THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 12
fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY,
AUGUST 13, 1959 VOLUME XI
Kinston Tobacco Market Begins 65th S&le Season Tuesday
(AM selling season of the tdbacco
nurtfcet gets underway.
Last year the Kinston market
idngpped from the No. 2 spot it
kets to hraxthplace and ttMtaiyear
the jjoipe of warehouaemen .along
with other business men and of
ficials are determined to climb
&a<k up that all-impasftaitt sadies
ladder.
Use excessive rainfall of July
whichdid so mticfa damage :to the
tobacco crop in the KiUhwi mar
keting area is expected to compli
cate'things considerably in "this ef
But local tobacconists Jed that
this wet weather win hurt «n*«
volumes in other markets a a well,
as at Kinston and they oee de
termined to go “dl the way” in
firing even better sanitate titan
ever before in wootpg the tobacco
fanner back to the 32 iKfawfcna
sales floors.
Charlie Herring aid his .asso
ciates in the two hooe Btar Ware
houses have been ■working mode
the spring and believe their effort
•will bring bade some did custo
mers and attract many new ones.
J. T. Sheppard and his asso
ciates in the two Sheppard Ware
houses are bending every <ef8orl in
this united cause.
'Bill Herring and Bill Xing with
the Central and Sew Central Ware
booses have worked harder and
longer than in many a season for
the same purpose.
John Jenkins and lands Pollock
with their Bhcie and Fanners
Warehouses have also spent more
hne “drumming tobacco” and be
lieve they wffl he alfle to hold up
their end of this effort to get Kin
ston's market hack In its proper
place in the sales am.
Bifly Smith, a newsomer to Kin
ston tobacco circles, is heading a
rejuvenated management at the
Kinston Cooperative Warehouse.
Be is a brother Of Kersey Smith,
for many years a “wheel horse”
on the Kinston market, and is a
member of one of Becky Mount’s
beat known tobacco families.
Grafanm Knott and Billy Brewer
are “turning every tap” 'they can
for Knott’s Hew Warehouse and
(be market as a whole.
Some old ones and a few new
ones head the' line up of the Old
Knott Warehouse and Banner
Warehouse. Kirby Loftin, John;
Heath, James Wiggins and Ray
Foss head this team.
Some old and some very familiar
chants will be heard when the Kin
Mon auctioneers loosen up their!
tonsils and begin theij money tallk. |
Ed Dale will sell for the Old
Knott and Banner folks.
E. H. Valentine is back again for
Dixie and Farmers.
Herbert Baker is singing the
prices for the two Sheppard houses.
(Lionel Garner will perform the
sales chant for New Knott’s.
Bob Wilson, a newcomer, will be
selling the two huge Star sales,
tided by Joe Cuthrell Jr.
Matt Dykes is the Co-op auc
tioneer.
Dennis Bailey will be selling
both the Central sales.
Many local warehousemen are
concerned this year, as they have
been in the past w-th the departure
of so much tobacco for the Geor
gianFiorida markets because to
bacco is sold “loose” there rather
than tied in “hands” as cm the
local market.
it. S. “Dutch” Witherington,
Continued on page 8
Sanford and Larkins Running
Meck-and-Neck in Early Polls
Fayetteville’s Terry Sanfiorfi and
Trenton’s John Larkins are "Even
Steven” insofar as early polls ion
the I860 election of governor are
.concerned.
These two most frequently men
ttioned candidates for governor now
lead in one poll each.
.Sanford collected 63 per cent of
103 newspaper editors polled by
'Goldsboro .Editor Henry Bdlk.
.Larkins collected over 90 of the
LOO sheriffs jin the state in an in
formal poll ‘.taken last week in
Asheville at the annual convention
Of sheriffs.
Most striking—so far from vot
ing time next May—is the way that
both these groups, editors and
sheriffs, have boiled the race down
to just these two candidates.
£. number of tothers frequently
suggested as Likely candidates
Hardly showed tip in Editor Belk’s
survey. Edwin Gill got one out of
93, Addison Hewlett got one, Tom
Pearsall got one and Beverly Lake
didn’t get a single vote.
whom the state’s chief law enforce
ment officers thought most high
ly of, and Sanford’s was just a
Sout die tonly other name men
tioned.
This Asheville attitude of the
Sheriffs was recognized as an al
most inevitable reaction to the Belk
survey which had been given wide
coverage, and had certainty been
Viewed closdty by such practical
practicing politicians as the sheriffs
of Itie state.
The Larkins forces were plea
santly surprised by the relatively
poor showing Larkins made among
the poll of editors. They had onty
been able to find 12 editors they
could expect to vote for Larkins,
ibd were happy to find that there
were six others. Although the poll
of editors was supposed to be a
reflection of what the people in
the area of the editor were think
ing everyone recognized that such
polls are generally a reflection of
what the man who fills out the
questionnaire Is thinking.
The Larkins supporters recog
nized that a very large percentage
of editors in North Carolina are
alumni of the University of North
Carolina, as is Sanford. Larkins is
a Wake Forest alumnus.
Sanford in his “bush beating" so
far has repeatedly preached from
the same text: That education is
North Carolina’s Number One
problem. ^ 1
Larkins, who has also been out
on the civic club and barbecue cir
cuit with a scattering of speeches,
has also included education among
those things that need thoughtful
consideration. But Larkins, who
has served eight terms in the State
Senate, twice as chairman of the
senate appropriations committee
and twice as chairman of the Ad
visory Budget Commission, put
Ms feelings ahodt education this
way in a
lotte:
Jury List Drawn for
September Term of
Jtanes Superior Court
Last week the Jones County'
Board of Commissioners drew a
petit jury list for the September
term of .Jones Counity Superior
Court. The following will serve:
Heber Jones, J. R. Jarman, Em
mett McDaniel, B. C. Gray Jr., E.
D. Raitks, J. P. Eubanks, Woodrow
W. Harriett, Cyrus Small, Ivey
ICing.
Bay Collins, j. S. Banks, Lenzor
West, Harvey Oxley, Carlton Phil- ’
yaw, Hugh Oliver, Rex Blizzard,;
Clyde Monette, Roy Cauley.
E. L. Morton Jr., J. Ralph Jones,
Eiarl F. Haskins, Lonnie Mallard,
Joseph Raynor Westbrook, Mal
colm Banks, Jaimes Franklin Har
riett, Wiri a.ni J. Johnson, Slyvanus
Mallard.
Jack. Dempsey Metts, D. L. Wa
ters, Joseph M. Parker, W. H.
Biggs, Guy Eubanks, Robert Britt,
Jones, W. mmm Dalton
John Larldns Named
Director of State
College Foundation
National Committeeman John
Larkins of Trenton has been named
a member of the , board of direc
tors of the State College Founda
tion in recent action by the pre
sent board.
Larkins will serve in that capa
city through 1361.
The Foundation bandies scholar
ships and other incidental expen
ses connected with State College
activities that are not handled
through regular college revenues
from state sources. The Founda
tion is also active in seeking do
nations to support these activities.
Dalton Loftin Passes
Bar Exam; Joins Firm
Of Hillsboro Lawyer
Dalton Loftin, who graduated
from the University of North Caro
lina Law School in June, has now
passed his bar examination.
Loftin has joined the law firm
of Bonner Sawyer, veteran Hills
boro attorney. He and his family
have moved their residence from
Chapel Hill to Hillsboro.
Another Indictment
Made in Maysville
Breaking and Entry
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■ Sheriff Brown Yates this week
reported another indictment in a
rather unusual breaking and en
tering case in July in Maysville.
On the night of July 22nd Com
munity Chevrolet Company was
entered and the next day James
Foy was charged with entering the
establishment, taking some money
and all the keys to new and used
cars in the plaice. He was also
changed with using on>e of those
keys to steal a car and drive it
while drunk.
On July 22nd Robert Van Gerock,
fonmer employee of the cop
pears that the Miaysville auto deal
er establishment got “clipped”
twicd in the same night.
Gerock is accused of using a
skeleton key to enter the office of
the agency where he is charged
with stealing $42 in cash. He is
free under $300 bond pending trial
in the September term of court on
charges of breaking, entering and
larceny.
Wilbur Eubanks is
Charged with Breaking
In Father’s Room
Sheriff Brown Yates this week
reported the indictment of Wilber
Eubanks of Pollocksville on ai
charge of breaking and entering.
Yates says that Eubanks lived
in a house with his father, but be
cause of constant drunkenness on
the part of the younger Eubanks
they had “split up housekeeping”,
with the father staying in two
rooms of the house and the son in
the other two rooms.
Recently while “overloaded” Eu
banks broke into his father’s room
and his father, at wit’s end, inso
far as coping with his son’s be
havior signed the indictment for
breaking and entering. .
Whisky Store Clerk Robbed of $2,589.65
Lector Malpacs, a clerk in the
Lenoir County whisky store on'
East Highland Avenue, Saturday
night was robbed at pistol point
of $2,589.65 by two men.
After the 9 p. m. dosing of the
store Malpass drove to the Park
view Branch of the Cgmmercia
National Bank to make a night
deposit of the afternoon receipts
of this store. As he stopped out of
his car, Malpass told officer*, a
young white man iammfd a pis
tol in his back and told him to get
back in Ms car and the bandit got
in and drove tha car on NC 55 to
the area near Oak Bridge.
Mai pass cays another car follow
ad thorn closely and drove up to
the spot his car was stopped.
The clerk says Hie jjian with
the /gun then took his car keys,
the money and got in the other
car and sped away. He did net
get enough view of the other car
driver to identify him and his de
scription of the man with the gun
was hampered by the fact that he
was never able to get more than
mere giimpees of -the man.
He was described as about five
feet eight in height, weighing a
bout 130 pounds and with dark hair.
The gun wlalder was not masked.
Neil Bender Gets Coveted
National Foundation’s First
North Carolina Scholarship!
Neil C. Bender son of Mrs. Joan
Bender and the late Mr. Bender of
Pollocksville has been named win
ner of a 1959 Health Scholarship
by chairman George R. Hughes of
the Jones County Chapter of The
National Foundation.
Bender is one of the many stu
dents across the country chosen
for this award. The new Health
Scholarships are awarded nation
ally to outstanding young Ameri
cans seeking careers in one of five
health fields—‘medicine, nursing,
physical therapy, occupational
therapy and medical social work.
Each scholarship is for $2,000 for
a total of four years of college
training.
Bender will study to become a
doctor. His first year will be spent
at the University of North Caro
lina School of Medicine.
“ilt is with great pleasure that
I present this Health Scholarship
to Bender,” Hughes said. “We have
high hopes for the winners of these
scholarships. They have been pick
ed because they show promise of
becoming citizens valuable to any
nation—men and women concern
bd about the welfare of others.”
Hughes pointed out that though
this is the first year the Health
Scholarships have been offered,
more than 4,600 students applied
for the 515 scholarships available.
Winners are selected in each state
by State Health Scholarship Com
mittees composed of five state
health leaders representing the
five professions included in the
program.
Hughes said the objective of the
Malpass told 1ft* officers.
After they took his keys and the;
money they turned around and.
sped back toward Kinston.
Damage Suit Asking
$50,000 for Injuries
In May 31 Accident
Joseph Henry Roberts of Jones
County this week filed suit for
^50,000 against Allison Hiatahell for
injuries Roberts suffered in an ac
cident on May 31st of this year be
tween Maysville and Stella.
The complaint filed for Roberts
says he suffered a compound frac
ture of the leg and arm, a severe
>j«p«lb»al- eoneusskm - and numerous
bruises and cuts. The medical bill
for treatment of these injuries is
alleged to have been $1,714.
Robrts says he was walking on
the shoulder of NC 50 about a half
mile east of Eubank’s store when
he was struck by the vehicle driven
by Hatched. „
Mother Indicted
Mrs. Lizzie Canady of Pollocks
ville was indicted for disorderly
conduct Saturday night when she
came to Gordon Hill's place at the
intersection of US 17 and NC 58
near Pollocksville to remonstrate
with two men whom she thought
had beaten her son, Faroy. Faroy
had been left at the Canady home
shortly before this in a rather bat
tered condition. Sheriff Brown
Yates said, and Mrs. Canady be
lieved that the men he was riding
with had administered the "bat
tering". When she became loud,
profane and abusive around the
Hill establishment she was asked
to leave, and when she refused to
leave the indictment was issued.
Health Scholarship Program is
“to relieve the acute shortages of
trained health personnel in the
health fields—shortages that are
becoming more serious every day.
Through the support of the March
of Dimes we hope to help ease
this situation considerably by stim
ulating interest in the health pro
fessions and making it possible for
young Americans to choose careers
that count in the nation’s welfare.’’
The Health Scholarship Program
!s part of the new program of The
National Foundation (formerly
“for Infantile Paralysis”), which
now embraces birth ^defects and
arthritis in addition to polio.
NEGRO DROWNED SUNDAY
James Arlester Hart, 26 year-old
negro farmer of Kinston route five,
was drowned Sunday afternoon
while bathing with a number of
others in a pond south of Kinston
on a rural road between US 256
and NC 56.