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THE JONES COUNTY — NUMBER 38 TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960 VOLUME XI Only One Jones Gountian Seems Interested in May 28th Primary wun voting nane just a trine over three months off a most ex pert political observer would be re quired to detect any traces of (political activity in placid Jones County. Trenton Attorney John Larkins, currently North Carolina’s National •Democratic Executive Commit teeman, seems to be the only Jcnes Cauntian interested greatly in that magic date, May 21th. Larkins, of course, is the first of two formally announced candi dates for governor subject to the whim of the electorate on that late iMiay Day. Those other elective incumbents of Jones County include General Assemblyman John Hargett, Reg ister of-Deeds Mrs. D.. W. Koonce, County Commissioners J. W. Creaigh, Braxton George, Harold Mallard, D. A. Jones and Ralph Scott. The way things are looking this .week it may become neces sary Jo “hire” competition for all these offices. There does not seem to be much doubt .about Hargett seeking a fourth term, which many seem to believe .will be his without opposi tion. In the 1959 session of the as sembly Hargett was chairman of .the House ' Education Committee and is rated a likely two-time head of that .key committee, if reelected. jmxs. Jtoonce is also .accepted as ■one of those who will have paid the filing fee to Election Board Chairman W. F. Hill by the time the April 15th filing deadline rolls around. So far from (the Tip of Tnokahoe to the Head of Hunter’s Creek and between Caswell and Comfort there has not been men tioned publicly any competition1 for Mrs. Kcsonce. The county cammissianers are all also expected to take a crack at another two-year term. There again,, it’s the same old Story. Not even a wild rumor about any com petition. '-But as one long-time observer of the subtle twistings of Jones Connty politics said this week, “Some of the boys'll get together around a filling station between now and the filing deadline and decide t® make some changes.’'’ Jones Central PTA Hears Judge Hamilton The Parent Teachers Association cl Jones Central High School held its regular monthly meeting Mon day. L. C. Svriuk, minister of Shady Grove Methodist Church, gave the devotion. The speaker for the even ing was Judge Luther Hamilton, of Morehead City, whose topic was “College Education and Law Stu dents.” Pvt. James Jones Ends Engineering Coarse Pvt James M. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. .Earl D. Jones, Star Route, Maysville, completed basic engineer training Feb. 5 at Fort Belvoir, Va. Jones received Instruction in map reading, bridge, road and air field construction, and mine war fares The 20-year-old soldier entered the Army in October 1959 and coirtvpleted basic training at Fort Bending, Ga_ He was graduated from Jones Central High School, Trenton, in 1967. Land Transfers Seal estate transfers recorded in tke past week in the office of Jones County -Register of Deeds •Mrs. D. W.. Koonee included1 the foDowmg: Benjamin Kiffingsworth to Wal ter Isms several lots in Cypress (Creek Township. Walter Ives to Raymond Kill ingsworth four lots in Cypress Creek Towndhip 'Benjamin T. Pollock to Carlton PoRoek 116 acres in Chinquapin Township. ' Carlton Pollock to Benjamin T. ’Pollock 250 acres in Cypress Creek Township. Charles B. Stifley to Jackie C. Wilson .5 acres in Chinquapin Township. Jaimes T. StiHey to John H. Yates 40 acres in Trenton Town ship. Catherine Foy to Clifton Pollock 77 acres in Trenton Township. MYF Barbecue The Methodist Youth Fellowship of Shady Grove Methodist Church is sponsoring a barbecue supper from 5 until 7 Saturday night at the church, to which the public is invited. Deputy Resigns Milton Arthur who has served for the past several years as a part-time depu:y sheriff has re signed Sheriff Brown Yates said this week. Arthur was named col lector of delinquent taxes at the February meeting of the Jones County Board of Commissioners and could not serve in both jobs. Marriage License The one marriage license issued in the past week by Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce went to Jesse James, 25, of Pender County and Harriett Smith, 25, of Jones County. Kinston Man Promoted to General in the Air Force Last week the senate confirmed the appointment of Raymond T. Jenkins as Brigadier General in the Air Force. So far as local rec ords indicate Jenkins thus has be come the first native Kinstonian to reach the rank of general or its April 15th Deadline for Gasoline Refund Application •Norm Carolina farmers caa file for the State tax refund of six cents per gallon on gasoline used for non-highway purposes during the calendar year of 1959. Claims must be filed by April 15th. Farmers who have filed for this refund! previously have no doubt received the necessary forms. A farmer should use the pre-address ed form mailed to him since it carries the serial numbra- previous ly assigned to him. Persons who will be filing for the first time for the refund can get the necessary forms by writing to the Gastiline Tax Division, Depart ment of Revenue, Raleigh. E gasoline is used from the same storage tank for both licensed ACCUSED DRIVERS Persons booked in Kinston dur ing the past week on drunken driv ing charges included James Fred erick Pully of Liberty Hill Road, Marvin Rudolph Register of 707 West Highland Avenue and Ameri da Oorbett of Lake Waccaonaw. motor vehicles and1 non-highway equipment, a daily use record must be maintained to substantiate the amount withdrawn for licensed motor vehicles. Such records are not mailed with the refund appli cation but are to be maintained should representatives of the De partment of Revenue desire to in spect them. The invoices for gaso line purchases must be submitted with the refund application. Confusion still exists between the state and federal refunds. The fed eral refund of three cents per gal lon is on a fiscal year basis and the next refund period is for the 12 months beginning July 1, 1959 and ending June 30, 1960. Farmers can file for this period between July 1, 11960 and September 30, 1960. It appears desirable for all farm ers to set up a system of records on the gasoline used on the farm and file for both refunds. More gasoline is being used in the farm operations and the refunds from equivalent in1 any branch of the armed forces. The 51 year-old general is pre sently assigned to the Pentagon in Washington on the staff of the Sur geon-General of the Air Force, in which he is Director of Plans and Hospitals for the Air Force. Jenkins is a son of the late John and Pennie Jenkins of Kinston and was born in Kinston July 5, 1906. One sister, Mrs. Margaret Guevar ra of 401 West Lenoir Street, still lives in Kinston. One brother, Ro land, lives in Florida. Jenkins entered the Army Medi cal Corps in 1939. He was a 1925 graduate of Grainger High School, an alumnus of the University of North Carolina and Duke Universi ty Medical School. Jenkins’ wife is the former" Blanche Brickie of South Carolina and they have two daughters: Pennie, a student at Queens Col lege in Charlotte and Betsy of the home. When the Air Force became a separate branch of the armed forces Jenkins transferred from the Army Medical Corps to the Air Force Medical Corps, where he has served with distinction, evidenced by his present responsible position and promotion last week. both, which total nine cents, even though small for the average farm er can be of some help in cutting the farm operating costs. Congressmen Watch Heavy Hand of Census Bureau iln April of this year nearly 2P0.000 part-time workers of the federal government will be knock ing' on doors, asking questions and filling out mountains of forms. They’ll be the boys and girls of . the Census Bureau. And although none of these will be working in a strict political sense the totals they come up with are going to make a lot of politi cians unhappy, and unseat a scat tering few members of the United . States House of Representatives. North Carolina politics are haunted by this “numbers game”. Every preliminary estimate points in the same direction; that North Carolina iwill lose one of its 18 representatives. % Nobody will know until the fig ures have been compiled this year just where the haamder will fall, or if it will fall. In the 19S0 census which left North Carolina’s delegation to the House intact the population of the 12 congressional districts ranged irom 401,913 in the 4th district down to 247,894 in the 1st district. These 12 districts had1 from four to 14 counties. Four in the 6th: Alamance, Durham, Guilford and Orange; and the 14 of the 1st, Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Curri tuck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington. While it is expected that a ma jority of the counties of North Carolina will show some popula tion gain in the past 10 years, the trend toward a greater percentage of the population in the Piedmont is expected to continue. The 1961 session of the North Carolina General Assembly will not be able to dodge its constitutional jeb of redistricting as jhe 1951 ses sion did. In 1951 North Carolina, was not losing a representative, but in 1981 this seems to be in the category of a certainty. The battle that will go on in re drawing district lines and eliminat ing one representative will without douibt be one of the biggest brawls of the session. After one wades out of the sparsely populated 14 counties of the 1st district he has to climb the rugged ihountains of Western Caro lina to reach the next two smallest districts populationiwise. These are the 11th and 12th. If the reader will read carefully: The 12th district ranks 11th, and the 11th ranks 10th in this popula tion comparison as of the 1950 cen sus. , So the General Assembly will not be able to add sparsely populated districts together, but will be faced with the explosive proposition of al tering congressional district lines all across the state. Third District Congressman Graham Barden and Sixth District Congressman Carl Durham have to some degree eased the problem by retiring aftex their present terms expire. Each of these is chairman of powerful committees, and states do not like to sacrifice commititte chairmen when there is anyother avenue of escape available. This leaves the first district with the state’s only committee chair man, Herbert Bonner, who also represents (bat smallest population but biggest area of any Tar Heel Congressman. Could Craven, Carteret, Jones, Onslow and Pamlico be added to the 1st district and (boost its papula tion to a comparable level with other districts? These counties would boost the 1st district to 382,820. Give Wayne County to Fountain’s 2nd district and if would be boosted to 371,271. But what to do with Duplin, Sampson and Pender? Sampson and Pender border the 7th district which is already the 3rd largest in population m the state. Sampson also borders the 4Sh district which is the largest district. Everyway the political wind blow's there is trouble. Give Nash and perhaps Vance to the 2nd dis trict and add Sampson and Duplin to the 4th. But all of this concerns itself with Eastern Carolina where the popula tion increase though behind the rate in the Piedmont is expected to be well ahead of the mountain area. Or is it? Since 1950 a quiet re volution has taken place in the farming methods of Eastern Caro lina, and this added to the agita tion that has plagued the country on the racial issue has seen thousands of negroes headed for the Elysian fields around Wash ington, New York and Philadel phia. This netgro migration—cer tainly the largest since 1866 is likely to leave a great many pre dominately agricultural eastern counties with a drop in population from 1950 to 1960. The politician’s lot is not an easy one, but it’s never dull.
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