JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 17 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1956 VOLUME XI
Flue-Cured Tobacco Acreage
For ’60 Same as This Year
PinkHillWoman
Badly Hurt Monday
In Kinston Wreck
Mrs. Minnie Turned, 40, wife of
Edward Turner of Pink Hill route
one, was critically injured at about
8 Mond^v night in a wrack at the
corner of Gordon and Independent
streets in Kinston.
Mrs. Turner suffered a severe
' skull fracture when she was thrown
from her husband's car upon its
impact with another driven by |
Cleveland Pavid Jones, a Camp Le
jeune Marine. After being given!
emergency treatment at Parrott
Memorial Hospital Mrs. Turner
was transferred to the University
hospital at Chapel HilL
James, Ted and Fleming
Miller, children of Mrs. Turner by
a former marriage, were also
treated for minor bruises and min
or cuts. iX
A third car, driven by Thurman
Harvey Byrd of 2017 Greenleaf
Hoad, was also involved in the
crash. i
Investigating Officer J. H. Grif
fin says the accident was caused
by Turner failing to yield the right
of way.
Hereford Sale Held
Last Week Sells 65
Animals for $13,354
iPHiL, ... - .
ast week at
Kinston saw 66 animate auctioned
off lor a gross at $13,364.
Sale officials admitted that the
price for both frills and heifer*
was off this year in comparison
with last, but satisfaction was ex
pressed by most consignees for the
average price of $370 paid for 17
bulls in the sale and the average
price of $133 for the 48 open heif
.ers that were offered.
Local farm officials expressed
their content with the sale both
from the price standpoint and from
the fact that the vast majority pf
these finely bred Herefords re
mained in the Kinston area.
Bruce Foy of Jones County was
the single biggest buyer at the
sale, taking home 14 of the 65 ani
mals sold. Other Jones County
buyers included Tommy Hood and
. Fred Foscue.
Ben F. Scarborough of Lenoir
County bought the top bull offered
in the sale at a $600 price. Hobson
White and Ray Williams were other
Lenoir County buyers.
NAMED DELEGATE
Caswell Training School Super
intendent Dr. Frank Badnock Was
one of 67 delegates named Tuesday
. to the annual White House Confer
ence on Youth and Children by
Governor Luther Hodges.
A Thanksgiving season present
from tlie United States Department
at Agriculture came this .week with
announcement tnat the 1060 flue
cured tobacco acreage would be
the same as this yehr’s.
The total allocation is up a tiny
traction to 715,000 acres—an . in
crease of 783 acres over that of
this year, but this less than two
tenths of one percent will be used
to make adjustments in holders of
very small allotments.
The department also announced
that discount parity supports would
be continued in 1960 on Coker 139,
Oofeer 140 and Dude Bright 244 va
rieties of tobacco.
Neither announcement came as
much of a surprise to tobacco
growers, but it is always good to
really learn exactly where they
stand for the coming crop year so
that financial, tenant and land ar
rangements can be begun.
All in all the flue-cured tobacco
stocks in the nation are in better
condition this year than they have
been in nearly a decade, insofar
as the tobacco grower is concern
ed.
Tins year the Hue-Cured Tobae
oo Stabilization Corporation has
taken in the lowest percentage of
any crop since just after World
War n. At the same time the con
tinuing increase in cigarette con
sumption has cut manufacturers’
itgetat down to their most reason
able level in over 10 years.
One other good trend that some
marketing experts report is that
the switch to so-called filter-tip
ped cigarettes has just about
reached its peak.
Added to this is that the hard
blow that was struck the tobacco
grower by “homeogenized tobac
co” has just about been absorbed,
and now any increases in overall
Kinston Church Bazaar Gets Help from Men
Some folk* thing that "Bazaar*"
art a feminine excuse for getting
together end raking fund* for
some."worthy cause". But if that
idea ever existed it has vanished
from the male membership of
Northwest Christian Church, a
goodly part of which has boon
bruising Hs fingers and messing up
itf work clothes with an assort*
Riant of project that will be of
fered for sale at the annual Christ
mas Bazaar on 'December' 4th. A
bove some of the distinctly non
female members of this congrega
tion are seen at work on doll fur
niture that will be among the brle
a-bac on sale in this event. The
"SantVs helpers" include Garland
Galley, Walker Suggs, Joe Simon,
, Dean Evans and Clarence "Duck"
Baker.
[ This one-day event will be held
from 10:30 a. m. until 9 p. m. De
cember 4Hi in Fairfield Communi
ty Center. A snack lunch will be
served from 11:30 until 1:30 with
country ham, biscuits, cake* and
pies, coffee and pop. f barbecue
supper will be served from 5 un
til 0.
W. L. Moore Sues
Sister and Mother
A most unusual suit has been
filed in the past week in Jones
County Superior Court by W. L.
Moore who is asking the court to
force his another, Mrs. Mattie
Moore, and his sister, Dorothy
Moore to pay hiim three fourths of
$4,953.96 with interest since the day
they received this money.
The complaint filed by Moore
sky.s he tends a farm upon which
his mother is supposed to draw
one-fourth' of the tobacco income
“in lieu of her unassumed dower”
in the property.
Moore says the gross receipts of
the 1959 toibacco crop—in four dif
ferent sales at the New Knott
Warehouse in Kinston—amounted
to $4,953.96.
Moore asserts that his sister
picked up the checks from each
of the sales to cash them and coi
I lect her mother’s rightful one
i fourth, but Moore claims that his
| sister and mother kept the entire
proceeds and have failed and re
fused after repeatedly being asked
to give him what he alleges is
rightfully his share of the crop
proceeds.
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Marriage License
Marriage license issued in the
past week by Jones County Regis
ter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce in
cluded the following:
Gloria .Louise Meadows, 18, of
cigarette consumption are likely
to be more directly felt at the farm
level than at any time since the
lung-cancer and “reconstituted to
bacco” bugaboos reared their
heads.
Tragic .Accident Kills
Trenton Third Grader
Eight year-old Johnny Lee Mur
phy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Murphy of Trenton route one, was
crushed to death Tuesday after
noon in a tragic accident on his
uncles farm near his own home.
Jones County Coroner W. F. Hill
says the little boy’s death came
when an abandoned house on the
farm of Harry Lee Murphy crashed
down on him.
The abandoned house was in the
process of being torn down and
Jimmy Heath was on top of it
tearing off the tin roof. All the
weather boarding had been torn off
and only the studding was holding
the roof up.
At about 4:30 Tuesday afternoon
the little fellow, a third grader at
Trenton Elementary School, ap
parently wandered unnoticed into
the house. Either a gust of wind
or the movements of Heath on top
the building caused it to suddenly
collapse.
Nearly a half hour was required
1 to remove his body. He was pro
nounced dead upon arrival at a
Kinston hospital and attendants
expressed the feeling that he had
, been instantly killed, having suf
fered a broken neck in the impact.
Jones Draft Board
Looking Registrant
The Jones County Draft Board
has posted notices, seeking to find
James Harvey Winfield Jr., who
is listed as delinquent.
Winfield’s last known address
was given as “General Delivery” in
care of Thelma Williams at Bur
gaiw.
Anyone knowing anything about
location is urged to forward
information to the board's
Mrs. Lucy P. Simmons at
Trenton.
Maysville.
Howard Frost, 25, to Kaye Fran
ces Morris, 20, of Maysville.
William Clem Mattocks, 22, to
Evelyn Christine Stang, 21, of
Maysville.
Last UN Study Held
By Trenton Methodists
The fourth and last session of
the study on the United Nations
was held Monday night in the Me
thodist Church. Mr£. C. P. Banks,
secretary of missionary education,
read the scripture and gave the
meditation. Then the group prayed
in unison the prayer for the United
Nations.
Mrs. Grover Mallard taught the
course and made a brief review
before starting the last chapters.
She stated that “To get a good
view of facts and opinions on the
United Nations, it is best to read
at least two weekly papers. One
should be on the liberal side, and
the other conservative. In this
way, you don’t get just one opin
ion.”
Mrs. M. E. Hines gave a talk or.
Women in the U. N. and a few of
the outstanding women mentioned
were Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs.
Oswald B. Lloyd, Marian Ander
son, and Mrs. Agda Rossel.
Then Mrs. Paul Huffman told
what the U.N. has done for wo
men. The Rev. Walton Bass gave a
short.summary on “Man—His ex
panding world,” followed by Mrs.
Fred Pippin, who talked on the
Cultural Exchange. She reported
that through exchange students,
professors and entertainers, the
world is being brought closer to
gether. Mrs. Nannie Scott talked
on Racial Tensions, and Mrs. Bee
Parker talked on Support to For
eign Aid, and Trade Treaties.
Truckers Sued lor
Lubrication Bill
A suit was Meil in Jones County
Superior Court this week by Lu
brication Engineers, Inc. of Foit
Worth, Texas against Claude E.
Hite and George W. Yancey of
'Maysville, trading as “Hite &
Yancey Trucking Company’’.
The suit asks to recover from,
the two Maysville men a total of
$376.10 with interest from January
1, 1959 for unpaid balances owed
the Texas company for deliveries
it made to the local truck operat
ors.
ONE LONE DRUNK 4u
The only arrest reported during
the past week by Jones County
Sheriff Brown Yates was that of
Cleo Quinn of Trenton who was
accused of public drunkenness.
Land Transfers
Real estate transfers recorded in
the past week in the office of Jones
County Register of Deeds Mrs. D.
W. Koonce includes the following:
Grace E. Pollock to County of
Jones one tract in Trenton Town
ship.
L. T. Jenkins to Benjamin H.
Gray one tract in Trenton Town
ship.
A. B. Parker to Clifton M. Pol
lock 17.4 acres in Beaver Creek
Township.
Fred W. Pollock to Clifton M.
Pollock one tract in Beaver Creek
Township.
BAD LEG INJURY
Isaac Cratch of Kinston route
three suffered a badly mangled leg
at about 6 Sunday night as he and
Everett Dudley pushed his car
eastwandly near the Banner Ware
house east of Kinston. John Richard
Blount of Grifton route two had
slowed down behind the car-push
ing pair but Jodie Haim of Kinston
route six rammed the Blount car,
causing it to leap forward, pinning
Cratch against his own car. Ham
was indicted lor drunken driving.