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:THE JONES COUNTY IO U RNAL NUMBER 7 fRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1959 VOLUME XI Legion Rifle Team Has Some Boys Who Are 'Top Guns’ tror the past three months some over 20 Kinston area boys over 11 years erf age have been learning the safe and effective use of the .22 caliber rifle under the super vsion of Marine Corps Captain ChaiCie Arthur and under the spon sorship of Joseph Dixon Rountree Post 43 of the American Legion. As high as 40 young would-be expert riflemen have attended the Saturday morning sessions held at the Kinston Police Department pistol and r'f.e range south of Kinston. Legionnaire Jack Rider is chair man of the committee sponsoring the rifle team and he along w th Caftan Arthur have stressed from the first meeting the absolute ' Above, second from left standing. Captain Charlie Arthur is seen giving some helpful comments to members of the Joseph Dixon Rountree Post rifle team at the Kinston Police Department range i south :©f Kinson. Tex Fuller, stand ing behind Captain Arthur is "top gun" so far in preliminary train ing of the more than 30 boys over i 11 who have taken part in this Saturday morning drill in safe and I efficient usetof the .22 caliber rifle. This is the championship form of j Tex Fuller, photographed above as' he was shooting four 10's and onej 9 at the tiny 50-foot .22 caliber target. Tex with a 135 out of a possible 150 is so far the holder of the highest score of the Ameri can Legion rifje team. Jones;ABC Stores Gross $251,964 First Full Year When the curtain rang down June 30th on the first full fiscal year of operations-for the Jones County ABC stores a gross sale of $261,964.20 was reported by Su pervisor Ray Harrison. This period is from July 1, 1958 through June 30, 1950. The first of the stores was open ed December 7, 1957 after the vote in October of ’57 had ap proved establishment of a legal whisky system for the county. June sales for the three stores amounted to $19,665.80 and the 11-tmonth period before that bad stacked up a gross sales of $232, 298.40. The sales by stores for June were No. 1 at Trenton $5,572.05, No. 2 at Hargett Crossroad $6,841.66 and No. 3 at Wyse Fork $7,252.10. The first six months of the fis cal period that ended last week had seen a net operating profit of just over 11 per cent. Presuming that the final six^months did eqal ly well the taxpayers of Jones County will have something like $27,716 to spend for county ser vices that they did not have prior to instalation of the legal whisky system. Jones County Gets New Set of Pastors The Methodist Churches of Jones County got a complete new set of preachers at the annual confer ence held last week in Wilming ton. W. N. Vass replaced Lewis Dill man at Trenton and Dfillman went to Carver Memorial Methodist Church in New Bern. John T. Smith replaced Robert Moore at Maysville and Moore was assigned to Carthage. J. A. Cooper was assigned to PWlooks'ville. Markham, Phillips Retiring; Snell Gets Markham’s Job, Franks to Succeed Phillips Charles W. Snell Jr. of Wash ington has been named Second Division Highway Engineer and Roy D. Franks of Kinston appoint ed his assistant, according to an announcement last Friday by the State Highway Commission. Both appointments will be effective on October 1. Snell succeeds Romulus Mark ham, who is retiring after forty years of service with the Highway Commissi on, ten of which have been as Second Division Engineer. Franks will replace Jasper L. Phil lips, who has been with the Com mission for thirty-eight years, ten as Assistant Division Engineer for Division Two. Dennis W. Patrick of Aulander will replace Snell as District En gineer for Beaufort and Pitt coun ties, on October 1. ■ Moving up from District En gineer, Snell will direct all Second Division Highway construction and maintenance in the eight county divisional area, comprising Beau fort, Pitt, Carteret, Craven, Pam lico, Greene, Jones and Lenoir Counties. New Assistant Second Division Engineer Franks was born in Winterville and first cams with the Highway Commission on a \per manent basis in 1926, following at tendance at Duke University as a Civil Engineering major. Moving Up to the Assistant Division En gineer post, he has previously served as Rodman, Instrumentman and Senior Resident Engineer, in charge of construction projects. Frahks is married to the former Verlie Gates Smith and is Chair man of the Board of Deacons at the Gordon Street Christian Church in Kinston, a member of the N. C. Society of Engineers and the East Carolina Engineers Club. Four Trentonians Indicted for Affray Sheriff Broiwn Yates reiports that four young Trenton negroes were indicted last week in warrants signed by a fifth, Eddie Smith. In the warrattre Smith Swore that he was attacked and threaten ed by Dalton McDaniel, Guy Dove, Len Brown and Tyrone Gooding. No injuries were inflicted but the quartet has been bound over to Superior Court. Gooding is on probation at this time for a pre vious violation. Retiring Division Engineer Mark ham has a long record of service with the Commission, dating from 1919 when he went to work in Kin ston as a Maintenance Inspector. Promoted to the position of Dis trict Engineer in Kinston in 1923, he later served as Assistant Di vision Engineer and Division En gineer of old Division C in Greens boro from 1931 to 1937. He moved to Wilton as Engineer of the Fourth Highway Division and remained there until 1949, when he took over the Second Division Engineer posi tion in Greenville. Retiring Assistant Division En gineer Jasper Phillips came with the Highway Commission in 1921 as a Party Chief. He is a 1913 grad uate of the University of North Carolina, finishing with Phi Beta Kappa honors in Civil Engineer ing. In 1922, Phillips was promoted to Resident Engineer, supervising contract construction projects, and in 1937 was made District Engin eer in Kinston. He rose to the posi tion of Assistant Second Division Highway Engineer in 1949. Saving Bond Sales for State Top $20 Million E. and H Savings Bonds sales in North Carolina during May were $3,318,582.49. This brings the state’s total sales for the first five months of this year to $20,060,185.12. Cumulative sales for January (May represent 39.3% of the state’s year’s dollar goal. iln Lenoir County sales for May were $74,915.50; for the year to date $379,910.25; which is 40.3% of the county’s quota for 1959. Jones County 4-H’ers Do Well in District Competition July 1st Following here is a tabulation of the honors won by Jones County 4-H Club members in District competition last week at Choco winity High School. William Jarman—Route 2, Tren ton—Comfort School: District win ner in Tractor Operator’s Contest will represent Jones County and Eastern District in State Contest during 4-iH Club Week. Wilson Lowery Jr.—Route 1, Trenton—Jones Central High School: Runner-up in Boys Elec tric Demonstration. lElaine Parker—Pollocksvitle— Jones Central High School: Run ner-up in Dairy Foods Individual Demonstration. Carol Haddock and Carolyn Price—Route 1, Trenton—Jones Central High School: Red ribbon in Girl’s Electric Demonstration. Robert Collins — Maysville — Maysville School: Red Ribbon in Beekeeping Demonstration. Gretchen Davis—Pollocksville— Jones Central High School: Red Ribbon for Sewing Demonstration. Lillie Faye Banks—Route 2, Trenton— Jones Central High School: The County representative in Dress Revue. Brenda Hill—Trenton—Trenton School: Entered Talent Parade. Twenty-one 4-H’ers and two a dult leaders (Mrs. W. W. Lowery, R-l, Trenton and Mrs. Leon Thomas, Pollocksville) attended with the agents, H. D. Vernelson, Faytie C. Gray, and Johnise Hardesty (trainee for the sum mer). At icentor above Keith Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Phil lips, is shown proudly exhibiting a "dead center" bullseye he shot Saturday morning. Keith is the smallest but far from th > sorriest shooter currently advantage of the American Legion sponsored rifle team. necessity of ridgid discipline where firearms are concerned. Captain Arthur, a 19-year vet eran in the Mar ne Corps, is cur rently stationed at Camp Lejeune and making his home in Kinston. He married the former Daphne Garner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Garner of Kinston, and his o’dest son, Charges Jr. is one of the boys learning how to use the r f.e properly. The first session after the rifles arrived was spent studying the gun itself and listening to safety regu lations and each member of the team has been given a list of safety rules. When actual firing began most of the boys didn’t like the idea of getting “in a tight sling”, but Cap tain Arthur by now has convinced practically all of them that they can never really be a top rifle shot unless they do have their gun slings tight enough to make sight ing effective. Richard Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Marshall, Tex Ful ler, son of Dr. and Mrs. Fleming Filler and Robert Peters three of the older boys on the squad have shot amazingly high scores after such a short period of instruction. Fuller holds the top honor so far with a 135 out of a possible 150 score. All firing so far has been done from the prone position at the standard 50-yard distance. Anyone familiar with a 50-yard .22 caliber target knows that the bullseye, or 10-ring is exactly same size as a .22 bullet, or just under a quarter of an inch in I I diameter. So if one doubts the a biLity of these boys to really “hang in there”^as Captain Arthur puts it—just try seeing a quarter inch black speck at 50 feet. Last Saturday Fuller hit that tiny speck in four out of five shots at one target for a possible 49 out of 50 score on that particular tar get. As the boys reach this level of marksmanship they will begin using a different style target on which just one shot is fired at each bullseye, permitting more accurate scoring. When the entire center is cut out as Fuller did last Satur day it’s impossible to say exactly where each shot is landing. The team is in the process of becoming affiliated with the Na tional Rifle Association and when cooler weather rolls around com petition with other rifle teams in Eastern Carolina is planned. With beach-going and camping trips breaking in during the sum mer season, Captain Arthur is con centrating on just teaching the boys to shoot and has not bothered setting up teams for intra-squad competition but when fall comes five-man relays will be set up for such competitions. All boys 11 or older are eligible to join the team. Full details can be obtained by calling Rider.
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