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COUNTY
NUMBER 10
fttENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1960 VOLUME XII
Nine Jones 4-H’ers Attending
State 4-H Club Week in Raleigh
Nine Jones County 4-H’ers are
on hand for State 4-H Club Week
activities in Raleigh, this week.
1 Several will have a part on the
program.
(Wilson Lowery Jr. and Donald
Malland, both of Route 1, Trenton,
will participate in the 4-H Dress
Revue Program on Wednesday
night.
Carol Haddock and Wilson Low
‘ ery, Jr., of Route 1, Trenton, will
represent Jones County as Queen
1 ard King of Health in the State
Health Paigeant on Thursday night.
At the organ, during the week,
Will be Mary Elisabeth West of
Route 2, Trenton. Carolyn Price, of
Route 2, Trenton, will serve on the
Clover Leaves Staff, the daily
newspaper for the week.
to the talent show on Friday
night will be the Sunshine Girls of
the Pleasant HdU community, ac
companied by Horace King. The
girls who make up the group are
Ava Susan Lee, Jane King, Carol
Green, and Dianne Small.
Other 4-H’ers who will attend
are Elaine Parker, Brent Hill,
Gretchen Davis, and Sam Davis.
Mrs. Faytie C. Gray, Home Eco
nomics Agent and L. B. Nance, Jr.,
Assistant Agricultural Agent will
attend 4-H dub Week with the
4-H’ers.
Rev. Cover Taking
Special Course in
Pastoral Care of Sick
Rev. Stanley E. Cover, pastor
of Trenton and Cove City Baptist
churches, is talking a special eight
weeks’ course in pastoral care of
the sick at Baptist hospital at Win
ston-Salem.
His class, which registered July
16, will complete its work on Sep
tember 9. He has been pastor of
the two churches since 1956, going
there while a student at Southeast
ern Baptist Theological Seminary
at Wake Forest.
Home Saved but
Bams are Burned
'In the past week the Maysville
Volunteer Fire Department was
aiWe to save the home of a Mays
viHe negro family that had caught
fire Saturday.
But a call answered' in the Stel
la section to the Willie Godwin
farm on Monday was not so suc
cessful. There two tobaicco barns
were too far gone when, the fire
men arrived. They did stand l>y to
protect other property.
Doctors Alarmed by Accidental
Poisonings in Kinston Section
Kinston doctors and hospital of
ficials this week'Were increasingly
alarmed by a wave of accidental
poisonings that has .hospitalized
22 patients in the Month of July a
.lone and have resulted in the death
of one young Jones County negro.
Every summer the medical re
ports Indicate an upsurge Of ac
cidental poisonings among children
who are largely in farm families
and are left alone around the house
while their parents are at work in
the fields or at the tobacco barns.
Kerosene, dorox, Parisngreen
are among the most frequent of
fenders.
The death of 22 year-old John
Koonce of Trenton route two this
week caime after he had mistaken
ly drinked a quantity of poison that
is used' on tobacco.
An old “Pepto-Bisanol” bottle
bad been used to measure out the
deadly poison “Emdrin” and ap
parently a small amount had been
left in the bottle. Young Koonce
woke ,up with a stomach ache, took
a swallow of the insecticide and
was dead a few hours later.
When (brought to the emergency
room of Lenoir Memorial Hospital
Koonce was in convulsion and no
medication relieved those convul
sions which continued until his
death. An autopsy revealed that
death came from something taken
into the stomach, and a* check at
his homt turned up the fatal bot
tle.
A similar accidental drinking of
this type poison killed a young
Dover man last summer.
So far this year.no children have
died, but several severe cases of
pneumonia have resulted from their
having drinked kerosene.
All such deadly poisons as that
which killed Koonce should be kep
under lock and key at‘aU times
and such hotiUbhold
Ex-Kinston Carpenter
Held for Bank Theft
At Jefferson, S. C.
John William Gardner, a native
of Florence, S. C., who had recent
ly worked as a carpenter in kin
ston, was caught last Thursday af
ternoon minutes after he robbed a
Jefferson, S. C- bank of nearly
$15,000.
Gardner, reportedly had been on
a two-week drunk, had run out of
money and armed with a cap pis
tol, decided that the best place to
replinish his money supply was a
bank.
A bank executive and the Jef
ferson police chief gave chase and
caught Gardner within ten minutes
after the robbery. The car he was
operating had a ' stolen license
plate that had been taken from the
car of Kinston Barber Bill Wbrth
ington oh July 2nd.
FHA Supervisor at
On-Farm Workshop
J. E. Mewtborn Jr. County Su
pervisor for Farmers Home Ad
ministration in Jones County at
tended a two day work shop on
farm planning on a farm in Car
teret County near Newport this
week.
iKHA ' supervisors from eight
eastern counties attended this 2
day work shop.
The farm was one op which Soil
Conservation Service soil scientists
had worked' out the capabilities of
the soils on each type of soil found
on the farm and recommended
treatment fbr these soils to get
maximum production.
The Forestry Service bad work
ed out a woodsland management
program.
Soil test of soils in each field had
been made and liming and fertili
zer recommendations were made.
The FHA supervisors studied this
' Market Opens 23rd
The Kinston Tobacco Market and
the other markets ot the Now
largest flue-cured tobacco soiling
Bright Bolt, which is the world's
arec, will open this year on August
23rd. The later crop, which is rated
as one of the best crops on record,
is given as the reason for the
opening being pushed back one
week beyond the opening day of
1959. The KinsIBn Tobacco Board
of Trade has opened an office on
South Queen Street next to Harris
Cafe which will be open on a year
round basis for assistance to farm
ers and others connected with the
tobacco industry.
James Eubanks Suing
Harvey Motor Co.
Jaimes Eubanks of Jones County |
has filed a suit in superior -court I
against Harvey Motor Company of
Kinston seeking to collect $927.26,
•with interest from October 30, 1957.
Eubanks, in his complaint, al
leges that on October 8, 1957 he
took a 1967 Chevrolet to the Kin
ston dealer and there with an a
igent of that company agreed for
them to sell the car and retain as
its share $1757.74.
Eubanks further alleges that J
anything above that figure for
•which the car was sold was to be
turned over to him. He says the
car was sold to Ralph Griffin of
Dover for $2,675; hence he lays
claim to the $927.26 with interest
from the date of the sale to Grif
f n. -
[The answer of Harvey Motor
Company denies that any such a
greement was made with Eubanks
and denies that it owes him any a
mount.
Son of Migratory
Worker Drowned in
Sugg Farm’s Pond
The rescue squad of the Kinston
Fire Department recovered the
body of 12 year-old Alexander
Bostic at about 6:15 Friday after
noon from a pond on the Lynwood
Sugg farm in the lower part of
Greene County.
The child, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Bostic, migratory tobacco
workers from Alabama, was bath
ing in the pond with other children
when he got into water over his
head, became panicky and drown
ed before. the others could reach,
him.
No effort was made to revive the I
child since it had been under water
for nearly 45 minutes when found
by the rescue squad.
information amd made a thorough
inspection of this farm. Then they
planned a system of farming that
would make the best use of the
land and give maximum income
from the fanm.
They also planned all buildings
and land improvements needed for
the system of farming planned.
They set' long-time goals that could
be accomplished and planned the
farm management practices that
would be necessary to accomplish
these goals.
Land Transfers
Real estate transfers recorded in
the .office of Jones County Regis
ter of Deeds Mrs. D .W. Koonce
during the past week included the
following:
(Prom Milton Gooding tq.' Paul
Brown one tract in Cypress Creek
Township.
From Dora Pollock to Nelson
Murdered Marine Found
In Trunk of Own Car
At about 6 Sunday afternoon the
badly decomposed body of Gun
nery Sergeant Robert Eugene,
Schroeder of Camp Lejeune was'
found in the trunk of the Marine’s1
1955 Chevrolet where it had been i
parked for three days beside the,
filling station of George Robbins at
Little Baltimore, a crossroad three
miles east of La Grange on the1
Kinston highway.
An immediate investigat'on that i
was begun by the Lenoir County I
Sheriff Department, the State
Bureau of Investigation, the Crim- i
inal Investigation Department of
the Marine Corps an! the Federal!
Bureau of Investigation has re- |
suited in the public release of this
much information:
Schroeder was shot three times
from the back at close range with [
a .45 caliber pistol after being
stuffed into the trunK of his cat. j
Two of the bullets which crash- j
ed through his body were found in j
the car but the third is still miss- j
ing. j
Time of death was established in
an autopsy at the Naval Hospital
of camp Lejeune as between Mid
night Thursday and dawn Friday.
Robbins said the car was not at
his place when he closed Thursday'
night, but it was there when he
opened Friday morning. No spe
cial attention was paid to the car
until a visitor to the store Sunday
afternoon detected the odors of the
decomposing body and saw a pud
dle of blood beneath the car. Then
Deputy Sheriff Henry Sutton was
called to the scene and later
Coroner Raymond Jarman.
Identification was made by fin
gerrr.'cts and dental plates.
S hroeder, 37, was a 17-year
veteran of the Marine Corps, a
nat ve of New Lebanon, Ohio and
a divorcee with two Children—one
adopted.
Schroeder, a bowling enthusiast,
bowled regularly in Kinston with a
group.
He left Camp Lejeune Wednes
day night with a 95-hour pass.
H s pockets were empty except
or a letter. Any money he might
have had at the time of his mur
der was gone. A Marine Corps
shirt and a Camp Lejeune license
sticker caused local authorities to
immediately suspect that the vic
tim was a service man, and that
accounted for the Marine Corps
authorities being called in at once
and for the autopsy being done at
Camp Lejeune rather than in civil
ian facilities.
Farm Pond Safety Stressed
During Farm Safety Week
Fifty per cent of all farm pond
drownings in North Carolina last
year occurred within eight feet of
the shore. This means that a rope
or stick would have saved many
of the victims. Here a youngste
demonstrates how a boat oar can
be turned into a lifesaving tool.
Pick up a newspaper on a Mon
day morninig in July. You’ll find
one type of story almost as cer
tainly as you’ll find the weather
forecast.
And part of that story will go
something like this:
“Bobby was swimming in a farm
pond with three companions. They
said he evidently got into water
deeper than expected. Two of his
compainions tried to reach him.
He almost carried them down, too.
Members of the rescue squad found
the body about an hour later. .
Crownings similar to this occur
with increasing frequency in North
Carolina. The N. C. Rural Safety
Council blames the increase on the
increased number of farm ponds.
As one of their major efforts
during National Farm Safety Week,
July 24-30, the Safety Council is
Conway .065 acres in Trenton
Township.
From W. B. Pike to Vivia P.
Criibb 30 acres in Tuckahoe Town
ship.
From Morris A. oole to Grace
D. Jones 128 acres in Tuckahoe
Township. '
From Mrs. Zeta G. Burt to John
Gooding one lot in Trenton.
stressing the importance of farm
pond and recreation safety.
“It is the responsibility of every
farm pond owner to mate his pond
safe,” the council says.
To help owners make their pond
safe, the Rural Safety Council of
fers these suggestions:
1. Make certain that recreation
is supervised at all times by an
adult;
2. Post safety instructions for
boating, swimming and skiing;
3. Mark safe swimming areas;
( 4. Place lifesaving devices such
as ring buoys, ropes and long
poles around swimming areas;
5. Know acceptable methods of
artificial respiration;
6. Place a fence that can’t be
climed around the pond so child
ren can’t play there without adult
supervision; and
7. Clear all trees, stumps, brush,
wire and rubbish from swimming
and boating areas.
For users of the pond, the Coun
cil says never swim alone, fish a
lone, boat alone, ski alone or play
around the pond alone.
“Remember,” the council warn
ed, “a boat is not a toy to be ex
perimented with and played with
by children.”