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COUNTY VOLUME XII NUMBER 34 fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 19«1 Pollocksville Gets Fire Truck; Charter Meeting Set for 18th Thh Is PoHocksville's new fire truck which arrived Saturday and was tested on Sunday afternoon when an abandoned tenant house was used to try out the effective ness of the truck's high pressure fog equipment. Saturday tne Town of roiiocns ville received its newly purchased fire truck and on Sunday a train ing session was held for the truck and the volunteer fire department that has been organized to use it. A large part of the people in 'Folloctesville saw the demonstra tion Sunday afternoon and was greatly impressed with the effec tiveness of its high pressure fog nozzle equipment. Milton Rollinson is chief of the fire department. I. D. Hill is as sistant chief, fames Bender is Captain, Arthur Mallard, Knit' lieutenant; Elva Morton Jr. second lieutenant. J. W. Creagh Jr is secretary and Elva Morton is trea surer. The department at present has 44 men on its rolls, but a special charter night meeting is being held at 7:30 next Wednesday night .(January 18th) in the Presbyterian Church arid Chief Rollinson says all men attending this meeting will be classified as charter members. Rollinson says the department has a long way to go in training and is generous in his thaniks for the assistance given already by the New Bern Fire Department and other departments in the area. The truck was purchased far $5,£00 from Mineral Springs, North Carolina. It is a John Bean high pressure pumper of 600 gallon ca pacity on a Chevrolet chassis. A shelter for the truck is the Num ber One project of the department and securing a tanker to operate iwith the pumper is the No. 2 pro ject, the chief said. Millis Wright Named to Head Peanut Experiment Station Mulis B. Wright, assistant coun ty agent in Jones County, has been appointed to suceed Fumey W. (Brittain as superintendent of the Peanut Belt Research Station near Lewiston. Announcement of the appoint ment by Agriculture Commission er L. Y. Ballemtime and Cecil D. Thomas, director of the division of research stations of the De partment of Agriculture, said the change-over will take > place on February 1, when Brittain leaves to accept a position in private in dustry. The Lewiston station, one of nine owned by the Department of Agri culture, was purchased' in 1952 to serve as the major lodale for pea nut research conducted by the North Carolina Experiment Sta tion. Wright is a native of Kentucky, where he was reared on a fanm near Pikeville. He spent six years in the Marines after graduation ^from high school, and began his higher education after leaving the service. He was graduated from Clean son College with a B.S. in a gronoany in 1962.' His experience includes a year as assistant county agent in Chero kee County, where he was respon sible for carrying out the county’s 4^H Chib, program; two years in change of irrigation sales and de sign of irrigation systems in the southern district for Suburban Service Company of Whip and a year of he also managed the cbllege farm. During the past four years in Jones County he has been responsible for conducting the Farm and Home Development program'. Wright is married to the former Doris Waddell, of Fair Bluff and they have two sons. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports the following transfers of real estate that have been recorded in his office in the period since the Christmas holi days : Archie Eubanks to Roy Eubanks 24.5 acres in Cypress Creek Town ship. s . L. C. Canady to Arthur and Carol Mallard two tracts in Pollocks ville Township. F. H. Pruitt to Maysville Milling Company 2 acres in White Oak Township. Jambs F. Harriett to Genevieve (Miller Clark one lot in PoUocks ville, , Carrie P. Heath to H. M. Morris 157.2 acres in Beaver Creek Town ship. / Harold Bates to Mrs. J. K. Brock 40 acres in White Oak Township. L. T. Jenkins to Ralph Howard 63.6 acres in Trenton Township. Paul Brown to Ralph B. Banks one lot in Cypress Creek Township. W. H.-Riggs to Herbert Theodore Biggs one lot, to Henry Coolidge Riggs 3 acres and to Gerald Page Biggs one lot all in Pollocksville Township. ; A J, H. Green to Trent River Lodge National Officer is Visitor to Auxiliary . Of Legion on Monday The American Legion Auxiliary met Monday night in the Legion Hut in TVenton with Mrs. Wilson Lowery presiding. Guests were Mrs. Z. E. Murrell, National Cam mi tteewoim an and Mrs. Ruby Star ling, Area Vice President, from Jacksonville. Miss Macy Mallard reported on the Post and Unit Conference held in Durham, and she was in charge of the program' on National Se curity and presented Mrs. Starling, who was the guest speaker. The president appointed the fol lowing to be on the nominating committee: Mrs. Earl Scott, Mrs. Nelson Ranks and Mrs. Smith Moore. Bills were presented for the sun shine baskets that were given for Christmas, and Miss Mallard pre sented gifts to the guests from the Auxiliary. Mrs. Preston Banks will be in charge of the February program on Americanism and Mary Eliza beth West, a participant in the ora torical contest, will be the guest speaker. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Buck Armstrong, Mrs. Lin wood Cox, Mrs. A. J. Mallard and Mrs. Ray McDaniel. Stupid Thief George Hall, 38, negro tenant of tfie Hargett Crossroad section of Jones County, is in tfie county jail charged with breaking, entering and larceny and the facts tend to indicate that if it were illegal he'd also be charged with stupidity. Hall is accused of breaking in Jones-Blizzard Oil Company and stealing cash and checks in the a mount of $50 on Saturday night. Monday he took one of the checks for $15 stolen from Jones-Blizzard and cashed it at Kermit Whaley's store, which is diagonally across the highway from Jones-Blizzard. No. 1283 one Jot in Trenton. Benjamin Killingsworth to James S. Jarman .2 acre in Cypress Creek Township. James N. Baysden to Randolph Davis one lot in Cypress Creek Township. Maysville Firemen Raise $200 Sunday from US 17 Travelers George Davenport Ooens Chiropractic Offices in Trenton George W. Davenport, Chiro practic Physician, set up practice in Trenton January 4th to the old bank building. Dr. Davenport, son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Davenport of Kin ston, Rt. 3, is a native of Lenoir County. He graduated from South wood School in 1963, then attended Lincoln College 'to Indianapolis, Indiana ■ wher/ he graduated in 1957. He passed the state examination for his license before entering the Army Medical Corp as an X-Ray Specialist. During his three years in service, he had a tour of duty overseas and was discharged in July, 1960. In his office is a reception room, office, dressing room, and rooms with a complete X-Ray unit and diagnostic and treatment equip ment. Dr. Davenport lives on Rt. 3 with his parents and is a member of Shady Grove Methodist Church. Wilson Lowery Jr. is Elected President of Jones Central Juniors Officers for the Junior Class at Jon.es Central High School have just been elected. They are Wilson Lowery, presi dent; Jerry Brown, vice-president; Roy Eulbanks, secretary; Mike Mallard, treasurer and Peggy Wal ler, reporter. Dies on Wednesday While on the way to Duke Hos pital Wednesday, Emory Marshall, 59, of Pollocksville died to Gar ner. Marshall died while he and Edward L. Jordan were stopped at a fillifig station. Jordan was driv ing him to the Durham" hospital. Wake County Coroner M. W. Ben nett said death was due to a heart attack. By Mr*. Nolan Jonas The 1931 campaign for the New March of Dimes is now underway. (L'-ving u.p to their reputation for “pitching in and helping”, the men or the Maysvilie Fire Department have entered into the spirit of this drive with even greater enthu siasm than last year when they were a great help in raising money during the March of Dimes Tele thon on Washington TV Station W1TN. This year however, the men are not waiting ’til the lash of the drive to get busy. Early Sunday morn ing, armed with signs, red buckets and wearing fireman hats, two firemen took positions in the cen- , ter of the irghway. One stood at the stop light while the other stood in front of Joe Monebtes grocery store, halting traffic from both directions, greet ing everyone cheerfully, followed by the question “Would you like to contribute to the New March of Dimes?” " Very few failed to respond. A lady tourist commented theirs was the most original and by far the best idea she had heard of or seen and she intended to introduce’,the idea to the small northern town in which she lives just as soon as she arrived home. The men took turns meeting traffic and stopped only when they were forced to by sundown. A court of the money revealed that their efforts were rewarded in the amount of $197.72. Although all of the men had already contri buted, a few present at the count ing chipped in to bring it up to an even $200.00. The men aren’t quitting here. Bright and early Saturday and Sunday morning, firemen will a gain be at their “stations,” hold ing out their- red buckets to re ceive donations. So if you are planning to be traveling highway 17 between day light and dark next weekend, when you reach Maysvilie, be prepared, because a fireman will be waiting for you! Kidnap-Murder Trial Set for January 18th Three young men charged with kidnapping and murdering Marine Sgt. Robert Eugene Schroeder on the night of July'21, 1960 are sche duled to be tried next Wednesday in the calendar prepared by Soli citor Walter Britt for the January 16th term of Lenoir County Super ior Court. The defendants are" Harold A. Smith and Jesse Eugene Perry of Memphis, Tenn. and Eu gene W. Jacobs of Durham. Smith has sig'd a confession in which he implicates Pierry and This i* Mm new Jones County Health Department Clinic which is mw nearins completion just out ride Trenton oh the Pollocksyille rood. The exact date of occupancy l*as not been set at this time, since inspections of Hi* facility must bo made by state and Moral officials bofpre it is accepted from the builder. The budding is on a site given to the county by Mrs. Ver d^r L. Pollock ir memory of her husband. Jacobs, each of whom denies tak ing part in the kidnap-murder of the Ohio Marine, who was sta tioned at Camp Lejeune at the time of his slaying. Smith’s confession says Schroe der picked him up when the car in which he and the other de fendants were riding gave out of gas. On the way to get gas Smith says he decided to rcib Schroeder,. who recognized him as a former Marine. Being recognized Smith says caused him to decide to kill Schroeder. Smith says he first forced the Marine to get in the boot of his car, drove a short distance and then Smith says he stopped, went to the trunk of the car, lifted the lid and shot Schroeder three times at close range with a .45 caliber pistol. After the killing Smith says he returned to the place where he had left Perry and Jacobs, where they rifled the Marine’s pockets, stole his handbag, ard a ring from his finger. They then abandoned the Marine in his own car, which they parked beside George Robbins’ filling sta tion on US 70 between Kinston and La Grange. Two nights later the trio was captured in Washington, D. C. where they had committed an armed robbery. Investigation re vealed that the pistol used by Smith in the robbery was the same gun used to kill Schroeder and Smith was caught trying to get rid Continued on page •
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