THE
fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY,
Thomas Hood Named to
Jones County’s FHA
Committee {or 3 Years
Appointment of Thomas L. Hood
as a member of the Fanners Home
Administration county committee
was announced this week by J. E.
Mewiborn Jr., the agency’s "county
■supervisor serving Jones County.
Hood owns and operates a tobac
co and beef cattle farm near Wyse
Fork. Hood is a successful farmer,
having been selected as one of
three Master Farm Families in
North Carolina by the Progressive
Farmer in 1968.
The other members make up the
3-member committee which works
with the county supervisor to see
that the best possible use is made
of the agency’s farm credit service
program consistent with local
farmers’ needs. The other two
members are Julian D. Waller in
the Pollocksville area and Walter
Ives who lives in the Combs Fork
community.
Each member is appointed for a
3-year term. Hood succeeds J. P.
Davenport of Sassers Mill area
whose 3-year term expired this
year.
ane committee determines me
eligibility of individual applicants
for all types of loans. It also re
views borrowers’ progress and
aids the county supervisor in a
dapting the agency’s loan policies
to conditions faced by farmers in
■ this area. Members are selected
and appointed so that, so far as
possible, different areas or neigh
borhoods are represented..
The Fanners Home Administra
tion makes annual or intermediate
tetim loans to fanners who need
adequate funds to buy equipment
■ and livestock, and longer term
loans to build or repair houses and
other essential farm buildings, and
to purchase or improve land suit
able for family-type farm opera
tions.
It also advances credit to farm
ers or their non-profit associations
to establish and carry out approved
soil and water conservatidn prac
tices, and to install and improve
irrigation and farmstead water
facilities.
Jones 4-H’ers at
Water Safety Camp
Last Wednesday a group of 4-H
Club members and leaders attend
ed a “Water Safety Training Ses
sion” at Bast Carolina College. At
tending were Pat Huffman, Carol
Haddock, Franklin Andrews, Lee
Mills, and adult leaders Faytie
Gray, Mrs. Bdsel Duval and Bea
man Nance.
This team learned many life sav
ing techniques and water hazards,
and will be available any time to
any group or Organization interest
ed, to demonstrate what has been
taught to them.
Holiday Closing
- The offices of the Journal ami
Ridor Printing Company will bo
closed from July tith through July
16th. This annual July closing is
to permit employees to got away
from "It all” for a brief week. Co
operation of customers, friends and
all others is urged and prompt at
ijl
Me.
Jones County to be
Honored at Raleigh
Farm & Home Week
Farm Home Week will be held
in Raleiigb from Tuesday until Fri
day of next week. Mrs. C. P. Banks
and Mrs. E. V. Scott are planning
to attend the week’s session with
others going up during the week.
Wednesday night Jones County
will be recognized as the only
county that has finished their pay
ments on the building fund for the
Home Demonstration Club build
ing. ;
iMrs. Ldriwood Cox, Jones Coun
ty Council President, will repre
sent the county in the recognition.
Marine Held on 1st
Degree Burglary and
Assault Charges
Sgt. James B. Boone, a Camp
Lejeune Marine, was arrested by
Kinston police early Monday morn
ing on charges of first degree burg
lary and assault.
Booner according to prosecuting
witness Dorothy Johnson of 510
Fields Street, tore open a screen at
her home, came into the house
where he beat her and a •‘boy
friend’* with his hands and fists.
Boone is held without privilege
of bond, pending a preliminary
hearing.
AT MUSIC WORKSHOP
A state music workshop is being
held in Greensboro this week. Mrs.
C. P. Banks, Mrs. Hugh Loftin
and Mrs, Wayne Haskins are rep
resenting this county and Mrs.
Haskins has received one of two
Elastern District scholarships to
attend the school. I
Two Marines Killed Early
Tuesday North of Kinston
jjcuvu i/uuii/iy a cuuuiiU'UUVll to
the record Fourth of July death
toll did not come until 2:30 a. m.
On the Fifth of July.
Two Negro Marines from Camp
Lejeune were killed, instantly, a
third was badly hurt and the driver
of the Kinston taxi in which they
were riding was seriously hurt 2
miles south of Grifton on the Kin
ston highway when the cab slam
med into the abuttment of Eagle
Swamp bridge.
Dead: Charles E. Flood, 20, and
Harold T. Cleary, 17. Injured: Rob
ert T. Ohatten and James G. An
derson, driver of the cab, whose
home is at 9-B Mitchell Wooten
Courts.
Patrolman Lloyd Pate, who in
vestigated the twin fatality crash,
says the taxi was apparently travel
ling at a high rate of sipeed when
(it struck the bridge. Damage to
the 1968 model car was estimated
at $800. 1
Pate says he will indict Ander
son on two charges of manslaugh
ter and reckless driving.
These were the fifth and sixth
highway fatalities for 1960 in Le
noir County.
Postmaster Charged
Hookerton Postmaster Joshua
Preston Seymour was placed un
der $2,000 bond following a pre
liminary hearing last Friday before
United States Commissioner W, J.
Thomas in Kinston. Seymour is ac
cused of embezzling $1,554.50 in
postal funds. His trial is set for
the next term of Federal court at
Wilson.
Funeral Postponed
By Another Death
In Same Family
Funeral services were scheduled
for 3 Monday for Mrs. Lena Rouse
Jones of 331 Pine Street in Kinston,
but had to be postponed because
of the death of her husband, Joe
Jones, shortly before her funeral.
Double funeral services for the
well known negro couple were held
at 3 Wednesday afternoon in St.
Joseph Disciple’s Church on Hicks
Avenue.
Sewer and Water Systems
Recommended for Maysville
By 4-H5er Wilson Lowery
Recently I made a health survey
of a beautiful little tow in Jones
•Qounty, Maysville. It is located on
Highway U. S. 17 between New
Bern and Jacksonville and has a
population of aipproxiimately one
thousand of the nicest, friendliest
peoplei I’ve ever met. After visit
ing and taking this health survey,
I found out that this town can grow
and be one of the healthiest and
prettiest in Eastern North Caro
lina.
The first thing I did was to visit
Mr. John Holden, the Mayor, and
ask his permission to take this
survey; With his help and Mr. Hen
ry Swiiggett, opr county sanitation
inspector, we fixed a questionaire
about bousing, water supply, sew
age system, dogs, drainage, gar
bage, premises insect breeding,
coinplaints and remarks.
I then drew a map and number
ed each heme and business, and
nd, .<■>
with the number on the
v-V? '
map, never using any names.
Mr. Keith Oats, a sanitary en
gineer, came the first day and
taught me how to tell where mo
squitoes were breeding. I visited
each home and asked these'ques
tions and evryone was nice and
polite. 1 found that the people in
this little town want to do some
thing to improve it with the ma
jority wanting a town water and
sewage system.
The reason I made this survey
was to do something for my com
munity and county through the 4-H
Club, and I chose Maysville be
oausue it is the largest town in
Jones County.
I want to thank Mr. Holden and
all the citizens for letting me
come in and make this survey. I
would like to recommend a water
and sewage system to be the first
project to be undertaken. I believe
this will help make this town a
healthier and more beautiful place
to liye—a place everyone will be
pround to call bonne.
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Jones Farmers Borrow
$371,960 from FHA in
Fiscal Period 19S9-60
Funeral Thursday for
Paul Dail Gilbert
Paul Dail Gilbert, 52, one of
Jones County’s best known farm
ers, died in Parrott Memorial Hos
pital in Kinston Tuesday afternoon
at about 5:45 following a brief ill
ness. i
(Funeral services were held at 4
Thursday afternoon from Garner’s
Funeral Home in Kinston and
burial was made in Wesitview
Cemetery at Kinston.
Greened 7th Death
The seventh Highway fatality so
far in 1960 for Greene County came
last Thursday morning when six
year-old Billy Ray Hardison, son
of Mr. and Mrs'. Carlos Earl Hardi
son of Walstonburg route one, ran
into the path of a car driven by
Mrs. Graham Smith of Walston
burg. The little boy was killed in
stantly. The accident took place six
miles north of Snow Hill on High
way NC 91.
Lucky Linesman Lives
Phi^V. Hux of Tarboro struck a
4,160-volt power line on the 100
block of South Adkin Street in Kin
ston last Thursday morning at
10:30 and survived to talk about
it. Working with a crew of the
Stackhouse Electric Company of
Goldsboro, Hux was helping string
wire fpr the City of Kinston when
the accident took place. Only two
blocks from Parrott Memorial Hos
pital, Hux was taken all the way
across town to Lenoir Memorial
Hospital but managed to survive
both the shock and the ride.
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PINK HILL CONSTABLE
Horace Howard, who in May was
nominated to be constable of Pink
Hill Township, Tuesday was named
to fill the unexpired portion of the
term of Grady Marshburn, who
has resigned.
i i>oans totaling $371,960 were
| made by the Farmers Home Ad
ministration to farm families in
Jo :es County during the 1960 fiscal
year, according to J. E. Mewborn
Jr., the agency’s county supervisor.
Borrowers repaid $296,309 during
the year on loans of all types ob
tained from FHA. Their repay
ments on loans came mainly from
the sale of tobacco, hogs and grain.
Improvements which Jones coun
ty farmers have achieved, Mewborn
said, included better swine herds,
more pigs saved from each litter,
better housing for themselves and
their livestock and equipment, im
proved pastures, and other im
provements that assure better net
income and more satisfactory liv
ing levels.
Throughout the county are .many
farm families who have borrowed
in former years and are still mak
i ing scheduled repayments. Many
other families now farming in
Jones county, and who had borrow
ed from FHA, have now repaid
their loans in full and are financing
their needs through banks, PCA
and other lenders.
The bulk of the funds borrowed
are in operating loans, those made
I to pay costs of feed, seed, fertili
zer, pesticides, livestock, machin
ery and equipment, and to make
recommended adjustments in farm
ing systems. Borrowings during
the year to meet this type of need
totaled approximately $321,280.
Farm real estate loans during
i the year amounted to $50,680.
j Farmers use these loans to im
prove or purchase farms or farm
| land, to build or repair farm
j dwellings and to finance other es
j sential farm construction, to in
I stall or repair irrigation systems,
! level land, establish good perman
1 ent pasture, terrace fields, and
otherwise improve farms.
Special Meeting 18th by Lenoir
Board for Health, Nursing Home
Tuesday the Lenoir County
Board of Commissioners deferred
action on a requested pay raise
from District Health .Officer D. J.
Workman and on taking the neces
sary steps to set up the operation
of the Lenoir County Nursing Home
now under construction until a spe
cial meeting on July 18th.
Dr. Workman, who serves as
health officer for Jones and Le
noir counties has requested a $1,200
per year pay Doost, which he says
was promised to him by the board
of health when he was employed
six months ago. His present salary
is $13,200 per year.
For some months the commis
sion and County Attorney Tom
White have been working out the
legalities of setting up a non-pro
fit, non-stock corporation which
will operate the nursing home fa
cility under lease from the county.
In order to secure federal and
state funds for persons being cared
for in the facility the county can
not operate the home itself, but
must either lease it to a private
profit seeking group or to a non
profit organization.
The commissioners decided
some months ago that it felt the
best interest of the county wouljl
be served by leasing the nursing
home to a non-profit group rather
than to an individual who was in
the business to make money.
FRIDAY INJURY
Newlywed Mrs. Charles Ervin
Elks Jr. of Blaokburg, Va. suffered
a broken knee cap Friday after
noon when a car driven by her
Kinston Negress Held
For Selling Poison
Stumphole Whisky
'Ethel Campbell of 715 South
Davis Street was booked last
Thursday for selling whisky that
contained lead salts—a deadiy poi
son.
The South Carolina negreess is
accused of selling a jar of white
lightning to three white Kinston
•ians who were made deathly sick
by a couple of swallows of the
potion.
ABC Officer Paul Young took
the remaining three fourths of the
jar to the laboratories of the State
Bureau of Investigation, where
analysis showed that it contained
a lethal concentration of lead salts.
The chemist who made the analy
sis explained to Young that the lead
poison gets in the whisky by care
less makers, who use galvanized
containers, solder in still construc
tion and other galvanized items
such as piping.
initial introduction of the poison
ing makes one sick, and when re
covery seems, to be complete,
blindness, lameness or death may
result as much as 18 months after
the concentration of lead salts is
built up in the unhappy drinker’s
system.
husband went out of control on
US 70 west of Kinston and landed
upside down in Graham Hodges’
tobacco field. Damage to the car
was estimated at $600.