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THE JONES COUNTY i.*i*in V ihi NUMBER 21 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1959 VOLUME XI Maysville School Holds Annual Fall. Festival The Maysville Elementary School held it’s annual Fall Festival Fri ' day night in the school auditorium with a large attendance. The festi val was sponsored by the Parent Teachers Association and was un der the supervision of Mrs. John Holden. - The following events took place: Mrs. Ward £arker held the cake walks, Mrs. Frank Chapiman ran “teen-canteen”, Mrs. Claude Allen ran an Old Country Store, Mrs. Hugh Oliver the fish pond, Mrs. (Lem Meiggs conducted the “House of Horrors”, Mrs. Virgil Jenkins ‘ sold grab bags, Mrs. Delia Peter son told fortunes and Mrs. Fannie Pruitt ran the food table. Mrs. . ; 'Beatrice Little conducted the King i and Queen Contest with second 'graders Susan Morgan and Michael Thompson winning the crowns for the first through fourth grades and seventh graders. Jackie Spradley and: Irene Collins as win ners for the fifth through eighth grades. In- addition, games were played and various prizes were a waided. Maysvflle Baptist to Hold Homecoming The First Baptist Church will hold it’s annual Homecoming Sunday, October 16. All old-mem bers and friends are invited to attend. Chaplain Howard will be the speaker and immediately fol lowing services a picnic lunch will Jones County’s Third Murder in Oqe Month Claims Negro Tenant The third murder in one month in Jones County last Friday after noon claimed the life of 30 year old Enoch Harris Jr., a negro ten ant on the Julian Waller Farm be tween Trenton and Pollooksville. Jeffrey Lewis Williams, 37, a tenant on the Manley Foscue Farm, of the same neighborhood, is changed with the pistol slaying. Sheriff Brown Yates says the shooting took place at the home of Odell Franks, another negro tenant of that section, at about 2 p. m~ Friday. There was no fight or argument immediately preced ing the shooting, witnesses report. Harris walked into the yard of the Franks home and Williams polled out a .22 caliber pistol and opened fire. Three ballets struck Harris in the chest, and a fourth mi mm in tne side. Yates said Harris managed to walk and run some 65 yards before falling and then died before help could arrive. Death was caused by punctures of the lung area. Yates says the two men had been involved in some trouble Earlier This year, and Williams offered as his excuse for the shooting the fact that he was scared of Harris. Harm was not aimed, Yates re "" 'W itrons Want Long List o£ Improvements Patrons at Kinston's three negro schools Monday night appeared be fore the City School Board and presented a long list of improve ments that they want for their , schools. The list included: 1. Additional classrooms at By num School. 2. A new negro high school. 3. Renovation of Aldkin High in to a junior high school. 4. Purchase of the Beech proper ty and Adkin Park to expand the campus of Adikin High School. 5. Landsoaping of Bynum School. 6. A library for Sampson School. 7. An enlarged kitchen and din ing room tor Sampson school. 8. A class for mentally retarded students. 1; . , t 9. A negro truant, officer. - 10. Additional land .ah w$*t of Sampson school for larger play ground. On these requests, the group was told by the school (board, 1. no new classrooms will be built until a thorough analysis of need is com pleted on the basis of expected future enrollments in all schools, 2. The present population trend does not support the need for either a white or negro junior high school, 3. same answer, 4. Efforts are now underway and have been for some time to get the county commis sioners to aquire these additions to AcUrin High campus, 5. Funds were deleted from the current bud get for this item hy the commis sioners, 6. budget deletion, 7. bud get deletion (and' on both these items for Sampson school it was pointed out that the state school of ficials had refused to permit more buildings at Sampson unless more land is acquired), 8. the state has only allocated funds for one class for mentally retarded, 9. bn the basis of the record it is highly im probable ^t the county board of commissioners would approve an other truant officer and 10. this ha si been a standing goal of the. school board when and as funds are available to acquire additional campus space at Sampson. i - .. i-i « Dog Problem Finally Solved Hdppily By Mrs. Fred Pippin Jackie Mercer and Sheik Black, ages Id and 12, bad a serious prob lem last Saturday. It seams that a mother dog and her five puppies had made their neiw hope under Shelia's house and having dogs at their own already, they ere giy urged by their parents to sr home for them. [#ck hed seen the pups, so it is suspected home. Jac M ad vmptr to find the owner. Since they both live on the high way, it would seem likely that a ear door opened accidently and the poor , mother dog fell out and naturally found a home. % ■They said that they could not sell the puppies because they bad no selling license and couldn’t give them away—anyway because the owner might not like it at all. To make it a happy ending, af ter much searching, the girls found an owner without having to ad vertise in the paper. Land Transfers ' Recent transfers of real estate recorded in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. 'W. Koonce include the following: From John M. Booth to Richard Owen Barker 3 lots in Pollocks ville. From W. C- Ollison to Robert S. Ollison one tract in Pollocksville ■Township. From Abe Payton to John L. 'Payton one tract in Pollocksiville Township. From J. K. Warren Jr. to Dar ris W. Koonce 3 lots in Trenton Township. ' From Lawyer Dove to Garfield Haddock one acre in Trenton Township. From C. B. Foy to Robert D. 'leathers one lot in White Oak Township. From Thomas H. Pigford to ’Lillie F. MacDonald one tract in Pollocksville Township. From W. H. Humphrey to Jack Thomas White and to Launa White one half acre each in Pollocksville Township. 'From Lewis W. Stilley to Benja min S. Eubanks three acres in Chinquapin Township. Marriage License During the past week Jones (County Register of Deeds Mrs. J. 'W. Koonce has issued two marriage license arid, they went to David ■Bryant, 23, and Edna Lee Jones, ■19, both of Lenoir County and •Franklin to. Riggs, 22, eg Hubert and Sonja Marie Morgan, IS, of 'Maysville. Sunday Homecoming A week of revival services at 7:30 each evening this week will end Sunday with the annual Home coming. Day worship services and: picipdc dinner at Haskins Chapel between Hinston and Trenton. Past, present and potential mem bers of the church are urged to attend the revival services and the Sunday services. Gross sales of the Jones County ABC stores during the first three months of the current fiscal year show an increase of $12,443.10 over the first three months of fiscal ’58 59. In July, August and September of this year the three stores had gross sales of $74,468.70 and last year this three-month period’s sales totalled -62,025.60. Camparisons by month included July 018,635.95 and $23,*6.55, Aug use $22,722.85 and $26,125.30 and September $20,666.80 and $25,061.85. Jones ABC Stores Supervisor Ray Harrison says a large part of this increase is due to sales to out-of-county ' customers at the stores located on US 70 at Wyse Fork and on US 258 at Hargett Crossroads. Each of these stores for the past several months has out-tgrossed Store No. 1 in Tren ton. During September the Trenton --“ • QhSJd Drowned Accidental drowning was ruled Sunlay by Coroner Raymond Jar man in the death of 2% year-old Brodie Washington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Washington of La Grange. The 'child's deeath came at about noon Sunday at the spillway of Tull Mill Pond near Deep Run. The child was there with its grand father Wfcn it fell into the spill way and drowned. store grossed $7,371.45, the Hargett Crossroad Store $8,763.05 and the Wyse Fork store led sales with $8,927.36., V On the basis of net profits earn ed by the system during the past fiscal yei^tjf just over 11 per cent, the first three months of fiscal ’59-60 indicate a quarterly profit of $8,191.45. School Principals Concerned With Medical Problems; Some Want to Stop Aspirin Dosing Monday night the principals of Kinston schools met with the school board to discuss mutual problems and all reported that the 1950-60 school year had gotten underway with less trouble than any in their experience. Two of the principals, however, raised medical problems principally directed at School Board Chairman Dr. Fleming Ful ler. Teachers Memorial Principal Martin Freeman asked Fuller's opinion on handing out aspirin in wholesale quantities. Fuller said he was flatly against such procedure. Freeman says his school uses these pills by the quart. Northwest principal Kay Wooten comciUXed-ip. the aspirin problem and offered another. Wooten said stricter academic standards install ed last year on order of the school board had upset a handful of pa rents to the point where they were endangering their children’s health with dosings of “tranquilizers”. Wooten said he had more than a dozen pupils during most of the 1958-59 school year who were “on tranquilizers”. Dr. Fuller asked if Wooten had contacted the doctor who had pre scribed these medicines. Wooten said he had, but the doctors kept on giving them. Free Press Managing Editor Jim Register asserted that children sick enough to need medicines were too sick to be in school. Newsman Jack Rider suggested psychiatric treatment for the pa rents of these children. Wooten said he had seriously debated giv ing “straight ones” to these child ren So their parents would relax and quit endangering the health of their children. Board Member John Page said this Would merely be “an expedien cy” and saoaeror later these child ren and their parenets would run up against.-reality and it would merely delaying the prob lem. Dr. Fuller agreed that a letter from’ the Medical Society to all parents might help with both these pill problems. But Fuller also -ask ed PTA officials present for Mon day night’s session to help educate the parents who are responsible for such abuses of their children. MINOR THEFT .-***«• What police classified as the most minor 'theft report in recent history came from Matthew Miller of 907 Chestnut Street over the weekend, who alleged that his home was entered and one apple was stolen. United Nations Observing 14th Anniversary By Miss Kath*rir» Lowary Chinquapin Homo Demonstration Club Jones County On October 24th we will again celebrate United Nations Day—the 14th birthday of the Uhited Na-< tions. Why do people all over the world celebrate.this day? Partly because they are awareof some of the things which have been made pos sible through the workings of the United Nations, and because the day symbolizes for them a hope that peace may be preserved in the world, and faith that with na tions working together good may come for all. Since the beginning of time there has been disagreement in the world, and rightly so, because we. do not all think alike. As neighbors- in our local community we may agree on some things but disagree on others. We have come to realize (hht the best way to settle our dif-, Eerences Is by peaceful agreement or compromise. Ibis is also true with nations. And, this is one of the reasons that the. United stations came into being. We know that in today’s smaller world many, of our problems become international problems and can for international solutions. If agreements can be feached through the United Na tions, they are more likely to be in the general interest of all na tions. Besides being an “international peacemaker”, the United Nations seek® to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect :for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of people. A hundred years aigo we didn’t think of nations of the world as being neighbors. Theye were sep arated by oceans and miles and miles of land. With today’s means of communications and transporta tion, the most distant points on the globe can be reached in about 72 hours by air, and .people can carry on- conversations across oceans and deserts. Now, all people every where are neighbors. Since nations are neighbors, re gardless of their looation on the globe, the United Nations seeks to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for funda mental freedoms FOB all regard less of race, sex, language or re ligion. ■ '' . \ All the great religions of the world proclaim the idea of the brotherhood of man. In this modern age we are thinking more than ever of the ways of building a better life for the whole human race econbihtcally socially and spiritually. With the development of atomic energy, we realize that in choosing its uses-we ijaay be choosing be tween the way1 of life and the way of death, No longer can any coun try be ignorant or unaffected by what happens in any other, whe ther it be good or bad. Sometimes we may feel that the United Nations has failed because the solution of a particular prob lem has not been reached. But, we must remember that in internation al life as In personal life, there are problms that can not be solved im mediately—file time element defin itely enters in the solution. Let us judge the United Nations on the basis of whether or not it provides the means for building internation al peaice and fellowship. As Home Demonstration Club Women let us have peace, under standing and love in our hearts, and never fail to support the United Nations.
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