of Christ and are of stained glass made in High Point. Following the Dedication ser vice, Dr. Hobbs will preside at the fourth quarterly conference of the Trenton Charge which includes the following churches: Trenton, Oak Grove and Maple Grove. A picnic lunch will follow the session of the quarterly conference. The minister of the charge is Lewis DiHman, who is in his fifth church and all other visitors Are cordially invited' to attend the ser vice, i Accident Damage Suit Filed in Jones Court This weeik a suit* asking $5,000 damages was filed by 10 year-olcf Caroline Ann Jenkins through her father, Henry Joe Jenkins against Texana Eubanks and Roy Eu Banks. The damages are sought for in juries Miss Jenknis is alleged to have suffered in an accident six miles north of Trenton on the Kinston highway on October 4th oi last year when the car she was riding in was involved in an ac cident with the Eubanks’ car. Marriage License During the past week Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce issued one marriage license and ft went to Curtis Sharp Jr. of Maysvilie and Barbara Meadows of Trenton. UNDER EXAMINATION ABC Officer Leo Harper, who was shot last week ais he tried to stop his brother from shooting Durwood I. vSmitfh, is undergoing examinations this week at Duke Hospital to determine whether or not it will be necessary to remove two bird shot by surgery that are lodged behind bis left eye. His vision is not greatly impaired at present but the Duke Examina tions are aimed at determining, if possible, whether or not the pellets might cause trouble later. *58 Excise Taxes Cost CT&T Customers over *1,800,000 Eastern Norm Carolina custo mers of Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company paid $1,800,000 in federal excise taxes on tele phone service in 1958, C. G. Fields, manager of the Kinston exchange disclosed today. Telephone service is taxed at the rate of 10 per cent for federal ex cise tax purposes. Manager Fields said that the average payment per telephone subscriber in Kinston and other Eestom North Carolina household utility on which a fed eral excise tax is levied. The tele phone company bills and collects Oldest Jones Records Given to State but Exact Copies are Kept Among actions of the Jones County Board of Commissioners Monday was approval of the trans fer of a number of old records -in the office of the Register of Deeds to the Department of Archives and History in Raleigh. This was a igreed upon in. order that the records might be better preserved for the future. Exact copies of all records transferred will be kept in the Jones County office. The board also promised to do what it could ,to help William Wha ley with a drainage problem that he says resulted from recent ditching done by the highway com mission. i Carl Gray and Grover Mallard were renamed tax evaluators and Mrs. Annie B„ Mallard was em ployed as assistant tax collector at a monthly salary of $189.95. Thomas 1. Harper of Lenoir County was dismissed as county ekctrieial inspector and George Register of New Bern was named for this work. Thp board also voted half-holi days for each Wednesday from April I through September 1 tor all court house employees and set j up the following schedule of full holidays: Easter Monday, Me morial Day, July Fourth, Labor Day, Armistice Day, Thanksgiv ing and agreed to set Christmas holidays at the board’s December mooHruf f Land Transfers The only real estate transfer re corded during the past week in the office of Jones County Regis ter of Deeds Mrs, D. W. Koonce was from C. B. Foyt to Lilian F. Stith of several lots in White Oak Township. the tax, and remits it to tax collec tors. The excise tax on telephone ser vice was intended, when adopted many years ago, to be a tem porary wartime emergency tax but has never been removed. It was reduced to the 10 per cent rate in 1954, Fields pointed out. “Telephone users consider it an unfair and discriminatory tax be cause it singles out one segment of the public—in fact, one segment of household utility users,tWho air ready bear their share of other federal, state and local taxation. “There was a legislative propo sal before Congress in 1958 that would make the telephone excise tax a permanent part of the federal and state tax structure, because it would transfer certain parts of the revenue from the tax to the states which meet certain condi tions,” Fields said. “This would have the effect of embedding a discriminatory tax permanently into federal and state tax struc tures.” Manager Fields said that the National Association of Railroad and Utility Commissioners recent ly adopted a resolution favoring repeal. If it were repealed, the telephone customer would get all the relief directly and immediate ly, he added. This is Km almost complete naw Trsntoo's main straat. Tha bank home of Branch Banking & Trust is hoped to bo ready for uso this Company in Tranton. Undar con- month, but aftar tha many delays struction far nearly a year now, encountered so far in the construe - tha handsome structure Is in the tion Mrs. Austin Koonce, manager sisme architectural style as the of the Tranton office of Branch Jonas County court house and does Banking, is not making any public a groat deal toward "dressing up" predictions about "opening day". Despite Lawyers Illness and Strike Duty for Patrolman Jones Court Collects $1,500 aw iuucm» vi Mwiu&ys uwrge Hughes and Donald Brock and the temporary transfer at Highway Patrolman L. S. Meiggs to Hen derson for duty around the strike bound cotton mills there almost brought the March term of Jones County Superior Court to a stand still this week. Only submissions—largely on traffic charges and those in which neither of these three; Hughes, Brock and Meiggs, were involved could be heard. i Judge Rudolph Mintz of Wil mington, recently appointed to re place Judge Clifton Moore who was elevtated to the State Supreme Court, is presiding over this ses sion. On Wednesday an Onslow County case was transferred to Jones County for trial. Last week the sudden sickness of a juror forced a mistrial in the second day of hearings in Onslow County Super ior Court, and the case is expected to consume both the Wednesday and Thursday sessions of the Jones County court. Although the business of the Court was slowed down it still managed to clear a lot of the 101 cases from its calendar, send three men to prison land collect $1,050 in fines under the guidance of Judge Mintz. Joseph Burney of Kinston, who had been before the court several times before on non-support charges was given two years in prison and Jesse 'Lee Williams pied guilty to attempted robbery and was given a one-year jail term and George Walker Jr. drew 18 months for bigamy. Those charged with drunken driving who paid $100 fines and the count costs included Elwood W. Moore and Harold E. Gaston, liquor violators and their fines included Johnnie B. Jones $100, Frank McDaniel $50, Freddie Mur phy $100. A long list of out-of-county speeding violators had previously waived, in writing, trial and had posted $30 cash bonds, which is consumed in the standard $10 fine land $20 court cost practice of the court. The list included Marvin L. Gill, Ted Stanley Johnson, Hal God shaw, Louis Belsik, Dorcas Smith Norris, Johnnie Gray, John Feld man, Johnny Anthony DeSalva, Randolph Daley, Fred C. Ukner Jr., F. E. Bass, J. R. Leon, Robert Eu Marcoux, Henry M. Zona, John D. Rogers, Jose Jasiper Vaughn, Joshua Michael Garvin, Michael M. Mills, Charles R. Mitchell, George Thomas Jones, Charles F. Knolls, Jaimes G. Wallace, David M. Stanley, Hardy . A. Swindell, Augustus Franks, Betty Jane Oli ver, B. H. George, John Franklin 'Murphy, Elbert Fonvilie, Robert N. Jarvis, James C. Budd Jr. and Johnnie Frank Brown. Other offenders before the court included Leonard Fillmore Coble charged with assault with a dead ly weapon with intent to kill, transferred to Juvenile Court when found to be IS years of age; William Harris Keller $50 fine for transporting stumphole whisky; Lee Augustus Williams Jr. $10 fine for assault upon a female; George Franks $25 fine for reck less driving, Kenneth Woodrow Hill $50 fine for breaking, enter ing and larceny ; Crofton C. Yan cey court costs for speeding, Harry .0. Nickerson $5 fine for speeding, Malvern Banks $25 fine for speeding and reckless driv ing; Willie Randolph Jones $25 for reckless driving. > In each indictment that carries a fine the lowest court cost is $20 Fire at Warehouse A fir* Monday night at i:18 reported by worker* at the state weighing station did several hund red dollars damage to the office of Kinston Cooperative Warehouse south of Kinston. The fire ap parently started around a flue, between the ceiling of the office and the roof. Fire, smoke and wa ter damage was confined to the office area and did not reach the warehouse proper, where several thousand bushels of com are cur rently stored. FHA Now Assisting 95 Jones Countians With Loans, Advice As of February 28, the Jones County Farmers Home Adminis tration office is assisting 95 fami lies with financial and farm man agement. assistance. The work is carried on by J. E. Mewbom Jr., County Supervisor, and Mrs. Clarice L. Pollock, County Office Clerk. Mrs. Dorothy S. Franck works part time during the fall and winter months. During this period $247,878 ma tured on operating loans which ranks sixth in amount among North Carolina counties. As of February 28, 96 per cent has be«n collected. Since July 1, 1958, four real estate loans have been made totaling $36,420. Four other real estate loans are now in process. Two Farm ownership and 28 operating Loan borrowers paid thedr loans in full during this period. Loans approved on operat ing type loans since July 1st totals $288,510. Real estate loans have been made to purchase farnMand, major build ing and land improvements such j as new construction and repairs i to farm buildings and dwelling, | drainage, pasture clearing and l establishing permanent pasture. Operating loans have been made to purchase farm machinery, I equipment, livestock and livestock facilities, and to finance farm operating and the necessary fami ly living expenses. All borrowers are receiving as sistance in planning and carrying out their farm operation and in keeping records. During the period, 123 farm visits have been made with borrowers at their farm. In 1958, the average FHA bor rower in Jones County had 100 acres of land, owned or rented, 59 crop acres with an average of 7.2 acres of tobacco which aver aged 1744 pounds per acre and he had a 5 brood sow enterprise with 34 acres of corn. Average produc tion of pigs per litter was 7. The average increase in net worth was $560 and the net farm income was $971. The average operator had an expenditure of $500 for capital im provements. Farmers Home Administration’s assistance to farmers is designed to assist them in' those eases where they cannot obtain their credit satisfactorily from other sources, with the objective of their being able to make progress within a reasonably short period of time that will enable them to graduate to other sources for their neces sary credit. and some range up to $25, depend ing on whether or not a man is jailed. 'Presuming the minimum bill of costs of $29 the first two days of this term of court collected $1,060 in fines and $930 in court costs. RS’ 50th ANNIVERSAR Y
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