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NUMBER 26 fRENTON, N. O, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1959 VOLUME XI State Republican Chairman Criticizes Jones Countian On State Elections Board •iius weens, a leuer written uy State Republican Party Chairman ■William Cobb of Morganton to Gov ernor Luther Hodges was made •public that had strong criticism -tor both of the Republican Party members of the State Board of Elections, one of whom is H. Man ley Mallard of Trenton. Cobb’s letter, as quoted in the Raleigh News & Ofosediver, com plains that Mallard comes from a county with less than a 10 per cent Republican vote, and a county that takes little part in and offers small financial support to the state Re publican Party. Cobb’s letter also infers that Mallard “sides” with the Demo crats too frequently and insists that the Republican members of the elections board should main tain a militantly Republican posi tion whether they find support from the Democratic majority on the board or not. Mallard, long active in the af fairs of his party, is a former Trenton postmaster and long-time chairman of the County Executive Committee of the Republican Par ty. Mallard in a recent comment - ": . . Bribery Attempt u Under Investigation In la Grange School This week La Grange school of ficials revealed that an investiga tion is underway in bribery at tempts that were made over a two month period, involving members of the high school football team. The school principal has been quoted in several places as saying that anonymous telephone calls had been made either to bribe or frighten players or their families to the point where they would not play in certain games. The threats and bribes were ignored and the only money that actually passed—$50-^was given .o the school athletic fund. Speculation was in high gear a bout the developments: with some •blaming “gamblers” for the skull duggery and others wondering if the whole mens wasn’t just an other publicity stunt. So far the SBl probe has not re ' suited in any indictments and if any supporting evidence to the stories has been found by the SBI it has been kept a secret as the DUPLIN DOCTOR FINED Dr. S. A. Hope of Beulaville drew a suspended prison term and fine last week in Duplin County Superior Court when convicted of doing abortions upon two teen aged New Bern girls. He was placed on probation for three years with the further stipulation that be hot practive gynecology or obste trics for the three-year period. TEACHER GETS TICKET (Beverly Ann Edwards of Tarawa Terrace in Onslow County was changed with reckless driving last Thursday after her oar was wreck ed north of Kinston near the Greene County Jine. t>. ,,c Fanner Cooperation Urged in Census of 411 Farm Production The 1959 Census of Agriculture, now underway in Jones County, will bring up to date farin'statistics last collected in 1951, when the Earm census revealed the follow ing facts: The value of products. sold in 1954 toy farm operators was $6,874,449. The value of all crops soM was >6,282,179 and included $6,266,515 for field crops, $6,189 for vegetables, $9,475 for fruits and nuts, and no data for horticultural specialities. The value of all livestock and livestock products sold was $551, 696 and included $16,646 for dairy products, $39,418 for poultry and poultry products, and $495,906 for livestock and livestock products. The value of forest products sold from the county’s farms was $39, 301. Friendship Supper , Saturday night from 5 until S a benefit supper is being served at Friendship Frae Will Baptist Church near Trenton. Both bar becue and turkey plates will be on sale, and for folks who am real enow nwy sen JHf plates with both turkey and bar Trenton Fire Dept, extends Thanks and Asks Cooperation The Trenton Fire Department wishes to express thanks to the people in and around Trenton for their support. Captain E. V. Eubank reports, “'We wish to thank each and every one who donated fot 0ur Rescue Squad and help us achieve our goal. Also those who helped us put on the barbecue supper. Your do nation and the supper has paid for the ambulance and resuscitator. We still have to have donations to operate, so please continue to help.” “We have had several emergency calls in the past week. Most of them were very serious. Some of our cases were: Mrs. Killings - worth, resuscitator patient, D. L. Wlaters, heart patient, Chris Kin sey, auto accident, Mrs, Julia Mills, home accident, Ruben Green, heart condition, and some false alarms. We want to help you if yon need us, but PLEASE DO NOT send in FALSE alarms. We would like to take this time to wish each one that is in the hospital a quick recovery.” Emergency telephone numbers for the Rescue Squad are: Day telephone—hours between 6 a. in. and 9 p. m. use telephone number 2901. Night telephone—hours between 9 p.m. and 6 a. m. use telephone number 2646. Please pot these numbers beside ybur telephone, so thet no time will be wasted, H they are needed. Senator Sam Ervin Says WASHINGTON — North Caro lina’s first six United States Sena tors have been discussed in pre vious .columns. They were, in the order of their succession, Benja min Hawkins, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Martin, Timothy Blood worth, Jesse Franklin and JDavid Stone. JAMES TURNER The seventh Senator was James Turner from politically powerful Warren County. He had served is Governor .from 1802 until 1806, when the legislature elected him to the United States Senate. Turner was a staunch supporter of the neiw Jefferson democracy that had political control over North Caro lina. Moving to North Carolina when four years old from his native Virginia, like many other of our early leaders he served in the Revolution and was a member of the General Assembly. Turner was reelected to a second term and remained in the Senate to November 21, 1816, the date he resigned on account of ill health. He died at his plantation near Warrenton on July 15, 1824, and was buried there. FRANCIS LOCKE Upon the resignation of Senator David Stone in 1814, the legisla ture selected Francis Locke of Rowan County. He resigned the of Eice on December 5, 1815, without having qualified for the scat, ac cording to the records. MONTFORT STOKES The eighth United States Senator ;o represent North Carolina was tfontfort Stokes, also a native Virginian. He lived and held office n Rowan County before moving to Wilkes County where he was re ading when the legislature named am to the Senate on December 4, 1816, to the vacancy created by Senator Timer’s resignation: Sena tor Stokes was a naval hero of the Revolution. After Ms Senate ser vice ended on March 3, 1823, he became Governor of North Caro lina, was elected to the legislature and ^appointed Indian Commissioner by President Andrew Jackson. He died at Fort Gibson in what is now Oklahoma on November 4, 1842 and -was buried there. Finally Quitting A suit was fhd in Jones County Superior Court this week by Elsia Strayhorn against Albert Stray horn, indicating that she had given up any hope of their marriage be coming a success. The suit asks a "divorce absolute" on grounds of two years separation. The couple actually has been separated since 1937, according to the complaint. Pollocksville Man Charged With Forgery in Two Counties Willie Lundie Eubanks of Pol locksville was back in trouble this week charged once again with public drunkenness but on this oc casion also facing two charges of forgery. . ' j In one instance Eubanks is changed with forging a check in tbfe amount of $87 in. Onslow Coun- j ty on W. Du Aman, and in the other j he is' accused of forging another on I Aman in Jones County in the a-! mount of $43. , Other indictments reported by Sheriff Brown Yates included that of Johnny Jones of Trenton route 1 two who was picked up by Kin ston police last week for passing worthless checks in Jones Coun ty, Walter Miattocks of MaysviHe who is accused of public drunken ness and Albert Howard of Trenton route two who is charged with drunken driving. Yates also reported that Bobby Foy has been discharged from a New Bern hospital and is ap parently recuperating satisfactorily from a stab wound he suffered on the last night of the Jones County Fair by an assailant who has not yet been apprehended. 'Popular Government’ Issue Has Interesting Jones Data Recreation Center In Jacksonville to be Dedicated to Amyette 'Next Tuesday night a new rec reation center and playground n Jacksonville will be dedicated to and named for Jack Amyette, Trenton native. Amyette died front infantile paralysis last summer while serving as director of the Jacksonville Recreation Depart ment. Amyette had an custanding rec ord in his chosen field of endeavor both with the Kinston Recreation Department where he began this work and at Jacksonville where he was the first director of recrea tion. Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D., W. Koooce during the past two weeks Includes the following:^ From Jimmy Taylor to Nick Courie one tract in Cypress Creek •Tflfcmshfc."'- * From Norman E. Eubanks to Wilbur G. King one tract in White Oak Township. From Rates Lumber Company to North Carolina Pulp Company several tracts in Pollocksville and Trenton Townships. From J. C. Wilson to Sadie How ard Falls .46 acre in Pollocksville Township. From H. L. Quinn to Henry C. Moore Jr. one tract in Cypress Creek Township. From George G. Lee to Walter L.. Marshburn one acre in Trenton Township. From Arsie Willie to Levi Bryant two lots in Pollocksville. 'From C. V. Brooks III to Riegel Paper Company 154 acres in Tuckahoe Township. From Dewey Smith to Eddie Williams one tract in an unlisted township. New Jones-Lenoir Health Officer I i This is Dr. John Workman, who this woak assumed his dyties as Hoalth Officer for Jonas and Le noir Counties. Dr. Workman, a'na tive a# Kentucky, has bean em ployed most recently as health of ficer in Jacksonville, Florida, bo for* mat at .city /health officer in the same city and prior to that he was in private practice in Florida. Df. Workman succeeds Dr. ft. J. Jones who'died earlier this year after a brief illness after having served for 12 yean as health of ficer of those two counties. A recent issue of “Popular Government”, a publication of The Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, has brief summaries of each of North Carolina’s 100 counties with interesting facts and figures on each. The article on Jones County re minds that Jones County was or ganized in 1779 out of Craven County and was named for Willie Jones of Halifax County, one of North Carolina leaders during the Revolutionary War, who was President of the Council df Safety and a bitter opponent to the adop tion of the Constitution of the United States. The article points out that Jones County has 467 square miles with in its borders—or 298,880 acres, which ranks the county 50th in size among the 100 counties of the state. The tax listed valuation of $9, 832,060 ranks Jones 90th. The per capita income of $805 iper year placed Jones in 64th place. Retail sales last year of $3,223, 433 was 92nd among the counties. Jones has grown very slowly in population, the article reminds. In 1790 in the first federal census there were 4,882 people living in the county and in the last federal census in 1950 this figure had only" grown to 11,004. This ranked Jones 88th insofar as population is con cerned. . ■ ■ ; ■» Hines Says Tar Heel . Ports Will Be First ' Profit from Junket Kinstonian Harvey C. Hines, a member of the State Ports Au thority, who was one of 67 indus ■ try hunters to accompany Gover | nor Luther Hodges on a 15-day tour of western Europe, says North Carolina’s ports are likely to be I the first to benefit from the tour. | Meetings with shipping execu | tives in every country visited tend | ed to give rise to greater use of both Wilmington and Morehead City by foreign shippers. Hines and other members of the ports authority spent a major part of their trip encouraging just that, and they believe that trade through the state-owned port facilities will soon reflect the success of their effort. POOR PAY, HARD WORK Over the weekend thieves stole a 500-pound safe from the Dixie Fer tilizer warehouse at La Grange after breaking in a side window. The safe contained $3 in cash and a $6 check. Manager D. S. Wood said. FRIDAY WRECK Camp Lejeunema® Grady Lee Prime Jr. said he swerved to a void hitting a pedestrian at 11:20 p. m. last Friday and clipped a utility pole at the comer of Mit chell and Vernon in Kinston. He was indicted for leaving the scene of an accident.
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